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Preview + Interview: The Garden Festival Feat. Dyed Soundorom
The Garden Festival ‘A New Beginning’ July 4 – 11 2012 The Garden Tisno, Tisno, Croatia Tickets: thegardenfestival.eu Kenny Dope/Norman Jay/Dyed Soundorom/Solomun/Prosumer/Eglo Live/Tiger & Woods Live/Space Dimension Controller/Nicolas Jaar/2020 Soundsystem/Greg Wilson/Jose Padilla/PBR Streetgang The Garden Festival returns in 2012, relocated from Zadar to its new, equally serene home of Tisno, Croatia. LS Clubs caught up with Dyed Soundorom, [...]
Comment: The Past Year in Tech
Samuel Dillon reviews the past year’s technological developments and the rise of tech journalism… Last summer, Google launched their social network, Google+, and bought the communications giant Motorola for about $12.5 billion. After that, we all got back to Leeds and realised that once again 30Mbs of broadband from Virgin was nothing but a pipe [...]
Are mobiles the future of money?
Leeds Student Tech has previously reported on services such as Square and NFC enabled mobile phones, which use hardware technologies to allow you to send and receive payments using your phone, but now two new apps, O2 Wallet and Barclays PingIt, allow anyone to send money to a friend using their phone. Both services work [...]
What We Dislike – 04/05/12
The Pirate Bay being blocked The High Court has ruled that ISPs must block access to the popular file sharing site. Whilst the website, hosted in Sweden, aims to somehow circumvent the restriction, this judgment could mark the beginning of the end for many file sharing services. Computer clusters always being full Hate making an [...]
Final Shoot Sneak Peek
For the final shoot of the year, fashion does the Olympics. Featuring models from the LUU Gymnastics Society and shot at The Edge, look out for our final issue out this Friday 4th. Concept and Styling: Alesha Jivanda and Scarlett Cook Photography: Kate Woods Location: The Edge Sports Centre Models: Lucy and Laura and Jenny [...]
Item of the Week: Asos’s multi-mania
Multi-print took SS/12 runways by storm with the vanguards of print such as Ederm and Mary Katrantzou sending it down their catwalks. And as we could have predicted, the high-street has made us both proud and well equipped churning out multi-print by the minute. This week, Asos released this baby which fondly harps back to [...]
MistaJam – ‘I play good music’
With the Summer Ball only six weeks away, superstar BBC 1Xtra DJ MistaJam has spoken exclusively to Leeds Student on nabbing his dream job, what to expect from his set and his brief stint as an actor. MistaJam’s show is on 1Xtra Monday to Thursday 19.00-22.00 and on Saturdays 23.00. Joining him on the two [...]
Celebrity Look of the Week: Vanessa Hudgens
A dinner date with the beau’s mother? Why not flash a slither of midriff? That’s what Vanessa Hudgens had in mind in Cali last week as she dined with her other half (literally) Austin Butler and his “mom”. But Hudgens pulled it off, with a generous dose of bohemianism which has come to define her [...]