strand

All this fame and cultural influence, and Katseye are just one year into their career. All of this begs the question: how?

Photo by Elizabeth Marsh mercury is the indie rock project of Maddie Kerr, a Tennessee-based songwriter from the rural outskirts of Franklin whose music is built on emotional honesty and quiet intensity. Formed in 2022, the project quickly found its footing through songs written during a period of personal hardship, with tracks like ‘Born in Early May,’ ‘ Special,’ and ‘Crick’ capturing moments of uncertainty, vulnerability, and self-reckoning. For Kerr, songwriting has al

Life in 2025 feels like a series of reboots. The shiny future we were all promised – one of flying cars which ‘Back to the Future 2’ predicted would arrive in 2015 – never did arrive. Thus, nostalgia has become the vehicle for our escapism – the means by which we may live out a fantasy of some cultural and political present that never came into being.

Natalia Georgopoulos reviews ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ exhibition at the V&A, Kensington.

Photo by Tom Gaiger Wyldest, real name Zoë Mead, has been steadily on the rise since her debut Dream Chaos in 2019. Inspired by Shoegaze, dreamy pop and various film soundtracks, she combines a love of music with immense technical skill to evoke atmospheric, dream-like soundscapes. Not only does she write and record her songs, but she also plays a major role in the accompanying visuals, drawing upon a background in Media Production and videography in her creation of immersiv

London Writers Centre Deptford Literature Festival by Kashif Haque The 30th year of the London Writers Centre, previously known as Spread the Word, stands witness to its glorific continuation of advocating for intersectional voices in publishing. The renaming contributes to its ideology of making room for underrepresented writers who are left out of mainstream spaces, by organising festivals, partnerships and the hosting of other programmes in London. The Booker Prize winnin

Photo Courtesy of T A P E Collective The critically acclaimed epic from Palestinian American director Cherien Dabis, All That’s Left of You follows the Palestinian struggle through the multigenerational lens of one family over seventy-five years in Palestine. The story begins with Hanan (played by Cherien Dabis) pleading with a character we cannot see to listen to her son's (Noor) story. She insists that to understand her son, we must first know his grandfather, and so the

Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, Pillion (2025), is everything it says on the tin and more. Inspired by Adam Mars-Jones’s novel, Box Hill (2020), we follow the relationship—or, perhaps more appropriately, arrangement—shared between two gay men living in south-east London—one an unassuming, barbershop-singing parking warden, and the other a mysterious, unabashedly kinky biker.

Writer Hannah Breen reviews Maya Delilah's show as the supporting act for Lawrence at the O2 Academy Brixton

Writer Shanai Tanwar reflects on her experience as an international student in London as her first term draws to a close.