Anita Bhadani

Glasgow, London

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Kelly Lee Owens @ SWG3, Glasgow: live review

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Flanked by two mixing desks and synths, and a microphone to her front, Kelly Lee Owens cuts a lone silhouette on stage tonight. Yet through sheer stagecraft and energy alone, she transforms this set-up into multiple worlds. There’s Owens, mixing tracks, throwing her body from side to side. Vocal-heavy tracks see her face us, synths now a backdrop for her haunting vocals (“Let’s get into some Celtic melancholic shit,” she banters midway through the set).
This International Women’s Day, let's get organised - Global Justice Now

1 month ago | globaljustice.org.uk | Anita Bhadani

At Global Justice Now we’re proud to be outspoken. We take on issues that others are afraid to touch and we don’t make compromises. Support us with a donation and help us fight social and economic injustice around the globe.
Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year - Big Issue

Dec 2, 2024 | bigissue.com | Hannah Westwater |Isabella McRae |Liam Geraghty |Anita Bhadani

As the cost of living bites, charities and restaurants are offering a free Christmas dinner and and festive cheer this year.
Barry Can't Swim @ Barrowlands, Glasgow: live review

Nov 12, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

“It feels good to be back in Scotland,” Joshua Mainnie, aka Barry Can’t Swim, tells us a few songs in, smiling out at the packed crowd. Hailing from Edinburgh, it’s been a whirlwind few years for the musician.
Chappell Roan @ O2 Academy Glasgow: live review

Sep 17, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Fans with tickets to tonight’s sold-out show have queued down Glasgow’s streets for hours before doors open. Meanwhile, crowds of hopeful fans without tickets are gathered near the O2 Academy’s entrance, holding signs in hope of a last-minute stroke of luck. (They were later rewarded for their determination). This time last year, Chappell Roan was an emerging cult icon.
Love Bites: Water Seeking – The Skinny

Jul 17, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Last year, immersed in uncertainties in my life, I felt a pull to any bodies of water I could find. All I knew was that I wanted to be by lakes, seas, oceans, and so, I planned trips seeking these out wherever I could find them. Day to day my mind is pulled into a hundred different streams: obligations, tasks, random thoughts, hopes, worries, memories. Water felt like a potential antidote. It wasn’t so much that I was seeking escape as it was that I wanted to experience something bigger than myself.
CSS review: Drygate, Glasgow, 22 June

Jun 26, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Formed in São Paulo in 2003, CSS’s (Cansei de ser sexy, or ‘Tired of being sexy’) encapsulate a free-spirited spontaneity. “CSS always had this stance of not taking itself seriously and it is still true”, iconic lead singer Lovefoxxx (Luísa Matsushita) recently explained. Just over two decades, four albums, and countless live shows around the world later, even as their sound has evolved and grown and the music landscape has changed, they’ve indeed remained true to this ethos.
Ten years after the UK welcomed Syrian refugees, what happened to those who came?

Jun 20, 2024 | hyphenonline.com | Anita Bhadani

A decade ago, the world watched as Syria’s civil war worsened and millions of refugees fled the country. This mass displacement would become known as the “refugee crisis”, when more than a million refugees and migrants arrived on European shores in one year, most fleeing conflict in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

Apr 26, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Album title: All Born Screaming Artist: St. Vincent Label: Total Pleasure Records Release date: 26 Apr Grit and glamour meet poetic allure on the seventh album from St. Vincent, the musical moniker of Annie Clark. Clark’s art pop stylings have seen her artistry shapeshift into different forms across her career.
Leslie Liao @ Òran Mór, Glasgow

Mar 29, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Anita Bhadani

Sad but poetic. That’s how Liao describes the crowd in Glasgow, as an audience member likens the dating scene to “a shallow pool”, with another adding that "we don’t know how to swim". Throughout tonight's set, Liao’s slyly sardonic wit breaks the fourth wall, her charismatic charm compelling us to laugh along earnestly, even at ourselves. The Californian native’s disposition errs toward deadpan over sunny and that translates just fine for Scottish sensibilities.