Shoreditch Fringe Festival Review: The King’s Land

Just off the Kingsland Road in Haggerston is the Kingsland Estate. At first sight you see boarded up windows, overgrown weed infested lawns, rotting paint peeling doors; a semi derelict, broken down urban wasteland. But on closer inspection something peaks through the dull and neglected landscape, a shot of colour and odd looking creatures emerge through the haze of grey and decay. The exterior…

Jimmy Cliff-Rebirth Review

  Jimmy Cliff, the man that helped popularise Reggae music worldwide in the early 1970’s is back with his new uplifting album entitled Rebirth First gaining worldwide acclaim for starring in and recording the title soundtrack to hit movie ‘The Harder They Come’ he helped deliver true authentic reggae music to the masses. Other notable soundtrack credits include the rerecording of ‘I…

Review: Shoreditch Fringe Festival

The Shoreditch Fringe Festival has been a massive 7 week event running from July 6th and coming to an end on August 27th. Taking place in venues all over Shoreditch the festival hosts creative events for a whole range of different tastes. Fault magazine went along to Shoreditch’s Old Street venue, ‘XOYO’ to check out the live acts at their Smashing Blouse event. picture…

Frank Ocean-Channel Orange Review

  Frank Ocean-Channel Orange Since making a splash with his mixtape ‘nostalgia, ULTRA’ last year, Frank Ocean has been going from strength to strength in the RnB music world. Despite gaining critical acclaim as a member of OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) the Odd Future boys failed, as a group, to appeal to a diverse enough market and gain the levels of success Frank Ocean has…

Fault Magazine Album Review- Lianne La Havas

  Is Your Love Big Enough? Watching Lianne La Havas on Later with Jools Holland last October I recall instantly comparing her to Corinne Bailey Rae, who had also grown to fame following her own performance on the show. However standing alone and vulnerable in the spotlight singing about her lost love and new found companionship  found in the arms of an older man I couldn’t help but…

FAULT Film: Where Do We Go Now? review

Nadine Labaki’s latest directorial production, Where Do We Go Now?, applies a Lysistratan plotline to the contemporary issue of religious conflict in the Middle East. Like Aristophanes over 2000 years before her, Labaki gives a serious situation a comic makeover.  The audience simultaneously laughs and cries through the story of a group of women from a denominationally divided remote…

Festival Preview: Field Day

Victoria Park, 2nd June 2012. The thing I bloody love about Field Day is that you know you're going to get an excellent line up. The attention to detail is the best it could be - and so it should be, with promoters Eat Your Own Ears on board.  The idea is still to stick with a 'Village Fete' mentality, and it's royally themed this year - what with a certain member of the UK royal family…