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Currently in the running for most humble band of the year award is most definitely JAWS. The Brummie band took over The Rainbow on Sunday night, giving 200 lucky fans a free ticket to see them in action, frontman Connor Schofield thanking the crowd profusely throughout the show for turning up. Speaking to the band… Continue reading Live Review / JAWS @ The Rainbow (17.05.15)
Known to our generation as that cheeky band from Liverpool who urged us all to 'kill the director' and 'dance to Joy Division', The Wombats are back with their third offering. Four years after the release of second album This Modern Glitch, new album Glitterbug packs a punch, although slightly different in sound. Influenced by lead… Continue reading Album Review / Glitterbug – The Wombats
I’ve loved reading for as long as I can remember. English was my best subject at school and I loved it (so much so I now study it at university). I’d always be that kid in class who would revel in ‘quiet time’ so I could get on with the next chapter of the book… Continue reading Book List / My Life in Books
For those of you who follow me on Twitter and Instagram, you'll have seen a barrage of posts from my week in Barcelona. Although set up by my university, essentially it was a week of studying, walking around for hours, getting lost on the metro and drinking cocktails and sangria until we could barely stand. Sunday… Continue reading Travel / Viva La Barça
It is only fitting that local band Superfood played a homecoming show at Birmingham’s Rainbow Warehouse. The place is a small but homely and beloved venue to many underground and unsigned bands, B-Town pals Peace and Swim Deep having previously played there. The four-piece were playing their first of only two headline shows (the other… Continue reading Live Review / Superfood @ The Rainbow Warehouse (8.04.15)
Naming an album is something you have to get right, particularly that of a debut. That name is what will be emblazoned all over posters, tweeted about in its hundreds, blogged about: it symbolises your album and what it encapsulates. In this sense, James Bay’s debut Chaos and the Calm falls a little short. The… Continue reading Album Review / James Bay – Chaos and the Calm
Sometimes the stress gets too much for you. You're sick of rereading your essay title and trying to come up with a thesis. You're having a crappy day and need to take your mind off it. Sometimes the best thing to do is take a break. Make yourself a hot drink, snuggle up in an… Continue reading Book List / Perfect Reads to Wind Down
I don't have to be the one to remind you that the world we live in nowadays is a digital one. Hell, you're probably reading this on a phone screen or some other kind of tablet that's yet to be invented. We were always told at school: 'don't talk to strangers'. It was practically drummed… Continue reading Breaking social media barriers
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