Review: Catalyst Club, Robert Wyatt Special
At The Catalyst Club’s Robert Wyatt themed evening, Em Chittock finds herself enthralled and occasionally amused by this month’s discussion…
Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening: Who the Hell is Robert Wyatt?
Lottie Brazier does what it says on the proverbial tin, and looks into the extensive back-catalogue of this prolific songwriter.…
Selfie, Ego, Anxiety: The Selfie and Visual Culture
In a few short years there has been an unfettered upsurge in a journalistic and social media based activity: photography…
Review: Kate Tempest
If Kate Tempest runs for Prime Minister somewhere down the line, I would a) be unsurprised and b) be sure…
More than Meets the Eye: The Unlikely Role of Religious and Cultural Symbolism in Fashion
For years the symbol of the Christian cross has been used as a common fashion accessory. The cross that was once…
The Undateables: The Problem’s in the Name
The similarities between ‘The Undateables’ and other reality shows popular at the minute is its subject of a group of…
Your Valentines Day: I Hope it was a Massacre
If you took your other half out for Valentine’s Day, you shouldn’t have bothered. You could’ve done better. Do something more valuable…
Is Volunteering Abroad the Most Self-Indulgent Gap Year?
We’ve all known that person. He pops up in seminars, she’s talking about it at the bus stop, he’ll give a…
The Importance of the audience in Jeremy Kyle
Watching The Jeremy Kyle Show while procrastinating from work always brings forth a number of interesting dilemmas: spats about people…
Review: Emmy the Great
The Green Door Store hadn’t known what hit it as people continued to excitedly squeeze in to see Emmy the…
Audience and the Hobbit: The Burden of Expectation
When adapting any popular book to the big screen, one of the most important and difficult elements of the process…
Hacks and their Traps: A Plea
As a journalist I may be cutting off my nose to spite my face somewhat, but there is nothing worse…
Artlists: Over/Under
The Arts team continue their new section in which they come up with a theme and then list our film/music/TV/literary…
City Venues and the Festival
Curated by the band Wire and One Inch Badge, Drill was a city-festival which took part in October last year…
Review: Yes, we’re still writing about Drill Festival 2014. This will be the last time, we promise…
Those of you who so much as glanced at the Badger Arts pages last term would likely have realised that…
Rae Morris Interview
2014 was a pretty incredible year for you, what was the highlight? I think finishing the album was definitely a…
Bitter Lake Review
Adam Curtis’ latest documentary, Bitter Lake, examines the roles of America, Britain and Saudi Arabia over the past sixty years…
Gilmore-isms: pop culture and comedy in Gilmore Girls
When most of us who grew up in the noughties are asked of a teen drama we favoured watching, the…
Preview: Blackalicious, The Haunt 05/02
After a ten year hiatus, seminal Sacramento hip-hop duo, Blackalicious, return to the scene with a new album and tour…
Review: Perfume Genius @ The Haunt, 26/11
You know how we’re all supposed to have one word (or three) at the ready to describe ourselves with in…