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Interview: Wolf Alice Discusses ‘Blue Weekend’

After a four-year-long hiatus, the London-based alternative rock band Wolf Alice has announced their third album ‘Blue Weekend’, and it's a banger.

A Well Awaited Festival

Words by Elijah Arief Brighton is set to play host to it’s annual Brighton Fringe Festival on the 28th of May after receiving a £143,000 fund from the governments Arts…

Review: Klara in the Sun

Words By Hanani Aslam Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel and first book since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017, presents an elegant tale about artificial intelligence, love,…

Missing the Movies: Our Favourite Cinema Memories

With the hope and anticipation of cinema’s reopening soon, here are some favourite memories that remind us of the power of cinema. Parasite and a Post-Pub Trip by Emma Frith…

Artist Focus: Brighton Skate Collective

As a farewell to this section, I wanted to dedicate the last instalment of Artist Focus to a creative community in Brighton that is close to my heart: the Brighton…

Review – Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich

Words by Oliver Mizzi When we think about Afghanistan we think of America’s long war – the forever war. We don’t think about the early days of the Afghan tragedy.…

Editor’s Choice 11

Words by Robyn Cowie Whether it is; Oxfam, Marie Curie, Cancer Research, British Red Cross, Mary’s Living & Giving, Age UK, Shelter, Martlets or The British Heart Foundation, I am…

When You See Yourself: Kings of Leon become the first band to release an album as an NFT

Words By Dylan Bryant The Followills are back with yet another album that falls under their unwritten five-syllable album title rule and although rich with the bands classic rock sound…

A Review : Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Words by Laila Rumbold-Kazzuz In the nine years since sultry melancholy-pop-ballad Video Games became a cult classic with the aid of its Hollywood-centric archival Americana music video, Lana Del Rey…

What’s on this summer in Brighton

Words by Robyn Cowie With optimism that theatre’s shall be reopening their doors to crowds, albeit with social distancing and one the day testing, all across the UK venues are…

BlackStage UK: Fighting Microaggressions, Assumptions and Institutional Racism in Theatre

Words by Elijah Arief BlackStage UK is a platform which seeks to support Black artists and creators within the theatre sphere, created by Gabrielle Brooks the platform exists to tackle…

Let’s talk about the Oscars

Read about The Badger’s opinion’s on this year’s Oscar nominations. Progress for Disabled Representation – by Georgia Shakeshaft On the day the nominations for this year’s Oscars were announced, you…

Artist Focus: Hollie Dewick

Spring has arrived, the weather is getting warmer, and hopes are rising. Hopes of a summer, of gigs, and museums reopening. I recently came across Hollie Dewick’s work, and I…

2021 Literary Adaptation to Look Out For

Words by Molly Openshaw & Robyn Cowie Here is a taste of the book to film/television adaptations we can expect to see through the rest of 2021. Many are hotly…

Fall Out Boy: Thanks For the Memories

Words By Molly Openshaw I remember the first time I heard a Fall Out Boy song. It was Immortals from their American Beauty/American Psycho album in 2015, I was 14.…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Trigger Warning for Sexual Assault Words by Charlie Batten When I was thinking of which piece of art has impacted me the most, the one that instantly came to mind…

Sea Shanties for Gen Z: A Tik Tok Revival

An interview with Nathan Evans

Interview: Verity Spott

Verity Spott is an alumnus from the University of Sussex and a Brighton based poet about politics and social issues. Verity co-runs the event Horseplay in Brighton which is a…

The Movie Scores of Thomas Newman

Words by Laila Rumbold – Kazzuz Today, I want to talk about Thomas Newman, because Finding Nemo score notwithstanding, I would wager a guess that he is even less of…

Iron Maiden: And The Band Plays On

Words by Simon Edwards I didn’t love music before Iron Maiden. I listened to music, but I had no favourite songs, no favourite albums, no favourite bands – it wasn’t…