20th September 2022
Haris reviews the Finnish metal and punk rock bands, as Blind Channel embark on their UK headline tour post-Eurovision As soon as I arrived at the Cathouse, I could see a massive queue running down Union Street. A plethora of dyed hair and black outfits made up the majority of the queue, and I could ...
20th September 2022
Is it worth venturing out of the West End bubble for a wee culture trip? Martin Mullaney investigates… I was in my first year of secondary school when the Burrell Collection closed. Now, after six years and many protracted renovations, the famed Southside museum is back in business. It would be wrong to describe the ...
20th September 2022
How rock ‘n’ roll can you truly be when your promoter is begging you to jump on the next TikTok trend? In light of the release of Liam Gallagher and Dave Grohl’s new co-written single Everything’s Electric, taken from the former’s upcoming album, the pair have been extremely complimentary of each other. While describing the ...
20th September 2022
Katherine considers how hysteria shapes the way the horror genre presents women. When you discuss horror, there are a few subgenres to consider. The slasher: where young women are hunted by a killer. The supernatural: where girls are taunted by a ghost or demon. The revenge flick: where a woman avenges the perpetrator of a ...
20th September 2022
Which classics can grip students’ attention as they start university? Even if you haven’t attempted one of the classics, it is generally agreed that they have a reputation for being wordy, sluggish, and all-together very long. Sometimes, that would be true. Dracula, a deceptively lengthy and action-less book, almost killed me. Classics require care and ...
20th September 2022
Our writer Eve attends Olivia Laing’s first in-person event since the pandemic, exploring the retrospective relevance of her work on loneliness as well as her unusual approach to writing. I read Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City last summer, during the tentative period after the second lockdown had eased. Laing’s part memoir, part art historical essay, ...
20th September 2022
Fresh Meat is a weird and wonderful insight into student life in the UK: but just how accurate is it? In the run up to the return to campus this September, I was struck by the massive underrepresentation of university life and student culture in British television and film. This becomes particularly apparent when compared ...
20th September 2022
Your no-nonsense guide to one of the main arteries of the West End. Time Out Magazine recently ranked Great Western Road as the third coolest street in the UK, and among the top 33 in the world. While ‘coolness’ is of course subjective, there’s no denying that the West End’s portion of this vast road ...
20th September 2022
This unassuming eatery may be the dark horse of the West End’s thriving Indian restaurant scene. A birthday-related curry was in order. Alas, this was week 11 in semester two – a period largely characterised by burgeoning eye bags and stress-induced insomnia – so we craved somewhere safe, solid and stable. Mister Singh’s seemed the ...
20th September 2022
Rothery discusses the role of gentrification and working-class tourism in driving the rise in outdoor food markets across the city. Street food, originating in Asia, has started to spread to all corners of the world. This has allowed people to present a part of their culture to their community and profit from their diverse recipes. ...
