If you’re a student at the University of York, the annual Summer Ball organised by YUSU is an excellent way to start your summer vacation. This year I had the pleasure to […]
Tag: Music
Spinning nostalgia: the vinyl resurrection
Fashions are very much circular in motion: staying briefly, departing but then meeting again shortly. This is certainly the case in the music industry in recent years, whereby the vinyl, […]
Review: Laura Marling Student Conference, London
The idea that an artiste as private as Laura Marling should offer herself to the mercy of student journalists would never have occurred to me, so to discover she intended […]
Review: The xx, I See You
Released in January 2017, I See You is the long-awaited third album of The xx. Despite having embarked on solo projects (most notably Jamie Smith a.k.a. Jamie xx with his […]
Review: La La Land
As the academy awards draw closer and the films vying for a place on the ballot are beginning to separate from the crowd, La La Land has emerged as the […]
An album to avoid if you want to dodge The Donald
Donald Trump’s victory in November came as quite a shock to us all. Even his supporters, including Republican bigwigs, thought that his numerous improper remarks would guarantee a Democrat victory. […]
Review: The Great Gatsby
Don your feather boa, grab your martini and let the Guild of Misrule’s immersive adaption of Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby transport you into a world of jazz and debauchery. […]
Interview: RY X
It’s perhaps a little odd to think that RY X has only just released his debut solo album. With the haunting debut single ‘Berlin’ out back in 2013 (which you […]
Review: Damnation Festival 2016
Every year, metal fans from far and wide descend upon Leeds for Damnation Festival. Hosted at the University of Leeds, it’s a festival comprised of four stages of bands playing […]
Tips To Unclutter A Cluttered Student Mind
We’ve all lived through days of doing everything we told ourselves we wouldn’t do. Though our timetables have stated that today is a day of reading and library work, often we wake […]