FEET OF CLAY (Some More Rap Songs)
Earl Sweatshirt is back, less than a year after his last release, with an EP as free form and abstract as his last album. Music writer Louie Ghalib weighs in.
DramSoc Presents: Macbeth
Double, double, toil and trouble
Denis Sulta takes us to the Xanadu of dance
4 stars We turn the corner, the gray lake at Canada Water still at the back of our minds. It’s pouring it down, and the group consensus is that we won’t miss the outside world for the next 10 hours. We’re going into the void. That is
Death of a Salesman
The stellar cast unfortunately fails to sell the classic script
Days of Abandon: Shimmering Sounds Tinged with Sad Mopery
5 stars In their third album, Days of Abandon, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart almost ditched their last album’s heart bursting intensity. Frontman Kip Berman, once a starry-eyed “heart on his sleeve” daydreamer serenading anyone in earshot, now sounds like a young romantic who has seen his
Big Thief steal the top spot with ‘Not’
4 stars I recently discovered a a new personalized playlist Spotify creates called “On Repeat”. As the name suggests, this contains the 30 songs you’ve been playing most over the last 30 days. While this initially served as a slightly unnerving reminder of the reams of data I willingly
Nearer my God: Foxing’s Transcendental Rock Show
I saw several bands live over the summer. Florence + The Machine and The National’s anthemic chamber pop at BST in front of thousands in Hyde park, Black Midi drawing a respectable crowd at EartH despite having released virtually no music (I also wrote a review for their show I’
The Magic Flute - Mozart’s classic
It isn’t easy to picture a more magical setting than sitting in the historical auditorium of the Royal Opera House as you listen to the overture, eagerly waiting for the curtain to rise. Back for its seventh revival at Covent Garden, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) manages
Felix Arts: Interview with Anita-Joy Uwajeh
Anita-Joy is playing Roxane, the heroine in Jamie Lloyd’s upcoming production of Cyrano de Bergerac
Frankenstein: Resurrected for the Modern Day
Forget the body horror of the original - this monster is a cold and calculating AI from the future, a relentless killing machine that will chill you to the core
Birmingham Royal Ballet Mixed Bill: A three-course meal
Birmingham Royal Ballet is on tour at Sadler’s Wells with a three-part mixed bill to suit anyone’s taste. Three separate pieces by different minds to dive into. The first piece, A Brief Nostalgia (directed by Jack Lister) is unsettling. Two large slates. One dancer. Her shadow cast on
Battles and Black Midi Live at the Boiler Room
Battles and openers Black Midi deliver a stunning performance at the Boiler Room’s intimate venue