Review: Victorian Trout Conspiracy, Edinburgh Liquid Rooms, 2nd May 2013
BY THOMAS BRENT Gig Review: Victorian Trout Conspiracy : Edinburgh Liquid Rooms : 2nd May 2013 Victorian Trout Conspiracy don’t play gigs, instead they throw parties. On Thursday night at the Liquid Rooms that was once again proven to be the case, as the whole room bounced and bopped along to their music. This show launched
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Interview: Izzy Flower, Nic Tate and the Sharks
BY THOMAS BRENT A chat with Izzy Flower, guitarist and vocalist for Edinburgh band ‘Nic Tate and the Sharks’. Q. How did the name come about? A. A while back Gracie, who plays cello, found out that sharks eyes don’t have eyelids so instead they do this thing called Nictitating. So the idea was that it
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Interview: Martin Hopkins
Signe Akmenkalne met up with Martin Hopkins, an Edinburgh-based writer, to talk about writing, the worst vices of them all and how to get over ex-girlfriends by throwing them in literature. Tell us a little about yourself, Martin. I stared writing about three years ago. The first story I wrote was a short story called ‘Old
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Magazine Preview – Syrian Refugees: A Journey of Hope and Pain
BY RIHAN YOUNAN Imagine yourself living in a tent in the middle of a desert and the heavy rains waking you up during night. This is not an adventure one would do once in a lifetime, neither is it a scout trip; this is the story of thousands of Syrian Refugees. Impulse Magazine 2013 published a
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Istanbul Travel Guide
BY PJ O REILLY “If the world was a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon it seems was something of a fan of Istanbul and spending a few days in the city it’s pretty easy to see why. Here is a place that immediately arrests the senses, as beautiful as it
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