issue 26

An interview with Eduardo Niebla – flamenco jazz guitar virtuoso

I caught up with flamenco jazz guitarist Eduardo Niebla for a quick chat as he prepares for his new tour. Surely such passion inspired music relates to personal experience? Eduardo answers my questions, revealing a impressively music drenched childhood as he discusses influences, collaborations and style. How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard it before? I would say that [...]

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Review: Sweet Sweet Lies ‘The Hare, The Hound & The Tortoise’

A bustling back street Bethnal Green pub was the setting for the debut album launch of Sweet Sweet Lies – a refreshingly innovative, image conscious band from Brighton. Having listened to a few of their tracks before the launch, I knew they were something special. Their records are musically diverse and exciting, a rarity considering [...]

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Win a limited edition copy of Sweet Sweet Lies new album

Fancy getting hold of a signed, limited edition copy of Sweet Sweet Lies new album ‘The Hare, The Hound and The Tortoise’? Of course you do…and with crowd pleasing tracks such as ‘Overrated Girlfriend’, ‘Capital of Iceland’ and ‘No-one will love you (like I do)’, you’d be a fool not to put your name in the [...]

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Apollo 18 – DVD review

“There’s a reason why we never went back to the moon” – lack of government funds? A budget not quite big enough to handle a lunar landing? Environmental climate worries? Lack of resources even? All of the above are perfectly plausible and valid reasons; however none of the above have quite the right amount of [...]

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Maggie: A Short Story by Alice Stride

There is a woman standing on the street. She has two arms, two legs, the correct number of fingers and toes, knees, elbows, eyes, ears, a nose, teeth and all the bits inbetween. She is looking in a shop window, and her face is full of melancholy. I’ll say that she is plump, with coiffed [...]

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An Interview With Sandeep Dwesar

What is the point of the Barbican – art! Gosh, that is a very simple and very complicated question – “what is the point of the Barbican”…. I think the point of the Barbican is to make art happen, to enable things to happen that perhaps, possibly either wouldn’t happen anywhere else.

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Flying the Flag: from Master Of Reality to My War

As ‘ metalheads’ old and new gear themselves for the return of the original ‘ princes of darkness’, Black Sabbath, I thought I would take a look at an area of their legacy which perhaps remains undiscovered to all but those hardy enough to seek it. It lies with the man who hosted their [...]

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Willowy: a poem by Cecelia Peters

When I was young I used to go to places full of trees And dance in nature’s loveliness, sweet dreams were made of these, One day I ventured out too far and ‘found’ a hidden place A path that led to Fantasy, to Ecstasy and Grace, And so I called it Willowy, because the [...]

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If Travel Broadens the Mind…

Travel, they say, broadens the mind. Adds perspective. Opens up the outlook and so on. Makes you sophisticated and cosmopolitan. If you’ve been nowhere other than where you’re from, except on holiday; if you’ve lived in no place other than the place you know, what does that make you? What is the word for it? [...]

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Vampires in fiction: A Brief History

Vampire fiction has changed a great deal in the past 200 years; from the classics to the modern day phenomenon Twilight, the vampire has been transformed since the rise of Dracula. But how has it changed, and why? It was Bram Stoker’s Dracula that really marked the beginning of popular vampire fiction and gave [...]

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