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Staff Writers
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Alan Pritt
Eric lllright
Sport
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FAD (Federation Against Drink) has warned that Bangorians are facing
increasing dangers from -'legal
a
notorious
low" known on the streets as "drink". lt's incredibly easy to buy "Alcohol" on the streets or on the internet, where it is labeled with misleading screeds
about hints of citrus and "good legs". ln fact these "bottles" of pure alcoholic DEATH are being
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in their families and in their relationships."
Alcohol is legal to sell even if it isn't clearly labelled *not for human con$umpti0n". This means that vendors can claim that
thrill
they are selling it in good faith to innocent customers who want to clean their drains with ethanol and aren't just going to sit around
young, out
of control
seekers right now, outside your'
very window!!!
This 'legal low' is frequently
marketed as mimicking {quite badly) the effects of illegal drugs like ecstasy, cocaine or "acid" but
this week FAD officials
warned
that the substance can have devastating effects on the rninds and bodies of users.
alcohol can have on people who have taken it. We've seen people sufferinq very severe after-effects
when using this substance," babbled FAD's head of Outrage, "We've even had people at our
door who are 'Polydrug' u$ers, people who have experience ot Class A drugs, and they're telling us that this so-called "DrinV' has side-effects that are ar bad, or Even Worse than anything else they've ever, ever used!"
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uncontrollable paranoia or anger. That then has a turther impact on their lives, leading to breakdowns
freely and recklessly consumed by
'nWe've seen the impact that
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to young people who have been left feeli ng suicidal , who have been hallucinating, who have had We've spoken
getting wasted watching TOWIE. "lt's a loophole," claimed the
enraged FAD representative,
--but
the fact that alcohol is legal can lead some young people to believe it's safe. It'g not truen wO sirnply don't know what taking this will do to anyone and it's incredibly
risky." MENTAL.
"The Legal-Low
Sub culture exploded fifty-odd years ago whenever the USA tried to ban
alcohol and the whole thing blew up in their idiotic faces" Suddenly
you had a widely available drug doing the rounds at parties and that led to a lot of Young People experimenting with it - even some who may have been opposed to taking'illegal' drugs."
HECTIC. "The consequences of this 'LegalLou/ can be really quite hectic.
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FAD has joined with
News Soup 04 a
renowned NDBC comb-over in an attempt to get its message out. The link-up happened
look after himself and neither was l, having drunk ten pints of white cider before heading out"" The situation has now reached fever
after the hair-cut saw the problems with legal lows first hand during its "voluntee( work in Bangor's late night
pitch with rumours circulating that alcohol is being widely used in the highest "positions" of government.
town centre.
The Aye can say with certainty that a highly refined form of the drug * known cornmonly on the street as "bubbly" was being used openly during a recent Mayoral garden party at the town hall.
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wa$ in Bangor receRtly and I saw
a young guy walk out of a
barn" the
comb-over said, even though it wasn't about to tell a funny story. "l found hirn moving about the sunken gardens area of the seafront. He was confused; he had no idea where he was or what he was doing. We got talking and I knew from rny training course$ that he was totally 'bladdered' . He named $ome common drinks and said that he had got a hold of them locally. lt wasn't the first time l'd met a 'booze-hound' but
was
ta ke
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a ba
ck by just h ow
absolutely 'hammered'this guy was. lt was clear that he was in no fit state to
What's that letter about? There was a sad letter from Councillor Tom Smith in th* Spectator o{ August 34, 2012. Hs quite rightly condemns ths mugging of elderly people as a 'disgraceful and despicable aet'. Any attack on a psrson is a serious offence and the e ld erly are partrcul arly vulnerable . He uses the statistics of burglaries against e lderly people to highlight thc low level o{ arrests for such crimes only 4 out of 113 in ZA|U n, hs writes. On the face a{ it a pretty miserable result. But is the answer to tackling this kind of crime to wrtte letl.ers to the nowsp aper calling the perpetrators oscum' and advocating that they be put in prison 'for a vwy long time '? Surely Mr. Smith as a member of the Ards
Lock up your daughters and household pets; here comes Armageddon. The Office,fbr J$utionul Stutistics states
that in the LfK ul.one, smoking killed Bl,4{}0 peaple in 2{}10. Alcohol killed {1,V90. Cunnuhis wos reluted to 2 cle aths (as wus rnesslredrone) while Pnrncetnmol ki|led Itt.
Drink.... Just Because. CK
Police Commu nity Safety P artnerships is in a position to discuss the problems clirectly with the PSNI so what does he hope to achteve by writing fo the local
newspaper? Maybe he wishes to be congratulated for his advocation of exfteme measures on punishment? To
ridicule the PSNI for their appar*nt inconrpetence? It cannot be just self publicityr can rt'! Of co*rse the question has to be
asked, i{ Mr. Sn:ith identifies those who attack old peaple as 'Ecum' and proposes condemning thent to very long prison sentences, what does he call the -loyalists' in Belfast who attack and wound over 60 policemen and what punishment would he sug gest for them? HE
Bangor AYE
News $oup 05
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t d c/x( tn the 6ac* root4 PoliticAl Over-Combs The Spectator is weekly awash with photos of councillors frowning and pointing at broken winrJows while their hair cuts fight a losing battle against inclement weather. These pictures and the stories that accompany them i#e there to illustrate how hard our councillors ate working to sort our problems out. I can't be the only one who sometimes wondcrs what goes on off-camera. A letter in the Spectator's ever*
shrinking Opinfum secrion
( 13th
September) repofis that an unnamed member of the DUP recently refused to sign a local voter's apphcation for an Irish passport. The lettw writer
quotes ttre official concerned as saying, *'f can't sign that, I'm a
replied, saying that he was not the MLA involv&d, even though the Ave hacl at. no point suggested that he was. Mr. Easton went on to say that we shoulcl contact HQ in Belfast with any questions we may have about official party policy. On speaking to 'd member of the DUP press division at the Belfast headquarters, we were informed that there was absolutely no policy that would prevent .e party member from signing any type of passpoff ford constituent. So bastcally, whenever the DUP member described in the aforementioned letter failed to sign il
passport, this failure depended entirely on person ally held beliets that do not hold with the party line. What is more, this MLA is still
member of the DuP."
roaring about the
The Aye wrote an email to Alex Easton, one of the most prominent members of thc Bangor DI.JP, asking if this kind of a Gaction is prescribed by official party policy. Mr. Easton
frowning at things and getting their hair-cut lovingly photographed by the Spec. Don't have nightmares. AP
countryside
r.uuuJ. .tr0eufy ()6 what'p fhg matter?
starrings
swoop
the sky with
what's goin-[ on with all the stuff?
A thought and a thousand wings, Juiceress jaffa rights lurch
what's happening ro this energy?
Down on everythingf.
Unreached, an eerie bluâ&#x201A;Ź, Unurelcome
but
beckoningr
.
Iike a crippled
Night lights invisibre heckringr . Burst onto a street of bright, All awash with dead shoppers who've rost their sight with advertised eyes instead. carrier bag carrying compurso ry clasped in a clutch of feathers. consistentry acting impursi_ve Ly , Always flocking together. Then sink into a side stre et-, The wercome warrnth of da rk, starrings sweep a hide and seek High above the park. watch this skydance silhouette f,ike a tatty f 1applng f} eg, Furious frutter, east to west
unlverse
shimmering images shine untrue,
Not carrying carrier
!{ichael BeII
bag[s.
it cannot breathe.
what's going on rvith all* this stuff? changing matter, ch3n*ui!_e
form'i construction ancl
destruction.
Iike titchy screws t.
ln a masslve clock not sure of their purpose.
TJ.
Bangor AYE
0pinion etc.
OT
6et lT ,uf .'Yel l[*tt'\'()u got it slor'\ ,\(lu
Carepark
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(received 12.07.12) Dear All Saying Aye, ;rlrvlr.r's w'anlrtl to #q,l ufl'' Everyone knows big ( ] t' t ltl .1'()ll r t'[tt'sl i' .vt]u jrrst fi:t.l Iikt' a r1,'(.(. r';rrrt,) business has literally had llrtl1r us iln (,-nlail 'Jl': the high street but my y{ct':i n I xr r.{'()nr I lit rr grl sake V/al-Mart don't rub tll'It'avt' il ('()IIilnt'ttl ()n it in! {,tIr' liu't'lxxtk xrgr': The bright grssn is a l'&('b()()k.{'()nr llangrlr'.\l li gteat place to shop, no one can argtle with that but seriously... Why do ASDA feel 1;1
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appl y unde r the f .c.j-. (siclact Lo N. D. B. C. and qet details cf Lhe mas s ive debt- / expose Lhe vfieless t J-nccr{Lpet. an t {si*) c. e. o. {sic} for what he L8 and geL Lhe raLepayerfi uni t"eC and qeL hznz drumed (.s ic ) out r. ." 't
the need to station a 'Parking Enfo rcement Fella' there to deprive the 5% of the good citrzens of Bangor a quick tree
Int sgrated Csntral Primary School ( free
parent's pas.s (if you remember to bring it (don't tell anyone but the aforementioned'Parking Enforcement Fella' picks his kids $p too so you san probably chance it)))? Free for all is the least
they could do in exchange for the scars left on Main Street" t)ive something back Wal-Street, eYery little helps! us all.
park for an hour or so Yours, when the other 950A of A.C.
parkees are either
The Aye
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given tLl parking charge seYeral opportunities 'ret-unde d') or picking for ASIIA to respond to their darlingses up frorn h,C's letter but we have Bangor Central hetrrt nothing yet. shopping there aayway
ha
Watch this space. Eds.
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An ilegant Sufficimc! b,*cer .&oryhock Depending on what sort of a mood you're in, the Bangor Fligh Street offers a smorgasbord of dives and
deleslablo$, hoppy hours and homicides. On the occasion in question, it was a bahny Septernber evening afler a fraught week and teelrng the werght of a cruel world heaxy upon our should ers, the Better Halt and I wanted to spoil ourselves. So we ctpt*d for the top drawe
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and sst.
a course for Coyle's.
Coyle's is ons o{ t:he town's greatest pubs. We have spent many a happy afternoon downstairs slowly drinking the bar W but the upstairs r-estaurant has until recently only rcally existed on the edge of our awarefiess. This time we noticed a chalk board at the main entrance that bid us try the L25 menu: A meal flor two with two courses each and a bottl e of wine. [t struck us that it would be foolish not to give it a go. On reaching the top af the stairs at six o'clock we pushed open doors finished with a patr of deli cale stained glass pafiss and brass art nouvsau trimmings. A*y, our attentivs waitress was there ta meet us, direcling us to a Iable for four so that we would have some space to eat, drink and speak sxpanxively. A very good slart. For our wine we took Amy's recCImmendation of a Sauvignon Blanc from Concha y Toro; a dec ent, unpretentious number that was cooled to crisp pcrfection. Apa*. from the drink the 5-7 o'clock menu includes a
startw and a main course with a choice
of three rJishes fi:r eash. The Better tlalf went far the psppered beef and pannesan salad to start and I took the mussels rnariniere. During the wait we
had
a quafl and soaked up rhe
ambience of the place.
Amongst those in the know, Ihe modern rectpe far restautant success says thut Beige is Best. Coyle's has used this advise well. On the crearn walls ars hung berge canvas squares arranged gsametrically beside othr;r squares {differing only very slightly in hwe) farmin g a sefies of studies in offwhite twentyrfirst century vogue. The eye is stroked in all directions by a sea
of high-backed leather chairs
upholstercd in black and caulitl owsr white and a soothing selection of hits from the great crooners softly caresses the ears.
One teatvre gently arrests the as they scan the magnolia
peepers
ceiling. A large stucco cornic e-piece. This strikingbwt not over*beartng {bcal point frames four panels of stained glass thal describe leafy forms inte;rtwiwed in an elegant art nouveau style.
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After another well appointed break
throughout the space, serves as a nice srgnature mottf . Clolourrr,d in subtle earthy tones, it helps to sharpcn the sotter corners of the ov erall scheme. Our starters arriv ed aker a wait that
arrled with a flourish. Mine was a {Lat iron steak with garhc butter, salad and lries. The BH took the pan frisd sea bream, white onion pwree, pancetta and red wine jut. Both of us were pretty much blown away. My steak was cooked to a te?,
was shorl buf not
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so
to sugge st corfler-cutting shenanigans in the short as
and a, deep breath the mains
blee,dtng
kitchen. Bee;{ salad has alwayx struck ffIs as a bit at a stranga nation
the-mouth. Fries to match; crwnchy on't outside and flutty in't
of the
presentation
rniddle
to the point ot with
a
good mixed salad and
a
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The show-xtopper was the bream" The chef handled this tncky frsh with aplomb and the BH asks me to show
\n/as
exquisite; meat {tnely sliced and cooked rare aclventurouslless
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sqlueeze; boldly seasotred and rnelt-in-
but the BH was astute in her choice. The cut was nice and the
quality
with only
slight
particular appreciation for the crunchy skin, courageously left rntaet.
sprinkle of parmesan fbr zing. My mussels were beyond compare
tffhite onion
pwres
supported the whole
rn terms of quality, taste
and colour with ontl of the richest mariniere sauce$ I've had the pleasure to slurp. The distinctive crunch and
and deserves a mention fbr providing
tang of roughly chopped shallot helped to lighten any heaviness even though three slices af crusty breacl tried to
rcvicwer's opinion, by a couple of new potatocs for a bit more traction. As thc monkey disregards thc ruby on the beach, wc are all guilty of being
sink me. t have an inkling that somtl sort of choice ch eess was providing an almost illicit steroidal boost to the general decad enee of the thing.
have bsen improved,
in this humble
blind to thc trcasures on our
streets.
This monkcy scrcaffis, "Coyle's has an upstairs. f)on't walk on by. Paradise is lound abovc!" SH
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WirhA Snake I arrived at Pnrspect Estate where I was to spend the night with the manager Bonso and his wife, Jcanie, in their palatial bungalow
before being shown to my own. 'I"he estate was in the Nilgiri, translated literally as Blwe ?lLlls, in South lndia in the state of Tamal Nadu about 30
L'{umpty-Dumpty. Whereas Jeanie was a thin, dour woman whose father, a
Scot, had also treen
miles north of the hill station
of Ootacanrund, or Ooty as it
is firore commonly called.
the frnglish midtands. It reflected confidence in continuing rightful sratus. Bonso who had curiously green eyes had a lotrk of a genial farrner and the shape of a
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had anived in thc middlc ol" the monsoon and the estatc,
ol' over 7,A$0 fect, was immerse d in thick nr ists which was at an altitude
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she retained the formal maRRers of' a lady who still placed her trust in the rigid
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of the Indian RaJ. Although she was hospitable her genero si.ty was care fully measured. A small clinner
social etiquette from the days
reducing the visibility to less t'
protect the front of the trungalow from the driving rain. Inside lug fires hurned in the rnain rooills in an attempt to control the insinuating darnpness. To rne the contrast betrvcen the miserable
tea
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a
planter so she had lived much of her early lif-e atrsortring the .,.,,...,..?,., cttstonts and outlook of thg i"
dank
conditions otrtsidc and the walTR interiar of the house creatcd a sense of privileged refuge' from a hostile worlcl. The dark fbmiture was predominantly l:tlwardian lrnglish with sonle
token Indian pie.ct-s that would have sat comfbrtably irr a rniddle class home with in
pafty had been aruanged and
we were joined by fuur men in their twenties anrl early thirties from neighbo urtng estates.
leanie believed in maintaining a divide tretween the generations which constrained conyersation within a banal formality. As the
evening progressed with faltering
conversation and increasing awkwardness the terrsion became too much and when leanie, having carved a chicken, asked CIne of the men if he liked stuffing someone giggled. For some minutes there
Ind,ia 14
Bangor AYE lvas only the spluttering of
suppressed
pertraps I should not leave v"aluables lying
giggting as we behaved like a pack of school boys with po taced Jeanie and Bonso the
about. The cook's helper, Kempa*
embarrassing,
said the manager as he pre,pared to leave me at my bungalow, '"1'll see you on Vriday. ln the mean time you are in charge of 4A$ acres of tea and 4AA men" Only one maR speaks frngLish atrd you can't believe a word he says. Ciood Luck!" A thin, wetting ratn swept across tlte ocean of tea in gusts and from somcwhere in the
disapproving staff. lt was intensely
The next rnornin g Bonso, now dressed in shorts and looking like klumptlr-Dumpty in en egg cup, was preparcd ts drive me to my own bungalow, He explained that the estate was divided into several divisions and that I would be in charge of Lower Prospect. On the way we {)assed through acre$ of'tea fields the bushes forming a thick cover level to the slopes of the hills. The monotony of the tea was tntewapted by lines of shade trees planted for their fich leaves that mulched the
, and for their on their roots, The straight lines of trees rising out of the
earth when they
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nitrogenous nodules
compact surface of the tea gavs the fields a cultivated torunality and I understood why in s{Jrne districts the estates are called tea gardens. I3are fboted womeR pickers waded up to
their waists through the tea carrying large baskets on their hacks held in place by wadding that passed across their foreheads. 'l'hey plucked with amazing speed being paitl by the pound weight, picking
leaves' and tossing the
-a
bud and two leaf over their
shoulders with unerring accuracy into their baskets. They wore sacking to protect their
colourful saris which they had tucked
araund their waists.
As they
up
worked their arrns jingled
Rurnsrous bracelets otl softly. The male maistries or ftrrefiien stood in the fields beneath umbrellas watching the rvomen and ensuring they plucked the bushes
to the same level. ]"he men wore shoes which, I learnt, together with the umbrellas \trers symbals of authority.
As we arrived at the bungalow my house staff tumbled out and lined up at attention. 'fhere was a cook, a cook helper, gardener and sweeper. The sweepe r was shared befw'een several bungalows, but the gardener was my own although the garden was only a strip of earth a couple of feet wide that lay between the house and lhe tea and the only
flowers that
I
sver saw bloom there were
opium poppies. The cook, Thomas"
had
recently been released from gaol for thieving, but Bonso assured Ine that he was a gtlod
chap really although he cautioned that
drl
was
scribed as just a sirnple rogue.
"Right"
mist came the jangle of the pluckers' bracelets.
ln spite of the lack of- communication lunch appeared at lunch time, in the evening a }rot bath was poured fbr me and by night time my bed was waiting ready made. On my tlrst night as a tea planter tn my own bungalow I fell asleep to the sound of a
family of rats frolicking in the roof
space.
The next day Thomas, u,ho had picked up a tritling of bngtish during his sojourn in gaal" rnanaged to understwd that I would prefer ntrt ts share the bun gal*w with rats and caffis
up with the perf'ect solution. The n:ight the sound
of
second
pitter-patter above my
head was replaced by the swish-swish of a rat snake. Once its duty was done the snake took itself off and I rvas left to quiet nights. This was my tirst encounter with snakes.
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sitting mid table in there respec tive
Jirnene
good match up pre-game a* both teams are
conferences and as such both teams were lonking ta take all the points in a bid to rcac*t the MLS Play-0fl.s. lt is as always warTh mentioning that L.A. Galaxy have a superior number of Brazlhans witfrin tbere roster boasting fbur and chicago Fire only havingthe one. Both teams lookcd lively as the frrst half got underrn ay with L.A Galaxy -a creating the lirst chancc on goal with
good volley elfort li'om .just outside the penalty box in the I lth minrtc. It was hack and forth until the 21n' minutc when L.A. Galaxy were awardcd a pcnarty for a hand
Galaxy substi tuted mid fielder
Hect<tr
z tar Bryan Jordan to add some
to their midfie ld
although
L.h.
pac.e
srill
to cantatn the energetit chicago Fire and Galaxy srill held anio the leati*at stnrgglecl
0- 1 as the clar,khir T0 minutes. On the T6rh
minute Chicaga Fire hit a shot wrde allowing L.A. Galaxy hit on the c*unter
and Robbie Keane to score frum abeautiful ran from the mid fielrl making it *-Z to L.A. Galaxy as the clack approaches g0 minutes. L.A. Galaxy kept the pressure on
ball by crhicago F ire dct'c,crcr .lalil Anibaba
Ibr the last minutes of regular time ancl Robbie Kr;ane nearly scored again as hc picked trp e long ball from the midfie lcl but found hirnsel { all alone upfront ancl was closed dorn n by th.e {'.hicirgo de fence as the game moved into injury tirne. Four minutes o{ stoppage time to be playerJ with L.A. Galaxy *tiJf looking
still to play. flur tlcspire the rlrama af tlte goal the rest of thc lirst half resulted in a Irtt of defensivc play as Chieago y*e xtruggled to brcak clorvn a relentless L.A. Galaxy midficld. Ir was L,A, Galaxy that certainly lookcd thc more confident ri.l* o*
comrncntatw xtated that" this was a good '"Shut-Out" t-ar L.A. tialaxy and I wilt try to {ind oat wihat exacily this means tbr neit RLR issue. L.A. Galaxy continaed the gortrS l'orm until the final whistle althnugl,t a good elTsrt fiom thc home team Chicago
which Robbie Keanc scorccl by sending chicag* F*e kecpcr Sc.an Johnson thi wrong way making it one up t0 the visitors L.A. tialaxy with rhc rest of the tirst halt
the hall'time rvhistlc blew. Chicago l-"ire macle {J*e change at halt timc ancl rcplacecl Arnerican midfie lder
Logan Pausc with their Brazilian Alex a clear sign tlrat c'hicaga meant business.
goorl.
I do have to
mention that
the
Fire. JH
Final Score: Chicago Fire Galaxy
0
2
L.A.
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So, hockey fans, the new season is almost upon us! Are yau excited Yet? I am. So much so, in tact, th'et I have had ta buy & wheile new set. rtf diarnon d-studded C'akin's. With a Aew hockey $eason comes a whale new bunch al'PlaYers, caaches and backroom rstatf. lJnlike soccer ({ootball ttl you Ways) hackey playerr; in the EIHL (Elite Icc Ho *key League) only get offered I year contraets (sometimes 2 yeats), so the atl
kantic dash ta gel tor the right avail'ahle players the best ssa$on usually brings &
money and try to build a Championshipwinning side. The vast majority o* a British ice hockey team ats tlew playets, and here ['m going to give you a rlfft down of the new
team thal, Belfast (iiants head caach Doug C'hristiansen has been assembling ttris off sgason.
al the back, DC has to re-stgn both his #artrng antl
Startrng managed
ff;|#{ff;r,i*ffid
and Sam Roberts (1*7SA) have also srgnerl,
giving the Gianl,s defence some
extra
*usc[e. Brock Mathestln {CA'}, a lok-handshooting $ntario native, rounds out the rleteniee.
And so we continue on to
the
Farward line*, the showmen, the grJys whei step up to the ptate anrd put the puck in the back of the tret. Now, last season's fbrwards set the bar just a litfle hrghar than it htrs becn, hawever with stwr player Roh Dowd mrrving ta Swleden, DC has had his work cut gut ftir him t0 smulute last sea$on's tally. (By the way, Davrtl Simms fiom Sky Sports
EIHL show was extremely distraught at Dowdy Leaving the EIHL. t think he secretly had "a thitrg" tar llowdy" lsez., that
alone would give n\s nightmats#', since David Simms strongly resembles a "Manchild''). DC has munaged t'a re-sign a
backup rretmrndets in Stephen Murphy (UK) (best goulie in the league, in this repnrtefs 6pinion) and Andrew Dickson (wt), one af three local bred talents in this team. MurphY, or "MurPh*'as he is affectionalely known &s, has been the
strong care of last sgason's t$rwards,, with
backbo ne tr; the $iants in recent ycars, and the tsasons that the League was one Championship c(rnte home to Belfast last
F
at
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y9$:r.
to the defence, DC has
Moving only brought back one playet tiopr last sea,s$n: Graeme "Wally" Walton (NI). Thc 6'1" tselfast-horn &efenceman has been a $alwart for his entire Giants c&reet, and is moving into his testrmonial yeat. f)ave
Phillips ({*trK} and Rob Sandrock (CA) both return l0 the (liant*, havin I prsvtously iced lbr Beltast in pa;t seasons but had both gone olT to pastures new. will colbert (c:a1
Craig Peacock {UK}, Mark (}atsirJe (UK)' Gareth Roberts (NI), Adarn Keefe (CA) and Danyl Lloytl (CAl all retuming to defend
thcir lcague title. fr.urly in the cttf season, DC signecl Matt Towe (UK| from Guildtord
I ltlr one am quite excited to him play in a Giants uniform. So uow wc are lctt wirh the rcst of
larne.s, attd
scc,
tlre import l-ortl'ards, or the {oreign
Itrryarcls. DC has brought in a lat of talent lronr thc AIIL (Arncrisan *lockey League) arrd thc lrur'()pcillt Lcagttes, but there is also
cluitc u hir ol'
NtlL cxpcriefice too. Noah
Clarkc (l.JSn ) cpprcs t6 the Giants franchise
2l NHL gamos, trttlstly lilr L.A. Kings. Central Hockcy l-eagtlc All-Star Daymen Rycroft (CA) arrivcs li'otrr Arizolln Sundogs and has
l'ront (icrm:tny, hrrt has played
scgrcd 25 9r' tnol'c lloals in 6 consecuttive
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to look at the puck and it'll make it's own way into the nett, Next up is playmaking forward Scott Champagne (ClAy. This guy should be interesting to watch. I watcherl him play against" Be lfust (iiants last season far
Nottingham Panthers, and I must aimit, I liked what I saw. He is a great passer of the
puck, and will tnereass our chances of scoring. Hs will lite;rally make the Giants torwards better with his vision and ac$urety, Snipe r Andre w F r;urnier (C A)
to the Belfast torward unit from 0lo{stroms IK in Swcden, wherc he manage& 27 goals anrl 53 points fram 10
moves
fuffiwgb trrL;L. eb,Awap*
games last stlason . DC, has heen quoted as sarying, "I really believe we une aflhe{J a gem '} here late in the otf-season.,. (he has a kiack of scoring big goals". C'ompleting the ftirwartJ unit is 26 ysar old Ontario native Greg Stewart (Ch).
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As recently as 2 years 0go, Stewart was playing for one of the most lamous hackey teams in the world, the Montreal Canadrens a{ the "Original Six" NHL teams. He has
played 26 games over Z seasons for Montrsal, and his willingncss to "drop the gloves" will makc hirn an instant fan tasourite at the Big O this seasorl. After all, tlrat's what a lot ol' hockey lirns go to ses,
lots of knocking thc **'k'r out of each other.
So thcrc ws hervc. it, tht: Z0l1ll3 Bel{ast Giants havc bccn assembled, and will be going all out to retain their championship titlc.
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put together a lcgcndary, truly
great
hackey team in this lcaguc, yoa need a goarJ mix of British, ('anuclian, American, and Eastern European ( AKA stickey *stoney*onths-trszen-lake) playors, and a whole bunch
of
balls. Ok, s() Belfast d,an't have any Stickey-Stoney-on-the-F'ro zen*Lake type players, hut thcy rlo hav e a load at ballx, and the size of thosc balls should make the
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As the various perfr>rrrrcrs set ap
fe
their
eq*ipment and the assembleel c$mqtary
I tried to recall haw I had arrived here. The ,$;e ofllces were in a state af mare than usual chaos tanight and I simply had ta get rlLtl. I sat grincling rny teeth in front of my computer for two hours not ?*owing where to begin with my arts column, listentngto ?ritt and Wright in the next room arguing {rver their equally began to laok restless
stupirl takes on local politics.
I
am
surroun detl by idiots.
Half an hour befbre I had been glsn
leave to dismiss rnyself l finally mana5ed ta screw up my coura5e and took a chance at e*cape. I had to duck past Mac's oflice. *:r;r some reason the blinds had been lefr" open while he visited a beillocking upon poor old Cecil for a minor gramm atrcal
effor. Therc is nt pe'dce here and there is certainly no peace at hsme (don't ask) ,so after I was sure t:hat I hu* efrefitvely made my exit,lwalkeduntil thit a pub. Downstairs in Cayle's, an opsn mic night w&s in the ofling, Say what you will, I haye always felt that true enteftainment comes improvrsed. Weigh this against thc office an* those that insist on the title ol' protessr$nal and the balance only ever comss out in favour of the amateurs. The lJniverse had provided me with a worthy suhject for my already overdue capy and I wasfi't gaingta waste it. A clelicious gtnger beer is doing the
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Ta kick things oft, Michael treatetl us tc: p$ern. Now d<tn't w$ffy, as I admif/.redly &irJ ut tirst. Miks's work is of an unusually 'd
high standard. His opening piec*
vtas
called *Bungorosity", a Ginsbergian howl at the mooil that warled in the face a{ our town's languorous nature in & tight a*d aften tnteresting meter. l was happy to hear Snow Patrol re{erre* to in the only terrns that really frt, tlescribing Lightbady and his heinous crew with the most power{ul obscenity in lhe English lexicon , lt's about bloody trme. I was thoroughly enloying my;el{ as I ardered the third rlrink a{ the night.
Bell left the stage to xt;alterr,d A large man tn a louri shin then
MY, applatrxe.
introduced himself as Jonny B. His xetwas somewhat compromised by ir recalci1lr:ant PA system but he p$wered thraagh it like a pro. He displayed good crowd control with a repertory set that was gcnuincly hean{elt if a little staid.He gaye us some competent
tirrger picking on an cbony finish guitar and it was a shame that most of the punters weren't quite warmed up enaugh to give hirn his due. Mike gav$ us another poem? this time
a lrustrated attempt at pulling an attractive lady in the Limelight which had us all cringing in recognition blefore & man about
wlro had already macle his v$tce heard without an oflicial invitatian took the
lt is dangerously
stage. I'herc is alr,vays ons as they say aruJ this time it rvas Savage Ed. This man w&s drtrnk (and I don't mcan tipsy) but rletying
cleared two botlles in as many elraughts. Ah, the rsstsrative powerrl of a good tipple .
all expcc:tatiorrs, hc was awe$ome. I don't want to borc anybody lvith gnttar talk but Ed's axe was hcautil'u[. A slim-line lacquercd instrumcnt with & colourful
rounds at the moment.
easy to drink and atter only a mattw ot minutes and with a consi&erable ap,petrte, I
Sefrtre long the office lr/as il distant memory and s fell{rw callei Mu;hael Bcll presenterJ himself us the compere {or Coyle's apen mic night, explaiurng things lor
tho se
of us who were there by acr:idenl,
tloral pattcrn inlay cncircling eccentrically placcd sound holcs that said, onl might be pissed but I can play."
Bangor AyE
9pq* &Iic Hight r9
Ecl sat dorvn and set abo
ut tr*atrng us to t an open mic* night should be, rambli ng thror.rgh 'his his tn-ltue take on
sense
*f
wha
set
with
a
tempo like an arhythmic heartheat.
Apart frorn what I think niigtrt have been a Metallica {avaurite and ; xpattering ot
possible R&B eovsrr;, I,m nit s*re what tunes he was playing but they afi seemed t$
have far longer endings thun was (iv,,r intended by the originalTuthars. Each coda was iLn l*{ew Age syrnphony with the now inebriated aurlience- pioviding premature applaase at svery oppartuiliry,A more I autspoken patron rcqaested frow,n Eyed Girt. blJ hardly looked up from the fiet board &$ he shouted, "I don't know that afic" and sel otT into a tortureti renrlition of the
Thing s wsre begin* ing to deteriarute so I called for a drink anrl teiok some time aut for a long deserved bag break. r came back to find a yoang lanky chap standing with his bass around his ankres and h"is eeger
acaustic guitar playing
enamsred
mysel{
{iood like some
Eventually someone must have called mercy and thc duo slunk off looking odclly, inexplicably pleased with
themselves.
Next {rp was a young nlan named Ross in a brand new flat" cap who gave us a string ol'tunes conce rning subjects that even he aclmittcd he kncw little about "r've never takcn clrugs but"*ry this is a s.ong about drug adclicti.rn", he said as I &
" Fair play to thc guy; hc r,+trr;te his own tunes and thcy wcrcn't that bad for a
young {rella.
sauntering back in, I orcrcrctl yet another byew against my croctor's best Ldoir* and almost {ailed to noticc mustaclrioso l.{eil Phi.lipl employing an inreresring plucking te{:h.nique that un l"ortunate ly* failed to screwer|
He had the shut cycs a,cl steepled brow of a seiuncl.
man who doesn'r care whether or not his aurlience can hcar him. Luckily we cauldn,t.
John Lennon's w'orking cJuss Hero is dirgey enough rvithrur sr6wi ng it trown to a point that makcs evalutio,i* srumhling progress sesnl lightnin g fast.
crazerJ
Burll destroying & Rembranr.
beverage.
an intcrcsli,g
I was nqt {isappoin tsd. They &.ave us
children hopped ap on Ited
missed the rest fram choking with laughter on my ftiurth
pr<>duce
the point af
F'iglrters and tlzcn ttid the dumbfounding aadacity ta trample all over Johnn7* Be
"That's elose enough,, and I
was t inrc to go ,utsicie Ibr
of themsr,lves to
the goddamn Killers and the braody Foo
member gulderred back,
d it
rJy siuing besiie
drowning. Even befr;re they sta.lted playing I knew that we were about ia be subjected to something truly aw{ul anr| an settling
twelpe bar blues. Saicl crowd
decide smoke
bud
him in ready position, They were oivi*usry
As a grateful communal exhalation blcw the {oam aff
& whaek of pinrs, the high paint of t\e cventng took his place . stai ri* Elvis Man was well worth the wait. Theye LS a traclition
foundad on tone tl,,af o1d men who insist that, had it nat been for the trouble with the strong preseriptian medici ne and the banana and bacon s_andwiches, The King wotrrtl be
quite literally taking up residenfe in some unknown backwater 6r their conscience.
stan is not one of them . He has a real voice lnd a hefty chunk of charisrna thar his we il f":ry*! gut. cannat clisguise r.vsn though hc tol! the jake about writing songs v on the
t*ilet no less thun three times.
stan's admiratrle perfurmanee cailed a l* an *, venin g thit I won 't s{r*fi forget. 1 -wove my way home cadrhled in a *ir* close
glaw that lasted u,til wakiug tbe next a that {br l&s pleasant reasons will"morning never allow n1s to firget its prcgcnitor. GoorJ gas. ?y morning,
Bangor AYE
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freeman
fenwi*Smytht This morning I awoke to find a giganric pig standing at the back dtror chewing on a treetroot amidst a scene of utter carnige and
destruction. My pnze sow had slipped 6er sty at some ungodly hour and der":imated the
vegetable pafch. When I stumbled blearyeyed upon the scene she glanced over her
shoulder insolently, gave an inten og atory snort and sauntered off' to who-knows-what new calamity seem ingly ufiaware that anything.was amiss. It is my principle never
tcr. slaughterr an animal antil they have exhausted all othrr us$s but this porcine pandemonium has sfretched that principle to its limit. I hope the wrerched beast linows how close it came to having its bacon fried. lt took nre the first half of the day to clear up the mess and take stock of the damage
which was, Iuckily for the now
recapture,J
beast, widespread trut
mi*imal. With rhi back trf the work broken by lunch time I sat down to enjoy a cald beverage aruJ a ploughman,s on the veranda. Having got myself outside a couple of pints of rny owrl curious cider trre thought of my televisual duries was not so layytiyg es it had been at six in the moming. Still" I don't rnind telling you that it,s ; damned shame lo ha e to turn one's back on thebeayty of Llillffarm on such a fine day for sometlring so sqaalaraus as TV. The ediiors' neck-bre athing is becorning irksolne however, so in we go again, I shoulei wafll yorr that since our last
excursion, the lunatics have taken over the asylunr. (Singerly ruming the handle of the door to the "lbobsphere we are thrown back by the sheer fbrce of the nonsense that is rampant hehind it. Against a howling rvincr that seeks to strip the minel of self iontrol layer by layer, we must use what rernains ot' our will to cross the threshold snharrned and slam the door behind us. We're in. A hush descends but the respite is a short one. It is pitch dark. A shriek tiorn sonle far ofT comer
cuts the air aruJ echoes around our bervildered ears. Stay still.
As $cene
I light a kerosine lamp, the clreadtirl is given a sickly illumination. aig
Brother on *:ive alm*st succeeds in grabtlinf me bet-ore lve have' eveR started. It plans t; beat us all to dearh with a diaiy chair resemhling Rodin's fiates of klell buf having been here betirre, I am prepared, I swing thE larnp towards its Ciollum eyes and witt a strangled squawk it scuttles back to its fetirJ
lair. A mumhling creature shamt:les towards us. Cherry k:{,ealey,, a perfect exem ?ilar of the kind of hopeless wretch that roams the outer [phere these days, hosts her own prografir on the B|RC. One look et this empt/ vessel preperes us fbr the fact that she is dessended fitrrn the chadwyck-Llealey Baronets and has
married someoRe called Roly. They havtto adrJ to the opacity or their already rnuddied gene pool by pioducing a
continued
danghter that they have named (aca, an act of abuse that has somehow passetl under the raclar of the social sl*rvices. L{ealey bouncs-s around rvearing sn o'l don't know what,s going oR" look on her f"ac'e while tac-kling
with unparalleled indelicacy the really
hor
issues of' contemporary lif-e. In Che rry l{ealey: Love
she
and Moncy,
drags unsuspecting orange people into
a
corrvcrted warehouse space that she calls her "hub" and quizzes them cn why they havsn,t
durnped their ugly poverty strickeri spouses yet. Unsurprisingly, she is invariably unable to understand the answer and resorts to
plastering that tratlemark expression of
toftbe-noscd incornprehension al! over her stupid lhcc. wc had better move on beftrre she starts to spcak, a hor-ror that even the
rnost hardcncd c.rinrinals amongst
shouldn't bc lirrcccl to snclure.
us
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. PGt r Urtlnoy (1927 -2OO4t
Bangor AYE
Toob et
Yallow me and rvatch your step. Wait, I think
I discem a fhint light in the riistince.
We must he getting close to safer territory. ?{ere comes
.fhelma's
Cypsy Girls, a wyrd sister of My, Big fr'nt {i.y,psy, Lfi'edding that has beaten a rnarginally more respectful path than her sihling ttrrough the long grasri of Channel 4. Thelma is a seamstress specialising in the manwfasture
of wedding dresses t"or the A documentary team
travelling community.
follows her valiant attempts to teach the tricks
of the trade to a
gallimaufry
of
wenches,
generously providing the last gypsy standing with a job fbr li{'e. Thehma is a gootl woman with a powertirl moral sense but we all know
deep down that
this is not why we
are
watching. We're watching it fbr the same reasons that a certain kind ot' person might enjoy the sight of an old age pensioner being
unsucsessfirlly resuscitated on a supermarket floor. There is always the distinct possibility that. someone might actuatly die in one of the
many vicious altercations. Ilappily
nobody
cloes although sometirnes
I
it's toue'h and go. love the lingual gymnastics that the
traveller girls employ
in the absence of In one episode , a
standardised grammar. particularly dangerous looking specimen is hoping that she will be chosen by Thelma ro continue to the next stage of training. *'I wouldn't mind if I got puck"',, she says
displaying a fraw tor language that betrays the soul of a poet. Children do the same sort of thing when learning the language and "puck" seems at least as sensible as "picked" to this old coclger. The light is now strong cnough to extinguish
our lamp hut trefore our cycs have time to properly adjust we are blindsided by a hefty burrage of' swearing. 'I'he ltarnsay appr{taches.
This ridiculous troglodyte of a thing
has
recently been roaming around prisons making an already hellish existcnce fhr worse for the inmates. ln Ramsay On Prison Life (Channel 4l', he is more than usually poisonous. "lf it's tough on the outside, I thirrk it should be tough on the inside", he says without a hint of irony. "t#hy should thcy bc sittin' on their arses. I want to get prisoncrs giving something back." This rJeranged sentirncnt suggests he had never been in a prison bclirre this visit and I reckon it is ttow safb to say hc r,von't trc going back to oile in a hur:ry. Dcspite some valiant attcmpts by prisoners to tirtally repay the insult of his
presence by way of seriotrs injury alas the fool to bully another day. Heltr's
escapes unscathed
Kitchen (ITY) is far more enterlaining, mostly isn't around that much gxcept to throw the odd tantrum at fat yanks and caLl -big trecause Ramsay
everyone boy' regardless of their gender, 'Yes?!' fr*owgh af this barrel scraping. Onwards into the light. Revenge (C,hannel 4) is that rarcst of
things, a high quality melodrama.
"This
American beast is set amongst the great and the
gaod of the *Tamptons and is well photog raphed in &n almost hyste rically
colourful palette. Madeleine Stowe perlbrrns a wonderfully hamrny star turn as high-so cieg royal Victoria (irayson, a lady with a deeply sha,Jy past. She is responsible tbr ruining the Iife of a littte girl who has now grown up hellbent on ruthlessly exactin g the revenge of the title. This is Kill Bill rn,ith a clutch tlag. I,luge chunks of the dialogue are conducted in silence
by rvay of meaningful stares, raised eyebrows and the bigge*t hairdos qirrce Dynasg,. Plucky underdogs,, billionaire socialites and earthy bar
owners with designer stubble spice this unsubtle mix to a heady richness that makes it essential viewing for anyone with a decent sense of humour. There is a lot of good non-fiction roaming the spacious prairies of the inner Sphere. Liarry Potter (no not that one), an ex-clergyman
tumed barrister gives us an interesting legal Iesson in The Strange Case $ the Law (8,[]C)
while the towering hsrbivore known as Storyville (BBC) shines an unflinching
spotlight on everything from the sordid nether warld of the lapanese modeling industry to tlre largely unknown plight of black Afiicans affbcted by albinism.
f'omedy is doing t\ne erren
if The
Might"v
abit rJerivative. I'm sure all tlre young dudes find it very arnusing and I probably would too if it weren't fbr the fact s,east is more than
that 1 know where it's all bcen nicked fiorrr. An
undeniahly
slick se mi-musical rorfip, it's
hasically The [;'light o{ the Conchoruls untidily
spliced
with Spared and unceremoniously
forced into a lblighW Soosh shaped sausage skin but it raises an occasional titter and the kiels shoulcl be given top marks for trying.
Right, that's it. Take only memories and leave only footprints. This way firr the exit and I'11 see you all back at the Wrong ffnd the next time round. tr*:S
Feuilleton
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I 5oz Strawberry
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