Honest, bipolar, deep. These are the three words Jeremiah Amoako-Gyapong, better known to the world by his alias Truthz, uses to describe his music, a depth that sets the precedent for both his sound and demeanour. Hailing from Enfield in North London, Jeremiah now juggles a second-year Law and Sociology...
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“I googled ‘British blues artists’ and was met only by white faces. This was surprising to me – then I was surprised about being surprised…” After watching a documentary by Lenny Henry called, ‘Lenny’s Got The Blues’ I could think of many well-known African-American artists that performed the genre that...
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For someone who spends hours in front of a crowd laying bricks for her latest show Free Admission, cabaret extraordinaire and nudist auteur Ursula Martinez is not so great at keeping up walls. The ‘prelude’ to her performance, which she insists “isn’t part of the performance…but it is really isn’t...
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1965 was the year the University of Warwick came into being, and the year that the Race Relations Act was passed in the United Kingdom to outlaw the discrimination of any person on the “grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins” in public places. From the day the...
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As festival season is well and truly over, Warwick students nostalgically recall their favourite moments… Soundwave. Soundwave Festival was brimming with eclecticism, a quiet (but wonderful) atmosphere preceded by the debauchery of Love International in Tisno, Croatia. Staged at the same festival site, if the rumours were true, they...
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Whether you’re from the there or are sick to death of hearing about it, it’s a truth commonly acknowledged that Londoner’s like to brag. Culture, landmarks, diversity- nightlife, it’s combination that supposedly gives us the right to proclaim London “the coolest city in the world”, whether coming from Sadiq Khan’s...
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It’s a typically grey Saturday afternoon in Birmingham and deep within the subterranean structures of the O2 Institute, a tired and unexpectedly small Laura Mvula sits hunched, hooded yet talkative. In just a few hours she will appear on her hometown stage rejuvenated and present, in front a room of...
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It’s pretty easy for any self-respecting, ‘serious’ music enthusiast to turn their nose up at a theatrical re-telling or tribute show of one of our favourite bands. The music we’ve listened to and loved alone or with close friends can very easily become kitsch or overly sentimental when performed on...
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As this voracious beast of a year continues to engulf some of our most iconic and endeared figures – none more deserving of that title than Prince – it’s easy to slip into a nihilistic resignation about 2016. Maybe the Mayans weren’t wrong about the apocalypse after all? Maybe they...
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Although performing on a UK tour just days before the release of his debut album Telluric, for 25-year-old Matt Corby tonight is the culmination of a long musical odyssey that started when he finished second on Australian Idol in 2007 (don’t stop reading – a lot can change in nine years)....
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Lewis McClenaghan finds White's Spacebomb ensemble on top form.
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My, they grow up so fast! Lewis McClenaghan on why South Park is still good at 19
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The Union Chapel makes for the perfect setting for Matthew Halsall and The Gondwana's smooth, existential jazz according, to Lewis McClenaghan
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