Methane Levels Threaten Florida

19/06/2012

Florida's going to drown, and although the study that suggests it is focussed on melting icecaps, it's pretty obvious that all those noxious methane cowfarts have something to do with it. Is...

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Baddies: Camden Barfly

19/06/2012

Ahh, The Barfly, Camden. A little place dear to my heart. The scene of many a crime, mass alcohol consumption and general shenanigans. It’s compact, the lighting is bad but the sound is good,...

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FOUNDation builds houses from skips

18/06/2012

'Dumpsterhouses', a concept developed by Utrecht-based radical recyclers Foundation take the instantly recognisable structure of the refuse skip, and uses it as the basis to create small...

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Hotel Room Microbes Like TV Too

18/06/2012

Well at least it shows that people in hotels wash their hands after using the toilet. It comes as something of a surprise that in a study on microbial levels in hotel rooms, that bathroom door...

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Panic Room: Skin

18/06/2012

Over the past four years, Welsh rock band Panic Room have established a strong reputation both on record and as a live band. Their dynamic mix of rock, pop, metal, folk and jazz manages to combine...

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Bedwyr Williams bound for Venice Bienniale

17/06/2012

Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International...

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Loitered Lens: The Damned

17/06/2012

Founding members of The Damned, Brian James & Rat Scabies, performed the classic first Damned album Damned Damned Damned in its entirety...

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A Scientific Model to Predict Movie Flops

16/06/2012

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models. The researchers...

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When in doubt, blame the Proles

16/06/2012

'Our political class don’t have capacity to do anything else but blame increasing numbers of people, to avoid discussing a politics they didn’t realise they were charged with...

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Bella Union sign The Flaming Lips

15/06/2012

Perhaps a little bit of shutting the stable doors after the horse has bolted, seeing as the news was all over Twitter a couple of days ago, but indie label Bella Union announce today that they have...

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Syd Arthur : On and On

15/06/2012

Syd Arthur wear their Pink Floyd influences openly. There’s the Syd Barret reference in their name, as well as a typographical similarity between the A for Arthur on their album cover and the...

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How Elvis Presley Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

14/06/2012

The non-rational interactions of art upon flesh prompt another study into Elvis Presley's music. Or so goes the headline. Reading through the test results, it seems that heavy metal has as...

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The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

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UK art trade campaign to stop royalties for artists

13/06/2012

Anyone polluting the comments thread on this story with anecdotal observations along the lines of : 'I'm a plumber, why don't I get a royalty on work I did ten years ago?' can take...

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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Fever Fever : Live

13/06/2012

'Every review calls us a "Norwich three-piece"…. No, "FEMALE-FRONTED Norwich three-piece"….' Fever Fever bemoan halfway through their set. And I guess this...

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The overcoat

The Overcoat : Pleasance Theatre

12/06/2012

The Overcoat is a Finnish Play, at the Pleasance Theatre in London, produced by the Scottish theatre company ACE. It was performed at Edinburgh Festival last year and is part of a project to bring...

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Nuclear Fusion is Go

11/06/2012

Nuclear Fusion. A goal that has been with us for decades, but always elusive. If it happens, it will change everything. If it doesn't, at least we learned what a torus looks like. Mechanical,...

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Pandamonium : Signal Gallery

11/06/2012

The rather cheeky Signal Gallery has challenged all of us, from the panda lovers to the miserable cynics, to see this exhibition and remain with our hearts unmelted. They believe it can’t be...

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King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

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Loitered Lens: The Indegenerates [photos]

10/06/2012

'they worked so well together it was hard to believe they had barely reached puberty. Sweat and sebum, hormones and hairgel – it never gets old. If you like great new fresh rock and roll...

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2:54 [Album Review]

09/06/2012

The debut album from sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow has a milder feel than the live shows, the punch and rawness extracted to leave a more mellow sound. Since the beginning of 2012 2:54 have been...

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The Science of ‘Cool’

09/06/2012

Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? "When I set out to find what people mean by coolness, I wanted to find corroboration of...

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Kate Tempest: Wasted [Theatre]

09/06/2012

Wasted is the new play by brilliant rapper, poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest.  This is her first play performed by Pleasance Plough Theatre company from Bristol. The play opens with a...

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Arirang [Cinema]

08/06/2012

Marking Korean director Kim Ki-duk's return to filmmaking, and indeed the world in general, Arirang is an interesting one that will divide opinion. Having self-imposed a punishing, three-year...

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Ian Francis - Lazarides Gallery

Ian Francis: 10,000 Years from Now

08/06/2012

The degraded space shown in Francis' work appears aged, as the layered scenes hang on the canvas, caught in motion, peeling with time and abrasive in action. ...

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Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

07/06/2012

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

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Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

07/06/2012

Eleven albums into a music career which can lay a fair claim to the title 'cult band', Piano Magic resist categorisation by virtue of developing and altering their musical style with each...

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Tav Falco [Interview]

07/06/2012

There's a mixed crowd at Rough Trade East, a record shop in ever-so hip Brick Lane. They're listening to Tav Falco read extracts from his new book, Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and...

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Bloodstock

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner

06/06/2012

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner...

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Sex sells. Except to geeks and hicks

06/06/2012

Put a pretty girl on the stage and more people will come to your gig. Sad fact, but it's true.''It takes more explicitness to grab our attention than before" says researcher Tom...

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