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Why did the Music Stop? The Grim State of British Music
When looking at the current state of British music and its surrounding culture, it seems increasingly awful. The risks faced by the music industry are more prominent now than they have ever been before. To cover both all the current risks and the underlying reasons for the decline of British music I’ll be looking at…
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inertia fm: september
Welcome back for the second edition of inertia fm where we run through music that we’ve been loving for the past month. With no gigs in sight for the foreseeable future we have trawled the online caverns for some of our classic picks, as well as some new and exciting releases. Enjoy! Ewan’s Picks Shame…
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Book Club – ‘Notes from an Apocalypse’
Welcome to the first entry into the inertia book club, a platform to discuss some of the most interesting features in our bookshelves. In said discussions we are not aiming to review our chosen literature, but give more of an overview of the themes of each piece and to interject with our own interpretations and…
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Media Manipulation and the Migrant Crisis
The BBC and Sky News have reached a new low last week, preying on migrants crossing the English Channel in the hunt for a news story. In the footage posted by both outlets there is a clear cat and mouse scenario that is played out with a complete absence of self awareness on the parts…
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inertia fm: august
This is the inaugural entry to a (hopefully) monthly series in which we lay out some of the music that we’ve been playing nonstop each month. For August we’ve selected twenty songs that have been keeping us going, with a bit of a mixed bag in terms of genre and mood. We feel this encapsulates…
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Lockdown 2.0: Aberdeen
I recently experienced a phenomenon that I cannot recall ever previously occurring in all of my life. This past week I heard Aberdeen, my lifelong love-hate affair, referred to during BBC Newsbeat on Radio 1. As menial as this may seem it did catch me off guard as usually to hear mention of Aberdeen on…
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Welcome to Inertia
Hello, you are currently reading the very first blog post on Inertia. This is a blog created as a platform to share our writings and different points of view on an array of topics that have grabbed our interest. Primarily these can be categorised into three main subject matters: focusing on culture such as music,…
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