Another absolute corker for you this month. We’ve got an interview with filmmaker Adam Curtis, probably best known for The Power of Nightmares, The Trap and The Century of Self. He is fantastically outspoken on pretty much any subject you care to name, and the decision to interview him on the day of the Royal wedding was an interesting one.
But that’s not all. We’ve also bagged a chat with producer and rapper extraordinaire Jehst, who… [...]
May 31, 2011
Another absolute corker for you this month. We’ve got an interview with filmmaker Adam Curtis, probably best known for The Power of Nightmares, The Trap and The Century of Self. He is fantastically outspoken on pretty much any subject you care to name, and the decision to interview him on the day of the Royal wedding was an interesting one.
But that’s not all. We’ve also bagged a chat with producer and rapper extraordinaire Jehst, who… [...]
May 30, 2011
10th, 11th & 12th June 2011, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Glade Festival has had its fair share of problems recently. Last year it was cancelled due to unreasonable security and stewarding demands placed on it by Hampshire Police, who were less than supportive of this grassroots venture and purposefully delayed organisational decisions to throw numerous spanners… [...]
May 28, 2011
You could sail through any city and never experience one particularly invisible part of its culture – the radio stations. People who don’t surf the airwaves miss out on a deep sea of local programmes, especially here in Sheffield.
It wasn’t always so. Way back when the Britannic BBC Empire ruled the airwaves, it had to be challenged by brave pirate radio, broadcasting from ships just outside UK waters… [...]
May 27, 2011
The opinions expressed by the media and politicians about super-injunctions are both inaccurate and self-serving. Whenever judges are accused of interfering in matters best left to Parliament an alarm is triggered in the corner of my mind. Judges are, on the whole, extremely sensitive to the sovereignty of Parliament. Thus, when David Cameron describes his uneasiness about judges “creating a sort of privacy law… rather than Parliament” [1] and… [...]
May 26, 2011
Adam Curtis began his career working on BBC1’s That’s Life! with Esther Rantzen, kind of a forerunner of Watchdog. A strange place to start, but as anyone working in TV knows it’s all about getting your foot in the door. His first documentary was released in 1984, and since then he has become known for his outspoken demeanour and oblique narrative methods. His technique intersperses archive footage with a very