Andrew addresses the modern tendency to festival-bash, and says all is not lost as long as you’ve got the right attitude this festival season.
Still got those festival blues? Southsea fest proves that, despite the weather, the summer festival season isn’t quite over yet
Andrew Ovenden talks about his recent experience at Blissfields 2013, and why he’d take a smaller festival any day.
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This Saturday will see the return of Record Store Day. A day of the year dedicated to the UK’s independent sector as artists team up with record stores all over the country to celebrate music by releasing special vinyls and CDs. The event originated in America in 2007 and spread quickly to the British isles.…
Video games aren’t proving to be entertaining for one consumer.
Planning permission for potential student accommodation on the site of the iconic venue has been brought to light.
Late on Monday 14th January, British entertainment retail chain HMV announced that it would be calling in administrators from Deloitte to help take control of the company’s financial situation. The necessity of the appointment can hardly have come as a surprise to the senior staff of the company and stock exchange analysts following the release of it’s third…
“Which is the greatest action movie ever?” Andrew Ovenden puts up an impassioned case for Die Hard.
“Mother, I can never come home again ‘cos I seem to have left a very important part of my brain somewhere… somewhere in a field in Hampshire.” These words, famously uttered by Jarvis Cocker in Pulp’s ‘Sorted out for E’s & Wizz’, are the most accurate way I can summarise the 2007 UK Festival Awards’…
Some friendly tips, or maybe just hardline rules for using music during your revision, courtesy of your writers.
The saga of a weekend at The Talking Heads concluded on Sunday with an ambitious 16-act lineup starting in the early afternoon, going through to the point the venue’s licence ran out. That’s ten hours of acoustic pleasure! You’d be mistaken for thinking that it’s a simple plug-in-and-go job; with that many acts, anything can go wrong.…
Day two of the big weekend at The Talking Heads got started earlier than I might have expected. Indeed, so much earlier that I am ashamed to say I missed the majority of the set from old-school rockers Rob Ford. What I did catch of their set thoroughly impressed me though, to the point that I…