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A Top Ten List of the Best Films of 2015
Last year, "Netflix and chill" meant binge-watching Orange is the New Black with your hand in your pants and Ben and Jerry's dribbling down your chin. In 2015, the term evolved into not watching...
View ArticleDisclosure: One Night at Ally Pally
Disclosure are the type of band who, whilst Drake has been having 'beef' and Kanye West has been having children, have quietly been working away, and now have two albums, and a world tour under their...
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How Art Conveys The Message Of Climate Change
We talk about sustainability and climate change, about how to fight it, how to live green and how to raise awareness. Often, we wonder what it will take for people to understand the serious situation...
View ArticleThe British Electronic Music Scene Is Alive and Kicking
How does so much talent come out of such a comparatively small territory as the British Isles? In music, it's long been the case - ever since the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zep and Bowie conquered the...
View ArticleHaving One Hand Didn't Stop Me From Being a Concert Pianist - But Other...
In 1989 I was born without my right hand. Twenty-six years later, I'm an international concert pianist - something that perhaps few people would have envisaged. Being a professional pianist might not...
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Ladybaby - This Was Never Intended to Be Heard Outside Japan
By some considerable margin my favourite 'thing' last year was Babymetal. I thought the combination of cheery-poppy-happy-happy meets brutal death metal was the weirdest thing to hit the headbanging...
View ArticleWalk-In Centres for You
I wrote this on the last night of my tour of performing Sane New World. I could give out a little "whoop" but I'm extremely sad at endings even though I should know that everything ends and that there...
View ArticleWhat Actually Is The Force, and How Can I Use It, Anyway?
As a new chapter (or rather, Episode) of the Star Wars saga cruises relentlessly into cinemas like a Star Destroyer creeping into frame eclipsing every other planet, moon and star around it, I began to...
View ArticleYouTubers and the Trouble With Being Relatable
Making people famous so that we can then idolise and envy them in equal measure is the most popular pastime of the 21st century. But while rappers and movie stars and Kardashians can flaunt their...
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Young, Gifted and Leaving the Country: Why Britain Needs to Wake Up to Diversity
As the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise prepares to take the world by storm, it's interesting to note that much of the discussion around the film has revolved around the film's Black...
View ArticleFive Years of Cringe: Prime Time Romance and Late Night Camp
I've been grinning at the television lately. I have been reeled in by First Dates (Channel 4, Thursdays, 10pm). Its feel-good romance and simple format make perfect Winter evening viewing. Along with...
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2015: Cinema Feels the Force
This time last year, I wrote a summary of 2014 in cinema for this very blog and I waxed lyrical about the biggest film of 2014, The LEGO Movie. While, it was undoubtedly a wonderful movie, which...
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Film Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The...
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is a 5-star gateway into intergalactic heaven that will have fans drooling - Steve Martino's 'Snoopy and Charlie Brown:The Peanuts Movie,' is a dose of feel good...
View ArticleWhat Happens Next?
On Thursday 12th November 2015, I joined some Irish artists and theatre makers in an upstairs room at the Unicorn Theatre in London Bridge. Truth be told, Irish theatre is not something that has ever...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - A Spoiler Free Review
It's around 12.30am, and the Imax 3D screening of JJ Abrams' long awaited Star Wars epic The Force Awakens is finally unveiled. For around an hour the packed cinema is hushed, except for laughs in all...
View ArticleWant a Break from Christmas Music? Check Out Junior Wells
Christmas is almost here, which means mince pies, mulled wine, questionable jumpers and festive tunes are in your face everywhere you turn. This time of year can be a fun and joyous occasion, but if...
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Professor Elemental: Steampunk Rocker
In his opulent Brighton office, Professor Elemental is reclining on a sumptuous Edwardian chaise longue, Pith helmet to one side, cup of tea in hand. "Oh do come in", he beckons. Within minutes, I am...
View ArticleThe Apprentice - Episode 11
The interviews episode is always the best. Bear traps are laid, and the unwitting candidates fall into them. Every year without fail there's a numpty who believes the little lie about graduating from...
View ArticleHello Sweet Art: Dazzled By a Man Who Works at B&Q
It's nearly Christmas but CULTURE NEVER SLEEPS. Kim Noble, You're Not Alone at Soho Theatre What it is: An hour of HILARITY and PROFUNDITY and great power ballads My main emotion after watching Kim...
View ArticleCharity Single Aiming to Raise Funds, Awareness and Spirits Amongst Diabetes...
Christmas is the time to make a difference. Christmas always puts people in a festive mood. Be it songs, food or drinking until we're merry, Christmas is a time for sharing time and energy on yourself...
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