• Live Review: Mumford and Sons, Capital FM Arena (28/11/15)

    University life often gets hectic, couple that with part time jobs and allowing yourself a social life, busy city life often engulfs your fleeting free time. This was one of those Saturdays. I unfortunately missed the Critic’s Choice winner Jack Garratt loosening the crowd for the headliners, yet Mumford...
  • Album Review: ADELE – 25

    “Thank you for the time I’ve been given” reads the acknowledgements inside her album cover, and Adele has certainly taken her time. Already the best-selling album of 2015, 25 has been well received globally. But why did Adele make us wait this long? And can it match the unforeseen...
  • Don’t Stare Too Long: The Sun Newspaper

    I’d be inclined to think of my uncle as a decent man, but he once said to me one of the worst things anyone ever has. I asked him about those souls drowning across Europe in leaky, over packed vessels – desperately trying to make it to our shores...
  • Interview: The Staves

    Sister trio Emily, Camilla and Jess Stavely-Taylor, collectively known as The Staves, have recently finished a tour supporting Florence and the Machine and released an extended version of their second album, If I Was. Their combination of impeccable harmonies and fantastic songwriting with subtle complexities is earning them an...
  • Live Review: Frank Turner, Rock City (15 – 16/11/15)

    This was supposed to be a review of Frank Turner’s Rock City show on 16 November 2015, but I have to admit I cheated with this one.  That show was the second of a double header of sold out Rock City shows for Mr. Turner and I happened to attend...
  • Live Review: The Milk, Bodega (12/11/2015)

    Last year at California’s Coachella Festival, Win Butler of Arcade Fire took some flack for bemoaning in front of a crowd of thousands the “fake VIP bullshit” that was playing there, and gave a “shout-out to all the bands still playing actual instruments at this festival”. It was the...
  • Album Review: One Direction – Made In The A.M.

    It’s been eight months since Zayn upped sticks and abandoned the other four members of One Direction, mid-way through the tour for their prophetically-titled album ‘Four’. What followed was textbook boyband, well, kind of; a social media reaction of apocalyptic scale, petty twitter spats between the current and former...