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Public Grief and the People Who Hate You For It – by Nick Caddaye
So far, 2016 has been a funny old year for public grief. With the deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman this week there has been an outpouring of emotion, matched quickly by an outpouring of sniffy commentary about how such public displays of mourning for celebrities are, if not self-serving, then at the very […]
T2 and Choosing Nostalgia – by Lucy Watson
As I walked out of Westgarth cinema two weekends ago, having just seen T2 Trainspotting for the first time, I felt that great rush; when you see something that gets under your skin, and makes you feel that odd, longing sensation somewhere between your heart and your stomach. The one that only certain cinema gives […]
Goonies, Grunge and the Lost Generation – by Rebecca Pickett
To me 1979 will always be two very important things – a song by the Smashing Pumpkins, and the year I was born. This also means I was born on the verge of an important cultural shift; a generational cusp. The 80’s brought us Madonna, personal computers, new wave music and the fall of the […]
Joel Creasey @ MICF 2018 – by Julian Callinan
JOEL CREASEY – Blonde Bombshell Joel Creasey’s show was so well put-together that even the outro music enhanced the jokes. Speaking rapidly and dropping frequent references as asides, Creasey performed his show to a crossover audience with aplomb and a few deserved pauses for applause. It’s a style that would be trying if he didn’t […]
The Best Show You Never Saw: Veronica Mars – by Lucy Watson
If you spend a bit of time online, you may have heard about Veronica Mars, an old 00s TV series that recently received a record amount of donations on Kickstarter for it to be revived in motion picture form. This broke ground for a lot of reasons, but mostly because it was the first time an […]
Table for One – by Lucy Watson
“Table for one, please.” A phrase that seems to instill panic and the fear of seering judgement in many. As if the idea of sitting alone in a public space will deem them outcasts, pariahs. The girl who ate her lunch alone in the school library. The boy who had no friends. “I could […]
Smoke (No Longer) Gets in My Eye – by Nick Caddaye
An anniversary has passed us by without any commemoration. July 1st marked six years since smoking was banned in pubs and clubs. Six, long clean years… But the time for silence has ended and I must speak for those whose lack of trachea mean they cannot speak for themselves. For I am prepared to […]
Mediocre Is Not A Dirty Word – by Lucy Watson
We’re all told when we’re kids that one day there will be something we’re really good at. Our talent. Our special thing. All we have to do is find out what it is…. What a load of shit. But we’re kids. And kids are idiots aren’t they? They’re so gullible they believe anything. They believe a fat […]