I’m by no means fluent in French, but I know my feel-good tunes when I hear them! Enter ‘Safari Disco Club’, a soundtrack to your summer just waiting to be played out along side beach parties, living room raves (complete with home-made foam machine) and night drives in the tepid summer air. Yes, it’s sung entirely in French with the exception of a bonus remix track, but that doesn’t make it incomprehensible if you’re not Pepé Le Pew. Fun transcends the language barrier with this album. You’ll probably make more sense of these lyrics than Lady Gaga’s newest export anyway. Plus they toured with Katy Perry on her UK tour earlier this spring, bringing the exposure Yelle needs to make it big here on the summer circuit.
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Queen’s University Belfast has climbed four places in The Complete University Guide. Now ranked at 31 in the independent league table, the only positive change is in the student satisfaction, which has increased from 3.8 to 3.9.
On Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April, the Brian Friel Theatre at the QFT played host to ‘Rough Cuts’, a series of theatrical offerings from Queens University’s First Year Drama students who drew upon texts from well known writers such as Oscar Wilde and Peter Shaffer.
After the success of their self-titled debut album, which featured light-hearted floor fillers like ‘Stabbed’ and ‘Daddy’s Gone’ Glasvegas faced the question which has been bamboozling artists for decades – namely, is it still acceptable to sing about social workers and young offenders institutions when you’re a multi-millionaire rock star who lives in LA, surrounded by cocktails and recreational drugs?