Best of September: The Social Festival, Kent, 12th September 2015
Held this year at Mote Park, Kent on September 12th, The Social Festival promises a great day of electronic music from its eclectic lineup. Spread across…
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Documentary Photography from Geoffrey Billett: Kumbh Mela, India
Geoffrey Billett spent most of his career as a Community Psychiatric Nurse for a Health and Social Care Trust. He retired in 2012 and…
An Interview with award winning film-maker Gabriel Bisset-Smith
Gabriel Bisset-Smith is an award winning writer/actor/director/comedian. Gabriel has recently been named one of the Dazed Visionaries by Dazed and Confused. Also, Gabriel’s short film Thrush won…
United Festival: a celebration of over 25 years of British rave culture
London’s Finsbury Park goes back in time on September 13th for United Festival, the Found Series of festival’s celebration of rave culture. With 8 stages…
Film Review – Eden | Mia Hansen’s Tribute to 90’s French Touch Movement
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden explores Parisian dance music culture through the rise and fall of the French Touch movement with great skill and minimal melodrama…
An Interview with Sven Hansen-Løve, Co-writer and Inspiration for Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden is proving to be the dance music film of the year. It is an authentic yet melancholy exploration of Paris’s dance music…
New Music: Picks of July
Matt Walsh- Shake the Mind Matt Walsh has been producing music since the late nineties, mostly as Clouded Vision. Along the way he has…
Fairport’s 34th Cropredy Convention 2015
Cropredy summer festival of folk and rock is a priceless piece of England’s musical jigsaw. This year the traditional three-day three-generation shenanigans take place…
Music Festival Guide for the rest of the Summer
Don’t worry if you couldn’t go to Lost Village because you didn’t hear about it, or Gottwood because it was too far, or simply…
The 10 Essential Documentaries Since 2000
Since the turn of the Millennium, there has been a distinct change in the art of documentary filmmaking. Where documentaries used to be unpopular…
Virunga: A Tale of Greed, Grenades and Gorillas | Review
Documentary filmmaking is a powerful medium that can be used to raise awareness about social issues. Films as such are able to empower groups…
Caribou Shares New Daphni Track “Vikram”
Dan Snaith of Caribou has dropped a new track under his more dance motivated moniker Daphni. “Vikram” follows “Usha”, his edit of Indian artist…
Sprouting Life in the Forest – Fatherly Tree, Motherly Mountain: A Classroom Mural Painted in India by Yusuke Asai
Japanese artist Yusuke Asai has covered a primary school classroom in Maharashtra, India, in a mural made with paint prepared from mud, dirt and sand found…
An Interview with Street Artist, Hula
You would never guess from Hula’s teenage affinity for tagging abandoned couches in his hometown on Oahu, Hawaii that he would someday become the thriving Brooklyn-based visual…
Jhapan Festival, Bishnupur, India : Of Cobras, Vipers and their Charmers
Bishnupur. 140 odd kilometres from Calcutta. Known to have the highest number of historic temples in West Bengal, mostly made of terracotta. And yet…
Travel to Venice on a shoestring budget
There’s no denying Venice’s reputation as a beautiful, yet expensive city. If you know where to look and what to book, though, arming yourself…
Away from the city: nature photography by Sam Hudson
How would you describe your art? Sam: My photography is defined by its natural aesthetic. There’s many things I love about nature photography….
We Are Many: Reflections on the Iraq War | Review
On February 15th 2003 I was 10 years old. I took to the streets of London along with my mother, brother and sisters to…
Stream Four Tet’s new album Morning/Evening
Four Tet has announced a new album, Morning/Evening, which serves as the follow-up to 2013’s Beautiful Rewind. The album is just two tracks, one titled “Morning” and…
Gottwood festival: the UK’s best kept secret
For many flocking to Carreglwyd Forest on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales last Thursday, this occasion was something of a pilgrimage. Like the steadily…