Walking past the venue before the show one of the support acts says to get in early to catch them, we do, and they are awful. With the singer interrupting his own songs to order the soundtech to boost his already obnoxiously loud vocals even higher in the mix, and a guitarist who seems to […]
Soad Ham was a student leader in a movement which protests against policies currently being pushed by Honduras’ education minister. These would change learning hours meaning students would walk home from their schools in the evening through busy, potentially dangerous cities. Soad Ham was involved with a movement which is fundamentally concerned with safeguarding our […]
It has been four years since Awolnation’s first album and Run is, conforming the stereotype, a difficult second album; Awolnation have moved away from Megalithic Symphony’s catchiness and towards more challenging, darker elements. There is no “Sail”, no “Burn It Down” or “Jump On My Shoulders” on this album, and there is unlikely to be […]
Evans The Death’s new album, Expect Delays, is a fantastic effort that will sadly be overlooked due to the band’s relative obscurity. Expect Delays is everything that has been lacking from generic, strat driven, all-star wearing Radio 1 Indie-pop; off beat, droning, melancholic and dowsed in a drowsy haze, Expect Delays is a beautiful wreck. […]
Student media has a responsibility to encourage and facilitate debate about student politics, to highlight issues which are in need of attention and to behave with sensitivity rather than engaging in vitriolic personal attacks. If we focus too much on extrapolating damning condemnations from silly mistakes, then we risk detracting from constructive debates about student […]
In declaring ticket touting as a fine example of free market entrepreneurialism, something which is empowering for business oriented go-getters and which therefore enriches wider society because it is creating jobs for middle-men, Sajid Javid has demonstrated that he is an out of touch fool who fails to understand the way in which ticket touting […]
Lewis Johns, notable for outstanding work on Gnarwolves’ debut release, is responsible for yet another fine production job on Funeral For A Friend’s latest effort. With a far more stripped back sound than heard in their recent work, moving back to the days before the Tales Don’t Tell Themselves blip, Pat Lundy’s drumming has never […]
Put quite simply, the idea of EU benefit scroungers draining UK resources is myth. Whilst undeniable that many EU citizens struggle with unemployment in the UK and subsequently rely on the state to help them get through these tough times with what meagre funds Job Seeker’s Allowance affords, recent figures have shown that on balance […]