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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It’s hardly surprising that lots of audiences are a bit scared of Red Bastard. Think a team-building away day, but with an aggressive, brutal red blob as the motivational speaker. We caught up with him, with our hands slightly shaking... You are bringing Red Bastard to London’s Arts Theatre from feb 22nd - march 5th, can you tell us a bit about the show? Sure... Close your eyes. Now imagine: a dangerous, seductive comedy-monster. What...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Long live Holy Roar. The record label have announced a 2-stage, 1-day event to celebrate their tenth anniversary this spring. The show will take place across the Dome and Boston Music Rooms venues, Tufnell Park, London on the 21st May, and will feature the biggest names in the Holy Roar roster.   Rolo Tomassi are slated to headline, with support from Departures, Hang The Bastard, Giants and many more. The £15 ticket also includes unlimited access to the HRX:...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The sound of Seattle is inextricably linked with grunge music. For a phlegm-specked half-decade the mainstream fell in love with the weird, noisy bands coming out of the city and since then Seattle and grunge music have been synonymous. And so it must always be, when a new grunge band emerges from the overcast city, that comparisons are made to that first, definitive wave. So Pitted’s Neo fairs well. To get the rote relations out of...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music. It's raining and miserable outside so it's time to tune out of that and tune into the Weekly Report. Today we've got a real mix of stuff as usual, starting off with the man Bobby Womack and going straight into the track that The Verve based Bittersweet Symphony on (and the reason they never made any money on...

To celebrate the 2016 BRIT Awards, global music-streaming service Deezer has worked with renowned British illustrator Mohan Ballard to create a challenging quiz for die-hard music fans which contains 50 visual clues of previous winners dating back nearly 40 years. Deezer has a team of 50 dedicated music editors who looked at previous winners and worked closely with the illustrator Mohan Ballard to represent them visually, with different levels of difficulty attributed throughout the piece. How many previous BRIT winners...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor You're bringing your show Cry Me A Liver to London, can you tell us a bit about the show and how it came about?I started doing different characters first and put them together, sometimes adding last minute characters that I had met and that had inspired me. It developed over time. As a New York based performer, What made you want to bring it to London? For me, London is very similar to New York. People...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor At only 28 years of age, Nick has already headlined comedy clubs all over Australia, perfomed at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and the New York Comedy Festival. He is currently performing at the Soho Theatre until 27th Feb (not Sunday 21st) You're bringing your show Beard Game Strong to London's Soho Theatre, can you tell us a bit about the show?It's a combination of the funniest stories from my life and opinions that may...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jena Friedman is a stand up comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker. She has worked as a field producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has written for Late Show with David Letterman and is now coming to our shores with her show; TLE caught up with her. You're bringing your show American C**T to London's Soho Theatre, can you tell us a bit about the show? It's an hour of dark, political, feminist...

By Declan Roberts (@DeclanMR) Zachary Cole Smith and his troops return with the follow up to DIIV’s 2012 debut Oshin, still riding the wave of critical acclaim that release garnered. Are they able to better such a promising start? Probably not. But equal its clout? I think so. Is The Is Are is very similar to their debut in their distinctive collision of garage rock and surf pop. Lead single ‘Under the Sun’’s opening bass line oozes creativity and the...