Entertainment

We're a big fan of Xenia Rubinos at TLE Music. Maybe it's her blend of soulful R n B and noisy avante garde weirdness that hooks us in, or her easy Brooklyn cool. Maybe it's because our hair is receeding. Regardless, we're excited that Xenia is heading back to UK shores. In the last year, The Guardian have tipped Xenia as One To Watch, Sunday Times as their Breaking Act, Pitchfork gave her LP 8.0, The Telegraph dedicated a full page to...

The safety curtains part the stage like an eyelid. A spotlight flicks on and a woman, barely recognisable from her face or from her tight bandage wrapped body, stands awkwardly and unevenly, gripping her support frame for all she is worth. A voice (Buffy Davis), like the computerised Siri, takes her through the Virtual Reality (VR) world she is about to enter and which may be able to ease the pain from her burns by at least 60%. This is...

Well blow me down and call me Charlie, I think I’m going to have to sell my soul to the devil. When the classist, sexist and maybe xenophobic Satanic antagonist of a show is the only thing that makes it remotely interesting, all my morals go out the window – along with half the cast (more on that later). The Sorrows of Satan is a play within a play, following the eternally broke writer Geoffrey Tempest and his new musical...

After rising like a phoenix from the flames of the fire that devastated the beautiful former council building, the cool South London cultural hub of the Battersea Arts Centre continues to dazzle, bringing London's unique untold stories to the stage. And Conrad Murray is certainly unique - nimbly looping and live mixing beatbox, guitar and rapping about his own extraordinary childhood, while sampling lines from Hamlet, Murray's autobiographical one man show is as courageous as they come. For a one man show it...

We caught up with fantastic comedian Lucy Porter as her new show "consequences" takes the the road What can people expect from your show?   It’s a mixture of candid storytelling, political musings and giving booze to audience members. What’s the inspiration behind ‘Consequences? A women’s magazine asked me to write a ‘Letter to my 16-year-old-self.’ I sat down and thought about the advice I’d give to a younger me. I realised that in my teens I wouldn’t have taken any...

With the release of their first album in five years, 'VOIDS', coming up on 3rd March, Minus The Bear have announced a string of EU/UK dates for June 2017.  The dates will feature support from Joan of Arc along with an appearance with American Football at So36 in Berlin. The new dates will follow on from a 29-date spring tour across North America, culminating in a hometown Seattle show on April 15th. They will play the following dates:Thu 01 Jun -...

This take on Arthur Schnitzler’s sexual debacle La Ronde is a welcome venture into the sex, love and death lives of the older generation by Visible, but ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts. The seven vignettes, where each character’s story is pushed forward into the next scene for their story to conclude, confront some traumatic home truths. However, director Anna Ledwich takes Sonja Linden’s interconnected stories and embeds them within a circus locale. A Ring Mistress comperes...

Watch 2 Minutes Of Harry Potter Magic Remixed By Eclectic Method. Turntables magician and audiovisual remixer Eclectic Method has turned his sorcery on our favourite wand waving wizard and his friends. Harry Potter and his friends grow up in just over two minutes of this house music tune - made from sounds from all eight movies. We're not sure what we love more watching the cast grow up over a decade, or the magic movie musical remix conjured up from sounds from...

Controversial author Sam Jane Brown has predicted the coming of "One World Religion" that will be imposed upon humanity by the United Nations. In her religious-themed mystery "Forgotten Word" the story alludes to a series of suspicious events that have taken place under the auspices of the UN in recent years — many of which strongly suggest that the global diplomatic body actually harbors sinister plans to eradicate traditional Christianity and replace it with a new, amoral faith based on the...