Giddy for Gizzi!
Food Tube is jam packed with delicious dining delights, it's near impossible to select a favourite, but this week we've certainly had some highlights! Welcome to the fantastic Gizzi Erskine - now on...
View ArticleLike a Virgin Is 30
Today - November 12 - is the 30 anniversary of the release of Madonna's second album, Like a Virgin. Thirty years - digest that for a moment. If you're shrugging and asking "What's to digest?", you're...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Film Classification
I've given talks recently at Cumberland Lodge and Queen's University Belfast which both had this title, although they covered different ground. It's a vast subject, made even more complicated by the...
View ArticleSome Clarity on Dapper Laughs
HOW CAN CARDIFF UNIVERSITY BAN DAPPER LAUGHS FROM PERFORMING? THAT'S CENSORSHIP? Cardiff University's student union have every right to choose who performs on their premises. He has not been censored....
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Vagina Tax: The Musical - Made in Dagenham
"Life will be hard because you're a woman, but it will be even harder because you're a black woman. They aren't excuses, they are reasons to work harder and stand up for yourself." My Mum first dropped...
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Babymetal Live at Brixton Academy
BABYMETAL return to the UK for another round of genre-bending, guitar shredding, unbridled mayhem in front of another sold-out London audience. After I managed to dry out from the biblical downpour...
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"Lily Collins Made Me Cry"
Lily Collins laughs when I tell her that she made me sob on a street corner in the dark by myself. The kind of perfect giggle only a 25-year-old British movie star (and daughter of Phil Collins) would...
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So, What to Make of Allen Jones?
Allen Jones is considered to be one of the finest pop artists of the 1960s but as creator of pieces such as Chair and Table, where female sex doll figures are contorted into everyday pieces of...
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Things Every Male Vocalist Should Know
From Ed Sheeran to Geroge Ezra to John Newman, male vocalists are on the rise. The days of simply being a pretty boy and allowing autotune to do all the heavy lifting are over. These guys are musically...
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Supertramp's Roger Hodgson Still Eating Breakfast in America
With the continuing feuds between Waters & Gilmour and Plant & Page recently in the news and likely derailing forever any full-scale Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin reunions, it's easy to overlook...
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Why We Still Need Bookshops
What to do if you're not Russell Brand, you don't have a wild-maned revolutionary rant to sell, but you're still determined to make your book a success? Imagine a world bereft of bookshops, where the...
View ArticleStations of the Cross: A Film That Looks at Religious Fundamentalism
Stations of the Cross, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Script at this year's Berlin Film Festival, tackles aspects of religious fundamentalism within the social and family structure and its...
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The KKK - Khloe, Kourtney and Kim?
Photo - gossipmagazines.net Khloe Kardashian has been facing a huge Twitter backlash after posting a meme which reads; 'The only KKK to ever let black men in' with a photograph of herself, her sisters...
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Fertile Finland Could Be Primed to Spearhead the New Nordic Takeover in UK
The second edition of annual Nordic cultural feast, JA JA JA Festival, starts today, and is a good starting place for Londoners to discover the new potential of Finnish music. Sweden of course has pop...
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Where Is This From?
Architectural gentrification seems to be full throttle at the moment. Unique, beautiful and historical buildings being bulldozed every minute by greedy demons. The sad truth is, some people actually...
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Life In the Arts Lane - Week 94 - Post Olympia Reflections
Sunday 5pm rolled round and the Olympia fair morphed from the serene elegance of a West London antique show into a frantic scramble of destruction. Everyone wants to get out at once, and we wrestle for...
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The Art of Shame
A year or two ago, I walked down the local high street with my openly gay younger brother. We were on our way to a party, and he was wearing skin-tight jeans and jacket adorned with feathers and...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Imitation Game
So The Imitation Game is a good film, yes, but I'm not going to say it's a great film. It's engaging at time but too often it's boring, drama is crowbarred in to try and make it more exciting and most...
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Why Nicki Minaj Is Riding High as the Ghetto Queen of Glasgow
Butts and bumps ruled the MTV EMAs - with curvy host Nicki Minaj having the last laugh as she's in talks to have her own show. Who'd have thought it that Nicki - who turned the air blue with her...
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Snowsport Films Just Brought Art to Action
A steady stream of snowsport films have been doing the rounds over the past two months, delighting audiences with storms of snowy escapism. This year, a select few have managed to entertain crowds with...
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