Interview: Fun Adults
Birthed in Bristol and marinated in Leeds, Fun Adults have only released a few singles, but already they’ve got numerous bloggers all excited. Lucy Snow chats to the band (Deco, Huw, Dan and Kyle) about their sound, their art, Kyle’s snowboarding and Live At Leeds, ahead of their performance at the festival this weekend. LS: [...]
Hidden Gems : Top 10 Summer Arts Festivals
Bored of big-name festivals with less than impressive line-ups? Feed your creativity this summer with something a little out of the ordinary Shambala August 22-25 Located in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside, Shambala is an arts festival with a difference. Offering everything from a wide range of musical acts, to cabaret, workshops, stand-up comedy, [...]
The Duffy Archive Brings Bowie to Leeds
Melissa Baksh spoke with renowned photographer Chris Duffy ahead of his highly anticipated exhibition ‘The Duffy Collection’. His astounding prints will give viewers a peek into the life of David Bowie, through a selection of never-before-seen photographs. As the son of legendary Brian Duffy, an innovator of documentary fashion photography during the 1960’s, Chris nonchalantly [...]
The Interview: Howard Marks: “I took my first E with my daughters”
Lucy Holden meets Mr Nice – the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time – at his Leeds tapas restaurant Azucar, to discuss yoga and debauchery, being the most wanted man in the world, and why he’s more frightened of easyJet than the Mafia. Howard Marks says he doesn’t dislike being sober. But it’s [...]
Interview: The Internet
LS2 Music chat to Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians – a.k.a The Internet – about touring with Odd Future, recording with cheap equipment and err… their love for furniture design LS: The Brudenell gig is the fourth show on your European tour. How has it gone so far? S: So far it’s been pretty [...]
RADICAL: LS speaks to ex-Islamist Maajid Nawaz
Co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, an organisation that challenges extremism, sharp-suited Maajid Nawaz is now worlds away from the torture facilities of Mubarak’s Egypt, where he found himself incarcerated in 2002 for his work with Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Lucy Snow talks to him about anti-Semitism, the Muslim Brotherhood and his own transformation. Nawaz’ journey [...]
The Interview: Caitlin Moran: “And that’s why I’m running for Prime Minister”
Mod-feminist Caitlin Moran speaks exclusively to Lucy Holden about previously unrevealed self-harm, a new sit-com, and why she doesn’t want to do interviews anymore – all at a hundred miles an hour. Caitlin Moran knows how to sell. And she’s trying to sell me. Accidentally early, I’m shivering at the end of Moran’s road [...]
Student lands world’s best job
Leeds student Seb Smith has slipped past stiff competition to land ‘the world’s best job’ as an Official Waterslide Tester. Smith, a Design Technology student, took part in a five month long selection challenge, ultimately triumphing over more than 2,000 other applicants to land the job. For six months, Smith will be flown across the [...]
Feminists: Reclaiming the Internet
For many years, the media was the enemy of feminism. The movement was mischaracterised, tainted, and exploited, condemned as weird and unfashionable. Undressed and muted like helpless Page Three models dead behind the eyes, feminism was demonised for the advantage of the ruling ‘first sex’. To this day women (and men) still hesitate to self-identify [...]
May 3, 2013