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4HE RESURGENCE OF THE TURBAN AS A FASHION ACCESSORY SAY WHAT

!LBUMS 4HE 'OOD 4HE "AD AND 4HE 1UEEN PLUS 4HE 6IEW 3INGLES 4HE ,ONG "LONDES 4HE %NEMY !IR AND 7ILLY -ASON +NOW 9OUR .-% ! WEEK AT THE TOP WITH .-% ,IVE 2EVIEWS 4HE .OISETTES AND 4HE ,ITTLE /NES

'RITTY 'ROOMING FOR 'UYS SKINCARE ISN T JUST FOR GIRLS

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#ENTRE &EATURE 4HE .%3 THE 3.%3 THE 7II JOIN OUR TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE WHICH CHARTS THE HISTORY OF .INTENDO FROM NO REALLY

#OMPUTING )S #RAZY &ROG 2ACER THE BEST GAME OF THIS GENERATION &IND OUT INSIDE AS WELL AS A REVIEW OF "ART S .IGHTMARE AND THE WEBSITE OF THE WEEK ACADEMICBOOKTRADE CO UK

THE EVENT The %DITOR IN #HIEF !NNA 3TEWARD !CTING %DITOR &IONA "ILLINGS !RTS %DITORS 2OANNA "OND AND -IRANDA "RYANT #ONTRIBUTORS &AY (ARRIS +ELVIN +NIGHT !MY ,OWE

#OMPUTING %DITOR 0HIL 2OBINSON #ONTRIBUTORS 3ARAH -ABLEY "ARRY -OUND

&IONA S %DITORIAL (ELLO )T S 7EEK IT S lRST THING IN THE MORNING IT HAS TO BEx 4HE %VENT /K SO THAT WAS A BIT LAME

BUT HAVING SPENT THE WEEKEND WORKING ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SPECI MEN OF A NEWSPAPER WITHOUT -R #HRIS (YDE ) M RUNNING A BIT LOW ON CREATIVE SPARK #HRIS ALONG WITH MOST OF THE OFlCE HAS COME DOWN WITH THE EVIL mU BUG ) HAVE SO FAR AVOIDED THIS DEMON ILLNESS BUT AT THE RATE EVERYONE IS FALLING VICTIM TO IT IT S NOT LOOKING GOOD !NYWAY EVEN THOUGH 4HE %VENT HAS BEEN UNDER THE INmUENCE OF ,EMSIP THIS WEEK S ISSUE IS STILL AS JAM PACKED AS EVER 4HE CENTRE SPREAD IS AN ODE TO ALL THINGS .INTENDO LOOKING AT ITS HUM BLE CARD GAME BEGINNINGS RIGHT

THROUGH TO THE PRESENT DAY 7II ) HAVE TO CONFESS ) WAS A 3EGA CHILD

AND WAS NOT PROPERLY INTRODUCED TO THE WONDERS OF -ARIO ET AL UNTIL LAST YEAR (OWEVER THE HISTORY OF THE COMPANY IS FASCINATING AND ) KNOW THE ARTICLE HAD MUCH OF THE OFlCE REMINISCING ABOUT THEIR MISSPENT YOUTH WITH MISTY EYES &OR ME MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER HAS TO BE 0RINCESS 0EACH WHO ) ALWAYS AM WHEN PLAYING -ARIO 0ARTY WITH 0ETE EVEN THOUGH ) NEVER WIN 4HIS ISSUE ALSO CONTAINS A NUMBER OF OTHER INTRIGUING ARTI CLES NOT LEAST #HRIS EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN THE AUDIENCE OF (ARRY (ILL S 46 "URP TO A LOOK AT WHETHER BELATED SEQUELS TO )NDIANA *ONES

$IE (ARD AND 2OCKY ARE JUST ONE STEP TOO FAR BY (OLLYWOOD )T HAS BEEN A LONG WEEKEND HERE AT 4HE %VENT BUT HOPEFULLY YOU LL AGREE IT S BEEN WORTH IT %N JOY THIS ISSUE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO GRACING YOUR EYES AGAIN IN A FORNIGHT

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#ONTRIBUTORS *OSEPH -ODUGNO 3OPHIE 0LAYLE 2YAN 7HATLEY 4HIS WEEK AT 4HE %VENT WE HAVE SEARCHED HIGH AND LOW FOR SOME THING GREAT TO GIVE TO YOU (ERE S WHAT WE CAME UP WITH 7E HAVE COPIES OF "ROTHERS )N !RMS %ARNED IN "LOOD FOR THE 8BOX

WORTH a TO GIVE AWAY !LL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ANSWER THIS QUESTION 7HICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS A DIRECTOR OF "AND OF "ROTHERS A 4OM (ANKS B *AMES "LUNT C !NDY *UDSON $ROP US AN E MAIL AT CONCRETE COMPETITIONS UEA AC UK

BY TH &EBRUARY TO STAND A CHANCE OF WINNING

&ASHION %DITOR 5MAY +ALSOOM $EPUTY &ASHION %DITOR #ARINA 2IZVI

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$EPUTY &)LM %DITOR ,YDIA -OSSAHEBI #ONTRIBUTORS +IERAN #ORNWELL (OLLY #URTIS .EIL (UITSON

#HRIS (YDE !NTHONY *ACKSON .ATASHA +UNDAIKER *OHN -UTCH

,IAM / "RIEN !NNA 3TEWARD

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-USIC %DITOR 'REG 3ULLIVAN

#ONTRIBUTOR 4IM "RIGGS 7ILL (OLLOWAY #HRIS (YDE #ATHERINE *ONES *OSH ,ITTLE ,EWIS -ORTON .ICK 2EADING

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4HE 0RADA BANDWAGON 4

HIS SEASON 0RADA SHOCKED THE FASHION WORLD WITH THEIR 3PRING 3UMMER COLLECTION BY UNVEILING THE NEW MUST HAVE HEADPIECEx THE TURBAN

)T WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF POPULARITY IN THE S !UDREY (EPBURN GAVE IT (OLLYWOOD GLAMOUR IN THE S AND NOW IT S BACK WITH A VENGANCE 2ALPH ,AUREN 9VES 3AINT ,AURENT AND EVEN ( - HAVE ALL JUMPED ON -IUCCIA 0RADA S BANDWAGON 7E HAD CHOSEN TO IGNORE THIS ACCESSORY REVOLUTION UNTIL OUR FASHION TEAM RECEIVED AN ALARMING EMAIL ENQUIRING WHERE ONE OF OUR READERS MAY BE ABLE TO PURCHASE THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER PIECE 4HIS SENT US INTO PANIC MODE AND FORCED US TO QUESTION WHETHER THE TURBAN COULD INDEED TAKE OFF )NSTINCTIVELY AND UNANIMOUSLY THE FASHION TEAM CRIED OUT hIT WILL NEVER HAPPENv BUT ON CLOSER EXAMINATION THERE IS RATHER COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY %XHIBIT !

THE PONCHO ! GARMENT NOT CREATED BY #LINT %ASTWOOD AS NO LESS THAN THREE LIBRARY DWELLERS ATTEMPTED TO CONVINCE ME DUR ING MY RESEARCH 7E ALL REMEMBER ITS SUBTLE EMERGENCE INTO OUR WARDROBES AND ITS HASTY DEPARTURE AS THE STARK REALIZATION SET IN THAT IT DID IN FACT LOOK HEINOUS ON US 4HIS SAID SALES SOARED IN AND IT APPEARED ON ALMOST EVERY FASHIONISTA HOTLIST ,YCOS SAID IN ONE WEEK CROCHET PONCHO PATTERNS JUMPED UP BY xSHAME ON US 7E REMAIN OPTIMISTICALLY DOUBTFUL THAT THE TURBAN WILL CATCH ON TO THIS EXTENT %XHIBIT " THE CULTURE TRENDS WE KEPT 4HE SARONG KIMONO AND BERET NONE OF WHICH WE CAN CLAIM ORIGINATE HERE AND ALL OF WHICH WE ACCEPT TO BE PART OF OUR AVAILABLE RANGE OF CLOTHING OPTIONS ON THE HIGH STREET 4HE SARONG HAS BECOME AN ESSENTIAL BEACHWEAR PIECE THE KIMONO A STYLE WE REPLICATE WITH DRESSES AND THE BERET IS THE HAT OF CHOICE FOR MANY #OULD THE TURBAN BE SET TO JOIN THESE CULTURE COLLECTABLES &OR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMAIN UNCONVINCED BY THE SHEER OBSCURITY OF THE TURBAN AS A CLOTHING AR TICLE ) GIVE YOU %XHIBIT # THE BURKINI .O JOKE )T IS THE BEST CURRENT DEMONSTRATION OF THE NEW WAVE OF BLENDING CULTURE AND CLOTHING 4HE BURKINI IS AN !USTRALIAN INVENTION BY DESIGNER !HEDA :ANETTI THAT ALLOWS WOMEN OF -USLIM FAITH TO BE ACCEPTABLY CLOTHED FOR THEIR FAITH WHILE APPRECIATING THE BEACH CULTURE THAT SURROUNDS THEM 3UDDENLY THE TURBAN DOESN T SOUND SO CRAZY BUT DOES IT HAVE HIGH STREET APPEAL 7E DECIDED TO STAGE AN EXPERIMENT AND SENT ONE OF THE FASHION TEAM OUT INTO THE STREETS OF .OR WICH FOR THE DAY AVEC TURBAN )T LASTED A @PAINFUL FOUR HOURS BEFORE THE BRAVE FASHIONISTA COULD TAKE NO MORE OF THE BURNING EYES AND REMOVED THE @MUST HAVE ACCESSORYx 7HEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE TASK OUR ACCESSORY MODEL HAD ONLY THIS TO REPORT h.ORWICH IS SIMPLY NOT READY v 3O THE TURBAN MAY HAVE m OPPED IN .ORFOLK BUT SUMMER IS THREE MONTHS AWAY WILL YOU BE PERSUADED #ARINA 2IZVI

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&ASHION .EWS %LIZABETH (URLEY IS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF *ODIE +IDD AND 3OPHIE $AHL BY BECOMING THE NEW FACE OF -ON SOON (URLEY WILL REPLACE 3OPHIE %LLIS "EXTOR IN A SIX l GURE DEAL WITH THE HIGH STREET STORE WITH A SERIES OF STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS READY FOR THE END OF THIS SEASON

,ONDON &ASHION 7EEK HAS DECIDED TO USE ULTRA THIN MODELS IN TWO WEEK S TIME DESPITE MANY INm UENTIAL DESIGNERS OPTING OUT OF USING THEM 7HEN THE "RITISH &ASHION #OUNCIL MET WITH CULTURE SECRETARY 4ESSA *OWELL THEY STATED THAT IT IS UNLIKELY THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE A TOTAL BAN ON THE WAIF LIKE MODELS BUT WANTED TO STRESS THE NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE THIS HAS ON WOMEN )T SEEMS THAT THE MILLION POUND INDUSTRY WILL NEVER STOP FOR THE SAKE OF FASHION

EVEN IF IT HAS LETHAL CONSEQUENCES AS THEY LEARNT LAST YEAR WITH THE DEATH OF YEAR OLD MODEL !NA #AROLINA DURING -ADRID S &ASHION 7EEK

$OLCE 'ABBANA HAVE COME UNDER THE ADVERTISING WATCHDOG S CRITICISMS FOR HAVING TOO MUCH VIOLENCE IN THEIR CURRENT FASHION CAMPAIGN 4HE )TALIAN FASHION HOUSE KNOWN FOR ITS THEATRICALITY FEATURES TWO MEN HOLDING A WOUNDED WOMAN AND TWO MEN THREATENING A MAN IN A CHAIR WHILE ANOTHER LIES ON THE m OOR WITH A HEAD INJURY 4HE ADVERT S APPEARANCE IN 4HE 4IMES AND 4HE $AILY 4ELEGRAPH RESULTED IN IT BEING BANNED IN THE 5+ FOR SPREAD ING THE WRONG MESSAGE TO A YOUNG AUDIENCE (OWVER %UROPE #HINA (ONG +ONG *APAN AND THE 53 RECEIVED NO COMPLAINTS -ONSOON

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'RITTY 'ROOMING !LSO KNOWN AS 4HE 'OSPEL ON 'ETTING 7OMEN (APPINESS AND 7EALTH

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ROOMING FOR MEN 2EMEMBER KIDS (AVING GREAT SKIN DOESN T HAVE TO BE HARD

WORK -ANY OF US TEND TO NEGLECT ANY KIND OF FACIAL REGIME &OR MOST OF US IT S DUE TO EITHER LACK OF TIME OR NOT REALLY KNOWING WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING (OWEVER THIS ARTICLE WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT USING SOME PRODUCTS JUST ONCE TO TWICE A DAY CAN LEAD TO DRAMATICALLY POSITIVE SKIN CHANGES &IRST YOU SHOULD SIMPLY FOLLOW OUR MANTRA OFx 7!3( 3(!6% 02/4%#4 7OMEN (APPINESS AND 7EALTH

.OT ONLY WILL IT ENSURE YOUR SKIN IS LEFT LOOKING GREAT BUT THIS WILL ALSO IMPROVE CONl DENCE GRANTING ALL YOUR WILDEST DREAMS 7!3(Â#LEANSING REMOVES EVERYDAY DIRT

OILS AND IMPURITIES THAT CAN CLOG PORES AND LEAD TO UNWANTED BLEM ISHES 2ANGING FROM A SMALL BLACK HEAD TO CLINICAL ABHORRENT ACNE &ASHION #ONSCIOUS -EN S 4OP 4IP

&OR CLEARER LOOKING SKIN USE A FACE SCRUB TWICE WEEKLY THIS WILL COM PLEMENT YOUR CLEAR PORES BY REMOV ING THE DEAD SKIN FROM YOUR FACE LIFTING THE GREY COLOUR YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IN THE MIRROR SOMETIMES &#- S 2ECOMMENDATIONS #LEAN #LEAR $EEP #LEANSING #REAM 7ASH /IL &REE a "OOTS ! N OIL FREE FACE WASH THAT EF FORTLESSLY CLEANS DEEP WITHIN YOUR PORES LEAVING THE LUCKY USER WITH FRESH TINGLING SENSATION ALL OVER THEIR FACE .IVEA &OR -EN #LEANSING &ACE 3CRUB ML !VAIL ABLE FOR a "OOTS

! HIGHLY RECOMMENED FACIAL SCRUB TO LIFT DEAD SKIN LIBERATING YOUR FACE 3(!6%Â3HAVING PREPARATORY PRODUCTS CAN SOFTEN THE BEARD AND PREPARE THE SKIN FOR A SMOOTHER CLOSER SHAVE #OUPLE THIS WITH REGULAR MOISTURIS ING AND SAY @GOOD BYE TO THOSE UGLY RASHES AND GASHES INJURIES &#- S 4OP 4IP &OR COMFORT AFTER SHAVING TRY USING AN !FTER 3HAVE "ALM WHICH SOOTHES AND CALMS SKIN ALONG WITH HELPING TO PROTECT AGAINST IRRITATION &#- S 2ECOMMENDATIONS EASY MEN 3HAVE &OAM a

"OOTS ! SURPRISINGLY REFRESHING

SOOTHING AND CHEAP SHAVING FOAM WITH AN EASY TO APPLY

RICH FORMULATION THAT AIDS A SMOOTH CLOSE SHAVE 0ERFECT FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT WILLING TO DENT YOUR DRINKING MON EY .IVEA &OR -EN 3ENSITIVE 3HAVE &OAM a "OOTS 34!2 "59 4HIS FOAM PROVIDES A CLOSE REFRESH ING SHAVE WITH !LOE 6ERA TO HEAL RAZOR BURN 3TEARIC !CID TO CLEANSE AND SOOTH SKIN

AND 6ITAMIN & TO MOISTURISE SKIN !ND ALL FOR UNDER THREE QUID n BARGAIN 02/4%#4Â-OISTURISERS WORK TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN FROM EXTERNAL INm UENCES AND HELP MAINTAIN HEALTHY SKIN .OT ONLY THIS BUT THEY CAN OFTEN CALM DOWN THE ROUGH SORENESS THAT REGULAR SHAVING PRODUCES MAKING YOUR FACE SOFT TO THE TOUCH &#- S 4OP 4IP 4RY A NEW MOISTUR ISER ONCE A DAY BUILDING UP TO AFTER EVERY FACE WASH ONCE YOU RE SURE THAT IT COMPLEMENTS YOUR SKIN &#- S 2ECOMMENDATIONS *AVARI !FTERSHAVE "ALM -ADE WITH #OMMUNITY 4RADE OIL a 4HE "ODYSHOP &OR THE MOST ETHI CAL PRODUCTS LOOK NO FUR THER THAN 4HE "ODY

SHOP 4HIS BALM DELIGHTS WITH A SPICY FRAGRANCE AND HINTS OF BLACK PEPPER AND GINGER )T SINKS INTO THE SKIN FAST TO HEAL AND COMFORT #LINIQUE 0OST 3HAVE 3OOTHER WITH !NTI "LEMISH &ORMULA a (OUSE OF &RASER 4HIS ALOE RICH LOTION SOOTHES JUST SHAVED SKIN 3PECIAL SKIN CLEAR ING INGREDIENTS HELP REDUCE AND PREVENT BREAKOUTS OF FOUL PUSS l LLED ACNE FOR CLOSER MORE COMFORT ABLE SHAVES 7E SIMPLY CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS HIGHLY ENOUGH DE SPITE THE LARGE PRICE TAG PUTTING OFF ALL BUT THE MOST VAINOF US

"UY IT OR "IN IT %VEN IN A PONCHO WE LOVE 5GLY "ETTY

-ONOCHROME PRINT )T S BIG

BOLD AND HITTING SHOPS NEAR YOU

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2EMEMBER GUYS DON T BE AFRAID

7ATCHES ARE SET TO BE THE EVEN REAL MEN KNOW THATx NEW MUST HAVE ACCESSORY 7!3( 3(!6% 02/4%#4 7OMEN (APPINESS AND 7EALTH 2FCM. x x x

#AMOUm AGE 7OULDN T IT BE NICE IF THIS WOULD JUST STAY HIDDEN *ADE *O AND THE EVIL WANNABE 7!'

4HANKS FOR SHOWING US HOW TO TAKE A FAILED CAREER AND AC TUALLY LOWER IT 7E WISH YOUR 02 TEAMS THE BEST OF LUCK

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!RTS "OOK 2EVIEW 4HEATRE 2EVIEW #AUCASIAN #HALK #IRCLE .ORWICH 0LAYHOUSE RD TH *ANUARY 4HE .ATIONAL 4HEATRE S VERSION OF "RECHT S MORALITY MASTERPIECE PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH &ILTER 4HEATRE #OMPANY ARRIVED IN .ORWICH LAST WEEK FOR A SEVEN SHOW STINT AT THE 0LAY HOUSE &ILTER RENOWNED FOR THEIR UNIQUE SYNTHESIS OF DRAMA MUSIC AND VIDEO LIVED UP TO THEIR REPUTATION WITH AN INVENTIVE MULTI DISCIPLINARY PRODUCTION RELYING HEAVILY ON LIVE MUSIC AND VISUALLY STIMULATING EFFECTS TO CREATE A DARK ATMOSPHERE MATCHING THE CIVIL WAR STORYLINE 4HE EVENTS OF THE PLAY REVOLVE AROUND THE FATE OF -ICHAEL THE YOUNG SON OF THE GOVERNOR AND GOVERNESS OF A CITY IN TURMOIL WHO IS ABANDONED WHEN HIS MOTHER mEES /NCE THE WAR IS OVER THE GOVERNESS lGHTS A CUSTODY BATTLE WITH THE SERVANT GIRL WHO RISKED HER OWN LIFE TO CARE FOR THE CHILD LEADING TO THE RADICAL EMPLOYMENT OF THE CHALK CIRCLE TO RESOLVE THE CONmICT 4HE ENTIRE PLAY IS FRAMED BY A PROLOGUE IN WHICH THE AUDIENCE ARE INTRODUCED TO SINGER !RKADI

PLAYED BY MUSICIAN COME ACTOR ,EO #HADBURN WHO STRUTS MENACINGLY AROUND THE STAGE NAR RATING AS HE WEAVES BETWEEN ACTORS IN A BRILLIANT !LEX +APRANOS IMPERSONATION 4HE @PLAY WITHIN A PLAY STRUCTURE ALSO ALLOWS &ILTER TO EXHIBIT CRUCIAL ELEMENTS OF "RECHTIAN DRAMATIC THEORY AS THE PRESENCE OF MUSICIANS AND TECHNICIANS ON STAGE IN FULL VIEW OF THE AUDIENCE

SERVES AS A CONSTANT REMINDER THAT THE PLAY IS A MERE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY 0ERCUSSION AND KEYBOARDS ARE USED EFFECTIVELY THROUGHOUT THE PLAY WHILE ON OCCASION THE ENTIRE CAST BREAKS INTO SIMULTANEOUS SONG h7E GENERATE THE MUSIC AS WE GO ALONG v SAYS #HADBURN h7E SET UP BANKS OF SOUND THAT THE ENTIRE COMPANY CAN IMPROVISE WITH AND REACT TO )T S THE ANTITHESIS OF HOW IT S USUALLY DONE THE ACTORS ARE INVOLVED AS MUSICIANS AS WELL AND HAVE SOME CONTROL v 3OUND EFFECTS ARE GIVEN A SIMILAR TREATMENT WITH DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE ACTORS AND THE TECHNICIANS !T ONE POINT A CHARACTER IS SHOWN TAKING A BATH WHILE HIS MOTHER SIMULATES THE ACT OF POURING WATER FROM A JUG INTO THE TUB ,ESS THAN THREE METRES AWAY A SPARE ACTOR IS SEEN lLLING A CUP FROM A BUCKET OF WATER AND EMPTYING IT AS THE MOTHER POURS 5LTIMATELY THE PRODUCTION SEEMS TO BE A LESSON IN THE COLLABORATION OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF ART 3TAND OUT PERFORMANCES BY .ICOLAS 4ENNANT AS !ZDAK THE ECCENTRIC JUDGE WHO DECREES THE USE OF THE CHALK CIRCLE AND /LIVER $IMSDALE IN A NUMBER OF ROLES ENSURES THE SOLID CAST WORKS IN DIRECT PARTNERSHIP WITH A TEAM OF MUSICIANS AND DESIGNERS TO CREATE AN ENERGETIC AND POWER FUL SHOW 4HE AUDIENCE LEAVE THE THEATRE THINKING OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE PLAY AS MUCH AS THE IDEAS PUT FORWARD +ELVIN +NIGHT

0ETER 0AN IN 3CARLET BY 'ERALDINE -C#AUGHREAN 4HE lRST OFlCIAL SEQUEL TO * - "ARRIE S 0ETER 0AN COMMISSIONED BY 'REAT /RMOND 3TREET (OSPITAL FOR #HILDREN TO WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE BOOK S SALES WILL GO 0ETER 0AN IN 3CARLET IS BOTH A HOMAGE TO AND A DEPARTURE FROM "ARRIE S CLASSIC TALE 4HE ,OST "OYS ADOPTED BY THE $ARLINGS HAVE GROWN UP AND BECOME /LD "OYS JUDGES DOCTORS LAWYERS AND 7ENDY IS NOW A MOTHER FOR REAL 4HEY ARE ALL SENSIBLE RESPECTABLE GROWN UPS WITH JOBS WIVES AND FAMILIES 3O WHY ARE THEY DREAMING STRANGE DREAMS WAKING UP COVERED IN WARPAINT OR TO lND BOW AND ARROWS UNDER THE PILLOW )T IS 7ENDY

OF COURSE WHO REALISES THE TRUTH .EVERLAND IS CRACKING AND DREAMS ARE LEAKING OUT 3OMETHING TERRIBLE IS HAPPENING AND THE $ARLINGS GROWN UPS AS THEY ARE MUST RETURN TO .EVERLAND TO AID 0ETER 0AN 4HINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE "ARRIE S DAY 4HE WORLD IS OLDER AND SADDER AND WISER 4HE 'REAT 7AR HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING TIME HAS FOUND ITS WAY TO .EVERLAND 4HE $ARLINGS ARRIVE IN AUTUMN WHERE BEFORE THERE WAS ONLY SPRING IT S A COLDER MORE DANGEROUS PLACE THAN IT USED TO BE ! 0ETER 0AN IN SCARLET LEAVES WHO HAS NOT CHANGED OTHER THAN HIS NEW CLOTHES AND WHO HAS NOT NOTICED THAT THE SKELETONS OF MERMAIDS LINE THE BEACHES OR THAT THE BIRDS DON T SING IN .EVERWOOD ANY MORE OR THAT -ICHAEL $ARLING IS MISSINGx 0ETER 0AN IN 3CARLET IS FULL OF THE WIT AND INVENTIVE STYLE THAT CHARACTERISED 0ETER 0AN 4HE QUIRKY PROSE AND IMAGINATIVE DETAILS ARE WONDERFULLY EVOCATIVE OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE AND IMAGINATION 9ET THE BOOK ALSO RETAINS THE DARK THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH "ARRIE S CLASSIC

CONJURING UP THE IGNORANCE OF YOUTH THE SELlSHNESS OF CHILDHOOD THE SADNESS OF LITTLE BOYS LOST AND THE MOTHERS THAT LOST THEM THE LONELINESS OF 0ETER 0AN THE /NE AND /NLY #HILD )T IS A BOOK THAT TEACHES THAT THERE ARE ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES TO ACTIONS EVEN IN .EVERLAND THAT PROBLEMS DON T GO AWAY JUST BECAUSE CHILDREN IGNORE THEM 4HE BOOK IS AS MUCH A HOMAGE TO THE CARE OF GROWN UPS AS TO THE IGNORANCE OF CHILDREN 'ERALDINE -C#AUGHREAN IS A lNE AWARD WINNING CHILDREN S WRITER

AND ANYONE WITH EVEN A PASSING INTEREST IN THE CLASSICS OF CHILDREN S LITERATURE WILL ENJOY THE WITTY IMAGINATIVE BITTERSWEET ADVENTURES OF 0ETER 0AN IN 3CARLET !MY ,OWE

-IRANDA "RYANT ASKS hWHY CAN T WE ALL

7ATERSTONES v7E ,OVE "OOKSv

!S ) SAT IN THE 0LAYHOUSE "AR DURING THE INTERVAL OF THE #AUCASIAN #HALK #IRCLE ON 4HURSDAY

A LENGTHY QUEUE OF YEAR OLDS BUILT UP IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BAR 4HEY IMMEDIATELY IRRITATED ME !T lRST IT WAS THE FACT THAT EVEN AT THAT AGE IT IS INBUILT IN THEIR SCHOOL AGE PSYCHE TO QUEUE IN AN ORDERLY LINE WHEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING "UT THEN ) HEARD SNIPPETS OF CONVERSATION BRUTALLY JUDGING THE PLAY h)T WAS SO STUPID WHEN SHE WAS DOING THAT HEAVY BREATHING THING IN THE DARK v h;SNIGGER= 9EAH v /F COURSE EVERYONE S ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINIONS EVEN AT THE DEATHLY AGE OF DEATHLY PURELY RELATES TO MY OWN EXPERIENCE BUT ) THINK IT WAS THEIR CYNICISM AND UNWILLINGNESS TO hSUSPEND DISBELIEFv BLAH BLAH ETC THAT SHOCKED ME !S THE .ATIONAL 4HEATRE ACTORS SAID IN THE TALK BACK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE TEENAGERS ARE TERRIFYING TO PERFORM TO .OT BECAUSE THEY ARE EVIL OR DISINTERESTED BUT BECAUSE THEY EXPRESS THE KIND OF BOREDOM WHICH WE TEDIOUS ADULTS TRY n ) SAY TRY TO DISGUISE !T THIS MOMENT ) BECAME HIDEOUSLY ENVIOUS IT SUDDENLY FELT LIKE A HUGE ASSET TO YAWN LOUDLY WHEN BORED OR TO TURN AROUND TO SEE HOW OTHERS RESPOND TO THE BIT THAT YOU THINK IS RUBBISH 4HIS IS A FANTASTIC HONESTY ALMOST AN ART FORM ) WANT TO BE LIKE THAT 3ADLY IT IS NOT POSSIBLE IN 7ESTERN SOCIETY WHATEVER THAT MEANS TO BE QUITE SO OBVIOUS ONCE YOU LOOK OLDER THAN A CERTAIN AGE 5NLIKE OTHER CULTURES IN 3OUTHERN )NDIA FOR EX AMPLE WHERE @THEATRE IS NOT TREATED AS A CROWN JEWEL TALKING OUT OF SYNC IS ACCEPTABLE COMMON PLACE IN FACT )N "RITAIN

HOWEVER WE DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK OUR MINDS IN WRITING 4HIS IS WHAT WE PROMISE OF OUR NEW LOOK ARTS SECTION n THE PUNCH OF OPINIONATED CRUEL YEAR OLDS YET PERHAPS WITH SLIGHTLY BETTER RESEARCH 0 3 $ESPITE THE RUTHLESSNESS ) HAVE NOW COME TO ADMIRE IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE YOUNG AUDIENCE ENJOYED IT

4EN DAYS INTO @5%! ,OVES "OOKS AND THE LIST OF ENTRIES READS LIKE A HISTORY OF IDEAS STORIES AND POSSIBILITIES 7ITH OVER TITLES NOMINATED

THE SCOPE RANGES FROM %5 POLITICS TO DICTIONAR IES .OTABLE ENTRANTS INCLUDE A LOVER OF -ANUEL #ASTELLS MEDIA STUDIES BOOKS NO ) HADN T HEARD OF HIM EITHER AND A COUPLE OF CHEEKY ENTRANTS WHO BEGGED FOR A FOURTH NOMINATION JUST ENTER AGAIN !LREADY THE LEADER BOARD SHOWS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF SURPRISE PACKAGES ALONGSIDE THE USUAL SUS PECTS 4HE TOP SPOTS CHANGE DAILY THIS IS GOING TO BE A CLOSE CONTEST /N A MORE SOMBRE NOTE WITH THE 35 "OOKSHOP SET TO CLOSE ) HAVE BEEN WON DERING WHETHER @5%! ,OVES "OOKS IS A MISNOMER $OES 5%! REALLY LOVE BOOKS 4O EVERYONE ) ISSUE THIS CALL GET INVOLVED SHOW YOUR PASSION NOMI NATE AND DISCUSS THE BOOKS YOU LOVE !ND LOOK OUT FOR EXCITING EVENTS COMING SOON

!RTS IN .ORWICH 4HIS ISSUE WE ASK OF STUDENTS 7HAT ARE THEIR ARTS RESOLUTIONS FOR 7HAT ARTS EVENTS ARE THEY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS YEAR

Anna, Concrete Editor: “Write more.”

“The new Thread Magazine -­ out this week!”

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Jack, 3rd year, Film and English: “Write more poetry.”

“Glastonbury Festival.”

Andy, 4th year, English and Ameri-­ can Literature: “To be more creative and urbane.”

“LCD Soundsystem and CSS.”

Nicola and Danielle, 1st years, LIT school: “To draw more and take photos.”

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.ORWICH IS EMERGING AS A CITY KEEN TO REVEAL ITS ARTISTIC CAPABILITIES &AY (ARRIS GOES ON A SEARCH OF THE METROPOLIS CREATIVE HANG OUTS AND MEETS THE BOHEMIAN INMATES OF .ORWICH S 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN

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HEN ONE THINKS OF I N N OVA T I VE DESIGN AND CONTEM PORARY ART

.ORFOLK DOESN T INSTANTLY SPRING TO MIND 4HE HOME OF FARMERS AND RE TIRING MIDDLE AGED HIPPIES IT SEEMS AN UNLIKELY PLACE FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A PROGRESSIVE CUTTING EDGE ARTIS TIC CULTURE YET .ORWICH IS QUICKLY BECOMING A CELEBRATED AREA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE "RITISH CREATIVE INDUSTRY -UCH OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS ROOTED IN THE CITY S ESTABLISHED ART COLLEGE THE .ORWICH 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN 4HE INSTITUTE WAS ES TABLISHED IN AND HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT INmUENCE ON THE AWARE NESS OF .ORFOLK ARTISTS OLD AND YOUNG 4HE 3CHOOL OFFERS A CHANCE FOR STUDENTS TO STUDY A WIDE RANGE OF CREATIVE DEGREES FROM &INE !RT TO 'RAPHIC $ESIGN WHICH THE SCHOOL IS PARTICULARLY RENOWNED FOR 4HE 'RAPHICS COURSE COVERS ALL TYPES OF DESIGN DIRECTION INCLUDING ANIMA TION AND PHOTOGRAPHY AND HAS SEEN PAST STUDENTS MOVE INTO WORK PLACE MENTS WITH THE )NDEPENDENT THE ""# THE 3UNDAY 4IMES AND 3KY 46 4HE 3CHOOL HOSTED THE ANNUAL )NTER NATIONAL !NIMATION &ESTIVAL LAST /C TOBER WHERE ARTISTS AND ANIMATORS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE JOINED WITH STUDENTS TO CELEBRATE OVER lLMS

INSTALLATIONS AND LIVE PERFORMANCES

MANY OF WHICH WERE 5+ PREMIERES 4HE COBBLED STREETS OF .ORWICH FELT THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARTISTS SUCH AS #AROLINE ,EAF +OJI 9AMAMURA AND -ANS .EWLAND ,AST YEAR S FESTIVAL SAW MANY OF THE 3CHOOL S STUDENTS PRESENT THEIR OWN WORK TO LEADING MEMBERS OF THE DESIGN INDUSTRY AL LOWING YOUNG DESIGNERS TO PUBLICISE THEIR TALENTS AND FORM FOUNDATIONS FOR FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IN DUSTRY 4HE )NSTITUTE ITSELF IS A CONTRADIC TORY MIX OF HISTORY AND MODERNITY )NSIDE ITS HISTORICAL BUILDING LIES EXCITING AND NEW TALENT 4HE COR RIDORS ARE LINED WITH HALF lNISHED SKETCHES EIGHT FOOT PAINTINGS AND REALIST PHOTOGRAPHY THERE ARE TINS OF PAINT AND ROLLS OF lLM ON STAIR WELLS AND PAINT lNGERPRINTS ON EVE RY DOOR KNOB AN INTERESTING CHANGE FROM THE TAME CORRIDORS O F 5%!

)T IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT UNIVER SITY EXPERIENCE FROM ACADEMIC IN STITUTES WITH STUDENTS ARE INSTANTLY CREATING RATHER THAN DRUMMING lN GERS IN LECTURES 3TUDENTS FROM DIF FERENT DESIGN COURSES WORK TOGETHER IN CLOSE PROXIMITY AND THERE IS A SENSE OF A TIGHT COMMUNITY WITHIN THE 3CHOOL %VERY STUDENT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXHIBIT THEIR WORK AROUND THE COLLEGE AND CREATE THEIR OWN SHOW TO PRESENT WORKS TO THEIR PEERS AND THE PUBLIC %ACH EXHIBIT IS ALWAYS VERY INNOVATIVE THE WALLS ARE CURRENTLY HOME TO A PAINTING OF A CROUCHING NAKED WOMAN GIVING BIRTH TO A GREAT WHITE SHARK SOME THING THAT WOULD NOT LOOK OUT OF PLACE IN THE 4ATE -ODERN 4HE 3CHOOL S ANNUAL %ND OF 9EAR 3HOW ALWAYS DELIVERS A HIGHLY INNO VATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXHIBITION OF EVERY COURSE AT THE INSTITUTE !RT ISTS FROM ALL lELDS SUCH AS ILLUSTRA TION SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY VISIT THE SHOW TO SEE EXCITING lNAL PROJECTS FROM THE STUDENTS 4HE -! %XHIBITION WILL BE HELD FROM TH TH &EBRUARY AND THE UNDERGRADU ATES WILL EXHIBIT FROM TH *UNE TO TH *ULY !DJACENT TO .ORWICH 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN AND SUPPORTED BY THE INSTITUTE IS THE .ORWICH 'AL LERY WHICH HAS BECOME AN INmU ENTIAL FORCE IN THE PROMOTION AND AWARENESS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE .ORFOLK REGION 4HE 'ALLERY WHICH HAS BEEN OPEN FOR YEARS

IS DEDICATED TO RECOGNISING LOCAL ARTISTS AND HAS BECOME THE FOCAL POINT OF .ORWICH S PROGRESSING CREATIVE COMMUNITY %VERY SUMMER THE 'ALLERY HOSTS THE DISTINGUISHED %!34 EXHIBITION AS PART OF THE %!34 )NTERNATIONAL PROJECT %!34 IS %NG LAND S BIGGEST ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND HAS BEEN SE LECTED BY ARTISTS SUCH AS -ARY +ELLY

'USTAV -ETZGER AND LANDSCAPE ART IST 2ICHARD ,ONG /CTOBER SAW THE 'ALLERY HOUSE RENOWNED GRAPHIC DESIGNER "OB 'ILL WHOSE WORK ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING FROM MAGAZINES TO (OL LYWOOD lLM AND CHILDREN S BOOKS $URING THE LATE S AND EARLY S

HE ILLUSTRATED FOR %SQUIRE AND 6OGUE AND LATER EXHIBITED A DOCUMENTARY SHOW INVOLVING FT DEEP MOVIE SCREENS WHICH SWAMPED THE FACADE OF THE .EW 9ORK /PERA (OUSE A STUNT WHICH HAS BEEN COMPARED TO THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF (ITLER S EX HIBITIONIST ,ENI 2IEFENSTAHL 'ILL EVENTUALLY BECAME CO CREATOR OF THE PRESTIGIOUS $ESIGNERS AND !RT $IREC TORS !SSOCIATION $ !$ 'ILL WAS KNOWN AS THE DESIGNER OF @SWINGING ,ONDON AND TO MODERN DESIGNERS OF TODAY HE MAINTAINS HIS HEROIC STATUS IN THE DESIGN INDUSTRY 4HE 'ALLERY S CURRENT EXHIBITION !NALOGUE IS A SERIES OF PIONEERING VIDEOS FROM THE 5+ #ANADA AND 0OLAND WHICH CELEBRATE VIDEO ART BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE DIGITAL CAM ERA 4HE VIEWER IS THROWN BACK INTO S mARED SUITS AND BEATNIKS IN A SERIES OF VIDEOS THAT COMBINE THE DIVERSITY OF THE CULTURAL DECADE WITH THE RESTRIC TIONS IN TECHNOL OGY AT THAT TIME 4HE EXHIBIT IS A GLIMPSE INTO @WHAT WAS BUT ALSO INTO WHAT HAS CHANGED IN THE PROCESS AND QUAL

ITIES OF VISUAL ART 4HOUGH SOME OF THE VIDEOS ARE COMICALLY RETRO ONE CANNOT HELP BUT LAUGH AT THE HOR RIlC HAIRSTYLES /THER CLIPS QUIETLY SHOCK LIKE 0AUL 7ONG S 5NIT "RUISE

DEPICTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRUG USERS 4HE MINUTE EXHIBI TION IS AN ECLECTIC STORYBOOK OF THE PAST COMBINING MONOTONY WITH mEETING MOMENTS OF TRAUMA 4HE VIEWER IS NEVER SURE WHETHER TO RUN FOR THE EXIT OR SIT QUIETLY AMAZED

AND LIKE MOST ART WE ARE LEFT WITH THE FEELING OF SIMULTANEOUS DISAP POINTMENT AND CURIOSITY 4HE 'ALLERY IS HONOURED TO BE EXHIBITING THE WORK OF %!34 )NTER NATIONAL WINNER AND 3COTTISH BORN ARTIST ,UCY -CKENZIE FROM *ANUARY ST ,UCY HAS BEEN IDENTIlED AS THE TH MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST IN THE &LASH !RT AWARDS AND HAS ENJOYED INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION IN %U ROPE AND THE 53! 3URPRISINGLY SHE HAS DECIDED TO RETURN TO THE %!34

PROJECT AFTER WINNING THE AWARD IN

AND EXHIBIT HER CELEBRATED WORK HERE IN .ORWICH BEFORE THE SHOW IS MOVED TO THE DISTINGUISHED -USEUM OF -ODERN !RT IN 3AN &RAN CISCO 4HE CURATORS AT THE 'ALLERY AND THE STUDENTS OF .ORWICH SCHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN ARE THRILLED THAT ,UCY S SHOW ARTISTICALLY ENTITLED 4EN 9EARS OF 2OBOTIC -AYHEM IS COMING TO .ORWICH )T IS AMAZING THAT SUCH A WELL KNOWN ARTIST IS KEEN TO SHOW CASE WORK OUTSIDE ,ONDON AND A DELIGHT TO SEE INmUENTIAL MODISH DESIGN BEING APPRECIATED IN THE SLEEPY COUNTY OF .ORFOLK "OTH THE 'ALLERY AND .ORWICH 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN ARE HOPE FUL THAT MORE UPCOMING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WILL RECOGNISE THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN THIS REGION 7ITH THE AID OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED 3AINS BURY #ENTRE THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE CITY S CREATIVE IMAGINATION WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS

THE EVENT

46

0RIMETIME

0RISON "REAK &IVE -ONDAYS

&OR SHOWS THAT HAVE EXPLOSIVE lRST SEASONS IT IS OFTEN HARD TO KEEP RATINGS UP AS AUDIENCE EX PECTATIONS AND HYPE GROW )T HAP PENED WITH ,OST AND SOME FORE SAW THE SAME WITH 0RISON "REAK

DUE TO ITS POTENTIALLY UNSUSTAIN ABLE PREMISE BUT THANKFULLY THE PESSIMISTIC CRITICS GOT IT WRONG 3EASON FOLLOWS OUR EIGHT &OX 2IVER ESCAPEES ON THE RUN AFTER THE EPIC AND TENSION lLLED ESCAPE OF THE PREVIOUS SEASON -ICHAEL 3COlELD 7ENTWORTH -ILLER AND HIS BROTHER ,IN COLN $OMINIC 0URCELL ALONG WITH THEIR OTHER COMRADES USE ANY METHOD THEY CAN TO ESCAPE

FROM PLANE TRAINS AND AUTOMO BILES TO BICYCLES AND DINGHIES ,INCOLN S EX GIRLFRIEND 6E RONICA AND *OHN !BRUZZI ARE SOON

KILLED OFF SETTING THE PACE FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON .O ONE IS SAFE NOT EVEN THE PROTAGONISTS !S THE MANHUNT BUILDS UP THE AUDIENCE GET PULLED DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE CONSPIRACY (EAD ING THE HUNT IS A DRUG ADDICTED &") 3PECIAL !GENT -AHONE 7IL LIAM &ICHTNER WHO GETS ROPED INTO DOING THE GOVERNMENT S DIRTY WORK IN ORDER TO HIDE HIS SINISTER PAST *UST LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER VILLAINS WE SEE -AHONE IS COLD BLOODED AND CALCULATED BUT HIS ERRATIC AND VOLATILE BEHAVIOUR ADDS A NEW DIMENSION TO THE PLOT NOT PRESENT IN THE PREVIOUS SEASON +ELLERMAN RETURNS THIS TIME SETTING HIS SIGHTS ON $OCTOR 3ARA 4ANCREDI TO GET TO -ICHAEL 0OSING AS A RECOVERING ADDICT HE BEFRIENDS 3ARA AND GAINS ACCESS TO EVERYTHING

HE NEEDS TO lND THE BROTHERS AND KEEP THE LID lRMLY ON THE 0AN DORA S "OX THAT WOULD BE OPENED IF THE TRUTH WERE EVER FOUND OUT 0RISON "REAK S HOOK IS ALL IN THE SUSPENSE ,IKE THE OTHER ESCAP EES WE TOO ARE IN THE DARK WHEN IT COMES TO -ICHAEL S PLANS 4HE WRITERS MANAGE TO KEEP THE AUDI ENCE GUESSING AND HALF THE FUN IS TRYING TO lGURE OUT JUST WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT -A HONE SOON lGURES OUT -ICHAEL S TATOOS HOLD THE KEY TO HIS PLAN THEY WERE NOT JUST THE PRISON BLUE PRINTS BUT THE WHOLE ES CAPE ROUTE FROM CELL TO FREEDOM !LLEGIANCES CONTINUALLY CHANGE AND AS MORE OF THE CON SPIRACY IS REVEALED THE TENSION RUNS HIGH !S WITH SHOWS LIKE

INTENSE ACTION AND GRIPPING

DRAMA IS NOT ENOUGH 4HE SHOW WOULD FALL mAT IF VIEWERS DIDN T CARE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS AND 0RISON "REAK DOESN T DISAPPOINT 4HE WRITERS CONTINUALLY GIVE US GLIMPSES OF -ICHAEL AND ,INCOLN S CHILDHOOD AND AS WE lND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW THE PROTAGONISTS HAVE REACHED THIS PIVOTAL STAGE IN

LIFE WE REALISE THE EMOTIONAL IN VESTMENT IS WORTH IT 4HE SHOW MANAGES TO MAINTAIN ITS GRASP IN THE SECOND SERIES KEEPING THE TENSIONS RUNNING HIGH WHILST NEVER LOOSING MOMENTUM 0RISON "REAK IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS AROUND AND IS NOT TO BE MISSED .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

.EIGHBOURS 46 #LASSICS !FTER DISCOVERING %LLE AND $YLAN IN BED TOGETHER 3KY GOES INTO PREMATURE LABOUR (OWEVER THIS IS ONLY THE START OF HER PROBLEMS AS NEWBORN BABY +ERRY NAMED AFTER 3KY S DEAD MOTHER IS KIDNAPPED DURING A lRE AT THE HOSPITAL 4HE NUMBER ONE SUSPECT IS THE ESTRANGED FATHER 3TINGRAY WHO WAS SEEN DRUNK ON HOSPITAL ##46 CAMERAS AT THE TIME +ERRY DISAPPEARED (OWEVER %LLE EVENTUALLY TRACKS THE BABY DOWN TO $YLAN IN A HOTEL HIDEAWAY (E HAD FOUND +ERRY IN THE ARMS OF AN UNCONSCIOUS 3TINGRAY AND NOW CONVINCED HE WOULD BE A BETTER PARENT THAN HIS BROTHER OR EX lANCEE HE IS DETERMINED TO PROVE +ERRY IS REALLY HIS DAUGHTER %LLE CAN T PERSUADE HIM TO RETURN TO %RINSBOROUGH BUT MANAGES TO RETURN THE BABY ANONYMOUSLY TO THE "ISHOP HOUSEHOLD 3TINGRAY ON LEARNING +ERRY HAS BEEN FOUND ALIVE AND WELL lNALLY lNDS THE MOTIVATION TO BEGIN THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY (E ATTENDS HIS lRST !! MEETING AND ADMITS THAT ALCOHOL IS RUINING HIS YOUNG LIFE -EANWHILE (AROLD IMPULSIVELY KISSES ,ORIS WHEN CELEBRATING +ERRY S RETURN AND DUE TO HER DEEPENING AFFECTION FOR HIM SHE KISSES HIM BACK 4HE #AMMENITI GIRLS ARE TORN APART AFTER #ARMELLA IS HORRIlCALLY INJURED WHILE CONFRONTING 4ERESA WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOSPITAL lRE AND 2OSIE DISOWNS #ARMELLA AFTER DISCOVERING HER ROLE IN THE SELLING OF 4ERESA S BABY +IERA / "RIEN

4OP

46 TREATS TO WATCH THIS FORTNIGHT

!MANDA ,IM $ESPERATE (OUSEWIVES # 7ED n )TCHING FOR SOME MIDWEEK COMIC DRAMA RELIEF 4HEN LOOK NO FURTHER +ICK BACK WITH YOUR HOUSEMATES AND ENTER THE CRAZY WORLD OF SUBURBIA

#3) #RIME 3CENE )NVESTIGATION &IVE 4HURS n 4HIS SEASON CLASSIC @$EAD 2INGER RECEIVES A THUMBS UP FOR ITS VISUAL IMAGERY AND EXCITING PLOT 5GLY "ETTY # &RI n (AVE YOU EVER REVEALED SOMEONE ELSE S SECRET THAT YOU SHOULDN T HAVE )F SO

THEN THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU 4HE /# # 3UN n 7ITH THE LOOMING ARRIVAL OF 4HANKSGIVING 2YAN BRINGS OUT HIS WILD SIDE YET AGAIN .EIGHBOURS ""# 7EEKDAYS n 7ATCH THIS AND REMINICE ABOUT LAST WEEK WEHN YOU MET 3TUART 0ARKER "LAIR -C$ONOUGH IN THE ,#2

THE EVENT

!LLY -C"EAL

7ITH ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS CRAZY CASES AND DANCING BABIES !LLY -C"EAL WAS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE SERIES OF THE LATE S 3TARRING A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN CAST HEADED BY #ALISTA &LOCKHART IN THE TITLE ROLE THE COMEDY DRAMA RAN FOR lVE GOOD SEASONS

ENTERTAINING AUDIENCES WORLDWIDE 4HE SHOW WAS SET IN THE LAW lRM OF #AGE &ISH AND WAS KNOWN FOR ITS UNIQUE PORTRAYAL OF THE LIFE OF -C"EAL AND THOSE AROUND HER &OCUSSING ON HER CASES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH FRIENDS AND MEN THERE WAS MUCH DEBATE AT THE TIME OVER WHETHER SHE WAS AN ANTI FEMINIST CHARACTER

THAT PROMOTED AN UNHEALTHY IMAGE FOR YOUNG WOMEN -USIC PLAYED A LARGE PART IN THE SHOW WITH MUSICIAN 6ONDA 3HEPARD A REGULAR FOR ALL lVE SEASONS !LL MAIN CAST MEMBERS ALSO SANG AT LEAST ONCE ON STAGE IN THE BAR THAT WAS SET BELOW THE lRM S OFlCES ! LARGE ARRAY OF FAMOUS FACES MADE APPEARANCES AS LAWYERS CLIENTS OR BOYFRIENDS IN !LLY -C"EAL WITH EVERYONE FROM ,UCY ,IU AND -ATTHEW 0ERRY TO 0ORTIA DE 2OSSI AND 2OBERT $OWNEY *R POPPING UP !LTHOUGH EVENTUALLY CANCELLED IN DUE TO FALLING RATINGS

!LLY -C"EAL WAS AN INNOVATIVE AND ORIGINAL SERIES IN ITS DAY AND DElNITELY WORTH A REVISIT ON $6$ &IONA "ILLINGS

$6$ #ORNER

4HE 3IMPSONS 3EASON a

3EASON NINE SEES A BIT OF A DROP IN THE LEVEL OF QUALITY FANS HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM THE WRITERS OF 4HE 3IMPSONS 4HE lRST EPISODE ISN T A PARTICULARLY STRONG ONE WITH A FAIRLY DULL STORYLINE CONCERNING (OMER $AN #ASTELLANETA HAVING TO PICK HIS CAR UP FROM WHERE IT S ILLEGALLY PARKED IN .EW 9ORK !LTHOUGH THE SHEER RANDOMNESS OF EVENTS IS OFTEN A GREAT PART OF THE COMEDY @4HE #ITY OF .EW 9ORK 6S (OMER 3IMPSON IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHEN THIS FAILS (OWEVER THE QUALITY IMPROVES AS THE SERIES PROGRESSES WITH SOME TOUCHING EPISODES SUCH AS @,ISA S 3AX IN WHICH (OMER PUTS

HIS DAUGHTER BEFORE HIMSELF AND AN ALLUSION TO ,ORD OF THE &LIES @$AS "US WHERE THE KIDS ARE EVEN MORE ANIMALISTIC THAN USUAL 4HERE S A PATCHWORK lLLER EPISODE FULL OF VARIOUS SONGS THOUGH GIVING THE IMPRESSION THE WRITERS MAY HAVE RUN OUT OF IDEAS

BUT THEY RE ON GOOD FORM IN THE LAST FEW EPISODES NOTICEABLY @'IRLY %DITION AND @,OST /UR ,ISA )N THESE WE SEE SIBLING RIVALRY BETWEEN "ART .ANCY #ARTWRIGHT AND ,ISA 9EARDLEY 3MITH THE BEST PART BEING @"ART S 0EOPLE AND SOME BONDING BETWEEN (OMER AND ,ISA 4HE LAST OF THE SERIES @.ATURAL

"ORN +ISSERS DOESN T DISAPPOINT

WITH -ARGE *ULIE +AVNER AND (OMER REDISCOVERING THEIR ROMANCE AND THE ADRENALINE RUSH OF POSSIBLY BEING CAUGHT IN THE ACT WITH SOME STRATEGICALLY PLACED AND INTERESTINGLY SHAPED LAWN ORNAMENTS 4HE BEST MOMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE (OMER S NAKED BUM SQUEAKING OVER THE GLASS ROOF OF A SWANKY NEW CHURCH

JUST AS THE CONGREGATION ARE RAISING THEIR EYES TO h'OD S GLORIOUS SKYv $ESPITE SOME LOW POINTS 4HE 3IMPSONS CLEARLY HAS MORE TO OFFER

A FACT SUPPORTED BY THE EXISTENCE OF NO FEWER THAN EIGHTEEN SERIES SO FAR (OLLY #URTIS

46

$IRTY (ARRY %VER WONDERED WHAT IT S LIKE TO BE IN THE STUDIO AUDIENCE FOR A 46 SHOW #HRIS (YDE TAKES A PERSONAL LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WENT TO THE lLMING OF THE lRST EPI SODE OF (ARRY (ILL S 46 "URPx

!

S WE LIVE IN THE lNE CITY THAT IS .OR WICH CHANCES ARE THAT A FEW OF US WILL HAVE BEEN IN THE AUDIENCE FOR A 46 SHOW AT SOME POINT PROBABLY ON THE TELEVISION INSTITUTION THAT IS 4RISHA 7HILE BEING PRESENT TO SUCH DEBATES AS hMY MOTHER IS ADDICTED TO CHIPSv ONE TOPIC THAT ) WAS UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SEE WHILE CHANNEL SURlNG ONE DAY MAY SEEM FUN TO SOME IT S NOT EXACTLY EVERY BODY S IDEA OF A GOOD TIME 3O WHEN ) GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE FOR THE lLMING OF THE lRST EPISODE OF EVE RYBODY S FAVOURITE 46 CRITIC S NEW SHOW

) KNEW ) WAS GOING TO BE IN FOR A GOOD TIME /R AT LEAST A BETTER TIME THAN MOST WOULD HAVE ENDURED WATCHING 4RISHA h(OW DID YOU GET SUCH TICKETS v ) HEAR YOU CRY 6ERY EASY ) REGISTERED WITH WWW TVRECORDINGS COM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND REGULARLY RECEIVE EMAILS FROM THEM WITH DETAILS ABOUT SHOWS THAT ARE BEING lLMED 4HE TICKETS THEMSELVES ARE FREE AND ARE SIMPLY PRINT OUTS FROM THE SITE ITSELF THE AIM ONE ASSUMES IS SIMPLY TO lLL THOSE SEATS WITH BUTTOCKS 4HESE PROGRAMMES RANGE FROM CUR RENT AFFAIRS ONES A LA (AVE ) 'OT .EWS &OR 9OU TO PANEL SHOWS SUCH AS A PILOT HOSTED BY $ANNY 7ALLACE IN WHICH CELEBRITIES ARE SET '#3% STANDARD QUES TIONS TO SEE HOW CLEVER THEY REALLY ARE 3O WHEN ) GOT THE EMAIL ABOUT TICKETS

FOR A FORTHCOMING SERIES OF 46 "URP ) IMMEDIATELY BOOKED SOME FOR THE VERY lRST EPISODE IN 4EDDINGTON 3TUDIOS CO INCIDENTALLY WHERE 4RISHA IS NOW lLMED 3O ON 4HURSDAY TH *ANUARY THE SHOW IS lLMED ON THE 4HURSDAY BEFORE BEING BROADCAST ON THE 3ATURDAY TO EN SURE IT S AS TOPICAL AND FRESH AS POSSIBLE

) MADE MY WAY TO 4EDDINGTON AFTER A DAY SHOPPING IN ,ONDON 4HE INTENSE WINDS HAD NEARLY PUT A STOP TO THIS AS NO TRAINS WERE RUNNING AT ONE POINT n ALL lF

TEEN PLATFORMS AT 7ATERLOO WERE CLOSED

LEADING TO THE STATION BEING ABSOLUTELY PACKED n AND HAVING BEEN ADVISED TO GET TO THE STUDIOS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE ) WAS WORRIED THAT MY FRIEND AND ) WOULD MISS OUR CONNECTING TRAIN (OWEVER SERVICE WAS SOON RESUMED AS NORMAL GOOD OLD "RITISH RAILWAY SYSTEMS AND WE ARRIVED AT 4EDDINGTON IN ROUGHLY AN HOUR 7E GOT TO THE STUDIOS FAIRLY QUICKLY AS THE ROUTE FROM THE STATION TO THEM WAS PRET TY SIMPLE AND ENDED UP BEING OUTSIDE AT ABOUT P M JUST IN TIME FOR THE FREE DRINKS THAT WERE LAID ON FOR US !FTER SHOWING OUR TICKETS AND BEING GIVEN ALLO CATED SEAT NUMBERS WE HELPED OURSELVES TO THE BOTTLES OF "ECK S THAT WERE BEING GIVEN OUT TWO PER TICKET n NO EXPENSE SPARED FOR (ARRY (ILL S FANS CLEARLY &I NALLY AFTER WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN ICE AGE OF WAITING IN REALITY ABOUT AN HOUR

AN ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE THAT WE WERE BEING SENT IN BY OUR SEAT NUMBERS !ND SO WE lNALLY GOT INSIDE 4ED DINGTON 3TUDIOS !S ) EXPECT WITH MOST PEOPLE ) D NEVER BEEN TO A 46 STUDIO BE FORE AND SEEING A SHOW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA WAS QUITE BIZARRE 4HE SEATING WAS SIMILAR TO SOMETHING THAT WOULD PERHAPS APPEAR AT A PRI MARY SCHOOL SPORTS DAY METALLIC AND UNCOMFORTABLE AND THAT COULD CLEARLY BE DECONSTRUCTED QUICKLY AND EASILY )N FRONT OF THE SET ITSELF WERE SEVERAL CAM ERAS DESPITE ONLY TWO BEING USED AND A TELEPROMPTER SHOWING THAT EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED OF PRESENTERS NEED RE MINDING OF THEIR LINES NOW AND AGAIN $ANGLING IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE WERE SEVERAL 46 SCREENS AND MICROPHONES n THESE WERE TO SHOW THE CLIPS THAT (ILL TOOK THE MICKEY OUT OF AND TO RECORD OUR SUBSEQUENT LAUGHTER /NCE THE AUDIENCE HAD SETTLED A COMEDIAN CAME ON TO DO A BRIEF BIT OF STAND UP TO LOOSEN US UP A BIT BEFORE THE ACTUAL RECORDING 7ELL ) SAY hCOMEDIANv HE SEEMED MORE LIKE HE D BEEN TIMEWARPED IN FROM A "UTLINS CAMP IN THE S SUCH WAS THE QUAL ITY OF HIS ROUTINE *OKES ABOUT PUTTING THE WRONG TYPE OF STUFF IN THE RECYCLING WHEELIE BIN 0LEASEx /NCE HE D lN ISHED MAKING US ALL CRINGE -R (ARRY (ILL HIMSELF APPEARED FROM THE SIDELINES TO RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE !GAIN TO GET US INTO THE MOOD HE TOLD SOME JOKES TOO ONLY THESE ONES WERE FUNNY ! HIGHLIGHT WAS h) BIT INTO A FORTUNE COOKIE THE OTHER DAYx TURNED OUT IT WASN T A FORTUNE COOKIE BUT A CUSTARD CREAM THAT MY MUM HAD HID DEN HER POSTAGE STAMPS INSIDE v "RILLIANT /NCE HE SAT DOWN BEHIND HIS DESK HE PULLED OUT A SMALL GUITAR FROM BEHIND IT AND PLAYED A COUPLE OF 3MITHS SONGS COMPLETE WITH -ORRISSEY STYLE CROON ING WHICH WAS FANTASTIC !FTER THIS

THE lLMING OF THE ACTUAL SHOW BEGAN !S THE OPENING SEQUENCE RAN ON THE MONITORS ABOVE OUR HEADS THE PRODUCER

STANDING BEHIND THE MAIN CAMERA INDI CATED TO US ALL TO START CLAPPING !FTER THIS

WE DIDN T NEED PROMPTING AGAIN AS THE JOKES MADE ABOUT THE VARIOUS CLIPS HAD US ALL IN STITCHES OF LAUGHTER 0ERHAPS THE FUNNIEST PART OF THE lRST HALF WERE THE JOKES ABOUT #ELEBRITY "IG "ROTHER AND (ILL S LOOKS TO THE CAMERA TO INDICATE HIS DIS MISSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS SUCH @CELEBRITIES /NE THING THAT WAS COMMENDABLE WAS HOW DESPITE IT BEING THE lRST EPISODE

(ILL DIDN T SLIP UP ONCE AND THE ENTIRE lRST HALF WAS COMPLETED ALL IN ONE GO !S THE TRADEMARK @lGHT SEQUENCE RAN HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY lLMED AND BROADCAST TO US VIA THE MONITORS WE WERE TOLD TO START CLAPPING AGAIN AS THE SHOW CUT TO ADVERTS 4HE SECOND HALF FOLLOWED PRETTY MUCH THE SAME PATTERN START WITH CLAP PING WATCH AND LAUGH AT THE CLIPS AND THEN CLAP AT THE END /NCE AGAIN (ILL MANAGED TO GET THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING WITHOUT ANY MISTAKES 0ERHAPS THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT SEEING IT LIVE WAS THE USE OF PROPS IN THE lRST EPISODE FOR EXAMPLE THERE WAS A BOWL OF MUD THAT (ILL ATE ALTHOUGH AS HE SHOWED US IT WAS IN FACT LIQUORICE AND WAS EVENTUALLY CUT OUT OF THE lNAL SHOW

AS WAS QUITE A LOT OF MATERIAL THAT WAS BROUGHT ON BY A STAGE HAND AS A CLIP PLAYED AND THEN TAKEN AWAY AGAIN AS THE FOLLOWING CLIP PLAYED 4HIS MEANT THAT THE lLMING PROGRESSED SMOOTHLY

/NCE THE AUDI ENCE HAD SETTLED

A COMEDIAN CAME ON TO DO A BRIEF BIT OF STAND UP 7ELL ) SAY hCOME DIANv HE SEEMED MORE LIKE HE D BEEN TIMEWARPED IN FROM A "UTLINS CAMP IN THE S

SUCH WAS THE QUAL ITY OF HIS ROUTINE

ADDING TO THE AIR OF PROFESSIONALISM /NCE THIS HAD ALL BEEN DONE A FEW OF THE LINKS THAT (ILL DOES HAD TO BE RE lLMED FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER FOR WHICH HE CONSULTED HIS SCRIPT WHICH IS ON A SHELF BEHIND THE DESK 3O TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE WE WERE LAUGHING AT THE PRE VIOUS CLIP ONCE THE SEGMENT WAS EDITED INTO THE MAIN SHOW (ILL TOLD A JOKE TO MAKE US ALL LAUGH AND THEN WENT SEAM LESSLY INTO THE LINK (AVING WATCHED THE SHOW THE LINKS THAT WERE RE lLMED ARE NOT NOTICEABLE AT ALL 3IMILARLY THE END SE QUENCE IN WHICH TWO BLOKES FROM SOME SHOW ON &IVE SANG THE "OB THE "UILDER THEME WAS lLMED AT AN EARLIER STAGE AND SHOWN TO US ON THE MONITORS TO MAKE US LAUGH AT IT BUT THIS IS NOT OBVIOUS AT ALL /NCE THE DIRECTOR WAS HAPPY WITH THE QUALITY OF THE SHOW TWO HOURS AFTER GETTING INTO THE STUDIO (ILL GAVE A MEM BER OF THE AUDIENCE HIS SCRIPT AND TOOK A PHOTO OF ANOTHER MEMBER IN THE 46 "URP CHAIR FOR HIS WEBSITE !FTER A COMMENT FROM THE "UTLINS COMEDIAN THAT THE STU DIO WAS TO BE TRANSFERRED BACK INTO THE 4RISHA SET UP YOU COULDN T MAKE IT UP

WE ALL LEFT THE STUDIO EXTREMELY HAPPY 3EEING A SHOW BEING lLMED WAS EX TRAORDINARILY EYE OPENING AND MADE ME REALISE JUST HOW MUCH EFFORT GOES INTO A SIMPLE HALF HOUR PROGRAMME &ROM THE STOP START ASPECT OF lLMING TO BEING TOLD WHEN TO CLAP A LOT OF WORK MAKES THE SHOW WHAT IT IS WHEN IT S AIRED ON A 3ATURDAY EVENING AND IT DElNITELY MADE ME APPRECIATE IT THAT LITTLE BIT MORE

THE EVENT

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4HE SUN HAS GONE DOWN "EYOND A DEAD TREE CLUTCHING !N OLD EAGLE S NEST

) CLOSE MY EYES AND DREAM THAT ) AM DEAD -Y mESH IS LEATH ER GREY AND COLD MY VISION BLURRED WITH MILKY WHITE ) SINK INTO THE WATER n CONSUMED BY THE SEDUCTIVE LIQUID CARESS ) FEEL IT SOFTLY DOWN MY ARMx !ND WITH A WAKING HAZE ) REMEMBER YOU ARE THERE 9OUR HAND ONCE SMOOTH

NOW ROUGH WITH WORK AND AGE GENTLY STROKES MY SHIVERING SKIN ) FEEL YOU PRESS AGAINST MY BACK OUR BODIES CURVED AS ONE 9OUR BREATH IS WARM AGAINST MY NECK n MY TONGUE ROLLS OVER MY LIPS AS ) TREMBLE IN MELANCHOLY DELIGHT

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!S IN A -IRROR $IMLY (E LIT A CIGARETTE AND LEANED BACK IN BED RESTING HIS HEAD ON SOME PILLOWS PROPPED UP AGAINST THE HEADBOARD (E PUSHED HIS HAIR BACK OUT OF HIS EYES AND HIS GLASSES HIGH ER UP ON HIS NOSE (E GAVE A QUICK GLANCE TOWARDS THE BATHROOM AND NOT SEEING ANYTHING HE REACHED OVER TO HIS PANTS ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR NEXT TO THE BED PULLED OUT A SMALL CRUMPLED SCRAP OF PAPER UNFOLDED IT AND BEGAN TO READ ,OVE NEVER ENDS AS FOR PROPHECIES THEY WILL PASS AWAY AS FOR TONGUES THEY WILL CEASE AS FOR KNOWLEDGE IT WILL PASS AWAY &OR OUR KNOWLEDGE IS IMPERFECT AND OUR PROPHECY IS IMPERFECT BUT WHEN THE PERFECT COMES THE IMPERFECT WILL PASS AWAY 7HEN ) WAS A CHILD ) SPOKE LIKE A CHILD ) THOUGHT LIKE A CHILD ) REASONED LIKE A CHILD WHEN ) BECAME A MAN ) GAVE UP CHILDISH WAYS &OR NOW WE SEE AS IN A MIR ROR DIMLY BUT THEN FACE TO FACE ; =

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.INTENDO ! 'O 'O 7ITH THE 7II HAVING BEEN #HRISTMAS .UMBER MUST HAVE TOY FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ACROSS THE 5+ #HRIS (YDE PUTS DOWN HIS 7II REMOTE TO LOOK BACK AT .INTENDO S PAST AND RE LIVE THAT .INTENDO MAGIC

!S .INTENDO SAW HOW SUCCESSFUL GAMES WERE THEIR INTEREST IN DOING MORE THAN MAKING SIMPLE HAND HELD BARREL THROWING GAMES GREW 4HEIR lRST STEP IN THIS DIRECTION WAS TO DISTRIBUTE THE IMPRESSIVELY TITLED -AGNAVOX /DYSSEY IN *APAN IN THE WORLD S lRST HOME VIDEO GAMES SYSTEM DONCHER KNOW 4HIS PROVED A FRUITFUL MOVE AS HOME CON SOLES WERE RARE NOT EVEN THE LEGENDARY 0ONG HAD BEEN MADE IT WAS EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL "OOSTED BY THIS .INTENDO BEGAN TO DEVELOP ITS OWN GAMES FOR BOTH HOME CONSOLES AND ARCADES 0ERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS OF THESE IS S $ONKEY +ONG THAT BRILLIANT GAME WERE YOU HAD TO JUMP OVER BARRELS IN ORDER TO RESCUE YOUR GIRLFRIEND FROM A GIANT APE 2ELEASED IN ARCADES AND VARIOUS CONSOLES INCLUDING THE !TARI -IYAMOTO S MASTERPIECE PROVED IMMENSE LY POPULAR DESPITE ITS SOMEWHAT WEIRD PREMISE

3URPRISINGLY .INTENDO DIDN T START IN THE S WITH THAT CONSOLE CHERISHED BY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE THE .%3 BUT IN *APAN IN THE S AS MANUFACTURERS OF CARDS FOR A GAME CALLED (ANAFUDA 4HE GAME GREW IN POPULARITY AND THE COMPANY GOT BIGGER AND BIG GER EVENTUALLY MANAGING TO MONOPOLISE THE MARKET SOMEWHAT IN BY MAKING DURABLE PLASTIC CARDS )N THE COMPANY MADE A DEAL WITH $ISNEY SO THAT $ISNEY CHARACTERS COULD APPEAR ON THE CARDS 4HIS WAS SOMEWHAT REVOLUTIONARY FOR THE TIME 7ESTERN AND %ASTERN CULTURES WERE CONSIDERED VERY SEPARATE IN *APAN YET -ICKEY ET AL PROVED VERY POP ULAR WITH THE *APANESE MARKET LEADING TO .INTEN DO SELLING CARD DECKS PER YEAR UNTIL 4HEN *APAN EXPERIENCED AN ECONOMIC BOOM DUE TO THE 4OKYO /LYMPICS MEANING THE CARD BUSINESS REACHED SATURATION AND PEOPLE STOPPED BUYING CARDS 4HE PRICE OF .INTENDO STOCK DROPPED DRAMATICALLY $ESPERATE TO KEEP THE COMPANY ALIVE .INTENDO TURNED TO MAKING TOYS WHICH MEANT NEW IDEAS HAD TO BE CONSTANTLY THOUGHT OF )N A MAINTENANCE ENGINEER CALLED 'UNPEI 9OKOI CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF ELECTRONIC GAMES 4HEIR NOVELTY VALUE MEANT THEY COULD BE MORE EXPENSIVE AND SO .INTENDO SLOWLY REGAINED LOST CAPITAL )T WAS DURING THIS PE RIOD THAT 3HIGERU -IYAMOTO WAS ALSO HIRED TO WORK ON ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS WHO WAS SOON TO BECOME .INTENDO S KEY IN SUCCEEDING IN THE GAMES MARKET

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n THE 3.%3 ERA

4HE 3UPER &AMICOM SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE WAS RELEASED IN *APAN ON .OVEMBER ST AND WAS SO HYPED THAT IT COMPLETELY SOLD OUT ACROSS *APAN IN THREE DAYS )T WAS THEN RELEASED IN !MERICA ON !UGUST TH AND %UROPE ON !PRIL TH AS THE 3.%3 3UPER .INTENDO %NTERTAINMENT 3YS TEM n GENIUS NAMING $ESPITE THE WORLDWIDE SUC CESS OF THE .%3 AND 'AME "OY .INTENDO HAD THEIR WORK CUT OUT DUE TO 3EGA S -EGA $RIVE CONSOLE

WHICH WAS AS EQUALLY POWERFUL AS THE 3.%3 AND RELEASED TWO YEARS EARLIER IN !MERICA .INTENDO S MARKET SHARE DROPPED FROM TO A MERE (OWEVER THE POPULARITY OF THE .INTENDO BRAND NOT TO MENTION THE BRILLIANCE OF TITLES LIKE 3UPER -ARIO 7ORLD 4HE ,EGEND OF :ELDA ! ,INK 4O 4HE 0AST AND &INAL &ANTASY ENDURED AND THE 3.%3 ENDED UP SELLING MORE UNITS WORLDWIDE IN TOTAL THAN THE -EGA $RIVE 4HE COMPANY ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS PLANNING IT S NEXT CONSOLE TO BE CAPABLE OF $ GRAPHICS SOMETHING THAT TRULY MADE THE MIND BOGGLE BACK IN WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE AND DESPITE A FEW SETBACKS LIKE UNWISELY INVESTING IN 0HILIPS #$ BASED CONSOLE THE #$ I 3ONY WERE ORIGINALLY CONTACTED ABOUT MAKING A #$ DRIVE ADD ON FOR THE 3.%3 WHICH .INTENDO EVENTUALLY BACKED OUT OFx MORE FOOL THEM AND THE 6IRTUAL "OY AN ILL FATED @VIRTUAL HEADSET CONSOLE THING THE . WAS EVENTUALLY RELEASED IN

)N *ULY 4HE "IG . MADE THE PLUNGE INTO THE WATERS OF HOME CONSOLES WITH THE &AMICOM @&AMI LY #OMPUTER CLEVER EH 5SING CARTRIDGE TECHNOL OGY IT SHIFTED UNITS IN JUST TWO MONTHS ROUGHLY THE SAME AS THE 8BOX SOLD IN 4HIS SUCCESS MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO IT S PRICE n IT RETAILED AT ABOUT a COMPARED TO THE !TARI S )N DESPITE GAMING S UNPOPULARITY IN THE 7EST THE COMPANY RELEASED THE CONSOLE WORLDWIDE UNDER A NEW NAME THE .%3 .INTENDO %NTERTAIN MENT 3YSTEM !ND THUS A LEGACY BEGAN 7ITH GAMES LIKE 3UPER -ARIO "ROS -ETROID AND THE EVER POPULAR $UCK (UNT THE .%3 SOON BECAME AN UNSTOPPABLE BEAST n SELLING OVER MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE

BOOSTING THE INDUSTRY SETTING THE STANDARD FOR GAME DESIGN AND HELPING OTHERS IN THE BUSINESS PRACTICE CONSOLE SELLING 7ITH ITS BRICK LIKE FOUR BUTTON CONTROLLERS AND THE OPTIONS TO BUY SPECIAL EXTRAS LIKE THE @:APPER GUN THE RANGE OF ADDITIONS AVAILABLE WERE JUST MORE REASONS TO LOVE THE .%3 SAW THE RELEASE OF THE 'AME "OY AND 4ETRIS

UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME THE BEST SELLING PORTABLE CONSOLE EVER )T ALSO SPAWNED A NUMBER OF VARIATIONS IN CLUDING THE 3UPER 'AME "OY THE 'AME "OY 0OCKET

AND THE 'AME "OY ,IGHT !T THIS TIME .INTENDO WERE AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME AND THEY ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF THEIR NEXT CONSOLE WOULD BE IN

4HE EVOLUTION OF -ARIO FROM @*UMPMAN IN $ONKEY +ONG TO THE NEW @-INI -ARIO IN -ARIO VS $ONKEY +ONG

n 4HE . ERA

4HE MID NINETIES HERALDED THE ARRIVAL OF THE .INTENDO .INTENDO S THIRD HOME GAME CONSOLE 4HOUGH IT STILL USED CARTRIDGES OVER THE EVER POPULAR DIGITAL DISCS THE . HELD ITS OWN BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESS FUL CONSOLES OF THE lFTH GENERATION OF GAMING /NE OF THE MOST AMAZING GAMES ON THE .

HAD TO BE 4HE ,EGEND OF :ELDA /CARINA OF 4IME 4HE :ELDA SERIES HAD BEEN A $ PHENOMENON SO GOING FROM THE OLD AERIAL PERSPECTIVE TO ONE THAT GAVE YOU A FULL VIEW OF PLAY WAS AMAZING )T WAS DElNITELY ONE THAT TESTED ALL ASPECTS OF GAMING SKILL WITH HORSE RIDING ARCHERY AND SWORD lGHTING )T EVEN TESTED YOUR MUSICAL MEMORY WITH THE /CA RINA A MAGICAL mUTE LIKE INSTRUMENT WHICH TRANS PORTED YOU TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND TRANSFORMED THE WEATHER 4HE KEY ELEMENT OF THE GAME WAS TIME TRAVEL WHERE YOU COULD FREQUENTLY MOVE BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS THROUGH TIME FROM A YOUNGER TO OLDER ,INK SAVING THE KINGDOM AS YOU WENT ALONG &OR MULTIPLAYER GAMES THERE WAS NOTHING QUITE LIKE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SITTING DOWN TO RACE EACH OTHER IN -ARIO +ART OR JUMP ING AROUND AS 0IKACHU IN 3UPER 3MASH "ROTHERS (OWEVER THE ULTIMATE MULTIPLAYER GAME HAD TO BE 'OLDEN%YE 4AKEN FROM THE POPULAR "OND lLM 'OLDEN%YE WAS REVOLUTIONARY IN THE GAMING WORLD 4HE lRST PERSON SHOOTER MODE WAS INCRED IBLE PLACING YOU INTO THE SHOES OF "OND WHERE YOU SEE THROUGH HIS EYES AS YOU lGHT THE ARRAY OF HENCHMEN AND EVIL DOERS (OWEVER AS FAMILY FUN GOES THERE WAS NO CONTEST WHEN IT CAME TO THE MULTIPLAYER MODE 7HETHER YOU PREFERRED THE GOLDEN GUN OR AUTOMATICS CAPTURING THE mAG OR SIMPLY WANTED A BIT OF FUN IN PAINTBALL MODE IT WAS THE ULTIMATE DEATHMATCH GAME THAT HAD IT ALL &OR 4HE %VENT WHAT MAKES THE . SO FAN TASTIC IS THE NOSTALGIA SURROUNDING IT "EING A NINETIES TEEN IT WAS THE BEST THING AROUND AND THERE S NOTHING LIKE PLAYING IT WITH YOUR SIB LINGS AND COUSINS REMEMBERING ALL THE AN TICS AND HAND CRAMPS THAT WENT ALONG WITH IT 4HIS WAS ALSO THE ERA OF THE 'AME "OY !DVANCE AND #OLOUR WHICH WITH COMBINED SALES OF MILLION HAD HUGE IMPACTS ON THE HANDHELD GAMES MARKET .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

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)N THE PREVIOUS CONSOLE BATTLE ALTHOUGH THE 'AMECUBE SOLD THE LEAST IT OFFERED THE MOST PURE GAMING EX PERIENCE OF THE BUNCH .O $6$ PLAYERS OR INTERNET DOOHICKEYS BUT TITLES THAT OFFERED THE MOST FUN POS SIBLE WITHOUT HAVING TO GO TO CONFESSION AFTERWARDS 4HE 'AMECUBE S MAIN PROBLEM WAS THAT IT LACKED THE SHEER VARIETY OF ITS COMPETITORS BUT IT MORE THAN MADE UP FOR THIS WITH TOP QUALITY PLATFORM SPECIlC GAMES .OW THAT A SECOND HAND #UBE CAN BE PICKED UP FOR a OR LESS THERE IS LITTLE EXCUSE NOT TO PLAY THEM 4HE MULTIPLAYER ASPECTS OF THE 'AMECUBE WERE PARTICULAR LY NOTEWORTHY n IT WAS EASY TO GET A FEW FRIENDS ROUND TO PLAY SUCH GREAT TITLES AS -ARIO+ART $OUBLE $ASH

7ARIOWARE 0ARTY AND 3MASH "ROS -ELEE FAST GAMES OF THE LAST TWO SOMETIMES RESEMBLING DRUG TRIPS 3OME OF THE BEST GAMES EVER MADE ARE AVAIL ABLE FOR THIS TITLE 4HE UNDERAPPRECIATED 0APER -ARIO 4HE 4HOUSAND 9EAR $OOR WHICH IS THE MOST FUN 20' AVAILABLE COMPLETE WITH LOVABLE PRESEN TATION 4HERE WAS THE PERFECT -ETROID 0RIME PROB ABLY THE BEST GAME EVER MADE OFFERING SUPERB PRESENTATION AND EXCITING GAMEPLAY &INALLY THE SWANSONG OF THE 'AMECUBE AND THE BEST GAME IN A FAMOUS SERIES 4HE ,EGEND OF :ELDA 4WILIGHT 0RINCESS 4HE 'AMECUBE WAS HORRIBLY UNDERRATED BUT YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO GET ONE WHILE YOU STILL CAN 3HOWING THAT THAT TRADEMARK .INTENDO MAGIC HADN T BEEN LOST THE COMPANY RELEASED THE $3 $UAL 3CREEN IN LATE !DDING TWO FEATURES THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN UNEXPLORED IN HANDHELD GAMING n TWO SCREENS AND A TOUCH SCREEN n THE CONSOLE PROVED INCREDIBLY POPULAR AND THE GAMES THAT HAVE SINCE BEEN RELEASED FOR IT HAVE USED THESE ASPECTS TO GREAT EFFECT MAKING THEM THAT LITTLE BIT MORE MEMORABLE 4AKE .INTENDOGS FOR EXAMPLE 7HILE BEING BASICALLY A 4AMAGOTCHI GAME IT USES THE TOUCH SCREEN TO ALLOW YOU TO STROKE THE DOG AND THE MICROPHONE LETS YOU SHOUT COMMANDS AT IT TO TRAIN IT UP (OW FREAKING COOL IS THAT 4HEN THERE S 4RAUMA #ENTRE WHICH IS A HOSPITAL GAME IN WHICH YOU CUT OPEN PATIENTS US ING THE TOUCH SCREEN .EW 3UPER -ARIO "ROS USES THE SECOND SCREEN AS A MAP AND TO SHOW EXTRA INFORMA TION THAT MIGHT CRAM THE MAIN SCREEN "ASICALLY ITS GENIUS AND POSSIBLY ONE OF THE MOST FUN CONSOLES EVER 7ELL UNTIL THE 7II S RELEASE IN THAT ISx !NDY *UDSON

PRESENT n 4HE 7II ERA

7HEN DETAILS ABOUT THE 7II SO CALLED BECAUSE IT S *APANESE FOR GOOD LUCK AND IMPLIES BRINGING PEO PLE TOGETHER FOR THOSE AMUSED BY THE SCATOLOGICAL NAME lRST EMERGED THE GAMING COMMUNITY WAS BAFmED (OW ON EARTH WOULD WE BE ABLE TO INTERACT WITH GAMES IN SUCH A WAY (OWEVER PROMO VIDEOS SOON PUT PAID TO SUCH DOUBTS AND LEFT MANY SALIVAT ING AT THE PROSPECT 5SING THE REMOTE AS A SWORD IN A :ELDA GAME 0LAYING TENNIS WITH IT 5SE IT AS A GUN 3HAKE IT LIKE A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE (ECK

EVEN USE IT AS A LIGHTSABER )T SOUNDED AS IF .INTEN DO HAD OUTSHONE THEMSELVES THIS TIME 5NSURPRIS INGLY DEMAND FOR THE CONSOLE FAR EXCEEDED SUPPLY ON THE RELEASE DAY $ECEMBER TH LAST YEAR AND

NEARLY TWO MONTHS ON THIS IS STILL A PROBLEM (OW EVER FOR THOSE PATIENT ENOUGH TO PUT A PRE ORDER IN AND WAIT IT S WELL WORTH IT 4HE INTERACTIVITY IS ABSO LUTELY AMAZING BEING ABLE TO USE THE REMOTE TO PLAY THE GAME IS INITIALLY A LITTLE WEIRD BUT SOON FEELS AS NATURAL AS WALKING 4HE GRAPHICS OF THE 7II MAY NOT BE A GIANT STEP FORWARD FROM THE 'AMECUBE

BUT IT DOESN T MATTER WHEN GAMEPLAY IS AS FUN AS THIS 4HEN THERE S THE CONSOLE S OTHER FEATURES LIKE THE -II CHANNEL ,IKE A BASIC VERSION OF 4HE 3IMS IT LETS YOU MAKE YOUR OWN CHARACTER FOR PLAYING WITH YOU CAN THEN PLAY AS THAT CHARACTER IN CERTAIN GAMES AVAILABLE FOR THE 7II !GAIN THIS LEVEL OF CUSTOMISA TION SHOWS JUST HOW MUCH .INTENDO HAVE TRIED TO MAKE THIS CONSOLE APPEAL TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE 4HERE S ALSO AN 3$ SLOT MEANING YOU CAN TRANS FER PHOTOS FROM YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA TO IT BACK WARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH 'AMECUBE GAMES AND AN INCREASING RANGE OF GAMES FROM GAMING SYSTEMS OF YESTERYEAR AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD PLANNED COM PATIBILITY WITH THE $3 AND A .UNCHUK THAT CAN BE PLUGGED INTO THE REMOTE TO PLAY VIRTUAL BOXING /H YES 4HE 7II HAS GOT ALMOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT PER HAPS A TOOL FOR GETTING PEBBLES OUT OF HORSESHOES &OR US AT 4HE %VENT IT FEELS LIKE .INTENDO HAS WON THIS ROUND OF THE CONSOLE WARS ALREADY FOR PLAYABIL ITY INTERACTION AND SHEER FUN THEY VE MANAGED TO PULL THE CARPET OUT FROM UNDER 3ONY AND -ICROSOFT S FEET )F YOU RE EVEN SLIGHTLY INTERESTED IN A 7II GET ON DOWN TO ONE OF THE GAMES SHOPS IN .ORWICH AND PRE ORDER ONE BELIEVE US YOU WON T BE DISAPPOINTED

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!LBUM 2EVIEWS 4HE 'OOD 4HE "AD !ND 4HE 1UEEN 7HILE /ASIS ARE BRINGING IN REmECTING ON PAST GLORIES WITH THEIR BLOATED AND SELF CONGRATULATORY "EST /F COMPILATION THEIR ONE TIME RIVAL $AMON !LBARN IS RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH ANOTHER NEW BAND 4HE 'OOD 4HE "AD !ND 4HE 1UEEN SEES POP S BIGGEST CHA MELEON SINCE $AVID "OWIE PURSUING ANOTHER MUSICAL DIRECTION COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING SEEN IN "LUR OR 'ORILLAZ )T S A DIRECTION THAT AS WITH THESE TWO BANDS CANNOT BE PIGEONHOLED EASILY 3O WHAT IS IT THAT SETS THIS GROUP APART FROM ANY THING !LBARN HAS DONE PREVIOUSLY &IRSTLY THE PRODUC TION ON THE ALBUM IS lRST RATE $ANGER -OUSE THE KNOB TWIDDLER THAT MADE $EMON $AYS SUCH A SPECTACU LAR PIECE OF WORK HAS DONATED HIS SKILLS TO AN !LBARN PROJECT AGAIN MEANING ANOTHER AURAL BONANZA AWAITS THE LISTENER (USHED STRINGS LURK IN THE BACKGROUND OF (ISTORY 3ONG AND BASSLINES ARE DREDGED FROM THE BOT TOM OF A MURKY OCEAN IN 'REEN &IELDS !H YES THE MUSI CIANS THEMSELVES FOR THIS VENTURE !LBARN HAS RECRUITED 3IMON 4ONG EX 4HE 6ERVE GUITARIST AND 4ONY !LLEN WORLD RENOWNED S DRUMMER TO ASSIST HIM ALONG WITH 0AUL 3IMONON !KA 4HE #LASH S BASS PLAYER 9EAH

IMPRESSIVE LINE UP ISN T IT /F COURSE THE ABILITIES OF THE MUSICIANS AND PRODUC ER WOULD MEAN DIDDLY SQUAT WITHOUT THE MUSIC TO BACK THEM UP !ND AS ONE WOULD EXPECT FROM SOMETHING CARRYING THE !LBARN BRAND THIS ALBUM DOESN T DISAP POINT FOR ONE MINUTE (ISTORY 3ONG THE ALBUM S OPENER

BEGINS WITH A REEDY ACOUSTIC GUITAR PITCHED PERFECTLY AGAINST !LBARN S MELANCHOLIC DRAWL WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM "LUR S 4HEN 3IMONON S BASS

KICKS IN FOLLOWED BY A #ARIBBEAN ESQUE OR GAN AND !LLEN S DRUMMING 7HAT COULD HAVE BEEN A HORRIBLE MESS INSTEAD SLOTS TOGETHER LIKE A JIGSAW PUZZLE 4HIS TREND OF MUSIC THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A DISASTER IN LESS CAPA BLE HANDS CARRIES ON THROUGHOUT THE ALBUM (ERCULEAN S MUTED MELANCHOLIA SEES !LBARN MINING THE DARK MUSIC EXPLORED ON $EMON $AYS SLOWER MOMENTS ALSO SEEN IN "EHIND 4HE 3UN S SPRAWLING CALYPSO UNDERPINNED ENTIRELY BY A FRAGILE CHORUS 0ERHAPS THE ONLY CRITICISM THAT CAN BE LEVELLED AT THE ALBUM IS THAT IT DOESN T QUITE CAPTURE THE SAME LEVEL OF INTENSITY THAT THE GROUP PRODUCES LIVE WITH THE MUSIC SOUNDING NEARLY SANITISED IN SOME PLACES $ON T LET THIS PUT YOU OFF THOUGH AS THE WHOLE AFFAIR STILL SOUNDS BRILLIANT 1UITE FRANKLY THERE S NOT BEEN ANYTHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IN MUSIC FOR A LONG TIME ! MISH MASH OF A WHOLE HOST OF GENRES FROM SKA AND CALYPSO THROUGH TO CLASSIC "RITISH PSYCHEDELIA AND GUITAR POP 4HE 'OOD 4HE "AD !ND 4HE 1UEEN IS MAJESTIC FROM START TO lNISH )F FURTHER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT !LBARN HAS THE CROWN OF "RITISH MUSIC ON HIS HEAD AND MAINTAINS A MAJOR STAKE IN THE CLAIM FOR ITS THRONE THEN THIS IS UNDISPUTABLY IT AND WE DARE ANYONE TO ARGUE OTHERWISE #HRIS (YDE

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%VERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU STUMBLE ACROSS SOMETHING SO PERFECT THAT YOU WONDER QUITE HOW YOU MANAGED TO GET BY WITHOUT IT 4HE ,ITTLE /NES ARE THAT SOMETHING 4HIS %0 ALREADY RELEASED IN THE 53 IS A TASTER FOR THEIR DEBUT ALBUM DUE IN THE SUMMER )N TRUTH SONGS ARE NOT ENOUGH 3ING 3ONG IS FULL OF HAPPY TUNES WITH BIJOU LYRICS @4HE SPRITE ONES ON THE CORNER DREAM OF SOMETHING WARMER A SEMBLANCE OF THEIR OLD WAYS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR HANDMADE DAYS 4HEY COME COMPLETE WITH SPARKLING GUITARS AND HAND CLAPS AND THE RESULT IS GENUINELY ENGAGING MUSIC THAT YOU FEEL COMPELLED TO LISTEN TO REPEATEDLY .EW SINGLE /H -* IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS A SNAPPY SONG WITH AN ENGAGING MELODY AND THE WONDERFUL &ACE THE &ACTS WITH ITS EFFERVESCENT HARMONIES AND LYRICS TO MAKE YOU SMILE @4HE DEEPER YOU PEEP YOU FALL BACK ASLEEP ) JUST DON T KNOW 4HE HIGHLIGHT

HOWEVER IS ,OVERS 7HO 5NCOVER A SONG OF POP PERFECTION SO GREAT THAT 4HE "EATLES WOULD BE PROUD )T IS EASY TO BE DETERRED AND DISMISS 4HE ,ITTLE /NES AS TWEE BUT ONE LISTEN TO THIS %0 QUASHES THE NOTION 1UITE SIMPLY IT IS STUNNING )T IS MUSIC SO RIDICULOUSLY FEEL GOOD THAT THEY COULD MARKET IT AS 0ROZAC BUT IT S NOT TOO SICKLY SWEET EITHER 4HE %0 ACTS AS A PERFECT TEASER FOR THE ALBUM 4HE ,ITTLE /NES DESERVE TO BE MASSIVE "UY THIS AND THEN QUESTION HOW YOU EVER LIVED WITHOUT THEM ,EWIS -ORTON

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hTHE BIGGEST MIDGET IN THE GAMEv lNALLY RELEASES HER DEBUT ALBUM 0UBLIC 7ARNING IN THE 5+ 4HIS FOLLOWS HER SUCCESS IN THE 53 WHERE THE ALBUM ENTERED THE 4OP A REAL RESULT FOR A "RITISH HIP HOP ARTIST AND ALLOWED HER TO PLAY 4IMES 3QUARE ON .EW 9EAR S %VE ALONGSIDE 'WEN 3TEFANI AND THE 0USSYCAT $OLLS -EANWHILE ON HOME SOIL IN SHE RELEASED HUGE "RITISH CHART HIT TO WITH THE /RDINARY "OYS THE ORIGINAL FEATURING ON THIS ALBUM

AND ENTERTAINED HUGE CROWDS IN THE $ANCE 4ENTS AT THE 2EADING AND ,EEDS FESTIVALS 4HE ALBUM CONTAINS SEVERAL GOOD TRACKS LIKE 'ATHERATION 2ANDOM AND ,OVE -E /R (ATE -E THE REMIX OF WHICH IS HER CURRENT SINGLE FEATURING -ISSY %LLIOT WHICH PARTLY EXPLAINS HER 53 SUCCESS AS THE lRST "RITISH ARTIST TO HAVE THE NUMBER ONE MOST REQUESTED VIDEO ON -46 53 ,ADY 3OV S DEBUT MAY WELL PUT HER ON THE MAP FOR GRIME RAPPERS IN THE 5+ WITH LYRICS ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD 4ANGO AND 4ONY "LAIR 3OME MAY lND HER STYLE GRATING AFTER SEVERAL PLAYS FOR EXAMPLE IN ,OVE -E /R (ATE -E 3OVEREIGN REPEATS h) CAN T DANCE AND ) REALLY CAN T SING ) CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AND THAT S BE ,ADY 3OVEREIGN v -ANY WILL NOT DISPUTE THIS HOWEVER ,ADY 3OVEREIGN APPEARS TO HAVE MADE HER MARK ON THE 5+ HIP HOP SCENE $ON T EXPECT HER TO BE DISAPPEARING ANY TIME SOON 4IM "RIGGS

$UNDEE UPSTARTS 4HE 6IEW HAVE BEEN HYPED NO END RECENTLY A STRING OF GREAT INDIE POP SINGLES BUILDING EXPECTATION OF THIS ALBUM EVER HIGHER AND A LEGION OF lERCELY DEVOTED FANS MAKING THEIR LIVE SHOWS NORTH OF THE BORDER A REAL SPECTACLE /PENER #OMING $OWN WITH ITS ,ED :EPPELIN ESQUE MOUNTAINOUS RIFlNG SETS THE TONE FOR THE MOST PART OF THE ALBUM IMMEDIATELY +YLE S VERBAL SCRAWL IS ALMOST BREATHLESS IN ITS DELIVERY IT S A HEDONISTIC RUSH THAT ENDS FAR TOO SOON A MERE )T LEADS INTO FORMER SINGLE 3UPERSTAR 4RADESMAN

AN ACCOUNT OF THE BAND S LOCAL BARmIES AND THEIR SMALL TOWN MENTALITY 4HIS IS WHAT 4HE 6IEW ARE ALL ABOUT A WORKING CLASS BAND TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW AND THE TOWN THEY LIVE IN ! TALE OF 3ATURDAY NIGHTS OUT AND -ONDAY MORNINGS IN THE DOLE QUEUE 7HAT SETS 4HE 6IEW APART IS THE SOCIAL AWARENESS OF LEAD SINGER +YLE &ALCONER (E S NOT AS POETIC AS 0ETE $OHERTY

OR AS INSIGHTFUL AS !LEX 4URNER BUT HE HAS A SENSE OF SELF AWARENESS @-Y MIND S NOT PERFECT BUT IT S SINCERE AND AN EYE FOR OBSERVATION THAT SETS THE BAND APART FROM THE OTHER IDENTIKIT GROUPS OBSESSED WITH SCENES 4HE lRST HALF OF THE ALBUM IS EXEMPLARY AND WHILE THE REST IS STILL QUITE STRONG YOU LL JUST FEEL THE BAND ARE A LITTLE STRETCHED AT TIMES (OWEVER FOR THE MOST PART (ATS /FFx DOESN T DISAPPOINT AND STANDS UP TO EXPECTATION 4HIS COULD WELL BE THE YEAR THEY GO MASSIVE SO ALTOGETHER NOW h4HE 6IEW 4HE 6IEW 4HE 6IEW ARE ON lRExv ,EWIS -ORTON

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TRUE COLOURS ON THEIR SLEEVES %VEN BEYOND THIS ASPECT THERE REMAINS A SOLID ALBUM 4AKE THE BIGGEST SINGLE FROM THE #$ AND AR GUABLY OF 7EEZER S CAREER "UDDY (OLLY 2EMEMBERED

BY MANY FOR IT S GENIUS (APPY $AYS VIDEO IN WHICH THE BAND ARE SPLICED IN WITH FOOTAGE FROM THE 46 SHOW ITS CHURNING GUITARS AND WONKY SYNTH CONTRIB UTE TO A BRILLIANT POWER POP SONG THAT STILL MANAGES TO lLL THE 0O .A .A DANCEmOOR OVER YEARS AFTER ITS RELEASE 5NDONE 4HE 3WEATER 3ONG THE BAND S lRST EVER SINGLE IS ANOTHER HIGHLIGHT 3TARTING WITH A VERY BASIC YET CATCHY GUITAR HOOK SINGER 2IVERS #UOMO WHISPERS LYRICS ABOUT A FAILING RELATIONSHIP THAT OLD STAPLE AS THE SIMPLE GUITARS AND DRUMMING EXPLODE INTO A BRASH AURAL OUTBREAK 4HE INSTRUMENTS COULD BE PLAYED BY A lVE YEAR OLD AS UNCOMPLICATED AS THEY ARE YET THEY SOUND AMAZING IN 7EEZER S MORE THAN CAPABLE HANDS /F COURSE NO REVIEW OF 4HE "LUE !LBUM WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT MENTIONING /NLY IN $REAMS 4HE LONGEST SONG THE BAND HAVE EVER RE CORDED AT EIGHT MINUTES IT TAKES THE MUTED HEAVY JUXTAPOSITION USED TO PERFECT EFFECT THROUGHOUT THE ALBUM TO NEW EXTREMES AS A SOFT BASSLINE LEADS JAN GLY GUITARS TO A 0IXIES ESQUE CHORUS AGAIN AND AGAIN

WHICH EVENTUALLY MORPHS INTO A MESMERISING GUITAR SOLO AS #UOMO HOLLERS THE SONG S NAME REPEATEDLY 4HE "LUE !LBUM REMAINS A GLITTERING JEWEL IN 7EEZ ER S CROWN OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK AND INDEED THE CROWN OF !MERICAN ROCK #HRIS (YDE

/THER 3INGLES UNIVERSAL APPEAL OF ITS CURRENT COM PETITION 4HE POTENTIAL IS THERE LET S JUST CROSS OUR lNGERS AND HOPE THAT THEY CAN PULL IT OUT OF THE BAG WITH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM *OSH ,ITTLE

4HE %NEMY )T S .OT /+ 3O HERE WE HAVE IT 4HE BAND THAT EVERYBODY IS LABELLING @THE NEW /ASIS 4HE BAND THAT ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE MUSIC WORLD 4HE BAND WHO IN THEIR OWN WORDS ARE hHAV ING ITv 4HIS ALL SEEMS VERY FAMILIAR DOESN T IT (AVEN T 4HE 6IEW THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS AND +ASABIAN ALL BEEN /ASIS -ARK )) OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS )T S .OT /K IS 4HE %NE MY S SECOND SINGLE )T S FULL ON ROCK @N ROLL WITH HUGE GUITARS EVEN BIG GER DRUMS AND LYRICS ABOUT BREAK ING FREE FROM DEAD END JOBS AND GOING ON TO MAKE LOTS OF MONEY 5NFORTUNATELY WHAT APPEARS TO SET 4HE %NEMY APART FROM THE CURRENT WAVE OF SUCCESSFUL NEW BANDS IS THAT THEIR SONGS JUST DON T GRAB YOU

BY THE CROTCH IN QUITE THE SAME WAY )T S .OT /K IS A GOOD ROCK SONG BUT IT MAY STRUGGLE TO COMPETE WITH THE

4HE ,ONG "LONDES 'IDDY 3TRATOSPHERES 3OFAS ARE GREAT 4HEY REWARD A WEARY DERRIÃ’RE WITH A WELL EARNED AND SUPPORTIVE REST AT THE END OF A HARD DAY S WORK 4HEY DOUBLE BRILLIANTLY AS A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX CUM PIGGY BANK HAVING THE ABILITY TO HOLD ONTO SMALL PERSONAL POSSESSIONS AND COINS FOR YEARS ON END AND THEY HAVE ACHIEVED CULT STATUS AMONG TEENAGERS AS A FAVOURED VENUE FOR ILLICIT COITUS WHILE BABYSITTING (OWEVER IT IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED THAT ONCE YOU HAVE ONE OR TWO SOFAS

THERE REALLY ISN T ANY NEED FOR MORE .OBODY EVER THINKS hYOU KNOW WHAT LET S GET SOME MORE SOFAS WE CAN lT THEM IN ) M SURE WE LL USE

THEMv 7HY THEN DO YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD INSIST ON DRESSING UP AS THEIR MUSICAL HEROES AND PRODUCING MUSIC THAT IS THE SAME AS WHAT OTHERS ARE ALREADY DOING )F YOU RE GOING TO OFFER THE WORLD SOMETHING NEW ISN T IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE IT EVER SO SLIGHTLY NEW 'IDDY 3TRATOSPHERES IS A SONG ABOUT JEALOUSY 'IRL FANCIES BOY

BUT BOY HAS GIRLFRIEND SO GIRL STARTS BITCHING AND TELLING BOY THAT HE IS hPRETTY OH SO PRETTYv $OES THAT REALLY HAPPEN 3URE THE LYRICS ARE A BIT NAFF BUT 'IDDY 3TRATOSPHERES IS ONE OF THOSE TUNES THAT YOU JUST KNOW WILL GET YOU TAPPING YOUR FOOT NEXT TIME IT S PLAYED IN YOUR LOCAL INDIE CLUB $ANCEmOOR DRUMS MIX WITH STOP START GUITARS AND THERE IS EVEN AN S STYLE KEYBOARD THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE 4HE PROBLEM THAT 4HE ,ONG "LONDES HAVE IS THAT THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY OFFERING THE MUSIC BUYING PUBLIC A GREATEST HITS COMPILATION OF "LONDIE #YNDI ,AUPER -ORRISSEY 0ULP (UMAN ,EAGUE AND THE 3PICE 'IRLS $ON T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY THE BAND ARE CLEARLY VERY GOOD AT THINKING OF CATCHY GUITAR RIFFS AND WEARING RETRO CLOTHING IT S JUST THAT IT IS ALL A BIT TOO FAMILIAR /H AND BY THE WAY

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LY BACK IN +AISERS TERRITORY 2ICKY THEN CROONS SOME LYRICS ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP BEING ALL THAT MATTERS TO HIM BLESS AS THE SONG TRUN DLES ALONG PLEASANTLY ENOUGHx UNTILx WHAM 4HE TRADEMARK +AISERS KILLER CHORUS KICKS IN WITH ENOUGH FORCE TO MAKE YOU FORGET ALL THOSE LYRICS ABOUT BEING LOST FROM HOME AND GUESSING THAT UN RESTS WILL OCCUR 4HE MOST SIMPLE OF LYRICS THE lRST LINE IS MERELY @2UBY REPEATED FOUR TIMES MAY NOT THE MOST INTERESTING OF CHORUSES MAKE

BUT COUPLE THEM WITH THE HIGH PITCHED LA S AND THE WOBBLY SYNTH AND IT SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT 4HIS VERSE CHORUS PATTERN CONTIN UES UNTIL A SLOW BIT WHEN 7ILSON DECLARES HIS LOVE FOR SAID GIRL THEN IT RETURNS TO FULL ON MODE WITH n GASP n A GUITAR SOLO !S YOU CAN TELL WE LIKE THIS SONG A HELLUVA LOT 2UBY IS RUDDY GREAT AND DESERVES TO lRE +AISER #HIEFS INTO THE PROPER BIG TIME THAT THEY SO DEARLY CRAVE 4HE RE LEASE OF THE ALBUM CAN T COME SOON ENOUGH #HRIS (YDE

7ILLY -ASON 3AVE -YSELF

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0OCKET 3YMPHONY WILL BE THE &RENCH DUO S EIGHTH RELEASE AND COIN CIDE WITH THEIR %UROPEAN TOUR THIS SPRING 4HE lRST SINGLE FROM THE AL BUM /NCE 5PON ! 4IME IS AN ODE TO THE LOST INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD 7HILE mOWING PIANO AND DELICATE GLOCKENSPIEL ENVOKE A DREAM LIKE FANTASY STATE THE BITTERSWEET LYR ICS WARN THAT CHILDHOOD IS mEETING .OSTALGIA HAUNTS THE SONG WITH MEMORIES OF YOUTH YET THIS PRE CIOUS PAST CANNOT BE PURSUED ONLY REMEMBERED hDON T TRY TO RUN AFTER TIME TIME S GETTING ON TIME S OVER NOW v 3OOTHING AND SIMPLISTIC THE TRACK IS AN AMBIENT LULLABY WITH A DIFFERENCE IT FAILS TO SEND THE LIS TENER TO SLEEP #ATHERINE *ONES

)N AN INDIE STRATOSPHERE LITTERED WITH SPARKLY RAVERS AND PUBESCENT YEAR OLDS CLAD WITH FOUR DAY OLD JEANS A GREAT BIG SLICE OF &OLK 2OCK COMES LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AMOGST A TOXIC WASTELAND 7ELL EVERYONE S FAVOURITE 7ILLY IS BACK

EQUIPPED WITH A SHINY NEW GUITAR AND AN ARMY OF BRAND SPANKING NEW TUNES /UR lRST GLIMPSE INTO 7ILLY S NEW FUTURE IS 3AVE -YSELF

AND AN ACOUSTO MAGIC THREE AND HALF MINUTES IT IS 4HE SCRAGGY TROUBADOUR IS SNIPING AT THE BIG !MERICAN MAN ONCE AGAIN hWHEN THE VULTURES COPYRIGHT THE WORD FREE 3AVE -YSELF 3AVE -YSELFv )TS SIMPLE ITS HAPPY ITS 7ILLY -ASON DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST 1UITE FRANKLY ITS BEEN TOO LONG 7ILLY

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OR AN ASPIRING MUSIC JOURNALIST WRITING FOR .-% IS THE EQUIVALENT OF PLAYING THE MAIN STAGE AT 'LASTONBURY FOR A ROCK BAND 3O

WHEN YOU RE OFFERED A CHANCE TO WORK AT .-% YOU DON T SAY NO 3URE IN RECENT YEARS .-% HAS BEEN WIDELY CRITICISED FOR FOCUSS ING LESS ON NEW MUSIC AND MORE ON PROMOTING THE .-% BRAND THROUGH A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SERIES OF .-% SPONSORED FAD TOURS AS WELL AS THE MAGAZINE S SALE TO MEDIA GIANTS )0# PROMPTING CRIES OF @SELLOUT FROM MANY FORMER ARDENT INDIE FAN READ ERS 4HEY SEE THE MAGAZINE AS BE ING JUST ANOTHER GOSSIP RAG CENTRING ON @CELEBRITY COUPLES LIKE 0ETE AND +ATE OR A LAD MAG LIKE .UTS WHICH

COINCEDENTALLY IS ALSO OWNED BY )0# 4HESE CRITICISMS ASIDE .-% STILL HOLDS A HUGE AMOUNT OF SWAY IN THE MUSIC WORLD WITH RECORD COMPANIES VYING FOR THEIR BANDS TO BE ON THE FRONT PAGE AND POSITIVE .-% REVIEWS OF BANDS LEADING TO AL MOST GUARANTEED SUCCESS )N RECENT YEARS THE MAGAZINE HAS ALSO BEEN AT THE CENTRE OF A NUMBER OF @SCENES SUCH AS THE .EW 2OCK 2EVOLUTION

.O .AME 0UNK &UNK AND MORE RECENTLY THE MUCH MALIGNED .EW 2AVE SCENE SPEARHEADED BY +LAXONS "UT WHAT EXACTLY GOES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AT .-% )S THE MAGAZINE RUN

BY A GROUP OF CLANDESTINE MONEY MEN WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THE NEXT SCENE TO EXPLOIT AND THEN DISPOSE OF LIKE A SNOTTY TISSUE %NTERING THE .-% S OFlCES FOR THE lRST TIME MEETING A ROOM OF JOURNALISTS WHO COULD MAKE OR BREAK BANDS CAREERS WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN WAS EXTREMELY INTIMIDAT ING 5NFORTUNATELY MY TIME AT THE .-% S OFlCES WAS LARGELY UNEVENTFUL AND DEVOID OF GOSSIP 3OME THINGS DID OCCUR IN THE OFlCE WHICH COULD HAVE ONLY TAKEN PLACE IN THE CON lNES OF SUCH A PLACE JOURNALISTS CAS UALLY CHATTING TO 7ILLY -ASON ABOUT HIS NEW ALBUM ON SPEAKERPHONE OR EVEN THE .EWS %DITOR BEING TOLD BY -ICHAEL %AVIS HIMSELF ABOUT THE HEADLINERS FOR THIS YEARS 'LASTON BURY FESTIVAL 5NFORTUNATELY DUE TO LEGAL REASONS AND A FUZZY MEMORY

THE KEY NAMES ) HEARD CAN NOT BE DIVULGED ) WILL HOWEVER SAY THAT THERE IS A STRONG CHANCE THAT A SUPER

MASSIVE BLACK HOLE MAY BE SEEN OVER NEXT YEAR S 'LAS TONBURY FESTIVAL 4HE OFlCES ARE SITUATED IN +ING S 2EACH 4OWER ON THE 3OUTH "ANK

WHICH HAS SPECTACULAR VIEWS OVER LOOKING THE WHOLE OF ,ONDON SUR PRISINGLY ENOUGH MOST OF THE .-% EDITORIAL STAFF HAD THEIR BLINDS DRAWN OR WERE TOO CAPTIVATED BY MUSIC NEWS TO NOTICE THE AMAZING VIEWS OF THE CITY 4HE 4OWER IS ALSO HOME TO MANY OTHER )0# PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS -ARIE #LAIRE .UTS 3HOOT A FAVOURITE READ FOR ANY YEAR OLD BOY AND 5N CUT AS WELL AS SOME MORE UNUSUAL TITLES LIKE 0RACTICAL "OAT /WNER AND -OTOR #ARAVAN -AGAZINE !T LUNCH TIMES JOURNALISTS FROM ALL THE VARI OUS )0# MAGAZINES CONVERGED IN THE BUILDING S CANTEEN WHICH CREATED AN INTRIGUING SPECTACLE -ARIE #LAIRE BEAUTY QUEENS DRESSED IN NEXT SEA SON S FASHIONS SHARING TABLES WITH #OUNTRY ,IFE S GUN REVIEWER DRESSED IN TWEED 4HERE IS A WIDESPREAD BELIEF THAT .-% JOURNALISTS ARE DRUGGED UP SCE NESTERS THAT CARE LESS ABOUT MUSIC AND MORE ABOUT THEIR SKINNY JEANS AND #ONVERSE 4HE REALITY WAS COM PLETELY DIFFERENT WELL APART FROM THE WEARING OF SKINNY JEANS /N THE WHOLE THE EDITORS AND WRITERS WERE ALL DOWN TO EARTH AND GENERALLY NICE PEOPLE WHO IT HAS TO BE SAID SPENT AS MUCH TIME AVOIDING WORK AND USING SOCIAL NETWORK WEBSITES AS THE AVERAGE STUDENT 3OME OF THEM ALSO BEHAVED LIKE STUDENTS WHEN A CER TAIN EDITOR WAS NOT GIVEN THE REVIEW OF A GIG THAT HE WANTED TO GO TO HE SNAPPED AT ANOTHER OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF AND WENT OFF TO SULK WITH HIS HOOD UP !NOTHER INTRIGUING AS PECT WAS THE BATTLE TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE CD PLAYER IN THE OFlCE 7HEN ONE #$ lNISHED JOURNALISTS WOULD

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SCRAM BLE TO BE THE lRST TO PLAY THE NEWEST RELEASE OF THEIR CHOICE *AMES *AM THE 2ADAR EDITOR SEEMED TO HAVE OVERALL CON TROL OF THE #$ PLAYER WITH 3INGLES %DITOR -ARK "EAUMONT A CLOSE SEC OND 3ONGS ON THE .-% PLAYLIST THAT WEEK INCLUDED NEW TRACKS BY 4HE 6IEW THE (OLD 3TEADY 7ILLY -ASON A NEW 2AKES TRACK WHICH FEATURED NOT ONLY A FEMALE VOCALIST BUT ALSO A -USLIM RAPPER AND THE NEW +INGS OF ,EON RECORD WHICH FUNNILY ENOUGH WAS REMINISCENT OF )NTERPOL 4HE lRST HAND REACTIONS OF THE .-% STAFF WERE AS INTERESTING AS THE NEW MUSIC ITSELF )N AN EFFORT TO OBTAIN SOME GOS SIP ) SPENT QUITE A LOT OF TIME TRY ING TO OVERHEAR CONVERSATIONS AT THE .EWS $ESK AS THEY RECEIVED ALL THE LATEST MUSIC NEWS LONG BEFORE IT WAS REPORTED ON OFlCIAL NEWS SOURCES "UT DISAPPOINTINGLY MOST OF THEIR CONVERSATIONS WERE ABOUT #ELEBRITY "IG "ROTHER KUNG FU AND 7EST (AM 5NITED 4HE JOBS GIVEN TO ME AT .-% WERE VARIOUSLY INTERESTING CHALLENG ING AND IMMENSELY DULL /NE OF THE lRST TASKS WAS TO lND AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE /RDINARY "OYS FOR ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OF .EVER -IND 4HE "UZZCOCKS 4HE NEXT DAY THE NEWS DESK WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE /R DINARY "OYS FRONT MAN HAD WALKED OFF THE SHOW IN RESPONSE TO THE JOSH ING HE D RECEIVED )T WAS A GOOD FEEL ING TO KNOW THAT ) PLAYED MY PART IN GETTING THE SMUG "IG "ROTHER @CELEBRITY 0RESTON TO WALK 0ERHAPS THE DULLEST JOB OF THE WEEK WAS RE SPONDING TO PEOPLES #OMMENTS AND &RIENDS 2EQUESTS ON THE OFlCIAL .-% -Y3PACE PAGE 3OUNDS EASY 4AKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT THERE

h4HERE IS A WIDE SPREAD BELIEF THAT .-% JOURNALISTS ARE DRUGGED UP SCENESTERS WHO CARE LESS ABOUT MUSIC AND MORE ABOUT THEIR SKINNY JEANS AND #ONVERSE v

WERE PAGES OF THEM ENOUGH TO RENDER COMATOSE EVEN THE MOST AR DENT -Y3PACE ADDICT COMATOSE 4HE PRIZE FOR THE MOST INTERESTING PERSON ) ADDED TO .-% S FRIENDS GOES TO A BAND CALLED @,E $ICKHEADS ) WISH THEM THE BEST OF LUCK IN THE FUTURE 4HE NATURE OF THE COMMENTS ON THE -Y3PACE PAGE DID BRING HOME QUITE WHO THE MAGAZINE S CORE READERSHIP NOW IS 4YPICAL COMMENTS FEATURED LINES LIKE @/MG .-% ) .U 2AVE #AN ) HAVE SUM TICKETS DA +LAXONS GIG 4HERE IS NO DOUBT THAT .-% IS NOW BEING MARKETED TO A YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHIC AND THIS IS PERHAPS WHY SO MANY OF .-% S OLDER READERSHIP FEEL ALIENATED 4HE HARDEST JOB OF THE WEEK WAS TO ATTEMPT TO TRANSCRIBE AN INTERVIEW WITH 4OM -EIGHAN !NY ONE WHO S SEEN THE +ASABIAN FRONT MAN BEING INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION WILL APPRECIATE HOW HARD IT IS TO UN DERSTAND A WORD HE S SAYING LET ALONE TRYING TO TRANSCRIBE IT &OR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD HIM SPEAK THINK &ATHER *ACK FROM &ATHER 4ED SPEAK ING IN AN EXCITEABLE -IDLANDS DRAWL

ALTHOUGH -EIGHAN SWORE A CONSIDER ABLE AMOUNT MORE THAN THE LATTER 4HE ODDEST JOB OF THE WEEK WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE ALBUMS EDITOR TO lND EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THE CLAIM MADE BY THE MAGAZINE THAT THE RAP GROUP #LIPSE DEALT CRACK &ROM MY EXTENSIVE RESEARCH DONE IT WAS PRETTY SAFE TO SUGGEST THEY WERE WITH LYR ICS ON THEIR ALBUM GIVING RECIPES FOR COOKING CRACK AT HOME IN THE KITCH EN 4HE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK HAD TO BE TALKING TO *AMES *AM WHO WAS NOT ONLY A LOVELY GUY BUT WAS ALSO FULL OF WORDS OF ADVICE ABOUT GETTING INTO MUSIC JOURNALISM 4HE ADVICE HE GAVE WAS TO WRITE AS MUCH AS POS SIBLE AND TO GET INVOLVED IN YOUR LO CAL MUSIC SCENE 7HEN ) ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS TIP FOR THIS YEARS !RCTIC -ONKEYS HE SAID h4HE 4WANGx THEY RE THE NEW /ASISv 3O NO REAL INTRIGUE OR EXCLUSIVES TO REVEAL AFTER A WEEK AT .-% JUST STROPPY JOURNALISTS A LOT OF QUALITY NEW MUSIC LOTS OF MEMORIES AND

MOST IMPORTANTLY LOTS OF VALUABLE CONTACT NUMBERS TO PESTER -Y ADVICE IN TERMS OF APPLYING FOR WORK EXPERI ENCE AT MAGAZINES LIKE .-% IS TO BE POLITE PERSISTENT NOT TO BE DISHEART ENED BY REJECTIONS YOU RECEIVE AND TO KEEP ON WRITING ABOUT EVERY GIG

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THE DRUMMER WILL LATER TELL 4HE %VENT ABOUT THE BAND S LOVE OF THE +INKS 4ONIGHT 4HE ,ITTLE /NES A HOTLY TIPPED QUINTET FROM , !

ARE PLAYING THEIR lRST EVER 5+ DATE A SEMINAL MOMENT IN THEIR BLOSSOMING CAREER (OWEVER THE CROWD ARE LARGELY OBLIVIOUS TO THIS WITH MANY OG THEM HERE TO SEE THE HEADLINERS 4HE "OY ,EAST ,IKELY 4O .ONETHELESS THE INFECTIOUS MELODY OF SONGS SUCH AS #HA #HA #HA SOON HAVE THE CROWD CAPTIVATED AND AN OUTBREAK OF TOE TAPPING SPREADS AMONGST THOSE AT THE FRONT 4HE BAND THEMSELVES LOOK DELIGHTED TO BE HERE THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR OF THEIR SONGS AN EMBODIMENT OF THEIR ENTHUSIASM TOWARDS WHAT THEY DO (IGH /N ! (ILL AND &ACE 4HE &ACTS SOUND ASTONISHING LIKE 4HE "EACH "OYS MIGHT HAVE IF THEY HAD PLAGIARISED 4HE +INKS LAYERED GUITAR RIFFS 7E ARE ALSO

TREATED TO TWO SONGS NOT ON THE FORTHCOMING %0 4HERE S ! 0OT ! "REWIN SUGGESTING THAT WHEN THEIR DEBUT ,0 lNALLY GETS RELEASED IN THE SUMMER THAT IT WILL BE A CONTENDER FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR 4HE SET ENDS WITH THEIR RECENT SINGLE ,OVERS 7HO 5NCOVER AND IT S INFECTIOUS SUN SPECKLED JOY CAUSING DANCING AND PURE ADULATION FROM THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE 1UITE SIMPLY THE BAND DESPITE A MAJORITY OF THEIR SET BEING UNFAMILIAR TO THE AUDIENCE

CAPTIVATE THEM IT S MUSIC THAT YOU CANNOT HELP BUT SMILE TO 3PEAKING EXCLUSIVELY TO 4HE %VENT AFTER THE GIG %D TOLD US HOW EXCITED HE WAS TO BE lNALLY PLAYING IN "RITAIN h7E VE BEEN WAITING AGES FOR IT v +EYBOARDIST ,EE BACKS THIS SENTIMENT h7E VE GROWN UP LOVING "RITISH MUSIC BANDS LIKE 4HE "EATLES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO US v 'REG HOWEVER

SEEMS MORE PREOCCUPIED WITH THE COST OF TOURING %NGLAND h)T IS EXPENSIVE FOR DRINKS HERE MAN ) WENT OUT IN ,ONDON THE lRST NIGHT WE ARRIVED AND SPENT a DRINKING IN #OVENT 'ARDEN v )NDEED OUR INTERVIEW SOON DEGENERATES TO TALKING ABOUT MUSIC AND DRINKING WHISKY (OWEVER ANYONE WHO WASN T HERE TONIGHT WILL BE KICKING THEMSELVES IN SIX MONTHS TIME THIS GIG WAS SIMPLY UN MISSABLE ,EWIS -ORTON

GESTS HE WANTS TO MAKE IT TOTALLY UNUS ABLE FOR ANYONE ELSE 4HE .OISETTES MUSIC ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING FROM CLASSIC ROCK AND GRUNGE TO SOUL AND BLUES 4HEIR SOUND IS SCHIZO PHRENIC AND AS A RESULT THEIR MUSIC IS A CONTRADICTION /NE MINUTE ITS PEACEFUL AND SERENE THE NEXT ITS ROUGH RAW AND EXPLOSIVE /NE OF THE REASONS THAT 4HE .OISETTES ARE ABLE TO CHANGE THEIR SOUND SO FREQUENTLY IS BECAUSE OF SINGER 3HIN GAI )F EVER THERE WAS A STAR IN THE MAK ING IT IS HER HER LOOKS ARE ONLY TOPPED

BY HER INCREDIBLE VOICE 4ONIGHT SHE IS ON TOP FORM AS SHE STRUTS AROUND THE STAGE

OCCASIONALLY DONNING THE BASS TO HELP OUT (ER VOICE RANGING FROM AS SHRILL AS A YOUNG CHOIR BOY TO AS DARK AND POWERFUL AS A BANSHEE THERE IS NO NOTE TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW !ND SHE DOES THIS WHILST OOZING DANGER AND SEX LIKE THERE S NO TOMORROW 4HEY HAVE BEEN COMPARED TO THE 9EAH 9EAH 9EAHS AND FROM TONIGHT S PERFORM ANCE THERE IS CERTAINLY SOME EVIDENCE OF THIS 9ES BOTH BANDS HAVE THREE MEM BERS WHICH INCLUDE FEMALE SINGERS WHO

BY THE WAY ARE BOTH COOL AS F

K BUT ALSO THERE ARE CERTAINLY SIMILARITIES IN THE MU SIC (OWEVER WHILE THE 9EAH 9EAH 9EAHS HAVE GONE TO THE ART PUNK SIDE OF ROCK

4HE .OISETTES HAVE CHOSEN A MORE BLUESY

ROAD WHICH DElNITELY PAYS OFF FOR THEM ON TONIGHT S PERFORMANCE 7ITH A SOLD OUT CROWD THERE TO SEE THEM 4HE .OISETTES DON T DISAPPOINT 0EOPLE WALL TO WALL LIKE BATTERY HENS

SOON FORGET ABOUT THE SUB ZERO WEATHER OUTSIDE AND START TO REALISE WHY THEY PAID TO SEE THIS ODD LOOKING THREESOME AND AT JUST a IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE BARGAIN 3ONGS SUCH AS 7IND "LOWS (OT SEND TINGLES DOWN YOUR SPINE AS 3HINGAI MAKES HER VOICE SOUND AS CREEPY AND EERIE AS POSSIBLE (OWEVER THE HIGHLIGHT HAS TO BE $ON T 'IVE 5P 4HE .OISETTES AT THEIR SCHIZO PHRENIC BEST 3TARTING OUT WITH SCRATCHY GUITARS AND BUILDING UP TO A POWERHOUSE CHORUS IT WAS REPEATED CONTINUOUSLY AT THE END OF THE SONG FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT 4HE .OISETTES HAVE lNALLY BEEN INTRO DUCED AND THANK 'OD 4HEY KNOW HOW TO PUT ON A SHOW AND PRODUCE BRILLIANT SONGS WHICH IS CERTAINLY A WINNING FOR MULA 4HERE WAS SATISFACTION ALL ROUND

ESPECIALLY FOR THE SOMETHING PEOPLE WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET UP ONSTAGE WITH THE BAND DURING THE ENCORE IS LOOKING GOOD ALREADY FOR .OISETTES AND THIS IS NO SURPRISE AFTER TONIGHT S PER FORMANCE .ICK 2EADING

.ORWICH ,IVE 0REVIEW 3O LAST WEEK WE GAVE YOU THE LOWDOWN OF WHATgS GOING ON AROUND THE 5%!

AND THIS WEEK WEgRE COVERING THE REST OF .ORWICH THE BEST NEW BANDS HITTING 4HE 7ATERFRONT

4HE !RTS #ENTRE AND THE ARRAY OF LOCAL PUBS AND CLUBS IN AND AROUND YOUR lNE CITY *AMIE 4 7ATERFRONT 'REAT "RITAINgS NEW FAVOURITE LAGER SWIRLING GRIME POET SWINGS INTO .ORWICH IN EARLY &EBRUARY %XPECT AN ECLECTIC MASH UP OF RECENT STUDENT STAPLES LIKE #ALM $OWN $EAREST 3HEILA AND 3ALVADOR !S THIS IS LIKELY TO BE *AMIE 4gS LAST PROPER BEFORE HE HITS THE BIG TIME DONgT MISS OUT #33 7ATERFRONT (OT NEW "RAZILIAN DANCE ROCK OUTlT #ANSEI DE 3ER 3EXY LOVE TO SHOUT ABOUT 0ARIS (ILTON BEING A BITCH WHILE STRUTTING AROUND LIKE LUNATICS mUSHED WITH -$-! TO FUNKADELIC RAVE LIKE SOUNDCLASHES &ANSTASTIC %NTER 3HIKARI 7ATERFRONT 4RANCECORE )N .ORWICH (OLD ON TO YOUR HATS AS THOSE 3T !LBAN REVELLERS HIT .ORWICH LATE -ARCH PROVIDING %AST !NGLIA WITH A TASTE OF THEIR UNIQUE lX OF METAL RAVE EXTRAVAGANCE THATgS BEEN TAKING THE NATION

BY STORM #OLD 7AR +IDS !RTS #ENTRE *UST TO WET YOUR APPETITES EVEN MORE ONE OF THE HOTTEST NEW BANDS ON THE PLANET WILL HIT THE !RTS #ENTRE IN MID &EBRUARY 4AKE THIS AS

YOUR CHANCE TO CATCH THIS RARE BUNCH BEFORE THEY EXPLODE LIKE AN A BOMB LATER THIS YEAR %NOUGH SAID 4HE 4WANG PICTURED ABOVE !RTS #ENTRE .-%gS FAVOURITE NEW BAND STUMBLE INTO .ORFOLK IN LATE -ARCH "AGGY gS DANCE FUSED WITH LADDISH 3TREETS ESQUE ROCK AND ROLL -ISS IT AT YOUR PERIL YOUgLL KICK YOURSELF COME THE SUMMER #HECK OUT 4HE 1UEEN #HARLOTTE 0UB

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CINEMA ACTING SEEMS TO BE LARGELY OVERSHADOWED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE YEAR BY PLOT ACTION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS BEFORE REAPPEARING IN VAST NUMBERS OF HIGH CALIBRE AROUND /SCAR TIME "LOOD $IAMOND EXHIBITS SOME OF THE lNEST CHARACTER WORK THIS YEAR AND WILL PROVIDE STOUT COMPETITION AT MANY AN AWARD CEREMONY )T S A MORE MATURE $I #APRIO WHO HAS WORKED WONDERS WITH THE DARK SIDE EVOKED IN HIS RE CENT COLLABORATIONS WITH 3CORSESE (IS 3OUTH !FRICAN ACCENT IS STRONG AND MORE IMPORTANTLY CONSIST ENT THROUGHOUT THE TWO HOUR PLUS RUNNING TIME (E IS ABLE TO INDUCE EMPATHY DESPITE HIS ROLE AS A RUTH LESS MERCENARY THROUGH A PRECISELY DETAILED PERFORMANCE $I#APRIO S RELATIONSHIP WITH (OUNSOU IS COMPELLING THROUGH OUT AS THEY ARE lGHTING TOGETHER BUT FOR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REA SONS 3OLOMON TO BE REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY AND !RCHER VINDICTIVELY DOING ALL HE CAN FOR THE DIAMOND S MATERIAL BENElTS 4HE NATURAL AND IMMORAL COLLIDE WITH BOTH MEN S QUALITIES EVENTUALLY RUBBING OFF ON ONE ANOTHER 4HIS RESULTS IN MOMENTS OF INTENSE CONmICT BUT ALSO DARK COMEDY THAT DElNES $I #APRIO S CHARACTER WITH A WHOLE

HOST OF ONE LINERS SHOWCASING THE TALENT THAT S BEEN LURKING THERE ALL ALONG 4HE lLM SLIGHTLY FALTERS IN ITS SUB PLOTS AS TOO MANY OF THEM COME TO A HEAD IN ITS lNAL SEGMENT *ENNIFER #ONNELLY ADDS TO THE CAST WITH HER ROLE AS A JOURNALIST PROB ING DIRECTLY INTO THE SUBJECT MATTER CONmICT DIAMONDS SOLD BY ANTI GOVERNMENT GROUPS WHO ENSLAVE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN THEIR SEARCH TO FUND VIOLENT NATION CONQUER ING OPERATIONS 3HE IS QUITE FRANKLY ACTED OFF THE SCREEN SEEMING MERE LY TO BE A TOOL OF THE PLOT THE LOVE INTEREST FOR $I#APRIO 4HE STORY IS ALSO TAKEN OUT OF PROPORTION AT ITS ENDING WHERE :WICK ATTEMPTS TO POLITICISE THE EVENTS FULLY IN AN AL TOGETHER (OLLYWOOD BUT UNNECES SARY STYLE 7HILST THIS MAY STOP THE lLM REACHING ITS FULL POTENTIAL SO MUCH ELSE PROVIDES REASONS TO MAKE IT A MUST SEE INTENSE AND THRILLING AC TION SCENES THAT ARE KEPT WELL WITH IN CONTEXT THE REALISATION THAT THE lLM S SUBJECT MATTER IS MUCH CLOSER TO HOME THAN PERHAPS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT A THOROUGHLY INTERIOR LOOK AT THE WORLD OF THE CHILD SOL DIER AND OF COURSE TWO MAGNIl CENT PERFORMANCES

#INEFILE 4HE ,ION +ING ! $ISNEY lLM !S A CLASSIC 9OU RE PULLING MY PLONKER

SURELY .O WE RE HONESTLY NOT 4HE ,ION +ING IS A BONA lDE LANDMARK IN BOTH ANIMATION AND lLMS &ROM ITS BREATHTAKING ANIMATION AND DRAMATIC SEQUENCES TO THE SENSE OF HUMOUR AND AMAZING SONGS IT S A MARVEL FROM START TO lNISH !ND

IT S A $ISNEY lLM LOOSELY BASED ON (AMLET HOW COULD IT NOT BE GREAT !LRIGHT THEN BUT HOW DO THOSE THINGS MAKE IT SO SMASHING 'O BACK TO WHEN YOU WERE EIGHT YEARS OLD 7ASN T THAT CHASE THROUGH THE GORGE WHEN THE YOUNG 3IMBA GETS PURSUED BY A HUGE HERD OF WILDEBEEST ONE OF THE MOST EXHILARATING THINGS YOU D EVER SEEN "ESIDES YOUR TWENTY WIN CONKER OBVIOUSLY 4HE ANIMATION THROUGHOUT THE CHASE AND IN THE lLM AS A WHOLE IS NOTHING SHORT

OF SUPERB AND COMPLETELY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE !FRICAN SAVANNAH AN THROPOMORPHIC ANIMALS AND ALL 4HIS IS ALSO SEEN IN THE MARVELLOUS SONGS WHICH PROVE THAT %LTON *OHN CAN STILL KNOCK OUT SOME CRACKING MUSIC WHEN HE S NOT SPENDING THE '$0 OF A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ON mOWERS IN A WEEK 4AKE 3IMBA S ) *UST #AN T 7AIT 4O "E +ING FOR EX AMPLE !N UP TEMPO SONG ABOUT THE YOUNG PRINCE S ASCENSION TO THE THRONE FEATURING SINGING FROM 2OWAN !TKINSON OF ALL PEOPLE ITS BRIGHT AND BRASH COLOURS AND FAST PACED ANIMATION MAKE IT BOTH VIS UALLY STUNNING AND LIKE THE BEST ACID TRIP YOU VE EVER EXPERIENCED 9OU RE STILL NOT SELLING ITx 7HAT ISN T THERE TO LOVE 4HE OTHER SONGS SUCH AS THE OVERLY SENTI MENTAL #AN 9OU &EEL 4HE ,OVE 4O NIGHT EVIL UNCLE 3CAR S ODE TO HIS LUST FOR POWER "E 0REPARED THE

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/N TOP OF THAT THERE S A STER LING CAST OF ACTORS *AMES %ARL *ONES AKA $ARTH 6ADER *EREMY )RONS -ATTHEW "RODERICK 2OWAN !TKINSON .ATHAN ,ANE AND A BROAD SENSE OF HUMOUR RANGING FROM 3CAR S WORDPLAY TO 0UMBAA S CONSTANT FARTING )T S AN ABSOLUTE

MARVEL FROM START TO lNISH $ISNEY HAVEN T DONE ANY BETTER SINCE AND WITH THE QUALITY OF THEIR IN HOUSE ANIMATION BECOMING INCREASINGLY TERRIBLE OVER THE YEARS IT LOOKS RAP IDLY LIKE THEY NEVER WILL #HRIS (YDE

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ALL BUT THE lRST TWO lLMS OF THE

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RATHER THAN ANY OF ITS INCREASINGLY OUTLANDISH AND ONE DIMENSIONAL SEQUELS THAT PROVIDES THE TEMPLATE FOR 2OCKY "ALBOA 4HE LESS SENSATIONAL THEMES OF UNDERMINED MASCULINITY

LONELINESS AND URBAN ANONYMITY RETURN TO THE FRANCHISE AND ALONG WITH THE BITTERSWEET MESSAGE OF RECONNECTING WITH THE PAST IN ORDER TO MAKE OUR PEACE AND lNALLY

MOVE FORWARD COMBINE TO LEND THE MOVIE A MATURITY AND POIGNANCY THAT DOES THE /SCAR BAITING ORIGINAL PROUD !LTHOUGH SUCH AN APPROACH HAS RESULTED IN A SLOWER PACE AND GREATER EMPHASIS ON THE EMOTIONS DRIVING THE NARRATIVE THAN ON THE NARRATIVE ITSELF AND THE TEN ROUND CONCLUSION 3TALLONE IS TOO ADEPT A BUSINESSMAN TO NOT GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT 4RAINING SEQUENCE TO THAT MUSIC #HECK !DRENALINE PUMPING EDGE OF SEAT TROUBLING

BACK AND FORTH BOXING ACTION #HECK 'RANDSTANDING SPEECHES #HECK CHECK AND INDEED CHECK 7HETHER YOU GREW UP ON THE 2OCKY lLMS OR NOT IT S HARD NOT TO LIKE 2OCKY "ALBOA )T DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN BUT WITH THE SWAGGER AND CLASS OF A STILL UNDEFEATED CHAMPION RATHER THAN THE STUMBLING MISSTEPS OF A NOSTALGIA RELIANT HAS BEEN

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PROVIDING ITS EMOTIONAL HEART 4HE CENTRAL SCENE OF "OBBY S EVENTUAL

END IS DISTRESSING AND EXCITING AT THE SAME TIME WHILE WONDERFULLY CAPTURING THAT ONE MOMENT WHEN !MERICAN LIBERALISM LITERALLY DIED 4HIS IS WHEN THE lLM S TRUE MEAN ING EVOLVES NOT AS A COMPLEX CHAR ACTER PIECE BUT TO SHOW HOW ONE GENERATION WAS SO CONNECTED TO ONE EVENT AND HOW ITS IDEALISM BELIEF AND HOPE ENDED IN ONE HORRIBLE OUTBURST ! lTTING EULOGY TO 2&+

AND TO A CRIMINALLY UNHEARD OF PART OF HISTORY !NDY *UDSON

"OBBY $IR %MILIO %STEVEZ 2ELEASED -ARTIN 3HEEN IT SEEMS CAN T STOP PLAYING GRAND LIBERAL POLITICIANS 7ITH "OBBY DIRECTED BY HIS OWN SON HE PRESENTS US WITH ONE OF THE MOST LIKABLE WHICH MAKES THE MOVIE S EVENTUAL OUTCOME ALL THE MORE TRAGIC !S "OBBY +ENNEDY S CAMPAIGN COMES TO A HEAD

WE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER WITH AN ECLECTIC MIX OF CHARACTERS ALL WITH THEIR OWN WEIRD STORIES BUT ALL IN SOME WAY CONNECTED THROUGH 2&+ HIMSELF 4HE MULTIPLE BACK STORIES ARE

IF ANYTHING TOO NUMEROUS AND TOO HIT OR MISS TO PROVIDE A COHESIVE STORYLINE 7ITH SUCH A WIDE RANGE OF CAST EXPECT THE GOOD !NTHONY (OPKINS AND &REDDY 2ODRIGUEZ

"ABEL $IR !LEJANDRO 'ONZALEZ )NARRITU 2ELEASED 3OME OF THE GREATEST lLMS ARE PRODUCED FROM ADAPTING PROSE TO SCRIPT AND SCRIPT TO SCREEN 2AYMOND #ARVER S SHORT STORIES CREATED

!DAPTATION THE MYTH OF 0ERSEPHONE TRANSLATED INTO 0HANTOM OF THE /PERA AND HERE "ABEL TAKES ITS INSPIRATION FROM 'ENESIS #HAPTER OF 4HE "IBLE 4HE 4OWER OF "ABEL WAS A TOWER BUILT BY A UNITED HUMANITY TO REACH THE HEAVENS 'OD OBSERVING THE UNITY OF HUMANITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE TOWER AND CONFUSE THE PREVIOUSLY UNIFORM LANGUAGE OF HUMANITY 4HE lLM CLEVERLY WEAVES

TOGETHER SEVERAL NARRATIVES CULTURES AND CHARACTERS "Y SHIFTING BETWEEN THREE PLOTS IT NEVER LOSES PACE /NE OF THE THINGS THAT CONNECTS ALL THREE IS BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION )N ONE OF THE OPENING SCENES A DEAF AND MUTE +ÙJI 9AKUSHO HAS AN ARGUMENT WITH HER FATHER 4HIS WOULD NORMALLY BE AN OVER FAMILIAR

CLICHÏD SCENE HOWEVER IT IS DONE IN SILENCE THROUGH SIGN LANGUAGE 4HIS IS JUST ONE OF THE TOUCHES THAT MAKES "ABEL STAND OUT FROM THE REST AND WORTHY OF THE AWARDS IT HAS WON )T IS A SURPRISING lLM AND A WELCOME RELIEF FROM THE PREDICTABLE PLOTS AND CHEESY BOMBASTIC SCRIPTS THAT ARE FAR TOO COMMON )F 'ENESIS IS A TALE OF DIVISION THEN "ABEL IS A STORY OF THE COINCIDENCES AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF GESTURES ATTITUDE EMPATHY AND COURTESY THAT UNITE US !NNA 3TEWARD

4HE &OUNTAIN $IR $ARREN !RONOFSKY 2ELEASED 3IX YEARS IN THE MAKING AND WORTH EVERY ONE 4HE &OUNTAIN IS A BLEND OF SCI l

ROMANCE AND ACTION WITH AN OVER RIDING PHILOSOPHY QUESTIONING THE NATURE OF LIFE LOVE DEATH AND REBIRTH 7ITH THREE INTERWOVEN STORIES ACROSS A MILLENNIUM IT WILL REVEAL SOMETHING NEW ON EACH SHOWING ! FAR CRY FROM TYPICAL (OLLYWOOD STYLE IT REQUIRES CONCENTRATION FROM THE BEGINNING

AND INSPIRES DEEP REmECTION (UGH *ACKMAN IS AT THE CENTRE

AS THE QUESTING TH CENTURY CONQUISTADOR THE PRESENT DAY MAN WHOSE WIFE IS DYING OF A TUMOUR AND THE !$ SPACE TRAVELLER

SEEKING TO HEAL HIMSELF AND THE BIBLICAL 4REE OF ,IFE *ACKMAN IS A SUPERB CHOICE FOR THE LEADING MAN BOTH FOR HIS

6ENUS $IR 2OGER -ICHELL 2ELEASED 0ETER / 4OOLE HAS BEEN THROUGH A LOT CANCER AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF ALCOHOL (OWEVER HIS PERFORMANCE IN 6ENUS PUTS TO SHAME THE YOUNG STARLETS OF (OLLYWOOD WITH ITS COMBINATION OF VIGOUR INTELLIGENCE AND THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF MELANCHOLY / 4OOLE IS FULLY DESERVING OF THE NUMEROUS ACCOLADES THIS PERFORMANCE IS RECEIVING 4HE FACT THAT THE STORY SEEMS VERY PERSONALLY CLOSE TO HIM NO DOUBT HELPS THIS IS A TALE OF AN OLD ACTOR APPROACHING THE INEVITABLE END BUT WITH ACERBIC WIT AND GUSTO (IS FELLOW CAST ALSO PERFORM WELL 6ANESSA 2EDGRAVE IS FANTASTIC AS THE ESTRANGED WIFE ,ESLIE 0HILLIPS IS SPOT ON AS THE CLOSE FRIEND AND ALLY MATCHING / 4OOLE S PERFORMANCE

MANY AND VARIED ACTING SKILLS AND THE FACT HE LACKS THE REALLY MASSIVE (OLLYWOOD TYPE CAST STATUS 4HE ON SCREEN CHEMISTRY BETWEEN HIM AND TERRIlCALLY GIFTED LEADING LADY 2ACHEL 7EISZ IS A GREAT PART OF THE lLM S RICHNESS AND SUCH BELIEVABILITY PROVIDES A GREAT VEHICLE FOR !RONOFSKY S DISPLAY OF THE HUMAN CONCEPTS OF LOVE AND MORTALITY )N FACT THE CALIBRE OF COLLECTIVE TALENT IS INCREDIBLY HIGH THROUGHOUT )T S A FANTASTICALLY REALISED lLM WITH AN INSPIRATIONAL MOOD CAPTURING SCORE AND VISUALLY SPECTACULAR CINEMATOGRAPHY

INCLUDING MANY BEAUTIFUL SHOTS AND CLOSE UPS WITH AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIGHTING IN EACH SCENE FROM THE DARK OF THE DANGEROUS QUEST TO lND THE &OUNTAIN OF 9OUTH TO THE LUMINOSITY OF LOVE AND HOPE )T S NO ROM COM AND HAS AN ENDING THAT SEEMS CURIOUSLY MUTED UNTIL IT S HAD TIME TO SINK IN BUT IT WILL DElNITELY LODGE IN YOUR MIND (OLLY #URTIS

AND PROVIDING GREAT CAMARADERIE AND *ODIE 7HITTAKER IS GREAT AS THE OFF THE RAILS TEENAGE SEXUAL INTEREST AND SUBJECT OF THE lLMS 0YGMALION ESQUE THEME 4HIS STORYLINE DOMINATING THE SECOND HALF OF THE lLM SEEMS TO DRAG IT DOWN SLIGHTLY WHICH IS A SHAME AS / 4OOLE GIVES IT HIS ALL

COPING WITH THE SEXUAL TENSIONS IN A SUITABLE MANNER 5LTIMATELY 6ENUS IS A VERY RICH lLM WITH HEAVY EMOTIONS REGARDING SEX DEATH AND EXPERIENCE )T SEEMS A PROJECT CLOSE TO THE HEARTS OF ALL CONCERNED WHICH EXPLAINS THE HIGH QUALITY THAT IS CONSTANTLY PRESENT )F THIS IS 0ETER / 4OOLE S lNAL PERFORMANCE THEN IT WOULD BE A lTTING EPITAPH BUT IF HE IS CAPABLE OF MAINTAINING THE VIGOUR PRESENT HERE THEN THERE S CLEARLY PLENTY OF GOOD lLMS YET TO COME !NDY *UDSON

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AND NOT AS WOODEN AS IN HIS OTHER lLMS (E MUCH LIKE THE AUDIENCE AT THE BEGINNING IS DISORIENTATED

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HE SEES IS THE TRUTH OR SIMPLY A lGMENT OF HIS DEFECTIVE MIND 2EEVES MAINTAINS THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE lLM USING THE SUPPORTING CHARACTERS TO PROVIDE MUCH OF THE COMIC RELIEF !S EVER 2OBERT $OWNEY *R IS HIGHLY ENTERTAINING

MAINTAINING THE BALANCE BETWEEN BELIEVABLE COMEDY AND 7OODY (ARRELSON AND 2ORY #OCHRANE BRING A TOUCH OF MADNESS TO THE ALREADY TWISTED WORLD OF !RCTOR 4HE PLOT WEAVES IN AND OUT OF REALITY CONSTANTLY DISTORTING THE WORLD AROUND IT MAKING ! 3CANNER $ARKLY A lLM THAT NEEDS YOUR FULL ATTENTION 7ITHOUT IT IT IS EASY TO GET LOST !PART FROM INJECTING THE PLOT WITH A MINOR ROMANCE ELEMENT WHICH ENDS UP UNFULlLLED AND SLIGHTLY POINTLESS ! 3CANNER $ARKLY IS HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND WELL WRITTEN TAKING YOU ON AN INSIGHTFUL ALBEIT STRANGE HEAD TRIP INTO A POTENTIALLY BLEAK FUTURE .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

$6$ 2ELEASES 2OCKY 4WO $ISC $ElNI TIVE %DITION $IR *OHN ' !VILDSEN 2ELEASED

-'- %NTERTAINMENT 4IMED TO ARRIVE AS 2OCKY "ALBOA HITS THE MULTIPLEXES 2OCKY THE MOVIE THAT STARTED IT ALL BACK IN AR RIVES ON $6$ IN A TWO DISC BELLS AND WHISTLES SPECIAL EDITION SET 4HE BLUEPRINT FOR THE RESULTING lVE SEQUELS THIS IS THE lLM THAT INTRO DUCED THE WORLD TO 3YLVESTER 3TAL

LONE S MOST ENDURING SCREEN PER SONA n THE UNDERDOG SOUTH PAW lGHTER WHO IS GIVEN A MILLION TO TAKE ONE SHOT AT WINNING THE WORLD BOXING TITLE &EATURING ABLE SUPPORT FROM 4ALIA 3HIRE AS 2OCKY S LOVE INTEREST !DRIAN AND #ARL 7EATHERS AS HIS OPPONENT !POLLO #REED THE REAL STAR OF THE SHOW IS 3TALLONE HIMSELF .OT ONLY IS 3LY UTTERLY PERFECT IN THE TITLE ROLE HE WOULD NEVER lND A BETTER PART BUT HE ALSO WROTE THE SCREENPLAY )F YOU AREN T CHEERING AT THE END OF THIS lLM THEN FRANKLY

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