Category: Features

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    Anneka Honeyball

    The Edge’s Advent Calendar: Why The Holiday is a perfectly decent rom-com for the festive season

    For December 4th, News Editor Anneka discusses why Nancy Meyers’ 2006 romantic comedy is a totally perfunctory film to be watching at this; the most wonderful time of the year.

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    Caitriona Hanly

    The Edge’s Advent Calendar: Christmas songs, and how you just can’t beat the classics

    For the 3rd of December, Caitriona celebrates classic Christmas tunes.

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    Stephen Collins

    “I wish I could’ve done this when I was 20”: An interview with Albert Hammond Jr

    The Strokes’ guitarist, keyboard player and backup vocalist is stepping into a well deserved spotlight, and chatted to The Edge about his history and his future, plus where he’d be without music.

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    Camilla Cassidy

    The Edge’s Advent Calendar: Fairytale of New York, or, why all festive films are set in NYC

    December 2nd; what do Elf, Home Alone 2 and Miracle on 34th Street have in common? Well. Apart from Christmas.

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    Camilla Cassidy

    The Edge’s Advent Calendar: Vampire Weekend’s wintertime rap remix

    It’s December 1st; welcome to the festive season, and The Edge’s Advent Calendar! To start us off, Features Editor Camilla shows you the magical, wintery treatment three rappers gave to ‘Step’.

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    Natalie Fordham

    Editorial Expressions: Why moving BBC Three may be a huge mistake

    Editor, Natalie, joins the debate on BBC Three becoming a solely online streaming channel.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    In Defence of the Star Wars Prequels

    As a new chapter in the Star Wars story begins, Rehana looks back it’s first (second?) to see if they deserve the flack they get.

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    Amy Wootten

    “Glittery, funky, dancey disco beats”: An interview with Rebekah from EKKAH

    Disco, funk and entirely their own – Records Editor Amy meets one half of EKKAH’s dancing duo.

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    Isaac Macpherson

    “I think a lot of people like seeing a band change, it’s quite… exciting”: An interview with Portico’s Jack Wylie

    Although the dark ambience and idiosyncratic instrumentation of UK Jazz ensemble ‘Portico Quartet’ was enough to land them with Mercury Prize nomination back in 2008, there sound hasn’t stayed static for long. Now under the banner simply Portico, the band has completely re-established itself within a divergent, heavily electronic aesthetic that subsequently realises a sound […]

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    Laura Ingate

    Is it time to pull the plug on The X Factor?

    How, and why, viewers are falling out of love with Simon Cowell’s golden child.

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    Xavier Voigt-Hill

    “I’m writing a song about angry fruit flies”: An interview with Helen Arney from Festival of the Spoken Nerd

    Helen Arney chats to The Edge on fax machines and life on the road ahead of Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s sold-out Southampton debut show

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    Ben Robins

    The Ballad of Shia: Decoding #AllMyMovies

    Film Editor Ben asserts that Shia LaBeouf is probably just a nice guy. We hope he’s enjoying his movies.

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    Sean McDonnell

    “I’m not going to sing about girls on dance floors or try to glorify greed”: An interview with Rou from Enter Shikari

    British rock export Enter Shikari nowadays need no introduction – with four albums and an ever growing list of festival performances under their belt, the four-piece are one of the biggest names rising in rock. I gave Rou Reynolds, lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, a call to talk about their upcoming arena tour, their latest album […]

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    Navi Ahluwalia

    Suicide and Me: How has Professor Green helped to uncover the issue of male suicide?

    Following the recent release of a personal documentary, the rapper may be helping men – and society – face issues of toxic masculinity.