Record Reviews (March '20): LAB / U.S. Girls / The Necks / Pet Crow / Wodwo / Stephen Malkmus / Dead Cosmonauts / Caribou 1 March 2020 L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt.) by Life Aquatic BandLife Aquatic Band - L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt)Sheffield's Life Aquatic Band (LAB…
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood 15 August 2019 Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is a perfectly fine 90-minute movie hidden inside an overlong mess that drags on for 159 minutes, which for so…
Avengers: Endgame 1 May 2019 When Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, pleaded fans not to spoil the plot of the movie coming up to its release, they s…
Live / stage review The Day After IWD, 9 March, Hatch 1 April 2019 On the night after International Women's Day, Hatch celebrated the occasion with an energetic line-up of female-fronted live goodness, featu…
Nubiyan Twist at Yellow Arch: Two room party for Now Then gig 26 March 2019 Afrobeat-reggae-jazz extravaganza Nubiyan Twist are launching their new album with a two room all-nighter for Now Then.The 10-piece ensemble…
If Beale Street Could Talk 18 March 2019 If Beale Street Could Talk is a colourful film about fading. Both in its examination of race and love, it shows how hope and longing are ju…
Nubiyan Twist Afrobeat-reggae-jazz extravaganza 1 March 2019 Leading up to the release of their new album, Jungle Run, we talked to Nick and Joe of Nubiyan Twist, a band that've been making waves nationwide with a unique sound that defies easy definition.
Live / stage review A Reyt Queer Do, 16 Feb, Theatre Deli 1 March 2019 Andro & Eve's drag king extravaganza, the chaotically-titled A Reyt Queer Do, is the kind of show that makes you forget about Brexit. It…
Live / stage review Alienata, 23 Feb, Night Kitchen 1 March 2019 So it is here, a huge green door of The Night Kitchen, the location secret until two hours before the gig. Before I descend into the annals …
Burning 20 February 2019 "What you do isn't make yourself believe that there are tangerines there; you forget that the tangerines are not there," Hae-mi (Jong-seo Ju…
Live / stage review Sybil & Proteus, 11 Jan 1 February 2019 If it wasn't for the music, it'd be like a church in there. At a secret location, with a DJ's pulpit and ethereal lights, Control have assem…
Live / stage review Heavy Lids, 12 Jan, The Harley 1 February 2019 Sheffield-based rock formation Heavy Lids hit The Harley last month to promote their new single, 'Ariel'. The band performed a relatively mo…
The House That Jack Built 1 January 2019 The House That Jack Built is a film about a serial killer that spans the 12-year career of its titular anti-hero (Matt Dillon), showing us s…
Roundup: Our music writers look back on 2018 1 January 2019 As is now a Now Then tradition, we're sending 2018 on its merry way by asking our writers to tell us about their favourite releases of the y…
Bearing 1 January 2019 Rosie Reed Hillman's Bearing plays like a series of quality home videos about a daughter and her mother - until it doesn't. The award-winni…
Interview: Life Aquatic Band: On experimentation and hunting down McCartney 1 January 2019 With their second EP, From Russell, With Love, released in November, the Life Aquatic Band have taken another step towards being one of the …
Live / stage review Lau, Abbeydale Picture House, 29 Nov 1 December 2018 The three members of Lau huddled together in the middle of the sizeable stage at the Abbeydale Picture House do not look like they have the …
Record Reviews (Nov '18): Prodigy / Roman Nose / R@ + More 1 November 2018 R@ - Neural EP by R@R@Neural EPNeural is a brief and entertaining journey into the sound of R@, a multifaceted producer from Leicester. It o…