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BUT ) THINK IT S IMPORTANT TO TRY AND INTRODUCE SOME NEW PEOPLE TO THE WONDER THAT IS (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL /K SO MAYBE IT S DESIGNED FOR A PRE TEEN AUDIENCE WHO WOULDN T USUALLY KNOW A DECENT l LM IF IT JUMPED UP AND DOWN AND GAVE THEM SWEETS BUT IN THIS CASE THEY RE RIGHT TO BE EXCITED !ND SO ARE YOU 4HEY MAY HAVE A SICKLY SWEET THEME AN ANNOYINGLY CATCHY SOUNDTRACK AND AN IM PROBABLY GORGEOUS CAST BUT THE TWO l LMS OF THE SERIES SO FAR HAVE AN IRRESISTIBLE FEELING ABOUT THEM ONCE YOU START WATCHING YOU CAN T BEAR TO STOP ) WOULD FEEL STUPID FOR SAYING ALL THIS IF IT WAS JUST ME BUT IT REALLY ISN T 3O MANY PEOPLE THAT ) VE SPOKEN TO HAVE COYLY ADMITTED TO BEING CLOSET (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL FANS

TO LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK OR BUYING THE $6$ OR EVEN BUYING THE .EWS OF THE 7ORLD A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO TO GET THE FREE CAST POSTER AND STICKER ALBUM 3O IF YOU VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS PHENOMENON THAT S SWEEPING THE GLOBE OR JUST THINK IT LOOKS LIKE A PILE OF POO WHY NOT GIVE IT A GO 9OU MIGHT l ND YOURSELF PLEASANTLY SURPRISED 5NTIL NEXT TIME

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4HE HIGH STREET SHOPPING IN .ORWICH IS EXCELLENT IT HAS NEARLY EVERY STORE YOU WOULD EXPECT AND WOULD WANT TO SEE 4HE TOWN HAS NOT JUST ONE BUT TWO SHOPPING MALLS THE l RST #ASTLE -ALL SITUATED RIGHT IN THE CENTRE OF TOWN AND THE SECOND AND NEWEST #HAPELl ELD 4O GETHER THEY REALLY DO HAVE EVERY SHOP YOU MAY NEED &IRM FAVOURITES AMONG THE MORE SEASONED SHOPPERS ARE 4OP SHOP TWO m OORS OF MALE AND FEMALE FASHION SHOES AND ACCESSORISES 4HEN OF COURSE THERE S 0RIMARK ITS TWO m OORS CONSTANTLY LOOK AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN RANSACKED BUT IT S A GREAT PLACE TO l ND BASICS AND ONE OFF TREATS AT STUPIDLY LOW PRICES ) D ALSO RECOMMEND IT FOR LAST MINUTE ,#2 COSTUMES "EING A UNIVER SITY TOWN MOST OF THE WELL KNOWN HIGH STREET SHOPS OFFER A STUDENT DISCOUNT SO YOU DON T HAVE TO FEEL TOO GUILTY WHEN YOU GO ON A SHOPPING SPREE

7HEN ANYONE EVER ASKS ME ABOUT SHOP PING IN .ORWICH THE l RST THING ) AL WAYS SAY IS THAT IT HAS THE BEST CHARITY SHOPS .EARLY EVERY STREET HAS ONE OR TWO CHARITY SHOPS AND ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW THEM YOU LL WORK OUT WHICH HAS THE BEST OF WHAT *UST TO HELP YOU OUT GO TO 0$3! FOR HANDBAGS 2ED #ROSS ON 3T "ENEDICT S FOR SHOES AND THE CHARITY SHOPS IN !NGLIA 3QUARE FOR DRESSES 4HE CHOICE IS ENDLESS #UTE LITTLE DESIGNER NUMBERS CAN SOMETIMES BE FOUND ALONG WITH PLAIN STAPLE ITEMS LIKE WHITE TEES AND PLAIN JUMPERS !LSO REMEMBER THAT THE MONEY YOU RE SPENDING GOES TO CHARITY SO ITS GUILT FREE SHOPPING AND IF WHAT YOU BUY IS A BIT SMELLY YOU CAN JUST PUT IT IN THE WASHING MACHINE

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FOR AN EVENING OF MUSIC DRINKS AND ART 4HIS 3EPTEMBER 4HE %VENT WENT ALONG IT WATCHED OLD POETS BEGUILE AUDIENCES OF THE YOUNG AND ANCIENT SAW 4HE $ISPOSABLE -USIC OF :OO PLAY WHIMSICAL MU SIC IN A LIFT AND WATCHED FROM THE COMFORT OF THE CAFÏ AS "ALACLAVA +ID $AD DUKED IT OUT OVER DRUMS AND HEAVILY OVERDRIVEN GUITAR !CCORDING TO THE PROGRAMME

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TO DEVELOP NEW PIECES OF WORK AND TO INVIGORATE THE GALLERY WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE TEMPORARY INSTALLA TIONS AND INTERACTIVE PROJECTS v .ICE IDEA IT MAY BE BUT THE RESULTS CAN VARY "ALACLAVA +ID $AD PLAYED A MIXTURE OF POST ROCK DRONECORE AND OVERDRIVEN STONER ROCK )T WAS THE SORT OF MUSIC THAT WOULD SOUND GREAT IN A 3PECTOR ESQUE BOX ROOM

BUT IN A CAFÏ SET IN A VOLUMINOUS ART GALLERY FREQUENTED BY DAPPER CHAPS

"EEN )NVOLVED "EING QUITE POSSIBLY THE LEAST EXPE RIENCED @BAND IN .ORWICH WE FEEL QUITE HESITANT WRITING ABOUT PLAY ING LIVE HERE 4O BE HONEST IT CAME AS QUITE A SHOCK WHEN WE SUDDENLY FOUND OURSELVES ON THE !RTS #EN TRE STAGE BLINDED BY THE LIGHTS AND STRUGGLING TO TUNE THE GUITAR UP TO OUR BRAND NEW GLOCKENSPIEL ES PECIALLY BOUGHT FOR THE OCCASION AND FOOLISHLY BRANDISHING A KAZOO 4HE "ROKEN 0IANO 3HOW ORGANISED

BY THE WONDERFUL ,ORA 3TIMSON OF 3CISSORS 0APER 3TONE 0ROMOTIONS ON THE TH 3EPTEMBER WAS IN FACT ONLY OUR THIRD EVER REAL GIG AND THE lRST ON A PROPER STAGE ,UCKILY IT ALL WENT SWIM MINGLY DESPITE THE FACT WE HAD ONLY REALLY DEVISED THE SET THE DAY BEFORE !NNA WRITES THE SONGS AND THEN WE WORK ON THEM TOGETHER RE ARRANGING THEM ADDING HARMONIES TOY INSTRU MENT SOLOS UNEXPECTED TIME CHANGES AND BALLAD SECTIONS /N PAPER AND IN OUR IMAGINATIONS THIS SOUNDS MORE GROUNDBREAKING THAN IT ACTUALLY IS 4HE WHOLE NIGHT FELT LIKE A CELEBRA TION OF .ORWICH AND OF INNOVATION 7ITH EACH ACT FEELING RADICALLY DIFFER ENT FROM THE PREVIOUS IT FELT COSILY JUMBLED BUT THE WIDE VARIETY OF ACTS MANAGED TO COMPLIMENT RATHER THAN JAR AGAINST ONE ANOTHER 4OM "UTTER WORTH KEPT THE WHOLE THING TOGETHER WITH HIS FRENETIC -# ING ! MIXTURE OF SPOKEN WORD MUSIC AND MAGIC KEPT THE AUDIENCE ENTRANCED AND

AS THE LOVELY ,ORA HERSELF SAID h9OU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP IN THE AUDIENCE THROUGHOUT EACH AND EVERY PERFORM ANCE v !CADEMIC POET 5%! ALUM NUS AND ALL ROUND GOOD GUY 'EORGE

AND SOPHISTICATED LASSES THE FEEL OF THE MUSIC WAS LOST AND SWALLOWED UP BY THE HUGE SPACE 4HE VENUE KILLED IT 4HERE WERE SOME SUCCESS STORIES FOR INSTANCE WHEN 4HE %VENT WALKED IN 4OM #ONWAY WAS BUSY PLAYING GUITAR IN A FOLKY STYLE THAT HAS LARGELY BEEN FORGOTTEN THESE DAYS ANNIHILATED BY THE BRIGHT COL OURS AND DIRTY SOUNDS OF .U 2AVE 5LTIMATELY 4HE ,ATE 3HIFT DE PENDS ON THE PERFORMERS GELLING WITH THE SPACE AND PRODUCING AN ATMOSPHERE IDEAL FOR STUDYING &RAN CIS "ACON S DISTURBINGLY ELEGANT WORK OR PERHAPS STARING AT AN AXE HEAD FROM SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND ON THE NIGHT 4HE %VENT WENT ALONG THIS HAPPENED OFTEN

BUT NOT OFTEN ENOUGH .ONETHELESS IT RECEIVES A STRONG RECOMMENDA TION 4HE NEXT ONE IS ON 7EDNESDAY THE TH OF /CTOBER PM TILL PM )F ANY READERS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE THEY CAN CONTACT ,IZ "ALLARD ON E BALLARD UEA AC UK *ACK #LARK

.OW THAT &RESHER S WEEK HAS COME TO A SAD END PLEASE DON T FRET ALL IS NOT LOST 7HATEVER YOU DO DON T RESORT TO SOME @EXTRA READING TO OCCUPY THAT THUMB TWIDDLING TIME )NSTEAD INDULGE IN SOME OF THESE UPCOMING EVENTS

4HURSDAY TH /CTOBER 7ORDS AND -USIC ))) AT THE -ADDERMARKET "AR .ORWICH PM ! NIGHT OF SPOKEN WORD AND ACOUSTIC MUSIC IN THE %LIZABETHAN STYLE ATMOS PHERE OF ONE OF .ORWICH S MOST INNOVATIVE VENUES

&RIDAY TH /CTOBER 4HE $OG %ARED #OLLECTIVE PRESENTS "ARNABY "ROWN AT "LACKFRIARS (ALL PM %NJOY A BIZARRE PERFORMANCE COM EDY FROM THE ,EEDS BASED GROUP WHO HAVE AMAZED AUDIENCES AROUND THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR UN ASHAMEDLY ZANY SHOW LIKENED TO THE COMIC ABSURDITY OF THE MIGHTY @-IGHTY "OOSH

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STYLISH COLLABORATION OF VINYL MU SIC AND ART COME ALONG AND LISTEN TO LIVE VINYL MIXING WHILST TAKING PART IN A HUGE ILLUSTRATION SESSION WITH 5GANDAN ARTIST 0ETER 3EK 3EK INVITES ANYBODY OF ANY AGE TO DROP IN FREE OF CHARGE AND HELP HIM CREATE SOME COLLABORATIVE PIECES WHILST CHILLING OUT TO THE SOUNDS OF SOUL DANCE AND HIP HOP

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0APER AND 0OETRY 4HE ,IBRARY 2ES TAURANT 'UILDHALL (ILL PM ! @3YLVIA 0LATH %XTRAVAGANZA AWAITS AT THE ,IBRARY WITH lLM AND POETRY SUPPLYING A GLIMPSE INTO SOME OF THE POET S RECKLESSLY SELF LACERAT ING VERSE WHICH EVERY WRITER EVE RY POET BOWS IN WORSHIP TO 3EE THE lRST OUTING OF @4HE 'IRL WHO WOULD BE 'OD BY 3UZIE (ANNA

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3ZIRTES DESCRIBED IT WONDERFULLY IN A PASSAGE WE SHAMELESSLY PILFERED FROM HIS WEBSITE AS BEING @)N SOME WAYSx LIKE A 6ICTORIAN EVENING AROUND THE PIANO IN THE PARLOUR 0EOPLE MAK ING THEIR OWN ENTERTAINMENT )NTELLI GENT AND ADVENTUROUS ENTERTAINMENT &OR US ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THE NIGHT WAS TALKING TO PEO PLE AFTERWARDS WHO SAID IT HAD MADE THEM WANT TO TRY PLAYING AT OPEN MIC NIGHTS OR READING THEIR POETRY ,IKE WE SAID WE RE FAR FROM BEING EXPERTS BUT WE CAME ACROSS THE #ABARET .IGHT S -Y3PACE PROlLE WITH THIS DECLARA TION h#ABARET IS ALWAYS SEEKING NEW TALENT TO TAKE UP THE MIDWEEK MIC -USICIANS SINGERS STORYTELLERS PO ETS COMEDIANS lLMMAKERS IMITATERS AND INNOVATORS GET IN TOUCH v AND DECIDED TO DROP THEM A LINE 7E VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO MEET SOME IN CREDIBLE CREATIVE LOVELY PEOPLE THERE

AND WITH THIS ARTICLE WE ARE AIMING TO HELP AND URGE ANYONE WITH TALENTS

h/NE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THE NIGHT WAS TALKING TO PEOPLE AFTERWARDS WHO SAID IT HAD MADE THEM WANT TO TRY PLAYING AT OPEN MIC NIGHTSv WHICH ARE USUALLY KEPT HIDDEN TO TAKE THE STEP THAT WE DID 4HERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS lNE CITY JUST WAITING TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF 'RACE $ENTON AND !NNA +NOWLES

0AINTS AND 0IANOS %YE MUSIC +ANDINSKY +LEE AND ALL THAT JAZZ EX AMINES HOW MUSIC HAS AFFECTED THE CONSTRUC TION OF NEW VISUAL FORMS IN THE WORKS OF 0AUL +LEE AND 7ASSILY +ANDINSKY AND ALSO NUMER OUS OTHER ARTIST MUSICIANS OF THE LAST CENTURY )T IS +LEE AND +ANDINSKY S RECOGNISABLY "AU HAUS INFUSED HIGH MODERNIST STRUCTURES RIGID IN LINE AND ZIG ZAG IN CIRCLE AND CURVE THAT HERE ASPIRE TO A SYMPHONY OF COLOUR +ANDIN SKY S OWN ICONIC :UM 2OSA TOWARDS PINK IS A LOUD COLLAGE SUGGESTIVE OF INSTRUMENT PARTS AND STRUCTURES AND THESE COMBINE TO GIVE THE OIL PAINTING A lERCE AND DRAMATIC ENERGY )N TERSPERSED AMONGST THE AUSTERE "AUHAUS FORMS ARE THE MORE SENSITIVE AND PLAYFUL PIECES SUCH AS THE ORCHESTRAL GREEN SENSATIONS OF 6ALEN SI S 3YMPHONIE 6ERTE AND FASCINATING ANOMA LIES LIKE 3CHONBERG WHO IS LARGELY RENOWNED AS A COMPOSER ATTEMPTING SELF PORTRAIT #URATOR &RANCES 'UY IS CERTAINLY AMBI TIOUS AND WHILST OCCASIONALLY ONE OF THE SE LECTIONS WILL FAIL TO ACHIEVE THE SUCCESS OF ITS COMPANIONS LIKE THE INANE ATTEMPT AT 'ESA MTKUNSTWERK BY $UNCAN 'RANT LATER FULLY RE ALISED BY THE 4ATE WHERE RECURRING RECTANGLES ARE ANNEXED TO DULL "ACH THIS MIX TAPE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ART IS AN ENTRANCING @LISTEN 4HE %VENT LINGERED LONGEST IN FRONT OF &RANTIÝEK +UPKA S #ATHEDRAL AND ITS MESMERIS ING SUCCESSION OF BLUE RED SQUARES AS IF SHAFTS

!RTS GOES TO %YE -USIC 4HE %DITORS !RTS IS ABOUT BEING PART OF A COM MUNITY AND AS PART OF THE NEW REMODELLED !RTS SECTION WE WANTED TO TAKE OUR LOVELY WRITERS TO AN EXHIBITION AND WHAT BETTER PLACE THAN THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE (AVING ALREADY SENT THE CHARMING $AVID TO REVIEW %YE -USIC

WE DECIDED TO TAKE THE GANG ALONG AND SEE WHAT THEY THOUGHT "ELOW ARE THEIR RESPONSES 4HE CONCEPT OF +ANDINSKY S SYNESTHETIC ABILI TIES COULD BE VIEWED AS BOTH BAFmING AND FAS CINATING 4HE IDEA THAT A PERSON CAN ASSOCIATE COLOUR AND MUSIC TO THAT EXTENT MAY SEEM IM PLAUSIBLE TO A LAYMAN OR TO ANY PERSON WITH OUT THE CONDITION (OWEVER ON EXAMINATION OF THE ARTWORK PORTRAYING MUSIC ONE BECOMES CONVINCED BOTH OF THE CONDITION AND OF THE APPEALING AND STRANGELY COMPREHENSIBLE EF FECT WHICH IT PRODUCES #ERTAINLY HIS IDEA THAT THE ARTIST TOUCHES @ONE KEY OR ANOTHER TO CAUSE VIBRATIONS IN THE SOUL STRIKES A CHORD AS IT WERE FOR APPRECIATORS OF ANY ART FORM AS WELL AS UNDERLINING THE IDEA OF THE MERGING OF THE SENSES 4ORIL #OOPER AND "ETHANY 'OLDING %LVIS #OSTELLO ONCE REMARKED hWRITING ABOUT MUSIC IS LIKE DANCING ABOUT ARCHI TECTURE v 7ITH THIS SENTIMENT IN MIND THE CONCEPT OF AN EXHIBITION BASED AROUND ART IST S ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE MUSIC IN VISUAL ART MIGHT SEEM RATHER FUTILE !ND AS WITH MOST MODERN ART WITHOUT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE SY NAESTHETIC ABILITIES IT IS RATHER FUTILE "UT THE LAYOUT IS REALLY ACCESSIBLE AND QUITE PLEBIA FRIENDLY /H AND THE PICTURES ARE PRETTY TOO -ELISSA 9ORK )S IT POSSIBLE TO VISUALLY REPRESENT SOUND !S A MUSICIAN ) WOULD ANSWER YES BUT THE LAN GUAGE ) ENCOUNTERED IN THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE

FOR 6ISUAL !RTS WAS FOREIGN TO ME ) WASN T RE ALLY CONVINCED BY THE lRST GROUP OF PAINTINGS THE ARTIST S NAME HAS SLIPPED MY MIND AL THOUGH THEY WERE FASCINATING TO LOOK AT ESPE CIALLY ONE DEPICTING h#ENTRAL PARK YEARS AGOv (OW THESE PARTICULAR IMAGES WERE REL EVANT TO @%YE MUSIC APART FROM THE ARTIST S SCRAWLS OF )TALIAN MUSICAL PHRASES ,ARGO !DA GIO 0RESTO IS OBVIOUSLY BEYOND THE SCOPE OF MY IMAGINATION ) WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH A NUMBER OF THE +ANDINSKY PAINTINGS BUT THE SINGLE CANVAS THAT STOOD OUT BEYOND ALL OTHERS WAS ENTITLED !SCENSION BY *OHN 4UNNARD ! CEL LO AND POSSIBLY A NUDE FEMALE WERE STRUNG WITH @SILENT STRINGS 3OMEHOW THE TENSION OF THIS MOTIF SPOKE LOUDER THAN THE VAST ARRAY OF SWIGGLES AND SQUARES THAT ) HAD SEEN EARLIER *ON "ALDWIN

OF LIGHT REFRACTED THROUGH STAINED GLASS )T OF FERS A VIVID CHOIR LIKE MIMICRY OF ECCLESIASTI CAL SOUND AND SUDDENLY THE PREMISE OF EYE MUSIC BEGINS TO MAKE SENSE 7ERE THE #ZECH +UPKA STILL ALIVE TODAY HE MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN UNDERSTANDABLY MIFFED THAT HIS SURNAME DID NOT MAKE THE SUBTITLE OF THIS COLLECTION +UPKA S CONTRIBUTIONS ARE CERTAINLY THE MOST STRIKING PORTRAYAL OF MUSIC IMAGE PRESENT 4HE CLASSICAL IDEALISTIC BRUTALITY OF +LEE AND +ANDINSKY GIVES WAY TO MORE EXPRESSIVE AND LESS UPTIGHT CONSIDERATIONS OF JAZZ MUSIC AND DANCE MOST NOTABLY IN -ATISSE S *AZZ AND .A TALIA 'ONCHAROVA S 0ORTRAIT OF $IAGHILEV 4HE MORE RECENT NINE SCREENPRINTS OF %DUARDO 0AOLOZZI #ALCIUM ,IGHT .IGHT DEDICATED TO COMPOSER #HARLES )VES OFFER AN IMPRESSIVE ENTRANCE SEQUENCE AND EVEN IF THE %VENT WAS LEFT SCRATCHING ITS HEAD AT SOME OF THE CLAIMS ABOUT SYNAESTHESIA ONE SENSE PROVOKING A DIRECT REACTION FROM ANOTHER SOMEHOW %YE -USIC MANAGES TO PLOT A BRILLIANT AND COHER ENT COURSE THROUGH THESE EXPERIMENTAL FORMS %YE MUSIC IS EXHIBITED IN THE ,OWER 'AL LERY OF THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE 5%!

AND AD MISSION IS FREE TO THOSE WHO HOLD A VALID CAMPUS CARD 5NTIL 3UNDAY $ECEMBER $AVID 3HEPPARD

2EALITY 46 #LASS OR #RASS 2EALITY 46 HAS BEEN PENETRATING OUR LIVES FOR YEARS NOW %VER SINCE THE lRST SERIES OF "IG "ROTHER

WE HAVE HAD TO PUT UP WITH MINDLESS WANNABES WANTING THEIR CHANCE FOR lVE MINUTES OF FAME 2ACHAEL 0RICE EXAMINES THE EFFECT OR DEFECT THESE SHOWS ARE HAVING ON OUR SOCIETY

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HETHER YOU LOVE IT OR HATE IT WATCHING REALITY 46 HAS BECOME ONE OF THE NA TION S FAVOURITE PASTIMES

AND THE 46 PRODUCERS HAVE CERTAINLY COTTONED ON TO THIS ADDICTION JUDGING BY THE WAY IT HAS GRADUALLY BEGUN TO DOMINATE OUR TELEVISION SCREENS 4HE AMOUNT OF WRITTEN COMMENTARIES HAS ALSO INTENSI lED ENORMOUSLY WITH THE POPULARITY OF THE GENRE AS MAGAZINES WEBSITES AND TABLOIDS ALL DEDICATE TIME EFFORT AND COLUMN SPACE TO THE CAUSE 4HESE SHOWS REmECT THE VERY WORST ASPECTS OF A SOCIETY THAT VALUES VANITY OVER VIRTUE AND WHERE THE POWER OF MONEY AND FAME IS WORTH MORE THAN THE POWER OF RESPECT AND LOVE &ROM "IG "ROTHER TO THE 8 &ACTOR TO 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING THERE IS NOW THEORETI CALLY SOMETHING THAT WILL APPEAL TO EVERYONE AS EVERY THINKABLE SCENARIO HAS BEEN SEIZED AND COPYRIGHTED (OWEVER IS IT NOW TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK INSTEAD OF REALITY 46 4HE POPULARITY OF REALITY SHOWS PERHAPS ORIGINATES FROM THE FACT THAT UNLIKE OTHER SHOWS ON TELEVISION THEY ALLOW VIEWERS TO CONNECT WITH THE CONTESTANTS AND ARE ABLE TO lND A CERTAIN ALLURE IN COMPARING WHAT THEY WOULD DO IN THE SAME SITUATION -OST

LY THIS IS AIDED BY THE BLEND OF FANTASY AND REALITY WHICH CAN BE SEEN ON SHOWS SUCH AS 3HIPWRECKED WHERE ORDINARY AND ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE JETTED OFF AND PLACED IN UNFAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS AND PITTED AGAINST BOTH THEMSELVES AND THE ELEMENTS 3IMILARLY WITH OUR FASCINATION WITH SOAP OPERAS PEO PLE ENJOY WATCHING THE DOWNFALL OF OTHERS AS THEY ARE ABLE TO lND COMFORT IN THE KNOWL EDGE THAT THEIR OWN LIVES AREN T NEARLY SO BAD 4HERE IS ALSO THE ADDED ATTRACTION OF REALITY 46 THAT VIEWERS ARE ABLE TO ENVISAGE THEMSELVES AS PART OF THE SHOW AS ONE OF ITS PARTICIPANTS 4HE REPEATED SERIES OF 8 &ACTOR FOR EXAMPLE

SURVIVES ON PEOPLE S DESIRE FOR FAME AND THE BELIEF THAT THEY CAN BECOME MORE THAN AN @AV ERAGE *OE .EVERTHELESS DESPITE THE APPEAL OF REALITY 46 BECAUSE THERE IS THE NEED TO MAKE THESE SHOWS EVEN MORE SHOCKING AND CONTRO VERSIAL WITH EVERY SEASON THE QUESTION OF ETH ICS HAS TO BE ADDRESSED 4AKE "IG "ROTHER FOR EXAMPLE WHICH IS NOW A GLOBAL SHOW (AVING JUST lNISHED ITS EIGTH SERIES IN THE 5+ IT HAS TO STRETCH ITSELF FURTHER AND FURTHER EVERY YEAR IN ORDER TO PROVIDE NEW AND INTERESTING VIEWING MATERIAL )T S ENOUGH TO QUESTION HOW FAR PRODUCERS WILL GO BEFORE SOMETHING IS SAID 4HIS ISSUE IS BRIEmY RAISED AT THE END OF THE ""# S lRST MODERN SERIES OF $OCTOR 7HO WITH THEIR NIGHTMARE VERSION OF A FUTURISTIC "IG "ROTHER IN WHICH THE ONLY PRIZE FOR WINNERS IS THEIR LIFE 7HAT BEGAN AS AN ORIGINAL AND INTEREST ING SOCIAL EXPERIMENT INTO HUMAN BEHAVIOUR WHICH WAS lLLED WITH THE UNEXPECTED VIEW ERS NOW HAVE TO WATCH CONTESTANTS WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY AWARE OF AND CONSTANTLY EXPECTING "IG "ROTHER S OFTEN RIDICULOUS AND UNREASON ABLE TWISTS AND TURNS WHICH DETRACTS FROM THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW !LTHOUGH THE SHOW AND ITS MIND GAMES ARE DESIGNED TO SHOCK MANY OF ITS DECISIONS ARE ETHICALLY QUESTIONABLE %ARLIER THIS YEAR FOR EXAMPLE THE !US TRALIAN VERSION OF "IG "ROTHER WAS CENSORED WHEN ITS PRODUCERS DECIDED TO KEEP ONE OF ITS CONTESTANTS IN THE DARK WHEN HER FATHER DIED WHILST SHE WAS IN THE HOUSE HIGHLIGHT ING THE NEED FOR THESE SHOWS TO CONSIDER SUCH ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADVANCE 4HE GENERAL TASKS THAT ARE AN OBLIGATORY PART OF THE "IG "ROTHER HOUSE ALSO SOMETIMES REQUIRE HOUSEMATES TO PERFORM ACTS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY HUMILIAT ING AND DISTRESSING AND PURELY FOR THE VIEW ERS ENTERTAINMENT /NE EXAMPLE OF THIS WAS IN "IG "ROTHER WHERE AS A PUNISHMENT FOR THREE HOUSEMATES WHO BROKE A HOUSE RULE

THE OTHER CONTESTANTS WERE FORCED TO NOMI NATE ONE OF THE THREE RULE BREAKERS FOR EVIC TION WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY WATCHING THEM !NOTHER SHOW WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE ISSUE OF THE CONTENT OF REALITY TELEVISION AT THE MO

MENT IS THE NEW AND HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL +ID .ATION WHICH IS BASED ON 7ILLIAM 'OLDING S ,ORD OF THE &LIES &ORTY CHILDREN IN !MERICA AGED ARE TAKEN TO A DESERTED MINING TOWN IN .EW -EXICO WHERE THEY ARE THEN LEFT WITH MINIMAL ADULT SUPERVISION TO CRE ATE THEIR OWN FUNCTIONING SOCIETY OVER A FORTY DAY PERIOD INCLUDING SETTING UP THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT SYSTEM 4HERE IS A REWARD SYSTEM AT THE END OF EVERY EPISODE AN APPOINTED COUNCIL OF CHILDREN AWARDS THE @'OLD 3TAR TO A FELLOW PARTICIPANT WORTH 3UPPORT ERS OF THE SHOW CLAIM IT IS SIMPLY A SUMMER CAMP SURROUNDED BY 46 CAMERAS THAT ALL CHIL DREN WERE CLEARED BY A TEAM OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND THAT ANY CHILD COULD LEAVE WHENEVER THEY LIKED (OWEVER THE SHOW HAS RECEIVED HEAVY CRITICISM ON THE GROUNDS OF BOTH ANIMAL

h0EOPLE ENJOY WATCHING THE DOWNFALL OF OTHERS AS THEY ARE ABLE TO lND COMFORT IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR OWN LIVES AREN T NEARLY SO BADv AND CHILDREN S RIGHTS AND THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INJURIES ON SET SUCH AS FOUR CHILDREN WHO NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION AFTER DRINKING BLEACH FROM AN UNMARKED BOTTLE 4HIS IS A TER RIBLE EXAMPLE OF HOW TELEVISION HAS THE ABIL ITY TO EXPLOIT BOTH ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES IN ORDER TO CREATE A POPULAR SHOW 3HADES OF THE DEGENERATE *APANESE lLM "ATTLE 2OYALE SEEM TO EMERGE AS CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS EIGHT ARE LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES AND GOVERNED ONLY

BY THEMSELVES )T SHOULD SURELY BE A WAKE UP CALL FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT NOW CHILDREN ARE BEING DRAWN INTO THE WORLD OF REALITY 46 FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF AMUSING THE MASSES 2EALITY 46 HAS ALSO BECOME A SPRING BOARD OFF WHICH FAILING CELEBRITIES CAN TRY TO RESTART THEIR CAREERS 3HOWS SUCH AS #ELEB RITY "IG "ROTHER ) M ! #ELEBRITY 'ET -E /UT /F (ERE 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING AND $ANCING /N )CE ARE ALL SHOWS IN WHICH $ LIST CELEBRI TIES BATTLE IT OUT TO WIN THE VIEWERS FAVOUR

4HESE SHOWS ARE AGAIN DRAWN OUT FOR AS MUCH AS THEY CAN GET WITH EVEN 3TRICTLY #OME $ANC ING NOW PRODUCING A #HRISTMAS 3PECIAL WHERE THE TOP THREE CONTESTANTS FROM THE SHOW lGHT FOR lRST PLACE AGAINST CONTESTANTS FROM THEIR SISTER SHOW $ANCING 7ITH 4HE 3TARS 3OME PEOPLE ARGUE THAT REALITY 46 DE GRADES THOSE MAKING IT APPEARING IN IT AND VIEWING IT (OWEVER DESPITE THE NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS REGARDING THIS GENRE OF TELEVI SION IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO SIMPLY SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT CHANNEL IF REALITY SHOWS JUST AREN T YOUR CUP OF TEA (OWEVER IT S NIGH IMPOS SIBLE TO RID YOURSELF COMPLETELY FROM REALITY TELEVISION ESPECIALLY AFTER "IG "ROTHER S RAC ISM ROW EARLIER THIS YEAR WHICH TURNED THE SHOW INTO AN INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL 2EALITY TELEVISION HAS MOST CERTAINLY BECOME A MOD ERN PHENOMENON AND DESPITE THE GROWING CONTROVERSY VIEWING lGURES HAVE CONTINUED TO RISE SINCE 3TILL IT IS WORTH TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THAT ALTHOUGH AT PRESENT THESE SHOWS REMAIN POPULAR AND ENTERTAINING WITH THE GROWING DEMAND FOR MORE ORIGINAL VIEW ING HOW FAR WILL PRODUCERS PUSH BOUNDARIES BEFORE SOMETHING GIVES

0RIMETIME *ERICHO *ERICHO IS ONE OF THE LATEST BLOCKBUSTER SHOWS TO COME OUT OF THE 53 FOLLOWING THE LIKES OF ,OST AND (EROES )T SHARES MANY OF THE PRODUC TION VALUES OF THESE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HITS

BUT MANAGES TO CARVE OUT SOME ORIGINALITY BASED IN ITS PLOT !LTHOUGH THE POST APOCALYP TIC THEM HAS BEEN COVERED MANY TIMES BY THE LIKES OF -EL 'IBSON S lLM -AD -AX AND THE LESS SUCCESSFUL !USSIE SERIES 4RIBE IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROUGHT TO THE SMALL SCREEN IN SUCH A DRAMATIC MANNER *ERICHO IS CENTRED ON A SMALL +ANSAS TOWN OF THE SAME NAME AND THE INHABITANTS THEREIN )T STARTS OFF FOCUSSING ON THE MYSTERIOUS *AKE 'REEN 3KEET 5LRICH SON OF THE TOWN MAYOR

*OHNSTON 'REEN 'ERALD -C2ANEY (E IS THE CLICHÏD PRODIGAL SON REJECTING HIS FATHER S LINE WHICH HIS OLDER BROTHER FOLLOWED TO A

TEE !FTER SOME BASIC CHARACTER AND RELATION SHIP BUILDING WE SEE A MASSIVE NUCLEAR DETO NATION IN NEARBY $ENVER #OLORADO 3LOWLY THE RESIDENTS LEARN OF MORE EXPLOSIONS 4HE PEOPLE OF *ERICHO GO THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT !MERICANS TO DO IN THE WAKE OF A lCTIONAL DISASTER STOCK UP ON FOOD GAS AND GENERALLY START lGHTING EACH OTHER BEFORE THE TYPICAL !MERICAN HERO SPEECH BY THE MAYOR $ESPITE THIS CORNY BEGINNING *ERICHO DOES BEGIN TO lND ITS FEET *AKE IS A LIKEABLE LEAD

AND THERE ARE THE USUAL LOVE INTERESTS AND FAMILY CONmICTS THROUGHOUT 4HERE IS ALSO THE STANDARD SUSPICIOUS LOOKING GUY WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A NEWCOMER IN THE FORM OF 2OBERT (AWKINS ,ENNIE *AMES WHO APPEARS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE EXPLOSIONS THAN HE IS LETTING ON

3OAP 3UDS

4HE TRUE VALUE OF *ERICHO HOWEVER IS IN THE STORY LINE !T lRST IT SEEMS PREDICTABLE BUT EVEN BY THE END OF THE lRST EPISODE ITS POS SIBLE TO ASCERTAIN THAT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A RUN OF THE MILL DISASTER SERIES 4HE LOSS OF POWER COMMUNICATIONS KEEPS THE RESIDENTS AND THE AUDIENCE IN THE DARK ABOUT THE SITUA TION IN THE REST OF !MERICA WHICH ADDS TO THE TENSION AND FEAR ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SCREEN 7ITH THE NATURE OF THE PLOT THERE IS HUGE SCOPE FOR POSSIBLE STORYLINES YET THE WRITERS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE CAREFUL TO AVOID BE COMING WHOLLY RELIANT ON THE NUCLEAR DISASTER ASPECT OF THE SHOW 4HAT MAY SOUND CYNICAL CONSIDERING ITS THE MAIN SELLING POINT OF THE SHOW BUT IT WOULD BE EASY TO LET THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FALL BY THE WAYSIDE IN FAVOUR OF THE SENSATIONALIST COMPUTER GRAPHICS

*ERICHO HAS STARTED IN SPECTACULAR FASHION

AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE SURE TO DRAW YOU IN ,ET US HOPE THAT THIS SHOW HOLDS ITS FORM TO RESULT IN A CRACKING SERIES 4HE REPORTS FROM THE 53 WHERE IT HAS lNISHED ITS lRST SEASON ARE GOOD SO lNGERS CROSSED *AMES "ILLINGS

46 #LASSICS "RASS %YE

(OLLYOAKS

.EIGHBOURS

4HINGS ARE HEATING UP THIS WEEK IN #HESTER WITH LOVE IN THE AIR FOR MANY CHARACTERS -AX AND 3TEPH lNALLY ADMIT THEIR FEELINGS FOR EACH OTHER AND START DATING WHICH CONFUSES 4OM

WHILST 7ARREN PROPOSES MARRIAGE TO AN EQUAL LY CONFUSED ,OUISE 4HE -C1UEEN GIRLS HOW EVER TAKE CENTRE STAGE WITH *ACQUI PROPOS ING ADOPTION OPTIONS TO 4ONY AND -ERCEDES AND +ARMEL ARGUING OVER 2USS 4HE BIG EVENT OF THE WEEK IS THE STUDENTS MOVING IN PARTY WHICH GOES DISASTROUSLY WRONG AFTER *ESSICA GETS THE BOILER lXED CHEAPLY ENDING IN TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES !LL THE STUDENTS ARE LEFT UN CONSCIOUS AFTER THE BOILER BREAKS DOWN LEAV ING US WONDERING WHO WILL SURVIVE !NOTHER DRAMA lLLED WEEK IN THE SHOW THAT MUST DEl NITELY NOT BE MISSED

*ANAE IS CAUGHT BETWEEN HER LOVE LIFE AND FAM ILY LIFE THIS WEEK AS SHE HAS TO MAKES A HARD DECISION ABOUT HER FUTURE IN 2AMSAY 3TREET (ER ACTIONS SPARK A WAVE OF TROUBLE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AS -ICKEY RUNS AWAY FROM HOME WORRYING EVERYONE .ED S FAMILY COME IN TO VISIT AND 0EPPER GETS A SECOND CHANCE FROM !DAM 2INGO AND #ARMELLA S RELATION SHIP HEATS UP AT THE "UCKS AND (ENS PARTY BUT QUICKLY lZZLES OUT AFTER SHE REALISES WHAT A BIG AGE GAP THERE IS BETWEEN THEM &RAZER lNALLY MANAGES TO STAND ON HIS OWN TWO FEET BUT THE CLIMAX OF THE WEEK IS THE WEDDING DAY

WHICH WILL BE PACKED FULL OF BOTH EXCITEMENT AND TRAGEDY "ECKY 2UTT

-ANY OF US WERE INTRODUCED TO THE PINNACLE OF "RITISH COMEDIC TV "RASS %YE THROUGH THE PAEDOPHILE SPECIAL WHERE PRESENTER #HRIS -ORRIS A MIDDLE AGED MAN IN A SHARP SUIT AND WITH GELLED HAIR STARES INTO THE CAM ERA AND WITH A SERIOUS FACE UTTERS JUST A FEW WORDS n hWELCOME TO PAEDO GEDDON v #REATED BY SOME OF THE BEST "RITISH WRIT ERS AND DRIVEN BY THE SLIGHTLY DISTURBING BUT ULTIMATELY BRILLIANT MIND OF #HRIS -OR RIS IT TORE INTO "RITISH SOCIETY WITH ALL THE STYLE AND DEFT TOUCH OF THE COLLAPSING 7ORLD 4RADE #ENTRE "RASS %YE WAS DREAMT UP AF TER THE SUCCESS OF 4HE $AY 4ODAY A SIMILAR PROGRAM THAT RIPPED OFF DAILY NEWS SHOWS !DVERTISED AND SHOWN AS A STRAIGHT UP DOCU MENTARY SHOW "RASS %YE S BRILLIANCE CAME FROM THE DEAD PAN PRESENTATION 4HERE WAS NO LAUGHTER TRACK OR KNOWING WINKS AT THE

CAMERA #HRIS -ORRIS ET AL WERE PERFECTLY SE RIOUS WHEN THEY CLAIMED THAT @PAEDOPHILES HAVE $.! MORE IN COMMON WITH CRABS THAN HUMANS AND THIS WORKED ESPECIALLY WELL WHEN THEY TRICKED CELEBRITIES INTO SAYING IT n INCLUDING 'ARY ,INEKAR AND .OEL %DMONDS

AS WELL AS LACKLUSTRE -0 $AVID !MESS 4HE ABILITY OF THE "RASS %YE CREW TO DO THIS WAS A BRILLIANT SENDUP OF THE FACT THAT IT S VERY EASY TO GET A CELEBRITY OR POLITICIAN TO SAY LITERALLY ANYTHING THESE DAYS 4HE ATTENTION TO DETAIL WAS ESPECIALLY BRILLIANT AS THE OVER THE TOP INTRO MUSIC AND RIDICULOUS $ EFFECTS GRAPHS MEANT EVERY MINUTE WAS CRAMMED WITH HUMOUR "UT ITS DEVASTATING COMMENTS WERE THE TRUE HIGHLIGHT AS THERE WAS NO SUBJECT TOO TABOO

NO JOKE THAT WENT TOO FAR ANY SHOW WHICH GATHERED COMPLAINTS FROM $AVID "LUNKETT AND THE $AILY -AIL MUST BE DOING SOME THING RIGHT )TS CONTEMPT FOR CURRENT POPU LAR THOUGHT WAS BEST SHOWN IN THE $RUGS EPISODE WHERE #HRIS -ORRIS SHOOTS UP WITH HEROIN ONSCREEN BEFORE DECLARING h,UCKILY

THE AMOUNT OF HEROIN ) USE IS HARMLESSx "UT WHAT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE LESS STABLE LESS EDUCATED LESS MIDDLE CLASS THAN ME v )T S A SHAME THAT WE HAVEN T SEEN ANYTHING CLOSE TO THE QUALITY OF "RASS %YE IN SOME TIME

BUT -ORRIS IS WORKING ON ANOTHER SHOW FOR #HANNEL SO KEEP A "RASS EYE OPEN !NDY *UDSON

4OP THIS 7EEK

(EARD IT ON THE 'RAPEVINE

(EROES 7EDNESDAY PM ""#

3O IT APPEARS +NIGHT 2IDER MAY BE REBORN

WITH 53 46 EXECS LOOKING TO MAKE A 46 MOVIE WITH A SERIES TO FOLLOW DEPENDING ON THE SUCCESS OF THE PREVIOUS $ETAILS AS TO THE (OFF S POTENTIAL INVOLVEMENT ARE UNCLEAR

HOWEVER WE HERE AT 4HE %VENT ARE SURE OLD $AVID WILL JUMP AT ANY EXCUSE TO PIMP HIM SELF OUT FOR MORE MONEY 4HE RETURN OF 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING TO OUR SCREENS WILL STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF MANY WE CAN ONLY PRAY WE RE NOT IN WHEN IT S ON )T SEEMS PEOPLE SUCH AS *OHN "ARNES AND +ELLY "ROOK HAVE DECIDED THEIR CAREERS ARE IN DIRE ENOUGH STRAITS TO JUSTIFY mOUNCING ABOUT ON PRIMETIME DESPITE HAVE A COMPLETE INEPTITUDE FOR MOVING 4AKES ALL KINDS 4HE AWESOME &AMILY 'UY HAS ONCE AGAIN

4HE AWESOMENESS CONTINUES WITH COMIC GENIUS (IRO SEARCHING FOR A MAGIC SWORD AND BE ING KIDNAPPED BY NO LESS THAN HIS &ATHER

4HE $AILY 3HOW WITH *ON 3TEWART PM -ORE

4HIS YEAR S /SCAR HOST CONTINUES WITH THE SUCESSFUL LONG RUNNING POLITICAL SATIRE 4HIS SHOW IS REFRESHING SHARP AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HILARIOUS ! MUST FOR POLITICS AND !-3 STUDENTS OR ANYONE WHO WANTS A LAUGH !MERICANS POKING FUN AT THEMSELVES PRICELESS

3CRUBS 4HURSDAY PM % .EW STUFF FROM THE STUDENT FAVOURITE STILL ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS AROUND NOT JUST ON 46

-Y .AME IS %ARL &RIDAY PM # %ARL IS STILL CRACKING US UP WITH HIS HILARIOUS 2EDNECK MISADVENTURES

#OMEDY 3HOWCASE &RIDAY PM # )NTERESTING NEW SHOW FROM # A SERIES OF ONE OFF POTENTIAL COMIC GEMS STARRING SOME OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST OF "RITISH COMEDIC TALENT

CAUSED GLORIOUS OFFENCE WITH $ISNEY SUING &OX FOR THE USE OF ONE OF ITS SONGS AND INSERT ING ANTI SEMITIC LYRICS )RONIC REALLY CONSID ERING 7ALT $ISNEY WAS ONLY BEATEN BY (ITLER TO THE TOP SPOT OF *EW HATERS IN HISTORY !LSO

HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT IN MOST EARLIER $IS NEY WORKS THE EVIL ONE IS ALWAYS NON WHITE OR HAS A BIG CROOKED NOSE 3ERIOUSLY YOU LL NEVER SEE $ISNEY THE SAME WAY AGAIN !S LAST WEEK WE D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO COME BITCH AT US IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY THING WRITTEN IN THIS SECTION WE ENJOY A GOOD BARNEY 7HO KNOWS WE MAY EVEN GET YOU TO WRITE SOMETHING YOURSELF 4AKE CARE OF YOURSELVES KIDS MORE NEWS SLAPPING YOU IN THE FACE LIKE A WET KIPPER NEXT WEEK *AMES "ILLINGS

)LLUSTRATION BY 2OBERT 3AMPSON

@5NTITLED BY 2ACHEL 0ILLAI 4HE WORLD IS DUST AND HE EATS HER TEARS 4HE SAND IS SODDEN AND SHE WEARS HER LIFE IN HER HAIR 4HE WORLD IS DUST AND SAND AND SHE HAS SALT IN HER MOUTH AND HER TONGUE IS BURNT AND HE EATS HER TEARS (ER TEETH ARE BROKEN AND SHE WEARS HER LIFE AND FLOWERS IN HER HAIR 3HE DRAWS STARS ON HER SKIN 3HE DRAWS STARS ON HER HIPS ON HER STOMACH AND HER BREASTS 3HE IS HER TEETH AND HER NAILS AND HER HAIR 3HE IMAGINED IT AT DUSK HE HEARD IT AT DUSK SHE WROTE IT AT DAWN

3HE WRITES THE WORLD IN WORDS AND THE REST SHE SPEAKS WITH HER WASTED SKIN AND TEETH AND NAILS 4HE WORLD IS DUST AND SHE WRITES HER NAME IN THE SAND 3HE DRAWS STARS 3HE UNDERSTANDS LINES AND SHAPES AND CONCEPTS AND KNOWS THE WORLD IN WORDS $UST CAN T BE WRITTEN )T IS IN HER SKIN HER HAIR HER NAILS 4HEIR SOULS REST AND FLOW THROUGH THEIR FINGERS 4HEY PAINT WITH LIGHT AND DUST AND THEY FUCK UP ONCE AND AGAIN AND DO IT BEAUTIFULLY 4HE FUCK UPS ARE THE REASON THE LIGHT AND THE DUST 3HE DRAWS STARS ON HER SKIN AND HE DRAWS LINES ON HIS VEINS %VERYTHING ENTWINED AND THEN WINDED ENTWINED 4HE WORLD IS DUST AND SHE WEARS HER LIFE IN HER HAIR AND IN HER BROKEN TEETH )T IS SENSELESS IN LIGHT BUT IN DARKNESS IT IS WHOLE 3HE IMAGINED IT AT DUSK AND HE HEARD IT AT DUSK AND SHE WROTE IT AT DAWN 3HE WATCHES HER FACE SHATTER .ATURALLY SHE HATES HER FACE 4HERE IS SALT IN HER MOUTH AND HE TONGUE IS BURNT AND HE EATS HER WORDS AND BUCKLES HER SHOES 3HE IMAGINES IT IN DUST AND HE HEARS IT IN DUST AND SHE WRITES IT IN DUST 3HE SMOKES LONG WHITE CIGARETTES TO LOOK MORE %UROPEAN

(E DRAWS LINES ON HIS VEINS AND SHE WRITES TERRIBLE POETRY AND DRINKS TERRIBLE BEER 3HE HAS SAND AND FLOWERS IN HER HAIR AND SALT IN HER MOUTH AND SHE SPEAKS WITH HER SKIN 3HE UNDERSTOOD THE WORLD THROUGH WORDS LINES AND SHAPES 3HE WROTE HER NAME IN THE SAND AND WHAT OF HER NAME 3HE DREW STARS ON HIM 3HE WILLED HERSELF OLD AND THE WORLD SHONE WITH LIGHT AND DUST 4HEY WAITED IN THE MOORS THE HEATHER THE TINTS AND THE SAND 3HE WAS HER NAILS HER HAIR AND HER TEETH

3HE WRITES IT AT DAWN IN THE DUST 3HE SMOKED LONG WHITE CIGARETTES AND PAINTED HER NAILS BLACK 4HEY LIVE THROUGH THEIR FINGERS 4HE WORD IS DUST AND HER FATE HIDES IN HER HAIR ENTWINING AND WINDING ENTWINED 3HE WRITES TERRIBLE POETRY AND DRINKS TERRIBLE BEER AND SHE IS HERE AGAIN

(E DRAWS LINES ON HIS VEINS SHE DRAWS STARS ON HER STOMACH AND THEIR SOULS REST AND FLOW THROUGH THEIR FINGERS 4HEY LIVE IN THE SOUNDS WHERE HER WORDS MEAN NOTHING AND SO SHE IS FREED FROM HER LINES AND HER SHAPES AND HER CONCEPTS !ND SHE DREW A STAR

!ND HE DREW HIS VEINS

!ND HE ATE HER TEARS AND WORDS

@7ORKSHOP .EWS ,AST YEAR AS A RESULT OF THE GROWING STRENGTH OF CREATIVE WRITING AT 5%!

STUDENTS LAUNCHED 7ORKSHOP !S HE FIRST CREATIVE WRITING ANTHOLOGY SPECIFICALLY FOR UNDERGRADUATES

IT SERVED AS AN ARENA TO DISPLAY THEIR WORK AND GAIN EXPERIENCE IN THE EDITING PROCESS

AS WELL AS BEING A FORUM FOR CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IN THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF THE WRITERS INVOLVED 4HE ANTHOLOGY WILL CONTINUE THIS YEAR

AND BRING TOGETHER THE BEST UNDERGRADUATE WRITING FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR )F YOU RE INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING WORK AND RECEIVING SPACE IN AN EXCLUSIVELY UNDERGRADU ATE PUBLICATION EMAIL US HERE

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CASHED IN WITH ORGASMS BETWEEN THE *ONELLE BED SHEETS

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WITH THE WORDS ,ANCOME ,ILY OF THE 6ALLEY

+ING S 2OAD = WRITTEN DOWN HER THIGH ON THE SEAM OF HER *ONELLE AGAIN TIGHTS

4HROUGH THIS ADDRESS WRITERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEND PIECES ANONYMOUSLY TO OTHERS AND GAIN VALUABLE FEEDBACK SO THAT THE WORKS CONSIDERED FOR THE ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTE TO AN ONGOING PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND REVISION )N THIS WAY THIS YEAR S EDITION OF 7ORKSHOP CAN BE EVEN STRONGER !ND ANY UNDERGRADUATE CAN BE PART OF IT WHETHER THEY ARE ON THE CREATIVE WRITING COURSES OR NOT

3O WRITE US AN EMAIL JOIN THE COMMUNITY

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ENSCONCED IN THE LUST FILLED VISIONS OF THE STORE CARD THEY MADE LOVE

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EVER HEARD OF (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL 7HERE HAVE YOU BEEN /K SO MAYBE THAT S A BIT OVER THE TOP BUT IT HAS BEEN HARD TO ESCAPE THE PHENOMENON THAT S BEEN SWEEPING THE GLOBE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS 7HEN THE FIRST IN THE SERIES OF MADE FOR 46 MOVIES ABOUT A GROUP OF !MERICAN TEENAGERS AT A .EW -EXICO HIGH SCHOOL HIT THE SMALL SCREEN IT WAS AN UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS FOR ITS CREATOR $ISNEY $ISNEY MAKES AT LEAST TEN ORIGINAL MOV IES FOR THEIR 46 CHANNEL EVERY YEAR EACH WITH A RELATIVELY SMALL BUDGET OF AROUND MILLION 4HEY RARELY MAKE IT INTO THE MAINSTREAM PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS INSTEAD BECOMING A FAD OF THE MONTH FOR THE TEN TO YEAR OLDS THEY ARE NORMALLY AIMED AT (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL BROKE THIS MOULD WHEN IT WAS SEEN BY MILLION VIEWERS ON ITS FIRST AIRING IN !MERICA IN *ANUARY

GOING ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF THE YEAR 4HE PLOT OF THE FIRST FILM CENTRED ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 4ROY "OLTON :AC %FRON THE POPULAR CAPTAIN OF THE BASKET BALL TEAM AND 'ABRIELLA -ONTEZ 6ANESSA (UDGENS AN INTELLIGENT NEW STUDENT AT 4ROY S SCHOOL 4HEIR CHANCE MEETING AT A KARAOKE PARTY IN THE #HRISTMAS HOLIDAYS TURNS OUT TO BE FATE WHEN THEY ARE REUNITED

AT 'ABRIELLA S NEW SCHOOL !LTHOUGH 'ABRI ELLA IS EXTREMELY SHY ABOUT HER SINGING TAL ENTS AND 4ROY IS RELUCTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS OWN VOCAL ABILITIES THEY SOON GROW CLOSER AS TOGETHER THEY SECRETLY AUDITION FOR THE SCHOOL MUSICAL 3UPPORTED BY A CAST FAMILIAR ONLY TO $ISNEY #HANNEL DEVOTEES SUCH AS !SHLEY 4ISDALE 3HARPAY %VANS AND #ORBIN "LEU #HAD $ANFORTH IT WAS A SURPRISE TO ALL INVOLVED WHEN THE FILM BECAME A HIT 4HE SOUNDTRACK BECAME THE BEST SELLING AL BUM OF IN THE 53 GOING FOUR TIMES 0LATINUM AND THE $6$ SOLD MILLION COPIES IN ITS FIRST SIX DAYS ON THE SHELVES $ISNEY COULD NOW REALLY BELIEVE THEY HAD A VALUABLE HIT ON THEIR HANDS AND WERE DE TERMINED TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT WHILE IT LASTED "Y #HRISTMAS THERE WERE NEARLY A HUNDRED (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL RELATED PRODUCTS ON THE SHELVES FROM STATIONERY TO DANCE MATS 4HIS FERVOUR INCREASED RAPIDLY AS RUMOURS OF A SEQUEL FLEW AROUND AND SURE ENOUGH IN !UGUST (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL PREMIERED IN THE 53 THIS TIME AN AUDIENCE OF A MASSIVE MILLION VIEWERS WATCHED THE STUDENTS OF %AST (IGH GET SUM MER JOBS AT AN EXCLUSIVE COUNTRY CLUB !LTHOUGH THE MOVIE HAD DISTINCTLY AV ERAGE REVIEWS FROM MOST CRITICS IT MATTERED LITTLE AS THE CULT OF (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL GREW EVER BIGGER 4HE VIEWING FIGURES WERE A CABLE CHANNEL RECORD IN !MERICA AND THE SEQUEL WAS QUICKLY GIVEN ITS PREMIERE IN THE 5+ BREAKING RECORDS OVER HERE TOO WITH ITS MILLION "RITISH VIEWERS ON THE 5+ $ISNEY #HANNEL IN 3EPTEMBER )T IS THE FRANCHISE THAT MAKES THE MOV IES WORTH PRODUCING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF $ISNEY 3ANDWICHED BETWEEN THE FILMS HAS BEEN A CONCERT TOUR WITH MOST OF THE FILM S STARS AND SEVERAL NOVELS FOR PRE TEENS

THE FIRST OF WHICH HAS SOLD MILLION COP IES 3INCE THE RELEASE OF THE SEQUEL A (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL /N )CE SHOW HAS DEBUTED IN .EW 9ORK S -ADISON 3QUARE 'ARDENS AN OTHER SOUNDTRACK HAS ENTERED THE CHARTS

AND TWO VIDEO GAMES HAVE BEEN MADE -AYBE $ISNEY WILL REACH THEIR TARGET OF HALF A BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL SERIES AFTER ALLx /F COURSE THE EFFECT OF THIS IMMENSE SUCCESS HAS BEEN REFLECTED IN THE RISING STA TUS OF THE FILMS MAIN STARS :AC %FRON HAS BEEN ARGUABLY THE BIGGEST WINNER HAVING BEEN CAST ALONGSIDE *OHN 4RAVOLTA IN (AIR SPRAY A ROLE THAT LED TO HIM FEATURING ON THE COVER OF 2OLLING 3TONE (IS ON AND OFF SCREEN GIRLFRIEND 6ANESSA (UDGENS HAS ALSO BENEFITED HUGELY FROM THE FILMS AS THEY NOT ONLY GAVE THE OUT OF WORK ACTRESS A MUCH NEEDED EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

BUT ALSO PROVIDED THE STEPPING BOARD FOR HER TO LAUNCH A SOLO MUSIC CAREER

7ITH THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE FILMS SO FAR IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT A (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE PIPE LINE )NEVITABLY $ISNEY ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT THERE WILL BE ANOTHER INSTAL MENT OF THE SERIES AND THAT THE THIRD FILM WILL BE THE FIRST TO DEBUT IN THE CINEMAS )T IS HOPED THAT ALL THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS WILL RETURN ALTHOUGH THIS WAS PUT IN JEOP ARDY IN 3EPTEMBER WHEN NAKED PICTURES OF 6ANESSA (UDGENS SURFACED ON THE )NTERNET )T WAS SAID THEY WERE TAKEN FOR THE VIEW ING PLEASURE OF HER BOYFRIEND %FRON ONLY

BUT THERE HAS BEEN MUCH SPECULATION AS TO WHETHER SHE IN FACT RELEASED THEM HERSELF

PERHAPS IN THE HOPE OF SHEDDING HER IN NOCENT SCHOOLGIRL IMAGE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BOOSTING HER PROFILE INTO THE GENERAL DOMAIN 7HETHER (UDGENS FEATURES OR NOT

THERE WILL CERTAINLY BE ANOTHER MOVIE )T IS REPORTED THAT THE YOUNG ACTORS ARE BEING OFFERED MILLION EACH TO STAR IN THE THIRD FILM WITH %FRON SET TO GET AT LEAST MILLION 4HE ORIGINAL PLOT IDEA WAS FOR IT TO BE (ALLOWEEN THEMED BUT THIS HAS BEEN ABANDONED IN FAVOUR OF FOLLOWING THE CHARACTERS THROUGH THEIR FINAL YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL AND UP TO THEIR GRADUATION 7ITH THE SERIES BREAKING RECORDS ALL OVER THE PLACE IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE WHY MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE OF THE LOW BUDGET FILM THAT HAS HIT THE BIG TIME )T HAS MADE STARS OF ITS AC TORS INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF COPY CAT DANCE ROUTINES IN LIVING ROOMS ALL OVER THE WORLD

AND HAS MADE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR ITS MAKERS )T MAY HAVE BEEN A SURPRISE HIT FOR $ISNEY BUT THEY ARE CERTAINLY MAKING THE MOST OF IT WHILE IT LASTS

5%! !LUMNI )AN -C%WAN 0ROFESSION !UTHOR !TTENDED 5%! $EGREE -! #REATIVE

7RITING "ORN IN *UNE )AN -C%WAN IS A WORLD FA MOUS NOVELIST WHO WAS BORN IN !LDERSHOT (IS FAMILY MOVED AROUND A LOT IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS AS HIS FATHER WAS IN THE ARMY BUT THE -C%WANS CAME BACK TO %NGLAND IN TIME FOR HIM TO ATTEND %TON #OLLEGE !FTER %TON HE WAS ACCEPTED BY THE 5NIVERSITY OF 3USSEX WHERE HE GAINED A "! IN %NGLISH ,ITERATURE IN 4HE FOLLOWING YEAR -C%WAN CAME TO THE 5%! TO DO AN -! IN %NGLISH ,ITERATURE 7HILE HERE HE TOOK THE INAUGURAL #REATIVE 7RITING UNIT WHICH HAD BEEN CREATED BY -ALCOLM "RAD BURY THAT VERY YEAR 7HEN HE GRADUATED IN

HE WAS THE l RST TO DO SO FROM THE #REATIVE 7RIT ING COURSE A COURSE THAT HAS SINCE GAINED A DE SIRABLE REPUTATION THE WORLD OVER (IS l RST BOOK A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ENTITLED &IRST ,OVE ,AST 2ITES WAS PUBLISHED IN AND WON THE 3OMERSET -AUGHAM !WARD

THE l RST OF MANY AWARDS THAT -C%WAN WAS TO BE GIVEN FOR HIS WORKS SAW THE RELEASE OF HIS INITIAL FULL LENGTH NOVEL 4HE #EMENT 'ARDEN AND

SOON )AN -C%WAN WAS A HOUSEHOLD NAME (E HAS GONE ON TO WRITE TEN NOVELS MANY OF WHICH WERE ON THE BEST SELLER LISTS &IVE OF HIS NOVELS INCLUDING 4HE )NNOCENT AND 4HE #OMFORT NOVELS INCLUDING OF 3TRANGERS HAVE GONE ON TO BECOME l LMS !R OF 3TRANGERS GUABLY THE MOST FAMOUS l LM ADAPTATIONS OF HIS BOOKS ARE %NDURING ,OVE A MOVIE WHICH STARRED BOOKS ARE $ANIEL #RAIG AND 2HYS )FANS AND !TONEMENT

THE EPIC DRAMA THAT IS CURRENTLY IN CINEMAS AND STARS +EIRA +NIGHTLY AND *AMES -C!VOY IN THE LEAD ROLES -C%WAN HAS JUST PUBLISHED HIS TENTH NOVEL

/N #HESIL "EACH WHICH EARNED HIM ANOTHER "OOKER 0RIZE NOMINATION HIS l FTH IN TOTAL (IS CURRENT PROJECT IS WRITING THE LIBRETTO TO AN OP ERA ENTITLED &OR 9OU WHICH WILL BE PERFORMED IN

&IONA "ILLINGS

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3UPPORT THE -ONKS 0ROTEST IN "URMA &OLLOWING THE RECENT EVENTS IN 2ANGOON A &ACEBOOK GROUP HAS SPRUNG INTO EXISTENCE TO SUPPORT THE REPRESSED PEOPLE OF "URMA GAIN ING CONSIDERABLE MOMENTUM IN THE LAST FEW DAYS .OW WITH OVER MEMBERS THE GROUP IS ORGANISING PROTEST MARCHES IN ALL THE MAJOR COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD 4O ENCOURAGE THE ACTIONS OF PEOPLE IN "URMA ITSELF AND TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE SITUATION

AT NOON ON 3ATURDAY THE TH OF /CTOBER

MARCHERS CONGREGATED OUTSIDE THE "URMESE %MBASSIES OF THE WORLD AND TO TRY AND DRAW ATTENTION TO THE TERRIBLE CRUELTY TAKING PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 4HE CLOSEST ONE TO .ORWICH WAS IN ,ONDON WHERE LAST 4HURSDAY OVER PEOPLE GATHERED 4HE GROUP CREATED BY !LEX "OOKBINDER SAYS THAT THEY hARE MARCHING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE MONKS AND ORDINARY PEO PLE OF "URMA WHO ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY v "URMA IS A COUNTRY IN 3OUTH %AST !SIA BORDERING )NDIA #HINA 4HAILAND AND ,AOS )T IS LED BY A BRUTAL REGIME GUILTY OF MANY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY INCLUDING THE MUR DERS OF OVER PEOPLE IN WHEN PRO TESTS MUCH LIKE THE CURRENT DEMONSTRATIONS LAST TOOK PLACE 5NFORTUNATELY THE VIOLENCE IN

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"URMA CONTINUES AND ALTHOUGH THE OUTCOME THIS TIME HAS BEEN LESS BLOODY PEOPLE HAVE STILL DIED AND MILLIONS OF "URMESE REMAIN IM PRISONED IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY 4HE GROUP LISTS A LARGE NUMBER OF WEBSITES AND ORGANISATIONS DEDICATED TO RAISING AWARE NESS CALLING ON ALL PEOPLE TO hDO ALL THAT THEY CAN TO ALLEVIATE THAT SUFFERING v )F YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN IN THE PROTESTS THIS 3ATURDAY ALL THE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND ON THE &ACEBOOK GROUP INCLUDING A COMPREHENSIVE LISTS OF OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP *AKE -AXWELL 7ATTS

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MISSAR EAGERLY AWAIT A REINFORCEMENT IN THE FORM OF ORIGINAL GUITARIST *AMES -ELHAM WHO BADLY INJURED HIS ARM IN THE l ELD OF BATTLE TWO WEEKS BEFORE +OMMISAR S l RST GIG IN !PRIL 7ITH *AMES IN HOSPITAL FOR A WHILE +OMMISSAR DRAFTED ADDI TIONAL GUITARIST $AN (UMPHRIES TO THE PLATOON

WHO IS NOW A PERMANENT MEMBER +OMMISSAR HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THE FUTURE PLAYING THEIR l RST HEADLINING GIG ON /CTOBER TH AT THE 1UEEN #HARLOTTE AND PLANNING TO RELEASE THEIR SELF l NANCED DEBUT % 0 3CORCHED %ARTH ON THE SAME DAY %XPECT TO SEE THEM GIGGING AROUND THE .ORWICH AREA FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE WITH POST GRADUATION PLANS FOR THE SUMMER INVOLVING THE PURCHASE OF A MILITARY ARMOURED VEHICLE AND WIDESPREAD INVASION ACROSS THE "RITISH )SLES #HECK THEM OUT AT HTTP WWW MYSPACE COM WEAREKOMMISSAR -IKE -OORE

THE TOP STOP WITH SOPHOMORE EFFORT !N %ND (AS ! 3TART DRUMMER %D ,AY TALKS TO N THE FIRST DAY OF THIS LEG OF THE 5+ TOUR %DITORS COME TO 5%! TO FLASH THEIR NEW ALBUM !N %ND

7HERE ARE THEY NOW 2EMEMBER THE !LL3TARS 0ROBABLY NOT $ON T WORRY THOUGH YOU WON T BE THE ONLY ONE "ACK IN #)46 UNLEASHED THE !LL3TARS UPON THE WORLD IN ALL THEIR IRRITATING TOOTHY GRINNED GLORY LEAVING BEHIND THEM A TRAIL OF EASILY FORGETTABLE HITS SUCH AS /NCE 5PON A ,IFETIME "EST &RIENDS AND OF COURSE 4HINGS THAT 'O "UMP "UMP "UMP IN THE .IGHT "ELIEVE IT OR NOT #)46 WERE CONVINCED THAT THE SERIES ABOUT A GROUP OF INNOCENT YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER COMING ACROSS SUCH RIV ETING STORYLINES AS HAVING MONSTERS UNDER THE BED COULD HAVE DUAL SUCCESS BOTH ON 46 AND IN THE CHARTS 5NFORTUNATELY THIS MEANT THAT MOST OF THE SHOWS WERE l LLED WITH CRINGINGLY BAD MUSICAL COMMENTARY BY THE GROUP AND EQUALLY BAD S POP DANCE ROUTINES WHICH SOME OF US MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE TRIED TO RE ENACT AT HOME 3O WHAT ARE THEY UP TO NOW 7ELL ALL BUT ONE MEMBER HAS TRIED TO REMAIN IN THE LIME

%DITORS BEGAN THEIR @SOLD OUT 5 + TOUR LAST -ONDAY AT 5%! 2IDING HIGH AFTER HITTING (ANNAH 3TAPNILL ABOUT LIFE ON THE ROAD 'LASTONBURY AND THAT *OY $IVISION TAG

5NI "ANDS &RONTED BY CHARISMATIC METALHEAD !DRIAN +ASSIS SIA ON LEAD VOCALS +OMMISSAR ARE A MUSICAL MI LITIA OF HEAVY METAL PROPORTIONS FORGING A FORCE OF BONE CRUSHING MELODIC OLD SCHOOL RIFFAGE AND THUNDERING RHYTHM 4HEIR NAME COMES FROM A BRAND OF VODKA BUT ALSO MEANS @#OMMISSIONER

THE NAME OF 3OVIET OFl CERS IN 77)) 4HE BAND S MUSIC TAKES STRONG INm UENCE FROM .EW 7AVE

(EAVY -ETAL ERA BANDS THINK )RON -AIDEN BUT WITH !DRIAN AND CO CRAFTING THEIR OWN TAKE ON THE GENRE THE %ASTERN "LOC INm UENCES INSPIR ING A SOMBRE TONE TO THEIR SOUND )N !DRIAN S WORDS h4HE LYRICS ARE BASICALLY ABOUT ABUSE OF POWER GUILT AND GETTING WRECKED AND HAVING A GOOD TIME v +OMMISSAR WERE FORMED IN /CTOBER

THE ORIGINAL LINEUP FEATURING !DRIAN @#ANADRIAN +ASSISSIA ON VOCALS @-ETAL #HRIS *ACKSON ON BASS

*ACK +AVANAGH AND *AMES -ELHAM ON GUITARS AND #HRISTINA (AYNES ON $RUMS !T PRESENT +OM

%VERY %ND (AS ! 3TART

LIGHT WITH 4HAILA :UCCHI PLAYING THE BUNNY BOILER CHARACTER IN "ALLS OF 3TEEL NOT EXACTLY CHILD FRIENDLY AND THE @FAKE HOUSEMATE 0AULINE IN "IG "ROTHER 2EBECCA (UNTER HAS APPEARED IN &AMILY !FFAIRS 3ANDI ,EE (UGHES HAS MARRIED CHILDREN S 46 PRESENTER $OMINIC 7OOD AND 3AM "LOOM AUDITIONED UNSUCCESS FULLY FOR # S "OYS WILL BE 'IRLS 4HE MOST SUCCESSFUL BAND MEMBER WAS !SHLEY 4AYLOR $AWSON WHO INITIALLY LEFT (OL LYOAKS TO SEEK OUT POP STARDOM IN THE !LLSTARS (E SOON RETURNED TO THE SOAP WITH HIS TAIL BE TWEEN HIS LEGS TO RESUME HIS ROLE AS NONE OTHER THAN THE KING OF SLEAZE $ARREN /SBORNE 7E DON T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT HERE AT 4HE %VENT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING $ARREN /SBOURNE AND A WOMAN WHO APPEARED IN &(- S $O 9OU 4HINK ) M 3EXY 4HAILA SINGING TO CHILDREN ABOUT BUMPS IN THE NIGHT SENDS A SHUDDER RIGHT DOWN OUR SPINES (ARRIET $IPLOCK

(AS ! 3TART h7E RE ALL STILL ADJUSTING A LITTLE BITv EXPLAINS DRUMMER %D ,AY HAV ING SPENT A MONTH TOURING !MERICA (AVING PLAYED IN LEGENDARY !MERICAN VENUES SUCH AS &ILLMORE 4HEATRE IN 3AN &RANCISCO %D ADMITS hIT S NICE TO START A 5+ TOUR n WE DID ABOUT DATES BACK IN *ULY AND THAT S NOT ENOUGH WE RE HUNGRY TO PLAY HERE v 4HE LAST FEW DATES OF COURSE BEING THE OBLIGATORY FESTIVALS h!LL OF THE FES TIVALS WERE REALLY ENJOYABLE ESPECIALLY THE 5+ ONES LIKE 'LASTONBURY n THAT WENT DOWN AS ONE OF OUR PROUDEST MOMENTS 4 IN THE 0ARK WAS EVEN MORE VIBEY 4HE 3COTTISH CROWD WERE UNBE LIEVABLE 7E WERE IN A TENT AS WELL SO IT LOOKED LIKE A MASSIVE SEA OF SWEATY PEOPLE v !N %ND (AS ! 3TART THE BAND S SEC OND ALBUM WAS RELEASED THIS SUMMER h4HE RADIO SUPPORT HAS BEEN TREMEN DOUS AND OBVIOUSLY GOING TO .O IS A BIG ACHIEVEMENT AND IT S A NICE FEELINGv SAYS %D MODESTLY (OWEVER SOME PRESS COVERAGE HAS BEEN MORE CRITI CAL hIN THE STATES WE SEEM TO GET VERY STRANGE PRESS SAYING IT S A CONTINUATION OF THE l RST ALBUM WHICH ) DON T REALLY THINK IT IS .OBODY CHANGES OVERNIGHT

NOR SHOULD THEY BUT THE SOUND WE VE GOT OUT OF THIS ALBUM IS ENTIRELY DIFFER ENT LESS CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND A BIT MORE JOYOUS 7E RE ALL DELIGHTED WITH IT v 4HE 5+ PRESS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBING THE ALBUM AS VERY DARK %D EXPLAINS THE MORE MATURE SOUND OF THE ALBUM @4HE THEMES ARE DARK BUT WE VE GOT TO AN AGE WHERE WE START TO EXPERIENCE BAD THINGS IN LIFE )N OUR TEENS EARLY S WE DIDN T REALLY HAVE MUCH TO THINK ABOUT OTHER THAN HAVING A GOOD TIMEx7E VE ALL GOT EXTENDED FAMILIES NOW AND MADE MORE FRIENDS AND OBVIOUSLY BAD THINGS TEND TO CREEP IN v 5PON SPECULATION

h4HE THEMES ARE DARK BUT WE VE GOT TO AN AGE WHERE WE START TO EXPERI ENCE BAD THINGS IN LIFEv

ABOUT WHETHER THE LYRICAL CONTENT RE m ECTS SONGWRITER AND VOCALIST 4OM 3MITH AS A PERSON %D REPLIED h.OT AT ALL n 4OM S NEVER WRITTEN ABOUT TRIVIAL ISSUES LIKE NIGHTS OUT ON THE TOWN WE RE NOT STREET POETS LIKE BANDS SUCH AS THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS OR (ARD &I WHO WRITE ABOUT CURRENT GOINGS ON IN THEIR LIVES 4OM S MORE AN ILLUSIVE WRITER v 7ITH THESE POWERFUL SUBJECTS

POUNDING RHYTHMS AND INTENSE MEL ODY THE COMPARISONS TO *OY $IVISION KEEP COMING ESPECIALLY WITH LEAD SINGER 4OM 3MITH S UNCANNY SIMILARITY TO )AN #URTIS %D DEFENDS THE *OY DIVI SION TAG h)T S FUNNY n WE DIDN T KNOW ANY OF THEIR STUFF WHEN WE STARTED THE BAND SO WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO HAVE AN IMPACT FROM THEM l RST HAND v )NSTEAD HE CITES %LBOW AND %CHO AND THE "UNNYMEN AS @PROPER MAJOR INm UENCES h%CHO AND THE "UNNYMEN

ARE A MEETING POINT FOR ALL US THEY VE HAD A HUGE AFFECT ON OUR MUSICv 3O WHAT S NEXT FOR %DITORS 4HEY DEl NITELY INTEND ON STICKING AROUND hAS LONG AS WE CHOOSE THE RIGHT PRO DUCER AND ENJOYING BEING IN STUDIO AND ON TOUR THEN THAT CAREER IS GOING TO KEEP ON GOING v (AVING CHOSEN AWARD WINNING PRODUCER 'ARRETT @*ACKNIFE ,EE WHO S PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH 5

3NOW 0ATROL AND 'REEN $AY hEVERY THING S WORKING WELL AND WOULDN T TO CHANGE ANYTHING AT THE MOMENT 7E RE GOING TO GO INTO THE STUDIO HOPEFULLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THERE S A LOT OF TOURING IN THE MEAN TIME AND WE RE ALL ENJOYING PLAYING AND ENJOYING EACH OTHER S COMPANY v !S DARK AS THE MUSIC MAY SOUND THE FUTURE SEEMS NOTHING LESS THAN BRIGHT FOR THE 5 + S GLOOM ROCK PIONEERS

%DITORS 4IMELINE

4HE BAND MET STUDYING -USIC 4ECHNOLOGY AT 3TAFFORD SHIRE 5NIVERSITY

3IGNED WITH +ITCHENWARE 2ECORDS IN 3EPTEMBER

$EBUT ALBUM 4HE "ACK 2OOM WAS RELEASED *ULY TO CRITICAL COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

3ECOND ALBUM !N %ND (AS A 3TART RELEASED ON *UNE

*UNE CAREER DEl N ING SET AT 'LASTONBURY

-USIC FOR THE -ASSES 7ELCOME TO !NGLIA S MUSICAL HUBUB A PLACE WHERE THE BEST BANDS $*S AND MUSICAL OPPORTUNITIES ARE NEVER FAR AWAY -USIC %DITOR 'REG 3ULLIVAN IS READY TO AFFRIM YOUR FAITH IN 5%! S MUSIC SCENE

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OU RE NOW A STUDENT 7HETHER IT S FOR THE lRST OR THIRD TIME MARVEL AS YOUR LIFE TRANSFORMS FROM THE SODDEN BLACK AND WHITE MONOTONOUS EXISTENCE YOU VE LEARNT TO COPE WITH AS OF LATE

INTO A FUN lLLED BOOZED UP ROLLER COASTER RIDE IN 4ECHNICOLOR 4AKE A STEP BACK AND GLARE IN WONDERMENT AS YOUR NEW MATE GUZZLES DOWN lVE SNAKEBITES FOR THE lRST TIME AND CONSEQUENTLY RIPS THE DANCE mOOR IN HALF mAILING HIS ARMS TO THE 9-#!

LIKE A SMALL CHILD HIGH ON CAFFEINE !LL THE WHILE YOU STAND AWE IN SPIRED AGHAST BUT REVELLING IN PRIDE AND REALISATION THAT THE ! AND TWO " S YOU WORKED YOUR ARSE OFF FOR WERE ACTUALLY WORTH IT EVEN IF THE MONSTROUS HANGOVER AWAITING YOU THE FOLLOWING MORNING DISAGREES 5NIVERSITY WILL BE THE MOST SPON TANEOUS AMBITIOUS LIFE AFlRMING THREE YEARS YOU WILL EVER LIKELY EX PERIENCE

7E HOPE THAT S GOT YOU EXCITED 3O AS FOR THE MUSIC h%MBRACE IT LIKE YOU LL LEARN TO EMBRACE SNAKEBITEv

AN INTOXICATED THIRD YEAR ONCE TOLD ME 4HIS WRITER DID EXACTLY AS HE

h%MBRACE 5%!

-USIC LIKE YOU LL LEARN TO EMBRACE A SNAKEBITEv SAID LIKE ANY NAÕVE FRESHER WOULD

AND DISCOVERED TO HIS APPARENT DIS BELIEF THAT .ORWICH 5%! HAS A LOAD TO OFFER (E DANCED HIS PANTS OFF TO -YLO AND (OT #HIP DANCED HIS PANTS OFF AGAIN TO :ANE ,OWE S AND HIS HOME TAPING WROTE SOME MU SIC ARTICLES ABOUT SOME DODGY INDIE

BANDS LIKE +AISER #HIEFS SAW A FEW MORE LIVE !.$ FORMED A BAND SO HE D LOOK COOL 4HIS WRITER LIVED THE MUSIC GEEK S DREAM 7HETHER ACCOMMODATING FOR UPCOMING STUDENT $*S AT THE LAT EST ,#2 NIGHT OR BOOKING +INGS OF ,EON +ASABIAN OR +ATE .ASH FOR THE ,#2 5%! IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE 5+ S HOTSPOTS FOR LIVE MUSIC *OURNEY FURTHER AND YOU LL DISCOVER THE WONDERS OF 4HE 7ATERFRONT A GEM OF A VENUE IN THE .ORWICH !RT #ENTRE )F YOU RE LUCKY YOU MIGHT JUST STUMBLE ACROSS SCENESTER HANG

OUTS OF PREFERENCE 0ONANA S AND 4HE -USTARD ,OUNGE OR AN UN SIGNED BANDS HAVEN IN 4HE 1UEEN #HARLOTTE .OW YOU KNOW THE VENUES YOU WANT TO SEE SOME LIVE MUSIC )F YOU DECIDED AGAINST THE MINUTE QUEUE FOR +ATE .ASH TICKETS AT THE BOX OFlCE THERE S PLENTY MORE ON OFFER FROM SMALLER VENUES 6ENTURE TO THE !RTS #ENTRE FOR LAST MINUTE TICKETS FOR &OALS WHO WILL NO DOUBT ROUSE A GATHERING OF DEVOTEES AT ON THE TH /CTOBER OFF THE BACK OF THEIR CAMEO ON 3KINS SECRET

MYSPACE PARTY ,OS #AMPESINOS WILL TREAT A PACKED OUT CROWD TO SPARKLY INDIE TREATS ON TH /CTOBER AT THE !RTS #ENTRE "LACK 2EBEL -OTORCYCLE #LUB WILL TAKE A NOSTALGIC ,#2 ON A JOURNEY BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN GARAGE ROCK RULED THE WORLD ON THE TH OF $ECEMBER AND lNALLY 4HE 7OMBATS MIGHT JUST CEMENT THEIR STATUS AS THE HOTTEST NEW BAND IN THE 5 + AT THE 7ATERFRONT ON THE TH $ECEMBER !LTERNATIVELY JUST HEAD DOWN TO THE MIGHTY 1UEEN #HARLOTTE ANY NIGHT OF THE WEEK FOR SOME AMBITIOUS YOUNG UNSIGNED BANDS )F WE HAD MORE SPACE WE COULD GO ON FOR AN AGE OR TWO AS IT IS

WE HOPE THIS ARTICLE HAS AFlRMED YOUR FAITH IN THE .ORWICH 5%!

MUSIC SCENE 7HETHER YOU VE JUST UNPACKED YOUR BAGS AT #ONSTABLE 4ERRACE OR YOU RE A NOSTALGIC 5%!

VETERAN BEGINNING YOUR lNAL YEAR

WELCOME TO THE 5%!

'REG 3ULLIVAN

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4AKE lVE GIRLS GIVE THEM BIZARRE NICKNAMES AND PUT THEM IN GIANT PLATFORM SHOES AND YOU VE GOT THE 3PICE 'IRLS 4HAT IS THE 3PICE 'IRLS THAT RELEASED THEIR IMAGINATIVELY TITLED lRST ALBUM 3PICE IN .OVEMBER 7HEN 3IMON &ULLER BROUGHT -ELANIE "ROWN

6ICTORIA !DAMS -ELANIE #HISHOLM %MMA "UNTON AND 'ERI (ALLIWELL TOGETHER TO MAKE A FEW POP SINGLES LITTLE DID HE KNOW THE PHENOMENON THAT WOULD ENSUE AFTER 7ANNABE HIT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS DURING THE SUMMER OF 3OON GIRLS AND SOME BOYS EVERYWHERE WERE PRACTISING THE DANCE ROUTINES IN THE PLAYGROUND lGHTING OVER WHO GOT TO BE 3PORTY OR 0OSH 3PICE WAS THE ALBUM THAT CONTAINED THE 3PICE 'IRLS lRST lVE NUMBER ONES FROM THE ANNOYINGLY MEMORABLE

7ANNABE TO THE SLOW BUT EQUALLY CATCHY "ECOME 7ITHIN SEVEN WEEKS IT HAD SOLD MILLION COPIES IN THE 5+ ALONE AND WENT ON TO GO TEN TIMES 0LATINUM IN THE 3PICE 'IRLS HOME COUNTRY 7HAT WAS REALLY ASTONISHING WAS THE FACT THAT THIS ALBUM WAS THE CATALYST FOR THEM TO BREAK THE NOTORIOUSLY DIFlCULT 53 MARKET !MERICAN MUSIC FANS LATCHED ON TO THE 3PICE 'IRLS AND 7ANNABE BECAME THE HIGHEST PLACED SINGLE BY A NON 53 ARTIST IN HISTORY BEATING THE "EATLES BY ONE PLACE IN THE CHART 7ANNABE WAS SUCH AN INFECTIOUS TRACK THAT IT REACHED NUMBER ONE IN COUNTRIES THE WORLD OVER ENSURING THE 3PICE 'IRLS WIDE RANGING SUCCESS THAT CONTINUES EVEN TODAY AS THEIR SOLD OUT COMEBACK GIGS SUGGEST 3PICE WAS BY NO MEANS THE BEST ALBUM THAT HAS EVER OR WILL EVER BE MADE (OWEVER THERE IS NO DENYING THE IMPACT IT HAD ON A GENERATION OF MUSIC FANS WHO ALTHOUGH WILL MOSTLY BE DENYING IT WHILE THEY LISTEN TO !RCTIC -ONKEYS ON THEIR )0OD COULD ALL STILL RECITE THE LYRICS TO 7ANNABE &IONA "ILLINGS 7ITH #AN T GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU

(ARD &I FRONT MAN 2ICHARD !RCH ER HAS ONCE AGAIN HIT THE JACKPOT WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING THE CATCHY RADIO FRIENDLY ANTHEMS THAT HAVE CATAPULTED THE BAND TO SUCCESS 4HE SECOND SINGLE TO BE TAKEN

FROM THE ALBUM /NCE 5PON ! 4IME )N 4HE 7EST CONTINUES WHERE PRE VIOUS SINGLE 3UBURBAN +NIGHTS LEFT OFF "IG BOLD AND WITH THE SORT OF ROUSING SING ALONG CHO RUS LISTENERS COME TO EXPECT FROM LADS FROM 3TAINES 7ITH THIS SINGLE HOWEVER

THE BAND SEEMS TO HAVE EXPAND ED THEIR SOUND WITH SWEEPING STRINGS AND HORNS WHICH COM BINED WITH THE TRADEMARK GUITAR

SEEM TO TURN AN ALMOST -OTOWN VIBE INTO AN EPIC SWAGGERING AN THEM FOR THE MASSES #AN T 'ET !LONG 7ITHOUT 9OU CAPTURES ITS AUDIENCE FROM START TO lNISH AS THE BAND SHOW A REAL TALENT FOR EXPRESSING FEELINGS WHICH STRIKE A CHORD WITH THE EVE RYDAY PERSON IN A WAY WHICH NOT MANY ARTISTS ARE CAPABLE OF !LL IN ALL A GREAT POP SONG WHICH GOES A LONG WAY TO CEMENT ING (ARD &I S POSITION AS ONE OF "RITAIN S BEST AND MOST RELEVANT BANDS 2OSS &REEMAN

/THER 3INGLES UPBRINGING THROUGH HIS DEEP

ECHOING VOICE )F YOU LIKE YOUR FOLK DARK THEN THIS SONG IS DElNITELY WORTH A LISTEN

BUT DO NOT EXPECT A SONG REMINISCENT OF (AWLEY S 0ULP ERA AS THIS IS MORE *OHNNY #ASH THAN *ARVIS #OCKER #LARE #ALLAN

2ICHARD (AWLEY 3ERIOUS 2ICHARD (AWLEY OF THE NOTORIOUS 0ULP IS FRESH BACK FROM HIS ,ADY S "RIDGE 4OUR WITH A JOVIAL YET SINISTER NEW SINGLE ENTITLED 3ERIOUS 4HIS BEING THE FOLLOW UP TO 4ONIGHT 4HE 3TREETS !RE /URS THE DEBUT SINGLE TO BE RELEASED FROM ,ADY S "RIDGE

THE EAGERLY AWAITED FOLLOW UP TO THE -ERCURY 0RIZE NOMINATED #OLES #ORNER 5NLIKE 4ONIGHT 4HE 3TREETS !RE /URS 3ERIOUS SEES (AWLEY RETURN TO HIS INFAMOUS COUNTRY FOLK ENTHUSED MELODIES WITH A TUNE THAT ON THE SURFACE APPEARS TO BE AN UPBEAT EFFORTLESS LOVE SONG (OWEVER WHEN TAKING A SECOND GLANCE THERE CLEARLY IS WITH KEY CHANGES AND LYRICS LIKE h7HEN YOU ARE IN LOVE A KISS CAN TURN YOUR HEART INTO STONE v 2ECORDED IN 3HEFlELD

(AWLEY CONVEYS HIS WORKING CLASS

EXAMPLE OF HER STORY TELLING AND HUMOROUS LYRICAL GENIUS h) USE MOUTHWASH SOMETIMES ) mOSSv )T S SO SIMPLE TO THE EXTENT THAT IT S NOT )T S SOMETHING YOU D MAKE UP WHEN YOU RE BUT SOMEHOW THIS GIRL MANAGES TO PULL IT OFF !T MAYBE SHE DOESN T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO CREATE AN EMOTIONAL MASTERPIECE

BUT WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO 4HE LINE h!ND ) M SINGING OH OH ON A &RIDAY NIGHTv WILL STICK IN YOUR HEAD FOR HOURS TOGETHER WITH THE MELODIC SPIKY BASS LINE PLAYED ON THE PIANO 4HIS GIRL S GOT ATTITUDE AND SHE PLAYS IT WELL (OLLY 7ATTE

+ATE .ASH -OUTHWASH +ATE .ASH IS LIKENED BY MANY TO ,ILY !LLEN AND RIDICULED FOR SINGING IN HER ,ONDON ACCENT HOWEVER HER SECOND -OUTHWASH IS BETTER THAN MUCH OF THE MUSIC "RITISH ARTISTS HAVE BEEN SPEWING OUT LATELY 7E DON T SEEM TO HAVE THE SAME HOSTILITY TOWARDS THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS AND THEIR PRONUNCIATION IS PURE 9ORKSHIRE -AYBE THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE .ORTH 3OUTH DIVIDE THAT SOME PEOPLE INSIST UPON HAVING 3ONG WISE THIS IS ANOTHER

0* (ARVEY 7HEN 5NDER %THER 7ITH A BACK CATALOGUE LARGER AND INDEED GREATER THAN !RGOS 0* (AR VEY RETURNS ONCE MORE WITH 7HEN 5NDER %THER THE LATEST EDITION TO HER BOUQUET )T S NO DISAPPOINT MENT TO FANS BUT IT DOES EVOKE THE QUESTION IS SHE EVER GOING TO GIVE US ANYTHING MORE THAN THIS ! QUES TION THAT HAS ARISEN FREQUENTLY SINCE HER MASTERPIECE 5H (UH (ER AND HER WORK WITH $ESERT 3ESSIONS AND 4HOM 9ORKE 4HE DELIGHTFUL MELODY SWEEPS THE LISTENER ON A SOFT GENTLE ZEPHYR TO THE TALE OF A GIRL INTOXICAT

ED BY DRUGS LYING UPON A BED 6ERY SIMPLE VERY SHORT VERY (ARVEY %THER SUGGESTS A PRE HEAVENLY STATE

ENHANCED BY (ARVEY S RESTRAINED

SOMEWHAT TENDER VOCALS 4HE UNCER TAINTY OF THE LYRICS CAUSES TENSION WITHIN THE RHYTHM AND THE WEAK NESSES IN HER TONE SHINE THROUGH )T S NO 3HEELA NA GIG )N NO WAY DOES THIS SHOW OFF HER TALENT DISAP POINTING FOR AN ARTIST WHO HAS BEEN SHAMELESSLY UNDERRATED SINCE "UT WHAT IT DOES AS EVER IS MAKE YOU WANT TO HEAR WHAT ELSE SHE S GOT UP HER SLEEVE ! MYSTERY THAT IS BOTH CAPTIVATING AND ALSO BLOODY ANNOY ING *OSEPHINE 0IFFERO

2EVEREND AND 4HE -AKERS (E 3AID (E ,OVED -E 2EVEREND AND THE -AKERS MAY NOT BE NEW TO THE "RITISH MUSIC SCENE

BUT THEIR ADDICTIVE NEW SINGLE IS BOUND TO PUSH THEIR CULT STATUS TO A MORE EMINENT LEVEL ! FOOT SHUFmING BLEND OF )NDIE &UNK AND

%LECTRO 2OCK MEANS THE BAND S SOUND OFTEN DRAWS SIMILARITIES TO MORE RENOWNED ARTISTS LIKE THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS WHO HAPPEN TO BE CLOSE FRIENDS OF FRONTMAN *ON -C#LURE 4HIS HOWEVER CAN ONLY BEAR THEM AN ADVANTAGE WHEN ALSO ARMED WITH A .ORTHERN ACCENT AND BITING FEMALE CHORUS WHICH lTS SNUGLY WITH THE CURRENT )NDIE SCENE -C#LURE S LYRICS TAKE A FRANKLY FAMILIAR TRIP INTO "RITISH URBAN SOCIETY DESCRIBING THE ANGST OF A PREGNANT GIRL ABANDONED BY HER LOVER WHICH CONJURES STRONG IMAGES OF MODERN YOUTH CULTURE AND QUEUES OF TRACKSUITS IN 3UPERDRUG hSHE TAKES HIM TO HIS NANS GIVES HER SOME TIME OFF GO TO THE CARAVANv 4HE UPBEAT TEMPO WILL MAKE THE SONG AN INSTANT DANCEmOOR HIT

JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON T LISTEN FOR TOO LONG OR YOU LL BE BANGING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE TO EMPTY THE CONTENTS OF THE INFECTIOUS CHORUS FROM YOUR SKULL $RUMS AND BASS AND A FAINT TASTE OF SWEAT 3TEPH -CKENNA

!LBUM 2EVIEWS "ABYSHAMBLES

3HOTTERS .ATION

7ITH EVERYBODY WATCHING 0ETE $OHERTY LIKE HAWKS

HAWKS WITH VIDEO CAMERAS AS WELL AS HIS FREQUENT TRIPS TO COURT AND REHAB IT IS A SURPRISE THAT "ABYSHAMBLES MANAGED TO MAKE AN ALBUM AT ALL LET ALONE ONE AS GOOD AS 3HOTTERS .ATION 4HEIR lRST ALBUM HAD POTENTIAL BUT NEVER REALLY AMOUNTED TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN A FEW GOOD SONGS AND A FAIR BIT OF CRAP WHICH WAS QUITE FRANKLY A DISAPPOINT MENT 4HIS HOWEVER IS NOT "ABYSHAMBLES HAVE NOW MA TURED FROM BEING hTHE NEW BAND OF THAT ONE FROM 4HE ,IBERTINESv TO BEING A BAND IN THEIR OWN RIGHT AND WHAT A GOOD BAND THEY HAVE BECOME 'ONE ARE THE SHAMBOLIC RESULTS OF $OWN IN !LBION REPLACED BY A WELL ROUNDED PIECE OF WORK THAT CAN PROPERLY BE CALLED AN ALBUM 4HE BAND HAVE SAID THAT THE ALBUM WAS ALMOST NOT COMPLETED AFTER CONSTANT FALL OUTS BETWEEN THE BAND AND PRODUCER 7ITH THIS IN MIND IT IS SURPRISING THAT 3HOTTERS .ATION ACTUALLY HAS A MORE RELAXED FEEL TO IT THAN THE lRST ALTHOUGH EVERY SONG STILL HAS A DISTINCT "ABY SHAMBLES SPIN PUT ON IT

"ADDIES "OOGIE IS AWESOME FOR TWO REASONS .UMBER ONE IT HAS A REFERENCE TO #LUB 4ROPICANA AND NUMBER TWO IT SOUNDS LIKE AN UPBEAT 3MITHS OR A GLOOMY 3TROKES WHO ARE ALSO AN INmUENCE ON $EFT ,EFT (AND

WHICH HAS AN ANTHEMIC STYLE TO IT BUT AT THE SAME TIME A CERTAIN SWAGGER AND CHEEK 4HE LONG LIST OF INmUENCES ON THE ALBUM CONTINUES THROUGHOUT &RENCH $OG "LUES SOUNDS LIKE #HEATED (EARTS BY 9EAH 9EAH 9EAHS DURING THE VERSE WHILST 5NBILO4I TLED HAS A CERTAIN "EATLES CHARM TO IT AND AS IT INCLUDES WHISTLING HOW COULD IT NOT BE GOOD 4RACK 3IDE OF THE 2OAD IS WHERE THE ALBUM STARTS TO PICK UP SOME MORE PACE AND HARKS BACK TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS OF 4HE ,IB ERTINES .EXT COMES #RUMB "EGGING "AGHEAD WHICH HAS THE FEEL OF A CLASSIC ROCK SONG BUT ALSO $OHERTY S MOST MELODIC VOCALS /N THE WHOLE THE 3HOTTERS .ATION HAS THE RIGHT MIX

OF SONGS WHICH $OWN IN !LBION DID NOT 4HERE ARE MORE CHILLED OUT SONGS WHICH IN SOME WAYS DOES NOT SEEM LIKE "ABYSHAMBLES 4HERE 3HE 'OES EVEN BORDERS ON JAZZ 4HE BASS LINE SOUNDS RATHER TOO SIMILAR TO ,OVECATS BY 4HE #URE BUT THERE IS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT MAKES YOU TAP YOUR FOOT AND CLICK YOUR lNGERS !LONG WITH THESE KIND OF SONGS IS THE TRADITIONAL "ABYSHAM BLES ONES SUCH AS THE lRST THREE TRACKS 4HEY INCLUDE THE FAMILIAR DRUMS AND GUITARS ,YRICALLY IT IS WHAT WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM 0ETE $OHERTY (E MAY BE A SMACK HEAD BUT MAN CAN HE WRITE GOOD SONGS WHAT CAN WE SAY THE BOY S A POET 3HOTTERS .ATION IS A DAMN lNE ALBUM A LONG WAY FROM THEIR lRST "ABYSHAMBLES ARE BACK AND THEY ARE SOUND ING BETTER THAN EVER .ICK 2EADING AND -ARY !NNE .ORTON

.EUROSONIC

"LACK ,IPS

+ANO

$RAMA 1UEEN

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!LMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT .EUROSONIC FRONTMAN SONGWRITER PRODUCER *ASON $ARR FROM HIS WANNABE 4RENT 2EZNOR POSES IN THE CENTREFOLD OF THE ALBUM TO HIS ENTIRELY NONCHALANT ATTITUDE TO ALBUM PRODUCTION SCREAMS IDIOT $ARR ALONE WROTE THE INSTRUMENTATION AND LYRICS OF ALL THE SONGS ON THE ALBUM AND THE LACK OF CONTRASTING MUSICAL OPINION IS EVIDENT THROUGH THE BLANDNESS AND AMATEURISH NATURE OF THE RECORD 4HE ALBUM LYRICS READ AS THOUGH RIGHT OUT OF AN ANGSTY YEAR OLD S DIARY CONSTANTLY INVOKING WHINEY AND CRINGE INDUCING CLICHÏS h) DON T PLAY WELL WITH OTHERSv THAT ONE WOULD NOT EXPECT OR AT LEAST WANT TO HEAR COME SO UN IRONICALLY OUT OF A SOMETHING S MOUTH !

COUPLE OF THE SONGS 3O -ANY 0EOPLE AND "ONEHEADS BOAST AWESOME INDUSTRIAL BASS HEAVY ACCOMPANIMENTS THAT RAISE EYEBROWS AND GET HEADS BOPPING )T IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE POTENTIAL HERE IS OVERSHADOWED AS THE ALBUM TRIES JUST TOO HARD TO INCLUDE TOO MANY MUSICAL STYLES SUCH AS $ARR S OBSCURE SUNG YET SPOKEN RAP STYLE VOCALS AND BIZARRELY

CONVOLUTED COCK ROCK GUITAR SOLOS /N THE BAND S -Y3PACE PAGE THEY CLAIM TO @CHALLENGE THE GENRE BOUNDARIES SET UP IN TODAY S ROCK SCENE &OR ALL $ARR S EFFORTS THERE IS NOTHING NEW OR GROUNDBREAKING ABOUT $RAMA 1UEEN AND THE FACT HE TAKES HIMSELF SO SERIOUSLY MAKES THIS UNREMARKABLE ALBUM EVEN LESS APPEALING 4HAT BEING SAID IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT IMPRESSIONABLE HEAVY EYELINER WEARING +ERRANG READERS

ALL OF WHOM KNOW LITTLE BETTER WILL COME TO APPRECIATE THIS MUSICAL OFFERING #AROLINE $UNMORE

3O WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO ROCK@N@ROLL "EHEMOTHS OF ROCK LIKE THE 2OLLING 3TONES ARE NOW EITHER DINOSAURS THEMSELVES OR SUCCUMBING TO THE LURE OF BIG BUCKS REUNION TOURS LIKE ,ED :EPPELIN !RE THERE ANY BANDS AROUND TODAY WHO STILL EMBODY WHAT ROCK N ROLL ONCE STOOD FOR 9ES

AND THEY RE CALLED 4HE "LACK ,IPS 4HEIR LIVE SHOWS ARE STUFF OF LEGEND AND INFAMY FOLLOWS THE BAND WHEREVER THEY TURN /NE OF THE BAND RECENTLY GOT HIMSELF INTO A SPOT OF TROUBLE FOR URINATING ON THE GRAVE OF AN INFAMOUS HIGHWAYMAN IN 9ORK 4HE BAND PLAY WHAT THEY CALL @&LOWER ROCK WHICH COMBINE THE DELTA BLUES OF THE DEEP SOUTH WITH THE SWAMP ROCK OF THE S 4HE GROUND THEY RE COVERING IS HARDLY NEW

BUT WHAT THE "LACK ,IPS DO SO WELL IS PLAY THEIR MUSIC LIKE THEY VE JUST DISCOVERED ROCK N ROLL FOR THE lRST TIME

WHICH MAKES IT EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE TO LISTEN TO 4HERE S THE PRIMORDIAL CATERWAULING IN GARAGE ROCK TUNES LIKE +ATRINA AND #OLD (ANDS THE PEACOCK STRUTTING OF TRACK LIKE 6ENI 6IDI 6ICI AND )T &EELS !LRIGHT AND THEN THERE ARE A COUPLE OF UNEXPECTED MORE THOUGHTFUL NUMBERS LIKE THE COUNTRY BALLADRY OF (OW $O 9OU 4ELL ! #HILD 4HAT 3OMEONE (AS $IED 4HE BAND S ENTHUSIASM AND PASSION FOR THEIR MUSIC IS INFECTIOUS AND IT S A TIMELY REMINDER OF WHY PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE WITH ROCK N ROLL IN THE lRST PLACE

+ANE 2OBINSON PRESENTS A STUNNING SECOND INSTALMENT OF HIS DISTINCTIVE GARAGE SOUND (OWEVER lRST SINGLE 4HIS )S 4HE 'IRL IS A BLEND OF 5+ RAP AND 2 " IN WHICH +ANO S INFECTIOUS mOW IS COMPLEMENTED BY A SOULFUL #RAIG $AVID 4HE TRACK SHOWS THE RAPPER S SOFTER ROMANTIC SIDE SUGGESTING HE HAS VEERED DOWN A MORE MAINSTREAM AVENUE PREVIOUSLY DISPLAYED ON .ITE .ITE 4HE OPPOSITE IS TRUE THE %ASTENDER S NEW MATERIAL IS DARKER GRIMIER AND MORE SERIOUS IN REGARD TO HIS (OME 3WEET (OME &IGHTIN 4HE .ATION TELLS STORIES OF POLICE GUNS AND POVERTY /FTEN SUCH CONTENT APPEARS CONTRIVED BUT +ANO IS CALLING IT HOW HE SEES IT AND UNLIKE HIS CONTEMPORARIES RECOGNISES AN OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE h$ADDY DON T EXIST SUCH A CLICHÏ THESE DAYS v 3TAYING THOUGHTFUL AND LYRICALLY TIGHT +ANO CONDEMNS ARTISTS WHO hMARRY THE STREET THEN SIGN THE DIVORCEv !GAIN DRAWING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE -E AND -Y -IC PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF A S TEENAGE -# SUBTLY ALLUDING TO THE LIKES OF 4UPAC $E ,A 3OUL AND 4HE .OTORIOUS " ) ' 4HE HUMBLE TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD TAKES A LOT FROM THESE !MERICAN IDOLS mAUNTING HIS ENTHRALLING DELIVERY WHEN SPITTING A CAPPELLA ON OPENING TRACK 4HE 0RODUCT 3O IN A GENRE FULL OF DOGMATIC POSEURS +ANO S HONESTY AND UNIQUE SOUND ARE ONCE AGAIN THE SAVIOUR OF 5+ RAP

7ILL (OLLOWAY

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,IVE 2EVIEWS

%DITORS

-ONDAY ST /CTOBER 5%! )T S A DARK SODDEN EVENING !UTUMN HAS ARRIVED IN FULL SWING COLD BITING WINDS CIRCLING LEAVES DAMP GROUNDS &OR THE MASSES WAITING OUTSIDE THE ,#2

"RITAIN S GLOOM ROCK STALWARTS PROVIDE THE ONLY RE ASSURANCE EVEN IF THEIR MUSIC IS MORE LIKELY CAST SHADOWY VEIL OF SADNESS OVER THE CROWD THAN TEAR THE DANCE mOOR IN TWO 4HE CROWD AREN T FUSSED THOUGH AFTER A SUMMER OF OUTSTANDING PERFORM ANCES %DITORS HAVE BECOME ONE OF THE 5+ S TOP LIVE DRAWS AND TONIGHT SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTION .EVERTHELESS COMPLAINTS OF WHINING ARE HEARD EVEN BEFORE 4HE %VENT HAS ENTERED THE VENUE h) CAME BACK DOWN HERE THE 5NION BAR FOR ANOTH ER SNAKEBITE MATE THE BAND UPSTAIRS ARE A BIT TOO WHINEY FOR MY LIKINGv $AMN %DITORS CAN T BE ON ALREADY /UR IMMEDIATE WORRIES ARE CAST ASIDE AS WE lND THE lRST SUPPORT TO BE NONE OTHER THAN .EW 9ORKERS 2A 2A 2IOT 7HINEY PERHAPS WASN T THE BEST ANAL OGY AS ACTUALLY 2A 2A 2IOT GRACE THE STAGE WITH AN EXHILARATING PRESENCE JERKING FROM ONE INDIE POP EPIC TO THE NEXT WITH AN EASE THAT SHOULD ONLY COME WITH TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE &OR THE BRIEF HALF AN HOUR WE SPENT WITH 2A 2A 2IOT IT WAS EASY TO FORGET WHO WE VE REALLY COME TO SEE AND IF THAT S NOT AN INDICATION THAT THIS BAND SHOULD BE SIGNED THEN WE DON T KNOW WHAT IS )T S AND %DITORS GREET THE MASSES WITH THE

"LOOD 2ED 3HOES

4HE #OUNTERFEIT "EATLES

3UNDAY RD 3EPTEMBER .!#

6IOLET 6IOLET OPENED WITH A SOUND THAT SEEMED DERIVATIVE AND STALE 4HEY PLAYED PSEUDO PUNK AND THE LYRICS WERE NOTHING BUT HOMAGE TO RIOT GIRLBANDS LIKE ,E 4IGRE AND 4HE $ISTILLERS !T LEAST THE MIXER TURNED THEM UP LOUD ENOUGH TO CREATE THE BEGINNINGS OF A BUZZ

EDGY FAMILIAR SOUND OF THEIR CURRENT SINGLE 4HE %ND (AS ! 3TART !S TIGHT A BAND AS YOU WILL SEE GRACE THE ,#2 STAGE THE BAND RIP THROUGH "ACK 2OOM CLAS SICS "LOOD AND ,IGHTS AS IF THEY VE BEEN PERFORMED FOR CENTURIES $OOM AND GLOOM MAYBE THE ENIGMA

BUT THE ENERGY WITH WHICH THEIR SET IS PERFORMED IS NOTHING BUT AN ADRENALINE SHOT FOR ,#2 MASSES $YNAMIC PASSIONATE ENERGETIC AN ANIMATED 4OM 3MITH GUIDES THE REST OF THE BAND LIKE ANY TRUE FRONT MAN PULLING SHAPES THAT EVEN .OEL &IELDING WOULD STRUGGLE TO MUSTER )F THEIR AIM WAS TO INTRODUCE PEOPLE TO THE hUPLIFTING SIDE OF DEATHv THEN THAT AIM HAS DElNITELY BEEN ACHIEVED AS THE CROWD GO NUTS FOR "ULLETS mAILING THEIR ARMS AND BASKING IN THE KIND OF SMILES THAT YOU D ONLY EXPECT TO SEE AT A ,IB S REUNION )T S EASY TO GET CARRIED AWAY AS SUNSHINE POP THIS IS DElNITELY NOT BUT THE SUBTLE OPTIMISM AND HOPE %DITORS COAT THEIR TUNES WITH CAN SWAY YOUR BELIEF -UNICH TRULY ENCAPSULATES THIS POSITIVISM h) M SO GLAD ) VE FOUND THIS ) M SO GLAD ) DID v STRUMS 4OM 3MITH ON AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR BEFORE BURSTING INTO THE JUGGERNAUT TYPE ELECTRIC VERSION THE DElNITE HIGHLIGHT OF THE EVENING 7HINEY /N THIS FORM %DITORS ARE ANYTHING BUT !WESOME )N EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD 'REG 3ULLIVAN

&RIDAY TH 3EPTEMBER 5%!

.EXT WERE 0EGGY 3UE AND THE 0IRATES A TWO PIECE THAT SANG SOULFUL SONGS MOSTLY ABOUT SEX IN HUSKY VOICES /CCASIONALLY THEY FELL INTO PATCHES WHICH SOUNDED LIKE #OCO 2OSIE WHILE AT OTHER TIMES THEY SIMPLY SOUNDED PRETTY AND HONEST 3TARBUCKS MUSIC

BUT MORE GENUINE 7HEN "LOOD 2ED 3HOES TOOK TO THE STAGE THE CROWD BECAME ANIMATED HAVING BEEN STANDING ARMS CROSSED DURING THE SUPPORT BANDS 4HERE WAS A GREAT ENERGY TO THE SHOW AND WHOEVER RAN THE MIXING CONSOLE DESERVED A PINT BECAUSE THE LEVELS WERE PERFECT HELPED

BY THE ACOUSTICS OF THE .!# S CONVERTED CHURCH AS A VENUE 4HE SONGS WERE FAST PUNK AND DEEPLY RHYTHMIC FORCING EVEN THE MOST STAID INDIVIDUAL TO MOVE THEIR HIPS ,EAD SINGER ,AURA -ARY #ARTER SMILED SEDUCTIVELY AT THE CROWD AND HAD AN AIR OF RESOLUTE COOL

WHILE DRUMMER AND CO SINGER 3TEVEN !NSELL EXULTED IN NERDYNESS DRESSED IN A .IRVANA T SHIRT AND WEARING A GOOFY SMILE FOR THE ENTIRE SET &OR THEIR LAST SONG THE STAGE WAS INVADED BY A GANG OF PISSED UP TEENAGERS AND FOR THE END OF THE SHOW THE STAGE WAS A RIOT OF DANCERS FRAMING THE BAND PERFECTLY AND MAKING EVEN THE ICY #ARTER SHOW A GUARDED SMILE 'REAT SHOW *ACK #LARK

#ONSIDERING THAT THE "EATLES WERE PRETTY MUCH THE BEST BAND EVER ANY ATTEMPT AT AN IMPERSONATION WOULD BE A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING )NDEED ANY MUSICIAN REGARDLESS OF THEIR SKILL OR EXPERIENCE WILL OFTEN lND COVERING A "EATLES NUMBER VERY FRUSTRATING 4HUS IT WAS WITH RESERVED ANTICIPATION THAT THE EVENT ENTERED THE ,#2 ON THE TH 3EPTEMBER 4WO HOURS LATER WE LEFT WITH THE SAME FEELING WE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE FELT IF THE REAL "EATLES HAD JUST PLAYED 4HE &AB &OUR WERE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE BY THE #OUNTERFEIT "EATLES IN WHAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS WE VE EVER SEEN GRACE THE ,#2 2INGO NODDED THE NIGHT AWAY WHILE KEEPING IMPECCABLE RHYTHM ON THE DRUMS 'EORGE SCOWLED AT THE AUDIENCE BEFORE LAUNCHING INTO ONE OF HIS TRADEMARK SOLOS AND *OHN SHUFmED AND STAMPED HIS FEET IN AN INCREDIBLY GENUINE

DISPLAY AS CLOSE TO THE REAL THING AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN (OWEVER IT WAS 0AUL -C#ARTNEY PLAYED BY 0ETER "AILEY WHO STOLE THE SHOW 0LAYING

SINGING AND ACTING WITH A CHARISMA STARTLINGLY AKIN TO THE REAL -C#ARTNEY "AILEY REALLY STOOD OUT AND DISPLAYED HIS MUSICAL VERSATILITY WHEN SWITCHING FROM BASS TO GUITAR FOR 9ESTERDAY 4HE #OUNTERFEIT "EATLES REELED OFF MORE HITS THAN -UHAMMED !LI OPENING WITH EARLY SONGS LIKE ,OVE -E $O AND ! (ARD $AY S .IGHT AND ENDING WITH LATER WORKS LIKE ,ET IT "E #ULMINATING WITH THE CLASSIC 4WIST AND 3HOUT THE #OUNTERFEIT "EATLES DELIVERED MORE THAN MERE IMITATION AND PROVED THEMSELVES A WORTHY TRIBUTE TO THE lNEST MUSICIANS OUR WORLD HAS EVER SEEN *OHN 0AUL

2INGO AND 'EORGE WOULD SURELY BE PROUD *AMES (EARN

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HAVE TALENT PROVIDED THEIR DEDICA TION AND WILL ARE STRONG ENOUGH 4HE MOVIE S UNASHAMEDLY SIL LY STORY REVOLVES AROUND 2EMY A RAT WHO OCCUPIES A &RENCH STATELY HOME ALONG WITH THE REST OF HIS COLONY )MBUED WITH A PASSION FOR m AVOUR TEXTURE AND ALL THINGS GOUR MET HE l NDS INSPIRATION AND COM

FORT IN CHEF !UGUSTE 'USTEAU WHO IS RECENTLY DECEASED ALTHOUGH HE IS OFTEN MADE MANIFEST BY 2EMY S IM AGINATION DURING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE l LM %VENTS INEVITABLY OCCUR AND 2EMY l NDS HIMSELF THRUST INTO THE KITCHEN OF 'USTEAU S RESTAURANT WHICH NATURALLY HAS GONE DOWN HILL SINCE HIS DEATH

2EMY RODENT CHEF EXTRAORDI NAIRE WANTS TO m EX HIS CULINARY MUS CLE AND RESTORE THE REPUTATION OF HIS MENTOR THIS IS WHERE THE MEAT OF THE l LM LIES 'ETTING THE AUDIENCE TO BOND WITH 2EMY IS UNDENIABLY THE HARDEST TASK OF THE PRODUCERS "UT THIS IS 0IXAR

AND THE WORLD HAS ALREADY WATCHED

#INEl LE .ATHAN &ILLION %VERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE 3TAR 7ARS BEFORE GOING TO THE BIG SCREEN AS PREQUELS AND HOW POOR THEY WERE 3ERENITY !FTER THIS HE GAINED THE 7HAT PEOPLE OFTEN DON T KNOW WAS LEAD ROLE IN ANOTHER UNDERAPPRECI THAT ONLY TWO YEARS LATER A BRILLIANT ATED SCI l COMEDY THE BLACK COMIC ALTERNATIVE WAS OFFERED IN THE FORM 3LITHER WHERE &ILLION PLAYED /Fl CER OF *OSS 7HEDON S 3ERENITY A WESTERN "ILL 0ARDY IN AN !MERICAN AS APPLE STYLED SCI l BASED ON THE CANCELLED PIE -IDWESTERN TOWN SUFFERING AN 46 SERIES &IREm Y THAT SWASHED ALIEN INVASION NOT DISSIMILAR TO FAR MORE BUCKLES THAN 4HE 4HING /NCE AGAIN &IL ANYTHING OFFERED LION SHONE BY GIVING HIS BY 'EORGE ,UCAS CHARACTER BOTH AN EX .ATHAN ORIGINALLY 3ADLY IT WAS GIVEN AUDITIONED FOR THE CELLENT SARCASTIC AND ZERO PUBLICITY AND ROLE OF !NGEL FOR *OSS COMIC TOUCH WITH NO ONE SAW IT 7HEDON S l RST TELEVI A QUIET AND NATURAL "UT IT DID GIVE US A SION SERIES "UFFY THE CHARISMA WINNING MODERN (AN 3OLO

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AT )-$" OR 2OTTEN 4OMATOES IT .ATHAN &ILLION FARED POORLY AT THE BOX OFl CE ONCE !FTER &IREm Y FELL INTO &OX S EQUIV AGAIN ALENT OF (ADES &ILLION WAS GIVEN THE .ATHAN S STAR HAS CONTINUED TO ROLE OF #ALEB IN THE l NAL SERIES OF RISE WITH A MULTITUDE OF 46 APPEAR 7HEDON S "UFFY THE 6AMPIRE 3LAYER ANCES STACKING UP FROM BEING +ATE S

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BEAU IN ,OST TO HIS MOST RECENT PART IN THE NEW SERIES OF $ESPERATE (OUSE WIVES /VER THE SUMMER HE STARRED IN THE BRILLIANT AND SWEET ROMANTIC COMEDY 7AITRESS WHERE HE WAS EX CELLENT AS THE CARING $R 0OMATTER OPPOSITE LONELY AND KNOCKED UP WAITRESS *ENNA +ERI 2USSELL &ILLION HAS NOW ESTABLISHED HIM SELF AS AN EXCELLENT COMEDIC ACTOR THROUGH A VARIETY OF ROLES !LTHOUGH ONE COULD ARGUE THAT HE IS YET TO @HIT IT BIG HIS PERFORMANCES CONSISTENTLY STAND OUT AND IT REMAINS A SHAME THAT HE IS YET TO BE NOTICED BY THE WIDER (OLLYWOOD AUDIENCE (OW EVER HE DOES HAVE ONE BLOCKBUSTER UNDER HIS BELT n LOOK OUT FOR HIM IN 3AVING 0RIVATE 2YAN WHERE HE PLAYED THE @OTHER 0RIVATE 2YAN WHO WHEN TOLD HIS BROTHERS ARE DEAD COLLAPSES INTO A BLUBBERING WRECK BELIEVING HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS HAVE BEEN KILLED !NDY *UDSON

!BOUT HIS ROLE AS -AL 2EYNOLDS h) VE ALWAYS FANTASISED ABOUT BEING ON 46 !ND ) WAS 4HEN ) FANTASIZED ABOUT BEING IN THE MOVIES 7HAT COULD BE BETTER THAN CAPTAIN OF A SPACE SHIP ) GET TO RIDE HORSES SHOOT GUNS HAVE ADVENTURES v

THEM INJECT A BIT OF HUMANITY INTO TOYS BUGS l SH AND CARS 4HIS IS WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY RE GOOD AT 4HE END RESULT IS THAT 2ATATOUILLE IS A HUGELY ENTERTAINING FAMILY l LM 4HE SUPPORT ING CAST ARE QUIRKY AND RICH IN CHARAC TER EVEN THOUGH THEY EXIST MOSTLY IN THE BACKGROUND %VERY ASPECT OF 2ATA TOUILLE IS IN SYNC CREATING A MOVIE THAT S PERFECTLY ALIGNED AND ONE THAT HUMS ALONG IN A RESPECTABLE AND CATCHY HAR MONY ALL THE WAY TO ITS DENOUEMENT &OR A PARTICULARLY CHEESY ANALOGY IT S COMPARABLE TO A GOURMET MEAL !S AN ESTABLISHED AND CELEBRATED STUDIO 0IXAR MOVIES ARE UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED FOR THEIR TRADITIONAL 0IXAR MAGIC A GENUINE TIMELESS AP PEAL 4HESE ARE MOVIES THAT ARE BUILT TO LAST %NGAGING FUNNY AND CHARM ING 2ATATOUILLE IS A SUBLIME MOVIE THAT EVERYONE CAN WATCH DESPITE THE FACT THAT NOBODY CAN REALLY SPELL ITS NAME AND FEW PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO BE INSTANTANEOUSLY DRAWN INTO A MOVIE THAT FEATURES RATS COOKING AND &RANCE -ARTIN 'ASTON

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4HE 2UMOUR -ILL 4ERMINATOR 7ITH -C' RUMORED TO BE IN TALKS TO DIRECT THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE SCI l KILLER ROBOT SERIES IT S NO SUR PRISE THAT MORE NAMES HAVE BEEN LINKED TO THE lLM /NE SUCH IS 6IN $IESEL 4HAT COULD BE INTERESTING )F ONLY THE RECYCLED PLOT WAS TOO 3ERENITY 3EQUEL !LAN 4UDYK WHO PLAYS 7ASH IN 3ERENITY AND &IREmY HAS SUGGESTED THAT 5NIVERSAL HAS SHOWN INTEREST IN MAKING A SEQUEL AFTER $6$ SALES OF 3ERENITY WENT BETTER THAN EXPECTED 7E HAVE TO SAY IT SEEMS VERY UNLIKELY

ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING *OSS 7HEDON KILLED OFF ALOT OF THE CREWMATES

$AY 7ATCH $IR 4IMUR "EKMAMBETOV 2ELEASED 4IMUR "EKMAMBETOV S SEQUEL TO 2USSIAN SUPERNATURAL MOVIE .IGHT 7ATCH IS ONE HELL OF A RIDE %VEN SLICKER FASTER PACED AND FUNNIER THAN THE lRST $AY 7ATCH RETURNS TO OUR ANTI HERO !NTON 'ORODET SKY +ONSTANTIN +HABNESKY A RELUCTANT MEMBER OF THE .IGHT 7ATCH n AN ANCIENT ORDER CHARGED WITH ENFORCING A TRUCE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND EVIL n AS HE STRUGGLES TO CLING ON TO HIS TEEN AGE SON 9EGOR A $ARK /NE WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO THE APOCALYPSE 3EEING ITS PREQUEL ISN T A NE CESSITY FOR UNDERSTANDING $AY

7ATCH S PLOT THE MONTAGE AT THE BEGINNING SUFlCES TO CATCH YOU UP 4HOUGHT IT LACKS SOME COHE SION WITHOUT SEEING .IGHT 7ATCH

IT STILL HAS ALL OF THE THINGS THAT MADE THE lRST lLM SO COMPELLING MIND BENDING PLOT DEVIL MAY CARE ATTITUDE BIZARRE BOUNCING SUBTITLES WHICH ADD ANOTHER LEVEL OF QUIRKINESS AND GUT WRENCHING SPECIAL EFFECTS THAT WILL UNDOUBT EDLY LEAVE YOU CRAVING MORE 7ELL WHERE ELSE WOULD YOU lND A lLM THAT DRIVES A CAR VERTICALLY UP THE SIDE OF A SKYSCRAPER JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

-ICHAEL #LAYTON $IR 4ONY 'ILROY 2ELEASED )N -ICHAEL #LAYTON WRITER AND DIRECTOR 4ONY 'ILROY COMPOSES A TENSE STORY OF INTRIGUE AND A PROFOUND PORTRAIT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION SET AMIDST A BACKDROP OF LEGAL WRANGLING 'EORGE #LOONEY PLAYS THE TITLE ROLE A MAN WHO WORKS AS A @JANITOR FOR A LARGE CORPORATE LAW lRM n HIS JOB IS TO CLEAN UP OTHER PEOPLE S MESS #LOON EY S PERFORMANCE IS EXCEPTIONAL

A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAYAL OF A LONE MAN TIED UP IN A WORLD OF PRO FESSIONAL DECEIT 4ONY 'ILROY MAKES REFRESHINGLY BOLD DECI

4HE +INGDOM $IR 0ETER "ERG 2ELEASED -AKE NO MISTAKE AS A lLM ABOUT THE VOLATILE STATE OF THE -IDDLE %AST 4HE +INGDOM DOESN T PULL ANY PUNCHES !LMOST AS SOON AS THE OPENING CREDITS HAVE lN ISHED ROLLING THE AUDIENCE IS CONFRONTED WITH THE HARROWING REALITIES OF A MAJOR TERRORIST AT TACK ! MAN DETONATES HIMSELF IN THE CENTRE OF A CHILDREN S BASEBALL GAME AND FROM THAT MOMENT ON IT IS HARD TO TEAR YOUR EYES OFF THE SCREEN

SIONS IN HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHING AN INTI MATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS AUDI ENCE WITHOUT THE NEED FOR EASY OR OBVIOUS STORY TELLING CHOICES 4HE lLM IS A SHOWBOAT OF WHAT HE CAN ACHIEVE IN THE DIRECTOR S CHAIR 4HERE ARE MOMENTS OF SE RENE BEAUTY MOMENTS OF COM PLETELY UNEXPECTED SURPRISE AND SHOCK SNIPPETS OF HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY ALL CAST AGAINST AN OMI NOUS JOURNEY THROUGH FOUR DAYS OF -ICHAEL #LAYTON S LIFE 4HE RESULT IS A COMPELLING SATISFYING AND ROUSING lLM -IKE -OORE

"UT 4HE +INGDOM IS NOT AN ALL OUT ACTION lLM IN FACT IT IS MOST AFFECTING WHEN IT SLOWS DOWN AND WE ARE ALLOWED TO SEE THE PERSONAL STORIES WITHIN WHAT IS A GLOBAL CONmICT THE 7AR ON 4ERROR 3TRONG PERFORM ANCES FROM ALL THE CAST BUT ES PECIALLY BY !SHRAF "ARHOM AS A 3AUDI POLICE #OLONEL MAKE THIS lLM A BRUISING AND REWARD ING WATCH THAT MAY NOT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS BUT WILL CERTAINLY MAKE YOU THINK AND LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS 0AUL "OND

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"EN 3TILLER COMEDIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE STU PID n BUT THIS IS SO FAR BEYOND THE REALM OF FUNNY THAT YOU WONDER WHERE ALL THE WITTY TALENT HAS DISAPPEARED TO

*ODIE &OSTER S PERFORMANCE IS PERFECT IN THIS THRILLER BUT THE lLM LACKS ENOUGH ACTION TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM THROUGHOUT MAKING IT AN INTERESTING WATCH THOUGH A LITTLE DULL

4ALKING -OVIES 7HAT IS IT WITH (OLLYWOOD REMAK ING OUR "RITISH SHOWS AS OF LATE &IRST

THE 0ITT .ORTON REMAKE OF 3TATE OF 0LAY AND NOW "OND DIRECTOR -ARC &ORSTER IS TO ASSUME DIRECTING DUTIES ON 4HE *URY A REMAKE OF A "RIT ISH 46 MINI SERIES ABOUT THE TRIAL OF A 3IKH STUDENT CHARGED WITH KILLING A CLASSMATE WHO TORMENTED HIM 3TEVEN -OFFAT BEST KNOWN AS ONE OF THE WRITERS ON THE RE INVIGORATED $OCTOR 7HO SERIES AND THE ""# S *EKYLL WILL WRITE THE SCREENPLAY FOR ALL THREE OF THE 4INTIN lLMS WHICH ARE BEING OVERSEEN BY 3TEVEN 3PIEL BERG AND 0ETER *ACKSON 4HE 7EINSTEIN #OMPANY HAS AN NOUNCED ON THEIR BLOG THAT 3CREAM IS DElNITELY GOING TO HAPPEN EIGHT YEARS AFTER THE LAST lLM WAS IN CINEMAS )T S CONlRMED 4RANSFORMERS IS FULL STEAM AHEAD -ICHAEL "AY WILL RETURN TO DIRECT THE SECOND INSTALL MENT DUE OUT *UNE TH

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MAKING YOU FALL FOR THE CHARACTERS AND JOIN THEIR CAUSE )T IS A BRILLIANT AND THOUGHT PROVOKING lLM THAT SHOULD NOT TO BE MISSED .ATASHA +UNDAIKER

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WAKING STUDIO EXECUTIVES UP TO THE IDEA THAT MOVIES THAT AP PEALED TO THE WHOLE FAMILY COULD MAKE BIG MONEYv FAMILY COULD MAKE BIG MONEY !ND HEY THEY COULD HAVE FANTASTICAL EL EMENTS TOO )N THE YEARS THAT FOL LOWED % 4 2AIDERS OF THE ,OST !RK 3UPERMAN 4HE -OVIE AND 4HE %MPIRE 3TRIKES "ACK APPEARED

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