I watched Girl, Interrupted for about the fifth time the other evening, having seen Leah Shelton’s brilliant show Batshit. (My review of it is up on Fest magazine). I was wondering if it still held up, having not watched for a while. It’s good, if flawed : James Mangold directs brilliantly, but the narration andContinue reading “We Need To Talk About Lisa”
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Fringe Fatigue
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a cruel mistress. It’s a special kind of hell if you’re tired or disabled, as I discovered working there the other day. I knew it would be insanely crowded, but take a wrong turn and it’s hard to navigate. Steps, students and tourists who, lost, stop dead in front ofContinue reading “Fringe Fatigue”
Interview With The Artist: Philippa Tomlin
Currently based between Scotland and England, the wonderful, award-winning artist Philippa Tomlin makes visual art that’s as bewitching as it’s disturbing. A brand new exhibition featuring her work, CULT, arrives at the end of July. I caught up with Tomlin to find out more about the exhibition, and ask what inspires her. I feel likeContinue reading “Interview With The Artist: Philippa Tomlin”
A Misfit Amid The Misfits
I’m the textbook misfit. The squashed puzzle piece that somehow ended up in the wrong jigsaw box. I don’t belong in many places. It’s always been like this. At school, I was a goth whose goofy side meant I wasn’t clique-sized. My impersonation of Pee Wee Herman marked me out as an idiot,and the haircutsContinue reading “A Misfit Amid The Misfits”
A Contorted Tribute
James Chance passed away on June 18th ,and I wanted to pay tribute here with his trademark song. Part of the teenage No Wave scene in the late 70s in New York, alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch, DNA and Mars, he and The Contortions were a forward thinking squall of punk, funk and noise.Continue reading “A Contorted Tribute”
Lambrini Girls Rule!
Who are Wet Leg anyway? The Last Dinner… what? Lambrini Girls are the real thing, spitting out home truths as their guitars buzz and drums clatter. It’s music as electric shocks, little pinches of reality that remind us that not all indie is made by PR -hyped, radio playlist seeking poshos. Iggy Pop is aContinue reading “Lambrini Girls Rule!”
Dreams
Dreams are porous; they leak out via the creases on the bed where my body lay, making a silhouette like a crime scene. You’re not part of this anymore, it’s purely a solo venture now. You used to be. Now thoughts of you have curdled. These nights, you are confined to the bottom of secretContinue reading “Dreams”
Lost In Music: Cocteau Twins – Treasure
Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie may have said to the British music press, “Treasure was such an abortion. I hated it”, but the 1984 classic is still one of the band’s best-selling, best-loved studio albums. Originally, this, their third studio album, was to be produced by Brian Eno, but the band’s Robin Guthrie took thatContinue reading “Lost In Music: Cocteau Twins – Treasure”
Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Subtitled, A History of Folk Horror , Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, written and directed by Keir- La Janisse, is a pretty comprehensive documentary guide to films set in rural landscapes where terror lurks. Essentially, folk horror is defined as “the juxtaposition of the prosaic and the uncanny” . At over three hour long, itContinue reading “Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched”
Lost In Music: Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
While his singing half treads a more commercial path these days, Will Gregory from Goldfrapp has a project that’s experimental, doffing a hat to pioneers like Stockhausen and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It’s wonderfully out of step with current trends in modern music, like the recent jazz revival and hyperpop. Will Gregory Moog Ensemble isContinue reading “Lost In Music: Will Gregory Moog Ensemble”
Hit The North 