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Larry Lamb was a man who, along with bearing a plethora of other scars from a life on Fleet Street, had a prominent mark on his forehead that for years was a source of great speculation within London’s notorious publishing district. His reputation often proceeded him and the rumours were that his fierce temper and unwavering stubbornness had landed him in fights with the Krays who had repeatedly bludgeoned him before tiring of his stern resilience. The truth of the...

Review by Isolde Walters, follow at @isoldewrites  I have always been bookish. When I was a child, my father nicknamed me 'bookmark', partly because I was slight but mainly because my nose was forever in a novel. One summer I read George Eliot's Middlemarch in five heady days - that's over 700 pages of heavy Victorian prose, long meandering sentences with clauses and sub-clauses and semi-colons galore. But I fell in love with the characters and their stories and was...

Protomartyr have released the first single, and indeed first track, from their upcoming album. ‘A Private Understanding’ is the opener for their fourth full-length, and was pegged as the album's opening statement the second it was finished. At once beautiful and brutal, it mutates from drum-led oddity to unlikely anthem, with some of Casey’s most potent lyrical work at its centre: “Sorrow's the wind blowing through/Truth is hiding in the wire.” The video, shared today, was inspired by a recent...

Bleakender III @The Shacklewell Arms 7.7.17 Last weekend saw Night Terror's third edition of their Bleakender events, boasting a range of underground acts over three nights in the cosy confines of the Shacklewell Arms' gig room. The events are always free, always packed and always loud as all hell. TLE got down on the Friday night to catch Es, Housewives and surprise guests Spectres in all their blaring psych-out glory. Es Es Es Spectres Spectres Spectres Housewives Housewives Housewives Housewives...

An art-loving couple have taken these stunning photos of themselves travelling across Europe. The striking pictures prove less is more as the creative couple use their love for geometry and buildings with spectacular results. Daniel Rueda, 26, and Anna Devis' training in architecture inspired them to make the foreground and the buildings in the background of their shots as important as each other. Mr Rueda said: "We were always taking pictures but very organically we started to appear in each...

A talented watercolour artist has learnt to paint stunning landscapes - despite being blind. John Mitchell, 58, developed a love for landscapes and geometric shapes in his 30s but was forced to put his canvas down when he developed a mystery illness. But almost 20 years later, when he was diagnosed with complete tunnel vision, that left him with a tiny amount of sight. When he was recovering from at home on the sofa when he was inspired to brush...

  A little old lady is hoping to take the world by storm thanks to her performances - as the world's oldest RAPPER. Nonagenarian rapper Joy P is hoping to make it into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest rapper. The pensioner, who has appeared on the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, is being considered for the title after entertaining hundreds in her hometown of Dartford, Kent. Joy Philippou, a half-Spanish-half-Russian doctor of philosophy, moved to...

Don't worry though, she'll be at Latitude next week. In the past five months, Sigrid has gone from unknown to breakout star. With a defining debut Glastonbury performance, ‘Don’t Kill My Vibe’ streaming at 17M on Spotify, and two sold out Scala headlines in September, Sigrid’s arrival has been nothing short of extraordinary. Check out the video for ‘Plot Twist,’ the second single to be lifted from her debut Don’t Kill My Vibe EP below.   Sigrid says: “Plot Twist is about...

Being curious about curiosity truly does sound like something out of Alice in Wonderland, whose lead character was observed saying 'curiouser and curiouser' about Mad Hatters, talking playing cards and the like. Although you know, if the Queen of Hearts leaps out of the desk and starts crying 'Off with their heads!' in the midst of your monthly evening of euchre with friends; well if that doesn't raise a burst of inquisitive curiosity then there's just no hope for you...