Interview: Elf Lyons is a Pervert
Former Bristol student and comic veteran Elf Lyons is returning to Bristol on Wednesday the 22nd and Wednesday the 29th of May for two exclusive performances of her new show. A seasoned performer at the Edinburgh Fringe, her double-header stand-up shows – ‘Those Two’ with Masud Milas in 2011 and ‘Hyde & Lyons’ with Patch [...]
While we’ve been cooped up inside trying to work, it looks like the fashion world has been continuing to be having a jolly good time. This week has been frantic: from the rain sodden dresses at the BAFTAs to the equally washed out Cannes Film Festival. There’s been a great display of outfits with some [...]
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If you’re upset because you can’t wear heels and/or black tie at the Summer Ball you should get yourself in an episode of Made in Chelsea, or at least watch it, because they go to posh parties all the time and you can pretend you’re there with them. Surely that’s enough, although they’re all a [...]
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The UBU Summer Ball has been the focus of various Student Media articles over the past week. Some wildly speculative and others more considered but all keen to make some form of prediction on the failure or success of UBU’s new event. This is in part a consequence of the unfortunate cancellation of the Goldney Ball due to low [...]
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The Summer Ball has become as divisive an issue as whether Rihanna should keep getting back together with Chris Brown. We all have an opinion, but none of us really know quite what is going on. It must be admitted that the union have been pretty vague about what we are getting for our £40, [...]
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Let’s get a few things straight. Women and men are the same species. Women have vaginas and oestrogen, men have penises and testosterone and, barring a few minor offshoots from those differences, we’re talking about the same thing. You get just as many annoying wankers in both genders, that much we all know. Yet sexism [...]
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If you – like me – have been glued to your laptop in recent weeks, it’s impossible for you to have missed the Bristol Summer Ball updates. Today the news has broken that the Goldney Summer Ball has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Ticket holders have been offered Summer Ball tickets as compensation [...]
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It’s the stuff American T.V. shows are made of. A University of Bristol physics technician has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after using the university lab to help prepare £10,000 pounds worth of cocaine for sale on the city’s streets. Bristol Post first reported the news this morning, after lab technician Timothy Newbury, 53, [...]
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Venturing over from Australia, to grace the shores of Britain this summer, are a band called The Beards. Now, when you first hear the name of a lot of bands these days, it’s hard to see how such an abstract name is relevant to the band, or even relevant to anything really. Most of the [...]
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Bank Holiday weekend gave us all a tiny taste of summer, with that in mind here’s a little list of events both near and far for you to look out for this summer, that is after the neverending stress and bother of exams are finally over. 1. London – Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition This [...]
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