Featured image: Jess Berry Far from the sweaty scenes that usually haunt YES Basement, this midweek crowd stands sensibly paced, weather appropriate jackets still donned. For opener, three-piece ‘The Shaking Hands’, social-distancing is still observed. It’s slow, sad rock that greets you. Without pause, the trio play for ten minutes at a time. Whilst not…
Featured image: Jess Berry Swan Street isn’t an ideal camping spot, but hoards of eager fans have been waiting outside Band on the Wall since midday. Brooklyn-based Samuel Holden Jaffe, better known as Del Water Gap, has his fans braving the wind and traffic on an otherwise dull Thursday. The female-heavy crowd packs out the…
Featured illustration: Georgia Harmey Dreaded by the hospitality industry and controversial across Britain, the Dry January movement is a campaign by Alcohol Change UK started in 2013. When Emily Robison set herself the challenge of abstaining from alcohol to aid her half-marathon prep, an international movement was born. Benefits of Dry January can include improved…
Featured image: Atsushi Nishijima. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.© 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved. Combining unreliable narration, visual horror, and in-your-face philosophy, Yorgos Lanthimos produces a marmite masterpiece. Highly anticipated and insane ‘Poor Things’ explores the coming-of-age of Bella Baxter, a beautiful and naive Frankenstein created by ‘God’ Baxter. The film is inspired by the…
Featured image: HOME/Press There are few stories that inspire a festive feeling quite like Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The timeless coming-of-age tale follows four sisters on their passage into adulthood, each with their own individual spirit guiding them. In Anne-Maire Casey’s adaptation of the classic, the story is transformed into an exciting theatrical experience. …
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