Of Old Gits and Hamsters’ Arses

Farage and Co. are not a bold rejection of the old order – they’re simply extreme expressions of it...

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Stylus Stories

It is modern folklore, providing an insight into the human condition and a soundtrack to match. Stylus stories listening club....

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Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

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Metrist : The People Without

These are not clean, conventional productions and are all the more interesting for it. ...

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British Folk Art at Tate Britain

Challenging our perceptions of art and viewing rituals in art galleries : British Folk Art....

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Loitered Lens : Beast Within UK

This is rock and roll and the brakes can't be put on for a bunch of overpaid kids kicking a ball and falling over a lot whilst people starve to death nearby....

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Tesla : O2 Academy, Islington

No glitter, no razzle-dazzle, but a rapport that oozes sincerity and solid music to follow up. Tesla, Live at the O2, Islington. ...

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Empire’s Ghost Pt. 3 : Scottish Nationalism

Scottish Nationalism has always been just a reaction to a changing world, and an attempt to find a place in it...

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Forbidden Rice

With rice so readily available today, it is hard to imagine that stealing something as simple as a handful of black rice could result in a death penalty...

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Finding Nick Tosches

I asked him how he had gotten his first book published. “It’s a dead industry”, he said....

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Hearts Aren’t for Drowning (Nicole Atkins)

My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, 'F*ck that!' ...

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Hans Bouffmyhre

Four different tracks from an album given different treatments. Hans Bouffmyhre's Where I Belong remixes. Review...

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Loitered Lens: Throne

Pictures of Throne live at the Cob Gallery, London...

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Empire’s Ghost Pt. 2 : Scottish Nationalism

Although the precise question of Scotland’s relationship with Union is rightly a question for Scots, the nature of that Union is a matter for all...

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Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

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Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...

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Bloodstock 2014 : Preview

As always with a Bloodstock lineup, there’s a hugely eclectic mix of Metal sounds and subgenres taking to the stage...

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Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

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Secret Cinema presents Back to the Future

Secret Cinema Presents announce extra tickets for their Back to the Future event....

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Dale Chihuly : Halcyon Gallery

Going Beyond the Object into Shadows of Pure Colour: Dale Chihuly’s Glass Sculptures at the Halcyon Gallery...

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Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

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Matisse Live : Tate Modern

Here art is about joy, tranquillity and hope. Not all art can be like this, but when it is, it is often at its most beautiful and poignant...

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Loitered Lens : James

The Electric Ballroom was so packed there was a genuine risk of impregnating the total stranger who you were forced to rub up against....

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Empire’s Ghost : Scottish Nationalism

In a sense, this is Scotland’s guilty secret. Independence was not taken by the English, but given up by Scots....

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The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

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Loitered Lens: Slash and Myles Kennedy

Slash and Myles Kennedy played the House of Parliament in June 2014. Here are some photos. ...

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Jon Edwards, Anne-Marie Helder (Panic Room) : Interview

It’s fun for us as musicians to see how the material subtly changes and develops when you play it live...

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Midsummer Music Festival 2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

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Answer Code Request : Code

While this is not an “in your face” album, the best of these precisely engineered tracks have a strong pulse and circulation...

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Unconscious Archives #13

An international line up of live audiovisual improvisations producing tangible sound and visceral vision, corporeal signals and audience interference....

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