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Celebrating its 45th year, the almighty Reading & Leeds Festivals play host to possibly their most diverse line up yet. 2016 sees 5 headliners join the bill, including 2 joint headline slots. While this year’s b […]

Having progressed through a vast number of novels and works by Agatha Christie, I think I can safely say that I know what I like in regards to her literature and it was for this reason that I was, somewhat, […]

Having progressed through a vast number of novels and works by Agatha Christie, I think I can safely say that I know what I like in regards to her literature and it was for this reason that I was, somewhat, […]

Established in 2015, MIRRORS Festival is a multi-venue all-dayer in Hackney, East London. Taking place on Saturday 29th October, MIRRORS is post-festival season, and slots itself nicely in the drought following […]

The Windmill, Brixton is a humbly sized pub/music venue that has played host to many renowned bands during their infancies, including indie rock giants The Vaccines and Bloc Party. After their show there on […]

Stop all the clocks. Get the tissues at the ready. Get your mourning clothes out, because today it has been announced that The Maccabees are no more. That’s right, you heard me. The Maccabees have announced that t […]

Homosexuality. It is a topic that, while it may have once brought about disgusted looks and disapproving mummers, now typically gains a shrug of the shoulders. Most young people are totally accepting of differing […]

On the day their eponymous debut album was released – the same day Viola Beach’s debut album reached Number One – Blossoms played two acoustic sets. The second was in the cramped HMV in the Arndale Centre, Manche […]

The first thing I’d like to point out in this review is that Suicide Squad, David Ayer’s hotly-anticipated contribution to the quickly expanding new DC universe, is certainly not as terrible as the recent […]

Gaming Glories is a special edition gaming feature that allows writers to revisit and explore games that have helped shaped their gaming history. Each volume features a different writer examining different games […]

On the 29th of April, 2016, Ghostbusters became the most disliked movie trailer on Youtube. On paper, this seems like a wonderful act of defiance; the start of a multiplex revolt. Audiences who swarm the local […]

We’re so human. Each one of us. Yet when it comes to writing about human experiences and behaviour, we often find ourselves stumbling, pulling at loose threads of our pasts in the hopes of capturing what it’s rea […]

Indie giants The Libertines have announced they will be playing an intimate gig at Brixton’s O2 Academy next month, in aid of drummer Gary Powell’s cause Unity Rocks. All proceeds from this gig will go str […]

Yet another book-to-film adaptation has been announced within the world of Hollywood, this time of Sylvia Plath’s profilic sole novel, The Bell Jar. 

Released in 1963, it is a semi-autobiographical novel r […]

In a world of remakes and reboots, nothing seems to be safe anymore, especially not our childhood classics. It was announced last year that Sony Pictures is moving forward with their re-imagined adaptation of Joe […]

Sunday saw ska legends Madness left to tidy up proceedings after an explosive set from The Hives, whose frontman, Pelle Almqvist, certainly stakes a claim for being on of the best frontmen around in music right […]

Saturday provided some much needed sunshine to the festivities and the sun certainly seemed to bring the most out of those in attendance. Catfish and the Bottlemen staked a claim for why they should have been […]

Tucked away in the Derbyshire hills, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Y Not Festival is something of a small occasion; you’d be mistaken. The festival’s 11th year saw it entertain arguably its’ most expansive […]

When Ernest Hemingway said that “there is no friend as loyal as a book”, he succinctly encapsulated the way in which bibliophiles consume and adore literature. A good book can transform a dull afternoon, while awa […]

When Ernest Hemingway said that “there is no friend as loyal as a book”, he succinctly encapsulated the way in which bibliophiles consume and adore literature. A good book can transform a dull afternoon, while awa […]