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Photo by Alice Rose Lee British-Greek singer-songwriter Eleni Drake has built a devoted following since her first single ‘Ceilings’ arrived in 2019, blending alternative, indie, and soul influences with intimate, self-written storytelling. Now pulling over 345,000 monthly listeners, she’s become best known for ‘King Street,’ a track that has surpassed eight million streams and introduced many to her warm, hazy, emotionally grounded sound. Drake’s musical world has been shape

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona via Unsplash London Palestinian Film Festival returns to London, exploring the history, depth, urgency and unknown parts of Palestinian life and cinema. Epicly Palestine’d (2015) and EXIST (2025) form a conversation across time. Two films filmed nearly a decade apart, documenting the same fragile miracle: the emergence of skateboarding in Palestine, not as just a hobby, but as a language of resistance, identity, and breath. These are not

An original poem by Bella Sieunarine explores London as a city layered with memory.

Once Upon A Time in Gaza , (Tarzan and Arab Nasser, 2025); Image courtesy of London Palestine Film Festival When I heard that the London Palestine Film Festival was showing a film with a plot involving a falafel shop and a drug operation, I was all ears. Add to the fact that it happens to be a black comedy directed by acclaimed filmmakers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, and I knew it would be worth the ride. Bizarrely, the movie begins with a recent quote from Donald Trump musing on

Five years after their first release, the band returns with More Time More Speed, a beautifully evocative album that explores the concept of time with warmth and subtle ambition.

Photo by Brett Jordan via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0 ) Amongst the noise of Dylan and Presley, Elton and Williams, Deliver Me From Nowhere lands quietly, unfurling more than just a tale of hedonistic, rockstar excesses, but rather, something much deeper. Springsteen is immortalised in an intimate, slow-paced, introspective take on the ghosts we carry, how they haunt our daily lives, and the ways we choose to escape them. Jeremy Allen White brings life and depth to Sc

Photo by Jonny Nolan Before Black Country, New Road became one of the most distinctive and unpredictable bands to emerge from the South London scene, drummer Charlie Wayne was a Classics student at King’s College London, spending his evenings playing shows and his days immersed in ancient texts. It’s a split life that makes surprising sense for someone whose musical instincts were born long before university: as an eleven-year-old sneaking every lunch break to the school drum

H is for Hawk (2025) is a biographical drama film adapted by director Philippa Lowthorpe from the best-selling autobiography by the same name, published in 2014. The film follows Helen Macdonald, played by Claire Foy of The Crown fame, as she tends to a goshawk in the aftermath of her father’s death.

Somewhere along the way, self-awareness became a form of critical self-surveillance.

I moved to London almost two months ago, and like any anxiety-riddled extrovert in her twenties, I had that crippling fear that I would make no friends.