9th February 2023
Suede play to a room of 300 fans as part of Independent Venue Week by BBC Radio 6. The insatiable ones congregated in glory as a sea of forty-somethings filled the floor of Stereo last Friday night. To mark the 10-year celebration of BBC Radio 6’s Independent Venue Week, Steve Lamacq hosted events across the ...
1st February 2023
Heartbreak disguised in soulful, delicate lyrical mastery: a review of Joesef’s debut album. With the release of his debut album Permanent Damage, Joesef has created a track list of heartbreak, sexual exploration and nostalgic longing, while emulating his soulful delicate vocals as a dream-like escape from harsh realities. Long-awaited after the release of his two ...
1st February 2023
Post-art school or mid-2000 indie vibes? Cat Band Cat brings some stylish silliness to Glasgow. I’ll cut to the chase – the lead vocalist plays a ride cymbal with a recorder. This review is going to be more than one sentence, but if you’re only interested in reading one sentence, then that will do just ...
26th January 2023
In the attempt to include a variety of themes and topics, the film refuses to go beyond surface level and provide any actual meaningful commentary. As we enter awards season, a recurring theme of several new film releases appears to be cinema itself. Alongside Damien Chazelle’s epic Babylon and Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award contender The ...
26th January 2023
Cate Blanchett dominates as celebrated conductor and composer Lydia Tár in director and screenplay writer Todd Field’s unflinching interrogation of power and corruption. LIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD Tár is a masterful character-study of the downfall of a creative genius. Cate Blanchett is electric in her role as composer, conductor and self-proclaimed ‘U-Haul lesbian’ Lydia Tár in ...
8th January 2023
Angelica critically examines the 2019 non-fiction text. There is no doubting Lisa Taddeo’s commitment to research for her blockbuster book, Three Women. She begins by telling the reader that over the course of eight years she drove across the country six times, spent thousands of hours with her three chosen subjects, moving to the towns ...
19th December 2022
Natasha Coyle argues for Brandon Sanderson being this centuries’ Dickens. Brandon Sanderson’s first book in the Mistborn trilogy, The Final Empire, is one of my favourite fantasy novels of all time. With its various twists and turns, talks of revolution and uprising against the tyrannical Lord Ruler, and fantastic character and plot development, The Final ...
13th December 2022
Yulia reviews the Liverpudlian rock band at their Glasgow show. Tucked away behind a modern façade is a wholesale fruit market, refurbished as a hotspot for a range of events, from banquets to music concerts. This November, the spotlight fell on the latter, with the Lightning Seeds rocking the stage with their guest band, Badly ...
12th December 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing attends the Kelvin Ensemble’s bi-annual concert, and speaks to its chairperson, Nick Baughan. No one quite knew where the queue started and ended. The endearing chaos of Hunter Halls – a charmingly functional but far less elaborate version of Bute Hall – was the result of a sold out concert from ...
10th December 2022
Rebecca Richard reviews The Commitments musical as it toured Glasgow in early December. Grasping my ludicrously priced plastic cup of wine, I entered the brightly lit auditorium to the cast chatting and drinking on stage, to my surprise. Defying the usual use of an unassuming stage curtain, it was a nod for what was to ...
