Gig Review: Seahaven

Stuart Masson reviews the Californian band’s recent Birthday’s gig

The Expert’s Guide to Europe’s Ultimate Competition

Jamie Thomas explains which countries you need to look out for at the 59th edition of Eurovision in Copenhagen

An alcoholic bucolic frolic

DramSoc’s spring term production of Jerusalem, directed by Grace Surman, opens with a young girl wearing fairy wings singing the eponymous hymn in the middle of the countryside.

Can you sense a space?

Have you ever been lost in a building? I don’t mean in the physical sense.

Turner Round

Kieran Ryan takes the pilgrimage to Margate to see Turner and Frankenthaler

Henriksen’s Cosmic Creation

Riaz Agahi reviews Nordic trumpetist Arve Henriksen’s latest effort

MTSoc are The Producers

This Tuesday, Imperial’s Musical Theatre society invited me to witness one of their final rehearsals – a full run through. And while it was bare bones up on the 10th floor of Physics, I still got to see all the singing, acting and dancing.

MTSoc Produce the Producers

As MTSoc put their finishing touches to the Spring performance, the Producers, they invited this intrepid reporter along to see how things were shaping up in the dress rehearsal.

Is all art propaganda?

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. It’s an instantly quotable adage from Banksy, but what does it actually mean? Can a line be drawn between outright political propaganda and the canvases hanging in every hip gallery in London?

Tiny Tate display still packs a punch

The Tate Modern opens its Harry Callahan display with a quote from the photographer: “if a man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand… his relationship to life”.

Witty, irreverent, political collages

In Heads of State (1920), two portly figures are pictured in their bathing suits before a feminine backdrop of butterflies, flowers and a woman with a parasol.

Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

It has been an unusual journey for Dylan Baldi, the man behind Cleveland based Cloud Nothings. He was signed as a one-man band and released his first two albums, Turned On and the self-titled Cloud Nothings, were recorded as such.