Author: Sophie Trenear


  • The Edge’s hopes and preparations for 2017… as expressed through the medium of song

    Writer Sophie Trenear offers the best songs to prepare for the coming year. iPods at the ready.

  • Review: You Me At Six – Night People

    Sophie Trenear takes an early look at the Surrey rockers’ new LP.

  • The Edge’s Pop-Punk Christmas Playlist

    Writer Sophie Trenear collates the best of the best alternative Christmas songs to counter the overload of Buble and Beiber this festive season.

  • Blu-ray Review: Nerve

    Writer Sophie reviews the Blu-ray release of the 2016 summer hit ‘Nerve’.

  • Preview: Don Broco at The Forum, Hertfordshire

    Writer Sophie Trenear previews Don Broco’s last gig of the year, where they’ll be headlining the Blax Xmas Ball (17/12/2016).

  • Review: Sully

    Writer Sophie reviews Clint Eastwood’s latest film, which stars Tom Hanks as Captain Sully who landed a falling plane into the Hudson River and saved the lives of everyone on board.

  • Review: Jimmy Eat World at O2 Guildhall, Southampton

    Writer Sophie Trenear reviews the wild Jimmy Eat World show, which played at Southampton’s O2 Guildhall, and marked the start of their UK leg of the ‘Integrity Blues’ tour (04/11/16)

  • Review: Black Mirror – ‘Shut Up and Dance’

    Sophie Trenear reviews the bleak but best episode of Black Mirror’s new run, paving the way for Alex Lawther’s path to stardom.

  • “It’s caught the energy of what our band’s all about and what it always has been about into a recording which is quite an exciting factor”: An Interview with Max Helyer of You Me At Six

    You Me At Six have been away for too long. Over eighteen months ago, the acclaimed rock band released their fourth studio album Cavalier Youth which met with positive, though unmemorable, reviews. Dropping swiftly from the rock stratosphere, the – very underrated – album melted away, seemingly taking the band themselves with it. The band, celebrated […]

  • Raindance Film Festival: – “There’s no point running out and shooting something unless you’ve got a script that is amazing” – An interview with Keir and Dédé Burrows, Part Two

    In part two of The Edge‘s interview with director-producer team Keir and Dédé Burrows, the names behind Raindance favourite Worm, we continued to talk about the brilliance of sci-fi, including our favourite sci-fi’s, and whether Alex Garland’s Ex Machina can really stand the test the time… One of the questions Worm tries to answer, or at least bring up, […]

  • Raindance Film Festival: “If I were to meet myself, I’d crack jokes with me, we’d have the same sense of humour, we’d get along, we’ve both gotta be idiots” – An interview with Keir and Dédé Burrows, Part One

    Sophie Trenear continues our coverage of Raindance Film Festival, with an interview with the creative forces behind Sci-fi screener, Worm.

  • Raindance Film Festival: Press Conference with Ken Loach

    As part of The Edge’s Raindance Film Festival coverage, writer Sophie was there to see auteur Ken Loach receive his award.

  • Review: You Me At Six at O2 Guildhall, Southampton

    Sophie Trenear reviews You Me At Six at O2 Guildhall, Southampton (23/10/16).

  • Raindance 2016 – “The first time I ever saw an actor read my words and make them better than it was on the page, I felt my heart swell. Like oh, that’s what love is!”: An Interview with Stephen Elliott, Part Two

    In the second part of her interview with Stephen Elliot, Sophie Trenear talks to him about her latest film.