When you think of Warhol you are instantly greeted with the images of Campbell’s soup cans and strung out celebrities, The Factory studio and a shock of white hair. The latest show at Graves is an emotional reconnection with an iconic artist. It is made up of two parts; Warhol’s study of himself and...
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New band, new(ish) venue. Big Convoy is a collaboration between local singer-songwriters Mat Wale and John Batchelor, with the rhythm section from Mat’s former outfit The Rackets. Mat and John alternate vocal duties, drawing on each other’s back-catalogue of solo material.But Big Convoy is a much beefier sound than Wale and Batchelor’s acoustic solo work,...
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This Britpop revival continues, whether we like it or not. Many don’t, and that’s fair enough. We’re an open-minded outfit however, and like to have first-hand experience of something before denigrating it. Mercifully, our scathing remarks soon found themselves benched thisevening, as Cast kick off with some heavy-handed tracks from their new ‘Troubled Times’...
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Festival season may seem like some weary dream as you peer at the dark afternoon sky from your rain-lashed window, but it will soon be upon us. Some festivals have dared to creep up our calendar, which means we can enjoy them much sooner. Glade Festival for example, is running this year from 14th –...
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“This is the first date of our UK tour…” Aaron Jerome aka SBTRKT tells an expectant audience. With the letters screaming out in upper case from the backdrop, they start their set with the ‘Tubular Bells’-sounding ‘Something Goes Right’. They furiously cook their beats on stage… cloaked entirely in silhouette. They wear trademark tribal...
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Thanks in part to the inexplicable popularity of the Twilight series, there’s a steady stream of film adaptations of young adult fiction, and The Hunger Games is the latest addition. Plot-wise, it concerns a post-apocalyptic society that selects two of its youngsters to battle to the death on live TV, and when a timid...
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1980s TV show 21 Jump Street was pretty popular back in the day, largely due to the presence of a young Johnny Depp in one of his early breakthrough roles, but it remains to be seen whether the material resonates enough to attract a wide audience to this big-screen adaptation. Nonetheless, this utterly 80s...
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