Arctangent Adds 38 Bands to Summer Line-Up
In recent years, ArcTanGent has built a reputation for itself as THE emerging UK rock festival, both putting on exclusive performances from exceptional, worldwide artists and supporting new, exciting talent. This morning, 10 newly announced bands were exclusively revealed and discussed on the Thats Not Metal Podcast, with 28 further acts now also be revealed. The 10 bands announced through Thats Not Metal, are:God Is An Astronaut (playing their only UK show of 2017)BorisTTNGDefeaterFuture of the LeftsleepmakeswavesListenerThe Number Twelve Looks Like YouDevil Sold His Souland Tall Ships...
Xenia Rubinos Announces UK and Euro Dates
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...
Yorkshire hosts first ever wooden cask beer festival
Castleford in Yorkshire will be the first host of WoodFest - a weekend festival celebrating beers served from traditional wooden casks. The 2017 SPBW WoodFest is set to run from Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th July at the Horse and Jockey pub which is home to the first brewery to have a wooden mash tun installed for the purpose of brewing since 1914. As more brewers and publicans revert back to the traditional use of wooden casks the festival will look...
Beer-loving pals complete the world’s longest pub crawl
Two beer-loving pals raised a glass today on visiting a record-breaking 20,000 PUBS on the world's longest pub crawl. Peter Hill, 60, and John Drew, 62, said cheers as they marked their incredible milestone having visited a boozer every week for the last 33 YEARS. The pair started the venture in 1984 with Peter's dad, Joe, after the gang became bored with going to the same pub every week. When the Black Country Ale Tairsters started a pint cost 64p,...
Watch – Slim pickings! Man opens bag of Waitrose crisps containing just ONE crisp
A Waitrose customer was stunned when they opened a packet of own-brand “calorie control” crisps – and there was just ONE inside. A low calorie packet is one thing, but one crisp in the entire back is surely not right. Helen Abbott, 47, had ordered her weekly shop through delivery service Ocado but thought the six-pack LoveLife chips felt a bit light. The mum-of-two was so sick of receiving under-filled packets she asked her son, Sam, 21, to open it...
Affordable ways to get on the property ladder in London
By Lynda Clark, First Time Buyer Magazine With the Halifax having just announced that first time buyers in the Capital will need a £100,000 deposit to get onto the housing ladder, many Londoners may be left wondering how they will ever be able to secure their first home. There are, in fact, many different ways that first time buyers might be able to find a way to buy a home of their own for less but they may need to...
Theatre Review: Ugly Lies the Bone, National Theatre
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...
Why Stephen Bear has no place on our TV screens
By Rebecca Benson Just when I thought women were making some progress towards equality in society I turned on the TV and accidentally came across the behaviour of Stephen Bear on the show Celebs Go Dating. Also known as, People You’ve Never Heard Of Date Other People You’ve Never Heard Of, the programme involves a group of z-listers – 99 per cent reality TV alumni – who join The Celebrity Dating Agency in search of ‘the one’. Over the course of...
Theatre Review: The Sorrows of Satan, Tristan Bates Theatre
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...