Jurassic Park’s sound designer reveals the secret sounds of the dinosaurs June 17, 2022 For sound designer Al Nelson, jobs don’t come much bigger than Jurassic Park. When the technician started out in the industry in the late nineties, one of his first big jobs was The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Jurassic Park, the film which birthed the seismic dinosaur franchise. In the 25 years since, Nelson [...]
My Fair Lady review: Polished production lacks energy June 17, 2022 “Wouldn’t it be loverly,” Eliza Doolittle wonders in My Fair Lady, dreaming of a life of chocolate, heat and warm feet. Let me put it to Eliza: wouldn’t it also be ‘loverly’ if more musicals had the audacity to radically rethink their tired misogynistic plots like this version of My Fair Lady does? Musicals have [...]
Laurel’s review: Partying poolside, I forgot how hungry I was June 9, 2022 It’s long been a trope of the London restaurant scene to deck out pokey shoebox venues – no doubt rented at extortionate cost – as if they are luxurious, hedonistic beach clubs. God knows how many thousands of tonnes of sand is dumped over car parks round the back of the Roundhouse in Camden and [...]
How to be a real king of Lyon June 1, 2022 The weekend: Tired of visiting Paris because you’re tired of, well, Parisians? I don’t like to give much credence to stereotypes, but Paris is a hard city for those who thrive on politeness. Unlike the capital, Lyon has buoyantly friendly people who, when I visited at least, mocked their Parisian neighbours in the same way [...]
Fancy festivals making partying comfortable not chaotic May 31, 2022 You’ve been keeping up the party spirit even though you’ve been bogged down by mud. After a long day, you can’t face the thought of returning to a busy campsite to see whether your tent has been blown over by the wind or not. You just want the feeling of being at home while in [...]
Pride in London 2022: The best events for celebration and protest this June May 30, 2022 It’s about to be Pride Month, and it’s the first year since you know what that there’s a selection of events taking place without any worry about restrictions. So whether you’re celebrating or protesting, here are the best Pride in London 2022 events to head to this month. Of course, the biggest will be the [...]
Sink The Pink’s Glyn Fussell: ‘I feel very secure in my LGBTQ icon status’ May 27, 2022 For Sink the Pink’s Farewell Ball in April, Glyn Fussell filled one of London’s biggest nightclubs, Printworks, with 6,000 ravers. Jake Shears performed to the sold out crowd, who were replete with harnesses and ball gowns in a range of colours so diverse they made the Dulux mood board look beige. Big TV celebrities who [...]
Two Palestinians Go Dogging, review: Touching portrait of the tragedy of conflict May 23, 2022 Let’s be clear on this from the get-go: finding comedy in the Israel-Palestine crisis is an incredibly brave thing to do. Not only that, it requires incredibly astute writing. Sami Ibrahim has achieved both of these things with two Palestinians go dogging, a personal and political new play littered with thrillingly perverse laughs. If Ibrahim’s [...]
How The Glass Menagerie landed Hollywood A-lister Amy Adams May 20, 2022 Hollywood star and six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is set to enchant the West End next week when she begins her run in a radically reimagined version of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. She will play Amanda Wingfield, an overbearing matriarch who, abandoned by her husband and bringing up her two children, longs for [...]
ASMR you listening? Design Museum’s new exhibition brings ASMR IRL May 17, 2022 To give some idea of the seismic level of popularity around ASMR, the most-watched YouTube video on the topic has earned four times the amount of views as Netflix’s most-watched film ever. In it, performer Hongyu eats jellied sweets and the sound of her eating them has racked up 332m views. ASMR – short for [...]