Record Review: Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon
By Kane Power (ElHeavio) Hiatus Kaiyote floated into my scope after an impressive ‘live sound-check’ video was posted on a drum forum following the release of their debut album ‘Tawk Tomahawk’, in 2012. The song posted wasn’t actually on that album; it was a version of the song ‘Shaolin Monk Motherfunk’ which coincidentally is the first song proper on their new release, ‘Choose Your Weapon’. Having a three-year old song as the opener of your brand new record might be a...
Blur To Launch Their Own Ice Cream – ‘The Magic Whip’
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food As part of a slightly bizarre marketing campaign to promote their brand new album – The Magic Whip – Blur have announced that they’ll be creating their own Ice Cream. Teaming up with The Lickators, a company that’s already worked on Music-related flavours that include Jiggy Pop and John Lemon, Blur’s very own Magic Whip is a “Dairy Vanilla Custard Ice Cream rippled with Raspberry Sauce” and will be available on the band’s upcoming...
Man Up: Film Review
By Ellery Nick @Ellery_Nick Lake Bell stars alongside Simon Pegg in another offering from the Big Talk production team. Directed by Ben Palmer of The Inbetweeners, Man Up tells the story of a middle aged woman who, despairing of her own inability to climb out of middle aged singledom, is charmed by a chance encounter and decides to give the assent one more try. So commences what we’d expect from a Simon Pegg film: characters that tell apologetic and abortive...
The Goob: Film Review
By Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Somewhere in the fields of Norfolk, a boy gets off the school bus for the last time, leaving his scribbled-on uniform behind with the cheering boys at the back of the bus. It is the start of a long, hot summer, which this boy, nicknamed the Goob, spends mostly being worked to exhaustion and mistreated by his stepfather Gene. His mother runs a shabby burger bar, his stepfather grows beets, which allows him to play plantation...
New Company Farmdrop To Deliver Local Produce From Farm To Doorstep
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Back in the 1600s, Markets such as London’s provided the beating heart of the City’s fresh local produce. Nowadays, thanks to large Supermarkets and multiples now account for 98 per cent of the Nation’s food shopping, leaving farm shops with less than one per cent of the food trade. However, a new business – Farmdrop – is looking to reverse this current trend. Allowing Londoners the chance to use their virtual market of locally...
Tory Majority; the Improbable Nightmare that Became a Reality
By Alexander Murtagh A few weeks prior to the election even the most senior of Tory politicians wouldn’t have been arrogant enough to even suggest they were in line to win a majority in the House of Commons, but now they have been elected with just that. We have already seen David Cameron’s glistening ego parade itself in front of the press backed by the knowledge that he has managed to do what all his critics told him he couldn’t,...
Freelancing and Raising a Family: how to make it work for you
By Alice Weightman, Founder and Managing Director of Hanson Search and The Work Crowd More and more of us are now deciding to leave the security of a permanent job behind, opting instead for the freedom of freelancing, self-employment or contract work. However, these feelings of independence can suddenly feel very restrictive when it comes to planning a family. This needn’t be the case: freelancing and family really can go hand in hand. Working on a project basis can help...
Done the Golden Circle? Try Iceland’s Purple Pentagon
Given its incredible culture, stunning scenery and natural phenomenon - not just the northern lights but the 24-hour days/nights, geysers and hot springs for starters - we assume any travel fiend worth their air miles would have visited Iceland already. It's made all the more easy for visitors thanks to its routed Golden Circle tour, which takes in the original geyser, Gullfoss waterfall and Thingvellir National Park. But for those who've been there and done that, we unveil the Purple...
Post-election housing market views
By Bea Patel, Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent, the estate agent comparison site Housing was a key policy in the election. With the Conservatives securing the popular vote to form a majority government, many look forward to seeing policies they’ve pledged come through, such as first time buyer new-build homes at a 20 percent market rate reduction to under 40’s and their Help to Buy ISA and its extension. Research conducted by eMoov.co.uk on 2,018 adults...