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3ITCOMS ARE THEY DYING A SLOW DEATH OR BOUNCING BACK
7E TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE .-% !WARDS 4OUR
TV Â 9
Centre  Spread  12  &  13
Film  19  &  20
Reviews
-UNICH A RIVAL TO 3CHINDLER S ,IST 7E TAKE A LOOK AT THE CAREER OF -ICHAEL 7INTERBOTTOM
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Music  15
4HE -IGHTY "OOSH 3IMPSONS AND 3AVED "Y 4HE "ELL
'IRL ROCK WE ANALYSE THE LATEST INmUX OF FEMINISM
Art  6
Art  7
7E TALK TO 4HE 'ARAGE ABOUT THEIR #HRYSALIS !RTS &ESTIVAL
3HIMMER AT 5%! "RIAN ,AMONT S &IRST )MPRESSIONS
Fashion  4  &  5
Film  18,  21  &  22
Regulars
Music  14,  16  &  17
+EEPING UP APPEARANCES WAYS AND MEANS OF LOOKING GOOD
Creative  Writing  10 Listings  17
7E LOOK AT 4ERENCE -ALICK S 4HE .EW 7ORLD -UNICH AND lVE GREAT FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES #LAP 9OUR (ANDS 3AY 9EAH 4HE 2AKES AND MORE
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3ITES OF QUALITY CATALOGUED ON THE &7!
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Hello 'REETINGS TO ALL YOU STUDENTY TYPE PEOPLE !FTER A SPECTACULAR FEW WEEKS OF ENTERTAINMENT ON OFFER HERE AT 5%! WE RE BRINGING YOU THE VERY BEST OF THE BEST THIS ISSUE !ND THEN SOME MORE 4O BURY YOURSELF AMIDST THE CHAOS AGAIN TURN TO ONE OF OUR REVIEWS SECTIONS TO RELIVE THE JOYS )F YOU MISSED THE STUNNING NIGHT OF MUSIC THAT WAS THE .-% !WARDS GIG LAST WEEK THEN LOOK NO FURTHER BUT mICK TO OUR EXCITING CENTRE SPREAD TO lND OUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE /R IF YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE THERE YOU CAN JUST RELIVE THE NIGHT OF DRUNKEN DEBAUCHERY ONCE MORE /THER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE A WRITE UP OF THE #LAP YOUR (ANDS 3AY 9EAH GIG AND A REVIEW OF 3HIMMER AT THE 5%! STUDIO BY SOME OF 5%! S VERY OWN DRAMA STUDENTS )F YOU RE FEELING BLUE AND BORED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO FEAST YOUR EYES UPON THEN WE HAVE THE PERFECT THING WITH WHICH TO lLL YOUR TIME &LICK QUICKLY THROUGH TO OUR lLM SECTION WHERE YOU CAN lND A SUC CULENT PREVIEW OF 4ERENCE -ALICK S LATEST lLM 4HE .EW 7ORLD STARRING THE EVER GORGEOUS #OLIN &ARRELL IN A PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL mAMBOYANT WHITE SHIRT )F CINEMA IS NOT QUITE UP YOUR STREET BUT YOU RE STILL FEELING ARTISTIC THEN
HERE IS A ROUND UP OF THE THEATRE ON CAMPUS COMING UP IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS &OR ANY OF YOU WITH A STREAK OF THE THESPIAN INSIDE YOU THERE S PLENTY TO KEEP YOU AMUSED THIS TERM 3O IF YOU RE LOOKING TO PLAN YOUR SOCIAL DIARIES FOR THE COMING MONTHS THERE S A WHOLE MYRIAD OF EVENTS WITH WHICH TO lLL UP YOUR SOCIAL CALENDAR -OST EXCITING IS AN %VENING WITH 3HEL 3ILVERSTEIN AT THE 5%! 3TUDIO FROM -ONDAY TH TO 7EDNESDAY ND &EBRUARY 4HIS PROMISES TO BE A THRILLING EVENING OF MIRTH AND MERRIMENT INVOLV ING SIX DIFFERENT COMEDY SKETCHES RANGING FROM A MEETING OF GANGSTER MINDS AN OLD MAN WITH A BLIND DOG AND TWO AGING PROSTITUTES ANX IOUS TO GET LAID 0LEASE COME AND SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS AS THEY MAKE EVERY ATTEMPT TO AMUSE MOVE AND MAYBE EVEN SEDUCE YOU IN THIS HILARIOUS NIGHT OF MADNESS AND MAYHEM !LSO COMING UP IS A PERFORMANCE OF -ACBETH FROM TH TO THE TH -ARCH AT THE 5%! 3TUDIO SET IN THE CUT THROAT CORPORATE BUSINESS WORLD BUT MAINTAINING THE ORIGINAL MEDIEVAL VALUES OF THE PLAY 4HIS PROMISES TO BE A CHILLING EVENING OF MURDER GUILT AND INTRIGUE AS 5%! $RAMA STUDENTS RETELL 3HAKESPEARE S CLAS SIC TALE OF GREED AND AMBITION FOR A MODERN DAY AUDIENCE
)F THE BARD AINT QUITE YOUR CUP OF TEA THEN JOIN US IN A PERFORMANCE OF 0ATRICK -ARBER S #LOSER FROM TH TO TH -ARCH 4HIS IS INDEED THE #LOSER WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE FROM THE INFAMOUS lLM OF THE SAME NAME STARRING #LIVE /WEN AND .ATALIE 0ORTMAN !ND THIS TIME IT PROMISES TO BE DARKER lLTHIER AND BETTER THAN BEFORE !LICE IN 7ONDERLAND IS ANOTHER BE MUSING THEATRICAL MORSEL ON OFFER FOR YOU TO TASTE JUST IN CASE SEXUAL PERVERSITY DOESN T REALLY APPEAL TO YOU EITHER &ROM 4HURSDAY TH THROUGH TO 3ATURDAY TH OF -ARCH THIS SHOW PROMISES TO FULlLL ALL OF # 3 ,EWIS CRAZIEST FANTASIES &OLLOW !LICE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE TO lND OUT MORE ,ASTLY IF AN ALL SINGING ALL DANCING AFFAIR TICKLES YOUR FANCY THEN COME ALONG TO THE MUSICAL IN WEEK ELEVEN OF THIS TERM AN EXCITING RENDITION OF 3ONDHEIM S )NTO THE 7OODS ! FANTASTICAL AFFAIR INVOLVING ALL YOUR FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD FAIRTYTALE CHAR ACTERS FROM 2ED 2IDING (OOD TO 2APUNZAL &IND OUT WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE FAIRYTALES ENDED ONLY IN THE ,#2 IN -ARCH 3O WE HOPE YOU RE ALL FEELING SUIT ABLY LUVVIE AFTER ALL THAT THEATRICAL EXERTION AND LEAVE YOU TO GO BLOW AIRKISSES AT THOSE AROUND YOU AS YOU PERUSE OUR LATEST ISSUE
Editor-in-chief  3ARAH %DWARDES Editor  &  Designer +ATE "RYANT Deputy  Editor !NNA 3TEWARD Art  Editor  2OANNA "OND
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Voulez  vous  couchez  avec  !S A BUSY STUDENT IN THE .OUGHTIES ONE CAN lND THE WORKLOAD COUPLED WITH THE NEVER ENDING STRIVE FOR STRAIGHT HAIR SOMEWHAT OF A WRENCH 4ALIA 4AYLOR SHOWS YOU HOW TO GIVE YOURSELF THE CARE AND AFFECTION YOU RE WORTH YOU DESERVE IT
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OMETIMES UNI VERSITY LIFE CAN BE AS UNINSPIR ING AS THE OTHER TIME OF YOUR LIFE WHICH NEVER WAS SCHOOL 4HAT IRRI TATING NIGGLE THAT YOU SHOULD BE IN THE LIBRARY AND NOT THE BAR SOMETIMES BECOMES A LITTLE TOO CONSUMING 4HERE S THE FRANTIC PURSUIT OF LOVE IN THE SEA OF VODKA AND VOMIT THAT IS THE ,#2 4HEN ON TOP OF THIS YOU VE GOT RIDICULOUS NO SHOWS LIKE 6AL ENTINES $AY )F THIS YEAR S &EBRU ARY TH WAS ABOUT AS EXCITING AS A NINE O CLOCK LECTURE AND YOU ONLY EVER MEET MEN WITH MORE ISSUES
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1UENCH YOUR CRAVING FOR LOVE BY READING ABOUT HOW BADLY OTHER PEOPLE DO IT
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&OR STARTERS YOU CAN BEGIN WITH WRITING A LOVE LETTER TO YOURSELF 7HY WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO TELL YOU HOW GREAT AND DESIRABLE YOU ARE WHEN YOU CAN PICK UP A PEN OF SPLENDIFEROUS COLOUR AND JOT IT DOWN YOURSELF .O NEED TO DECORATE YOUR LETTER WITH FANCY DICTUM +EEP IT SIMPLE BY LISTING YOUR POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES 9OU CAN THEN EXPAND ON YOUR LIST TO IN CLUDE EXAMPLES OF HOW THESE AT TRIBUTES MANIFEST IN YOUR CHARAC TER $ON T FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST AND PRESENT AC COMPLISHMENTS 4HERE ARE SURE TO BE RECORDS OF ACHIEVEMENT THAT YOU HAVE MENTALLY BACK LOGGED 9OU CAN START OFF BY CONGRATULATING
YOURSELF FOR HAVING COMPLETED AN OTHER SEMESTER AT UNIVERSITY AND YOUR WILLINGNESS TO PERSEVERE 4HE MAIN IDEAL OF THE LOVE LETTER IS TO BASK IN YOUR OWN GLORY 9OU ARE DElNITELY WORTH IT 7HEN YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE SCRAWLED DOWN EVE RYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT YOURSELF STASH YOUR LOVE LETTER IN A SAFE PLACE #OME BACK TO IT ONE YEAR FROM NOW 3OMETIMES WE FORGET HOW GREAT WE ARE AND COULD USE A YEARLY REMINDER
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3ATISFY YOUR CRAVING FOR SYRUPY SWEETNESS WITH A VISIT TO WWW ALLRECIPE COM $ISCOVER SCRUMP TIOUS RECIPES FOR THE BEST RANGE OF COOKIES /N THIS WEBSITE YOU CAN FIND RECIPES THAT TAKE LESS THAN TWENTY MINUTES TO PREPARE AND THIRTY TO BAKE AND ONE TO EAT 3O WHY SPEND TIME SULKING ABOUT LOVE OR PROCRASTINATING WHEN YOU SHOULD BE SULKING /PT INSTEAD TO GET BAKING 4REATS FOR THE TONGUE HEART AND DEFINITELY THE BODY
Love  is  All  you  Read
1UENCH YOUR CRAVING FOR LOVE BY READING ABOUT HOW BADLY OTHER PEOPLE DO IT #HECK OUT SOME OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS FOR YOUR READ ING PLEASURE 'ET LOST IN A LAND A MILLION MILES FORM HERE -OST OF THESE TITLES CAN BE FOUND AT THE 5%! LIBRARY 3O SAY HELLO TO YOUR STUDENT CARD AND GET TO SWIPING 7UTHERING (EIGHTS BY %MILY "RON TE 0RIDE AND 0REJUDICE BY *ANE !USTEN %ROTIQUE .OIRE EDITED BY -ARIAM $E#OSTA 7ILLIS ,YRICAL ,IFE ! 2OCK AND 2OLL ,OVE 3TORY 4OLD IN 3ONG ,YRICS BY #ASEY *ONES ,OVE AND /THER 3TORIES BY !NTON 0 #HEKHOV
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3TART SHARING YOUR AMAZING OR SEEMINGLY DRUNKEN VOCAL TALENTS 'RAB A FEW OF YOUR FRIENDS AND HEAD ON TO YOUR NEAREST +ARAOKE BAR EVEN THE 5NION TRIES ITS HAND AT DOING THESE )F YOU ARE MORE COMFORTABLE REMAINING WITHIN A TWO KILOMETRE RADIUS OF YOUR ROOM INVITE YOUR FRIENDS OVER TURN ON YOUR MEDIA PLAYER AND
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$EAR -ISS LL &IX )T ) M LOVING THE STRIPES AND SPOTS OF THIS SPRING AS MUCH AS THE NEXT FASHIONISTA BUT HOW ON EARTH DO ) TACKLE SUCH PAT TERNS WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE A TECHNICOLOUR CATASTROPHE 3O FAR SPOT FREE
'LAD YOU ASKED 3EVERAL STRUGGLING DRESSERS PRESUME THAT YOUR PATTERNS SHOULD BE AFFORDED THE SAME TREATMENT AS YOUR PLAINS %ACH SEASON TOO MANY STYLES PASS MY EYES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN GRANTED THE ALTERATION IN ATTENTION THEY RE QUIRE ,AST SEASON ) SAW MORE METALLIC CASUALTIES THAN ) D CARE TO MENTION 7HEN DOING THE STRIPES AND SPOTS OF THIS SEASON TEAM WITH MUTED PALETTES OF NAVY GREY AND BLACK )F THE THOUGHT OF POLKA DOTS FRIGHTENS YOU ADD SPLASHES ON SCARVES BELTS OR A PAIR OF PUMPS 3UBTLETY S THE KEY AND CHOOSING ONE STYLE SHOULD SAVE PATTERN DISASTERS /NE NEVER FAVOURS THOSE WHO BOTH DOT AND DASH
SING ALONG TO YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS (OW CAN ONE RESIST THE TEMPTATION WHEN MUSIC FRIENDS AND FULL BODY LENGTH MIRRORS ARE CLOSE AT HAND 4HIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PERFECT THOSE BODY MOVES SO THAT YOU SPARKLE NEXT TIME YOU HIT THE DANCE mOOR 'O AHEAD STEP TO IT
Make  a  scrapbook
"E ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE AND RECYCLE YOUR MAGAZINES "EFORE THROWING YOUR GLAMOUR GUIDES INTO THE WASTE BIN BE SURE TO HAVE A PAIR OF SCISSORS NEARBY &LIP THROUGH THE PAGES AND CLIP OUT ANYTHING THAT YOU FEEL IS A REPRE
SENTATION OF LOVE 7HILE mIPPING THROUGH PAGES KEEP IN MIND THE LOVE YOU WANT AND MORE IMPOR TANTLY THE LOVE YOU ALREADY HAVE 0ASTE ALL OF YOUR CLIPPINGS ONTO A PLAIN SHEET OF PAPER #OLOURED PA PER OR PAPER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PLASTERED WITH LARGER CLIPPINGS PREFERABLY ADVERTS PRODUCES A NICE BACKGROUND ! NICE BACKGROUND IS VITAL IN THAT IT ENHANCES THE OVER ALL AESTHETIC OF YOUR COLLAGE #REATING A UNIQUE COLLAGE THAT AC CURATELY CAPTURES YOUR IDEAS MAY TAKE SOME TIME DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU PUT INTO IT 2UMOUR HAS IT THAT SEEING IS BE LIEVING AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN IS
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&ALLING IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF IS THE NEXT BEST THING TO FALLING IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER "UT IF YOU HAVE THE TENDENCY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE NEW EACH WEEK DON T FORGET THAT THE (IVE IS OFFERING FREE #HLAMYDIA TESTING ON TH &EBRU ARY
&OR THOSE STILL FEELING ROMANTICAL LY INCLINED CHECK OUT 4HE %VENT S GUIDE TO TOGS THAT WILL GET YOU HOT HOT HOT 3TYLED BY %LLIE 4AYLOR AND -EL *ONES
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Theatre  of  the  Chrysalis 4HE %VENT S #HARLENE 0RICE GETS A PRIVILEGED INSIGHT INTO .ORWICH S LATEST ARTISTIC IN NOVATION 4HE 'ARAGE THEATRE S #HRYSALIS ARTS FESTIVAL 3HE GIVES US A COMPREHENSIVE ROUND UP OF THE THEATRE TAKING PLACE THERE THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK
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U R I N G THE WEEK BEGINNING THE TH &EBRUARY . O R W I C H W A S HOME TO AN AMBITIOUS AND ECLECTIC MIX OF THEATRE DANCE MUSIC VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ART /VER LOCAL COMPANIES ALL GIVING THEIR TIME VOLUNTARILY SHOW CASED THEIR WORK OVER lVE DAYS 4HE FESTIVAL WAS PROMOTED AS PROVIDING SHORT PERFORMANCES DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO A GENERATION OF 46 WATCHERS ALL FOR AFFORDABLE PRICES 4HIS COMING TOGETHER OF VOLUNTARY ARTS WAS ORGANISED BY .ORWICH BASED THEATRE COMPANY 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY DELIGHTED AUDIENCES AT 4HE 'ARAGE WITH PERFORMANCES OF !NTONIN !RTAUD S *ET OF "LOOD AND /NLY IN THE 7OODS AN ADAPTATION OF 3HAKESPEARE S ! -IDSUMMER .IGHT S $REAM !FTER TACKLING THESE CHALLENGING PRODUCTIONS 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE DECIDED TO EMBARK UPON AN EVEN MORE AMBITIOUS PROJECT #HRISTINA 0OULTON 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE S PRODUCTION DIRECTOR EXPLAINS h7E THOUGHT A FESTIVAL WAS THE IDEAL WAY TO GET LOTS OF PEOPLE INVOLVED )T ALLOWS PARTICIPANTS TO SHOW THE HUGE RANGE OF ART FORMS AND ALL THE REALLY INTERESTING AND INNOVATIVE WORK THAT TAKES PLACE IN .ORWICH BUT THAT NOT EVERYONE KNOWS IS OUT THERE v 4HE %VENT WAS ABLE TO GET A BEHIND THE SCENES SNEAK PREVIEW OF SOME
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OF THIS INNOVATIVE WORK THE DAY BEFORE THE START OF THE FESTIVAL 2EHEARSALS WERE HAPPENING IN VARIOUS ROOMS IN 4HE 'ARAGE AND WHILE IT ALL APPEARED PERFECTLY ORGANISED SERENE AND PROFESSIONAL TO AN OUTSIDER ,IZZIE 3TARLING PUBLICITY DIRECTOR ADMITTED TO 4HE %VENT THAT THINGS WERE hA BIT CRAZYv AND THAT ONE OF THE DIFlCULTIES IN HAVING SUCH A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTIONS HAPPENING WAS BRINGING EVERYBODY TOGETHER TO REHEARSE 'IVEN THE DIVERSITY OF THE PERFORMANCES ON OFFER THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE AS THE ACTS ARE BEING PERFORMED BY A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THEATRE GROUPS FROM IN AND AROUND .ORWICH MANY OF THEM YOUTH GROUPS AND SCHOOLS !S #HRISTINA 0OULTON CONlRMS hWE ONLY HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO THE AUDITORIUM AND SO ON 3UNDAY WE HAD TO TECH TWELVE SHOWS BACK TO BACK n WHICH WAS A BIG CHALLENGE BUT WE DID IT v 4HE SHEER DIVERSITY OF THE FESTIVAL WAS ALREADY IN EVIDENCE AT THIS STAGE IN ONE ROOM A REHEARSAL OF FORMER 5%! STUDENT 4OM ,OUDEN S )NERTIA WAS TAKING PLACE WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS A PLAY INVOLVING THREE CHARACTERS WITH NOTHING HAPPENING 4HIS PIECE CAME ACROSS AS BEING A SLICE OF THEATRE THAT PERHAPS OFFERS IT S AUDIENCE DRAMA IN THE MORE TRADITIONAL SENSE OF THE WORD I E IT IS PRIMARILY BASED ON LANGUAGE BASED PERFORMANCES REVOLVING AROUND THE USE OF DIALOGUE 7HEREAS IN AN AUDITORIUM NEARBY A TECHNICAL REHEARSAL OF *UST AN /RDINARY $AY PERFORMED BY 4HALIA 4HEATRE 9OUTH n A PERFORMANCE DEVISED BY THE COMPANY USING DANCE IN ORDER TO EXPLORE ISSUES RAISED AS A RESULT OF THE ,ONDON "OMBINGS IN *ULY %MOTIVE LIGHTING AND SOUND EFFECTS CONTRIBUTED TO WHAT LOOKED TO BE A POWERFUL PERFORMANCE .ATURALLY THIS BROAD RANGE OF PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ART HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO A WIDE RANGING AUDIENCE 4HE ORGANISERS OF THE FESTIVAL WERE SPECIlCALLY HOPING TO ATTRACT NON THEATRE GOERS WHILE
ALSO INTRODUCING VARYING KINDS OF PERFORMANCES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC h"ECAUSE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SHORT SHOWS EACH NIGHT ;THE AUDIENCE= END UP SEEING A RANGE OF ART FORMS THEY MIGHT NOT NORMALLY CONSIDER &OR EXAMPLE THEY MIGHT BE A THEATRE GOER BUT NEVER HAVE BEEN TO A DANCE PERFORMANCE BEFORE n THIS WAY THE AUDIENCE GET TO SAMPLE ALL KINDS OF PERFORMANCES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE EVENT v 0ART OF THE AIM OF THE FESTIVAL HOWEVER WAS NOT MERELY TO PRODUCE A WIDE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PERFORMANCES BUT TO INVOLVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THE RUNNING OF THE FESTIVAL FROM ACTORS TO TECHNICIANS TO PROMOTERS AND ADMINISTRATORS 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE HAVE BEEN ORGANISING WORKSHOPS IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE FESTIVAL TO TRAIN PEOPLE IN THEIR CHOSEN lELD WHILE GIVING THEM GREATER ACCESS TO THE FACILITIES THAT .ORWICH HAS TO OFFER h/UR MAIN AIM IS GETTING PEOPLE INVOLVED v SAYS #HRISTINA 0OULTON h7E HAVE SO MANY GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE MET NEW PEOPLE TRIED NEW THINGS LEARNT NEW SKILLS AND HOPEFULLY HAD FUN v /F COURSE BEING A VOLUNTARY AFFAIR ONE ALSO HAS TO RELY ON PEOPLE S GENEROSITY h%VERYONE HAS BEEN SO WILLING WITH THEIR TIME n THERE IS NO WAY THIS FESTIVAL COULD HAVE HAPPENED IF IT HAD BEEN THE ;6ISCERAL 4HEATRE= COMMITTEE ALONE ORGANISING IT 7E HAVE MET SO MANY CREATIVE MOTIVATED PEOPLE AND HOPE THAT WE CAN WORK WITH THEM AGAIN IN THE FUTURE v 4HE %VENT WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WITNESS A PORTION OF THE END RESULT OF ALL THIS HARD WORK AT #ITY #OLLEGE ON THE EVENING OF 4UESDAY TH &EBRUARY !S #HRISTINA 0OULTON HAD TOLD 4HE %VENT WE WERE TO EXPECT A SHOWCASE OF hTHE VIBRANT DIVERSE CULTURE OF VOLUNTARY ARTS v AND THE PERFORMANCES THAT EVENING CERTAINLY REmECTED THIS 4HE PROGRAMME COMPRISED THREE VERY DIFFERENT SHORT PLAYS ,ORD OF THE &LIES 4HE 3TRAINS OF !CADEMIA AND !LICE IN 7ONDERLAND 4HE ,ORD OF THE &LIES ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL AND PRODUCED BY "URY 3T %DMUNDS 9OUTH 4HEATRE WAS A UNIQUE REPRESENTATION OF A FAMILIAR STORY USING A MIXTURE OF DIALOGUE AND INTERPRETIVE DANCE TO CONVEY THE ACTION !TMOSPHERIC LIGHTING AND OFTEN HAUNTING MUSIC CREATED A RICH BACKDROP FOR THE ACTION OF THE PERFORMANCE %VEN PEOPLE NOT PREVIOUSLY FAMILIAR WITH THE PLOT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FOLLOW
THE EVENTS AS THEY UNFOLDED AND THE DANCE MOVEMENTS PORTRAYED ACCURATELY THE ETHOS OF THE STORY !FTER A SHORT INTERVAL WE WERE TREATED TO A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF PERFORMANCE YET AN EQUALLY CAPTIVATING ONE 4HIS WAS THE PREMIERE OF 4HE 3TRAINS OF !CADEMIA BY LOCAL WRITER 4IM 7ILDMAN PERFORMED BY 4HE 'REAT (ALL 4HEATRE #OMPANY 3ET IN THE OFlCE OF 0ROFESSOR (ENRY 0ISTON THIS CYNICAL LOOK AT THE ACADEMIC WORLD WILL BE A FAMILIAR ONE TO MANY ,ACED WITH IRONIC HUMOUR THIS PLAY MET WITH MUCH LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE AND PROVIDED SOME LIGHT RELIEF FROM THE MACABRE NATURE OF THE PREVIOUS PERFORMANCE .EXT WAS ANOTHER COMPLETE CHANGE OF DIRECTION 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE S OWN !LICE IN 7ONDERLAND 4HIS WAS A TECHNICALLY AMBITIOUS PRODUCTION AND ONE WHICH CONSISTENTLY SURPRISED WITH ITS SOLUTIONS TO THE STAGING PROBLEMS ONE MIGHT HAVE IMAGINED WITH A PLAY SUCH AS THIS -AKING USE OF MOVING IMAGES ON A PROJECTION SCREEN 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE WERE ABLE TO BRING THE MAGIC AND SURREALISM OF !LICE TO THE STAGE AND !LICE BEING PORTRAYED AS SOMETHING OF A TEENAGE BRAT MEANT THAT THE PLAY SEEMED RELEVANT TO A MODERN AUDIENCE &ITTING MUSIC AND SUPERB COSTUME ENABLED THE AUDIENCE TO ENTER !LICE S PSYCHEDELIC WORLD LEAVING ONE FEELING ENTHRALLED YET SLIGHTLY DISTURBED 4HIS NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES THEN SEEMED TO CAPTURE THE ETHOS OF 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE S VISION IN SETTING UP THE #HRYSALIS !RTS &ESTIVAL AFFORDABLE EVENTS THE NEW AND INNOVATIVE MIXED WITH THE MORE TRADITIONAL ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO BE EXCITED BY AND INVOLVED WITH VARIOUS PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ARTS AND INTRODUCING AUDIENCES TO A DIVERSE RANGE OF ART FORMS 4HE SUCCESS OF THE FESTIVAL HAS ALREADY PERSUADED THOSE AT 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE TO MAKE THIS AN ANNUAL EVENT IN .ORWICH 4HIS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY PROVE A HIGHLY POPULAR lXTURE IN YEARS TO COME AND IF THIS YEAR S PERFORMANCES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY ONE WHICH 4HE %VENT IS SURE WILL BE VERY WELCOME TO RETURN 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE S NEXT PROJECT IS A THEATRICAL ALL DAYER INVOLVING MANY SHORT SHOWS OVER A WHOLE DAY IN *UNE )F YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET INVOLVED OR lND OUT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT 6ISCERAL 4HEATRE PLEASE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT WWW VISCERALTHEATRE ORG UK
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ST RD &EBRUARY 5%! $RAMA 3TUDIO ,INDA -ACLEAN S 3HIMMER IS A PLAY CLOAKED IN METAPHOR AND VULNERABILITY TRAILING THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHO ON A PILGRIMAGE TO )ONA l ND THEMSELVES STRANDED 3TRANDED NOT JUST IN THE LITERAL SENSE BUT ALSO IN THE LYRICAL AS TORRENTIAL RAIN INTERRUPTS THEIR SEARCH FOR A MIRACLE AND INVITES THE CHARACTERS INTO A MODE OF DISCOVERY OF THEIR MORE IMPLICIT ABANDONMENT 4HE BEAUTIFUL SOLIDARITY OF THESE WOMEN AND GRADUAL EMERGENCE OF THEIR MOTIVE RESULTS IN A POIGNANT YET NEVER OVERLY SENTIMENTAL REPRESENTATION OF LOVE AND UNITY AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL LOSS 3EEKING REFUGE AT *IM S !NDREW 0RITCHETT "ED AND "REAKFAST THE PLAY BECOMES A DOMAIN IN WHICH SIX CHARACTERS RECALL AND COLLECT 4HE FEMALE PERFORMANCES IN THIS PLAY PARTICULARLY SHONE #AMILLA 3CAIFF WAS BRILLIANTLY CONVINCING AND PERFECTLY CAST AS THE LOVEABLE AND ALMOST HARMONIC GRANDMOTHER (EN 3CAIFF BALANCED THE THINLY VEILED GRIEF OF A WOMAN WHOSE GRANDDAUGHTER IS SERIOUSLY ILL WITH FAULTLESS COMIC TIMING HITTING THE RIGHT SPOT EVERY TIME HER POPULARITY WITH THE AUDIENCE PALPABLE 4HROUGHOUT (EN S INTERACTIONS WITH -ISSY WERE WONDERFUL ASSISTED BY AN OBVIOUS CHEMISTRY BETWEEN 3CAIFF AND -EL 2AMADAN 3IOBHAN (IGGINS WAS UNDERSTATED AND QUIETLY COMMANDING AS THE TERMINALLY ILL 0ETAL CARRYING THE FEMALE DYNAMIC INTO EACH DIMENSION OF THE PLAY NEVER FAILING TO POSSES OUR AFFECTIONS /N ONE OF THE SEVERAL TIMES 0ETAL S WEAK BLADDER FORCED THE NEED hTO GOv (IGGINS
UNCOMPROMISING ILLUSTRATION OF 0ETAL S PAIN AND FRUSTRATION TRANSl XED THE AUDIENCE STEALING OUR ATTENTION FROM THE CENTRAL SCENE 4HE PLAY S GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING PROVED PROBLEMATIC FOR SOME OF THE ACTORS HOWEVER )NDEED THE VARYING SUCCESS IN THE DELIVERY OF 3COTTISH ACCENTS DURING THIS PLAY WAS UNDENIABLY OBVIOUS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE CONTRAST IN THE STANDARD SET BY (IGGINS AND 3CAIFF !CCENTS HOWEVER SHOULD NEVER DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF ENJOYMENT AN AUDIENCE EXPERIENCES HOWEVER MUCH THEY PROVE OFF PUTTING &OR EXAMPLE THOUGH !DAM -OULDER AS 'UY MAY HAVE SOUNDED MORE LIKE A .EW 9ORKER THAN A 3COT AT SEVERAL INTERVALS THIS DID NOT DILUTE A PASSIONATE AND PREVAILING PERFORMANCE INVARIABLY CONVINCING AND LIKEABLE 4HAT SAID HOWEVER THE MALE CHARACTERS WERE SIMPLY NOT AS INTERSTING IN THIS PIECE 4HIS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE RESULT OF ANY FAULTS OR m AWS IN THE INDIDVIDUAL ACTORS
PERFORMANCES HOWEVER AS IT IS CHIEm Y A FACET OF THE WRITING OF THE PLAY -ACLEAN SUCCESSFULLY CREATES THREE BELIEVABLE AND ENGAGING FEMALE PROTAGONISTS FOR HER AUDIENCE BUT HER m AIR SEEMS TO LACK A LITTLE WHEN SHE TURNS HER ATTENTION TO THE MALE SIDE OF THE SPECIES 4HE THREE MEN IN THIS PLAY SEEM UNAVOIDABLY RATHER m AT AND LACKLUSTRE )T IS UNDENIABLY A PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE DRIVEN PIECE !LTHOUGH 3HIMMER MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AS POLISHED OR AS CONl DENTLY DEl NED AS (ENSON S PREVIOUS DIRECTORIAL EFFORTS IT WAS SUCCESSFULLY ATMOSPHERIC AND MAINTAINED A GENTLE m OW THROUGHOUT 4HE SPARSENESS OF THE CAST AND THE CHANGEABILITY OF HEIGHT AND DYNAMIC WAS ABLE TO ARISE CHIEm Y DUE TO THE SET DESIGN WHICH THOUGH SEEMINGLY RATHER SIMPLISTIC AND UNCOMPLICATED PROVED TO ACCOMMODATE THE VARIOUS SHIFTS IN MOOD STATUS THOUGHT AND MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT #ARL -ARTIN
! COLLAGE OF l CTIONAL STORIES AND ANECDOTES FRAMED WITHIN AN ATTEMPT AT EXPERIMENTING WITH STYLE AND LANGUAGE &IRST )MPRESSIONS IS NOT FOR THE READER WHO DESIRES ANSWERS #ONFUSING BEWILDERING YET STRANGELY HILARIOUS ,AMONT HAS SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING HIS READERS AN INTERESTING BOOK l LLED WITH BITS AND BOBS OF WRITING WHICH AT l RST LOOK COULD SEEM ARBITRARY CLICHÏD AND FRANKLY JUST A BIT WEIRD (OWEVER AT CLOSER INSPECTION &IRST )MPRESSIONS IS NOT AS FRAGMENTED AS IT SEEMS ,AMONT PLAYS WITH LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE THE READER AWARE OF THEIR DIFFERENT AND ALTERING MODES &IRST )MPRESSIONS EVOKES A GOTHIC HORROR STORY AND A CLASSIC WHODUNIT WITHIN THE CONl NES OF SINGLE CHAPTERS OF HIS BOOK (E ALSO ATTEMPTS TO FORMALLY EXPLAIN THE OFFSIDE RULE SOMETHING OF INl NITE COMPLEXITY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON T KNOW OR DON T CARE ,AMONT S INTENTIONS ARE TO PLAY WITH LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN ORDER TO REMIND THE READER OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE ASPECTS OF WRITING (E INDEED MANAGES TO MAKE THE READER ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING BUT ALAS AT TIMES THE BOOK SEEMS TO BE JUST A BIT TOO CONFUSING TRIGGERING QUESTIONS LIKE h7HAT REALLY IS THE POINT TO ALL THIS v ETC 4HAT SAID HOWEVER ,AMONT S WRITING IS INTERESTING AND VERY WITTY AND ) WOULD DEl NITELY RECOMMEND THE BOOK TO ANYONE WHO DOESN T CRAVE ANSWERS OR FORMAL COHERENCE $AISY "OWIE 3ELL
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!NOTHER FEW MONTHS GO BY AND ANOTHER 3IMPSONS COMPILATION $6$ IS RELEASED &OR YEARS NOW THE ANIMATED FAMILY HAVE HAD REGULAR THEMED 6(3 $6$ RELEASES COMPIL ING EPISODES BASED AROUND THEMES LIKE SEX SPORTS AND ROCK N ROLL 4O CASH IN ON 6ALENTINE S $AY ANOTHER LOVE THEMED ONE HAS BEEN RELEASED n THIS TIME FOCUSSING ON THE RO MANCE OF (OMER AND -ARGE 4HE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THIS $6$ IS THAT THE EPISODES ARE NOT PARTICULARLY GOOD n MAINLY DUE TO A SOFTENING OF THE SHARP SENSE OF HU MOUR THAT THE SHOW IS FAMOUS FOR IN ORDER TO MAKE THE EPISODES FEEL A BIT CUDDLIER h4HE 7AY 7E 7EREN Tv SHOWS (OMER AND -ARGE lRST MEET ING AT CAMP WHEN THEY WERE AND IS ONLY FUNNY IN ITS RANDOM &AMILY
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4HE $6$ IS WELL COMPILED WITH SEPARATE THEMED MENUS FOR EACH EPISODE )T JUST FEELS A BIT LIKE THE PRODUCERS ARE RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS FOR THEMED RELEASES AND HAVE TURNED BACK TO AN IDEA WHICH HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE (OWEVER THE EPISODES CHOSEN FOR THIS $6$ ARE FAR FROM BRILLIANT n WITH ONE EXCEP TION )F YOU RE LOOKING FOR A DOSE OF 3IMPSONS THEN THE COMPLETE SEASON BOX SETS CAN USUALLY BE FOUND CHEAPLY ONLINE n THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH SERIES ARE POSSIBLY THE BEST OVERALL 4HIS $6$ WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRESENT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE ON 6ALENTINE S $AY IF YOU RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A PARTNER WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR BUT AVOID IT OTHERWISE #HRISTOPHER (YDE
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LL OF US HAVE HAD SOME EXPE RIENCE WITH SITCOMS AT SOME POINT 7 H E T H E R IT S SIMPLY CATCHING A FEW MINUTES OF AN /NLY &OOLS AND (ORSES #HRISTMAS SPE CIAL WHILE WAITING FOR OUR TURKEY SANDWICHES ON TH $ECEMBER OR BEING ABLE TO QUOTE ENTIRE SCENES OF ) M !LAN 0ARTRIDGE THEY HAVE FORMED THE CORNERSTONE OF LIGHT EN TERTAINMENT ON 46 FOR DECADES AND THEIR CHARACTERS AND CATCHPHRASES HAVE EMBEDDED THEMSELVES lRM LY IN THE NATION S CONSCIOUSNESS (OWEVER HAVE THEY lNALLY ENDED THEIR REIGN AS UNDISPUTED KINGS OF FAMILY VIEWING #HANNEL SEEMS TO THINK SO n OVER THE #HRISTMAS PERIOD THEY SCREENED A SHOW IN VESTIGATING WHAT KILLED OFF THE GENRE AND BLAMED SUCH TELEVISION INNOVATIONS AS mY ON THE WALL 46 OR MULTI CHANNEL DIGIBOXES $E SPITE THIS SHOW COMMISERATING THE LOSS OF SITCOMS IT S DEBATEABLE THAT THEY ARE COMPLETELY DEAD THEY ARE SIMPLY PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT IS DEEMED AS hSTEREOTYPICALv SITCOM AND CHANGING TO SUIT THE TWENTY lRST CENTURY ,ET S lRST LOOK AT A HISTORY OF SITCOMS AS DElNED BY THE PRO GRAMME 4HE lRST 5+ SITCOM IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE OF THE WORD @SITCOM IS SHORT FOR @SITUATION COMEDY A COMEDY ABOUT THE LIVES IN AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE HOME OR WORK WAS 3TEPTOE AND 3ON IN THE EARLY S 4HE RESOUNDING SUCCESS OF THE FATHER AND SON LINE UP LED TO A WHOLE SLEW OF CLASSIC SITCOMS IN THE S OVER THE THREE CHAN NELS AVAILABLE SUCH AS $AD S !RMY 0ORRIDGE &AWLTY 4OWERS 4HE 'OOD ,IFE AND 9ES -INISTER 4HESE WERE SUCCESSFUL DUE TO BOTH THE QUAL ITY OF THE ACTING AND WRITING AND 46 LISTINGS WERE SOON lLLED WITH SITCOMS n A TYPICAL WEEK OF MID S 46 FEATURED EIGHT OF THEM IN PRIMETIME SLOTS )N THE S A CHANGING 46 AUDIENCE AND THE RISE OF ALTERNATIVE COMEDY LED TO A SHIFT IN THE NATURE OF SITCOMS IN STEAD OF BEING ABOUT SUBURBIA OR FAMILY RELATIONS THE BIGGEST S SITCOMS WERE ABOUT STUDENTS 4HE 9OUNG /NES BARS #HEERS HIS TORY "LACKADDER AND ABANDONED MINING SHIPS 2ED $WARF 4HE
ESCHEWING OF TRADITIONAL SITCOM VALUES IN FAVOUR OF SOMETHING A BIT EDGIER WAS A DARING MOVE AT THE TIME n IF IT HAD NOT HAPPENED IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WE D BE WATCH ING SITCOMS NOW ABOUT COUNCIL ESTATE FAMILIES MOVING INTO SATEL LITE TOWNS /NE SITCOM OF THE S THAT HAS ENDURED IS /NLY &OOLS AND (ORSES 7HILE IT RETAINED THE FAMILY ASPECT A COMEDY ABOUT A WHEELING AND DEALING #OCKNEY GEEZER WAS VERY DIFFERENT TO WHAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN SCREENED 4HE MOST POPULAR SITCOMS OF THE S WERE THOSE THAT WERE IM PORTED FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND SUCH AS &RIENDS &RAISER AND 4HE 3IMPSONS 4HESE WERE A LOT FUNNIER WITTIER AND MORE ROUNDED THAN THE COMPETITION THAT 5+ SIT COM WRITERS PROVIDED IN THE EARLY S THE FRUITS OF WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT ONLY A DECADE LATER 4HE FEW 5+ SITCOMS THAT WERE POPULAR THEN AND ARE STILL REMEMBERED TODAY ARE THOSE THAT WERE PUT ON AFTER THE WATER SHED SUCH AS -EN "EHAVING "ADLY !BSOLUTELY &ABULOUS AND /NE &OOT IN THE 'RAVE n SHOWING THAT SIT COMS ONCE SOMETHING VIEWED BY ALL THE FAMILY HAD CHANGED THEIR NATURE ONCE AGAIN %XCEPTIONS TO THOSE WERE ONES THAT AGAIN KEPT FAMILY AND HOME AT THEIR CORE LIKE "IRDS OF A &EATHER AND +EEPING 5P !PPEARANCES 4HE RISE OF mY ON THE WALL 46 IN THE MID S MEANT THAT REAL LIFE COMEDY CHARACTERS LIKE *EREMY 3PAKE AND $RIVING 3CHOOL S -AUREEN BECAME ENGRAINED IN THE NATION S CONSCIOUSNESS AND SITCOMS BECAME UNFASHIONABLE #AROLINE !HERNE S BRAVE ATTEMPT TO COMBINE ELEMENTS OF BOTH mY ON THE WALL AND SITCOMS BECAME THE GENRE S LAST HOPE IF 4HE 2OYLE &AMILY HADN T BROUGHT SITCOMS BACK FROM THE BRINK OF BEING OB SOLETE THEN THEY WOULD PROBABLY HAVE GIVEN WAY COMPLETELY TO THE RISE OF REALITY 46 /+ SO WE VE LOOKED AT SITCOMS OVER THE PAST YEARS BUT WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US NOW 46 LIST INGS ARE NOW FULL OF SOAPS REAL ITY 46 AND DRAMAS AND THE ONLY @TRADITIONAL 5+ SITCOM STILL ON IS ""# S -Y &AMILY 4HE 6ICAR OF $IBLEY ANOTHER RECENT CONVEN TIONAL SITCOM GETS THE OCCASIONAL AIRING "UT JUST BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE @TRADITIONAL SITCOM ON THE BOX IT DOESN T MEAN THAT THE
GENRE IS DEAD $ESPITE #HANNEL S ASSURANCES THAT SITCOMS ARE GONE THIS REVIEWER THINKS THAT THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE INJECTED A NEW LEASE OF LIFE INTO SITUATION COMEDIES AND THAT THE COMING YEAR LOOKS VERY PROMISING INDEED 4HE 2OYLE &AMILY OPENED THE mOODGATES FOR LOADS OF BRILLIANT SIT COMS IN THE LATE S AND EARLY S n SUCH AS ) M !LAN 0ARTRIDGE 4HE /FlCE 0HOENIX .IGHTS 3PACED AND &ATHER 4ED 4HESE IN TURN HAVE BROUGHT A NEW AGE OF SITCOMS TO 46 IN WHICH WE GET SILLY AND RANDOM 4HE -IGHTY "OOSH VERY DARK .IGHTY .IGHT WHICH WAS CLEARLY INmUENCED BY THE SKETCH SHOW 4HE ,EAGUE OF 'ENTLEMEN AND VAGUELY REALISTIC 0EEP 3HOW WITH IT S TWIST OF BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE CHARACTERS THOUGHTS 7HILE PURISTS MAY ARGUE THAT THESE AREN T SITCOMS IN THE STRICTEST SENSE OF THE WORD n I E AS PER THE DElNITION ABOVE n THEY ARE STILL COMEDIES IN WHICH AUDIENCES LAUGH AT THE SITU ATIONS OF THE CHARACTERS AND THEY RE AS EQUALLY VALID SITCOMS AS 0OR RIDGE OR &AWLTY 4OWERS WHILE THEY CAN ALL ALSO BE CREDITED WITH BRING ING A FRESH APPROACH TO THE GENRE )T S VALID TO POINT OUT THAT THE BIGGEST SITCOMS OF THE S ARE NO MORE &RASIER AND &RIENDS BOTH lNISHED AFTER THEIR TENTH SEASON n A BRAVE MOVE TO KEEP THE CHAR ACTERS FROM BECOMING BORING AND UNWELCOME DESPITE STILL BEING MASSIVELY POPULAR SHOWS AND 4HE 3IMPSONS IS NO LONGER THE COM EDY TOUR DE FORCE THAT IT ONCE WAS WHILE THE 5+ SITCOMS OF THE DEC ADE ALL lNISHED A LONG TIME AGO AND THIS COULD BE MISCONSTRUED AS HERALDING THE END OF THE GENRE (OWEVER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF &RASIER AND &RIENDS HAS PAVED THE WAY FOR MORE !MERICAN SITCOMS TO lLL THE VOID LEFT IN THE SCHEDULES EVERYONE LOVES %VERYONE ,OVES 2AYMOND AND 3CRUBS MANAGES TO WRAP MORE COMEDY IN ONE MINUTE EPISODE THAN AN ENTIRE SE RIES OF -Y (ERO 4HE 3IMPSONS SUCCESS LED TO A MOVEMENT OF ANIMATED SITCOMS IN THE LATE S WHICH WHILE GIVING US SOME TRULY DIABOLICAL hCOMEDYv SHOWS LIKE "ILL #OSBY S 4HE 0*S DID PRODUCE SOME QUALITY SITCOMS SUCH AS &UTURAMA AND &AMILY 'UY 4HE INmUX OF PRIMETIME CARTOONS WAS SOMETHING NEVER BEFORE SEEN n IS THIS SOMETHING THAT A SUPPOSEDLY
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DYING GENRE WOULD PRODUCE 4HE YELLOW FAMILY HAVE EVEN SPAWNED THEIR OWN REAL LIFE IMITATORS n -AL COLM IN THE -IDDLE WAS CLEARLY PITCHED TO 46 EXECUTIVES AS BEING hTHE REAL LIFE 3IMPSONSv )N THE OPINION OF THIS REVIEWER THE GENRE HAS NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD !S WELL AS THE !MERICAN SITCOMS MENTIONED ABOVE THERE HAVE BEEN LOADS OF SUCCESSFUL HOME GROWN COMEDIES OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS .IGHTY .IGHT AND 4HE -IGHTY "OOSH HAVE BOTH BEEN GIVEN SECOND SERIES 4HE THIRD SE RIES OF THE FANTASTIC 0EEP 3HOW WAS SHOWN ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO AND WAS POSSIBLY THE FUNNI EST YET "OTH 9ES -INISTER AND THE DOCUMENTARY STYLE OF 4HE /FlCE HAVE INSPIRED THE BRILLIANT SATIRE 4HE 4HICK OF )T %XTRAS BECAME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR 46 SHOWS OF LAST YEAR REGARDLESS OF GENRE AND MORE RECENTLY 4HE )4 #ROWD HAS BEGUN WITH THE PREMISE OF RETURN ING TO THE GENRE S ROOTS 7ITH OTHER BRAND NEW SITCOMS STARTING THIS YEAR SUCH AS SCI l COMEDY (YPER DRIVE AND THE OFFBEAT -Y .AME IS %ARL THE NEW GENERATION IS BRING ING MORE VARIETY AND ENTERTAIN MENT TO OUR SCREENS THAN ANY OF THE FAMILY SUBURBIA COMEDIES OF THE S 3ITCOMS HAVE EVOLVED AND ARE GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH AND THEY RE CLEARLY FAR FROM DEAD n INDEED SITUATION COMEDIES HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE ALIVE THAN THEY ARE IN
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4HE BEAT BE WRAPPED IN COWHIDE AND DYED RED "E CALLED 3HANGO AND BORN INTO SCHISMS "E LAYING UPRIGHT EYES OPEN COLD DEAD .ODDING ITS HEAD TO HEROIN S RHYTHMS 4HE BEAT BE DRAPED IN RAGS OF THE COSMOS $ANCING TO THE RHYTHM POVERTY PLAYS 7RAPPED IN WHITE TO CELEBRATE GOD S GHOST !ND GETTING FREED OF THEIR SINNISH WAYS 4HE BEAT BE CURLED TIGHTLY INTO ITSELF %XTENDING ITS TONGUE TO THE PA PER S BLADE #ATACLYSMIC POETS SPEAK OF NEW WEALTH /NLY LINT LAY PRINTED UPON THE PAGE -OTHERHOOD IS NOT WITHOUT ITS MOTHERSˆ "EATITUDE IS NOT WITHOUT ITS COLOURS
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Horoscopes Aries Mar  21  -  Apr  20 Â
9OU WILL TREAD IN SOMETHING NAS TY AND SPREAD IT ALL AROUND YOUR HOUSE 9OU WILL NEED SOME STRONG BLEACH AND SOME GOOD SCRUB BING TO REMOVE THE STAINS BUT THE SMELL WILL STILL HANG AROUND FOR WEEKS 3ERVES YOU RIGHT FOR BEING SO HAPPY AND NOT LOOKING DOWN AT YOUR FEET
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)N WITH THE OLD AND OUT WITH THE NEW FOR THIS FORTNIGHT 7HO NEEDS BROADER HORIZONS WHEN WHAT S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU IS SO GOOD -AKE SURE YOU LOOK AFTER THE BIRD IN YOUR HAND THE TWO IN THE BUSH JUST AREN T WORTH IT 3TAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING NEW %XCEPT DON T FORGET TO RENEW YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS
Gemini May  22  -  June  22 Â
)T WILL SNOW ON THE ONE DAY THAT YOU FORGET YOUR GLOVES "UT HAV ING WAITED SO LONG FOR A SNOW
BALL FIGHT YOU WILL JOIN IN THE MERRIMENT BARE HANDED (OURS OF SNOWMAN BUILDING SLEDGING SNOW ANGELS AND ROLLING AROUND IN THE WHITE WET STUFF WILL LEAVE YOUR HANDS NUMB UNTIL !PRIL
Cancer June  23  -  July  23 Â
7HILE WAITING LATE AT NIGHT IN THE KEBAB SHOP YOU WILL SPOT SOMEONE YOU THINK YOU KNOW FROM LAST WEEK S SOCIAL 9OU WILL APPROACH THEM ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE 4HIS WON T STOP YOU PLAYING IT COOL BLAGGING A LIFT IN THEIR TAXI AND STAYING THE NIGHT AT THEIRS
Leo July  24  -  Aug  23 Â
9OU WILL FORGO YOUR LECTURES NEXT WEEK IN ORDER TO CATCH UP WITH THE PLOT OF .EIGHBOURS $REW STARTS APPEARING IN 3TEPH S DREAMS AND 3UMMER COMES BACK FROM WHEREVER SHE S BEEN &ED UP WITH THE RETURN OF CHARACTERS YOU WERE GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF YOU RETURN TO LECTURES BY &RIDAY
Virgo Aug  25  -  Sept  23 Â
9OU WILL MAKE A STUPID BET AND THEN PROCEED TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY 9OU WILL LOSE THE TRUST OF AN OLD FRIEND BE BARRED FROM THREE DIFFERENT PUBS SPEND A NIGHT IN THE LOCAL HOSPI TAL AND RUIN YOUR FAVOURITE PAIR OF SHOES 9OU WILL OF COURSE WIN THE BET AND EARN YOURSELF a "UT WILL IT HAVE BEEN WORTH IT
Libra Sept  24  -  Oct  23 Â
4HIS WEEK YOU WILL BE LUCKY IN LOVE BUT FINANCIALLY ACCIDENT PRONE AND THE FOLLOWING WEEK IT WILL BE VISA VERSA -Y ADVICE IS TO WITHDRAW ALL YOUR STOCKS AND SHARES FOR NOW AND THROW YOUR SELF AT EVERYONE YOU FANCY .EXT WEEK ) SUGGEST YOU REINVEST HEAV ILY AND DON T EVEN BOTHER LEAVING YOUR HOUSE
Scorpio Oct  24  -  Nov  22 Â
%VERYTHING WILL GO RIGHT FOR YOU THIS WEEK )T S NOT OFTEN ) GET TO SAY IT
THAT BLUNTLY BUT THAT S WHAT THE STARS ARE FORECASTING %VEN THE THINGS THAT SEEM LIKE THEY ARE GOING WRONG WILL SPIN AROUND AND GIVE YOU A PLEAS ANT SURPRISE LATER ON 4O CAP IT ALL ALL YOUR ENEMIES WILL HAVE A REALLY RUBBISH WEEK
TIME AND PROVE A USEFUL ALLY IN YOUR ATTEMPT TO BRING DOWN THE RULING 5+)0 PARTY
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4HIS FORTNIGHT YOUR LUCKY COL OUR WILL BE BLUE YOUR LUCKY WORDS ARE @(ELICOPTER AND @$U BAI AND YOUR LUCKY ODOUR WILL OLD BOOKS 9OUR LUCKY SONG WILL BE 4HE )SLEY "ROTHER S 3UMMER "REEZE AND YOUR LUCKY FOOD WILL BE CHICKEN KORMA (AVE FUN TRY ING TO GET ALL THOSE TOGETHER INTO TWO WEEKS
Nov  23  -  Dec  21 Â
9OU WILL HEAR A FANTASTIC JOKE ON THE RADIO THIS WEEK BUT WHEN YOU ATTEMPT TO RETELL IT IN THE PUB THIS WEEKEND YOU WILL MESS UP THE RE QUIRED 3OUTH !FRICAN ACCENT AND RUIN THE JOKE COMPLETELY &ORTU NATELY YOU WILL READY TO BOUNCE BACK WITH THAT JOKE ABOUT THE &RENCH GYNAECOLOGIST THAT ONE NEVER FAILS TO PLEASE
Capricorn Dec  22  -  Jan  20 Â
9OUR PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION TAKE ANOTHER GRADUAL STEP FOR WARD THIS WEEK AS YOU BUY A PINT FOR AN ACQUAINTANCE IN THE 5N ION BAR 5NBEKNOWN TO THE BOTH OF YOU SHE WILL BECOME THE CHAIR MAN OF THE #") IN TWENTY YEARS
Aquarius Jan  21  -  Feb  19 Â
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) VE GOT TWO WORDS OF ADVICE FOR YOU THIS WEEK #OMPLETE $ENI AL .O ONE CAN PROVE YOU WERE THERE LOADS OF PEOPLE HAVE SIZE EIGHT BOOT MARKS AND YOUR ALI BI IS SOUND $ON T BE TEMPTED TO RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME THE STARS SUGGEST THAT THIS WILL ONLY GIVE THE GAME AWAY $ON T WORRY ) M THE ONLY ONE WHO S PREDICTED WHAT YOU VE DONE AND ) M EASILY BRIBABLE
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O WHERE WERE YOU DURING THE EVENING OF 4HURSDAY TH &EB RUARY 7ATCHING THE /ASIS TRIBUTE BAND AT THE 7ATERFONT 7ORKING HARD FOR THOSE MID TERM TESTS AND ESSAYS /R MAYBE WERE YOU AT THE ,#2 AT WHAT COULD QUITE LIKELY BE THE BIGGEST GIG OF THE YEAR 7HEN .-% ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD BE PUTTING ON ANOTHER AWARDS TOUR THIS YEAR MANY WERE SCEPTICAL THAT IT WOULD BEAT LAST YEAR S CRACKING LINE UP 4HE TOUR SAW 4HE +ILLERS 4HE &UTUREHEADS "LOC 0ARTY AND +AI SER #HIEFS GRACING STAGES UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY WITH A STOP HERE AT 5%! PROVING TO BE ONE OF THE MOST MANIC NIGHTS ON THE WHOLE TOUR @(OW COULD IT POSSIBLY BE BEATEN WAS THE UNANI MOUS CRY FROM INDIE FANS ACROSS THE 5+ /N TH .OVEMBER THE LINE UP FOR WAS REVEALED AND BY GOLLY THOSE CLEVER CHAPS AT .-% HAD SOME HOW MANAGED TO GET FOUR SUCH BRIL LIANT BANDS THAT LAST YEAR S GIG NOW SEEMS LIKE A WARM UP IN COMPARISON 0SYCHEDELIA EXPERIMENTALISTS -YSTERY *ETS *ERKY ROCK COURTESY OF "ROOKLYN S lNEST 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS 0OST PUNK SPIKY POP FROM -AXIMO 0ARK 2OUS ING ROCK ANTHEMS FROM THE CURRENT )T "AND GASP !RCTIC -ONKEYS @/H YES CAN DElNITELY BE BEATEN WAS THE RESOUNDING CHEER FROM THOSE VERY SAME INDIE FANS 7HEN TICKETS lNALLY WENT ON SALE FOR THE GIG MAS SIVE DEMAND SAW 4HE (IVE FULL OF STU DENTS EAGER TO GET THEIR LITTLE HANDS ON ONE n BUT FAR MORE STUDENTS THAN THERE WERE TICKETS AVAILABLE 4HIS LED TO MANY UNHAPPY FANS WHO HAD TO TURN TO THE INEVITABLE TICKET TOUTS ON EBAY THAT WERE CHARGING AROUND a FOR ONE TICKET (OWEVER THOSE THAT GOT IN THROUGH WHATEVER MEANS UNDENI ABLY HAD AN AMAZING NIGHT AND LEFT AMAZED AT HOW S TOUR COULD EVER BEAT THIS LINE UP /N lLING INTO THE ,#2 THE NUM BERS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO OUTDO EACH OTHER IN THE hALTERNATIVEv STAKES WERE ASTOUNDING 4HE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CROWD HAD CLEARLY BEEN TAKING FASHION TIPS FROM THE .-% AND WERE TRYING TO BE @INDIER THAN THOU 3POTTED HEAD BANDS STRIPED TOPS #ONVERSE SHOES BEADS AND BANGLES SKINNY JEANS AND SULKY EXPRESSIONS WERE DE RIGUEUR AND
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)T WAS UNDENIABLY AN AMAZING NIGHT AND THE QUESTION IS HOW CAN S .-% TOUR EVER BEAT IT
MADE THOSE NOT lTTING THE ALT STEREO TYPE FEEL LIKE THEY WERE GATECRASHERS AT SOME SORT OF CULT PARTY !FTER MIN UTES OF JUDGING EVERYONE S CLOTHES THE CROWD LAUNCHED INTO CHEERS WHEN THE LIGHTS DIMMED TO HERALD THE ARRIVAL OF -YSTERY *ETS ! CHANT OF hZOO TIMEv LAUNCHED FROM THE SPEAKERS AND CAR RIED ON WHILE THE *ETS SHUFmED ONTO STAGE AND ASSUMED THEIR POSITIONS 3INGER "LAINE (ARRISON PERCHED IN FRONT OF A CRAZY DRUM KIT THAT RESEM BLED SOMETHING FROM 3TEPTOE S SCRAP YARD AND THE 4EUTONIC MOVEMENTS OF BASSIST +AI WERE STRANGELY ENTERTAIN ING 5NFORTUNATELY THE RAPTUROUS RECEPTION GIVEN WHEN THEY CAME ON STAGE DIDN T CARRY ON FOR THE REST OF THE SET APART FROM WHEN THEIR TWO BIGGEST SONGS TO DATE 4HE "OY 7HO 2AN !WAY AND !LAS !GNES WERE AIRED AND IT REDUCED THE IMPACT OF THEIR AMAZING MUSIC TO FEELING LIKE A TWO BIT SUP PORT BAND .EW SONG $IAMON IN THE
$ARK GLEAMED LIKE ERM A DIAMOND IN THE DARK BUT STILL DIDN T DRILL UP MUCH ENTHUSIASM (OWEVER THE CROWD S RE ACTION FOR 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS COULDN T HAVE BEEN MORE DIFFERENT IF THEY D BEEN PAID n ENTHUSIASTIC SURGING FOR WARDS AND POGO JUMPING BEGAN FROM THE lRST RIFF OF THEIR SET AND CARRIED ON RELENTLESSLY UNTIL THE LAST BIT OF FEED BACK DIED DOWN FROM THE AMPS 4HE 3CIENTISTS THEMSELVES LOOKED A BIT BAF mED BUT DELIGHTED AT THE CLEAR ENTHU SIASM THE CROWD SHOWED AS SHOWN BY SINGER +EITH -URRAY S CONSTANT GRIN NING %VEN IF 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS ONLY BECOME REMEMBERED FOR HAVING A BASSIST WITH THE BEST MOUSTACHE THIS SIDE OF S PORN THEY PUT ON A GREAT SHOW AND DESERVE TO GO FAR 4HIRD ON THE BILL DESPITE FAR ECLIPSING ALL THE OTHER BANDS IN TERMS OF BOTH POPULARITY AND SALES ARE YOUNG 3HEFlELD OIKS !RCTIC -ONKEYS ! FEW WEEKS AGO THEIR DEBUT ALBUM
FAMOUSLY SOLD OVER COPIES IN JUST ONE WEEK PROPELLING THEM TO HAVING BOTH NUMBER ONE ALBUM AND SINGLE IN THAT WEEK 0REVIOUS SINGLE ) "ET 9OU ,OOK 'OOD /N 4HE $ANCE mOOR WAS ALSO A NUMBER ONE SMASH 4HEY VE COME FROM RELATIVE OBSCURITY A YEAR AGO TO HAVING A SLEW OF .-% FRONT COVERS ALL THESE RECORDS BEING SOLD AND A SOLD OUT SOLO TOUR NOT TO MENTION THIS PRESTIGIOUS THIRD SLOT )F THE PRESSURE OF ALL THIS WAS WEIGHING ON THEIR SHOULDERS IT DIDN T SHOW AS THE BAND VIRTUALLY SWAGGERED ONSTAGE TO DEAFENING CHEERS ,AUNCHING STRAIGHT INTO ALBUM OPENER 4HE 6IEW FROM THE !FTERNOON AND THEN $ANCEmOOR THE -ONKEYS PLAYED UNREMITTINGLY FOR MINUTES BEFORE ENDING WITH THEIR LAST SINGLE &AKE 4ALES OF 3AN &RANCISCO WHICH MADE AN EXCELLENT CLOSER AND GOT VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE ,#2 JUMPING AND SINGING ALONG "ASSIST !NDY .I CHOLSON SUBJECTED THE CROWD TO AN UNRELENTING ANGRY LOOK THROUGHOUT AS THOUGH HAVING TO PLAY THE SONGS TIME AND TIME AGAIN WAS ALREADY GETTING TEDIOUS WHILE *AMIE #OOK GUITARIST LOOKED NONPLUSSED AT THE MASSIVE REACTION EACH SONG GOT !LEX 4URNER HAS POTENTIAL TO BE A FANTASTIC FRONTMAN WITH HIS BOUNDLESS ENERGY AND CONSTANT CROWD INTERACTION 4HE AUDIENCE WERE CLEARLY ENRAPTURED BY THE BAND GOING WILD FOR EVERY SINGLE SONG DESPITE THEM NOT PLAYING THEIR COVER OF 'IRLS !LOUD S ,OVE -ACHINE AND EVEN 4URNER COUGHING TO CLEAR HIS THROAT RAISED A CHEER -AXIMO 0ARK HAD A HUGE ACT TO FOLLOW n HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY OUTDO THE -ONKEYS 3OMEHOW THEY MANAGED TO UP STAGE THEM COMPLETELY AND LEFT THE CROWD ASKING EACH OTHER h!RCTIC WHO v 'IVING EVERY SONG BAR ONE FROM THE BRILLIANT ! #ERTAIN 4RIGGER ALBUM AN AIRING -AXIMO 0ARK PUT ON A TIGHT SET THAT STAYED FAITHFUL TO THE RECORDINGS OF THE SONGS YET MADE THEM SOUND THAT LITTLE BIT RAWER 0AUL 3MITH S FAMOUS ACROBATICS SUCH AS LEAPING FROM A STACK OF AMPLIlERS AND JUMPING SCARILY HIGH INTO THE AIR WERE PRESENT AND EVEN SEEMED TO HAVE RUBBED OFF ON ,UKAS 7OOLLER WHO WAS DANCING ALONG IN A MANNER NOT UNLIKE )AN #URTIS /THER ONSTAGE AN TICS FROM 3MITH INCLUDED READING THE LYRICS TO /NCE ! 'LIMPSE FROM A RED LEATHER BOUND BOOK AND AN EMBAR RASSING YET FUNNY 3TEVE 4YLER IMPRES
SION THAT WAS REMINISCENT OF SOME ONE S DRUNK DAD TRYING TO BE COOL AT KARAOKE .OTABLY THEY WERE THE ONLY BAND OF THE ENTIRE NIGHT TO PLAY A PRE VIOUSLY UNHEARD SONG WHICH SEEMED A BIT SELF INDULGENT n THE AUDIENCE SEEMED TO THINK SO TOO AS THEY STAYED MORE STILL THAN IF THEY WERE AT A #ORNERSHOP GIG $ESPITE THIS MINOR NIGGLE THE REST OF THE SET WAS INCRED IBLE WITH MORE TUNES THAN YOU COULD SHAKE A RHYTHM STICK AT AND THE NEW SONG ADMITTEDLY DID SOUND FANTASTIC 4HE BAND SEEMED GENUINELY PLEASED TO BE IN .ORWICH UNLIKE THE -ON KEYS AND 3MITH THANKED THE CROWD PROFUSELY THROUGHOUT -AXIMO 0ARK DESERVED TO BE THE HEADLINERS BY A LONG CHALK THEY PUT ON A MUCH BETTER SET THAN !RCTIC -ONKEYS AND ACTUALLY SEEMED LIKE THEY CARED ABOUT BEING THERE !S PREDICTED THE QUESTION ON EVERYBODY S LIPS AS THEY LEFT WAS hHOW WILL THEY BEAT THIS NEXT YEAR v AND AF TER ONE OF THE BEST GIGS THE ,#2 HAS EVER SEEN THE .-% IS GOING TO HAVE A TOUGH TASK TO EVEN MATCH THIS UN FORGETTABLE NIGHT 4HOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN T GO n WISHING YOU DID NOW
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3INGER "LAINE (ARRISON SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO PLAY THE BEST SET POS SIBLE TO THEM hWE RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO STEAL THE SHOW BUT ALL THE BANDS WILL BE TRYING THE SAME THINGv 7HEN ASKED ABOUT LIFE ON THE .-% TOUR "LAINE SAID THAT IT S BEEN GREAT h4HERE S NOTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT IT 3OME VENUES WERE SUCH A PRIVILEGE TO PLAY LIKE THE OLD THEATRES LIKE $UBLIN !MBASSADORS AND .EWCASTLE !CADE MY 4OURING IN ITSELF IS AMAZING n IT S LIKE TRAVELLING AROUND OUT OF A BACK PACK BUT GETTING TO PLAY GIGS EVERY NIGHT )T S BACKPACKING WITH A FUNC TION 4HE OTHER BANDS ARE BRILLIANT AND A LOT OF FUN 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS ARE THE MOST INTELLIGENT ROCK BAND YOU LL EVER MEET REALLY WITTY AND UN ROCK AND ROLLx WELL ) GUESS THEY RE ROCK AND ROLL AS THEY RE SO NOT ROCK AND ROLL v (IS PRAISE FOR HIS FELLOW BANDS EXTENDED TO !RCTIC -ONKEYS TOO h)T S NOT REALLY DAWNED ON THEM YET HOW HUGE THEIR EMPIRE IS 4HE LOOK ON THEIR FACES WHEN THEY PLAY $ANCEmOOR EACH NIGHT IS PRICELESS YOU CAN TELL THEY RE HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES %ACH NIGHT SEEMS TO GET THEM A MUCH BIGGER REACTION AND EVERY SINGLE PER SON EVERYWHERE SEEMS TO KNOW EVERY WORD TO THEIR SONGSv 7HEN ASKED IF THERE ARE ANY WACKY ANECDOTES FROM THE TOUR "LAINE PAUSED FOR THOUGHT AND TOLD US A STORY ABOUT 0AUL 3MITH AND SOME TIGHTS IN 'LASGOW h4HEY WERE THROWN AT HIM ON STAGE AND HE DECIDED TO WRAP THEM ROUND HIS HEAD AND DANCE WITH THEM n WHEN HE WENT BACKSTAGE HE HAD A HORRI BLE ERM SMELL ALL OVER HIMv 3TORIES
DON T GET MUCH lSHIER THAN THATx 7E MANAGED TO INTERVIEW 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS TOO SHORTLY AFTER THEIR SOUND CHECK AT WHICH 0AUL 3MITH WAS DRIBBLING A FOOTBALL AROUND THE THEN EMPTY ,#2 WHICH IS PICTURED ABOVE -YSTERY *ETS WERE COMPLETELY EASYGOING AND ANSWERED EACH QUES TION TRUTHFULLY AND SERIOUSLY n 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS COULDN T HAVE BEEN A MORE DIFFERENT BAND IN THEIR INTER VIEW STYLE IF THEY D TRIED 0RETTY MUCH NONE OF THE ANSWERS WERE SERIOUS AT ALL THEY CLAIMED THAT hTHE 3EA 'ODv HAD INSPIRED ALL THEIR VIDEOS AND THAT ALL READERS OF THIS INTERVIEW SHOULD GIVE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL THANKS TO HIM WHEN THEY RE NEXT AT THE COAST AND WAS INCREDIBLY ENTERTAINING AND FUNNY FOR BEING AS SUCH 4HEIR MUSIC IS IN THEIR OWN WORDS hLIKE 7HITNEY (OUSTON ON A -EXICAN BENDERv AND THEY GOT TOGETHER TO MAKE MUSIC AFTER WATCHING "AND /F "ROTHERS h4HE IDEA OF A BAND OF BROTHERS GETTING SHOT UP IN 7ORLD 7AR )) REALLY APPEALED TO US MUSICALLY n THE REALITY IS THAT IT S TERRI BLE OF COURSE BUT IT S SUCH A DELICIOUS MUSICAL CONCEIT THAT WE WANTED TO GIVE IT A GOv COMMENTED SINGER +EITH -URRAY 4HE BAND WERE THEN ASKED WHAT THE TOUR HAS BEEN LIKE FOR THEM -OUSTACHIOED BASSIST #HRIS #AIN MUSED hTO SAY IT S BEEN GOOD IS ONE ADJECTIVE BUT ) M TRYING TO THINK OF A SIMILE TO GIVE READERS THE BEST IDEA OF WHAT IT S BEEN LIKE TO EXPERIENCE THE TOURx )T S LIKE A SNAKE SLIDING INTO A 6ASELINE LINED HOSE FOR WINTER WARMTH )T S A GOOD SOLID lT n MAYBE THEY WEREN T MADE FOR EACH OTHER
h)T S LIKE A SNAKE SLID ING INTO A 6ASELINE LINED HOSE FOR WINTER WARMTHv
BUT GOD DAMN IF THINGS DIDN T COME TOGETHER REALLY WELL FOR THEM v 4HE DE BATE STILL RAGES OVER WHICH BAND IS THE SNAKE AND WHICH BAND IS THE GREASED UP HOSE THAT ACCOMMODATES THEM 7HEN ASKED IF THEY HAD ANY AMUSING TALES AKIN TO "LAINE S 0AUL 3MITH STORY THEY TOLD US ALL ABOUT THEIR TOUR MAN AGER S SEDUCTION TECHNIQUE h(E MADE LOVE TO A GOAT THE OTHER DAY v -UR RAY CONFESSED CONSPIRATORIALLY h(E MET HER A BUS STOP THAT THE BUS DROVE PAST AND SEDUCED HER ONBOARD WITH A PIECE OF BAGUETTE FROM THE KITCHEN (E LURED HER INTO THE $6$ ROOM AND WOOED HER WITH ALL THE RIGHT MOVES )T WAS A GOOD AFTERNOON FOR THE BOTH OF THEM ON ALL ACCOUNTS )F ANYONE WANTS TO HEAR TALES OF HOT GOAT SEX OR SEE THE VIDEO THEN CONTACT !DAM &ISHER THE 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS TOUR MANAGERv 3O FOR ANY BUDDING ZOOPHILES OUT THERE YOU KNOW THE MAN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH 4HE REST OF THE INTERVIEW COVERED THEM TELLING OUTRAGEOUS BUT HILARIOUS lBS ABOUT !RCTIC -ONKEYS AND -YSTERY *ETS AND WAS CONCLUDED WITH THEM TELLING US THEIR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE h7E LL GROW OLD AND DIE GRACEFULLY AND MAYBE PUT OUT SOME MORE CLASSIC ALBUMS TOO #OME FOR TUNE OR FAMINE EVERYONE S GONNA DIE ONE DAYv 4HE .-% TOUR n AN AMAZING LIVE EXPERIENCE FOUR UNIQUE BANDS AND A SLOGAN THAT ONE BAND GOES BY TO BRING YOU BACK TO EARTH WITH A BUMP AFTER YOUR MIND S BLOWN BY THEIR MUSIC 7HAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FOR THE PRICE OF ONE TICKET 0(/4/3 "9 +/.34!.$)./3 $)-/0/,/53
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COULD BE CITED AS THE YEAR ONE BAND SINGLE HANDILY CHANGED THE FACE OF MUSIC #ULTURAL IMPORTANCE AND IDEN TITY CAN RARELY BE ACHIEVED IN THE SPACE OF ONE RECORD BUT WITH THE ECLECTIC .EVERMIND +URT #OBAIN CEMENTED HIS PLACE IN MUSICAL HISTORY 4HE IRONY OF IT ALL WAS THAT VERY FEW COULD ADEQUATELY PREDICT THE IMPACT OF THIS RECORD COM ING 4HEIR DEBUT THE SOMEWHAT mAWED "LEACH SIGNIlED TAL ENT IN THREE MINUTE "EATLESESQUE NUMBERS SUCH AS !BOUT A 'IRL BUT IN ALL ESSENCE ALONG WITH BANDS SUCH AS -UD (ONEY AND 4HE -ELVINS .IRVANA WERE JUST ANOTHER PUNK COLLECTIVE DOING THE ROUNDS OF THE 3EATTLE 5NDERGROUND 7HEN 3MELLS ,IKE 4EEN 3PIRIT ERUPTED ON -46 THE FACE OF POPULAR CULTURE TOOK A MASSIVE HIT 'RUNGE TOUCHED MAINSTREAM LIKE NOTHING BEFORE IT WITH TEENS ALL OVER THE WORLD RELATING TO #OBAIN S ANGST RIDDEN ANTHEMS 4HE mAW LESS OPENING HALF OF THE ,0 RANKS AS ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN HISTORY 3MELLS ,IKE 4EEN 3PIRIT )N "LOOM AND #OME !S 9OU !RE UNHESITATINGLY CUT INTO THE HEART OF THE LIS TENER WITH UNCOMPROMISING NIHILISM ,IKE MANY OF THEIR PREDECESSORS THE THREE PIECE FOUND IT HARD TO SHRUG OFF THE UNWANTED HYPE h/H WELL WHAT EVER NEVERMINDv 4HE UNFORTUNATE DOWNFALL OF THE TORTURED GENIUS DID LITTLE TO SEDATE THE INmU ENCE OF SUCH AN ICONIC MASTERPIECE 'REG 3ULLIVAN
*AKE 7HERRY AND /LLIE 4EEBA HAVE BEEN MAKING ALBUMS FOR OVER HALF A DECADE 4HE .INJA 4UNE ART ISTS ARE THEREFORE NATURALLY ESTAB LISHED IN THE WORLD OF INDEPEND ANT JAZZ HIP HOP 4HIS RECORD HOWEVER IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT A RARE RELEASE BY ,ONDON S FAMOUS NIGHT CLUB &ABRIC )T IS A TRACK PARTY MIX TAPE COMPILATION PERSONALLY COMPLIED BY 7HERRY AND 4EEBA AND INTENDED TO RE CREATE THE &AB RIC DANCEmOOR AT HOME #OMPILA TIONS ARE ALWAYS AN EXCEPTIONAL CHANCE TO SAMPLE SOMETHING NEW AND WITH THE TWIST OF THE ,ONDON DUO THERE ARE TWO REASONS TO SIT UP AND PAY ATTENTION 7HILE IT BOASTS FEW 5+ HOME GROWN TRACKS &ABRIC ,IVE CON TAINS INFECTIOUS TURNTABLE GYMNAS TICS BUMPING RHYTHMS LAIDBACK GROOVES AND TRADITIONAL FUNK JAZZ BREAKS FROM THE 3OUTH %AST ,ON DON BASED 4RIP (OP VETERANS -ILLION $AN AND "LUFOOT &T 9UN GUN BRING OUT DANCEmOOR SHAK ING BEATS WHILE * 3ANDS /F 4HE ,ONE #ATALYSTS SEX FUNK IT UP ON TRACK TWO WITH @3OUTHERN ,ADY 4HE TRACK IS A SLICK SEXY BLEND OF LAZY GROOVES AND TRUMPETS WITH A DUBBED OVER JAZZ SINGER CROONING hSOUTHERN LADIESv WHILE THE -#S BREAK IT DOWN 0REDICTABLY AND
AS FURTHER TESTAMENT TO (ERBALIS ER S ROOTS IN &UNK THE GODFATHER HIMSELF -R *AMES "ROWN ENJOYS A TRACK ALL TO HIMSELF 4HE VETERAN FUNK SOUL KING SOUNDS DANGER OUSLY LIKE A " "OY OPENING WITH h(OW YA LIKE ME NOW HUH v )F YOU RE LOOKING FOR BADASS RHYMES ABOUT SHOOTING BLUDS AND KID NAPPING WOMEN FROM THE 5KRAINE THEN PLEASE JUST KILL YOURSELF NOW AS YOU OBVIOUSLY HATE WHO YOU ARE (ERBALISER TAKE THE MELO
DRAMATIC WORLD OF HIP HOP AND ADD THEIR FUNKY PERKY SPIN TO IT #OME ON WE RE ALL STUDENTS HERE NOT YARDIES 7HOOPS ) SAID IT (OW S ABOUT NOT TAKING (IP (OP TOO SERIOUSLY AND IF THAT S YOUR AT TITUDE THEN YOU MAY WELL JUST TAKE TO THE RARE GROOVE VINYL SPLICED SAMPLING TOMFOOLERY OF THIS "RIT ISH PRODUCED RECORD WITH SHEER ENJOYMENT INSTEAD OF FEAR 'EORGE 7YNDHAM
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RESPECTFUL THING ABOUT THIS DEBUT IS THE DUOS ABILITY TO CREATE SUCH A FULL SOUND WITH CARE AT EVERY LEVEL 0REVOKING EMOTIONAL AND DIVERSE )DIOT 0ILOT HAVE SET THE FOUNDATIONS FOR A REMARKABLY INTERESTING CAREER (AVING BARELY TOUCHED "RITISH SOIL THEIR FUTURE HERE IS AS UNPREDICTABLE AS THEIR STYLE #HLOE 2AMSEY
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HAS CYNICALLY CASHED INx ERM ) MEAN REPACKAGED AND RE RELEASED 3NAP S COMPILATION ISSUED FOLLOWING THE BAND S BREAK UP THE PRECEDING YEAR 7HILE THE ORIGINAL HAD SONGS THIS VERSION ADDS A FEW B SIDES DEMOS AND SINGLE ED ITS AS WELL AS A BONUS TRACK %0 RECORDED AT 7EMBLEY 3TADIUM 7ITH A MAMMOTH TOTAL OF SONGS IT S DEBATEABLE WHETHER ANY ONE NEEDS THIS MUCH *AM OOZING OUT OF THEIR STEREO BUT THEY TRULY DElNED S "RITISH MUSIC AND HAVE INmUENCED MANY "RITISH BANDS
SINCE SUCH AS 4HE 3MITHS AND "LUR 3ONGS LIKE @'OING 5NDERGROUND @4OWN #ALLED -ALICE AND @"ILLY (UNT ARE FANTASTIC SONGS THAT ALONE ARE WORTH THE PRICE 4HE SEQUENC ING OF TRACKS INTO RELEASE ORDER PRO VIDES A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO A CONSTANTLY CHANGING POPULAR BEAT COMBO 4HE ANTHOLOGY PROVIDES A GREAT CROSS SECTION OF THE BAND S MUSIC SO IF YOU RE CURIOUS AS TO WHERE $AMON !LBARN OR -ORRISSEY GOT THEIR INSPIRATION FROM OR WANT A *AM TASTER SESSION THEN THIS IS IDEAL #HRISTOPH (YDE
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N TERMS OF INmUENCE ON THE MUSICAL SCENE IN GENERAL WOMEN HARDLY HOLD THE GREATEST PORTION OF POWER 4RUE THERE ARE MANY ICONIC FEMALE ART ISTS BUT THEY RARELY GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE )T IS NOT HARD TO GET THE IMPRESSION THAT MEN BASICALLY RUN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IT S NOT ALL THAT OFTEN THAT A FEISTY NEW FEMALE IS LET INTO THE RING 3USIE 1UATRO IS AN IMMENSELY INSPIRATIONAL LADY 0ERFORMING COMPLETELY DECKED OUT IN HEAD TO TOE LEATHER AND BRANDISHING A BASS GUITAR THAT COMPLETELY SWAMPED HER TINY FRAME 1UATRO BECAME ONE OF THE lRST FEMALE ROCKERS TO HOOK A STRING OF NUMBER ONE HITS TO HER BELT THROUGHOUT THE S AND EARLY S 4HEY DON T MAKE WOMEN LIKE HER ANYMORE *UST LIKE 0ATTI 3MITH AND #AT 0OWER 0ATTI DELIVERED A FEMINIST AND INTELLECTUAL TAKE ON PUNK MUSIC IN THE S AND ALSO BE CAME ONE OF 2OCK AND 2OLL S MOST INmUENTIAL MUSICIANS #AT 0OWER OVERCOMING EARLY STAGE FRIGHT WHICH LEFT HER HIDING CURLED UP ON STAGE STILL CONTINUES TO ENCHANT LISTENERS WITH HER MINIMALIST SPARSE GUITAR AND PIANO CREATIONS 7HEN YOU THINK OF SUCCESSFUL FE MALE MUSICIANS NAMES LIKE -ADON NA NATURALLY COME TO MIND "UT CAN YOU REALLY SAY THAT -ADONNA HAS DONE ANYTHING THAT INSPIRATIONAL 4RAMPLING OVER DISCO AND BRAND ING IT HER OWN 3URE SHE S BEEN POPULAR A LONG LONG TIME AND CON STANTLY CAUSING CONTROVERSY OVER HER PORTRAYAL OF RISQUÏ ACTIVITIES IN HER VIDEOS BUT ISN T SHE JUST DOING IT FOR PUBLICITY )T SEEMS QUITE EVIDENT THAT -ADONNA IS A PUBLICITY lGURE lRST AND A MUSICIAN SECOND NO DIS RESPECT INTENDED BUT AS WITH MANY ARTISTS OF HER GENRE SHE IS JUST A FRONT FOR SONG WRITERS AND PRODUCERS #HARLOTTE #HURCH THE FOXY YET lT FOR A lGHT 7ELSH BEAUTY IS A FAVOUR ITE IN THE BELOVED FEMALE IDOL STAKES 7ITH HER HAPPILY FRANK ADMISSIONS OF ALWAYS REALLY BEING @A FAT GIRL AND HER SPORTY BOYFRIEND S CLAIM THAT HIS FAVOURITE PART OF HER BODY IS @HER TITS IT S A WELCOME REMINDER THAT LADIES ARE MEANT TO HAVE A WOMANLY lGURE $ESPITE ALL THIS WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT WOMEN IN THE CONTEM PORARY SCENE ARE PREDOMINANTLY US ING SEX TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES )T S A NATURAL WAY FOR POP CULTURE TO GO
BUT IT DRAWS ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE MUSIC ITSELF #HARLOTTE #HURCH THE INNOCENT OPERA SINGER CHANGED HER IMAGE SO SHE COULD BE SOLD @#ALL MY NAME IS A SONG ABOUT SEX PACKAGE IT HOW YOU WILL 3O SURE THE VIDEO IS SET TO PRESENT A CERTAIN DEGREE OF SMUT BUT SHOULDN T THE MUSIC ALONE BE GOOD ENOUGH TO STAND ON ITS OWN TWO LEGS RATHER THAN BURYING ITS HEAD IN A BARRAGE OF BAWDYNESS 7OMEN UNLIKE MEN ARE FRE QUENTLY JUDGED BY THEIR CLOTHES THEIR BODY AND MOST SIGNIlCANTLY THEIR FACE .OT BY THEIR SINGING VOICE THEIR INSTRUMENTAL SKILL OR THEIR WRITING EXPERTISE )T S NO WON DER THAT THE MUSIC SCENE IS MADE UP OF A BIG GANG OF BRUTISH BOYS *ENNY ,EWIS LEAD SINGER OF KOOKY COUNTRY TROOP 2ILO +ILEY WAS RECENTLY APPLAUDED FOR HER ADMIRA BLE SOLO CAREER BEING REGULARLY CON GRATULATED ON HER ECLECTIC RETRO STYLE AND HER INCREDIBLY LONG EYE LASHES (OW DOES THIS AFFECT HER MUSIC 7HY ARE LOOKS SO IMPORTANT IN THIS INDUSTRY 4HE 2AKES ARE A FAR FROM ATTRACTIVE BAND BUT THEY ARE NEVER CRITICISED BECAUSE IT S ABOUT THE NOISE THEY MAKE MUSICALLY NOT THE FACE THEY OWN !RTISTS LIKE 0* (ARVEY 4ORI !MOS AND "JORK ARE NEVER REALLY HERALDED AS STYLE ICONS BUT THEIR MUSIC AL THOUGH NOT EXACTLY MAINSTREAM IS INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL 4HEIR DARK AND ECCENTRIC CREATIONS ARE ELEGANT MASTERPIECES UNAFFECTED BY FACE lGURE AND FASHION 3OMEHOW THEY HAVE MANAGED TO AVOID THE ARRO GANT AND CHAUVINISTIC MEDIA THAT APPEARS TO FOLLOW WOMEN AROUND TODAY "UT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THE WIRE CAN GIRLS ONLY BE SUCCESS FUL IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND RALLY AGAINST COCK ROCK WITH SEX APPEAL AND FEMININE WILES )T S INCREASINGLY NOTICEABLE THAT THE NEW mOCK OF INDIE SHEEP ARE FRONTED BY SEXY SKINNY SIRENS 3EEMINGLY ALWAYS BRUNETTES WITH QUIRKY SINGING VOICES SET OFF BY A GENEROUS SPRINKLING OF OUTRAGEOUS DRESS SENSE !LTHOUGH THEY RE POUT ING FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT THEY ALL COME OUT THE SAME "UT LUCKILY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAS lNALLY HAD A REALITY INJECTION AND OVERDOSED ON GRITTY SMART FE MALES LEADING THE WAY TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR LADIES 4HESE GIRLS HAVE GOT BRAINS WIT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THEIR OWN PERSONALITY UNAFFECTED BY MEDIA MORONS
4HE ,ONG "LONDES HAVE BEEN SHOOTING AROUND THE CIRCUIT FOR A WHILE NOW INCREASINGLY PICKING UP SPEED AND THEY RE lNALLY GETTING THEIR DUE RECOGNITION 4HE BAND DOESN T SHY AWAY FROM A ONE GIRL VS MASS MALE COLLECTIVE 4HERE ARE THREE ROARING GIRLS IN THIS GANG ,EAD SINGER +ATE THANKFULLY BITES OFF LA BELS LIKE .-% S @COOLEST HAIRCUT IN POP IN FAVOUR OF A MORE RESPECTA BLE MUSIC MAKING ABILITY (ER PEN CHANT FOR BERETS AND NECK SCARVES FAIL TO STRANGLE HER GLORIOUS RESO LUTELY %NGLISH VOICE 3HE SEEPS LAZY BREATHY LAID BACK SPARKLING APPEAL 4HINK 3LEEPER OR %LASTICA BOUNCING ON THE MUSICAL TRAMPOLINE WITH !"# 0ULP 4HE (UMAN ,EAGUE AND 3TOCK !TKEIN AND 7ATERMAN %VERY SONG HAS SLICK FRESH APPEAL ALL COMPLETELY DIFFERENT +ATE IS LA DYLIKE BUT WITH A GORGEOUSLY SIM MERING AND SENSUAL YET COMMON TONE 3HE EVEN HAS A SEPARATE JOB ON THE SIDE TRUE TO FEMALE TALENTS SHE MULTITASKS $ElNITELY PULLING HER WEIGHT IN THE WOMEN S CORNER OF THE RING 4HESE WOMEN AREN T JUST A FRONT AND THEY HAVEN T GONE AS FAR AS +ITTIE STYLE MASCULINITY THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THEY HAVE EARNED RESPECT THROUGH THEIR ABILITY BEFORE mAUNTING THEMSELVES 4HEN THERE ARE ,IVERPOOL LOVES THE ,ITTLE &LAMES 3EEMINGLY GUN NING FOR ALL THINGS BAD THAT COULD POSSIBLY ENCOMPASS SUCH A CATEGO RY LEAD SINGER %VA 0ETERSON FRONTS A BATCH OF PALE FACED PARTY POOPED LADS WHILST BEING NOTHING SHORT OF
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ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS 4OGETHER THE &LAMES HAVE CREATED THE "LONDIE BLUEPRINT BEAUTY AT THE FOREFRONT AND BASIC BOYS JAMMING IN THE BACK "UT THANKFULLY THEIR SOUND IS DELICIOUS INCREDIBLY INDIE AND DRIPPING WITH GRUNGY SPIRIT AND VI TALITY 0ETERSON HAS THIS DELECTABLE BREATHLESSLY SOFT VOICE HACKING OFF A NICE WEDGE OF CHOIR GIRL INNO CENCE TO ADD TO THE MIX 9OU COULD ARGUE THAT %VA BREATHES ESSENTIAL LIFE INTO THESE DULL AND DESPERATE BOYS TRYING TO MAKE IT IN THE MU SIC BIZ SHE ADDS AN ESSENTIAL FRONT THAT THEY NEVER COULD "UT HER ROLE IN THE BAND IS APPLAUDED IN MORE SUBSTANTIAL WAYS 3HE HAS TALENT SHE SETS OFF THEIR SONGS WITH A WISE TONGUE AND AN ELEGANT ACCENT WITH VAST CREDIBILITY AND SHE EARNS HER PLACE )T S LIKELY THAT MORE GIRL GROUPS WILL ARRIVE PROBABLY NEVER PACKAG ING GIRL POWER AS SUCCESSFULLY AS THE 3PICE 'IRLS BUT GIVING IT A GO ANY WAY )T S HIGHLY UNLIKELY WE LL SEE SUCH INSPIRATIONAL MODELS AS 1UA TRO 3MITH AND 0ATTI AGAIN "UT WE CAN HOPE 4HIS NEW BREED OF LADY DRIVEN MUSICAL MACHINES IS LAING THE WAY FOR A FUTURE OF GIRLS SINGING AND PICKING UP INSTRUMENTS WANT ING TO HAVE THEIR OWN SAY REGARDLESS OF APPEARANCE -EN AND WOMEN ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EQUAL IN THIS DAY AND AGE SO LET S HAVE MORE FEISTY FE MALES STEP FORWARD AND BALANCE OUT THE MALE OVERPOPULATION IN MUSIC ,ET S HERE IT FOR THE GIRLS %LLEY 4AYLOR
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6ENUE UPGRADES DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND SEEM TO BE BECOMING EVER MORE FREQUENT THIS YEAR &OR SUP PORT ACT 4HE $UELS AND 4HE 7HITE 2OSE -OVEMENT THE SUCCESSES OF THEIR TOUR MATES HAVE GIVEN AN OP PORTUNITY TO PLAY AT A MAJOR 5+ SELL OUT VENUE ALONGSIDE ONE OF TEH MOST EXITING BANDS OF THE PRESENT )F YOU ARE DISMISSIVE ABOUT ALL THESE BANDS THAT HAVE BEEN ARTI lCIALLY PIECED TOGETHER BY THEIR RECORD LABEL THEN DON T WORRY 4HE 2AKES BOAST OF HAVING FOUND THEIR SOLIDARITY OUTSIDE A 7EATHERSPOONS ONE EVENING A FEW YEARS AGO THEY NOW ENJOY A RAPIDLY GROWING SUC CESS 4HEY HAVE A .EW 9ORK BASED PUNK SOUND REMINISCENT OF 4HE 2AMONES HOWEVER INmUENCES ARE ALSO VERY ,ONDON )N -ATTHEW 3WINNERTON S GUITAR YOU CAN HEAR 4HE #LASH S -ICK *ONES AND A TOUCH OF -IKE 3KINNER CAN BE FOUND IN !LAN $ONOHUE S VOCALS (IS LYRICS ARE SIMPLE BUT TRUE TELLING OF PUBS
CLUBS SLEEPING AND WAKING UP WITH YOUR HEAD IN AN ASHTRAYx HAV ING NECKED A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THREE LITTLE FELLAS THE NIGHT BEFORE )N SHORT THE 2AKES HAVE A REFRESH INGLY GRITTY STYLE 4ONIGHT THE @/VER &OURTEENS /NLY SIGN MEANS THAT THERE IS A SOMEWHAT VARIED CROWD IN THE ,#2 4HAT FAMILIAR LOOK AROUND REVEALING PRE PUBESCENT HOODED )NDIE URCHINS BEING SERVED DOUBLE VODKA S FROM A PACKED BAR ALONGSDE LARGE MEN IN THEIR FOR TIES QUEUING UP FOR PINTS OF 3TELLA WHO ARE FRANTICALLY SCANNING THE ROOM FOR NUBILE YOUNG ST YEAR STUDENTS TO INTERFERE WITH IN THE CAPACITY CROWD A SAVAGE GLINT IN THEIR EYES 4HE lRST TWO BANDS 4HE $UELS AND 4HE 7HITE 2OSE -OVE MENT ARE NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT "OTH GROUPS HOWEVER REVEL AT THE FRENZIED AUDIENCE BUT IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE CROWD IS ONLY HERE FOR ONE BAND 4HE 2AKES TAKE THE STAGE AROUND PM AMID FRAN
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3TATIC -OSHING &OR "EGINNERS 4HERE ARE NO BOOKS WRITTEN ON GIG ETIQUETTE WHICH MAY GO SOME WAY TO EXPLAINING HOW CERTAIN GIGS GET ABSOLUTELY CHAOTIC SO THIS WEEK YOUR FRIENDLY /FF 4HE 2ECORD COLUMN IS DEDICATED TO TEACHING EVERYBODY ABOUT HOW TO MAKE GIGS THAT LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR EVERYONE &IRSTLY AND MOST ANNOY INGLY WHAT IS THE POINT IN SIMPLY PUSHING PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VENUE )T S COMPLETELY IDIOTIC AND THE WAVE OF PEOPLE FALLING OVER MAKES EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE AND RUINS THE ENJOYMENT OF THE GIG )F YOU WANT TO PROVE YOUR MASCULINITY THEN GO TO A PUB AND STAND AT THE BAR DISCUSS ING FOOTBALL AND GIRLS OVER A PINT OF LAGER BUT PLEASE DON T TAKE OUT YOUR TESTOSTERONE IMPULSES ON A CROWD OF PEOPLE THAT REALLY DON T WANT TO BE PUSHED AROUND /VERSIZED HATS ARE IRRITATING n YOU LOOK LIKE A TOOL AND BLOCK THE VIEW OF EVERYONE STANDING BEHIND YOU 4HROWING EMPTY OR FULL BOTTLES AND PINT GLASSES GETS EVERYONE WET %XCESSIVE DANC ING RUINS THE GIG FOR PEOPLE AROUND YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO AVOID YOUR mAILING ARMS 3HUFmING AROUND THE VENUE TO GET A BETTER VIEW FOR YOURSELF WILL INEVITABLY LEAD TO YOU BLOCK ING SOMEONE ELSE S VIEW WHO DID NOTHING EXCEPT SIMPLY STAND BEHIND YOU n SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THE POOR SOD WHO GETS A PERFECT VIEW OF THEIR FAVOURITE BAND WHICH IS SUD DENLY RUINED BY A SWEATY BLOKE 3PEAKING OF SWEATY PER SONAL HYGIENE IS SOMETHING TO BEAR IN MIND IN AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT LIKE THE ,#2 NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO SMELL YOUR STINKY ARMPITS OR ENDURE YOUR BAD BREATH ! QUICK SHOWER AND TEETH BRUSHING BEFORE LEAVING THE HOUSE n IT S NOT MUCH AND WILL MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A BETTER AND CLEANER HUMAN BEING /F COURSE PEOPLE SHOULDN T STAND IN ROWS AND NOT MOVE A MUSCLE DURING GIGS BUT JUST THINK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OTHERS AND HOW YOUR ACTIONS CAN COMPLETELY RUIN A FANTAS TIC NIGHT FOR SOMEONE #HRIS (YDE
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TIC CHEERING AND LAUNCH INTO A HIGH ENERGY SET 4HEY RIP THROUGH TRACKS LIKE @2ETREAT AND @4ERROR -ATHEW 3WINNERTON S STICKY GUITAR LICKS COMPLEMENTED BY !LAN $ONOHUE S SKINNY FRAME SPASMODICALLY JERKING AROUND THE STAGE )AN #URTIS STYLE $ESPITE HIS SIMPLE NAVY CARDIGAN CLOBBER AND ODD CHAT IN BETWEEN SONGS THE MAN HAS DElNITE STAGE PRESENCE 'RAND *OB IS PERHAPS 4HE 2AKES BEST TRACK TONIGHT )T RE MINDS US THAT LIFE IN THE ST CENTU RY IS FULL OF UNCERTAINTY CAREER OP PORTUNITIES THAT NEVER KNOCK AND A 'RAND *OB IN THE CITY IS AS GOOD AS IS GETS FOR MOST OF US 4HEY lNISH WITH THE RIOTOUS 3TRASBOURG 4HE SONG SOUNDS A BIT LIKE A CROSS BE TWEEN 2AMONES "OZO 'OES 4O "IT BURG AND *OY $IVISION S 7ARSAW )T IS ABOUT ESCAPING THE EASTERN BLOC IN THE #OLD 7AR STUCK INSIDE A CAT TLE TRUCK "RILLIANT EVERYONE NEEDS AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THAT TOO 'EORGE 7YNDHAM
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(AILING FROM ,EEDS $UELS SO FAR HAVE PROMPTED LITTLE BUT COM PARISONS TO THE +AISER #HIEFS A FACT WHICH IS LITTLE BUT PUZZLING $UELS HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT ENERGY ABOUT THEM THEIR 0ULP ESQUE TEXTURES LACED WITH HAUNTING KEYBOARDS DROP SEAMLESSLY INTO SPARSE CRUNCH ING RIFFS 4HEIR QUIRKY MUSIC CAN CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION IN A WAY FEW BANDS CAN AND THEY HAVE A POLY PHONIC CREATIVITY WHICH IS ADMIRA BLY RElNED 4HE BAND PERFORMED WELL WHEN SUPPORTING 4HE 2AKES AT THE 5%! EARLIER THIS MONTH BUT DESPITE THE CATCHY IMPULSIVENESS OF THEIR MUSIC THE INTRICATE DETAILS OF THEIR RECORDINGS WERE LOST TO THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES !NIMAL THEIR THIRD SINGLE RELEASE AFTER 0OTENTIAL &UTURES AND 0RESSURE /N 9OU IS ONE OF THE MOST ADDIC TIVE TRACKS ABOUT AT THE MOMENT )T S TIMID CHILLING KEYBOARD LINE BREAKS INTO FRAGMENTED GUITAR LICKS OVER WHICH COUSINS *ON &OULGER AND +ATHERINE "OTTERILL EXCHANGE VOCALS
4HERE IS WONDERFUL CONTRAST BETWEEN THE PRIMATIVE CHORUS LYRICS AND AC COMPLISHED INSTRUMENTATION AND NEW IDEAS ARE CONSTANTLY APPEARING WITHIN THE STRUCTURE 4HIS TRACK IS SOMETHING COOL THE TYPE OF CREATIVE GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY FOUND IN THE MUSIC OF 3UEDE COMES THROUGH THIS IS MUSIC HAS REAL THOUGHT BEHIND IT $UELS ARE DElNITLY A BAND TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR 3IMON +INCH
OGY IS PRECEDED BY THE BAND S lRST SINGLE RELEASE IN THREE YEARS ENTITLED ,IVE 7ITH -E FEATURING THE VOCALS OF 4ERRY #ALLIER WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISTINCTIVE RETURN TO A MUCH MORE SOULFUL SOUND (OWEVER THE TRACK MANAGES TO RETAIN EVIDENCE OF THE SLICK PRODUCTION THAT CHARACTER ISED THE MOST RECENT ALBUMS WHICH WERE DOMINATED BY A DARKER SUBTLER FORM OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC ! DELICATE COMBINATION OF STRINGS PERCUSSION AND BROODING LYRICS CERTAINLY PUT IT AMONG THE BAND S MOST HAUNT ING WORK YET WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL COME TO DESERVE ITS PLACE ON THE @BEST OF COMPILATION IS UNCERTAIN +ELVIN +NIGHT
OUTRIGHT ROCK SONG THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE BAWLING OF A LOVECHILD OF 4HE 3TROKES AND %DITORS 3QUEALING GUI TARS THE MUDDY BASS AND FAST YET TIGHT DRUMMING ALL UNITE TO CREATE A SONG THAT S SO CATCHY IT HURTS )T WILL IMPRINT ITSELF IN YOUR BRAIN GOING ROUND AND ROUND UNTIL YOU FALL TO YOUR KNEES AND BEG FOR IT TO STOP /R AS SHOWN AT LAST WEEK S .-% TOUR POGO ALONG TO IT RELENTLESSLY AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT 7HILE NAYSAYERS CAN SNEER THAT IT S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS ARE A SHINING LIGHT IN THE SLEW OF *OY $I VISION .EW /RDER PASTICHE BANDS STEP FORWARD -ORRISSEY WANNABE 3AM %NDICOTT S 4HE "RAVERY AND WHILE IT S CERTAINLY NOT NEW IT S CER TAINLY DIFFERENT AND A RELIEF FROM EVERYBODY S CURRENT FAVOURITE BAND !RCTIC -ONKEYS )F THIS SORT OF THING S YOUR CUP OF TEA THEN GO OUT AND GET THE 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS ALBUM NOW $ON T ARGUE JUST DO IT AND MAKE THEIR MUSIC A HIT #HRIS (YDE
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&ROM THE RUMBLING BASS INTRO TO +EITH -URRAY S SPITTING OUT THE LYRICS AS IF THEY WERE POISONED IT S CLEAR THAT 7E !RE 3CIENTISTS ARE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT A lGHT ! THREE AND A HALF MINUTE GEM ABOUT RELA TIONSHIPS AS ALL THE BEST POP SONGS ARE THE .EW 9ORK TRIO BLAST OUT AN
$ESPITE RIPPING OFF )GGY 0OP S @4HE 0ASSENGER AND HAVING QUES TIONABLE LYRICS @(EART )N ! #AGE THE SECOND SINGLE FROM 4HE 3TROKES NEW ALBUM IS ACTUALLY KIND OF GOOD ) lND IT HARD TO COMPLIMENT A BAND WHOSE SUCCESS RESTS SO HEAVILY ON
FASHION AND LOOKS n THE DIRTY SLUTTY IMAGE THEY VE CULTIVATED SO FAR WILL BE HARD TO NURTURE IN FRONT OF VARI OUS NEW WIVES AND LONG TERM GIRL FRIENDS n ALTHOUGH 4HE 3TROKES DO SEEM TO AT LEAST BE TRYING TO BECOME A @PROPER BAND 4HE GUITAR WORK ON @(EART )N A #AGE IS EXCELLENT AS IS THE RHYTHM SECTION 5NFORTUNATELY FOR 4HE 3TROKES THE MUSICIANSHIP DOES HAVE TO BE GOOD HERE TO DIVERT ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE LYRICS ,UCKILY SINGER AND SONGWRITER *ULIAN #ASABLANCA SEEMS TO REALIZE THIS TOO AND TRIES HIS HARDEST TO SLUR THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE ! BIT OF DETECTIVE WORK REVEALS THE LINES h3O DON T TEACH ME A LESSON #AUSE ) VE ALREADY LEARNED 9EAH THE SUN WILL BE SHINING !ND MY CHILDREN WILL BURN v %XPECTING A SONG ABOUT AP PLYING PLENTY OF SUN CREAM @(EART )N ! #AGE IS ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT AN EX GIRLFRIEND (OWEVER WITH A FEW SMALL ADJUSTMENTS 4HE 3TROKES COULD HAVE AN EDUCATIONAL SUMMER HIT ON THEIR HANDS 3IMON 7EST
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Event 17 The
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The  New  World $IR 4ERRENCE -ALICK 2ELEASE $ATE
4ERRENCE -ALICK S FOURTH FEATURE ENDS A SHORTER HIATUS THAN 4HE 4HIN 2ED ,INE DID IN YEARS AT THE TIME SINCE HIS PREVIOUS lLM $AYS OF (EAVEN BUT IT S HARDLY LESS THAN LONG AWAITED AND 4HE .EW 7ORLD IS A lTTINGLY MEDITATIVE RETURN TO THE FOLD $ETAILING THE ARRIVAL OF %NGLISH SETTLERS AT WHAT WOULD BECOME *AMESTOWN 6IRGINIA THE lLM
GRAPPLES WITH THE ENDURING MYTH OF 0OCAHONTAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE SETTLEMENT S .ATIVE !MERICAN CHIEF AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WESTERN NEWCOMERS PARTICULARLY #APTAIN *OHN 3MITH 4HE PRECISE NATURE OF 3MITH AND 0OCAHONTAS S RELATIONSHIP IS HERE LEFT AMBIGUOUS n THERE ARE NO SEX SCENES n AS IT IS IN MANY HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS INCLUDING 3MITH S JOURNALS
,IKE 4HE 4HIN 2ED ,INE 4HE .EW 7ORLD UNABASHEDLY PRIVILEGES BEAUTY OVER HISTORY AND THOUGH -ALICK NEVER STOOPS TO STEREOTYPING OR DIALOGUE @EXPLANATIONS TO SHED LIGHT ON THE TENSE CROSS CULTURAL RELATIONS MANY OF THE NITTY GRITTY ISSUES OF RACE AND COLONIALISM THAT MUST HAVE PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE ENCOUNTER ARE SIMPLY LEFT OUT 4HE TURN FROM HAPPY AND INQUISITIVE
COEXISTENCE BETWEEN .ATIVES AND SETTLERS TO SOUR HOSTILITY IS ACHIEVED IN JUST A FEW SHORT SEQUENCES CULMINATING IN A .ATIVE PICKING UP AN AXE IN THE %NGLISH CAMP AND BEING SWIFTLY SHOT DOWN 7HEN 0OCAHONTAS LATER ARRIVES IN %NGLAND UNDER 2OYAL INVITATION HER STRANGE STATUS AS PACIlST /THER IS BARELY MENTIONED )F YOU CAN SUBMIT TO THE lLM S TALE OF INTENSE OCCASIONALLY MYSTICISED ROMANCE THOUGH THERE IS PLENTY TO REVEL IN 4HE .EW 7ORLD IS RAPTUROUSLY BEAUTIFUL EVEN FOR A -ALICK lLM ! mOTILLA OF %NGLISH SHIPS GLIDING SILENTLY THROUGH THE STILL WATERS OF THE HARBOUR IS AS BREATHTAKING A SIGHT AS ANY IN ,ORD OF THE 2INGS AND -ALICK S TRADEMARK INSERTS OF THE NATURAL WORLD A mOCK OF BIRDS RISES LIKE A PLUME OF SMOKE TREES DRINK UP RIVER WATER CARRYING ON OBLIVIOUS TO THE VIOLENCE AND HARDSHIP OF THE HUMAN WORLD ARE AS RESONANT AS EVER .OT THAT THE lLM LACKS FOR ACTION AND SEVERAL KEY EPISODES OF THE 0OCAHONTAS STORY ARE VIVIDLY DRAMATISED n MOST NOTABLY THE MOMENT WHEN 0OCAHONTAS REPORTEDLY SAVES 3MITH S LIFE HERE BEGGING HER FATHER CHIEF 0OWHATAN NOT TO KILL 3MITH WHEN HE WANDERS
INTO THE .ATIVE SETTLEMENT IN PURSUIT OF RECONCILIATION 4HE LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN PLACE OBVIOUSLY REQUIRE AN UNUSUAL EMPHASIS ON MOVEMENT AND FACIAL EXPRESSION EXCEPTING MOST OF THE SCENES BETWEEN 3MITH AND 0OCAHONTAS WHO PICKS UP %NGLISH WITH MIRACULOUS SPEED AS A SYMBOL OF HER RECEPTIVITY TO THE SETTLERS AND THE ACTORS RISE TO THE OCCASION WITH GRACE AND SUBTLETY #OLIN &ARRELL IN PARTICULAR IMPRESSES WITH A MAGNIlCENT PASSIONATE NEAR SILENT PERFORMANCE THAT SUGGESTS HE HASN T BEEN TREADING WATER WITH A SERIES OF MACHO CARICATURE PARTS SINCE HIS INCEPTION INTO lLM ACTING #HRISTIAN "ALE TOO AS 0OCAHONTAS S OTHER ROMANTIC INTEREST *OHN 2OLFE IS ON lNE UNDERSTATED FORM "UT PERHAPS MOST ASTONISHING OF ALL IS 1 /RIANKA +ILCHER IN HER lRST MAJOR lLM ROLE AND lNELY ATTUNED TO THE VARIOUS ROLES SHE PLAYS AND IS MADE TO PLAY IN THE STRANGE JOURNEY FROM CHIEF S DAUGHTER TO .ATIVE WESTERNERS GO BETWEEN TO LOVER WIFE AND lNALLY MOTHER IN %NGLAND WITH 2OLFE 4HERE ISN T A MOMENT ALONG THE WAY WHERE SHE FALTERS 3EB -ANLEY
Five  Great:  Feature  Documentaries 7ERNER (ERZOG S 'RIZZLY -AN SEES THE WORLD S MOST INTREPID DOCUMENTARIST BACK WITH A BITE AND RECENT SUCCESSES SUCH AS -ARCH OF THE 0ENGUINS AND -AD (OT "ALLROOM SUGGEST THAT POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY MAKING OR EGOCENTRIC AGITPROP DEPENDING ON YOUR VIEWS IS OUT n AT LEAST FOR NOW "UT EVEN THE MOST INNOCUOUS SEEMING OF DOCUMENTARIES CAN COURT THE BIG ISSUES AS THE RECENT RECRUITMENT BY THE !MERICAN RIGHT OF -ARCH OF THE 0ENGUINS DEMONSTRATES 4HESE lVE RANGE FROM RED HOT TOPICAL TO OFF THE RADAR BUT EACH MAKES FOR CAPTIVATING VIEWING %TRE ET AVOIR .ICOLAS 0HILIBERT S QUIETLY MOVING DOCUMENTARY RIGHT OBSERVES LIFE IN A ONE ROOM &RENCH SCHOOLHOUSE OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR 4HE CHILDREN AGED FOUR UP TO TWELVE
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GO ABOUT THEIR SCHOOLWORK AND WORK OUT DAY TO DAY PROBLEMS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THEIR TEACHER 'EORGE ,OPEZ WHOSE WARMTH AND DEDICATION MAKE THE END OF YEAR GOODBYES A TRULY HEART WRENCHING EXPERIENCE 4HE ELEGIAC FEEL IS ENHANCED BY A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL INSERTS WHICH DEPICT THE PASSING OF THE SEASONS #APTURING THE &RIEDMANS !N ASTONISHING EXPLORATION OF THE STORM OF PANIC REPRESSION AND GUILT THAT SURROUNDS PAEDOPHILIA IN THE 53 #APTURING THE &RIEDMANS IN EFFECT PROVIDES THE &RIEDMAN FAMILY n SPECIlCALLY !RNOLD A RESPECTED MIDDLE CLASS TEACHER AND HIS SON $AVID WHO ARE BOTH CHARGED WITH CHILD ABUSE n A PUBLIC TRIAL %NTIRELY NON JUDGEMENTAL AND INDEED QUITE AMBIGUOUS !NDREW *ARECKI SMARTLY QUESTIONS THE OFTEN ASSUMED
@OBJECTIVITY OF DOCUMENTARY MAKING AND ALL MEDIA IMAGES 3URREALISM AND 3CIENCE n 4HE 7EIRD 7ORLD OF *EAN 0AINLEVE 4HIS VIDEO COLLECTION GATHERS SOME OF THE MOST CELEBRATED OF 3URREALISM SYMPATHISER *EAN 0AINLEVE S UNDERWATER DOCUMENTARIES 4HE TONE IS PREDOMINANTLY %XPRESSIONIST CASTING THE SEALIFE SUBJECTS AS VAMPIRE LIKE MONSTERS IN GOTHIC VOICEOVERS @7HAT POETRY WHAT ART INSPIRED YOUR TERRIFYING FORM AND UNDER SUCH HORROR lLM TITLES AS ,E 6AMPIRE AND !CERA OR 4HE 7ITCHES $ANCE .IGHT AND &OG !LAIN 2ESNAIS IS MOST FAMOUS FOR HIS DREAMLIKE .EW 7AVE MASTERPIECES (IROSHIMA MON AMOUR AND ,AST 9EAR AT -ARIENBAD BUT
.IGHT AND &OG REMAINS ONE OF HIS MEMORABLE FEATURES !T ONLY MINUTES THE lLM DRAWS TOGETHER ITS SHOCKING PORTRAIT OF THE !USCHWITZ ATROCITIES THROUGH A MIXTURE OF ARCHIVE NEWSREELS STILLS AND CONTEMPORARY COLOUR FOOTAGE &ATA -ORGANA "Y TURNS POINTED AND OPAQUE (ERZOG S RECORD OF A SERIES OF 3AHARA LANDSCAPES IS A HARD GOING TREK AT TIMES BUT IT REWARDS PATIENCE 4HE
SELF CONSCIOUS @ALTERNATIVE AESTHETIC EMPLOYS DISTANCED CAMERAWORK AN ECLECTIC SOUNDTRACK FROM ,EONARD #OHEN TO (ANDEL AND A VOICE TRACK THAT BEARS ENIGMATIC IF NOT BAFmING RELATION TO THE VARIOUS IMAGES OF DEATH CULTURE AND NATURE ONSCREEN 4HE RESULT IS ABOUT AS FAR REMOVED FROM THE TRADITIONAL DOCUMENTARY AS YOU CAN GET n A DISTINCTIVELY (ERZOGIAN SLICE OF @ECSTATIC TRUTH 3EB -ANLEY
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-UNICH MAY WELL JOIN 3CHINDLER S ,IST IN THE POPULAR CONSCIENCE AS ONE OF A FEW BLOCKBUSTERS THAT MAKES *EWISH HISTORY A SERIOUS CONCERN !LEX &LUX LOOKS AT A RANGE OF HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATIONS ON lLM AND WONDERS WHERE 3PIELBERG lTS IN
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HE LEGACY OF THE PERSECUTION OF *EWISH PEOPLES DURING THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR LOOMS LARGE OVER THE PORTRAYAL OF *UDAISM IN POPULAR CULTURE AND THIS IS NO MORE OBVIOUS THAN IN CINEMA 7ITH A PLETHORA OF EXAMPLES THE *EWISH HOLOCAUST OR 3HOAH HAS BEEN THE MOST COMMON SUBJECT MATTER FOR PORTRAYING THE *EWISH FAITH AND PEOPLE TO CINEMA AUDIENCES AND IT CLEARLY OCCUPIES A DOMINANT PLACE IN THE POPULAR UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY *UDAISM 4HE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE lLMS IF NOT THE MOST WELL KNOWN WAS #LAUDE ,ANZMAN S INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTARY 3HOAH RELEASED IN 3HOAH IS THE TERM PREFERRED BY MANY *EWISH PEOPLE TO HOLOCAUST WHICH DERIVES FROM THE (EBREW WORD FOR DESTRUCTION 4HE DOCUMENTARY LASTS AN OVERWHELMING NINE AND A HALF HOURS AND FOLLOWS THE RETURN OF VARIOUS 3HOAH SURVIVORS TO WHERE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN WHICH THEY WERE HELD USED TO BE 4HE SHEER SENSE OF UNUTTERABLE LOSS THAT PERVADES THE ENTIRE lLM AND THE UNDERSTATED INTENSITY OF THE STORIES TOLD BY THE SURVIVORS MAKE IT AN ESSENTIAL EXAMPLE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORIA &OR THIS VERY REASON HOWEVER ,ANZMAN WAS LAMPOONED BY A NUMBER OF INTELLECTUALS AND CRITICS FOR PIONEERING THE GENRE THAT SOON CAME TO BE KNOWN AS @HOLOCAUST lLM 7RITERS EVEN STARTED THROWING AROUND THE CRUDE TERM @3HOAH BUSINESS IN EXPLANATION FOR THE ABUNDANCE AND POPULARITY FOR @HOLOCAUST lLMS SUCH AS 3OPHIE S #HOICE %UROPA %UROPA .IGHT AND &OG 7ERNER (ERZOG S )NVINCIBLE 3PIELBERG S INFAMOUS 3CHINDLER S ,IST AND A HOST OF OTHERS !MONGST THE MOST RELENTLESS AND CONTROVERSIAL HOLOCAUST CRITICS IS 0ROFESSOR .ORMAN &INKELSTEIN WHOSE BOOK 4HE (OLOCAUST )NDUSTRY HAS BEEN GREETED WITH BOTH EXTREME CONSTERNATION BY PROMINENT 2ABBIS AND MEMBERS OF *EWISH COMMUNITIES AND A STRANGE UNWILLINGNESS BY THE !MERICAN PRESS TO EVEN REVIEW IT &INKELSTEIN S POLEMICAL ARGUMENT IS THAT AN INDUSTRY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY MANY *EWISH PEOPLE FOR CLAIMING FUNDS FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH
AND MEMORIALS ALL IN THE NAME OF THE SURVIVORS OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS )N AN INTERVIEW WITH WWW THETRUTHSEEKER CO UK HE ARGUES THAT THE HOLOCAUST @CAME TO THE 5 3 ONLY AFTER THE 3IX $AY 7AR IN AND THAT SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN USED AS AN @IDEOLOGICAL WEAPON IN THE 0ALESTINE CONmICT !CCORDINGLY HE BELIEVES THE HOLOCAUST IN POPULAR lLM IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THIS INDUSTRY $ESPITE THE BLATANTLY ANTI SEMITIC UNDERTONES OF &INKELSTEIN S VIEWS HE REmECTS A GROWING CENSUS OF OPINION THAT CLAIMS lLMS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST ONLY SERVE TO SIMPLIFY AND TRIVIALISE THE NARRATIVE AND EMOTIONAL EFFECTS OF THE PERSECUTION ,ANZMAN MENTIONED ABOVE WAS OF THIS OPINION WHICH IS WHY HIS DOCUMENTARY FOCUSED NOT ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE 3HOAH BUT ON THE PORTRAYAL OF ITS SURVIVORS (E ATTACKED ATTEMPTS AT REPRESENTATION CALLING THEM @TRANSGRESSIONS AS BY PRESENTING A VIEW OF SUCH HORROR lLM MAKERS @ERASE THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST (E ILLUSTRATED HIS ARGUMENT BY CRITICISING 3PIELBERG S 3CHINDLER S ,IST WHICH HE THOUGHT DISTORTED THE HISTORICAL TRUTH OF THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE BY MAKING 3CHINDLER S STORY 3PIELBERG COULD NOT HELP BUT SAY WHAT THE HOLOCAUST WAS (OWEVER 3PIELBERG WAS AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN TRYING TO CAPTURE THE EVENTS OF THE HOLOCAUST DUE TO THEIR SINGULAR AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE NATURE AND THIS IS WHY 3CHINDLER S STORY WAS SO APPEALING )T WAS A MINOR THOUGH DRAMATIC EPISODE OF THE WAR WITH THE HOLOCAUST AS THE INTENSELY DARK BACKDROP ,ANZMAN WAS CORRECT WHEN HE SAID THAT 3PIELBERG DID NOT ENTIRELY CONFRONT THE HOLOCAUST IN THE lLM BUT HAD HE DONE SO THE ACCUSATIONS WOULD DOUBTLESS HAVE BEEN EVEN STRONGER ,ANZMAN MAY WELL ATTACK -UNICH ON SIMILAR GROUNDS SAYING THAT 3PIELBERG HAS ONCE MORE CHOSEN TO DEPICT A RESTRICTED EPISODE IN THE CONmICT BETWEEN )SRAEL AND 0ALESTINE WITHOUT CONFRONTING THE HISTORICAL FACTS BUT BY IGNORING OR DISTORTING THEM 3PIELBERG S NEW lLM IS ESSENTIALLY AN ASSASSINATION THRILLER WHERE THE PROTAGONIST IS AT ONCE A PATRIOTIC UPSTANDING )SRAELI WHO WILLINGLY ACCEPTS THE COMMANDS OF HIS SUPERIORS IN -OSSAD BUT IS ALSO A DOWN TO EARTH NORMAL GUY ABOUT TO START A FAMILY (E IS A TYPICAL EVERY MAN WHO IS PUT
IN AN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION WHERE HE HAS TO MURDER INDIVIDUALS WHOM HE IS TOLD ARE TERRORISTS BUT WHO ARE NEVER PROVEN TO BE AS PART OF THE INFAMOUS OPERATION KNOWN AS @4HE 7RATH OF 'OD 9ET THE FACTS OF THE NOVEL UPON WHICH THE lLM IS BASED HAVE NEVER BEEN VERIlED AND IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT -OSSAD WOULD GIVE SUCH AN IMPORTANT MISSION TO AN AGENT WITH NO EXPERIENCE 4HE 0ALESTINE CONmICT OR MORE ACCURATELY THE TERRORIST ATTACK AT THE -UNICH /LYMPIC 'AMES IS THE HISTORICAL BACKDROP TO THE lLM WHICH IS NOT SO MUCH EXAMINED BUT RATHER PRESENTED TO SIMPLY PUT THE NARRATIVE IN CONTEXT )T IS THE LATEST IN A LINE OF lLMS WHICH DEAL WITH THE 0ALESTINE CONmICT AND THE STATE OF )SRAEL THE EARLIEST OF WHICH WAS /TTO 0REMINGER S BIG BUDGET lLM %XODUS WHICH WAS RELEASED IN AND STARRED 0AUL .EWMAN )T WAS BASED ON THE LENGTHY NOVEL BY ,EON 5RIS ABOUT THE FORMATION OF )SRAEL AND TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A *EWISH OFlCER PLAYED BY .EWMAN WHO IS lGHTING FOR AN INDEPENDENT *EWISH STATE #RITIC 2ACHEL 7EISSBROD CALLED BOTH THE lLM AND THE BOOK @PATRIOTIC MELODRAMAS WHICH MADE THE *EWISH STRUGGLE FOR A HOMELAND
! GROWING CENSUS OF OPINION CLAIMS FILMS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST SIMPLY TRIVIALISE PERSE CUTION
ACCESSIBLE AND THUS COMPREHENSIBLE TO A MASS AUDIENCE BUT WERE NOT NECESSARILY TRUTHFUL 7HETHER THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF -UNICH n THAT ITS DRAMA IS PATRIOTIC IN NATURE n IS DEBATABLE AS THE PROTAGONIST lNDS NO GLORY IN WHAT HE DOES BUT BECOMES PARANOID AND ENDS UP AN EXILE LIVING IN .EW 9ORK #ITY 9ET THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE ALL *EWISH AND THERE IS LITTLE OR NO OPPOSING PERSPECTIVE FROM 0ALESTINIAN CHARACTERS THAT WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE lLM GREATER DEPTH SUCH AS IN 4HE $EATH OF +LINGHOFFER AND 0ARADISE .OW $ESPITE THIS AND THE OTHER ACCUSATIONS THAT THE lLM HAS AROUSED IT DOES GIVE AN INSIGHT INTO THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF HAVING TO DEFEND ONE S HOMELAND WHETHER IT IS JUST OR NOT AND THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR THAT )SRAELIS WERE NOT ALL PROUD OF THE ARCHAIC POLICY OF @AN EYE FOR AN EYE THAT WAS EMPLOYED FOR THE OPERATION (OWEVER -UNICH MAY BE WATCHED ENOUGH TO OCCUPY A SIMILAR PLACE IN CINEMATIC HISTORY AND THE POPULAR CONSCIENCE AS 3CHINDLER S ,IST DOES AND THUS IT MAY BE HELD UP UNWILLINGLY AS THE AUTHORITATIVE VIEW OF A PROLONGED AND COMPLEX CONmICT THAT IT DOES NOT EXPLICITLY EXAMINE
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The Right Crowd -ICHAEL 7INTERBOTTOM IS CURRENTLY ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF "RITISH DIRECTORS MAKING CONSISTENTLY RICH AND ORIGINAL lLMS BUT HE REJECTS THE @AUTEUR LABEL lXED ON HIM BY SOME CRITICS )T S THE COLLABORATION THAT MATTERS IN HIS lLMMAKING SAYS 3EB -ANLEY
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TAKE POT SHOTS AT AUTEUR THEORY FROM @4HIS BOURGEOIS LIBERAL ROMANTIC IDEA OF THE CREATOR SEEMS TO ME LIKE THE ULTIMATE PERVERSION WHERE DIRECTORS ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE ALSO SCREENWRITERS ARE HONOURED AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO LEND THEIR CREATIVE SKILLS TO THE MAKING OF A lLM /F COURSE IT S HARD NOT TO LOOK FOR A DIRECTOR S @lNGERPRINTS OVER A BODY OF lLMS %VEN A LIST LIKE THE ONE ABOVE HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO A GOOD DEAL OF @UNIlCATION AT THE HANDS OF CRITICS WHO DISTINGUISH THE RECURRING MOTIFS OF THE OUTCAST NARRATOR TORTURED LOVERS OR MORE FORMAL HABITS LIKE GRAINY IMAGE QUALITY OR HAND HELD CAMERAWORK 4HE THEMES ARE THERE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BUT TO MARK THEM DOWN AS 7INTERBOTTOM ESQUE IS TO OVERLOOK THE PARTICULARLY COLLABORATIVE NATURE OF HIS lLMMAKING STYLE (E OFTEN WORKS WITH ONE OF TWO CINEMATOGRAPHERS FOR EXAMPLE n -ARCEL :YSKIND ON )N 4HIS 7ORLD .INE 3ONGS AND ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY !LWIN ( +UCHLER ON 4HE #LAIM BOTH ON #ODE n WHO BRING DISTINCT PERSPECTIVE TO THE lLM STYLE AS A WHOLE +UCHLER IS A MASTER OF MODERN "RITISH POETIC REALISM HAVING WORKED ON ,YNNE 2AMSEY S 2ATCATCHER AND -OVERN #ALLAR AND 2OGER -ICHELL S 4HE -OTHER
/THER MAINSTAY COLLABORATORS INCLUDE PRODUCER !NDREW %ATON AND WRITER &RANK #OTTRELL "OYCE WHO WORKED WITH 7INTERBOTTOM ON ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY #ODE (OUR 0ARTY 0EOPLE AND OTHERS 4HEN THERE ARE THE REGULAR ACTORS INCLUDING #HRISTOPHER %CCLESTON AND NOW 3TEVE #OOGAN WHO ARE OFTEN ENCOURAGED TO IMPROVISE 4HE DECISION TO USE IMPROVISATION OF COURSE ULTIMATELY LIES WITH 7INTERBOTTOM BUT WHO WOULD DENY THAT #OOGAN AND 2OB "RYDON S @TOUCH MY TEETH SCENES IN ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY WERE BOTH ACTORLY ART AND SOME OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS IN THE ENTIRE 7INTERBOTTOM CANON &OR A DIRECTOR WITH FEATURES UNDER HIS BELT 7INTERBOTTOM HAS RECEIVED A RELATIVELY MODEST AMOUNT OF CRITICAL ATTENTION PROBABLY OWING TO HIS DISPARATE COLLECTIVE lLMMAKING APPROACH !NOTHER REASON FOR HIS RELATIVELY LOW PROlLE MAY BE A GENERAL RELUCTANCE TO PERSIST IN MAKING RECOGNISABLY @"RITISH lLMS n FOR EVERY (OUR 0ARTY 0EOPLE WITH ITS -ANCHESTER SETTING AND FAMOUS MUSIC THERE S A #ODE SHOT IN $UBAIS (ONG +ONG AND 3HANGHAI AND STARRING (OLLYWOOD GIANT 4IM 2OBBINS +EN ,OACH AND -IKE ,EIGH HAVE ACHIEVED THEIR NATIONAL
lGUREHEAD STATUS THROUGH A lRM GROUNDING IN "RITISH HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY 7INTERBOTTOM SIMPLY WON T PLAY THE "RITISH REALIST GAME ,IKE MANY OF HIS LESS EXPERIENCED CONTEMPORARIES SUCH AS ,YNNE 2AMSEY AND 0AWEL 0AWLIKOWSKI -Y 3UMMER OF ,OVE 7INTERBOTTOM WORKS IN A LOOSELY LYRICAL STYLE INmUENCED BY THE %UROPEAN .EW 7AVE 'ERMAN #INEMA ENFANT TERRIBLE 2AINER 7ERNER &ASSBINDER IS REFERENCED IN ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY BY CINEPHILIC RUNNER *ENNIE AND SOMETHING OF THAT DIRECTOR S FEVERED SOCIALLY AWARE MELODRAMA lNDS ITS WAY INTO THE lLM AND ALSO #ODE 7ERNER (ERZOG AND +RZYSZTOF +IESLOWSKI ARE APPARENT INmUENCES TOO THE FORMER IN THE UNSTABLE DOCUMENTARY DRAMA STATUS OF )N 4HIS 7ORLD AND ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY WHICH SLIPS BETWEEN THREE LEVELS OF @REALITY WITH SOMETIMES QUITE AMBIGUOUS RESULTS THE LATTER IN THE OBSERVATIONAL STYLE AND TEASINGLY PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTENT OF MUCH OF 7INTERBOTTOM S WORK .INE 3ONGS IN PARTICULAR )N ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY 7INTERBOTTOM AND HIS TEAM MAKE THE MULTI FACED EXHILARATINGLY COMPLEX NATURE OF lLMMAKING THE EXPLICIT CONTENT OF THE lLM 4HE ,IFE AND /PINIONS OF 4RISTRAM 3HANDY THE lLM WITHIN THE lLM IS A TORTURED PRODUCTION OR AT LEAST IT SEEMS THAT WAY n THE DIRECTOR *EREMY .ORTHAM IS AT ODDS WITH VARIOUS PRODUCERS THERE IS CONSTANT DEBATE OVER THE PROPER WAY TO SHOOT THE BATTLE SCENE IF AT ALL AND @3TEVE #OOGAN I E #OOGAN PLAYING HIMSELF WANTS HIGHER SHOES 7HEN THE THING IS lNALLY SCREENED IT DOES SO TO DECIDEDLY MIXED REACTIONS 'ILLIAN !NDERSON IS DISMAYED TO lND HER SCENES HAVE BEEN CUT ALTOGETHER AFTER SHE mEW OUT TO %NGLAND ON THE SPECIAL REQUEST OF THE DIRECTOR 5NLIKE MOST lLMS ABOUT lLMMAKING AND &ELLINI S IS STILL THE BIG KAHUNA THE DIRECTOR HERE IS NOT AN OBSCURELY TROUBLED GENIUS OR EVEN MUCH OF A PRESENCE ! #OCK AND "ULL 3TORY IS 7INTERBOTTOM S GRANDEST DENUNCIATION OF THE NOTION OF THE AUTEUR HIS CLAIM FOR lLMMAKING AS A COLLECTIVE INDUSTRIAL UNPREDICTABLE PROCESS )RONICALLY AS THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND BRILLIANTLY COMIC "RITISH lLM FOR SOME YEARS IT MIGHT JUST PLACE THE DIRECTOR UNDER AN UNINVITED SPOTLIGHT
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$ERAILED $IR -IKAEL (AFSTROM 2ELEASED %XECUTIVES #HARLES AND ,UCINDA #LIVE /WEN AND *ENNIFER !NISTON ARE BLACKMAILED BY A SCHEMING THUG AFTER HE CATCHES THEM HAVING AN AFFAIR )N A TWISTING PLOTLINE #HARLES ATTEMPTS TO TURN THE TABLES BUT IS CONSTANTLY TRICKED IN WHAT
IS A DISAPPOINTINGLY PREDICTABLE IF ENJOYABLE THRILLER 4HE PARTS ARE ACTED OUT ADEQUATELY ALTHOUGH IT OFTEN SEEMS LIKE THE ACTORS ARE CONSTRAINED BY THEIR SCRIPT /NE CAN ALMOST SEE THE CHECKLIST OF STEREOTYPES BEING TICKED OFF A CUNNING CRIMINAL A SYMPATHETIC VICTIM ATTEMPTING TO REDEEM HIMSELF AND OF COURSE A GRIZZLED DETECTIVE 4HE lLM OCCASIONALLY HINTS AT HIGHER GOALS WITH A FEW MOMENTS OF BLACK COMEDY BUT UNFORTUNATELY NEVER HAS THE GUTS TO FOLLOW THROUGH AND IT S A SHAME THAT THE TWIST CAN BE SEEN COMING A MILE OFF 4HERE S NOTHING REALLY BAD ABOUT $ERAILED BUT NOTHING TO RECOMMEND IT EITHER "UT IF ALL YOU WANT IS A SIMPLE BY THE NUMBERS THRILLER THEN YOU COULD DO A LOT WORSE !NDY *UDSON
&INAL $ESTINATION $IR *AMES 7ONG 2ELEASED )N TERMS OF INHERENTLY SILLY HORROR TITLES &INAL $ESTINATION lNISHES AN HONOURABLE RUNNER UP BEHIND ) 3TILL 7HAT 9OU $ID ,AST 3UMMER BUT THE INTERNAL CONTRADICTION SEEMS SOMEHOW APPROPRIATE HERE IN A lLM FRANCHISE ABOUT A CHAIN OF ULTIMATE lNALITIES 4HE CONCEPT AND BASIC MECHANICS OF THIS THIRD INSTALMENT REMAIN LARGELY UNCHANGED FROM THE lRST AND SECOND A NIGHTMARE VISION INSPIRES A GROUP OF FRIENDS TO OPT OUT OF AN EXCURSION THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM n IN THIS CASE A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE n AND ARE THEN PICKED OFF ONE BY ONE BY THE HARD DONE BY FORCES OF $EATH !S A HIGH CONCEPT PITCH IT S HARD TO BEAT AND &INAL $ESTINATION TAKES FULL AND ENERGETIC ADVANTAGE OF ITS SCENARIO WITHOUT EVER ADDING
MUCH TO THE TEMPLATE ESTABLISHED IN THE PREQUELS 4RADITIONAL SLASHER QUESTIONS OF @WHO AND @WHY ARE PRETTY MUCH REDUNDANT HERE THE CULPRIT IS @$EATH AN INVISIBLE PRESENCE @COLD AND TERRIFYING AS ONE CHARACTER PUTS IT AND IT WANTS TO REPAIR ITS FATALISTIC DESIGN 4HE SUSPENSE IS ALL IN THE METHOD n WHEN EVERY INANIMATE OBJECT IS A POTENTIAL KILLER WHERE S THAT FATAL STRIKE GOING TO COME FROM &INAL $ESTINATION S BEST SEQUENCES ARE THE INTRICATELY PLANNED CHAINS OF COINCIDENCE THAT PROGRESS FROM THE BANAL A DISCARDED BOTTLE OF TANNING LOTION TO THE SPECTACULAR AN EXPLOSIVE BEHEADING WITH MACABRE INGENUITY 4HE GORE SPLATTERED BODIES ARE ROUTINELY FETISHISED AT THE EXPENSE OF ANY EMOTIONAL IMPACT BUT EMPATHY S HARDLY AN ISSUE WITH CHARACTERS THIS ONE DIMENSIONAL 7HERE THE lLM COMES UNSTUCK IS IN ITS LABOURED EXPOSITION SCENES WHICH FALL MAINLY TO THE UNDISTINGUISHED LEADS 2YAN -ERRIMEN AND %LIZABETH 7INSTEAD AND VEER FROM RISIBLE PORTENTOUSNESS TO POINTLESS REITERATION -UCH MORE ENJOYABLE ARE THE SEQUENCES WHERE THE HEROES SNIFF OUT @CLUES TO $EATH S METHOD OF ATTACK BASED ON THE MISE EN SCENE OF A SERIES OF SIGNIlCANT PHOTOS )N ONE OF THE FEW HUMOUROUS MOMENTS GOOD GUY +EVIN REASONS THAT HE SHOULDN T SEE THE PHOTO THAT CORRESPONDS TO HIS OWN DEATH UNLESS IT IS PARTICULARLY @EMBARRASSING $IRECTOR *AMES 7ONG WHO HELMED THE lRST &INAL $ESTINATION MAINTAINS A FAIRLY STRAIGHT GENRE APPROACH WITH MINIMAL IN JOKERY ALTHOUGH ONE MOMENT STANDS OUT FOR ITS DEADPAN BLACK HUMOUR n A CUT FROM TWO BURNING TANNING BEDS TO AN ALMOST IDENTICAL IMAGE OF TWO WHITE COFlNS 3EB -ANLEY
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7HAT S IT ALL ABOUT +IKI IS A YOUNG WITCH WHO IN ACCORDANCE TO TRADITION MUST SPEND A YEAR AWAY FROM HOME TO FURTHER HER MAGICAL SKILLS (AVING NEITHER DECIDED ON A SPECIlC SKILL TO STUDY NOR GIVEN ANY THOUGHT TO WHERE SHE WILL BE GOING +IKI S JOURNEY STARTS OFF ROUGHLY 3HORTLY AFTER LEAVING HOME +IKI AND HER TALKING CAT *IJI ARE FORCED FROM THE SKY BY A STORM ENDING UP IN A FOREIGN TOWN WITH NO MONEY AND NOWHERE TO LIVE .OW IT S UP TO +IKI TO MAKE A LIFE IN HER NEW SURROUNDINGS WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM NEW FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY .O VILLAINS .O EVIL TO lGHT &AR FROM THE CACKLING PERSONIlCATIONS OF EVIL WHICH $ISNEY AND $REAMWORKS FREQUENTLY TACKLE THE MAIN CHALLENGES THAT +IKI FACES ARE HER OWN LONELINESS AND lTTING INTO A TOWN SO FAR AND DIFFERENT FROM HOME .OT THAT THIS IS A BAD THING MIND )N FACT +IKI S $ELIVERY 3ERVICE SHINES FROM ITS ABILITY TO WEAVE AN INTERESTING TALE FROM RELATIVELY SIMPLE EVENTS 4HE lLM SHOWS -IYAZAKI S ABILITY TO EMBRACE MEETINGS AND HOUSEHOLD TASKS WITH A SIMILAR SENSE OF WONDER WHICH HE WOULD LATER EXPLORE VIA THE SPECTACULAR VISUALS AND THEMES IN 3PIRITED !WAY AND 0RINCESS -ONONOKE 3O NO ACTION .OT EVEN A SPIRIT GOD )T S -IYAZAKI ON THE OPPOSITE END OF EPIC SO NOT REALLY 4HE PLOT HAS NO MAJOR DRAMATIC GOAL TO ACCOMPLISH NOR ANY WARS OR EVIL MAGIC TO DRIVE THE STORY )T S ALL ABOUT +IKI S PLIGHT TO lT INTO HER NEW TOWN AND THE FRIENDSHIPS SHE GAINS ALONG THE WAY 7HILE IT S NOT -IYAZAKI AT HIS MOST EPIC IT S CERTAINLY THE DIRECTOR AT HIS WARMEST .OT FOR EVERYONE THEN &ANS OF -IYAZAKI SHOULD CERTAINLY TAKE IT FOR A SPIN ALTHOUGH SOME MAY BE DISAPPOINTED BY THE LACK OF MYSTICISM AND MAGIC WHICH NOW COMES AS A TRADEMARK OF THE DIRECTOR S WORK )T DOESN T EVEN LOOK LIKE YOUR TYPICAL ANIME AFFAIR THE SEASIDE TOWN DRAWING ITS STYLE FROM TH CENTURY %UROPEAN ARCHITECTURE IF NOT FOR THE DISTINCTIVE ANIME LOOK OF THE CHARACTERS FACES THE lLM COULD BE MISTAKEN AS A PRODUCT OF $ISNEY "UT IT S FUN ENTERTAINING AND JUST SHORT ENOUGH TO MAKE THE MAGIC LAST "ESIDES IT S KIND OF FUN TO HEAR A SEVEN YEAR OLD +IRSTEN $UNST AS +IKI
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$IR 2OBERT 'UEDIGUIAN 2ELEASED 0ATHE $ISTRIBUTION ,TD 4HE UNEXCITING OPENING CREDITS NO MORE THAN WHITE TEXT SET AGAINST A BLACK BACKGROUND IN TOTAL SILENCE SET THE TONE FOR 2OBERT 'UÏDIGUIAN S LATEST lLM IT CONTINUES AS IT BEGAN SOMBRE AND SUBDUED 4HE PLOT OR WHAT THERE IS OF ONE REVOLVES AROUND INTERVIEWS BETWEEN THE LATE &RENCH 0RESIDENT &RAN OIS -ITTERAND AND A YOUNG JOURNALIST !NTOINE HELPING THE 0RESIDENT TO WRITE HIS MEMOIRS -ITTERAND HIMSELF IS IN THE LATER STAGES OF PROSTATE CANCER AND KNOWS HIS REMAINING TIME IS LIMITED )N BETWEEN THESE INTERVIEWS ARE GLIMPSES OF !NTOINE S PRIVATE LIFE WHICH ARE SELDOM CHEERIER THAN THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DYING 0RESIDENT !NTOINE S MARRIAGE QUICKLY COLLAPSES AND HE IS ALMOST OBSESSED WITH -ITTERAND 4HE 0RESIDENT MEANWHILE IS SOMEWHAT EVASIVE ABOUT CERTAIN ELEMENTS AND EVENTS IN HIS PAST )F THE PLOT DOES HAVE A FOCUS IT IS THE QUESTION OF WHAT EXACTLY -ITTERAND WAS DOING
IN AND WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS WITH 6ICHY !LTHOUGH THE lLM DOES NOT DWELL ON THIS AND NEVER ATTEMPTS TO GIVE A DElNITIVE ANSWER IT IS DEBATED WITH THE 0RESIDENT GIVING HIS VERSION OF EVENTS AND OTHERS ADDING TO OR SUBVERTING THIS (OWEVER IT IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND THE LEFT AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF -ITTERAND THAT THE lLM IS CONCERNED WITH !NTOINE HIMSELF IS REVEALED TO BE VERY LEFT WING ALMOST COMMUNIST 4HE lLM SUGGESTS THAT 'UÏDIGUIAN IS ANXIOUS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL DILUTION OR EVEN DEATH OF SOCIALISM )T WOULD SEEM THAT HE BELIEVES GLOBALISATION AND CAPITALISM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS -ITTERAND AND !NTOINE DISCUSS THE CONmICTS BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY IDEALS AND PRAGMATISM WHEN LOOKING TO THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM (OWEVER IN ALL THESE DEBATES THE lLM IS SOMEWHAT ONE HANDED THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SOCIALISM IS THE BEST WAY FORWARD AND THE RISE OF
THE RIGHT IS GREATLY FEARED !NTI 3EMITISM IS ALSO DISCUSSED WITH -ITTERAND ADAMANT THAT HE IS NOT ANTI 3EMITIC 4HROUGHOUT THE INTERVIEWS -ICHEL "OUQUET S PERFORMANCE AS THE AILING -ITTERAND IS SUPERB (E IS SHOWN AS A JOVIAL AND KINDLY MAN WITH GREAT DIGNITY IN HIS OLD AGE AND PRIDE IN
HIS ACHIEVEMENTS "OUQUET ADDS TO THIS AN UNDERLYING STREAK OF CRUELTY A DETERMINATION TO GET HIS OWN WAY AND AN ABSOLUTE SENSE OF HIS OWN IMPORTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY &RANCE 9ET AT THE SAME TIME -ITTERAND S FRAILTY IS DISPLAYED AND 'UÏDIGUIAN MAKES FREQUENT CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE
AGING 0RESIDENT AND HIS YEAR OLD INTERVIEWER 4HIS IS NOT LIGHT HEARTED &RIDAY NIGHT VIEWING IN ANY SENSE AND WON T APPEAL TO ALL TASTES 4HAT SAID IT IS WELL WORTH RENTING ESPECIALLY IF YOU RE LOOKING FOR AN INTELLIGENT SATISFYING lLM *AMES "ERRILL
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4HIS LOOSE ADAPTATION OF &EVER 0ITCH RELOCATES .ICK (ORNBY S SPRY TALE OF MALE OBSESSION FROM ,ONDON TO "OSTON AND SWAPS SAID OBSES SION WITH FOOTBALL FOR BASEBALL 4HE
RESULT IS AN UNDERWHELMING $REW "ARRYMORE VEHICLE THAT FAILS TO DE LIVER EVEN ON ITS OWN MODEST TERMS "ARRYMORE AND 3ATURDAY .IGHT ,IVE ALUMNUS *IMMY &ALLON ARE PERFECTLY AFFABLE BUT THEIR ON SCREEN RELATION SHIP FOUNDERS ON A CONSPICUOUS LACK OF CHEMISTRY $ISAPPOINTINGLY THERE ARE FEW LAUGHS TO BE HAD 4HE &ARREL LY "ROTHERS WHOSE CHEERFUL VISUAL EXCESSES SO ENLIVENED 4HERE S 3OME THING !BOUT -ARY ARE IN UNUSUALLY RESTRAINED FORM OFFERING NONE OF THE IDIOSYNCRATIC BAD TASTE HUMOUR THAT COULD HAVE DISTINGUISHED THIS FROM THE GLUT OF IDENTIKIT ROMANTIC COMEDIES !LEX 'OLDUP
-ORITURI $IR "ERNHARD 7ICKI 2ELEASED &OX (OME %NTERTAINMENT -ARLON "RANDO LEADS THE CAST AS 2UPERT #RAIN A 'ERMAN WHO HAS DESERTED HIS HOMELAND OF 'ERMANY DURING THE OUTBREAK OF THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR (E ESCAPES TO )NDIA WHERE HE IS DISCOVERED BY THE "RITISH 3ECRET 3ERVICE WHO THREATEN TO REVEAL HIS IDENTITY TO THE 'ERMAN AUTHORITIES UNLESS HE GOES ON A SECRET MISSION FOR THEM 4HIS ESPIONAGE THRILLER IS DARK AND FULL OF TENSION CONTAINING BOTH .AZI EXTREMISTS AND 'ERMAN POLITICAL PRISONERS WHO SYMPATHISE WITH THE
PERSECUTED *EWISH PEOPLE n THUS PORTRAYING THE CONmICT AND SUFFERING THAT 'ERMANS WHO DISAGREED WITH (ITLER S .AZI REGIME FACED 4HE lLM PORTRAYS A COMPELLING AND DIFFERENT 'ERMAN PERSPECTIVE TO 7ORLD 7AR 4WO WHICH IS RARELY SHOWN IN THE WAR GENRE AND IS THEREFORE DElNITELY WORTH A WATCH #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY
4HE "ARBARIAN THE 'EISHA $IR *OHN (USTON 2ELEASED &OX (OME %NTERTAINMENT &OR FANS OF *OHN 7AYNE THIS ROMANTIC ADVENTURE WILL NO DOUBT BE ENJOYABLE ENOUGH "UT FOR THE REST OF US IT S DULL VIEWING ! MISCAST 7AYNE SWAGGERS HIS WAY THROUGH THE ROLE OF REAL LIFE !MERICAN DIPLOMAT 4OWNSEND (ARRIS WHOSE TIME IN THE &ORBIDDEN %MPIRE IN AND LOVE AFFAIR WITH YOUNG GEISHA /KICHI HAS BECOME A WELL KNOWN *APANESE FOLK TALE &ILMED ON LOCATION THERE IS SOME BEAUTIFUL CINEMATOGRAPHY ON OFFER BUT THE ATTEMPTS TO DEPICT A CULTURE CLASH COME ACROSS AS !MERICAN ARROGANCE AND %ASTERN @OTHERNESS WHICH FEELS WOEFULLY OUTDATED 'OOD FOR A LAZY 3UNDAY AFTERNOON BUT DON T GO OUT OF YOUR WAY FOR THIS 2ICHARD "OAKES
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AND THE LIKE #OMTASTIC ALSO HAS A SELECTION OF PUPPETS THAT YOU CAN MANIPULATE WITH YOUR CURSOR 4HIS IS A HYPNOTIC PROCESS AND CAN CAP TURE HOURS OF YOUR TIME 7HAT THE &7! HIGHLIGHTS IS THAT WHILST THE MAJORITY OF US ARE ONLINE A GREAT DEAL OF THE TIME EMAILING AND RESEARCHING WE RARE LY VENTURE OUTSIDE OF THAT SMALL CLUTCH OF WEBSITES WE ALREADY KNOW !S A RESULT THERE IS SO MUCH UNCHARTED TERRITORY THAT DESERVES A LITTLE ATTENTION NOW AND THEN -OST OF US VIEW THE NET AS FUNC TIONAL &7! COUNTERS THIS )T MAY NOT BE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE USE OF AN HOUR ONLINE BUT IT IS CERTAINLY A WORTHWHILE JOURNEY OFF THE BEAT EN TRACK .OT EVERYTHING ON THE DATABASE IS WORTH A MENTION BUT IT CERTAINLY STOPS THE INTERNET FROM EVER FEELING SMALL
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