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Danger! High VOLTA-ge Theatre!
I should start by apologising for my puntastic headline, but actually it captures my experience of of the VOLTA International Festival, currently running at Dalston's Arcola Theatre perfectly. When I...
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Book Review: The Enemy Within by Gary Nott - a circus adventure with a 70s...
Do you remember the Bay City Rollers, Look-In magazine and the Six Million Dollar Man? Gary Nott's circus adventure The Enemy Within is about a gang of ten, eleven and twelve-year-olds who turn...
View ArticleVenice Film Festival: Film Reviews
If you want to see Johnny Depp with slicked back hair, dark glasses and a penchant for strangling women, or Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as a married young man turning into a woman with the help of his...
View ArticleJamie Oliver's Everyday Super Food
Ten years after tackling the dire state of Britain's school dinners, Jamie Oliver is back on the campaign trail! In Jamie's powerful, one-off documentary, Sugar Rush, he investigated the huge...
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Aaaaaaaah! Steve Oram Is 'Not a Control Freak'
It's a busy Friday night in London's West End, I escape the hustle and bustle in the new Picturehouse cinema bar; it's vast and empty... the calm before the storm. The venue anticipates a...
View ArticleMick Wall - A Life in Rock
Anyone with a vested interest in rock music or journalism, or even, God forbid, the product of a sordid union between the two, will know who Mick Wall is. He made his name on Sounds magazine in the...
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Life in the Arts Lane - week 109 - L'Antiquaire en Vacances
For the antique dealer the word 'holiday' is a tricky one, most people look forward to their summer respite from the daily slings and arrows of the 9 -5 drudgery. They seek sunny climes where with...
View ArticleDope (Review)
This love letter to all things 90s sees geeky African American teen Malcolm (played by Shameik Moore) embark on a journey of self-discovery in a working-class Los Angeles suburb. Malcolm's world...
View ArticleSkinny-Shaming Cheryl
I have received numerous messages from those who read my piece on the Daily Mail/Jennifer Aniston fiasco (you can read it here if you so wish) and wanted to highlight the equally damaging skinny...
View ArticleWhy Music is the Answer to Fitness Motivation
I simply can't imagine exercising without music - that to me is just a crazy idea, I just don't know how people could do ever do it... My drive to lead a healthy lifestyle stems from my dad, he passed...
View ArticleEnough Apologising for My Children
Over the looooong summer holidays I have found myself repeatedly doing something, I've never really done before, and in front of complete strangers... apologising for my children's behaviour! Aged...
View Article'Legend': Tom Hardy's Bloody Genius
What the UK film industry is not short of is gangster films - although few of them trouble our multiplexes. Many are sadly cookie cutter, low budget tales with names like 'Guns and Slags', 'Cockney...
View Article#RHOBH: Season Five Wrap
Our explosive #RHOBH Season Five is wrapping!! I have a feeling it's not going to be #HappilyEverAfter for all involved. The Beverly Hills secret drama vault is being opened, and you know there are...
View ArticleSo No One Told Me Things Were Gonna Be This Way..
I'm in my forties. I have just got in and put the television on. It's 6pm. Flicking through the TV channels I stumble across some old friends of mine. I smile and sit down on the sofa. It's always nice...
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Should Roald Dahl Receive a Posthumous Queen's Honour?
On 13 September it's children's author Roald Dahl's 99th birthday. 25 years since his death his stories continue to resonate and capture the imagination of adults and children. Should Dahl be awarded...
View ArticleGreat British Bake Off 2015 - Week Six
Pastry week begins with Mat simply stating, "I'm underprepared!", which isn't exactly an ideal start when you're down to the final seven. The first challenge of the weekend is to produce an open,...
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The Magic in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Earlier this year BBC One showed the film adaptation of Susanna Clarke's bestselling debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It came out as historical fantasy TV mini-series and was a huge...
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Review: Lest We Forget, English National Ballet 'Devastating, Unforgettable'
Lest We Forget is a powerful and extraordinary collection of three dance pieces that English National Ballet (ENB) premiered in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. Universally...
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Life in the Arts Lane - Week 110 - Work Wakens From Its Slumbers
With a lurch, a hop, and a shudder the Art World is slowly - like Frankensteins monster - jolting back to life. For me leading the way is an auction house called Roseberys, located in South London,...
View ArticleHello Sweet Art: A Week in Culture
I don't know about you but I've always thought that arts criticism would be way better if it read like the diary of a confused teenage girl. Hence my decision to start writing this blog. Here are some...
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