I am a full time student and I am not specialised in anything yet, I feel like I am always learning but am still trying to work out what I could ever teach beyond the obvious impacts and causes of climate change. I know I love crafts and so I recently began a type…
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Here in the U.S., Native communities continue to stand on the front lines of the climate crisis. A couple weeks back, the Keystone pipeline leaked more than 383,000 gallons of oil onto our homelands, because as surely as pipelines carry oil, they end up spilling. What timing. As federal regulators temporarily shut down Keystone…
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As action heroes go, Michael Eavis is one of the most amiable, non-threatening, well- loved you could find. The Somerset dairy farmer who went to Bath Blues Festival in 1970 and loved the music so much he decided to set up his own festival on his family farm in Glastonbury, has created something so…
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We are drowning in clothes, producing more than ever and using them for much shorter amounts of time. While fashion companies send ‘surplus’ garments to incineration and consumers send tonnes of discarded clothes to landfill every year, most of us still do not consider the land, water, pesticides, chemicals, emissions and human labour required to…
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In October 2019 a major oil pipeline suffered a leak that covered half an acre of wetland in North Dakota, USA, in crude oil. The pipeline carries oil from Alberta, Canada, to southern Texas. This is its second largest spill in two years. Latest news indicates that the amount of land impacted by the…
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Lyrics by PSYCHADELEPHANT To be a brave strutter through the mind clutter We divine for the line while we earn our bread and butter Stuck in the rhythm of inhibition Just listen to the tales that they spin to distract your intuitions Challenge the grind, search and you’ll find, morals refined Souls…
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Dubliners Girl Band dropped in to Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Bonfire Night for a sold-out show on their first tour for two and a half years. They arrived on the music scene in 2015 with their remarkable debut album Holding Hands with Jamie, and I was lucky enough to see them perform one of the…
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Amanda Palmer took her solo piano tour There Will Be No Intermission to Cambridge on 20th October, performing a show for almost 4 hours with an intermission. This wasn’t so much a gig as a performance; part stand-up comedy, and part intimate confessional, interspersed with songs from both her solo career and her band The…
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