About 18 months ago, it looked like the Manic Street Preachers were down and out. Their last album, 2007’s ‘Send Away the Tigers’, had received positive reviews but little seemed to follow from it, besides the cover of Rihanna’s Umbrella. And then a new album, ‘Journal for Plague Lovers’, appeared....
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Heart isn’t that hard to find: New look, old sound. Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Invented’ is a far cry from the sweaty, (presumably) out-of- breath band that older fans will remember from videos such as ‘the Middle’, at the turn of the century. The single chosen to be released with ‘Invented’,...
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Reviewing new releases by bands that we love is always something of a challenge, but Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up, the latest album from Manchester-based alt. rock quintet Oceansize, was a pleasant surprise (particularly after the mild disappointment of last album Frames in 2007). Initially Self Preserved doesn’t...
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Released earlier this year by the F-ire Collective label, Midas is a display of originality, musical finesse and is a noteworthy statement by the young British pianist John Turville. Turville, originally trained classically at Cambridge University before studying at Guildhall, must certainly be proud of his début recording as a...
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Thomas Metcalf recounts his alternative but ultimately rewarding summer teaching in Italy
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James Warner Smith provides a practical travel guide to the wildest part of Northern Canada, complete with grizzly bears
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Lydia Shellien-Walker asks whether the popularity of the genre is down to celebrity obsession or if the biopic has more to offer
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Ciaran Brett on Australian prospects of reclaming the Ashes on home soil
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Women's Football come agonisingly close to a point
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The Students’ Union has received a high number of complaints from students about bus services
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The Boar reports from London on the NUS demonstration against the Coalition’s cuts to higher education
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Thom Drake, questions whether the great champions of recent years will continue to dominate
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