Author: Amy Wootten


  • Foo Fighters and Muse join the line-up for Radio 1’s Big Weekend

    Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2015 will be held in Norwich on 23rd and 24th May.

  • Record Store Day: A Tribute

    A personal tribute to the vinyl collector’s Christmas, Record Store Day.

  • Film round-up: 13/04/2015 – 19/04/2015

    This week’s round-up includes A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet.

  • 40 Days of Rewind: David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983)

    The album does what only a concert album can do; featuring Bowie’s words throughout, it captures a specific point in Bowie history and preserves it wonderfully.

  • Review: East India Youth – Culture Of Volume

    As a second album, it sadly does not achieve the experimental potential that East India Youth presented in Total Strife Forever, and its flow is hindered by the unusual length of his songs.

  • 40 Days of Rewind: Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)

    Amy Wootten reviews the ground-breaking album.

  • Review: The National – ‘Sunshine On My Back’

    ‘Sunshine On My Back’ is a leftover track from Trouble Will Find Me, and is a must-listen for fans of the album.

  • Review: How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much by Samantha Ellis

    A look at Samantha Ellis’ how-to guide on being a heroine.

  • Film round-up: 30/03/2015 – 05/04/2015

    This week’s film round-up sees the release of Fast & Furious 7.

  • Review: Lucy Rose at Engine Rooms (28/03/2015)

    An incredibly intimate evening of lovely music from Lucy Rose and The Half Earth, at one of Southampton’s small venues.

  • Review: The Cribs – For All My Sisters

    The Cribs’ sixth studio album is both brooding and melodic, covering an exciting spectrum of tone, pace and moo

  • The X-Files to return on Fox

    David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will star once more as FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

  • Disney to ban smoking in films

    Smoking has been banned from all future films rated PG-13 or below by Disney.

  • Film round-up: 16/03/2015 – 22/03/2015

    The week’s film round-up sees the latest instalment of the Divergent trilogy, as well as the release of The Voices.