• Book of the Month: September

    “In three hours he will move through the empty city, crossing vast rivers, driving along tremendous, multi-laned highways, under darkening skies, like a small God, to be with you, tonight.” Page 6 TITLE: THE SICK BAG SONG AUTHOR: NICK CAVE GENRE: FICTION/POETRY PUBLISHER: CANONGATE BOOKS PUBLISHED: JUNE 2015 PAGES:...
  • Film Review – Straight Outta Compton

    Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...
  • Tyler The Creator Being Banned From The UK Is A New Discriminatory Frontier

    Live in the UK and a fan of Tyler The Creator? You will not be seeing him for at least five years. Tyler cancelled four shows in the UK and Ireland on August the 26th including performances at this past weekend’s Leeds and Reading festivals. In a statement released...
  • An Introduction To: David Bowie

    David Bowie is one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. His music has produced some of the most iconic music of his era, but also some of the most innovative and challenging. A cultural chameleon, he became quickly bored of one style and leapt head first into...
  • Album Review: Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion

    ‘Call Me Maybe’ was, like it or otherwise, song of the summer 2012. Me personally; I was an ‘otherwise.’ While Jepsen seemed refreshingly humble alongside a circus of media-savvy peers and the song was essentially catchy – it was just too glossy and obnoxious to be particularly likeable. And that’s...
  • Is The End Of One Direction The End Of Music Itself?

    One Direction have broken up. This is international news. We can live in denial, clinging onto the promise that one day they’ll get back together but we all know absence doesn’t actually make the heart go stronger. Like every boy band before them, and my parents’ marriage, a trial separation...
  • Album Review: The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness

    The Weeknd is, for me, a hit or miss artist. Real name Abel Tesfaye, the man has a unique sound and a strong voice but his 2011 mixtapes were mostly shallow, mistaking lewdness for sexiness and too concerned with being trendy and mysterious to have any staying power. His...