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…
Grammys 2017: Judges keep on defying the critics
Last week the elusive Frank Ocean took to his Tumblr account to criticise the Grammys for both the seeming exclusion of black artists, similar to the Oscars in previous years,…
The Sound of Sussex
Brighton has long been known for its cultural history, having spawned many bands of all genres from the area such Royal Blood, Metronomy and Architects. It may perhaps be easy…
Engaged Poetry by Stavros Anagnou
Stavros Anagnou, 4th year, BSc Biology. L.A : Where does your passion for poetry comes from ? S.A : “I fell in love with poetry for the first time by…
Drinking and Drama: an interview with The Marlborough Pub and Theatre’s Abby Butcher
If you envisage culture and community as a sort of Matryoshka doll with the outermost one being the U.K., liberal Britain sitting inside it, and groups like the LGBTQ+ community…
The importance of keeping live music local
With a student budget that often doesn’t stretch as far as you might want it to, paying a lot of money for a gig is something the average student can’t…
Gorillaz protest against political power
“In these dark times, we need someone to look up to. Me. That’s why I’m giving you this new Gorillaz song, a lightning bolt of truth in a black night.…
Blossoms to headline Brighton Dome for NME Awards Tour 2017
Stockport’s breakout indie band, Blossoms will headline Brighton Dome on 18th March as part of the NME Awards Tour 2017. The annual jaunt sees a selection of bands handpicked by…
Let’s Fight Domestic Violence – Fanny Beckman’s Photography
Content warning: domestic violence. This artists’ work includes graphic images created using makeup. The Badger is excited to feature this young photographer and to help her raise awareness of domestic…