Arts

The Badger finds out exactly what ‘21st Century Love’ is… I don’t know how it happened, but I’m ever so pleased that it did: not long ago, I found out…

The exhibition of photographs from J. E. Abura’s life (Falmer Common Room) illustrates not only one man’s incredible journey but the coming together of cultures. Born in Uganda in c.…

Hidden HerStories Octavia Foundation UK, 2010, 50 mins (approx) Part of Black History Month You’d be forgiven for not recognising the names of Octavia Hill, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Claudia Jones…

Last week saw the release of Werner Herzog’s brilliantly re-imagined Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans on DVD, a stylised drug fuelled trip through the mind of crooked cop…

Mr. Nice Bernard Rose UK, 2010, 121 mins, 18 In typically astute fashion, renowned raconteur Howard Marks will be gracing stages across the UK throughout October 2010 for a tour…

Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole UK, 2010, 113mins, 15 Directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) and starring Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky), Made in Dagenham is packed full of British…

Having just celebrated a year in monthly residence at one of Brighton sea front’s premier venues, Minimal Kids looks set to continue. Adding a much needed dash of minimal house…

Clapton might have achieved the honorific title of God, but will Clapton’s new self-titled album live up to it? Or will it fade into obscurity like other singers from his…

Mumford & Sons 4 October 2010 Brighton Dome The question of authenticity in folk music is age old, and seeing Mumford and Sons live at the Brighton Dome did little…

The band is fronted by the ever so irresistible Karen Anne, and backed by her songwriting partners, bassist James Watts, drummer Fred West and guitarist Charlie Snelling, Ramona claim they…

We lift the lid on the best up and coming musicians to emerge from your university town Brighton has a wide range of bands and artists that are working in…

Just a week after Tinie Tempah’s fourth single – ‘Written in the Stars’ – was released to the masses, devotees of the self-confessed grime artist can breathe a sigh of…

If my stint in student journalism has taught me anything, it is to always expect the unexpected. The PR guy promises you half an hour with the band? You’ll get…

It may be said, with the exclusion of cynics and the ill-informed, that there is not one iota of love and passion missing in the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.…

Stornoway are on the cusp of big things. The Badger chatted to Brian Briggs, the Oxford group’s lead singer, before the band took to the stage, in front of a…

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I hadn’t much listened to Neil Young until recently. For Christmas I bought my girlfriend a newly issued live Young recording, and soon realized exactly what I had been missing.…

Heligoland was launched after seven years in the making, and the following evening saw Massive Attack kick off their world tour in Brighton, playing to the most varied crowed I’ve…

Is it breaking the rules to include a retrospective of B-sides and rarities in our review of January’s best albums? Maybe it is, but while Fucked Up’s Couple Tracks may…

It would be all too easy to sit here, plagiarize/paraphrase for all it’s worth and reel of yet more spiel about this year’s must-hear acts (that is, according to about…