As the world turns back the clock to resemble the plague-ridden Dark Ages, so too are its inhabitants turning back to an old form of entertainment: listening to the radio. The Oxford University Light Entertainment…
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Ellie Thompson chats with Lewis Campbell-Smith about his new creative and collaborative project, the zine Prism.
In response to these troubled times, The Oxford Blue culture team has started a new creative writing project: ‘CREATIVITY IN CRISIS: a writing collective’. Here are some of our favourites of the work we received,…
Standing in the middle of Hyde Park last July, I waited for the greatest living folk songwriter to take the stage. The heat was unbearable, made worse by the alienating claustrophobia of the surrounding audience…
If you were to sit down and watch all of Netflix’s content, it would take you around 36,000 hours. That’s just over four years. So the length of a Classics degree (if you were after an Oxford-equivalent…
Even at the best of times, funding for art is hard to find. As is well known, lockdown has made this yet more precarious making today a worrying and uncertain time for art institutions. It…
I’m sure you’ll all agree that lockdown living has allowed us to indulge in back-to-back film watching. As a consequence, I’ve found some parallels between unlikely filmic bedfellows which might not have otherwise appeared. Take,…
Kiki Francis shares a way to travel from home through an exploration of her top international tunes. From Indian Disco to French synth-pop, her playlist is a great jumping off point.
Here’s a fun flash of nostalgia for you: you and your friends embark on an outfit hunting trip to the mall for your classic cycle of H&M-Zara-Mango-Primark, then again from the top. The one dress…
My parents and I happened upon Lady Gaga after The Fame (2008) and The Fame Monster (2009) were released. While my parents turned ‘LoveGame’ off the first time they heard it in the car, they…