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The Strand Magazine
Dec 1, 202310 min read
STRAND Magazine Arts and Culture Roundup 2023: Our Top Picks From This Year
Image courtesy of Ian Schneider via Unsplash (licensed under Unsplash License) It's the most wonderful time of the year, as I'm sure the...
Leda Schenke Gonis
Nov 29, 20234 min read
London Jazz Festival: London Brews Some Tunes
Photo by dou_ble_you via flickr (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ was...
Ellis Riverol
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Soundtracking Your Study Sessions: Album Recommendations
Photo available via rawpixel.com (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) During exam and deadline season,...
Helen Berk
Nov 27, 20233 min read
London Jazz Festival: Aynur at Southbank – A Night of Rumination & Joy
Photo by the wub on Wikimedia (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Aynur’s Kurdish heritage has a nomadic...
Marine Pellissier
Nov 24, 20232 min read
Twist and Shout: Gus Dapperton Electrifies the Islington Assembly Hall
Photo by Tore Saetre (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Gus Dapperton is on tour again for the release...
Sadie King
Nov 23, 20232 min read
Alternative Mainstream: In Utero, 30 Years On
"Nirvana" by davetoaster via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0.) After the record-breaking release of Nevermind, Nirvana was in uncharted...
Harry Anstey-Walsh
Nov 23, 20234 min read
'Something To Give Each Other': Troye Sivan Has Still Got It
Photo by Ted Eytan (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Troye Sivan has his finger on the pulse. First,...
Akane Hayashi
Nov 16, 20236 min read
Same As It Ever Was, 40 Years On; ‘Stop Making Sense’ Returns to Cinemas
Cropped cover of the Talking Heads album Talking Heads: 77 Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Of all the Talking Heads...
Maleehah Laher
Nov 16, 20232 min read
'Music' LFF 2023 Review: A Riddling And Allusive Modern Myth
Music is a visual delight on a frame-by-frame level, challenging viewers to embrace the unseen. Based on the classic blinding of Oedipus...
Ellis Riverol
Nov 13, 20233 min read
The Beatles' 'Now and Then': Authentic or Cash Grab?
Photo by j4p4n via Openclipart (Under License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) 60 years after ‘Love Me Do’, The...
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