Posted in 1 on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Liza Adebisi
22 April 2008
What Is Wrong with the World?
By Station House Opera
Soho Theatre Bar, 21 Dean Street,
London W1D 3N
What Is Wrong with the World presents its audience with a series of ambiguous and dual surprises.
As we sit in the cosy comforts of the Soho Theatre Bar we are offered head sets to [...]
Posted in 1 on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Faith Once More – Why Faith No More changed the face of music.
Why is it that bands can be relevant long after they’re dead and buried? Why do the likes of Queen, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles still hold so much appeal? It could be because they’re timeless, it could be because their music was [...]
Posted in 1 on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Today the Times published three articles about the Arts Council, and CAARE and Denis Vaughan appear throughout them:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3761081.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3760928.ece
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3761082.ece
Posted in 1 on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Crème Anglaise
Canal Café Théâtre
The Bridge House, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice
London W2 6ND
I met my friends in Little Venice last night, as we had planned to see a show called Crème Anglaise.
I have to admit, that what had initially attracted me about the event, had merely been the fact that it would be performed in French, and at present I am desperately trying to improve my abilitiy in [...]
Posted in 1, tagged academic, education, mozart, music on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7319024.stm
This is an interesting article from BBC.com that explores and debates the relationship between music and academic achievement. There have been studies, namely in Canada, that have found that memory retention increased with musical training. The theory is called the ‘Mozart effect’, which was proposed in 1994 but later proved unsubstantiated. However, this article insists [...]
Posted in 1, tagged mark lewis, music, scar my eyes, this machine on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Artist: Scar My Eyes
Title: This Machine
Label: Self released
Rating: 9.3/10
Reviewer: David Houssein
Cover Picture:
Band contact:
http://www.myspace.com/scarmyeyes
Track listing:
1. This Machine…
2. The Game [Think About It]
3. Through The K-Hole
4. Disposition
5. Hope In Silence
Bands with less guts would have given up long ago had they been in Scar My Eyes’ position. Good drummers, who serve more than just a timekeeping purpose, [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Add new tag, literature., novel, ondaatje on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Ondaatje’s novel ‘In the Skin of a Lion’ explores what it means to be an outsider amongst outsiders. The story follows Patrick Lewis who in the 20s leaves his rural life for the urban swell of Toronto. Here, he moves from group to group of working-class immigrants who are, amongst other things, building [...]
Posted in 1 on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
In today’s corporate world support is not what it one was when you were supporting your brother or sister in their local team. The true nature of support is supporting something that you are affiliated with, like the team your friends play in, or your villages’ football squad, or your universities rowing team. The true [...]
Posted in 1, tagged sport, rugby, canes, video ref on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Cane’troversy
By Richard Keane
Should we allow the video referee more powers over a rugby game than just determine whether a try has been scored? The answer is of course we should, do not bore me with such ridiculous questions.
Firstly let me tell you that I am a one eyed supporter of the most brilliant Super 14 [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Add new tag, art, CAARE for Arts, drugs, exhibition, health on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The Guardian online has posted images from an art exhibition put on by the Other Side Gallery, which will begin on 6th May 2008 and last until 12th June 2008. The exhibition will be featured at the Manor Gardens Café in London. The Other Side Gallery is a North London registered charity that enables the [...]
