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#HRIS %DITORIAL (ELLO 3O WHAT S ON MY MIND THIS WEEK /UR CENTRE PAGE SPREAD DISCUSSES THE /SCARS WHICH WERE THEIR USUAL BLOATED SELF CONGRATULATORY SELF 7HILE MARKING OUT SOME lLMS THAT ARE GENUINELY AMAZING THERE WERE ALSO SOME HORRIlCALLY OVERLOOKED lLMS AND IT MADE ME WONDER EXACTLY WHAT CONSTITUTES AN /SCAR WORTHY lLM .OTES /N ! 3CANDAL IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE lLMS OF THE YEAR SO FAR *UDI $ENCH IS SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE IN A ROLE SO UNLIKE HER USUAL CHARACTERS AND THE UNSET TLING FEELING OF SUSPENSE THAT PERMEATES THE lLM THROUGHOUT BLOSSOMS INTO AN UNFORGETTABLE l NALE REVEALING THE TRUE COLOURS OF ALL THE LEADING CHARACTERS 7HILE IT RECEIVED SEVERAL NOMINATIONS IT DIDN T ACTUALLY GET ANY AWARDS ) THOUGHT THIS WAS CRIMINAL (ELEN -IRREN WAS GOOD IN 4HE 1UEEN IF YOU RE OF A CERTAIN AGE BUT *UDI $ENCH WAS GENUINELY GREAT 3HE MAY ALREADY HAVE AN AWARD FOR "EST 3UPPORTING !CTRESS IN 3HAKESPEARE IN ,OVE FOR A ROLE THAT HAD A SCREEN TIME OF ALL OF OOH TWO MINUTES BUT THAT AWARD BELONGED TO $ENCH !NOTHER THING THAT JARRED WAS (APPY &EET WINNING THE "EST !NIMATED &EATURE 3AY WHAT #ONSIDER THE lLMS IT WAS PITTED AGAINST #ARS IS NOT 0IXAR S BEST BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION BUT MILES BETTER THAN STORIES OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC
PENGUINS AND -ONSTER (OUSE WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE ANIMATED lLMS OF THE PAST DECADE FUSING A GREAT STORY WITH FANTAS TIC ANIMATION "UT A SACCHARINE MUSICAL ABOUT DANCING PENGUINS STILL WON THE AWARD /NE CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THE $REAMWORKS PRO DUCED lLM WAS BOOSTED TO THE TOP SPOT BY 3PIELBERG CALLING IN SOME FAVOURS ) WAS HOWEVER HAPPY THAT BOTH ,ITTLE -ISS 3UNSHINE AND 0AN S ,ABYRINTH RECEIVED AWARDS 3UNSHINE WAS MY FAVOURITE lLM OF AS SHOWN BY MY GOING TO SEE IT THREE TIMES AND 0AN S SHOWED THAT DEL 4ORO CAN ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD lLMS WHEN HE STOPS LIVING OUT HIS SCHOOLBOY COMIC BOOK OBSESSIONS )T WAS ALSO FAN TASTIC TO SEE 3CORSESE lNALLY WIN AN AWARD FOR 4HE $EPARTED WHILE NOT HIS BEST lLM EVER IT WAS STILL AMAZING 7HAT lLMS ARE COMING OUT THIS YEAR THAT LOOK /SCAR WORTHY ALREADY 5NFORTUNATELY AT THE MOMENT NOT MANY AT ALL HAS BEEN DUBBED THE YEAR OF THE @THREEQUEL THANKS TO THE IMPEND ING RELEASE OF THE THIRD lLMS IN THE FRANCHISES OF 0IRATES OF THE #ARIBBEAN 3PIDER -AN AND 3HREK !DD VARIOUS OTHER SEQUELS TO THE LIST LIKE (ARRY 0OTTER /CEAN S 4HIRTEEN %VAN !LMIGHTY AND THE FOURTH $IE (ARD lLM AS WELL AS NEW BIG BUDGET lLMS LIKE 4EENAGE -UTANT (ERO 4URTLES 4RANSFORMERS
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"REAKING UP WITH FASHION 4HIS WEEK WE GO @ON A BREAK FROM FASHION BY ZOOMING IN ON SOME OF THE NEGATIVES OF THE INDUSTRY &ROM CATWALK REPLICAS TO HIGH STREET FRENZY AND PAYING EXTORTIONATE PRICES ON E"AY WE VE ALL BEEN THERE AND WE VE ALL HATED IT &ASHIONISTAS UNITE TO LAMENT THE BLUES OF THE IRRITATING SIDE OF SHOPPING
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HE HIGH STREET IS UNDOUBTEDLY A FABULOUS PLACE FOR GRABBING REASONABLY PRICED YET HOT OFF THE CATWALK TOGS (OWEVER THE INCREASING NEGATIVES OF SHOPPING IN THIS URBAN JUNGLE OF AFFORDABLE AND EAS ILY ACCESSIBLE CLOTHING HAS THE POTEN TIAL TO BRING THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE TO A DISAPPOINT ING END 4HE WAY IN WHICH THE COLOURFUL WINDOW DISPLAYS AND FUNKILY DRESSED MANNEQUINS CAN HYP NOTISE US INTO BUYING UNFLATTERING BUT CONFIDENTLY UBER FASHIONABLE OUTFITS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED (IGH STREET FASHION HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS 'ONE ARE THE ONCE SAFE SHOPPING HAVENS WHICH WERE ( - AND 4OPSHOP AND WE ARE INSTEAD FACED WITH A NEW AND SLIGHTLY BEWILDERING ARRAY OF CATWALK IMITATIONS WITH LITTLE OR NO ATTEMPT MADE TO FILTER THEM INTO THE MAINSTREAM FASHION MARKET )NDIVIDUALITY AND UNIQUE FASHION STYLE IS SOMETHING THAT IS BECOMING THE NORM WITH THE EMERGENCE OF MANY OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FASHIONS THIS YEAR SUCH AS THE @NEW RAVE AND @MANNISH TRENDS (OWEVER ALTHOUGH IT MAY LOOK EYE CATCHING ON A SHOP HANGER A MAJOR ITY OF THESE CREATIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A FLASH IN THE PAN AND ARE MORE FANCY DRESS THAN WEARABLE ATTIRE 4HE UNCOMFORTABLE TENSION BETWEEN 6ICTORIA "ECKHAM AND HER DESIGNING A HIGH STREET RANGE THAT GOES UP TO A SIZE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY COM MON 4HE EMERGENCE OF THE HAUTE COUTURE DESIGN ERS AND CELEBRITIES THAT ARE BRINGING THEIR FASHION IDEAS INTO THE HIGH STREET STORES IS OBVIOUS IN THE FACT THAT IN SO MANY CASES THEIR DESIGNS REALLY DON T BELONG !LTHOUGH WE MIGHT NOT LIKE TO ADMIT IT THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CLOTHES THAT CAN BE PULLED OFF BY A SIZE MODEL AT ,ONDON &ASH ION 7EEK AND THE CLOTHES THAT CAN BE WORN EVERYDAY BY THE LIKES OF US $ON T GET US WRONG WE ARE TOTALLY IN SUPPORT OF TRYING NEW TRENDS STANDING OUT IN THE
CROWD AND NOT FOLLOWING THE NORM HOWEVER THIS CAN BE DONE WITHOUT HAVING TO EASE ON A PAIR OF PSYCHEDELIC 06# LEGGINGS ASSURED BY THE FACT THAT IF 4OPSHOP SELLS IT THEN
IT MUST BE OKAY TO WEAR 4HIS IS THE TRAP THAT WE FEEL SO MANY FASHION CONSCIOUS OF US OUT THERE ARE FALLING INTO -ANY OF THE TRUSTY HIGH STREET FAVOURITES ON THE OTHER HAND ARE STILL SERVING US WELL 7E ALL LOVE 0RIMARK 4HEIR COMBINATION OF AWESOMELY LOW PRICES AND FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING MAKES IT A PERFECT PLACE FOR THE AVERAGE STRAPPED FOR CASH STUDENT TO STOCK UP THEIR WARDROBES FOR THE PRICE OF A COUPLE OF DRINKS (OWEVER THE EXPLOITATION THAT AC COMPANIES THIS ISN T SO FAVOURABLE 7E RE NOT TALKING OF THE EXPLOITATION OF THE WORKERS NOR THAT OF THE CUSTOMERS BUT RATHER THE EXPLOITATION OF THE CLOTHES THEMSELVES E"AY HAS BEEN FLOODED OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS WITH HORDES OF 0RIMARK PURCHASES THAT ARE SOLD FOR RIDICULOUSLY HIGH PRICES IN RELATION TO WHAT THEY ARE BEING SOLD FOR IN STORE 3URELY THE WHOLE POINT OF THE BARGAINS THAT CAN BE FOUND IS THAT FACT ALONE THAT THEY ARE BARGAINS 7HILST SURFING THROUGH THE INTERNET PAGES THOUSANDS OF TOPS SHOES AND BAGS ARE BEING SOLD FOR WAY OVER THEIR ORIGINAL VALUE SPUR RING POTENTIAL BUYERS ON WITH HEADLINES SUCH AS h 3OLD OUT IN EVERY STORE v AND h2ARE $ESIGN v ALL HELPING TO PUSH THOSE PRICES UP INTO THE SHOCK HORROR DOUBLE FIG URES 4HE FUN OF 0RIMARK SHOPPING IS THAT YOU CAN GO IN WITH A TENNER AND LEAVE WITH FOUR TOPS SO WHY ARE PEOPLE BEING SUCKED INTO THIS INTERNET FRENZY )T S NOT JUST 0RI MARK CLOTHING THAT IS BEING EXPLOITED IN THIS WAY 3O MANY OTHER HIGH STREET STORES ARE HAVING THEIR CLOTHING BOUGHT EN MASSE AND THEN BEING RESOLD FOR DOUBLE THE PRICE 4HE HIGH STREET IS A VITAL RESOURCE FOR MOST PRODUCING UP TO THE MINUTE TRENDS AT AFFORDABLE PRICES -OST OF US WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT THE HUGE ARRAY OF SHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM IN MOST OF THE MAJOR TOWNS AND CITIES (IGH STREET FASHION IN THE PAST HAS BEEN SOMETIMES LABELLED AS DRAB SENSIBLE AND WITH A LACK OF ORIGINALITY 4HIS PROBLEM ISN T SO MUCH OF AN ISSUE LATELY AND INSTEAD HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE LACK OF @NORMALITY WITHIN THE FASHIONS BEING FOUND IN THE SHOPS TODAY 4HE END RESULT IS NOT THAT A VAST MAJORITY OF US END UP BEING CONVINCED THAT WE CAN PULL OFF A PAIR OF PANTALOON STYLE JOGGING BOTTOMS WITH A CROTCH DOWN TO YOUR KNEES FROM ( - BUT RATHER US STOCKING UP ON THESE NOW P BARGAINS READY FOR THE NEXT ,#2 DRESS UP NIGHT !LLANAH 7ELLS
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-ONEY MAY NOT BUY YOU TASTE BUT THESE LADIES CERTAINLY SHOULD HAVE INVESTED IN A STYLIST #ONCRETE FASHION PRESENTS THE WORST ENSEMBLES TO HIT THE RED CARPET ILLUSTRATING WHEN FASHION IS BAD IT IS 6%29 BAD #ELINE $ION /SCARS
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4HE !M%X DRESS !S YOU CAN IMAG INE ANYONE WHOSE AP PLICATION FOR AN !MERICAN %XPRESS CARD THAT GOT RE JECTED FOUND THIS FLAUNTING GARMENT TO BE A KICK IN THE FACE 7E WILL PROVIDE THE WALLETS IF YOU PUT IT AWAY FOR GOOD 7E ARE GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF THIS ONE
7OW IF YOU RE TRYING TO BE DOWN WITH THE KIDS YOU FAILED !C TUAL CROCO DILES ARE DENYING THEY WERE USED TO CREATE THIS ATROCITY
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HIS WEEK WE WERE EX PLICITLY TOLD TO WRITE ABOUT OUR hDISGUST AT THOSE EVIL UNETHICAL COMPANIES AND THEIR HORRIlC PRACTICESv (OWEVER WE HAVE BEEN INUNDATED WITH REQUESTS TO lNALLY BREAK OUR PROFES SIONAL SILENCE ON THE EXPLOSIVE ISSUE THAT IS THE MEN S DENIM MARKET 4O MEN THE DENIM AR TICLE IS NOT MERELY ANOTHER GAR MENT IN YOUR EVER INCREASING WARDROBE 4HE DENIM JEAN IS A STATEMENT )T S THE MODERN DAY EQUIVALENT TO COPIOUS MAN SERVANTS TOP HATS AND TROPICAL ANIMALS IN CAGES AROUND YOUR ESTATE 4HUS TO REALLY TACKLE THIS GARGANTUAN PROBLEM WE WILL BE DISSECTING CONTRASTING VARIETIES OF DENIM STYLE
&#- 4OP 4IP 4HE ONLY DOWN FALL TO STRAIGHT CUTS IS THAT YOU MUST WATCH YOUR FOOTWEAR 3MART LOAFERS #ONVERSE AND OTHER THIN TRAINERS WILL WORK A TREAT BUT ANYTHING BIGGER LIKE A PAIR OF 4IMBERLANDS IS A REAL NO GO &#- 2ECOMMENDATION ,EVI S
4HE ALTERNATIVE CHAP S BOOT CUT 9OU RE FUNKY FUN LOV ING AND FOR SOME REASON STILL HAVEN T GOT OVER "RITPOP 4HEREFORE THE ONLY DENIM CUT THAT WILL WORK WITH YOUR mOPPY HAIR HOODY AND PAIR OF CHECKED VANS IS THE BOOT CUT -AYBE THESE JEANS DON T EX ACTLY STRIKE A TRUE ROCK @N ROLL POSE BUT THEY CERTAINLY SCORE HIGH ON COMFORT &#- 4OP 4IP "OOT CUTS CAN LOOK DIRTY AND RAGGED IN LIGHTER COLOURS SO IF YOU FANCY INVEST ING GO FOR A DEEP BLUE DENIM SHADE AND THEN WASH THEM IN SIDE OUT TO KEEP THE COLOUR &#- 2ECOMMENDATION :OO 9ORK /RIGINAL "OOT
4HE DISCERNING MAN S STRAIGHT CUT THE ORIGINAL AND ARGUABLY STILL THE BEST ! CLASSIC AND DElNED SHAPE THAT IS BOTH COMFORTABLE AND SMART )N NO SOCIAL SITUA TION WILL A PAIR OF STRAIGHT CUTS LET YOU DOWN 7HETHER YOU RE SIMPLY SLOBBING DOWN TO THE PUB OR DRESSING UP FOR A NIGHT ON THE RAZZ THESE BEAUTIES WILL GET YOU ALL THE RIGHT LOOKS UN LIKE A COUPLE OF OUR MORE EX TRAVAGANT FEATURED STYLES
4HE EMO LAD S SKINNY 3O LIFE S NOT GONE ENTIRELY TO PLAN 9OU HATE YOUR
PARENTS THEY HATE YOU YOU THINK YOU WANT TO DIE THEY KIND OF HOPE YOU DO DIEx SO YOU THINK THE ONLY RATIONAL PLAN IS TO PUNISH YOURSELF WITH A GARMENT THAT WILL IN ALL SENS ES STRANGULATE YOUR GENITALS WHILST STILL MAINTAINING THE APPEARANCE OF A mABBY ARSE 7RONG &#- 4OP 4IP 4RY BROWSING A RAIL THAT CATERS FOR YOUR SPECIlC SEX 9OU RE NOT REALLY A GIRL YOU JUST ACT LIKE ONE ECOMMENDA TION #HEAP -ONDAY S
4HE PIMP DADDY S ESSEN TIAL WORKER 4HESE ARE UGLY AND ILL lTTING JEANS THAT OBVIOUSLY STARTED LIFE AS A TENT (OWEVER THESE REALLY ARE THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IF YOU RE SELL ING CRACK AND HO S IN THE MEAN STREETS OF #OMPTON 4HE ONLY ADVICE THAT CAN BE OFFERED WITH THESE IS @SHOOT YOURSELF YOU HAVE NO TASTE &#- 4OP 4IP !IM FOR THE HEAD OR DOUBLE CROSS ONE OF YOUR HEAT PACKING HOMIES &#- 2ECOMMENDATION ' 5NIT -ONO 4HUG $ENIMS
ADIES ON YOUR MARKS GET SET +ATE -OSS IS COMING TO A 4OPSHOP NEAR YOU 9ES SHE IS AT THE @DESIGNING HELM OF OUR FAVOURITE HIGH STREET STORE AND CREATOR OF THE MANY TRENDS WE KNOW AND LOVE 4HIS -AY THE FASHIONIS TAS WILL DESCEND ON 4OPSHOP WHAT S NEW IN ORDER TO GRAB A PIECE OF OUR FAVOUR ITE SUPERMODEL S COLLECTION 2ECENTLY WE HAVE SEEN AN INmUX OF DESIGNER LED HIGH STREET COLLECTIONS 3TELLA -C #ARTNEY FOR ( - #ELIA "IRT WELL FOR 4OPSHOP AND EVEN A #ATH +IDSTON PRINTED PHONE FROM THE #ARPHONE 7ARE HOUSE TO NAME JUST A FEW 4HIS SPRING WE WILL BE TREATED TO THE COLLABORATION OF 'ILES $EACON AND .EW ,OOK MODELLED BY $REW "ARRYMORE 4HIS SEASON OF CELEB AND FASHION FUSING ON THE HIGH STREET CONTIN UES WITH @,OVE ,ILY !LLEN ALSO FOR .EW ,OOK AND @FOR ( - BY -ADONNA
)T S A GIVEN THAT WOMEN WILL BE CAMPING OUT IN THEIR HUNDREDS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT BEFORE -AY AND POUNCING ON THE CLOTHES LIKE PREDATOR AND IT S PREY 4OPSHOP S PROlTS WILL SOAR THROUGH THE ROOF AND 0HILIP 'REEN WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD A SECOND PRIVATE JET 'REAT 7HAT S WORSE IS THAT LATER THE SAME DAY HUNDREDS OF GARMENTS WILL PROBABLY GO UP FOR SALE ON E"AY FOR CURIOUSLY INmATED PRICES 7E RE SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE HERE IN .OVEM BER ( - S 6ICTOR 2OLF COLLECTION WAS A HUGE SUCCESS COMMERCIALLY IT INCLUDED ( - S MOST EX PENSIVE ITEM EVER A a WEDDING DRESS 4HIS WRITER WAS UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO GET DRAGGED BY HER FRIEND TO THE (IGH 3TREET +ENSINGTON STORE DESPERATE TO GET HER HANDS ON THE HEART EMBEL LISHED TRENCH 7OMEN WERE SWARMING AROUND THE STOCK ROOM CHOOSING THEIR BEST
POSITION TO GRAB ITEMS FROM THE HANDS OF THE INNOCENT ASSISTANTS BEFORE THEY D EVEN PLACED IT ON THE RACKS /NE ASSISTANT WAS REDUCED TO TEARS AFTER BEING POKED IN THE EYE BY A CRAZY SHOPPER WITH A COAT HANGER !LL THE FRANTIC SWAPPING SHOVING CONSPIR ING GRABBING AND BARGAIN ING ENDURED WAS WORTH IT IN THE END FOR THE STARRY EYED FRIEND WHO GOT HER TRENCH IN THE END 4HIS ORDEAL IS NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED 3TORES ARE STUBBORN TO INCREASE THE DESIRABILITY FAC TOR BY MAKING SURE THAT ONLY A FEW SELECT STORES STOCK ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF PIECES MEANING THAT THEY SELL OUT AND MAKE NATIONAL NEWS -AYBE +ATE SHOULD STICK TO MODELLING THE CLOTHES AND NOT DESIGNING THEM 7E LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE QUEUES AROUND THE BLOCK IN /XFORD 3TREET THIS SUMMER *O "ULMER
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7E DON T KNOW WHETHER TO HAND YOU A LASSO OR JUST A BROWN BAG 7HAT WERE YOU THINKING 3ELMA
9ES WE TOO MISTOOK THIS MOP FOR THAT OF $IANA 2OSS "UT BELIEVE IT OR NOT IT S THE BITCHY FABULOUS ONE FROM 5GLY "ETTY WE WOULD UNDERSTAND IF YOU CHOOSE NOT
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2APE CANNIBALISM SUICIDE EYE GOUGING TO NAME BUT A FEW THEMES OF 3ARAH +ANE S "LASTED $URING THE PERFORMANCE EACH OF THESE LED TO A DIFFERENT PERSON LEAVING THE THEATRE AND EACH CONTRIBUTES TO EXPLAINING WHY +ANE IS A DARING INQUISITIVE AND FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE CONTEMPORARY "RITISH THEATRICAL CANON 4HIS VERSION OF "LASTED IS STARK MINIMAL STRANGELY TENDER AND FREQUENTLY DIS GUSTING )T S ALSO BRILLIANT /NE CANNOT HELP BUT WONDER HOW THE ACTORS MANAGED IT (OW )AN THE NEAR PSYCHOPATHIC TORMENTOR OF ADOLESCENT THUMB SUCKING #ATE MANAGES TO STAND ON STAGE AND CALMLY TAKE HIS CLOTHES OFF IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDI ENCE /R HOW #ATE STUNTED BY )AN S OVERPOWERING PERSONALITY MANAGES TO TAKE OFF AN ITEM OF CLOTHING FOR EVERY mOWER THAT )AN SCATTERS (OW IS #ATE ABLE TO GO FROM CLOTHED TO STARK NAKED KNOWING THAT SHE WILL BE RAPED THAT IT WILL HURT THAT HE IS NOT A MAN THAT SHE LOVES BUT IS A MAN THAT SHE HAS TO OBEY 4HESE THOUGHTS ENGROSS THE VIEWER FOR THE lRST HALF OF THE PLAY BUT IN THE SECOND YOU FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING BECAUSE IT STARTS WITH A DISPLAY OF PHOTOS AND lLMS OF TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY CONmICTS !T THIS POINT THOUGHTS OF )AN AND #ATE ARE SUPERCEDED BY THE REALITY OF THESE VISUALS (OW CAN ONE FEEL EMPATHY WITH lCTIONAL CHARACTERS WHEN THERE S THE PROJECTED FACE OF AN !RABIC GIRL STARING AT YOU n ONE OF HER EYES RED AND MISSING WHITE BONE POKING THROUGH )T S HARD TO FEEL ANYTHING AFTER THAT AND THIS IS HOW YOU ARRIVE AT THE SECOND HALF DETACHED SICKENED AND HORRIlED &ROM HERE ON OUT EVERYTHING GETS WORSE 9OU TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE SOLDIER WHO TAKES )AN S EYES 9OU MOMENTARILY WARM AS #ATE LEAVES TO lND SOLACE AND SHELTER IN A NOW BOMBED OUT ,EEDS 9OU WATCH ON THE VERGE OF TEARS AS THE LAST MINUTES OF THE PLAY DISSOLVE INTO MONTAGES OF )AN S DAYS AND NIGHTS AND YOU SIT SHAKING AS )AN CRIES AND SCREAMS AND EVENTUALLY EATS THE BODY OF A DEAD BABY THAT #ATE TRIES TO CARE FOR BUT CAN T BECAUSE IT IS WOUNDED BLASTED 9OU DO ALL OF THESE THINGS AND IT DOESN T HELP BECAUSE WITH +ANE S PLAYS YOU RE JUST A BYSTANDER A STRANGER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 0ERSPEX SLAMMING YOUR HANDS ON THE WINDOW AND SHOUTING FOR HELP WHILE YOU RE FORCED TO WATCH DESOLATION UNFOLD REFOLD AND UNFOLD AGAIN 9OU LEAVE BLASTED AND WONDERING WHETHER YOU CAN BE HAPPY TO BE HUMAN EVER AGAIN
3TEP INTO THE WORLD OF TH CENTURY &RANCE A WORLD WHERE ACCEPTABLE SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND SEXUAL CONDUCT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD )N THIS REALM LIES SEX AND BETRAYAL ARE INTER WOVEN WITH THE FABRIC OF DAILY LIFE AND NOTIONS OF GOOD AND BAD RIGHT AND WRONG SEEM TO BE DISREGARDED AND CAST ASIDE "UT WHERE DOES THE ENTRANCE TO A WORLD LIKE THIS EXIST !T 5%! S DRAMA STUDIO OF COURSE -AYBE YOU WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE WITNESSED -INOTAUR S PRODUCTION OF ,ES ,IAISONS $ANGEUREUSES BUT IF YOU DIDN T YOU MISSED OUT ON A NIGHT OF TENSION AND EDGE OF YOUR SEAT SUSPENSE "ASED ON THE CONTROVERSIAL &RENCH NOVEL BY #HODERLOS DE ,ACLOS THE PLAY CON TAINS ALL THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS TO ENTICE AN AUDIENCE TO THE THEATRE AND SUSTAIN ATTENTION THROUGHOUT 4HE SCRIPT IS LADEN WITH INNUENDO lLLED WITH INTRIGUE AND EMBEDDED WITH STRONG CHARACTERS )T SUFFERS ONLY BY ITS SHEER LENGTH STRETCHING TO OVER THREE HOURS IN TOTAL (OWEVER THE INEXCUSABLE DURATION OF THE PERFORMANCE WAS SOMEWHAT EXCUSED BY THE SUPERB LEVEL OF ACTING 7ITHOUT EXCEPTION THE CAST MEMBERS SURPASSED ALL EXPECTATIONS #HRIS $OBSON ENACTED A FEEBLE UNAPPEALING ,E #HAVELIER $ANCNEY WITH SKILFULLY TIMED HUMOUR *OE 7ELLS SHOWED FOCUS AND APTITUDE IN HIS ROLE AS THE MANIPULATIVE 6ICOMTE DE 6ALMONT ,INDA "LACK WAS SUPERB AS A GUARDED YET FRAGILE INDIVIDUAL WINNING THE AUDIENCE S HEARTS IN NUMEROUS DRAMATIC AND EMOTIONAL SCENES !LTHOUGH A THIRD YEAR ,)4 STUDENT COMMENTED THAT hINDIVIDUAL TENSIONS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS WERE LACKINGv AND THAT SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE CAST WERE UNCONVINCING HE AFlRMED THAT THE STRENGTH OF THE WHOLE ENSEMBLE ALLOWED FOR A FANTASTIC COLLECTIVE UNITY IN WHICH STRONG MOODS WERE CONTINUALLY EVOKED $IRECTOR 0ETER "ECK CLAIMED THAT HE INTENDED TO CREATE A hFEELING OF EXCESS HEDONIS TIC BEHAVIOUR AND DECADENCE v4OUCHES SUCH AS EXTRAVAGANT SKILFULLY DESIGNED COSTUMES AND LUXURIOUS COLOURFUL SOFAS AND BEDS INVITED CONNOTATIONS OF BOTH WEALTH AND SEX EFFECTIVELY BRINGING ACROSS THESE ASPECTS OF TH CENTURY LIFE (OWEVER USING GRAND HEAVY FURNITURE WAS PERHAPS A CONTRADICTION TO "ECK S ORIGINAL INTENTION SINCE IT LED TO CLUMSY SCENE CHANGES IN LENGTHY BLACKOUTS DESTROYING THE MOOD BUILT UP WITHIN THE PREVIOUS SCENE $ESPITE THIS THE STRENGTH OF ACTING MEANT THE DESIRED ATMOSPHERE COULD BE RECRE ATED WITHIN THE NEXT SCENE SO THAT THE DISRUPTION IN RHYTHM WAS SOON FORGOTTON 7HILE DElNITELY WORTH WATCHING IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER THIS ENCOUNTER WOULD LURE US TO INDULGE IN ANOTHER LIAISON THE NEXT NIGHT HOWEVER STIMULATING AND PLEASURABLE THE RENDEZVOUS MAY HAVE INITIALLY BEEN .ICOLE (AZAN
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7ICKED )NSPIRED BY THE STORY OF /Z MORE SPECIlCALLY BY THE DEPIC TION OF THE 7ICKED 7ITCH OF THE 7EST IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY -AGUIRE S NOVEL WAS PICKED UP AND CONVERTED INTO THEA TRE 4HOUGH WE CANNOT VOUCH FOR THE THEATRE PRODUCTION THE BOOK IS A HIGHLY ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING READ $ESPITE LISTING HIS MANY INmUENCES IN THE INTRODUCTION -AGUIRE HAS PRODUCED AN ORIGINAL TAKE ON THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL 4HIS IS PARTICULARLY DUE TO HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE GREY MORAL AREAS INVOLVED AS HIS PROTAGONIST QUESTIONS WHETHER GOOD AND EVIL EVEN EXIST PER SE 7E ARE TOLD BY %LPHABA THAT ART S PURPOSE IS TO hPRO VOKE CHALLENGEv AND THIS BOOK CERTAINLY DOES THAT 4HE FUTURE WITCH S lRST WORD IS @HORROR ON VIEWING TERRORS OF THE WORLD NOT DESCRIBED TO THE READER 4HIS #ONRAD ESQUE TOUCH SERVES TO UNDERLINE THE AMBIGUITIES ALWAYS PRESENT IN LIFE AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG 4HROUGH A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF %LPHABA S LIFE AND HER ENCOUNTERS WITH 'LINDA THE IMPERIALIST AND POWER HUNGRY WIZARD AND THE PERSECUTED TALKING ANIMALS -AGUIRE RAISES CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES THAT WORRY SOCIETY TODAY THE CONCEPT OF THERE BE ING TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY BUT ONLY THE VICTOR WRITING HIS TORY THINK TERRORISM IMPERIALISM AND THE PERSECUTION OF A RACE 4HOUGH THESE ARE SERIOUS AND DISTURBING CONCEPTS THEY ARE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH IN A WAY THAT STIMULATES REmECTION YET ALSO ALLOWS A LIGHTER ASPECT TO THE NOVEL THE CAST OF CHARACTERS GROWTH INTO ADULTHOOD WITH ALL THE FUN AND AGONISING THAT ACCOMPANIES IT "ETHANY 'OLDING
#INEMA #ITY IS DUE TO RE OPEN THIS AUTUMN BRINGING AN END TO THE FOUR YEAR WAIT "E EXCITED WE VE BEEN INSIDE TO SEE THE RESULTS OF THE a MILLION PROJECT AND WE RECKON IT S BEEN WELL WORTH IT 3EE THE FULL ARTICLE ON PAGE OF #ONCRETE
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&ROM *AMIE 4 TO -IKE 3KINNER PERFORMANCE POETRY HAS HIT THE MAIN STREAM %LSIE +ING SHARES HER lRST EXPERIENCE OF THE GENRE AND ADMIRES ,UKE 7RIGHT S SHOW
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OETRY HAS THE POWER TO EVOKE CHANGE )T HAS THE POWER TO MOVE US IN WAYS WE D NEVER IMAGINE TO PROVOKE US INTO TAKING ACTION 0OETRY CAN PERFECTLY SUM UP A MO MENT OR AN EMOTION IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT FEELS AS IF THAT ONE POEM HAS BEEN WRITTEN SPECIl CALLY FOR US "UT DOES ANY OF THIS DIFFER WHEN POETRY IS PERFORMED INSTEAD OF READ 4HE PLEASURE OF READING POETRY HAS BEEN INDULGED IN BY MILLIONS BUT OVER THE LAST FEW DECADES A NEW METHOD OF UNDERSTANDING IT HAS EMERGED PERFORMANCE POETRY 4HE TERM WAS COINED IN THE S AND BRINGS POETRY INTO THE MAINSTREAM COMBINING IT WITH STAND UP COMEDY MUSIC OR DANCE 4HE IDEA IS TO CREATE A MUCH MORE VISUAL ELEMENT TO WHAT IS CON TAINED WITHIN THE POETRY AND FOR THE POEMS TO REACH A WIDER AUDIENCE -ODERN DAY ICONS CUR RENTLY BEING HAILED AS THIS TYPE OF POET RANGE FROM -IKE 3KINNER TO *AMIE 4 WITH THEIR EXPLO SIVE GRITTY LYRICS MAKING AN IMPACT ON AN EN TIRE GENERATION AND A COMMENT ON OUR PRESENT SOCIETY "UT WOULD THEIR WORDS HAVE THE SAME EFFECT IF THEY WERE ONLY READ ON PAPER 4O lND OUT MORE 4HE %VENT WENT TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE POET ,UKE 7RIGHT IN HIS SHOW AT THE .ORWICH !RTS #ENTRE ! FORMER 5%! STU DENT 7RIGHT HAS BEEN HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH POETRY IN PERFORMANCE SINCE HIS STUDENT DAYS AS PART OF THE POETRY GROUP !ISLE ALONGSIDE 2OSS 3UTHERLAND *OEL 3TICKLEY AND #HRIS (ICKS (AVING ALL MET AT OUR FAIR 5%! THEY BEGAN WORKING TOGETHER IN AND !ISLE HAS NOW RISEN TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER POETRY ACTS IN THE 5+ "UT THIS TIME 7RIGHT HAS HIS OWN SHOW ,UKE 7RIGHT 0OET ,AUREATE 7E FOUND 7RIGHT S OWN WEBSITE PRIOR TO ATTENDING HIS PERFORM
ANCE ON WHICH WE FOUND COPIES OF ALL OF THE POEMS PERFORMED IN THE SHOW 2EADING THEM WE COULDN T HELP BUT ADMIRE HIS TALENT FOR RHYMING AND WITTILY CAPTURING ELEMENTS OF MODERN DAY CULTURE BUT WE FELT NO PARTICU LAR STIRRING OF EMOTION NO RECOGNITION OF THE WORDS IN RELATION TO OUR OWN LIFE (OWEVER THIS ALL CHANGED AFTER WITNESS ING HIS PERFORMANCE 7RIGHT BOUNDS OUT ONTO THE STAGE OVERmOWING WITH CONlDENCE AND CHARISMA SO ENERGETIC THAT HE SEEMS IN DAN GER OF BURSTING OUT OF HIS OWN SKIN (IS MIX OF STAND UP COMEDY AND POETRY COUPLED WITH HIS INDIGNATION TOWARDS @THE ESTABLISHMENT CAPTURED THE AUDIENCE S ATTENTION IMMEDIATE LY 3UCH IS THE POWER OF 7RIGHT S COMMAND OF THE STAGE THAT HE WAS ABLE TO RELENTLESSLY HOLD ONTO EACH AND EVERY ON LOOKER UNTIL THE END OF HIS INTENSE HOUR LONG SET 7RIGHT S OVERALL AIM SEEMS TO BE DEMONSTRATING TO THE AUDIENCE THAT HE IS NOT A DULL OR UNEXCITING POET LIKE HIS PRIME HATE lGURE THE CURRENT POET LAUREATE !NDREW -OTION 4HROUGHOUT THE SHOW 7RIGHT OUTLINES HIS ARGUMENT AS TO WHY HE SHOULD BE THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND HE S VERY PERSUASIVE WITH HIS POINTS (IS POEMS SPRANG TO LIFE WITH HIS URGENT FRENETIC DELIVERY IN A WAY THAT TO US THEY HADN T BEFORE 7RIGHT S FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND TONE OF VOICE ADDED SO MUCH TO HIS PO EMS THAT THEY BECAME ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WHEN PERFORMED WITH TITLES SUCH AS 4RULY -ADELEY $EEPLY AN IMPASSIONED POEM TOWARDS THE KING OF DAY TIME TELEVISION 2ICHARD -ADELEY /NE .IGHT OF 3PENDING DETAILING THAT TRULY BIZARRE INCIDENT AT AN )KEA IN ,ONDON WHEN THERE WAS AN ACTUAL STAMPEDE AND OUR FA VOURITE $ANCE WHICH 7RIGHT PERFORMED WHILE DANCING ENERGETICALLY MAKING THE POEM INTO
A DANCE ITSELF 4HE WAY THAT HE PERFORMS HIS POEMS HEIGHTENS THE OVERALL COMEDY AND HE SEEMS TO HAVE A KNACK OF ACCURATELY PORTRAY ING @MIDDLE %NGLAND AS HE SAYS IN /NE .IGHT OF 3PENDING h$OWN IN THE PARKING LOT THE QUEUES BECOME UNSETTLED "Y THE SORT OF FOLK THAT CALL 4HE $ARKNESS @HEAVY METALv "UT IT S 7RIGHT S PORTRAYAL OF OUTRAGE AND CONTEMPT AT THE CUR RENT POET LAUREATE S ATTEMPTS AT BEING @HIP THAT PROVIDES THE MOST LAUGHS 4HE REASON WE FOUND THE WHOLE PERFORM ANCE SO INSPIRING IS THAT IT TOTALLY CHANGED OUR VIEW OF WHAT POETRY IS TRYING TO BE 0OETRY IS OPEN TO DElNITION BY ANYONE WHO EXPERI ENCES IT 7RIGHT S POEMS HAD A COMPLETELY NEW IMPACT WHEN PERFORMED AND THE ENJOYMENT CLEARLY FELT BY EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST IF WE HAD ALL SIMPLY SAT DOWN AND READ HIS POEMS FOR AN HOUR 7RIGHT ALSO HAD TWO WARM UP ACTS AS PART OF HIS SHOW WHO DEMONSTRATED OTHER WAYS IN WHICH PERFORMANCE POETRY CAN BE INTERPRETED 4HE lRST ACT *OHN /SBOURNE HAD A MUCH QUIETER SOFTER STYLE WHICH GARNERED SYMPATHY FROM THE AUDIENCE (IS POEMS WERE VERY PER SONAL AND OBSERVATIONAL DESCRIBING THE MUN DANE DETAILS OF EVERY DAY LIFE AND VOICING HIS
OWN EMOTIONS 4HE SECOND ACT 9ANNY -ACK AND 0IKEY 0ETE WERE MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE IN STYLE AND SUBJECT MATTER WITH POEMS SUCH AS #HAV 0RINCESS 4HEY PAINTED A GRIM PICTURE OF MODERN "RITAIN IN AN UNCOMPROMISINGLY RE ALISTIC MANNER 4HIS STYLE OF PERFORMANCE DEM ONSTRATES THE POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE COM MENTS ON POPULAR CULTURE )T MAY NOT BE PRETTY BUT IT S TRUTHFUL IN ITS DEPICTION OF THE REALITIES IN OUR SOCIETY 0ERFORMANCE POETRY IS BECOMING A MUCH MORE WIDELY RECOGNISED MEDIUM )N THE lRST 5+ CONFERENCE OF PERFORMANCE POETRY WAS HELD AT "ATH 3PA 5NIVERSITY AND ACTS ARE NOW SPRINGING UP ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FROM 'LAS TONBURY &ESTIVAL TO THE %DINBURGH &RINGE &ES TIVAL )T CAN COVER A VARIETY OF STYLES INCLUDING PUNK AND REGGAE MEANING THAT IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY POPULAR AS A METHOD OF EXPRES SION 4O EXPERIENCE MORE PERFORMANCE POETRY TRY FESTIVALS SUCH AS #AMBRIDGE 7ORD &ESTIVAL OR 0OETRY .EXT TO THE 3EA 4HE .ORWICH !RTS #ENTRE ALSO REGULARLY HAS PERFORMANCE POETRY ACTS THAT ARE DElNITELY WORTH SEEING
0ERFORMANCE POETRY IS BECOMING A MUCH MORE WIDELY RECOGNISED MEDIUM AND CAN COVER A VARIETY OF STYLES
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4HE 3OPRANOS # -ONDAYS 3ADLY THE lNAL SERIES OF 4HE 3O PRANOS HAS MADE IT ONTO OUR SCREENS AND WILL SOON LEAVE A VOID FOR THOSE CRAVING THE BRIL LIANTLY DARK !MERICAN DRAMA 4HE 3OPRANOS IS BASED AROUND AN )TALIAN !MERICAN -AlA FAMILY LIVING IN NORTHERN .EW *ERSEY )T FOLLOWS THE DIFlCULTIES FACED BY 4ONY 3OPRANO BOSS OF THE $I-EO #RIME &AMILY AS HE TRIES TO BALANCE THE OFTEN CONmICTING REQUIREMENTS OF HIS HOME LIFE WITH THE CRIMINAL ORGANISATION HE LEADS )N WEEKS TO COME THE SIXTH SEASON WILL DISPLAY A RANGE OF DIFFERENT PLOT TWISTS FROM 6ITO 3PATAFORE BEING OUTED AS A HO MOSEXUAL TO 4ONY BEING SHOT AND lNDING HIMSELF IN A COMA 4YPI
CAL OF 4HE 3OPRANOS THERE ARE THE USUAL EPISODES FOCUSED ON DRUGS DEATH VIOLENCE AND RACISM WITH A GUY BEING BEATEN FOR BEING *EW ISH BUT THIS SEASON BRINGS SOME NEW AND EXCITING PLOT LINES TO END THE SERIES ON A HIGH 4HE SHOW ITSELF HAS BEEN DE SCRIBED AS A CULTURAL PHENOM ENON GAINING WORLD WIDE POPU LARITY AND EXCEPTIONAL CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ITS GROUNDBREAKING VIEW INTO THE -AlA LIFESTYLE )T IS A HARD HITTING DRAMA INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES BECAUSE OF ADULT ISSUES AND GRAPHIC DEPIC TIONS OF VIOLENCE FRONTAL NUDITY DRUG USE AND STRONG LANGUAGE *AMES 'ANDOLlNI DELIVERS A MESMERISING PERFORMANCE AS
4ONY 3OPRANO INSTEAD OF POR TRAYING A ONE DIMENSIONAL THUG 'ANDOLlNI SUCCEEDS IN SHOWING US THAT THAT 4ONY IS MULTIFACETED AND HAS A LIFE OUTSIDE OF HIS CRIM INAL ACTIVITIES )T DEPICTS A DIFFER ENT SIDE TO THE STORY OF CRIMINALS THAT THEY HAVE NORMAL LIVES AND DEAL WITH UNIVERSAL FAMILY ISSUES
WHEN THEY ARE NOT BREAKING THE LAW OF COURSE 4HE 3OPRANOS IS A BRILLIANT DRAMA WITH GREAT ACT ING EXCELLENT MUSIC INTRIGUING STORYLINES AND EVEN SOME HILARI OUS SITUATIONS BUT IT MAINTAINS A DARK AND BRUTAL OUTLOOK INTO THE WORLD OF THE -AlA !S THE SEASON DRAWS TO ITS l
NAL CONCLUSIONS WILL WE EVER GET TO lND OUT IF THE &") ARE CLOSING IN ON 4ONY 7ILL #ARMELA EVER GET TO lNISH BUILDING HER STATELY HOMES 7HAT WILL HAPPEN TO 5N CLE *UNIOR !ND WILL THE WARS BE TWEEN THE FAMILIES EVER END 9OU WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEEx !NDREW 3TAFFORD
.EIGHBOURS 46 #LASSICS %LLE BREAKS UP WITH $YLAN AFTER OVERHEARING ON BABY MONITORS THAT HE AND 3KY WOULDN T TRUST HER WITH BABY +ERRY !FTER 0AUL AND 2OSIE S KISS IN THE WINE CELLAR SHE CONlDES IN THE NEWLY SMITTEN &RASER AND HE WARNS 0AUL TO STAY AWAY FROM HER 5NAWARE THAT 2OSIE IS ASLEEP &RASER REVEALS HIS TRUE IDENTITY ,YN S DREAM WEDDING TO 0AUL TURNS INTO A DISASTER AFTER THE GROOM FALTERS AT THE ALTAR AND /SCAR VOMITS OVER BRIDESMAIDS 3USAN AND *ANELLE %LLE LEAVES %RINSBOROUGH OUT OF HER DISGUST WITH 0AUL #ARMELLA GETS AN OFFER TO RETURN TO THE CONVENT FROM THE 2EVEREND -OTHER AND SO HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN HER VOWS AND HER LOVE FOR 7ILL #HRIS REVEALS SHE IS GAY TO HER DAUGHTER AND EX HUSBAND BUT 0EPPER DOESN T TAKE THE NEWS WELL 3KY AND $YLAN KISS UNDER THE MISTLETOE AND *ANELLE ASKS 3TEIGER OUT +ATYA MAKES BAIL AND RETURNS TO THE +ENNEDY HOUSEHOLD FOR #HRISTMAS BUT 'UY RETURNS AT THE SAME TIME AND THREATENS TO RUIN EVERYTHING 4HE BAD FEELINGS BETWEEN 3USAN AND 3KY OVER +ERRY S PATERNITY ARE PUT TO REST AFTER 3USAN FORGETS TO GET :EKE A #HRISTMAS PRESENT AND 3KY COMES TO THE RESCUE +IERA / "RIEN
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"ALLS OF 3TEEL # &RI !FTER LAST WEEK S HILARIOUS EPISODE THE UNUSUAL COMEDY SHOW REIGNS CHAMPION WITH US AT 4HE %VENT @4HE "IG 'AY &OLLOWING HAD US IN STITCHES #ASTAWAY ""# &RI !FTER A LONG HIATUS THE ORIGINAL REALITY SHOW RETURNS TO OUR SCREENS &ALLEN !NGEL )46 3UN 5NCONVENTIONAL THREE PART CRIME DRAMA WHEREBY A SERIES OF TRAUMATIC EVENTS ARE REVEALED AS WE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH 5GLY "ETTY # &RI n 4HE SERIES lNALLY BEGINS TO PICK UP AFTER THE INTIAL BORING EPISODES WITH 3ALMA (AYEK GIVING THE SHOW A WELL NEEDED BIT OF SPICE "ATTLESTAR 'ALACTICA 3KY/NE 4UE n 4HOUGH IT S ON SATELLITE IT S HARD NOT TO MENTION THIS AMAZING SHOW 4HE TEAM ABOARD 'ALACTICA GET CLOSER TO lNDING THE PATH TO %ARTH BUT THE #YLONS INTERFERE WITH STAKES HIGH ON BOTH SIDES
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4HE $EMON (EADMASTER h,OOK INTO MY EYESxv )F YOU WERE A CHILD IN THE MID S THESE FOUR WORDS WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU NIGHTMARES FOR A WEEK )N FACT ONE GLANCE AT THE $EMON (EADMASTER S HYPNOTIC EYES WAS ALL IT TOOK FOR SOME PEOPLE TO GO RUNNING BEHIND THE SOFA 4HE STORY FOCUSSED ON $INAH 'LASS AND HER NEW FOSTER FAMILY THE (UNTERS AND DETAILED THE GOINGS ON AT HER NEW SCHOOL 4HOUGH UNWELCOME AT lRST $INAH S FOSTER BROTHERS (ARVEY AND ,LOYD SOON
ACCEPT HER AS THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THEIR GANG 3 0 , ! 4 3OCIETY FOR THE 0ROTECTION OF OUR ,IVES !GAINST 4HEM IN THE lGHT AGAINST THE $EMON (EADMASTER /VER THREE ""# SERIES THE $EMON (EADMASTER PROGRESSED FROM CONTROLLING THE SCHOOL TO HACKING INTO THE 0RIME -INISTER S BRAIN AND EVEN TRYING TO AFFECT EVOLUTION BY BECOMING DIRECTOR OF A GENETIC RESEARCH CENTRE 4HE TALE CAME TO A CLOSE IN THE THIRD SERIES WHEN STRANGE
OCCURRENCES LEAD 3 0 , ! 4 TO DISCOVER THAT THEIR NEMESIS HAD CREATED A @(YPERBRAIN A POTENTIALLY DEADLY COMPUTER !LTHOUGH IT ONLY RAN FOR TWO YEARS 4HE $EMON (EADMASTER WAS A SHOW THAT YOU WILL NEVER REALLY FORGET EVEN IF YOU ONLY THINK OF IT EVERY TIME YOU SEE A PICTURE OF *ACK 3TRAW 7ITH OTHER BOOKS YET TO BE SERIALISED AND ANOTHER RECENTLY PUBLISHED PERHAPS MORE EPISODES ARE JUST ONE HYPNOTIC STARE AWAYx &IONA "ILLINGS
$6$ #ORNER #HARMED 3EASON -AGICAL #HEST "OX 3ET a /UT .OW
#HARMED HAS TO BE ONE OF THE ONLY SERIES THAT HAS MANAGED TO SURVIVE WHEN A CHARACTER INTEGRAL TO THE PLOT DIES /RIGINALLY STARRING 3HANNEN $OHERTY AS 0RUE (OLLY -ARIE #OMBS AS 0IPER AND !LYSSA -ILANO AS 0HEOBE THE SHOW FOLLOWS THE THREE (ALIWELL SISTERS WHO ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY THEIR UNIQUE ABILITIES %ACH A WITCH IN HER OWN RIGHT BUT TOGETHER A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH THEY ARE THE @CHARMED ONES &IGHTING THE FORCES OF DARKNESS TAKES THEIR TOLL ON THE SISTERS AND AT THE END OF THE THIRD SEASON 0RUE IS KILLED 5NLIKE MOST DRAMAS #HARMED WAS ABLE TO RESURRECT ITSELF
BY BRINGING IN 2OSE -C'OWAN AS ESTRANGED FOURTH SISTER 0AIGE WHO MAKES THE TRIO WHOLE AGAIN -C'OWAN NOT ONLY SAVES THE SHOW BUT BRINGS A FRESH FACE TO OUR SCREENS IMPROVING THE SUPERNATURAL DRAMA 3IMILAR TO THE LIKES OF "UFFY AND !NGEL #HARMED IS NOT JUST SUPERNATURAL IT IS ALSO FULL OF DRAMA ACTION AND COMEDY FOR THE AUDIENCE S ENTERTAINMENT (OWEVER IF THIS IS NOT YOUR THING IT IS ALSO FUN TO WATCH FOR THE MANY INCONSISTENCIES THAT APPEAR IN THE SHOW )T IS DElNITELY A SHOW FULL OF IMAGINATION WITH THE SISTERS ENCOUNTERING ALL KINDS OF MYTHICAL CREATURES FROM VAMPIRES
TO MERMAIDS UNICORNS TO DEMONS "Y HAVING WITCH POWERS THE SISTERS ARE THERE TO BATTLE EVIL AND SAVE INNOCENTS FROM AN UNTIMELY FATE !S #HARMED IS SPACED OVER EIGHT SEASONS IT IS HARD TO KEEP ORIGINALITY AND THEREFORE THE SHOW BECOMES RATHER REPETITIVE )T ENDS WITH A HEART WARMING RESOLUTION AFTER A DRAMATIC lNALE WHERE THE WITCHES ARE ABLE TO REmECT UPON THEIR LIVES AND NARRATE ABOUT THEIR FUTURE %ACH ONE HAPPILY MARRIES WITH KIDS OF THEIR OWN GROWING OLD AND GREY !LTHOUGH IT SOUNDS SOPPY IT BECOMES MORE OF A WELL DESERVED ENDING FOR THE SISTERS !NDREW 3TAFFORD
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3O MUCH CRIME DRAMA HAS BEEN BROADCAST OVER THE DECADES THAT IT S HARD TO SEE HOW THE GENRE KEEPS GOING (OLLY #URTIS TAKES A LOOK AT THE INmUX OF SERIOUS CRIME SHOWS ON OUR SCREENS AND HOW THEY RE LOSING OUT TO THE NEW APPROACH
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ELEVISION TO DAY SPORTS A PROLIFERATION OF CRIME DRAMAS FROM -ESSIAH TO -IDSOMER -UR DERS 5NSURPRIS INGLY MURDER IS THE CRIME MOST COMMONLY DEPICTED #OLLECTIVELY THESE DRAMAS HAVE SHOWN PEOPLE BE ING KILLED OFF IN EVERY TWISTED AND UN IMAGINABLE WAY FOR A VARIETY OF SORDID GREEDY AND PSYCHOTIC REASONS "UT HAS ALL THE CARNAGE TAKEN ITS TOLL (AVE WE HAD A CRIME OVERLOAD 4HERE ARE TWO TYPES OF CRIME DRAMA THE SERIOUS FAST PACED LOOK AT THE DARK AND HIDEOUS SIDE OF HU MAN NATURE AND THE EASY WATCHING 3UNDAY NIGHT DRAMA 4HE LATTER SUCH AS &OYLE S 7AR AND 4HE )NSPECTOR ,YNDLEY -YSTERIES FOLLOW THE SAME PATH AS !GATHA #HRISTIE S 0OIROT AND -ISS -ARPLE PLODDING ALONG NICELY FEATURING COSY KILLINGS WITH MILD HUMOUR THAT CAN BE WATCHED WHILE CURLED UP ON THE SOFA WITH A CUP OF TEA 4HE PERPETRATOR IS FAIRLY EASY TO DEDUCE FROM THE LIST OF STEREOTYPES AND IF YOU MISS A BIT BECAUSE YOU GOT PECKISH FOR A SLICE OF TOAST YOU CAN REST HAPPILY IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT EVENTS WON T HAVE GOT TOO FAR 4HE SERIOUS DRAMAS HOWEVER AIM TO DEPICT THE GRITTY TRUTH ABOUT HUMAN CAPABILITIES 4HE WAY THEY TELL IT IT S A WONDER ANY OF US LEAVE THE HOUSE IN SUCH A VILE BLOODTHIRSTY WORLD )N THE LIKES OF 4OUCHING %VIL -URPHY S ,AW AND -ESSIAH PAEDOPHILES MURDERERS AND GENERAL THUGS ARE ALL ARRAYED FOR US TO INSPECT IN SICKENING DETAIL 4HAT S NOT TO SAY A BRIEF DELVE INTO CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY EVERY NOW AND THEN ISN T GORILY ENTERTAINING LET S FACE IT EVERYONE LOVES TO FEEL A BIT INTELLECTU AL WHEN THEY ALREADY KNOW ALL THE FACTS THE RESIDENT PSYCHOLOGIST ON ANY GIVEN CASE STARTS SPOUTING ! LOOK AT THE GRUE SOME UNDERTAKINGS OF A PSYCHOPATH CAN BE CHILLING BUT COMPELLING SUCH AS THE lRST SERIES OF -ESSIAH WE CAN FEEL SECURE AND SUPERIOR AND THANKFUL WE DON T HAVE A 'OD COMPLEX )T S ALSO INTERESTING TO SEE THE EFFECTS OF IMMERSION IN SUCH A NASTY UNDER WORLD IN AGENTS OF THE LAW *AMES .ES BITT WINS SYMPATHY IN -URPHY S ,AW AS A LONE "OND TYPE IN THE HORRIlC WORLD OF THE UNDERCOVER COP WHERE SELF IDEN TITY IS A TRICKY THING TO KEEP HOLD OF 4HE SAME CAN BE SEEN IN )N $EEP WHERE THE TWO LEADS ONE WITH A FAMILY THE OTHER A LONER BAD BOY ARE JUXTAPOSED (OWEVER DESPITE SOME GRIPPING STORIES WITH SO MUCH CRIME DRAMA ON THE MARKET IT S INCREASINGLY HARD
TO KEEP THINGS FRESH LET ALONE CREATE SOMETHING NEW 4HE PROBLEM IS EVERY THING TURNS OUT SIMILAR BECAUSE THE FOR MATS DON T DIFFER ENOUGH IT S ALWAYS TEAMS OF THREE OR lVE USUALLY WITH MEN JUST OUTNUMBERING WOMEN AND EVERYTHING S BEEN DONE BEFORE 4HE EM PHASIS IS ON HARSH REALITY SO IT ENDS UP ALL DOOM AND GLOOM )F ANYONE STARTS HAVING A RELATIONSHIP YOU KNOW ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO DIE SO THE OTHER CAN DESCEND FURTHER INTO THE MURKY ABYSS OF THE SERIAL KILLER S PSYCHE 4HESE DAYS THERE SEEMS TO BE A COMPETITION FOR THE MOST SENSATIONAL AND GRAPHIC 4HIS OVERLOAD HAS CAUSED EVERY THING TO MERGE INTO ONE 4AKE THE LAT EST COMING BID FOR PRIME CRIME DRAMA STATUS )NSTINCT LOOKS MUCH THE SAME AS EVERYTHING ELSE AND ISN T HELPED BY THE FACT THAT 4OM 7ARD (ARRY FROM 3ILENT 7ITNESS IS IN IT IF THE ACTORS START SWITCHING BETWEEN SUCH SIMILAR DRA MAS WHAT CHANCE DO WE HAVE OF KNOW ING WHAT WE RE ACTUALLY WATCHING #OUNTLESS CRIME DRAMAS FEATURE AN ALCOHOLIC COPPER MARRIED TO THE JOB AS THE PROTAGONIST SO MUCH SO IT HAS BE COME A CLICHÏ (OWEVER SAW THIS CHARACTERISTICALLY MALE ROLE HANDED OVER TO (ELEN -IRREN AS *ANE 4ENNISON IN 0RIME 3USPECT WHICH RAN FOR SEVEN SERIES "ACK THEN THIS IS WHAT MADE THE PROGRAMME CUTTING EDGE 4HESE DAYS MORE WOMEN ARE IN THE SEAT OF POWER SO NEW ANGLES ARE NEEDED TO MAKE PRO GRAMMES STAND OUT AND KEEP THE GENRE
ALIVE !ND THAT S WHAT SEEMS TO BE HAP PENING TO SOME EXTENT FOR INSTANCE !MANDA 2EDMAN LEADS THE WAY IN .EW 4RICKS AS A CAREER DRIVEN BALL CRUSHER IN CHARGE OF THREE EX DETECTIVES WHO DIG OUT AND RE INVESTIGATE OLD CASES 4HE EMPHASIS IS lRMLY ON THE RELATION SHIP OF THE CHARACTERS RATHER THAN GIVEN OVER TO INCREASINGLY BIZARRE AND NASTY CRIMES AS OTHER SHOWS DO 7HEN 7AKING THE $EAD lRST CAME TO THE SCREEN IT WAS PRAISED FOR ITS RE ALISM CONCERNING THE WAY THE CHARAC TERS TALK OVER EACH OTHER WHEN THEY RE EXCITEDLY DISCUSSING A CASE 7HILE THEY STILL DO THIS THE LATER SERIES BECAME TOO MUCH LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE SCRAPING THE BARREL WITH THE CLICHÏD RELIGIOUS NUTTER STORIES 3POOKS WAS ALSO ONE THAT START ED WELL AS AN INNOVATIVE LOOK AT NA TIONAL SECURITY FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF -) BUT DIGRESSED NEVER BEATING THAT lRST SENSATIONAL DEEP FRIED HEAD MOMENT 4HIS IS NOT EXACTLY THE WRIT ERS FAULT AS SO MUCH HAS GONE BEFORE THAT EVERYTHING S BEEN COVERED 4HE BEST NEW SHOWS ARE THOSE WHICH DON T PLACE TOO MUCH IMPOR TANCE ON THE CRIMES AND COME AT THE GENRE FROM ORIGINAL STANDPOINTS ,IFE /N -ARS IS PARTICULARLY GREAT AS NOT ONLY DOES IT INTRODUCE US TO THE WORLD OF S POLICING IT MIGHT JUST ALL BE HAP PENING IN 3AM 4YLER S HEAD !NOTHER SHOW .EW 3TREET ,AW COMES AT CRIME FROM THE ANGLE OF THE BARRISTERS AND THE WAR BETWEEN DEFENCE AND PROSECUTION
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4HIS HAS ALSO BEEN PRAISED FOR ITS REAL ISM WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT S HAPPEN ING BEHIND CLOSED CHAMBER DOORS .O WONDER IT S WRITTEN BY A BARRISTER 4HE GOLDEN GREATS SUCH AS -ORSE WERE ORIGINAL AND WELL WRITTEN AND IT WAS LUCKY THAT SUCH SKILFUL ACTORS AS *OHN 4HAW AND +EVIN 7HATELY WORKED AS WELL TOGETHER AS THEIR lCTIONAL COUN TERPARTS 4HESE CANNOT BE REPEATED AS GRAVITAS LIKE 4HAW S IS HARD TO COME BY AND DESPITE 7HATELY S CHARM AS 3ERGEANT ,EWIS ,EWIS THE SHOW JUST DOESN T HAVE THAT SAME SPECIAL MIXTURE THAT MADE -ORSE WORK )T SEEMS THE MORE INTERESTING SHOWS ARE THOSE WHICH DON T TRY TO REC REATE WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE OR CENTRE ON THE SERIAL KILLER AND THEIR TWISTED GAMES BUT THOSE WHICH BALANCE OUT THE CRIMES WITH THE EMOTIONAL RELA TIONSHIPS OF THE CHARACTERS AND NOT JUST THE ONES DOOMED TO FAILURE 7HILE MANY SHOWS THESE DAYS HAVE THEIR GOOD POINTS AND ARE PERFECTLY WATCHA BLE WHEN THE MOOD TAKES YOU IT SEEMS AT TIMES THAT WE ARE BEING BOMBARDED %VEN SHOWS LIKE #3) ARE MORE FOR DIP PING INTO THAN FOLLOWING RESOLUTELY )S IT THEN THAT THE CRIME DRAMA GENRE NEEDS A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OR RATHER THAT THERE S A PREOCCUPA TION WITH PRODUCING @HARD HITTING STORIES ABOUT @REAL LIFE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ,ET S HAVE SOME MORE ORIGINALITY AND FEWER SERVINGS OF THE SAME OLD SAME OLD
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&OR WEEKS ) TRAWLED THROUGH THE CLASSIlEDS lNALLY lNDING A JOB AS A SECURITY GUARD IN THE #HRYSLER "UILDING -Y EXPERIENCE AS A YOUNG DEPUTY IN #EDAR #REEK HELD GOOD PROSPECTS AND THEY HAD ENOUGH FAITH TO HIRE ME -Y lRST DAY ) WAS BUZZING WITH EXCITEMENT AND EVEN ARRIVED EARLY TO WANDER INSIDE 4HE LOBBY WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING ) D EVER SEEN AWASH WITH BEIGE MARBLE AND CHROME STEEL THE CEIL ING MURALS BRINGING A TOUCH OF GRANDEUR AND COLOUR TO THE DARK INTERIOR !FTER SIGNING IN ) TOOK THE ELEVATOR AIMING TO REACH THE OLD OBSERVATION DECK ON THE ST mOOR AND TAKE IN THE VIEW OF THE CITY 4HIS IS WHERE ) MET *ESS (E STROLLED IN ON THE TH mOOR AND SMILED BRIEmY PRESSING THE BUTTON MARKED AND THEN STOOD TO MY LEFT (IS DARK HAIR WHICH ALWAYS COVERED HIS EYES HIDING THEIR EARTHY BROWN COLOUR LOOSELY FRAMED HIS OVAL FACE SKIN LIGHTLY TANNED FROM THE SUMMER SUN OUTSIDE (E WAS SLIM BUILT AND CLEAN SHAVEN DRESSED IN A JET BLACK SUIT PINSTRIPED WITH BLUE SILK THREAD A CREASELESS WHITE SHIRT AND A 0RUSSIAN BLUE TIE 7E STOOD IN SILENCE FOR A MINUTE THE SLOW MELODIC JINGLE THAT PLAYED SEEMING LOUDER THAN BEFORE ) COUNTED AS WE PASSED EACH mOOR )T WAS A LONG WAY TO GO *UST AS WE LEFT THE TH THE ELEVATOR JOLTED THE LIGHT ABOVE US mICKERED AND THEN SENT US INTO DARKNESS 4HE ELEVATOR CAB DESCENDED SLIGHTLY BUT THE BRAKES KICKED IN SCREECH ING ABOVE US 3HIT *ESS MUMBLED UNDER HIS BREATH 4HE EMERGENCY LIGHTING CAME ON EMITTING A SOFT BLUE GLOW INTO THE ELEVATOR CAB AND ) REACHED FOR THE PHONE UNDER NEATH THE BUTTONS ! GRAVELY VOICED MAN PICKED UP ON THE OTHER END AND SIGNALLED THAT IT WAS A POWER MALFUNCTION AND THAT WE SHOULD @SIT TIGHT IT WOULDN T BE LONG 7E WERE STUCK IN THAT ELEVATOR FOR FOUR HOURS !T lRST THERE WAS GENERAL CHATTER EXCHANGE OF NAMES HOMETOWNS WHAT WE DID FOR A LIVING HE WAS A REAL ESTATE BROKER FOR 4-7 ONE OF THE OFlCES IN THE BUILDING 7E SLIPPED INTO DEEPER CONVERSATIONS SHYING AWAY FROM POLITICAL AND LITERARY BAN TER INSTEAD TALKING ABOUT OUR UPBRINGINGS OUR FAMILIES AND HOW ADULTHOOD BROUGHT A CERTAIN FREEDOM AND CLARITY TO LIFE ) FELT A SENSE OF COMFORT WITH HIM THAT ) D NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE AS IF HE SAW ME AS THE PERSON ) WAS INSIDE RATHER THAN THE PERSON ) WAS EXPECTED TO BE 3PARKS mEW 4HE HOURS SEEMED TO PASS QUICKLY AND ONCE THE ELEVATORS WERE lXED ) WAS SURE HE D GO BACK TO HIS WORLD AND ) TO MINE (E HANDED ME HIS CARD HIS HOME NUMBER PENCILLED ON THE BACK AND TOLD ME TO GIVE HIM A CALL 4HE BALL WAS IN MY COURT HE SAID 0REFERRING TO TAKE THE STAIRS HE PUSHED HIS HAIR AWAY FROM HIS EYES SMILED AND THEN WALKED OUT 4HE DOORS CLOSED BEHIND HIM AND ) WAS ALONE HEART BEATING FAST KNEES WEAK
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/SCAR WINS NOMINATIONS /SCARS WINS NOMINATIONS )T MAY SEEM STRANGE TO SOME PEOPLE TO lND A DOCUMEN TARY AMONGST THIS YEAR S BIGGEST lLMS BUT THIS IS THE EX CEPTION TO THE RULE !N )NCONVENIENT 4RUTH IS A MASTERFUL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOCUSES SPECIl CALLY ON GLOBAL WARMING AND THE PROBLEMS WE COULD FACE BECAUSE OF IT 0RESENTED BY FORMER 53 6ICE 0RESIDENT !L 'ORE THE lLM IS THE THIRD HIGHEST EVER GROSSING DOCU MENTARY TAKING MILLION WORLDWIDE )T HAS WON AWARDS FOR "EST $OCUMENTARY INCLUDING THE /S CAR !LSO IN A LANDMARK WIN IT WON "EST !CHIEVEMENT IN -USIC 7RITTEN FOR -OTION 0ICTURES /RIGINAL 3ONG FOR THE SONG h) .EED 4O 7AKE 5Pv BY -ELISSA %THERIDGE 4HIS lLM IS UNIQUE FOR THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ATTENTION IT HAS RECEIVED NOT LEAST CONTRIBUTING TO !L 'ORE S NOM INATION FOR THE .OBEL 0EACE 0RIZE THIS YEAR AS WELL AS PROMPTING SEVERAL GOVERNMENTS INCLUDING THAT OF THE 5+ TO ISSUE SCHOOLS WITH COPIES OF THE DOCUMEN TARY FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
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/SCARS WINS NOMINATIONS &INALLY JUSTICE IS DONE -ARTIN 3CORSESE S LONG RUNNING QUEST FOR AN /SCAR IS WELL KNOWN BUT THIS WAS lNALLY HIS YEAR &OUR WINS ON THE DAY INCLUDING "EST 0ICTURE AND "EST $IRECTOR 4HE $EPARTED WENT DOWN A STORM WHICH IS HARDLY SURPRISING CONSIDERING ITS IMPRESSIVE CAST AND ENGAGING PLOT !PART FROM THE /SCARS THOUGH THERE WAS SOME SUCCESS IN OTHER AWARDS A "EST $IRECTOR WIN AT THE 'OLDEN 'LOBES AS WELL AS NUMEROUS RUNS IN VARIOUS COM PETITIONS )T S FAIR TO SAY THAT THIS WAS PROBABLY THE BIG WINNER OF THE AWARDS SEASON AND IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT 3CORSESE S MASTERY OF THE SILVER SCREEN HAS BEEN LONG DESERVING OF THE HIGHEST ACCOLADE )T HAS BEEN SAID WITH PROBABLY SOME TRUTH THAT THIS MAY WELL NOT BE 3CORSESE S BEST EFFORT AND THAT HE WAS HANDED THE STATUETTE MORE BECAUSE IT WAS FELT HE DESERVED IT GENERALLY RATHER THAN BE CAUSE HE MADE THE BEST lLM "UT WHO CAN DENY THAT HAP PY FEELING OF VICTORY WHEN HE lNALLY GOT HIS HANDS ON IT
/SCARS WINS NOMINATIONS !LTHOUGH NOT AN IN CREDIBLE lLM IN IT SELF 4HE 1UEEN S DElNING CHARACTERISTIC WAS THE IN DIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE OF (ELEN -IRREN )T WAS THIS PERFORMANCE THAT HAS EARNED HER AN INCREDIBLE "EST !CTRESS GONGS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF AWARDS AND THAT RECEIVED A lVE MINUTE STANDING OVATION AT THE lLM S PREMIERE AT THE 6ENICE &ILM &ESTIVAL "ASED ON THE WEEK FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF $I ANA 0RINCESS OF 7ALES THE lLM GOT A MIXED RECEP TION WHEN IT APPEARED IN CINEMAS IN 3EPTEMBER 3OME CRITICS LOVED IT OTHERS FOUND IT DRY AND ALMOST COMICAL 9ET NONE OF THIS MATTERED AS ONE THING THEY DID ALL AGREED ON WAS THE GREAT NESS OF -IRREN S UNCANNY PORTRAYAL OF (ER -AJESTY
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/SCARS WINS NOMINATIONS $REAMGIRLS RECEIVED A LOT OF PRE RELEASE PRESS COVERAGE WITH MUCH TALK OF IT SWEEPING THE AWARDS CEREMONIES !S SUCH IT HASN T DONE ALL TOO WELL n CRITICS WERE LEFT UN IMPRESSED IN PARTICULAR 7HAT BEGAN AS A BANDWAGON FOR "EYONCE +NOWLES SHIFTED GEAR AND BECAME A PLAT FORM FOR A MORE OBSCURE BUT GENUINE TALENT *ENNIFER (UDSON (ER /SCAR WIN WAS A WELL DESERVED SURPRISE AND THE FACT THAT SHE OUTSHONE -ISS +NOWLES IS ESPE CIALLY IRONIC GIVEN THE PLOT OF $REAMGIRLS !PART FROM THAT %DDIE -URPHY S PART WAS A NICE CHANGE AS WE l NALLY SAW HIM DOING SOME BIG BOY ACTING AND HE DID WELL RECEIVING SOME ACCOLADE FOR IT 7HETHER OR NOT HE KEEPS IT UP IS ANOTHER MATTER BUT LET S HOPE SO /THER WISE $REAMGIRLS lLLED OUR LUST FOR CRAZY SHOWBIZ MU SICALS THAT WAS STARTED BY THE LIKES OF -OULIN 2OUGE AND #HICAGO BUT IT DOESN T SEEM TO HAVE SHARED THEIR SUCCESS
"ABEL RECEIVED A LOT OF HYPE PRE RELEASE )T ATTEMPTED TO STAY ON THE LINE OF TRADITIONAL (OLLYWOOD CLASSIC BRAND NAME STARS LIKE "RAD 0ITT AND #ATE "LANCHETT ALONG WITH MORE INDIE STUFF INCLUDING THE HIGHLY RESPECTED DIRECTOR !LEJANDRO 'ONZÉLEZ )×ÉRRITU AND LESS WELL KNOWN FOREIGN ACTORS INCLUDING THE STANDOUT 2INKO +IKUCHI WHOSE PERFORM ANCE AS SEXUALLY FRUSTRATED DEAF MUTE TEEN WAS OUT STANDING AND GAINED HER AN /SCAR NOMINATION )×ÉR RITU WHO HAS A NOTABLE BACKLOG INCLUDING 'RAMS RECEIVED A LOT OF DIRECTING ACCOLADES HIMSELF ALTHOUGH CONSIDERING THE NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS IT S A SHAME "ABEL DIDN T DO BETTER 0ERHAPS PART OF THE PROBLEM MAY WELL BE THAT AS A VERY INTERNATIONAL lLM IT WOULD NEVER DO WELL AT THE %NGLISH LANGUAGE AWARDS CEREMONIES (OWEVER IT DESERVES ITS PLACE HERE FOR BEING ONE OF THE BEST MADE AND THOUGHT PROVOKING lLMS OF THE YEAR
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/SCAR WINS NOMINATIONS !S *AMES -C!VOY AND HIS PRESUMABLY VERY WELL PAID AGENT CONTINUES HIS CAMPAIGN TO APPEAR IN EVERY SINGLE lLM THAT COMES OUT OVER THE NEXT lVE YEARS YOU CAN T BUT HELP BE IMPRESSED BY HIS DIFlCULT TURN IN THIS lLM "UT THE STAR OF THE SHOW WHOM EVERYONE TALKED ABOUT WAS &OREST 7HITAKER (IS NUMEROUS ACCOLADES FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF )DI !MIN IS WELL DESERVED AND THE EMOTION AND SINISTER NATURE HE BRINGS INTO THE ROLE ARE EXCITING TO WATCH 7ITH SUCH A MEMORABLE PERFORM ANCE YOU HAVE TO IMPRESSED WITH -C!VOY FOR KEEPING UP !PART FROM THIS 4HE ,AST +ING OF 3COTLAND MANAGED TO SCORE "EST "RITISH &ILM AT THE "!&4!S IN WHAT HAS BEEN A VERY STRONG YEAR FOR "RITISH CINEMA AND OVERALL IT S WRITING WAS WELL PRAISED HARDLY SURPRISING SINCE IT DERIVES FROM A VERY WELL WRITTEN BOOK BASED ON A VERY TUMULTUOUS EPISODE IN THE PAST !LL OF THIS MEANS IT WAS HARDLY SURPRISING TO SEE IT GRAB A NUMBER OF AWARDS
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/SCARS WINS NOMINATIONS 4HIS WAS EFFECTIVELY THE STAND OUT INDE PENDENT lLM OF THE SEASON AND A PERSONAL FAVOURIT E OF MANY CINEM GOERS 1UIRKY CU A TE CYNICAL AND FU NNY ALL IN ONE GO ,ITTLE -ISS 3UNSHIN E DID WELL IN MAN Y AWARD CEREMO NIES AND PARTICULAR LY AMONGST THE M ORE INDEPENDENT CEREMONIES )T mE W THE mAG FOR IN DEPENDENT CINEM PROUDLY AND DID A WELL /F PARTICULAR NOTE WAS THE SCRIP WRITING AND THE AC T TING OF !LAN !RKIN AS THE DRUG AND SEX ADDLED GRANDF ATHER OF THE INSA NE !MERICAN FAM ILY n HE WON "E ST 3UPPORTING !C TOR /SCAR AMONGS SOME TOUGH COMPE T TITION AND DESERVE D IT )T MAY SEEM SLIGHTLY TOKEN BU T IT IS NICE THAT TH E STAR HEAVY /SCA CAN STILL APPRECIAT RS E MORE INDEPEND ENT CINEMA SUCH THIS AND THE FACT AS THAT THE LIKES OF 'REG +INNEAR AND 3TEVE #ARELL CAN GET THE RECOGNITIO N THEY DESERVE IS VERY PROMISING FO R THE FUTURE -ORE lLMS LIKE THIS WILL HELP TO MAKE SU RE !MERICAN CINEM A AVOIDS BECOM ING TOO STALE AND IT DESERVES RECOGNI TION FOR DOING SO
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!LBUM 2EVIEWS !RCADE &IRE .EON "IBLE &ORTHRIGHT BLEAK SINCERE EPIC 9OU CAN CALL !RCADE &IRE ANYTHING BUT OPTIMISTIC h7ORKING FOR THE CHURCH WHILE YOU FAMILY DIESxEVERY SPARK OF FRIENDSHIP OF LOVE WILL DIE WITHOUT A HOMEv COOP YOURSELF UP IN A CHURCH FOR MONTHS ON END AND IT S BOUND TO TAKE THE WIND OUT OF YOUR SAILSx &UNERAL SWEPT THE CLASS OF OFF ITS FEET IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE 0ERSONAL LOSSES SURROUNDED MUCH OF THE RECORDING PROCESS AND THUS THE ALBUM BECAME AN INTIMATE REmECTION OF THE PERSONAL HEARTACHE DWELLING IN EACH INDIVIDUAL .EVERTHELESS IT WAS A RECORD THAT EMBODIED A CAUTIOUS SUBTLE OPTIMISM THAT THOUSANDS HELL MILLIONS FELL IN LOVE WITH &ROM THE DARK AND MES MERIZING 0OWER /UT TO THE ANTHEMIC AND UPLIFTING 2E BELLION ,IES THE ALBUM WAS A SPINE TINGLING MINUTE LESSON IN HOW TO CONSTRUCT A MODERN ROCK RECORD .EON "IBLE SEES THE BAND UP THE STAKES MASSIVELY 4ECHNICALLY THE SOUND IS BIGGER BOLDER AND EVEN MORE EUPHORIC THAN ITS PREDECESSOR WITH DRIVING DRUM BEATS PROVIDING THE BASE FOR A TIDAL WAVE OF ORGANS GUITARS PIANOS AND 7IN S NOTORIOUSLY AFFECTING VOCAL MELODIES (OWEVER THE ALBUM MORE POIGNANTLY MARKS THE PRO GRESSION FROM AN AWKWARD INWARD PERSPECTIVE TO A NEW WORLDLY OUTLOOK ON LIFE h7HO S GOING TO THROW THE VERY lRST STONE WHO S GOING TO RESET THE BONEv WAILS 7IN "UTLER ALONG TO THE ALBUM CENTREPIECE )NTERVENTION .EON "IBLE IS A GRANDIOSE BARRAGE OF PARANOIA FEAR AND ANGER THIS AIN T PERSONAL ANYMORE NO SIR THIS IS THEIR BLACK MIRROR THEIR DOCUMENT OF WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE LIVING IN A ST CENTURY WORLD THAT REEKS OF WAR -46 AND POST
WORRY 4HE ONCE INWARD INTROVERTED CHARACTERS THAT HELD A POWER TO MELT THE STONIEST OF HEARTS ARE FAR GONE THEIR MUSIC HAS BECOME A TORRENT OF EXTROVERTED RAGE BUT A RAGE THAT S BEING CHANNELLED IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOVING WAY !RCADE &IRE ARE MAKING THEIR STAND TAKING ON THE MAN AND QUESTIONING THE TURBULENT WORLD WE RE LIVING IN #OMPARATIVELY IT MAKES &UNERAL SOUND LIKE IT WAS RECORDED BY A BAND lRMLY SHUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD *UXTAPOSE THE SWEET INNOCENT LYRICS IN 2EBEL LION ,IES h#OME AND HIDE YOUR LOVERS UNDERNEATH THE COVERSv WITH THE BLEAK ANTI ANTHEM "LACK -IR ROR h-IRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL SHOW US WHERE THOSE BOMBS WILL FALLv 9OU VE GOT A BAND CLEARLY AT WAR WITH THE GREATER LARGER ASPECTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE !RCADE &IRE AREN T NECESSARILY OUT TO BEGIN THEIR OWN TIDAL TIRADE ON EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING 7IN "UTLER IS NOT "ONO AND HE IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT 4HOM 9ORKE )NSTEAD HE S VERY MUCH CAUGHT UP IN lNDING HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD h-46 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME SAVED MY SOUL SET ME FREE 7ORLD 7AR 4HREE WHEN ARE YOU COMING FOR ME v HE CRIES DURING THE EXTRAORDINARY 7INDOWSILL !S THE ALBUM REACHES ITS PENULTIMATE ESCAPIST AN THEM .O #ARS 'O IT S HARD NOT TO FEEL AWESTRUCK OVER WHELMED AND SOMEWHAT TAKEN BACK BY WHAT !RCADE &IRE HAVE MANAGED TO ACCOMPLISH ON .EON "IBLE ! RECORD OF AMAZING BEAUTY DESIRE RAGE AND ABOVE ALL COURAGE IT WILL NO DOUBT LEAVE AN INDElNITE MARK ON BANDS AND INDIVIDUALS ALIKE 7HEN YOU RE MAKING MUSIC THIS GOOD WHO NEEDS
OPTIMISM !S &UNERAL HAS ALREADY PROVED WHENEVER THIS LOT ARE CONCERNED GOOD WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER EVIL )N POP S CURRENT MEDIOCRE ABYSS !RCADE &IRE ARE A GODSEND 'REG 3ULLIVAN
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4HE THREE PIECE FUNK POP BAND ARRIVED AT THE NAME FOR THEIR DEBUT ALBUM AFTER CONCLUDING THAT &IFE THEIR HOME TOWN LOOKED A BIT LIKE A DOG FROM A BIRD S EYE PERSPECTIVE 3IMILARLY THE CONTENT OF THE ALBUM EVOLVED FROM A PROCESS OF THOUGHTS AND EXPERIMENTS RATHER THAN A CONCRETE MUSIC AGENDA h) DON T SIT DOWN WRITE THEM OR THINK ABOUT THE LYRICS OR CHORDS v SAYS !NDERSON THE BAND S LEAD SINGER 4HE END RESULT IS A PROJECT THAT TRANSGRESSES COUNTLESS GENRES AND STYLES %VERY SONG IS A DISTINCT ENTITY AND BOASTS AN ORIGINAL APPROACH PRODUCING AN ALBUM FULL OF SURPRISES 3ETTING 3UN WOULD FUNCTION PERFECTLY AS A SOUNDTRACK FOR A SEASIDE MONTAGE ON AN !MERICAN S DRAMA 4HE (APPY 3ONG OFFERS AN UNINSPIRED CHORUS OF hHAPPY HAPPY HAPPY YOU WANT TO BE HAPPYv BUT STILL THE SONG DELIVERS AND IS A TRULY UPLIFTING SUMMER ANTHEM 2OBOT -AN LIKEWISE IS FAITHFUL TO ITS TITLE A COMPOSITION OF WINDING WEAVING SYNTHESIS KEYBOARDS AND FUNKY ELECTRONIC BEATS FRESH FROM A HIGH TECH STUDIO 4HE ALBUM IS POP TO ITS CORE SYNTHETICALLY CHARGED AND PACKED TO THE BRIM WITH PLEASING TUNES )N A WORLD FULL OF ALL TOO SIMILAR INDIE BANDS STRUGGLING TO PRODUCE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE !LIENS DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES WITH CLASS ! RETRO YET FRESH APPROACH TO INDIE POP IT S ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING ALBUMS SO FAR THIS YEAR AN AMBITIOUS AND SUPREMELY CONlDENT DEBUT PERFORMANCE
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-AXIMO 0ARK ARE A BAND THAT EVERYONE SHOULD EXPERIENCE LIVE AS THEY ADD A FRENETIC DEPTH TO THEIR ALREADY CHAOTIC SOUND 7ITH THEIR SECOND ALBUM THEY VE TRIED TO CAPTURE THIS SOUND 3O OUT WITH ART ROCK PRODUCER 0AUL %PWORTH AND IN WITH EX &OO &IGHTERS PRODUCER 'IL .ORTON 4HE BAND ALSO CLAIM THAT THE ALBUM IS MUCH HEAVIER THAN THEY WERE EXPECTING 4HIS IS NOTICEABLE IN MANY TRACKS INCLUDING 2USSIAN ,ITERATURE WHICH SHOWCASES THRASHING GUITARS AND INSANITY ON A PIANO NOT HEARD BEFORE FROM THE 4YNESIDE BAND (OWEVER IT IS STILL DISTINCTLY THE WORK OF THE GROUP A SOUND STILL EDGY AND THRILLING WITH 0AUL 3MITH S WELL ENUNCIATED LYRICS FORMING A COMMENTARY FOR MODERN LIFE /UR %ARTHLY 0LEASURES IS COHESIVE AND THE COLLECTION OF SONGS INCREDIBLY STRONG ALLOWING THEM PLENTIFUL CHOICE FOR FUTURE SINGLES (OWEVER WITH THE CHANGES THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A LOSS OF THE MIGHTY POP SONGS THAT GOT THEM RECOGNISED IN THE lRST PLACE WITH NO IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISABLE EQUIVALENT OF !PPLY 3OME 0RESSURE OR 'RAFlTI )T SOON BECOMES CLEAR THAT THIS ALBUM IS A GROWER HOWEVER AS LYRICS EVENTUALLY TUNNEL THEIR WAY INTO YOUR BRAIN AND STAY THERE FOR DAYS 3O AS THEIR NEW SOUND -AXIMO 0ARK PRESENT US WITH THEIR SUCCESSFUL OLD SOUND PLUS SOME OF THEIR LIVE ENERGY AND MINUS A COUPLE OF POP JUGGERNAUTS ! CONFUSING SUM BUT ONE THAT IS SURE TO SEE THEM CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THEIR SUCCESS -ATT (IMSWORTH
!FTER STAMPING THEIR RED $OC -ARTENS ALL OVER THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SUCCESSFUL INDIE AND COMMERCIAL POP IN NAYSAYERS CLAIMED THAT +AISER #HIEFS WOULD lND IT DIFlCULT TO REPEAT SUCH SUCCESS IN THE MUSICAL JUNGLE THAT IS THE CHARTS 4HE FANS WEARING THEIR SHIRTS @N TANK TOPS AND CLUTCHING THEIR LIMITED EDITION 9OU #AN (AVE )T !LL VINYLS TOLD SUCH PESSIMISTS TO SHUT UP !ND RIGHTFULLY SO 2UBY HAS STORMED TO THE TOP OF THE CHARTS AND SECOND ALBUM 9OURS 4RULY !NGRY -OB TAKES THE CATCHY POP DEMONSTRATED ON %MPLOYMENT TO NEW HEIGHTS (OWEVER IT SEEMS THAT THE BAND ARE SOMEWHAT DISILLUSIONED BY WHAT LIES AROUND THEM IN 7HETHER IT S CRITICISING THE GOVERNMENT S HOUR DRINKING LAWS CALL TO ARMS AND POTENTIAL RABBLE ROUSING ANTHEM 4HE !NGRY -OB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY 2ETIREMENT OR THE CURRENT MUSIC SCENE %VERYTHING )S !VERAGE .OWADAYS A FEELING OF SOCIAL AWARENESS PERMEATES THE ALBUM BENElTING BOTH THE BAND AS A NATURAL PROGRESSION AND THE LISTENER WHO MAY BE TIRED OF +AISER #HIEFS ,OVE 3ONG /F COURSE THEY RE STILL HERE IN SPADES HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE TRADEMARK +AISERS FRENETIC POP OF (EAT $IES $OWN THE BASS LED AND FAINTLY SINISTER -Y +IND /F 'UY AND THE PSYCHEDELIC AND WISTFUL 4RY 9OUR "EST +AISER #HIEFS "RITPOP HEIRS INDIE ANTHEM EXTRAORDINAIRES AND NOW SOCIAL COMMENTATORS 7HO D HAVE THOUGHT IT #HRIS (YDE
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7HITE 0ONY 2EADING THE TITLE ABOVE ONE COULD BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING THAT $EFTONES THIRD ALBUM WAS ABOUT SOMETHING ENTIRELY INNOCENT (OWEVER IT S ACTUALLY ABOUT COCAINE 7HO D HAVE THOUGHT IT 5PON REmEC TION HOWEVER THIS COULD NOT BE MORE APPROPRIATE FOR AN ALBUM AS BRAZENLY EXPERIMENTAL PARANOID AND ATMOSPHERIC AS 7HITE 0ONY !FTER $EFTONES RAMPAGING NU METAL EFFORTS !DRENALINE AND !ROUND THE &UR 7HITE 0ONY SIGNALS A STRIKING CHANGE IN DIRECTION FOR THE 3ACRAMENTO lVE PIECE THIS IS FOUND MOST NOTICEABLY IN THE NEW FOUND MELODIC SIDE THAT NOW COMPLEMENTS SINGER #HINO -ORENO S PIERCINGLY AGGRESSIVE VOCALS 4HIS IS DISPLAYED PERFECTLY ON THE BEAUTIFUL 4EENAGER A LULLABY ON ADOLESCENT LOVE AND LOSS 4HE DRUMMING AND BASS STILL FORM AN IMPENETRA BLE PERCUSSIVE FOUNDATION WHILST GUITARIST 3TEPHEN #ARPENTER S CHUGGING RIFFS PROPEL EACH SONG FORWARD 9ET WITH THE ADDITION OF &RANK $ELGADO ON TURNTA BLES THE BAND HAS HONED A MORE LAYERED INNOVATIVE AND EVEN AMBIENT SOUND IN WHICH EMOTION AND IN TENSITY LOCK HORNS TO POWERFUL EFFECT 4HIS IS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT $EFTONES HAVE LOST THEIR SERRATED EDGE ALONG WITH THE NEW INmUENCES 7HITE 0ONY RETAINS A TRULY HEAVY CORE 4HE ALBUM BE GINS IN FRENETIC FASHION SUNG OVER #ARPENTER S INCES SANT RIFF -ORENO S NEUROSES ARE GIVEN FULL VENT IN AL BUM OPENER &EITICEIRA AS HE SINGS ABOUT THREATENING MACHINES ABOVE THE SINISTER REFRAIN OF hSOON ) LL LET YOU GOv )T S A BREAKNECK PACE THAT IS CONTINUED WITH
THE 'RAMMY !WARD WINNING %LITE A MINUTE AURAL ASSAULT IN WHICH -ORENO SCREAMS hWHEN YOU RE RIPE YOU LL BLEED OUT OF CONTROLv 7HITE 0ONY REACHES ITS HAUNTING CLIMAX ON 0AS SENGER AND #HANGE )N 4HE (OUSE /F &LIES 4HE FORMER IS A DUET TOUR DE FORCE IN WHICH -ORENO SHARES THE MIC WITH 4OOL S ENIGMATIC FRONTMAN -AYNARD *AMES +EENAN 4HE LATTER IS AN INTENSELY EVOCATIVE SONG IN WHICH -ORENO S RAW LYRICS SOAR ABOVE HAUNTING ORCHESTRAL STRINGS )N AN AGE WHERE SUPERLATIVES ARE DISHED OUT AS REGULARLY AS 4URKEY 4WIZZLERS AND FRIES 7HITE 0ONY TRULY DESERVES THE TAG @EPIC ! CAREER DElNING ALBUM FROM ONE OF THE MOST SINGULAR BANDS IN ROCK 7HITE 0ONY RAISED THE BAR TO A LEVEL THAT HAS YET TO BE EMU LATED EVEN BY THE BAND THEMSELVES $EFTONES ARE COMING TO 5%! ON TH -ARCH MISS THEM AT YOUR PERIL 7ILL 'REAVES
/THER 3INGLES MEANS IT WILL lND COMPETING WITH THE BIG GUNS DIFlCULT #HARLOTTE NONETHELESS HINTS AT REAL POTENTIAL AND IS PERHAPS ONLY A SAMPLE OF BETTER THINGS TO COME *OHN -UTCH
!IR 4RAFlC #HARLOTTE &LAUNTED FOR SOME TIME NOW #HARLOTTE HAS BEEN KNOCKING ABOUT ONLINE AND ON THE RADIO SINCE LAST YEAR !T JUST IN LENGTH THERE IS LITTLE DEPTH TO THE SONG BUT THIS IS COMPENSATED BY IT S SHEER PACE )T S LOUD AND AT TIMES FRENZIED BUT BECKONS TO BE SUNG ALONG TO )T ALSO REmECTS A STARK MOVE AWAY FROM THE PIANO LED SONGS THAT THE BAND IS SO OFTEN AFlLIATED WITH 4HE GUITAR RIFTS DOMINATE SO MUCH SO THAT LEAD SINGER #HRIS 7ALL BATTLES TO BE HEARD BUT THE END RESULT IS A SOUND THAT WORKS 5NLIKELY TO CHALLENGE FOR A CHART POSITION ITS UNDENIABLE SIMPLICITY CHORUS LINE hUH UH UH OOOHv
INDIE POP SONG THAT YOU CAN DANCE TO (OWEVER DESPITE A PACEY DRUM BEAT AND SOME CHEERFUL 3TROKES ESQUE TWEAKS OF A GUITAR THE END RESULT IS A TAD TOO SUBDUED )T MAKES A MOVE AWAY FROM THE OLD -ODEST -OUSE SOUND YET WITH COMPLEX RHYTHMS AND HEARTFELT SUBJECT MATTER $ASHBOARD IS POP TO THE CORE 4HE SOURCE OF THIS IS LIKELY TO BE THE INTRODUCTION OF EX 3MITHS GUITARIST *OHNNY -ARR -ARR IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ABILITY TO PRODUCE APPEALING MELODIES FROM A FEW SIMPLE NOTES AND HAVING WRITTEN A LOT OF THE MATERIAL FOR THE NEW ALBUM WE CAN EXPECT TO HEAR HIS MORE SIMPLISTIC STYLE 5NFORTUNATELY THE BEST THEIR EFFORTS CAN HOPE FOR IS TO HAVE YOU TAPPING ALONG ON YOUR DASHBOARD *OHN -UTCH
-USE )NVINCIBLE -ODEST -OUSE $ASHBOARD 4HE lRST SINGLE RELEASE FROM 7E 7ERE $EAD "EFORE 4HE 3HIP %VEN 3ANK EXPECTED TH -ARCH REmECTS -ODEST -OUSE S MOST POLISHED SOUND TO DATE ! RELATIVELY LIVELY AFFAIR BY THEIR STANDARDS $ASHBOARD REmECTS AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN
-ATT "ELLAMY RECENTLY DECLARED THAT )NVINCIBLE WAS INTENDED ORIGINALLY AS A PROTEST SONG BUT HIS RE STRUCTURING OF IT MADE IT SEEM MORE OF A LOVE SONG 7HATEVER IT WAS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MORE INTROSPECTIVE MOMENTS OF "LACK (OLES AND 2EVELATIONS &LOATING DOWNSTREAM ON A CUR RENT OF SOOTHING GUITAR AND SEEPING IN TO YOUR EAR EFFORTLESSLY )NVINCI BLE IS PERHAPS TOO EASY TO IGNORE )T TAKES THREE AND A HALF MINUTES FOR
5PON lRST LISTENING TO $ART &OR -Y 3WEETHEART ONE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING IT WAS AN !RCADE &IRE " SIDE SUCH IS LEAD SINGER 3AM 7INDETT S VOCAL SIMILARITY TO 7IN "UTLER 2E RELEASED AS A #$ SINGLE IT WAS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED LAST &EBRUARY AS A v ONLY VERSION THE BAND WILL BE HOPING $ART &OR -Y 3WEETHEART REACHES DIZZIER HEIGHTS THAN PREVIOUS EFFORTS THEIR PREVI OUS HIGHEST CHART ENTRY WAS WITH )SLANDS 9ET THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED MASS APPEAL MATTERS LITTLE "OTH ALBUMS HAVE BEEN CRITICALLY AC CLAIMED AND IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY
ANYTHING TO CATCH YOUR ATTENTION AND EVEN THEN -ATT "ELLAMY S SOLO IS CONSIDERABLY SUBDUED ESPECIAL LY WHEN COMPARED TO THE LIKES OF 3TOCKHOLM 3YNDROME "ELLAMY S VOCAL PERFORMANCE DOES LITTLE TO EXCITE AS WELL WITH HIS USUAL RANGE DIMIN ISHED TO MAKE EVERY NOTE SEEM THE SAME .O DOUBT IT WILL CATER PERFECTLY FOR THE AVERAGE 2ADIO /NE LISTENER AS IT PLODS ALONG FOR A FULL lVE MIN UTES BUT -USE FANS WILL RECOGNISE THIS AS ALBUM lLLER AND PERHAPS BE SURPRISED THAT IT S BEEN RELEASED AS A SINGLE ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE PREVIOUS THREE HAVE BEEN 3UPERMAS SIVE "LACK (OLE 3TARLIGHT AND +NIGHTS OF #YDONIA )NVINCIBLE JUST SOUNDS A BIT PLEASANT IN COMPARISONx
HERE "OUNCY GUITAR RIFFS THAT 4HE +ILLS WITH WHOM THEY SHARE THE SAME PRODUCER WOULD BE PROUD OF AND CHORUSES THAT RECALL EARLY 7HITE 3TRIPES ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY AND THE SONG BENElTS MAS SIVELY FROM IT )T S HARDLY LIKELY TO BOTHER THE CHARTS SUCH IS THE CURRENT MUSICAL CLIME WHERE GIRL GROUPS CAN COVER HIP HOP CLASSICS WITHOUT A TRACE OF IRONY BUT SUCH IS LIFE 7ELCOME TO !RCHIE "RONSON /UTlT THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN "RIT ISH MUSIC ,EWIS -ORTON
INEVITABLE COMPARISONS BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND !RCTIC -ONKEYS (OWEVER WHEREAS !RCTIC -ONKEYS LEAD ,-4 FOLLOWS ! BETTER DESCRIPTION OF ,-4 THOUGH IS A MIX BETWEEN THE mUFFY ADOLESCENT POP OF 4HE /RDINARY "OYS AND THE ROUSING GUITAR DRIVEN SOUNDS OF 4HE 6IEW )F 4HIS -UST BE ,OVE IS ANYTHING TO GO BY EXPECT ,-4 TO BE A REGULAR lXTURE IN THE CHARTS OVER THE NEXT YEAR 4HE EPITOME OF INDIE POP THE SINGLE BOASTS A HAUNTINGLY CATCHY CHORUS AND A STUTTERING AND TEASING TEMPO ACCOMPANIED BY THE MANDATORY @ABOUT A GIRL LYRICS LIKE hYOU WERE THE lRST GIRL ) EVER KISSED WITH TONGUESv )T S ANYTHING BUT GROUND BREAKING BUT ITS ACCESSIBILITY MEANS IT S DESTINED TO BE A POP FAVOURITE OR AN INDIE GUILTY PLEASURE *OHN -UTCH
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E ALL ENJOY LISTENING TO MU SIC 2OCK POP HIP HOP CLASSICAL FOLK COUNTRYx WHAT WE LISTEN TO DElNES US ALL AS INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEINGS ONE PERSON S MEAT IS ANOTHER PERSON S POISON )N THE SAME WAY WHAT WE WEAR CHARACTERISES EACH ONE OF US AS BEING OUR OWN PERSON 7HETHER WE RE ONE OF THE SHEEP THAT FOLLOW THE 4OPSHOP HERD OR CLAD FROM HEAD TO TOE IN BLACK TO MARK US OUT AS BEING @GOFlCK MUSIC AND CLOTHING ARE AS INTRICATELY LINKED AS THAT PILLOCK FROM 4HE +OOKS AND A BATTERED STRAW HAT 7HILE THERE WAS A WHOLE HEAP OF POP MUSIC BEFORE THEM 4HE "EATLES WERE THE lRST BAND TO BREAK THE MOULD WHEN IT CAME TO LINKING MUSIC AND CLOTHES 46 WAS A STAID AND DIGNIlED AFFAIR IN THE S WITH ALL PRESENTERS WEARING SUITS AND SPEAKING A HORRIBLY EXAGGER ATED FORM OF THE 1UEEN S %NGLISH MAKING THEM SOUND LIKE THEY WERE GARGLING A MOUTHFUL OF TREACLE (OWEVER 4HE "EATLES lRST 46 AP PEARANCE ON 'RANADA S 0EOPLE AND 0LACES IN /CTOBER CHANGED THAT FOREVER 7ITH THEIR FAMOUS MOP TOP HAIR AND SUITS MUCH MORE CASUAL ONES THAN WORN PRE VIOUSLY BEFORE YOU START YAMMER ING ON ABOUT HOW THAT SOUNDS THE SAME AS THE PRESENTERS THEY CAUSED CONSIDERABLE CONTROVERSY AS TO HOW SUCH POORLY DRESSED YOUNG RUFlANS COULD BE ALLOWED ON NA TIONAL TELLY )T TRIGGERED "EATLEMA NIA AND ALSO LED TO A FASHION TREND THAT S STILL KNOCKING ABOUT TODAY DRESSING UP AS THE BAND YOU LIKE !S THE S PROGRESSED AND ROCK MORPHED INTO GLAM $AVID "OW IE 3LADE PROG 9ES 0INK &LOYD AND HARDER STUFF ,ED :EPPELIN 1UEEN SO CLOTHING BECAME AS IN TEGRAL TO EACH GENRE AS MINUTE DRUM SOLOS AND 0HIL #OLLINS FACE WERE TO 'ENESIS #ONSIDER THE BANDS LISTED ABOVE 7HEN THINKING OF $AVID "OWIE NO DOUBT THAT YOU IMAGINE HIM IN SOME mAGRANTLY mAMBOYANT COSTUME SUCH AS IN HIS :IGGY 3TARDUST PHASE OR HIS HORRIlCALLY CLINGY TIGHTS IN ,ABY RINTH BUT WE LL GLAZE OVER THAT &OR 3LADE ONCE YOU LOOK PAST .ODDY (OLDER S AMAZING SIDEBURNS THE
PLATFORM SHOES AND MIRRORED HATS ARE THE lRST THINGS THAT LEAP TO MINDS )T S THE SAME WITH &REDDIE -ERCURY S WHITE VEST AND 2OBERT 0LANT S UNBUTTONED SHIRT REVEALING THE 7EST -IDLANDS WARBLER S HAIRY CHEST #ONSIDER THE 3EX 0ISTOLS MANAGER -ALCOLM -C,AREN AND HIS PARTNER FASHION DESIGNER 6IVIENNE 7ESTWOOD AND HOW THEY mUNG HER DESIGNS AT A YOUNG *OHNNY 2OTTEN ET AL WOULD THEY HAVE HAD SUCH SUCCESS WITHOUT HER EYE FOR ENGI NEERED PUNK THREADS )N THE S AS MUSIC DEVELOPED INTO OFFSHOOTS LIKE HEAVY METAL AND NEW WAVE THE FASHION FOR EACH MOVEMENT PI GEONHOLED THE FAN DEPENDING ON WHAT THEY WERE CLAD IN )F YOU HAD HAIR THAT REACHED YOUR SHOULDERS A BLACK 4 SHIRT AND A DENIM JACKET THEN YOU CLEARLY ENJOYED THE SWEET SOUNDS OF -ETALLICA OR -OTORHEAD )F YOU PREFERRED THE SOFTER TONES OF A PASTEL BLAZER WITH SHOULDER PADS BIG ENOUGH FOR A CHILD TO PERCH ON THEN YOU WERE PRESUMABLY A FAN OF 4ALKING (EADS OR "LONDIE 4HE PROPENSITY FOR MUSIC IN THE NOUGHTIES HAS BEEN TO WEAR WHATEVER 4OPSHOP IS STOCKING THE BANDS DO SO FANS DO AS WELLx AND SO THE VICIOUS CIRCLE CONTINUES 4HIS MEANS THAT INDIE CLUBS ARE INFESTED WITH INSIPID MORONS THAT DRESS IN WHATEVER 4OPSHOP HAS DICTATED THAT THEY WEAR 7HETHER IT S THE THIN JUMPERS FAVOURED BY +ASABIAN THE BILE INDUCING GROTTY VESTS THAT 4HE +OOKS WEAR OR THE SKINNY JEANS THAT JUST ABOUT EVERY INDIE BAND BRANDISHES IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO 4OPSHOP S MARKET SHARE IN MODERN MUSIC )F ANY MORE EVIDENCE WAS NEEDED OF HOW CLOSE FASHION AND MUSIC HAVE BECOME INTERTWINED IN RECENT YEARS WE NEEDN T LOOK ANY FURTHER THAN THE .-% 2ECENT ISSUES HAVE INCLUDED A DOUBLE PAGE ADVERT FOR 4OPMAN GOODS HILARIOUSLY ENTITLED @9OURS 4RULY &ASHION -OB COMPLETE WITH PRICES FOR THE CLOTHES SHOWN MAK ING THE MAGAZINE FEEL MORE LIKE A CATALOGUE WHILE FULL PAGE ADVERTS FOR 3HOCKWAVES GEL 0UMA TRAINERS ,EVI S JEANS AND ER UNDERPANTS NESTLE AMONG THE ADVERTS FOR NEW SINGLES AND ALBUMS 7HILE WE MAY SEEM SOMEWHAT HATE lLLED ABOUT THESE FASHION TRENDS IT COULD BE WORSE AT LEAST PEOPLE HAVE DITCHED THOSE RIDICULOUSLY PRETENTIOUS RED JACKETS THAT 4HE ,IBERTINES POP
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ULARISED A FEW YEARS AGO &ANS WILL ALWAYS DRESS SIMI LARLY TO THEIR HEROES IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMULATE THEM AND THE CLOTHES OFTEN DElNE THE BAND AS MUCH AS THE MUSIC THOSE JACKETS BEING A FANTASTIC EXAMPLE 4HIS ALSO GIVES THE PERSON A TAG PONCING AROUND #AMDEN 4OWN CLAD IN A RED ARMY JACKET IMMEDIATELY MARKS YOU OUT AS A FAN OF 4HE ,IBERTINES AND TELLS EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR MUSICAL LEAN ING )T DOES HOWEVER LEAD TO SOME THING OF A GANG MENTALITY CONSIDER WHEN &ARIS 2OTTER WAS SET UPON BY SOME SHAVEN HEAD GOONS LAST SUMMER 7HILE HE DOES LOOK LIKE A CONSIDERABLE PILLOCK IN THE FAUX 6ICTORIAN CLOTHING THAT HE SWANS AROUND IN IT S SHOCKING TO THINK THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY BE BEATEN UP SIMPLY FOR DRESSING DIFFERENTLY FROM THE NORM 4HIS IDEA OF EVERYONE BEING PIGEONHOLED INTO VARIOUS MUSI
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CAL CAMPS SIMPLY BASED ON HOW WE DRESS IS AN OLD ONE AND ITS CURRENT MAJOR MANIFESTATION IS IN THE $AILY -AIL S FAVOURITE TARGET EMO KIDS /UR CLOTHING IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE RESULT OF INDIVIDUALISM YET FASHION IS A PRODUCT OF MASS COMMERCIAL ISM THAT S CONSTANTLY CHANGING TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE CAPITALISTS THAT MAKE IT AND THE CONSUMERS THAT CRAVE IT 3TEP FORWARD ALL YOU mOP PY FRINGED AND SULKY TEENAGERS THAT lLLED A GAP IN A CORPORATE MARKET 7HEN THE NU METAL SCENE OF A FEW YEARS AGO COLLAPSED IN A HEAP OF ITS OWN BOMBAST THERE WAS A HUGE VOID IN THE MUSIC AND CLOTHING MARKETS FOR DISILLUSIONED MIDDLE CLASS TEEN AGERS )N RESPONSE THE PRODUCTION LINE ROLLED OUT A SERIES OF IDENTIKIT BANDS WITH THE SAME ALTERNATING QUI ET AND LOUD MUSIC AND ALL WIELDING LYRICS ABOUT BEING IN TOUCH WITH FEEL INGS IN PLACE OF SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS OF RAGE %MO BANDS ARE SUFlCIENTLY DIFFERENT TO MAKE ALL THEIR FOLLOWERS THINK THAT THEY VE STUMBLED UPON SOMETHING NEW AND ARE INDIVIDU ALS YET THEY RE SIMPLY SUBSCRIBING TO SOMETHING DREAMT UP IN A CORPORATE BOARDROOM #HECK OUT THE HORDES OF YEAR OLDS CLAD IN THE SAME BLACK UNIFORM OUTSIDE THE &ORUM ON A 3AT URDAY AND YOU LL SEE WHAT WE MEAN /NE MORE MUSIC FASHION LINK IN OUR CULTURE IS FOUND IN THE FORM OF BAND 4 SHIRTS !PPROVED BY THE GROUP THEY ENDORSE OR NOT IN THE CASE OF THOSE LOVELY BOOTLEGS THAT SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO BUY BUT LAST ONLY ONE WASH BAND 4 SHIRTS SERVE A SIMILAR FUNCTION TO DRESSING LIKE YOUR FAVOURITE GROUP THEY TURN YOU INTO A WALKING ADVERT FOR THE BAND AND YOUR MUSICAL TASTES )T S NOTE WORTHY THAT ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND MEMORABLE 4 SHIRTS OF THE LAST YEARS IS .IRVANA S YELLOW FACED EF FORT RISING ABOVE ALL THE MILLIONS OF OTHER DESIGNS THAT HAVE BEEN AVAIL ABLE FOR MASS CONSUMPTION OVER THAT PERIOD !N IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT IN ANYONE S BOOK 3O WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE FROM THIS 4HAT MUSIC AND FASHION FEED OFF EACH OTHER 4HAT THEY NEED EACH OTHER TO SURVIVE ALMOST AS SYMBIOTIC BEINGS 4HAT ONE DICTATES THE OTHER 7HATEVER WE CAN DRAW FROM THESE AS PECTS OF OUR LIVES IT S CLEAR THAT THEIR UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP IS GOING TO CON TINUE FOR AS LONG AS MUSIC IS MADE IT S AS INEVITABLE AS 0ETE $OHERTY RE LAXING WITH A SYRINGE OF AN EVENING
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FAR TOO LATE EVERY LINE OF EVERY SONG FROM MILLION SELLING DEBUT TO LAST RELEASE -ELTDOWN HAS BEEN BELTING OUT FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE 7ATERFRONT ALL NIGHT LONG )N BETWEEN THE BAND lRE OUT lVE NEW TRACKS WHERE EVERYONE SUDDENLY FOCUSES INTENTLY ON THE STAGE NOT WANTING TO MISS A SIN GLE BEAT OF PRECIOUS NEW MUSIC /N MOST COMEBACKS THE LATEST EFFORTS ARE JUST SET lLLERS BUT NOT TONIGHT 9OU #AN (AVE IT !LL AND THE ENTHRALLING 0OLARIS lT IN PERFECTLY CONVEYING A BAND AS FULL OF INTELLIGENT AND INFECTIOUS MUSIC AS EVER 4HEIR FORTHCOM ING AND AS YET UNTITLED ALBUM CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH 4HE SET NEVER DROPS BELOW FRANTIC BUT !SH SOMEHOW lND ROOM TO MOVE UP A TEMPO WITH 'IRL FROM -ARS #APTAIN GUI TAR 3OLO 4IM S PLAYING MORE BAD ASS THAN EVER BUT DISAPPOINTEDLY HE S NOT WIELDING THE mYING 6 .OT THAT THIS SEEMS TO MATTER AS MUCH OF THE SOLD OUT 7ATERFRONT CROWD ARE JUMPING AROUND WAY TOO WILDLY TO NOTICE "EFORE THE COMPLIMENTARY ENCORE ANOTHER NEW AND UNNAMED TRACK IS TESTED OUT BY THE BOYS 4HIS ONE IS DIFFERENT A SIX MINUTE MIND BLOWING EPIC WITH 4IM CRY ING OUT HIS PERSONAL ANGUISH OVER RHYTHM DUO -ARK (AMILTON AND 2ICK -C-URRAY S EVER TIGHT PLAYING )T WILL BE FULLY UNLEASHED SOON ENOUGH AND HINTS AT A RAW AND EDGIER SOUND FOR THE FUTURE
4HE BOYS BEGIN AGAIN WITH THE BLISTER ING ) ,IGHT A &IRE THE OPENING TRACK FROM THE NEW ALBUM )T S ALSO FREE TO DOWNLOAD FROM -Y3PACE SO GET IT NOW )T S CLEAR THAT NO ONE WANTS THEM TO LEAVE BUT ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END !SH SAVE FAN FAVOURITE +UNG &U FOR THEIR LAST NUMBER WHICH CONVEYS THE BAND S LOVE OF *ACKIE
#HAN )T S A lTTING END TO A FUN AND EXU BERANT NIGHT AND WITH THE BOYS SCHEDULED IN FOR A FULL SET OF FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT %U ROPE THERE S NO EXCUSE TO MISS THEM THIS SUMMER +IERAN #ORNWELL
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!RRIVING AT THE 7ATERFRONT OPTIMISM IS HIGH AS THE .ORWICH LEG OF 4HE ,ONG "LONDES TOUR IS +ATE *ACKSON S ADOPTED HOME TOWN GIG SHE S FROM "URY 3T %DMUNDS DON T YOU KNOW 4HE lRST BAND ON ARE 7ET $OG 7HY YOU WOULD CALL YOUR BAND THAT 'OD ONLY KNOWS AND THEY CERTAINLY LIVE UP TO THEIR NAME WITH TWO MINUTE POP PUNK DISAPPOINTMENTS WITH TITLES SUCH AS -AGNET &ACE SAYING IT ALL !N ACTUAL WET DOG ON STAGE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN MORE ENJOYABLE 4HEY ARE FOLLOWED BY A BAND CALLED 4HE ,ODGER WHO CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS AVERAGE &INALLY THE ,ONG "LONDES TAKE TO THE STAGE AND EXPECTATIONS ARE HIGH 4HANKFULLY THEY
DO NOT LET US DOWN AND THE PREVIOUS TWO BANDS ARE FORGOTTEN /NCE !ND .EVER !GAIN SEES THE CROWD REALLY GET INTO IT ESPECIALLY ALL THE GIRLS IN THEIR MID TEENS WHO HAVE COME AS MIRROR IMAGES OF +ATE *ACKSON COMPLETE WITH NECK SCARF (OWEVER +ATE HERSELF HAS TONIGHT COME DRESSED DIFFERENTLY LOSING THE BERET AND HOUNDS TOOTH STYLE SKIRT AND JACKET COMBO 3HE STILL OF COURSE LOOKS AMAZING !S FOR THE MUSIC THE ONLY DOWN POINT IS THE LACK OF NEW MATERIAL AS THE SETLIST IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE ONE THEY PUT OUT AT THE !RTS #ENTRE IN /CTOBER LAST YEAR 4HIS IS ONLY A SLIGHT COMPLAINT HOWEVER AS THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IS EXCELLENT AND THEY GO THROUGH MOST OF IT ON STAGE 4HE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS IS PROBABLY 'IDDY 3TRATOSPHERES WHICH CAME COMPLETE WITH AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION AS THE CROWD PROVIDED THE HAND CLAPS THAT APPEAR AT THE START OF THE SONG ON THE RECORD 4HE COMPARISONS TO "LONDIE ARE OBVIOUS AND WHILST THEY ARE NOT AS GOOD AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL BE THEY ARE STILL ONE OF THE BEST BANDS AT WHAT THEY DO 4HEY CAN INSTANTLY PLEASE A CROWD WITH THEIR INFECTIOUS POP SONGS AND WITH A LEAD SINGER WHO HAS A VOICE THAT SOUNDS AMAZING LIVE THEY CAN T REALLY GO WRONG
4HE CONCEPT OF g"ANNEDg NIGHTS IS A SIMPLE ONE GATHER TOGETHER LIKE MINDED MUSIC FANS IN A ROOM HAVE LOCAL $*S SPINNING THE BEST IN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC AND SHOWCASE TWO UP AND COMING LOCAL BANDS 4ONIGHT SEES g"ANNEDg STILL IN IT S INFANCY WITH THIS BEING ONLY THE SECOND OF IT S MONTHLY NIGHTS PRESENT US WITH THE PRECOCIOUS TALENTS OF BOTH *IM $ANDY 7AGONS AND 4HE "ROWNIES &IRST UP COME THE 7AGONS AND THEY LAUNCH IN TO A SET THAT COMPROMISES DISTORTED AND DUELLING GUITAR RIFFS AND TWO PART HARMONIES 3OUNDING REMARKABLY AKIN TO 4HE ,IBERTINES MINUS THE BOHEMIAN URCHIN INmUENCE OF 0ETE $OHERTY THAT LL BE $IRTY 0RETTY 4HINGS THEN THEY PUT ON AN ENERGETIC SHOW INDEED 0LAYING THEIR FULL HOME RECORDED DEBUT %0 4HIS /NE S &OR 2UFmES AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL AND MORE UN FAMILIAR MATERIAL *IM $ANDY 7AGONS SHOW THEMSELVES CAPABLE OF BEING REAL CROWD PLEASERS 1UIET MICROPHONES AND EVEN BROKEN GUITAR STRINGS FAIL TO DETRACT FROM WHAT IS A PROMISING IF A LITTLE UN POLISHED PERFORMANCE FROM THE BOYS IN ONLY THEIR SECOND GIG &OLLOWING AN INTERLUDE OF ECLECTIC MIXING FROM THE RESIDENT $*S 4HE "ROWNIES COME TO THE STAGE AND BLOW THE CROWD AWAY WITH THEIR UNIQUE BRAND OF PUNK POWER
POP AND FEMINIST TINGED LYRICS !LTHOUGH THEY ARE BARELY OLD ENOUGH TO BE HERE 4HE "ROWNIES LOOK ASSURED ON STAGE AND FRONT WOMAN 3OPHIE ,ITTLE IS REMINISCENT OF A YOUNG $EBBIE (ARRY 4HEIR SNAPPY RIFFS WIN OVER MANY AND A GENUINE MOSHPIT BEGINS TO DEVELOP ALBEIT TWO LINES DEEP 4HE REST OF THE EVENING IS TAKEN UP BY SOME RATHER lNE MIXING FROM THE g"ANNEDg $* S AND ITgS A RARE TREAT NOT TO HEAR THE TYPICAL @INDIE COMPILATION OF 4HE +OOKS AND +AISER #HIEFS g"ANNEDg CLEARLY HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP INTO SOMETHING BIGGER THAN IT IS AT PRESENT AND LET S FACE IT .ORWICH NEEDS IT ,EWIS -ORTON
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#INEFILE 3O WHAT IS IT ABOUT !PTLY SUMMARIZED BY THE TAGLINE OF hAN ORDINARY MAN AT WAR WITH THE EVERYDAY WORLDv 7ILLIAM &OS TER -ICHAEL $OUGLAS WANTS NOTH ING MORE THAN TO SEE HIS FAMILY BUT THE WORLD IS AGAINST HIM %VE RYDAY FRUSTRATIONS n UNWARRANTED HOSTILITIES OVERPRICED GOODS THE FEELING OF BETRAYAL TRANSFORM &OS TER INTO A PSYCHOPATHIC AND VIO LENT AVENGER )S HE COMPLETELY CRAZY &OSTER HAS A RESTRAINING ORDER PLACED UPON HIM RESTRICTING HIM FROM SEEING HIS FAMILY BECAUSE OF HIS UNSTABLE MENTAL STATE 7E ARE HOWEVER ABLE TO EMPATHISE WITH HIM INDEED HIS PSYCHOPATHIC SIDE WOULD REMAIN lRMLY LOCKED UP IF HE WAS SIMPLY SHOWN RESPECT BY THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM )S HE A BAD PERSON
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THE lRST HALF HOUR S CONFUSING AND REPUGNANT SCENES AREN T ENOUGH TO TURN YOU AWAY THEN THE lLM MAY SUCCEED IN PROVIDING SOME ENTER TAINMENT AND REmECTION AS YOU ARE TAKEN THROUGH $ITO S LIFE (OWEVER ONE WOULD NEED A STRONG WILL AND A LOT OF COFFEE TO STICK WITH IT 4HE lLM IS SUPPOSED TO BE A @REALISTIC APPROACH TO THE DIRECTOR S
LIFE BUT AT TIMES THE GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND SEX SEEMS OVERPLAYED FOR THE SAKE OF TITILLATION WHICH ADDS A VEIL OF FALSITY TO THE WHOLE NARRATIVE 4HE CRUDENESS AND VENAL ITY OF THE CENTRAL CHARACTERS MAKES IT HARD TO LIKE THEM AND THEY FALL SHORT OF BEING FULLY REALISED IN STEAD SLIPPING INTO THE CLASSIC STER EOTYPES THAT WE WOULD ASSOCIATE WITH A -EAN 3TREETS TYPE lLM !S ONE WOULD EXPECT 2OBERT $OWNY *R GIVES A FANTASTIC PERFORM ANCE PORTRAYING $ITO IN A LIKEABLE MANNER BUT BRINGING A DEPTH OF CHARACTER WHICH SOME OF THE OTHER ACTORS IN 3AINTS LACK 3HIA ,A"EOUF IS EQUALLY AS GOOD AND THOUGH HE BEARS NO RESEMBLANCE TO $OWNEY *R THEY BOTH INHABIT THE SPIRIT OF THE CHARACTER SO STRONGLY AND EN TIRELY THAT YOU CAN OVERLOOK THIS FACTOR )F YOU ARE WILLING TO SIT THROUGH NEARLY TWO HOURS OF SERIOUS MEM OIRS OF THE ROUGH HOODS OF .EW 9ORK THEN ! 'UIDE TO 2ECOGNISING 9OUR 3AINTS MAY JUST BE SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING (OWEVER IF YOU D RATHER NOT WASTE YOUR TIME PICK SOMETHING ELSE n EVEN 'HOST 2IDER WOULD BE MORE ENTERTAINING AND HUMOROUS .ATASHA +UNDAIKER
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AND MUCH OF THE lLM S MEMORABLE SEQUENCES INVOLVE HIM ALONE AS HIS HUMAN SELF 7HEN HE DOES BECOME THE 2IDER THOUGH THE #') DOES NOT DISAPPOINT )T S POSSIBLY THE BEST EVER SEEN IN CINEMA WITH THE EFFECTS OF HIS mAMING SKULL TO BE RELISHED IN PARTICULAR 5NFORTUNATELY EVERYONE ELSE IS RATHER DISAPPOINTING &ONDA SHOULD KNOW A BAD SCRIPT WHEN HE SEES ONE WHILST "ENTLEY IS JUST AN AWFUL ACTOR CONSTANTLY GOING WAY OVER THE TOP AND THE LESS SAID ABOUT %VA -ENDES THE BETTER 4HAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF SCREEN TIME IS POPULATED BY #AGE IS THEREFORE SIMPLY FANTASTIC (IS CHARISMA HELPS MAINTAIN LIGHT HEARTEDNESS THROUGHOUT AND IS IN MANY PLACES VERY FUNNY 4HIS IS REFRESHING TO SEE AS -ARVEL lLMS OF LATE HAVE TENDED TO LEAN TOWARDS THE DARK SIDE )T S A GOOD JOB THEN THAT 'HOST 2IDER IS WILLING TO SACRIlCE SO MUCH JUST TO ENTERTAIN +IERAN #ORNWELL
LIFE AND BEGINS TO ASCRIBE THE CURSE OF THE NUMBER TO EVERYTHING THAT SURROUNDS HIM 4HE PRESENT IS MINGLED SCENES OF 7ALTER IMAGINATION WITH HIM PLAY ING THE AUTHOR S ALTER EGO @$ETECTIVE &INGERLING@ AND HIS WIFE TAKING ON THE IDENTITY OF &INGERLING S TEMPT RESS GIRLFRIEND &ABRIZIA &INGERLING CURSED BY THE NUMBER IS DRIVEN TO &ABRIZIA S MURDER FRAMING HER LOVER !S A CONNECTION IS SUGGESTED BE TWEEN A MISSING GIRL AND THE BOOK
A MANIC HUNT FOR THE AUTHOR ENSUES 4HE SEARCH LEADS !GATHA TO A lLE IN A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL REVEALING DIS TURBING TRUTHS 4HE THEMES OF IDENTITY AND DESTINY ARE AN INTERESTING CONCEPT WHILE THE GRAPHIC NOVEL STYLE SCENES ARE VISUALLY STRIKING (OWEVER THE lLM FAILS AS A THRILLER -ORE AND MORE TENUOUS LINKS ARE MADE TO UNTIL THE SLIGHTEST MENTION ENCOUR AGES GIGGLES IN THE AUDIENCE AND THE PLOT IS FAR TOO OBVIOUS TO INTRIGUE %MMA &EATHERSTONE
4HE .UMBER $IR *OEL 3CHUMACHER 2ELEASED *IM #ARREY PLAYS THE LEAD IN THIS SUPPOSED PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER THE MAIN PROBLEM BEING ITS FAILURE TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE !LTHOUGH #AR REY IS TALENTED AT PLAYING THE MEN TALLY DISTURBED THE OBSESSION WITH THE TITLE S CONCEPT DOESN T INFECT THE VIEWER #ARREY PLAYS 7ALTER 3PARROW A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND FATHER 7AL TER S PROBLEMS BEGIN WHEN HE IS LATE MEETING HIS WIFE !GATHA 6IRGINA -ADSEN 7AITING OUTSIDE A LOCAL BOOK STORE SHE COMES ACROSS A BOOK 4HE .UMBER AND PASSES IT ON TO HER HUSBAND WHO IMMEDIATELY BE COMES ENGROSSED WITH THE AUTHOR S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TALE 7ALTER CON NECTS THE AUTHOR S PAST TO HIS OWN
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3EAN "EAN PLAYED WITH THE QUALITY EXPECTED FROM HIM THEY SOON MAKE MERRY HELL FOR A VARIETY OF CRIMINALS BOTH PETTY AND HEAVY /NE OF THE BETTER ASPECTS OF /UTLAW IS THE VARIETY IN THE MAIN CHARACTERS WHO HAVE AN INTERESTING VARIETY OF BACK STORIES AND MOTIVES AND WHO PERFORM WELL TOGETHER "OB (OSKINS IS ALSO GOOD AS A ROGUE COP WHO HELPS THE GROUP BY FEEDING THEM INFORMATION ABOUT POTENTIAL TARGETS
9ET /UTLAW IS AN INTENSELY FRUSTRATING lLM AS IT OFFERS THE CHANCE FOR A COMPLEX AS WELL AS EXCITING PLOT AND YET RESORTS TO JUVENILE IDEAS WHEREBY THE HEROES REALLY ARE JUST THAT RATHER THAN BEING CRUEL VIGILANTES WHO MAY BE GOING TOO FAR #ONSIDERING THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDRESSING SOME VERY DIFlCULT QUESTIONS /UTLAW JUST TREATS THIS ALL AS SOME FUN GAME AND SEEMS TO INFER THAT A GUY SUFFERING ROAD RAGE IS DESERVING OF THE SAME FATE AS CRIMELORD .O DOUBT THERE WILL BE MUCH DEBATE AMONGST THE TABLOIDS ABOUT THE POLITICS HERE BUT FRANKLY THEY ARE TREATED AS SO SIMPLISTIC AS TO BE CHILDISH !T THE END OF THE DAY YOU LL LEAVE THE CINEMA WITH A BITTER TASTE /UTLAW TICKS THE BOXES FOR EXCITEMENT AND ACTION BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT IS AN ILL THOUGHT OUT ROMP WITH ALOT OF UNFULlLLED POTENTIAL
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PERFORMANCE IS BOTH SENSITIVE AND CHARMING AND SHE MANAGES TO CARRY THE ROLE WITH GREAT APLOMB 4HE OTHER RISING STAR OF THE lLM *AMES -C!VOY WHO ODDLY SEEMS TO BE IN EVERY OTHER lLM IN THE PAST YEAR ALSO GIVES ANOTHER PASSIONATE AND SUITABLY CHARISMATIC PERFORMANCE 4HE lLM IS DELICATELY SHOT WITH THE DIRECTOR S PARTICULAR EYE FOR DETAIL HIGHLIGHTING THE STARTLING AUTHENTICITY OF THE lLM )F THERE ARE ANY mAWS WITH THIS lLM IT IS THAT WHILE THE PLOT REmECTS THE TONE OF ONE OF !USTEN S GREAT NOVELS IT LACKS THE EFFORTLESS WIT AND VIVACITY OF SOME OF HER STORIES WHICH CAN MAKE THE lLM A TAD PONDEROUS AND THE ENDING JUST A LITTLE TOO NEAT .EVERTHELESS THIS BITTERSWEET ROMANCE MAKES A lNE ALTERNATIVE TO THE RECENT DELUGE OF !USTEN ADAPTATIONS ON lLM AND 46 7ILL (EPPA
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