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Sing Street and the risk of rock and roll (opens the original)
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It is 1980s Dublin. Cinema and music collide in John Carney’s near-faultless 2016 coming-of-age musical Sing Street, a story of one boy’s quest to win a beautiful girl’s heart through music. For anyone who has ever made a lovesick playlist or riffed with a few friends in the hopes of a stars-align record deal, Sing Street is a film that should not be missed. It is a deferential homage to eighties pop and rock, capturing both the nostalgia of young love and the grit and discomfort of a Dublin roc
The hills are alive (opens the original)
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Where better to look for music than in nature? The two are intimately intertwined: cicadas in the summertime, an early morning wood pigeon’s call, and the myriads of artists who have taken inspiration from the natural landscape. When you’ve spent one night too many burning the midnight oil in your college library, it might be a good idea to give your brain and eyes a rest and foray into some of Cambridge’s natural spaces. All that is left is a suitable playlist to match, and there is no better p
The case for song covers (opens the original)
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I’m a sucker for a good song cover. As well as being a great opportunity to reimagine classics and contemporaries alike, they are a platform for displaying musical ability and technical prowess. With plenty of opportunities in environments like BBC’s Live Lounge and triple j’s Like a Version, the concept of ‘covering’ a song dates back to the popularisation of records in the 1940s, a history bound up with an element of competition. Now, however, I would argue that song covers are designed to fac
The War of the Worlds through the years (opens the original)
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No-one would have believed, in the early years of the twenty-first century, that classics would be endlessly remade, lost to the annals of media history. Such is the fate of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898), a seminal science fiction novel on the attempted invasion of Earth by Martians. An early criticism of imperialism, the novel is a staple of emerging science fiction, popularising the genre on a yet-unseen scale. It has been adapted over 30 times, in films, radio dramas, television
Give the young a go (opens the original)
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There are some new kids in town. Kane Parsons (21) in the Backrooms with the SFX and $300m, catapulting A24 to yet unchartered box office heights, and aren’t we just obsessed with Curry Barker (26) and his £750k cult classic in the making? Horror is back with a vengeance, and we have some very young filmmakers leading the crusade. Barker and Parsons, who was only twenty when he directed Backrooms, recently became the two youngest directors in cinema history to top the domestic box office. Obsess
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