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Watch stunning sand sculptures on show at the Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture Festival, where artists from all over the world come to create themed sculptures, with this year being "Topsy-Turvy". The art on show is fantastic and it is hard to imagine how they are made, using only sand. So what exactly does Topsy Turvy entail? Upside down, back to front, the wrong way around and inside out! A crazy world of the distorted and the extraordinary. See the world through...

British photographer Daniel Freeman is set to host an exclusive American themed installation in Chiswick restaurant Outsider Tart this summer. The show, called American Nightscapes: a Small Town Portrait in Photography & Food, is Freeman's first solo show in the UK and will precede plans to stage an exhibition of his work in the USA and a second roadtrip to Navigate Trump’s America. Freeman made the ultimate road trip across America to follow in the footsteps of photographers such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston...

The 4th band line-up announcement for 2000trees Festival has been announced and continues the festival's trend of variety and left-field picks. The latest bands announced late last week were: DEAF HAVANA SPRING KING DAVE HAUSE & THE MERMAID OATHBREAKER MILK TEETH SVALBARD EMPLOYED TO SERVE YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE THE DIRTY NIL LEMURIA FREEZE THE ATLANTIC and THE WINTER PASSING From festival organiser, James Scarlett: “Deaf Havana enjoyed headlining 2000trees so much in 2015 that we’ve all been trying hard to work out...

There are few dimmer endorsements to be made of the human psyche when we consider the historical figures chosen for repeated examination and thus de facto celebration in biographies, novels, films, plays, and multi-part BBC series. By and large we are drawn to the Bad Guys. Send armies into battle for slaughter, execute the enemies, live in appalling decadence, and abuse women; do any of those in combination with one or two others and your name will live forever. Hitler...

I certainly am not the first to observe that we are watching a fresh and dazzling Golden Age of Television exploding before us like an endless display of holiday fireworks but I'm quite sure I am the first to say that I rather deeply resent it. You see, from the year 2000 through 2012 while I was living in Canada I wrote a newspaper column called Inside Television. Every week I'd review the new and the notable, share industry and...

Everybody had a dream. When we were kids, we all had dreams of doing something with our lives. I wanted to be a pilot; others wanted to be doctors, actors or lawyers. Some achieve their dreams. Many don't. And some people get to come home, flop on the sofa after a hard day’s work, and when their partner asks, "What did you do today baby?" they get to reply, "I finally finished knitting that damned penis, honey." The above -...

Describing themselves as a “(fucking) loud instrumental band”, Liverpool’s Alpha Male Tea Party have announced a fresh signing to Big Scary Monsters Recordings for the release of third album, titled health, on 23rd June Commenting on the new material, the trio say: “We spent a while working out how we wanted to make it happen and decided to be a proper band this time, so we booked out a residential studio in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside for a week to create our newest Ugly Baby. We...

The line up for the Barclaycard British Summer Time OPEN HOUSE 2017 has been announced, with four days of free entry and summer activities in the heart of Hyde Park. Movie nights, live music and entertainment, street food, pop up bars, tennis screenings, theatre, sports, and much more will be featured at the event from 3rd July taking place in-between two weekends of legendary musical line-ups. Check out the full schedule below: Outdoor Cinema Following the huge demand for the open-air film...

Old Spitalfields Market is set to host a one day art extravaganza on Friday 12th May in aid of Hearts in Harmony, a charity raising money to help fight heart disease through art and music events. Art Beats will see live art being produced by up to 50 talented artists, all competing for the ‘Art Beats Award’, with an expected footfall of 50,000 to 60,000 people. Artists will showcase their work to be entered, for passers-by to watch and admire. Live music will...