• Live Review: Turin Brakes, Rescue Rooms (18/02/2016)

    I was hopeful for what the evening had to offer. Turin Brakes were a band I knew vaguely courtesy of Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist feature, but were somehow not particularly memorable – for reasons that would only become apparent later that evening. Amongst the few that had already arrived...
  • Live Review: Enter Shikari, Motorpoint Arena (20/02/2016)

    WE STOP! Hearing ‘I Got Love’ reminded me who The King Blues were; I hadn’t listened to them since my angst ridden years at secondary school. Initially I had my doubts about the choice of The King Blues for an opening act but fortunately my moment of foolishness was...
  • This Time Last Year…

    This time last year, I never imagined that I would interview Brad Shultz from Cage The Elephant – a band that I absolutely love, and yet that is how I wound up spending my evening on ‘Palentines Day’. My friend was stranded in London because her car had broken...
  • The Discovery of Gravitational Waves

    Friday the 11th of February marked the dawn of a new era in observational astrophysics as the collision of two black holes, about a billion light years away, created a violent storm in the fabric of space-time that was visually spectacular. The resulting gravitational waves were detected by the...
  • Live Review: TesseracT – Rescue Rooms (09/02/2016)

    Admittedly TesseracT were not a band I knew particularly well. As I ran into Rescue Rooms it briefly occurred to me that the only thing I remembered about them, besides the fact that they classify themselves as being progressive metal, was the fact that like me, their hometown was...
  • No Giant Leap For Science Education

    The ‘Principia’ Mission is a part of the wider Human Spaceflight Programme of the European Space Agency and the first of its kind to be directly affiliated with the British Government. As to whether or not this renders the mission productive, the answer may seem obvious. After all, according...
  • Campaigners call for Living Wage and permanent contracts for University staff

    Several campaigners and supporters of the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) Living Wage/Anti Casual Employment Campaign leafleted in Trent Courtyard ahead of the Union Council’s meeting on Tuesday 2nd February. The campaign consists of the local group Nottingham Citizens, UNITE, Unison, and University and College Union (UCU) trade unions associated...