If you know and love good music, you’ll probably already know that the new EP from Rookes is due for release on Friday 8th November. And if you didn’t know, you do now. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed EP The Game & The River, Rookes’ latest offering – Liminal – […]
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Virgin EMI / Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced the release of “This Is How (We Want You To Get High)”, a previously unheard and unreleased song from George Michael. The track, which was recorded during George’s final studio sessions, is his first original material to be shared for seven years. This Is How (We Want You to Get High) is a […]
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Rob Harkavy reviews Mother of Him starring Tracy-Ann Oberman at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London. Cinema is the go-to medium for portraying a sense of menace; unexpected edits, creepy music and unsettling lighting can transform the most innocuous of scenes into anything from the mildly discombobulating to hide-behind-the-sofa terrifying. Theatre – […]
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Main pic: James Thacker Taking their template from the Greeks – specifically Aristotle – Shakespeare’s tragedies centre on a man’s downfall brought about by a fatal character flaw. Macbeth has his ambition, Othello his jealousy and Hamlet his indecisiveness, famously encapsulated by the existential question “To be, or not to be”. […]
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I love the summer. It’s my favourite season. What’s more, I don’t trust people who claim to prefer one of the other, less fun seasons. Freaks. I feel the same about people who say they prefer expensive, cocoa-heavy dark chocolate to Dairy Milk or, worse, people who claim to “love olives”. […]
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If, as is being widely reported, Gay Star News is to close its doors for the final time, it will be a blow not just for the company’s talented management and staff, but for all of us in LGBTQ media and, for that matter, gay business as a whole. As far […]
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Microscopic songbird Lots Holloway’s latest single, Lose Myself, has already set Spotify on fire since its launch three weeks ago (review here), forcing the streaming service to increase its bandwidth ten-fold to cope with demand. Not really, obvs., but the track has been doing really well and is set to get […]
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Diamonds are smaller than bricks, and Lots Holloway is smaller than most other humans but, as if to prove that small things come in great packages, the diminutive songstress’s latest release has not only come close to exhausting this reviewer’s gags about Holloway’s stature, but has also demonstrated that the Polly […]
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It’s no secret that British political discourse has turned into something of a depressing-as-fuck shitshow, chiefly driven by the election of a hard-left Marxist to the leadership of the Labour Party, and a Conservative Party driven to the right in order to pander to pink-faced Brexiteers with little flecks of spittle […]
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Last month a court in Switzerland – a country that knows a thing or two about referenda – ordered a rerun of a referendum on the grounds that the information provided to the public was “incomplete” and “violated the freedom of the vote”. The court’s judgement went on to say that […]
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