THE National Science and Media Museum has unveiled plans to re-open this spring - and a new permanent feature will re-create a popular Bradford photographic studio. The museum opens on May 19 with a new programme that includes the Belle Vue Studio exhibition in the Kodak Gallery. The photographic studio, on Manningham Lane, was widely used by people from the South Asian sub-continent, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe, who came to live and work in Bradford. The formal portraits, all taken on the same Victorian glass-plate camera, and often featuring props such as a a watch or briefcase, were sent to families around the world.
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Even among the pantheon of former boy band members, Zayn Malik s position is unenviable.
Since leaving One Direction in 2015 and releasing a promising debut solo album, his path has been one of sluggish descent.
When he departed the X Factor-formed group, he made it clear he was not doing a Robbie Williams, or a Justin Timberlake for that matter, and setting out his stall as a blockbuster solo artist.
Instead, he was hoping for some peace and quiet, and a chance to pursue music that was less poppy, more soulful.
Six years down the line, Malik, now 28, remains an enigma - he has failed to establish a strong artistic identity (especially in contrast to former bandmate Harry Styles) and remains best known for his romance with supermodel Gigi Hadid, now the mother of his child.
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Hello Cosmos
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Hello Cosmos are anchored by Ben Robinson who, along with being the band’s singer, songwriter and bassist, is also the founder of the bluedot and Kendal Calling festivals.
His three allies in the band include Lanterns On The Lake member Angela Chan (vocals, synths and viola), but given his background it’s unsurprising that this debut record boasts more than 20 collaborators, and is supplemented with an album visualiser incorporating animation and augmented reality, and a separate, full remix album.
Hello Cosmos album cover
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The Manchester-based creative collective, all clad in Apollo mission boiler suits and cyber-kinetic goggles for their videos and live shows, wield giant ladles in a melting pot of sonic influences while Robinson drives forward a vision of a better, brighter future in urgent spoken word – a kind of performance poetry landing somewhere between Art Brut’s Eddie Argos and The Streets’ M