You Me Bum Bum Train in New Oxford Street, December / January 2011-2012: Review

The You Me Bum Bum Train experience is like no other.... here's my lowdown on what to expect from this intriguing participatory theatrical experience... plus news of how to get yourself a ticket for the extended run.

Writing about You Me Bum Bum Train is hard work: for understandable reasons visitors, and especially pesky reviewers such as myself (a necessary but somewhat unruly mob) are asked very …

Just Do It Film: Review

An astonishing movie that goes behind the scenes of climate activism during 2009... from Climate Camp to the COP15 protests in Copenhagen and beyond.

Just Do It by Gareth A Hopkins.
Last weekend I went to the premiere of Just Do It in a central London squat: a beautiful old chapel on Shaftesbury Avenue that …

Lulu and the Lampshades: Cold Water EP review

Lulu and the Lampshades have made a gorgeous little EP that makes us crave summer, festivals and iced lollies. With illustrations by Sarah Matthews, Matilde Sazio, Mhairi-stella McEwan and Romain Lambert-Louis.

Illustration by Romain Lambert-Louis
It’s good thing it’s starting to feel like spring outside, as listening to Lulu and the Lampshades in the dead of winter strikes me as being something …

Glastonbury 2010 Climate Camp Tripod Stage Review: Sunday

The last day on the Tripod Stage. On Sunday we hosted Luisa Gerstein's band Lulu and the Lampshades and had a special visit from Cats and Cats and Cats, whose debut album If I'd Had An Atlas is out this week.

On Sunday we lost a few and gained a few. Pete Lawrie called by with terrible hayfever to say he couldn’t sing for fear of losing his voice but kindly …

Music Listings: 21st – 27th September

What to do...?

Monday 21st September: FrYars, Rough Trade East, London
FrYars is winsome 19 year old, Ben Garret – and all-round Amelia’s Magazine favourite – who makes synth-drenched compositions of a Patrick Wolf-come-Pet Shop …

Fanmail for Beirut

Forum, Friday 8th of May

I love good days. Days that unfold in a series of pleasant surprises that put a spring back in your step and remind you that the world can be …

Lulu and The Lampshades

London, 9th March

Here at Amelia’s magazine we are not ones for nepotism, but we just couldn’t resist reviewing our lovely ex art editors band Lulu and the Lampshades recent gig .So I …

Kate Slater

Featured Illustrator

What do you do when greeted by an onslaught of flyers and packages at the end of a night? Store them safely away as valuable materials for paper and …

Art Listings

Monday 23rd February - Sunday March 1st

Monday February 23rd
THIS IS LAGOS is the second part of a two-way cultural exchange between Nigeria and the United Kingdom which began when Michael Bucknell visited Lagos to exhibit at …

KnockBack Magazine

COMING TO A HANDBAG NEAR YOU

Slap your thigh and believe it, KB4 is (almost) here, and apparently it’s the shiniest yet. Are you acquainted? You should be. Deliciously designed and compact, KnockBack …

Tasting Memories and ‘Rubbish’

An Interview with Gayle Chong Kwan

“I don’t feel I’ve really engaged with a place until I can taste or smell it, you know?” So Gayle Chong Kwan tells me as we settle down to a …

Hvass&Hannibal

Featured Illustrators

Wouldn’t it be great if you spent each day hanging out with your closest childhood friend; drawing, making, building and all-round creating to your imagination’s absolute content? That’s what …

Art Listings

Monday 16th February - 22nd February

Tuesday February 17th

Laura Buckley -installation shot, 2007.

Jotta Pad
Stage Fright at Rokeby is an orchestral piece of electronic music in the form of a multiple video installations. It is a …

Lump Hammer Love Bites Exhibition: Concrete Hermit

February 5th - March 1st, Photographs by Jonangelo Molinari

There is an intense pleasure in looking at something that makes your toes curl into your shoes, your face contort with disgust, and laugh all at once – a bit …

Olesya Drashkaba

Featured Illustrator

Just in from Ukraine: The illustrative world is alive and kicking thank you very much … well, just as tough as it is everywhere else. After receiving a lovely …

Alternative Press Fair

Sunday February 1st, St Aloysius Social Centre

Sunday was my second zine-related outing (of two) at the St Aloysius Social Centre. On both occasions a cluster of regulars looked on in bemusement as their much loved …

Le Corps Mince De Francoise

Lock Tavern

Sunday night at the Lock Tavern and everyone is looking suitably subdued. We’re slumped in squishy sofas, eyes and limbs stooped in heavy submission to the fact that tomorrow …

Lulu and the Lampshades

Monkeychews, Thursday 29th January

I wouldn’t have braved the sub-Siberian chill on Thursday night for many people. However, spurred on by the knowledge that Ms Luisa Gerstein, our very own Art Editor (I know, …

Pin Rituals at Prick Your Finger

Kirsty Hall, Jan 22nd - Feb 28th

kirsty Hall Blog
When the Lockerbie disaster happened, the airplane was carrying a consignment of one million needles in its hold. When the rescue teams arrived there were needles scattered …

Art Listings

February 2nd - 8th

Tuesday February 3rd

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a new exhibition from Andres Serrano. Serrano’s work has continually dealt with the sacred and the profane, the grand and the …