Archive for May, 2004
Brass by Helen Walsh
Fancy shagging some prostitutes and sniffing yourself into a cocaine-induced coma whilst failing your degree and alienating your nearest and dearest? Read this – it might give you a few pointers. This is the story of Millie, who is obsessed by the seedy underworld of the whores in Liverpool’s Hope Street, and hangs [...]
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
Why would a white man want to be imprisoned in a cell in a black man’s basement for a summer? This is essentially the question that Walter Mosley, author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins crime fiction series, asks in his new novel ‘The Man in the Basement’. We meet Charles, an unemployed alcoholic, as he [...]
Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio
“Looking for Spinoza” is a puzzling title for a book discussing how the brain functions but that is exactly what makes this book unique – it is not simply straightforward science. The author Antonio Damasio, a prominent neurologist, relates his recent research into the biological understanding of feelings to the work of the 17th century [...]
Gemma Ware went to the Chequerboard Theatre’s premiere of ‘The Gift of the Magi’
Christmas came round again four months late to the Jack Lyons Concert Hall this year with the performance of ‘The Gift of the Magi’ at the beginning of the summer term. Following on from the fervour surrounding Aga Serugo Lugo’s musical ‘Celebrity’ in March, another York student has again showcased the considerable talent that is [...]
Roses: New Retro Look
In an attempt to revive dwindling interest in the historic Roses contest, the 2005 event will feature a restaging of the Battle of Bosworth Field. Students will be armed by local blacksmiths and then left to fight to the death.
Brian DeGranville of the Battle Reenactment Soc commented that it "would be just like the real [...]
‘Bullshit’
Admin quash manual worker abuse photos and rumours, some porters are “Walter Mitty characters” says Ken Button
Entire SU Found Murdered
Campus Politics unaffected
International Aid arrives in Goodricke
The first consignment of international aid arrived in Goodricke College today, just three days after it was declared a humanitarian disaster by the UN.
Presented in an official ceremony, the aid, which includes food packages, medical care, and portable showers and toilets, will help the inhabitants of Goodricke treat the many diseases in [...]
Royal City, Little Heart’s Ease
You can’t help but wonder if Royal City were transfixed by a metronome whilst recording Little Heart’s Ease. That is, a metronome with only three settings; relaxed, very relaxed and comatose. The extent of their excitement peaks with She Will Come’s Gospel Choir-esq handclapping. Yet there is a dreamy element about Royal City. We’re not [...]
Animal Collective, Sung Tongs
A purist might say that there is no room in journalism for personal ambition. However, a journalist would probably say there is no room for purity in personal ambition, so I, in an attempt to carve my name on some sort of John Peel tree of life will try to coin a new genre name. [...]
The Cribs, Virgin Mobile LOUDER
If The Energy Group had seen the Cribs perform the first song of their set they would have bulldozed all of their wind turbines, packed Sizewell B off on a cargo ship to a far-off land and channelled all of their money into a consignment of twenty somethings from Wakefield with guitars. The three brothers [...]
The Walkmen, Bows and Arrows
It’s always disappointing when you invest £10 of your hard-earned cash/student loan into buying an album on the basis of one single, only to be totally under whelmed with the result. So I feel quite lucky that no cash was handed over in exchange for this record, for the song I had heard previously from [...]
Mull Historical Society, This Is Hope
Having been largely unconvinced by the first two records from Mull Historical Society, I was prepared to be bored rigid by a load of formulaic tosh. After all, a band’s name says so much, and naming yourself after a community group from a remote Scottish island that houses just 2000 people doesn’t exactly bode well: [...]
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