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A one-line review of the other half of the gigs I’ve been to in May 2025
This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
A one-line review of half of the gigs I’ve been to in May 2025
This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
All the Doctor Who news that is fit to publish
As you can imagine there has been a lot of Doctor Who news for me to write. Firstly on Saturday night there was a pre-cooked news story that went live just after the episode finished. I watched it in the…
![[Tessa Van den Broeck in Julie Keeps Quiet]](https://martinbelam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/600_jkq-150x150.jpg)
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in May 2025
I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…
![[Yuuf at Wide Awake Festival, Brockwell Park]](https://martinbelam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/600_yuuf_wa25-150x150.jpg)
A one-line review of every artist I saw at Wide Awake 2025
This series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the…
Eurovision o’clock!
It is that time of the year when I turn into a one man walking Eurovision content machine. In the last couple of days I have supplied for the Guardian my annual Eurovision quiz, and also put on my “Negative…
Come and see m-orchestra in Walthamstow in the middle of the night!
This won’t be the first time I’ve played an m-orchestra gig at the witching hour, as during lockdown I did a livestream from my garden at midnight, but I’m excited that Sunday night/Monday morning I will be playing my haunted…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in April 2025
I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in April 2025
This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
Go and see ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern
I know it won’t come as a surprise to regular readers, but yes, I do think it is worth going to the Leigh Bowery! exhibition at Tate Modern at the moment, not least because, besides Bowery’s stuff being amazing, it…