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Joseph Laybourn

Up and Coming: Proving Size Doesn’t Matter

The music world is constantly evolving, with a new wave of up-and-coming artists redefining genres and pushing creative boundaries. Finding the newest singer-songwriter or rock band is a daunting task, new music is constantly being dropped. Whether you’re searching for fresh sounds in pop, R&B, alt, or rock, these emerging

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Joseph Laybourn

Coast Arcade

Last week I interviewed Bella, the frontwoman and vocals, and Leo, the bass player of Coast Arcade – a 4-piece indie rock band from Auckland – who in my uneducated, groupie opinion, are the most promising new band of the 21st century. Here’s our discussion. Talk to me about Acetone,

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Joseph Laybourn

Love in the Future

My girlfriend blinks to awake as I roll over, the gloomy smog peering in through the slit in the curtains. “Good morning, how did you sleep?” Alexa asks, I mumble a response and shuffle out to the kitchen to prepare my nutrition substitute ration, I bring Alexa with me. As

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Joseph Laybourn

How To Stay Friends With Your Flatmates

It’s a new year: you’ve managed to find some decent friends and rallied them together to find a flat. Fuck, now what? The trials and tribulations of flatting can rip apart the closest of friends, or bind you together closer than any life-or-death experience could. It can bring you to

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Joseph Laybourn

Eco-Terrorism or Eco-Heroism?

The term eco-terrorism usually refers to an act of violence in support of environmental causes, against property or people. But can this really be called terrorism? The Cambridge Dictionary defines terrorism as “violent action or threats designed to cause fear among ordinary people, in order to achieve political aims” (the

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Joseph Laybourn

A Day In The Life of a 3rd-Year Engineering Student

The lecture theatre is too bright. The lecturer is droning on about some abstract concept, I’m not sure he’s using real words anymore: “orthogonal array” and “Ziegler-Nichol’s tuning”. I didn’t get enough sleep last night; I was up ‘till the wee hours of the morning finishing an assignment, another round

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Joseph Laybourn

Gay Man Infiltrates Far Right Militia

Journalist Joshua Kaplan, has published an article about a gay man, John Willaims, who infiltrated far right militias AP3 and Oath Keepers. After the January 6th storming of the US Capitol, Williams was convinced something had to be done about the growing militia groups in America. With previous survival experience

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Joseph Laybourn

Sports Centre – Issue 04 Vol. 58

Why You Should Care About Sport Sports. There’s so many of them, right? Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Formula One, Netball, Cricket, Basketball… Some are more popular than others, and most people have a sport they consider their own. Maybe you follow Football because that’s the way of your family.

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