Café No. 8
What to do as a student on a Saturday night? ‘Salvation, Tokyo and Ziggy’s’ are full of the over thirties/lonely hearts and apparently no one (particularly YUSU) likes Gallery anymore
The American
It’s marketed as an action-thriller, but it’s not; for a film about an assassin on his last job, there’s surprisingly little action. Most of the suspenseful sequences reach an underwhelming conclusion, and the traditional American firing range is replaced with a picturesque forest clearing in Italy
Pub
Sometimes you just know you’re going to have a good night. Walking towards The Maltings last Thursday I bumped into none other than Brendan Sheerin, of Coach Trip fame. To say I was star struck would be an understatement
Machete
Unless you have accidentally stumbled into the wrong screen, it is more than likely that you know what you’re getting when you step into Machete
Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate
Rocking Out the Media Storm
Sam Briggs talks to NME’s latest cover star The Vaccines
Tropical punks: An Interview with Abe Vigoda
Adam Bychawski asks Abe Vigoda about cold wave
Champagne Charlie: Royal Icing
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Royal Family. I know that they are expensive, arguably unnecessary and at times outright bizarre, but then many of my favourite things (violet creams, cowboy boots etc) also fall into that category
Future Sounds
A band’s MySpace can be deceiving, for a start, laughing off Melody of your Demise is too easy, especially with claims of “tearing a niche into the local scene” and song titles like ‘Judi Dench Battles the Rancor’
Camilla Jenkins Investigates: the Thanksgiving hype
Camilla Jenkins Investigates: the Thanksgiving hype
Pantheon
Catching the final notes of Lost Effect, York seems to be the ideal location for a band that sound like a frustrated gang of vikings fronted by Amy Lee
Le Trio Joubran
We were promised an evening of ‘musical genius, profound ideas about history, and the beauty of art’ and not only were these proclamations fulfilled, they were excelled
Politician gone rogue?
Just when the media had him typecast as a political flipflopper, John Bercow gave up party affiliations. Camilla Jenkins and Liv Evans talk to the new Speaker of the House of Commons to find out whether he’s as unpredictable as they say
Songs from the slums
Sophie Walker investigates El Sistema, the social phenomenon that has made Venezuela rich in spirit
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