News·14th May 2022Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei Dania Kamal Aryf Oxford Kite Festival markets itself as “a new festival of ideas and music”, and will be taking place between... Read More
Life·21st January 2018Review: The Ripieno Players with Jess Gillam The Ripieno Players have earned quite a name for themselves on the classical music circuit in Oxford. You could tell... Read More
Life·13th June 2017Live Review: Sam Lee and Friends at the Wes Mem Amelia Parker With a background as a wilderness survival expert and burlesque dancer, Sam Lee is hardly your stereotypical folkie. Not one... Read More
Life·13th June 2017Live Review: Shoegazing into the Abyss – Slowdive and Ulrika Spacek at the O2 Sebastian Braddock “Are you a music journalist?” I got asked, for the first time of my life last Friday at the O2,... Read More
Life·28th May 2017Live Review: Ryley Walker at The Bullingdon Ryley Walker is something of an eccentric. At only 27 years old, he’s already built a solid reputation in the... Read More
Life·23rd February 2016St. Peter’s College Chamber Orchestra: Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff, with Eliza Millett Alexander Bishop I suppose that there must have been at least someone else in the room who expected to be hearing Rach... Read More
Life·20th February 2015An intimate voyage to a Romantic musical realm Charlotte Parr Following the success of their first concert last term, St Peter’s College Chamber Orchestra returned to give a concert of... Read More
CultureEntertainment·6th March 2021Live Music feat. covid – Dua lipa through a screen Sonia Richter Image Description: A crowd in a concert venue, a silhouette of a hand is in focus on a background of... Read More
Life·17th October 2017Review: The Ripieno Players’ Beethoven and Mahler On Saturday 14th, an audience gathered in St Mary’s Church for two reasons: to seek sanctuary from the circus of... Read More
Life·13th June 2017Live Review: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at Cellar Sebastian Braddock Everything the Pains of Being Pure At Heart do seems effortless. Vocal hooks, effortless; Belle and Sebastian-esque vignettes ripe with... Read More
Life·29th May 2017A dreamy evening with OUBB and OUWO Once upon a time, the Oxford University Brass Band (OUBB) and the Oxford University Wind Orchestra (OUWO) combined forces to... Read More
Life·25th February 2016Review: Ezra Furman Rowan Ferguson When Ezra Furman laughs that the crowd is ‘starting to get the hang of it’ three songs into his frenetic,... Read More
Life·3rd December 2015“I finally made it to the top”, and don’t we know it: Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, December 2nd 2015 David Parton ☆☆☆☆☆ Now I was never going to give Madonna anything less than a 5-star review. Even if she hadn’t turned... Read More