When Melody Ruled the Airwaves
Artist Michael Lacey takes the playlist’s helm this week, to muse most vigorously on enjoying classic doo-wop, swing and jazz … Music plays an important role in my artistic practice, keeping me tethered...
GIT Award 2013 shortlist Announced
Next month sees the arrival of the second GIT Award. We take a look at the runners and riders… How time flies when you’re busy as hell, eh? Almost a year on since...
Darkness Into Light
A brand new film night begins next week. We caught up with director, writer and cineaste DW Mault to tell us all about it… You’ll know him, if a regular reader of The...
I Was A Rat! – Reviewed
A new production at the Playhouse is a show dead-set on pleasing all of the people all of the time. Is it a success? Demonisation of children and a scurrilous tabloid press in...
Rogues’ Galleries – Reviewed
With high streets taking a hit from the recession, Chester finds a novel way of injecting life back into empty spaces … If you’re in Chester to do a bit of shopping, you...
If Only…! – Reviewed
Taking place on the anniversary of the Bluecoat’s reopening, C James Fagan reflects on the most recent If Only…! Last weekend saw the fifth anniversary of the reopening of the Bluecoat which, fact...
Culture Diary w/c 18-03-13
Monday – Wild Nothing 7.30pm @ the Kazimier £8 Shoegaze, dream-pop, call it what you will; whatever ‘it’ is, Wild Nothing have it in abundance. First single, 2009′s Summer Holiday (taken from 2010′s...
Film Podcast #25: Broken and Caesar Must Die
Film Podcast #25: Broken and Caesar Must Die by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault reviews violent family drama Broken, and Italian prison docudrama Caesar Must Die. Loosely based on To Kill...
How Do You Feel?
C James Fagan finds that rarest of things: a performance piece it’s ok to laugh at… How do you feel? How do you feel about your body? That phrase is bouncing around my...