All Entries in the "Substance" Category

Interview: Darwin Deez

We had a cross Atlantic email chat with 69’s Spring issue one to watch, Darwin Deez, about his forthcoming debut album,  bat-winged denim, and why we should ditch our shampoo.
How did you get started as a songwriter?

Going regularly to the open mic at the Sidewalk café had everything to do with it. I became [...]

Review: Alice In Wonderland

What could be more perfect – the trippy mind of the visionary Tim Burton making the trippiest tale even trippier. And believe us when we say…. Alice in Wonderland will freak you out. This exciting concept isn’t the only core to its anticipation. When we heard Johnny Depp was to helm The Mad Hatter alongside [...]

Do You Want To Be ‘The Family’?

Were you hooked on the TV series: ‘The Family’? Us too.
Well exciting news just in: the producers are currently working on a new series and are on the look out for a vibrant, fun loving family with a sense of determination to overcome life’s ups and downs. (Their words not ours!)
Could you be the next [...]

Red Bull Music Academy- Manchester; January 29th-30th 2010

“Answer me this… what do you make of all this UK Funky?” It’s not your usual random smoking comment. But it’s a comment in keeping with its context. It’s Day 2 of Manchester’s Red Bull Music Academy and we’re taking a break from a weekend of workshops, lectures and parties aimed at marrying raw talent [...]

Preview: Traces

If you enjoyed Curve’s Lift Off performance then you’ll surely love next week’s production – Traces.The multi-talented five-star cast will dazzle you with their contemporary acrobat and circus tricks as they attempt to twine a storyline into their off-the-wall style performance.
Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The 7 Fingers) company will be stopping off in [...]

Beat Surrender

It’s 3pm here in blighty and 10am in New York, but still several hours too early for Connor, the baby faced drummer of The Drums as we’re greeted with a super husky and dazed, “hello?”, for our transatlantic call. Unless you’ve been passed out underneath your sofa since NYE you can’t have failed to notice [...]

Big Session Festival

If you like your festivals green and folky then put the 18th- 20th June in your diary and make sure not to make any plans that weekend!
Yep, it’s that time of year again kids. The Big Session Festival is hitting De Montfort Hall & Gardens for it’s sixth year and the line up looks awesome. [...]

Discombobulated: Dispatches from the Wrong Side

From Las Vegas to Moscow, New York to Shanghai, Discombobulated features fifty unbelievably wrong tales of high living and international low-cost slumming. On the Wrong Side, the way of living is as follows: you combobulate, then you go to a disco and shortly after… you discombobulate.
In the course of the 50 tales that make up [...]

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

The team (Martin McDonagh and Paul Kerryson) behind Curve‘s inaugural production, The Pillowman reunite to bring this satirical black comedy to the stage. Set in an Ireland struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of a long and hard fought civil war of sorts, it tells the tale of one pocket of a tiny community, and the death of a [...]

A Single Man

The directorial debut of Tom Ford is absolutely stunning.
Set in Los Angeles on November 30, 1962, a month after the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Manis the story of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a middle-aged British college professor who has struggled to find meaning in his life since the sudden death eight months earlier of his longtime partner, Jim [...]

Leicester Comedy Festival: Jon Richardson – This Guy At Night

Fresh from a 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Awards best show nomination and a critically acclaimed sell-out run at this year’s Fringe, Jon Richardson continues his first UK solo tour.
Richardson is one of the most in-demand young comedians on the UK comedy circuit today. As well as hosting the Sunday mid-morning show on BBC6 Music, Jon has recently appeared [...]

[re]locate at New Art Exchange, Nottingham

New Art Exchange, Nottingham is proud to present a ground-breaking sound installation by Tahera Aziz, which revisits the place where Stephen Lawrence was tragically murdered, and attempts to preserve the memory of the tragic events surrounding his death.

[re]locate stages a sonic reconstruction focusing on the bus stop on Well Hall Road in [...]

Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake

Dig out your ballet shoes and tutus- following a hugely successful run at Sadler’s Wells, Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of Swan Lake is back on a national UK tour, stopping off at Birmingham’s Hippodrome and Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on the way.
Since it’s world premiere in 1995, Bourne’s adaption of Swan Lake has won loads of awards, [...]

Leicester Comedy Festival: Topping and Butch

Musical comedy double act Topping & Butch delve into political scandals, sex, drugs and celebrity – bang up to date material delivered with superb comic timing.
No one is safe from their satirical song-writing prowess – MPs expenses, Susan Boyle, Swine Flu epidemics, and Lily Allen are just some of those that feature in their programme [...]

Leicester Comedy Festival: Frisky and Mannish

If you love a bit of a silly sing- song and your music a little bit camp, a little bit over the top and a little bit in your face, then chances are you’ll love the brilliance that is Frisky and Mannish. They are visiting Leicester for one night only this Sunday before they jet [...]

Spirit Of Film at FACT

What could be better then a night of films and vodka?
‘Not much’ is the answer you are looking for.
Super- premium Ketel One vodka has come together with Future Shorts to make a beautiful partnership and present The Spirit of Film, a celebratory evening of the skills and craftsmanship of short film- making.
Future Shorts allow film [...]

Leicester Comedy Festival Interview: Zoe Lyons

We love Zoe Lyons, you should love Zoe Lyons. To prove how awesome she is here is our interview with her. We talk about the attractive qualities of Alec Baldwin, what makes Zoe Swagger and the Saudi Arabian lesbian cabaret.
David: So, we’re going to start with the Leicester Comedy Festival, as you’ve been here [...]