REVIEW: Josh Groban – Illuminations
BY CLAIRE WILLIAMSON
Josh Groban fans have been eagerly awaiting his latest musical offering, Illuminations, which has been three years in the making due to a host of engagements for Groban such as starring in the twenty-first anniversary of Chess, the musical, singing at the sixtieth Annual Emmy awards and duetting with Heather Headley at The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.
December 21st, 2010 | Comment (1)
REVIEW: The Drums at Mandela Hall
2010 saw The Drums quickly climb in to position as one of the most name-dropped bands around. They went from being placed fifth on the BBC’s Sound of 2010 list to playing venues all over the UK on NME’s Awards tour a month later. With influences such as The Smiths, Joy Division and The Shangri-las it’s not surprising that the four New Yorkers had the Mandela Hall audience under their spell in no time. BY ABBYE NELSON
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December 20th, 2010 | No Comments
NEWS: SU representatives concerned over the fate of NI students
Queen’s student representatives have expressed their concerns after the coalition government’s vote to increase the cap on tuition fees in England to £9,000 was passed on last Thursday. Although the fate of English students has been sealed, that of students in Northern Ireland still hangs in the balance. BY KERRI-ANNE CAMPBELL
December 17th, 2010 | Comments (55)
NEWS: Constitutional amendments pass at last SU Council meeting of semester
SU Council’s last meeting before the Christmas recess passed three amendments to the SU constitution and unanimously backed the reports of each sabbatical officer. Tuesday’s meeting also witnessed lengthy debate both on last week’s student protest outside Belfast City Hall, and on the proposal for a Republican Congress society at Queen’s. BY CONNOR DALY AND SEAN ASHFORD
December 16th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Westlife – Gravity
BY CATRIONA BURNS
After a year-long break, Ireland’s most successful boy band, Westlife, have returned to the limelight with their eleventh album, Gravity. Previous to its release the band claimed this is the album “they have always wanted to make”, yet listening to the tracks, it is not quite clear why, because although the sound is perhaps more mature, it is not wholly distinguishable from their previous ten releases.
December 15th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
BY ANDREW MOORE
It begs the question: if the pencil pushers at Disney can’t seem to make visually breathtaking and universally enjoyable Narnia adaptations, then what makes the people over at 20th Century Fox think they can achieve a different result?
December 14th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: The Tourist
BY ANDREW MOORE
The Tourist – a remake of the little known French film called Anthony Zimmer – has a leading duo that most film-makers could only dream of pairing. Starring, perhaps, the two best looking actors on the planet at the minute, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, does the film’s plot have more to it than the shallow reasons most people would probably choose to see this?
December 12th, 2010 | No Comments
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