Iraina Mancini is blending the old with the new to find her own distinctive voice.
The London based crate digger holds down a pivotal show on
Soho Radio, digging into the 60s underground while reflecting a modern outlook.
Her single Shotgun landed last year and became a breakout moment, with 6Music s Lauren Laverne becoming a prominent champion.
Developing a partnership with Jagz Kooner - known for his work with Primal Scream and Andrew Weatherall - the pair patch together an array of sonic influences into an enticing digital mosaic.
New single Deep End is a eagerly awaited follow up, and it patches together ye ye elements with a 21st century feel to deliver something ultra chic.
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It s shocking, and it shouldn t be. But it s also one of the most life-affirming TV shows I ve ever seen, In at the Deep End author Kate Davies writes of the Channel 4 drama paying homage to the forgotten voices of the AIDS crisis. As we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month and National HIV testing week, here s why It s a Sin makes for essential viewing.
Last week, I spent every evening watching
It’s a Sin and crying into my sofa cushions for about an hour afterwards. You’ve probably seen it – 6.5 million people have so far, making it All4’s biggest ever new drama launch and the most binged show in history. Written by Russell T. Davies (
Did Johnny die in Firefly Lane?
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THE new friendship drama Firefly Lane is blowing up on Netflix.
The series features Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke as their characters bond in an unlikely friendship that spans several decades.
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Who plays Johnny Ryan in Firefly Lane?
Ben Lawson portrays Johnny Ryan in Firefly Lane.
Over the years, Lawson has starred in films such as Neighbors, The Deep End, Covert Affairs, Doubt and the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
In Firefly Lane, Johnny is just one of the many men in Kate and Tully s lives throughout the years - however he s the one that sticks around the longest.
Tamara Lindeman started recording music at the end of a brief but successful acting career. Creating songs was intuitive, effortless. But the critical acclaim for her second album in 2011 had an effect on her that was akin to when a tightrope walker suddenly looks down midstep.
Because the songwriter didn’t understand how she’d come up with those compositions in the first place, she had no idea how to do it again. Ms. Lindeman eventually realized that the secret was to reproduce the carefree state she experienced in the forest during her childhood. Now she spends mornings with the guitar or piano, just singing whatever comes to mind.
“In the Middle Ages, the leper was a social text in which corruption was made visible, an emblem of decay. Nothing is more punitive that to give disease a meaning the meaning being invariably a moralistic one.” Susan Sontag, writer and philosopher, in her 1977 essay, Illness as Metaphor.
‘Victim cremated in secret…Tourists help spread… Panic on luxury cruiser…Power to detain victims.”
These headlines, brimming with moral panic and describing a new health threat first seen in a group of marginalised communities in the US, could so easily be ascribed to Covid-19.
They are in fact drawn from Irish press reports from February 1985, detailing the emergence of cluster of rare opportunistic infections Aids assailing primarily gay and bisexual men, sex workers, injecting drug users and, latterly, haemophiliacs.