Shaun Samson AW15 – Delusional Radical Bliss
by Charly Suggett Delusional Radical Bliss, and then some. After just two seasons out of the schedule, Shaun Samson has returned to LC:M under the sheltering wings of Fashion East once again, a hub for nurturing the up and coming talents of London’s fashion design...
Gip: Son of the South – Film by Protein TV & So It Goes
There is something intoxicating and unnerving about the back roads of the rural American South. With its juxtaposition of violence and spirituality, the juke joint and the pulpit, revelry and reverence, it serves up a sense of the unpredictable and life on the edge....
Angostura Butterfly House Pop-up
by Charly Suggett As if London Cocktail Week didn’t offer up enough delights in itself, sometimes an event like this pops up to shake up the schedule. Angostura Caribbean Rum has teamed up with Butterfly expert Luke Brown and created a Butterfly haven encased within a...
Flux review – Maddy Ellwanger – Carbon Copies track and video
We discovered Maddy Ellwanger through the music platform ReverbNation that enables artists and bands to promote their music direct to the music press and public. They put a word out to their members asking which artist would like to be put forward to be reviewed by...
Stage 3 Hackney: Platterform’s new permanent food and music destination
I overheard a girl on the tube the other day scoffing and saying that ceviche was ‘so 2013’. I was aghast. I had ceviche recently. I like ceviche. What happened in the intervening months between now and the New Year to completely eliminate this Peruvian delicacy?...
Get to remix Chic’s Le Freak with Nile Rodgers & Rudimental
There are some opportunities that come around that just jump out at you and then it’s up to you to grab them with both hands. This initiative from GoThinkBig surely ranks as one of those. How do you fancy the idea of remixing one of pops most iconic tracks? Le Freak...
Lakeside Hotel & Spa: Laid back luxury on the southern shore of Lake Windermere
When we were invited to come and check out the Lakeside Hotel we were determined to arrive by boat. As is inherent in the name this hotel is all about its location. The steamer which its way across the lake to the hotel's mooring. Named for the hotel itself, Lakeside,...
Famous guitarists and their most iconic instruments
Every famous guitarist who has climbed to the top of the album or single charts will have a varied selection of guitars to ply their trade. However, there is always one instrument that ends up being closely associated with the person playing them. We take a look at...
The Chapar – A whole new way to try and buy fashion for men
When you’re living life at full tilt it’s often hard to pin down enough time to keep your wardrobe up to date. You can try and sit down and order online but that can sometimes take even longer than going to the shops. The endless choice is enough to melt your brain....
Reel East Film Festival – New Jersey’s inaugural homage to cinema
Festivals are at the heart of the film writer or journalists schedule - the year filled with the main draws such as Cannes, Venice, Tribeca and the BFI London Film Festival amongst others. Yet there are also the smaller and more intimate festivals, and rarely does an...
Rich Hanscomb’s Vinyl Below Column – Summer Vinyl Releases
In the documentary Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, Leonard Bernstein describes pop music as something elemental, legion, unstoppable even ‘which pours over this country (America) like the two oceans from both coasts’. That was 1967. Who knows what he’d think about...
Wakolda (The German Doctor) – a Nazi’s secret Life – Interview with director Lucia Puenzo
History is no stranger to cinema, the latter seeming to view the past as a source of rich narrative content there to be mined and decorate the cinema and television screen. Author and filmmaker Lucia Puenzo immerses herself in the past of one of her stories once again...
Carousel Ride by Rubblebucket – Can our heroine escape from the chocolate factory?
This track and video, Carousel Ride by Rubblebucket really stands out for us right now. The video is set in a chocolate factory but put aside all visions that may come into your head of Umpa Lumpas and idylic fictional characters created by Roald Dahl. This chocolate...
Pine Ridge documentary – Life on a Reservation – We interview Director Anna Eborn
Following on from the DocHouse preview screening of Who is Dayani Cristal? Anna Eborn continues the thematic journey of opening up the world and meditating on human struggles with an exploration of life on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Eborn there...
Fyfe at The Social – For lovers of fearless, genre busting music
London-raised singer-songwriter Paul Dixon first came to fame in 2010 as ‘David’s Lyre’ but has since re-launched himself as the musical project Fyfe. His debut EP ‘Solace’ was released in April last year and became an immediate internet sensation creating waves...