The Act You’ve Known for All These Years
“John Lennon came into the NME [New Musical Express] to see me in disguise. He’d got a false beard and he was dressed in the most ragged clothes you’ve ever seen. He said, ‘I don’t want to be recognised by anybody. Let’s go and have a cup of tea.’ We went to Julie’s and sat
Nostalgia Blues: The Music of Cowboy Bebop
I’m watching tomorrow with one eye While keeping the other on yesterday. Shinichirō Watanabe’s Spike Spiegel has one critical affliction: his two eyes do not match. With the vision in one eye he sees the future, whilst the perception of his other eye is glossed over with colours of the past. Hi
Artist of the Week: Faye James
Faye James is a Musician. Tell us a bit about yourself. Hi! I’m Faye, a second year French student at Hertford. As much as I try and convince myself (and my tutor) otherwise, my interest in writing music has grown more over the last two years than my interest in my degree. While I can [&hellip
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
Artist of the Week: Phoebe Holmes-Simeon
Phoebe Holmes-Simeon, also known as Phoebe Blue, is a singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a first-year Classicist studying at Balliol. I mainly sing and play electric bass, but I write and produce music both for myself and other musicians too. I was kee
Rosalía – Motomami – Camaleona
“¿Oye, ya has escuchado el nuevo disco de la Rosalía?” my mother asks, shifting gears. We’re driving home from the Bilbao airport, where I have just arrived for the Easter holidays. After months away, everything looks unfamiliar – the trees, the mountains, even the blue sky seems oddly off
A Concert in the Ante-Inferno
[Inspired by Inferno, Canto III, where Dante and Virgil travel through the Ante-Inferno and cross the river Acheron with the help of the ferryman, Charon. The performer, called ‘Nick’, is loosely named after the singer Nick Cave, the frontman of the Australian Rock Band ‘Nick Cave and the Bad
The Big Queer Monster
For weeks after the release of ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’, Lil Nas X’s Twitter mentions were filled with homophobic slurs and Bible verses. At this point, it’s almost impossible not to have seen the music video for ‘Montero’, or at least the memes of Lil Nas X pole dancing his way
The Isis Podcasts: In conversation with Steven Sater
Join us in conversation with Steven Sater, a Tony, Grammy and Laurence Olivier award winning poet, playwright and lyricist. Steven Sater has dedicated his life to musical theatre, drama and music. In this podcast we discuss Steven’s recent novel Alice by Heart, the historical and linguistic in
