The Richard Hammond Show?
Did you tune into Top Gear last night to see the last ever episode featuring Clarkson and his petrol scented bezzies? The infamous steak-gate wasn't mentioned and instead, hilariously, a giant plastic...
View ArticleOn BBC Three, the BBC Trust Hasn't Listened - We Plan to Make Sure They Do
When the BBC management announced plans to close BBC Three over 18 months ago we knew it wouldn't be an easy task to convince them to change their minds. Like an episode of W1A they had been won over...
View ArticleThe Minions Movie - Stupendously Silly
To a large extent, the Universal Studios introduction to the Minions movie captures the entire nature of the film. Never before has a cinema laughed collectively at the otherwise mundane productions...
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Interview With Ashleigh Gray, 'Wicked''s Leading Lady
Ashleigh Gray, a graduate fresh out of drama school, once sat wide eyed in the audience of Wicked, then turned to her friend and said "I have to play that role." Of course she meant Elphaba. A dream...
View ArticleGlastonbury 2015: What Can Other UK Music Festivals Learn From the Greatest...
As I type this, I'm considering whether to shun society, and just camp in a field listening to music for the foreseeable future. I'm wondering whether my weird, wellie tan will ever fade and hoping I...
View ArticleThirteen Signs Your Binge Watching Is Out of Control
My family's enforcing screen time rules on me. They call it an online binge watching intervention. True, my habits are out of control and interfering with my life. I probably average three hours a day...
View ArticleTV Review: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 'Season 5, Ep13'
Welcome to my brand new and exclusive Huff Post Reality TV blog! I'm so excited to share my new blog with you, it's been a really exciting process for me and I hope you love the look and feel of it. I...
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Introducing KIOKO
We haven't seen many bands emerge of late, then out comes a 7 piece all at once! Formed during the spring of 2008, but re-imagined in 2014, KIOKO are a group of sonically-synced musicians who...
View ArticleTheir Love Is Cool: How Wolf Alice Reclaimed British Indie
Somewhere between the cherry picker and cherry picking from Queen's back catalogue on Saturday night at Glastonbury, Kanye West informed the crowd he was the greatest rock star on the planet. Not even...
View ArticleMindfulness for Babies
I'm now in full turbo to finish my new book, which is due in about ten minutes. It's on mindfulness and is called Wake the F*ck Up. It comes out at Christmas so please buy one because writing this is...
View ArticleIt's Time to Abolish the 12A Film Rating
Cinema film classifications are essential. We need them. But 12A doesn't work. It encourages studios to dumb-down adult action movies to fit the rating; allows incorrectly classified older films to...
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5 Ways to Beat Post-Festival Blues
Across the country this week, thousands of Glastonbury Festival goers, (myself included), are coming back to reality with an almighty thud. The stages are empty, the long drops are gone, Cider Bus is...
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When Art Meets Technology, Innovation is All About the Outsider
My practice is all about displacing people and ideas from their natural habitats, prizing them out of their comfortable environment to see what they really look like. I work with people who are...
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Increasing Opportunities for Girls and Young Women on Stage
Like so many other walks of life, there is a profound gender imbalance in theatre, whether that's in the commissioning of female playwrights, female directors, or the amount of parts available to...
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Emily Young: Call and Response London
Emily Young is regarded as Britain's greatest living stone sculptor. Not for her the pristine slabs of Carrara marble. She revels in those ragged off-cuts that lay at the back of old stone quarries...
View ArticleAm I A Grumpy Old Fart? Or Is Everything Sh*t Now?
Is it just me, or is popular culture coming to a standstill? I feel like it might be. As a self-confessed muzo, film fan and sometime-comedian - a guy that enjoys performing arts in a variety of...
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Film Reviews: Amy - Housebound - La Grande Bouffe - Still the Water
Amy, Asif Kapadia's powerful and mesmerising portrait of Amy Winehouse, whose seductive voice placed her alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday as one of the great jazz singers - Housebound, a...
View ArticleWe Are the Mods - The Chant That Never Dies
The 65,000 people packed into Hyde Park to watch The Who, Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs and Johnny Marr last month and the millions that watched The Who headline Glastonbury was confirmation, if we needed...
View ArticleAmy Winehouse - A Lost Little Girl, Who Could Have Been Saved
I saw Amy Winehouse three or four times in person at the London Clinic in December of 2009. I was there regularly, visiting my terminally ill father. Even in that environment, she was vibrant yet...
View Article'Big Brother: Timebomb' - Week Six Review
It goes without saying that I love Big Brother. Writing a weekly blog is something I enjoy, however last week I was hesitant about doing it, hence why it is late. Last year I chose to participate in...
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