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It breathes many breaths, beats as one heart. Maureen Beattie as the woman appears to be a woman lost. Lost in the circles of people who swirl around her like personified nuclei, lost in her own nuclear reactor and the forces of life it connects her to, but which she can no longer propel or support. Beattie plays a woman who is not named by playwright Simon Stephens. We don’t find out much about her except that she is suffering...

Mad Cool festival has sold out. All 45,000 tickets for its 2017 festival are taken, just under three months before the event takes place. Headlined by Green Day, Foo Fighters and Kings Of Leon, the three - day festival takes place at Madrid’s Caja Magica tennis centre, between the 6th – 8th of July. Mad Cool have also confirmed that they have reached an agreement with DIY magazine for them to become the festival’s official media partner for the next two...

April, you spoil us. Look at these releases. We had massive new cuts and genuine AOTY contenders from Kendrick Lamar, Arca and Joey Bada$$ to keep us busy, but it was really snaking, cooler-than-thou indie and alt that stole focus in the end, plugging the glorious gaps between the headline-stealing drops. Our header stars Pile released their slimy, heart-squeezing fourth effort, A Hairshirt of Purpose, in a tight show of musty Boston realness, while Milk Music and Hovvdy kept things slow, low and sleepy on...

"Eight riff laden monster tracks of sheer Northern misery.” At this moment, iconic UK metallers, Paradise Lost, are putting the final touches to their upcoming album, recorded at Orgone Studios in the misty countryside of Woburn, England. Together with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano, they have forged the follow-up to their highly acclaimed release The Plague Within, which brought them a step closer to their death metal roots. This time, Paradise Lost aim to toe a doomier line, as lead guitarist and...

Between February and June 1999, famed art forger John Myatt was in jail. He was there for what Scotland Yard described as “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” Myatt’s fakes of famous paintings by masters like Van Gogh and Matisse had sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction, fooling the seasoned experts at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s. When he was discovered to be a forger, the police pulled no punches, raiding his house and putting him...

Leeds-based five-piece Vessels have shared their hypnotic new single ‘Radiart’, the first cut to be taken from a new album to be released later this year. The track signals the direction of the new material - muscular, vibrant and euphoric. Take a listen below: ‘Radiart’ is Vessels’ first release of 2017 and follows their celebrated 2015 album Dilate, a record firmly focussed on the dancefloor. Formed in 2005, Vessels have released four wide-ranging albums, drawing comparisons with everyone from Jon...

Brush up on your horse impression kids; Joan of Arc has come to town. Oh Joany Joan Joan. Joany McJoaningtons. I've been trying to work out how to review this show for almost a week, although I admittedly took four days off over Easter to stare into space, take a long hard look at my life, and subsequently binge-listen to Serial (I know, very 2014). Very unprofessional delay. Won't happen again. I try to write reviews that are informative, hopefully...

In December 2016 Enemies released their third and final album entitled Valuables via Topshelf Records. Valuables documents a turbulent time for the band — intensive writing, recording and touring, coupled with a lack of shared vision, led to a decision that harmony in ending is ultimately more valuable than discord in continuing. Today the band have premiered a poignant mini-documentary with Upset, which was filmed at their last ever show in December. Speaking about the video the band said, "It's been four months since the night we...

Once upon a time I was a ten year old boy, one who had already developed a two-way communication with the bulky and sculpted wood furniture in the corner of the living room that contained the tubes and wires, cords and dials of the television innards. Yes, I actually did hide behind the blue velvet couch when William Hartnell's Doctor Who first confronted a Dalek; I also hid on the staircase when the theme music of Dick Tracy started as...