The title should give it away, but don’t worry, this play on words will soon become self explanatory. Prepare for a few surprises because this low budget horror movie has a high budget feel and bridges one or two genres in an inimitable northern style. Filmed in Bradford, Leeds and Manchester, Polterheist draws you into […]
A century after the word surrealism was first used, a global collective of surrealist filmmakers has reinvented surrealist leader Andre Breton’s fold drawings – but this time using film, of course. And they may well be the first in a century to do it this way, using social media connectivity and digital film technology. In […]
LEADING City of London finance and law spokesperson Barney Reynolds recently called for Theresa May to rethink her Brexit strategy, fearful of the impact it will have on one of the world’s largest financial centres. May 2018 has brought to a head a number of contentious political issues that have called the PM to account […]
FETE DE L’ESTAMPE a French-based festival of print work has extended its reach to include UK studios this year. There’ll be conferences, performances, training sessions and open studios, with participating artists allowing the public to attend studio-based exhibitions where their engravings, lino and woodcuts and much more will be on show. Denise Wyllie’s East Finchley […]
BRITPOPPERS Sleeper are back again, reforming for the Latitude Festival July 12-15. Did you know lead singer Louise Wener left the band to become a novelist? Besides reforming, it’s interesting to discover what these bands have been up to since their 1990s heydays. It was all so very rock n’ roll when the going was […]
CAMDEN IMAGE GALLERY 12-15 June will be the venue for this year’s London-based Salon des Refuses exhibition, now a yearly event organised by Happenstance Framing. But some may be unaware that the original Salon emerged in France during the nineteenth century as an alternative for artists who had been rejected by the Paris Salon – […]
The YBAs (Young British Artists) first came to prominence in the Freeze exhibition (1988) organised by Damien Hirst. In the 1990s Tracy Emin emerged as one its stars. Here we look at the movement’s remarkable ascent and creative legacy. LONDON art movements are few and far between but when they have emerged it was with […]
A murder-mystery unfolds on the Murdér Express steam train departing from a reconstructed early 20th-century train station at the Pedley Street Arches, Brick Lane. Is it theatre? Is it a pop-up restaurant? Well, few before have ‘popped up’ with the lavish attention to detail and period grandeur of this immersive dining experience presented by award-winning […]
IF YOU happen to be in the Camden area and count yourself a devoted independent rock fan, then The Good Mixer pub on Inverness Street, should definitely be on your must-visit list. Camden isn’t short of the odd landmark pub dedicated to this rock genre, with The Underworld, The Monarch, The Camden Assembly and The […]
BRITISH SANDWICH WEEK May 20- 26 may have caught many of you unawares, what with the constant influx of National Days, Weeks and Months celebrating everything from the capital’s cocktails to fast food chicken wings, but there are still a few days left to honour the humble British sarnie. The sandwich was named after the […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
