Five Most Stylish UK Music Videos
iLLAMADi Ft CALIBAR- Make P North London artists iLLAMADi and Calibar join forces once again for their slick collaboration since their last outing back in 2010. Ever since Jay Z's 'On To The Next'...
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Theatre Review: Golem, Trafalgar Studios 'A Dazzling Visual Feast'
Golem is a dazzling visual feast with a biting social commentary that's enough to put a spring in the step of even the most jaded theatre-goer. In a show that fuses performance with animation, film...
View ArticleAre We Too Emotionally Invested in Television?
WARNING: This blog contains spoilers about "Grey's Anatomy" which you may want to avoid. I've worked in television for over five years now but its grip on my life stretched many years before that. Like...
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Eva Masterman Studio: Residency and Exhibition
It's often forgotten that the process of creating a work of art is normally a private affair. The artists's studio has assumed a somewhat mythical status where creativity, both mental and physical,...
View ArticleBritain's Got Talent 2015 Audition Show Three
Britain's Got Talent is, quite simply, the most watched and best TV show of the whole weekend. It has everything, talent, fun and Simon Cowell. What more could you want? During the BGT Auditions, Team...
View ArticleAvengers: Age of Ultron-The Review
"Daddy, I'm bored", moans a little voice a few seats away from me. Clearly the noisy ankle-biter who's assembled for this Sunday morning IMAX 3D screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron is not feeling the...
View ArticleMen's Hour is a wasted opportunity to tackle deep-rooted problems
On the face of it, BBC Radio 5 Live's 'Men's Hour' is a perfect platform for some of the biggest issues facing half the population right now, in the same (obvious) way in which the excellent 'Women's...
View ArticleBruce Jenner: What's the Big Deal?
Just for the record, Bruce Jenner is not the first Trans person to come out later in life and indeed will not be the last. As someone who doesn't really buy into all this Celebville rubbish, I really...
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Top Five Ways to Avoid 'Game of Thrones' Spoilers
The prevalence of spoilers immediately following cult television shows has spiked, with some shows even encouraging immediate interaction by showing official social media hashtags during premiere...
View ArticleCelebrating the Great Patriotic Struggle... To Create Twerk Videos
It certainly wasn't an incendiary Pussy Riot-style political stunt, though it did involve six young women dancing in a short YouTube video. And it's also led to time behind bars for three of them. Like...
View ArticleFishnet: A Review
Being inherently lazy, it's seldom I feel compelled to write, well ... anything really. Let alone a book review. But Fishnet, the debut novel of Kirstin Innes caused removal of The Cat from my keyboard...
View ArticleWhy Theatre Can Offer the Best Insight Into Politics, Change and Family...
My play, Sorry (Play Three of the four-play series called The Apple Family Plays: Scene from Life in the Country) opened at the Public Theater in New York, on 6 November, 2012, which is also the day it...
View ArticleIn Praise of Fiction
I am a truly voracious reader. From the most frivolous BuzzFeed listicle to an eloquent book on mortality, there is almost no form of content that I don't enjoy. But if I had to play favourites, I'd...
View ArticleFive Disturbing Things You Don't Know About Getting Published
You've finished your manuscript, sought out an agent and are hopeful your wonderful book will be snapped up. Here are some little-known facts about what happens next... you're walking into the lion's...
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Life In The Arts Lane - Week 104- Come Rain or Shine
Once again finding myself amid the hurly-burly of the confluence of fairs at Montpellier, Avignon and Beziers, I was encouraged to observe how current tastes and fashion intersect with the antiques...
View ArticleKatie Hopkins Is a Cancer on Society That We Now Need to Address
I begin with a question. How far up your own arse do you need to be in order to regularly demonise groups of people just to preserve your own position as controversial enough to be deemed worthy of...
View ArticleDon't Feed the Professional A**holes
Some people get paid to be assholes. Whether we pay them by the mouse-click, pay them by the purchase of a newspaper or pay them by the phone votes on a TV talent show, we pay them nonetheless. In...
View ArticleIt's a Matter of Opinion...
Why do we all think that we are able to give our opinion at anytime? Often we give our opinion when it is not asked for. We weigh in with our infinite wisdom and slosh it down on the poor unsuspecting...
View Article'The Emperor's New Clothes': Brand at His Banker Baiting Best REVIEW
A year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post called 'Russell Brand: The Neverlutionary'. In this post, I remarked that Brand was all talk and no action. I commented that for all his criticism of...
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The Apprentice: Why Claude Littner Will Be Great According to Former Winner...
The announcement that Claude Littner will be Nick Hewer's replacement as one set of Lord Sugar's eyes and ears in The Apprentice has more than likely struck fear in to the group of hopefuls that are...
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