Culture
Alt-J at the O2 Academy Brixton | Live review
Since their 2007 formation in Leeds University dorm rooms, Alt-J (∆) has gone from strength to strength. Having officially signed with Infectious Records in 2011, they released their first album An Awesome Wave in 2012. Besides accumulating a huge fan following, the band [Read More]
Playing with Grown-ups at Theatre 503 | Theatre review
With echoes of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the classic drawing room genre, Hannah Patterson’s Playing with Grown-ups explores the tense and emotional consequences of a visit from an old friend and his new, rather unexpected girlfriend. Joanna and Robert are a [Read More]
The National – Trouble Will Find Me | Album review
The National, the Cincinatti-born and Brooklyn-based band, much beloved of their Williamsburg hipster neighbours, return after a three-year hiatus with their sixth album. After a slow start with their initial two recordings, the next three works Alligator, Boxer and High [Read More]
James Yuill at Corsica Studios | Live review
Whoever penned the phrase “Jack of all trades, master of none” had not encountered James Yuill: the artist expertly incorporates wistful folk with electro, synthpop and house beats, and even edged into 90s trance, performing singles from new album These Spirits at [Read More]
Cuddles at Ovalhouse | Theatre review
Joseph Wilde’s first full length play, Cuddles, sets itself up as a modern vampire tale, part myth, part bloody reality. Eve is a teenage vampire; imprisoned by her older sister Tabby, the only person who knows she exists. She lives in a highly mythologized world where [Read More]
London Photo Festival at The Crypt | Exhibition review
The London Photo Festival is a biannual event that offers budding amateurs and semi-professional photographers an invaluable platform to exhibit their work to the public. With all the pieces available to buy it also creates a space for lovers of photography to provide [Read More]
Phildel at Bush Hall | Live review
Phildel, a London singer-songwriter of Chinese and Irish extraction, played the ornate yet cosy Bush Hall in West London to promote her recently released album The Disappearance of the Girl. She’ll soon be entertaining in less intimate (though undoubtedly less attractive) [Read More]
The Travelling Band at Rattlesnake of Angel | Live review
The Travelling Band, five alt-folk/alt-Americana consummate musicians from Manchester play a one-off gig in Rattlesnake of Angel. Their third album, The Big Defreeze is freshly recorded and ready for release, but the band are pausing in hopeful anticipation of a decent [Read More]
Valerie June at Dingwalls | Live Review
Following the release of her debut album as a signed artist and a song used by iTunes for one of their Singles of the Week – which has previously been home to the likes of Jake Bugg, The Vaccines and Bastille – female folk artist Valerie June has come to Dingwalls to [Read More]
Unhappy Birthday shocks at Camden People’s | Theatre review
An imaginative approach to performance art, the audience takes on the supporting roles in Amy Lamé’s excessive yet enjoyable one-woman show Unhappy Birthday at Camden People’s Theatre. In bright, red Converse shoes and a white Morrissey T-shirt, Lamé rather comically [Read More]
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