The Isis interviews Dylan Carver, UCU Anti-Casualisation Officer
Last Thursday, 17 February, the UCU (University College Union) announced that the strike action for the remainder of February would be called off. No longer would I walk past the Maths Institute and see a crowd of lecturers at the picket line. What had otherwise been a Hilary Term coloured by cancel
Review: Caroline Polachek’s ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ at the O2
Let me make a confession: I am a veteran Caroline Polachek fan. I remember receiving a text from a friend in 2019 – “the singer from Chairlift is making solo music?!” – with a link to ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.’ One infernal art-pop music video later, I was hooked. As the Pang
The Isis interviews Oliver Mason, Founder of Gulp Fiction
Gulp Fiction probably doesn’t need an introduction for readers of The Isis. A new place in the Covered Market? A bookshop? A café? A pub? Oxford students would be sold on just one of those things. All four is the stuff of fantasy (or my Pinterest boards, at least). How did we get so lucky? [&hell
Review: An American in Paris
The keynote of An American in Paris is struck about halfway through the first song, when the singer Henri Baurel starts telling off the composer. ‘I Got Rhythm’ is far too sombre for his taste: “Look at their faces, people need to laugh! Paris needs it!” “Who said music has to cheer people
Review: Cruelty
Content warnings: suicide, gun violence, death, self-harm, exploitation Climbing the stairs of the Burton Taylor studio for Cruelty, Gabriel Blackwell’s debut play, I feel like I might be at Bridge Thursday. The studio is bathed in lilac lighting and Beyoncé’s Heated booms over the speakers. Ju
Behind the scenes of The Isis’ ‘Outlines’ Exhibition
Ahead of ‘Outlines’, The Isis exhibition, which is on at Kendrew Barn in St John’s College on Wednesday and Thursday of 6th week, Anneka Pink and Wyatt Radzin sat down to interview the Creative team. GROUP 1: Sophia Howard, Faye Song, InChan Yang Which elements of the process of creating a
Artist of the Week: Christopher Churcher
Christopher Churcher is a composer. Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a first-year music student at LMH, and I write music. At one stage I might have defined myself as a composer and musician – I also play the piano, bassoon and sing – but it has become increasingly difficult to deny that comp
Review: Cassels’ ‘A Gut Feeling’ at Modern Art Oxford
I walk into the basement of Modern Art Oxford, the walls freshly scribbled all over in blue Sharpie. And What, the first supporting band to play, are already channelling riot grrrl plaintive. Their next song is called ‘Another Year’: the two-piece is like a long chorus and catharsis, a steady to
Painting in Circles: the Artistic Relationships of Freud, Bacon, Andrews and Auerbach
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews walk into a bar – it sounds like the unpromising start to a rather niche joke. It was, however, also a reality: a scene immortalised in John Deakin’s famous photograph of the four men, alongside Timothy Behrens, having lunch at Whee