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Tobago Jazz Experience 2015 - Vocal Divas and Dancehall Dudes!
With summer vacations and music festivals all being prepared for, it's the perfect time to let you into a little secret so you're prepared for next year. There's a place just hours away from the UK,...
View ArticleWhy Katie Hopkins Is an Inspiration
When I have a fit at night, my arms come out. They dislocate. So I have to go into hospital to have them relocated. That's happened 26 times in the last nine months. So we all have crap to deal with in...
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Since childhood, there are very few moments in my life that can be identified as raw happiness, when it feels like a forth of July firework display is happening in your heart and you've leapt out of...
View ArticleRebecca Newman: The Soprano Who Dared to Dream
Last September, something unique happened in the UK classical album chart: an independent artist went straight to number one! The album is Dare to Dream and the artist is the People's Soprano, Rebecca...
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Damian Lewis Stars in 'American Buffalo', Wyndham's Theatre
With Damian Lewis and John Goodman in the cast, this production of David Mamet's American Buffalo was always going to be a box-office success. However, whether all those who pile in to see this show...
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In and Around Kathmandu, Almost a Million Children Are in Urgent Need of Help
I don't think anyone seeing the news could fail to be moved by the devastating situation in Nepal. When I was filming the BBC documentary The Cold Chain I had the incredible opportunity to go with...
View ArticleThe Joy of Finding Myself Guest Director of Brighton Festival
For some reason I've always felt at home in Brighton, though I grew up more than 600 miles away at the opposite end of the map, towards the very north of Scotland, in the Highlands. But from the first...
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Live Review: The Dodos Orchestral, Village Underground
The Dodos rehearsing with the stargaze orchestra (Image: Emanuel Florakis) The Dodos are a band of two, clean-cut halves. One of the duo was a student of West African Ewe drumming and intricate Blues...
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In Conversation With Scandal
Scandal are a Japanese all-girl rock band and while relatively unknown on our shores, are bigger than the proverbial Godzilla in their home country. The group have sold out practically every leg of...
View ArticleUK Literature Needs to Get Its Swag Back By Appreciating Diversity
It might be 2015, but the current state of book publishing looks like a throwback to Jane Austen. According to the Writing the Future report, recently commissioned by writer development agency Spread...
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Film Reviews - Critics Choice - Far From The Madding Crowd - 8 1/2- Samba -...
Thomas Vinterberg's 'Far From The Madding Crowd' takes us into Hardy Country, a restored version of Federico Fellini's masterpiece'8 1/2' hits the screens, 'Samba' a romantic comedy and documentary...
View ArticleMs Hopkins... Please Stop!
I have been mulling over whether to write about the tweets by Katie Hopkins, posted on Twitter, aimed towards Ed Milliband. For those who haven't seen them, get read as follows: "ED STOP LOOKING AT US....
View ArticleThe Problem With Katie Hopkins Is... Us
Katie Hopkins is everywhere. All over our Facebook feeds, all over the papers, websites, daytime TV. And wherever she is, she's offending a group of people who then become outraged and fight back, or...
View ArticleFantasy and Reality
My first fantasy was that my mum and dad had taken the wrong child home from the hospital and one day some middle class family with a car would knock on our slum door in London's post war Notting Hill...
View ArticleThe UK's Creative Industries: Raising Ambition, Increasing Value
Back in January, culture secretary Sajid Javid commented that the UK's Creative Industries are "one of our most powerful tools in driving growth, outperforming all other sectors of industry. Their...
View ArticleBritain's Got Talent 2015 Audition Show Four
With viewing figures going through the roof, this season of BGT is without doubt getting everyone talking and I am loving every minute of it. During the BGT Auditions, Team Midas will pick four acts,...
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Brighton Fringe Breaks More Records
[Lost in Transit at Brighton Spiegeltent. Credit: Dade Freeman] Brighton Fringe, England's largest arts festival, arrived this weekend with a record 3,584 performances of 784 shows at 171 venues...
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'My Mummy, Not Yours!' - An Open Letter to Kate Middleton About Introducing a...
Dear Kate Nothing can prepare you for the arrival of your first born, and nothing can prepare your first born for the arrival of their sibling! I'm sure you and William have done everything you can to...
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I Love MANGAHATTAN: New Exhibition in Mayfair by the Danish Artist Artpusher
Artpusher adventures in Mayfair and Brick Lane The Danish artist Artpusher is the candy girl that will give you a bitter-sweet caramel. Flashy colours and pretty girls are the promise of a Disney...
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A Little Interview With - Cherri Gilham
Cherri Gilham is a woman that squeezes more into a day than most of us squeeze into a lifetime. A top line look at her Wikipedia page reveals that she's a former comedy actress, who was one of the...
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