Live Review: Peter Hook and The Light
Joy Division began the 80s as an obscure footnote in the rock encyclopedia. Critically acclaimed, mainstream success eluded them. New Order, the band they became after the suicide of lead vocalist Ian Curtis, found fame that was always denied to Joy Division, fusing New York dance beats...
Book: Beyond Parallel by Matthew Turner.
When reading Matthew Turners Beyond Parallel, I kept on referring back to a quote from the 2011 Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris. When the lead character asks Ernest Hemingway to read his novel he states he can’t because: If it’s bad, I’ll hate it. If...
Book: Leaving Blue Town By Mike Poyser
“Leaving Blue Town” is a perplexing tale, hours after reading it I’m still finding it hard to identify, to understand, to grasp but these emotions are not frustrating or a sign of anything poor from the book. It’s all created from intrigue and built upon a fantastic...
Holy Fire – Foals Album Review
Foals have been deemed as quite unpredictable by their fans, in regards to what avenue they are going to explore next. With ‘Antidotes’ in 2007 showing a mathy, techno-y, indie-esk twist, the music industry hadn’t experienced this collaboration of music’s before and were simply not ready for it. Then with...
Les Misérables Review
It must firstly be said that you cannot watch Les Miserables without mentioning first Hugh Jackman. The Australian actor plays the main character Jean Valjean and his performance is nearing perfection. His songs are mostly melancholic and the intensity of Jackman in such a song as ‘Who Am I’...
Live Review: The Raveonettes/DIIV/Holy Esque @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.
It’s not often a support band eclipses the headline act; tonight DIIV are responsible for doing just that. The quartet are yet another addition to the ever enhancing state of Brooklyn’s musical repertoire. The same can’t be said for the first support of the night, however: Holy Esque are...
The (lovely) Staves Review: Ruby lounge Manchester
Anne Robinson (what she would have said): ‘You are the weakest li-…… Wait there is no weakest link, they’re all amazing! Jack: I wish we could just call them the lovelies! Everything is: their music, their voices, and their humour.’ The Gig The crazy idea of playing the music...
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II REVIEW
Here we go! Another year and we have another Call of duty aspiring to be the best Shooter of all time. Black Ops 2, and by extension Treyarch, have a tough act to follow. They also have to impress an FPS audience with recent rivals taking the form...
Billy Talent Live Performance review o2 Academy Leeds 17/11/12
I have always been a fan of these Canadian punk rockers but had never seen them live and wasn’t sure what to expect, however their performance was consistently brilliant throughout the show. Turn out was good, but not so busy that you couldn’t move. The audience was very mixed from people who looked about...
Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man Review
Natasha Kahn has produced some innovative and genre defining music over the past few years. Under her stage name Bat For Lashes she has influenced a array of big names such as Florence Welch and Ellie Golding. Despite these innovative new sounds Kahn has held relative...
Reality vs. Illusion: A Streetcar Named Desire @ Seven Arts
I don’t want realism, I want magic! Reality is harsh. The past is the past, and the times are a’changin. Blanche Dubois, protagonist of Tennesse Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is the subject of delusion and tragedy, and her character was given a new breath...
Angry Birds Star Wars Review
Tunes: £0.69 Google Play: Free ‘A long time ago in a galaxy far far away’ the opening text familiar to almost every person on the planet, now has a new audience with Rovio’s, the developers behind the ever popular and annoyingly addictive Angry Birds series, partnership with LucasArts...
