Alan Carr- Work In Progress

Alan Carr came to the small seaside town of Lyme Regis on 7^th March with his Work InProgress tour. The channel 4 star played an intimate gig to an excited crowd, with the help of his support act Angela Barnes.

The night sold out within minutes although this is no massive triumph, as the theatre is very small, but it’s nice to see that even some BAFTA winners don’t get too big for their boots.

The Show Ticket

The two comedians complemented each other well, with BBC New Comedy Awards winner, Barnes narrating anecdotes about her unsuccessful sex life and Carr cracking jokes about aimed towards online dating.

Barnes focused her act on mocking her personal life and comparing differences from the courting ritual now and when that of when she was younger. If a single 37 year old talking about the pains of her life is what you find funny then this comedian would suit you perfectly, although this route can sometimes be overdone.

Whereas Carr had a varied set with jokes about Onsies, which then moved on to a story about the dilemmas of taking his mum on a safari. He reacted well to crowd heckling and had constant banter with a self proclaimed ‘only gay in the village’ which made a funny evening for everyone in the auditorium.

Although it was named Work In Progress because that is essentially what it is, and this was obvious by the end of the performance when he forgot a few of his jokes and became flustered.

However the rest of the evening seemed to be a success with the intimate crowd, one of whom even asked if the star would go for a drink with her in the local.

The End Of BBC3?

So this week has seen the Director General of the BBC confirm rumours that BBC3 will go off the air and move online, creating a lot of angry viewers.

We have grown up with this station, and have been both entertained and educated (kind of ) by it.

The shows are definitely made for our generation with their creative themes, and the constant pushing boundaries.

The pure range of out of the box programmes are really refreshing, Sun, sex and suspicious parents was a feature on the station as it brought together our generation and our parents showing the reaction s from both sides.

There are a huge amount of comedy shows that are played on the BBC sister channel from the american hit Family Guy to the new, fresh Pramface.

BBC3 is a platform for British comedy and drama, as well as promoting people such as Cherry Healey. It would be a shame to loose it on the television, but I don't think it will make too much difference as our generation watches most of our content on the internet anyway.  It is just unfortunate that ideas that are different are not being able to flourish but are instead being suppressed.

Album Review

My first article published in CultNoise

Dub Optic Interview

Recently I did an interview with a creator of a big music night, for the latest edition of Nerve Magazine

My Good Deed

I did some good and volunteered at the local park, gardening to create a wildlife conserve. The article was published in the Bournemouth Echo

Born In The 90s Review

Bournemouth has finally hosted a night where the DJs actually know what they are doing. The music was listened to and appreciated by the crowd, quite possibly because the beats per minute matched up, something that seems to be almost non-existent in clubs these days. It’s normally a case of a set playlist triggered by button to boom songs that have been played at least 30 times in the last week alone, but the Old Firestation's Born in the 90s night was different. The songs played were a wide selection of 90s classics, and this was the period in which the majority of current students grew up, so the crowd could sing along and lose themselves in nostagia.

The DJs played a variety of music; from head banging rock songs like Rage Against The Machine,Killing In The Name Of, to sing along pop tunes, like the Pulp’s,Common People and of course timeless hits like Will Smith’s Prince of Bel Air made an appearance!

The only flaw of the evening; why was it so empty? The place was so deserted that there was plenty of space for enthusiastic dancing. I’m not complaining about the fact it wasn’t a cramped sweatbox, but I just don’t understand why no one came. It had music from every genre and songs that everyone knew, but that weren’t overplayed and featured DJs who were really doing their job.

Tickets are now on sale for the next Born in the 90s event. I hope more people attend and show some support for this fantastic night. We need to support real DJs instead of going to clubs where the magic happens at the click of a button.

My First Article For HerCampus

I have written an article for Bournemouth's chapter of HerCampus about Making Your Bedroom Halls Homely

What to do when you have run out of money!

Published in the TAB

Well Look At Me..Now Writing For The Bournemouth Echo

A story about pole dancing being taught in Uni

For Lifestyle, I wrote a review for a night that I went to in Bournemouth

My First Article For The Tab

Is My Tattoo Hell Changing How Students View Body Art?

Hunted- Review

Channel 4s Dispatches, has recently aired a hard hitting documentary, Hunted about the hardships for homosexuals living in Russia.

The programme shows the events of a group named “Occupy Pedophilia”, who make it their mission to abuse and humiliate gay people whilst filming it to put on the internet. The group goes on a ‘safari’, which involves the enticement of a gay man using deception, back to a flat which is full of 13 men waiting to ridicule him. The camera crew is pushed into the bathroom, but their refusal to stop filming protects the innocent man from a worse outcome.

One man on the show talks to the camera looking downtrodden, as he describes how he was shot in the eye and left blind simply because of his sexuality. He explains “Hunting season is open, and we are the hunted” says one young gay man, who was left blinded after a homophobic attack on a party that he and other gay men were attending.

A lesbian couple is also interviewed about their fear that their children will be taken from them, under the new law that homosexuality must not be ‘promoted’ to children under 18. One even says, “[The law] would please Hitler.”

This programme brings to light the fact that some Russians, see ‘pedophile’ and ‘homosexual’ as the same definition, which creates most of theses problems.

Hunted features gay people being tortured by vigilantes for 'sport', and it is a very eye opening documentary that shows the primitive views of people and the government in Russia.

Feb Mixtape

Sweat-
Is the new dance track from Major Lazor features hip-hop vocals from Miss Dynamite alongside the fast EDM created by DJ Laidback Luke. The song is a definite dance song, I can see it being played in clubs (well ones that know good music) as it combines heavy base beats with tribe like noises that you really don't hear in many songs, and some female rap chucked in there as well.

The video complements the music style with its high speed, street dancers covered in UV paint, matched with different close ups of the dancers faces and paint bouncing off the speakers which all works to create a real dance anthem.

Thank- you 

Rap legend Busta Rhymes has released, the second single, Thank you, from his tenth studio album E.L.E.2 (Extinction Level Event 2). The collaboration features Q-Tip, Lil Wayne and Kanye West, alongside sampling from Alicia Myers' 1981 song, I Wanna Thank You. This creates an innovative blend of a deep tenor, and fast lyrics, against her soulful melody.