Sh-amazing! – Film Review of Shame
Shame: wow, what a film. Director Steve McQueen is quickly making a name for himself in the film industry (what with the success of Hunger …
The Pop-up Restaurant Concept
Couple of days ago I have been watching the semi-finals of “Ramsay’s Best Restaurant” program. In these two episodes Gordon has set the semi-finalists a …
My challenge of the year: organising a gig from scratch
When I was 14, teachers at school started bothering us with that horrible question: “what do you want to do later?”. Nothing to do with …
Quintessentially Local: The North of England and Hardcore
I’ve thought about this a fair bit, and the first thing that came to my mind as quintessentially local was definitely hardcore and its development …
National Theatre’s Scenes from an Execution
An advert for The Valley – latest edition to the reality TV bandwagon – got me thinking about today’s fascination for the grotesque, both imagined …