Darling Magazine

by Isabel Weeks-Hankins As the summer welcomed a new set of lineups hitting stages across the  country, major festivals like TRNSMT and Latitude are still being criticised for their lack of  female acts. Whilst Tramlines didn’t have any female headliners across the three nights, it  was the women who made the weekend one for the memory books. Flowerovlove photographed by  @steelcitysnapper Pippa Crossland This year’s BBC Introducing act, Sheffield’s own Pippa Crossland has deservedly come full  circle.   On the Library stage, she admitted, “This time last year I could hear the band’s sound checking from my window and now I’m here.” Marrying together her love of Holly Humberstone and Olivia Dean, Crossland has created a unique and intimate sound. To open her set on Friday, she teased a brand-new song set to be released in August. Her lyrics echoed simplicity and resonation as she sang, LI’ll keep the peace and you’ll keep the friends,” perfectly encapsulatin...

With the promise of good weather and good music, crowds poured into Hillsborough Park for Sheffield’s biggest music festival: Tramlines.  Tramlines 2024, Sliding Doors Darling contributor, Issy Weeks-Hankins, was just one of over forty thousands people attending the weekend. Day 1 With my hand sanitiser, suncream, and a water bottle packed tightly in my bum bag, I was raring to head to my first music festival in over three years! Bedroom High Club were the perfect act to start with as they performed their latest single ‘H ARDTALK’ with such an amazing and contagious energy that had me dancing from the get-go.  Besides the five various stages, Hillsborough Park was lined with all sorts of stalls. One of which included a L’Oréal Paris and Stand Up partnership as part of their “Never Your Fault” campaign dedicated to changing the mindset on harassment in public places. Here, individuals were encouraged to complete a five minute training course on how to safely deal with harassmen...

by Sadik Ghita “Summer- what?” “Summerween! The people in this town love halloween so much they celebrate it twice a year!” This quote, from the first season of Gravity Falls which came out 12 years ago, is the latest TikTok trending audio signalling this year’s unusual summer obsession with horror.  Slasher movies have been a staple of horror cinema since their rise in the late 1970s and the early 1990s.  Considered one of the most controversial sub-genres in cinema, Slasher movies revolve around very specific criteria, such as a mysterious serial killer with a backstory who hunts down and murders a group of people in a small town, often teenagers often portrayed as engaging in behaviors that might be seen as morally questionable, such as partying, drinking, or having sex, which traditionally signals their impending doom.  From John Carpenter’s Halloween, to Wes Craven’s Scream, these gory movies provide some of cinema's most iconic moments and some of its most terrifyin...