• Fagin’s Twist @ Lakeside Arts Centre

    Even if you’ve watched some of the film or musical versions of Oliver as part of those film-and-copious-amounts-of-food-Christmases, when you see posters for a production of a hip-hop tale of Fagin’s backstory, it still sounds pretty wacky. I had resigned myself to the fact that it would probably be...
  • Song Review: Arc Nade – Wrong of Me

    Arc Nade is a talented deep house producer from Nottingham. Following his EP release Trippin to the Moon he has returned with another single entitled ‘Wrong of Me’ featuring Glenn Travis showing that he only continues to improve from release to release. With a similar bass line to ‘Off...
  • Mayhem Film Festival- Headshot: A Shot of Adrenaline to the Head

    After the adrenaline ride, that was The Raid and its sequel The Raid 2, catapulted Iko Uwais onto international circles, it was only a matter of time before the buzz he acclaimed in recent years embarked him on an entirely new project. Audiences beware; Headshot is not for the...
  • The Unstoppable Louis Theroux vs. The Immovable Church of Scientology

    “The highest one can attain to truth is to attain his own illusions” –  L . Ron Hubbard. Louis takes on Scientology in My Scientology Movie. The church of Scientology is an onerous subject to make a documentary on. Not only is there a vast amount of films covering similar...
  • Live Review: JP Cooper, Rescue Rooms (18/10/16)

    Walking into Rescue Rooms on Tuesday, I couldn’t help but notice how diverse the crowd was. JP Cooper had managed to attract one of the most varied crowds I’d ever seen at a gig and it was beautiful to witness such a range of different people united by one...
  • Live Review: The Duke Spirit, Bodega, 18/10/2016

    As the gig came to an end for the second time, after performing the encore ‘Love Is An Unfamiliar Name’ the band slid offstage into the nooks of Bodega, beaming. They had done their job, and they’ve still got it. For this was not a comeback per se, but...
  • Mayhem Film Festival – Raw: A Cannibalistic Coming of Age

    Last week Broadway Cinema once again played host to the Mayhem Film Festival, a celebration of horror movies and related genres. Raw was one such of these films, and it was certainly an interesting take on our notion of horror. Raw follows the story of Justine, a young woman...