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The Event Editor-in-Chief Fiona Billings Editors Alannah Wells and Chloe Pew Latter Fashion Editor - Jessica Hamilton Deputy Fashion Editor - Flora Wong Contributor - Emily Mason
Arts Editors - Melissa York and Matt Ramsay Contributors - Jennifer Abbott, Micha Charles, Alice Dijksterhuis, Hannah Strawson, Jack Swain
Creative Writing Editor - Penny Boxall Contributors - Simon Hughes, Jennifer Wong
Internet Editors - Chloe Pew Latter and Alannah Wells Deputy Internet Editor - Jack Clark Contributors - Tyler Kearne, Kirsten Peter, Daniel Youmans
Music Editor - Sarah Christie Deputy Music Editor - Rob Morbin Contributors - Tess Batchelor, Dean Hooper, Shaun Kitchener, Christopher Mills, Laura Simons, Ian Smith, Helen Thomas, Duncan Vicat-Brown, Ben Winstanley, Tiff Woosley
Film Editors - George Gilbert and Colette Lilford
Wired Editor - Karl Davies Contributor
Paul Bygrave
Contributors - Chris Bentley-Smith, Rachel Hazzard, Tom Nixon, Adam Scales, Duncan Vicat-Brown, Karine Wach-Donovan
TV Editor - Kirsten Peter
Listings Editor - Natasha Barnes
Contributors - Rosie Barcroft, Josh Butler, Rachel Conquer, Lindsay Harris, Cathy Peters
Competitions Editor - Jonathan Clark
Fashion
p.4 - 4HE BEST AND WORST DRESSED DURING THIS CELEBRITY lLLED AWARDS SEASON p.5 - 4HE PRICE OF LUXURY
Arts
p.6 - .ORWICH 4HEATRE 2OYAL S 0ROGRAMME -ANAGER DISCUSSES HER IMPORTANT ROLE p.7 - 7E CELEBRATE -INOTAUR 4HEATRE #OMPANY S TH BIRTHDAY
Creative Writing
p.8 - /UR CREATIVE WRITERS TACKLE THE THEME OF @'RAVITY
Wired
p.9 - !LL THE GAMES THAT YOU NEED TO BE PLAYING THIS FORTNIGHT
TV
p.10 - 7E INVITE YOU TO BECOME AN EXPERT ON PANEL SHOWS p.11 - (OW TO PREPARE FOR THE DIGITAL SWITCHOVER
Internet
5IF
p.12 - 7EB "ROWSER FACEOFF AND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 4WITTER
Feature
p.13 - 'LASVEGAS INTERVIEWED FRESH FROM THEIR PERFORMANCE AT THE .-% !WARDS 4OUR
Music
p.14 - 7E INTERVIEW %MMY THE 'REAT AND DISCOVER WHO REALLY INmUENCES HER p.15 - !LBUMS OF THE FORTNIGHT p.16 - 3INGLES OF THE FORTNIGHT p.17 - /UR LIVE REVIEWS
Film
p.18 - 7E REVIEW #HE AND -ERYL 3TREEP p.19 - /UR PICK OF THE lLMS TO SEE THIS WEEK p.20 - $6$ RELEASES p.21 - 7E EXPLORE THE USE OF THE HAND HELD CAMERA IN lLMS
What’s On
p.22 - !LL THE .ORWICH HAPPENINGS THIS FORTINGHT
Competitions
p.24 - #ROSSWORD 3UDOKU AND 'IVEAWAYS
Event Ratings Outstanding Excellent Good Mediocre Tragic!
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fashion
“the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behaviour” the event
concrete.fashion@uea.ac.uk
LOOK AT ME!
)T S AWARDS SEASON AND AS CELEBRITIES EVERYWHERE DUST OFF THEIR DESIGNER OUTlTS AND PREPARE TO BATTLE FOR THE LIMELIGHT WE AT HOME CAN ENJOY MERCILESSLY JUDGING THEIR CHOICE OF OUTlT *ESSICA (AMILTON
4HERE S JUST NO EXCUSE FOR TURN ING UP TO THE "RITS IN THIS HOR RENDOUS CREATION %STELLE
0ENELOPE #RUZ IS THE PICTURE OF GOTHIC ROMANCE IN THIS #HANEL COUTURE DRESS
%VERYONE EXPECTED A KOOKY OUTlT FROM +ATY 0ERRY BUT THIS IS BOTH HUGELY UNmATTERING AND WRONG FOR THE OCCASSION
4HE VINTAGE DRESS THAT 4HANDIE .EWTON WORE TO THE "AFTAS DIDN T LOOK RIGHT SOMEHOW 7E THINK IT S THE SHAPE SHE LOOKS TOO STIFF
3IENNA S WHITE -ARCHESA DRESS IS HEAVENLY AND THE HALO LIKE BRAID COMPLETES HER ANGELIC LOOK $IVINE
-ARIAH #AREY LOOKS LIKE SHE S BURSTING OUT OF THE DRESS SHE WORE TO THE 'OLDEN 'LOBES #OUPLED WITH A VERY SEVERE UP DO SHE LOOKS HUGELY UNCOMFORTABLE
4HE 'IOVANNI DRESS THAT !LESHA $IXON WORE TO THE "AFTAS LOOKS AS THOUGH IT IS MADE OF BLACK SEAWEED .OT GOOD
EVENT TO WATCH OUT FOR...
NET-A-PORTER’S NATALIE MASSNET TO LAUNCH PRET-A-PORTER SISTER SITE 3INCE ITS LAUNCH IN .ET ! 0ORTER HAS GAINED NOTO RIETY AS ONE OF THE FIRST FULLY INTERNET BASED DESIGNER FASHION RETAILER AND ITS CLIENTELE IS KNOWN TO BE AS ! LIST AS THE DESIGNERS IT STOCKS .ATALIE 0ORTMAN IS SAID TO BE A HUGE FAN OF THE SITE BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO DO NOT RECEIVE PAY SLIPS WITH SIX ZEROS ON THEM &OLLOWING IN THE FISCALLY SAVVY FOOTSTEPS OF !3/3 AND !3/3 2ED .ET ! 0ORTER S SISTER SITE 4HE /UTNET IS DUE TO BE LAUNCHED THIS SPRING 0RESUMABLY LIKE A VIRTUAL DESIGNER OUTLET VILLAGE IT WILL STOCK 0RET ! 0ORTER DESIGNER WEAR AT DISCOUNT PRICES %VEN WITH THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN .ET ! 0ORTER IS STILL GOING STRONG AND 4HE /UTNET IS SURE TO FOLLOW SUIT WITH A TAGLINE LIKE h)T S CHIC ONOMICS©v THE SITE IS SURE TO CATER FOR THE INCREASINGLY ECONOMICALLY MINDED OF US $ESCRIBED BY .ET ! 0ORTER CREATOR .ATALIE -ASSENET AS A WAY hTO GIVE THE SALE CUSTOMER A PLACE OF HER OWN v 4HE
!NGELINA *OLIE LOOKS SMART AND SOPHISTICATED WEARING !RMANI 0RIVE ON THE "AFTA RED CARPET
/UTNET WILL SELL ITEMS OF CLOTHING PREVIOUSLY ORDERED BY DEPARTMENT STORES BUT SUBSEQUENTLY CANCELLED 'IVEN THE IMPECCABLE SELECTION OF DESIGNERS AVAILABLE ON .ET ! 0ORTER IT CAN BE ASSUMED THAT 4HE /UTNET WILL NOT JUST PROVIDE ANY OLD BARGAIN )T COULD BE THAT THE DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF BUDGET FASHION WILL HAVE TO KEEP ONE EYE ON THE SITE AT ALL TIMES TO BE SURE TO PIP LIKE MINDED STYLISTAS TO THE POST 4HE SITE WAS ORIGINALLY DUE TO LAUNCH THIS &EBRUARY BUT AS IT IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION WE CAN NOW EXPECT ITS ARRIVAL THIS SPRING 3O NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME TO DO A SPRING CLEAN OF YOUR WARDROBE IN ANTICIPATION OF THE BEAU TIFUL DESIGNER BARGAINS YOU WILL BE BAGGING 3IGN UP FOR THE MAILING LIST AND BE THE FIRST TO HEAR WHEN 4HE /UTNET HITS OUR COMPUTER SCREENS AT WWW THEOUTNET COM %MILY -ASON
fashion fashio n concrete.fashion@uea.ac.uk
HOW MUCH?!
*ESSICA (AMILTON TAKES A LOOK AT SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE LUXURY GOODS AROUND
(ARRY 7INSTON S 2UBY 3LIPPERS 4HESE SHOES WERE MADE IN AND WERE ON SALE IN THE 53 FOR A COOL MILLION ABOUT a UNTIL 4HE SLIPPERS INCLUDE RUBIES
4HIS BLINDING WATCH FROM #HOPARD HAS THREE HEART SHAPED DIAMONDS IN BLUE PINK AND WHITE 4HERE IS ALSO A HUGE CLUSTER OF WHITE AND YELLOW DIAMONDS CARATS IN TOTAL )T S NOT EXACTLY DISCREET AND YOU MAY NEED TO PUT SUNGLASSES ON TO ACTUALLY DECIPHER THE TIME BUT IT LL STILL SET YOU BACK A WHOPPING a MILLION
7ITH A WAITING LIST OF TWO YEARS THE INFAMOUS "IRKIN BAG FROM (ERMES GENERALLY STARTS AT AROUND a BUT DEPENDING ON THE MATERIALS USED IT CAN REACH lVE OR SIX DIGIT PRICE TAGS
And, to prove that even students are guilty of extravagant spending sometimes, some of the fashion team pick their guiltiest purchases..
#LARE h) SAVED UP AND WORKED FOR lVE YEARS TO GET THIS a VINTAGE CHANEL ) EVEN SET UP MY OWN CATERING COMPANY ONE SUMMER SO ) COULD PAY FOR IT v
&LORA h) GOT THIS -IU -IU BAG IN THE SALE AT 3ELFRIDGES FOR a ALTHOUGH IN MY DEFENCE IT WAS DOWN FROM ABOUT a "UT ) NEVER WORE IT SO ENDED UP RETURNING IT FOR ONE THAT WAS MUCH CHEAPER PROOF THAT IT S NOT ALL IN THE PRICE TAG v
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(ERVE 6AN $ER 3TRAETEN WHO DESIGNED 'UERLAIN S +ISS+ISS 'OLD $IAMONDS h,IPSTICK IS SIMPLE YET MYSTERIOUS /NE NEVER RE ALLY KNOWS WHAT SHE MAY UNCOVER WHEN THE TOP IS REMOVED 4HIS ELEMENT OF SURPRISE CREATES CURIOSITY AND LONGING WHICH IS WHAT ) HOPE EACH WOMAN EX PERIENCES WHEN SHE CLUTCHES +ISS+ISS 'OLD AND $IA MONDS IN THE HEART OF HER HAND )T IS POWERFUL AND UNIMAGINABLE UNIQUE AND DESIRED OBTAINABLE AND UNOBTAINABLE AT THE SAME TIME v 3O TOTALLY WORTH THE THOUSAND POUNDS YOU RE ASKING FOR IT THEN
4HIS TIE WAS DESIGNED IN )NDIA IN AND IS WORTH MILLION RUPEES THAT S ABOUT a 4HE TIE IS MADE OF PURE SILK WITH A PATTERN IN GRAMS OF GOLD )T ALSO HAS DIAMONDS -UST BE PRETTY HEAVY
4HE MOST EXPENSIVE DRESS SHIRT IN THE WORLD IS VALUED AT a #REATED BY THE 3WEDISH COMPANY %TON IT HAS DIAMOND STUDS AND CUFmINKS AS WELL AS BEING MADE OF THE lNEST %GYPTIAN COTTON
'EORGINA h) GOT THIS #HANEL JACKET AND SKIRT FOR a FROM A SMALL DRESS AGENCY IN .ORTH 9ORKSHIRE ) HAVE NOT INCLUDED A PICTURE OF THE SKIRT BECAUSE TO BE HONEST IF ) WEAR THEM TOGETHER ) LOOK ABOUT YEARS OLD ) THINK ) HAVE WORN THE JACKET TWICE ) AM SCARED TO WEAR IT FOR FEAR OF SPILLING SOMETHING ON IT v
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!LICE h4HESE BLISSFULLY BEAUTIFUL AND COM PLETELY BIZARRE &IRETRAP SHOES DOWN FROM a TO a ARE PROOF THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WANT SOMETHING IN THE TEN SEC OND WALK TO THE CASHIER S DESK NO MATTER HOW GLAD YOU ARE AS YOU HUG THEM ALL THE WAY HOME ULTIMATELY IT IS EASY TO LEAVE A PURCHASE LANGUISHING IN THE CORNER AS YOU STEP INTO THE SAME HEELS YOU VE BEEN WEARING FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS 4HESE S INSPIRED SHOES ARE MY @DAY ) RE SIGNED FROM MY JOB PURCHASE THEY WILL NEVER BE THROWN AWAY AND ) WILL ALWAYS LOVE THEM EVEN IF AFTER NEARLY A YEAR THEY HAVE YET TO SEE THE OUTSIDE OF MY ROOM v
4HE MOST EXPENSIVE SANDWICH IN THE WORLD IS THE -C$ONALD SAND WICH NAMED AFTER ITS CREATOR 3COTT -C$ONALD )T COSTS a AND IS MADE FROM THE BEEF OF 7AGYU COWS WHO ARE FED ON BEER AND MASSAGED WITH SAKE TO TENDERIZE THE MEAT )N AD DITION THERE IS ALSO FRESH LOBE FOIE GRAS BLACK TRUFmE MAYONNAISE BRIE DE MEAUX ROCKET RED PEPPER AND MUSTARD CONlT AND %NGLISH PLUM TOMATOES
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arts arts
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“The The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements”
concrete.arts@uea.ac.uk
the event
'OOD FORTNIGHT
Word 4HIS FORTNIGHT 7ORD HAS WATCHED THE "!&4!S AND NOTED HOW MANY BOOK ADAPTATIONS WERE NUMBERED AMONG THE lLMS NOMINATED 3LUMDOG -ILLIONAIRE SWEPT UP MOST OF THE AWARDS SO NOW MIGHT BE THE TIME TO READ THE BOOK IT WAS BASED ON 1 ! BY 6IKAS 3WARUP WHICH HAS WON THE "OEKE 0RIZE AND THE #OMMONWEALTH 7RITERS 0RIZE !LSO GAINING VARIOUS NOMINATIONS AND PRIZES WERE THE ADAPTATIONS OF 2ICHARD 9ATES 2EVOLUTIONARY 2OAD "ERNHARD 3CHLINK S 4HE 2EADER & 3COTT &ITZGERALD S SHORT STORY 4HE #URIOUS #ASE OF "ENJAMIN "UTTON AND !MANDA &OREMAN S BIOGRAPHY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY %NGLISH ARISTOCRAT 'EORGIANA #AVENDISH 4HE $UCHESS 7ORD HAS ALSO HEARD THAT THE 0OET ,AUREATE !NDREW -OTION WANTS ALL HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATES AT UNIVERSITY TO BE WELL VERSED IN THE "IBLE STORIES AS WELL AS 1UR ANIC 'REEK AND 2OMAN STORIES 3O GET CRAMMING *ENNIFER !BBOTT
*ANE 7ALSH HOLDS THE VITAL POSITION OF 0ROGRAMMING -ANAGER AT .ORWICH S 4HEATRE 2OYAL THE LARGEST THEATRE IN THE %ASTERN REGION 4HIS FORTNIGHT SHE SPEAKS TO 4HE %VENT ABOUT HER ROLE
4HEATRE IN &IVE TALKS TO 4HEATRE 2OYAL 0ROGRAMMING -ANAGER *ANE 7ALSH ABOUT HOW SHE MANAGES TO BRING SUCH HIGH QUALITY THEATRE TO THE REGION ON SUCH A REGULAR BASIS 7ORD HAS A LOOK AT THE RECENT SUCCESS OF lLMS WHICH HAVE BEEN ADAPTED FROM BEST SELLING NOVELS WHILE 0LAY PREVIEWS THE HIGH QUALITY THEATRE THAT YOU CAN INDULGE YOURSELF IN OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS &INALLY WE TAKE A SNEAKY LOOK AT 3ALMAN 2USHDIE S LATEST NOVEL AVAILABLE FOR ALL YOU ARTSY FOLK TO BUY IN BOOKSHOPS NOW WITH OUR HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION 5NTIL NEXT TIME -ELISSA AND -ATT
Theatre in Five
7HAT DOES YOUR ROLE AS 0ROGRAMMING -ANAGER ENTAIL 7E PRESENT OVER DIFFERENT PRODUCTIONS EACH YEAR AT THE THEATRE -Y JOB IS TO SOURCE THESE PRODUCTIONS NEGOTIATE DEALS AND CONTRACTS AND BALANCE EACH SEASON AS EVENLY AS POSSIBLE WITH AS VARIED A PROGRAMME OF SHOWS AS POSSIBLE &ROM TALK ING TO PRODUCERS ABOUT POTENTIAL DATES UNTIL THE SHOW ARRIVES ON STAGE ) LIAISE WITH THEM OVER A HUGE VARIETY OF DETAILS AND WORK WITH ALL DEPARTMENTS IN THE THEATRE TO MAKE SURE EVERY ONE HAS WHAT THEY NEED TO MAKE THE SHOW RUN SMOOTHLY (OW FAR INTO THE FUTURE ARE YOU PLANNING AT THE MOMENT !T THE MOMENT ) HAVE PENCILLED DATES IN UP UNTIL LATE /C TOBER /PERA AND DANCE TEND TO PLAN WELL AHEAD AND THEN LARGE MUSICALS PARTICULARLY IF THEY NEED MORE THAN ONE WEEK OF PERFORMANCE WILL BE LOOKING A COUPLE OF YEARS AHEAD $RAMA TENDS TO BE BOOKED IN MUCH NEARER THE TIME SO FOR EXAMPLE ) AM CURRENTLY TRYING TO CONTRACT A DRAMA WEEK IN EARLY 3EPTEM BER THIS YEAR
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/UR FEATURE THIS MONTH SEES -INOTAUR 0UBLICTY /FlCER AND 5%! $RAMA 3TUDENT *ACK 3WAIN ELABORATE ON THE ROLE OF THE -INOTAUR 4HEATRE #OMPANY IN 5%! S DRAMATIC LIFE IN HONOUR OF ITS TH ANNIVERSARY
TH TH TH -ARCH 4HE #HANGELING BY 4HOMAS -IDDLETON AND 7ILLIAM 2OWLEY ! LESBIAN LOVE STORY WITH TWISTS TURNS AND DEATH 4ICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE BOX OFlCE TH TH TH -ARCH 4RAINSPOTTING BY )RVINE 7ELSH 4HE FAMOUSLY GRAPHIC STORY OF DRUGS AND SELF DESTRUCTION 4ICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE HIVE IN THE WEEKS RUNNING UP TO THE PERFORMANCES !LSO LOOK OUT FOR $ISSOCIA BY !NTHONY .EILSON TH TH -ARCH AND %UGENE / .EILL S ,ONG $AY S *OURNEY INTO .IGHT TH TH -ARCH 4HESE WILL BE PERFORMED AT .ORWICH S BEAUTIFUL AND INTIMATE 0UPPET 4HEATRE !LSO AT THE 0UPPET 4HEATRE FOR A ONE OFF SHOW IS THE FANTASTIC NEW "LACK 2AM 4HEATRE #OMPANY PERFORMING 4WELFTH .IGHT ON TH &EBRUARY FOR A TRULY SPECTACULAR 3HAKESPEREAN SHOW (ANNAH 3TRAWSON
SHOWS THAT ARE TOO GOOD MISS 4HE DATES HAVE WORK FOR BOTH THE US AND PRODUCERS SO SOMETIMES ONE SEASON MIGHT APPEAR TO BE TOP HEAVY WITH MUSICALS (OW MUCH INTEREST DOES THE THEATRE GENERATE 7ITH IN THE COUNTY REGION PARTICULARLY IT GENERATES A GREAT DEAL OF INTEREST 7E SELL WELL OVER TICKETS PER YEAR WITH MOST BEING SOLD TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREATER .ORWICH "UT WE HAVE MANY PEOPLE TRAVELLING MUCH FURTHER DISTANCES TO SEE SPE CIlC SHOWS AND THAT COULD BE TO ANYTHING FROM A BIG MUSICAL LIKE -ISS 3AIGON TO 3TEVE #OOGAN OR 'LYNDEBOURNE OPERA
(OW EASY DIFlCULT IS IT TO GAIN A BALANCE OF THE SHOWS THAT ARE PERFORMED HERE IE NOT TOO MUCH COMEDY OR MUSICALS ETC )T IS REALLY QUITE DIFlCULT 9OU CAN ONLY PROGRAMME WHAT IS OUT THERE TOURING OR ABOUT TO TOUR )N AN IDEAL WORLD WE WOULDN T WANT TO HAVE TWO DRAMA WEEKS OR TWO COMEDIANS FOR EXAMPLE CLOSE TOGETHER IN A SEASON BUT SOMETIMES THERE ARE
9OU ALSO PRODUCE THE PANTOMIME EVERY YEAR WHAT S THAT LIKE 7ELL IT S A MIXTURE OF HARD WORK WORRY AND LOTS OF FUN 0ANTO IS HUGELY IMPORTANT TO THE lNANCIAL HEALTH OF THE THE ATRE AND WE CAN T AFFORD TO GET IT WRONG -Y ROLE INCLUDES WORKING ON CASTING CONTRACTING PERFORMERS AND THE CREATIVE TEAM ORGANISING AUDITIONS BOOKING REHEARSAL SPACE AND GEN ERALLY KEEPING THINGS ON TRACK AND ON BUDGET )T IS A YEAR ROUND JOB WE HAD OUR lRST PRODUCTION MEETING FOR NEXT YEAR S PANTO 2OBIN (OOD BEFORE 3NOW 7HITE HAD lNISHED THIS #HRISTMAS -ATT 2AMSAY
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3ALMAN 2USHDIE HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE OVERARCHING TALENTS OF "RITISH )NDIAN LITERATURE AND 4HE %NCHANTRESS OF &LORENCE FOLLOWS PREVIOUS WORKS AS A NARRATIVE EXPLORING BEAUTY FANTASY HIS TORY AND BELIEF 4HIS NOVEL ACTS AS A DECONSTRUCTION OF IDEAS MIRRORED THROUGH TWO HISTORIC CIVILISATIONS THAT OF A -OGHUL %MPIRE AND 2ENAISSANCE &LORENCE 4HE NOVEL IS VERY MUCH A COMPOSITE OF ITS AUTHOR 2USHDIE OFTEN WRITES TO EXPLORE THE MIGRATION AND CONNECTION BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES OF THE WORLD PERHAPS AS A RESPONSE TO HIS UPBRINGING WHICH SAW HIM TRAVEL BETWEEN -UMBAI WHERE HE WAS BORN AND #AMBRIDGE WHERE HE STUDIED (ISTORY
2USHDIE CLAIMS THIS TO BE HIS hMOST RESEARCHEDv WORK AND WITH OVER HISTORICALLY ACCURATE lGURES APPEARING THROUGH THE PAGES IT IS CLEAR TO SEE WHY $ESPITE THIS 4HE %NCHANTRESS OF &LORENCE IS AS BAROQUE AND FULLY ENCHANTING AS ANY FANTASY ON THE BOOK SHELVES )T IS CLEAR THAT 2USHDIE IS LOOKING TO THRILL AND INTOXICATE HIS READER USING A CLASH BETWEEN %ASTERN AND 7ESTERN CULTURE IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH A FEAT HIS LINGUISTIC TALENTS SEEM TO LIFT DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE PAGE AND BREATHE LIFE INTO HIS CHARACTERS 4HE LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT IS DRIPPING WITH AN ENIGMATIC BRILLIANCE AND ALTHOUGH THERE ARE TIMES
WHEN PLACES AND PEOPLE BECOME A LITTLE CONFUSED FOR THE MOST PART 2USHDIE IS ABLE TO LEAD US ON A WINDING JOURNEY OF STORYTELLING AND SHOW US HOW HALF TRUTHS CAN INVADE HISTORY TO LODGE AS FACT 0ARTS OF THE NOVEL ARE A LITTLE TOO ORNATE EVEN AR ROGANT BUT THE UNEXPECTED HUMOUR AND ELEGANCE OF LANGUAGE THROUGH THE NARRATIVE CREATES A COMPELLING AND BEAUTIFUL TALE OF LOST LOVE AND HIDDEN DESIRE 4HE %NCHANTRESS OF &LORENCE IS A SEDUCTIVE TALE CROSSING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PEOPLE AND NATIONAL BORDERS 3ALMAN 2USHDIE PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT HE IS A NOV ELIST OF BOUNDLESS IMAGINATION !LICE $IJKSTERHUIS
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concrete.arts@uea.ac.uk
5%! S HOMEGROWN SEMI PROFESSIONAL -INOTAUR 4HEATRE #OMPANY CELEBRATES ITS TH BIRTHDAY $RAMA STUDENT *ACK 3WAIN ENTHUSES ABOUT IT %VERY STUDENT FULlLS SOME KIND OF STEREOTYPE BASED ON HIS OR HER DEGREE (ISTORY STUDENTS ARE OFTEN ACCUSED OF LIVING IN THE PAST MATHS STUDENTS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CONVERSE SOLELY IN BINARY CODE AND MEDICAL STUDENTS ARE SAVVY ENOUGH NOT TO JUMP TO THE AID OF A CHOKING DINER FOR FEAR OF LEGAL REPRISAL )T S ALSO FAIR TO SAY THAT DRAMA STUDENTS TICK THE LOUD BRASH AND OVERLY KEEN BOXES ON THE CHECKLIST OF CRINGEWOR THY STUDENT TRAITS /F COURSE WE MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR THIS 7E THRIVE WHEN BATHED IN THE GLOW OF A SPOT LIGHT WITH A SEA OF FACES SCRUTINISING OUR EVERY MOVE SO IT STANDS TO REASON THAT WE SHOULD WANT TO STAND OUT IN EVERYDAY LIFE !ND YES MOST OF US DO FROM TIME TO TIME LIE ON THE mOOR WITH OUR EYES CLOSED @FEELING EVERY PART OF OUR BODY AND CALL IT WORK 7E ALSO REVEL IN TRYING ON WACKY COSTUMES PLASTERING OUR FACES WITH MAKE UP AND WATCHING +ENNETH "RANAGH PERFORMING 3HAKESPEARE ON 9OU4UBE FOR HOURS ON END "UT THAT S NOT ALL WE DO 7HEN WE RE NOT GET TING DRUNK IN THE PUB AND THINKING UP A DREAM CAST COMPRISED OF OUR FRIENDS FOR A MUSICAL AD APTATION OF *URASSIC 0ARK WE RE PUTTING UNTOLD AMOUNTS OF TIME AND ENERGY INTO -INOTAUR 5%! S VERY OWN SEMI PROFESSIONAL THEATRE COM PANY %STABLISHED IN BY A GROUP OF KEEN DRA MA STUDENTS NOT UNLIKE OURSELVES THOUGH PRE SUMABLY WITH BETTER TASTE IN MUSIC AND WORSE HAIR -INOTAUR IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT THIS YEAR IT IS CELEBRATING ITS TH BIRTHDAY 7E ARE ALSO DELIGHTED TO SAY THAT ONE OF ITS ORIGINAL FOUNDERS *ON (YDE IS STILL WITH US TODAY RUN NING THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE OF THE $RAMA 3TU DIO SO THAT A NEW GENERATION OF STUDENTS CAN ENJOY ITS BENElTS 4HE MISSION OF -INOTAUR IS SIMPLE UTILISE ALL THE TECHNIQUES IN ACTING AND DIRECTING WE HAVE LEARNT DURING OUR DEGREES TO PRESENT SHOWS THAT EXCITE AND ENTERTAIN ENGAGE AND CHALLENGE OUR AUDIENCE 4IMES HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE SINCE 5%! S HE DONISTIC HEYDAY h) HAVE TO SAY IT WAS A VERY DIF FERENT ATMOSPHERE WHEN ) WAS A STUDENT HERE v EXPLAINS *ON h) CAN REMEMBER STUDENTS AND LEC TURERS PERFORMING IMPROMPTU CABARETS ON 6AL ENTINE S $AY IN THE CORRIDORS OF THE !RTS BUILD ING 3OMEBODY EVEN MANAGED TO GET A PIANO IN THERE v )T SEEMS lTTING THEN THAT -INOTAUR S 6ALEN TINE S THIS YEAR SHOULD BE MARKED BY #ABARET A NIGHT OF MUSICAL EXCELLENCE THAT CELEBRATES SOME OF THE lNEST SONG AND DANCE NUMBERS MUSI
CAL THEATRE HAS TO OFFER !UDIENCES WILL WITNESS -INOTAUR S MOST THROATY SULTRY AND DOWNRIGHT VOLUPTUOUS MEMBERS SWEEPING EACH OTHER OFF THEIR FEET IN DAPPER TUXEDOS AND SLINKY ,"$S h#ABARET IS GOING TO BE HUGE FUN v CO DIREC TOR +ERRIE 7ALKER ENTHUSES h)T S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY COME AND SEE -INOTAUR SHOWS TO SIT BACK RELAX AND LET THE MUSIC CARRY THEM AWAY v 4HE TICKETS ARE FREE AS THE SHOW IS IN AID OF ,ILY S &UND A CHARITY ES TABLISHED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO ORGANISATIONS THAT OFFER CARE TO CHILDREN WITH CANCER h9OU RE NOT OBLIGED TO PAY ANYTHING BUT WE APPRECIATE ANY DONATIONS AS IT S A REALLY GOOD CAUSE ,AST YEAR WE MADE a AND WE RE HOPING TO TOP THAT THIS YEAR "UT WE CAN T DO IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP v -INOTAUR MAY NOT BE WELL KNOWN BUT WE LOUD BRASH OVERLY KEEN DRAMA STUDENTS WANT TO CHANGE ALL THAT !LL WE ASK IS THAT YOU GIVE US A CHANCE )NSTEAD OF STAYING IN WATCHING RE RUNS OF $RAGON S $EN WHY NOT CHECK OUT WHAT S ON AT YOUR $RAMA 3TUDIO WHICH IS THE BIG WHITE BUILDING MANY OF YOU WILL RECOGNISE WHEN YOU STUMBLE OUT OF THE ,#2 TO PURCHASE A #ORKY S 7ITH PLAYS AS DIVERSE AS 0HILIP 0ULLMAN S (IS $ARK -ATERIALS /SCAR 7ILDE S !N )DEAL (USBAND AND )RVINE 7ELSH S NOTORIOUSLY CONTROVERSIAL 4RAINSPOTTING BEING PUT ON THIS YEAR THERE S REALLY NO EXCUSE NOT TO TAKE A COUPLE OF HOURS TO SEE WHAT -INOTAUR 4HEATRE #OMPANY IS ALL ABOUT
#ABARET IS BEING PERFORMED IN THE $RAMA 3TUDIO ON &RIDAY TH AND 3ATURDAY TH &EBRUARY 7EEK 4RAINSPOTTING IS ALSO BEING PERFORMED IN THE $RAMA 3TUDIO ON TH TH -ARCH 7EEK "OX /FlCE TELEPHONE NUMBER *URASSIC 0ARK 4HE -USICAL 4"!
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creative cre ative writing “any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, forms” the event
concrete.creativewriting@uea.ac.uk
This week’s theme is “Gravity”
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7HILE IT HAS BEEN A QUIET MONTH FOR ACTUAL GAME RELEASES BOTH THE 8BOX ,IVE -ARKETPLACE AND THE 0LAYSTATION .ETWORK ARE CURRENTLY PLAYING HOST TO SEVERAL FREE DEMOS FOR IMPORTANT UPCOMING GAMES 0AUL "YGRAVE lNDS OUT HOW THREE OF THE BIGGEST DEMOS THIS MONTH STACK UP IN AN EXTENSIVE PLAYTEST Killzone 2 4HE ORIGINAL +ILLZONE PROMISED A LOT BUT DELIVERED VERY LITTLE "Y COMPARI SON ITS SEQUEL ATTEMPTS TO STAND APART FROM THE COMPETITION BY DELIVERING A UNIQUE BLOCKBUSTER EXPERIENCE AND INITIAL IMPRESSIONS ARE PROMISING 4HE DEMO PLAYS INCREDIBLY WELL REQUIRING A DEGREE OF THOUGHT WHILST REMAINING CONSTANTLY FUN AND SATISFYING &ANS OF THE #ALL OF $UTY SERIES WILL lND THEM SELVES RIGHT AT HOME WITH THE CONTROL SYSTEM THE GRAPHICS ARE GORGEOUS IF A LITTLE BLAND AND THE WEAPONS FEEL POWERFUL AND WELL BALANCED 4HE !) HAS ALSO TAKEN A MASSIVE STEP UP MAK
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/N lRST GLANCE ANOTHER PIECE OF SHOVELWARE FOR THE .INTENDO $3 A MORE CONSIDERED VIEW WOULD SUGGEST THE 3CRABBLE GAMES HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE CONSOLE S KILLER GAMES ! STRANGE LY COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTIVE GAME THE NEW VERSION PROMISES TO TEST YOUR WORD MAKING ABILITIES
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(AVE ) 'OT .EWS &OR 9OU HAS NOW AIRED WELL OVER SERIES WITH THE ADDITIONAL #HRISTMAS 3PECIALS AND 'ENERAL %LECTION ONE OFFS 4HIS EVER STRONG PANEL SHOW IS NOW IN ITS TH YEAR AND A NEW SERIES WILL COMMENCE ON !PRIL (OWEVER THERE ARE MANY OTHER PANEL SHOWS THAT GRACE 46 WITH THEIR DROLL HUMOUR ! 1UESTION OF 3PORT IS JUST ANOTHER IN THE LONG LINE OF SIT DOWNS 4HE lRST EDITION OF ! 1UESTION OF 3PORT WAS TRANSMITTED AT PM ON -ONDAY TH *ANUARY WITH $AVID 6INE PRESENTING )N THE lRST SHOW TEAM CAPTAINS (ENRY #OOPER AND #LIFF -ORGAN WERE JOINED BY 'EORGE "EST 2AY )LLINGWORTH ,ILLIAN "OARD AND 4OM &INNEY /VER SPORTING PERSONALITIES HAVE APPEARED ON THIS PROGRAM WITH JUST THREE PRE SENTERS WITH THE PRESENT INCUMBENT 3UE "ARKER !MONG THE MANY TEAM CAPTAINS PAIRINGS DOWN THE YEARS SOME OF THE MOST ENDURING INVOLVED 7ILLIE #ARSON AND %MLYN (UGHES *OHN 0ARROTT AND !LLY -C#OIST AND
NOW !LLY AND &RANKIE $ETTORI )N AND THE SHOW WON THE PRESTIGIOUS 2OYAL 4ELEVISION 3OCIETY 3PORTS %NTERTAINMENT 0ROGRAMME OF THE 9EAR AWARD 3HOOTING 3TARS MUST HAVE BEEN THE MOST SURREAL PANEL SHOW EVER CREATED 9ET 3HOOTING 3TARS WAS LESS A PANEL GAME MORE A VEHICLE FOR THE DREAMLIKE HUMOUR OF 2EEVES AND -ORTIMER !S $ANNY "AKER ONCE SAID THE GUESTS ON THIS SHOW ARE LITTLE MORE THAN @STOOGES IN A SKETCH !T THE START THE HALF HOUR FEATURED *ONATHAN 2OSS AND $ANNY "AKER AS THE TEAM CAPTAINS AND 5LRIKA *ONSSON AS THE GUEST PANELLIST )N THE INTRO TO THE PI LOT THE HOSTS LITERALLY SHOT STARS THEY HAD BROUGHT GUNS WITH THEM AND AIMED AT THE CELEBRITIES BUT ENDED UP SHOOTING A PIG BACKSTAGE 4HE ""# WAS SO IMPRESSED BY THIS WACKY NEW IDEA THAT THEY COMMIS SIONED A FULL RUN OF THE SHOW 1UES TIONS SUCH AS h)S 0AUL $ANIELS HEAD WIDER THAN IT IS LONG v WERE lRED AT THE PANEL AND THEN AT THE END OF EACH
Name to drop: Angus Deayton 0ROSTITUTES COCAINE THE HOST OF A POPU LAR ""# PANEL SHOW SOME SCANDALS WRITE THEMSELVES "UT THE BIGGEST SUR PRISE IN /CTOBER WHEN THE .EWS OF THE 7ORLD CARRIED THE HEADLINE @46 $EAYTON S DRUGS ROMP WITH VICE GIRL WASN T THAT THERE WERE ""# PERSONALITIES TAK ING POWDER SEE THE PAPER S SIMILAR @OUTING OF "LUE 0ETER S 2ICHARD "ACON IN /CTOBER BUT RATHER THAT HE WOULD STILL TURN UP TO WORK THAT WEEK &EW SHAMED CELEBRITIES WOULD ES PECIALLY WHEN THAT JOB WAS ON SATIRICAL NEWS SHOW (AVE ) 'OT .EWS &OR 9OU 0AUL -ERTON S T SHIRT DISPLAYING THE OFFEND ING FRONT PAGE WAS A SURPRISE AS WAS THE MER CILESS RIBBING FROM BOTH TEAM CAPTAINS )T WAS THE KIND OF PUBLIC mOGGING USUALLY RESERVED FOR MEDIEVAL WRONG DOERS AND IT SEEMED TO SATISFY THE PUBLIC BUT WHEN THE STORY SURVIVED FOR A YEAR RESUSCITATED BY THE PAPERS AND GUESTS AT
TEMPTING TO PARRY CRITICISMS LEVELLED AT THEM SELVES n IT BECAME CLEAR THAT $EAYTON DIDN T NEED TO GO FOR THE SAKE OF PROPRIETY BUT FOR COMEDY 7HEN INTERVIEWING -ERTON -ICHAEL 0AR KINSON SUGGESTED THAT HE AND HIS CO HOST )AN (ISLOP MAY HAVE STABBED THEIR ASSOCIATE IN THE BACK -ERTON REPLIED h7ELL WE STABBED HIM IN THE FRONTxv BUT NOT EVERYBODY TOOK $EAY TON S BANISHMENT AS LIGHTLY 4HREE TIME GUEST 3TEPHEN &RY STAR OF !BSOLUTE 0OWER WHICH FEATURED A POST ROMP GUEST APPEARANCE FROM $EAYTON n SWORE TO NEVER AGAIN APPEAR ON THE PANEL SHOW AND HASN T IN NINE YEARS .OW $EAYTON S SENTENCE IS OVER HE HOSTS THE SUB ()'.&9 7OULD ) ,IE 4O 9OU AND IN A FASCINATING DEMONSTRATION OF THE CONTINUOUS NEWS CYCLE PRESENTED LAST YEAR S "RITISH #OMEDY !WARDS IN THE PLACE OF THE RECENTLY DISGRACED *ONATHAN 2OSS $EAYTON MAY CARRY THAT STORY LIKE A PRINTED SHIRT BUT LIKE ALL SCANDALS HIS WAS MORE TEMPORARY THAN THE HEADLINES SUG GEST "ESIDES THERE LL ALWAYS BE NEW ONES TO MORROW *OSH "UTLER
ROUND THE SCOREKEEPER WHO BEHAVED QUITE LITERALLY AS A BIG BABY WOULD PLAY THE DRUMS WILDLY AND THEN DE LIVER A BIZARRE SENTENCE 5NFORTUNATE LY THIS WEIRD SHOW DISINTEGRATED AND ALTHOUGH IT MADE A COMEBACK lVE YEARS LATER IN IT WAS LESS SPON TANEOUS LOST MANY FANS AND LACKED A LITTLE OF THE SILLY EDGE THAT IT ONCE POSSESSED 1) WAS ORIGINALLY SEEN AS BEING AN @!NNOTATED %NCYCLOPAEDIA "RITAN NICA THE WORLD S lRST NON BORING ENCYCLOPAEDIA 7HILE DEVELOPING THE SHOW *OHN ,LOYD DECIDED THAT IT WOULD WORK BETTER ON TELEVISION THAN
IN ITS ORIGINAL RADIO FORMAT -ICHAEL 0ALIN WAS OFFERED THE JOB OF CHAIR MAN WITH &RY AND $AVIES AS CAPTAINS OF @CLEVER AND @STUPID TEAMS (OW EVER 0ALIN TURNED DOWN THE JOB LEAD ING TO &RY BECOMING THE HOST WITH $AVIES AS THE ONLY REGULAR PANELLIST )N 1) WON THE 2OYAL 4ELEVISION 3OCIETY !WARD FOR "EST %NTERTAINMENT 0ROGRAMME AND THE "RITISH #OMEDY !WARD FOR "EST #OMEDY 0ANEL 3HOW /VERALL WHAT PANEL SHOWS ALWAYS OFFER IS A CHANCE TO BRING MUCH NEED ED LAUGHS BACK TO "RITISH TELEVISION ON &RIDAY NIGHTS 2OSIE "ARCROFT
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! KIND OF ANTI QUIZ SHOW 1) AIMS TO QUASH URBAN MYTHS AND OPEN YOUR EYES TO ALL THE REALLY INTERESTING STUFF OUT THERE WHICH YOU JUST DON T THINK ABOUT )NSTEAD OF AWARD ING POINTS FOR GIVING CORRECT ANSWERS WHICH DUE TO THE OBSCURE QUESTIONS HAPPENS VERY RARELY CONTESTANTS ARE REWARDED FOR BEING INTERESTING AND GIVING AMUSING RESPONSES "UT THEY HAVE TO BE CAREFUL n GIVING COM MONLY ACCEPTED BUT WRONG ANSWERS SENDS THEM SPIRALLING INTO NEGATIVE POINTS /RIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A RADIO SHOW THANKFULLY THE PRODUCERS CHANGED THEIR MINDS AND 1) BURST ONTO OUR SCREENS IN &ORMIDABLE FONT OF KNOWLEDGE 3TEPHEN &RY PRESIDES OVER PROCEEDINGS WHILST THE PUPPY ISH REGULAR PANELLIST !LAN $AVIES PROVIDES &RY WITH ALL THE OBVIOUS ANSWERS WHICH THE AUDI ENCE ERRONEOUSLY THINK ARE RIGHT 4HIS IS A MARVELLOUSLY QUIRKY PANEL SHOW BUT BE WARNED )T WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO RUSH OUT AND RAISE A SUBJECT IN CONVERSATION JUST SO THAT YOU CAN CORRECT YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR IMPRESIVE KNOWLEDGE ,INDSAY (ARRIS
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4HE !MERICAN WRITER *EAN +ERR ONCE QUIPPED h) M TIRED OF ALL THIS NONSENSE ABOUT BEAUTY ONLY BEING SKIN DEEP 3KIN DEEP IS ENOUGH 7HAT DO YOU WANT AN ADORABLE PANCREAS v 7ITTY ADAGE IT MAY BE BUT WITH ALL THE PROD DING POKING AND INVASIVE SURGERY THAT GOES ON ON #HANNEL &OUR S 9EARS 9OUNGER ONE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO lND OUT THAT THE CONTESTANTS WERE INDEED INSTALLED WITH A DIAMANTE STUD DED ORGANS TO GO WITH THEIR NEWLY PRIMED AND SCULPTED FACES 4HE BASIC PREMISE IS THUS TWO PEOPLE USU ALLY WOMEN BUT SOMETIMES MEN FOR DIVERSITY PURPOSES WHO ARE UNHAPPY WITH THEIR CURRENT APPEARANCE SPEND TIME BEING PARADED IN A HIGH STREET BEING TOLD THEY LOOK MUCH OLDER THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE /NE OF THE PEOPLE CHOOSES TO
GO DOWN THE SURGERY ROUTE THE OTHER MORE OR LESS JUST GETS A FACIAL 4HEY BOTH GET WORK DONE ON HAIR TEETH AND WARDROBE BEFORE BEING UN VEILED ONCE MORE TO THE HARSH CRITICISM OF THE "RITISH PUBLIC TO SEE WHICH ONE HAS LOST MORE YEARS FROM THEIR ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS OF GENERAL HOPELESSNESS 4HEY CRY THE HOST CRIES AND DAM MIT WE CRY A LITTLE BIT TOO (ORRIBLY ADDICTIVE ALONG THE LINES OF ANY 46 YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN T REALLY BE WATCHING THE EDUCATED PART OF YOUR BRAIN CRIES OUT AGAINST THE MEDIA S TERRIBLE MISSION OF BEAUTY FASCISM WHILE THE SLUGGISH CRISP EATING PART OF YOUR BRAIN SIMPLY YAWNS AND WONDERS WHAT THE CONTESTANT WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER SHE HAS HAD HER FOREHEAD PULLED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF HER SKULL AND HER TEETH MADE SO SHINY THEY COULD TAKEOVER FROM
THE MOON AS SURFACE FOR REmECTING LIGHT 4HE SHOW HAS RECENTLY ATTRACTED CONTROVERSY BY REPLACING ORIGINAL HOST .ICKY (AMBLETON *ONES FOR -YLEENE +LASS ALTHOUGH THE SHOW CLAIMS THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FORMER S AGE 4HERE IS SOME SORT OF CRUEL DELICIOUS IRONY IN HAVING THE STUNNING -YLEENE +LASS LOOKING mAWLESS TRYING TO EMPATHISE WITH WOMEN WITH THEIR CONlDENCE IN TATTERS OVER THEIR LOOKS 4HERE ARE LOADS OF THESE SHOWS ABOUT SO YOU KNOW IF YOU LIKE OR DETEST THEM BUT IF YOU lND 'OK 7AN A BIT SACCHARINE THIS COULD BE THE SHARP EDGED MAKEOVER TREAT FOR YOU 7HO CARES HOW DEEP BEAUTY GOES WHEN TELEVISION IS AS SHALLOW AS THIS +IRSTEN 0ETER
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4HERE HAVE BEEN MANY ADVERTS INFORMING RESI DENTS OF THE 5+ THAT THE DIGITAL SWITCHOVER IS HAPPENING AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE PRE PARED FOR IT WHEN IT HITS THEIR AREA 3OME PARTS OF THE 5+ HAVE ALREADY HAD THEIR ANALOGUE SIG NAL TURNED OFF BUT IN THE WHOLE OF THE 5+ WILL HAVE BEEN CONVERTED "UT WHY IS THIS HAP PENING AND IS IT REALLY NECESSARY 7ITH MANY HOUSEHOLDS ALREADY OWNING A DIGITAL 46 OR DIGITAL BOX OR EVEN HAVING A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE MANY PEOPLE WILL NOT BE GREATLY AFFECTED BY THE CHANGE IN FACT SOME MAY NOT EVEN NOTICE IT (OWEVER FOR OTHERS THIS IS A DIFFERENT STORY 3OMETHING THAT SOMETIMES SLIPS THE MINDS OF THOSE IN CHARGE OF THIS @WONDERFUL IDEA IS THAT NOT EVERYONE WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THESE SERVICES OR IN FACT ANY 46 AT ALL )N REGIONS WHERE THE SIGNAL IS NOT STRONG THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN WATCH THE TELEVISION IS THROUGH THE ANALOGUE SERVICE 3URELY THIS ISN T FAIR 7HY SHOULD PEOPLE LOSE OUT WHEN TO BE HONEST THINGS ARE ALRIGHT AS THEY ARE !LSO CONSIDER THE COST OF PREPARING FOR THIS SWITCHOVER &OR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT GOT A DIGITAL 46 A &REEVIEW BOX OR A SATELLITE SUBSCRIPTION THEY WILL HAVE TO CONVERT EACH 46 IN THEIR HOUSE SO THAT IT CAN CONTINUE WORKING 3ET TOP BOXES ARE NOT THAT CHEAP ESPECIALLY WHEN IN SOME
HOUSEHOLDS THERE ARE SEVERAL TELEVISIONS IN USE )T ALSO DOESN T HELP MATTERS THAT SOME SHOPS ARE STILL SELLING ANALOGUE 46 SETS RESULTING IN SOME PEOPLE INVESTING IN A NEW 46 AND THEN lND ING THAT THEY HAVE TO REPLACE IT AGAIN IN A FEW MONTHS OR YEARS TIME $ESPITE THIS DIGITAL 46 IS OBVIOUSLY A MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY THAN REGULAR ANALOGUE 46 NOT ONLY DOES IT ALLOW YOU TO RECEIVE MORE CHANNELS BUT IT DELIVERS THEM TO YOU IN BETTER QUALITY 4HE HOPE IS THAT WHEN THE ANALOGUE SIGNAL IS TURNED OFF EVERYONE CAN REAP THE BENElTS OF SERVICES SUCH AS (IGH $ElNITION 46 WIRELESS BROADBAND AND EVEN MORE CHAN NELS TO CHOOSE FROM PROVIDING YET MORE HOURS AND MORE CHOICE OF ENTERTAINMENT !S ONE CAN SEE THERE ARE SOME DRAWBACKS TO THIS PROCESS HOWEVER IN THE LONG TERM AND FOR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IT SHOULD BE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER 2ACHEL #ONQUER
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INSIDE LANE #LIMACTICALLY THE LOOSING TEAM HAVING BEEN PITIFULLY COMPENSATED WITH JACKETS AND HATS THE WINNERS WENT ON TO RANSACK THE &UNHOUSE ITSELF 4HIS WAS A GARGANTUAN FAIR GROUND THEMED JUNGLE GYM FEATURING SUCH ATTRACTIONS AS THE SLIP AND SLIDE AND SKELTER HELTER 4IME IN PARADISE WAS LIMITED HOWEVER AND THE CONTESTANTS HAD TO GRAB AS MANY PRIZE TAGS REPRESENTING PENCIL CASES SLEEPING BAGS AND WEEKENDS AT #ORONATION 3TREET AS THEY COULD 4HE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE WAS TO BRAVE POTENTIAL SUFFOCATION IN THE BALLOON TUBE IN ORDER TO UNCOVER THE 0OWER PRIZE 4HE TEAM WOULD THEN USE THEIR BRAINS IN THE lNAL JACKPOT QUESTION 4HE STUDIO LIGHTS WOULD DIM SAVE FOR A SINGLE SPOTLIGHT h.AME THE THREE EMERGENCY SERVICESvx h0OLICE !M BULANCExAND THE !!v "AD NEWS CHILD NO VIDEO CAMERA AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION COURSE FOR YOU BUT YOU DO GET TO KEEP THAT SQUASH RACKET AND ARCHERY SET #ATHY 0ETERS
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#HROME THE NEWCOMER IS AN OPEN SOURCE BROWSER FROM 'OOG LE )T S ARGUABLY THE FASTEST BROWSER ON THIS LIST AND HAS MECHA NISMS TO HELP PREVENT CRASHES )T S BASED ON THE SAME UNDERLYING ARCHITECTURE AS 3AFARI BUT 'OOGLE REWROTE THE *AVA3CRIPT ENGINE TO BE FASTER *AVA3CRIPT IS THE WEB LANGUAGE BEHIND THINGS LIKE 'OOGLE -AIL AND 'OOGLE $OCS MAKING #HROME THE BEST BROWS ER FOR DEALING WITH THOSE KINDS OF WEB APPLICATIONS #HROME IS MINIMALIST TO THE EXTREME IT S JUST A WEB WINDOW WITH NO FRILLS AND HARDLY ANY MENU OPTIONS 5NTIL IT GAINS MORE FEATURES MANY MIGHT WANT TO LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR A PRIMARY BROWSER BUT IT SHOWS A LOT OF PROMISE
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3TILL RIDING HIGH ON THE CREST OF A MEDIA WAVE 'LASVEGAS SWAGGERED INTO .ORWICH FOR THE .-% !WARDS 4OUR 4HEY MAY LOOK ROCK N ROLL BUT GUITARIST 2AB !LLAN ON THE RIGHT COLLAR UP SPOKE TO 4HE %VENT ABOUT THEIR ORCHESTRAL LEANINGS AS WELL AS TURNING UP TO PLAY #ELTIC DRUNK THE IDIOCY OF DRUMMERS AND WHY IT S OKAY TO PLAY #HRISTMAS SONGS IN &EBRUARY !S 4HE %VENT AWAITS THE INTERVIEW IN A BACKSTAGE SHOWER ROOM AT THE ,#2 A 3COTTISH GIANT WALKS IN SMARTLY DRESSED AND AT LEAST SIX AND HALF FEET TALL 2AB IS THE COUSIN OF LEAD SINGER *AMES !LLEN AND TELLS ME US HAS JUST GOT UP IT S AROUND HALF FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON 7E ASK HOW THE TOUR IS GOING h)T S CRAZY WE WERE OUT WITH &LORENCE LAST NIGHT AND &RIENDLY &IRES 7E RE GETTING ON SUPERBLY WITH EVERYONE ESPECIALLY &LORENCE 7E LIKE THE 7HITE ,IES S THING AND &REINDLY &IRES ARE A BIT MORE DANCE AND &LORENCE IS JUST &LORENCEv 7E THINK HE JUST MIGHT BE A FAN OF &LOR ENCE AND THE -ACHINE 3HE IS THE lRST ACT ON THE BILL WHILE 'LASVEGAS ARE HEADLINING AND HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED BY A STORM OF MEDIA HYPE OVER RECENT MONTHS .-% HAVE CALLED THEM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BANDS OF THE DECADE SO WE WERE INTERESTED TO lND OUT 2AB S REACTION TO ALL THIS 4HE %VENT $O YOU FEEL PRESSURED BY ALL THE HYPE 2AB 4HINGS LIKE THAT ARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO DECIDE AND TIME WILL TELL )T S NOT LIKE WE D EVER CHANGE WHAT WE DO COS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAY @COS IF YOU LISTEN TO THE GOOD STUFF YOU LISTEN TO THE BAD STUFF AND THERE S EQUALLY AS MUCH BAD STUFF % 'LASVEGAS SEEM LIKE A CONlDENT BAND *AMES MUST HAVE BEEN SURE OF SUCCESS TO QUIT BEING A FOOTBALLER ;HE PLAYED FOR &ALKIRK %AST &IFE AND $UMBARTON= 2 7ELL TO BE HONEST HE GOT SACKED FROM FOOTBALL SO HE DIDN T HAVE A CHOICE % 7HY WAS HE SACKED 2 "ECAUSE HE WAS IN A BAND % 3O THE MUSIC JUST TOOK OVER 2 7ELL HE D JUST TURN UP DRUNK TO PLAY GAMES YOU KNOW WHAT ) MEAN TURNING UP TO PLAY #ELTIC AND HE WAS PISSED YOU CANNOT BE DOING THAT 7E ARE CONlDENT BUT WE RE NOT AR ROGANT /NE MEMBER OF THE BAND WHO CER TAINLY DOESN T SEEM ARROGANT IS SMI LEY QUIET DRUMMER #AROLINE 7E EVEN
QUITE LIKE IT 4HAT S KIND OF A THING WE WERE GOING FOR WITH SOUND OF THE BAND QUITE ORCHESTRAL ! LOT OF THE QUARTET S SONGS ARE ABOUT SENSITIVE SOCIAL ISSUES SO THE LYRICS DO REQUIRE THIS hBIGv SOUND 2AB REVEALS THAT ) M 'ONNA 'ET 3TABBED ABOUT THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE IN 'LASGOW IS NOT AN EXAGERATED FEELING % !RE YOU ANY MORE SCARED OF BEING STABBED IN 'LASGOW NOW THAT YOU RE FAMOUS 2 7E DON T GO OUT 'LASGOW ANY MORE IT S TOO CRAZY )F WE DO GO OUT IT S SOMEWHERE PRIVATE 7E RE BANNED FROM MOST OF THE PUBS IN 'LASGOW NOW ANYWAY % (OW COME 2 0EOPLE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO START lGHTS COS WE RE IN A BAND 4HAT S WAS HAPPENING FOR A WHILE THOUGH ) GUESS THEY JUST DON T LIKE PEOPLE IN BANDS BUT IT S WORSE NOW THAT WE RE QUITE BIG % 7HEN DID YOU REALISE YOU WERE BIG 2 "EFORE WE WERE EVEN SIGNED AND WE HEARD *AMES -Y #HEATING (EART DEMO WE STOPPED THE CAR AND WERE LIKE hFUCKING HELLv COS WE KNEW THEN SOMETHING BIG WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SAW HER HAVING A FAG OUTSIDE THE EN TRANCE TO THE ,#2 WHILST PEOPLE WERE STILL LEAVING THE GIG WITH HOOD UP NO ONE RECOGNISED HER 2AB EXPLAINS THAT SHE WORKED IN A VINTAGE CLOTHES SHOP *AMES LIKED THEY GOT TALKING AND SO SHE JOINED THE BAND % 3O WAS SHE A GOOD DRUMMER 2 .O NO BUT SHE COULD DRINK 3HE D ALWAYS BE IN PUBS PROPPING UP THE BAR WITH A BOTTLE OF WINE GETTING WASTED % 3O WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER DRUMMER 2 4HAT WASN T REALLY A BAND BEFORE WE KICKED HIM COS HE WAS AN ARSE HOLE % $ID YOU NOT WANT TO THEN GET IN AN EXPERIENCED DRUMMER 2 $RUMMERS ARE ARSEHOLES ) VE NEVER MET A DRUMMER WHO WASN T
AN ARSEHOLE 4HEY CAN BE SO DIFlCULT SOMETIMES SO WE THOUGHT WE D GET SOMEONE NICE AND TEACH THEM TO PLAY DRUMS % (OW ARE DRUMMERS DIFlCULT 2 4HEY WANT REALLY COMPLICATED DRUMMING THAT S WHAT HE WAS AFTER BUT WE WANTED IT TO BE SIMPLE MINI MAL YOU KNOW % 4HE BAND OFTEN PROFESSES TO BE STILL LEARNING THEIR INSTRUMENTS AND HAVE A BASIC SOUND 7ILL MORE EXPE RIENCE RESULT IN A MORE COMPLICATED SOUND 2 ) DON T THINK WE LL GET TOO INTRICATE MAYBE JUST GO IN ANOTHER DIRECTION % 7HAT KIND OF DIRECTION 2 "IGGER A BIGGER SOUND 3OME OF THE STUFF ON THE NEW ALBUM IS BIGGER % (AVE YOU STARTED RECORDING THEN 2 *AMES HAS WROTE ABOUT THREE SONGS WE LL DO DEMOS IN /CTOBER START THE
ALBUM IN *ANUARY % (OW IS IT BIGGER 2 (ARD TO SAY &OR ME SOME OF THE SONGS SOUND A BIT !MERICAN MAYBE IT S COS WE VE BEEN TOURING A LOT OVER THERE !LTHOUGH ) DON T KNOW WE COULD DO THE ALBUM AND IT SOUND BLOODY )RISH ) DON T KNOW WHAT S IN HIS HEAD % )N TERMS OF WRITING HOW MUCH DO YOU EACH CONTRIBUTE 2 *AMES DOES EVERYTHING (E LL WRITE AND RECORD THE SONGS IN HIS HOUSE THE BASS THE DRUMS ALL THE PARTS 4HEN CALL US IN AND ASK US WHAT WE THINK AND WE LL BE LIKE hMEGAv 4HEN WE LEARN IT MESS AROUND WITH IT SLIGHTLY AND IF IT SOUNDS BETTER MEGA % 4HERE S CLASSIC SAMPLES IN SOME SONGS ARE YOU ALL INTO INTO CLASSICAL MUSIC 2 9EAH "EETHOVEN ME AND *AMES
7ELL THEY WEREN T WRONG THERE 3O WHAT S THE lRST THING YOU DO AFTER RELEASING A SUCCESFUL DEBUT ALBUM 7ELL IF YOU RE 'LASVEGAS YOU IM MEDIATELY START WORK ON A #HRISTMAS ALBUM WHICH THEY RELEASED IN $E CEMBER % 0LAYING ANY #HRISTMAS SONGS ON THIS TOUR 2 7E WERE PLAYING &UCK 9OU )T S /VER UNTIL TWO NIGHTS AGO ) THINK IT S OKAY TO DO THEM UNTIL ABOUT MID &EBRU ARY BECUASE WE DIDN T JUST MAKE THE ALBUM FOR ONE MONTH -AYBE TIME TO STOP NOW THOUGH 9EAH WE THINK IT MIGHT BE TIME TO LEAVE IT UNTIL NEXT #HRISTMAS GUYS AL THOUGH BY THAT TIME THERE SHOULD BE A PLETHORA OF DEMOS FOR US TO WRAP OUR EARS AROUND 7E CANNY WAIT
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%MMY THE 'REAT IS OFTEN VIEWED AS A KEY lGURE IN THE NEW "RIT FOLK EXPLOSION (OW WRONG CAN YOU BE %MMY TOLD 3ARAH #HRISTIE ABOUT ESCAPING THE SCENE NOT TALKING TO ,AURA -ARLING AND HOW SHE S MORE INmUENCED BY 3AMUEL "ECKETT AND 9OU4UBE THAN BEARDED FOLKIES
3ARAH #HRISTIE (OW S THE TOUR GO ING %MMY 9EAH IT S GOING REALLY WELL 7E RE HAVING A LOT OF FUN WE RE KIND OF lGURING THINGS OUT ON THE WAY 3# 9OU VE BEEN TO .ORWICH BEFORE (OW DO YOU LIKE IT % 7E LOVE .ORWICH ;4HE !RT #EN TRE S= ONE OF THE BEST VENUES TO PLAY EVER 3# (OW MUCH DO PEOPLE ASIDE FROM OTHER MUSICIANS INmUENCE YOUR MUSIC % ! LOT ,YRICALLY ) DON T LOOK TO MU SICIANS ) LOOK TO WRITERS 3# 7HAT WRITERS DO YOU LOOK TO % ) THINK IT S CHANGING ALL THE TIME !T THE MOMENT 3AMUEL "ECKETT 43 %LIOT n HE S THE GREATEST POETx ) LL NEVER BE ABLE TO EMULATE THESE PEO PLE BUT THEY INSPIRE YOU 3# 3ECRET #IRCUS YOUR lRST RECORD WAS RELEASED ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO 7HY HAS IT TAKEN SO LONG FOR THE AL BUM TO BE RELEASED % 7ELL 3ECRET #IRCUS WAS A mUKE )T WAS PART OF A HANDFUL OF SONGS THAT ) DIDN T MEAN TO WRITE AND AFTER IT CAME OUT PEOPLE WERE LIKE hOH THAT S NICE DO A SINGLEv AND ) DIDN T KNOW HOW 3O lRST ) HAD TO lGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT !ND THEN WE RECORDED THE %0 AND RELEASED IT IN !UGUST AND ) START
ED WRITING SONGS PROPERLY !ND THEN THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED A DECENT AMOUNT OF TIME AFTER THE %0 n LIKE SIX MONTHS 4HEN WE MISSED OUR OP PORTUNITY TO PUT IT OUT AFTER THE SUM MER n YOU CAN T PUT IT OUT BETWEEN /CTOBER AND *ANUARY BECAUSE OF THE #HRISTMAS RUN UP n AND SO NOW IT FEELS LIKE A LONG TIME BUT IT WASN T A LONG TIME 3# 4HERE ARE A LOT OF POP CULTURE REFERENCES IN THE ALBUM 7HAT WAS YOUR INTENTION IN USING THEM % ) DON T HAVE AN INTENTION )T IS A SUBCONSCIOUS THING ) WRITE BASICALLY EXACTLY WHAT S COMING TO MIND AT THE MOMENT AND IF ANYONE KNOWS ME THEY KNOW ) TALK ABOUT 9OU4UBE AND -YSPACE AS MUCH AS ) TALK ABOUT 43 %LIOT ) WILL TALK ABOUT A GREAT WORK OF LITERATURE A COCK AND A 9OU4UBE VIDEO IN ALL THE SAME SENTENCE 3# 3O YOU RE NOT WRITING WITH AN AUDIENCE IN MIND % .O ) DON T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE AUDIENCE 3# 9OU MENTION A LOT OF SINGERS AND SONGWRITERS IN YOUR OWN SONGS !RE YOU FANS OF ALL THE ONES YOU REF ERENCE % &UCK YEAH !LTHOUGH THERE S ONE BAND THAT ) REFERENCE ) DON T REFER ENCE THEM BY NAME BUT THE ENTIRE
SONG IS WRITTEN AS A DISS 3# 7HICH BAND % ) CAN T TELL 3# 7HICH SONG IS IT % !LMOST (AD ! "ABY 3# /N THE TITLE TRACK YOU REFERENCE h(ALLELUJAH THE ORIGINAL ,EONARD #OHEN VERSIONv !N INDICTMENT OF THE CURRENT SWATHE OF COVER VER SIONS % ) WROTE IT WAY BEFORE n ) WROTE IT BE FORE ,EONARD #OHEN TOURED %NGLAND "UT AT THE TIME THAT ) WAS WRITING THE SONG ) WAS JUST THINKINGx 2IGHT THIS GIRL GETS TAKEN TO A ROOM AND THERE S A TAPE PLAYER AND THERE S ONE CASSETTE AND ) WAS LIKE hWHAT IS THE SONG THAT IS MOST LIKELY TO BE ON SOMEONE S TAPE PLAYER WHEN SOMEONE IS BEING SEDUCED v !ND THAT IS THE SEXIEST SONG EVER WRITTEN 3# (AVE YOU HEARD 4HE 8 &ACTOR S VERSION % ) DON T WANT TO ) WENT TO !SIA SO ) COULD ESCAPE IT 3# ! LOT OF PRESS HAS PLACED YOU WITHIN THE NEW "RITISH FOLK ANTI FOLK SCENE 7HAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT % ,OTS OF IT S TRUE ) USED TO BE IN .OAH AND THE 7HALE THAT S TRUE ) KNOW ,AURA -ARLING BUT ) NEVER LIKED HER SHE NEVER LIKED ME 7E NEVER REALLY
SPOKE ) KNOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE BUT AT ONE POINT ) LOOKED AROUND ME AND WAS LIKE hTHIS IS FUCKING SHIT ) HATE THISv .OT THAT THEY RE SHIT n ) HATE BEING IN A SCENE ) HATE HAVING TO BE INVOLVED IN SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE SAME THING 3O ) MOVED AWAY FROM MOST OF THE PEO PLE 4HE ONLY PEOPLE ) TALK TO ARE $EV ;(YNES= AND %UGENE ;-C'UINESS= BECAUSE THEY RE NOT EMBROILED IN IT )T WAS LIKE BEING AT SCHOOL !ND ) WAS LIKE h) LEFT SCHOOL ) HATED IT WHY AM ) STILL HERE v 3# ) WAS WONDERING IF THE hSCENEv WAS MEDIA CREATED BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON WITH ALL THESE BANDS KNOWING EACH OTHER % ) DON T THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON WE DIDN T GO hWE RE COMING OUT TOGETHER v )T WAS JUST LIKE hOH ) MET THIS GUY BECAUSE WE PLAYED A GIG TOGETHER HUNG OUT FOR A BIT BUT DISCOVERED THAT WE DIDN T WANT TO HANG OUT ANYMOREv 4HE PERSONAL CONNECTIONS ARE ALL THERE BUT MUSI CALLY NOTHING AND ) HAVEN T SPOKEN TO MOST OF .OAH AND THE 7HALE FOR A YEAR ) HAVEN T SPOKEN TO ,AURA -AR LING FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS ) HAVEN T SPOKEN TO *EREMY 7ARMSLEY IN A VERY LONG TIME ;LAUGHS= 3# 7HAT DO YOU THINK OF "RITISH MUSIC IN GENERAL AT THE MOMENT % ) THINK IN "RITAIN A GOOD BAND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES TO lND THEIR OWN SOUND GETS PUT IN A MACHINE QUITE QUICKLY !ND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT IT JUST FUCKING RUINS IT FOR ME ) PREFER IT IN !MERI CA WHERE IT S SO CUT THROAT ITS EITHER SO INDIE OR SO FUCKING POP AND SO A GOOD INDIE BAND WILL JUST BE LEFT ON A TINY INDIE LABEL TO CONTINUE TO BUILD AND GROW UNTIL THEY BECOME TRULY GREAT !ND ) M NOT SURE IF IN THIS COUNTRY IT S POSSIBLE TO BECOME TRULY GREAT 3# $O YOU THINK YOU VE AVOIDED THE MACHINE % ) VE BEEN AFFECTED BY IT AND ) STILL DON T KNOW IF ) MANAGED TO AVOID IT ,IKE ) M SO GRATEFUL THAT ) M DO ING THIS INTERVIEW WITH YOU AND THAT WE RE DOING THIS TOUR BUT IF WE WERE IN !MERICA (ELLS NO 9OU LISTEN TO
OUR ALBUM AND IT IS NOT WORTH THIS MUCH ATTENTION 3# 7HAT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ARE YOU INTO % 4ALKING ABOUT %NGLISH ACTS WHAT ) WAS SAYING ONLY APPLIES TO INDIE BANDS POP MUSIC IN THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY GOOD ,ILY !LLEN IS REALLY GOOD !MY 7INEHOUSE IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD - ) ! IS PHENOMENALLY BRIL LIANT 3# 9OU DO SOME MUSIC JOURNALISM 7ILL YOU CARRY ON WITH THIS OR IS YOUR ATTENTION NOW FOCUSED ON YOUR OWN CAREER IN MUSIC % .O THAT S THE THING n ) STARTED OUT IN MUSIC JOURNALISM BECAUSE ) WANT TO WRITE ALL THE TIME ) WANT TO BE A WRITER WHO WAKES UP IN THE MORN ING SITS DOWN AT HER DESK AND WRITES !ND WITH SONGS YOU DON T DO THAT 9OU WAIT FOR AN IDEA YOU LET IT MA TURE YOU SPEND THE DAY SITTING ON YOUR ARSE AND THEN IT KIND OF POPS OUT "UT ) DON T WANT TO SPEND MY DAYS SITTING ON MY ARSE 3O ) TAKE ON ANYTHING ) WRITE STORIES FOR MY COUS INS ) WRITE ARTICLES IN THE PAPER AND ) WRITE DIARIES 3ONG WRITING DOESN T lLL ENOUGH TIME IN THE DAY 3# 7OULD YOU CONSIDER PURSUING SAY lCTION WRITING FURTHER % 4HE ONLY REASON ) WRITE SONGS IS THAT ) VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO WRITE A STORY 4HE SONGS OFFER A CONlNE IT S A STRUCTURE YOU CAN MAKE IT RHYME YOU KNOW WHERE IT ENDS ) CAN T WRITE A STORY BECAUSE ) DON T KNOW WHERE TO MAKE IT END 3O EVENTUALLY ) HOPE THAT ) COULD WRITE lCTION "UT ) ONLY WANT TO WRITE GENERIC lCTION ) NEVER WANT TO DO ANYTHING THAT S GREAT THAT COULD WIN A "OOKER PRIZE ) WANT TO WRITE A SCI l NOVEL THAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE A SCI l NOVEL FROM THE S OR A TEEN SAGA THAT S JUST LIKE "UFFY THE 6AMPIRE 3LAYER 3# 7ITHIN YOUR MUSIC DO YOU AS PIRE TO GENIUS OR DO YOU WANT TO WRITE WITHIN CONSTRICTIONS % 7ITH SONGS NO ) M NOT MUSICAL ) DON T GET IT ) M NOT GOOD AT WHAT ) DO 3O ) CAN ONLY BE FED EXACTLY WHAT MY SUBCONSCIOUS TELLS ME TO DO ) CAN T STEER IT !ND SO IN A WAY IT S THE LEAST CYNICAL THING ) COULD DO AND SO ) SHOULD PROBABLY DO IT
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Albums Lily Allen )T S .OT -E )T S 9OU ,AST WEEK 4HE %VENT READ A REVIEW ABOUT ,ILY !LLEN S SECOND ALBUM )T S .OT -E )T S 9OU THAT INSISTED ALL !LLEN S MUSIC WAS ABOUT WAS BLOKES BOOZE MORE BLOKES AND RANDOM BOUTS OF SEEMINGLY POIGNANT IF NOT WELL HIDDEN POLITI CAL ISSUES /UR lRST REACTION WAS TO TAKE OFFENCE AT THIS AND ENDEAVOUR TO PROVE THAT !LLEN S WORK IS REALLY MORE OF AN UNAPPRECIATED MAS TERPIECE A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH 3INCE HAVING SAID ALBUM ON REPEAT FOR THE LAST WEEK WE VE COME TO A CONCLUSION THAT SURPRISED EVEN US THAT WE STILL DON T ACTUALLY KNOW WHETHER )T S .OT -E )T S 9OU IS A VERY CLEVER COMMENTARY ON TODAY S SOCIETY AND YOUTH CULTURE WRITTEN SO THE VERY SUBJECTS OF THE WORK HAVE THE BEST ACCESS TO
IT OR WHETHER IN FACT THE MUSIC IS JUST ANOTHER LAZILY THROWN TOGETHER COLLECTION OF CONVENIENT RHYMES AND OBVIOUS STATEMENTS SET TO A SIMPLE YET UNDENIABLY CATCHY BACKGROUND BEAT /NE OF THE STAND OUT TRACKS ON THE ALBUM IS (IM AND WITH LYRICS LIKE h%VER SINCE HE CAN REMEMBER PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN HIS GOOD NAME ,ONG BEFORE THAT 3EPTEMBER ,ONG BEFORE HI JACKING PLANESv IT DOESN T TAKE A GENIUS TO SEE THAT !LLEN IS MAKING REFERENCE TO 'EORGE 7 "USH 4HIS PAIRED WITH SOME OF THE LYR ICS OF %VERYONE S !T )T MAKES US THINK THAT !L LEN REALLY IS SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMS AND HER CONFRONTATION OF DIFlCULT AND HOTLY DEBATED TOPICS DESERVES MORE RESPECT THAN MIGHT HAVE INITIALLY AND GRUDGINGLY BEEN GIVEN /N TOP OF THIS ACCENT ASIDE !LLEN S VOICE IS ACTUALLY QUITE A DELICATE FEMININE THING THAT IMPRESSIVELY WEAVES ITSELF THROUGH THE PULSING HEARTBEAT LIKE BASS LINES OF TRACKS LIKE "ACK 4O 4HE 3TART AND #HINESE (ER USUAL @MOCKNEY SINGING STYLE CAN STILL BE FOUND ON (E 7ASN T 4HERE AND .OT &AIR AND LYRICS LIKE h9OU MAKE ME BEANS ON TOAST AND A NICE CUP OF TEA 4HEN WE GET A #HINESE AND WATCH 46v
SHOULD KEEP THE YOUNGER AUDIENCES ABLE TO HAPPILY SING ALONG 4HE OVERALL SOUND OF THE ALBUM ITSELF IS A FAR MORE MODERN AND ELECTRONIC ONE THAN !L LEN S lRST SHE ADMITTED HERSELF THAT SHE WASN T LOOKING TO EMULATE THE RETRO VIBE THAT S RE CENTLY BEEN WIDELY ADOPTED BECAUSE hOTHER PEOPLE CAN DO IT A LOT BETTERv 4HIS SELF DEPRE CATING ATTITUDE MAY OR MAY NOT STEM FROM THE SETBACKS THAT !LLEN HAS SUFFERED IN HER PERSON AL LIFE SINCE HER lRST ALBUM !LLEN HAS UNDENI ABLY BEEN SUBJECT TO NUMEROUS LIFE CHANGING EVENTS AND ONE CAN PICK OUT THE MORE SERIOUS INTROSPECTIVE MOMENTS TO BE FOUND IN THIS AL BUM THAT WERE NOT PRESENT IN THE SUMMERY CAREFREE ATTITUDE OF THE lRST 4O SUM IT UP THOUGH THIS ALBUM DOESN T HAVE ALL OF THE INNOCENCE OF ITS PREDECESSOR !LLEN STILL SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERS AN INTELLIGENT WITTY RESPONSE TO HER SURROUNDINGS WITH UN EXPECTED CLASS AND ENOUGH CUSS WORDS FOR US TO BE SURE IT S STILL REALLY HER )T S .OT -E )T S 9OU IS DElNITELY ANOTHER HIT SET OF SONGS FROM THIS ANGEL FACED GUTTER MOUTHED LITTLE PIXIE 4ESS "ATCHELOR
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5NLIKE SOME OF THE MORE POPU LAR EMO BANDS SUCH AS *IMMY %AT 7ORLD 4AKING "ACK 3UNDAY AND -Y #HEMICAL 2OMANCE 4HURSDAY HAVE NEVER SACRIlCED THEIR SOUND IN PURSUIT OF COM MERCIAL SUCCESS 4HIS LATEST EF FORT THEIR lFTH STUDIO ALBUM IS NO DIFFERENT 4HE ALBUM MAIN TAINS THE CLASSIC POST HARDCORE SOUND THAT THEY PIONEERED A DECADE AGO CONTRASTING THE LOUDEST OF SCREAMS WITH THE FAINTEST OF WHISPERS !N EXPLORATION INTO HUMANKIND S hDARK CRIMES OF COMMON EXISTENCEv THIS IS FOR THE MOST PART A TYPICAL 4HURSDAY ALBUM STRAIGHT FROM THE OFF SLOW FAST SLOW SOFT HARD SOFT ,ATEST SINGLE 2ESUSCITATION OF A $EAD -AN TAKES ON THEIR STAND ARD SOUND BUT THIS DEVIATES LATER IN THE ALBUM TO A MORE MELODIC STYLE THAT WE HAVE RARELY SEEN FROM THEM )T CAN BE HEARD IN ,OVE (AS ,ED 5S !STRAY A TRACK SET TO AN ELECTRO BACKDROP 4HERE IS FUR THER EXPERIMENTATION IN &RIENDS IN THE !RMED &ORCES WHICH IS MORE OF A HARD ROCK TRACK AND #IRCUITS OF &EVER WHICH IS ALMOST ALTERNA TIVE ROCK 4HAT SAID IT IS LARGELY WHAT WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM A 4HURSDAY ALBUM THOUGH POWER CHORDS CATCHY CHORUSES AND THE OBLIGATORY ACOUSTIC TRACK 4IME S !RROW #OMMON %XISTENCE HAS NOT IMPROVED 4HURSDAY S COMMERCIAL VIABILITY BUT THEY ARE SURE TO GAIN RESPECT IN THE ROCK WORLD FOR STICKING TO THEIR GUNS WHILST OTHERS HAVE SOFTENED UP CHASING FAME AND FORTUNE
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Flashguns ,OCARNO
Will and the People +NOCKING
Kelly Clarkson -Y ,IFE 7OULD 3UCK 7ITHOUT 9OU
)T IS A REAL SHAME THAT THE WEATHER IS SO MISERABLE AT THE MOMENT BECAUSE 4HE %VENT CAN THINK OF NOTH ING BETTER TO GO WITH THIS TUNE THAN A FRESH SUM MER S DAY (AVING ALREADY HIT 2EADING AND ,EEDS LAST YEAR &LASHGUNS HAVE STARTED TO MAKE QUITE A NAME FOR THEM SELVES 4HE FOUR PIECE BLEND OF "RIGHTON AND ,ONDON BOYS ARE BOOKED UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY AT THE MOMENT GOOD WORK FOR SUCH FRESH FACES ON THE MUSIC SCENE ,OCARNO IS A LIGHT AND AIRY BREEZE THROUGH MELODIC GUITARS AND RHYTHMIC RIFFS STRIKING A NICE BALANCE BETWEEN SOPHISTICATED AND ECCENTRIC )T IS NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM A LOT OF CURRENT STUFF BUT WHAT THESE BOYS OFFER IS A FRESH TAKE IT ISN T TOO HEAVY WHICH RIGHT NOW IS QUITE REFRESHING REALLY 3OMETHING THAT IS QUITE IMPORTANT TO MENTION ISN T HIS VOICE NICE 9ES THERE IS PRETTY NOISE A PLENTY !LREADY TIPPED TO BE BIG THIS YEAR &LASH GUNS ARE DElNITELY WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON +ICK BACK PRETEND THAT THE SUN IS SHINING AND GIVE IT A LISTEN 4IFF 7OOSLEY
)NDIE IS DYING 4OO MANY REPETITIVE SONGS WITH THE EXACT SAME STRUCTURE AND CHORDS HAVE MADE THE MUSICAL MOVEMENT THE BANE OF EVERY I0OD (OWEVER THERE IS HOPE 3HOWING A STRONG INmU ENCE FROM CLASSIC REGGAE UP AND COMERS 7ILL !ND 4HE 0EOPLE@S lRST SINGLE +NOCKING SHOWS THEY COULD BE THE NEXT BIG THING 7HILE THEIR OTHER TRACKS lT THE STANDARD INDIE FORMAT +NOCK ING TRIES SOMETHING NEW AND IT REALLY WORKS 4HE FALSETTO VOCALS LIFT THE SONG PERFECTLY MATCHING THE BOUNCY REGGAE RIFFS RESULTING IN A RIDICULOUSLY CATCHY lRST SINGLE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PARTNERSHIP BE TWEEN -ATT "ELLAMY AND THE 7AILERS (OWEVER THEY ARE STILL DEl NITELY AN INDIE BAND WHICH FOR SOME MUSIC FANS WILL BE ENOUGH FOR THEM TO WARRANT COMPLETE DISMISSAL "UT LISTEN TO +NOCKING WITH AN OPEN MIND WITH INmUENCES FROM METAL TO REGGAE TO FOLK THE BAND REFUSE TO BE PINNED DOWN AND EVEN HARDENED HATERS OF INDIE MAY WELL lND THEMSELVES NOD DING ALONG TO THEIR INFECTIOUS BEATS #HRISTOPHER -ILLS
3INCE SELLING MILLION COPIES OF HER "REAKAWAY ALBUM +ELLY #LARKSON HAS RELEASED AN UNSUCCESSFUL FOLLOW UP AND FALLEN OUT WITH HER RECORD LA BEL "UT FOR THIS COMEBACK SIN GLE IT S SUDDENLY AS IF NOTHING HAS CHANGED ,ISTENING TO -Y ,IFE 7OULD 3UCK 7ITHOUT 9OU IS LIKE BUMPING INTO AN OLD FRIEND YOU HAVEN T SEEN IN YEARS )T S ALMOST IDENTICAL IN SOUND AND SUBJECT MATTER TO 3INCE 5 "EEN 'ONE FROM THE TEASINGLY GUITAR INTRO RIGHT THROUGH TO THE EXHILARATING SHOUT A LONG lNALE $ESPITE BEING AS ORIGINAL AS A GLASS OF TAP WATER THE RECORD IS A RETURN TO FORM AND BOASTS A RADIO FRIENDLY CHORUS THAT NOBODY ELSE COULD DO JUSTICE TO 'RANTED IT SOUNDS SLIGHTLY ARTIlCIAL COMPARED TO THE EMO TIONAL HONESTY OF S -Y $ECEMBER ,0 AND AFTER THAT ALBUM S COMMERCIAL FAILURE THERE WILL BE CYNICS ARGUING THAT #LARKSON IS PANDERING TO THE SOUND THAT HAS PROVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL "UT WHEN THE ROUSING CHORUS KICKS IN AND THE VOCALS SOAR ALL IS SUD DENLY FORGIVEN -Y ,IFE 7OULD 3UCK 7ITHOUT 9OU IS A WELCOME RE MINDER THAT NOBODY DOES BUBBLEGUM ROCK LIKE +ELLY #LARKSON 3HAUN +ITCHENER
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Live Reviews
‘Cannibal Corpse’ with Children of Bodom
The NME Awards Tour
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#ANNIBAL #ORPSE ARE THE BAND WHO PUT hDEATHv INTO DEATH METAL 4HEIR GRUESOME ALBUM COVER ART AND GORE ZOMBIE SERIAL KILLER OBSESSED LYR ICS HAVE EARNED THEM BANS IN 'ERMANY AND !USTRALIA AND EVEN SOME OF THEIR SONG TITLES ARE UNPRINTABLE IN A FAMILY PUBLICATION LIKE #ON CRETE .ECROPEDOPHILE AND 3TRIPPED 2APED !ND 3TRANGLED n BOTH AIRED TONIGHT n ARE RELATIVELY FAMILY FRIENDLY BY THIS BAND S STANDARDS 4AKING THE STAGE AFTER A BRIEF BUT WELL AP PRECIATED SET BY OPENING ACT $IABLO #ANNIBAL #ORPSE SHOWED SOME PHYSICAL SIGNS OF AGE n THIS IS AFTER ALL A BAND THAT FORMED BACK IN &RONTMAN 'EORGE h#ORPSEGRINDERv &ISH ER LOOKED LIKE HE D SPENT THE LAST TWENTY YEARS MIXING CEMENT RATHER THAN GRINDING CORPSES (OWEVER THERE WERE NO TRACES OF MIDDLE AGE IN THE ONSLAUGHT THAT WAS THEIR MUSIC 4HE CAR COMPACTOR GUITARS PILE DRIVER DRUMS AND &ISHER S NIGHTMARISH VOCALS n WHICH SOUND LIKE
SLIME DISAPPEARING DOWN A DEMONICALLY POS SESSED PLUGHOLE n ADDED UP TO A DIN THAT WAS IMPRESSIVELY HOLOCAUSTIC (ELSINKI BAND #HILDREN /F "ODOM TO NIGHT S HEADLINERS MAY BE THE NAME ON THE BLACK HOODIES OF A MILLION GOTH METAL TEENAG ERS AT THE MOMENT BUT AS THEY CAME TOGETHER IN THEY RE ALMOST AS VENERABLE AS #ANNI BAL #ORPSE 4HEIR MUSIC UNFORTUNATELY DIDN T QUITE MATCH THE STANDARD SET BY THEIR PREDECES SORS -AINLY THIS WAS DUE TO AN INCONSISTENCY IN TONE WITH THE BAND PUNCTUATING THEIR SONIC BARRAGE WITH SOME GRATUITOUS BOUTS OF WIDDLY NEO CLASSICAL GUITAR AND KEYBOARD DOODLING )T WAS AS IF THEY WANTED TO CONVINCE ANY DIS DAINFUL MAINSTREAM MUSIC CRITICS WHO MIGHT BE LISTENING OF THOSE OLD ARGUMENTS THAT HEAVY METAL HAS ITS ROOTS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THAT IF 2ICHARD 7AGNER WAS ALIVE TODAY HE D BE WRIT ING SONGS FOR #RADLE /F &ILTH 3TILL THE #HILDREN UNDENIABLY GAVE IT THEIR ALL AND THE KIDS SLAMDANCING BELOW THE STAGE SEEMED TO GET THEIR MONEY S WORTH )T WAS h"O DOM "ODOM v THAT WAS BEING CHANTED NOT h"OREDOM "OREDOM v )AN 3MITH
.OW IN ITS TH YEAR THE .-% !WARDS TOUR HAS RISEN FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO ITS CURRENT STA TUS AS ONE OF THE MUST SEE GIGS OF THE YEAR )T S BEEN AN EXCELLENT INDICATOR OF WHICH NEW BANDS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME HUGE WITH PREVIOUS HEAD LINERS INCLUDING 4HE +ILLERS -AXIMO 0ARK AND THE +LAXONS )T MAY SEEM LIKE A HUMBLE SPOT BUT THE OPENING SLOT HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN lLLED BY SOME OF THE BIGGEST ARTISTS TO PLAY THE TOUR &RANZ &ERDINAND #OLDPLAY CAUGHT BEFORE THEY HIT THE BIG TIME &LORENCE AND THE -ACHINE HAVE BEEN MAKING BIG WAVES WITH SOME GREAT SINGLES AND WILD LIVE SHOWS AND HERE &LORENCE DOESN T DIS APPOINT WITH HER EXTRAORDINARY VOICE UNHINGED DANCING AND FOR (OWL A DRUM COVERED IN GLITTER $ElNITELY A TALENT TO WATCH .EXT UP WERE 7HITE ,IES ONE OF THE MOST
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/N &RIDAY TH OOH ERR THE CRYPT BENEATH 4AKE &IVE PLAYED HOST TO THE EIGHTH 3OMETHING 'OOD %ARLY ARRIVALS WERE PRESENTED WITH PENS AND ENCOURAGED TO PARTAKE IN SOME EGALITARIAN POSTER DESIGN PUTTING THEIR OWN WHIMSICAL SA TIRICAL OBSCENE DELETE AS APPROPRIATE STAMP ON THE 3OMETHING 'OOD BANNER "EFORE THESE SCRIBBLINGS DESCENDED INTO COMPLETE VULGARITY THE BANDS TOOK TO THE mOOR 3ADLY 4HE 4EA AND 4OAST "AND WHO HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO PLAY WERE STRUCK DOWN WITH ILLNESS HAPPILY ,UCKY *IM STEPPED INTO THE BREACH 9OU MAY HAVE SEEN HIM IN A LAB COAT WITH !LTO BUT FOR TONIGHT IT WAS JEANS JUMPER AND GUITAR LED LOVE SONGS .EXT WAS *AM /N "READ ONE MAN AND HIS UKULELE CRAFTING JINGLY GEMS ABOUT ,ABRADOR 2ECORDS MANATEES AND *ASON $ONOVAN *AM /N "READ WAS HALFWAY THROUGH A NATIONAL TOUR
WITH THE NEXT ACT -AT 2IVIERE 2IVIERE COULDN T BE MORE DIFFERENT FROM THE PREVIOUS TWO PER FORMERS n OUT WITH THE ACOUSTICS AND STRINGS IN WITH THE KEYBOARDS AND SYNTH LOOPS n BUT IS EQUALLY ACE JAMMING WIRES INTO SOCKETS LIKE SOME MAD ELECTRO SCIENTIST 4HE lNAL PERFORMANCE WAS BY 7INSTON %CHO (E DEPLOYED MORE 3OMETHING 'OOD DEMOCRACY ESCHEWING THE MIC STAND IN FAVOUR OF PLAYING FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE CROWD AND ENCOURAGING SOME GOOD OLD SING ALONGS (IS TUNES WERE SOMETIMES FUNNY SOMETIMES SERI OUS ALWAYS GOOD !FTER THE BANDS lNISHED THE &UNNY "ONES BOYS PLAYED A STONKING $* SET WHICH HAD THE PARTY HARDCORE DANCING INTO THE WEE HOURS 5NTIL YOU VE GYRATED TO 'OLD $IGGER IN A CRYPT YOU HAVEN T LIVED /NCE AGAIN 3OMETHING 'OOD MORE THAN LIVED UP TO ITS NAME 4HESE EVENTS REJECT THE USUAL PERFORMER AUDIENCE EQUATION INSTEAD EVERYONE IN 4AKE &IVE WAS MADE TO FEEL EQUAL LY WELCOME %VEN THOUGH MANY PEOPLE WERE STRICKEN WITH COLDS THEY SMILED THROUGH THE PAIN TRULY THERE IS NOWHERE EXCEPT MAYBE A NICELY WARMED BED AS FRIENDLY AS 3OMETHING 'OOD 3ARAH #HRISTIE
4HE %VENT SPENT THEIR 3ATURDAY NIGHT STANDING IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS THE BACK ROOM OF A GRUNGY PUB ALSO KNOWN AS THE MUSIC ROOM OF 4HE -ARQUEE (OWEVER THE SETTING WAS TO BE A lTTING PLACE FOR THE RAW TALENT WE EXPERIENCED THERE IN THE FORM OF $IRTY 0AINT "RUSH 3KY A YOUNG ARTIST MAKING HIS MARK ON THE LOCAL MU SIC SCENE "RADLEY 3MITH THE PRODUCER WRITER COMPOSER AND LYRICIST TOOK TO THE STAGE JUST ONE MAN WITH A GUITAR 4HE ICY COLD BREEZE BLOCK ROOM SOON WARMED UP WITH HIS CRISP BEAUTIFUL SINGING MAINTAINING A BALANCE BETWEEN GENTLE YET POW ERFUL VOCALS OF A CAPABLY FULL RANGE 4HE CAREFUL LY WRITTEN LYRICS WERE TOUCHING AND MEANINGFUL WITH THE GUITAR SOUND BEING UNRElNED YET EASY ON THE EAR $IRTY 0AINT "RUSH 3KY S SOLO ARTIST
HYPED BANDS OF AND BASED ON TONIGHT S PERFORMANCE THEY DESERVE EVERY SHRED OF IT %ACH SONG BECAME EVEN MORE POWERFUL LIVE PARTICU LARLY AN EXTENDED &IFTY /N /UR &OREHEADS AND THE CLOSER $EATH TONIGHT S lRST MAJOR SING ALONG &RIENDLY &IRES AND THEIR INDIE DANCE MARKED A CHANGE OF DIRECTION BUT THEY WERE STILL WELL RECEIVED AND PLAYED A FANTASTIC SET 7ITH THEIR JERKY ONSTAGE ANTICS AND OBVIOUS CHEMISTRY THEY SEEMED MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAND TONIGHT TO BE HAVING A GREAT TIME (IGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE INSANE /N "OARD AND THE EUPHORIC 0ARIS WHICH HELD THE ENTIRE ,#2 IN A BLISSFUL TRANCE !ND SO TO THE HEADLINERS EPIC 3COTCH MISER ABLISTS 'LASVEGAS &RONTMAN *AMES !LLAN PLAYED THE AUDIENCE LIKE A PRO THE BAND CLEARLY UNDER STOOD THE FULL POTENTIAL THIS TOUR OFFERED THEM AND PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS 4HE SET CONTAINED TOO MANY HIGHLIGHTS TO MENTION BUT THE PEAK OF THE ENTIRE NIGHT IS REACHED AT THE CHORUS OF $AD DY S 'ONE THE VOLUME OF THE AUDIENCE THREATENED TO TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE BUILDING -OMENTS LIKE THIS THAT PROVE THAT DESPITE GENERAL OPINION NEW MUSIC IS IN RUDE HEALTH AND GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME $UNCAN 6ICAT "ROWN
ADMITS TO ACCEPTING MISTAKES WITHIN HIS MUSIC HOPING FOR IT TO ADD TO THE SONG S RAW NATURE AND AIMS FOR HIS MUSIC TO BE hPRETTY SO YOU CAN LOVE IT RAW SO YOU CAN FEEL ITv 4HERE IS A GRITTY HONESTY WITHIN THE LYRICS AND THE MUSIC ITSELF MAKING THE NAME $IRTY 0AINT "RUSH 3KY A lT TING ONE )NmUENCES AS VARIED AS "IFFY #LYRO 2ADIO HEAD $AMIEN 2ICE AND 3IMON AND 'ARFUNKEL LEAD TO MANY WELL ROUNDED AND INTERESTINGLY FORMED TRACKS WITH SOME EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDS AND RHYTHMS "EAUTIFUL MELODIES RUN ALONGSIDE BIG DYNAMIC CHANGES WITHIN THE PIECES AND THE RAW SOUND CERTAINLY TAKES OFF IN A GIG SETTING THE MUSIC IS AT ITS MOST NATURAL IN LIVE ACOUSTIC FORM ,AURA 3IMONS
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HE SECOND PART OF 3TEVEN 3OD ERBERGH S IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE LIFE OF #HE 'UEVARA FOCUSES ON #HE AND HIS FELLOW ACTIVISTS CAR RYING OUT REVOLUTION IN "OLIVIA 3ET A DECADE AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE lRST lLM SUBTITLED THE !RGEN TINE THE SECOND PART OF 3ODERBERGH S STUDY 'UERILLA STAYS LARGELY FAITHFUL TO THE CINEMATIC STYLE LAID DOWN IN THE FORMER lLM )T ALSO FEELS VERY SIMILAR IN TERMS OF PACING 4HE MAIN DIFFERENCE BE TWEEN THE TWO PARTS IS THAT THE SEC OND lLM IS MORE ACTION BASED 4HE PICTURE FOCUSES PERHAPS TOO MUCH ON THE WIDER BATTLES THAT #HE FACES REGARDING THE IMPLANTING OF REVOLU TION IN HOSTILE CLIMES )N CONTRAST THE lRST lLM WAS A MORE INTIMATE AFFAIR COMPROMISING MOSTLY OF PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY WITH A DOLLOP OF SOMEWHAT SKEWED POLITICAL ANALY SIS THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE 3OMEWHAT SURPRISINGLY GIVEN THIS DISCREPANCY THE MAIN STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE lRST lLM ARE
Dir: Steven Soderbergh Release Date: 20/02/09
LARGELY MIRRORED BY THE SECOND 'UILLERMO $EL 4ORO IS ONCE AGAIN THE MAIN SELLING POINT (E IS SIMPLY EXCELLENT AS #HE $EL 4ORO NOT ONLY LOOKS UNCANNILY LIKE THE FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY BUT EFFECTIVELY CON VEYS THE THOUGHT SYSTEMS OF 'UEVARA
THROUGH HIS ACTIONS )T IS DISAPPOINT ING THEREFORE THAT AS WITH THE lRST lLM THE PICTURE FAILS TO TOTALLY PEN ETRATE #HE S ICONIC STATUS FEELING INSTEAD CONTENT TO PLAY SAFE WITH A HAGIOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A SURPRIS INGLY CLEAN CUT REVOLUTIONARY /NE
IS INCLINED TO WONDER THEN WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT IN A TWO PART BI OPIC OF A FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY THAT FAILS TO DELIVER A SINGLE POTENT POLITI CAL STATEMENT IN ITS ENTIRE FOUR HOUR PLUS RUNNING TIME 4HE lLM IS HOWEVER SAVED FROM
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OMINATED FOR AN /SCAR FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -ERYL 3TREEP PLAYS 3IS TER !LOYSIUS "EAUVIER A NUN AT THE CENTRE OF THE CHILD ABUSE STORY OF $OUBT )T S EASY TO ASSUME THAT -ER YL 3TREEP HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SO LONG THAT HER TROPHY CABINET MUST BE CREAKING WITH /S CARS )N FACT SHE HAS WON ONLY TWICE ONE FOR HER ROLE AS A MOTHER OF TWO WITH A TERRIBLE DECISION TO MAKE IN 3OPHIE S #HOICE AND ONE FOR +RAMER VS +RAMER WHERE SHE STARTED A CUSTODY BAT TLE WITH $USTIN (OFFMAN IN AN ACTING CLASH OF THE TITANS 4HAT S NOT TO SAY THEY ARE THE ONLY
AWARDS SHE HAS WON WINS AND ANOTHER OVERALL ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE LESSER KNOWN AWARDS LIKE THE 7OMEN S #RYSTAL !WARDS PROBABLY WON T BE GRACING HER RESUMÏ 7HEN PICTURING -ERYL 3TREEP IT S EASY TO GET CON FUSED BETWEEN IMAGES OF TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN AND THAT S NOT JUST HER AND 'LENN #LOSE 4HERE S THE /SCAR BAITING AC CLAIMED ACTRESS OF 4HE $EER (UNTER BUT THEN THERE S ALSO THE SCENE STEALING STAR PUNCH ING BELOW HER WEIGHT IN 4HE $EVIL 7EARS 0RADA WHERE 3TREEP S PERFORMANCE MAKES THE lLM FAR MORE EN JOYABLE
THAN AN 5GLY "ETTY WITHOUT "ETTY SHOULD HAVE BEEN )N ALONE WE SAW HER HOP OUT OF HER -AMMA -IA DUNGA REES AND INTO THE NUN S HABIT FOR $OUBT AND THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT 3TREEP IS THAT SHE DOES NOT SEEM TO CONSIDER THIS THE SIMPLE STEP UP ON THE LADDER THAT THE ACADEMY DOES (ER ROLE IN -AMMA -IA AC TUALLY CAME FROM A FAN LETTER SHE SENT TO THE CAST OF THE "ROADWAY SHOW AND SHE ACTIVELY PURSUED A PLACE IN THE LARGELY "RITISH CAST &OR AN ACTRESS WHO SURELY NEVER NEEDS TO AUDITION ANOTHER DAY IN HER LIFE IT WILL BE INTEREST ING TO SEE WHAT ROLES SHE WILL BE CHASING IN
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IGNOMINY BY BEING QUITE SIMPLY A JOY TO LOOK AT "OTH #HE lLMS BOAST EXCELLENT CINEMATOGRAPHY 4HE lLM MAKES THE MOST OF THE LUSH BUT ALSO SOMETIMES BLEAK TERRAIN OF THE MOUNTAINS OF ,A 0AZ 4HE SPORADIC BUT INTENSE COMBAT SCENES ARE BEAU TIFULLY SHOT BRINGING THE VIEWER RIGHT IN TO THE INTENSITY OF THE CONmICT )T IS THE LINKING SCENES BETWEEN THESE THAT FAIL TO GIVE THE lLM A MORE POW ERFUL OVERALL IMPETUS 4HE MOST NO TABLE REASON FOR THIS mAW IS A SOME TIMES UNTIDY SCREENPLAY THAT DOESN T LINK THE VARIOUS ESCAPADES OF #HE PARTICULARLY CLEANLY !S A RESULT THE lLM FEELS UNUSUALLY DRAWN OUT AND n WHISPER IT n AT TIMES BORING )T IS A RELIEF THAT THE lLM IS PUNCTUATED WITH JUST ABOUT ENOUGH SCENES OF GRIPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL COMBAT TO KEEP IT ON TRACK 'EORGE 'ILBERT
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Dir: Clint Eastwood Release Date: 20/2/09
Dir: George Tillman Jr. Release Date: 13/2/09
#LINT %ASTWOOD IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO CAN MAKE lLMS LIKE THIS A HILARIOUSLY GRUFF RACIST CARICATURE OF HIS OWN BADASS SELF RE LUCTANTLY FORGES A RELATIONSHIP WITH A YOUNG (MONG TEEN AFTER CATCHING HIM TRYING TO STEAL HIS COVETED 'RAN 4ORINO FOR A THUGGISH COUSIN 4HE BOND GROWS STRONG AND WHEN ONE OF HIS NEWFOUND COM PANIONS GETS BADLY HURT BY SAID COUSIN S GANG HE TAKES DOWN THE BAD GUYS THE RIGHT WAY THIS TIME SOMEHOW SEEMING NO LESS HEROIC FOR DOING SO 7ISELY HE HASN T ATTEMPTED TO MATCH THE POETRY OF HIS OTHER APO
!S ONE OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN HIP HOP .OTORIOUS FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF #HRISTOPHER 7ALLACE FROM A TROUBLED CHILD MAKING MONEY ON THE STREETS TO BECOMING MEGASTAR "IGGIE 3MALLS )NCLUDING HIS TIME IN PRISON AND DISTANT RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FIRST CHILD THE FILM DOES NOT BRUSH OVER 7ALLACE S MISTAKES IN LIFE PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE IN HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ON OFF GIRL FRIEND RAPPER ,IL +IM (OWEVER THE FILM S ATTEMPT TO MAKE 3MALLS A REDEEMED MAN AT THE END FANTASISES HIS LIFE A LIT TLE TOO MUCH CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT
LOGIA 5NFORGIVEN BUT HE ONCE AGAIN INVERTS ROLES OF OLD THIS TIME RELY ING ON BRILLIANTLY SCATHING SATIRE OF HIS PLACE IN VIGILANTE FOLKLORE $ESPITE THE OCCASIONAL BUNG NOTE FROM MINOR ACTORS AND A FEW AWKWARD TRANSITIONS BETWEEN COMEDY AND TRAGEDY IT SERVES AS A NEAR PERFECT SWANSONG NOT DE RO MANTICISING THE LEGEND SO MUCH AS RE CASTING HIS MYSTIQUE THROUGH A MORAL LENS 4OM .IXON
TO INCREASE THE SYMPATHY FROM THE AUDIENCE AT THE FILM S CLIMAX THE STAR S EARLY DEATH 4HE FILM MAKES GOOD USE OF LIGHTING AND EDITING AND EXCELS IN ITS CASTING )F YOU RE A HIP HOP FAN YOU WILL LIKE THIS )F YOU RE A FAN OF .OTORIOUS " ) ' YOU WILL PRETTY MUCH LIKE THIS )F YOU RE A FAN OF OVER THE TOP UNNECESSARY SWEARING YOU WILL DEFINITELY LIKE THIS +ARINE 7ACH $ONOVAN
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Dir: Paul McGuigan Release Date: 20/2/09
Dir: Marcus Nispel Release date: 13/2/09
&RIDAY THE TH WITH ITS RATHER TRASHY DIALOGUE INmATED DRAMATI SATION OVERTLY SEXUAL UNDERTONES AND HORMONE DRIVEN NARRATIVE CRE ATES A NEAT REBOOT OF THE LONG RUN NING FRANCHISE 4HE OPENING SEQUENCES PAY TRIBUTE TO THE SOMEWHAT OLD FASH IONED SLASHER UNTIL A RATHER MOD ERN VERSION OF THE SLASHER lLM IN THE LATTER PART OF THE lLM WITH A PREDICTABLE BUT RATHER AUTHENTIC CAST INCLUDING #HINESE !MERICAN #HEWIE !ARON 9OO AND BLACK ACTOR ,AWRENCE !RLEN %SCARPETA REPRESENTATIONS THAT WERE SO AB SENT FROM THE SLASHER lLMS IN THEIR HEYDAY
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)N THIS RESPECT THE lLM THOUGH RELYING HEAVILY ON THE CONVENTIONS OF THE SLASHER lLM TRIES TO STEP AWAY INTO A MORE BRUTAL AND SEXU ALLY ACTIVE PIECE OF CINEMA !UDIENCES WILL GO TO SEE THE lLM TO BE SCARED TO BE SEXUALISED OR FOR A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA %ITHER WAY THE lLM DOES NOT FAIL TO DELIV ER THESE QUALITIES THEREFORE SETTING OUT WHAT IT WANTED TO DO AND SATIS FYINGLY ACHIEVING ALL OF ITS GOALS
!ND SO THE ,ORD DECREED THAT HENCE FORTH ALL SUPERHEROES SHALL COME IN BUNCHES AND SHALL NOT WEAR RIDICU LOUS OUTlTS (OT ON THE HEELS OF (EROES AND *UMPER AND PRECEDING 7ATCHMEN COMES 0USH THE IMPOSSIBLY SLICK YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE FAMILY $IRECTOR 0AUL @,UCKY .UMBER 3LEVIN -C'UIGAN S lNGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER IT WITH HIS TRADEMARK JUMP CUTS BLENDING SEAMLESSLY WITH A BLEND OF HANDHELD AND TRADITIONAL CAMERAS VIRBRANTLY BRINGING THE SET !DAM 3CALES TING OF (ONG +ONG TO LIFE 4HE CAST ARE COMPETENT PRECO CIOUS CHILD $AKOTA &ANNING GREW UP AND SO IS NOW ALLOWED TO PLAY A PRE
COCIOUS TEEN $JIMON (OUNSOU GETS TO PLAY HIS CHARACTER IN #ONSTANTINE AGAIN AND PRETTY YOUNG THINGS #HRIS %VANS AND #AMILLA "ELLE PULL OFF PRETTY AND YOUTHFUL BUT THE FORMER APPEARS TO HAVE STOLEN ALL THE LATTER S CHARISMA 4HE ACTION SEQUENCES ARE MEDIO CRE UNTIL THE lNAL ACT WHICH IS SEEM INGLY WHERE ALL THE MONEY WENT BUT IS WELL WORTH THE WAIT 3CRATCH AT THE SURFACE AND ALL MANNER OF HOLES AP PEAR BUT THAT S REALLY MISSING THE POINT $UNCAN 6ICAT "ROWN
Dir: Harold Zwart Release Date: 13/2/09 4HIS WEEK S POINTLESS REMAKE STARS FUNNY MAN 3TEVEN -ARTIN REPRISING HIS ROLE AS THE BUMBLING INSPECTOR #LOUSEAU (E S AIDED IN HIS QUEST TO STOP A WORLD FAMOUS THIEF OF HISTORICAL ARTEFACTS BY AN ESTEEMED BUNCH OF ACTORS WHO BETWEEN THEM BOAST CREDITS OF ,EON THE 'ODFATHER AND 2AIDERS OF THE ,OST !RK TO NAME BUT A FEW -ARTIN HIMSELF IS UNFORTUNATELY IN TER RITORY THAT HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH THE RISIBLE .OVOCAINE AND LOATHSOME #HEAPER BY THE $OZEN THAN HIS EXCELLENT EARLIER WORK SUCH AS THE SIDE SPLITTING 4HE -AN WITH 4WO "RAINS AND UPROARIOUS 4HREE !MIGOS 4HE JOKES THAT DIDN T WORK THE lRST TIME ROUND ARE LARGELY RECYCLED AND IT S NO QUANTUM LEAP OF DISCOVERY TO LEARN THAT THEY AREN T FUNNIER WHEN REPEATED 4HE UPSIDE TO THE lLM IS THE WELL ANIMATED OPENING CRED ITS AND THE lRST FEW SCENES ARE REASONABLE ENOUGH 0INK 0ANTHER 4WO DESPITE LARGELY FAIL ING IN ITS PURSUIT OF ANY COMEDIC VALUE IS HARMLESS ENOUGH AS LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT 4HE REAL ANNOYANCE RATHER THAN THE IN EPT RIBALDRY IS THAT SO MANY ACTORS OF REAL QUALITY WERE WASTING THEIR TIME IN THIS PIC TURE WHICH WILL PLAINLY MAKE A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY OFF THE BACK OF THE 0ANTHER FRAN CHISE )NDEED ON A WIDER LEVEL IT MUST BE ASKED QUITE WHAT IS THE POINT OF A lLM THAT ATTEMPTS TO REHASH AN ORIGINAL THAT STARRED ONE OF THE lNEST COMEDIC ACTORS EVER AND WASN T EXACTLY A BAD lLM IN ITSELF 3TILL WHEN FACED WITH THE LITMUS TEST OF lNAN CIAL SUCCESS CINEMATIC CREDIBILITY MUST OF TEN BE EXPECTED TO TAKE A SEAT lRMLY AT THE BACK OF THE BUS AS IT DOES HERE 'EORGE 'ILBERT
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Get Smart
Dir: Matteo Garrone Release date: 9/2/09
'OMORRAH IS AN )TALIAN lLM BASED ON 2OBERTO 3AVIANO S EXPOSÏ OF THE .EAPOLITA MAlA KNOWN AS THE #AMORRA 4HE lLM IS SHOT IN DOCUMENTARY STYLE USING HAND HELD CAMERAS THAT GIVE THE AUDIENCE AN UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE LOOK AT THIS BLEAK WORLD PERVADED BY CONCRETE TOWER BLOCKS AND GANG STERS 4HIS IS CERTAINLY A lLM THAT IS TO BE AD MIRED RATHER THAN ENJOYED 4HERE ARE lVE SEPARATE STORIES WHICH AL THOUGH LINKED NEVER COME TOGETHER IN THE CON VENTIONAL FASHION (OWEVER THIS IS NOT NECES SARILY A BAD THING AS IT ALLOWS DIRECTOR -ATTEO
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Dir: Peter Segal Release date: 23/2/09
'ARRONE TO DELIVER THE FULL PICTURE WE SEE HOW THE #AMORRA MAKE MONEY FROM THE ILLEGAL DIS POSAL TOXIC WASTE AND ALSO HOW YOUNG MEN AND BOYS ARE ATTRACTED TO THIS WORLD OF CRIME 'ARRONE DOES NOT JUDGE THE WIDE RANGE OF CHARACTERS WE ENCOUNTER IN THIS lLM MANY OF WHOM IT IS LIKELY HAVE REAL LIFE COUNTERPARTS AND THIS IN PART IS WHAT MAKES 'OMORRAH A CLASS APART FROM OTHER GANGSTER lLMS #HRIS "ENTLEY 3MITH
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4HE PLOT RELYING ON THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE SURROUNDINGS FOR COMEDIC EFFECT MANAGES TO ES TABLISH #ARELL WELL WITHIN HIS NICHE (ATHAWAY HOWEVER DEVIATES FROM HER USUAL INNOCENCE AND DEMONSTRATES SHE IS JUST AS COMPELLING AS A COMMITTED SURGERY ENHANCED SECRET SERVICE AGENT n QUITE A TOUGH FEAT !CCEPT THIS lLM FOR THE PURE COMEDY IT INTENDS AND YOU LL THOR OUGHLY ENJOY EVERY SECOND 2ACHEL (AZZARD
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The Hand-held Camera
4HE INCREASING USE OF THE HAND HELD CAMERA IN (OLLYWOOD CINEMA THROUGH lLMIC REmEXIVITY SUGGESTS THAT lLM IS BECOMING MORE OF A VOYEURISTIC MEDIUM THAN EVER BEFORE !DAM 3CALES EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF THE ADDITION OF THIS lLMING TECHNIQUE AND ITS IMPACT ON CINEMATIC GENRES
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HE HAND HELD CAMERA IS NO LONGER MERELY A TECHNIQUE BUT A GENRE OF ITS OWN 4HIS @GENRE CREATES AN UNSTABLE FEEL IN WHICH THE SUBJECT DEPICTED ON SCREEN BECOMES MORE THAN A SUB JECT BUT AN OBJECT OF INTIMACY AND FAMILIARITY 4HE "LAIR 7ITCH 0ROJECT FOR EXAMPLE FOLLOWS THREE YOUNG lLMMAKERS WHOSE INTEREST IN DISCOV ERING THE "LAIR 7ITCH ISN T CONVEYED THROUGH THEIR CURIOSITY OR THE FRIGHT THEY ENDURE BUT THROUGH THE DOCU MENTARY STYLE lLMING THAT IMMEDI ATELY CONNECTS THE CHARACTERS IN THE lLM WITH THE VIEWER THEMSELVES SO WE ALMOST BECOME A SUBJECT OF THE lLM S DEPLOYMENT )N THIS RESPECT THE VIEWER UNCONSCIOUSLY VOYEURS IN ON THESE CHARACTERS NOT ONLY VIEW ING FEMALE CHARACTER (EATHER $ONA HUE AS AN OBJECT OF SEXUAL DESIRE BUT EROTICISING ALL THREE CHARACTERS SO THAT THEY BECOME VICTIMS OF THE VIEWER S GAZE SOMETHING THAT ARGUABLY LEADS TO THEIR TRAGIC DOWNFALL 4HIS LINE OF ANALYSIS TRANSLATES INTO THE RECENT 2%# WHICH EXPLOITS BEAUTIFUL 3PANISH NGELA 6IDAL -ANUELA 6ELASCO AS SHE DOCU MENTS THE HORRIlC EVENTS IN A LOCAL APARTMENT BUILDING 2ATHER IRONI CALLY THE FACT 6IDAL WAS INITIALLY INTEGRATED WITH A GROUP OF SEXUALLY ACTIVE lREMEN SUGGESTS THAT WE AF lLIATE WITH THEIR EROTIC DESIRE PRO JECTING THIS FEMALE PROTAGONIST FROM OUR SEXUAL DESIRE 3OMETHING WHICH LEADS TO HER EVENTUAL DEMISE )T CAN BE SAID THEREFORE THAT THE HORROR GENRE IN PARTICULAR NO LONGER USES THE ANTAGONIST THE @PSYCHOPATH
“Hand-held camera provides the viewer with a degree of personal and emo- tional involvement” IN THE MASK TO DISINTEGRATE THESE HELPLESS VICTIMS BUT THE EVER GROW ING HAND HELD CAMERA PROVIDES THE VIEWER WITH A DEGREE OF PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT SO THAT OUR
EXISTENCE IN THE lLM IS SOMETHING THAT CREATES THE OUTCOME AND NOT THE OBSTACLES WITHIN THE lLM ITSELF )T WOULD BE WRONG HOWEVER TO LIMIT THE HAND HELD CAMERA TO SUCH USAGES 4HE TECHNIQUE PARALLELING THE SUBJECTIVE lRST PERSON IN LITERATURE HAS THE ABILITY TO TRANSlX THE VIEWER INTO THE POSITION OF hBEING THEREv ALMOST CELEBRATING THE FACT THAT THE CAMERA CAN SEE AND CAPTURE REALITY MORE ACCURATELY THAN THE HUMAN EYE ITSELF 4HIS IS WHERE THE HAND HELD CAMERA DIFFERS FROM @DOCUMENTARY lLM OR TELEVISION PROGRAMMES 3UCCESSFUL DOCUMENTARY lLMS
“The technique... has the ability to transfix the viewer into the position of ‘being there’” SUCH AS 'IMMIE 3HELTER WHICH FOL LOWS 4HE 2OLLING 3TONES USES ITS STYLE AS A WAY OF MAKING THE VIEWER FEEL AS IF WE KNOW 4HE 2OLLING 3TONES TO IN TRUDE ON THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES AND TO
DOCUMENT THEIR EVERY MOVE &EMALES AROUND THE WORLD WILL VIEW 'IMMIE 3HELTER TO GRATIFY THEIR DESIRE AND TO FULlL THEIR PERSONAL YEARNING TO @ZOOM IN ON THE LIVES OF THE 4HE 2OLL ING 3TONES PART OF THE CELEBRITY CUL TURE THEY FEEL THEY KNOW 4HE AIM OF THE HAND HELD CAMERA ON THE OTHER HAND IS NOT TO PASSIVELY @ZOOM IN ON THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE PORTRAYED ON SCREEN BUT TO ACTIVELY BECOME THEM SO THAT WE lND OURSELVES WITHIN THE WORLD ON SCREEN PERMITTING US AS ) HAVE ALREADY SAID WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE THE OUTCOME OF THE lLM )T IS IN THIS WAY THAT TEXTS SUCH AS #LOVERlELD HAS SPAWNED FROM (OL LYWOOD TO AN EXTENT HAS EXPLOITED THE @DISASTER MOVIE FROM EVERY ANGLE INCLUDING 'ODZILLA AND *URASSIC 0ARK JUST TO NAME A FEW 4HE ANGLE NOW ISN T FROM THE @DISASTER THAT THREAT ENS HUMANITY BUT FROM THE HAND HELD CAMERA THAT ALLOWS US TO VOYEUR IN ON THESE CREATURES THAT THREATENS OUR EXISTENCE SO WE CAN HAVE AN AC TIVE PART IN ELIMINATING THEM #LOVERlELD TO AN EXTENT GOES BE YOND A COMMENTARY ON THE GENRE ITSELF BUT INTO A COMMENTARY ON RECENT POLITICAL @DISASTERS THAT HAVE THREATENED !MERICA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE 3EPTEMBER TH TO NAME JUST ONE )T IS THEREFORE POSSIBLE TO SEE HOW THE HAND HELD CAMERA INVITES THE VIEWER INTO THE WORLD ON SCREEN SO WE LITERALLY WITNESS THE EVENTS UN FOLD ALLOWING US TO PLAY AN ACTIVE PART IN THE (OLLYWOOD lLM SOME THING THAT WILL CONTINUE LONG INTO THE FUTURE
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• Rise Against. LCR. 7.30pm. Sold Out • Jonatha Brooke. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £10 NUS • The Changeling. UEA Drama Studion. 7.30pm. £3.50 NUS • Sports Night. Blue Bar. 8pm. Free • Shazia Mirza. Norwich Arts Centre. 8.30pm. £8 NUS • West African Drumming Workshops. Avenue Junior School. • Sports Night. Blue Bar. 8pm. Free 6.45pm. £5
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• An Audience with Jimmy Greaves. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £16.50 NUS • The History Of Your Own Family. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £4 • When I Grow Up. LCR. 10pm. £3.50 adv
• Flhip Flhop: Everything Happens on the Break. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £8 NUS • Josie Long. Norwich Arts Centre. 8.30pm. £8 NUS • Night at the Movies. LCR. 10pm. £3.50 adv
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• Film: Burn After Reading. LT1. 7.30pm. £2.75 • Eduardo Niebla Experience Trio. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £10 NUS • Ceri Dupree in Gown and Out. The Playhouse. 8pm. £12.50 • Games Night: Mariokart. Blue Bar. 8.30pm. Free
• Steve Jones. LT1. 7pm. £6 • The Changeling. UEA Drama Studion. 7.30pm. £3.50 NUS • Noah And The Whale. LCR. 7.30pm. £12 • Mark Watson. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • Martin Harley Band. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £8 NUS
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• Music At One - Mai Piano Trio. The Assembly House. 1pm. £4 • An Evening with Donald Sinden. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £17.50 • Pete Molinari. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £9 • Non-Stop 90s + Shine. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS
6th • The Changeling. UEA Drama Studion. 7.30pm. £3.50 NUS • Mark Watson. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • Pure Reason Revolution. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £7 • Pam’s House. LCR. 9pm. £7.95 NUS • 80s Night + Hit Parade. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS
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28th • Twelfth Night presented by Black Ram Theatre Company. Norwich Puppet Theatre. 7.30pm. £8 NUS • The Blow Monkeys supported by Joanna Eden. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £12 • Meltdown + Wraith. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS
• Mark Watson. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • Meltdown + Punk’d Up. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS • The A List w/ Harmony. LCR. 10pm. £4.50 adv
1st • 36 Crazyfists. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. £13.50
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• The Quiz. Blue Bar. 7.30pm. Free
9th • The Fashion Xchange. LCR. 12pm. £3 adv • Mark Watson. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • Barry Castagnola. The Hive. 8pm. £4.50 • Howling Bells. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £8
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