HANYA – An introduction to Brighton’s favourite Shoegaze/Dreampop band
Words by Dylan Bryant For Fans of Slowdive, Cigarettes After Sex and beabadoobee Brighton based Shoegaze/Dreampop band ‘HANYA’ are smashing it with their dense production and lead singer Heather Sheret’s…
Building a House into a Home
Theatre Editor, Ali Arief, reflects on venue building and their love of Fringe Theatre Sometimes in life you find yourself at the top of a ladder, sweating and swearing with…
Racial Discrimination, Solitude and Identitiy – Brandon Taylor’s Real Life (2020)
Words by Paige Braithwaite “Real Life” is the debut novel by author Brandon Taylor that follows a young Black man named Wallace over the course of a hot and heady…
Aries Season Horoscopes
Words by Ali Arief The arrival of spring has meant that Aries season has officially begun. The Sun moved into passionate Aries on the 20th of March and with it…
Artist Focus: Afra Nuarey
Words by Éloïse Armary Afra Nuarey is a student in media for development and social change at the University of Sussex. Before starting her Masters, she produced a short documentary…
Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters (2021)
Words by Saskia May An international bestseller, Torrey Peters’s debut novel Detransition, Baby, is rich in plot, characters and themes, from sexuality and gender to relationships and family. Set in…
Radiant and Miserable – Euphoria’s Cassie Howard is Spiralling
Words by Jasmine Crowhurst Trigger Warning: References to Sexual abuse and abortion are mentioned. Contains Spoilers for Euphoria season 2 “Cassie fell in love with every guy she ever dated.…
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as an insight into Freud’s hypothesis of the psyche
Arts Editor, Molly Openshaw, demonstrated a Freudian reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, implementing the idea of the id and the ego in the tale of the modern Prometheus. I recently…
The Unprecedented UB40
Words by Ali Arief On The 26th of February, reggae band UB40 took to the Brighton Centre to perform two hours of pure reggae bliss. The atmosphere was bubbling, with…
Artist Focus: Louisa Kazig
Words by Mansi Tailor Louisa Kazig is a visual artist born in Berlin and based in Brighton. She opens up about her journey as an artist and as a small…
Shows That Deserved a Second Season
A look back on some of our favourite shows that were wrongfully stopped short We all know the feeling. Finding a good show is hard, but when you finally find…
The Era of Re-Mythologisation
Words by Molly Openshaw Over the past few years, there has been a surge in the number of mythological retellings in both literature, film and television. With these classic myths…
The Legacy of Aeschylus
Theatre Editor Ali Arief speaks on the legacy of the Greek Play The Persians. I felt a certain kind of peace when I would enter my Classical Civilisation class. My…
Top Five Books on Identity
Words by Saskia May Ancient and magical is the tradition and art of storytelling. Literature can offer us explanations for human behaviour, it can draw out our hidden feelings, and…
Pisces Season: Horoscopes for February & March
Words by Ali Arief The Sun entered Pisces on the 18th of February, marking the start of Pisces Season. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, and its arrival…
URF’s Ones to Watch: An interview with Emily Nash
Words by By Riziki Millanzi Emily Nash is an up-and-coming DJ and producer from Worcestershire. In Summer 2021, Emily signed with the legendary Ministry of Sound, and her newest single,…
Queer as Folk: A Groundbreaking Show
A reflection of Russel T Davies’ show, and what it meant for the LGBT community Words by Stephen Arkley The year is 1999. Nearly half of the U.K population think…
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month: Audre Lorde
Words by Alice Stevens LGBTQ+ History Month is an important time to celebrate, educate and reflect on the issues the community has and still faces. The main aim of the…
February Horoscopes
Words by Ali Arief Forecast As Venus and Mercury start to station direct after weeks of being in retrograde, we can breathe a sigh of relief as our communication, technology…
Maternal Ambivalence and Imposter Syndrome: My experience of undergraduate, archival research
Words by Saskia May Sunshine was flickering through the green beech trees as the bus dropped me at The Keep, University of Sussex. The carpark of the archival centre was…