The Low Down – Spooky Shenanigans
Halloween, as far as manufactured and commercially lucrative days of celebration go, is the best. Valentine’s Day is an annual kick in the dick for single people, whilst encouraging the type of utterly crap schmoozy antics that regularly seem to pay off in Mathew McConaughey films. Easter has a horrible tendency to get all preachy [...]
The Lowdown
The year is still tingly with expectancy and new things. This is why pamphlets all over the University can still proudly advertise ambiguous societies that hover between being complete cults or disguised singles anonymous groups. Now don’t get me wrong the university would be dead without these, where else would you meet life form that [...]
The Low Down – Part Aaaay
This week my university year began in earnest as I enjoyed my first house parties of the term. And by this I don’t mean any little pussy’ole pre-drinks at someone’s house. Or some airy fairy dinner party, that spills over into giddy games of charades after the crumble and wine – which cost more than [...]
The Lowdown
Selfishness is such a pretty word for its insolence. I realize now more than ever that if there’s one thing that has quietly swept across the globe faster than that scary year syphilis hit Leeds Uni it is this. Impartial to background, ethnicity or spiritual correlation, selfishness lives in students, children, adults and even old [...]
The Low Down
Music is a powerful thing. It brings people together and splits opinion like few other things. Its might has frequently been harnessed to lend weight to worthy causes, such as world poverty, climate change and peace activism. One man who has however painfully miss-understood his circles of influence is James Blunt, who informed the world [...]
The Low Down
Ah change. It is literally bloody everywhere as we all settle in to the new academic year and the dregs of summer slide into autumn. Having missed out on the decadent orgy of hedonism and social faux pas that was freshers’ week due to a compulsory work placement I am slowly finding out about all [...]
And so it begins… It’s that time again for every students favourite week of the year as silly season gets well underway(yes Christmas does get demoted the moment UCAS send that sweet letter out). Fresher’s week is one that comes with many of its own curious traditions and nuances and means many different things for [...]