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This issue focuses on the rural side of fashion. Thinking about Tweed, Texture and Traditions.

DEATH BY

FASHION A

FIRE IS FLICKERING IN THE

BILLIARD

ROOM. SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN STAYING IN THIS

MANNER HOUSE

SIX REMAIN.

THERE

BUT NOW ONLY

HAS BEEN A MURDER

AND THE VERY WELL-DRESSED GUESTS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER TO FIND OUT WHO TOOK THE LIFE OF MR BLACK. EACH PERSON HAS A MOTIVE, A SECRET AND AN EYE FOR STYLE BUT ONLY ONE COMMITTED THE CRIME.

CLUEDO GETS A NEW LOOK BUT CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY?

Greg Mann

THANKS TO TOM GOLDSMITH, KAT JONES, PETER WOOLMAN, ROBERT VAN EGGHEN, NATASHA GOLLEY AND STEPH BAYSTON FOR ACTING OUT THE CLUEDO SCENE AND TO GREG MANN FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY.

COUNTRY HOUSE

Country and fashion are not usually two words seen together, with couture rarely leaving its metropolitan home.

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CHARACTER STATEMENTS COLONEL MUSTARD

Each character gives their statement on both the fashion and the crime. They may all have well fashioned alibis but which one has commited the crime? The shoot shows how identity and personality can be brought out in the clothes we wear; the traditonal and contemporary styles we display ourselves in affect how others perceive us.

REVEREND GREEN

MISS SCARLET

Sat in an air of elegant pomposity I am aloof from those around me. My

I stand here in my sleek, red dress trying to

and my profession; the of work wear. These, however, are smarter with the low hips and woven thread, I won’t be running

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godliness,

then

being

Mustard; I am a vixen of danger. My leopard

too far behind. That’s why

animal in me: it is wild, maybe savage.

my best to look my best. gives me a homely air with a dapper edge while the

the façade of an everloving woman and the shine of the material

spending many days with the troop, dabbling in the

of the ensemble.

my new found pleasures, along with a good whisky and habits may not die so hard.

Tom Goldsmith

MISS WHITE

Kat Jones

PROFESSOR PLUM

Robert van Egghen

MRS PEACOCK

So I know the test for seeing if oxygen is present, and I have a great

As I pour the tea for the guests of the house, the

this brutal murder, blue is

my nature of kindness doesn’t mean my fashion as a breed, may be hidden away in labs but at this

brightness and warmth

am wearing as it shows

towards a more frivolous side. The deep, sea blue worn everyday, like I do, with a simple white top

spills from experiments, be it ash from a Bunsen

top is great for everyday wear, whether worn with trousers or worn underneath a dress.

together. By rolling up the sleeves of the shirt the look is detail is everything.

Natasha Golley

the murder.

Kat Jones

Stephanie Bayston

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COMEDY>PREVIEW>THE COMEDY STORE Norwich provides laughs for Natalie Stephenson

to its Leicester Square home. Previous comedians to perform here include French and Saunders, Ben Elton, Rik Myall, and Paul

DANCE>PREVIEW>RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY Lucy Basing dances her way to the theatre If you’ve kept up with the last few issues of The Event, you’ve probably seen, nestled in the corner of the Arts page, an advert featuring a pair of dancers. A woman is perched, seemingly weightless, on a man’s thigh. The pair lean away from one another, in a perfect counterbalance, and though they make it

POETRY>REVIEW>THE DEAD END ROAD David Biggins follows the dead end road Dead End Road poetry that basks in the humdrum and the mundane. For Wink, washing machine spins. He tends to describe life at its most simple and uninspiring. However, there is always a clear sense of

Comedy Store Players). forms of the two dancers. This is the Rambert Dance Company, and their new show is about to reach Norwich’s Theatre Royal. stars such as Bill Hicks, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Saget, Jay Leno, and Richard Pryor.

As well as staging shows most nights in the club, the English version tours across the country, stopping at our very own Norwich Trevor Crook, Josh Howie, Adam Bloom, Wayne Deakin, Pierre Hollins and Rob Rouse.

In the past, acts like Michael McIntyre, Russell Howard and Alan Carr have graced the Forum stage for the Comedy Store, many of whom have become regulars on television programmes such as Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo. Comedy is at the pinnacle of its popularity at the moment and these fresh new talents will entertain with their acts that are

trip to Tesco Metro in one of your poems can never be a good idea). Further warning signs creep in when our poet claims that

on the page. comfortable and familiar. The wandering train of thought in the poem An Honest Mistake captures both the amusingly random Founded in 1926 and originally named Ballet Rambert, the

a bit like a vampire’s bite), and also how memory springs from

One of the highlights of the Comedy Store’s latest visit is Trevor way. In a poem that assumes the voice of a paparazzi, Wink’s use that a Rambert Dance Company show is never predictable. a career in the media, but will no doubt have of Rabbi school for being caught naked with a girl. And no, she wasn’t Jewish. Ending the night will be slightly nerdy looking Adam Bloom, racing through his repetoire of killer punchlines.

Doors open at 8pm both nights and are for 18 year olds or over. Tickets can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box

always packed with incredible choreography.

Rambert Dance Company’s current tour, Comedy Of Change,

, he blends the words ‘nowt’ and

hallmark. The tour honours the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species

hardly captures the working class voice.

Similarly unconvincing poems appear about models and Addicts

show talk at every venue about the science behind the show.

company.

LITERATURE>REVIEW>UEA CREATIVE WRITING ANTHOLOGY>PROSE be applied as the plays play with the idea of is that it appeals to a wide set of tastes. From young women trying to make a way for themselves in the world to naked men turning up uninvited on beds, the Anthology keeps you turning the

Lovestruck really stood out because it took such an ordinary sequence of events and turned it into an entertaining and Moving On

Lastly the

should not go

successful.

In conclusion, this book is well worth place on a train involving a crossword in a clever Anthology, by his cunning use of brackets, which really gets the reader thinking about The Real Me. Anthology. Here the phrase ‘like chalk and cheese’ can certainly

volume has been closed.

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LITERATURE>INTERVIEW>LUKE WRIGHT Kirsten Peter talks to one of poetry’s rising stars how poetry should be presented on television, telling the real stories of love and loss of ascending age groups.

could pick it up read it aloud and get how

poet being a page poet or a performance poet honest, what they did with a lot of directors is give them a camera, tell them to go out and editor to edit a Channel Four documentary, but with the poetry, because it’s all about the live performance, they couldn’t do that with

works live and on the page. There’s a whole it has literary worth on the page. That’s a good line to tread.”

The director didn’t want someone to come Luke will be performing at The Poetry Link at Norwich Arts Centre on 23rd November and again on 12th December at Jurnets Bar as part of Cafe Writers. of when.”

The programme uses the real people the stories are about, weaving together short interviews and Wright’s poetry.

Graduate job websites don’t have much call for poets. Yet with several published works, a TV show and various live shows under his belt, UEA graduate and former Event editor Luke Wright has clearly earned the right to take on the mantle. But how does a humble student begin to harness the power of the pen? Grab some equally talented friends, then start early and under your own steam, it seems. “[We started] about 2000 at UEA, at a comedy night in town, but then the guy stopped running it, and some of the people who were

it scan or make it rhyme or whatever right, it

[when it’s being acted out] you’ve got to get it work.”

Wright’s next published work High Performance is poetry in pamphlet form published by Norwich-based publishing house

our own night at Café Dal on Baker Street in town, we held it there for a bit - it was a really and about we started to call ourselves Aisle kind of the way. You go in to any big poetry basically.”

called Homework in London. Luke wrote his

there, there are thousands of contemporary poets, but how many do you see in a shop?

Very few, so why give 90% of your book’s income to a publisher?

Who Writes This Crap? with fellow Aisle 16

reach your market directly, you don’t have to go through the old channels.”

a regularly updated website of their work and

So how did he make the leap from talented amateur to polished professional?

how does a performance poet publish his work when it is built for the stage?

“There are obviously some poems that

gave myself three years just doing whatever managed to start scraping together a living. haven’t got a huge amount of poems like that

have to go back and do odd jobs again!”

The TV show Seven Ages of Love, which

that it doesn’t work on the page, it just might

lend itself to being read aloud, like someone

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Kieran McMahon Fearchar MacLean Next issue’s theme:

CARNIVAL Robyn Comfort

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INTERVIEWS

, Funeral For A Friend guitarists

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND

Helen Thomas

Why is the new album a ‘greatest hits’?

K: I wouldn’t call it a greatest hits; it’s an anthology, from the last seven and a half years from where we started to where we are now.

K:

hits which we weren’t really interested in. They would have gone ahead and made it without

same sounding record. Go challenge yourself!

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our name.

Does this signify the end of Funeral for a Friend?

D:

gone in, at least they can’t say we’ve tried to [con

The Show: Seeing Funeral for a Friend at the LCR was

less of a challenge and more of a given win, Juneau,

from Casually Dressed and Hours occasionally of your earlier sound.

K: K: that would have everything we’ve ever recorded

what he missed from our music and what he

D:

Bullet Theory, Streetcar and Escape the height of their fame, sang out as more than

D: retained their charisma over the musical changes they’ve gone through. Guitars set to distort

future.

years; where in the mainstream would you

BILLY TALENT You’re playing at the UEA LCR tonight as part of

the show?

Lots of old songs, lots of new songs. It’s gonna

and write good songs. ideas behind them?

The Show: nine years, slugging it out, doing everything for songs at tonight’s show. To some, his comment closets. Also, melodies and harmonies and songs, the way songs sound without any lyrics…

you write a song, every single one of those

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THE JOY FORMIDABLE Tonight’s the last night of the tour with Editors, how has it been and will there be any last night

Music Editor Paul Cook catches up with three-piece indie pop

Ritzy: Yeah please don’t put that our highlight

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Ritzy:

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The Joy Formidable will be playing their last headline show in the UK at Norwich Arts Centre on 11th December.

Rhydian: About ten minutes before we were due

FEATURE>MUSICAL MEGALOMANIACS When the split of Oasis was announced following their last-minute abandonment

Emma Webb discusses debut album Against

failure of Genesis’ next album with Ray Wilson

All Odds all to fall apart spectacularly at the hands of

Warring brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher

the consequences for the remaining members is

studio album band enjoyed whirlwind success with their

Hardly a unique moment for the global music

Many here at UEA are too young to himself as the last original member in what is

his forced exit from the band as he performed

What remains of the ego monsters now

promising and widely successful groups will fall

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