Cabbage live at The Haunt: Swaggering with youthful audacity
Cabbage enter the stage to Gimme gimme gimme by ABBA and disco lights. They shuffle around, as if to say “this wasn’t what you were expecting was it”, and head…
Mr Bongo 30th anniversary – Moses Boyd leads the way in eclectic celebration of music
It is safe to say Brighton-based record label Mr Bongo has earned its name as the best champions of diverse music in town. Director of Operations Graham Luckhurst asserted that…
Elder Island interview: “We’re always advancing”
Last week I had the privilege of interviewing Katy and Luke of Elder Island, two members of the three-piece band. Elder Island are a special band; a technically advanced group…
MAISHA live at Patterns preview – The exemplary artists of London’s vibrant jazz scene
Combining in equal parts the airy spiritualism of Alice Coltrane and the kind of virtuosic displays now typical of the UK’s prolific jazz scene, Maisha’s music is littered with references…
Avengers: Endgame Review
Finally, the culmination of 11 years, 21 films and over 80 characters, the Endgame is here, but can Marvel do the unthinkable and actually pull it off?
Wild Rose Review
With American musicals sweeping the box office, what can be expected from the Scottish A Star is Born.
Small Scale/Big Heart – Shazam! Film Review
The semi-officially titled DC Extended Universe (DCEU) has gotten off to a bumpy start ever since 2013’s painfully average Man of Steel, ultimately deriving into downright painful with the release…
Jordan Peele doubles down on satirical horror-comedy with US
Two years after Jordan Peele’s Oscar winning breakthrough, Get Out, expectations were high for the writer/producer/director’s follow up. Whilst Us falls short of the bar set by Get Out, it…
Punk Nostalgia: The Stranglers at Brighton Dome
For someone who believes that music culture must constantly evolve to stay vital, seeing a treasured band whose heyday was the late 1970s and 1980s is potentially loaded with ambivalence.…
Brighton Festival: 30 Years Of Mr Bongo preview
Back in the heyday of 1989, when Tina Turner and Kylie Minogue dominated the charts, and Prince was is his Batman-score phase, something else was brewing on Berwick Street in…
Rhys Lewis Interview: Love songs and political needs
By Rebecca Spencer: Comment Editor Rhys Lewis is a 28-year-old singer/song-writer with over 27 million Spotify streams on his song ‘No Right To Love You’. His songs are about heartbreak,…
Artist Focus: Ella Willson-Smith
Ella Willson-Smith is a finalist Illustration student at the University of Brighton. Originally from London, her projects are largely concerned with the relationships between people, objects and place. Ella likes…
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff turns to editing with new anthology Mother Country
Brighton Festival is due to take place from 4 to 26 May and there are set to be so many exciting literary events on offer. The festival this year is…
Attention: porn addicts
By Rebecca Spencer – Comment Editor With international women’s day just passed I thought it was about time we talked about porn and reclaiming female sexuality. Feminist porn is creating…
Candice-Carty Williams launches new book Queenie
Candice-Carty Williams is set to feature at Brighton Festival’s event Shapeshifters on 12 May alongside the equally talented Zawe Ashton. She will be discussing her brand new book, Queenie, which…
In conversation with Josey Marina: musician, activist, student
Last week I met with musician and second-year Sussex student Josey Marina, who recently released a new climate change-inspired single, ‘Moors’ (available across various streaming platforms.) We sat down to…
The Production of ‘A Clockwork Orange’
The clock is ticking for this controversial, phenomenal production to take to the stage and a explanation for why the themes of the play are so important in the modern…
London Astrobeat’s Orchestra Performs Talking Heads: Rearranged classics fall out of place
The name alone made me want to see the set. A multicultural entity, the band has been affectionately renamed “African Talking Heads” by fans, transposing the Talking Heads classics in…
Queer Eye Season 3: A Triumphant Rise to New Heights
With the Fab Fives’ long-awaited return, Netflix users tuck in to Queer Eye’s third season to watch both heart-breaking and heart-warming conversations, mesmerising physical, mental and architectural transformations with an…
Artist Focus: Ebba Davidsson
Ebba Davidsson is a photographer. She is an art historian and a gallery educator based in Sweden. Davidsson studied art history for a year at Sussex, living in Brighton as…