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Lindsay Anderson’s if... centres on an elite boarding school populated by subservient pupils and fascistic ‘whips’ – head boys w... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Music
Love Among the Ruins: The Knife on pop, performance and queering the norm
Contemporary music culture is riddled with strange contradictions. Piracy is outlawed, but Spotify – from which almost all artists receive effecti... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
Spring in a Small Town
First released in 1948, Fei Mu’s masterful Spring in a Small Town was dismissed by the Communist government and only resurfaced in the 1980s. In the af... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Film
Way Out West: John Maclean on Slow West
The American West is a landscape that has loomed large over movie history. Westerns moved from the shadows of the ‘pulp’ literature they supersed... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
In the Loop: Julianna Barwick reveals Nepenthe
Julianna Barwick’s first experience of a capella singing was in church, in the American South where she grew up. “My dad was youth minister,&rdqu... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
LA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon describes the joy of the simple pop song: 'When those kids sing about "She loves you," yeah well, you know,... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s films often dwell on worlds within worlds: grand houses, fox dens, submarines. So it seems appropriate that he should turn his delicate ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
Rozi Plain: Roam From Home
Years ago, in Manchester, I promoted a gig for Thanksgiving, for an artist with the onstage moniker of Adrian Orange. It was the first show I'd ever put on, ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
The Golden Dream
The Golden Dream is the debut feature by Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez, previously a cinematographer and camera operator on 21 Grams and The Con... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
Toro y Moi talks Arthur Russell and astral jazz
On Chaz Bundick's most recent album as Toro y Moi, this year's Anything in Return, he plays the role of lothario. On lead single So Many Details, he croons t... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Music
Woods – With Light And With Love
While many ‘alternative’ bands make a habit of becoming more esoteric as they age, Woods have taken the other route. The first Woods record At Re... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Film
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Yann Demange’s debut feature is a blistering, disturbing portrayal of one British soldier’s attempt to get back to his Belfast barracks after bei... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Elvis Costello @ Festival Theatre, 18 Mar
After a couple of years on the road, Elvis Costello is bringing his run of Detour shows to a close. The show operates as a sort of intimate retrospective; Co... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
Memento Mori
Leicester University Theatre invites us to contemplate our mortality with a production of David Campton’s punchy black comedy Memento Mori, a very Brit... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Food And Drink
Phagomania: The Pizza Collection interview
Do you remember those awful music compilations from late night TV ad breaks? Short snippets of song would fly by as we learned about an indispensable collect... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Miracle In Rwanda
Miracle in Rwanda is the remarkable story of Immaculee Ilibagiza, a young Tutsi woman who survived the Rwandan genocide by hiding with seven other Tutsis in ... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Music
Tree Trunks – You Say (Video Premiere)
Tree Trunks are Robert Hunter, Sam Lewis and Rozi Leyden. They met as musicians in part of a wider scene of lo-fi pop bands, playing in some or all of the fo... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
Long Division festival announces 2016 line-up
Brotherly duo Field Music and post-punk pioneers Gang of Four lead the line-up, joining the already-confirmed Bis, Welsh indie-pop collective Los Campes... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Clubs
Skinned #4: Herron [meandyou.]
Co-founder of the meandyou. brood, Sam Lewis has been responsible for delivering gritty, leftfield techno to grotty basements around Manchester and beyond fo... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
The Easy Gramophone ft Swan Lake
1. Swan Lake - 'The Freedom'Dan Bejar, also of Destroyer and The New Pornographers, leads this song alongside Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer and Wolf Parade's Spenc... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
Clubs
Club nights in Liverpool this week: 6-13 Oct
We've searched the listings to bring you our pick of club nights in Liverpool this week – plus the latest news on clubs you should book ahead for,... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Film
UK Music Video Awards 2013: Winners
best pop video – uk in association with 4music Willy Moon – Yeah YeahDirector: Alex Courtès Producer: Jules de Chateleux Prod Co: Divisio... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Festivals
Unbound 2016: Poetry tasters
What is it? Let me explain It's kind of like a martial art, fought between your brain and your mouth and your body and the spiritual connection. You ca... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Edge Festival 2010: Electric Circus
The carnival atmosphere continues at Edinburgh's most eclectic nightspot. Formed from the ashes of the much missed Aereogramme, Glasgow's The Unwinding Hour... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Art
Naked Ambition
The Naked Portrait is a rather unassuming – almost modest - title for this summer's blockbuster exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. I... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Videos
Jon Hopkins, Atoms For Peace videos among UK Music Video Awards winners
Promo videos for the likes of Jon Hopkins, Queens of the Stone Age and Thom Yorke side-project Atoms For Peace were among the winners at last night's UK Musi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – September 2015
Anna Wintour goes all out in September and it’s possibly one of the best months to get your vogue on too, not least if you’re new to the city (he... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
TRNSMT @ Glasgow Green, 9 July
There seems to be a bit of a main stage love-in on the final day of Glasgow's inaugural TRNSMT festival. Despite the summer heat of Friday and ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 7 January
The Skinny News Badger (melis nuntius) eschews his species' customary winter hibernation period, emerging from his cosy set once more to seek out delectable ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 29 Jun - 6 Jul
While the week's undisputed highlight – Beck at the Albert Hall – sold out long ago, there’s still plenty to sink those music-loving teeth ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago