Emma Heasman

Few productions manage what Sara Pascoe manages in her reimaging of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. She remains fiercely loyal to the spirit of the original text, conveying all the sincerity and depth of the original characters, and provides a critical commentary that placates the modern audiences in the face of...

TITLE: Radio Silence AUTHOR: Alice Oseman GENRE: YA fiction PUBLISHER: HarperCollins PUBLISHED: 2016 PAGES: 403 WARNING: Some emotional abuse and bullying. The perfect September read, Alice Oseman’s second novel, Radio Silence, is a brilliant example of a young adult book that doesn’t follow the dystopian trend. Set in the real world, with A Levels and university looming...

Wonderful Wonderful sees The Killers return after five years looking to make amends for a long and drawn out fourth album that lead singer Brandon Flowers called “not good enough”. And in many ways, it does this. Every bit as epic as 2012’s Battleborn, Wonderful Wonderful even attempts to showcase some evolution via variation in the band’s style that has been a long time coming. Whilst being different, Wonderful also manages to fizz and pop with...

Emerging from the smouldering, eldritch ruins of King Gizzard’s Murder of the Universe, the Aussie psych-powerhouse’s third album of 2017 beckons the listener into an entirely different experience. While King Giz are no strangers to variety, the sonic transition between their last three albums and Brunswick East is like...

Leaps and bounds above their debut full-length Wishful Thinking, 2015 follow-up Life’s Not Out to Get You proved that Neck Deep aren’t a one-trick pony. With The Peace and the Panic the Welsh quintet flex their creative muscles even further, but this increased experimentation means the record sometimes suffers...

Offering another healthy if sometimes unpalatable dose of nostalgic eighties- and nineties-influenced indies rock, Superfood’s second record Bambino take the band to all-new highs, but the newly-condensed band (only two out of the four original members remain) still haven’t managed to cut the filler – an issue which plagued...

12th September 2016. Everyone remembers the moment they heard the news: the news that Love Productions had betrayed the nation by selling that apogee of British culture to Channel 4. I don’t need to tell you which show I’m talking about here – everyone and their mothers (and fathers...