Fame wasn’t always a friend to Maura Higgins. At first, it was a stranger dazzling and intrusive, barging into her life with flashing cameras and soaring expectations. Their first meeting was on the set of Love Island, where fame arrived with smiles that seemed to dull the threat of its sharper edges.

People say you either have a creative brain, or an intellectual brain but that’s simply not true, you can absolutely be both! After the Pandemic and cancer diagnosis derailed my plans to jet off to Australia to study sharks I started to shift towards a more creative outlet. To start with it was just so I had something to do whilst going through treatment etc. but it’s now spiralled and really turned into a passion project.

Kate Ireland is a poet, performer and artist from Glasgow. The way she uses language is distinct. Kate manages to express the deepest most personal things that many of us struggle to put into words. She talks about society, depression, neurodivergence, and culture.

It’s rare to find a musician who can embody both control and liberation. The two are, by definition, opposites; words that history and fiction alike have used to draw lines between factions at war. But not for CHINCHILLA. Her career proves that freedom and order can co-exist.

I think growing up in musical theatre definitely shaped everything about how I approach music now. Not just how I perform, but how I write and think about songs. There’s this built-in sense of drama and emotion in theatre, where every lyric has a purpose and every story has a picture.

Exclusive interview featuring artist Marusia Makhmutova for Original x Vol 2. I think it's a way of showing admiration for dad's work and my love for him. At the same time, it was about creating a dialogue between generations, finding connections between the past and the present.

In two hours, Allie Sherlock will step out onto London’s Bush Hall stage. The chatter and anticipation of the crowd, already here, reaches us backstage; a glimmer of what’s to come. Confident, excited, and completely in her element…

Nava Mau is an award-winning filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker. She wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the acclaimed short film “Waking Hour,” which screened globally. As a Production Fellow for Netflix’s documentary “Disclosure” and a producer on the Sundance-premiered short “Work,” Nava has made her mark behind the scenes.

All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth on Independence, Intention, and the Community That Carries Them. “It’s fun to experience your music again through everyone else’s eyes.” When All Time Low, long-standing titans of the pop-punk genre, announced new music, speculation buzzed louder than ever…”