• Nottingham students in for a ride(-share)

    Nottingham-based young entrepreneur Roshan Sood has released the UK’s first students-only ride-sharing app UniLift, and it’s getting its own launch party at Crisis on the 31st of January. If there wasn’t always enough of an incentive to scour the Buy and Sell page for hours on end looking for...
  • Album Review: Fall Out Boy – Mania

    After fans’ (ahem…) divisive response to Mania’s lead single ‘Young and Menace’, Fall Out Boy hastily headed back to the studio to re-record almost the entirety of the record. Singer Patrick Stump took to Twitter to say the original cut ‘felt rushed’, and the band weren’t prepared to put...
  • Album Review: Noel Gallagher – Who Built The Moon?

    Part complete sonic departure, part revisiting and re-imagining of post-glory days Oasis, Who Built The Moon? manages to sound both fresh and nostalgic, an affirmation that even when he seemed to, the most genius of all bricolage songwriters never quite lost it. But if Who Built The Moon? is...
  • Album Review: Maroon 5- Red Pill Blues

    Following the release of their seminal breakthrough record Songs About Jane, Maroon 5’s career has been a mixed bag. For every major hit (‘Moves Like Jagger’), there’d be forgettable filler (‘Daylight’), and some of their best songs (‘Payphone’) have been marred by unnecessary rap sections. And as the band...
  • Oversaturation: A Star Wars Story

    Last night, Disney announced that they would be releasing not only a live-action Star Wars series, but also an entire new trilogy, separate from the Skywalker saga. But with The Last Jedi just around the corner and Solo: A Star Wars Story (yes, it really is called that) set...
  • Catalan independence: an explanation

    On the 1st of October, 90% of Catalans who voted in the region’s independence referendum voted in favour of secession from Spain, despite Spanish authorities shutting down polling stations and confiscating ballot boxes.   The Spanish government suppressed the referendum, calling it illegal, undemocratic, and unconstitutional. Despite this, Carles Puigdemont, President of Catalonia,...
  • UoN students take to Portland to protest Balfour Declaration

    On Thursday, November 2nd, members of the University of Nottingham’s Palestinian Society enacted a silent protest in support of the ‘#Makeitright’ Campaign, a campaign which demands ‘justice and equal rights for Palestinians now’.  Members of various Palestinian Societies at universities up and down the country also took part of...
  • Mayhem Film Festival: Mayhem

    Mayhem follows Derek Cho (Steven Yeun of The Walking Dead Fame), a fast-rising employee who finds he has sold his soul to the corporate world as he navigates his way through his office, which is in quarantine after the outbreak of a virus which rises stress level hormones, causing...
  • Trailer Watch – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    After April’s teaser, the first and only The Last Jedi trailer is finally here, and you bet we’re gonna analyse the hell out of it. But for those who want to avoid specifics, rest assured that the film promises to be dark, weird, and beautiful. SPOILER WARNING: No specific...
  • Neck Deep – Rock City Gig Cancelled

    Neck Deep had to cancel their Rock City gig last night after an altercation with the security staff. Supporting acts ‘WÖES’, ‘Real Friends’ and ‘As It Is’ got the sold-out crowd ready for a stellar set from the Welsh pop-punkers, which was unfortunately cancelled towards the end of their...