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Nov 1, 2024 | 
statmagazine.org | Pete Mercer |George Powell |Tilly Foulkes |Julian Cowley
STAT MAGAZINEA culture zine for the North-West of England.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
statmagazine.org | Tilly Foulkes
The two last remaining indie video rental shops in the UK are each run by a guy named Dave. Different Daves. There’s 20th Century Flicks down in Bristol, but for anyone up North looking for good, old-fashioned film perusing, they’ll have to head to the Dave in Bebington, Merseyside. It’s there that a shop nestled between a florist and a hairdresser declares, in Hollywood-star-gold lettering: “SNIPS. MOVIE RENTAL – CARDS – BALLOONS.”Snips has had its doors open since 1995.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
“You don’t owe no demonstration / Who cares about their validation?!” growls the title track of The Linda Lindas’ sophomore album, ‘No Obligation’. The punchy two-minute anthem wastes no time in asserting the band’s staunch political stance: we’re not here to do what you tell us, and as young women, you’ve been telling us a lot. With a quick-paced, Amyl and the Sniffers-like riff, they taunt their listeners to even try and question their own self-determination.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
Imagine it now: you’ve not even released your debut album yet and you’ve already checked performing during the headline slot on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage off your bucket list. That’s the, uh, quite unbelievable reality of Spanish-American singer-songwriter Victoria Canal, who was invited on stage by friend and mentor Chris Martin to perform Coldplay’s ‘Paradise’ at Worthy Farm earlier this year, despite only having a handful of EPs to her name.
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May 19, 2024 | 
statmagazine.org | Tilly Foulkes
One of the themes of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go is the uncanniness of British landscapes. It ties together the horrifying history of British colonialism and the fruitless, abandoned futures of the nation’s worst-offs, narrated by a clone who has been created by the government with the intention of harvesting her organs.
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May 10, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
As it stands, A. G. Cook is somewhat synonymous with the glittering future of experimental pop. From his revolutionary label PC Music to his collaborations with weirdo popheads and avant-garde oddballs (Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek), his strange, glossy production has infiltrated the landscape of modern music.
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May 2, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
Fans left angry and disappointed by the latest spate of Manchester’s Co-Op Live arena troubles and postponements have spoken to NME, dubbing the situation “just a joke at this point”. Yesterday (May 1) thousands of people made their way, again, to Manchester’s new Co-Op Live, the recently-built “largest in-door arena” in the UK.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
Girl In Red’s cultural impact in the last six years is impressive: two critically acclaimed EPs steamrolled her to status of queer cult icon – her name and music becoming queer Gen Z code for lesbianism – a debut album co-produced by Oscar-winning, Grammy-winning Finneas and then being handpicked by Taylor Swift to open up on her record-breaking, billion dollar grossing world tour.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
Before Nieve Ella even arrives at Manchester’s Gorilla, there’s a line of excitable gig-goers forming outside the venue. The 21-year-old songwriter already inspires such devotion that, prior to this show, she put out a statement asking fans to be sensible when queuing. Since live music has roared back to life in the UK following lockdown, gig etiquette has been a hot topic of debate, with a noticeable rise in youngsters camping for days before an event – and in extreme cases, fainting at shows.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
nme.com | Tilly Foulkes
Following a stellar run of singles – from the groove-punk ditty ‘Surf N Turf’ to ‘Pulp’, which sounds like if Scissor Sisters covered The Breeders – 2022 saw Brighton four-piece Lime Garden sprint to the top of Ones To Watch lists. They’ve since supported The Big Moon on tour and have appeared at major festivals across the globe, building some serious momentum ahead of their debut ‘One More Thing’.
