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The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge on Channel 4 and All4 player
interiors, there are some really nice nuggets for
Here, Sandi Toksvig, Willard Wigan and Laura
kind of straddles those two worlds which I think
people who like design as well as miniatures, it
Jackson tell us about the series.
will be really interesting for the viewer.
What was it about the show that made you want
Willard: What was amazing about this
to get involved? Sandi: I mainly agreed to the show because I didn’t think they’d find another presenter the right height. I was destined to do it. I didn’t realise until I was asked about this show how many people are interested in the world of miniatures and it’s the range of people, too,
programme was, it was very difficult to send people home who are so talented. So many emotions came out during filming. It was so much fun, I enjoyed every minute of it, especially with Sandi and Laura, we had a great laugh. It was a great experience. What is it about this show that will capture
there is an enormous number of very young
people’s imaginations?
people. I mentioned it to friends when we were
Sandi: I think it’s the scale that will make people
having dinner and their 18-year-old went ‘oh miniatures are my thing’ and showed me all these houses she’d made. You can become obsessed with it really quickly. Laura: I don’t think there’s been a show like this
not be able to believe it. I mean, when you see a miniature bathtub, a twelfth of the size of an actual bathtub, with running water, when you see a mangle that can actually mangle clothes, it’s breath-taking. Some of the scale was
in terms of the idea. There’s lots of take home,
incredible wasn’t it, Willard?
it’s a great competition. The competitors are so
Willard: Oh yes. There’s a difference between
passionate, it was a wonderful thing to be a part of. It’s kind of that nice mixture of miniatures and
my work and their work, their work is incredible in its own way. I do microscopic, they do
miniature and I was just as fascinated [with their work]. A lot of people love miniature stuff and you’ve got to think about things as being a little bit smaller. My mum was always saying that the smallest things can have the biggest impression on people. Being involved in this programme was an absolute honour and the contestants, all 10 of them, were amazing. This programme is going to show the world what miniaturisation is all about and it’s about time this happened. To see the way they all evolved, they just got better and better. What was filming like? What can we expect from the contestants? Sandi: I think it’s one of the nice things about this show is the way everyone helped each other out. There was such a sense of camaraderie because they all come from this world and don’t usually work in teams.
naturally gifted. It was nice to get away from the microscope. Did it get quite tense and emotional at times when they were working on the tiny designs? Laura: It was quite moving at times during filming because we are on this journey with these incredible contestants. There were some tears throughout the series, it’s a really moving show and that’s what I’m drawn to with TV
Laura: It was very well cast because everyone
shows, ones that have meaning and purpose.
had their area of expertise within miniatures, so
Sandi: I defy anyone not to be fascinated by the
as we got further along in the competition and there were fewer and fewer contestants, there was really high jeopardy because not everybody knew the skills outside of their own specialisms. So they did have to take on things they’d never done before, things like woodwork. It was really quite interesting as we got further along in the competition. Sandi: Another fascinating thing, I went to
makers. The designs are of things from all around the house that have got to be made tiny yet functional and beautiful and how do they do that? One of the makers chose a chess piece, he turned it upside down, cut a bit off it and suddenly there was this magnificent bathroom table. I hadn’t even seen that coming. You cannot help be gripped by this, whether miniature has been your world or not. We also
proper stately homes and looked at what it
laughed a lot. There was a lot of laughter.
should have looked like, whether it was art deco
Do we go on a journey with the contestants?
or Regency or whatever and it was amazing how close they all got to making the look of period, which was very exciting. Willard: Sometimes you can get people who are trained in miniatures and some people are just naturally gifted and all 10 contestants are all
Laura: Yes, absolutely, you really start to get to know each contestant on a personal level and they tell us more about their story, why they got involved with miniatures and what it means to them. It could be as simple as just having this hobby, this passion for their own escapism. We do get to know each and every one of them,
which makes it difficult when we have to lose
representation of Art Deco. It’s about the
one of them every week because we’re invested
miniatures but it also looked really beautiful, they
in all of their stories. The winner is a truly
had to get the aesthetic right, the correct
deserved winner.
interiors for the room they were doing. It’s about
Sandi and Laura, did you have a go at making any miniatures yourselves? Sandi: I didn’t on the show but, actually, in my time off because we were locked down for the whole time we were there, in my time off I made
the miniatures, the design and the interiors of the room they were doing that they had to get right to get through to the next round. Has there been a resurgence in the popularity of miniatures?
a little miniature library, which I thoroughly
Laura: Yes, absolutely, like Sandi said, it’s quite
enjoyed. I was completely bitten by the bug. I’ve
niche but when you do start talking about it,
been making craft things all of my life, that’s my
there are lots of people who are interested in it.
hobby, so it wasn’t really anything new I’d just
There is a whole world of miniatures and miniacs
never sat down and made a whole room before.
who are really setting this trend. There’s lots of
Laura: I have never made miniatures but I love interior design. I’ve never made anything on a really small scale, I was very much led by Willard and Sandi on the miniatures side of things. Do you have a favourite challenge from the show? Sandi: The food. The food was so edible. There’s a blancmange I wanted to take home with me, it really looked delicious.
YouTube videos, lots of cool doll’s house and mini train worlds as well. I think it’s definitely coming into the mainstream. And why do you think people have become so fascinated with miniatures? Sandi: You can have the philosophical discussion about how the world is very complicated and here you can create a whole world and be in charge of it, I suspect there is something in that. And it’s an achievable thing of
Laura: My favourite was the Georgian kitchen for
beauty. When you see the whole house finished
lots of different reasons, but it was quite
at the end, it is staggering and wonderful. The
interesting to see how each team interpreted the
arts are always a way we can escape.
theme. They were all given the same information but it’s interesting how they processed that information and came up with two completely different concepts. I found that extraordinary.
Laura: This is escapism from everything that is going on right now that feels tough and we all feel quite helpless. But by being part of this miniatures world and being fascinated with
Willard: I also enjoyed the Georgian kitchen, I
getting granular with all of the details, you can
enjoyed the detail.
lose an hour and be with us on this journey, and I
The competition doesn’t just test the skill for making miniatures, it’s also about interior design, isn’t it? Laura: The interiors aspect is really important.
think that’s what people are looking for at the moment. How does it feel to see yourself in miniature form walking round the finished rooms, Sandi?
When we did the Art Deco bathroom, Sandi
It’s very weird because when you see it, you sort
went to visit Eltham Palace which is the best
of believe it. I sit down at the table, I give an
apple to a horse at one point, it is the weirdest
could see this on a big scale, I wanted to see
thing.
the details, whether it was cornicing, wallpaper,
And the show opens with you saying you’ve waited your whole career for a show like this. What did you mean by that? Sandi: Only that I am possibly the world’s smallest presenter and therefore I felt this one entirely fitted me. I don’t think people know about my secret crafting life, I have been making things always, I weave, I embroider, I knit, I do woodwork, I make things out of paper. I spend my life creating things so to be allowed to do it and in miniature seemed absolutely perfect. What are you looking for when you’re judging the designs, Laura and Willard? Laura: I’m looking at the interior design. Is the theme correct? Have they got the right wallpaper, the right pattern, the right finishes with the wood? And the right colour palette, colour was so important for me, colour can make or break a room so I was essentially looking for the style of the era of the room they were given and making sure things felt harmonised. I was also looking for whether I
the style of a floor, pieces of furniture. They had to be in keeping with the era otherwise it didn’t really work for me. Willard: When I was looking at all the contestants’ work, I noticed there were a few little flaws in the detail but that’s all part of the game. When you teach them to see the flaws and let them know what they’ve done, the next day, they’d rise to the occasion so each time they rose to the occasion it became more difficult to judge because they’d become greater and greater. When it comes to reduction, things get so much harder and that’s what people will understand when they watch the programme and they’ll understand the hard work and dedication that’s involved. When they’re working, you can see the intense concentration on their faces and I understand that, I spend hours looking through the microscope. The other day I was working and I fell asleep, my eyes must have been pressed against the microscope because when I woke up I had two red circles around my eyes. Sandi, were you previously familiar with Willard’s work? Sandi: I’ve seen it in magazines, not in person, and thought it was amazing. But when you actually see it through a microscope it seems unreal, it’s like a hologram, it’s the weirdest thing. He’s an absolute genius. Willard: See this needle, Sandi [shows Sandi the top of a needle]? You’re going to be in one of these!
We chat with Ruth Hunter, who
If I sat down and worked it out I'd have to
along with Gabriel Featherstone run
confront some hard truths about my life
the cabaret night in Glasgow called TinselGuts Cabaret. The next night
and I'd rather not at this juncture. Where do you hope to go from here and
being at McChuills on Monday 18th
what are your plans for the future ?
April
I want to help develop the burgeoning
What got you into comedy ?
alternative comedy scene in Glasgow, also I'd like to become famous enough to
An endearing combination of an
go on tour as a comedian, or failing that
"eccentric" personality and dopamine
some type of ted talk cult leader.
seeking behaviour How did you discover your passion for comedy ?
Is it true that comedians offstage are generally loners and fairly quiet ? It's inaccurate to make blanket statements
Comedians were always the people I
about a large group of people but here I
admired most. Then I started doing
go: Absolutely not. Any of them who said
comedy and actually met some. What a
that just don't want to talk to you, sorry.
unique and endearing group of people. Is that the second time I've used endearing? I've always loved comedy. Seeing the funny side of things is much more enjoyable than seeing the financially profitable side of things, which is what agents are for. So you're either a comedian or an agent, and everyone else is a doctor. God bless the NHS 🙏 How long have you been doing comedy ?
What is the idea behind TinselGuts Cabaret ? Tinselguts is a cabaret night of comedy, burlesque, drag and other performance type things. There are loads of great cabaret nights in Glasgow, our angle is that we focus more on a fun comedy vibe overall and book perhaps more comedians generally. It's a fun inclusive night that aims to be a bit macabre, very funny and an overall fan time is to be had. What is the biggest struggle queer comedians face? What type of comedy do you do ? Laid back slightly surreal but warm and relatable Joke mash up grindhouse laughy slap Do you observe situations and create comedy or can you create comedy just in your head ? I'd say 75 percent of what I say is from real life. How did the TinselGuts Cabaret night come about? Gabriel Featherstone and I met through CHUNKS alternative comedy and just had similar sensibilities about comedy and what we wanted to see and create on the Glasgow scene.
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Music Reviews correct. newdifficult is that to there’s From the What age ofseems four, it was get a a badminton racquet out of Kirsty Gilmour’s hands. steadiness, in places a calmness. It doesn’t feel Realistically, there was never any doubt she would go liketoabecome freewheeling RV careering precariously on a professional. Growing up in a family of badminton players, she went to Glasgow’s school along roads likewith other of sportcrumbling to combinemountain training and playing herChili studies, even then what she has accomplished Pepper but albums. would have been the stuff dreams were made of. Making her Scotland debut at 16, Gilmour Maybe the fact they’re more likely to be sipping represented her country at the Commonwealth Games a few tea months later inslippers New Delhi in 2010, a camomile in comfy after a gig and from there she has never looked back. rather than Commonwealth hoofing up as many as South At her home Gamesdrugs in Glasgow in 2014, Gilmour won a silver medal in the women’s America could manage to produce that day is singles. Two years later, she reached her highest reflecting onso their songwriting. However it all of world ranking far at number 14 in the aftermath an Olympic debut in Rio, before winning a second still fits them, they have actual moments of Commonwealth medal in the Gold Coast in 2018 and returning to theThe Olympic in Tokyo beauty. ‘Not One’ stage with its piano last linesummer. stolen Things, if anything, only got busier for Gilmour from from the ‘Toast of London’ theme (not really but
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love 3/5 It was Nick Cave who famously shot the Chili Peppers down in flames back in 2004 when he was quoted as saying “I’m forever near a stereo saying ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers” Now that was harsh, but sometimes the band can be their own worst enemies. The last few albums have felt laboured and decidedly unsparkling however with this new album they’ve focused on producing a solid RHCP record. The focus must’ve been sharp because there’s 17 tracks! It's a bit much to consume unless you’re really a die-hard fan, for the casual
it does remind me of it) is a very comfortable piece of listening. As is the wibbly ballad ‘Veronica’ which oddly makes me think of ‘Come Back to Camden’ by Morrissey of all people. (Now there’s the team up you’re all waiting for) Don’t worry too much, there’s still those standard Chili Pepper frug outs like ‘Poster Child’ all porno soundtrack wah wah and fuzzy bass, but you feel like they’ve decided to behave themselves on this album. ‘Unlimited Love’ doesn’t let rip like the Chili’s of the past but it's unmistakably them, if a bit older, a bit greyer and with a tiny touch of arthritis creeping around those funky fingers.
listener it veers into the realms of laborious. It's not a harsh listen, if anything the feel of the album is slick and assured, I mean you’d expect this kind of steady hand on the wheel from a band that’s been around for almost forty years so ‘Unlimited Love’ can be described best as sounding like a Red Hot Chili Peppers record. The funky bass, the shuffling but hard hitting drums, the playful guitars and Anthony Keidis’ staccato delivery, it's all here, present and
Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity 5/5 The striking electro/Afrobeat of Ibibio Sound Machine gets a Hot Chip make over for this their fourth album and it's a beautiful marriage. ISM’s electronic elements have increased in wattage with each consecutive album and on the perfectly titled ‘Electricity’ it's pulsing through each song.
themselves too seriously and pushing the envelope in terms of songwriting. Opener ‘Jeff Goldblum’ is a sassy, shimmering pean to a lookalike of the towering actor, it's immediately fun and brings you into the fold with a solid smile. ‘On the Run’ has a dusty country-esque feel to it and gives vocalist Mattiel Brown a chance to show off her wry sense of humour whereas ‘Wheels Fall Off’ could sit happily on an early Eels album. There are darker moments like the single ‘Blood in the Yolk’ which veers between baroque sixties Throbbing sequencers lead the way but the exotic afro sounds are always hand in hand. The percussion and backing vocals on the title track recall the funky 70’s vibe of Fela Kulti into which the band weaves horns and synths to formulate a warmer take on electro. Obviously no matter where the music takes them the whole thing is held together through the inimitable vocals of Eno Williams, slipping flawlessly between languages, full force vocals and whispered hushes in the space of moments. Assured and controlled she is definitely front and centre of the whole album, pulling all the threads towards her. The confidence on this album and the Hot Chip production has taken the band ever further along from where they were and it's about time they had a much broader audience, if not be the leaders of a whole new wave of music. Mattiel - Georgia Gothic ⅘ Three years on from their acclaimed ‘Statis Factory’ album Mattiel are back with an upbeat slice of indie-electro pop fun. Not taking
pop and Nick Cave’s ‘Tender Prey’ era recordings (That’s Mr. Cave turned up twice in these reviews, must be something in the air). There’s also something urban and dark about ‘Subterranean Shut-In Blues’ shuffling and threatening, it glares at you with jittery energy and makers you think twice about where the album is going. And that’s one of the great things about ‘Georgia Gothic': all the recognisable traits of Mattiel are present and correct but there’s other elements threaded through the music.
Touches of 60’s and 70’s pop, soul, torch songs,
his love for his drug dealing girlfriend and you
even blues all turn up in different songs giving
can opnly wish that she’ll cut him off and maybe
the music a lift or a mood not seen on previous
cold turkey will sort him out.
albums.
Also his ego takes a swipe at cunts like me on
Mattiel has built us an album of oblique angles
the title track and I know us reviewers are
married to solid tunes and great vocals, it's really
indeed arseholes but if you throw a punch, I'm
hard to fault to be honest all we can say is that
throwing one back.
we’d happily have more of this pleas
This album is shit.
Machine Gun Kelly - mainstream sellout 1/5 There’s something deeply annoying about artists not using capital letters in titles, it feels like they’re too stupid or arrogant to use proper grammar or spelling in their songs. It's probably not great for me to go into a review on the backfoot. I don't want it to colour the review so
Koffee - Gifted 4/5 This debut album from 22 year old Jamaican Koffee is a breath of fresh air (particularly after the stench left by Machine Gun Kelly) a new gentle take on the musical staple of her home
an open mind it is.
Reggae.
However even with an open mind this is pretty
Samples, synths, beats all twisted into
juvenile stuff, the snot-rock of the late 90’s/early 2000’s never went away it just sulked in a corner
something that creates a new feel to the genre without feeling inauthentic. She still has the
wishing it had some glue to sniff.
inflections and style of a reggae vocalist but she
‘
which she uses to creates different textures to
also has a smoothness and clarity to her voice
There is not a morsel of subtlety on this record, it
the songs from within.
is melodic and upbeat, it is full of energy but it is
A charming false start of Bob Marley’s
woefully idiotic songs like ‘drug dealer’ outlines
‘Redemption Song’ flows into something
completely different on ‘x10’ it haunts the song
mentions them a few times on the album
while Koffee paints her own world over it.
particularly on ‘Happy Birthday in the Sky’ and
This is a fresh sound, taking cues from traditional music but cutting them up and reassembling them to make something that feels very, very modern. Koffee is clearly a huge talent and on this debut album she done something very clever in reframing a genre without losing any of its dna. This could be the start of a extremely interesting creer indeed, we shall be watching.
‘Forever Chemicals’ this is part and parcel of the Placebo world, it always has been. So there’s some notes of comfort for the fans, but there are surprises too. ‘The Prodigal’ is a chirping, charming song about the freedom of death, it's probably one of the most upbeat things they’ve ever produced. Big strings and major chords, it's fortunate that it has a serious subject at its core or you could mistake them for being cheerful Elsewhere in a welcome surprise Moloko seems to paraphrase Doctor Who too. On ‘Hugz’ he announces “A hug is just another way of hiding your face” which was uttered by Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor to his companion Clara in an episode from 2014 of the long running sci-fi programme. Not something I expected but there you go. There are still many recognisable Placebo moments throughout the album, songs like ‘Sad White Reggae’, ‘Surrounded By Spies’ and ‘Chemtrails’ are in the classic mould and could be from any time in the last two decades.
Placebo - Never Let Me Go 3/5 I’ll admit I never thought we would see Placebo get to album number 8. They seemed to have said everything they wanted to say, what else was there to discuss? Quite a bit it would seem. They seem to be in fine form, Moloko’s voice still has the same snarl but has settled down into something deeper which suits the music. However he’s still a fucking cock-tease, ‘Beautiful James’ showcases his androgynistic side once more on a shuttling and cheering single. However he’s clearly still on meds as he
These alongside the other songs expanding on their sound give ‘Never Let Me Go’ a unique personality, unfortunately it loses its energy towards the end of the records and instead of striding to the finish line it kind of meanders through three slow-paced songs and stops. Maybe a shuffle will perk the album up as there’s some great songs on here but as a full piece of art it suffers from being too long and top heavy. Still it is good to have them back in such good voice.
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Legend of the Sea Devils airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday April 17. Q&A with Jodie Whittaker The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) What can audiences expect from this special? We’re a few centuries off where the Doctor was aiming for and we stumble across a period in history that is a first for the Doctor Who universe. The TARDIS knows that it's going to China so Yaz and the Doctor have prepared appropriately for it but Dan gets a bit of a bum steer and his costume is all wrong! It’s a Pirates of the Caribbean style sci-fi, action adventure that marries historical characters with Whovian characters with a really brilliant high octane Doctor Who adventure. Did you enjoy stepping onto set – we heard the ship was impressive? Yeah, it was amazing! The art department worked night and day to create a really extraordinary set and I think it's the biggest one that we've worked on. We walked into an incredible pirate ship - it has so many different levels, it was really epic. It has so much depth and detail and also I think it was one boat that ended up being three different ones and in the episode, you can tell that the art department have worked so hard for that to go completely unnoticed. How was it to find out the Sea Devils were coming back, with Craige Els as the Chief Sea Devil? How did they match up to other Doctor Who creatures you’ve come up against? I was really pleased to be working with the Sea Devils! It’s always good to work with creatures from the Doctor Who universe. This is a hat trick for me now with Craige Els! Me and Craige were in a play called Antigone at the National with Chris Eccleston - now it’s a trio of Whovian cast. I spent the entire time with Craige saying “What did you say?” because of the mask! I think they were less familiar to me so it interesting to see Craigs Els’ interpretation because obviously he's playing a very different kind of Sea Devil than we've seen before. Because of the costume and the restrictions of the mask it meant that Craige’s lines were recorded so that added complication to it but as far as the look of it, it looked great! I think an acting thing must have been incredibly challenging for Craige but once again he brought an incredible characterisation and smashed it. How was it working with the brilliant guest actors? On this episode we got to work
with some really exciting cast. Crystal was absolutely brilliant. And also I think, Madam Ching as a character was such a great character. I think Crystal is an actress throws herself into things 100%. She's amazing, as is Craig, Marlowe and Arthur (Lee) - we had a really contained cast. There was obviously more than that but for us it was a kind of ensemble feel as were together all of the time. Crystal’s energy was brilliant - she was never tired - she was running around, jumping off things, swinging off things, fighting, memorising lots of lines and at no point does she ever stop smiling. She's such a wonderful person to have on set and it was really was lovely. And I think the dynamic between her, Arthur and Marlowe was great too. What was lovely was that Marlowe was at the very beginning of his career and that’s always really exciting as well, to work with people that are starting out and Doctor Who plays a part in the start of their professional life as an actor. Working with our Director Haolu (Wang) was absolutely brilliant too, I loved getting to work with her for the first time - her energy and personality really shine through in this episode. We heard Marlowe is a big fan of Doctor Who? Marlowe is a Whovian and his knowledge of Doctor Who far surpassed mine! There was a scene where I couldn't say one of my lines and it was a very specific scientific term. I just kept getting this word wrong and he would stand next to the camera and slightly mouth it to me as I did it. It really should have been roles reversed - I should have been helping him out because he has just started but he was always helping me out! Can you tell us about your stunts/ action scenes in this episode? There was a scene where I needed to slide down the ship but the thing was the ship didn't have a side on it, it was really high! The team’s issue was the fact that there was no other
side so if I did topple over the other side it would have probably been quite a dramatic day at work, but I was absolutely adamant (to do it). When I did it was actually really controlled but I didn’t know if it looked as good as I really thought it was going to but I was really proud of it. With sword fighting I was really nervous as I had not done it since drama school and then when we ended up rehearsing it, it was just like choreographing a dance and as soon as it was like that I could do it and I really enjoyed it. How was your new costume? There wasn’t as many tweaks being made to it throughout filming - I didn’t get to hang out with my wonderful dresser Ian as much as I’d like to as once this costume was on it was on! What always seems to happen on Doctor Who is you wear a thick heavy material in summer and a thin t-shirt in winter, so I was really sweaty but that was not down to the look – I felt I looked a million dollars. How does it feel as we get closer to the big centenary special? It’s interesting because time wise, it’s such a long time off (before they air). What's great about the standalone episodes are that if you do watch it now and then you watch another episode in autumn, you don’t need to rewatch it to
works if you're going to be watching it as a family. Where do we pick up at the start of this episode? At the beginning of the episode, the TARDIS lands at a small coastal village but once again it's landed where it's not supposed to land. The Doctor promised Dan and Yaz that they’d be going to a beach understand what's happening in the next one.
somewhere exciting and they land on a beach,
They are great standalone individuals stories,
just not the beach that they expect. They get out,
that obviously marry all of my seasons together,
hear a massive scream and they realise that
build on relationships and things like that. But
something very terrible is happening in this
they are also these individual set pieces that can
place.
be dipped into and watched without the context of the rest of the show, which I think is really
How was it to film on this set?
important. It shouldn’t exclude viewers and or
It was a really epic ship that was built in the
may you feel like you need to go back and do
studios at the BBC. I saw Matt Strevens our
homework to watch something!
Executive Producer in the hallway (before filming) and he was so excited for us to see it. It was brilliant, it was a huge ship so we didn't
Q&A with Mandip Gill
have to cheat any of the places or any of the
What can audiences expect from this special?
and moved and Jodie was able to do her stunt
It's definitely one for the family. It's got returning monsters in the Sea Devils and it's got new characters! For a new audience, you're able to relate to new characters, or if you're watching it with your grandparents, you then get to see the return of the Sea Devils. It's a really exciting story and it looks amazing. We have brilliant costumes and actors -it's a little bit scary and a little dark in parts, but I think all that
angles. It was all there for us – things worked scene on that actual set which is always so helpful. It was one of the few times we had the whole thing there to work with. It was really
spacious too, it was built to get all of us on it and a crew. The attention to detail was brilliant and having seen the episode it looks amazing! How was it for you working with the Sea Devils? I thought the prosthetics were amazing. Also, we knew the Sea Devils were part of Doctor Who’s history so I've always found it really exciting to work with characters that have already been there previously like Cybermen, like Daleks - it always feels like it really cements our place in the world. And then to be up against something that has been around for so long, was also an honour. They were so tall and the attention to detail was just brilliant. Again, it was great to be working with something that's there in front of you so to a degree don't have to use your imagination. It's all there! Was it nice to have Craige Els back on set as the Chief Sea Devil? It was brilliant! On set, you’re having these really natural conversations with a massive giant sea animal – we’re just casually having these normal conversations and having a laugh and I always wonder what it looks like from the outside looking in - he's ever so tall so he’s not always on the same chairs as us either to protect his costume. So he’s sat a little bit higher, and I am having these really in depth conversations with this sea monster! Can you tell us about working with the guest actors? Every single time you get new guest actors you get new best mates. I had already worked with Crystal on Casualty, so we knew each other and that felt quite familiar. Arthur was absolutely brilliant, you could see him going away to work on his lines - I love watching everyone else's acting techniques. Marlowe has done so well to be on a professional set and at young age and he’s so together. Also he’s a fan of the show and I love when people come in and they love the show. They want to be there as an actor, but they also love it and it's something that they actually watch on the outside.
I’ve always liked that about our guest actors - I
year but I mean, he probably wouldn't say that
love that they love it for a multitude of reasons,
after three series!
not just because they get to work as an actor. As it was a pandemic there were very few guest actors on and they tended to stay a lot longer than they did in previous series – we spent a
What would you say we can expect in this episode between the Doctor and Yaz? Will their feelings be addressed further?
fair bit of time together in Cardiff and I got on
So the relationship between the Doctor and Yaz
really well with them and had such lovely
has definitely developed further. There’s not an
conversations. Crystal has got a really
awful lot I can say about it but there's a lot of
gorgeous energy and I think she's a brilliant
bravery, there's a lot of emotion and a lot of
actress, I think she was perfect for the part.
understanding, and openness. Conversations
Their costumes were great and we all did
are not concluded in this episode, but they still
action sequences together which you don't
definitely have advanced from where they were
often get to do, they were all brilliant!
at the New Year’s episode. There’s a lot of open
What was your experience of the sword fighting? We didn't do any training for the sword fighting
and honest conversations. How does this episode set us up for the final special?
but we rehearsed a sequence on the morning
We definitely get a sense that something is
of it and because the set was really big, there
coming because there always is something
was space to practice on the actual deck. You
coming when the Doctor is around! Things
only see a little clip snippet of the whole work
have not been resolved by the end of the
that we do after the edit but it was much harder
episode and I think that can be said for the
than you think - the actual swords were a lot
relationship between Yaz and the Doctor but
heavier than I expected! I was really into doing
also the Doctor’s history and future.
my own stunts before then and then I hurt my finger and I was like, “It's not for me!” John Bishop mentioned that the team missed a trick not having Dan do more stunts. I don't know what you think about that?
Why should everyone tune in this Easter Sunday? I think it's a really jam packed, epic story. It looks amazing - you'll see the hard work that went in from the crew and the cast during the
I love how confident he is! To be honest, you
pandemic. They've definitely excelled in terms
think it’s going to be all fun and games and you
of prosthetics makeup, costume and set
want to do it all and are proper up for it. And
design. Everything is just brilliant. It's a
then you do it and you realise that stunt people
standalone episode that has adventure,
look so incredibly easy, because you have to
returning monsters, but also, ultimately and
go again and again and again! And so it's all
fundamentally there is a story of love at the
fun and games until you're on the tenth take
centre of it all.
and you’re upside down again. But yeah, I guess I've had three years of being upside down and chased and whatnot.. John had one
V&A Dundee Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer 5th March - 4th September 2022 The exhibition delves into the process of Michael Clark’s collaborations with artists, designers, musicians and performers, giving an extraordinary insight into one of Scotland’s most remarkable creative minds. Clark is a pioneer, bringing different disciplines together to create his singular vision, considering every detail from costumes and music through to graphic design. Clark’s collaborators range from Leigh Bowery to The Fall, from Sarah Lucas and Scottish painter Peter Doig to non-professional dancers. His musical influences are diverse, from his hero David Bowie to Patti Smith, T.Rex and composers Erik Satie and Igor Stravinsky, blending punk, ballet and popular culture to create a revolution in dance. The exhibition is an immersive experience, celebrating Clark’s rebellious energy and innovative performances, exploring the creative energy and excitement of bringing together art, dance, design, fashion and music. Michael Clark was born in Aberdeen in 1962 and began traditional Scottish dancing at the age of four. In 1975, at the age of 13, he left home to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, before forming his own dance company in 1984 when he was only 22. Clark’s choreography changed the landscape of British dance by weaving together subcultures and post-punk energy with the virtuosity and grace of his classical ballet training. Sophie McKinlay, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee, said: “It is a hugely exciting moment to bring an exhibition about one of Scotland’s most daring and rebellious creative minds home to V&A
Dundee. “Michael Clark brought together a community of collaborators across art, dance, design, fashion, music and photography to create performances that have forever changed how people look at contemporary dance. “Clark is a true radical, a technically brilliant dancer and choreographer as well as a provocative artist whose work has challenged and shocked society’s expectations of gender and sexuality from the 1980s right up to the present day. His work with non-professional dancers, including at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, only underlines his total commitment to opening dance up to everyone.” Florence Ostende, Curator at Barbican, said: “I am delighted this exhibition will bring Michael Clark’s visionary creativity back to his home country of Scotland. “Clark is fascinating as a pioneer who brought together different disciplines to completely change contemporary dance and the British cultural landscape, from embracing and celebrating queer culture in the 1980s through to redefining gender representation and stereotypes within the heteronormative tradition of ballet history. This exhibition, one of the largest surveys ever dedicated to a living choreographer, presents a comprehensive story of Clark’s career.” Looking back to his meteoric rise as a young choreographer in the 1980s, Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer presents a comprehensive vision of Clark’s career to date. Reflecting on his influence beyond dance, the exhibition explores his legendary collaborations and influences across the visual arts, music, fashion and film, including Charles Atlas revisiting the acclaimed films Hail the New Puritan (1986) and Because We Must (1989) which featured Leigh Bowery and The Fall, along with work by BodyMap, Duncan Campbell, Peter Doig, Cerith Wyn Evans, Sophie Fiennes, Sarah Lucas, Silke Otto-Knapp, Elizabeth Peyton, Susan Stenger, Stevie Stewart, Wolfgang Tillmans, Trojan and others.
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From a very early age, Sirri Rånes became
“My cousin must have been six or seven when I
aware that sport was rife with inequality – and
was born, and he was so distraught that I was a
that has gone on to inspire the path she would
girl that he cried in the hospital room because
take as a career.
he wanted someone to play football with. He hates when I tell this story! “So from day one, I was underestimated because of my gender, but he always played with me. He taught me, I scored goals and I knew that I was good at it, and that it was possible for a girl to play football.
Sirri Rånes can trace her passion for equality in sport back to the formative years of her life. “When I was the age to play football in school, my headmaster came into our classroom and said: ‘right lads, time for the boys to sign up for Rånes currently plays rugby and recreational football, but it was not always that way. Football was her first love, with rugby not properly coming into the picture until university. She could have taken to it far more quickly, though, had it not been for gendered language making her feel like there was no place for her in the sport when her local club came to run an information session at her primary school.
the football team, who wants a form to take with them?’ I put my hand up and he just ignored me, so I got the boy beside me to put his hand up even though he had no interest in football and he slid me his letter. “I brought that home to my mum and the letter actually said on it ‘any boys interested in playing football’, so she rang the principal up and said ‘I think you might have made a typo here, it says boys’, and he was like ‘no typo, no, I don’t want any girls on the sidelines like
That is not to say, by any means, that football
cheerleaders distracting the boys from
was plain-sailing. It took an intervention from
football’.
Rånes’ mother to get her on to the primary school team, a moment that unknowingly sent her down a path that would see Rånes working for inclusion in sport in her day job until the start of 2022.
“My mum was furious about that, but she negotiated an audience with the principal – so I had to go into his office the next day. I’m a six or seven-year old, in the principal’s office, the room you go to if you got in trouble, making
“I had loads of barriers playing football as
my case and trying to justify why I should be
well,” Rånes recalled.
able to play. This was not the sort of thing a seven year old should have to do.
“To be honest that’s what kind of inspired my
women’s teams “ladies”. However, outright
career trajectory. That wasn’t fair, and my mum
homophobia has been seen on and off the pitch
stood up for me whenever that wasn’t fair. Then I
at a professional level in recent times too, and
just thought there are other people out here that
Rånes has experienced her fair share of abuse
aren’t able to access sport, that are being
over the years.
treated differently by society, and that’s not fair either.
Women’s sport is often held up as being far more inclusive then men’s sport, and Rånes
“After a while, fairness kind of became equality,
believes that may actually be one of the reasons
diversity and inclusion. At the age of seven, I
why – the women involved have already
didn’t say I wanted to be an equality, diversity
experienced discrimination, so they know what it
and inclusion manager, but I was able to feel
is like to be on the receiving end.
that gut wrenching pain of what it feels like to be excluded, to be deemed as less and unworthy. I didn’t want anyone else to ever feel that. “Empathy is important sometimes and I think a lot of people – a lot of the white, straight, nondisabled, cis-men – that sit on the boards and make the big decisions, they don’t have that lived experience and empathy. “They can’t feel that gut wrenching thing, the feeling that so many people in the LGBTIQ+ community have had to go through. I think that that’s a major problem, because if you don’t have that, or at least the ability to empathise with that, then the motivation isn’t as strong to
“Girls and women almost have to break out of a gender role to do sports like football and rugby that are typically male team sports,” she reasoned. “Just accessing the sport alone, you’re having to stick your neck out a bit. I was always a tomboy until I was old enough to be a dyke, or butch, or lesbian, for playing football. “You kind of do get ostracised for playing sports, and I think it’s something that’s changing. I think that women’s sports is becoming more normalised, but then you still have these little niggles that just hang on.
make a change.” Discrimination has not been so prevalent inside Rånes has worked for change, in part, through Football v Homophobia Scotland. Many of the reasons behind exclusion in sport – whether on the basis of gender or sexuality – are rooted in historic practices. It was those old attitudes that boys played sport and girls did not that put Rånes off rugby at first, and forced her to fight to be able to play football. Still today, examples are rife of those outdated attitudes, even over seemingly trivial things like one of Rånes’ biggest bug-bears: calling
women’s rugby, but Rånes still sees it around the game.
“I’ve recently been searching for women’s rugby teams in London, and they’re all called ladies teams. That really grates on me, because sports like football and rugby calling their women’s teams ladies is in a way appropriation of the fact that women are playing these male-dominated sports. “It’s like men are saying yes, women are in these spaces, but let’s try and make it more appropriate by saying that actually they’re still ladies, they’re still feminine, we’ll still put them in this little box where it’s fine. “It’s still less than. There isn’t gentleman’s sport, there aren’t gentleman’s rugby teams or gentleman’s football teams. It’s such an outdated term, I don’t know why we’re still using it. “There’s people who would argue that it’s harmless, and I’ve had some very heated debates about it. There’s people that are quite attached to the term, and changing a team name for some reason is always a big barrier. “I do think women’s sport in general is much more inclusive, and because we’ve had to break from the gender norm, that generally means that we are quite diverse as women ourselves. “We’ve been through that kind of exclusion, being ostracised, being called names and so on. I remember getting to the point in university rugby, after dealing with a lot of the rugby boys and the stuff that they said, where I gave up caring and didn’t let it upset me anymore. I just wanted everyone to be able to play the sport and get all the benefits out of sport that I have. So I just wasn’t going to give them the time of day anymore.
Women’s sport is generally held up as more inclusive than men’s sport. “I think that also helps, because whenever you get someone in your team who’s different, you’re already like ‘well, I’m different because I’m doing a sport that I’m not supposed to’, and you can empathise with them. “You try and make it as inclusive a space as you can, because at the end of the day, you’ve stuck your neck out to benefit from this sport, so you can understand what they’re going through in a way.” Still, it is difficult to shake the perception or feeling of being an outsider. Incidents do not have to happen inside the sport or teams themselves to have an impact, it can come from a random encounter. That otherness will undoubtedly put some off, but for Rånes at least it was never enough to drive her away from participating in the sports she loves. “There always was the feeling of being an outsider to people who were outside the team,” Rånes said.
“Whenever I played with the boys in primary
so I didn’t take a lot of the brunt of it. It was
school, I always felt like an outsider, and I had to
actually some straight women who were more
work very hard – much harder than they had to –
masculine presenting, they were the ones that
to prove myself. I don’t know how many games I
got the brunt of the direct homophobia, but
spent on the bench to come on and score. That
mostly it was directed at us as a group.
sounds very vain, but looking back it’s the truth.
“Moving into the club level, people mature a lot
“As soon as I started playing women’s teams,
more I guess. I’ve not heard any outright
that’s when I really started to enjoy not just the
homophobia since leaving university, but there’s
sport itself, but the social element and the sense
still assumptions that people make about you.
of camaraderie. That was very much the case in university, because you’re surrounded by likeminded people who don’t mind being different and being perceived as different, and they’re just all very interesting and all very fun. “At the same time, because of that social side, as a rugby team there was this kind of back and forth with the men’s rugby team. They really hated us, they really hated everything that we stood for, and they were just horrible.
“If I’m getting a taxi to the clubhouse to play rugby, it’s 50/50 whether the driver will comment on the fact that I don’t look like I play rugby, or I shouldn’t play rugby or football, rugby is for lesbians, one of those snide comments. “Then with football – footballers are a different crowd compared to people who play rugby. In football I tended to hear players use the word gay for something that’s bad. It’s like, you’re gay, why would you use that term in such a
The relationship between Rånes’ university team and their male counterparts was problematic. “They would throw stuff at us when we were in the union. You would always hear those kind of terms being thrown around like butch, like lesbian. I’m quite a feminine presenting person,
derogatory manner? What other words would you use in that sentence if you weren’t using gay? You’re just calling yourself all those things by using the word gay as a synonym there. “It’s interesting the different forms of homophobia that are at play. Reflecting on my work in the LGBTQIA+ sport sector, it’s difficult to communicate to people that this work is important because homophobia still exists. “They say they haven’t heard it before, or they’re in the stands every Saturday and they haven’t heard it. Well, maybe you’re in the family section, or maybe there are other forms of homophobia at play that you’re not in direct earshot of, or there’s something really exclusionary that is going on and you don’t realise it. “It’s opening people’s eyes a lot, and that’s quite a challenging thing to do because all you want
to do is make changes, and you can’t do that
that is exactly what Rånes eventually threw
without buy in from the key people. Getting that
herself headfirst into.
buy in in the first place shouldn’t take as long as it does.
She began volunteering with LEAP Sports Scotland, as well as learning under the guidance
“Sport brings you so many advantages and
of the Scottish FA’s then-diversity and inclusion
benefits that you don’t realise if you’ve never
manager Hala Ousta as a diversity and inclusion
played before. Once you get involved and once
youth ambassador of change.
you feel those benefits, once you feel the mental health pick-me-ups, once you feel the development of teamworking skills, once you
It was clearly a topic that fascinated Rånes, having tried to gear her masters degree in equality and human
feel the social
rights towards sport
elements of being
wherever possible, so
part of something
when a job became
bigger than yourself,
available at LEAP she
once you get the
jumped at the
adrenaline of scoring
opportunity.
a goal in the 92nd minute and sending
Although she credits
your team into the
LEAP’s managing
next round of a cup –
director Hugh Torrance
you wouldn’t give
with the charity’s growth
that up for anything.
in her time there, Rånes was involved in a number
“If someone told me
of projects that helped to
tomorrow that there
make a difference too.
was another FA ban
“I’d be remiss not to talk
on women’s football, I would go to some underground league or
about the diverse identities in sport project that I
something. Even if that structural barrier were to
was a part of,” she explained.
be there, I would still play, in the same way homophobia can be overcome – but that doesn’t mean that we should have to put up with it.”
“That was my only real Erasmus Plus project. Getting to travel to different countries was an obvious perk of the job, but to work alongside colleagues from Bulgaria and Hungary in particular was a real eye opener. It definitely lit a
Events like Pride House help provide a safe
fire under me.
space for LGBTQIA+ people around major
“Thinking particularly about sexual orientation,
sporting events.
we’ve got these certain rights as lesbian, gay,
It can be a frustratingly long and complex journey to combat issues like gender discrimination and homophobia in sport, but
bisexual people in the UK, but I’ve always had the fear that it just takes maybe a decade and a bad government to roll those right back and to make us the enemy as they have done in the
past. That project really made me want to
Five years after joining LEAP, it was time for
protect the rights that we have as well as work
Rånes to move on. She is continuing to dip her
across borders to try and find solutions in other
toes into rugby and football in a new setting,
countries where people are in danger by
London, but while her LGBTIQ+ sports activism
speaking out. If they can’t, who will?
work is taking a backseat for now it may well
“Apart from that, Football v Homophobia
only be a matter of time before the itch returns.
Scotland had a big place in my heart being a
“With the emotional labour involved, it’s quite
football player. There’s a particular problem in
heavy – the rise in transphobia in recent years
football in Scotland, and to be able to come into
has been quite hard,” Rånes added.
the role and set up Football v Homophobia Scotland and see it through to where it is today is very rewarding.
“You know that your friends and your colleagues and trans people across the world are seeing these comments and seeing the nasty, horrible
“It’s rewarding to see something grow like that,
things that are being said about them and the
and it may not be a recognised name
twisted narratives that are happening in the
necessarily but you see the Scottish Women’s
wider media, and you do put a lot of pressure
National Team wear t-shirts ahead of their
on yourself to try and fix that. That can get to
Hungary fixture – that was pretty cool, that was a
you, but you need to keep up the good fight as
statement.
well – which is the struggle.
Rånes and LEAP Sports Scotland were a perfect
“I would just like to take the opportunity to say
fit in the battle for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sport.
thank you to everyone that I’ve worked with at
“I actually think that, as a sports movement, the tone has changed slightly from when I started to when I left. I think that professional athletes are starting to recognise the power that they have,
LEAP – staff members, board members, volunteers who I already miss a lot, as well as the club representatives from the different sports groups and so on.
and the ally-ship that they can give. Rachel
“I’d really like them to know how much I’ve
Corsie became an Athlete Ally ambassador, and
appreciated working with them for five years
I think that athletes are more prepared now to
and watching them grow.
take a stand and to make a statement.
“Something that I didn’t mention earlier was that
“Maybe if Scotland’s women’s team didn’t play
when I entered the role there was a hub of
Hungary, they wouldn’t have seen or been made
sports groups in Glasgow and a hub of sports
aware of the human rights issues that are going
groups in Edinburgh, and there was nothing
on there, but I think athletes are being forced a
elsewhere. So to be able to see the LGBTIQ+
little bit more to look at the political backdrop to
sports movement grow beyond those very
the teams that they are playing against.
metropolitan areas, having some options further
“Hopefully that sense of responsibility about being a role model continues, and we start to see it being normalised among athletes.”
north outside the central belt I think makes a big difference. I just hope to see more and more springing up elsewhere.”
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