Throughout my academic life, I always thought of the last week of August to be the big Sunday. The last hoorah. The existential dread starts to kick in, it feels a little colder at night, the light late nights seem to become a distant memory. Nostalgia is a cruel thing that seems to hit us […]
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This is the Age: Interview with Tom Grennan
Last week I was lucky enough to have a quick chat with Tom Grennan, a Bedford-born singer songwriter who was thrust into the spotlight after featuring on the Chase and Status song ‘All Goes Wrong’. Despite being a little tired from a photoshoot earlier that day and a gig he’d played the night before, he […]
Live Review: TBJ, Brooke Sharkey and Adam Beattie @ Hope Hall, Exeter
Hope Hall is an interesting gig venue. An art centre by day, it reminded me where I used to do scouts as a kid. This was the definition of a “small, intimate gig,” a sit down affair with tea and coffee at the side to help yourself to; I was a little out of my […]
Anglo-Welsh Cup success for dominant Chiefs
Twickenham may have been the place to be on Saturday as England performed superbly against South Africa, yet on Sunday there was no better location that Sandy Park as the Exeter Chiefs dominated a weak Cardiff Blues side in a shootout in the wild, wild West Country. Jarrod Evans got the match underway shortly after 3pm, yet […]
Album Review: Songhoy Blues – Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues Music in Exile 23 Feb 2015 When you’re exiled to another nation, how does one express the plight of both yourself and your fellow countrymen? Simple, through one of the few universal languages there are: Music. At least, this is the thought behind the members of Songhoy Blues, which consists of Malian refugees, […]
Music in Exile: an interview with Songhoy Blues
From the great array of Malian ethnic groups comes the Songhai, once a self-designated ethnic and linguistic culture, arising from the banks of the River Niger amid the ancient cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Over the course of the 15th and 16th Centuries, the Songhai Empire spread itself over the arid lands between the Sahara and the Sudanian Savanna, eliciting itself as a […]
Catfish and comas: An interview with The London Souls
If you were lucky enough to grab a ticket for the Great Hall on the 28th before it sold out weeks ago, here’s a reason to be there soon after doors: you’ll get to witness the explosive duo that is The London Souls, supporting Catfish and the Bottlemen. There’s no doubt the laidback pair from […]