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WE’RE BACK! AND SO IS HAT FAIR… Comment By KEVIN GOVER News Editor Sixteen months ago, on 23rd March 2020, the Prime Minister delivered those words that made us all shiver: “You must stay at home”. Coronavirus was getting worse, and the time had come, as Boris Johnson to do more to fight this terrible virus. Since that day, here in Winchester we have all tried to be as patient as we can. Three lockdowns, lives lost, jobs lost, famous brands like Loch Fyne closed and boarded up. Families became isolated from each other. The new normal was just not normal. We saw staff at local schools make PPE personal protective equipment items as it became clear there was a supply issue. We applauded our NHS heroes – we even painted slogans in the road outside the RHCH. Here at Winchester Today we also took the painful (yet we think totally responsible) decision to put everything on hold as far as the newspaper was concerned. We were just not going to ask our staff to put themselves or our readers in danger. The fight back has been slow. Very slow. Some of those famous brands in Winchester will never return. But there has been joy along the way. How many of us were watching breakfast TV when it was announced there was a vaccine – and ran around the room
Families became isolated from each other. The new normal was just not normal.
screeching with joy? How many of us smiled a huge grin and even shed a tear when we had our first jab? The NHS staff saw it a thousand times and yet still guided each and every one of us through it with equally big smiles? Yes, for some of us it hurt. Some we know of couldn’t get out of bed for a week after the jab. But the point is, we’ve had it done. We’ve all been part of a huge success story. Having said all that, we haven’t just resorted to to sitting at the kitchen table for a year. Our radio station Winchester Today has continued to grow during lockdown, with new presenters brought on, and a commitment to help the Arts in Winchester and beyond. That’s why we have donated four pages to Hat Fair under Winchester Today’s ArtsPlus COVID Recovery Project. We’ve included all arts venues and freelancers in this scheme to give them encouragement and editorial at no extra cost. We’ve formulated those new ideas on the arts and styles into new projects. We’ve made a formal application to be on the new Winchester small-scale DAB digital radio system. And here we are, back with the newspaper. Enjoy. Have a great summer.
Hat Fair Promises The Best Possible! We have to admit, there was more than a huge roar in the office when we heard Hat Fair would be back. Yes, it’s a different format and has to be ticketed because of restrictions, but it’s there at North Walls. Hat Fair Director Andrew Loretto told Winchester Today that feedback from the public has been amazing: “We’ve had an enormous response from the public, despite the restrictions that we have to stick to, and we will try to do it in as safe a way as is possible. “We’re going to try to give everyone exactly what they would expect from Hat Fair. “In terms of the programme though, we’re determined to bring you the best possible. We’ll have professional visiting acts as well as plenty of local magic and entertainment… even giant kangaroos!” Hat Fair runs from 2-4 July 2021, and there’s a special pullout in this newspaper beginning on Page 5.
Chopping. The name’s Chopping! page 2-3
Delayed Film Festival draws entries from around the world page 10
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Good Evening Mr Chopping. I’ve Been Expecting You! A fabulous exhibition of original 007 book covers at Salisbury Museum has drawn huge interest and national press coverage. The Chair of Salisbury Museum – Jon Lys Turner – was taught by the artist Richard Chopping in the mid 1980s, and told Kevin Gover why he wanted to bring these artefacts together.
“Interestingly, in this exhibition that we have at the museum in Salisbury, we have the original fly. The actual fly that appears on these covers. The most amazing thing about the things that I inherited in this amazing archive from Richard Chopping, is that he stuck a pin through this fly and had it in cork that would sit in his studio. He would have a magnifier above the fly as he drew it. The fly became a symbol throughout all his artworks but always for Fleming.
“We were looking for an exhibition that really felt great as we reopened again after such an extraordinary year – all museums had such a terrible year, we wanted something that was topical and something that wasn’t expected from the Salisbury museum. “The director said: “If only we could have something that was connected to the new Bond film”, and I said it’s strange that we should mention that. What if I were to tell you that I might be able to share with you some of the original Chopping work? “As we worked on it and came up with the idea, it became better and better because Ian Fleming lived in Wiltshire, he’s buried in Wiltshire and I have a lot of Chopping work. Everything about it just felt different from what people might expect. “This seemed to have everything. Bond is very interesting because it covers people who love the films, those who love the books. It has got the art work and also has an extraordinary life of the artist himself which was pretty eventful from beginning to end. “Within the exhibition, we’ve got all sorts of different tiny pieces and memorabilia as well as artworks that relate to the covers and other artworks for other books that other pieces that Chopping worked on. It was also fantastic to find that Adrian, our Director, is a big Bond fan as well, so he knew a lot of the work. It just all fitted into place, especially with his brain which far exceeds mine, historically and putting things together and his knowledge of shows and things, it just started to come together really beautifully”. There are certain aspects of this exhibition that you just wouldn’t expect, as Jon explains: “I immediately look for his trademarks in his book covers that are there. There is the woodgrain and there is a fly nearly always. There will be something beautiful and something macabre that he’s put in there so there will be a gun, but there will be a beautiful rose.
“We have the original fly. The actual fly that appears on these covers”. “Going through stuff, I found a little handmade box that was taped at the sides and when I opened it, there was the original fly. The fly is together, a few other pieces haven’t lasted, but the fly sits in a case in Salisbury Museum for this exhibition. If only the fly knew, he would have a real grudge against Fleming about royalties, continued on page 3→ →
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“Funnily enough, we’ve been “chopping and changing” ourselves because the Bond film, as I think everybody knows, has been on and off. It was due to be released for May this year. So we moved the exhibition back to May so it would coincide perfectly for the release. Just as we had announced our schedule for our exhibitions, they changed the date for the Bond film which is now coming out in September. So rather than play hide and seek with them, we have stuck with the date that we have and I hope that we mutually can do some kind of talking up of the film as it comes through. We can help big up the film for them and vice versa. “Daniel Craig is my favourite Bond. I spent a lot of time living in London. Quite a lot of the time, I would turn the corner in Islington and there would be Daniel Craig filming a part of the films, something would always be going on. At the time he lived in an apartment in Camden, and it just felt like a lot of life was going on there. “Also, with the modernisation of the film, there was a friend of mine who had been doing the intros to the film – it just felt very much what we had all wanted to be happening with the film. Daniel Craig was the person who had seemed to be doing it so well, he had also done so many great films before. It just felt like the way the films should have gone, which of course the box office shows how right that was. “Forgive me, I am talking like an absolute connoisseur about this, I am not an authority on film at all. I am simply a punter. I think the whole thing could easily have been put away and put in a cupboard and forgotten about as some sexist, old fashioned, violent genre from ages ago. Whilst a lot of that is still there, what’s been so clever in the recent production is that the producers and directors firmly have their tongue in their cheek. I see a lot of that, it fits in very much more into society now. Whereas a lot of the old ones are pretty eye-watering to watch with some of the lines and some of the behaviour in some of the earlier films. “I think Fleming would have loved Daniel Craig. From what I have read about Fleming, from everything he has put into that character, I think he would be extremely lucky and pleased to see a modern-day equivalent of Bond being delivered in 2021. Incredible”. James Bond (Daniel Craig) prepares to shoot in NO TIME TO DIE, an EON Productions and MetroGoldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Hat Fair Outdoor Arts festival is due to return to Winchester on Friday 2 to Sunday 4 July 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic the festival will take a different format to previous years with all three days taking place at North Walls Recreation Ground and the adjacent Winchester School of Art Car Park, close to the city centre. The event will also be ticketed. The main festival site - North Walls Recreation Ground - will stage some of the most brilliant street performers (or ‘hatters’) and outdoor artists including Jones and Barnard – exploring the eccentricities of the British through the universal language of eccentric dance, circus skills, comedy and song; Tit for Tat – using fiasco and mayhem to share our love of stories; Dizzy O’Dare’s The Giant Balloon Show – feverous balloon sculptures and high energy comedy; and Sam Goodburn brings his Wire Attire show - a family show featuring incredible stunts on a 2 metre tight-wire. Hat Fair family favourite Juggling Jake returns with some fun juggling, clowny antics with magnificent magic and lots of audience participation (Covid style!).
DamaeDance’s IRMÃ-sister
DamaeDance bring IRMÃ-sister - an exhilarating, cutting-edge exploration of the beauty and challenges of women’s relationships, looking at how they affect and shape the way we perceive ourselves and our surrounding environment. Joli Vyann return to Hat Fair with their innovative fusion of circus, dance and theatre - blurring the boundaries of dance and circus skills with their show Lançe moi en l’air - about the sensitivity and connection between two people, bringing about compatible contradictions. TRIBE// bring their intensely physical, powerful and uplifting show Rise featuring four female dancers. Opera North make their Hat Fair debut with a new whistle stop performance inspired by Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute; The Enchanted Flower Globe and Floris the mystical flower nymph will glide through the festival site; the dazzling and surreal The Lips will be re-animate favourite songs celebrating popular music and Etta Ermini Dance Theatre and Van Huynh Company bring Glam – a gloriously vibrant dance and circus show filled with acrobatics, disco, feathers and glitter!
Sam Goodburn’s Wire Attire
Hat Fair is part of Without Walls – a national consortium of festivals that commissions artists to produce Outdoor Arts work. This year’s commissions performing at Hat Fair include Jeanefer Jean Charles’ Black Victorians - a dynamic dance piece inspired by the discovery of hundreds of portraits of black people in England during the Victorian era. The characters in the portraits are brought to life through movement, text and music; Pif-Paf’s TOAST – a celebration of food, song, story, dance and fire performed on and around their ever-moving kitchen cart and includes a mixture of songs, stories and recipes from musicians and cooks all around the world; Charmaine Childs, the Strong Lady – a familiar face to Hat Fair audiences – brings Strong Enough – a powerfully optimistic show that uses circus physicality, comedy and feats of strength to find strength in unexpected places.
There will also be a selection of stalls and food and drink stands. The festival also features many local talent, musicians, artists and dancers - more of that later in this edition of Winchester Today! In addition to the main festival site, the Winchester School of Art Car Park will be the venue for 2 double bill events featuring Gravity and Levity’s Why? – a tender and exhilarating aerial duet exploring themes of life, loss, surrender and acceptance in a soft and moving way (Fri & Sat); the Britain’s Got Talent finalist Ben Hart returns to his home city with his astonishing sleight-of-hand, set against a backdrop of comedy and stories of wonder (Fri); and Yorke Dance Project – the dynamic contemporary ballet company will perform Dance Awakening (Sat).
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Time slots at NorTh Walls 4hr time slots, featuring multiple performance areas and stalls.
The Hat Fair festival has previously been free to attend, it originated as a Busker’s festival with audiences traditionally throwing money in to a hat after a hatters performance. However due to the ongoing Covid pandemic, rather than audiences crowding together and throwing money (and potentially germs) in to a hat, hatters will be paid a fee from the ticket money raised. Ticketing the event also allows organisers to limit the audience numbers to help to provide a Covid safe and secure event for audiences, staff, volunteers and artists alike.
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Fri 2 Jul 4pm to 8pm, North Walls
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Sat 3 Jul 10.30am to 2.30pm, North Walls
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Sat 3 Jul 4.30pm to 8.30pm, North Walls
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Fri 2 Jul 4.30pm, WSA Car Park - Double Bill Ben Hart | Gravity & Levity Why?
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Fri 2 Jul 8.25pm, WSA Car Park - Double Bill Ben Hart | Gravity & Levity Why?
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Sat 3 Jul 2.30pm, WSA Car Park - Double Bill Yorke Dance Project | Gravity & Levity Why?
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Sat 3 Jul 8.30pm, WSA Car Park - Double Bill Yorke Dance Project | Gravity & Levity Why?
See the line-up, so far, at hatfair.co.uk
Please note: Listed performances may be subject to change due to the ongoing pandemic.
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Hat Fair is organised by the arts and education charity Play to the Crowd (Charity no. 1077139).
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DICKIE’S LOCKDOWN DIARY Well that can only be described as ‘unprecedented’. I’ve kept busy, mostly by keeping my foot on the pedal whilst simultaneously being ready to put on the brakes, but mainly taking care to remember we’re not out of the woods yet. So this, dear reader, is my diary of the first hundred days of lockdown. 23 March 2020 That’s a turn up for the books, isn’t it? Locked down. Unprecedented. Ah well, just remember the mantra - what was it again? “Stay Home. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip. Make Myths”. Decide to beat the rush and order a wine delivery. 24 March Had to look up what furlough means. I know the elephants had some in Disney’s Jungle Book. In the shade, as I recall. Never understood that bit. Assumed it was edible. Or something quintessentially American, like ‘sidewalk’ or ‘cooties’. Rishi Sunak at the news briefing sounds like we’ve got to that stage after two hours of Monopoly where someone gets bored and hands out all the money in the bank to liven things up a bit. 26 March OK, so this is getting like that week between Christmas and New Year but without presents, footy or turkey sandwiches. Plenty of booze, though, tbf – wine delivery arrived. Resolve to get off the couch and start enjoying improving activities and exercise. Tomorrow. 27 March Had a lie in. Jog in the morning. 30 March Jogging is overrated. Maybe this period of enforced reflection is more of an opportunity to catch up on some culture? I’m finally going to read ‘War and Peace’ – how exciting! Exercise regime can start soon. 31 March “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes …” 2 April First supermarket trip since lockdown. Queue for nearly an hour outside under a dodgy fake Victorian canopy being supervised by a spotty lad in a neon T shirt before whizzing round in a couple of minutes gawping at stuff, spending a fortune, coming home
with things I didn’t really want and feeling like I need a bath in disinfectant to get rid of the contagion. Feels exactly like a day at a theme park, in fact. 4 April Aha, gotcha, I did go, see? Went for my exercise. Within 200m of home, naturally. At 4am, so as not to meet anyone, as everyone round here but me probably has the plague by now. Stuff strolling along the Rive Gauche at dawn, Hampshire’s mock Georgian architecture is seriously underrated. Feel blessed. 8 April OH tours three supermarkets looking for toilet paper. Comes back with 3 rolls in Barbie Blush Pink (one fell out into a puddle), which will look great in our orange and cinnamon late twentieth century period bathroom with its original avocado suite (including bidet). I point out Manjit in the corner shop has plenty of toilet paper but we don’t go there as she doesn’t stock anything we want. Just as well the second wine delivery came today. Need a peace offering. 14 April “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes …”. Why would he want a family estate anyway? Aren’t Genua and Lucca just discontinued Skodas? If an actual prince was going to drive himself surely an SUV would be more his style? 16 April Spent ten minutes in bed this morning trying to work out what day it is. 20 April Ooh this is exciting. First big work meeting on “Zoom”. Get to see inside everyone’s house. Half the participants look like IRA spokespeople in the Thatcher years, silhouetted against a bright window with their words spoken by an actor. This is Internet audio, mind, so a Dalek could be praised for their beautiful enunciation. Great decision making, though, so fast and decisive – at least for the first hour until they made me unmute everyone else. Memo to self; make sure everyone’s actually disconnected before telling OH what a flipping waste of time that Connie in Accounts is. 21 April Got a curt two-line memo to say my expenses are delayed this month. Possibly ‘til Christmas. Maybe indefinitely. But Connie otherwise enjoyed the very productive meeting, apparent 27 April
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LIFE AS I SEE IT... by Richard Horsman Who is this new Norman? Why do we have to get used to him, does he have disturbing habits? 4 May Probably should think about going for a walk again. 16 May Getting ready for the big question my still-unborn grandkids will inevitably ask one day .. “What did you do in the Great Bore, grandad?” “Well, sweetheart .. I knelt in the bath .. yes, that’s right, the big avocado one upstairs with the gold taps .. whilst your grandma came at me with the hair clippers. Got out looking like an extra from that Scottish film. No, not Braveheart .,. the other one .. what was it again? Oh yes, Trainspotting …” 20 May “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes …” Zzzzzz. 27 May They could of course save a fortune with all this ‘social distancing’ nonsense. We’re British, after all. Just get Waitrose to issue an Aldi bag to every second customer. And vice versa. Let them walk a few yards in public and let nature take its course. Talking of wh 4 June “Well, Prince, know what? I don’t actually give a flying fig any more whether Genoa and Lucca are in fact now just family estates of the Buonapartes, Rupert Murdoch or the Queen of Sheba …” 12 June Found myself doing a quick Google search to see if “crunching cereal too loudly in bed every blooming day” is in fact grounds for divorce under the conventionally-accepted definition of unreasonable marital behaviour. Just in case. 22 June Gather we’re getting an extra Bank Holiday in October when this is all over. Brilliant! A day to laze around at home and do nothing. It’ll make a real change 23 June 2020 - 23 June 2022 As above, and repeat. But it’s great to be back.
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Film Festival Ready To Go Almost from the very start of our newspaper, Winchester Today has supported the Film Festival from its humble beginnings to the multi-venue event that it has become. We spoke to the Festival’s director John Hayes about how things stand: “Well, Kevin, obviously it is slightly different to other years. Everything has been pushed back. Quite a few festivals decided to go down the route of offering virtual experiences, which is great. We decided not to, which has subsequently postponed it two times now. But fingers crossed, it will be happening non-virtually, in person in November”. We asked John about that decision: “I think in person and virtually have both got their advantages. A lot of the time in lockdown, people needed stimulation and interesting things to watch, so I understand why people would go ahead with it. “For me personally, film experience is all important and not just for the audience but for the film makers themselves to come and introduce and talk about their films. It is a completely different experience and being able to do that helps with getting people out and talking together again. From both perspectives, and from the audience perspective, they get an opportunity to talk with the directors or makers to talk among themselves. Just to be sitting next to each other, for the filmmakers, obviously they need to know what the audience think of their films”. We asked John about the Festival content: “We have to remember that these are mostly short films; we do have feature films but many of them are independent films. They have great ‘A listed’ casts some of them, but they are films that attempt to broaden horizons, to provoke debate and reflect the burning issues of our time. “Then there’s been lockdown. We receive films from all over the world, from more than 60 countries, so each country has its own unique set of problems. Within a film, there are so many people. It’s not just actors, directors and producers. There are makeup artists and DoPs, there is a whole range of people. So, I can imagine that it’s pretty difficult for all of them. Not so for screenwriters!” We asked John why it is that the Festival seems to work here: “Winchester is a wonderful place for a festival and we work very hard. It peaked a couple of years ago when we had the premier of ‘Detainment’; now it is a matter of maintaining it. Growing it is going to be hard, but with the right cooperation from the City and County Council, I am sure we can do even better. The quality of films has been exceptional. Each year, we maybe have 1000 films, which we have to reduce down, but we have a selection panel and a judging panel and a screening panel and curators, so it is a creative effort. “The key is curating the screenings so people choose the screenings that they go to and we try to group films together for the audience. This is our tenth anniversary. We have ten anniversary screenings of all the best films over the last ten years - I hope it’s going to be good!” The Festival’s theme this year is Renewal, Reunification and Motherhood, reflecting the pandemic. See you there!
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at hat fair Hat Fair 2021 will also be awash with the very best local and regional talent – from singer songwriters to dance troupes, bands to theatre groups, DJs and more.
Over the three days the main festival site – North Walls Recreation Ground – will play host to singers and musicians, award-winning and starting out, performing pop, rock, country, jazz, folk, blues, swing, gospel, originals, covers… you name it. Get blown away by the most stunning voices – check out Bear Crawford’s folk, or r’n’b inspired Neo Kunene.
Bear Crawford
While if bands are more your thing – from buskers to festival favourites – and you fancy a dance, Snake Oil Band – the UK’s premier Tex Mex Tequila Rock ‘n’ Boogie Band – are bound to get you going on Sunday afternoon. Or there’s the ever colourful ‘brass-funk superstars’ Tuba Libres;; while Saturday comes to a close thanks to Shenanigans Libres Unlocked’s lively Irish.
Snake Oil Band
The teenagers of Winchester-based Integr8 Dance bring the best in street dance, be inspired by Horo Dance’s traditional Bulgarian moves; while a performance from wheelchair dance group, Liberate Dance,, will challenge your perceptions of what wheelchair dance Dance looks like.
Liberate Dance
Outdoor theatre will come from the likes of of the Special Assignments Company from Blue Apple – the city’s theatre company which supports performers with learning disabilities – who will be performing a piece about ordinary people as extraordinary heroes (rather apt after a year of us all helping others during a pandemic); Out of Bounds go on rowdy pirate adventures and sing popular sea shanties; while Playmakers Youth Theatre are set to show a collection of performances created especially for Hat Fair 2021, exploring Wintopia – the newest independent state (of mind).
Lottie Clist’s ‘36%’ from Hat Fair 2019
Winchester School of Art will stage a fashion show; and on the Friday the festival’s Top Hat Competition is back! Top Hat invites students and recent University of Winchester graduates to come forward with outdoor performance ideas – with three appearing at the festival, ready to receive your votes. The winner is mentored by Hat Fair Director, Andrew Loretto, before returning the next year as one of the official acts. Since the festival was cancelled last year due to Covid-19, two years after winning in 2019 Lottie Clist cannot wait to showcase her newest puppetry piece. She will also be collecting stories from older audiences about their experiences of loneliness during lock down. Also expect ukuleles and living statues. There literally is something for everyone!
Blue Apple
Hat Fair runs Fri 2 - Sun 4 July 2021. Get tickets today from hatfair.co.uk hatfair.co.uk.. The spread pullout is generously donated by Winchester Today’s ArtsPlus Covid Recovery Project.
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Fri 2 - Sun 4 July 2021 Three days at North Walls Recreation Ground Tickets available from hatfair.co.uk
Photo: Hat Fair 2019 - Adrienne Photography
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Championing The Arts Winchester Today ArtsPlus helping arts organisations get back on their feet after the pandemic, Once we identified that we could produce a radio service that could be seen as being distinctive we conducted an extensive survey with organisations that we already work with, and those others that we have not worked with which could be brought on board. One of those organisations that we have supported since our beginning is the Winchester Film Festival. We have sponsored this since 2012 and have helped the organisation grow from a very small award-giving ceremony in the Winchester Arts Café to the mini BAFTA- type bow tie ceremony that is now held each year at the Discovery Centre. Hundreds of people enter the competition, and Winchester Today has given them extensive coverage that they have not received elsewhere. The Creative Arts department at Perins School in Alresford comment on our relationship having been built over the years having been one based on “mutual respect and a love of the Arts”. They say our reviews of their performances have helped them to “think bigger and be more ambitious”... so much so that their last production was held at the prestigious
‘Grange’ in Hampshire instead of the school premises. They say they “cannot thank Winchester Today enough for their support of the School and the Arts at Perins School”. The Cheriton Players note that we have already given them free advertising space, articles and reviews about their organisation. They say the fact that we can already boast regular, professional broadcasters on our team – all unpaid – is testimony to the appeal of the ra- dio station. Salisbury Playhouse says the team at Winchester Today “work to the highest
standards with honesty and integrity in all that they do. The fact that they are prepared to travel from Winchester to Salisbury during their own time in the evenings is testament to their journalist commitment”. Mayflower Theatre praised us for our support to the theatre throughout the recent crisis and for what we already had done for them: “You currently supply a great news service to Winchester and beyond online and to gain a licence will further benefit listeners in the area. There is a gap in the market for the era of music that you are planning on playing through
the station, and definitely an audience for this”. The Anvil in Basingstoke has also welcomed the chance to be involved: “As an independent educational charity and the largest performing arts organisation in Hampshire, we look forward to the opportunities that working with Winchester Today would bring to the work of the Anvil Trust”.
Kev i n G ove r l o o ks at this seventh album f r o m G e n e s i s – A Tr i c k o f t h e Ta i l – w i t h f o n d memories. Recorded in October and November o f 1 9 75 a n d r e l e a s e d i n Fe b r u a r y 1 9 76 , A Tr i c k o f t h e Ta i l s o o n b e c a m e p a r t o f t h e G e n e s i s l e g a c y. Not least because Phil Collins proved he could sing lead vocals and that t h e re wa s l i fe fo r G e n es i s after Peter Gabriel. It hit number 3 in the UK album charts. I t wa s t h e so u n d quality that impressed fa n s l i ke m e. . . l a rg e l y thanks to production by D a v i d H e n t s c h e l . Tr a c k s like Squonk, Dance on a Vo l c a n o a n d L o s E n d o s went on to form huge parts of live shows and on live albums like Seconds Out – or Ripples on ‘When in Rome’. I can well remember b e i n g a t t h e Fo r e s t National in Brussels in October 1981... the entire building shook on Dance o n a Vo l c a n o a n d L o s Endos. Phil Collins brought in Bill Bruford as an additional drummer for touring so that he could stay on his drum kit as well, and became a superstar in his own right – and this is the album t h a t s t a r t e d i t o f f. A Tr i c k o f t h e Ta i l summed up for me means stunning art work, stunning songs, stunning sound quality and Hackett, Rutherford, Banks and Collins. Yo u c a n g e t a n e w reissued version on 180 g ra m s v i ny l fo r a ro u n d £20 on Amazon.
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What’s On in Winchester and beyond July 2021 Thursday 1st July
You do NOT have to pay to have your event listed here! You send details by email to news@winchestertoday.co.uk or tweet us the info @winchestertoday All event details listed are correct at time of going to press.
Barbequing with Weber, Season Cookery School, Lainston House, Sparsholt, Winchester, 10am – 4pm
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RACHEL GOVER From Friday 30th The Hundred at The Ageas Bowl, Botley
6th August, 5.10pm - 11.50pm Steamship Shieldhall Cowes Fireworks Cruise with Shieldhall Stompers, Berth 110, Western Docks 5.10pm - 11.50pm
Friday 2nd July Hampshire v Gloucester T20 Blast cricket, 7pm – 9.40pm
7th August 2021, Friday 2nd Sunday 4th Winchester Hat Fair
The Grange Hampshire - Wine Tour, Picnic and Tasting, Folly Hill, Alresford 6:30pm at Burge’s Field, Itchen Stoke
Saturday 3rd
21st August 2021
Wallop Wheel and Wings Event, Army Flying Museum, Stockbridge 9.30am – 7pm
Crafty Craft Fair in Wickham Community Centre, Mill Lane, 1pm - 4pm
Wednesday 7th
21st August
Caitlin Moran Live: More Than A Woman, The Anvil, Basingstoke, 7.30pm
Emsworth Farmers’ Market, St Peter’s Square
Saturday 10th
27th - 28th August
Southampton Mela Festival, Hoglands Park, Southampton
Park Proms, Broadlands, Romsey
27th - 29th August Sunday 11th Ballet Central Tour, Theatre Royal, Winchester, 7.30pm
Sunday 11th / Sunday 25th
Victorious Festival 2021, Southsea Common, Portsmouth
The Rocky Horror Show Friday 16th - Saturday 24th
Winchester Farmers’ Market, High Street
Friday 16th Saturday 24th
Friday 16th / Saturday 17th / Sunday 18th
Rocky Horror Show, The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 5pm / 8pm / 8.30pm
Foodies Festival, Devils Island, Winchester, 11am / 12pm – 8pm
Saturday 17th Winchester Comedy Festival: Summer Show #3, Theatre Royal, Winchester, 8pm
6pm - 9.10pm, 28th August Monday 18th July Monday 23rd August Yoga in the Gardens at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, 6.10pm – 7.30pm
Sunday 18th Simply Ford, New Forest, Beaulieu National Motor Museum, 10am – 5pm
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Thursday 22nd – 23rd Alice in Wonderland – Boxtree Production
at Beaulieu, 5.30pm onwards
Friday 23rd Sunday 25th 25th Hi Fest Music Festival, Hayling Island, Havant, 9pm – 10.30 pm
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Family Summer’s End Picnic with Fireworks, Jermyn’s Lane, Ampfield, Romsey
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WINDSOR AT WEST MEON ! WEST MEON OPEN AIR THEATRE
The Merry Wives of Windsor By William Shakespeare
14th – 18th July 8pm West Meon Cricket Ground Tickets @ www.westmeontheatre.co.uk
As detailed elsewhere in the newspaper, Winchester Today has pledged support to the arts under Winchester Today’s ArtsPlus COVID Recovery Project – and we’re pleased to offer the same to the West Meon Theatre. Their much delayed outdoor production of Shakespeare’s comedy ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ started rehearsing in the glorious June sunshine at West Meon. Originally scheduled for July 2020, everything has been on the back burner until now, when a somewhat clearer idea about what kind of performance will be allowed. Luckily, being an outdoor production, the latest delay in the lifting of restrictions until 19th July will not affect this production. West Meon Theatre has decided to place Shakespeare’s light hearted romp in the 1950s – an era of optimism, colourful fashion, teddy boys and upbeat music – and is entirely fitting for this production which follows the exploits of the infamous Sir John Falstaff in his ill-advised pursuit of two married women at once. What follows, as anyone who knows the story will be aware, is the frenetic and hilarious confusion, mischief and practical jokes. Mary Dawson, ex chairman of the Live Theatre Trust, forerunner of Play to The Crowd that runs Theatre Royal Winchester and Hat Fair, says she
is delighted with progress so far: “This was a very encouraging start of an intensive 11 full-day period of rehearsals and, despite COVID set-backs we had nearly all of our 20-strong, experienced cast present, including four West Meon Youth Theatre members, who all worked hard in the hot sun to devise the opening scene, block the first half of the show and to work on their characters”. The venue for this production is the cricket ground behind the village hall at West Meon, where an open sided stretch tent will cover the stage and some of the audience, allowing for social distancing with plenty of space available. In the true tradition of outdoor summer productions, the audience are invited to bring their own chairs, picnics and rugs (don’t forget the sun cream and insect repellent!), and local hostelry The Thomas Lord, are offering pre-ordered picnic hampers if you don’t want to bring your own! The production is taking place from the 14th18th July. Tickets are available from TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 or via the website www.westmeontheatre.co.uk priced £16 plus booking fee (groups of four or more can buy at £15 per ticket
David Cradduck