January 2017, Comedy Central
Lifetime movies will go down in history as some of the trashiest and most ridiculous films that have ever been commissioned and then actually carried through with. Which makes the news that they’re going to release an UNOFFICIAL (all unfiltered dirt, salacious gossip and wild speculation guaranteed) Britney biopic one of the best things we’ve heard all year.
Read the full article, with all Britney’s unofficial glory …read more
28 August 2014, Spindle
What a bank holiday weekend it’s been for showbiz with our much loved stars of both the pop and television worlds coming forth to receive worldly recognition, as both the VMAs and the Emmys took place.
As we all know, aside from a post-mortem examination of the deserved winners and shamefully unacknowledged, the latter can largely be boiled down to a hit list of the best and worst dressed women and while this correspondent would love to (and easily …read more
What a week it’s been in the world of celeb news. Orlando Bloom has shown himself to be an autobot sent to do the world’s bidding and decked Justin Bieber; Prince Harry posed in a photo with another ginger; and Lauren Goodger, formerly of TOWIE, has become the latest victim of revenge porn, with a seven minute video of her and her ex leaked onto the internet and doing the rounds. Torrid, TORRID affairs.
Really, who can say what was the most shocking piece of gossip of …read more
February 12 2014, Spindle Magazine
“I hate you so much right now.”
Ah words, sweet, sweet words. How often you are inspired at this time of year. Rising up in my chest like bile, which is also there. Why, the very force of hate that I channel practically causes my hair to spring up in tight coils of rage like Kelis’ own.
Ah yes, you have seen me through some tough Valentine’s, words, there for me when the rage blackout silenced all other, lesser, expressions of anger. I …read more
February 10 2014, Spindle Magazine
Post (feelings of) ‘burn out’ and break, Wild Beasts’ decision to take some time out from the cycle of creating albums and relentlessly touring to facilitate recording more albums to relentlessly tour, has culminated in the soon-to-be-released Present Tense: an album they have spent the most time on, from conception to creation, to date.
It’s seems safe to say that by their fourth album, the band have further refined their ‘voice’ and that …read more
January 4 2013, Spindle Magazine
Oh Canada (oh Canada). You’ve been good to us over the years. You gave us maple syrup, Mounties, Jason Priestly and Pamela Anderson. Things got a little shaky, admittedly, with Avril Lavigne and Nickelback, but then we put more maple syrup on our pancakes and, in the ensuing sugar rush, things looked pretty rosy again. And what do we do to repay you, oh great and most generous giver of a country? Largely, by making fun of your accent. So it stands to reason you’d want to keep …read more
January 2 2013, Spindle Magazine
The first time I call Alt-J there’s no answer. All too aware of the tight time allocations for all interviews I persist until, eventually, someone picks up. Relieved, I brightly introduce myself. The voice on the other end is wary.
“Oh right… who are you supposed to be interviewing?”
“Er… Alt-J?” I helpfully proffer like a colossal berk (I’ve not been given any information beyond ‘call the band at this time’). The voice asks if he can call me back; he wasn’t …read more
December 7 2012, Spindle Magazine
Welcome, dear friends, to the inside of my head. Please, won’t you duck under that tinsel — watch the Christmas tree, mind — and come join me by this crackling fire. Mistletoe? Oh, why not. It’s December, my favourite time of year when, as anyone that knows me will be able to tell you, I am overcome with oodles of festive cheer, joy and merriment to the most obnoxious degree. Feel that cool breeze on the back of your neck? That would be the collective sigh of ex boyfriends …read more
December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6
Before Erika M. Anderson became E.M.A. (future pin up of angsty teens), she was front woman of drone folk band, Gowns, whom you may or may not have heard of. If you haven’t, you could probably be forgiven since they ‘self- destructed’ back in 2010 after just the one album and I’m not entirely sure their live shows, driven by a frenzied chaos that became a trademark, ever made it out of the us underground scene to this side of the pond. That kind of …read more
December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6
I’ve been sitting on this question for some time now, desperately hoping that at some point (preferably before deadline) enlightenment would hit like lightning from the heavens above. Yet alas, no matter how hard I ponder it, I’m no closer to an answer to this, most infernal of riddles. So I’m turning it over to you, reader of this article.
It’s a question I didn’t overly concern myself with until I interviewed them at Bestival ’11. …read more
Amy Lavelle is a freelance journalist who writes for the likes of Grazia, Glamour, Red, The Pool, Metro, Telegraph and the Independent, among others.
Amy is represented by Amanda Preston and Hannah Schofield at LBA. Her debut novel, Definitely Fine, published by Orion Fiction, is out now. Her second novel, Home Sweet Home, came out in April 2023.
