Illustration: Tim Smedley, 2014
ISSUE 31: OXJAM SPECILA EDITION 2014 FREE
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t’s here again! We’ve barely recovered from last year, and BOOM! The OXJAM Takeover comes rocking ‘round the corner again; a burgeoning juggernaut of cracking music, top notch artists, tons of activities and a full on day-long party for Beeston to revel in. Oxjam is a huge festival; cracking off in towns and cities all over Britain. Despite being one of the geographically smaller places to host a Takeover, we’re one of the best at raising money, last year taking over £10,000 – double our target. Inside this special issue, we’re giving you all you need to know to survive the festival: a map, a programme, and a guide to a few of the artists you’ll find on the day. We’ve even got our in-house music genius Jimmy Wiggins to show the festival from a musician’s perspective. It’s the fourth Beeston OXJAM, and the biggest by far. We’ve got extra venues, more bands, and even an official OXJAM Sausage to go with our OXJAM FestivAle. Last year, the OXJAM Beeston team won the award for Best Community Festival, to recognise the way the event brought different elements of Beeston together. With the stress of the tramworks and Square development, we like to
Ode to Oxjoy! think OXJAM has been giving the town a bit of a boost each year. While it’s great fun, and a top day out - there is a point to it all. The money raised goes towards the fantastic work Oxfam does abroad and at home, developing permanent solutions to pull people out of poverty; while reacting to crises when they strike. Every penny you donate really makes a difference. There’s also more going on ‘round town than just bands. You’ll find Carnival of Monsters art festival in Bartons, alongside ‘THIS IS IS BEESTON’, a University of Nottingham special event: you’ll find more details of these on the back page. The Creative Corner by Cator Lane will also be throwing a hue party in the day: its not too be missed. This will be the last OXJAM held while the tramworks tear through the town (well, we really hope so, anyway), and rumour has it (at least when we went to press) that Chilwell Road will open on the same weekend, after 18 months cut off by car. As if we needed even more reasons to celebrate. Beeston OXJAM. A bit like Glastonbury, but without the mud, portaloos and hordes of glamping yuppies. Lord Beestonia Buy your tickets online, and get live event information at: oxjambeestontakeover.org and follow @oxjamBeeston and #oxjambeeston on Twitter and Facebook for all the action as it happens.
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the ‘14 LINE UP 1. BARTONS 6.30pm - 2 am (ENGINE SHOP) 23:00
I AM LONO
22:00
The Protoneers
21:00
Suicide Pil
20:00
I am Jupiter
19:00 Shapes of Things (GALLERY)
20:30
Zoojar (DJ)
19:30
Sasha Khan (DJ)
13:30
7. THE CROWN 12.30pm - 6pm
22:50
No Disco!
21:50
Molly & Jack
17:10
Middle:6
21:00
Jamie Moon
16:10
Waiting for Susan
20:00 DooHickey Wire Band
15:10
Crazy Heart
14:20
Oldish Spice
19:10
Joel Edward
13:30
Christian Zwingel
The Nightwires
12:30
UP
Rick Donohue (DJ)
18:10
00:30
Midnight Wire
23:30
Fighting Evil is Cool
17:10 The Face That Boils Itself
22:30
The Madeline Rust
21:30
IVORYSERFS
20:30
The Zufflers
19:30
Anticure
18:30
The Irish Chemists
(UPSTAIRS) 23:00
Jeckyll’s Ruse
22:00 The President Lincoln 21:00
Death Notes
20:00 Confyde 19:00
Fusor
18:00
Same Street
17:00 Sea Monster Eyes
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(DOWNSTAIRS) 22:30
Synic (DJ)
21:30
Donna Bentley (DJ)
Thomas Larcombe
3. HOP POLE 2pm - 12am
01:15
2. THE BAR 5pm - 12am
14:20 Emma Bladon Jones
16:30
Al Appleby
15:40
Seb Caddick
14:50
Issaka
14:00
Pop Orchestra
5. STAR INN 2pm - 11pm 21:50
Midnight Special
9. RELISH 1.30pm - 4.30pm 16:00
Rosh
15:10
Anna Heery
14:20
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
13:30
Steve Benford
20:50 Anteloup
10. THE BEAN 2pm - 5.30pm
19:50
Phil Langran Band
16:50
Dave Mitchell
19:00
Anna Heery
16:30
Thomas Larcombe
18:10
Calm Man Club
15:40
Jelly
17:10
Hayley Queen
14:50
Terry Lewis
16:20
Issaka
14:00
Beeston Voices
14:00 BoHoP & Jeanie Barton 6. BELLE & JEROME 2pm - 5.30pm 16:50
Josh Kemp
16:00
Georgia Fowler
15:10
Calm Man Club
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11. CREATIVE CORNER 12pm - 2pm 12:00
Faye & Tonya
12:50
Luis Ogando
13:40
Georgia Fowler
( PLEASE NOTE: ALL TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE! SEE FINAL LINE-UP ON OUR WEBSITE, APP & PROGRAMME )
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WRISTBANDS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL VENUES AFTER 6PM Guitar Spot The Hop Pole
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know what you’re thinking – ‘All this giving to charity is great but, apart from all the awesome music, what’s in it for me...?’
Well, how would you like to combine giving to charity with the opportunity to win great prizes? You would? Great, because by sheer coincidence OXJAM also has a raffle running this year.
Buy a ticket (or twelve) at any venue and you’ll be in the running to receive any one of the following stupendiant (stupendous and brilliant) prizes: Fair Trade hamper from Queens Road Co Op; haircut from Mint Hair Boutique (Station Road); tapas for two at the White Lion; gallon of beer from The Star; case of six bottles of Four Seasons white wine also from The Star; bottle of red and a bottle of white from The Crown; a sock making kit including needles and yarn from Yarn on Chilwell Road; afternoon tea for two from Relish on Chilwell Road; a plant from The Flower Shop on Chilwell Road; two tickets to The Beeston Cinema; two
The White Lion
tickets for three Beestonian Film Club at Cafe Roya; haircut at Keith Hall; 2lb cake from ShengWah bakery (Beeston High Road); dinner for two at ShengWah Restaurant; three hours of karaoke for 10 at ShengWah karaoke; two £5 meal vouchers at Jerry’s diner (Beeston High Road); 10 OXJAM CDs; a rare Beestonian t-shirt; ... and lots more, as yet unconfirmed, prizes donated by Belle & Jerome and Café Roya!
Personally, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that gallon of beer and the sock making kit... what a weekend that’ll be! CF
Who’s next…? There are over 70 acts playing Oxjam this year, so The Beestonian put all names in a hat and pulled out a small section to preview. please feel free to send us YOUR highlights after the event. No Disco! These guys really fill the noughties emo pop rock hole in my heart. Though even to call them emo is doing No Disco a real disservice. This is feel-good music at its best and it never ceases to get me moving, as long as no one’s watching of course. You can’t pin ‘em down, but you must see them. Hell, I’ll be right at the front of this one. You’ll recognise me. I’ll be the one desperately trying not to jump with joy. Sounds like… Jimmy Eat World, Face to Face, Bivouac, Bad Astronaut Introvert Scale: 10/10 God damn it, the joy is spreading like an airborne virus, and I’m all out of breath. Get in that pit! CF The Death Notes When you first hear the Death Notes, you imagine a dark place, possibly haunted by the soul of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. Their music has been compared to the Salford based quartet, with its brooding atmospherics and disturbing lyrics. Even the name of the band reminds you that life can end at any moment. CDF Joe Barber It was good news when I was given Joe Barber to review, not least because when I checked to see if he was on the Oxjam CD I bought last month, I found he was the man behind track five which had been on repeat for days. “That Girl of Mine” is its title, and while I could write about how Joe’s writing and voice defy his years; or about his nimble expertise on the slide guitar; to my simple ears, this was just a pleasing and catchy tune I wanted to sing along to. I can’t wait to see Joe at Oxjam, where my imagination, and Joe’s blues will transport me from a jolly fine venue in Beeston to an old gin joint / porch in the Deep South circa 1930! MH
Oldish Spice A Capella covers. What more can I say? I’d join you in watching them, but I’d be too afraid of making eye contact with one of them and being suddenly convinced he was singing just for me… Sounds like… whatever band they’re doing an A Capella cover of… Introvert Scale: 1/10 Sorry guys but the intimate gig just doesn’t work for the introvert. I’ll be showing my support for these by being somewhere dark, alone and safe. CF Hayley Queen Hayley Queen has a beautiful and strong voice, so much so that she easily transitions between genres, moving from blues to jazz, before segwaying over to country rock. Sadly though this is the kind of music that I like to sway to by myself in the darkness. I suppose I could close my eyes. Sounds like… Sundays, a hint of Adele (but sooo much better), Nick Cave Introvert Scale: 5/10 – If I don’t drink then my inhibitions will remain at their usual zip-line tight heights, and no one will see Hayley strumming my soul with her fingers. CF Dave Mitchell If you can imagine a Beestonian version of say John Martyn, then you have Dave Mitchell. If you’re a fan of Oxjam, then you would have seen him at last year’s event where he played a set at the Bean, and everyone will have seen his prehistoric yellow Citroen van chugging around the neighbourhood. Living on the same street, I have known Dave a number of years now, and he has taken his songwriting and guitar playing to a whole new level over the past year or so. He was especially in top form at a well received gig over at the Lincolnshire Poacher back in January. Besides writing well crafted songs himself, usually about lamenting a lost love, he does an awesome version of Stan Rogers’ The Lockkeeper. CDF I AM LONO A real hit at last year’s festival, it’s
great to see synthy art-rockers I AM LONO return to play Oxjam. Spiky guitars battle with armies of keyboards on intoxicating, disorienting but never not thrilling joyrides. A must-see live: they’re cooler than the driest dry ice and sharper than a witty compass factory. LB Rosh According to the, I’m Not From London team; the music of Rosh Rai is “Indie folk with a hit of lemon.” And I don’t think they mean Keith. Rosh’s profile on his page says that he is a Nottingham based singer-songwriter whose known for true craftsmanship on guitar and vocals, with songs that are noted for both melodic content and insightful lyrics. And who are we to disagree? CDF Steve Benford According to his twitter feed, Prof Benford has recently been researching laser etched guitars via Aetheticodes technology. You can read the story about the Carolan Guitar at a beautiful website at www. carolanguitar.com Not sure what Steve is planning to play on his set but if it’s the new guitar you are in for a technological treat! KA The Madeline Rust With lines like “Rolling up to the station, turned a gun in”, you know that you’re not going to be listening to a modern disposable pop band. Two thirds Beeston based; their drummer lives in Wollaton, the Madeline Rust are an exceptionally talented trio and their debut album Truth or Consequences should be in everyone’s record collection. Bass player and singer Lucy has a mighty fine pair of lungs on her and can belt out their lyrics louder than a passing plane that’s just taken off from East Midlands Airport. Guitarist Aly can shred a six string as good as any hard rock axeman, while his brother and backing singer is no other than our very own Calm Man Club. CDF Protoneers With a strong following on Facebook and Twitter, British Rock Band ‘The Protoneers’ from Lincolnshire are looking forward to unleashing their music to Nottingham fans. Having recently performed in Grantham, Leicester and Sheffield, the band’s new single ‘Loosen Up’ recently had
this with the intention of being the audience member who elects to give the performer “encouragement” through the medium of your witty drunken banter read on. Musician’s hear and get this crap all the timeyou are not funny; you are just drunk. We have heard it all before, and if one of us did play Freebird it’s on for ten minutes (actually with most pub bands, the guitar solo is at least that even without the rest of the song)- probably nine minutes longer than your drunken attention span can cope with. Why not just enjoy yourself a bit more quietly? Maybe some interpretive dance? I have to admit I’m not really into this outward kind of enjoying yourself, so keep it away from me…
its first broadcast on EGH Radio. Singer songwriter guitarist with the band, Sam Thomas, says: “Having not previously exposed our music to Nottingham as much as we’d have liked, being involved for this year’s OXJAM Festival will be a great opportunity for this to change. It’s a gig that we are excited about and would encourage people to not only attend to support the bands/ artists involved but also show their support for Oxfam” More info at theprotoneers.com KA Midnight Wire There’ll be a heck of a lot of pint raising, singing along and, inevitably, mirth at this gig. I’ll be at home in bed with my camomile tea, rereading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. But hey, bring me back a CD and I’ll give you the money. Sounds like – Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys Introvert Scale: 1/10 – The kind of band that ideally I’d listen to surrounded by cardboard cut-outs of people, as opposed to the real thing. CF Emma Bladon Jones / Midnight Special If you didn’t catch Emma Bladon Jones last year, then you must have been either blind, blind drunk, or at the wrong festival. EBJ played EVERY venue in a 10 hour gigathon, hotly pursued by her roadie dad and a BBC cameraman. While suffering from laryngitis. Her voice was still as sweet as ever though, singing lyrics that have earned her the Hop Pole Songwriter of the Year Award for the past two years. She’ll also be playing with Joe Barber (see above) later in the evening as part of the bluescountryfolktastic Midnight Special. LB
A musician’s guide to
Oxjam T
he Tweed one (I’m assuming that’s me? – Tweed-free Ed) has asked me to write about (I think) the etiquette of live performing and perhaps certain expectations and differing realities. After all there are going to be a lot of acts performing in one day, a wide variety of styles and a mix of experienced and new performers. A bit like an open mic, OXJAM has its fair share of people who don’t perform live that often. That alone can be pretty nerve wracking- add to the fact that you are possibly playing to a big audience; and you’re only on for about 20 minutes. So imagine you get all fired up for your performance of that new material you have maybe been working on all year; perhaps you have created a new genre a new bedsit despair kind of music that will take people on a journey into your personal hell?… Then some pissed up fucker yells “Play Freebird”… Or maybe yells “rock n roll” whilst making the heavy metal hand sign (if you are over 30 and still do this, either buy in big-time and wear spandex full-time, or just grow up, ok?). The realities of live performance combined with people and beer are deffo there to burst your little red balloon. But as a man with a bar of soap stuffed up his arse once said “That’s life, boy”. If you are reading
So that’s the two drunks who might be in the audience dealt with. What about performers? Charity events are always a bit of a logistical nightmare. Firstly you are dealing with musicians- you might as well be herding cats. If you can get all four members of a band in the same place at the right time, possibly with all your equipment you are either very clever, lying, or have some free drugs. The main problem from the soundman and the venue manager’s point of view is the fact that you have to get everyone on and off real quick. And like I said you are dealing with musicians. So if any musos read this before they climb onstage think about the following. You are onstage for roughly twenty minutes. You are going to have to do without a full sound check- get your levels and get on with it. Also try and bring WORKING equipment and the right leads for any iPods or stuff you might require. Oddly the sound guy will not have all these things instantly at their disposal. They don’t carry round drumkits in their back pockets. As there are a lot of acoustic acts- when was the last time you changed that battery in the guitar? Yeah I know probably never- get all your stuff working. Finally leave your ego at home- it’s a charity event. You are not that tosser out of U2 or Bob Geldofget on stage have fun, make the best of it and enjoy it. After all you don’t want anyone making a Bono style delete tool for your music? JW Jimmy Wiggins performs live regularly, as well as selling guitars and teaching people how to play them at The Guitar Shop, Chilwell Road. If you do catch him live, be sure to ask him to play some Lynard Skynard...
illustration: DeMaN
it in the sausage skin. What follows resembles the most cack-handed Generation Game contestant having a bad day. Getting the meat into the skin is incredibly tricky, and my attempts horrify Johnny: some lengths of the sausage are so full of air they look like ill balloons, others so stuffed with meat they resemble a bodybuilder on all the world’s steroids. Thankfully, Johnny takes over and artfully produces dozens of perfectly uniform, gorgeous looking sausage with artful ease. The sausages are then smoked with locally sourced cherry and apple wood, before being declared ready. We decide to try some: well, it would be rude not to, wouldn’t it?
Bangerz Sausages. Possibly the best edible thing in the world. So we found the best maker of the best edible food and teamed up to make something incredible.
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e try and cater for all needs with OXJAM. Want excellent live music? Well, of course. Want booze that raises funds for charity? You got it: last year we launched ‘FestivAle’ with Magpie Brewery, this year it’ll be back in venues not just in Beeston but nationwide. Top quality food to nom down between gigs? This year, your food prayers are answered. We hit upon the idea of a sausage, but where to find a sausage maker? By incredible luck, Beeston is home to multiple-award winning sausage maker Johnny Pustzai, possibly Britain’s Best butcher who we’ve featured before in The Beestonian. He agreed, so we hopped on a bus to
They are sublime: packed full of a sweetness complementing the beef, before you’re left with a chilli zing. Served on a bun with just a touch of mustard or ketchup you have a mobile meal perfect for the roving festival goer. They go perfectly with the Oxjam FestivAle, of course, and Johnny will be making a donation for every sausage. LB
his shop, JT Beedham and Sons in Sherwood, to put together a bespoke banger. Johnny doesn’t let anything like convention come between himself and sausage design. He sells a bizarre range of flavours, from Rhubarb to Turkey and Cranberry; Chocolate Cappuccino to err, Pizza. Our sausage ‘Beef, chilli and jam’ Johnny explains. ‘Beef’ = Ox; ‘jam’ = well, Jam. OXJAM. Seewhatwedidthere? While Johnny’s professional team of butchers attempt to get on with work while a sausage novice attempts to operate a mincing machine, Johnny takes me through the process. ‘Mince the meat first, and then it needs mixing. We’ll add the chillies, all locally grown, then the binder (finely graded breadcrumbs), with the jam, again locally produced. We then feed the mix into this machine (a seriously hi-tech looking drum that forces the sausage meat into shape) and capture
Clockwise from top, left: Lord B and Johnny share a Disney moment; “harder than you think” (we don’t mean Lord B); would you buy a sausage from these men? Pics © Chris Frost
Get their
Rocks off
Elm Avenue, Beeston was the scene of a party in the early 1960s attended by the Rolling Stones. Photo Credit: Picture the Past.
Our history editor, Joe Earp, satisfies our local history needs, with a little-known ‘Stones tale. And with no stupid dance.
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hen the Rolling Stones began playing gigs around London in 1962, the notion that a rock & roll band would last five years, let alone fifty, was seen as an impossible notion. After all how long would this new music, the latest teenage fad, last for? Other factors made it unlikely that such a momentous occasion would ever come to pass. “I didn’t expect to last until fifty myself, let alone with the Stones,” Keith Richards says with a laugh. “It’s incredible, really. In that sense we’re still living on borrowed time.” “You have to put yourself back into that time,” Mick Jagger says about those early days when he, Keith and guitarist Brian Jones roomed together and were hustling gigs wherever they could find one. “Popular music wasn’t talked about on any kind of intellectual level. There was no such term as ‘popular culture.’ None of those things existed. Mick Jagger further commented that “suddenly popular music became bigger than it had ever been before. It became an important, perhaps the most important, art form of the period, after not at all being regarded as an art form before.” Times and attitudes quickly changed, and now over five decades later, the Rolling Stones are celebrating
over fifty years in the business. With literally scores of genre-setting hits under the group’s belt — and fronted by two of rock’s biggest archetypes — the Rolling Stones have done more to define the look, attitude and sound of rock & roll than any other band in the genre’s history. What is the band’s connection with Nottingham and more importantly with Beeston you might ask? Well, the band played just two shows in Nottingham, both during the early sixties. One was at the Odeon Cinema, Angel Row in October 1963. The second gig was at the Albert Hall in March 1964. It was after the second gig when the band gatecrashed a party in Beeston. The setting for the party was a house located in Elm Avenue, Beeston. The house belonged to Joan West, who was also ‘mine host’ or the evening. That night, the drummer Charlie Watts, took the phone call informing them that their single, ‘All Over Now’, had reached No. 1 in the US chart: their first single to do so and confirmation that their careers had gone stellar. Joan was interviewed by The Nottingham Post in 2003 ““Charlie and Bill were fabulous, two of the most down-to-earth lads. Brian Jones was also there, but he was a bit rude. We ignored him. But kids got in the garden and shinned up the drainpipe to get at the Stones,” she said. At one point, they all fetched their guitars from the tour bus, sat in a circle
in my lounge and began singing. I wish I had had a recorder. But no one got drunk, there wasn’t enough beer!” Imagine the scene on Elm Avenue when the Stones soon got into the ‘swing of the party’. News of the bands presence soon spread and local fans were quickly descending on the house. The local police soon got wind of the Stones attendance and had to close Elm Avenue. The party was apparently a “very good one” and lasted into the early hours of the morning. Years later the Stones can still remember the night. Wyman remembered the party, telling The Nottingham Post’s EG pullout in 2002: “I met a girl there who was like a girlfriend on and off for two or three years.” Wyman himself has Nottingham connections, being a child evacuee during the Second World War. He was evacuated to Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire where he spent some time there. He later commented that he still has a soft spot for the area. So next time you walk down leafy Elm Avenue remember that the road is not just another piece of suburban Beeston. But it was once a venue for a party to the Rolling Stones, and a perhaps unlikely setting for some real rock history. JE Joe’s book ‘Nottingham from Old Photographs’ is available from all good bookstores (and Amazon).
100* REASONS TO LOVE BEESTON! Dovecote Lane Park and the Proms and fun fair every year; Beeman; Mr Falafel; the Flying Goose; Yarn, Home-Made bakery; The Beeston Express; The Beestonian (of course!); the Vic; the people; Fred Hallam’s; the fact that it is so close to countryside; Little Barrie out of Primal Scream; Alice Levine; the library’s events; the walk along from Beeston Lock to Attenborough nature reserve; the station; that Edwin Starr decided to spend his last years here; Barton’s for markets+comedy+events; Stumpy!; Cafe Roya for top notch veggie food; Oxjam Beeston Music Festival; bicycle friendly; Belle and Jerome; Beeston Park run on a Saturday morning; Bendigo, Hop Pole; The Star; Malt Shovel; The Crown; the dual Oxfam shops stuffed with bargains; Gandhi visited many decades ago; the Beeman; Hallam’s, Beeston Canalside Heritage Centre; Beeston Road Club; Beeston Hockey Club, Mecca Beeston; BeCass, inventing ibuprofen; MRI scanning inventor and Beestonian Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield; the mainline train station getting you to London in under two hours; Redhead Scott School of Dance; The Bean; international medal-winning kickboxing at TEK; bus services day and night; the Monday market; Humber Road chippy; Beeston Cinema; ‘Fast lane’; Sir Paul Smith; Hicklings, Sid Standard (RIP); resh sushi at Hallams; bus drivers are superbly polite and will call you ‘love’ or ‘duck; the forthcoming tram (eventually); Centaurian Professor Dan Eley; The Beeston Cobbler; We Dig NG9; Greening Beeston; Professor Martyn Poliakoff (and his excellent hair!); Robin Hood lives here! (sort of); Tony’s cafe down at Beeston Marina; Nosh; Out of this World; all the independent retailers!; peaceful tree-lined streets; Bubba Tea; Mish Mash Gallery; Fusion café; Attik, Created by Hand; the River Trent; Richard Beckinsale; Local not Global Deli; Denz, John Clifford School; Metro café; Iguazu, the vintage section in Sue Ryder; Shane Meadows; Beestonian Film Club; the karate dojo ran by a former world champ; the vibrancy of Chilwell Road; Batman lives up the road; more pubs per capita than any other town; The Soundcarriers; the fact we invented public transport; the fish ladder; the BBC Nature seventh top eco-destination in the world: Attenborough Nature Reserve; OTTERS!; Beeston Carnival; Chinese New Year; Chinese Supermarkets; Nosh; blue plaques; Plessey Club; proximity of Uni campus; proximity to the City; proximity to the country; that there is enough here to make you stay however close everything is… and lots, lots more. (* there’s more than 100)
The Beestonian is… Editor / Lead Writer / Founder – Lord Beestonia Co-founder / Resident Don – Prof J Design – Tamar Associate Editor – Christian Editorial Assistance – Mel History Editor – Joe Earp Top-notch contributors this issue: Joe Earp, Poolie, Christian Fox, Mel Heath, Tim Pollard, Karen Atwood, James Hall, Tim Smedley, DEMAN, Ric Salinger, Christopher D Frost. Printed by Pixels & Graphics, Beeston.
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More than Music While we’re lucky enough to get two stages at Bartons this year, the sprawling complex has more treats inside for you. CARINIVAL OF MONSTERS: the return of the hugely popular festival of art, showcasing a range of weird and wonderful pieces that will boggle, surprise and even tickle a giggle from you. Running for two weeks either side of OXJAM (11– 25 October), sculpture, painting, installation pieces and every other conceivable element of creative excellence from 35 local and international artists will be on display over ten (!) galleries, stretching into parts of the Bartons Complex you probably never knew existed. On Oxjam day itself they’ll be an attempt to get the World Record for the largest ‘squish painting’. No, us neither, but it sounds like messy fun and well worth dropping in. There are also events for kids running through the fortnight: and everything is absolutely free. Monstrously good fun awaits.
Drop into the Engine Room after non at Bartons and you’ll find an event building bonds between Beeston and The University of Nottingham. ‘THIS IS BEESTON’ is a showcase of the best of what Beeston has to offer to undergraduates bussed-in from our campus neighbor; and the University exhibiting its excellence too. I asked Rachel Van Krimpen, of the University Off Campus Student Campus affairs team what was going to be there, “There’s exhibits from Beeston Greening, Broxtowe Community Celebration Group, Student Volunteer Centre, TravelRight (who will also be doing tram tracks cycle training outside), Off Campus Student Affairs (me...!), Sainsburys, some cancer research people, a philosopher, the Police, Lakeside, New Theatre…’ she stops to take a breath, ‘… and loads more.” The Beestonian reckons the more mixing of ‘town’ and ‘gown’ we have, the better. We’re dead lucky having a university right next door, let’s make the students realise how lucky they are to have us as neighbours. Noon – 4pm, free entry. The Beestonian will also have a stand, so come and say hello!
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