Film review: Hidden HerStories
Hidden HerStories Octavia Foundation UK, 2010, 50 mins (approx) Part of Black History Month You’d be forgiven for not recognising the…
Film matters: Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans
Last week saw the release of Werner Herzog’s brilliantly re-imagined Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans on DVD, a…
Film review: Mr. Nice
Mr. Nice Bernard Rose UK, 2010, 121 mins, 18 In typically astute fashion, renowned raconteur Howard Marks will be gracing…
Film review: Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole UK, 2010, 113mins, 15 Directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) and starring Sally Hawkins (Happy…
Notes from the underground: Minimal Kids
Having just celebrated a year in monthly residence at one of Brighton sea front’s premier venues, Minimal Kids looks set…
Album review: Eric Clapton – Clapton (Warner Bros)
Clapton might have achieved the honorific title of God, but will Clapton’s new self-titled album live up to it? Or…
Live review: Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons 4 October 2010 Brighton Dome The question of authenticity in folk music is age old, and seeing…
Ramona
The band is fronted by the ever so irresistible Karen Anne, and backed by her songwriting partners, bassist James Watts,…
Brighton's Best Kept Secrets
We lift the lid on the best up and coming musicians to emerge from your university town Brighton has a…
Album review: Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy (Parlophone)
Just a week after Tinie Tempah’s fourth single – ‘Written in the Stars’ – was released to the masses, devotees…
The Sunshine Underground: Leeds' finest exports raise the alarm in Brighton
If my stint in student journalism has taught me anything, it is to always expect the unexpected. The PR guy…
Live review: Beethoven with Brighton Philharmonic at the Dome
It may be said, with the exclusion of cynics and the ill-informed, that there is not one iota of love…
Twisted Folks: Stornoway meet their public
Stornoway are on the cusp of big things. The Badger chatted to Brian Briggs, the Oxford group’s lead singer, before…
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Album review: Neil Young, 'Dreamin Man Live 92' (Reprise)
I hadn’t much listened to Neil Young until recently. For Christmas I bought my girlfriend a newly issued live Young…
Massive Attack enthral the Dome
Heligoland was launched after seven years in the making, and the following evening saw Massive Attack kick off their world…
Album review: F*cked Up, 'Couple Tracks' (Matador)
Is it breaking the rules to include a retrospective of B-sides and rarities in our review of January’s best albums? …
Two divorced women and a drum machine: introducing Scotland's latest export, Ex Wives
It would be all too easy to sit here, plagiarize/paraphrase for all it’s worth and reel of yet more spiel…
Album review: Lightspeed Champion, 'Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You' (Domino)
When Domino Records’ dance-punk trio Test Icicles split in 2006 with just one full-length release to their name, few could…