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Live: Dark Mofo Festival 2018 – Tanya Tagaq, Soundtrack to Nanook of the North

The extraordinary fare served up in Hobart’s annual Dark Mofo Festival continues to astound and delight. Set in the dark mid-winter Hobart, the southernmost point in Australia, the Festival must…

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Say Psych: Live Review: Melting Wax All Dayer, Night People – 09.06.2018

There’s a new promoter in town and to mark their arrival they have planned a full day of live music from Manchester’s finest local bands at the fast becoming infamous…

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Say Psych: Video: Black Lizard – Black Shadow

Earlier this year Helsinki psych-rockers Black Lizard unleashed their third full-length in a now decade-long career. Celebration Of A New Dawn was released on Fuzz Club Records and saw the…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Cleaners

When the scandal broke about Cambridge Analytica harvesting Facebook data in order to influence election campaigns, it was hardly the first negative press the company had received. Indeed, the major…

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Film Review: The Ciambra

After shaking of the yoke of dictatorship and censorship, the post-War period in Italy was a fertile time for film-making. From the neo-realism of Rossellini and Visconti, through the classics…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Time Trial

When it comes to sports documentaries, cycling has always been one of the most popular disciplines. Whilst this might have something to do with the rigours and hardships of becoming…

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New Music : Cajsa Siik’s ‘Low Light Key Sessions’ EP

Scandinavian singer/songwriter Cajsa Siik has returned with a new EP called Low Light Key Sessions, and it’s a decidedly quieter, more introspective collection of songs. Compared to her previous releases,…

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Track: Everything by Electricity – Place to Call My Own

The gorgeous, thick-layered textures of Everything by Electricity‘s new single ‘Place To Call My Own’ is synth pop at its most alluring: a steady pulse, a superglue-melody and an addictive,…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Shirkers

At some times in our lives, most of us will have had a dream of becoming a film star, making a film or writing a screenplay or novel. Sadly, whist…

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DVD Review: Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Over the last thirty years or so, there have been few, if any, more distinctive and consistently impressive actors as Denzel Washington. In the extremely white playing field that is…

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Live: Dark Mofo Festival 2018 – Tanya Tagaq, Soundtrack to Nanook of the North

Say Psych: Live Review: Melting Wax All Dayer, Night People – 09.06.2018

Say Psych: Video: Black Lizard – Black Shadow

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Cleaners

Film Review: The Ciambra

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Time Trial

New Music : Cajsa Siik’s ‘Low Light Key Sessions’ EP

Track: Everything by Electricity – Place to Call My Own

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Shirkers

DVD Review: Roman J. Israel, Esq.