By Edward Bayliss Val Moreno-Alvarado, a second year student, is president of the Durham Film Festival 2025. I caught up with her to discuss all

By Dan Xiberras Hauntology is a term originally coined by Jacques Derrida. It concerns the notion that the present is haunted by both the past

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini When the moon slivers right in silver, and the cloud crowd around, expect to see the silhouette etch its away on the

By Nathan Gellman Art is often described as a window into the mind and soul of the artist. Whether on paper, sheet music, or canvas,

By Edward Bayliss Dan Richter arrived in the UK in the mid-1960s as ‘a 28-year-old, starving, mime teacher’, ready to absorb all that London, ‘the

By Lydia Firth  In March, I was fortunate enough to catch Katy Hessel for a chat. If you’re not familiar with Hessel she is an

By Maisie Jennings ‘Emerald Fennell and Sam Mendes are a scourge on British cinema’; this is the polemic expressed by my friend Jack in a

By Edward Clark T. S. Eliot and Earl Sweatshirt (real name Thebe Neruda Kgositsile) are both visionaries. This claim is contentious – many find Eliot’s

By Matty Timmis It seems a long way away now, but for a little while the rhythm was clave. Life then was verdant, thronged with

By Mopsy Peel Cinema Paradiso spills across the screen like the golden dust of a distant, sun-soaked summer in Italy. I find myself almost anticipating

By Benjamin Mendez  “Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself:

Frank O’Hara, Sensitivity, and American Art By Harry Laventure Ah nuts! It’s boring reading French newspapersin New York as if I were a Colonial waiting

By Matty Timmis Believe me, I am not a fan of Instagram. It’s the closest fit I can think of to a ‘Babylon machine’, except

By Sam Unsworth “Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at four o’clock in a mostly empty bar.

By Edward Clark Via her Tumblr, ‘mothercain’, Hayden Anhedönia (releasing music under alias Ethel Cain) repeats the phrase ‘Perverts is for every-body’. Yet her ninety-minute

By Matthew Squire  I was 12 years old, sitting on the floor of my bedroom, with a budget Crosley facing me, a record placed carefully

By Harry Laventure The Internet. Noun, “a harrowing whirligig of rot”. Defined by example: scroll, Lebron James’ smiling face transposed onto a pumpkin with a

By Maisie Jennings David Lynch (1946-2025) was an American filmmaker.  I discovered David Lynch as a teenager – I was discovering cult classics, “arthouse” films,

By Matthew Dodd ‘I didn’t consciously pursue the Bob Dylan myth, it was given to me–by God’, Bob Dylan told People Magazine in 1975. And

By Rohan Scott County Durham’s Bowes Museum is a fabulous French Second Empire edifice nestled in a corner of the charming town of Barnard Castle.

By Matthew Dodd On the 25th of November 1974, at his family home in Warwickshire, the singer-songwriter Nick Drake passed away from a believed overdose

By Holly Simms Thom Yorke and Hamlet, if you are a self-confessed, somewhat pretentious student of the arts, an admirer of the trope of the

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini “He was reading Ulysses to his baby, just for the craic, know what I mean?” – Fontaines D.C, Crack Magazine, June 2024

By Tilly Bridgeman ‘It has been the site of wild parties and scandalous liaisons, of creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, of one-night stands and days-long

By Maisie Jennings Content Warning: Discussion of sexual assault.  Laura Palmer’s body is found on the shore: blue-mouthed, blue-eyed, blonde. Her naked corpse is shrouded

By Jack Fry On my final evening in New York, I surfaced from Broadway subway station into the sticky humidity of a summer night in

Cinematic realism in the ‘70s By Prithvijeet Sinha For those who have seen 2022’s emotionally wrenching To Leslie, toplined by Andrea Riseborough’s tour de force

By Lydia Firth The Turner Prize is considered the most prestigious art award in Britain. In 2023, the winner was Jesse Darling, with an exhibition

By Lizzy Holden An eerie ring, the steady thumping of a heart and the stutter of gunfire marks the opening of Ellen Kuras’ new biopic

By Harry Laventure Of late (and wherefore I know not), the grand movements of art history have found new determinisms. In this epoch of images,

By Maisie Jennings In her diary, Anaïs Nin compares herself to a trapeze artist, suspended between two bicoastal marriages in a spectacular aerial performance across

By Lydia Firth Having recently moved to Sussex, I was excited by the prospect of rolling hills, proximity to London, and new cultural hotspots. Charleston

By Harry Laventure The title “Visual Identity Review” is a prompt that no sane creature could wish to answer, let alone ruminate on. It is

By Edward Bayliss. 25 Years after the Death of the Director  In 1998, director Stanley Kubrick won the D.W. Griffith Award from the Directors Guild

Dan Whitlam and a New Iteration of Poetry By Callum Tilley. As those of us not immune to social media trends will have noticed, everything

By Chloe Stiens I was in a folky rocky acoustic mood this week. Featuring new music from St. Vincent only. You can find this week’s

by Vadim Goss ‘The art of losing isn’t hard to master’ is the greatest opening line to the greatest villanelle ever written.  On a first

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini Shimmering silver costumes. Specials on da rocks. Spiteful dancehall girls waiting for their big break. Welcome to the world of Bugsy Malone.

By Jack Fry I wait on springtime with bated breath. Like leaves on a vine, I desperately seek out any creeping sunlight. I really do

Feierlich, Misterioso By Harry Laventure Solemnly, mysterious etch the brackets into which we are hemmed in the opening sears of the first movement. Violins buzz

By Zoe Worth “A society suddenly saw what was intolerable in it and also saw the possibility for something else” (Gilles Deleuze) “Birds fly, and

By Jack Fry In Maggie Nelson’s musings of prose poetry on the colour blue, ’Bluets’, she references Ralph Waldo Emerson: “For just because one loves

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini Tattoos drawn on with eyeliner borrowed from the girlfriend in the Coppola-style Marie Antoinette costume. A fitted white t-shirt. Greased hair that

by Maggie Baring In 1939, red-headed 28-year-old Viola Hogg embarked on a yearlong tour of Australia and New Zealand with the Australian Gilbert and Sullivan

By Edward Bayliss Our current season has so often been relied upon in cinema to accelerate some kind of dramatic effect. Importantly, winter hosts the

By Cosmo Adair “I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prestigious award. Kudos to all my distinguished fellow finalists, you have all provided

by Sophie Holcroft Talking to Tom O’Sullivan leaves you feeling truly inspired because his passion for music is so infectious. He has been playing the

By Harry Laventure The Photograph: 695 x 1005mm, 1984.  More precisely, one month after being battered. The eyes neither project nor accuse, but retain a

by Vadim Goss The English Language, in all of its forms, holds a particular place for those who were born outside of its whiteness. It

By Lydia Firth. I grew up with my Dad being an ultimate hardcore Bob Dylan fan, to the extent that he claimed he no longer

By Emma Large. “‘Who was that charming Southern girl in the Homer class?’” – Paul McGloin to Prof. Claude Fredericks, “The Secret Oral History of

By Max Shanagher Sitting on the DLR to Woolwich, I started to question the life decisions that I had taken six months previously. Six months

I’m often asked why our magazine is called Wayzgoose or what it means, and upon further inspection, I found that a Wayzgoose was a party

By Maggie Baring Fans of the Leicester-based indie-pop group, Easy Life, have recently been deeply saddened by the ridiculously surreal news that the band are

By Cosmo Adair. There is a building somewhere in Alexandria. Once, in 1919, an ageing, if elderly man — the poet, C.P. Cavafy — stood

By Maisie Jennings It felt like the perfect time to revisit the writing of Joan Didion during the lazy, early September heatwave. Didion’s elliptical, startling

By Cosmo Adair. Martin Amis (1949 – 2023) was an English novelist.  I once went to a van Gogh show at the Tate with a

By Ida Bridgeman. ‘A third of the way around the planet in a vehicle you swapped for a bag of crisps…Welcome to the World’s Greatest

A psychological reason of why you’ve been feeling zoned out recently By Paula Wengerodt. Picture this: I’m on my bike on the way to work.

By Ella Milne. “How are you? Had a good week? Lovely. Well Back to me!” (Miranda Hart) Miranda Hart was my first taste of comedy,

By Cosmo Adair. Spare a thought for Carlo Kureishi. After his father Hanif Kureishi’s collapse in Rome on Boxing Day, Carlo has transcribed his father’s

By Clara Tyler. It is commonly assumed that the relationship between art and science is dichotomous and irreconcilable. In separate spheres of influence, the artist

DUCFS is often recognised, and rightly so, for its charitable endeavors and of course its main event. However, I believe it should be noted that through its events, it helps to bring Durham creatives together, cultivating a ‘scene’ or collective of sorts in which musicians, artists, designers and small businesses are able to collaborate and share their work.

By Izzie James. Bee Movie, released in 2007, was easily one of my favourite childhood movies. The silly puns always made me giggle, and for

By Cosmo Adair. It’s 3PM Eastern European Standard Time and the team at SHRINK SCOOTERS are meeting a potential investor on Zoom. Having miscalculated the

By Sophie Hogan. The Guardian announced last week that Roxana Silbert had resigned from her position as Artistic director of Hampstead theatre after they suffered

By Thea Opperman. Reaching the end of term is a great excuse to sit back and reflect on what this year has brought us so

By Leo Dagianti. When I listen to The Doors, I feel like I am transported to a desert with a half-drunk bottle of whisky. Everything

By Elizabeth Marney. Leonora Carrington, most famous for her ground breaking additions to surrealist painting and literature, steadfastly maintained that she was never born, she

By Maddy Harlow. For most people reading this, the 1st of December is just another day, perhaps an exciting one as advent calendars are opened

By Thea Opperman. On the 14th November, The Art Newspaper confirmed that the British street artist Banksy has created seven new murals in various locations

A sit down with Freddie Graham is about as insightful a conversion as you can get. Born and bred in Hampshire, now studying Music at Manchester University, the list of his talents are about as long as his Jesus-like hair, but because of his impeccably broad musical knowledge, when chatting, you get the sense that he is far more mature than his years.

By Henry Worsley. They passed us in groups of ten or a dozen. Convoys of armoured trucks – blocky, khaki-green, fitted with glass so thick

By Ed Osborne. If I asked each of you reading this which genre of music you believe has had the greatest influence over mainstream music

By Maggie Baring. In May 1693, one of the most famous witch trials in history came to an end, having caused the executions of 14

By Emily Mahoney. Years ago, on one of my 4-hour voyages through the black hole of Spotify’s recommended for you section, I stumbled across an

By Emma Large. When reflecting on previous avant-garde poets and movements, such as Allen Ginsberg and the New Age poets or Ezra Pound and the

Let’s Talk: Upcoming Exhibition in Durham   On the 18th June from 12-4pm, a free pop up exhibition and live performance is coming to Alington

By Grace Marshall. Imagine you are in a silver box surrounded by dancing men and women in dagger collared shirts and PVC trousers. Imagine flashing

By Tom Sykes. Emanating from a forgotten corner of the American South East, the blues is the foundation upon which modern popular music has been built.

By Ed Merson. Spotify can lead to many different places. The rabbit-hole of music which I embarked on during lockdown opened my eyes to the

2021: Shining Lights in a Dismal Year for Music Tom Sykes   2021 has been a year to forget for many reasons, not least for

The Importance of Being Beautiful Mary Neale-Smith The word beauty comes from the Old French beaute, originating from the Latin bellus meaning pretty or handsome. The Latin word

Music and Society Ed Merson   When I was 17, my school put on a talk for the whole year. It was about the history

Navigating 2022: When and What to Leave Behind Sia Jyoti   Despite it boiling down to a change in numbers, the event of a new

Do We Really Outgrow Our Childhood Classics? Or Perhaps a Better Question is, Should We? Oluchi Emenike   Maya Angelou wrote “I am convinced that

Has Photography Lost its Focus? Bea Twentyman   The advent of accessible photography has coincided with the implicit mainstreaming of social media. This of course,

Bob Dylan at His Most Sincere Cosmo Adair   New York City, 16th September 1974. A waning singer returns to the studio where he recorded

Is Gender Neutral Fashion Here to Stay? Sophie Harding   The way we dress is one of the biggest expressions of our identity. In an

Student Cooking Done Better George Jessop is a Liberal Arts Student at Leeds who works part-time as a chef at El Gato Negro, a tapas

Is Travelling Overrated? Naomi Sargent   Picture this: you’re sitting in your room, it’s a dreary Thursday evening – the rain is spitting, the sun