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2 WELCOME Your guide to the best of What’s On Where I can hardly believe that it is almost two years to the day that the very first issue of WOW was launched. It has been a life-changing experience, founding and working on this magazine for that time. I have received extraordinary support and feedback from the communities in Medway and Maidstone (and further afield, too!) for this venture, and would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has given of their expertise and time to help WOW to continue. Above all, thanks to WOW’s fantastic designer, Paul Baker of ‘a stones throw design’, who has played such an enormous role in creating this magazine.
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It’s lovely to end the year on an up-note – and as we go to print I have recently heard that WOW is a shortlisted finalist in the Medway Culture & Design Awards 2012, which celebrate excellence in the arts, culture, design and heritage of Medway. The Awards are decided on 6 December but I’m already feeling like a winner, with the possibility of a second award for WOW this year. Happy reading and Happy Christmas! Emma Dewhurst editor@wowkent.co.uk Please mention WOW when you use its services or go to an event. The magazine depends entirely on its supportive advertisers.
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CONTRIBUTORS Emma Dewhurst (Founder and editor) is an actress, community arts practitioner, writer and mother. She has had a long and varied theatrical career, playing throughout the UK and Ireland, at the National Theatre and in London’s West End. Most recently she has appeared on television in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy,‘Parade’s End’. In September she was proud to receive Best Creative Business Award for WOW in the Kent Independent Traders Awards 2012. Phil Dillon is a former Medway musician turned photographer who is best known for his work with bands such as Groovy Uncle, Theatre Royal, Wheels, The Lovedays and Stuart Turner and the Flat Earth Society. He is also the principal protagonist in Medway Eyes, an independent, not for profit, creative collective and has recently taken on the role of producer for Fizzer’s Radio Show. Sam Froudist is a writer and bunting enthusiast. She co-runs bunted!, a bespoke bunting business, and is a card carrying member of the Rochester Vintage Society. You can find her blogging over at hellosamgoodbyesamantha.com. Nick Walker is an events director, film critic and filmmaker. His flagship Medway project, The Other Cinema, is a weekly event held every Thursday at the Chatham Odeon. Nick also set up the Screen Classics programme at the Central Theatre, Chatham. He writes, directs and produces short films and is the editor of Film Essay, for cinéastes wanting to write about film culture. Nick has worked for The Guardian and the London Film Festival. Currently he is Events Director at Film Education and Director of National Schools Film Week.
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SAT 8 - SUN 9 DEC 11AM - 6PM Lovely drop-in activities during Medway Open Studios weekend, including Gocco screen printing and digital vinyl cutting taster sessions with a festive theme.
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS WORKSHOP SAT 15 DEC 11AM - 2PM
Gocco screen printing and sewing workshop to make textile decorations with Christmas motifs. Cost: £30 Printed Wonders Studio, Unit 2 Boundary Wharf, rear of 375 High Street, Rochester ME1 1DA (behind Cafe Moroc). printedwonders.co.uk
Demelza Boutique are holding ‘Sweetly Vintage ‘, a Cupcakes and Vintage Clothing Sale on Sunday 9 December. If past sales are anything to go by, expect deliciousness at every turn. 72 High Street, Rochester ME1 1JY. Tel: 01634 817719 Penny’s Lane Vintage Christmas Special is also on Sunday 9 December at the Corn Exchange, Northgate, Rochester, ME1 1LX. Vintage clothing, accessories, artwork and home ware will be on sale, plus there’s a vintage tea room with music. Entry: Adults £2 Students £1 Maidstone Museum has a Vintage Christmas Card making session on Saturday 22 December. Drop in 10.30am-3.30pm. Costs just £1. Or how about encouraging the kids to make some thank you cards after Christmas? There are two post-Christmas Cards and Badges sessions: Thursday 3 and Friday 4 January. Sessions start at 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm. Ages 4+. £2.50 per child. museum.maidstone.gov.uk
Go To Market Hoo Christmas Market Saturday 8th December 2012
12:00 – 5:00pm Hoo Village Square
• Rochester Christmas Market happens over two weekends this year: 1-2 and 6-9 Dec, 11am-6.15pm, Rochester Castle Gardens. Santa’s Grotto, Family Funfair, Affordable Gifts and more. • Last Farmers Market of the year: Sunday 16 Dec, Corporation St Car Park, Rochester 9am-1pm
Sailing Charter - Static Venue - Winter Tea Room
DECEMBER WRITERS’ RENDEZVOUS A chance to meet informally with other writers for drinks and conversation, networking and maybe even collaborations. Writers of any genre, at any stage of their journey, are most welcome at this informal get-together hosted by Medway writer Philip Kane (see centre pages). Meet at The Two Brewers, Rochester High Street, Thursday 13 December, from 7.30pm.
Winter Tea Room Open Thur-Sun, 1030-1600hrs. Homemade cakes and light lunches. Music Nights - Folk and Carols Saturday 1st December - ‘Skinners Rats’
JOIN THE COOLEST SIDE IN TOWN Wolfs Head and Vixen Morris, the first ever ‘Goth Morris’, are recruiting new dancers and musicians in readiness for the 2013 dancing season. They perform in the Border Morris tradition (sticks, no hankies!). Newcomers are welcomed, no experience necessary, and will be taught patiently. Practise sessions on Wednesday evenings in Rochester, and on alternate Sunday afternoons at a venue in Gillingham. To see the group in action, join the CHRISTMAS CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS on Saturday 15 December at Rochester Community Hub, an afternoon of stories, song, poetry and traditional craft with refreshments. 1-4pm, free but booking essential on 01634 337411.
Saturday 15th December - ‘Shanty Carol Night’
Friday 11th January - ‘Happy Trails’
Please visit the website for full details.
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Xmas at Sweetpea & Olive! Gorgeous Hand tied Bouquets in water for collection or delivered Luxury table centres, wreaths, garlands and a fabulous selection of local handmade gifts and decorations
POP-UP PHOTO STUDIO 8-9 Dec Portrait Sessions. Bring your kids, your grandma, your dog... Quick turnaround, prints ready for Christmas. Situated next door to Printed Wonders (see opposite page) For more info & to book your session: mail@saranorling.com www.saranorling.com 07878 841898
Why not join us for our Christmas Open Evening? Thursday 13 December till 8.30pm
15% off for all WOW readers 118 Maidstone Road, Rochester 01634 843024
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The CAMRA award-winning STILE BRIDGE PUB & RESTAURANT is bringing craft beer and imaginative local produce to the heart of Kent. SAM FROUDIST went to sample If you find yourself trundling along Staplehurst Road, Marden, in search of some sustenance and a reviving beverage, don’t be alarmed if you come across a pub painted a rather remarkable shade of lilac. The Stile Bridge Pub and Restaurant is not only standing out from the crowd in terms of paint choices, but is gathering a (thoroughly deserved) reputation as the go-to watering hole for the discerning tippler. Manager Marc Hoffman has been with the pub for the last five years, seeing it through a recent change in ownership. He’s obviously passionate about local and European beers, and equally as passionate about developing an audience willing to try the more adventurous brews. With a rotating collection of around 50 bottled beers and ciders from around the world, there’s almost something for everyone here. The only exception I can think of would be someone who doesn’t like excellent beer. Or excellent food. Or great company. But for some reason I get the impression that they’re not really the market Marc is aiming at… This last year has seen the pub go “from strength to strength,” Marc tells me. Surprisingly, it turns out that “the recession has actually helped to develop the market for craft beers, which are often the cheaper option”. The pub itself has recently branched out into brewing its own range of beer, and as we speak their first attempt at a table beer sits bubbling away.
You wont be disappointed on the food front either, with their menu boasting an impressive range of hearty and yet recognisably British food. Going far above and beyond the level we’ve come to expect of the average pub, the new, formerly London-based chef has brought a cosmopolitan influence that has lifted the menu into restaurant fare of real quality. Also playing host to music nights, fundraisers, a new comedy night and a yet-to-be-confirmed beer sommelier course, I’m delighted to see another great pub in Kent really engaging with the changing expectations of its customers. They’re out to educate too: when a Foster’s drinker walks through the door, “I try and point them in another direction”, Marc says, diplomatically. We’re constantly reminded that British pubs are closing at a rate of knots, but he asks me, “is that a bad thing, though?” and I can see what he means. If the breathing space created by closures allows pubs like the Stile Bridge to flourish, I can’t say that I mind! Folk Club: 2nd Sunday of the month Blues Club: 3rd Sunday of the month (next gig Dr Bones, 20 Jan) Live Music every Friday The Stile Bridge Pub, Staplehurst Road, Marden, Kent TN12 9BH 50p discount on bottled beers to take home For more information call 01622 831236 or head to thestilebridge.co.uk
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THIS MONTH THE ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM FILM SOCIETY PRESENT
hysteria NICK WALKER EXPLAINS WHY IT’S A FILM OF ‘GOOD VIBRATIONS’…
If you have ever mused on how idealistic and forward-thinking Dr Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science, now is your opportunity to find out. Director Tanya Wexler’s romantic comedy is set in Victorian London, where the young Granville (played by the relaxed and charming Hugh Dancy), who is struggling to establish himself, is hired by Dr Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce in fantastically eccentric mode) to investigate a treatment for women displaying an array of symptoms including nervousness, insomnia, exhaustion, depression, cramps, and sexual frustration and then diagnosed with female hysteria. The treatment used what is interestingly named ‘pelvic massage’ – essentially massaging the genital area, under a curtain in the name of decency, to elicit ‘paroxysmal convulsions’, otherwise known as orgasms! Some slight artistic license here… it was true that Granville filed the first patent for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granville’s Hammer in 1883, and that hysteria was a recognized malady until the American Psychiatric Association discontinued this term in 1952. Doctors had for some considerable time been using this technique to relieve women’s illness. Dr Nathaniel Highmore noted in 1660 that it was difficult to learn to produce orgasm by vulvular massage, noting that the technique “is not unlike that game of boys in which they try to rub their stomachs with one hand and pat their heads with the other.” Granville, however, did not apply his invention in the treatment of hysteria; rather, he used it to treat muscular disorders. Granville’s explorations with Dalrymple’s two daughters (Felicity Jones and Maggie Gyllenhaal)
adds a frisson of intrigue with romantic and comic effect, especially as they are chalk and cheese – one Victorian prim and proper, dutiful and mild, the second a fiery modern independent feminist. Gyllenhaal, who gives the film’s liveliest performance, exclaims, “You may be unaware, but there is a social revolution underfoot!” …you’d never know it! For a film that ostensibly reveals women’s desires, it’s the Victorian medical men who dominate the debate between those uptight, moralistic types and modernist free-thinkers. Like so many films of its kind, the sumptuous costumes, sets – and importantly here, the props – are right on the button. In particular Sean Bobbitt’s luscious cinematography is worth a mention but it’s Dancy’s wonderful mutton-chop sideburns that steal the show in this well-upholstered production. Most of the comedy comes from Mortimer and wealthy loafer pal Edmund’s (Rupert Everett) semi-accidental invention of the vibrator - which saves Mortimer’s hand further stress and works hitherto undreamt wonders for Dalrymple’s clientele. ‘Hysteria’ has a sweetness that keeps you watching and despite its titillating subject matter, it is a clean comedic romp through Victorian morals and some ‘steampunk’ invention culture. The film will certainly give you good vibrations in more ways than you might expect!
Hysteria’ screens at the Chatham Odeon on Thursday 13 December at 7.45pm. There will be a film introduction and post-screening discussion over a drink, hosted by festival programmer and film writer Nick Walker. facebook.com/ othercinema.rochester
FILM MAIDSTONE FILM SOCIETY Hazlitt Theatre, Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PL 01622 753922
A diverse range of world cinema. Licensed bar. Fixed rate parking in Fremlin Walk after 7pm. Yearly subscription rates: Adult £24; Couples £42; Senior/ Student £19; Guest per film £3.50. maidstone-film-society.org.uk THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) 2011 Mon 10 Dec, 8pm Dir: John Madden Cast: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith. A stellar British cast of veterans travel to India to take up residence and find themselves, ultimately, charmed. 124 mins MEDWAY FILM SOCIETY Brook Theatre, Chatham ME4 4SE 020 7638 0012
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (PG) 1944 Mon 21 Jan, 7.30pm Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane Classic comedy crime romance. 118 minutes THE OTHER CINEMA Chatham Odeon Cinema, Maritime ME4 4LL 0871 22 44 007
A weekly showcase of quality films from around the world, with film introduction and post-show discussion over a drink, hosted by festival programmer and film writer Nick Walker. £8.25/£6.25. facebook.com/othercinema. rochester KILLING THEM SOFTLY (18) 2012 Thu 3 Dec 7.45pm Dir: Andrew Dominik Cast: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta Slick hitman thriller dubbed “Bleakly electrifying” by the Daily Telegraph. 98 mins
World cinema programme on 16mm prints. Single shows £6.50 (concs £5.50). Membership available OYSTER PRINCESS (1919) Friday 14 Dec, 7.45pm Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Funny, sophisticated black and white silent comedy with famous foxtrot scene. 70 mins With NICE TIME (1957) Dir: Claude Goretta/Alain Tanner B & W Glimpse into Saturday night street life around London’s Piccadilly Circus. 17 mins medwayfilm.org.uk SCREEN CLASSICS Central Theatre, 170 High Street, Chatham ME4 4AS 01634 338301
A monthly, big-screen celebration of cinema classics. Introduction and post-film discussion over a glass of wine hosted by programmer Nick Walker. £7, concs £5, includes free drink. No December screening. medwayticketslive.co.uk
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (Cert tbc) Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson star. It’s a comedy, by the way. Rel 5 Dec
HYSTERIA (15) 2011 Thu 13 Dec 7.45pm Dir: Tanya Wexler Cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce Period comedy piece. See Nick Walker’s article. 100 mins SAVAGES (15) 2012 Thu 20 Dec 7.45PM Dir: Oliver Stone Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch American crime thriller based on the novel by Don Winslow. 131 mins SELECT DEC/JAN RELEASES: GREAT EXPECTATIONS (12A) Mike Newell’s version of the Dickens classic, with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. Rel 30 Nov
LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Director Ang Lee brings Yann Martel’s bestselling novel to magical life. Rel 20 Dec LES MISERABLES (Cert tbc) Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman star, singing live on set. Rel 11 Jan THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2D & 3D (Cert tbc) From ‘Lord of the Rings’ director, Peter Jackson. Rel 13 Jan DJANGO UNCHAINED (Cert tbc) Quentin Tarantino’s latest tells the tale of former slave-turnedbounty hunter ‘Django’ (Jamie Foxx), who sets out to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation owner. Rel 18 Jan Showing at the following: ODEON CHATHAM 0871 224 4007. odeon.co.uk ODEON MAIDSTONE 0871 22 44 007. odeon.co.uk ROCHESTER CINEWORLD 0871 200 2000. cineworld.co.uk THE ROYAL CINEMA Box Office: 01795 591211 royalcinema.co.uk SHOWCASE BLUEWATER 0871 220 1000 showcasecinemas.co.uk/ bluewater
writer, storyteller & artist
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HAS BEEN A CENTRAL FIGURE IN MEDWAY’S CULTURAL LIFE FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS
Kane’s collection of Medway-inspired poems, ‘Unauthorised Person’, has just been published by Cultured Llama. WOW’s Editor, Emma Dewhurst, went to have a chat with her erstwhile tutor
Philip Kane is a man of many hats. Although I have known him for a good six years, I still find myself being surprised by his many and wildly differing interests. On any given day you might find him talking ‘virtual worlds’, Morris sides, ancient sword fighting or poetry. Above all, poetry. In fact, if you live in one of Medway’s five towns and have pursued an interest in creative writing over the last several years, the chances are you will have been tutored by Philip Kane. Fostering a sense of community, both geographical and metaphorical, in this amorphous place we call Medway is at the heart of pretty much everything this writer does, and passing on his extensive knowledge of literature and writing in all its forms, via his adult education classes, readings and workshops, is a significant part of that.
Kane’s family background was working class, and there were always books in the house. He recalls the entire ‘Just William’ series and Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books on the bookshelves. He has written in one way or another since the age of seven, and after early forays into the world of work via a factory and the civil service, Kane and some friends dreamt up a local music fanzine, ‘Deserted Streets’ , which chronicled Medway’s burgeoning music scene of the early 80s and was printed on the Luton Road. Kane wrote music reviews, drank a lot of beer and had fun.
Kane was born in Chatham, raised in Gillingham and has lived in Medway all his life. He hated school, and most of what he has learnt and passes on about life, politics and the art of writing is selftaught, or learnt through working with others. A committed socialist, Kane recalls watching as a boy the Paris student riots of 1968 on television news; he remembers the political upheavals of the early 70s; firemen collecting strike money in Gillingham High Street; and finding ‘The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse’ in his school library – all of which fed into his fascination with the impact of place, and his beliefs about society.
It was a few years later that he came across a pamphlet by Medway Poet and formative influence, Bill Lewis, in a record shop. “I realised ‘Oh, working class people can write poems’,” he says. It was a turning point, “a validation, in a way,” and Kane joined The Poets’ Forum soon after, an informal gathering of like-minded others who read their poems aloud and critiqued each others’ work. Most of the time it was “torn to shreds,” Kane recalls, but is quick to point out that “as a training and understanding of the craft it was extremely good.” 1988 saw the first publication of his work, ‘Prayerbeads and Ravenbones’ by Wigmore Press.
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Kane’s working life took a different course, too. He became a full-time worker with community arts project ‘Arts in Medway’ and he began to run a writers’ group called Medway Community Writers, continuing with the tough critiquing which was the hallmark of the The Poets’ Forum. As his experience grew, Kane was asked to become Writer in Residence for Maidstone Mental Health Services, a post he held for 13 years. His sessions were therapeutic workshops using creative writing to develop the thinking and communication skills of the participants. Since 2000 Kane has been running Adult Education classes in Creative Writing in the Medway towns, teaching and encouraging literally countless would-be local writers, myself included. All this time Kane has also been involved in getting his own work out to a growing public, performing his written work and sharing his forays into visual art in the UK, Spain and the USA, but always with a keen sense of the place he has chosen to call home. “I am interested in psychogeography,” he says: “the relationship between people and place which seems to inform many Medway writers’ work, including my own.” Kane’s newly published book, ‘Unauthorised Person’, is a ‘concept album’ which explores just that: a collection of poems and images inspired by Medway, gathered together over 27 years. Poems are interspersed by photographs taken by Kane himself, and line drawings by local artist Wynford Vaughan Thomas. “There is something distinct here which is worth exploring, and the reason I pulled these pieces together is that they became an attempt to explore this. So the characters of Billy Ruffian and johnnie and carole [who appear in the book] are to some extent Everyman characters.”
‘Unauthorised Person’ also contains two little known former pamphlets by Kane, ‘Among High Waves’ (Urban Fox 2004) and the earlier ‘city’s little heart’, which was published by Mezzanine press in 1994. The poems overflow with Medway: its river; its people and their conversations; the dockyard; the lie of the land and its fragmented heart – all seen through the prism of what Bill Lewis calls Kane’s “deep rooted humanity”, and hinting at a vision of what this world could be. This vision is also apparent when I ask Kane what drew him to Surrealism. “Surrealism is an attempt to make the world poetic,” he replies. “It’s the idea that life can be poetic, it doesn’t have to be mundane; it doesn’t have to be ruled by misery. Life can be about the poetic and the pursuit of the marvellous.” It is cheering to be around Kane’s quiet optimism and indeed I ask him finally if it is true to say, as I have observed, that just about all his work is about furthering the community in which he lives. “Yes, it’s true,” he agrees. “What else is society other than people working together and making a better world for themselves out of that? It’s about trying to activate people and building their confidence up so that they can make changes for themselves.” The bonus for Medway and the difference between Philip Kane and others, though, is that he actually goes out there and does just that.
‘Unauthorised Person’ is published by Cultured Llama, price £8. Available from their website at culturedllama.co.uk. ISBN 978-0-9568921-4-0
current of thought from ‘city’s little heart’ johnnie has gone to a gig in the smoky pub backroom carole packs a notebook in her bag walks out to watch the twilight settle at the riverside she sits on a park bench dedicated to the memory of and huddles in her overcoat in the reflections of the river she sees the city is too small in its mind nothing ferments and johnnie too is closed but carole feels her heart too big and walking home it will burst by Philip Kane
COMMUNITY ARTS - COMMUNITY ARTS - COMMUNITY ARTS
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF WOW FEATURED A MOST UNUSUAL FREE MUSIC PROJECT FOR KENT’S YOUNG PEOPLE, ORCHESTRA ONE.
Orchestra ONE (Orchestra of New Experiences) gives 12 to 19-year-olds from all sorts of backgrounds the chance to work musically together via a series of free workshops, drawing on their own tastes and experiences to create new music inspired by the River Medway and its journey through Kent. Each segment of the project concludes with a series of four-day-long rehearsals, where they are joined by a professional musician to help shape and polish their creations, culminating in a public performance. The project’s last concert of the year takes place on December 16 at Maidstone’s New Line Learning Academy, where composer and animateur James Redwood is joining the young people in the final days of the process to lend the weight of his considerable professional expertise. With a strong focus on experimentation and developing composition skills in its members, Orchestra One seems to be a project with a fresh perspective on what it means to be an orchestra. Laura Callaghan, who manages the project for Kent Music, agrees: “This is a new kind of music education project; designed to challenge the way music educators and teachers work, as well as the way young people are encouraged to be creative and musical.” It’s fantastic to see another project engage so completely with its local communities, not only by allowing the fantastic talent that is developing
in this region of Kent to flourish, but by making music accessible and interesting to young people. The workshops are available to musicians of any ability (no audition required!) or genre, but are also completely free, illustrating the inherently inclusive nature of the project. It has been said that music is a great equaliser, not only of personal circumstance, but of age. Members have had the benefit of learning from some of the best mentors in the music industry, and returning the favour I’m sure, bringing enthusiasm and that valuable asset of a youthful outlook. This project stands confidently apart from other, more traditional youth music organisations in Kent, and it is heartening to hear of another successful instalment in the series. WOW will be staying tuned to see what Orchestra ONE creates in 2013. The Orchestra ONE Concert starts from 4pm on Sunday December 16 at the New Line Learning Academy in Maidstone. There will be after-show drinks accompanied by the County Youth Choir and Singers. Concert tickets are available free in advance by contacting Kent Music on 01622 358406. Orchestra One is organised and supported by music education charities Kent Music and Rhythmix and sponsored by Rochester Bridge Trust For more information about Orchestra ONE visit kent-music.com
Words Sam Froudist
The project has since been shortlisted in the Music category of the Medway Culture and Design Awards 2012 (to be decided) and is preparing for its final concert of the year
MUSIC UPCDOWNC This hugely well-thought of Medway band have 2 new EPs out: THE END OF EVERY FILM is released via local label The Preservation Society Presents; THE ABATTOIR EP is selfreleased and is a rendition of what the band did with Damo Suzuki on LV21 last year. Email chris@upcdownc.com BEACON COURT TAVERN 128 Canterbury Street, Gillingham, ME7 5PT 01634 853186
Switchback Music Events present ESKIMO CHASE (headlining – great Medway indie/jazz/soul band) with PEDALO FRED, THE TIED & WILDFOWL. Sun 23 Dec Doors 8pm. £5. facebook.com/ switchbackmusicevents EARLS 30 Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PS 01622 751 286
Make Some Noise Xmas Gig: STACEY & THE FREELOADERS, ONE DAY ELLIOTT, UP FOR THE LET DOWN. Thu 20 Dec 9pm start EDITH MAY THAMES BARGE Lower Halstow Dock 01634 365343
SHANTY SEA CAROLS Sat 15 Dec, hatches open 7pm, music 8pm. £7.50 HAPPY TRAILS Americana Folk Music Fri 11 Jan, hatches open 6.45pm, music 7.30pm. £8.50 edithmay.com HORSEBRIDGE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTRE 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable, CT5 1AF 01227 281174
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT Sat Dec 15 7.30pm. Well-loved carols and seasonal music. £7 – £16 on door or from freda@me1691b. fsnet.co.uk (01622 726193), or Maidstone Leisure Centre (0845 1552277) or Maidstone Museum Visitors’ Centre (01622 602169) NAGS HEAD 292 High Street, Rochester ME1 1HS
MOCASSINS + guests Sat 8 Dec 8-11pm BEN JONES and THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS + guests Fri 14 Dec 8-11pm THESE GUILTYMEN + guests Sat 15 Dec 8-11pm THEATRE ROYAL + guests Fri 28 Dec 8-11pm All gigs are free SINGAPORA LOUNGE 51 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LN
SUNDAY LUNCH at LARKFIELD PRIORY RESTAURANT 802 London Rd ME20 6HJ on the A20 next to B&Q
Sun 16 Dec TRUDY KERR and band. Doors 12.45pm for 1.15pm start. £30 with 2 course or £35 with 3 course meal. Tickets from 144club.co.uk or 01634 365453 HISTORIC DOCKYARD CHATHAM Royal Dockyard Church, ME4 4TE
RAINHAM LADIES CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT with Sittingbourne’s UK Paper Band Sat 15 Dec 7.30pm. Carol concert raising funds for MacMillan Cancer Support. Adult £7, children under 12 £3. Tel: 01634 370797 or 01634 373132. rainhamladieschoir.org MOTE HALL Mote Park, Maidstone ME15 7RN
Maidstone Choral Union & Kent Festival Brass Ensemble
MOTHERBOY NIGHT : MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, HOUDINI + one more tbc Fri 7 Dec 8.30-11pm. Free entry STYLE & WINCH 72 Union Street, Maidstone ME14 1ED 01622 752 351
Make Some Noise Xmas Gig: TRUVELO DRIVE, THE JACS, FUNKE & THE TWO TONE BABY Fri 14 Dec 9pm start. TV SMITH (THE ADVERTS) TOBY, SOPH & CALLUM - JOHN FORRESTER Fri 11 Jan 9pm start. Free entry to gigs THE RAFTERS 62-63 High Street, Maidstone (above Turning Tables) ME14 1SR
Raise the Roof: JUNIOR MOORE EP LAUNCH + support from BROKEN BANJO AND KING SIZE SLIM. A Blues Rock extravaganza! Sat 15 Dec 8pm start. £4 on door Raise the Roof: KALEIDOPHONE, THE TIED AND THOMAS D PALMER Alternative/Indie night. Sat 22 Dec 8pm start. £4 on door
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MAN OF KENT ALE-HOUSE ROCHESTER
DECEMBER SUNDAY 2ND 2PM Sur Les Docks
THURSDAY 6TH 8.30PM Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs
tba Tom Palmer
WEDNESDAY 12TH 8.30PM Happy Trails
TUESDAY 4th Ukulele Jam Night WEDNESDAY 5TH 8.30PM Nigel Higgins and the Dreamlanders
THURSDAY 13TH 8.30PM Kingsize Slim WEDNESDAY 19TH 8.30PM Pierre Vincent
THURSDAY 20TH 8.30PM Pass the Cat Quartet SUNDAY 23RD 8.00PM Christmas Brass Quartet and carol singing evening THURSDAY 27TH 8.30PM Chimney Boys
JANUARY WEDNESDAY 2ND Green Diesel
WEDNESDAY 9TH Hot Rats Duo
WEDNESDAY 16TH We Ghosts
THURSDAY 3RD Jam Night
THURSDAY 10TH See Website
THURSDAY 17TH See Website
6-8 John Street, ROCHESTER, ME1 1YN Tel: 07772 214315 www.themanofkent.com
WEDNESDAY 23RD Keith James
T H E AT R E
PANTO! For details of all Kent theatres presenting pantomimes this Christmas, visit yourcounty. co.uk/christmaspresents/ pantomimes/html BILLABONG CLUB (COMEDY) Victoria Street, Rochester ME1 1XB
NIK COPPIN’S SHAGGERS CHRISTMAS TOUR Comedians talking about…er… shagging. Thu 27 Dec. Doors open at 7.30pm, comedy at 8pm. £9 in advance or with a flyer or £12 on the door. Tickets in advance from the Billabong Club,the Dot Café at 172 High Street, Rochester and 2 for 1 tickets available from wegottickets.com. billabongcomedyclub.co.uk THE BROOK THEATRE Old Town Hall, Chatham ME4 4SE 01634 338338
THE LITTLE LOST FROG AND THE CHRISTMAS WISH Sat 15 Dec-Sat 5 Jan, various times. The Brook continues its excellent record for producing quality theatre for the very young. For 3-6 year olds. £6.95 per person, group concessions available. medwayticketslive.co.uk
CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR..? Mon 17 Dec- Fri 21 Dec at 6pm; Sat 22 -Mon 24 Dec at 1pm and 5pm. Festive musical theatre offering. All performances £6, except 24 Dec £8. hazlittartscentre.co.uk THE GULBENKIAN THEATRE University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NB 01227 769075
THE SNOW DRAGON Tue 11- Sun 23 Dec, various day times. Tall Stories specialise in physical, visually exciting theatre for children. Ages 3+ . £8, babes on lap £1 gulbenkian.co.uk
THE MARLOWE THEATRE The Friars, Canterbury CT1 2AS 01227 787787
MAIN HOUSE: ANTON & ERIN GO TO HOLLYWOOD Wed 23 Jan 3pm and 7.30pm. Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag dancing together to salute the Golden Years of MGM musicals. £28.50-£47.50
HORSEBRIDGE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTRE 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable CT5 1AF 01227 281174
SHE WRITES Presents PASSIONS: Short plays by women with Poetry Open Mic Wed 5 Dec Doors 7pm. Continuing this excellent series; the performance is being filmed by the BBC. shewrites.blogspot. com. £5, concs £4. horsebridge-centre.co.uk MEDWAY LITTLE THEATRE St Margaret’s Banks, Rochester ME1 1HY 01634 400322
THE NATIVITY Thu 6-Sat 15 Dec 7.30pm Tony Harrison’s classic adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays, telling the story from the fall of Adam and Eve to the birth of Christ. With music from Didi Bergman and friends.
EXCHANGE STUDIO, HAZLITT THEATRE Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PL 01622 758611
COMEDY NIGHT: TOM WRIGGLESWORTH, IVO GRAHAM & SUZI RUFFELL (line-up may be subject to change) Wed 5 Dec 8pm £10
Van Gogh’s life and loves during his stay in SW9 in the 1870s. All tickets £8, Mondays £5, concs available. mlt.org.uk
VINCENT IN BRIXTON by Nicholas Wright Thu 31 Jan- Sat 9 Feb 7.30pm. An imagining of
STUDIO: GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE Wed 5 Dec 2pm and 6pm New take on the Roald Dahl classic employing puppetry and music. £8, concs £5 STUDIO: THE MARLOWE COMEDY CLUB Sat 8 Dec 8.15pm Top stand-up and quirky cabaret acts (Note: adult themes and language). £13 marlowetheatre.com (booking charge applies via internet ) THE ORCHARD Home Gardens, Dartford DA1 1ED 01322 220000
JONGLEURS COMEDY CLUB Fri 11 Jan 8pm. Three comedians and a compère from the best of British stand-up circuit. £16, £12 SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME Brand new musical full of rock ‘n’ roll classics. Wed 16-Sat 26 Jan 7.30pm, Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm. £21.50-£31.50(booking fee applies). orchardtheatre.co.uk
A Co-educational Day and Boarding School
Year 7 to sixth form “RIC is such a friendly place. My teachers are great and they make the lessons really interesting. It’s informal but we still get lots of work done. I want to be a GP when I grow up, working with patients and helping them.” Caitlin, Year 8 student • Very small classes (maximum 12) • No school uniform • Academically non-selective • College minibus services • No open days - visit us any time • Call for an appointment
www.rochester-college.org ISC ACCREDITED | STAR HILL ROCHESTER ME1 1XF 01634 828115
tHiS winter At tHe HAzlitt ArtS Centre Hazlitt Christmas Craft Fair Sat 1 – Sat 29 December Graham Clarke Gallery Mon- Sat 10am- 5.30pm
Free n SiO D A MiS
Find those special gifts for the people that count in your life. Beautiful handmade gifts made by local craftspeople, jewellers and artists.
Box Office: 01622 758611 www.visitmaidstone.com www.hazlittartscentre.co.uk
VISUAL ART AFFORDABLE ART AND CRAFT FAYRE Jubilee Square, Maidstone Town Centre
Runs from Thu 13 Dec to Sun 23 Dec and includes a joint arts stall hosted by Making Art Work, Maidstone Visual Artists Network and Stepping Stone Studios.
BENTLIF ART PRIZE 2012 EXHIBITION To Sat 9 Feb 2013. The Bentlif Open Art Prize showcases artwork from emerging artists in Maidstone, Kent and the South East. Free entry. museum.maidstone.gov.uk
MAKING ART WORK 23 Union Street, Maidstone ME14 1EB
RED is the theme of the second exhibition in this new contemporary art space. To Sun 16 Dec. Open Thu to Sun 10am-4pm. Free entry. INTO THE RED DAY Sat 8 Dec: Workshops and more. MUSEUM OF CURIOS Also to 16 Dec Collaborative installation by Ruth Payne & Adam Modley boasting ‘the only known artistic collaboration between human and wasp’! ONLY HAVE IN YOUR BOAT WHAT YOU NEED A new work by Artist in Residence Nicola Flower. Thu 6-Sun 9 Dec makingart-work.co.uk MAIDSTONE MUSEUM & BENTLIF ART GALLERY St Faith’s Street, Maidstone ME14 1LH 01622 602838
10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 12-4pm Sun
75 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX 01634 780932 2-4 Granada House, Gabriel’s Hill, Maidstone ME15 6JR 01622 690337
Affordable art, craft and cards by local artists up for sale.
83 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX
ROLLING EXHIBITION OF LOCAL ARTISTS New submissions policy The Deaf Cat has new, rolling submissions policy, with NO hanging charge and 30% commission. See thedeafcat.com
NUCLEUS ARTS, ROCHESTER
NUCLEUS ARTS, MAIDSTONE
THE DEAF CAT COFFEE BAR & GALLERY Open all week 9.30am-5pm
artists. Supported by Rochester Bridge Trust. Preview: Fri 18 Jan 6-8pm (open until 1pm on 31 Jan) nucleus-arts.com
MEDWAY OPEN STUDIOS & ARTS FESTIVAL 8 and 9 Dec See page 8 NUCLEUS ARTS 272 High Street, Chatham ME4 4BP 01634 812108
Gallery opens 9-5pm, closed Sunday Free AFFORDABLE ART AUCTION Wed 5 Dec, 6-8pm. Conference room. Original works and prints up for grabs in aid of Nucleus Arts’ social inclusion project Art Inclusive. NUCLEUS ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS SHOWCASE Sat 8 – Thu 20 Dec (closes 5pm on 20 Dec) A further opportunity to view the work of the resident Nucleus artists taking part in Medway Open Studios weekend. Varied work in multiple mediums by some of Medway’s most experienced artists. Preview/ meet the artists: Friday 7 Dec 6 – 8pm UCA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 12 - 17 Jan 2013. External exhibition project by a group of UCA BA Photography students. Preview: Friday 11 Jan, 6-8pm (open until 1pm on 17 Jan) ART FOR LIFE 19 - 31 Jan Works on the theme of ‘The River Medway’ from the Art for Life
PRINTED WONDERS STUDIO Unit 2 Boundary Wharf, rear of 375 High Street, Rochester ME1 1DA
CHRISTMAS PRINTING WORKSHOPS –see News pages printedwonders.co.uk ROCHESTER ART GALLERY & CRAFT CASE Medway Visitor Information Centre, 95 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX 01634 338319
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-5pm. BEING AND NOTHINGNESS: MATT BRAY Fri 14 Dec to Sat 16 Feb 2013. Hugely popular local artist Matt Bray’s moving paintings express “the meeting ground between abstraction and figuration.” CRAFT CASE: Award-winning jeweller SIAN BOSTWICK pieces are inspired by literature, fairytales and the Kent countryside. With glass artist KATHRYN ROBERTS. ROEBUCK HOUSE 47 St Margaret’s Street, Rochester ME1 1UF
MUSICAL ABSTRACTION: WYNFORD V THOMAS Sat 1 Dec to Sun 9 Dec Collages, drawings and paintings on Parisian and musical themes. Open daily 12 - 5pm. Free
The Christmas Room
at Francis Iles
Come and visit our sparkly, fun and festive feature full of Gifts, Games, Puzzles, Decorations, Stocking Fillers, Diaries and Advent Calendars galore on the 1st floor of Francis Iles Galleries, Rochester. We are open every day until Christmas Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm & Sunday 11am - 4pm. Wednesday 5th December is our Art on a Postcard Fundraising Evening. Original art postcards by our Gallery Artists for £20, plus a silent auction for larger pieces of art work. In aid of Hounds for Heroes. See our website for more details.
The perfect gift is just around the corner!
Francis Iles Galleries
Join us on the 15th & 16th December for our Designer Jewellery Weekend. Artisans in Gold, Silver and Glass inspire and tempt for those special gifts. Featuring works by Brett Manley, Nikki Turner, Alison Flanders and Claudette Worters.
Francis Iles Galleries Rutland House, 103 High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1LX Telephone 01634 843081 www.francis-iles.com
PRINTMAKING STUDIOS Fine art printmaking studio for Medway
NEW COURSES STARTING NOW www.coalshedpress.co.uk
SARA NORLING. COM
SARA NORLING
{ PHOTOGRAPHER - MAKER - CREATIVE } PORTRAITS, LIFESTYLE, WEDDINGS, WORKSHOPS
Basic Drawing & Painting Courses
Are being held at NUCLEUS ARTS 75 High Street,Rochester.
The first course will start on the 9th January 2013 from 7 - 9pm. Courses are at six week intervals and will cover all aspects of Drawing &Painting. All materials are supplied Beginners are Welcome For further information please call BrianThompson
POP-UP PHOTO STUDIO, ROCHESTER, 8-9 DEC SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO GIFTVOUCHERS AVAILABLE
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THE ARTIST’S SPACE
BEADED TEXTILE CORSAGES BY SHEILAGH DYSON
A mixed media artist with a love of photography, Sheilagh produces imaginative yet functional contemporary pieces – felted or stitched bags, knitted corsages, fairies and jewellery. She loves to recycle fabrics, wool, broken and unloved ‘treasures’, breathing new life into them – an ethos and passion inherited from her mother. Prize winning creations include ‘Victory Incarnate’, a bag whose design was based on Lord Nelson’s iconic flagship, which won a Highly Commended placement at the Art in the Dockyard competition in 2011. Her work can be found in Nucleus Gallery (Rochester), Lazy Days Living (Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone), Stepping Stone Studios (Maidstone) and Cavendish Coffee and Gift Shop (Bearsted, Maidstone). facebook.com/JollyNiceCreations
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P H I L D I L LO N H A S R E C E N T LY TA K E N O N T H E R O L E O F P R O D U C E R FO R M E DWAY ’ S V E R Y O W N R A D I O S TAT I O N , F I Z Z E R ’ S R A D I O S H OW
HERE HE REVIEWS THE FORTHCOMING DEBUT EP FROM THE MUSWELLS, ‘THUNDERBOLT PIER’ Photo: Phil Dillon
The Muswells are a four piece Medway-centric band whose mission statement is “…to get people dancing to a sound that has long left the pop mainstream”. They declare their influences to be The Sonics, The Who, The Kinks, Sixties Beat, R&B (the proper sort) and Garage. Singer Liam McManigan has expanded on this, citing Medway’s own Thee Headcoats and The Dentists as personal favourites. The band is due to release its debut EP ‘Thunderbolt Pier’ any day now. The title track kicks in with a tongue in cheek ‘1, 2, 3, Oi!’ and yes, it’s very danceable. Indeed, if you like The Who’s ‘I Can’t Explain’ then you’ll be on familiar territory. The song tells a simple tale of meeting a girl on the dance floor, kissing her by the pier and then things going a bit wobbly. It’s a tale of young manhood delivered with aplomb and a healthy twist of Peter Docherty and Alex Turner in the telling. ‘She Makes Me Feel (Alive)’ is similarly vibrant and nods to Liverpool’s finest The Beatles and The La’s (you know what I mean) with choppy stereo guitars and bubbling bass from Gary Parker helping the whole thing to froth over into ‘Dirty Little Venues’, which is the most contemporary song on the whole EP, perhaps acquiescently, and arguably the least self-assured. ‘What’s It Got To Do With You?’ has a slow, arpeggiated intro that lets you settle in only to find that you’re suddenly expected to do some kind of secret agent
twist. This is very much the stuff of B-sides, and I mean that in the best possible way. Ben Sullivan plays four excellent guitar breaks on this EP, and this one is arguably the best. Not a pedal in sight and not an ounce of fat on his playing. Bravo, sir! The closing ‘Rock And Roll Ain’t Dead’ is a fun stomp, with its glam intro chords and ‘alcohol and cigarettes’. It’s hugely entertaining, with a proud heartbeat pounded out by Ezra Mullhern, but it’s clearly a theatrical wink to Oasis, who – lest we forget – were only really any good for about eighteen months before they slid away. On the strength of this first offering, not to mention the other songs that we know they have up their sleeves from gigs and live radio, this is a band unlikely to stagnate any time soon. With an apparent desire respectfully to rejuvenate the traditional Medway sound, and young enough to have been kids in the Britpop era, The Muswells have made a good account of themselves with ‘Thunderbolt Pier’ and are a band to watch in 2013.
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