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.
Music
Everybody wants to change the world: Looking at the White Album’s Legacy 50 Years on
Exactly fifty years ago, the year 1968 was to be the beginning of the end for the Beatles. Lennon had finally escaped the clutches of chronic acid tripping, partly due to his burgeoning love for Yoko Ono, partly due to the retreat the band made to Rishikesh where they were
Music
Mutation as a form as music
Tim Hecker warns of an apocalyptic dawn with transcendental acceptance.
Arts
I’m Not Running runs out of steam
Too many issues, too little time.
Arts
DRAG at the Hayward Gallery
A wide-ranging exhibition that showcases the variety to be found in the art form.
Arts
Bottom: A queer bildungsroman
Written and performed by Willy Hudson, his one-man show Bottom shares funny, awkward and entertaining experiences.
Arts
A Tale of Two Halves: Measure for Measure at the Donmar
Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden alternate roles in a retelling that tackles abuse of power and gender politics.
Music
Minimum to maximum, ambient to aggressive
Aggression has, for the most part, been a matter of force or damage. They yell, the guitars scream, the drums roar. All a product of man’s basest tendencies, a primitive release. Reining it back, Live 2002, is in many ways a controlled exploration of the impulses preceding the violence.
Music
REDUXER: Turning Water Into Wine
Where RELAXER was a fairly uninspiring mark of alt-J running out of new ideas with a sound that almost embraced their TV-ad music status, alt- J’s REDUXER has taken the same material and reworked it into something masterful.
Arts
The Funny, the Painful and Everything in Between
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City brings together two unlikely strangers in the morbid setting of their mothers’ cancer ward, only for them to connect in a way neither expects.
Arts
Mrs Dalloway Brought to the Stage
This ambitious adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel aims high, but fails to capture the charm of the novel.
Music
With a new Chance the Rapper project supposedly on the way, let us revisit his iconic Acid Rap mixtape
It’s simultaneously becoming increasingly easy and difficult to ignore Kanye West. Apparently, he’s been “working on” a new Chance the Rapper album. What that means or whether it even matters (see the substandard Ye or elusive Yahndi) is to be seen. Still, let’s take this as an