British TV is more universally popular than it’s been for quite some time; between Downton Abbey, the continued popularity of Doctor Who and Sherlock and now Wolf Hall, we’ve got the internet eating out of our televisual palm. Similarly, British music has seen a resurgence in popularity across the world, particularly stateside, with everyone from…
Father John Misty’s second offering, I Love You Honeybear, sees everyone’s favourite fictional priest tackle falling in love and, given the nature of his misanthropic debut, it was always going to be an interesting ride. The album kicks into life with title track I Love You Honeybear a brooding, semi-serious ode to his new found…
Recently, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagard, came out in hives of praise for David Cameron and George Osborne after 2014 saw the British economy grow by 2.6%. This unexpected growth coupled with decreasing unemployment, Lagard claimed, meant that the UK should be held up as a model for Europe, a…
As the fuzzy guitars of the opening track Ain’t That Easy wobble into life it becomes clear that a lot has happened to D’Angelo over the fourteen years since Voodoo. The slick, early 2000s production is gone in favour of grubby, live sounding instrumentation. The overarching sexual themes of his previous work yield to a…
Music editor Mike Vinti Chats to Felix Clarke and Thom White, founders of Norwich’s M.A.D Collective
Politics and Music have always had something of a convoluted relationship and for every artist out there wearing their political heart on their sleeve there are ten more making songs about partying – not that the two are mutually exclusive. There’s near constant debate in the media over the politics of the music industry, be…
Labour Mike Vinti As every newspaper will continue to remind you, from now until May, the general election is only a few fleeting months away and therefore we need to talk about Ed. Ed Miliband has been the somewhat retiring leader of the Labour party for around four years now and he hasn’t exactly been…
Sadly, we can’t all be John Cusack in High Fidelity, and as such we don’t have the time to curate the perfect sex-mix. But for your general and listening pleasure, Mike Vinti, Myles Earle and Faith Ridler have gathered together to present Venue’s sexiest albums of all time XXYYXX XXYYXX Technically a mixtape but undeniably…
Art, like all culture, is inherently political. Even the most banal, poorly composed still life sitting in your local gallery has a political dimension. The processes by which we define ‘art’ and its prestige are rooted in politics and political discussion, even the creation of a work of art in itself is a political act….
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