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CONTENTS

Daniel Crow Armstrong

South Coast Roast

Guilty In Paradise

Jimmy’s Iced Coffee Interview

Josh Ogden Interview

Veterans

Secret Garden Party

Flat 13 Records’ Review

A New Sound

DANIEL CROW ARMSTRONG

These pieces are from my exhibition ‘The Week’ as a part of the group show put on with the collective I belong to, Fifth Degree, in abandoned shop spaces in Boscombe’s Royal Arcade. Our collective is a tight knit group, we eat, drink and smoke together, constantly enquiring about one another’s ideas and plans, going on impromptu international explorations and living out of one another’s pockets. It’s been extremely helpful working along side these guys as well as putting on shows together, I feel we’ve developed as a whole, learning from our mistakes as we go along. This show was all about each of us considering our practice and each creating an exhibition in a shop space to attempt to allow the audience to delve into each of our own artistic practices. Over the last year and a bit I have been developing a systematic process of removal and refinement of my paintings, a process which involves the application of different paint thinning or stripping chemicals once paint has been applied to the canvas. Within each piece I essentially conduct an experiment, looking into paint’s materiality through the variation of different control variables. Whilst working on this process, I began a search for a ‘perfect black’, the first colour to be put through a process in order to become a paint when cavemen first started painting walls, the colour considered to be a ‘non-colour’. In the exhibition ‘The Week’ the control variable is the dying time of each

painting, all seven pieces were painted on the same day and the process of removal was carried out one piece each day for seven days whilst the show was open. The aim was to bring my process to the forefront of the exhibition and allow the audience to have an insight into the focus of my practice. I’m in my final year of study at AUB and it’s been a pretty exciting journey,

allowed me to experience a new way of studying art and a whole to approach to my Fine Art degree, not considering deadlines as something intimidating (except my dissertation) and more continuing to work at a consistent level. This has allowed me to make time for myself to really explore my work, it’s practice, the materiality of paint and perhaps to me

“SPENDING A TERM STUDYING IN THE NETHERLANDS ALLOWED ME TO EXPERIENCE A NEW WAY OF STUDYING ART” during which I feel I have really found my practice and my aims for the future. Fortunately for me I have been lucky enough to work along side some really inspiring students in the studios as well as being given a number of opportunities to exhibit in an exciting range of spaces. Spending a term studying in the Netherlands

currently most importantly search for black. I am currently exploring the formation of different black pigments, the process in which they are created and their historical links to theories of black. As well as this I am creating a series of paintings that consider Olbers’ Paradox, in relation to the black of the night sky.

SOUTH COAST ROAST BY BENJAMIN MUSITANO

“AT BOSCANOVA WE DO HAVE A COFFEE CALLED A ‘RED EYE’, WHICH IS A DOUBLE RISTRETTO SHOT POURED OVER BREWED COFFEE, AND THAT HAS A REAL KICK TO IT. WE DIDN’T MAKE IT UP, IT’S A THING, BUT I’VE NEVER SEEN IT OVER HERE, ONLY IN AMERICA.”

Reminiscent of a Californian coffee shack The South Coast Roast sits just up from Bournemouth square in the Town Centre. Unlike some of the coffee shops around Bournemouth they specialise in making decent coffee, we know this because they recently won an award for ‘The Best Coffee Experience’. From exquisite Flat White’s with notable hand drawn steamed milk flowers designs to unadulterated filter coffee with a splash of coconut water to create an exotic, hydrating and intense sour fruit explosion in your mouth. We’ve also heard rumors of collaboration with Jimmy Cregan from Jimmy’s Iced Coffee to make a cold brewed black coffee, which we’re very excited about. The SCR are lucky enough to work with Has Bean as their roasters, so are able to get some really creative and

tasty blends in and some amazing you’re in the town centre South Coast single origins to play around with. Roast do some killer bagels too, like For those of you that don’t know, The smoked salmon and scrambled egg so South Coast Roast is the baby sister go try them out. “At SCR the hot beef of Boscombe’s Boscanova; leader in sandwich we serve on Fridays chilled atmosphere, and Saturdays is a great coffee and “WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL definite favourite, good times. Coffee we always have isn’t all that they A COCO LATTE, WHICH IS some amazing and love though, for interesting salads in as the more peckish AN ICED COFFEE MADE well. And no one will of you out there ever say no to a friand; SCR have a great WITH COCONUT WATER especially the honey selection of cakes, and sea salt flavour.” brownies and AND A SHOT OF ESPRESSO, If you want to specials to sink continue your SCR your teeth into. WHICH IS INCREDIBLY experience at home Boscanova makes they have Chemex, all the salads REFRESHING!” Clever Dripper and and sandwiches Aeropresses available, for SCR and they change daily, so all of which make some amazing coffees there’s always something new and and have their own qualities, both in tasty to try at either cafe! function and flavour. If you’re not full after all that and So if you like coffee, and love food need something a little more robust we have a surprise or you. There’s they have a weekly bakery pop-up with a 10% discount off all South Coast fresh breads and sourdoughs. Choosing Roast stuff courtesy of the staff so from the selection of toppings from head down everyday between 8am and the centre table you can gorge on 4pm in the week or 10am to 5pm on Nutella, jam and other partners of warm Saturdays and 11am to 3pm Sundays. bread. As a quick lunchtime snack if That’s a lot of coffee.

The whole photojournalism world has descended on the southern French city of Perpignan. However, the professional ranks of photojournalists, these days, consist of around thirty people. The rest of the attendants are journalists, amateur photographers and the adoring public who swill around the sun soaked cobbled streets discussing loudly their holiday to Israel or staring poignantly in the vast exhibition halls at places and faces to whom they can never even begin to relate. Over the next three weeks the photographers are treated like an endangered species, who may vanish at any second. Crooning students and important looking suits collect around them every time they stop in front of a particular photograph or outside a significant building, hoping to hear some snippet of secret insight that might propel their knowledge and inform their wine fuelled debates later. I know this, because for seven days, I was one of them. As a collective group we needed someone to make up our indecisive minds for us. For it was a week of utter confusion and conflicting opinion. The chemical attacks in Syria had dominated the news and no one knew where to look for their information. The US was claiming over 1400 deaths by the Assad regime, the British backed out entirely and the French were debating whether to step in to assist the newly widowed US. But the numbers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add up, with only 250 deaths attributed to the attacks. We looked to the Captains of our industry for clarity at a festival where the walls were bathed in the images of rebel and regime blood. 10

However, the photojournalists were true to their profession and remained stoic. They reminded us that they are but voyeurs, unbiased and untainted by the will of either side. Many images illustrated this perfectly, in particular the work of Goran Tomasevic whose comparison of Aleppo to Stalingrad, Beirut and Sarajevo as a snipersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; war is evident and powerful. Young rebels lie dying or dead through blasted holes in living room walls or caught in sniping mirrors while the enemy hides behind bedsheets less than thirty meters away. The photographers are there to inform and document not to intervene or persuade. This was one of the favourite debates of the devotees that I heard, discussed on many occasions by passionate youths who had come as nomadic looking travellers to the festival to fly the flag for the particular issue they supported. Unfortunately, there is not enough time to describe every exhibition and every issue that arose from the festival. I leave it to the reader to discover the vastness of this festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reach and the complexity of every story documented. But, for the purposes of this magazine, I gravitated towards the photographers themselves and their story of becoming internationally renowned and coupled this with my own experience of spontaneously covering this bustling institution of journalism. I came to Perpignan as the last stop of my southern French tour. I was meant to be picking grapes in a vineyard just to the southwest of the city but, instead, got caught up in the atmosphere of the festival. I fed on it for days, playing at being an

international correspondent on location solely for the festival. I was in an unique position to indoctrinate myself in the world of photojournalism without any preformed ideas or how or what it meant to be a journalist abroad. The most noticeable advantage this gave me was that I was unafraid. Maybe it was a reaction to my age, my lack of a press pass, my unintimidating getups or simply the nature of the festival, but these god like figures seemed unafraid of me in return. I passed freely from illustrious event to illustrious event undisturbed and quickly found myself rubbing shoulders with the elite of photojournalism. The only fellow Brit I found among the professionals was a young photographer called Phil Moore who was introducing his work on the rebel militant group, the M23, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His journey to this exhibition has been a humble one; graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in computer science, he has always been interested in how information is obtained and displayed. Photojournalism was an unexpected but relevant step. Working with shoestring budgets but with fine photography tutors, he has gained access to conflict zones all over the world in pursuit of knowledge and a way of making it available for everyone. Moore is a classic example of how, if you put your life on the line for what you love, it will reflect in the work you produce. It is hard to describe here the energy that has been felt throughout the streets of Perpignan during the last few days. The first morning I arrived, I found myself in a tiny cafe on the outskirts of the

old town having a cup of tea amongst scores of photographers and journalists all swigging wine, smoking and discussing loudly the merits of the exhibitions they had already viewed. It was a surreal experience that had been pulled out of my images of Bohemian revolution. I had an interesting conversation with the renowned photojournalist Muhammed Muheisen only because he thought me to be the actor from the US TV show ‘Breaking Bad’. However, these photographers will only enjoy this comfort and freedom for a few more weeks before they are plunged straight back into hell. Most of the photographers I spoke to tried to accentuate their modesty. They began with nothing. Travelling around the world with nothing but a camera and a keen eye. It is only later, when they reflect on their work, that they realise that these were the best times of their life and they produced some of the most revealing work of their career. This is a week I will never forget. The cost of delving deeper into my overdraft to accommodate it is a small price to pay for this life changing time which I can only attribute to being in the right place at the right time. The debt I now carry with me is a marker of this time and a reminder of the guilt that I feel in being able to enjoy this paradise.

Henry Heffer at Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan,France: 27/7- 16/8/2013 11

JIMMY’S ICED COFFEE Alex & Ben interviewed Jimmy Cregan from the awesome Jimmy’s Iced Coffee over some delectable snacks of Hummus, breadsticks and Moroccan dip.

You’re here because you studied at AUB (and we like you); what course did you study and what brought you here in the first place? It was AIB back in the day; it was like a terracottatiled palace. I lived in Dubai for eighteen years then I came here. After A levels in Dubai, as you cant do Uni over there, I thought why not try something creative. I was really into graphics and art at school, so I did foundation here for a year really enjoyed it then I decided to do graphics for three years at Farnham part of the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Hated it. It was completely landlocked. Was it a degree? No it was a Batchelor of Arts. Well, to be honest it was shit. I didn’t like Farnham as it was next to Guildford and nowhere near the beach. I basically just missed the beach and the lifestyle [in Bournemouth] was so much better. I came back to Bournemouth, managed a nightclub and ran events for a while. I realised I just liked organising stuff so I found out AUB had the Arts and Events

course. I got really excited, applied, got in. I was on Arts and Events for the three years. I then got a job with Red Bull as a Student Brand Ambassador in my first year. So that was cool; it was off the back of a friend of ours. When did you graduate? 2004. I did the course in ‘99. The foundation course, then I was away for 2 years after that and I came back 2001 – 2004. It’s funny that you were a Student Brand Ambassador for a drinks company, now you’re doing Jimmy’s Iced Coffee… and they are both caffeine related… They are both energy related. Do you think that planted a seed? It may have done, the ease of marketing at Red Bull helped because it was pretty fun. They got it dialled. After coming out of Uni and doing other jobs and stuff, I worked for Red Bull full time for a little

while. It was crap I never got to meet the owner, and hung out, were there for five months just fannying around. I didn’t like the taste of the drink, it made me wanna shit And that’s when we found iced coffee. myself essentially, as apposed to giving me proper energy. After Oz I started working for my mate at an events company but my iced coffee addiction was getting Tell us what happened after graduation? really, really bad. No one was doing decent iced coffee here at all and I was genuinely getting fucked off with it. Yeah so after I graduated I went on the road with So I just had to try and make my own. Red Bull as part of the small extreme events team. They had this Austrian infantry/artillery carrier that Do I remember you saying you tried to franchise they converted into a DJ booth, which cost £90,000. something you found in oz? What happened with that? So I used to drive that around and DJ all these different events that were super fun and that all just So basically I found the company that owns this one amalgamated into one filthy summer in 2004, which brand and basically just emailed them saying “Hi I’m was just after graduating. That actually started before Jim. I’m from the UK. I really like your iced coffee and my degree ended so I was kind of already on the road I think I should take your ingredients and your brand with Red Bull as I finished. So name and take it to England “No one was doing decent iced after that summer I was still in and we can make money. Bournemouth doing crap work in coffee here at all and I was genuinely Lots of love Jim”. We probably the winter. Nothing great really, I got through to someone in getting fucked off with it. So I just was labouring. customer services who thought I moved to Bristol and was who the hell is this punk. They had to try and make my own..” sleeping on a trampoline in a might be kicking themselves a warehouse for Red Bull; we looked after their whole little bit now… but cést la vie. event kit over summer. Then back another winter, it was bullshit and then in 2005, because I was We wouldn’t have Jims Iced Coffee today would we? acting like such a turd at festivals just being stupid, they were like ‘You need to be stupid on a stage’ so No we wouldn’t we’d have Farmers Union… which I started introducing acts and bands and stuff. The quite a lot of people would want So that’s how first gig they gave me was the Lovebox main stage. Jimmy’s came about. It was massive – in Victoria Park. I had ten different costumes – outfits and characters, and I just came on People can go and buy coffee anywhere, what’s stage introduced all these bands and acts. different about yours apart from it being iced? What’s your ethos? What is Jimmy’s Iced Coffee all about? I saw one of those photos on Facebook and I wondered what the hell you were doing so that explains it. The main thing about our iced coffee, or our whole ethos is “keep your chin up”. So optimism lies at the Yeah, that’s what that would have been…. heart of everything we do, we never have a shit day, it’s always got to be a good day or you’ve got to try and So you were a showbiz presenter? make it a good day. There are so many people in worse off situations than yourself, so you should never bother Basically, yeah. It got to 2008 when I was labouring for moaning it’s just a complete waste of time. this old boy who was a real dude who let me go surfing which was nice but I just basically had a break down I guess its all relative… in Waitrose and I just started crying and I was just like what the fuck am I doing with my life this is terrible. I Totally! Absolutely. So, two reasons to keep your chin was a complete mess and I decided I was never going up – one you have to physically do it when you drink to get to this position ever again. So about three weeks our product unless you’re using a straw but that doesn’t later I booked surprise flights to Oz with Soph. From the count as you have to buy one. And secondly you have to day I booked the tickets we got double jobs. Labouring keep your chin up when you’re just bowling about in life. and working in a bar so we just didn’t go out so we just I guess what pisses me off about new food and paid off our tickets and saved up enough to actually drink brands these days is if you look at the ABOUT piss around while we were traveling. So we flew to Oz, US section on their websites, they say ‘we at thingy

foods source only the finest ingredients that go Does it feel good to be at the heart of your business? yummy in your tummy’, it’s a copy and paste job. Its 2013 you should just be making good food, That’s a really interesting question. We are just period. I think what we try and do is we’re not talking to investor’s at the moment, we don’t know selling five ingredients in a vessel. We’re selling whether we need it or not but its always good optimism in a carton; we sell bits of happiness to go down that route and explore it. One set of to people. We have a perfect investors wants to have a example of that – a friend of “I think these economic times are a controlling share and the ours said to us the other day… other set doesn’t. One set ‘Jim every time I go to London load of rubbish. I saw a great quote have recognised that we are I swing by Fleet Services from the other day... ‘There is a recession, doing a good job and don’t Bournemouth to pick up my want to spoil it so they could last bit of beach on my way give us money, let us get on but we’re not taking part’” into London’. For me, that IS with and take some reward the pinnacle of what we’re trying to achieve. later on. The other company has a fixed way of doing things; they buy in with a certain amount of What advice would you give to any aspiring money, they spend 5 years turning it around and entrepreneurs and creatives at this Uni, especially in they exit and everyone gets their cash. But if I can these kind of economic times? pick up one of my iced coffees anywhere in the world then that’s my job done. I think these economic times are a load of rubbish. I saw a great quote the other day from one of the You’re still involved with AUB and you commonly heads of Walmart who a few decades ago said use students or employ their services for some of “There is a recession, but we’re not taking part”. your marketing campaigns. You ran a project with Also the weather is a fuck up. We’ve had two years Marketing; tell us a little bit about that? of relentlessly shitty weather and this summer has been the first summer where we’ve had really good So we did AUB 24, which was a 24-hour brief to weather, and if you have a look, the sales have just deliver us a super budget marketing campaign. This been boosted! People are was to basically explain what optimistic about spending, and “It’s like you said about happiness our company was about, how I seriously think weather has a we operate, what we do. There being relative, you make your own were five or six groups of great deal to do with it. sometimes five or six people luck in this business game and in So you’ve got to be proactive coming up with something in and we both agree there’s quite your whole life.” 24 hours and they presented an apathetic mood in the young it back. There were so many generation at the moment. Whether it’s to do with good ideas we amalgamated most of them into all these recessions or whatever, young people don’t one campaign. We filled our Jimmy’s truck up with have a great out look on the future. ice and took four students to London to sample the shit out of our product. All dressed up in Jimmy’s No, if you think like that you’re already on the wrong Iced Coffee suits, made by two artists Pascale foot, then if you’re thinking that. It’s like you said Wilson and Leanne Merson. Craig Atkinson who’s about happiness being relative, you make your own on Graphics knocked up our entire brand wrapping luck in this business game and in your whole life. stuff that we have for the truck, which still exists. Look at places like India; these people are working Everyone’s done so much work. 22-hour days for literally nothing trying to support a family of six and their still smiling. They live in What’s the No1 lesson you’ve taken from your experience? absolute squalor and you got people over here moaning and going “urgh I can’t do it”. It’s such a Positivity and politeness I think. If your polite load of shit. People just need to get up and get on to people and you smile at people, and you’re with it and stop being such a pussy. If you start there generally optimistic and friendly with people you you’ve already lost. You got be ready to seize the day. will go ten times further.

WE INTERVIEWED AUB ALUMNI JOSH OGDEN IN SOUTH LONDON, FROM A SPOT OVERLOOKING THE TATE MODERN. 18

So, you were on the Vis Com course. Tell us how you found it, and what main things you’ve taken from it. My time at AUB was quite interesting as I started my first year on illustration, so for the first term or two I was doing illustrative work, which I really enjoyed but it wasn’t for me. I was struggling with what the course was offering, so I swapped to Visual Communications. I found Vis Com really good because it was more about thinking through problems. In my third year for the D&AD [a highly respected design award based in London] we entered in a team that did really well and won. Now I have the Yellow Pencil Award and a magazine.

Yeah at the Student Print Room, It was really really cheap. Which was surprising because obviously starting a magazine isn’t cheap. The first issue went really well and sold out, and all of the profit was injected straight into the second issue. Then we got paper and print sponsorship from Wales, so the second issue was able to be a perfect bound publication which has helped the whole cause of Justified because people think its bigger than it is.

This was an extension of your course work, right?

I changed its name just to Justified and it developed its own presence, which was interesting because people thought it was more than what it was. I put a call out asking for people to submit work that could get selected into a printed magazine that would reflect the blog at the time; a time scale of trends. This was interesting as trends change really quickly, so the first issue is probably already out of date and the second one is going that way.

No, it’s not done for money. There are ways, if we wanted to make money. We were offered advertising stuff like that, but I just think there’s no point, as it would just ruin what it is. I never set out to make a profit I

So it’s never forced…

But I’ve always said since the beginning of the magazine, there is no real time frame for it. It will come out when it has the right work to come out; it’s not just going to come out for the sake of it.

It’s distributed through Antenna Books who are really good, especially with international sales. Even if you get ten sent to one country that’s ten people that will see it and show their friends, in random little places and then with the online presence and social networks and that. Its not a massive community but it’s a tight one, which supports itself.

Really?

the Vis Com course you’re encouraged to keep blogs, this is your own inspiration and your own work. I had a blog that I think was called “Josh’s Things I Like” which was a collection of work that people submitted in. It almost got to a point where I was curating it; so people would send stuff in and I thought, well maybe I wont put that in. It came to a point where everything on the blog was ‘justified’ to be there. That’s how the name came about.

Definitely, it has made me independent. Doing something like this makes you step outside of your comfort zone, especially doing the launch parties and organising events. Without a doubt it’s helped me get the job I have now. Just through word of

Did you think the whole journey with Justified has helped you into doing what you are doing now?

Well, in the next month… or two, or three…

When is the next issue then?

And you’ve had submissions for the magazine, as well as sales of it worldwide?

I started it in second year. Basically on

Tell us a bit about it, you started it in your second or third year?

Yeah.

Its stocked in twelve countries and it gets submissions from loads of countries that I don’t know the names…

just do it for fun - which has been really fun!

This was more my own thing. I just found it interesting and it grew from that. It got to a point where I needed help, so Will and Jasper got involved just before the first issue dropped. That issue was printed in Bournemouth actually.

So your magazine, is that Justified?

INTERVIEWED BY ALEX JOHNSTON & BENJAMIN MUSITANO

CHECK OUT JUSTIFIED ONLINE AT WWW.JUSTIFIEDMAG.CO.UK

Thanks Josh, see you again soon!

I will be with AKQA for the near future, but I still have the vision of creating my own studio, that’s definitely one of my long-term goals. Its great to be able to create your own path; you can take the jobs you want to do if you’re lucky.

Have you got any other plans for the future?

I’m employed as a creative, so ill be like a creative thinker, designer… everything, I don’t know just yet. Suits me well.

What’s your role within AKQA?

S I’m employed by AKQA, an innovation design studio. They champion creative thinkers and entrepreneurs and people that think they can make a dent in the future. I’m quite excited to work for them; they make work to make change for the good rather than just for profit.

Tell us a bit about what your up to now?

mouth people begin to recognise the name, which is cool.

MARK LEAVER

BOB ROBERTS

This is Bob Roberts, 90 years old. He travelled over to the UK at the age of 19 from New York where he received training. On the 6th of June Bob was woken up at 4.30am, no one had been told but they all knew it was D-Day. Bob was in the first wave of troops to hit the beach. Of his entire squad only 4 lived to see the end of that day. Newly assigned to lead a party of seven Bob pushed on. Not long later Bob found himself engaged in a 4 day standoff. Eventually the enemy surrendered. Bob being the leading officer began searching them. During his initial search of a particular officer the man lunged to his pocket to take out a pistol, Bob immediately reacted, shot him with his cocked gun slung over his shoulder. Spirits were soon lifted as 5’3 Bob frisked the tallest man in the German army standing 7’6. Bobs war continued as he passed on to Germany. The border was approaching and all that lay between him and Germany was a vast empty field. Halfway through this field battle broke out. Machine gunners were hidden in the bushes and German troops over looking the field started firing mortars. Defenceless Bob slithered into a blast hole for shelter where he laid for 6 hours. Reinforcement tanks came in with flame throwers and Bob made a run for it. As soon as he stood up and ran a bombshell landed in the very hold that he had be lying in for 6 hours. It exploded at point blank, no more than a few feet away from him; the shrapnel tore through his leg. He made a bandage out of his shirt and slowly retreated using a dead soldier’s gun with a shoe on the bayonet as a crutch. His foot had snapped it was turned 180 degrees around putting his heel where his toes usually were. 4 hours later bob was rescued in a stretcher.

VETERANS

VICTOR TARRY

This is Victor Tarry, 90 years old. His story begins at the age of 14 when he lost both of his parents and was put into a residential school in London where he was educated until the age of 16. At this point he was advised to join the army where he was enlisted as one of His Majesty’s Service guards, which involved a 5-week ‘harsh and vicious’ training course. Before long WW2 broke out and Victor found himself in a landing craft heading for the beach on the 6th of June 1944. It was D-day. “As our craft came to the beach German gunners opened fire, I could hear and see shells whizzing overhead. Before we could get anywhere near the beach a shell hit the side of our landing craft flipping the whole thing with 60 of us inside. I plunged down, my lungs filling up with water and my equipment weighing me down. I hit the bottom and propelled myself upwards gasping for air before I was weighed back down. I bobbed up and down like this until I could find my feet still in the process of dodging bombshells” “It was chaos, hell. I could see men around me falling down to machine gun fire. Over 10,000 people died on that beach. I fought my way inland to a rendezvous point. Out of 240 men in my company half were killed that day”. “We were pushing further north through Belgium in an armoured vehicle when we hit a land mine. The next thing I remember was waking up in a medical tent with Queen Alexander nurses seeing to my injuries. I had been drifting in and out of consciousness for over 19 days. I still to this day wake up in the night in panic. I was left seriously injured and completely deaf in my right ear”. He is in the process now of writing up his entire service history, which at the moment is over 200 pages long and he hopes to get published on completion to keep his story alive. 21

MARK LEAVER

JIM LEAVER

This is Jim Leaver, aged 90. He tried to join the army at the age of 17and was refused. Jim got into the army shortly after using his cousins identity. Jim was one of the many who came in on a landing craft on D-Day. Upon making it to the beach an armoured car waiting for him and his squadron. His squadrons job was to scout the area around and report back via radio stating where was and wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t safe to allow other to push on safely. During one mission he was forced to change course to avoid conflict and had to carry on by foot through a forest. Crossing a bridge he realised the enemy had retreated from the battle zone and pushed back to right beyond where he and his squad were. Retreating as fast as possible wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough; a shell hit him. In pain and shock Jim waited for a stretcher to collect him in the live battle zone. After being picked up, Jim remembers being dropped multiple times as the medics had to jump out of the way of constant shell blasts. He eventually made it back to safety, where he and others were flown to the nearest hospital (this was his first ever time on a plane). Recovery took one month, as soon as Jim was able to walk again he was eager to get back to the war. Jim was concerned though that his squadron was in Germany and that he would get stuck with a random squad. So against orders he hitch hiked back to Germany where he knew his regiment would be. Returning back to the surprise of his sergeant he was back with his regiment where he carried on with his regular scouting duties until the end of the war.

VETERANS

SECRET GARDEN PARTY Initially the flashes on the far horizon were barely fittingly, ‘Superstition’, is this year’s theme. noticeable, deceivingly distant to be of any cause The twenty-nine thousand or so ‘Gardeners’ that for concern. As the night progressed the lightning congregate here collectively embark on a mission in became more frequent, the thunderous claps the aim of discovering the simply extraordinary and increasingly audible as each hour passed. By the wonderfully absurd. This colourful playground midnight the raindrops would arrive, and soon tailored before you is an opportunity to open out in followed the storm. The relentless pummelling search of your own intimate moments to savour. of water, light and the deafening roars lasted as There are many secluded and creviced worlds long as the darkness of the night. It appeared not that await the relentless adventurers, each as mad even our beloved Mother Nature could hold back and as whimsical as the next. Hedonism mustn’t her excitement of what was to always be a harmful pastime, transpire here in the coming days. “There are many secluded and many here adhere to that Come Thursday morning, the notion with carefree enthusiasm. chorus of excited punters begin and creviced worlds The atmosphere here exhales entering the gates; the once the vintage spirit of Glastonbury that await the relentless empty walkways now filled with that once was – a reconstitution adventurers, each as mad wondering explorers. The site of humanity and a sense of has now been surrendered to and as whimsical as the next.” communal bliss. It is little secret the partiers. Mystical creatures understanding why so many make eye you up from the wooded their regular pilgrimages back to canopies; the giant fox safeguards the haunt this spiritual farmland, year upon year. from its hilltop throne. At the core of The Secret And all of a sudden it is Monday, and the Garden Party site lies the gorgeous lake in which end has come. The scorching sun too takes sits the beautifully crafted pirate ship entwined its leave, the roaring storm clouds making an with the monstrous Kraken. But we can’t admire abrupt return. For the once exalted (and now it for long: the centrepiece receives its fiery coup just exhausted) punters, they must arduously de grace following on an elaborate fireworks make their journey back home in the relentless display, exploding to a burst of flames and burnt downpour. But perhaps for the superstitious, the until its skeletal frame exposed. To whom this rain serves as a fittingly poetic finale: the sky sacrifice is offered to remains a curiosity. Rather sheds its tears knowing it is all over now.

HERMAN KIM AT SECRET GARDEN PARTY

F L AT 1 3 R E C O R D S

Arcade Fire Reflektor

Explosions In The Sky The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Any band with the level of acclaim that can attract a collaboration with the Diamond Dog of enigmatic rock are worth a listen, right? Right!!! ‘Reflektor’ arrived at the shop today, and with it came an odd sense of potential disappointment. Following ‘Neon Bible’ and ‘The Suburbs’, two of the fundamental albums from the last decade, is a ridiculous thing to comprehend – hence, perhaps, my scepticism. The first point of interest is the instrumentation which, while remaining as full and festival friendly as you expect, comes across a little more modern than in previous albums. The songs are as complex and forthright as ever, with all the lyrically driven, throbbing choruses and sing-a-long sections you could want... One listen isn’t enough to go any further.

There is no more reliable source of instrumental debauchery than Explosions In The Sky. They’ve littered soundtracks for the better part of 12 years, and consistently provide the perfect foil for skate/bmx/surf videographers. ‘The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place’ is the perfect introduction to an instrumental world you might not have previously known. These Texans are technically sound, and on a par with Christopher Columbus’ levels of exploration. With no song ducking under the 8 minute mark, full submersion is guaranteed and you can expect to be a little less impressed by everyone else you’ve heard before.

REVIEWS BY ROSS BOARDMAN & BEN WAUGH

Television Marquee Moon

Two Gallants The Bloom And The Blight

Released in 1977, ‘Marquee Moon’ just doesn’t fit or sound like any of their peers. Television were neither thrashing out power chords and pop lyrics like The Ramones, nor matching the obscure new wave punk of Talking Heads. The sleeve notes on the back of the record indicate just what this band were about, each song crediting which guitar solo is played by what guitarist. Two duelling guitarists amongst a rhythm section tighter than a virgin on prom night, with songwriting that can only be described as jazz punk, inter-winding with each members ability and raw talent.

San Francisco duo Two Gallants released their most recent work late last year, via ATO Records. I would liken this album to being kicked in the face by the girl you like. She would intermittently hold you close and run her fingers through your hair, only to back up and continue rearranging your features with her size 6 brogues. Self deprecating, lyrically provocative folk-punk, that borders on Cobainfuelled grunge riffs, ‘The Bloom And The Blight’ is a far cry from the sprawling, 10 minute ballads that peppered previous albums. Short, sharp, tight and sickeningly heavy for a twopiece, this one comes highly recommended for the angry individual out there.

A New Sound UP AND COMING BANDS TO LOOK OUT FOR BY MICHAEL JAMES DENT

THE DEATH OF POP

JOANNA GRUESOME

TRAVIS BRETZER

The UK is full to the brim with bands trying to recapture the magic found in bands such as My Bloody Valentine. Shoegaze

Their name may come from harp-playing singer Joanna Newsome, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this Welsh

Travis Bretzer is a funny guy. Not only does he write some of the catchiest pop songs you’ll hear this year, but it’s also his

has definitely made a comeback on our shores, but The Death of Pop are not just another band you can easily pigeonhole. Sure, there are definite influences from bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Ride, but what The Death of Pop create is something a lot better. There is easily some irony in the band’s name, but The Death of Pop have actually created shoegaze pop. There are a number of different influences that can be found in the band’s music, with The Smiths, The Byrds and The Cure being some of the most obvious, but what makes these songs interesting is that they never result in a poor imitation. Songs like ‘Don’t Hang Around’ and ‘I’m Really Into Sally’ would have easily been huge singles if they had appeared 30 years ago, and they possess a timeless sound that would still keep them on rotation at indie discos today. It’s vintage indie rock done to perfection, and whilst the Bournemouth 4-piece are pretty prolific, it doesn’t seem like they will lose this knack of writing anytime soon.

5-piece are even remotely angelic. Apparently the members met in anger management, which I guess would be a pretty suitable back-story for a gang of people who create such mayhem and beauty in a single song. Joanna Gruesome create the sort of noise that every party should be filled with and every moment of pure energy should be sound tracked with. Having just released their debut LP ‘Weird Sister’ with Slumberland/ Fortuna Pop! last month, Jo Gro have been causing a storm here in the UK, and also over in the US. This isn’t surprising when you hear singles such as ‘Secret Surprise’, with Alanna McArdle’s piercing-but-sweet vocals mixed with screeching guitars. Other tracks such as ‘Sugarcrush’ showcase the band’s most accomplished skill of mixing the pretty with the ugly, with the vocal melodies creating something beautiful, whilst again the guitars grind on giving your ears an extended noise workout. Joanna Gruesome will grow to be one of the bands you have to see live over the next year and with the sounds found on ‘Weird Sister’, you won’t want to miss out.

dayjob. He works for a local radio station in Edmonton, Canada where his role is to write jingles. This could mean two things about the songs he writes: 1. He writes really lame songs about products you don’t wanna buy, or 2. He uses this skill to take his music to the next level. Luckily for us, it’s the second one. Tracks such as ‘Find Another Guy’ showcase his unique talent for pulling hooks out of thin air, whilst more recent tracks such as ‘Trying To Learn’ have shown his skill in a more experimental mind set. Having released his debut EP ‘Making Love’ earlier this year, Bretzer possesses a quirky sound that is rare in guitar music these days, but also has a knack for writing a truly interesting pop single.

THE BLACK TAMBOURINES > Falmouth isn’t a place you would usually associate with punk bands, but The Black Tambourines look set to change this. With a sound that falls somewhere in-between grunge and 60s garage-rock, The Black Tambourines have found a unique way of rocking out. Where bands such as Splashh and Wolf Alice have made names for themselves by channelling their 90s influences into a punk-rock sound, The Black Tambourines reflect a more natural period of influence, with tracks such as ‘27/25 Blues’ emulating classic vibes found hidden away in the 1960s. It’s simple, it’s catchy and it’s really loud. The Black Tambourines have just released their self-titled debut on the alwaysinteresting Art Is Hard Records, and the LP is the perfect example of what the band can do. At times it’s bratty punk, but then it turns into something Nirvana would’ve been proud of. Whilst the album contains a variety of different influences, at no point does it feel strange that they have been put together in this order. This can only be attributed to the band’s own unique take on their influences, which shine through in the punky ethos found on their debut.

< TRAAMS TRAAMS are a rare type of guitar band. Whilst we have seen a big resurgence in guitar groups trying to be as noisy as possible, it’s quite often for these bands to be missing something interesting behind the volume. This is where TRAAMS differ. Having just released their debut album ‘Grin’ on Fat Cat earlier this year, the Chichester trio have been tearing up the UK with their consistently brilliant live show, including a stop in Bournemouth back in September. What TRAAMS do is they create exciting and non-stop energetic grooves. There are notable references to German groups such as Neu! and Can found in their songwriting, but TRAAMS take these influences and turn them into something new and relevant. Songs progress through a series of catchy bass lines mixed with addictive rhythms, whilst thrash guitar completes the sound; giving the overall result an interesting and euphoric feel. Songs like ‘Flowers’ and ‘Demons’ also show that this band have a decent ear for writing great post-punk anthems, too. There’s something completely different to TRAAMS that you might not have heard before, and this makes them something truly exciting to behold.

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