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Dan Smith’s heady ascent to the peaks of the A-list blog scene came in late 2012 as his band, Bastille, branding themselves as swarve glitch-pop-ballad boys, gathered pace. They’ve survived an early dose of the critics’ quill, and supported Two Door Cinema Club at Brixton Academy this February 8th.
Glasgow girls is the true story of 7 girls driven by a fierce sense of injustice at the treatment of asylum seekers. The story tracks the arrival of 4 girls (Agnesa, Roza, Amal, Ewelina) fleeing their war torn countries of Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia during the early 90s when it became common practice to exile asylum seekers out of London to more remote and under populated regions of the country, like Glasgow.
Clare Duffy’s hyper-symbolic financial offering, MONEY: A Game Show, is an addition to a cult in play-writing which attempts to lay the recent financial crisis against a wider moral awareness.
I am not one of life’s natural tennis players. At High School, I have clear and haunting memories of tennis lessons which consisted of hitting back the balls that were shot at me by The Ball Machine. The Ball Machine always struck me as a somewhat un-child-friendly contraption which was the equivalent of having a cannon fired at you, for a solid minute, with merely a dilapidated piece of wood and string with which to defend yourself.
You might know Viv Groskop from her Downton Abbey blog for The Guardian, her award-winning stand up comedy, her Downton Abbey/Upstairs Downstairs improvisation spoof 'Upstairs Downton', her regular TV and radio appearances, as Red Magazine's literary editor or from any of her many other incarnations.
Run-Rioter Adam Bloodworth talks to the ''quintessentially English Joni Mitchell'' Olivia Chaney ahead of her EP release.
Here's a little low-down from us on the ones to watch in the fashion world; some of these names are involved with London Fashion Week, some aren't, but either way, we think they're set for big things. The circus that is LFW can be an incredibly expensive process to be involved in, so many emerging designers and creatives actually steer clear of it entirely. Other industry professionals like make-up artists and photographers are just as influential in shaping the coming trends, but don't always get the same credit as designers, so we've tried to include some of them too.
