INTRODUCTION^

Welcome to The Filter^ REVIEW

Created in July 2004, we are an online assembly of cultural essays. Encompassing opera, music, theatre, and architecture our range of reviewers provide honest and independent assessments of live events. Our motivation is enthusiasm, and providing our share of the social contract between audience and stage.

i propose a revolutionary new field for review, the 'Lukewarm'. Essentially these are albums and shows that are neither all that new nor all that old, and for which no one really cared that much anyway. It's essentially a re-appraisal, a chance to show appreciation for the lesser known achievements of pop, to dig out the obscure and the obtuse and give them to the world.
Thomas Conolly, Pop Music Editor

Forget your pre-concieved ideas about 'classical music' (a term which I avoid at all costs), whether forged irrationally or by the horrendous mis-representation of 'art music' (a term I prefer) by the media
Andrew Mellor, Art Music/Opera Editor

Architecture is art, underpinned by strong creative impulses; architecture is politics, expressing through its forms both clear and elusive messages about the person and society that creates it; architecture, perhaps above all, is emotion, created to engage with our aesthetic sensibilities, with our ideas of beauty, even with our sense of morality.
Matthew Whitfield, Architecture Editor

Play's weren't written to be read (or recited), but to be performed. Barriers between stage and audience should be destroyed to create a pitch-side rawness that borders on spontaneity. The theatre should not be the province of the pretentious, but a forum for honest entertainment: blasting through a pervading culture of passivity.
Anthony Evans, Theatre/Art Editor

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