It's jarring when the stakes are suddenly raised. So much of a comfortable middle class life is based on the joys of pettiness and the understanding that the garbage bin habits of your neighbour and the fact that you can appreciate pop culture on a deeper...
Pain is relative. During a time in which technically everyone is in crisis, being entirely self-involved is completely defensible. There has been an official announcement that everyone will be experiencing the fallout of this crisis and thus, ignoring the amplified screams of those who were already...
Normality is a twatty word. As soon as it means what it means, time has passed and it no longer means what it meant. And it's most often used by people who have direct control over what the rest of us experience as daily life. In recent...
The worst problem with a period like the one we've all been going through, of self-isolation and stymied plans, is not cabin fever nor eventual adaptive agoraphobia, it's the fact that this period of time allows the mind free rein to contemplate everything it could...
Here come the blues. 10) Rogue Opera Live Lounge 22nd May What: Please join Bronwen Stephens-Harding, Director of Rogue Opera, on her Livestream: Rogue Opera Live Lounge. Rogue Opera is a London based professional opera company, now in its third year, dedicated to bringing opera to new audience and spaces....
The longest night approaches. 10) Michael Lington 'Stay With Me' 18th May What: Danish-American contemporary saxophonist, songwriter, producer, recording artist and purveyor of soul will be performing songs from his world-renowned folk art, jazz album 'Stay With Me' live in an intimate, interactive performance. Why: Another blowhard broadcast to the masses, but...
There's precious little to appreciate about being alive in an era in which we are able to access the quantity of information that we are currently able to access with the added ability to fact-check our resources and ensure that every act we commit fits...
Shame is a concept that should be as familiar to you now as your own capacity for enduring incredible bouts of indigestion. Living without judgement for an extended period of time in lockdown, faced with your own increasing appetite for mundane pleasures amplified by the desire...
Historically, creatives have flourished during times of crisis. Since the year 2020 is an epic confluence of all kinds of different crises, we could safely assume that the year 2021 will see a rash of brilliant musicians and artists emerging from the brush heralding a new...
Emotional connections have never seemed more like a desperate farce. The mass realisation of our own mortality coupled with the mass realisation that, yes, disproportionate wealth will always save the elite, and that no crisis, no matter how fatal, will be a great leveller, has resulted...