Set down in virtually any country in Europe and you’ll invariably find a slew of football teams and a passion that runs deep into the core of its sporting community. However, fly beyond the borders of Europe and you’ll quickly find that this love for football isn’t quite as feverish. […]

Aside from the fact that they are all forms of popular entertainment, what do music, film, theatre, painting and offbeat performance art have in common? In short, it’s many people who never quite realise their true potential. Whether it’s self-destruction, tragedy, over enthusiast media hype or some other unexplainable force […]

Audio book give away… More often than not, life can feel like a continual loop of struggle, stress, routine and never ending chores. But between the cracks of the mundane lie the weird and the wonderful: things we often dismiss; people we refuse to see and moments that we fail […]

Gaz Richards is the funder of Solid 7 Records, a D.I.Y cassette label, releasing on tapes his own recordings, along with other music that interests him. We chatted about his label, his “relationship” with cassettes, tapes’ comeback and new recording technology. Piotr Balkus: What was the main reason you decided […]

Tired of flicking through channels?? Are you bored of watching the same infomercials over and over again?? Well, have I got news for you?!?! Tune into Netflix every Tuesday and dive into the exciting world of law and justice with none other than Saul Goodman in “Better Call Saul”. The […]

It’s 1963, and Stephen (Eddie Redmayne) studies cosmology – “like religion for intelligent atheists” – at Cambridge, looking for a single equation to explain everything, a theory about time, a space-time singularity that explains the way the universe appeared. He meets Jane (Felicity Jones) at a party: she studies French […]

On November 10, 2014, I strolled down to The Fleece in Bristol eagerly awaiting to see the Swedish Rock group Blues Pills live in concert on their UK tour, with opening acts The Vintage Caravan and Black Wolf. Upon arriving at the venue I came across an unnerving scene: 90% […]

“The Affair” got me hooked from the first episode (as it tends to happen with all the series I fall in love with at the proverbial first sight): the structure is excellent; you discover the characters slowly and naturally, and they hook you irrevocably; appearances hide plenty of… stuff; memories […]