Music
Hands up if you like being absolutely scared shitless
This is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Heavy and harrowing noise rock akin to a horror movie - not the soundtrack, but the movie itself. Gore and all.
Arts
A night at the opera – It’s all Chinese to me!
If you couldn’t make it through The Barber of Seville, do you even stand a chance?
Arts
Michael Jackson: On the Wall – the glorification of a glorified man
An exhibition that encompasses the effect Michael Jackson had on the world.
Music
BBC Music Introducing Live
Tickets are still available for the three day event aimed at helping students and new artists explore the music industry
Music
Pieces of a Man is introspective, indulgent, and inaccessible
Despite lavish production, the latest effort by Mick Jenkins never really gets off the ground. Loosely narrating the fragments and facets of a person’s life, Jenkins’ jigsaw seems to be missing a piece.
Arts
En vogue: The Least Pretentious Art Fair in London
Landscapes, cityscapes and concentric circles are all the rage this autumn at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.
Arts
Company
Sondheim’s classic gets a facelift - and it’s absolutely beautiful.
Arts
Misty – A rousing one man show taking aim at simplified views of individuals and their lived experiences
Never before have the politics of identity demanded a spotlight in the media as they do today. Whilst this is an undoubtedly revelatory and welcome change to western society at large, room for the grey and blurred aspects of our inner selves must be made. Arinze Kené’s searing one
Arts
Pinter Two: a masterpiece of dialogue and discomfort
One of the two parts kicking off the Pinter at the Pinter season artfully displays everything that Pinter did so well.
Arts
We are all individuals: The Turner Prize 2018
The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition in the preceding year. This year the shortlist features four films, each tackling pressing issues in society today. Arts Writer Calum Drysdale gives his take on the shortlistees for one of the world’s best known awards
Arts
The Wider Earth: a magical voyage of scientific discovery
Young Darwin’s odyssey brought to life.
Arts
Find love, be happy: The Distance You Have Come
Depression, alcoholism, and fairytale romance: all this and more told through the medium of song in a star-spangled production of The Distance You Have Come at the Cockpit Theatre.