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So, you were at the Brits last night – how were they? You took along a listener, can you tell us more about how that came about? Yeah, so we went with Katie. We do a thing called Bleak Mornings at around half past six to get the show going; we have people who share […]
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Like all the coolest students at Oxford University (myself sheepishly included), Gaby Elise-Monaghan studies Classics. What is even cooler is how, during the three and a half years she has spent here, she has become a regular feature on the city’s music scene, first as a member of two piece-band Coldredlight, then as front-person for […]
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‘Every bit of this is of enormous nostalgia for me’ Ivo Graham says. ‘At Oxford I read the OxStu, and I applied with my friend and roommate Matt to be music editors…we didn’t get it and we carried that bitterness with us.’ I assure him that since the OxStu let me loose on the music […]
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How long have you been working on writing this play and how did it come about in the initial stages? I actually started writing Bandages in about 2016, when I was 17. My drama teacher had signed us up for the National Theatre New Views competition and a group of us would meet up occasionally […]
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“What was wonderful about going through some dark times,” confesses Katie Monks, lead singer and guitarist of rock band Dilly Dally, “was the fact that I had to turn inward”. Dilly Dally’s latest album, Heaven, might be read as a rallying, fiery expression of self-love and inclusivity. The record functioned as the band’s auditory toolkit […]
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Danny Parrott and Richard Lloyd are two Oxford graduates who first met on their Chinese Studies course at the university. In 2011, they established a social enterprise called Gotoco with their Chinese partner, Lisha Tang, which allows university students from various parts of the world to travel to travel to China on summer teaching and […]
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It’s a huge personal investment being both writer and director of a play. Do you feel this production to be very much your own or have there been other influences and voices? To be honest, if there were people who actually wanted to direct my writing I’d probably give it to them. If I had […]
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Alice Williams talks Omelette Productions about their upcoming performance of Pirandello’s Henry IV ‘I think it will be really memorable’ says Kathryn Cussons (Henry) ‘it’s the kind of play you’ll see and won’t forget, and that’s quite exciting. There are a lot of shows that you can go to that are enjoyable for that evening […]
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Fantastic Cities is the current exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, on until the 3rd of March. The exhibition is a glimpse into the work of artist and filmmaker Penny Woolcock. Through the mediums of film and abstract sculpture, her aim is to get us to empathise with the way different people experience different cities, including […]
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Lacuna Common, alongside contemporaries Self Help and the Easter Island Statues, find themselves at the vanguard of a flourishing Oxford scene that has been rather busy of late producing punchy, lyrical and upbeat guitar music. Having recently received attention on the back of their new single ‘Lack of Knowledge’ – a gritty 3-minute slice of […]
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Image Credit: Hannah Kentridge Hannah Kentridge is a 21-year-old, 4th year undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford, studying Oriental Studies and specialising in Japanese. She has been making YouTube videos since she was thirteen and has over 60,000 subscribers. Many of her videos are either in Japanese or include Japanese subtitles. Some of her most popular […]
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Images courtesy of Sports Team/Nice Swan Records/Holm Front Records. Description: indie sextet Sports Team, posing. By the time I meet up with Sports Team at the Cowley Retreat ahead of their last support slot on tour with the Magic Gang, they have only been professional musicians for two months. That these bunch of Cambridge graduates […]
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Image Credit: Matthew Pierri Matt Pierri, from Melbourne, Australia, where his family still resides, moved to Lincoln College, Oxford in September 2016, as a Rhodes Scholar to do two one-year masters. He did a Master’s in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School and then completed a MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the […]
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Image Credit: Facebook Rainbow Peers is a support network run by and for LGBTQ+ students at the University of Oxford. As an organisation, it recognises the unique challenges and pressures that queer students face, and aims to provide a safe space for queer people to talk about whatever issues they might be confronting in a […]
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Image Credit: The Oxford Union Jeremy Gilley began his career as an actor, before transitioning to making films and documentaries in 1995. In 1999 he created the non-profit organisation Peace One Day and made a documentary about his effort to establish a fixed annual day for ceasefire and non-violence. In September 2001, building on Jeremy’s […]
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Image Credit:Maddy Diment The concept underlying Project SOUP seems befittingly appetising, channeling the problem of food waste in urban locales into a community dinner that, in turn, supports local charities. It is even intelligently named, with its titular dish also reading as an acronym for Support Oxford’s Upcoming Projects. When I meet Maddy, Project SOUP’s […]
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“So, you have one section of the farm there, one section of the farm there, one here and one here and one here…and then there’s ropes that are over-hanging on the water that are buoyed down and they go on forever…bangbangbangbangbang…” The Australian-born Ruby Boots has just finished her set at the Oxford O2 Academy […]
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Dorian, a student-produced six-episode webseries based on the Oscar Wilde novel A Picture of Dorian Gray, will wrap up filming this summer after three years of development. I talked to co-directors and writers Tara Snelling and Elli Siora, both at Regent’s Park, about the difficulties of sustaining a project for this long, adapting Wilde for […]
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After months of aggressive stalking, last week the Oxford Student eventually managed to land a one-off interview with Cornmarket Street. In a rare exclusive interview, we found him enjoying the weather having a vegan falafel wrap off in Christchurch Meadow, donning some trendy sunglasses, a sleeveless top, and a classic NY cap. Here’s what went […]
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