Loitered Lens: The Indegenerates [photos]

10/06/2012

'they worked so well together it was hard to believe they had barely reached puberty. Sweat and sebum, hormones and hairgel – it never gets old. If you like great new fresh rock and roll...

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2:54 [Album Review]

09/06/2012

The debut album from sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow has a milder feel than the live shows, the punch and rawness extracted to leave a more mellow sound. Since the beginning of 2012 2:54 have been...

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The Science of ‘Cool’

09/06/2012

Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? "When I set out to find what people mean by coolness, I wanted to find corroboration of...

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Kate Tempest: Wasted [Theatre]

09/06/2012

Wasted is the new play by brilliant rapper, poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest.  This is her first play performed by Pleasance Plough Theatre company from Bristol. The play opens with a...

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Arirang [Cinema]

08/06/2012

Marking Korean director Kim Ki-duk's return to filmmaking, and indeed the world in general, Arirang is an interesting one that will divide opinion. Having self-imposed a punishing, three-year...

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Ian Francis - Lazarides Gallery

Ian Francis: 10,000 Years from Now

08/06/2012

The degraded space shown in Francis' work appears aged, as the layered scenes hang on the canvas, caught in motion, peeling with time and abrasive in action. ...

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Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

07/06/2012

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

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Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

07/06/2012

Eleven albums into a music career which can lay a fair claim to the title 'cult band', Piano Magic resist categorisation by virtue of developing and altering their musical style with each...

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Tav Falco [Interview]

07/06/2012

There's a mixed crowd at Rough Trade East, a record shop in ever-so hip Brick Lane. They're listening to Tav Falco read extracts from his new book, Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and...

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner

06/06/2012

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner...

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Sex sells. Except to geeks and hicks

06/06/2012

Put a pretty girl on the stage and more people will come to your gig. Sad fact, but it's true.''It takes more explicitness to grab our attention than before" says researcher Tom...

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Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love

06/06/2012

Tropic of Cancer are the American duo Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Techno producer Silent Servant). They've slowly gained a following in the last couple of years and now present their...

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CONCEPTION: An exhibition to create dialogue and duplicity

05/06/2012

Two artists, two cultures, two cities, two media. In this two-part exhibition spanning London and Belfast, the vibrant, acid coloured figurative canvases of Darren MacPherson are hung alongside...

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A glass of wine and a Gauloise: European teens smoke and drink more than Americans

04/06/2012

Cafe culture, the imagined nirvana of British politicians who have based their idea of European quotidian life on their experiences of Provencal mountain retreats and Dordogne riverside bistros. Not...

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DV8: Can We Talk About This? [Theatre/Dance]

04/06/2012

'I'm an artist who's interested in real issues, not just pretty shapes' ...

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Slingshots and Fishtanks to tackle Artillery

03/06/2012

Qualifies as essential news simply because we're Trebuchet, and we're a little bit obsessed with machines that fling things. Hence the name. What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a...

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Emma Sywyj: Malaysia [Photos]

03/06/2012

‘The unnatural colours came out my interest in the kitsch nature I found there. Again the town I was in was abundant in nature with jungles, mountains and tropical islands. Yet the town was...

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(A little) More known about potential asteroid impact

02/06/2012

The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor of...

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Carl Batson

IzIggy and Some Weird Sinners: Long Island [Gig]

02/06/2012

zIggy and Some Weird Sinners, billed as Europe's No 1 Iggy Pop tribute act...

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Friends: Manifest

01/06/2012

Friends are a 5 piece Brooklyn band, not yet two years old, who you might have noticed gathered a lot of buzz back at the end of 2011. Their name suggests a kind of exclusivity- An ambiguous Google...

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Twitter Propaganda Exposed

01/06/2012

'Astroturfing'. You probably already know the term. If you don't, learn it now, and the practice it describes. A centrally-planned and sophisticated campaign deliberately made to look...

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Hank3: Interview/Live Review

01/06/2012

'when people come to see me, I want to give them a good time' Most bands have enough problems getting out one album at a time.  Not so for Hank 3, real name Shelton Hank Williams, also...

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Outside of business, it’s business as usual

01/06/2012

Orwell Prize shortlister Lisa Ansell takes a commonsense view of financial crisis and ground-level resilience I logged on to twitter today for the first time in a bit, and I saw that Baroness Warsi...

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Men’s offices are muckier, it’s official

31/05/2012

Well, it's hardly surprising that men's offices have more bacteria than women's. Using the car keys to clean out earwax isn't something we associate with women, after all. And...

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What the Butler Saw: Vaudeville Theatre

31/05/2012

With a triple whammy of household names – as if the chance to see Samantha Bond in her undercrackers wasn't enough to fill the house nightly, we also get Omid Djalili and Tim McInnery...

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Tav Falco London in-store

30/05/2012

Post-modern pop classicist TavFalco makes rare appearance in London to promote psychogeographical book. Tav Falco was cool before cool was cool. Or so the internet would have us believe. He is, in...

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Scots Die Younger. Why?

30/05/2012

'Income inequality, welfare policy and unemployment do not occur by accident, but as a product of the politics pursued by the government of the day'. And that statement goes a long way to...

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Fish/Glenn Hughes [Live Review]

30/05/2012

'a night of two veteran performers both of whom have still "got it"' Tim Hall reviews. Double headline shows are an increasingly common phenomenon nowadays. In these economically...

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Solvent Abuse Hits the Uneducated Harder

29/05/2012

Solvent abuse hits the uneducated harder because they lack 'a greater cognitive reserve that acts like a buffer'. So essentially, you can nosebag that tube of contact glue till your face...

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GV Art launch ‘Coming of Age’

29/05/2012

'Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of ageing' – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication GV Art's cross-curricular investigations into the meeting points of art and...

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