Author: CM Kavanagh


  • Does studying a book in school make you resent it?

    Can people who analyse books in school still love reading afterwards, or does the studying of a text make us resent literature as a whole? As someone who has always loved reading I’m inclined to say that there is nothing that could make me dislike books, but someone there are certainly others in the same […]

  • Preview: Half Man Half Biscuit at Engine Rooms, Southampton

    Satirical rock band Half Man Half Biscuit will arrive on the South Coast in order to play at Southampton’s Engine Rooms (13/05/16).

  • Preview: Freelancers at the Annex Theatre

    Freelancers will be at the Annex Theatre on 4th May and 5th May at 7:30pm.

  • Review: Treetop Flyers at The Joiners, Southampton

    Treetop Flyers performed at The Joiners in a venue that felt very apt for such an up-and-coming band (18/04/16).

  • Preview: Treetop Flyers at The Joiners, Southampton

    After releasing their most recent album last month, Treetop Flyers will be coming to The Joiners in Southampton (18/04/16).

  • Preview: Boomtown Fair 2016

    Boomtown Fair returns to Winchester in 2016 and features the likes of the Levellers, Beans On Toast and Foreign Begg (11/08/16-14/08/16).

  • Preview: The Comedy Fridge 2016, Annex Theatre

    SUSU ComedySoc will hold their second Comedy Fridge festival in the final week of April (28/04/16 – 30/04/16).

  • Preview: Bry at Talking Heads, Southampton

    Irish singer-songwriter and YouTube star, Bry, will visit the south coast in April in order to play at the Talking Heads in Southampton (08/04/16).

  • ‘No homo’: The unnecessary act of changing pronouns in song covers

    Come on over, Valerie, while The Edge talk about song covers and their artists that don’t worry about the terrible, awful potential where you might, maybe, possibly, think someone is not 100% straight.

  • Caitlyn Jenner: Call her out, but call her Cait

    Caitlyn Jenner seems to come up every time the Kardashian/Jenner clan are mentioned in social media. A lot of problems that people seem to have with her are that she continually misspeaks on transgender issues, and has won Woman Of The Year seemingly ‘just’ for coming out as a trans woman, when people argue that there are […]

  • Preview: The Skints at Engine Rooms, Southampton

    The Skints, based in London, will come to the south coast to play Southampton’s Engine Rooms (23/03/16).

  • Muse to headline Glastonbury 2016

    Matt Bellamy and co. have joined previously announced headliners Coldplay for this year’s festival.

  • Review: The Front Bottoms at The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth

    The Front Bottoms played The Wedgwood Rooms in Portsmouth on Valentine’s Day (14/02/16).

  • “I’m more of a spaghetti hoops man”: An interview with Beans On Toast

    The Edge caught up the a cornerstone of English folk, in the now infamous Joiners backstage.