5 Musical Moments from 2022 I Want to Remember

1. The Concert The Lumineers - Le Zénith, Paris (11 March 2022) The first of the many concerts that I was meant to go to this year was postponed from March to July. I'd already bought a return ticket to Paris, so I went anyway, looking forward to traveling abroad for the first time since …

Rearview: Alec Benjamin — Narrated For You

Release date: November 16, 2018 I was late to the party with Alec Benjamin’s music. ‘Let Me Down Slowly’, his breakthrough single, must have made its way into my headphones via some music-streaming algorithm in the last months of 2018. It was then that my ears started to distinguish his songs from the rest and appreciate …

Opinion: (Maybe Not) Just Another Drop In The Ocean?

Still from In the Anthropocene - Retrieved from YouTube Most new music these days comes out on a Friday, or Global Release Day, as it’s known. However, in the rebellious spirit of its message, ‘In the Anthropocene’, indie-folk singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey’s latest single, defied this tradition and was released two days earlier on Wednesday, 1 …

Concert Review: Tom Odell

NDK Hall 1 - Sofia, Bulgaria - 15/02/19 credit: tomodell.com In the years since the fall of the Communist regime, the Bulgarian capital’s calendar of international events has gone from being practically non-existent to being largely predictable, with the same familiar oldies doing the rounds year upon year. This is much to the dismay of …

Guest Film Review: Glass (2019)

The first guest post on the blog features a review from my good friend Archie, who recently went to see the concluding chapter of the M. Night Shyamalan trilogy. Here's what he thought of it. Before seeing Glass, I gave into temptation and looked up the film’s Rotten Tomatoes score (36% at the time of writing). Having entered the …

Film Review: A Head Full of Dreams

I went into A Head Full of Dreams, the new Coldplay documentary which was screened for one night only in cinemas on 16 November, less as a die-hard fan and more as the curious observer of a global phenomenon twenty years in the making. I remember my first experience of Coldplay being watching their music video for …

Films in November/December ’18

I figured since I didn't manage to get around to writing any reviews about the films I saw in November, I would do a little retrospective of my highlights from November's releases, as well as look ahead to what's coming out in December as we lead up to the holidays. November: a musical trio, a …

Film Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

I'd been looking forward to seeing The Miseducation of Cameron Post ever since I first heard about it a few weeks ago. The story, about a teenage lesbian girl who gets sent to a Christian conversion therapy camp, suggested that questions of identity, sexuality and religion would be touched on and dealt with in a …

Film Review: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

"...it remains to be seen whether the film is any good. But at this point, it almost doesn’t matter. It will be a long time before The Man Who Killed Don Quixote can be seen just as a movie, separate from its long saga of dreams and woes and catastrophes." This was what Alissa Wilkinson wrote in an …

Film Review: Juliet, Naked (2018)

I was a bit disgruntled after watching the trailer of Juliet, Naked. Not because I didn't like the initial premise of the film (in a nutshell, the wife of a man obsessed with a faded American rock-star meets said rock-star, forming a rather unusual love triangle), but because the trailer gave the impression that it …