FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN – 21st Century Folk Music
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FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century. A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the [...]
Artist | BBC | Concert | Events | Festival | Film | Modern | Music | Musician | Performance | Punk | Songwriter | War | WriterGET SHORTY – Seven-Piece Hip Hop/Funk Collective
Shakila Rajendra chats to the London collective who are determined to make a mark with their cross-genre brand of hip hop/funk music. Let’s get one thing straight, Shorty aren’t an all singing all dancing group of (let’s be politically correct here) ‘vertically-challenged people’. Neither are they a girl band who named themselves so, out of [...]
Culture | DJ | Festival | Inspiration | MusicTOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories
Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette. Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for [...]
Art | Artist | East London | Events | Gallery | Inspiration | Modern | National Gallery | Painting | WarPUBLIC ENEMY – What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?
Having recently released “Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits”, to document their immense and far-reaching legacy to the development of hip hop music, how did Public Enemy catalyse the transition of rap music from minority interest to establishment juggernaut? Public Enemy have released a ‘Best of’ compilation of their music [...]
Artist | Drama | Hollywood | Music | Nature | Political | Radical | Rap | Social | WarCITIZEN KEN – A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions
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“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L. Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly [...]
Political | Social | Society | Television | War | WriterALIEN AT HEART – ‘Alien Nation’ exhibition at the ICA
The Private view of the ‘Alien Nation’ exhibition at the ICA on the 16th of November was interesting… It was an exhibition about ‘Alien Art’ a direct homage to the 50-60′s early 70′s Alien movies which mostly reflected the anti-communist, xenophobic & anti-nuclear fears of the time. Few masterpieces came out of that strand but [...]
Artist | Comics | Exhibition | Film | Movie | PaintingHITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA – Injustice in Art & History
It’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose. The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco [...]
Architecture | Art | Cinema | Designer | Director | East London | Film | History | Movie | PerformanceLOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam
Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure [...]
Cinema | Director | Elusive | Events | Film | Horror | Inspiration | Modern | Movie | Political | Radical | Social | Theatre | WarSPIDERMAN 3 – Preview
Cast: Tobey Mcguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, Topher Grace as Venom, Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Conners, Adrian Lester as a Research Scientist, Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey, Theresa Russell as Mrs. [...]
Director | Film | Hollywood | MovieEXILS – Journey to the Land of Their Fathers
Rukhsana Yasmin reviews Tony Gatlifs tale of two lovers on a journey to discover the land of their fathers. Exils or Exiles tells the spirited, energetic and heartfelt story of Naima (Lubna Azabal) and her lover Zano (Romain Duris) on their journey to the land of their fathers, Algeria. Lost in the perils of immigration, [...]
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