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PLAYLIST: Best of MARCH 2018

March was a mellow one, wasn't it? So much so I had to put a special call-out to our followers on Twitter to get in touch with some heavier jams (thanks for bringing Greyhaven to my attention, peeps!). Not that there isn't joy to be had in some of this month's gentlest releases. 'bless ur heart' has us hyped for serpentwithfeet's silky and soulful debut soil, while new Grouper sees the Oregon-born ambient artist enveloped in tangible keys and ephemeral reverb....

Book Review: Just the Funny Parts

A pithy observation to start: Everything you have ever found funny involved pain. Everything, no exceptions, from the cradle to the wise-cracking hospice nurse, involved pain. An infant in its cradle giggles at the huge face looming over it because the baby’s eyes are still learning to focus and after a moment’s fear (“What monstrosity is this, that rises above my head?) comes the relief released in the form of laughter … and often a fountain of urine. Even the...

The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed

The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. A lemon shark glides through the late-afternoon sunlight off the coast of Grand Bahama Tanya Houppermans One of these was Tom St George who scooped a gold in the Wide Angle/Marine Life category...

GALLERY: Synthwave fiend Carpenter Brut brings fresh material to moody KOKO show

Venue: KOKO, London Date: 23.3.18 Support: Youth Code Photos: Jez Pennington (@JezPennington) French synth artist Carpenter Brut smashed his London date last week, stopping into KOKO to air tracks from his Latest album Leather Teeth. Brut, who has continued his rise to prominence soundtracking ultra-violent indie game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, insisted on silhouette shots only while he performed, to maintain the mystery around his identity. Photographer Jez Pennington was on the barrier to capture the moody, searing-hot synthwave...

New short film creates ingenious alternative history for Nelson’s Column

A new short film has been released by notorious Corbynista Angry Dan depicting an alternative history of one of London's most iconic landmarks. The artist, who designed the widely popular Jeremy Corbyn Superman t­shirt, has released "The Man Who Stood Still Forever" which tells the story of a mythical man’s epic delusions of grandeur. The film is narrated by Sam Rix, an actor, writer, and storyteller who has worked extensively with BBC Radio, and is a founding member of The Embers Collective,...

Green Man Festival announces Talking Shop line-up

Green Man Festival has announced the key speakers heading up the Talking Shop area when the gathering returns this August. One of a trio of headline guests, the BBC Radio 1 presenter Annie Nightingale will discuss her broadcasting career and how events have unfolded since being named the first female presenter on the station in 1970. Four decades in the job, Nightingale will reflect on the ever-changing industry with her inimitable mixture of irreverent humour and punk enthusiasm. Green Man’s...

ZAND added to Loud Women Fest 2018

Self-confessed "ugly" popstar ZAND has been announced to play at this year's Loud Women Fest. The one-day festival takes places at both The Dome and Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park on Saturday 15 September 2018. Speaking about the festival, ZAND says: "I'm so excited to be on the bill for a festival with such an important message, along with playing alongside some of the sickest female and non-binary punk bands about in music at the moment! Feminism is lit." Known online for speaking out...

Book Review: The Flicker of Old Dreams

Let me tell you about something that no readers in Britain, Ireland or Western Europe can possibly relate to unless they are either from one of the vast countries of other continents, or perchance have driven hundreds or thousands of miles through Canada, the US or similar lands that bear night horizons lit only by stars with no halo of a distant city’s light. To live in a vast country means that a drive to the next large city can...

Irvine Welsh launches final instalment of this Trainspotting era range of books

Irvine Welsh will unveil the final instalment of his Trainspotting era range of booke - in which one of his characters will be killed off - at a biscuit factory. The author will join the Edinburgh International Book Festival and arts collective Neu! Reekie! at the former Crawford's biscuit factory in the Leith area of Edinburgh for the event. Fans of the series will be read an excerpt from Dead Men's Trousers - which sees the beloved characters Renton, Begbie,...

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