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PHOTO OF THE FORTNIGHT Not only do we have the stunning photo of Johnny

THE ONE WITH...

Marr on stage with The Cribs during their absolutely spectacular set in the LCR, our photo of

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the fortnight is a gorgeous photo of the Concrete

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF>HANNAH LIVINGSTON THE EVENT EDITOR>GRACE SIMPSON FASHION EDITORS>KAT JONES & DESIREE WARIARO

...THE INTERVIEWS

editorial celebrating the beauty that was our first issue of the term. Here’s to the second issue, and there is plenty to get excited about.........

Until next time, Grace

FASHION WRITERS>KAT JONES, DESIREE WARIARO

ARTS EDITORS>FIONA HOWARD & KIRSTEN PETER ARTS WRITERS>DAVID BIGGINS, MATTHEW HUTCHINGS, BRIGID MARRIOTT

CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR>STEPHANIE CROSS CREATIVE WRITERS>SYLVIA ABRAHAM, CATH CARPENTER, RACHEL COXON, ROBERT VAN

EGGHEN, DENISE WINDELL

CANVAS EDITOR>DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN TELEVISION EDITOR>JOSH BUTLER TELEVISION WRITERS>SARA BARNARD, BEA BRADSELL, MICHA BUTLER, JOSH BUTLER, GEMMA

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EVENT...

HENZLEY, SARAH MORGAN, ROBERT VAN EGGHEN, CAROLINE WALKER

WIRED EDITOR>WILLIAM MORAN WIRED WRITERS>WILLIAM MORAN, STEFAN ROSE

MUSIC EDITORS>PAUL COOK & STEPH MCKENNA MUSIC WRITERS>MICHAEL BLUNT, PAUL COOK, PERDITA FEARON, JAMES GORMAN, JAMES HALLING, SHAUN KITCHENER, CONOR MAGUIRE, TOM MCINNES, STEPH MCKENNA, ALEX THROSSELL, DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN

FILM EDITORS>ELIZABETH POOLE & ADAM SCALES FILM WRITERS>MICHA BUTLER, RACHEL COXEN, WILL CROSS, NAOMI FRASER, JAMES MARLOW, JAKE MILLER, LUKE NASH, ELIZABETH POOLE, DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN, PAUL WARDLOW

VENUE EDITOR>HELEN THOMAS VENUE WRITER>JOSH HARRIS

COMPETITIONS EDITOR>WILL DONOVAN

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THIS ISSUE, FASHION EDITORS DESIREE WARIARO AND KAT JONES THE STORY BEHIND TWO DESIGNERS WHO CONTINUE TO INSPIRE THEM REGARDLESS OF CURRENT TRENDS.

Kat on Stella McCartney Desiree on Coco Chanel

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ART>REVIEW> SUBVERSIVE SPACES/THE EAST ANGLIANS AT THE SAINSBURY CENTRE City The East Anglians Railings Psychic Interiors The East Anglians Die Familie Schneider

The East Anglians Contemporary Art

Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and

My Friend Eric

and Contemporary Art

The East Anglians Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art,

Subversive Spaces: Surrealism The East Anglians

Subversive Wandering the City,

The East Anglians The East Anglians

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LITERATURE>REVIEW>THE LOST SYMBOL BY DAN BROWN The Lost Symbol The Da Vinci Code

Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons

The Da Vinci Code

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POETRY>NAME TO DROP>CAROL ANN DUFFY Virginia Woolf; Ezra Pound; Robert Frost – Just a few of the many names we associate with some of the greatest poetry of

love. contemporary style and universal popularity has lead to her

or other during our lives, even if it was only to get us through serves as the face of modern poetry, throwing aside the almost

whilst being interviewed on Woman’s Hour known for her poetry, although you may also know her as a Standing Female Nude

, Award, with her use of the vernacular becoming at this point Mean Time was published Havisham and Before You Were Mine the limelight, winning her the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize.

include The World’s Wife Raptures

Feminine Gospels

COMEDY>UEA graduate and funny man When I was a child I always wanted to make people laugh, and wondered how this strange phenomenon called humor was constructed. Unfortunately, I was a rather stupid child, and my understanding of the world was so limited that I when I grew up I wanted to be a Tuna Sandwich. at school. These were received about as well as a punch in the temple.

at my local pub and constantly give myself gigs. I met a lot of other local and student amateur comedians,

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The Silent Clown See the Clown

Cistercian Pallor

THE CIRCUS

Now it hasn’t worked like I planned

Who will smile

Sylvia Abraham

Send in the Clowns The Circus of Horror

Robert Van Egghen

Alone in a memory

Cath Carpenter

Lost in my Thoughts

Anon

Next issue’s theme is

THE ENVIRONMENT Denise Windell

Rachel Coxon

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BREAKING DOWN THE WALL OF SOUND: A HISTORY OF SHOEGAZE

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THE ESSENTIALS

beyond. So good that Kevin Shields never even tried to beat it.

Key Tracks: Loomer, Soon

Generally considered to be the second best Shoegaze album. Steve Lamacq called them

Radleys and Charterhouse took the genre in a guitar music? Can’t stand Kings of Leon? Over Oasis? Fed up of Feeder? Then Shoegaze

example, Broken Social Scene use it to enhance

the genre for you. Blending layers of heavily

than House of Love.

Key Tracks: Seagull, Dreams Burn Down

the NME in the early 90s because of the band’s A more accessible Shoegaze album, but also among the best.

Combines the distorted, thing you’ve ever heard, or feel like the sound labelling the genre ‘The Scene that Celebrates

recall The Smiths. A great place to start.

Key Tracks: Falling Down, Pearl

The so called ‘daddies’ of the scene visionary front man, Kevin Shields (They’re going to be appear a lot, so let’s just call them

he’s on to something very, very good...

Britpop and angsty Grunge, driving many Shoegaze bands to try their hand at a more

Wake Up Boo! You Made Me Realise Isn’t Anything

TRIVIA TIME * The vocal track on Loveless almost sounds as if vocalist Kevin Shields is asleep. This may be

this is the only Boo album you need.

hours sleep throughout the recording process * Robert Smith of The Cure is a big fan: “[My

Kaleidoscope

Uncut called it ‘one of beyond any doubt that Isn’t Anything All I Need genuinely sounds like you’re hearing it from space. Shields and second guitar player Bilinda Butcher created

the rise, then decline, then rise again of The pushed Nick McCabe’s sublime guitars into the background. As for MBV? Shields scrapped all Loveless and they faded into obscurity.

distorted rhythm guitars simultaneously (a

Salisbury trashed a hotel room, but the next day

Key Tracks: Gravity Grave, She’s a Superstar

* Nick McCabe on third album Urban Hymns:

Loveless, had a legendarily instrumental loveliness from the noisy Scots.

Key Tracks: Mogwai Fear Satan, Like Herod

listen to the thing.

quite scaled the giddy heights of MBV, early examples such as Ride, Moose and Yo La Tengo

Of course, our current magpie musical

return as the lovechild of MBV, The Stooges Key Tracks: Mirror’s Image, Sea Within a Sea

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DISSERTATION DISTRACTIONS! The Event

MERLIN

themselves perplexed at why they like such

“Merlin, are you deaf?”

“I wish.”

and maidservant Guinevere – enough said.

With those words, BBC’s hit magical drama Merlin returned, sparking humour, adventure and suspense into our dull, magicless lives.

there is a simple joy running throughout the forty-something minutes that is extremely and chivalry; of magic and innocence that

true fans sat down to watch, eager to see the developments for the second season.

There are old favourites merging in with new talent such as Richard Wilson who plays Merlin’s advisor and has some hilarious lines.

if they don’t share the tension of whether

Merlin graces the screens of BBC1, 6.15pm, Saturday.

Sophie Morgan

evolves from prince/servant, to friends, and

COME DINE WITH ME

Having said this, Come Dine With Me

Come Dine With Me for students, the unemployed and general layand of course, yes, the contestants are stark is missing.

makes for some hilarious viewing. If anyone missed the recent episode with Eastenders’ Big Mo, then check it out on 4od. We promise you

However, original fans may have a few issues with the new super-compact hour-long

The omnipresent Come Dine With Me has an

simply hilarious commentary (surely Come Dine With Me wouldn’t have survived this

Gemma Henzley

HOLE IN THE WALL For those unfamiliar with the show, Hole In The Wall

way a man’s package looks in that silver skin even more than how the thinnest women look lumpy in all the wrong places in the suits that Bowie would think looked odd.

As outragous as the constumes are, the

Strictly Come Dancing, this show is a lot of fun to switch on to if you’re staying in on a Saturday night, and the nature of the shows allows you to do more than one thing while it’s on without missing out on any of its a Saturday night, it’s worth tuning in. Seriously,

shape of a hole in a moving wall in order to avoid said wall knocking them into a swimming pool.

Strictly fans, not

Micha Butler

should know, it’s much more than the ridiculous

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

is one of the largest threats to these animals and conveniences gives a light-hearted feel to the

The Last Chance To See we are also given a great view of not just the as a way of introducing us to the animals our If you want to catch your own last chance to see years on, Stephen Fry is honouring his friend programme is the new angle given on the threat seeing if his message had succeeded in making

sight, and the most surprising threat is that of

Bea Bradsell

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PRIMETIME - DERREN BROWN There are bound to be some people that for highly entertaining and controversial shows; with given us , Séance, , The System, amongst many others and most memorably in The Heist persuaded members of the public to unknowingly perpetrate a bank

some of the intensity and mystery of his earlier work, and yet despite this they are immensely

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crashed car, and then following him out into

to any successful TV show are established: the alumni Jack Davenport, what makes FlashForworth watching? to how he might have genuinely predicted the

tortured recovering alcoholic and an endearing Lost Lost

the machine, but of course that being illegal he but actually the plot is what really sets Flash-

with but then he never says that they would be

was Friends) there is something undeniably ap pealing about a show which promises to tread

to have respect for all but the stupidest and every chance you’ll come away feeling like you’ve been tricked, but that’s probably just

and almost guaranteeing itself its fact, it almost manages to live up to the hype – no small feat considering how much hype there was, and that The Guardian is running a weekly tled

is perfect and there is certainly a long way to

, thrusts its viewers

knows! But it is what it is, an entertainment Caroline Walker

Sara Barnard

X-FACTOR VS STRICTLY COME DANCING: AN AGE/OLD QUESTION With both X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing currently clogging up the weekend airwaves, those not addicted to one or both of these shows might be inclined to wonder what it is

gave the show a drama boost (thereby proving that Britain has, if not talent, then at least a

Strictly Come Dancing

apparently blurred but other divisions remain the merciless judging panels? The tugs on the And that is perhaps where the issue of odds while Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars whines in the background? Or is it the fact that Cheryl

fan could pretend that either show does much

to life?

Whatever the reason, both shows generate

trashy and yet wildly popular because arguably The upgrading of female judges to younger

X-Factor

GRAPEVINE

Robert Van Egghen

leaving on

’ it seems Johnson’s Buzzcocks

by featuring Oddly The Cube will be returning to challenge chavs

Jon & Kate Plus 8

Well who the hell remembers? To consider

for those precious seconds is to lose all faith in

returned to a resounding

and desist order to prevent TLC rebranding it as Speaking of reality show couples with more children than

bedroom and Living has renewed the Come Wed saying

is too drunk?’

Josh Butler

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talks summer soundtracks with Australia’s The Temper Trap and

THE TEMPER TRAP Concrete caught up with Australian hot-topic band ‘The Temper Trap’ before their sell out show at Norwich Arts Centre and discussed the

ATHLETE

we get back into the studio. We’ve got a few ideas of where we want the new material to go but it will be a while before we start working on that.

Unfortunately the upcoming tour doesn’t have

embark upon.

We sat down with headliners ‘Athlete’ to talk about the band’s new album ‘Black Swan’ and your response to that?

I just think the fact it has had so much air play like being used in ‘500 Days of Summer’, on an ad on Channel 4 and on the soccer highlights show has contributed to people actually being able to hear the song. It’s hard for me to say it’s the “sound of summer” but I guess that’s home in Australia. It came out and didn’t really

Well we’re excited to go to Norwich as we’ve never played there before. We had to cancel a show in Norwich before unfortunately so we’re interested to see what the crowd there is like.

We’re hoping the places we haven’t been to before will surprise us the most. We’re also really looking forward to playing London as it had to be upgraded to a bigger venue which is cool. It’s now at ‘Heaven’ which is a gay bar

actually. We’re really good friends with his bass player Stephen Fretwell too as he’s come on producer as him on ‘Black Swan’ actually, Tom

excited to play all of them - to sell out a tour in Yeah it’s going to be ‘Fader’. I’m not sure when it’s going to come out, probably in November or something. It was more of a record label decision than ours but they think that would be to support you?

No we haven’t met them yet actually but we wanted to tour with them here in the UK but we were both busy. We’re really looking forward to Yeah, we’ve been asked that a lot recently actually. We’ve all been playing around in our

We recorded some of it in L.A. at ‘Sunset Sound’ which is one of those famous place where use the same studio room that Led Zeppelin used which was cool but we recorded the rest Well we worked with a producer on this one

really ever seen or met them so it will be a new experience for us both.

songs on this album we tried to come up with Yeah we haven’t enjoyed much of the local to be played on the piano or on the guitar.

and Glastonbury. There’s something really nice about it not trying to compete with something

this weekend?

Yeah we want to catch Badly Drawn Boy later

kind of reminds us of this weird road trip we did across America as we listened to it a lot whilst driving through the desert.

Thom Yorke has announced that he is

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shows booked in October at L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre.

Motorhead’s Lemmy.

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THE CRIBS>UEA LCR >THURSDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER A new tour, a new album, a new member and what appears to be the beginning of a new era for The Cribs. This series of changes probably means that nothing will ever be the same for The Cribs again. tour to promote the band’s latest long-player Ignore the Ignorant perhaps symbolised this

The Cribs have seemingly made a perhaps of “the biggest cult band in Britain” towards a But this could perhaps be to their detriment.

spent years establishing.

The recruitment of a fourth member,

surrounded their accessibility and below the their cult status and move above and beyond

famous shows of old (stage diving, lip bleeding, guitar smashing) and a U2-esque arena tour (video screens and power stances).

The gig as a whole was competent, the but there was nothing inspiring, nothing that

Johnny Marr has given them a musical depth and quality that is clear on both LP and live. merged into old with ease. Opener We Were Aborted Hey Scenesters and closers Be Safe and City of Bugs were stunning.

which drew so many towards them originally.

This factor was unfortunately apparent at disappointed and new fans uninspired, a fatal James Halling

ZERO 7>UEA LCR>WEDNESDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER tempo chill-out sound than for fast-paced as the band themselves. A couple of the Yeah Ghost is was a consistently strong gig powered by band last bothered the mainstream album or singles charts, so depending on your viewpoint The Road

Yeah Ghost probably won’t be causing too the new material is currently being showcased

considerably busy; most of the crowd eager to hear some of the chilled-out classics for which

Line highlights of the night.

The newer, livelier material went down a

Shaun Kitchener

HOCKEY>ARTS CENTRE>MONDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER that they really fail to connect is when they Four Holy Photos.

Centre.

The venue is certainly brimming with

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Mind Chaos, Comparisons proceedings with what is possibly the worst Work.

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a bit.

Too Fake, a clearly won over crowd bays for more and the band Mind Chaos Everyone’s The Same Age and a blistering Put The Game Down. Grubin

the Stones. Curse This City and Wanna Be Black singles within the next three songs. Both Learn To Lose and Song Away hint at the band that The Killers might have become if they hadn’t

showcasing Ben Grubin’s vocal talents to the

are heading.

Michael Blunt

up on the stage.

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MAIN FEATURE SURROGATES

The backdrop of Jonathan Mostows’ new Surrogates shows a new,

“In classic sci-fi style, the film has a definite ‘us’ and ‘them’ divide”

Blade Runner and I Robot

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Rachel Coxon

TRIVIA TIME 500 Days of Summer

Just Another Love Story.

Knockout

Monogatari

Taketori The Tale of the Bamboo

The Ghost Micha Butler

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OTHER SCREENS Based on the true story of Nathanial Ayers, The Soloist of a book chronicling the descent of

Does the world really need another Fame? That’s the

Fame This was later turned into a TV Unfortunately, there is a sense

Naomi Fraser brilliant but troubled Ayers) and journalist and unlikely friend to Ayers) are nothing short of astounding –

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to dance, sing, act and look good

The

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and his self confessed ability to ‘take

this world not only told the truth but

The bicentennial year of Charles Darwin’s birth is undoubtedly a

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CINEMATIC CLASSICS>VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

“The film’s main influence is not on the realm of cinema, but on literature”

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Laugh Out Loud was founded around three dedicated support of the audience. Now that experience is about to be shown in a whole Josh Harris

feature sets from Ben Briggs and Joz Norris, it is now set to take its place as one of the

nights and want to come and support

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