Ungagged Bands

Unqualified Nurse Band

Unqualified Nurse Band, in ethos and sound, are a force to be reckoned with. Their debut album was described as: “a cataclysmic explosion of all that has gone before, deconstructing that history before smashing it all back together in a ferocious reaction to the norm” Their second album, Trashland, has been described as mixture of  ‘Pet […]

Poetry

Vampire Limousine

  We are people of the world you and I Literally we are of this world Though the makers of this world despise us -We eat unremarkable food and agonise from time to time over the price of a piece of fillet steak Or some of us learn to content ourselves with non-nutritious chemical substitutes […]

America

America

My name is Em Dehaney, and I have never been to America. I’ve never been to America, but I have walked the steam-vented mean streets of New York, ridden in the yellow taxis and tasted the mustard covered hotdogs. I have gambled with gangsters and seen a city grow from the blood of immigrants, all […]

Feminism

These Shoes Were Made For Kicking

This is what perhaps would have once been characterised as a ‘summer story’. An irate mother, annoyed with the ludicrous names attached to some of the ranges of boys’ and girls’ shoes in Clarks, vented her feelings on social media and the story was picked up by the media and went viral. Plenty of politicians […]