Interview: Editors
Ola Sawicka heads to Wolverhampton to investigate the Editors' transition to bolder, darker realms
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Bowerbirds
I had the opportunity to indulge in my ever-so-grating-and-patronizing tendency of forcing bands so new they’re practically foetal onto my friends the other week when Bowerbirds came to London. After spending a few months asking everyone, ‘oh, do you know Bowerbirds?’, I finally dragged one of them kicking and screaming...
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Arms trade protestors removed from fair
On Tuesday 17th November, a group of Warwick students staged a protest against arms’ companies at the Engineering and Technology Fair. Several were escorted from the building by police and security.
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Hunt for houses starts early
Record numbers of students are already looking for and reserving houses for the next academic year
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First Impression: Mass Effect 2
The original _Mass Effect_ has to be my favourite RPG of all time; it’s combination of stylised graphics, space opera drama and actually having a narrative, really captivated me. But it wasn’t the combat or galaxy-wide scale that got me hooked, it was the music. The old-school, 1970s sci-fi soundtrack...
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Borderlands
I hear a knock at the door and my girlfriend enters. She sees me, wild eyed and alone in the dark. “Have you been playing that all day?” she asks. “No, been working, only just started”, I lie like only an addict can. Truth be told I stopped enjoying the...
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Hope, glory and celluloid success
As our indigenous cinema enjoys a spell of particularly rude health, Alex King looks at the state of the industry and argues the case for British Cinema
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Don’t you forget about him
Stephen Leach looks at the legacy of the late, great John Hughes
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
In the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What you Will the words are annunciated with perfect RSC clarity and Richard Wilson does a fair replication of a Shakespearean Victor Meldrew. However, stylistically the production is fragmented and desperately unclear. Is the play supposed to be...
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Irish mysticism and madness
Without doubt, putting on the first student production of the year has to be a nerve-racking prospect. Particularly when you’re walking in the shadows of great plays such as Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Elephant’s Graveyard. Nevertheless, director Bertand Lesca and his talented team not only matched last year’s...
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Hope in the first machine age
Ivan Juritz explores Warwick’s modernist architectural heritage
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