Orla Foster

Nov 15, 2024 | thelineofbestfit.com | Orla Foster

When austerity was first foisted on the British public back in 2010, it was sold as a temporary measure, a belt-tightening exercise to give the magic money trees a chance to blossom. Fourteen years on, we're a bruised and bankrupt country classing food banks as a permanent fixture while billionaires get a free pass. It's a point Adult Leisure are determined to hammer home in latest single "Kiss Me Like You Miss Her", a bristling invective on the continued instability and chaos of modern Britain.

Nov 1, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Even Allen |Orla Foster

Two women from different times connected through a shared sense of playfulness – that was my first impression on arriving at Barnsley Civic for Memories of Drawings/Ulterior Motifs. Both artists offer up flirtations with flatness – landscapes like scenes dropping in and out at the back of a stage. We fill in the blanks, enjoying the deceit. The first artist is Georgia O’Keeffe, the ‘Mother of American modernism’: furtive, contemplative.

Oct 28, 2024 | thelineofbestfit.com | Orla Foster

Fresh off the back of a well-received debut, validation had become a double-edged sword, making it impossible to separate her own creative instincts from the expectations of other people. "At times, my drive to be an artist felt like a darker, more feral part of my brain that was craving attention and love, while the enlightened part just wanted to make art," she explains. "It felt like this really tumultuous battle between these two sides.

Oct 18, 2024 | thelineofbestfit.com | Orla Foster

One of the earliest pieces of music she fell in love with was Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", a composition so eerie and acoustically jarring that when it was first performed at the Champs-Élysées in 1913, it sent hundreds of diamond-clad theatregoers into a frenzy. "I guess it was like when Dylan went electric. Or seeing Jim Morrison drop his pants on stage," she says.

Oct 16, 2024 | thelineofbestfit.com | Orla Foster

From high school classes to headlining the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, The Linda Lindas tell Best Fit how friendship and culture lie at the heart of their unstoppable ascentIn 2018 they were recruited by Kristin Kontrol (Dum Dum Girls) to play covers at a festival, winning them new fans and collaborators from Karen O to Best Coast – and arguably achieving more in their chrysalis years than some bands manage in a lifetime. Although they wouldn't put it so dramatically.