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Poetry by Rachel Stone

Where does your passion for poetry come from ? When and why did you start writing ? “I’d say my passion for writing poetry comes from my grandmother, who was…

New Noise #1

Here’s The Badger’s round-up of the latest singles to be released recently. Take a listen and you might even find a new favourite to add to your collection. Clean Cut…

Review: Kaiser Chiefs @ Brighton Centre 28.02.17

Anticipation and excitement hung thick in the air prior to Leeds five-piece Kaiser Chiefs taking to the stage. The band, who dismiss the indie labels that have been placed on…

Superfood, Estrons and Childhood amongst new additions to The Great Escape

The Great Escape Festival have announced 130 new artists to their annual three-day seaside bash set to take place in May. Stacking up the reasons why you should grab your…

Step Aside for Scandi-Pop

A genre of music that’s been on the rise lately and is predicted to have its moment in 2017 is Scandi-Pop. We’ve had guitars, we’ve had grime but this new…

Review: The Island Club @ The Prince Albert 23.02.17

The Prince Albert is one of those brilliant venues that many new bands aspire to play whilst working their way up. Local five-piece, The Island Club were the latest band…

The Orwells on digging what they do and alternative careers

Chicago garage rockers, The Orwells are fronting Illinois’s punk revival alongside bands like Twin Peaks, and are in the unique position of releasing a third album whilst still in their…

The top 10 Foo Fighters songs

The Foo Fighters are one of the biggest bands in the world. With eight albums to their name, multiple Grammys under their belt and having sold 20 million albums worldwide,…

Live At Leeds Festival announces final additions

The final batch of acts have been added to this year’s Live At Leeds Festival. Frightened Rabbit, AJ Tracey and VANT lead the final additions and demonstrates the strength of…

Rambert at the Theatre Royal Brighton

Leading UK contemporary dance company, Rambert, stunned audiences at the Theatre Royal Brighton on March 1 with a trio of strikingly innovative performances. The curtain opens on a lone man…

More Music From Marling

Just two years after her previous album, Laura Marling’s new record ‘Semper Femina’ will be released on March 10th. Her fifth album, ‘Short Movie’, demonstrated a change in direction for…

The Year of Animations

This has been a good year in terms of Academy Awards in the world of Animation. From Finding Dory, that helped express the importance of mental health and disability, to…

Why The Academy is Wrong to Forgive Mel Gibson

Make no mistake; Mel Gibson’s Best Director nomination for Hacksaw Ridge is the academy’s way of extending an olive branch embracing him back into the community after his fall from…

Underground Profiles: POLAR

Brighton’s underground scene is getting a vital injection of energy from POLAR, who are supporting up and coming DJ’s in Brighton and ensuring the South coast reclaims its title as…

Pink Migration

Antonios Kotsonias, 3rd year studying Media Practice. Antonios is an amazing photographer studying here at Sussex. This series of images is part of a documentary called ‘PINK MIGRATION’ created in…

Review: Riverdale

With the return of appointment television, Netflix is now releasing on a weekly basis episodes of new CW teen-hit Riverdale. At first glance it seems like any other teen drama:…

Fash Bash Bash: A Night of Nazi Punching on Film

Last month, alt-right darling and white supremacist sensation, Richard Spencer got punched in the face on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration during an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Company.…

Reworking Gender Roles Through Performance Art

It seems to be the assumption of many that drama students their days either rolling around on the floor of the ACCA, pretending to be trees or belting High School…

‘Anyone can do anything in drag’ An evening with the Sussex Drag Society

On the 13th February Sussex DragSoc held their grand opening event, the first event ever hosted by the new society, and the results were dramatic, theatrical and outrageously hilarious. Made…

2017 is the year of the more diverse festival headliner

With festival season rolling around again shortly, line-ups have just started to be announced and the diversity of headlining artists proves to be impressive so far. It seems to be…