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Welcome to Label’s fortnightly news update, bringing you a few headlines from Loughborough, the UK and around the world. Nominations for LEAs Now Open You can nominate people or groups for the four awards at the Loughborough Experience Awards: the Loughborough Experience Award, Warden Team Member of the Year, Staff Member of the Year, Dame Shirley Pearce Team of the Year. If a specific individual has made an impact on your time here at Loughborough and has made an impact on many aspects of Loughborough, you can nominate them for the Experience Award here. Gender Pay Gap All organisations…
Returning volunteer, Isaac Cave, discusses his inspiration for his own writing. Since the beginning of this year I have written ten articles for Label, mostly for the entertainment section. I have been enjoying a great sense of personal achievement that comes with creative writing and critique of film, TV, music and video games. However, this is something relatively new to me, as prior to joining Label as a volunteer, my writing habits consisted almost entirely of school and academic work. Little more than dry, black and white essays about as deep and interesting as a glass of water and…
Our Sport Editor, Charles Metcalfe, discusses why the documentary Free Solo became an Oscar-winning film. “People who know a little bit about climbing are like, ‘Oh, he’s totally safe’, and then people who really know exactly what he’s doing are freaked out” – Tommy Caldwell, Free Solo The Oscars took place last month, and whilst everyone was freaking out over Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, climbers were freaking out over Free Solo. Free Solo won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature this year with its depiction of Alex Honnold’s free solo (no ropes, just a bag o’ chalk) ascent…
Label Editor, Amie Woodyatt, chatted to Australian band President Street, and headliners The Fireflys, while on their Coffee House tour. President Street Are you all enjoying the Coffee House Sessions Tour so far? Great, seeing a lot of England which has been awesome. Places we wouldn’t see normally if we just came om a holiday; the tourist side of it has been really fun. Staying in the little towns we’ve been going to, and obviously the universities have been great. And the Firefly’s as well, it’s been awesome touring with a fun band; they’re good guys, good music, makes…
Returning volunteer, Meg Jocson-Ong, brings you our latest article on how she grew as an individual during her placement this year. Confident, communicative, and outgoing. These are words I could use less than often to describe myself before I began my placement. After a last-minute decision, in April 2018, to take on a placement year, I can say nothing but positive and encouraging words for those who are still on edge about taking that leap into the working world. There were many factors that I considered before deciding that I wanted to go on placement. To be honest, the…
Label Volunteer, Maria Petreanu, gives us her review of the Netflix Original Sex Education. I’m not going to lie, the preview for Sex Education made me incredibly skeptical about whether it would be something I’d enjoy or simply cringe over. However, the concept of sex education being explored through a Netflix show with a Margot Robbie look-alike in a lead role (pretty sure we’ve all thought it was her at some point) seemed intriguing enough to me that I decided to give it a chance. Fifteen minutes into the first episode and a few awkward but incredibly quick-witted jokes later,…
Volunteer writer Ada Ughanwa gives us the latest lowdown on Brexit. The whole of the country is on standby as Britain awaits its nearing fate on Friday 12th April. With the country in turmoil and a prime minister unstable, Britain’s future looks to be shaky one. Britain was set to exit the European Union on Friday 29th March, however, on the day politicians within parliament opposed Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal; the third time in a row. The reason behind her opposition was that Britain couldn’t take full control over its affairs with the EU. Theresa May has now resulted…
Winner of the BBC Sound of 2018, Sigrid was always destined to be big on the music scene. Rather than rushing out an album, like some might do in that situation, riding on the wave of success, Sigrid instead waited – and published a superb, wholesome blend of pop melody and raw emotion in her debut album, Sucker Punch. A superstar in waiting, her superb first LP blends explosive pop alongside melodic ballads, composing an album full of feeling, emotion and passion. Many of the songs on the album will already be well known – Don’t Kill My Vibe and…
LSUTV Station Manager (and now, Label volunteer) Tim McGovern gives a gripping review of Netflix’s “Losers”. In sports, you win… or lose. Nearly everyone focuses on the result of something, not the process leading to it. It comes down to whowon the gold medal. After all, who remembers second place? History loves to remember the winners, when we should be giving time for the losers as well. In early March, Netflix released one of its new docu-series: “Losers”. It tells the stories of various people across a multitude of sports and how they coped with the highs of victories,…
One of our Heads of Social Media, Emma Ames, sits down with Coffee House Sessions performer Harry Heart. Hi Harry, it’s very nice to meet you. So, I’ll jump straight in. Tell us about yourself and your music. Well, I play by myself at the moment here in England but I also play with a band back in Australia as I live in Sydney. I play indie-rock when I’m playing with the band and when I’m by myself I play renditions of those songs to the best of my ability. That’s great. So, I know you are a…