ALWAYS BRIT NEWS March 2015

Tom Reed (MTH 04) played Das Singh in a Channel 4 Docu-Drama, UKIP: The First 100 days. The show is set in a future where UKIP has won a shock victory in the general election and Nigel Farage is Prime Minister.

Willa Burton (VAD 12) offered a solution to bad-hair days during London Fashion Week by opening a pop-up shop, The Braid Bar. It was featured in the Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/beauty/hair/the-braidy-bunch-a-humble-braid-is-this-seasons-hottest-hairdo-10034381.html

Loyle Carner (THEATRE 13) who has just finished supporting Alumni, Kate Tempest pulls at heartstrings with this powerful song and music video of BFG https://youtu.be/w-ba3H_Sv6o where he is shown holding his little brother on his shoulders.

The SE London rapper captures the complexity of grief in a single, striking image for his choked up track BFG dazeddigtial.com

Kate Tempest (MUSIC 04) is featured in the New York Times ahead of her journey across the pond with performances in Los Angeles and New York, where she will appear at the Mercury Lounge on March 24th. The tour is to promote her debut album, Everybody Down, a narrative in rap that came out worldwide last May and was nominated for a Mercury Prize as Album of the Year.

Elliott Barnes-Worrell (THEATRE 09) is playing Straker in the National Theatres Man and Superman alongside Ralph Fiennes (aka Voldemort).

Kerry Enright (MTH 99) plays the Queen of Hearts in Alice: A New Musical at the St James Studio until 21st March. An immensely powerful presence even when smiling sweetly, she is frankly terrifying at close quarters when angry, everyone in the audience nervously laughing, hoping she will not at any moment reach out and chop off our own heads in a heartbeat! Her powerhouse diva solo Ill Take Your Head frankly lifts the roof off the Studio. Its worth the ticket price just to hear her solo. MusicalTheatreReview.com Jake Davies (BRIDGE 12) is starring in X+Y a film released Friday 13 March with Asa Butterfield and Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11849068.Sidcup_actor__21__talks_performing_alongside_Rafe_Spall_and_Eddie_Marsan_as_he_takes_on_starring_role_in_new_film_X___Y/