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3HANE #ONNOR 7E GET ALL CHUMMY WITH THE !USSIE

7E HAVE A LOOK AT THE LATER LIFE OF *OHNNY #ASH

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Centre  Spread  12  &  13

Film  19  &  20 &ILM ADAPTATIONS $O THEY CHANGE OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH BOOKS &ILM FORMATS (OW IMPORTANT IS THE BIG SCREEN TO US

Music  15

Reviews

TV Â 8

-Y .AME IS %ARL 0OINT 0LEASANT ON $6$ &ARSCAPE AND OF COURSE SOAPY SUDS

4HE COMMERCIALISATION OF MUSIC AND ITS EFFECTS

Art  6

Art  7

7E TALK TO #LAIRE %VANS ABOUT THE .ORWICH !RTS &ESTIVAL

"EDBOUND AT 5%!

-EDEA AT 5%!

(ARRY -ULISCH

Fashion  4  &  5

Film  18,  21  &  22

Regulars

Music  14,  16  &  17

2EVIVE YOUR WARDROBE WITH A FEW BOLD OUTlTS THIS WINTER

Creative  Writing  10 Listings  17

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Editor-in-chief  3ARAH %DWARDES Editor  &  Designer +ATE "RYANT Deputy  Editor !NNA 3TEWARD Art  Editor  2OANNA "OND

#ONTRIBUTORS #ARL -ARTH 0HILLIPA / 3HAUGHNESSY

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Fashion  Editor  ,AURA #OBB #ONTRIBUTORS %LLEY 4AYLOR

Film  Editor  3EBASTIAN -ANLEY #ONTRIBUTORS 2ICHARD "OAKES +ATE "RYANT !LEX &LUX

!NDY *UDSON #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY 3EAN / 3HEA "ECKY 2UTT Music  Editor  #HARLES 2UMSEY #ONTRIBUTORS -ICHALE (ARVEY %LLEY 4AYLOR -ICHAEL (ARVEY -ARY *ANE !NDREW 2ILEY -ARK #RAWLEY

+ELVIN +NIGHT TV  Editor  #HRIS (YDE #ONTRIBUTORS "ECKY 2UTT 2EBECCA (UNT +IM $YER

.ATASHA +UNDAIKER Creative  Writing  Editor   -ERINNE 7HITTON #ONTRIBUTORS "EX (ARRIS "ARNEY 4IDMAN :AK +LEIN

Listings  Editor  &IONA "ILLINGS Internet  Editor  *AMES #ONWAY

RECEIPT OF ENTRIES IS -ONDAY TH &EBRUARY !LL ENTRIES RECEIVED BY THIS DATE WILL BE ENTERED

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Fashion

Rock  with  the  clash "ANISH THOSE WINTERY BLUES AND STRUT INTO SPRING WITH A WARDROBE OF MAYHEM AND MIS CHIEF 4HIS SEASON %LLEY 4AYLOR HELPS YOU ADD A TOUCH OF SOPHISTICATED ANARCHY TO YOUR

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HINK $EBBIE (ARRY OR +AREN / OF 9EAH 9EAH 9EAHS FAME DRESSED TO IM PRESS WITH THEIR QUIRKY EDGE OF JAW DROP PING STYLE ADOPT THE STONE COLD

UNBREAKABLE FRONT OF 'RACE *ONES

GRAB THE STREETWISE GOOD HUMOURED APPEAL OF 'WEN 3TEFANI AND YOU VE GOT IT #LOTHING SHOULDN T JUST BE ABOUT KEEPING YOUR NAKED lGURE DISGUISED FROM ALL THOSE PRYING EYES )T SHOULD BE ABOUT DRESS ING UP A SENSE OF FUN AND ABOVE ALL ABOUT DAZZLING THE WORLD WITH YOUR SPARKLING AND VIBRANT PERSON ALITY 7HO WANTS TO GO AROUND IN BEIGE AND SHADES OF GREY WHEN YOU CAN TURN HEADS IN A SHOCKING PINK OR LUMINOUS LIME 4HIS STYLE IS SO EASY AND REA SONABLY CHEAP TO ACHIEVE YOU

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STYLE SO YOU CAN RUN WILD WITH THE CLASH

3TOP TRYING TO EM PHASISE ONE PART OF YOUR OUTlT AND STAND OUT WITH THE WHOLE THING

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CAN REVIVE ANY OLD OR PAST IT ITEM OF CLOTHING AND DRAW IT INTO A NEW FRESH AND FUNKY OUTlT 'REAT AP PEAL FOR THE STUDENTS COUNTING THE PENNIES BUT STILL ENTICING FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO COMBINE ELEMENTS OF THE LATEST FASHION TRENDS 'WEN 3TEFANI PARADES A COM PLETELY UNIQUE AND UNRULY FASHION SENSE WITH HER UNPREDICTABLY BRAVE AND BOISTEROUS STREAK SAMPLING BOLD AND BRIGHT PRINTS OR CONTRAST ING THOSE MORE EXTREME mAVOURS WITH SUBTLE STYLISH LOOKS WHICH ARE SULTRIER AND GLORIOUSLY SEXY WITH A TOUCH OF RETRO CHIC $EBBIE (ARRY AND 'RACE *ONES CERTAINLY WORK THAT POUT )T IS ALL ABOUT A SENSE OF ATTITUDE WHEN YOU RE ROCKING THE #LASH DISCOVER YOUR DISAGREEABLE SIDE AND WORK ON THAT PIERCING GLARE 3TRUT YOUR STUFF WITH ATTITUDE THERE S NO ROOM FOR WILTING mOWERS HERE YOU RE A STAR AND YOU DESERVE ATTENTION *UST DON T MAKE ROOM FOR A PRETEN

TIOUS DEMANDING PRINCESS !ND THEN THERE WAS SPLENDIDLY CRAZY +AREN / SUPPLYING A HEFTY SLICE OF SEX APPEAL WITHOUT BE ING SCANTILY CLAD SHE WORKS THOSE SUGGESTIVE POSES AND MODELS THAT SHARP HAIRSTYLE SIMILARLY TYPICAL OF $EBBIE (ARRY )F YOU WANT TO BOOST YOUR CONlDENCE GRAB ATTENTION OR JUST WANT TO LOOK LIKE YOUR PART OF THE BAND THEN DIP YOUR TOE INTO THE CLASHING FASHION WATERS 9OU WON T BE SORRY

LEOPARD Â PRINT Â

,EOPARD PRINT IS A PRICELESS MUST WITH THIS LOOK IT INSTANTLY ADDS lERY CHARACTER BESIDE ANIMAL INSTINCT AND IS WIDELY AVAILABLE IN THE SHOPS AT THE MOMENT 0LACED AGAINST SIMPLE DENIM OR EVEN THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT OR ELEGANT OF FABRICS IT WILL NEVER LOOK OUT OF PLACE !ND IT LOOKS BLOODY MARVELLOUS RIOTING ALONG SIDE NOISY BLOCK COLOURS SUCH AS AN ELECTRIC BLUE OR A SUMPTUOUS RED

WAISTCOATS

.OW ON THE TOPIC OF WAISTCOATS

PROBABLY BANISHED TO THE DEEP DEPTHS OF YOUR WARDROBE DEEMED ONLY PRACTICAL FOR THE LIKES OF +ATE -OSS OR FOR A DUSTING OFF AT THE AN NOUNCEMENT OF THE NEXT SCHOOL DAZE "UT THEY RE BACK WITH THE NEW TREND FOR TOM BOY TAILORING SO GET THEM OUT GIRLS OR RAID SALES AND CHARITY SHOPS FOR A BARGAIN BECAUSE THEY ARE SUCH A SIMPLE BUT SHARP AD DITION TO ANY OUTlT A CARDIGAN CAN SUBMIT A CERTAIN EXTENT OF EDGE

JAZZED UP WITH ACCESSORIES BUT A WAISTCOAT ADDS A TOUCH OF IRONIC CLASS AND COMBINED WITH A FUNKY TIE THE HUGE /XFAM SHOP IN !NGLIA 3QUARE ALWAYS HAS A TASTY SUPPLY OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES AND A WARMLY COL OURED T SHIRT WILL INSTANTLY ADD THAT CHEEKY VIXEN QUALITY TO YOUR LOOK ADD A GORGEOUS AND ATTRACTIVE SENSE OF MOVEMENT AND ARE CHEAPLY AND EASILY PICKED UP IN HABERDASHERIES LIKE *OHN ,EWIS OR *ARROLDS OR EVEN

Fashion

Costume  Drama %VERY FORTNIGHT AT THE %VENT WE ARE LITERALLY INUNDATED WITH CRIES FOR HELP FROM STUDENTS FALTERING IN THE FASHION DEPART MENT &EAR NOT FRIENDS -ISS LL &IX )T IS HERE TO SOLVE ALL YOUR WARDROBE WOES 4HIS WEEK &EELING .IPPY

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(OW DO ) GET RID OF THE TRAGIC hSMUGGLING PEANUTSv EFFECT ) M SICK OF IT RUINING MY LOOK .IPPY

ON THE MARKET 4RY LOTS OF FUNKY PAT TERNED THICK STRIPS OF GINGHAM OR POLKA DOTS OR MORE ELEGANT PLUSH COLOURINGS SUCH AS CRIMSON AND OL IVE GREEN GATHERED ROUND THE WRIST FOR INSTANT ALTERNATIVE APPEAL 4IED MESSILY ROUND THE WAIST ADDS GREAT DETAIL AND TIED LOOSELY AROUND THE NECK GIVES A STRIKING PUSSY BOW STYLE TO A SEEMINGLY PLAIN SHIRT 0EARL NECKLACES AND LIVELY PAT TERNED SILK SCARVES CAN BE EITHER A TRASHY OR RElNED ADDITION TO YOUR OUTlT DEPENDING ON THE REACTION YOU RE LOOKING FOR AND ALWAYS SEEM TO COMPLIMENT AND COMPLETE THE LOOK

RALLIED BY 4OPSHOP ARE A STRIKING COMPLIMENT TO ANY OUTlT WHICH LOOK FABULOUS TEAMED WITH A PAIR OF BRIGHT SNAPPY HEELS

PLICATED AND FULL OF PROWESS BUT A LOOSE mOW OF HAIR OVER ONE SIDE OF THE FACE COVERS AN EYE WITH BASHFUL YET POWERFUL ALLURE

STRIPES

MAKE-UP

ACCESSORIES

7HEN IT COMES TO SEQUINS IN THIS CASE LESS IS MORE THEY TEND TO LOOK DULL IN THE HARSH LIGHT OF THESE EARLY MONTHS SEQUINED CAPES CAN ADD AN INTELLIGENT STREAK BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT OF GLITZ HINTS AT POLISHED GLAMOUR AS WELL AS A SPARKLING PERSONALITY -ETALLIC BELTS WORK WELL EITHER LOW SLUNG OR HIGH WAISTED AND THOSE PLAYFUL SEQUINED BELTS -ADONNA RE DISCOVERED ALONGSIDE HER PENCHANT FOR DISCO WORK PERFECTLY JAZZING UP A CLASSIC BLACK OR WHITE TOP !ND A SIMPLE STRING OF SEQUINS AGAIN PICKED UP FROM HABERDASHERIES

WILL ALSO DO THE TRICK

PATTERNS

! STRIKINGLY PATTERNED SKIRT SUCH AS DOGTOOTH IS AN INSTANT HEAD TURNER AND THE MONOCHROME COLOURING IS EASY TO WORK WITH #OLOURED TIGHTS ARE AN ESSENTIAL ADDITION AS THEY DRIP WITH INTENSITY AND ADD IM MEDIATE CONTRAST WHICH CAN BE CONlDENTLY WORKED TO TIE IN WITH ANOTHER PART OF THE OUTlT &OOTLESS TIGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY

SEQUINS

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/N THE HAIR FRONT QUIFFS LOOK WICK ED AND GIVE EXTRA HEIGHT SO YOU CAN TOWER OVER THOSE WHIMPERING BOYS ! SLICK TIGHT PONYTAIL LOOKS UNCOM

!ND lNALLY THAT ESSENTIAL SLAP 9OUR MAKE UP AND HAIR ARE HUGELY IM PORTANT TO COMPLETE THE LOOK VOLU MINOUS EYELASHES AND GLOSSY BOLD LIPS WILL ELEVATE EVEN THE MOST TIRED OF EXPRESSIONS ! DAZZLING SWEEP OF EYE SHADOW AND A MISCHIEVOUS mICK OF EYELINER WILL MAKE FOR GREAT FEA TURES !ND OBVIOUSLY A TASTY BIT OF NAIL POLISH ALWAYS BRINGS SOPHISTI CATION TO THOSE lNGERS A HUNKY RED IS ALWAYS A WINNER 4HIS STYLE IS SO EASY TO ACHIEVE AND ALWAYS TURNS HEADS BUT REMEMBER DON T GO FOR THE DRESSED IN THE DARK LOOK "E BOLD PUT THAT TOP YOU CAN ONLY EVER IMAGINE BEING COMFORT ABLE WITH DENIM WITH THAT STRIPY SKIRT 9OU D BE SURPRISED MOST THINGS DO WORK TOGETHER STOP TRY ING TO EMPHASISE ONE PART OF YOUR OUTlT AND STAND OUT WITH THE WHOLE THING 9OU CAN BASE IT AROUND ONE FUNKY PIECE AND GO FROM THERE YOU DON T HAVE TO BE TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS TO ACHIEVE THE CLASH 9OU CAN TONE OUTlTS DOWN BY FOCUSING MAYBE ON JUST AN ANIMATED TOP AND A BRIGHT PAIR OF TIGHTS /R YOU CAN SUBTLETY TURN THEM UP WITH SOME MORE LIVE LY ACCESSORIES THE CHOICE IS YOURS *UST HAVE FUN WITH IT AND ROCK WITH THE CLASH

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'ENERALLY ON THE ACCESSORIES FRONT ANYTHING BOLD AND CLUNKY WORKS BEST LIKE BIG BEADS AND BANGLES AS DAINTY TRINKETS TEND TO GET OVERSHAD OWED UNLESS THEY ARE COMBINED WITH A COLLECTION OF LOTS OF LITTLE GEMS PROVIDING A LUSH ARISTOCRATIC LOOK BUT REMEMBER WE DON T WANT TO EDGE INTO BLING TERRITORY

,INE UP THOSE STRIPES BECAUSE THEY ADD FEISTY PUNCH TO ANY WARDROBE AND ARE ALWAYS POPULAR ON THE HIGH STREET 3TRIPE ON STRIPE WORKS SO LONG AS THEY DIFFER FOR EXAMPLE HORIZONTAL AGAINST VERTICAL OR SPICE IT UP WITH SOME DIAGONAL STRIPES "UT REMEMBER TO MIX DIFFERENT COL OURS WE DON T WANT TO LOOK LIKE WALLPAPER

$EAR .IPPY

4HE JURY IS NOT YET OUT RE THE PRESENCE OF PEANUTS !LTHOUGH TIC TACS UNDER YOUR TOP ARE A TYPICAL BODILY FUNC TION A BIT LIKE ENLARGED GOOSE BUMPS THEY CAN BE HIGHLY EMBARRASSING %SPECIALLY IF THEY ARE A RESULT OF GETTING UNEXPECTANTELY TURNED ON YES BOYS YOU RE NOT THE ONLY ONES 9ET MANY A MAN MAY SEE WINKING BLINKERS AS A TANTALISINGLY TASTER OF WHAT LIES BENEATH ) SUGGEST YOU TRY SEEING YOUR NIPS AS THE PREVIEW BEFORE SCREENING )F YOU RE A MORE CONSERVATIVE KIND OF KID DON A BRA WITH SOME INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH PADS IN OR SHIELD YOUR WHACK A COUPLE OF PLASTERS DOWN YOUR TOP

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A  Fine  Performance 4HE %VENT S 'LORIA 3ANDERS MEETS AN ARTIST WITH l NE AMBITIONS INTENT ON BRINGING ART TO THE MASSES IN HER NEW .ORWICH !RTS &ESTIVAL 'ET READY FOR SOME RE EDUCATION

AS WE LEARN THE TRUE MEANING OF @ART ALONG THE WAY

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S 4HE %VENT MADE THEIR WAY TO I N T E R V I E W #LAIRE %VANS ABOUT A NEW .ORWICH !RTS &ESTIVAL

IT DAWNED ON US HOW LUCKY WE WERE THAT OUR FRIENDS HAVE SLIGHTLY MORE COMMON SENSE THAN US -AYBE IT S EGO MAYBE IT S IGNORANCE BUT WE HAD COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF AN @ARTS FESTIVAL 7E ASSUMED THAT IT WOULD BE TOTALLY FOCUSED ON PERFORMERS OF A THEATRICAL NATURE 3UDDENLY AFTER BEING CORRECTED BY A VERY AMUSED FRIEND WE WERE BEING FACED WITH A DISCUSSION ABOUT ACTUAL @ART

AND WE WEREN T QUITE SURE HOW TO PROCEED ,UCKILY FOR US #LAIRE IS A VERY UNDERSTANDING INTERVIEWEE 7E START OFF BY TELLING HER ABOUT OUR MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION THAT @THE ARTS AUTOMATICALLY MEANS

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@THEATRE h!H v SHE SAYS h4HAT S WHERE YOU RE WRONG v /KAY NOW WE RE REALLY CONFUSED h4HE AIM OF THE ARTS FESTIVAL IS TO ENCOURAGE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT ARTISTIC REALMS SO THAT INCLUDES ANY KIND OF PERFORMANCE ART v "UT WOULD THE FOCUS BE ON l NE ART h7ELL MY BACKGROUND IS IN l NE ART ) STUDIED SCULPTURE AT THE .ORWICH !RT 3CHOOL v #LAIRE GRADUATED FOUR YEARS AGO CHOOSING .ORWICH AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE @CULTURAL DESERT OF 3HROPSHIRE WHERE SHE IS ORIGINALLY FROM 3HE NOW HAS A STUDIO SPACE AT 3T %THELDREDA #HURCH AND ONE AFTERNOON WHILE INVIGILATING AN EXHIBITION SHE GOT TALKING TO ANOTHER ARTIST 4OGETHER THEY CAME UP WITH AN EXCITING NEW CONCEPT

ONE THAT MAY SOON BE KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE .ORWICH ARTS SCENE AS )NTERFACE &OUR VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST FOR THE NAME SO FAR #LAIRE IS OF THE OPINION THAT THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO

LOSE h7E RE NOT A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS SO WE CAN TAKE RISKS ) THINK IT S IMPORTANT TO SAY THAT AS A FESTIVAL WE RE NOT TRYING TO l GHT AGAINST ANY OF THE FANTASTIC EVENTS THAT ALREADY TAKE PLACE IN .ORWICH 7E WOULD ACTUALLY LOVE TO WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH THEM AND TRY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO TO l NE ART EXHIBITIONS AS A RESULT OF SOMETHING THEY MAY HAVE SEEN AT A PERFORMANCE v 3HE GESTURES TO THE WALLS OF THE BAR IN WHICH WE SIT h4HERE S ART ON THE WALLS IN HERE 4HIS IS THE KIND OF SPACE WE COULD USE v 3O WOULD SHE USE THE BAR ITSELF AS A VENUE FOR ONE OF THE PROJECTS h) DID AN INSTALLATION IN HERE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO v SHE REVEALS h) PUT A PAPER LINE AROUND THE PREMISES -Y ART IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION

TEMPORALITY

AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD METHODS BY WHICH WE USED TO HAVE TO COMMUNICATE AND THE MODERN DAY 7E LIVE IN AN AGE OF

COMMUNICATION EVERYTHING IS IN SHORTHAND (OW MUCH DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY v 7E ASK IF THE INSTALLATION ELICITED ANY KIND OF MEMORABLE RESPONSE h4HERE WAS ONE COMMENT IN THE VISITORS BOOK THAT SAID @-ORE ARSE THAN ART ) WAS QUITE CHUFFED BY THAT RESPONSE !NY REACTION IS BETTER THAN NO REACTION n IT S BETTER TO VOTE THAN NOT VOTE ISN T IT v #LAIRE MOVES ON TO DESCRIBING THE NEW PROJECT h) M INTERESTED IN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ASPECTS OF COMBINING MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART ) THINK ) D DESCRIBE THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE FESTIVAL AS A l NE ARTS PERFORMANCE WITHIN A PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL v )N THE MANIFESTO LISTING THE AIMS OF THE ARTS FESTIVAL THERE IS TALK OF @SHIFTING FOCUS AWAY FROM COMMERCIAL CONCERNS AND @MAKING ARTS EVENTS MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC )N WHAT WAY DOES #LAIRE THINK THAT ARTS EVENTS AREN T ACCESSIBLE h7ELL IN THE l NE ART WORLD WE HAVE THINGS CALLED @PRIVATE VIEWINGS WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY A CELEBRATION OF THE ARTIST S WORK "UT @PRIVATE VIEWING SOUNDS SO RESTRICTIVE

DOESN T IT )T SUGGESTS THAT IT S INVITE ONLY OR THAT YOU VE GOT TO BE IN A CERTAIN @ARTSY CIRCLE TO BE ABLE TO GO 7E WANT TO TRY AND GIVE ART BACK TO THE PEOPLE )F WE PUT ART IN PLACES WHERE PEOPLE AREN T EXPECTING IT

PLACES WHERE THEY LL STUMBLE ACROSS IT IT MAKES IT LESS FORBIDDING AND EXCLUSIVE 4HE l RST PROJECT THAT )NTERFACE IS PLANNING IS A COLLABORATION WITH @4HE 'ARAGE THEATRE 4HE IDEA IS TO HAVE A KIND OF LIVE ART EXHIBITION WHICH SHE CALLS @3TRING 4ELEPHONES h#ONTINUING THE THEME OF COMMUNICATION ) THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HAVE LOADS OF PEOPLE ALL HOLDING A STRING TELEPHONE WEAVING IN AND AROUND THE BUILDING SO THAT WHEN THE AUDIENCE COME OUT FOR THE INTERVAL THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THIS PIECE OF ARTWORK A KIND OF LIVE SCULPTURE v )T LOOKS LIKE )NTERFACE ARE READY TO BRING ART TO THE MASSES AND THAT S NO BAD THING ,OOK OUT FOR INSTALLATIONS APPEARING IN UNUSUAL PLACES OR MAYBE A JUGGLER ON A STRING TELEPHONE STANDING BEHIND YOU IN (-6

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My  Name  is  Earl  #HANNEL PM &RIDAYS 7HAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY "UY ALL THOSE #$S YOU VE WANTED FOR AGES MAYBE OR TREAT YOUR FRIENDS TO A NIGHT OUT 7ELL FOR AFFABLE REDNECK %ARL THE lRST THING HE DOES IS ACCIDENTALLY GET HIT BY A CAR /OPS 7AKING UP IN A HOSPITAL BED HE SEES A SHOW ON THE TELEVISION ABOUT KARMA AND COSMIC BALANCE AND DECIDES THAT THE CRASH WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LOSE THE WINNING TICKET WAS TO PUNISH HIM FOR HIS LIFE OF BAD DEEDS (E WRITES A LIST OF AROUND BAD THINGS HE S DONE IN LIFE AND SETS OUT TO RIGHT ALL OF THEM TO ACHIEVE GOOD KARMA !ND SO BEGINS THE lRST EPISODE

OF -Y .AME IS %ARL #HANNEL S LATEST !MERICAN SITCOM $ESPITE A PREMISE THAT S A BIT FAR FETCHED AND LONG WINDED IT S VERY ENTER TAINING AND SHARES A SIMILAR SENSE OF HUMOUR TO 3CRUBS EVEN DOWN TO THE USE OF mASHBACKS AND RAN DOM ASIDES 4HE JOKES OFTEN RE VOLVE AROUND THE STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE OF $EEP 3OUTH !MERICA

SUCH AS TRAILER TRASH MOTHERS AND HICKS THAT CARRY SHOTGUNS EVERY WHERE WITH THEM 7HILE IT COULD BE SEEN AS TARGETING AND RIPPING APART THAT PARTICULAR ASPECT OF !MERICAN CULTURE IT IS MORE LIKE LY THAT THESE CHARACTERS ARE BEING PRESENTED IN AN ALMOST LOVEABLE

Suds 9OUR DOSE OF SOAP NEWS (OLLYOAKS )T SEEMS EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING THIS WEEK IN (OLLYOAKS !NDY IS BACK AND SET FOR REVENGE AND 3AM S LIFE IS ABOUT TO SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL BRINGING 3OPHIE DOWN WITH HIM

AS HE WONDERS WHETHER TO TELL ALL ABOUT THE DATE RAPE !T THE SAME TIME ,IZ HAS ANNOUNCED SHE IS MOVING THE FAMILY AWAY FROM (OLLYOAKS BUT LEAVING $ARLENE WHO WILL MOVE INTO THE $OG #AMERON IS STILL REFUSING TO SEEK HELP FOR HIS OBSESSIVE DISORDER AND MAKING 3TEPH S LIFE A MISERY 'ILLY HAS lNALLY OUTSTAYED HIS WELCOME AT THE !SHWORTHS AND GETS A JOB AS THE CARETAKER AT (## "ECCA AND *AKE ARE STILL ARGUING AND SHE ADMITS TO -ANDY THAT SHE HAS SLEPT WITH SOMEONE ELSE BUT WILL SHE REVEAL THAT IT WAS TEENAGER ROGUE *USTIN 9OU WILL JUST HAVE TO KEEP WATCHING TO lND OUT "ECKY 2UTT .EIGHBOURS $IE HARD .EIGHBOURS FANS WILL HAVE BEEN GLUED TO THEIR TEL EVISION SCREENS OVER THE LAST WEEK AS 0AUL 2OBINSON S PARTY PLANE CAME A CROPPER UNBEKNOWN TO HIM A MYSTERY VILLAIN HAD PLANTED A BOMB ON IT BEFORE DEPARTURE 4HE DOOMED mIGHT TOOK OFF AND ON THE PASSENGERS LIST WERE SOME OLD FAVOURITES LIKE 3USAN AND 3KY SOME LESS FAVOURITE CHARAC TERS LIKE )ZZY AND %LLE AND HANDFUL OF EXTRAS FOR GOOD MEAS URE 7HAT FOLLOWED WAS A SERIES OF DARKENED SHOTS SPOOKY MUSIC AND NAUSEATING @GOODBYES AS THE CHARACTERS REALISED THEY MAY BE ABOUT TO MEET THEIR MAKER -OST OF THEM DID SURVIVE ,ILJANA $AVID AND 3ERENA REMAIN MISSING AND IT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD UNLESS THEY ARE REALLY GOOD SWIMMERS #ONNOR AND $YLAN HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE FOREST ON THE RUN FROM THE POLICE HOWEVER THEY lND A DISCARDED NEWSPA PER FROM WHICH THEY LEARN OF 3KY S SURVIVAL 4HIS PROMPTS $YLAN TO RETURN BACK TO %RINSBOROUGH WHERE HE ATTEMPTS TO HELP HIS BROTHER STAY OUT OF JAIL 2EBECCA (UNT

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WAY n THAT WHILE THEY ARE HORRI BLE PEOPLE THEY RE AN IMPORTANT PART OF !MERICAN CULTURE MUCH THE SAME AS ,ITTLE "RITAIN S 6ICKY 0OLLARD CHARACTER )N THE EPISODES SCREENED SO FAR %ARL HAS RIGHTED A FEW WRONGS FROM HIS LONG LIST SUCH AS APOLO GISING TO AN EX GIRLFRIEND THAT HE FAKED HIS OWN DEATH TO ESCAPE FROM TEACHING SOME MINORITY GROUPS HOW TO SPEAK %NGLISH AND QUITTING SMOKING )N HIS KARMIC QUEST HE IS AIDED BY HIS BROTHER

A MAID FROM THE MOTEL THEY LIVE IN WHO IS PROBABLY RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF MALES TUNING IN AND THE LOTTERY WINNINGS n ON RIGHT

ING HIS lRST WRONG %ARL FOUND THE LOST TICKET IN THE GUTTER PROV ING THAT KARMA REALLY DOES EXIST AT LEAST WHEN WE SUSPEND OUR BELIEF FOR THE SAKE OF TELEVISION -Y .AME IS %ARL IS CERTAIN LY ORIGINAL AND HAS BROUGHT A BREATH OF FRESH AIR TO #HANNEL S OTHERWISE STALE &RIDAY NIGHT SCHEDULES 7ITH ITS SHARP SCRIPT AND OFFBEAT PREMISE AS WELL AS THE ACTING SKILLS OF THE CAST n WITH CULT ACTOR *ASON ,EE AS %ARL PRO VIDING THE MOST MEMORABLE MO MENTS n IT S DElNITELY ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ON 46 AT THE MOMENT (OPEFULLY NOT MANY BAD DEEDS WILL HAVE BEEN CROSSED OFF THE LIST

BY THE END OF THIS SERIES AND WE LL SEE MORE OF %ARL SOON #HRIS (YDE

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BY CRITICS AS @4HE /MEN GOES BLONDE BUT UNFORTUNATELY DOESN T HAVE MUCH GOING FOR IT #HRISTINA .ICKSON IS WASHED UP ON THE SHORE OF THE SMALL TOWN OF 0OINT 0LEAS ANT DURING A FREAK STORM (OWEVER

FOLLOWING HER ARRIVAL ALL KINDS OF STRANGE EVENTS BEGIN TO OCCUR AS HER PRESENCE BEGINS TO AFFECT THE MEN TAL STATES OF THE TOWNSFOLK !LTHOUGH THE AVERAGE VIEWER CAN lGURE OUT THE ENTIRE PLOT OF THE SERIES WITHIN lVE MINUTES OF INSERT ING THE $6$ #HRISTINA SUCCESSFULLY IGNORES HER @ SHAPED BIRTHMARK AND THE FACT THAT PRIESTS ARE TERRIlED OF HER FOR A WHOLE THREE EPISODES BEFORE COMING TO THE CONCLUSION THAT SHE IS THE ANTICHRIST @0OINT 0LEASANT CONSISTS OF TWO CONmICT

ING PLOTS n THAT OF AN INCREDIBLY ANGSTY TEEN SITCOM AND A SUPERNAT URAL THRILLER n AND THE SITCOM PLOT TAKES PRECEDENCE 7HILE THE SERIES DOES IMPROVE AFTER THE TEDIOUS PI LOT EPISODE A MAJORITY OF THE SERIES IS SPENT EXPLORING THE RELATION SHIPS BETWEEN #HRISTINA AND THOSE AROUND HER .OBODY IN 0OINT 0LEAS ANT LIVES A HAPPY LIFE -ARRIAGES ARE FALLING APART ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THE TOWN SEEMS OVERRUN WITH SULLEN TEENAGERS 4HE FACT THAT #HRISTINA IS THE ANTICHRIST SEEMS TO BE PUSHED TO THE BACKGROUND IN FAVOUR OF FOLLOWING THE PROBLEMS FACING THE MAIN CHARACTERS EACH OF WHOM ARE SO TWO DIMENSIONAL THAT THE VIEWER FEELS LITTLE PITY FOR THEM !LTHOUGH THEY ARE HEAVILY OVER SHADOWED BY THE SITCOM ASPECTS

OF THE SERIES THE PARTS OF @0OINT 0LEASANT THAT FOCUS ON THE RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST ARE FAIRLY INTERESTING 7HEN SOMEONE ANGERS #HRISTINA OR THREATENS HER FRIENDS CARS START TO EXPLODE HORDES OF INSECTS SWARM INTO CHURCHES AND BLOOD POURS FROM SHOWER HEADS 4HE CONmICT ING EMOTIONS OF #HRISTINA AS SHE TRIES TO lGHT HER DESIRE TO KILL MAKE AN INTERESTING TAKE ON THE ANTICHRIST LEGEND AS SHE IS JUST TRYING TO BE A NORMAL GIRL 4HIS FACTOR COULD HAVE PROVEN INTERESTING IF #HRISTINA S PERSONALITY HAD BEEN DEVELOPED A LITTLE MORE IN THE SERIES (OWEVER

AS THE SERIES WAS THANKFULLY AXED AFTER THESE lRST THIRTEEN EPISODES

THERE IS NO CHANCE OF THIS HAPPEN ING +IM $YER

Telly  Classics &ARSCAPE

&ARSCAPE IS A SUPREMELY WACKY SCI l SHOW CHARTING THE ADVENTURES OF ASTRONAUT *OHN #HRICHTON "EN "ROWDER AS HE IS ACCIDENTALLY HURLED ACROSS THE UNIVERSE THROUGH A WORMHOLE &INDING HIMSELF SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF A PRISON ESCAPE AND GETTING TANGLED IN THE lRE lGHT

HE BECOMES PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE FOR THE 0EACEKEEPERS A MILITARY GALACTIC POLICE FORCE 2ESCUED BY THE CONVICTS THE

SHOW FOLLOWS HIS EPIC ODYSSEY ABOARD THE LIVING SHIP THROUGH UNCHARTED TERRITORIES AS HE LOOKS FOR A WAY BACK HOME (OWEVER THINGS ARE NEVER AS EASY AS THEY SEEM #RICHTON IS CONSTANTLY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF CONmICTS BETWEEN PLAN ETS EMPIRES AND THE INCOMPATIBLE PERSONALITIES OF THE ESCAPED PRISON ERS WITH WHOM HE HAS TAKEN REFUGE

FUSING COMEDY WITH DRAMA )TS FOCUS ON SURVIVING IN A HOS

TILE CHAOTIC UNIVERSE AND DEALING WITH INTERPERSONAL CONmICTS MAKES IT STAND APART FROM OTHER 3& SHOWS 4HE SHOW IS VISUALLY STUNNING AL BEIT QUITE STRANGE AND TAKES SERIAL ISED STORY TELLING TO THE EXTREME 4HOUGH THE SHOW WAS CANCELLED AT THE END OF SERIES FOUR ITS POPU LARITY AS A CULT FAVOURITE PROMPTED A MINI SERIES @4HE 0EACEKEEPER 7ARS

WRAPPING UP THE CAPTIVATING STORY .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

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,AST WEEK THE STAGE OF THE ,#2 WAS GRACED WITH THE PRESENCE OF 3HANE #ONNOR AKA *OE 3CULLY FROM .EIGHBOURS 2EBECCA (UNT CAUGHT UP WITH HIM BACKSTAGE AND ASKED ABOUT THE SHOW 3TOKE AND HIS INFAMOUS SACKING FROM .EIGHBOURS

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F THE PHRASE @!USSIE "LOKE EXISTED IN THE DIC TIONARY YOU WOULD lND A PICTURE OF 3HANE #ON NOR S CHARACTER *OE 3CULLY ALONG WITH THAT CROCO DILE HUNTER AND THE GUYS FROM THE RECENT @3HEILAS 7HEELS ADVERTS !LL SHARE SIMILAR FEATURES OF THE UNTAMED HAIR TANNED SKIN PERMANENTLY STAINED WITH SWEAT DIRT AND GREASE AND THE SENSE OF BEING JUST A LITTLE ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES *OE 3CULLY WAS A CRUCIAL MEMBER OF THE @.EIGHBOURS CAST lRMLY ESTABLISHING THE SHOW WITHIN THE !USTRALIAN PSYCHE (E WAS SADLY MISSED BY MILLIONS OF FANS WHEN HE SUDDENLY LEFT THE SHOW IN /CTOBER AFTER THE PRODUCERS ACCUSED HIM OF NARCOTIC ABUSE 7ITH RUMOURS OF ALCOHOLISM

WOMANISING AND INAPPROPRIATE RE LATIONS WITH MUCH YOUNGER MEM BERS OF THE CAST THIS REPORTER AVID @.EIGHBOURS FAN ENTERED THE 3HANE #ONNOR INTERVIEW WITH SLIGHT TREPI DATION "UT HE TURNED OUT TO BE A FRIENDLY AND AMUSING BLOKE WITH A HEALTHY APPETITE FOR MEAT FEAST PIZZA WASHED DOWN WITH VODKA AND 2ED "ULL 7HEN ASKED WHAT HE HAD BEEN UP TO SINCE HIS UNEXPECTED EXIT HE REPLIED THAT HE HAS BEEN @lGHTING A COURT CASE DOING A ""# @THING TOURING A PLAY AND TO TOP IT OFF HAVING THE DUBIOUS ACCOLADE OF PLAYING THE @$EMON OF $ISCONTENT IN @-OTHER 'OOSE IN THE MECCA OF ENTERTAINMENT THAT IS 3TOKE 4HIS GUY SURE HAS HAD A BUSY COUPLE OF YEARS SO MUCH SO THAT HE HAS NOT MANAGED TO CATCH MANY EPISODES OF .EIGHBOURS (OWEVER WHEN IN FORMED OF THE RECENT DRAMATIC PLANE CRASH #ONNOR COMMENTED THAT HE WAS SURPRISED @THEY DIDN T HAVE THE PILOT AS *OE 3CULLY BRINGING HALF THE STREET TO A STICKY END (E ADDED THAT PRODUCERS ARE @TOO SCARED TO KILL OFF THE BASTARD AS AT PRESENT HIS CHAR ACTER IS STILL AT THE FAMILY FARM HELP ING HIS BROTHER AND FATHER lGHT A BUSH lRE WHICH WE AGREED MUST BE @BLOODY BIG TO HAVE KEPT HIM AWAY FOR JUST OVER TWO YEARS !PPARENTLY THERE IS LITTLE OF *OE 3CULLY WITHIN 3HANE #ONNOR

HE SAYS THAT HE IS SEEN BY HIS CHIL DREN AS @A BIT MORE LIKE (OMER JUST WITHOUT THE YELLOW SKIN ,IKE HIS CHARACTER WHO OFTEN SOUGHT REFUGE IN THE GARAGE WHEN THINGS GOT TOO MUCH #ONNOR FEELS THAT @EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE A SHED WHICH IS A SEN

TIMENT THAT @SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN EVERY BLOODY MARRIAGE (E ADDED THAT @IF IT WASN T FOR THE GARAGE ,YNN AND *OE WOULD HAVE GOT DIVORCED A LONG TIME AGO 3O THERE YOU HAVE IT THE KEY TO THE INSTITUTE OF MARRIAGE IS A WOODEN SHACK IN WHICH A HUS BAND CAN ESCAPE FROM HIS WIFE 3O WHAT ATTRACTED #ONNOR TO PLAYING THIS CHARACTER (E HAD PRE VIOUSLY WORKED ON PROGRAMMES LIKE @,AW OF THE ,AND AND @-OBY $ICK AND HAS WON SEVERAL REPUTABLE AWARDS FOR HIS ACTING )N HE DECIDED THAT HE WANTED TO GO ON TO @.EIGHBOURS AND @BE A YEAR OLD MAN TRYING TO @WORK OUT WHAT THE HELL IT IS TO BE A YEAR OLD MAN (E STATES THAT BEFORE HIM THERE WAS @NO REAL MAN ON 2AMSAY 3TREET AS THEY WERE ALL TOO @POLITICALLY CORRECT

A VALID POINT CONSIDERING THE MAIN MALE lGURES WERE A RESPECTED DOC TOR A MORAL 3ALVATION !RMY MEM BER AND AN EX TOWN MAYOR 3INCE HIS DEPARTURE THE SHOW HAS LACKED A TRUE MAN S MAN CHARACTER WHICH IS PERHAPS WHY PRODUCERS HAVE RE CENTLY GIVEN ,YNN A NEW LOVE INTER EST THAT BEARS A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO *OE 3CULLY SHARING NOT ONLY HIS NAME BUT ALSO HIS PROFESSION RUG GED LOOKS AND AFlNITY TO THE mANNEL SHIRT 4HEY HAVE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THAT 2AMSAY 3TREET SIMPLY NEEDS A ROUGH STUBBORN MAN WHO IS SOFT ON THE INSIDE TO PROVIDE A COMFORT ABLE MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN THE CORRUPT SCHEMING OF 0AUL 2OBINSON AND THE SICKENINGLY VIRTUOUS $AVID "ISHOP 7HEN QUIZZED OVER WHO HE RE MAINS IN CONTACT WITH #ONNOR RE PLIED THAT HE STILL SEES !LAN &LETCHER +ARL +ENNEDY $ANIEL -C0HERSON *OEL AND *AY "UNYAN WHO PLAYED HIS SON *ACK (E WOULD NOT REVEAL ANY BACKSTAGE FEUDS OR ROMANCES DECLARING THAT @THERE WERE THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPENING BUT ) NEVER KNEW ABOUT THEM UNTIL THEY HAD BROKEN UP (OWEVER HE DID DIVULGE THAT THE FAMOUS !USTRALIAN CRICKETER 3HANE 7ARNE WILL BE MAKING A GUEST APPEARANCE LATER IN THE YEAR TO PRO MOTE HIS OWN CHARITY SO KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR HIM AND HIS MOBILE PHONE 7HEN PRESSED HE MAIN TAINED THAT HE WAS NEVER ATTRACTED TO &ELICITY OR 3TEPH HIS ON SCREEN DAUGHTERS MAINTAINING HE FELT LIKE MORE OF A FATHER lGURE TOWARDS THEM ,IKE WE BELIEVE THAT 3HANE *OKING ASIDE 3HANE SEEMS TO POSSESS FEW HAPPY MEMORIES FROM

HIS TIME AT @.EIGHBOURS AND IS NOT KEEN ON RETURNING AND HE DOUBTS IF @THEY WOULD TAKE ME BACK ANY WAY #ONNOR LAUNCHED AN UNFAIR DISMISSAL CLAIM AGAINST THE SHOW AFTER HE ARRIVED ON SET ONE DAY TO BE TOLD HE NO LONGER HAD A JOB !CCORD ING TO CREW AND CAST HIS ADDICTION TO AMPHETAMINES HAD AFFECTED HIS ABILITY TO WORK AND THE COMPLAINTS MADE AGAINST HIM EVENTUALLY LED TO HIS SACKING AT THE END OF 3EPTEMBER 4HE COURT HEARD THAT IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR MEMBERS OF THE CAST TO RUSH STRAIGHT TO MAKE UP TO COVER THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY @DRUG HANGO VERS !DDITIONALLY THE JUDGE COM MENTED THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SURPRISED IF #ONNOR WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THIRTY CAST MEMBERS WITH A DRUG PROBLEM 4HIS WILL COME AS A SHOCK TO MANY @.EIGHBOURS FANS THAT DRAW A SENSE OF SECURITY FROM THE SICKLY SWEET CHARM THAT EMA NATES FROM THE PROGRAMME #ONNOR THINKS THAT @.EIGH BOURS IS @GOING A BIT SENSATIONAL IST INSTEAD OF STICKING WITH WHAT IT USED TO BE BASED ON WHICH IS FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES 3OME

4HE KEY TO MARRIAGE IS A WOODEN SHACK IN WHICH A HUSBAND CAN ESCAPE

MAY THINK THIS IS A VALUED CRITICISM OF THE SHOW WHICH IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS HAS DEALT WITH WEIGHTY IS SUES SUCH AS AN ARSON MURDER DRUG ADDICTION MENTAL ILLNESS AND TEEN AGE PREGNANCY #YNICS MAY SAY HE IS JUST JEALOUS THAT HE MISSED OUT ON ROMANCE WITH )ZZY AND THE OPPOR TUNITY TO BECOME A HUNTER GATHERER IN THE WOODS WITH PLANE CRASH SUR VIVORS #ONNOR AND $YLAN !S THE INTERVIEW WAS DRAWING TO AN END 3HANE GAVE US A GLIMPSE INTO HIS LIFE PHILOSOPHY ENCOURAG ING STUDENTS TO @STUDY HARD AND @GO OUT THERE AND HAVE FUN WHILST LIV ING @;LIFE= TO THE FULL 7HEN ASKED WHETHER HE BELIEVED THAT THIS IS WHAT HE HAD DONE HE REmECTED @SOMETIMES TOO MUCH WHICH COULD ACCOUNT FOR A LOT 3O THERE YOU HAVE IT THE AGE OLD SAYING OF @WORK HARD

PLAY HARD DIRECT FROM THE MOUTH OF A 46 LEGEND !ND WHO KNOWS n PER HAPS ONE DAY HE WILL PUT THAT lRE OUT AND RETURN TO OUR SCREENS AS *OE 3CULLY

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#ABBY S CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE TAXI DRIVERS OF .ORWICH WITH THEIR ENDLESS FACTS STORIES AND REVELATIONS .EXT TIME YOU GET A TAXI BRING YOUR NOTEPAD AND EMAIL YOUR OWN CABBY S CORNER TO CONCRETE CREATIVEWRITING UEA AC UK ) VE BEEN READING THIS BOOK ABOUT THE ORI GIN OF WORDS 4HERE WAS THIS BIG FAMILY IN )RELAND GOT A REPUTATION CUS THEY WERE ALWAYS CAUSING TROUBLE SO PEOPLE START MAKING A PHRASE OF IT hDON T BEHAVE LIKE A (OOLIGANv THEY D SAY AND THAT SOMEHOW GOT ITS WAY INTO THE LANGUAGE $ YOU KNOW WHAT THE COMMONEST WORD IN THE WORLD IS -OST PEOPLE SAY @OKAY BUT YA KNOW THAT S RECENTLY BEEN PROVED NOT BEEN ON 46 AND STUFF 4HE MOST COM MON WORD THAT S TAXI ) VE BEEN TO THE &AR %AST AND THEY VE STILL GOT THE WORD THERE ) SAID TO A BLOKE IN HERE ) RECKON ) VE GOT THE MOST COMMON JOB IN THE WORLD AND HE SAID THERE S ONE JOB THAT S BEEN AROUND A LOT LONGER THAN TAXIS THE COMMONEST JOB IS PROSTITUTION (EH HEH DON T REALLY THINK OF THAT AS A CAREER OFF HAND v

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!LADDIN S CAVE BREATHES IN ONCE INHALES ME AND ) AM SWALLOWED #APPUCCINO LEATHER SLEEVES WAVE LANGUID GREETINGS AND SEQUINS AZURE RED SPIRAL STEADILY IN A FRENZIED HAVEN WITH WOODEN mOORS 0EACOCK FEATHERS ORANGE TURQUOISE ALTERNATIVELY 3TITCH THEMSELVES OVER !ND OVER &LOORBOARDS INK ONTO MY SKIN 7ITH A DElANT mAIR $EFEATED BY A BARRAGE /F TEXTURED PLEATS !ND STILETTO HEELS

) APPROACH OMNIPOTENCE

%XCHANGE PAPER OFFERINGS &OR THE GRANTING OF SARTORIAL PRAYERS

!ND RETREAT 3EQUINS FALL LIMPLY &ROM MY SKIRT HEM AS ) STEP )NTO FROSTY #HRISTMAS .O PRESENTS BOUGHT

"UT NEW EARRINGS DANCE SMUGLY !GAINST MILKY WINTER SKIN

3TREET BENCH

#HIP SHOP ALLEY

GIRLS DRAWN DIRTY IN SPRAY CAN AND FREEDOM SCRIBBLES 4HEY DON T EVEN KNOW 0OCKET UP YOUR 3OVEREIGNS

SCRAM FOR THE MOPEDS BUZZING IN YOUR EAR FROM MILES AWAY

mYING THROUGH THE WHOLE BLOODY TOWN

4HE SMELL OF COLD NIGHTS ON THE KERBS OF RAIN LIT STREETS "LEACHES THE BORROWED CIGARETTE SMOKE FROM MY HAIR !ND LEECHES ALL THE STRENGTH OF CONSTANT MOTION &ROM THE CROWDED CONSPIRACY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION )N MY HEAD LEAVING IT BLANK AND SPARE

.AKED AGAINST THE ENEMY THAT WAITS &OR MY UNGUARDED MOMENT ON STREET CORNERS

PUB DRINKING ART SCHOOL KIDS SPINNING THEIR WALKMANS INTO MELTDOWN $ASHING MILK BOTTLES LAUGHING AS IF YOU WERE lGHTER PLANES SPITlRES SNOOKER ROCKETING LEGENDS FAG BURNING HEROES STREET URCHINS

WORLD WAR TWO SPITlRE PILOTS

MACHINE GUNNING LIKE .INTENDOS 4OPSHOPPING CHASING THE JET TRAILS IN WINDOWS AND SUNGLASSES

ALL THE TRAFlC IS REmECTED IN YOUR SUNGLASSES AND CRASHING

-  Bex  Harris

-  Barney  Tidman

(ENRY WENT DOWNSTAIRS TO MAKE SOME TEA 7HEN HE OPENED THE FRIDGE FOR SOME MILK (ENRY SAW HIS RIGHT HAND IN A SANDWICH BAG ON THE TOP SHELF ,ATER HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND EXPLAINED WHAT HAD HAPPENED @(MM SAID THE DOCTOR @YES WE VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF THAT LATELY -UST BE THE TIME OF YEAR 4HE DOCTOR GAVE (ENRY A SMALL TUB OF PILLS SAYING @TAKE TWO OF THESE A DAY AND GET PLENTY OF REST 3O (ENRY WENT HOME TOOK TWO OF THE PILLS AND LATER HE WENT TO BED SLIGHTLY EARLIER THAN USUAL 7HEN (ENRY AWOKE THE NEXT DAY HIS RIGHT HAND WAS STILL MISSING 3O TOO WAS HIS LEFT FOOT 3URELY ENOUGH (ENRY FOUND HIS LEFT FOOT IN THE FRIDGE IN A SANDWICH BAG NEXT TO HIS HAND (ENRY WENT BACK TO THE DOCTOR HOPPING MOST OF THE WAY @) DON T THINK ) M GETTING MUCH BETTER SAID (ENRY @(MM SAID THE DOCTOR @THAT IS RATHER ODD 4ELL YOU WHAT DOUBLE YOUR DOSE OF PILLS AND GET PLENTY MORE REST 3O (ENRY WENT HOME TOOK FOUR PILLS AND LATER HE WENT TO BED LONG BEFORE

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4O MEASURE LIFE IN DISTANCES ) VE STEPPED !WAY FROM THAT ESSENTIAL THING )S NOTHING )F ) LET MYSELF FORGET

) RETURN LIKE ONE SLEEPWALKING 7AKES FROM WHERE THEY DREAMT TO lND THEIR FEET (AVE TAKEN THEM BACK TO THE CORNER OF A CERTAIN STREET 4O MEET THAT IMMUTABLE THOUGHT !GAIN !ND AGAIN

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Bit  By  Bit

(ENRY WAS A RATHER OLD MAN BUT BY NO MEANS IN BAD HEALTH /NE DAY HOWEVER HE WOKE UP TO lND HIS RIGHT HAND MISSING !T THE END OF HIS ARM THERE WAS ONLY A ROUND STUMP OF SOFT PINK SKIN (E PUSHED THE SKIN WITH A lNGER )T FELT FUNNY

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4HAT SINGLE SOLID AWESOME ATOM OF A THOUGHT &ILLS THE WORLD AND SMITES ME STILL !LL ACTION TO MOVE ON FROM THIS )S ABSOLUTELY OBSOLETE

HIS USUAL BEDTIME (E JUST WANTED TO FORGET ABOUT THE WHOLE THING 7HEN (ENRY AWOKE THE NEXT DAY HE HAD INDEED FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE WHOLE THING "UT WHEN HE TRIED TO STEP OUT OF BED HE JUST FELL mAT ON HIS FACE (ENRY HAD NO FEET 4HE THIRD SANDWICH BAG IN THE FRIDGE WAS NOT A SURPRISE TO (ENRY 3O (ENRY ORDERED A TAXI TO TAKE HIM TO THE DOCTOR )T ARRIVED SHORTLY AND THE DRIVER KINDLY OFFERED TO CARRY (ENRY FROM HIS HOUSE TO THE TAXI 7HEN THEY REACHED THE DOCTORS THE DRIVER CARRIED (ENRY FROM THE TAXI INTO THE DOCTOR S SURGERY )NSIDE (ENRY SAID TO THE DOCTOR @) STILL DON T THINK ) M GETTING BETTER .OT MUCH BETTER AT ALL @7ELL YOU SHOULD BE IN BED SAID THE DOCTOR @4ELL YOU WHAT DOUBLE YOUR DOSE OF PILLS AND GET MORE REST THAN EVER BEFORE !LSO TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT TOO MUCH ,ET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL TOMORROW 3O THE DRIVER CARRIED (ENRY BACK TO THE TAXI 7HEN THEY REACHED HOME THE DRIVER CARRIED (ENRY FROM THE TAXI INTO HIS HOUSE AND PUT HIM IN HIS ROCK ING CHAIR 4HE DRIVER SAID GOODBYE AND LEFT (ENRY TOOK EIGHT PILLS AND FELL FAST ASLEEP IN THE CHAIR 4HE DOCTOR DID NOT HEAR FROM (ENRY THE NEXT DAY )N FACT HE NEVER HEARD FROM (ENRY AGAIN

-  Zak  Klein

4HIS 0IECE IS 9OUR 0IECE 3END )N 9OUR 0 S 0OETRY 0ROSE 0ICTURES 0LAYS 0LEASE EMAIL YOUR STUFF TO CONCRETE CREATIVEWRITING

UEA AC UK TO APPEAR IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF Â

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Horoscopes Aries Mar  21  -  Apr  20 Â

4HERE IS NO POINT IN REVISING 9OUR EXAM PERFORMANCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR KNOWL EDGE IT WILL BE INFLUENCED SOLELY

BY THE ORBIT OF MERCURY THROUGH !RIES 'OOD THING TOO HEY 9OU HAVEN T OPENED A BOOK IN MONTHS AND WON T HAVE TIME THIS WEEK EITHER

Taurus Apr  21  -  May  20 Â

4HIS FORTNIGHT YOU WILL BE SLIGHT LY UNDERCHARGED WHILE SHOPPING IN YOUR GROCERS /RDINARILY 'OD FORGIVES THESE LITTLE ACCIDENTAL THEFTS BUT AS ) VE ALERTED YOU IN FAIR TIME YOU D BETTER COUNT YOUR CHANGE EVERY TIME THIS WEEK OR PREPARE FOR ETERNAL PUNISHMENT IN HELL

YOU RE SO OBSESSED WITH YOUR NEW CRUSH THEY RE REALLY NOT ALL THAT &ORTUNATELY THE STARS HAVE BET TER TASTE AND THE NEW PROSPECT THEY VE GOT LINED UP FOR YOU THIS WEEK IS A REAL LOOKER &ORGET THE OTHER ONE THEY DON T HAVE FATE BEHIND THEM

Cancer June  23  -  July  23 Â

4HIS WEEK YOU WILL FORGET TO DE LETE ALL THE LITTLE SARDONIC NOTES YOU WERE PUTTING INTO YOUR ES SAY TO KEEP YOURSELF AMUSED IN THE EARLY HOURS 9OU THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY BUT THE REFERENCE TO 3HAKESPEARE AS hTHAT ARSEY PLAY WRIGHTv WAS A CHEAP SHOT AND YOUR TUTOR WILL MARK YOU DOWN FOR IT

Leo July  24  -  Aug  23 Â

Gemini May  22  -  June  22 Â

.O ONE QUITE UNDERSTANDS WHY

3O YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO CART WHEEL HEY 7ELL THAT WAS WHEN YOU WERE YEARS YOUNGER FLEX IBLE AND SOBER 9OU WILL FALL ON YOUR FACE LOOK LIKE A PRAT AND

THE AMNESIA THE NEXT DAY WILL BE PARTLY DUE TO ALCOHOL AND PARTLY DUE TO CONCUSSION

Scorpio

Virgo

9OU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO DANCE IT WILL COME IN HANDY )T MAY SEEM LIKE A FRIVOLOUS WASTE OF TIME BUT WHEN THE FUTURE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE INVITES YOU TO DO THE 4ANGO YOU LL WANT TO THANK ME ) EXPECT AN INVITE TO YOUR WEDDING FOR THIS LITTLE PRE DICTION

Aug  25  -  Sept  23 Â

,ETS PUT IT THIS WAY 9OU KNOW THAT SEX SURVEY YOU lLLED OUT FOR #ON CRETE LAST WEEK 7ELL IF YOU WERE TO lLL OUT ONE NEXT WEEK IT WOULD LOOK A LOT DIFFERENT DOUBLE THE lGURES

DOUBLE THE BOXES FEWER ITEMS LISTED AS MERELY hFANTASIESv 9OU WILL FEEL SORE 2EGRETFUL TOO BUT MOSTLY JUST VERY VERY SORE

Libra Sept  24  -  Oct  23 Â

) HOPE YOU WERE MAKING NOTES LAST WEEK BECAUSE THIS WEEK WILL BE ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME 3AME FOOD SAME MUSIC AND THE SAME SCENE !LAS DESPITE THE FAMILIAR DECISIONS YOU WILL FACE WILL STILL MESS EVERYTHING UP AGAIN 3OME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN ) GUESS /H

AND YOU MAY AS WELL GET A PEN AND A NOTEBOOK BEACAUSE THINGS AIN T GETTING MUCH ROSIER THE WEEK AFTER EITHER

Oct  24  -  Nov  22 Â

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Aquarius Jan  21  -  Feb  19 Â

9OU VE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT YOU LIKE SURPRISES SO ) DON T FEEL THAT ) CAN GIVE THE GAME AWAY THIS WEEK "UT ONE WORD OF AD VICE WHEN YOU COME HOME &RI DAY NIGHT MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BOTH HANDS OUT READY TO GRAB THE FIRST THING THAT COMES FLYING AT YOU

Pisces Feb  20  -  Mar  20 Â

) PREDICT A RIOT ) ALSO PREDICT THAT YOU WILL START IT SORT OF OUT OF ANGER BUT MAINLY OUT OF BOREDOM 3OME OF YOUR FRIENDS WILL JOIN YOU BUT THE BOUNCERS OF THE CLUB YOU ARE IN WILL OUT DO THE LOT OF YOU -Y ADVICE IS TO WEAR A RED SHIRT IT HIDES THE BLOOD

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AST YEAR CROONER 0AUL !NKA RELEASED AN ALBUM OF COVERS 2ATHER THAN STICK WITH THE STANDARDS HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SONGS ALREADY SUNG BY 3INATRA

$EAN -ARTIN AND 4ONY "ENNETT HE TOOK A MORE CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (E SANG SONGS BY 4HE #URE 3OUND 'ARDEN 4HE 3MASHING 0UMPKINS ALL WITH THAT HONEY DRIZZLED VOICE OF HIS 4HE RESULT IS ENJOYABLE EVERY NUMBER HAS A TOE TAPPING lNGER SNAPPING ZING TO IT )T IS ALMOST POSSIBLE TO HEAR !NKA IN HIS BRILLIANT BLUE SUIT TAPPING HIS TOE AS HE HITS THE CHORUS h) FEEL STUPID AND CONTAGEOUS HERE WE ARE NOW ENTERTAIN USv TOPPING IT OFF WITH A ,AS 6EGAS STYLE hHEYv 0LEASANT AS ALL THE SONGS ARE WHAT THEY MOST CLEARLY SHOW IS THAT !NKA CAN T SING THEM WITH ANY SENSE OF CONVICTION (E IS EX PERT AT SALVAGING A PLEASANT MELODY TO SWING TO FROM EVEN THE MOST PRICKLY SONG BUT IN DOING SO HE SENDS HIM SELF STILL FURTHER FROM THE ARTISTS WHOSE SONGS HE IS SINGING 4HE PROBLEM ISN T THAT !NKA HAS A VERY PARTICULAR VOCAL STYLE BUT THAT HE SIMPLY WON T LET THE EMOTION OF A SONG PENETRATE HIS PERFORMANCE 4HERE IS A SENSE THAT THE BIG BAND SOUND SIMPLY CANNOT BEND ITSELF TO THE MORE ANGST RIDDLED PASSAGES OF CLASSIC GRUNGE ROCK

YET IT OBVIOUSLY ISN T TRYING VERY HARD IN !NKA S CASE (E IS ALL SEWN UP IN TERMS OF THE TONE OF HIS PERFORMANCES

THERE S A GOOD TIME TO BE HAD NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS *OHNNY #ASH ON THE OTHER HAND WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE MORE UNSTITCHED 7ALK THE ,INE #ASH S BIOPIC HIT TING CINEMAS NOW FOCUSES ON THE EARLY YEARS OF HIS LIFE 4HEY ARE INTERESTING

ROMANTIC AND GLAMOROUS FULL OF DRA MA SUCCESS AND TORMENT )T S A STORY WE KNOW AND HAVE HEARD BEFORE FROM MANY ARTISTS ITS ALSO A VERY GOOD STORY AND #ASH S OUTPUT FROM THAT TIME PRO VIDES AN OUTSTANDING SOUNDTRACK TO ACCOMPANY IT (IS SONGS ALWAYS HAD A DUALITY TO THEM PARTICULARLY 7ALK THE ,INE THAT HIGHLIGHTED THE CONTRA DICTIONS OF THE MAN SINGING THEM A MAN ALMOST ALWAYS RESTRAINING HIM SELF 4HIS IS A FANTASTIC DRAMATIC COM BINATION THE SINNER WHO DESPERATELY WANTS NOT TO BE ONE BUT CAN T ALWAYS HELP IT AND COLOURS ALL OF #ASH S GREAT

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EST WORK (OWEVER THE PENT UP NEED TO DO WRONG OF A HOT BLOODED YOUNG MAN IS AN IMAGE HARDLY INDIVIDUAL TO #ASH )NSTEAD IT IS THE LATER YEARS OF HIS LIFE THAT PROVIDE HIS lNEST MUSICAL MOMENTS !LTHOUGH HIS BLOOD NEVER COOLED THE SENSE OF MORTALITY THAT A YOUNGER VOICE SIMPLY CANNOT CONVEY CREPT INTO HIS TONE AND CHANGED WHAT IT WAS TO BE A #ASH SONG 4HE KERNEL OF HIS MAGNIlCENT VOCALS DISPLAYED WEAR AND CRACKS WHICH BETRAYED HIS LIFE OF SIN TAKING ITS TOLL #ASH BEGAN WHAT HAS BECOME THE lNAL CHAPTER OF HIS WORK WHEN HE STARTED HIS !MERICAN 2ECORDINGS SERIES WITH RECORD PRODUCER 2ICK 2UBIN 2UBIN S WORK AS A PRODUCER WAS MOSTLY WITH MORE MAINSTREAM CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS ENTIRELY DI VORCED FROM THE GENRE #ASH WAS AS SOCIATED WITH SOMEWHERE BETWEEN COUNTRY AND ROCK @N ROLL 2UBIN IS MOST FAMOUS FOR MERGING RAP WITH OTHER MUSICAL GENRES SPECIlCALLY BRINGING TOGETHER !EROSMITH AND 2UN $-# FOR THE RE RELEASE OF 7ALK 4HIS 7AY #ASH S WORK DURING THIS PE RIOD ENCOMPASSED THE WORK OF MANY VARIED ARTISTS BOTH IN COLLABORATION AND COVERS n UNDOUBTEDLY A RESULT OF

WORKING WITH A PRODUCER WHO HAD A CONTRASTING STYLE ENCOURAGING #ASH TOWARDS TERRITORY HE WOULD OTHERWISE NEVER HAVE ENTERED 4HE SWITCH TO A MORE VARIED RANGE OF MUSICAL GENRES FORCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ESSENCE TO #ASH S MUSIC THAT ESSENCE BEING THE MAN HIMSELF !LL THE MISADVEN TURES OF HIS YOUTH WHICH ARE NOW BEING DISPLAYED IN 7ALK THE ,INE

WERE DISTILLED AND CAN BE SEEN BEAR ING DOWN UPON HIS LATER WORK 3O

THE BOOMING REGISTER OF #ASH S VOICE CAN BE SEEN AS THE STILL VERY PRESENT REMNANTS OF THE POWER OF HIS YOUTH

WHILST THE INCREASINGLY GRAVELLY UN DERTONES GIVE THIS POWER THE DEPTH AND KNOWINGNESS OF AGE 4HESE LAYERS TO #ASH S VOICE ONLY SERVE TO DEEPEN THE CONTRADICTIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST ED WITHIN HIS WORK !LTHOUGH THIS SUGGESTS THAT THE !MERICAN 2ECORDINGS ARE A MAUDLIN COLLECTION #ASH REFRAINS FROM SIMPLY FOCUSING ON THE BLEAK AND MORIBUND 4HE PERIOD IS MOST OFTEN CHARACTER ISED IN POPULAR MEMORY BY #ASH S COVER OF (URT A .INE )NCH .AILS SONG GOES A LONG WAY TO REINFORCE THE DARKER ASPECTS OF THESE ALBUMS 3OLITARY -AN THE THIRD IN THE SERIES

ALTHOUGH IT FEATURES SOME OF THE MOST GUT WRENCHING MOMENTS IN ALL OF #ASH S CATALOGUE NAMELY 4HE -ERCY 3EAT THERE ARE ALSO SOME MOMENTS OF HUMOUR .OBODY THE BALLAD OF A SULLEN LONER STICKING HIS lNGERS UP TO THE WORLD PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE DRY COMIC TONE OF #ASH 4HE COVERS FROM !MERICAN 2E CORDINGS ALBUMS ARE NOT ALWAYS IN STANTLY RECOGNISABLE OR ESPECIALLY SIMILAR TO THEIR ORIGINALS BUT FAITH FULLY RETAIN THE EMOTIONAL PIGMENT THAT THEY SHOULD 5 S /NE FOR EX AMPLE OR PERHAPS A BETTER REFERENCE WOULD BE @#ASH S /NE RATHER THAN A SLIGHTLY HOLIER THAN THOU PLEA FOR LOVE AMONGST THE MASSES FROM AN IDEALISTIC POSITION BECOMES A SONG SUNG FROM THE WISE VOICE OF REASON )TS MESSAGE CAN STILL BE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR BUT IT IS ALSO EQUALLY CLEAR LY COMING FROM #ASH S MOUTH 4HE ARRANGEMENT IS SIMPLIlED IN COM PARISON TO 5 S BUT SOMEHOW MORE POWERFUL IN ITS POUNDING SIMPLICITY

PERHAPS BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITY THAT #ASH S VOCALS BRING #ASH S COV ERS RETAIN ALL THE SPIRIT OF THEIR ORIGI NAL BUT ARE IMBUED BY THE SAME THEME OF SIN AND REDEMPTION THAT

4HE KERNEL OF HIS MAGNIlCENT VOCALS DISPLAYED WEAR AND CRACKS WHICH BETRAYED HIS LIFE OF SIN TAKING ITS TOLL

#ASH IS SO CONSUMED BY 4HIS CONTRADICTION IS SUMMED UP MOST CONCISELY BY SINGER SONGWRITER .ICK ,OWE A GREAT ADMIRER OF #ASH S ,OWE WAS MARRIED TO #ASH S DAUGHTER FOR A LONG PERIOD ALTHOUGH THEY EVEN TUALLY DIVORCED AND OFTEN COLLABORAT ED WITH HIS FATHER IN LAW SOME YEARS BEFORE 2ICK 2UBIN BEGAN TO WORK WITH HIM (E WROTE A TRIBUTE FOR #ASH

lTTINGLY TITLED 4HE "EAST IN -E h4HE BEAST IN ME (AS HAD TO LEARN TO LIVE WITH PAIN !ND HOW TO SHELTER FROM THE RAIN !ND IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE -IGHT HAVE TO BE RESTRAINEDv

THAT PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE NATURE OF #ASH S PERSONA n A CAGED YET STILL VERY PRESENT BEAST )T IS THE CLARITY WITH WHICH THIS @BEAST CAN BE SEEN WHICH MAKES THE !MERICAN 2ECORDINGS SO VITAL TO #ASH S CAREER AND SO ENGROSSING 4HIS ESSENCE ALLOWED HIM TO TAKE ON THE WORK OF SUCH DISPARATE ARTISTS AS 5 AND .INE )NCH .AILS WITH FERVOUR AND SINCER ITY WITHOUT DISCARDING THEIR ORIGINAL TONE 4HE GREAT DEPTH AND STYLE #ASH S VOICE CARRIES WITH IT INTO ANY MUSICAL GENRE IS AT ITS BEST IN HIS LATER YEARS AND TELLS VOLUMES MORE THAN HIS EAR LIER VENTURES

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2AGE !GAINST 4HE -ACHINE 2AGE !GAINST 4HE -ACHINE

!S THE ONLY BAND TO HAVE HAD TRULY INSPIRING SUCCESS BY BRIDGING THE HIP HOP METAL GAP 2AGE TAP INTO THE POLITICAL EDGES OF SOCIAL ORDER DISCONTENTMENT WHILST BECOMING THE 'ODFATHERS OF RAP METAL :ACK DE LA 2OCHA IS NOW A VETERAN OF INFURIATED MILITANCY AN APPROACH WHICH HAS CAUSED THE BAND TO BECOME RESPECTED SPOKESMEN FOR MAJOR SOCIALIST CAUSES SUCH AS #HOMSKY S TRADEMARK !NARCHO SYNDICALISM !LTHOUGH MEMBERS OF THE BAND HAVE GONE THEIR SEPARATE WAYS IT IS THERE IDEALS THAT TIES THEM TOGETHER EVEN NOW

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!FTER SELLING MORE THAN

RECORDS ON THE lRST DAY OF RELEASE 7HATEVER 0EOPLE SAY ) !M CER TAINLY HAS A LOT OF HYPE TO LIVE UP TO 3ECOND SINGLE 7HEN THE 3UN 'OES $OWN HAS ALREADY BECOME THE BANDS SECOND NUMBER SINGLE 7ITH A STATUS THAT CAN ONLY BE DE SCRIBED AS A PHENOMENON CAN THE -ONKEY S DEBUT BREAK THROUGH THE CHAINS OF EXPECTATION !RE THEY GENUINELY THE DOCUMENTATION OF OUR GENERATION OR ARE THEY JUST THE MUSIC INDUSTRIES CREATION OF MAN NER WITHOUT FORM 4HE YOUNG LADS FROM 2OTHERHAM CLEARLY HAVE A COLLOQUIALISTIC CHARM WITH THAT .ORTHERN RELATABILITY AND THEY HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP A RESPECT ABLE MODESTY DESPITE PROMOTERS PILING SO MUCH ON THEIR INNOCENT SHOULDERS 4HEY ARE RIDING TIDES OF POPULARITY ON PURE HYPE 7HATEVER 0EOPLE 3AY ) !M COULD WELL BE JUST THAT AUTHENTICITY THEIR CRED IBILITY REQUIRED 2EVIEWS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO COMPARE NEW BANDS TO ESTAB LISHED ARTISTS IN A MUSICAL SENSE AND IT CAN GET TIRESOME SIMPLY A WAY FOR THE REVIEWER TO mEX THEIR MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE MUSCLES &OR GET THE POETIC URBAN REALISM OF

THE 3TREETS THE CRUNCHING GUITARS OF THE 3TROKES THE SWAGGER OF THE ,IBERTINES 4HIS IS SOMETHING ELSE 4HIS BAND HAS TO BE PLACED IN A FAR MORE IMPORTANT AND VIBRANT CON TEXT (OW DOES IT FEEL .OT SINCE /ASIS HAS THE SAME SENSE OF PREVA LENT EXCITEMENT AND URGENCY BEEN ON THE TIPS OF SO MANY PEOPLE S TONGUES 4HIS IS A @WE ARE WATCH ING HISTORY BEING MADE MOMENT !S PART OF THE .-% !WARDS 4OUR

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FEEL WHICH lNDS ITSELF TRAMPLED ON

BY A BOUNDING WALL OF SOUND IN THE SHAPE OF 3EE 4HE 7ORLD WAL LOPING AWAY THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND INOFFENSIVE LYRICS IN FAVOUR OF AN ALL ROUND BOP /OH ,A PRESENTS A GORGEOUS AND SIMMERING WINTRY SOUND REMINISCENT OF 3IMON AND 'ARFUNKEL S DULCET TONES 4HE REP ETITION OF @PRETTY PRETTY PETTICOAT HOMING IN ON FOLK STYLE LYRICS )N lRM CONTRAST -ATCHBOX DELIVERS A HUNKY SLICE OF REGGAE AND SEES VARIOUS SCREECHES AND FRENZIED MA NIA FROM 0RITCHARD IT S 4HE +OOKS THEME AND THEY REALLY GIVE IT THEIR ALL 3ONG *ACKIE "IG 4ITS THE DE LECTABLE REmECTIVE ANTHEM DOCU MENTS PAST MISTAKES AND UPHOLDS A BEAUTIFUL FORLORN ESSENCE /VERALL 4HE +OOKS DEBUT IS FULL OF INTRICATE AND INTELLIGENT TRACKS DIS PLAYING A RElNED MATURITY %DDIES 'UN THEIR lRST HIT HAS SIMILARITIES TO 3UPERGRASS S lRST SINGLE #AUGHT "Y 4HE &UZZ SO IF THEY RE SHOOT ING HOPES FOR A LENGTHY CAREER LIKE 3UPERGRASS S THEIR ALBUM IS CER TAINLY STRONG ENOUGH TO SUCCEED

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UNIQUE STYLE HAS BEEN ADOPTED

BY MANY 7HETHER THIS UNIQUE NESS WAS DUE TO THEIR LATINO ROOTS OR THEIR FAMOUS CONNECTION WITH MARY JANE NO ONE KNOWS BUT IT HAS MADE THEM @CLEAN RAPPERS !SSOCI ATED WITH GANGSTA RAP BUT WITHOUT THE MISOGYNY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM THAT IS TYPICAL OF THE GENRE ,EAN FUNKY AND NASAL THE GREATEST HITS EVER TO BE TAKEN FROM A BONG -ARY *ANE

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%VERYBODY HAS AN OPINION ON IT EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A PART OF IT BUT WHAT ACTUALLY ARE THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE COMMERCIALISATION OF MUSIC #HRIS (YDE AND #HARLES 2UMSEY PRESENT CASES FOR AND AGAINST THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF MUSIC HYPOCRISY

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T HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT OF A NORM FOR STUDENTS TO CRITICISE THE JOINED UP AND HYPOCRITICAL MUSIC INDUSTRY %VERYONE WANTS TO BE INDIVIDUAL WITH NEW THINKING IDEAS AND TREND SETTING TASTE 7HEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT HOWEVER ISN T IT THAT WE OURSELVES ARE THE MUSIC IN DUSTRY AND IT IS ONLY US WHO ARE RE SPONSIBLE FOR THE CRITICISMS IT GETS

WE GLORIFY A BAND WHEN IT IS NEW AND REJECT THEM WHEN THEY BECOME THE mAVOUR OF THE MONTH NO WONDER THE ONE HIT WONDERS WHICH PLAGUE THE INDUSTRY HAVE SPREAD TO THE ROCK SCENE TOO /N THE OTHER HAND DO WE HAVE A CHOICE "ANDS HAVE BE COME COMMERCIALISED IN THE SENSE THAT THEY ARE NOW MARKETED FOR THE CONSUMER ALONE AND NOT TO THE FANS WHO DESERVE SUCH LOYALTY THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT ISSUES TO CONSIDER THAT IT HAS BECOME A DISTRESSING CATCH (ERE ARE A FEW POINTS FOR EACH AR GUMENT FOR YOU TO CONSIDER )T S AN UNDENIABLE FACT THAT MUSIC HAS BEEN GETTING MORE AND MORE COMMERCIALISED OVER RECENT YEARS 4HIS IS NOT JUST DUE TO THE EVER INCREASING CHART DOMINATION OF MANUFACTURED POP MUSIC BUT ALL OUR FAVOURITE BANDS TOO 4AKE &RANZ &ERDINAND FOR EXAMPLE 4HEIR DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED LAST YEAR TO CRITI CAL ACCLAIM WAS A MERE MINUTES LONG 4HE ALBUM COMPRISING OF UNDOUBTEDLY OUTSTANDING TRACKS

SEEMED A MEAGRE OFFERING WHEN OTH ER EXCEPTIONAL SONGS WERE USED AS " SIDES TO THEIR FOUR SINGLES ! MORE RECENT EXAMPLE THAT HAS REALLY GRATED WITH THIS WRITER IS 3UPER

GRASS 4HEY HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN A FANTASTIC BAND AND THIS YEAR S NEW AL BUM 2OAD TO 2OUEN PROMISED A NEW START FOR THE BAND 4HEY DID INDEED ACHIEVE THIS WITH A MUCH MELLOWER SOUND n AND AN ALBUM THAT LASTED FOR SONGS .OW TO YOUR CORRESPOND ENT TRACKS DO NOT MAKE AN ALBUM !N EXTENDED %0 MAYBE BUT DElNITE LY NOT AN ALBUM /N TOP OF THIS THE THREE SINGLES THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED HAVE BEEN BACKED WITH LIVE VERSIONS OF SONGS AND REMIXES n AND NOTHING ELSE 4HIS IS PURE LAZINESS FOR A BAND TO HAVE A CATALOGUE OF SONGS WITH WHICH TO RELEASE AN ALBUM AND THREE SINGLES IS COMPLETELY LUDICROUS NOT TO MENTION RIPPING OFF FANS 4HERE IS ALSO THE MOVEMENT OF MUSIC INTO SUPERMARKET SHOPPING )T IS NOW POSSIBLE TO BUY CHART #$S FROM MOST SUPERMARKETS NO MAT TER HOW SMALL THEY ARE 4HE COMPA NIES THAT OWN THE SUPERMARKETS ARE MAKING SO MUCH MONEY ON OTHER MARKED UP PRODUCTS THAT THEY CAN AF FORD TO SELL #$S AT LOW PRICES WHICH MEANS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOW BUYING THEM AT SUPERMARKETS MORE OFTEN THAN hPROPERv MUSIC SHOPS !NOTHER PROBLEM OF SUPERMARKETS STOCKING #$S CHEAPLY IS THAT THEY QUICKLY BECOME ANOTHER ITEM TO BUY ON THE WEEKLY SHOPPING TRIP n PEOPLE THAT LISTEN TO 2ADIO ALL DAY AT WORK WILL QUICKLY BECOME INTERESTED IN THE SONGS ON THAT WEEK S PLAYLIST AND BUY AN ALBUM OF SAY 3UGABABES THEN

THE NEXT WEEK WHEN *AMES "LUNT S LATEST EFFORT IS BEING PLAYED TO DEATH

THEY LL TOSS THAT INTO THE TROLLEY ALONG WITH THE GROCERIES AS IT S FAIRLY CHEAP FOR WHAT IT IS 7HILE IT IS TRUE THAT SHORTER AL

BUMS LEND THEMSELVES BETTER TO A MODERN AUDIENCE WITH HECTIC LIVES AND LITTLE FREE TIME BANDS COULD STILL RELEASE AN ALBUM OF SAY SONGS THAT PEOPLE COULD LISTEN TO HALF OF AND THEN DO OTHER THINGS )T IS ALSO ARGUABLE THAT YEARS AGO ALBUMS WERE REGULARLY AROUND TRACKS LONG TOO n BUT THERE WERE ALSO ALBUMS OF OVER SONGS THEN -ANY BANDS USE RE RELEASES OF OLD MUSIC AS BLATANT ATTEMPTS AT MONEY SPINNING )T IS VERY RARE TO lND A "EST /F ALBUM WITHOUT BRAND NEW TRACKS STUCK ON THE END SO EVEN THE MOST HARDCORE OF FANS THAT ALREADY POSSESS THE MUSIC ARE FORCED TO BUY THE AL BUM TO COMPLETE THE SET 'REEN $AY

FOR INSTANCE RELEASED )NTERNATIONAL 3UPERHITS ACCOMPANIED WITH TWO BRAND NEW TRACKS ENCOURAGING OLD FANS TO NEEDLESSLY SPEND MONEY 4HIS ALBUM WAS ACCOMPANIED BY 3HENANIGANS A RELEASE OF " SIDE " QUALITY MATERIAL TO FURTHER DRAG OUT THEIR CAREERS !LL THIS MAY SEEM VERY CYNICAL BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY MANY ROCK BANDS ARE SINGING TO US ABOUT POLITICS AND THE WRONGS OF SOCIETY AND MANY PEOPLE TURN TO ROCK MUSIC TO GET AWAY FROM THE COMMERCIALISED WORLD OF POP WHEN ALL ALONG OUR ROCK AND ROLL HEROES ARE SELLING US SHAMELESS RE RELEASES LIVE VERSIONS AND hBEST OFv ALBUMS 4HERE IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANGLE HERE HOWEVER &OR INSTANCE HOW CAN A BAND BE ACCUSED OF CREAT ING SUCH POOR ALBUMS WHEN THE VAST MAJORITY OF POP ALBUMS CONSIST OF ONE OR TWO RELEASES AND THE REST BE ING POOR QUALITY lLLER IN THE STYLE OF THE RELEASED TRACKS 4HE POP WORLD

7E GLORIFY A BAND WHEN IT IS NEW AND REJECT THEM WHEN THEY BECOME THE mAVOUR OF THE MONTH

IS GEARED FAR MORE TOWARDS SELLING SINGLES AS OPPOSED TO ALBUMS BUT MATURE LISTENERS RARELY BUY SINGLES AND IT MAY BE ARGUED THAT BANDS ARE CONSIDERING THE LENGTH OF THEIR ALBUMS LESS BUT THE QUALITY OF THEM MORE ! SIMPLE EXAMPLE WOULD BE +AISER #HIEFS OR ,INKIN 0ARK WHO RELEASED AT LEAST HALF OF THEIR FULL RECORDS AS SINGLES SUG GESTING THAT THE SONGS THEMSELVES ARE ALL WORTHY OF INDIVIDUAL ATTEN TION 4HE ARGUMENT AGAINST BANDS WHO HAVE RELEASED BLATANT MONEY SPINNER ALBUMS IN A SIMILAR FORMAT OF hGREATEST HITSv ALBUMS TOO CAN BE DEFENDED IN THAT THE MUSIC IS OF A GOOD ENOUGH QUALITY TO ENDORSE IN THIS WAY ,INKIN 0ARK TEAMED UP WITH VARIOUS $*S AND PRODUCERS TO CREATE 2EANIMATION ACCUSED AS A COMMERCIALISATION OF THE ALREADY EXHAUSTED ALBUM (YBRID 4HEORY IT BECAME A mOP BUT WAS JUSTIlED IN THE QUALITY OF THE MUSIC ITSELF AT LEAST FOR THE FANS 3IMILARLY 'REEN $AY S 'REATEST (ITS ALBUM BECAME A SUMMARY OF A BACK CATALOGUE FOR FANS THAT FOUND THE BAND TOO LATE AND NO ONE CAN BLAME THEM FOR WANTING AS MANY PEOPLE TO BE IN mUENCED BY THEIR MUSIC AS POSSIBLE &OLLOWING ON FROM THIS THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A JUST THAT A BUSINESS 7E ALL SIT HERE AND COMPLAIN THAT THE INDUSTRY IS OVER COMMERCIAL ISED OR THAT WE BUY #$S ON A WHIM OR THAT WE CAN T AFFORD ALBUMS IN THE lRST PLACE WHEN THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT SELLING RECORDS IS HOW BANDS MAKE MONEY AND EVEN THAT IS HARDLY A LUCRATIVE DEAL IF YOU RE NOT AT CELEBRITY STATUS )F YOU DON T LIKE A BAND BECAUSE THEY VE BE COME COMMERCIALISED THEN TURN TO ANOTHER BAND BUT DON T EXPECT THAT BAND TO REMAIN UNDERGROUND -AYBE IT S THE DUTY OF A STUDENT TO DETEST THE SUCCESSES OF TEENAGE BANDS WHO HAVE ACHIEVED WHAT THEY NEVER COULD BUT THEN SURELY IT IS OUR DUTY TO UNEARTH BANDS WHO ARE DESERVED OF BEING SUCCESSFUL !N ALBUM WITH TRACKS ON IT MAY BE BARELY AN ALBUM BUT THEN AN AL BUM WITH TRACKS ON IT BY A BAND YOU DON T LIKE IS NO GOOD EITHER )F THE SONGS ON IT AREN T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU THEN DON T BUY IT IF THEY ARE THEN ANY AMOUNT OF TRACKS WOULD BE ENOUGH !ND SO IT GOES ON THE HORRIFYING JOINED UP WORLD OF POP CULTUREx WHAT ARE WE ARGU ING ABOUT AGAIN

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Taking  Back  Sunday  ,#2

"RUMMIE SUPPORT ACT "EAT 5N ION HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE ULTIMATE PRESENT OF THE SUPPORT SLOT FOR 4AK ING "ACK 3UNDAY S BRIEF BUT SOLD OUT TOUR OF THE 5 + !N ENVIABLE POSITION THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIN MANY FANS BUT TONIGHT THEY JUST DON T HAVE A STRONG ENOUGH REPERTOIRE 4HE DANCE BEATS AND SKA INmUENCE IN THEIR MUSIC IS SOME THING A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND THE THUMPING RHYTHM SECTION SEEMS TO BE A GOOD EXPLANATION TO THEIR NAME THEY JUST LACK THE NECESSARY CATCHINESS AND CHARISMA THAT COULD OF BROUGHT THEM MUCH REWARD TO NIGHT .EW 9ORK EMO OUTlT 4AKING "ACK 3UNDAY HAVE A RESPECTABLE HISTORY

AT LEAST WITH REGARD TO THE 53 PUNK SCENE 4HEIR TRADEMARK DUELLING VOCAL STYLE BAGGED THEM PREVI OUS SUPPORT SLOTS WITH THE LIKES OF "LINK AND "RAND .EW 7ITH A NEW ALBUM ALL SET FOR RELEASE THE ,ONG )SLAND ,ADS ARE SET FOR THE BIG

TIME AMIDST THEIR lRST SELLOUT HEAD LINING TOUR 4HE BAND HIT THE STAGE TO A PARTICU LARLY PASSIONATE RESPONSE AND IT IS INSTANTLY EASY TO SEE WHY THEY HAVE SUCH A DEDICATED FOLLOWING &RONT MAN !DAM ,AZZARA SWINGS THE MI CROPHONE AROUND THE STAGE AND HIS NECK FOR THAT MATTER YELPING TOR MENTED MELODIES WHICH CONTRASTS WITH GUITARIST &RED -ASCHERINO S GRUFF AND EQUALLY TORMENTED VOICE 4HE EMOTIONS THEY PUT INTO THEIR PERFORMANCE ARE MET WITH EQUALLY EMOTIONAL SIDE PARTED FANS SINGING BACK AT THEM EVEN SCREAMING BACK AT THEM BEING SUCH A TIGHT LIVE ACT ADDS TO THE MANY REASONS WHY THEY ARE ADORED BY THIS CROWD 3ONGS SUCH AS #UTE WITHOUT THE @% AND 9OU RE SO LAST SUMMER ARE EVEN MORE DRIVING LIVE BOOSTED BY THE EXCELLENT DRUMMING OF -ARK / #ONNELL (IS SKIN POUNDING IS SO POWERFUL AND TIGHT AND IT ALL SEEMS SO EASY TO HIM )T IS HARD NOT

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4O FOLLOW UP ON THE REPORT EARLIER THIS YEAR ON lLE SHAR ING TWO UNFORTUNATE "RITS WERE SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED FOR PEER TO PEER SHARING THIS WEEK 7HEN SPEAKING TO 4AKING "ACK 3UNDAY YESTERDAY 4HE %VENT DISCOVERED THAT ALTHOUGH THE %ASTCOAST EMOERS STATED THAT lLESHARING WAS A SERIOUS ISSUE THEY SPECIlED THAT THEY DID NOT MIND THEIR OWN MU SIC BEING DOWNLOADED IF IT RESULTED IN KIDS COMING TO THEIR SHOWS .OT MANY STUDENTS HOWEVER WOULD WANT TO RISK THE a lNES FACED BY THE SCAPEGOATED DEFENDANT FROM +INGS ,YNN hIGNORANCE IS NOT A DEFENSEv THE COURT HEARD !ND THEN CAME THE DAWN OF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT $-3 WHICH CAN CAP THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU CAN COPY A MUSIC lLE YES FOLKS THAT MEANS IF YOU CONSTANTLY UPGRADE YOUR MP PLAYERS YOU WILL HAVE TO START BUYING YOUR MUSIC COLLECTIONS ALL OVER AGAIN 0RETTY CONTROVERSIAL STUFF WMA lLES AAC lLES MP lLES THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSIC TECH NOLOGY IS BECOMING AS MUCH A HINDERANCE THAN A BLESSING )POD HAS REFUSED TO ALLOW ITS AAC FORMAT TO BE USED ON ANY OTHER DEVICES AND HAS SIMILARLY REFUSED TO MAKE 7INDOWS WMA lLES COMPATIBLE WITH THEM 4HIS IS ALL VERY FRUSTRAT ING FOR CONSUMERS WHO SIMPLY WISH TO HEAR THE MUSIC THAT THEY HAVE PAID FOR $ESPITE ATTEMPTS TO CONFUSE THE MUSIC BUYER ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS ARE STILL BEATING LEGAL ONES BY THREE TO ONE AS REPORTED BY THE ""# /VERALL THE TRANSITION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO A DIGITAL WORLD HAS HIT THE MUSIC ECONOMY HARD BUT RADICAL ATTEMPTS TO CURB ILLEGAL DOWNLOADERS SUCH AS THE USE OF $-3 MAY WELL HAVE REVERSED THE PROCESS COM PLETELY )T IS CLEAR THAT THE MASSES WILL BE VOTING THROUGH CONSUMPTION AND THE INDUSTRY MIGHT lND THAT THEY MUST MAKE OR BREAK THE UNCONVENIENT DIGITAL MUSIC PLAYER MAR KET #HARLES 2UMSEY

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TO BE IMPRESSED AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY INDICATIONS THAT THE BAND IS MORE THAN JUST A SOUND TRACK TO HEARTBREAKS 4HEY MIX IN SOME NEW SONGS FROM THE ALBUM THEY HAVE RECENTLY RECORDED AND THE CROWD ACCEPTS THEM GLEEFULLY 4HE NEW SONGS ARE STRONG POINT ING TOWARDS AN EVEN STRONGER FU TURE FOR THE GROUP $ESPITE SOME CRINGING CROWD INTERACTION FROM ,AZZARA HE SEEMS TO LOVE HIMSELF MORE THAN THE ADORING YOUNG LA DIES IN FRONT OF HIM 4HE BAND PUT ON A NEAR FAULTLESS SHOW TONIGHT

AND EACH SONG MEANS SO MUCH TO MANY OF THE AUDIENCE #ONTRARY TO EMO STEREOTYPES THEY ARE REALLY QUITE HEAVY AND THEIR POPULARITY MEANS THE ONLY DISAPPOINTMENT IS THAT THE GIG HAD TO END 4HE CROWD LEAVE CONTENTED AND STIRRED SOME OF WHOM MAYBE ABOUT TO WRITE THEIR lRST POSITIVE ENTRY INTO THEIR DIARY THIS YEAR !NDREW 2ILEY

Live  Gigs 4HE $ARKNESS ,#2 .ORMAL BANDS TEND NOT TO ARRIVE AT 5%! IN TWO HELICOPTERS FOR A GIG AT THE ,#2x BUT THEN 4HE $ARKNESS CANNOT EXACTLY BE CALLED NORMAL 4HE BAND mEW IN FROM ,ONDON TO PLAY THE ,#2 AS A WARM UP SHOW BEFORE SETTING OFF ON AN NATIONWIDE ARENA TOUR !S WELL AS BEING THE lRST LIVE SHOW SINCE THEIR NEW ALBUM IT S ALSO THE lRST SHOW FOR BASSIST 2ICHIE %DWARDS WHO LIKE ALL GOOD ROCK STARS BROUGHT HIS PARENTS ALONG FOR MORAL SUPPORT 2OADSTAR &ORMALLY KNOWN AS (UR RICANE 0ARTY KICK OFF THE GIG IN GREAT STYLE WITH A SET CRAMMED FULL OF STOMPING RIFFS AND THE KIND OF CONlDENT SWAGGER FROM LEAD SINGER 2ICHIE (EVANZ USUALLY RESERVED FOR THE LIKES OF !XL 2OSE AND -ICK *AG GER 7ITH A PERFORMANCE THIS PROM ISING IT MIGHT NOT BE LONG BEFORE THEY RE HEADLINING VENUES LIKE THE ,#2 THEMSELVES BUT FOR TONIGHT AT LEAST IT WAS LEFT TO *USTIN (AWKINS AND CO 4HE $ARKNESS EVENTUALLY TAKE TO THE STAGE AFTER A SOMEWHAT DRAWN OUT LIGHT SHOW AND BAGPIPE BLARING IN TRO TO KICK OFF WITH NEW ALBUM TRACK @+NOCKERS $URING THE SET NEW BASS IST 2ICHIE RECOVERS WELL FROM SOUND PROBLEMS IN @'ROWING ON ME AND EVEN TAKES IT IN HIS STRIDE WHEN *US

TIN DEMANDS HIS MUM SING BACK TO HIM THE LYRICS OF @GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WOMANx !LTHOUGH THE NEW ALBUM TRACKS PROVE POPULAR IT S THEIR OLDER TRACKS THAT ARE MOST EFFECTIVE ESPECIALLY IN THE SLOWER @ERECTION SECTION AS *US TIN LIKES TO CALL THEIR BALLADS SUCH AS THE CROWD PLEASER @,OVE IS ONLY A FEELING 4HEIR SET EVENTUALLY COMES TO A CLOSE WITH NEW TRACK @"ALD AND IT IS CLEAR THAT DESPITE CRITICISM FROM SOME AR EAS OF THE MUSIC PRESS IT S CLEAR 4HE $ARKNESS KNOW HOW TO PUT ON AN EXCELLENT SHOW %VEN THE FANS WHO PAID OVER THE ODDS FOR TICKETS WILL HAVE GONE HOME FEELING THEY GOT THEIR MONEY S WORTH -ARK #RAWLEY

"ABYSHAMBLES #AMBRIDGE *UNCTION 4HE 0ETE $OHERTY ENTOURAGE KNOWN AS "ABYSHAMBLES CAME AS CLOSE TO 5%! AS PERMITTED BY THE PEOPLE OF .ORWICH AFTER THE BAND CANCELLED THREE GIGS AT THE ,#2 IN %VEN NOW AS THE FUTURE OF THE BAND HANGS IN THE BALANCE $OHERTY FAILS TO SHOW ANY RESPECT FOR THE REMARK ABLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO STILL WORSHIP THE GROUND HE WALKS ON

3USPENSE SLOWLY TURNED TO AGITA TION AS THE AUDIENCE WERE LEFT WAIT ING FOR NINETY MINUTES FOR THE BAND TO APPEAR ON STAGE 0AT 7ALDEN WHO LEFT "ABYSHAM BLES BARELY A MONTH AGO RETURNED

RELINQUISHING $OHERTY OF HIS GUITAR DUTIES LEAVING HIM FREE TO POTTER ABOUT AS IF HE D FORGOTTEN WHERE HE D LEFT HIS MICROPHONE 4HE BAND STUMBLED THROUGH FOURTEEN SONGS IN AN ENIGMATIC FORTY lVE MINUTE PERFORMANCE WHICH BROUGHT ENERGY TO SOME OF THE MORE LIFELESS TRACKS ON DEBUT ALBUM $OWN IN !LBION

NEVERTHELESS IT PROVED TOO MUCH

AS THE WHEELS SLOWLY FELL OFF !T ONE POINT 7ALDEN AND BASSIST $REW -C #ONNELL WERE LEFT LOOKING AT EACH OTHER IN DISBELIEF AS $OHERTY SAT DOWN ON STAGE MUTTERING AND SING ING TO HIMSELF 7HETHER OR NOT THE PRESS ARE ABLE TO CREATE SOME FORM OF CONmICT BETWEEN "ABYSHAMBLES AND #ARL "ARAT S NEW BAND $IRTY 0RETTY 4HINGS LIES IN THE HANDS OF THE JU DICIAL SYSTEM HOWEVER MUSIC FANS WILL SURELY BE HOPING THAT "ARAT S NEW LINE UP IS ABLE TO OVERSHADOW THE UNPROFESSIONAL TABLOID CIRCUS THAT GOES BEYOND ROCK AND ROLL TO THE POINT OF BEING PATHETIC +ELVIN +NIGHT

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Singles 'RAHAM #OXON 3TANDING /N -Y /WN !GAIN &OUR YEARS SINCE HIS "LUR DEPARTURE

'RAHAM #OXON SEEMS ESTABLISHED AS A SOLO ARTIST 2UMOURS OF HIM RE JOINING THE BAND ARE IMMEDIATELY SNUBBED AND RIGHTLY SO 4HE LAST TWO YEARS HAVE SEEN HIM RELEASE HIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED lFTH ALBUM

(APPINESS IN -AGAZINES SCORE FOUR TOP FORTY HITS AND PICK UP THE .-% AWARD FOR BEST SOLO ARTIST )F 3TANDING /N -Y /WN !GAIN IS ANYTHING TO GO BY THE MULTI INSTRUMENTALIST IS DUE SIMILAR SUCCESS WITH FORTHCOMING AL BUM ,OVE 4RAVELS AT )LLEGAL 3PEEDS #OXON DESCRIBES THE ALBUM AS @CAR NIVOROUS IN COMPARISON WITH HIS PREVIOUSLY @VEGETARIAN WORK 3UCH AN OPINION IS JUSTIlED BY 3TAND ING /N -Y /WN !GAIN THE ALBUM OPENER WHICH COMBINES MUCH OF THE PUNK ENERGY OF (APPINESS IN -AGAZINES WITH A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL OF LYRICAL AND MUSICAL CONTROL HARK ING BACK TO EARLY "LUR ALBUMS 4HE TRACK OPENS WITH HEAVY DRIVING GUI TARS TYPICAL OF #OXON S MINIMALIST SONG WRITING STYLE HOWEVER IT SOON REVEALS ITSELF TO BE FAR MORE ELABO RATE AND mAMBOYANT THAN ANYTHING HE HAS PREVIOUSLY DONE RESEMBLING THE UPLIFTING POP BRILLIANCE PERFECT ED BY .EW /RDER &ORGET 'ORILLAZ AND RUMOURS OF A NEW "LUR ALBUM

#OXON IS TRULY THE LASTING LEGACY OF THE KINGS OF "RITPOP +ELVIN +NIGHT

#OHEED AND #AMBRIA 4HE 3UFFERING #ONTRARY TO THE TITLE OF THIS TRACK

#OHEED AND #AMBRIA HAVE PRO DUCED A SONG OF GREAT DEPTH AND FUN HERE !N UPBEAT SONG CONTAINING THEIR TRADEMARK INFECTIOUS MELODIES AND CLASSIC GUITAR RIFFS THEY REALLY INDULGE ADDING HONKY TONK PIANO

SHOUTING CHEERLEADERS AND ANGELIC FEMALE VOCALS TO THEIR ALREADY RE FRESHINGLY ORIGINAL SOUND &RONT MAN #LAUDIO 3ANCHEZ S VOICE IS HIGH AND UNIQUE AND THE LINE hTHEN BURN IN HELL YOUNG SINNERv HAS PROBABLY NEVER BEEN SUNG SO GLEEFULLY %VERY LISTEN REVEALS DIFFERENT COMPLEXITIES WITH AN EMOTIONAL AND EPIC CHORUS FANTASTICAL POIGNANCE #REDIT IS DUE TO THE EXCELLENTLY POLISHED PRODUC TION WHICH IS IN SOME WAYS A NICE CHANGE TO THE SCRAPPY INDIE SOUNDS THAT PLAGUE OUR AIRWAVES AT THE MO MENT 4HE SONG WILL LEAVE YOU IN A TROUBLED STATE BECOMING UNABLE TO AVOID SINGING ALONG IN FALSETTO AND DUSTING OFF YOUR LONG UNUSED AIR GUITAR FOR THIS RICH AND DARING EFFORT !NDREW 2ILEY

*IM .OIR +EY /F #

#ENT (USTLERS !MBITION

*IM .OIR DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS THE hQUINTESSENTIAL %NGLISH 'ENTLE MANv AND DRESSES IN A WAY WHICH lTS THIS ASSERTION BLACK PINSTRIPE SUIT AND BOWLER HAT (IS NAME SEEMS TO HAVE GOTHIC CONNOTATION

BUT HIS MUSIC IS CLOSER TO THE +INKS THAN THE #URE AND CLOSER TO THE "ETA "AND THAN "AUHAUS h+EY OF #v IS THE lRST SINGLE TO BE RELEASED FROM -R .OIR S HIGHLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM h4OWER OF ,OVEv AND IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT THE TRACK IS A FAIR REP RESENTATION OF HIS NOSTALGIA TINGED POP .OIR S INSPIRATION COMES FROM EVERYDAY LIFE THIS TRACK IS AN ODE TO .OIR S FAVOURITE MUSICAL KEY THE +EY OF # 7HY "ECAUSE IT S THE EASIEST KEY TO PLAY MUSIC IN .OIR S SOUND IS REALLY NOTHING NEW ARTISTS SUCH AS "RENDAN "ENSON HAVE COVERED THE S SOUNDING POP BEFORE AND TO A MUCH BETTER LEVEL )F THE IDEA OF THE "EATLES AND THE "ETA "AND JAMMING TOGETHER ON A " SIDE OF -AGICAL -YSTERY 4OUR INTERESTS YOU THEN YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK THIS SINGLE OUT )F NOT THEN GIVE THIS SINGLE A MISS 7ILL (OLLOWAY

&IDDY HAS NEVER BEEN THE GREATEST RAPPER EVER HIS APPEAL LIES MORE IN THE REALMS OF BEING A POWERFUL lGURE HEAD IN THE WORLD OF GANGSTA RAP 7ITH COCKY POISE (USTLERS !M BITION IS FROM HIS %MINEM ESQUE ATTEMPT AT SYMPATHY FOR HIS GANG LIFESTYLE %VEN GANGSTERS HAVE A CON CIENCE AND ALL THAT HE S BEEN SHOT TIMES BUT DOESN T WALK WITH A LIMP 4HIS SINGLE IS ALL ABOUT THAT ALTERNA TIVE SIDE TO THE RAPPER IT IS ABOUT 'ET 2ICH /R $IE 4RYING S HERO -AR CUS THE SEMI BIOGRAPHICAL REPRESEN TATION OF CENT AS A KID GROWING UP AND BEING FORCED TO SELL DRUGS TO GET BY BUT KEEPING HIS DREAM OF BE COMING A FAMOUS RAPPER !LTHOUGH HIGHLY COMPARABLE TO -ILE #URTIS *ACKSONS ATTEMPTS HAVE NOT BEEN TOTALLY IN VAIN (USTLERS !MBITION HAS BECOME INCREDIBLY POPULAR OVER IN THE 53 4HE GRIMY BACK TO THE ROOTS FEEL OF THE SONG IS A COMMON ROUTE FOR RAPPERS IN GENERAL BUT STILL SEEMS LIKE AN UNEXPECTED TURN FOR THE ARROGANT SWAGGER OF #ENT -ICHAEL -YERS

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4HE 'O 4EAM ,ADYmASH 4HE "RIGHTON SIX PIECE FRONTED BY A NINJA ARE BACK WITH ANOTHER EL EMENTAL COMBINATION OF POST ROCKY UPBEAT HIP HOP 4HIS IS JUST THE CUT AND PASTE SUCCESS WHICH AWARDED THEM WITH A GREAT DEAL OF ACCLAIM IN THE LATTER PART OF LAST YEAR 4HE 'O 4EAM ARE LIKE SOMETHING FROM A CARTOON BUT ARE SERIOUS ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR MUSIC TO WIPE THE mOOR WITH ANY OTHER HYPED UP mASHES IN THE PAN 4HIS TRACK IS DISTINCTIVE AND FORCEFUL A CHAOS STRIKEN SCENE OF ELECTRO AND SAMPLING 7OULD IT BE A BAD THING FOR ,ADYmASH TO BE BOARDERING ON A NU *ACKSON TYPE GROUP !S A -ERCURY MUSIC PRIZE NOMINEE THE 'O 4EAM MAY WELL HAVE PRODUCED ONE OF THE CATCHIEST ALBUMS OF CONTEMPORY MUSIC 4HEY MAINTAIN THEIR TRADE MARKED CHEER LEADING THEME IN ,ADYmASH WHICH CONlRMS THE GROUPS UNFATHOMABLE ENERGY AND CHARISMA /N THE WHOLE THE GROUPS COLOURFUL PRESENCE HAS BROUGHT US PERFECT PARTY POP FROM PRIMARY PLEASURABLE PEOPLE *IMMY .EUTRON

Wednesday  1/2/06

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Walk  The  Line $IR *AMES -ANGOLD 2ELEASE $ATE 7HEN THE TIME COMES TO MAKE A POPULAR MUSICIAN S LIFE INTO A lLMED OR WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY THEN IT MEANS THAT THE LIFE BEHIND THE MUSIC IS BEING NOTICED AND TALKED ABOUT 4HE SHAME IS THAT OFTEN AN ARTIST S SUFFERING IS PLAYED UP ALMOST AS MUCH AS THEIR INNATE LOVE AND TALENT FOR PRODUCING MUSIC 4HIS IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT SO MUCH THE STORIES BEHIND THE MUSIC THAT

REQUIRE A BIOGRAPHY BUT RATHER THE DESIRE TO GIVE THE SONGS LEGITIMACY

AND ALL IMPORTANT AUTHENTICITY TO THE ARTIST S LIFE )T S THE DOWN SIDE AND THE SUFFERING OF THE ARTIST THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE *OHNNY #ASH SUFFERED IN HIS LIFE

BUT HE MADE MUSIC AND HIS PAIN WENT INTO HIS SONGS 3EEMINGLY THIS IS THE MESSAGE OF *AMES -ANGOLD S DRAMATISATION OF #ASH S EARLY TO

MID LIFE 0ERSONALLY ) AM A HUGE FAN OF *OHNNY #ASH AND EVEN THOUGH ) DON T KNOW THE DETAILS OF HIS LIFE INSIDE OUT ) HAVE HEARD ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT HE DID GO THROUGH MUCH TURMOIL ) AM NOT DENYING THE BASIC STORY (E HAD A NEGLIGENT FATHER WHO CONSTANTLY BELITTLED HIM HE TOOK DRUGS AND HE HAD MANY FAILED RELATIONSHIPS (E ALSO SEEMED TO POSSESS A DISARMING

SYMPATHY WITH THE DOWNTRODDEN AND FORGOTTEN MEMBERS OF SOCIETY 4HE PROBLEM WITH THE lLM IS THAT -ANGOLD S CHARACTERISATION OF #ASH DOES NOT SIMPLY ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE MAN BEHIND THE TUNES 7HAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO -ANGOLD ARE THE EVENTS OF #ASH S LIFE THAT CAUSED HIM PAIN HIS MUSIC BEING ONE OF THEM #ASH IS PLAYED BY *OAQUIN 0HOENIX WHO PROBABLY WORKED HARD TO IMITATE THE MANNERISMS AND ACCENT OF HIS RENOWNED CHARACTER 0HOENIX ACHIEVES HIS ROLE WELL AND EVEN HIS VERSIONS OF #ASH S SONGS DO NOT ENTIRELY BETRAY HIM )N THE MOST RECENT PREDECESSOR OF THE ROCK @N ROLL lLM BIOGRAPHY 2AY

ALL OF 2AY #HARLES ORIGINAL SONGS ARE PLAYED WHILST *AMIE &OXX SITS AT THE PIANO PRETENDING TO PERFORM 4HIS IS A STRANGE DIFFERENCE FROM 7ALK THE ,INE AND IT WORKS IN 2AY TO REMIND THE VIEWER THAT THE REAL PERFORMER IS NOT ON THE SCREEN

RATHER THAN TO MAKE THE lLM MORE BELIEVABLE 0HOENIX S CO STARS INCLUDE 2EESE 7ITHERSPOON AS #ASH S ENDURING LOVE *UNE #ARTER 7ITHERSPOON S PERFORMANCE IS PERHAPS STRONGER THAN 0HOENIX S HOWEVER IT IS HARD TO TELL AS THEY WORK VERY WELL TOGETHER

AND THEIR COMBINED EFFORTS DO BRING THE STORY TO LIFE 4HE *UNE AND *OHNNY ROMANCE WHICH DEVELOPS AS MUCH ON STAGE AS IT DOES OFF IS THE MOST ENGAGING ASPECT OF THE lLM AS IT GIVES THE VIEWER THE MOST TANGIBLE VIEW OF *OHNNY S PERSONAL LIFE AS A MAN AS OPPOSED TO JUST HIS PROFESSIONAL MUSICAL LIFE OR HIS PAINFUL UPBRINGING 4HE ONE GLARING mAW OF 7ALK THE ,INE IS THAT THE PERIOD OF #ASH S LIFE IN THE YEARS BEFORE HE DIED

WHEN HE TEAMED UP WITH 2ICK 2UBIN AND 4RENT 2EZNOR TO RECORD SOME OF HIS MOST POPULAR SONGS IS SADLY AND INEXPLICABLY MISSED OUT 0ERHAPS -ANGOLD FELT THAT SO MUCH HAD BEEN SAID ABOUT HIS lNAL YEARS THAT HE DIDN T WANT TO GO OVER THE FACTS OR ALTERNATIVELY HE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT THE LATER SONGS WEREN T THE TRUE *OHNNY #ASH %ITHER WAY IT IS CLEAR THAT -ANGOLD HAD A CLEAR IDEA OF WHO AND WHAT HE WANTED *OHNNY #ASH TO BE 4HIS IS A STRANGE IDEA THAT AN OUTSIDER OR MANY OUTSIDERS CAN VIEW A PERSON S LIFE AND CAREER AND THINK THAT THEY KNOW WHO THE PERSON IS SIMPLY BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR SONG LYRICS OR THE EVENTS OF THEIR LIFE !LEX &LUX

Five  Great:  Forgotten  Indies )NDIE lLMMAKING IS AT A COMMERCIAL HIGH AT THE MOMENT HEADED BY 53 AUTEURS SUCH AS !LEXANDER 0AYNE AND 7ES !NDERSON AND THOUGH NO ONE WOULD WANT TO DENY lLMS THE QUALITY OF "ROKEN &LOWERS OR 3IDEWAYS A MAINSTREAM AUDIENCE

IT S GOOD TO SEE THAT THERE S STILL ROOM FOR A FEW WILFULLY NON COMMERCIAL ODDITIES IN OUR CINEMAS 3HANE #ARRUTH S 0RIMER AND 'US 6AN 3ANT S ,AST $AYS DESERVE SPECIAL MENTION 4HESE lVE !MERICAN INDIES HAVE BEEN RATHER BURIED UNDER THE SANDS OF TIME AND CHANGING TASTES BUT THEY RE WORTH DIGGING UP 4HE 5NBELIEVABLE 4RUTH (AL (ARTLEY REMAINS AN INNOVATIVE FORCE IN THE INDIE SCENE HIS LATEST 4HE 'IRL &ROM -ONDAY IS A WONDERFUL EXPERIMENT IN DIGITAL FORM AND SCI l CONVENTIONS ALTHOUGH IT IS YET TO lND A THEATRICAL 5+ RELEASE BUT HIS

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WORK HAS SELDOM CLAIMED A SPOT IN THE LIMELIGHT 4HE 5NBELIEVABLE 4RUTH RIGHT IS (ARTLEY S lRST FEATURE AND ITS AUDACIOUS BLEND OF DEADPAN COMEDY EXISTENTIAL MUSINGS SMALLTOWN SATIRE AND 'ODARD FORMALISM STILL SEEMS AS FRESH AS A SUBURBAN LAWN DAISY #HOOSE -E #HOOSE -E IS THE PINNACLE OF A WINDING CAREER THROUGH AND AROUND @)NDIEWOOD BY !LAN 2UDOLPH n ONCE THOUGHT TO BE THE NATURAL HEIR TO 2OBERT !LTMAN HE SERVED AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON SEVERAL !LTMAN CLASSICS INCLUDING .ASHVILLE

AND RECENTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR A NUMBER OF UNEVEN lLMS INCLUDING A DISINGENUOUS ADAPTATION OF +URT 6ONNEGUT S "REAKFAST OF #HAMPIONS (ERE THOUGH HE WEAVES A MEMORABLE TALE OF JEALOUS PASSION BATHED IN THE MOODY GLOW

OF A %UROPEAN ART ROMANCE )MAGES !LONG WITH 7OMEN )MAGES IS !LTMAN AT HIS MOST "ERGMANIAN

HEAVY WITH PORTENTOUS SYMBOLISM AND DREAM LIKE ASIDES 4HE DIRECTOR S TYPICAL NATURALISTIC STYLE IS IN FORCE AS USUAL BUT THE HUMOUR THAT MADE A BREAKTHROUGH HIT OUT OF -!3( A FEW YEARS PREVIOUSLY IS GONE AND )MAGES S CHILLED PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR IS QUITE A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM &LIRTING 7ITH $ISASTER $AVID / 2USSELL FOUND THE PERFECT VEHICLE FOR HIS TALENTS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL #HARLIE +AUFMAN ESQUE FORM OF ) (EART (UCKABEES

BUT HE S NO SLOUCH IN GENRE MODE EITHER &LIRTING 7ITH $ISASTER IS A ROAD MOVIE OF SORTS AND IT TRADES ON A VERY COMMON INDIE THEME OF

THE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY n ALTHOUGH THE TWIST HERE IS THAT WE RE NOT SURE WHICH DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY IS THE @REAL ONE AS "EN 3TILLER TRAVELS THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF HIS BIRTH PARENTS ,ILY 4OMLIN AND !LAN !LDA AS TWO AGING HIPPIES ARE THE PICK OF A BRILLIANTLY FUNNY ENSEMBLE CAST 4HE ,AST $ETAIL *ACK .ICHOLSON AT HIS CONSIDERABLE BEST FORMS THE CENTRE OF THIS

HUMANISTIC COMEDY BUT HIS "ILLY @"AD !SS "UDDUSKY IS ALMOST MATCHED FOR CLASS BY /TIS 9OUNG AND 2ANDY 1UAID PLAYING A .AVY MAN ALONG WITH .ICHOLSON AND A YOUNG SAILOR BEING TRANSPORTED TO MILITARY PRISON )T S BY TURNS RIBALD AND POIGNANT AND ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF (AL !SHBY S ILLUSTRIOUS S PERIOD CAREER 3EB -ANLEY

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Room With a View

4HE PROSPECT OF SIMULTANEOUS lLM RELEASES ACROSS CINEMA $6$ AND 46 CALLS INTO QUESTION THE SPECIAL STATUS OF THE BIG SCREEN 2ICHARD "OAKES SCANS CHANGES IN VIEW ING TASTES OVER THE YEARS AND WONDERS WHETHER THE CINEMA IS AS MAGIC AS IT ONCE

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OW TIME mIES )T SEEMS NO TIME AT ALL SINCE ) WAS DESPERATELY S A V I N G P O C K E T MONEY TO BUY ONE 6(3 RELEASE OR ANOTHER "EETHOVEN AND (OME !LONE IN PARTICULAR COME TO MIND AS EXAMPLES OF THE KIND OF PURCHASES THAT GAVE THE YOUNGER ME SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND ENDLESS TOPICS FOR SPECULATION AND ANTICIPATION 'O ON THEN LAUGH IT UP ) DON T CARE 9OU SEE MY LOVE OF lLM WAS PALPABLE FROM VERY EARLY ON EVEN IF MY CHOICES WERE NOT EXACTLYx WELL

CHOICE 4ODAY THAT LOVE IS NO WEAKER THAN IT WAS BUT THE CHUNKY 6(3 RELEASES ARE A DISTANT MEMORY AND A TRIP TO THE CINEMA A REGULAR ROUTINE RATHER THAN A RARE UNFORGETTABLE TREAT TO BE RELIVED AND TALKED ABOUT ENDLESSLY AFTERWARDS "UT SOMETHING ELSE HAS CHANGED TOO THE EXPERIENCE OF WATCHING lLMS HAS ITSELF BECOME A HIGHLY MARKETABLE CONSTANTLY CHANGING COMMODITY 'OOD NEWS FOR THOSE MAKING ALL THE MONEY

BUT IS lLM LOSING SOMETHING AS OUR HOMES TURN INCREASINGLY INTO REPLACEMENT CINEMAS &ILMS AND IN PARTICULAR THE WAY WE RECEIVE THEM PROVIDE AN

EXCELLENT GAUGE OF THE SPEED AT WHICH TECHNOLOGY HAS DEVELOPED .OT JUST IN TERMS OF SPECIAL EFFECTS BUT ALSO IN TERMS OF THE TECHNOLOGY USED TO SHOW THEM 4O APPRECIATE THIS WE NEED TO THINK BACK n INDULGE ME FOR MOMENT n TO THE TIME WHEN CINEMA WAS THE ONLY PLACE TO SEE lLMS "EFORE TELEVISION THE CINEMA MUST HAVE BEEN A MARVEL !SK YOUR 'RAN 4ELEVISION CHANGED THE DYNAMIC OF HOME LIFE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO APPRECIATE A LIFE WHERE THE MAIN SHARED ROOM IS NOT ARRANGED AROUND @THE BOX 4O VISIT THE CINEMA THEN

PROVIDED A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE WHERE lLMS COULD BE SEEN PROJECTED ONTO SCREENS BIGGER THAN YOUR HOUSE /NCE 46 WAS UP AND RUNNING

THE NEXT MAJOR DEVELOPMENT WAS 6(3 3UDDENLY AN AUDIENCES RELATIONSHIP WITH lLM BECAME MUCH MORE INTIMATE AS lLMS WERE BROUGHT OUT OF THE LARGE PUBLIC ARENA OF THE CINEMA AND INTO THE ENCLOSED PRIVATE SPACE OF THE HOME -ANY lLM COMPANIES WERE DUBIOUS ABOUT THIS NEW FORMAT $ISNEY

FOR EXAMPLE TENTATIVELY RELEASED 0INOCCHIO ON 6(3 &OLLOWING ITS TREMENDOUS SUCCESS THEY RELEASED #INDERELLA "UT THEY RECOGNISED SOMETHING WE MAY HAVE LOST SIGHT OF TODAY HAVING A lLM CONSTANTLY AVAILABLE FOR RE WATCHING EXPOSED

IT TO AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF ANALYSIS AND THEREFORE SOME OF THE MAGIC IT GENERATED AT THE CINEMA WOULD BE LOST 4HEN OF COURSE THEY REALISED THEY COULD MAKE A MINT FROM THEIR BACKLOG AND EVENTUALLY RELEASED THE LOT "UT VIDEOS WITH THEIR GRAINY PICTURES ONLY EVER PROVIDED A SHADOW OF THE lLM THEY CARRIED ON THEIR PERISHABLE TAPE 4HEN ALONG CAME $6$ ) REMEMBER THE lRST TIME ) SAW A $6$ -Y BROTHER EVER KEEN TO BE THE lRST WHEN IT CAME TO NEW GADGETS BROUGHT HOME A PLAYER AND THE REMAKE OF ! 0ERFECT -URDER ORIGINALLY $IAL - FOR -URDER 4HE lLM MAY HAVE BEEN FORGETTABLE BUT THE CLARITY OF SOUND AND PICTURE WERE NOT .OT LONG AFTERWARDS

$6$S WERE OUTSELLING VIDEOS AND BUYING A 6(3 WAS SUDDENLY A BIT LIKE HAVING A MOBILE PHONE THE SIZE OF A LOAF OF (OVIS 4AKING A 6(3 TO THE CHECK OUT BROUGHT BACK PAINFUL MEMORIES OF BUYING DIRTY MAGAZINES AT n AN EMBARRASSING

JUST GET IT OVER WITH FUMBLE OF LOOSE CHANGE AND YES ) D LIKE A BAG .OW THE NOVELTY HAS SETTLED ITS OKAY TO BUY 6(3 AGAIN BUT THEY EMERGE DISTINCTLY THE UNDERDOG 4ODAY MANY HOUSEHOLDS HAVE LARGE WIDESCREEN 46S WITH SURROUND SOUND $6$ PLAYERS THE WORKS 4HE TERM @HOME CINEMA IS

4ELVISION CHANGED THE DYNAMIC OF HOME LIFE AND C I N E M A G O I N G HABITS !SK YOUR 'RAN

SO OVER USED IT S ALMOST A CLICHÏ "UT IN MY OPINION THE CINEMA CAN NEVER BE REPLACED WITH HOME SYSTEMS NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE QUALITY OR BIG THE SCREEN 7HAT IS IT ABOUT THE CINEMA )TS @MAGIC IS HARD TO PIN DOWN #ERTAINLY

IT PROVIDES A UNIQUE COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE 4HE CRUCIAL FACTOR

PERHAPS IS BECOMING PART OF AN AUDIENCE n A REAL AUDIENCE A CROWD n AS OPPOSED TO KICKING BACK IN YOUR FAVOURITE ARMCHAIR WITH YOUR MATES AND A DELIVERED PIZZA !DD TO THIS THE FACTOR OF INCREASING PIRACY MANY lLMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE BLACK MARKET AT THE SAME TIME

AND SOMETIMES EVEN BEFORE THEIR OFlCIAL RELEASE AT THE CINEMA &ACED WITH THE OPTION OF PAYING A lVER TO SEE A lLM ONCE AT THE CINEMA OR PAYING THE SAME TO OWN THAT lLM FOR REPEATED VIEWING IN THEIR OWN HOME MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE TAKING THE @OBVIOUS CHOICE "UT ) THINK THOSE WHO DO THIS REGULARLY INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE CINEMA ARE MISSING OUT ) JUST CAN T SAY EXACTLY WHAT ON $ON T GET ME WRONG SOME THINGS ARE WORTH STAYING HOME FOR $ESPERATE (OUSEWIVES !NGELS IN !MERICA THE ADDICTIVENESS OF SUCH SHOWS AND THEIR $6$ BOX SETS ARE BECOMING AN ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO DRIVES OUT TO THE PICTURES -ANY BIG SCREEN WRITERS FOR THE CINEMA ARE TURNING TO 46 !ND RE WATCHING lLMS ON $6$

TOGETHER WITH THE ILLUMINATIONS OFFERED BY SPECIAL FEATURES CAN DEEPEN APPRECIATION OF ANY PICTURE "UT STILL THE CINEMA REMAINS A UNIQUE AND ENDLESSLY ATTRACTIVE WAY OF WATCHING lLMS WHICH ANY NUMBER OF $6$S HAS YET TO REPLACE 7HAT THEN WILL BE THE NEXT STEP IN THE ONGOING ASSIMILATION OF CINEMA AND 46 -ANY DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES ARE CONSIDERING SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE OF lLMS ON CINEMA SCREENS $6$ AND PAY PER VIEW CHANNELS 4HE IDEA IS TO MAKE PIRACY LESS ATTRACTIVE TO AUDIENCES

BY MAKING lLMS MORE AVAILABLE AND THEREFORE INCREASING CHOICE ABOUT HOW TO WATCH THEM 3O WHEN THE NEXT MUST SEE PICTURE COMES OUT

SOME PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING IT AT HOME SOME ON THEIR COMPUTERS

SOME EVEN ON THEIR MOBILES "UT IF YOU RE LOOKING FOR ME ) THINK YOU CAN GUESS WHERE TO LOOKx

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Novel  Visions !NY NOVEL WITH A SIZEABLE FANBASE IS HOT PROPERTY IN (OLLYWOOD ALL THE MORE SO IF IT HAS A SERIES OF SEQUELS AHEAD OF IT "UT DO lLM ADAPTATIONS LIMIT OR ENRICH OUR EN GAGEMENT WITH THE BOOKS AND DOES IT REALLY MATTER "ECKY 2UTT MULLS IT OVER

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4HE # O N S T A N T ' A R D E N E R n ALL OF THESE BLOCKBUSTER lLMS ARE BASED ON BEST SELLING BOOKS BUT DO BOOK TO lLM ADAPTATIONS REALLY WORK AND WHY ARE THEY SO POPULAR #LASSIC LITERARY NOVELS PROVIDE NOT ONLY A PROVEN STORY AND STRONG CHARACTERISATIONS BUT ALSO COME WITH A READY MADE FAN BASE 3EVERAL RECENT lLMS HAVE ALL BEEN BOOKS THAT ARE IN A SERIES LIKE ,ORD OF THE 2INGS .ARNIA AND (ARRY 0OTTER ENSURING A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE lLM COMPANY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME 4HE COSTS ARE OBVIOUSLY A LOT HIGHER WITH CREATING A lLM BUT THE PAYOFF IS USUALLY WORTH IT (OWEVER THERE ARE ALSO A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH lTTING A PAGE BOOK INTO A MINUTE lLM /BVIOUSLY LOTS WILL BE MISSED OUT AND AUDIENCES LOOKING TO RELIVE THEIR FAVOURITE BOOKS CAN BE DISAPPOINTED !LSO IF THE lLM IS CHANGED A LOT THEN IT CAN SOMETIMES RUIN OUR IMAGINATIVE VIEW CREATED WHEN READING THE BOOK 4HE RECENT ,ORD OF THE 2INGS TRILOGY HAS SEEN UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS WITH AN EXTENSIVE LIST OF /SCARS AND OTHER AWARDS UNDER 0ETER *ACKSON S BELT 4HE lLM HAS GIVEN THE BOOK NEW POPULARITY AND MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE BOOK BEFORE HAVE NOW STARTED READING IT )N THE SAME WAY THE lLM WAS ENSURED SUCCESS FROM THE BEGINNING OF PRODUCTION BECAUSE OF THE POPULARITY OF THE BOOKS 4HE lRST lLM HAS AMASSED A RECORD BREAKING THIRTEEN /SCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING "EST 0ICTURE AND "EST $IRECTOR AND AFTER ONLY FOUR MONTHS IN CIRCULATION THE lRST lLM TOOK MILLION AT THE BOX OFlCE NEARLY lVE TIMES THE COST OF MAKING IT 4HE lLMS HAVE ALSO DONE A LOT FOR .EW :EALAND S TOURIST INDUSTRY AND ,/42 FANS TREK TO THE COUNTRY TO RELIVE THE lLM * 2 2 4OLKIEN S BOOKS HAVE BEEN VERY POPULAR AND REMAIN SO AND THE lLM WAS SUCCESSFUL IN RECREATING THE BOOKS TO ACHIEVE THIS -ANY FANS OF THE BOOK ENJOYED THE lLM BECAUSE IT KEPT STRICTLY TO THE BOOK S NARRATIVE 0ETER *ACKSON S lLM DOES HOWEVER IGNORE SEVERAL WELL KNOWN

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CHARACTERS FROM 4OLKIEN S ,ORD OF THE 2INGS TRILOGY AND CHANGES DIALOGUE AND MINOR DETAILS ALL OVER THE PLACE n BUT THIS DID NOT IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF THE lLM !NYONE WHO HAS EVER READ ! 0ASSAGE TO )NDIA 7UTHERING (EIGHTS OR THE ,ORD OF THE 2INGS TRILOGY WILL ALREADY HAVE FORMED THEIR OWN UNIQUE VISION OF THE BOOK AND ALREADY KNOW THE PLOT AND THE CHARACTERS INSIDE OUT "OOKS HAVE BEEN USED TO CREATE lLMS FOR DECADES AND THESE RECENT lLMS PROVE THAT THERE IS GUARANTEED SUCCESS IN CREATING A WELL LOVED BOOK INTO A BEST SELLING lLM (OWEVER SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT ALTHOUGH SOME lLMS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN RECREATING BOOKS IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR A lLM TO RESTRUCTURE THE IMAGES WE HAVE IN OUR IMAGINATIONS 0ART OF THE APPEAL OF READING A GOOD BOOK IS THAT WE BECOME ENGROSSED IN THE NARRATIVE AND LOST IN OUR OWN WORLD USING OUR IMAGINATION TO LIVE THROUGH THE CHARACTERS 7HEN A lLM IS CREATED INTO A BOOK THIS CAN SOMETIMES BE LOST (ARRY 0OTTER FOR EXAMPLE HAS BEEN CRITICISED FOR NOT KEEPING TRUE TO THE STORYLINE

BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A DIRECTOR TO lT SUCH A LONG BOOK INTO ONE lLM

LIKE WITH THE LATEST lLM 4HE 'OBLET OF &IRE 4HE lLM WAS ALMOST THREE HOURS HOWEVER SOME BITS HAD TO BE MISSED OUT 4HERE IS NO DOUBT THE lLMS AND THE BOOKS HAVE BEEN HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE UPSET SOME 0OTTER FANS THEY HAVE CREATED MANY MORE #REATING lLMS FROM BOOKS ALWAYS INVOLVES A VERY COSTLY AMOUNT AND IT CAN BE QUITE RISKY -OST BOOKS ALREADY HAVE A STRONG FAN BASE AND DIRECTORS NEED TO TAKE A CHANCE ON CREATING A lLM "RIDGET *ONES *AMES "OND 4HE "EACH THE LIST OF SUCCESSFUL lLMS IS ENDLESS

AND WITH THEM EACH COMES A HEFTY PRODUCTION COST -ANY CLASSIC NOVELS HAVE ALSO CREATED WORLDWIDE SUCCESS INCLUDING 2OMAN 0OLANSKI S RECENT /LIVER 4WIST AND 0RIDE AND 0REJUDICE 4HE FAMOUS YOUNG STAR +EIRA +NIGHTLY LANDED THE PART OF THE INFAMOUS %LIZABETH "ENNETT IN THE RECENT ADAPTATION OF THE WELL LOVED BOOK 4HIS PART WAS HOTLY CONTESTED IN (OLLYWOOD AS MANY ! LIST STARS QUEUED UP FOR THE PART SHOWING

THE GUARANTEED SUCCESS RATE THE lLM WOULD HAVE EVEN BEFORE IT HAD BEEN MADE 4HIS lLM ADDS TO THE LIST OF ADAPTATIONS OF THIS BOOK THROUGH BOTH lLM AND 46 PROMOTING THE BOOK AND ALLOWING VIEWERS TO RELIVE THE STORY LINE ON THE BIG SCREEN )F YOU KNOW THE BOOK INSIDE OUT THEN YOU PROBABLY WON T LIKE THE lLM /N THE OTHER HAND GOOD ADAPTATIONS CAN INTRODUCE YOU TO A WRITER YOU HADN T NOTICED BEFORE )T IS HARD THESE DAYS TO SEE A lLM THAT HAS NOT BEEN ADAPTED FROM A BOOK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND IT IS CLEAR TO SEE THAT THERE IS GUARANTEED SUCCESS IN MAKING A POPULAR BOOK INTO A lLM !LTHOUGH lLMS CAN RUIN OUR OWN PERSONAL INTERPRETATION OF A NOVEL THE NUMBER OF FANS A lLM CREATES IS A LOT HIGHER !LREADY (ARRY 0OTTER IS A WORLD WIDE PHENOMENON AND THE lLM COMPANY STILL HAS THREE MORE lLMS TO CREATE 4HE RECENTLY RELEASED .ARNIA IS ALSO SET TO RAKE IN THE PROlTS OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS 3O

BOOK OR lLM WHICHEVER YOU PREFER THE FACT IS THE COMBINATION OF A WELL LOVED BOOK AND A HIGH BUDGET WILL ALMOST ALWAYS GUARANTEE A MULTI AWARD WINNING BLOCKBUSTER lLM

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Other  Screens ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY $IR -ICHAEL 7INTERBOTTOM 2ELEASED 4HE FUNNIEST MOMENTS IN -ICHAEL 7INTERBOTTOM S AUDACIOUS COMEDY ARRIVE WITH THE OPENING AND END CREDITS n THE LATTER FEATURING 2OB "RYDON S REPEATED PLEA THAT 3TEVE #OOGAN TOUCH HIS TEETH n BUT THE STUFF IN BETWEEN IS NEVER LESS THAN COMPELLING 3LIPPING BETWEEN A lCTIONAL lLM ADAPTATION OF ,AURENCE 3TERNE S NOVEL 4HE ,IFE AND /PINIONS OF 4RISTRAM 3HANDY

AND A ALSO lCTIONAL DRAMA THAT DEPICTS THE MAKING OF THAT lLM ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY RISKS ALIENATING AUDIENCES WITH CHEERY OVERDOSE OF META EFFECTS 4HE ODD mURRY OF CONFUSION ASIDE 7INTERBOTTOM IN FACT STICKS QUITE CLOSELY WITH 3TEVE #OOGAN PLAYING @HIMSELF IN lNELY PLAYFUL FORM AND HIS lLM SHOOT EXPERIENCE TORN BETWEEN A WIFE AND BABY A BURGEONING CAREER AS A lLM ACTOR AND A mING WITH A YOUNG lLM BUFF RUNNER 7ITH A HUGE CAST OF TALENTED PEOPLE

INCLUDING $YLAN -ORAN 3TEPHEN &RY AND +ELLY -ACDONALD THERE S AN INEVITABLE SENSE OF UNDERDEVELOPED STORYLINES n COMPENSATED FOR

BY AN EXHILARATINGLY BRISK AND RICH NARRATIVE FULL OF MOVIE GAGS AND UNEXPECTED MOMENTS OF COMPASSION 3EB -ANLEY

3HOPGIRL $IR !NAND 4UCKER 2ELEASED 4HE PLOT IS A BASIC LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN -IRABELLE #LAIRE $ANES

AND HER TWO SUITORS 2AY 3TEVE -ARTIN AN OLDER EMOTIONALLY SCARRED MAN AND THE KOOKY

YET LOVEABLE *EREMY *ASON 3CHWARTZMAN 4HE PLOT FOLLOWS -IRABELLE AS SHE DISCOVERS WHICH MAN TRULY DESERVES HER HEART 4HE BEGINNING OF THE lLM IS PROMISING STYLISTICALLY IT USES SMART AND ARTISTICALLY INSPIRED CINEMATOGRAPHY

WHICH CONVEYS A PORTRAIT OF ,!

FRESH FROM THE CANVAS OF $ENNIS (OPPER (OWEVER THIS SETS UP THE VIEWER TO EXPECT MORE THAN WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE $ESPITE A MAGNIlCENT AND EMOTIONALLY RICH PERFORMANCE FROM $ANES

THE lLM FALTERS ON MANY POINTS 4HE PREMISE IS SIMPLE YET THE lLM SEEMS TO TAKE ITSELF TOO SERIOUSLY

AND LIKE -IRABELLE IT BECOMES STUCK IN LIMBO AS TO WHETHER IT SHOULD GO WITH THE ROMANTIC COMEDY OR THE ADULT MELODRAMA 4HE JOKES DO NOT WORK AND IT IS EMBARRASSINGLY OBVIOUS WHEN THEY SHOULD SUCH AS THE STEREOTYPICAL *APANESE TOURISTS WHO KEEP BOWING AND SAYING THANK YOU AFTER -IRABELLE SERVES THEM AT HER CONCESSION 5NFORTUNATELY THE lLMMAKERS SEEM TO HAVE NOT REALISED THAT IF IT S NOT FUNNY THE lRST TIME YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN T KEEP THE TWO CHARACTERS ON SCREEN BOWING FOR A FURTHER TWO MINUTES AFTER THE PUNCH LINE !LL IN ALL THE lLM WAS RATHER DISAPPOINTINGn LIKE THE TAGLINE @2ELATIONSHIPS DON T ALWAYS lT LIKE A GLOVE THE lLM ALSO FAILS TO lND ITS SHAPE #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY

&UN 7ITH $ICK AND *ANE $IR $EAN 0ARISOT 2ELEASED ! REMAKE OF THE ORIGINAL SEES *IM #ARREY AND 4EA ,EONI PLAYING THE TITULAR HEROES SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CORPORATE SCANDAL WHEN $ICK S EMPLOYERS

A LARGE CORPORATION NAMED

'LOBODYNE GO UNDER WITH $ICK TRICKED INTO TAKING THE BLAME AND THE #%/ PLAYED WITH EXCELLENT MALICIOUSNESS BY !LEC "ALDWIN WALKING OFF WITH MILLIONS WHILST OTHER EMPLOYEES FACE BANKRUPTCY WITH NO COMPENSATION $ICK AND *ANE THE STEREOTYPICAL WHITE COLLAR !MERICANS HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR LAVISH LIFESTYLE AND RESORT TO CRIME 7HICH OF COURSE HAS HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES ALLOWING #ARREY S NATURAL COMEDIC STYLE TO COME THROUGH 4HE lLM ALSO CARRIES AN OBVIOUS ANTI CORPORATE MESSAGE AS THE REAL CONSEQUENCES OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION ARE REVEALED 4HERE ARE TIMES WHEN ONE WISHED THE SATIRE WERE MORE CUTTING RATHER THAN RESORTING TO LIGHT GAGS THOUGH THESE AT LEAST ARE DONE WELL 4HE ENDING ALSO FEELS A BIT TOO SHORT THOUGH SATISFYING BUT OTHERWISE THIS IS AN ENTERTAINING lLM WITH A DISTINCT MESSAGE !NDY *UDSON

-EMOIRS OF A 'EISHA $IR 2OB -ARSHALL 2ELEASED 4HE SHROUDED WORLD OF A S GEISHA IS A DIFlCULT ONE TO DEPICT WITH ANY DEGREE OF HUMANITY 4HE IDEOLOGIES AND RITUALS THAT DElNE THE lLM ARE ENGAGING AT TIMES BECAUSE OF THE MAJESTY WITH WHICH THEY ARE ENFORCED YET REMAIN OPAQUE TO ITS END MUCH LIKE PROTAGONIST #HIYO 3UZUKA /HGO 7HILST THE lLM S RICH PALETTE AND EXPERT CINEMATOGRAPHY ARE BEAUTIFUL THEY CANNOT COMPENSATE FOR THE LACK OF A WELL CONSTRUCTED NARRATIVE 4HE lLM WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THE WORLD OF THESE GEISHA AS ONE THAT GOES FAR BEYOND APPEARANCE YET DOES NOT TRANSCEND THE SURFACE ITSELF +ATE "RYANT

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)T S ABOUT SOME BOYS WHO RE WHITE 0RETTY MUCH 4HE MAIN THREE CHARACTERS ARE ALL WHITEBOYZ FROM A SMALL TOWN IN )OWA ALTHOUGH IT IS FAIRLY CLEAR THAT THEY RE OLD ENOUGH TO BE OUT OF SCHOOL 4HE UNSETTLING THING ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS IS THAT THEY DREAM OF BEING THE KIND OF GANGSTER RAPPERS THAT THEY SEE ON TELEVISION AND HEAR ON THEIR RECORDS AND FROM THE START IT IS OBVIOUS THESE BOYZ ARE TAKING IT ALL TOO FAR 3O DO THE BOYS REALISE HOW STUPID THEY RE ACTING .OT SOON ENOUGH 2INGLEADER &LIP IN PARTICULAR IS IN A WORLD OF HIS OWN WHERE HE CAN CALL HIS SINGLE BLACK FRIEND @MY NIGGER AND CALL HIS LONG SUFFERING GIRLFRIEND A @DUMB TRICK (E HAS NO PERCEPTION OF HOW HIS WORDS AND ACTIONS ARE RECEIVED BY PEOPLE 4HE OTHER TWO BOYZ ARE MORE DOWN TO EARTH 4REVOR IS SMALL AND EASILY LED *AMES IS A RELATIVELY POOR AND UNEDUCATED YOUNG MAN WITH FEW PROSPECTS (IS REASONS FOR REJECTING THE PREDOMINANTLY WHITE CULTURE OF HIS TOWN ARE THE MOST GENUINE OF THE THREE AS HE IS ACTUALLY DOWNTRODDEN n HOWEVER HIS TRIGGER HAPPY RAGE LOSES HIM SYMPATHY 7HAT HAPPENS TO THEM )N AN ELABORATE COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE THE THREE BOYZ VENTURE INTO A DOWNTOWN #HICAGO GHETTO TO BUY SOME COCAINE TO SELL BACK IN )OWA IN ORDER TO BEGIN THEIR PLANS OF BECOMING GANGSTER PUSHERS "UT WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT &LIP AND HIS MATES HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE S GETTING INTO (E ENDS UP AT A SERIOUS DEALER S HOUSE WITHOUT ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR THE AMOUNT OF DRUGS HE WANTS TO BUY (E IDIOTICALLY ASKS THE DEALER FOR MORE SAYING IT S @FOR THE NATION A REFERENCE TO BLACK NATIONALISM SOMETHING WHICH HE THINKS HE IS A PART OF 3URPRISINGLY THEY DON T KILL HIM AND WHILE HE ENDS UP DESTROYING MANY LIVES HE SOMEHOW MANAGES TO KEEP HIS OWN $OES &LIP GET THE MESSAGE AFTER IT ALL 4HANK GOD BUT HE DOES &LIP THROWS HIS GUN INTO A RIVER AS THEY CROSS THE STATE LINE BACK INTO )OWA AND WHEN HE GETS HOME HE CONFRONTS HIS ISSUES AS BEST HE CAN 4HE OBVIOUS IRONY THAT HE CONTINUALLY TALKED ABOUT @KEEPING IT REAL BUT CLEARLY HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS REAL AND WHAT WAS FANTASY IS EVENTUALLY LIFTED BY THE lLM S CLOSE )T IS A FASCINATING AND RELEVANT lLM AND PROPHETIC IN THAT IT WAS RELEASED ONLY A FEW MONTHS BEFORE %MINEM S 3LIM 3HADY %0 WAS RELEASED IN 4HE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF A PERSON APPROPRIATING A SET OF MANNERISMS AND BELIEFS THAT DO NOT BELONG TO THEM IS MADE EXPLICIT

! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY

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$IR *ANE #AMPION 2ELEASED /PTIMUM (OME %NTERTAINMENT 4HE 0IANO WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN ACCUMULATING !CADEMY !WARDS INCLUDING "EST 3CREENPLAY FOR DIRECTOR *ANE #AMPION AND "EST 3UPPORTING !CTRESS FOR THE REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE BY THE THEN TEN YEAR OLD !NNA 0AQUIN 4HIS DISC SPECIAL EDITION $6$ OF THE MODERN CLASSIC INCLUDES EXTENDED INTERVIEWS WITH *ANE #AMPION AND PRODUCER *AN #HAPMAN AND DIRECTOR S COMMENTARY 4HE 0IANO IS A HAUNTING AND EXPRESSIONISTIC PIECE OF lLMMAKING WHICH RECREATES THE GOTHIC AND MORAL 6ICTORIAN SOCIETY AND JUXTAPOSES IT WITHIN THE HEART OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE OF .EW :EALAND S 3OUTH )SLAND 4HE NARRATIVE ITSELF FOLLOWS (OLLY (UNTER S MUTE CHARACTER !DA AS SHE JOURNEYS FROM A HOLLOW AND EMPTY EXISTENCE IN 3COTTISH 6ICTORIAN CIVILITY TO THE PASSIONATE .EW 7ORLD ON A WILD AND SUBLIME 3OUTH ISLAND OFF .EW :EALAND !DA IS ACCOMPANIED BY HER YOUNG

CHILD &LORA !NNA 0AQUIN AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN TRADED THROUGH AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE BY !DA S FATHER TO A DISTANT AND EMOTIONALLY COLD MAN 3TEWART 3AM .EILL /N THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE MURKY BEACH !DA LEARNS THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER BELOVED PIANO TO BE MOVED FROM THE BEACH 4HE PIANO SYMBOLICALLY ACTS AS BOTH !DA S VOICE AND AN OUTLET OF HER REPRESSED PASSIONS 3TEWART BETRAYS HER AND AGREES TO SELL THE PIANO FOR MONEY TO THE ILLITERATE 'EORGE (ARVEY +EITEL !DA SEEKS OUT 'EORGE AND AGREES TO GIVE HIM PIANO LESSONS IN ORDER THAT SHE CAN PLAY 4HE LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ILLITERATE 'EORGE AND MUTE !DA MEANS THAT THEY MUST COMMUNICATE PHYSICALLY THROUGH THEIR MUSIC AND THROUGH THEIR BODIES THIS UNLEASHES A PASSION THAT IS AS OVERWHELMING AS IT IS DESTRUCTIVE 4HE DIRECTOR #AMPION STUDIED ANTHROPOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY AND HER RELENTLESS QUESTIONING OF

SOCIAL APPEARANCES IS A SIGNATURE ELEMENT IN ALL HER lLMS 4HE CONmICTS BETWEEN 6ICTORIAN SOCIETY AND THE &RONTIER ARE DISPLAYED HUMOROUSLY BY #AMPION n FOR EXAMPLE HEAVY 6ICTORIAN CLOTHING AGAINST THE MUDDY FOREST #AMPION ALSO CONVEYS AN ELEMENT OF INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN

THE TWO CULTURES BY PRESENTING OPPOSING IDEAS AND LANDSCAPES 4HE SHOTS JUXTAPOSE COLOURFUL AERIAL IMAGES OF THE DENSE AND GIANT FOREST THAT EMPHASISE THE AGORAPHOBIC ATMOSPHERE THAT LIES BEYOND WESTERN CULTURES FRONTIER

TO CLAUSTROPHOBIC SHOTS THAT EXPRESS THE REPRESSIVE ATTRIBUTES OF

THE 6ICTORIAN DOCTRINE PARTICULARLY WHEN CONCERNED WITH THE PURPOSE OF WOMEN 4HE 0IANO IS A lLM THAT IS ORIGINAL WITHOUT BEING AVANT GARDE OR ALIENATING )T IS A lLM THAT SHOULD BE IN EVERYONE S $6$ COLLECTION #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY

DVD Releases 0ORCO 2OSSO $IR (AYAO -IYAZAKI 2ELEASED /PTIMUM (OME %NTERTAINMENT ! WELCOME REGION PREMIER RELEASE OF -IYAZAKI S UNDERVALUED CLASSIC 0ORCO 2OSSO IS ODDBALL AND FAMILIAR IN TYPICAL 3TUDIO 'HIBLI STYLE 4HE @CRIMSON PIG OF THE TITLE IS THE lLM S lNEST CREATION n AN IMPECCABLY JADED ANTI HERO TRAPPED IN PIG FORM BY A CURSE

FOREVER HOUNDED BY INCOMPETENT SKY PIRATES AND VARIOUS AGENTS OF POST 77) &ASCIST )TALY "ESIDES THE USUAL RAG TAG COLLECTION OF COMICAL -IYAZAKI CHARACTERS THERE S SOME EXHILARATING DOGlGHTS A DASH OF NICELY UNDERSTATED ROMANCE AND AN ATTENTION TO COLOUR AND DETAIL AS RAVISHING AS THAT IN THE RECENT (OWL S -OVING #ASTLE 3EB -ANLEY

&ULL 4IME 7ORK $IR -ATTHEW /AKLEY

4OM .ELSON 2ELEASED OUT NOW ,OCAL lLMMAKERS -ATTHEW /AKLEY AND 4OM .ELSON S FOLLOW UP TO THE RECENT 0ART 4IME 7ORK $6$ OFFERS A BEGUILING MIX OF STRAIGHT FACED AB SURDISMS AND POP CULTURE SPOOFERY 4HE MOCKUMENTARY PICKS THINGS UP

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TWO YEARS AFTER THE EVENTS OF 0ART 4IME 7ORK WITH THE THREE .ORWICH @ARTISTS NOW IN THE GRIPS OF WHITE COLLAR TEDIUM ONE TIME ART ROCKER #HRIS (UXFORD HAS SOLD OFF HIS IN STRUMENTS AND NOW GOES TO WORK IN A SHIRT AND TIE @THE ARTIST S NOOSE 'AVIN "RITT HAS SHELVED ALL HIS #LIVE #USSLER ESQUE NOVELS AND IS NOW A TRADER ALTHOUGH HE STILL lNDS SOME TIME TO ACT IN $EAN 0ACKET S PATHETI CALLY SELF INDULGENT AMATEUR lLM

4HE $ANGER OF $EATH )T S AN ALTO GETHER GLUMMER AFFAIR BUT THE JOKES ARE AS FREE mOWING AND SMARTLY UN DERSTATED AS BEFORE &ULL 4IME 7ORK IS AVAILABLE ON $6$ FROM THE .ORWICH SHOP 0RESS TO 0LAY 3T "ENEDICT S 3TREET 3EB -ANLEY

%VIL $EAD $IR 3AM 2AIMI 2ELEASED !NCHOR "AY %NTERTAINMENT 4HE lRST lLM IN 3AM 2AIMI S %VIL $EAD TRILOGY LACKS THE OVERT HUMOUR OF THE THIRD !RMY OF $ARKNESS AND FANS OF 3PIDERMAN WILL BE POSITIVELY SHOCKED "ECAUSE THIS IS AS CLOSE TO A @SERIOUS ZOMBIE MOVIE AS POSSIBLE A GROUP OF YOUNG FRIENDS INCLUDING 2AIMI FAVOURITE "RUCE #AMPBELL TRAVEL TO A REMOTE WOODLAND GETAWAY ONLY TO BE PURSUED BY

ZOMBIES .OTHING LIKE THE mESH EATING UNDEAD TO PUT A DAMPER ON THINGS AND THE HORROR BECOMES RATHER INTENSE 4HERE IS HUMOUR BUT ITS DISTURBING STUFF THE NOTORIOUS @TREE RAPE SCENE MAY SOUND DAFT

BUT IT EARNED THE lLM A BAN AND STILL SHOCKS 4HERE ARE CLICHÏS IN ABUNDANCE 'EE DO YOU THINK THAT WOBBLY BRIDGE WILL COLLAPSE AT JUST THE WRONG MOMENT BUT THIS IS WONDERFUL CULT VIEWING 2ICHARD "OAKES

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ITS ORIGINALITY AND HUMOUR CREATE AN AIR OF SATISFACTION !DMITTEDLY IT TOOK A FEW MINUTES TO ACCLIMATISE TO THE LADDISH BEHAVIOUR ON A HAND HELD CAMERA BUT THAT ONLY ADDED TO THE INTRIGUE 4HE STORY FOLLOWS A GROUP OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FROM SCHOOL 4HE LEADER NOW IN HIS MID TWENTIES DECIDES HE NEEDS TO GROW UP AND DECIDES ON MARRIAGE 7ELL WORTH WATCHING 3EAN / 3HEA

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