You work far too many hours during the winter and spring months and have time booked off that seems forever away. Finally, that time has come: festival season is upon us once more! If you’re a veteran, you’ll know what to expect: cramped conditions, lots of booze, a severe lack […]

Willie Nelson is the last gun in town and the outlaw country he built up with his bloody-fisted, tender-hearted cowboy friends is nothing more than a ghost town these days. Ryan Adams and alt-country took what they could and packed up their horses a couple of years back and Nashville…. […]

The Raid: Redemption, hitting cinemas this week, is an Indonesian martial arts action film from welsh director and relative newcomer, Gareth Evans. Not a known name and neither are his cast, but after their performance in The Raid, that won’t stay the case for long. The Raid: Redemption kicks off […]

Over the past few years, there has been a move by some Brits to try out some of the foreign festivals on offer, and why not? Rather than traipse through muddy quagmires just to get to your mates’ tent, destroying various items of clothing (not to mention dignity) in the […]

I’m a healthy 19 year old girl who exercises, watches and admittedly relishes stupid soap operas on TV, eats junk food, goes clubbing, gets the giggles over a nice looking man on the street; usual, typical teenage girl stuff. My one passion, however, is music. I listen to music: a […]

A tenuous link – an experience shared. William Bradford, the son of a Yorkshire farmer, was born in sleepy Austerfield, just outside Doncaster in 1590. What if I was to tell you this man was a factor two of mankind’s most heroic adventures? That without him Neil Armstrong may never […]

What can be said of Jez Butterworth? I was fortunate enough to sit through an interview with him and I can tell you that he is a genuine, optimistic and easy-going writer. There is no drama to him as a person. If anything, he is inspiring.  For those of you […]

Russia is a place of great contrast, yet also at the same time, it is home to a large number of paradigms. It is a country, which to the most part in Britain remains shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Having removed the shackles of the old USSR regime, she is, […]