My top five books of 2011
Kieran Yates delves into the urban underground and picks her favourite books from this year.
By Kieran Yates | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Saturday, 24 December 2011 at 3:05 pm
Peckham riots: views from the streets
Kieran Yates headed down to Peckham in the thick of the riots this week to hear some of the female voices coming from the ground.
By Kieran Yates | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 10 August 2011 at 3:07 pm
St Lucia Jazz Festival Review
The setting is one that makes avoiding clichés a challenge; spectacular white sands, coconut palms, and glistening turquoise ocean-think Bounty advert and you’d be halfway there. What sets St Lucia apart from the rest of the Caribbean islands though, are those five days in May when the island is penetrated with the sound of jazz, playing host to one of the largest and most prestigious Jazz festivals in the world. This year’s buzz centred around the 20th anniversary of the festival, inviting headliners Trey Songz, John Legend, and the legendary Chuck Brown, among others.
By Kieran Yates | Music | Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 11:47 am
The rise of melancholic dance music
Smiling disco divas turn back – the dancefloors have had a melancholic makeover- but still upbeat enough to simultaneously dance and cry to. The arguable leader of the pack is James Blake, who burst (well, shuffled uncomfortably) onto the scene towards the latter end of last year, dropping bassy beats with some of the most [...]
By Kieran Yates | Music, Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 2:57 pm
Why grassroots feminism has its voice on the urban underground
This week saw the centenary of International Women’s day – a day to document the development of the female experience focusing on both what we’ve achieved, and how far we have yet to achieve. This is a time to focus our gaze inwards to look at the state of young women now. So is [...]
By Kieran Yates | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 9 March 2011 at 10:14 am
How urban music has helped the arts
Last year saw a major rise in the crossover of what you might call the ‘high’ cultural arts to the underground urban world. Grime music, classically limited to East London raves or on the pirate radio airwaves infiltrated the theatre, art galleries, and the literary elite finally stood up and took notice of wordsmiths formerly [...]
By Kieran Yates | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Wednesday, 5 January 2011 at 12:34 pm
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