Who gets the royalties if an artist is dead?
Royalties are paid to artists when their music deemed their intellectual property is played on radio, television at concerts, bars or even through streaming sites such as Spotify and Apple music....
View Article1989 (Taylor’s Version): Should it have been kept in the vaults?
October 27th, 2023 marked the re-recorded release of Taylor Swift’s beloved album 1989 (Taylor’s Version.) “It’s been waiting for you.” The lyrics to Taylor Swift’s opening track ‘Welcome to New...
View ArticleReview: ‘Qu’est ce que’ Stop Making Sense?
(Jonathan Demme, 1984; newly remastered and re-released) Qu’est-ce-que c’est? ‘Stop Making Sense’, the most celebrated concert film ever, is returning to the silver screen with a brand new master and...
View ArticleFringe 2023: The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show
The Cambridge Footlights are back and, despite some rough sketches, demonstrate beyond a doubt why they are some of the hottest comedy talents on the circuit. A performance with its fair share of belly...
View ArticleReview: Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
Set in the midst of social and political unrest in the run up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014, Peter Arnott paints a fluid picture of a fractured family, and inextricably intertwined...
View ArticleFringe 2023: Antonio!
Antonio! is an extremely high energy, surprisingly brilliant romp around several Shakespeare plays including Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. Why ‘brilliant romp’? Why these plays? Well,...
View ArticleEIFF 2023: Interview with Babak Jalali, Director and Co-Writer of Fremont
Closing the festival this year is Fremont, a film that follows Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) a former translator from Afghanistan as she tries to re-settle in America after being displaced by the Taliban...
View ArticleEIF 2023: John Cale
There is an inherent danger to reviewing a performance by an artist you like. It punctures the veil of objectivity that I, a humble reviewer, seek to maintain analysing what I have witnessed. Yet it is...
View ArticleFringe 2023: Four Cut Sunflowers
Four Cut Sunflowers is arguably as beautiful as the art it revolves around. Telling the unknown story of Johanna Van Gogh, this show explores the efforts of a pioneering woman forgotten from history....
View ArticleKlangHaus: the company making worlds we do not imagine
Its one of the first few days of Fringe. I’ve just run a few blocks to get to Summerhall because another show ran late. I’m out of breath, slightly sweating, and I’m greeted by a man whose calm energy...
View ArticleEIBF 2023: Kate Mosse – Romance and Revenge on the Barbary Coast
Kate Mosse and Val McDermid sat down together on the last day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss feminism, crime fiction, The Women’s Prize for Fiction, and – of course – Mosse’s...
View ArticleFringe 2023: How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker
How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker comes to the Edinburgh Fringe all the way from Australia. Our host and storyteller Anna Thomas guides the audience through her journey from a high-powered corporate...
View ArticleWhy are we still listening to Radiohead today?
Whenever I tell someone that I like Radiohead, I get one of two reactions: an eye roll, or a superficially concerned enquiry into my mental state. Fair enough, I suppose. Radiohead are known for their...
View ArticleRemembering Rachmaninoff
This week would have been the 150th Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer. Rachmaninoff was a true virtuoso on the piano and, standing at 6 foot 6, an absolute colossus of Russian...
View ArticleWhen Miles met the New Wave: Lift to the Scaffold Sixty-Five Years On
A lone shadow, trumpet in hand, looms over passing images of Louis Malle’s 1958 debut film Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud). On the screen, a woman wanders in despair through the dimly...
View ArticleReview: Corsage
Corsage. Not the flowers and ribbon you wore on your wrist to your end of school dance, but a type of corset worn in the nineteenth century that is especially tight. Kaiserin Elisabeth of Austria was...
View ArticleReview: Fleet Foxes, A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen
This new single flounders in reverb so thick that its riches are almost undetectable. Compare it with their homely debut album, which was reverberant but judicious. There, the reverb is only applied to...
View ArticleFringe 2022: Dance-Forum’s 78th International Choreographers Showcase Review
Memorable, joyous and captivating, The International Choreographers’ Showcase is a delightful way to explore talented emerging artists in the field.
View ArticleFringe Reflections
Flyers are pushed into my hand as I weave in and out of the crowds on the Royal Mile, dodging children stunned by magicians’ tricks, a juggler miraculously keeping five swords in the air, a man dressed...
View ArticleLeap Year: A Love/Hate Classic?
Leap Year (2010) is categorically a bad film. I do not deny this. That said, I have a lot of thoughts about it that confuse me. I came grovelling back to this movie last weekend as it was, in fact, a...
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