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MusicPublished September 21, 2009 at 22:09 No Comments
With the dark and dreary weather returning and the festival season over we mourn the death of the summer. However, for the Big Chill, summer does not end in the fields of Herefordshire but carries on in the heart of London in the form of the Big Chill Mini Festival. With three days of music
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MusicPublished July 21, 2009 at 18:32 No Comments
You’ve got to give it to the Beach Break festival organisers. With only a week to go, a last minute decision was made to move the sold out student event from Polzeath Cornwall to Port Lympne safari park in Kent…surely this was going to disappoint the 10,000 beach lovers? Quite the opposite infact…with a killer
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Carousel Featured MusicPublished June 26, 2009 at 13:35 No Comments
Backstage at Beachbreak festival The Ripple met up with a less than chatty Dizzee Rascal to talk about his new album and robbing pizza delivery boys.
R: Hi Dizzee
D: Hi
R: Ok, so, you’ve got a new album coming out in September?
D: Yeah, Tongue ‘n’ Cheek
R: Can you tell me a bit about it?
D: Er, yeah. Basically it’s
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MusicPublished June 10, 2009 at 12:55 No Comments
SOLD-OUT BEACH BREAK LIVE FESTIVAL FIGHTS FOR THEIR RIGHT TO PARTY AND WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS A LEGENDARY EVENT!
PLUS: HUGE INDUSTRY SUPPORT AND SECRET GIGS / SUN SET TO SHINE ON BBL 09!
16TH – 19TH JUNE 2009
BREAKING NEWS**NEW SITE: PORT LYMPNE SAFARI PARK / KENT
www.beachbreaklive.com
Sold-out student festival Beach Break Live are set to go down in history as a
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Carousel MusicPublished May 25, 2009 at 18:29 No Comments
Scottish sensations ‘Glasvegas’ are the hottest band around at the moment. Guitarist Rab Allan talks to the Ripple about battling the charts with Metallica and being the next Westlife.
You’re the most hyped band of the year with the NME hailing your album, “the best album of the year,” how do you feel about it?
I agree
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Books CarouselPublished May 25, 2009 at 18:12 No Comments
Narcotics, Christian fundamentalism, suicide and super plague. Maazel’s fictional debut Last Last Chance, tackles each of these overwhelming issues of the modern day and manages to emerge a powerful story of survival. The beautifully constructed protagonist Lucy Clarke allows Maazel to explore the mentality of a young woman struggling with drug addiction. Working a dead
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Carousel GamesPublished May 25, 2009 at 18:08 No Comments
‘Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise’ is a “god-game” in the guise of a gardeners “Sims”. VP hits its family target audience perfectly. The game is based around the idea of owning a garden, and over the course of the game filling it with various papery creatures called ‘Piñatas’. Each Pinata can be encouraged to mate
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Carousel FilmPublished May 25, 2009 at 18:01 No Comments
Having not read the novel by Evelyn Vaugh or watched the 1981 television series, it was the promise of a top British cast, in period costume, with spectacular British locations which attracted me to this film. Whilst Freshers’ were drinking their own weight in WKD, I was sat in a surprisingly empty cinema, looking forward
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Carousel FilmPublished May 25, 2009 at 17:57 No Comments
Ever dreamed of attending celebrity parties and leading a glamorous lifestyle? Then perhaps you can relate to character Sidney Young, played by Simon Pegg, who longs for this more than anything, in the new rom-com How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
Based on the autobiographical book of journalist Toby Young, we watch as Sidney slowly
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Carousel MusicPublished March 26, 2009 at 16:28 No Comments
After a 5 year break, the Prodigy are back with their fifth album, Invaders Must Die, claiming it to be their best yet. With countless hits, such as Firestarter and Breathe and four albums hitting the top spots, are the Essex boys still able to prove that they have more to offer us after 18
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