Festival Survival 101
Ahh festivals. A weekend comprising of immense fun, cold beers in the sun, great music and rancid hygiene standards….beautiful. So if you’re about to lose your festival cherry this summer, read on! Whilst you may have gathered up nuff cash to buy your beloved Reading/ Oxygen/ Glasto/ Latitude/Leeds ticket, or if you were vey veyy lucky, dear mama and papa will have forked out a pretty penny for their little ‘darrhhhling’ to go play in a field. It’s hugely unlikely... Read More
Final Update
Hello Hello, Well here it is, the end of the year and a ‘goodbye’ from me. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on The View this year and good luck to those who are carrying on the good work. I hope we’ve managed to keep you lovely readers relatively well entertained and chirpy throught the dark academic times. Here’s just a few more bits and bobs to help you to feed the habit this summer which is set to be another good one! Oxford is a fantastic place... Read More
Music for Your Summer
I can now safely say that summer break is now upon us! No more exams, essays or nauseating presentations… for the next few months at least! There’s many routes you’ll all be taking this summer, maybe it’s backpacking through Asia or building schools in Africa, Surfing down south or attending festivals across the country, or even simply working back home to save up some cash, no matter what it is that you do, you’ll be in need a summer playlist to... Read More
The Legend of the Festival Band
It seems to me that there are two types of festival goers: those who cut their wristbands off as soon as the weekend fun comes to a close (or perhaps a day or two later to act as a not-so-subtle reminder for their friends to ask said festival goer about what a fantastic time they had…) and those who build a proud armful of festival bands dating back five or more years. “Say, what’s that mouldy, twisted piece of string on your wrist there Sundance-May?” “Oh... Read More
DHP presents The Naked & Famous – 19th May 2011
The O2 post-fuzzy’s was never going to be the best experience in the world; the lingering smell of shame and regret, hideously sticky floor and extortionate drink prices were enough to put the average non-student off. However, a nice mixture of students, younger kids and middle-aged folk comprised the audience at this gig. The five-piece rock band from New Zealand, who could be likened to MGMT and Passion Pit, started their set around 9pm and amongst a few small technical... Read More
Boobs are just Boobs, right?… Wrong!
As Triumph, the lingerie brand took a confident move in Australia this March to begin reimagining the labels we give to body shapes, I was left wondering will this really lead to improved physical perception amongst women, or will this just lead to a whole new series of connotations? This isn’t Triumph’s first try at telling us that we’re not fat or boyish. Female body-perception is something the rest of the media love to ignore in taking action whilst they love to ‘hate’... Read More
