1st February 2010
Robin Perkins Coming back from South America was never going to be easy. After a year spent studying in the sprawl of Buenos Aires and a few months winding through the Andes on rusty buses in the rainy season, adjusting to home has taken a while. Things are just different. While preparing a presentation on ...
1st February 2010
Claire Strickett Who says students have to live on pot noodles and beans on toast? Not us! Each week our Lifestyle Editor shares a recipe that will keep your finances and your body in good shape. Ingredients (makes 2 portions) Vegetable oil 4 good-quality sausages 1 onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tbsp tomato ...
1st February 2010
Ellen Gallagher talks to Hugo White of The Maccabees You released your second album, Wall of Arms, in May last year. How would you go about describing it? I think it’s a much better record really. I think for the first record we had just started and we wrote a collection of songs that weren’t ...
1st February 2010
Leon Weber The noughties have come to an end and we have every reason to be happy. Most importantly, there’s no need to use that non-word ever again, but also, a whole new decade of exciting cinema visits lies ahead of us. Who knows what we will be watching in June 2018? Die Hard 5: ...
1st February 2010
Nick Biggs Over Christmas and New Year it was nearly impossible to pick up any music publication and not encounter an end of year list. Journalists everywhere were overwhelmingly generous in their endeavors to share with us what they considered to be the year’s best new live acts, the worst album covers, the shortest nu-metal ...
1st February 2010
Lauren Martin Kieran Hebden, under the moniker of Four Tet, has moulded a creative persona that for over a decade, has continued to surprise his loyal audiences and re-define expectations of imaginative and intelligent electronica. Arriving soon after recent collaborative forays with artists such as Burial and Joy Orbison, There Is Love In You proves ...
1st February 2010
Nick Biggs Many bands feel the need to constantly reinvent themselves — not Spoon. The Texan indie outfit’s seventh record picks up where they left off. The band’s sense of humour remains salient, but in a more mature form. Guitar, bass, drums and keyboard are again the only instruments utilised, but they draw out considerable ...
1st February 2010
Oisin Kealy As with her acting, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s music tends towards emotional minimalism. Her last album made for pleasant listening but carried little weight; certainly not enough to put any strain on the legs of a coffee table. IRM is thankfully a much less anaemic affair, and though it may be useless to scramble for ...
1st February 2010
Phoebe More Gordon Through Acousmatic Art, Luke Fowler sets out on an exploration of the relationship between looking and listening, and thus questions the ways in which to develop new and meaningful dialogues between sound and film. Acousmatic sound is sound one hears without seeing an originating cause — an invisible sound source. In A ...
1st February 2010
Dominic Maxwell-Lewis The space above the main auditorium of the Tron Theatre is a cosy studio space named the ‘Changing Rooms’, which by virtue of its title suggests an adaptable venue for works that are non-conventional in form or small in stature. The latest offering in this space was Ian MacPherson’s new play ‘Anguish With ...
