The Event - Issue 220

v Exclusive interview with Travis The burning question answered: Timmy Mallet... Where is he Now?!

Brand new film realease, Burn After Reading reviewed

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The Event Editor-­in-­Chief Fiona Billings Editors Alannah Wells and Chloe Pew Latter

Contributors -­ Sam Clark, Matt Ramsay, Avani Shah, Ian Smith, Melissa York

Competitions Editor -­ Jonathan Clark Creative Writing Editor -­ Penny Boxall Contributors -­ Joshua Jones, Izzy Lock-­ hart Smith, Peter Matthews, Carmina Masoliver-­Marlow, G. Stephenson

Fashion Editor -­ Jessica Hamilton Duputy Fashion Editor -­ Flora Wong Contributors -­ Tom Benn, Leila Kandola, Carolyn Kelly, Jodie Free, Georgina Par-­ kin, Jack Stones, Elaine Rogers, Adam Hickmott

Regulars and Feature -­

Contributors -­ Mark Buckingham, Lloyd De Beer, Harry Low, Kate Slemmings, Alan Stratford

p.4 4HE BEST DRESSED IN THE ,#2 p.5 (OW TO STEAL !UDREY (EPBURN S INFAMOUS

STYLE

Arts

p.6 )NTERVIEW WITH POPULAR COMEDIAN $YLAN -ORAN p.7 7HAT S WRONG WITH * + 2OWLING

Creative Writing

p.8 -­ -­ 0OETRY AND PROSE FROM 5%! S l NEST WRITERS

ON THE THEME OF @5NDERGROUND

TV

p.10 ! LOOK AT THE 46 KIDS WE LOVE AND HATE p.11 7HAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK

Features

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Arts Editors -­ Melissa York and Matt Ramsay

Fashion

Film Editors -­ George Gilbert and Colette Lilford Contributors -­ Tom Barbanneau, Jenna Brogan, Logan Gian-­ nini, Richard McCulloch, Colette Lilford, Liam O’Brien, Florence Stiff, Christopher Wilson, Gareth

Listings Editor -­ Natasha Barnes Music Editor -­ Sarah Christie Contributors -­ Freddie Allen, Charlotte Fautley, Emma Galal, Gemma Henzley, Katherine Jones, Shaun Kitchener, Rob Morbin, Susie Showers, Bruce Sigrist, Lisa Thom, Duncan Vicat-­Brown

TV Editor -­ Kirsten Peter Contributors -­ Josh Butler, Rachel Conquer, Mark McKenzie-­Ray, Lauren O Neill, Kate Slemmings

Wired Editor -­ Karl Davies Contributor -­ George Ankers, Chris Bullock, Josh Butler, Fiona Howard, Kirsten Peter

p.12 p.12 3OME OF OUR REGULAR FEATURES YOU ALL LOVE p.13 4HE %VENT CHATS TO STUDENT DIRECTOR AND p.13

PLAYWRIGHT !LAN 3TRATFORD

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Music

p.14 !N EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH 4RAVIS p.15 !LBUMS OF THE FORTNIGHT p.15 p.16 3INGLES AND THIS FORTNIGHT S -IXTAPE p.17 !N EVENING WITH .ATTY

Film

p.18 2EVIEWS OF THE l LMS TO SEE THIS FORTNIGHT p.19 7HAT S ON SCREEN NOW AND WHAT S UPCOMING p.20 $6$ RELEASES p.21 7E EXAMINE THE l LM WHICH EPITOMISES THE

HORROR GENRE !LIEN AND TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT

MAKES THE #OHEN BROTHERS SO POPULAR

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p.22 4HIS FORTNIGHT S HAPPENINGS IN .ORWICH

Wired

p.23 4HE BEST GAMES TO PLAY THIS FORTNIGHT

Competitions

p.24 #ROSSWORD 3UDOKU AND 'IVEAWAYS

Event Ratings Outstanding Excellent Good Mediocre Tragic!

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fashion

“the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior” the event

concrete.fashion@uea.ac.uk

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INCLUDING A WOMEN S BEAUTY AND A MEN S GROOMING RANGE !ND !3/3 DOESN T STOP THERE IT SHOWS INCLUDING A YOU HOW TO WEAR OR @GET THE LOOK OF SOME OF THE HOTTEST TRENDS 9OU CAN EVEN SEARCH FOR A PARTICULAR CELEBRITY S STYLE FROM PRETTY PLAID TO THE DARK GLAMOUR OF GOTHIC LACE IT S ALL THERE CELEBRITY S STYLE F FROM PRETTY PLAID TO THE DARK GLAMOUR OF GOTHIC LACE IT S ALL THERE !ND DON T FORGET TO FINISH YOUR OUTFIT OFF WITH !3/3 JEWELLERY 4HIS WINTER IT S ALL ABOUT PUTTING -R 4 TO SHAME AND WEARING AS MANY NECKLACES AS YOUR NECK WILL HOLD BAD FOR THE POSTURE BUT OH SO WORTH IT 7HEN ) FIRST TOLD MY FRIENDS ABOUT !3/3 THEY CHORUSED BACK WITH hWHAT IF DOESN T FIT v AND hHOW CAN ) REALLY TELL WHAT IT LL LOOK LIKE v )F IT DOESN T FIT SEND IT BACK AND PICK A DIFFERENT SIZE OR GET A REFUND )N ANSWER TO THE SECOND QUESTION 4HEY HAVE ZOOM BUTTONS ROTATING ONES AND hA CLICK TO CATWALKv ONE IN WHICH YOUR ITEM IS WORN BY A SIX FOOT !MAZONIAN GODDESS JUST IGNORE THAT THAT DIGITALLY SASHAYS DOWN A CATWALK )T S SO MUCH MORE THAN A WEBSITE THAT THAT DIGITALLY SASHAYS DOWN A CATWALK )T S SO MUCH MORE THAN A WEBSITE

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“Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode:” concrete.fashion@uea.ac.uk

the event

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STEAL HER STYLE: AUDREY HEPBURN 4HE NAME !UDREY (EPBURN IS SYNONYMOUS WITH A SIMPLE 4OPSHOP a

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arts arts

“The The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements”

concrete.arts@uea.ac.uk

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s )S IT GREAT TO BE BACK ON THE ROAD ) M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ) VE BEEN SITTING ALONE IN A ROOM FOR MANY MONTHS NOW AND ) CAN T WAIT TO GET OUT THERE AND TRY OUT ALL THIS NEW MATERIAL )T S SUCH A GREAT FEELING WHEN YOU DISCOVER THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT THE THINGS YOU RE DISCUSSING .OTHING BEATS IT WHEN THE MATERIAL REALLY m IES s)T MAY BE NEW MATERIAL BUT HAVING A GOOD AUDIENCE MUST BE A KEY PART OF A SUCCESSFUL SHOW h!T THE END OF HIS SHOWS -AX 7ALL USED TO SAY TO HIS AUDIENCE hTHANK YOU YOU VE BEEN l FTY PER CENT v 4HAT S ABSOLUTELY TRUE OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE JUST A MAN OR WOMAN TALKING TO THE WIND 7HEN YOU CATCH A WAVE WITH AN AUDIENCE YOU GET SUCH A BUZZ )T S NOT LIKE SOUNDING OFF THROUGH A MICROPHONE $ESPITE APPEARANCES IT S A GENUINE CONVERSATION )F YOU RE THE LEAD SINGER THEN THE AUDIENCE IS THE RHYTHM SECTION 4HERE S NOTHING LIKE IT v

s !WAY FROM DISASTERS AND DOOM AND GLOOM ARE YOU GLAD TO BE ON TOUR AGAIN ) LOVE IT )T S GREAT WHEN AUDIENCES SEEM TO CARE ABOUT THE SAME THINGS AS ME ) KEEP THINKING hIS IT JUST ME v AND IT S SO REFRESHING WHEN IT ISN T ) DO LIKE TO STAY AS LOW PROl LE AS ) CAN THOUGH )F YOU RE TOO WELL KNOWN IT DISTORTS THINGS AND YOU RE NO LONGER IN TOUCH ) WANT TO STAY UNDER THE RADAR

$YLAN -ORAN s 4ELL US MORE ABOUT WHAT THIS NEW SHOW IS ALL ABOUT 7ELL THE RELENTLESSNESS OF MODERN LIFE IS A STRONG THEME 7E HAVE A DESPERATE NEED TO DISTRACT OUR SELVES WITH ACTIVITY ALL THE TIME )T IS OF COURSE TER RIl C FOR COMEDIANS LIKE ME THAT WE ARE SO STRESSED )F WE WERE ALL SORTED ) D BE OUT OF A JOB BUT ) THINK

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CONNECTED ONLY BY A STUNNING DESIRE TO WRITE 5%! ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE LINKED WITH #REATIVE 7RITING AND A QUICK SKIM OF JUST ONE OR TWO PIECES IN THE ANTHOLOGY WILL SHOW YOU EXACTLY WHY 7ITH S BEING THE TWENTIETH OFl CIAL PUBLICATION PUT TOGETHER BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WELL REGARDED POSTGRADUATE COURSE IT SEEMS THAT THE ANTHOLOGY IS BEGINNING TO GAIN A REPUTATION OF ITS OWN !S A COLLECTION OF PROSE POETRY

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!NTHOLOGY IS SMALL ENOUGH TO CARRY AROUND FOR ON THE GO READING 7ITH SHORT EXCERPTS FROM LONGER PIECES AND DIGESTIBLE POEMS IT IS PERFECT FOR DIPPING INTO WHILST WAITING FOR THE BUS OR WHEN YOU RE CRAWLED UP IN BED TOO TIRED TO READ FOR LONGER THAN l VE MINUTES 4HE CHOICE IS VARIED AND SKIPPING AND SKIMMING THROUGH SUCH A JUICY SELECTION TO l ND SOMETHING TO REm ECT YOUR MOOD SOON BECOMES SECOND NATURE )N FACT THE PROBLEM FELL IN THE CLIFF HANGERS EACH PIECE IS IMMEDIATELY GRIPPING AND THE EXTRACT ALWAYS ENDED TOO SOON 5LTIMATELY IT DOESN T MATTER THOUGH BE CAUSE THE NEXT PIECE WILL DRAG YOU IN JUST AS QUICKLY !LL IN ALL THE ANTHOLOGY PROVIDES A TEASING BUT THOROUGHLY PLEASING READ %SPECIALLY RECOMMENDED IS @!RBLE S 7ILL YOU BE MY FRIEND AND @(ARVEY S 3MOKING 3O GET READING SUPPORT THE SCHOOL !VANI 3HAH

arts Literary Labourings

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concrete.arts@uea.ac.uk

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MANY COMMENTATORS QUESTIONED THE REA SONING BEHIND HER DONATION (ER CLAIM THAT "ROWN HAS hPRIORITISED AND INTRODUCED MEASURES THAT WILL SAVE AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE FROM A LIFE LACKING IN OPPORTU NITY OR CHOICEv SOUNDED HOLLOW CONSIDER ING THAT DURING THE PAST DECADE OF ,ABOUR GOVERNANCE THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR HAS ACTUALLY WIDENED "UT SOME LITERARY TYPES HAD A DIFFERENT REASON FOR l NDING 2OWLING S GESTURE UN SEEMLY )N THE )NDEPENDENT FOR INSTANCE

"OYD 4ONKIN OBSERVED HOW RARE IT WAS FOR "RITISH WRITERS TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH PARTICULAR POLITICAL PARTIES ALTHOUGH A FEW h$ICKENS AND 3HAWv h/RWELL AND 0INTERv HAD SOMETIMES LENT THEIR NAME TO

@GREAT BROAD BRUSH CAUSES OFTEN OVERSEAS (IS SCEPTICISM SEEMED A LITTLE SNOBBISH n IT WAS AS IF WRITING IS TOO CEREBRAL AND NOBLE A CALLING FOR ITS PRACTITIONERS TO SULLY THEM SELVES WITH EVERYDAY POLITICS (OWEVER ) FEEL THE GIST OF 4ONKIN S AR GUMENT IS WRONG 7RITERS WANT TO CAN AND DO INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN PARTY POLITICS &OR EXAMPLE BEFORE THE 3COTTISH ELECTION LAS YEAR )RVINE 7ELSH GAVE HIS PUBLIC SUP PORT TO THE 3COTISH .ATIONAL 0ARTY $URING THE CAMPAIGN 3.0 LEADER !LEX 3ALMOND QUOTED THE RESPECTED 'LASWEGIAN NOVELIST !LASDAIR 'RAY n @,ET US ACT TODAY AS IF THESE ARE THE l RST DAYS OF A BETTERNATION !FTER THE ELECTION 'RAY RETURNED THE COMPLIMENT BY ENDORSING 3ALMOND IN AN OPINION PIECE IN 'LASGOW S 3UNDAY (ERALD NEWSPAPER 4HREE YEARS EARLIER ON THE DAY THAT THE NEW 3COTTISH 0ARLIAMENT BUILDING WAS OPENED BY THE 1UEEN 7ELSH AND 'RAY

AS WELL AS )AIN "ANKS *AMES +ELMAN AND ! , +ENNEDY LENT THEIR SUPPORT TO 4OMMY 3HERIDAN S 3COTTISH 3OCIALIST 0ARTY WHO

-INOTAUR 0RODUCTIONS PRESENT (IS $ARK -ATERIALS !S A NEWCOMER TO 5%!

4HE -INOTAUR 4HEATRE #OMPANY S (IS $ARK -ATERIALS 4RILOGY n 0ART IS THIS REVIEWER S l RST FORAY INTO STUDENT THEA TRE !FTER READING THE BOOKS WATCHING THE l LM REGRETTABLY AND l NDING OUT WHERE THE HELL THE DRAMA STUDIO WAS 4HE %VENT MADE THE MISTAKE OF ARRIVING HALF AN HOUR EARLY 7HEN THE PLAY STARTED 4HE %VENT WAS IMMEDIATELY IMPRESSED TO SEE THE LEVEL OF SKILL OF THE PUPPETEERS THAT CONTROL LED THE DAEMONS WHICH COMPRISED OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CREATURES THROUGH OUT THE PLAY 4HEY INSTANTLY ADDED LIFE TO THE CHARACTERS AND 4HE %VENT FOUND ITSELF STARING SOLELY AT THE PUPPET AND IGNORING ITS CONTROLLER FROM ABOUT MINUTES IN 4HE PLAY WAS NOT MADE UP ENTIRELY OF PUPPETS HOWEVER AND ) AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT #HARLOTTE +ING AS ,YRA "ELACQUA THE PLAY S PROTAGONIST GAVE AN EXCELLENT PER

FORMANCE DEMONSTRATING THE INNOCENCE AND POWER OF THE CHARACTER 3HE WAS BACKED UP BY A STRONG CAST MOST OF WHOM HAD TO PLAY NUMEROUS ROLES IN QUICK SUCCESSION

WHICH THEY DID WITH GREAT SUCCESS MAN AGING FOR THE MOST PART TO AVOID THE STUM BLES THAT COME WITH AN OPENING NIGHT 4HE SET WAS SIMPLE AND CLEAR AND DIDN T DETRACT FROM THE ACTIVITY ONSTAGE WITH IN TERESTING METHODS BEING USED TO CONVEY HEIGHT AND DISTANCE IN THE LIMITED SPACE 4HE LIGHTING AND SOUND THROUGHOUT WAS EXCELLENT AND DEl NITELY ADDED TO THE EMO TION OF THE PLAY 4HE %VENT WAS EXTREMELY IMPRESSED WITH THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE OF AMATEUR THEATRE AT 5%! AND WILL ALMOST CER TAINLY BE HOPING FOR 0ART 4WO OF THE PRODUC TION 4HE %VENT WILL JUST HAVE TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE STARTING TIME IN FUTURE 3AM #LARK

BOYCOTTED THE CEREMONY IN PROTEST AGAINST (ER -AJESTY S PRESENCE AND INSTEAD READ OUT A DECLARATION FOR AN @INDEPENDENT 3COTTISH REPUBLIC ON %DINBURGH S #ALTON (ILL !ND SO * + 2OWLING S ACT OF GENEROSITY TOWARDS 'ORDON "ROWN l TS A PATTERN 2OWLING HAS LONG BEEN BASED IN 3COTLAND AND THOUGH HE TRIES TO HIDE IT THESE DAYS WITH INCESSANT TALK ABOUT "RITISH NESS "ROWN IS AS #ALEDO NIAN AS HAGGIS NEEPS AND TATTIES "UT YOU RE PROTESTING THIS HAS HAP PENED IN 3COTLAND 7ELL YES n THOUGH ) M NOT IMPLYING THAT 3COTTISH WRITERS ARE MORE POLITICAL AND 3COTTISH POLITICIANS ARE MORE LITERARY THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS ELSEWHERE IN "RITAIN 2ATHER 3COTLAND IS A SMALL COM MUNITY WITH A LIMITED NUMBER OF EDUCA TIONAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND A LIMITED NUMBER OF EVENTS TAKING PLACE AT ANY ONE TIME !S THEY MOVE AROUND IN THIS LOCALISED ENVIRONMENT WRITERS AND POLITICIANS MEET AND GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND IF THEY DON T KNOW EACH OTHER THEY CERTAINLY KNOW OF EACH OTHER (ENCE THE INTERFACE BETWEEN

THE LITERARY AND THE POLITICAL !ND ) SUSPECT THAT SIMILAR INTERFACES EXIST IN 7ALES AND .ORTHERN )RELAND AS WELL AS IN AREAS OF %NGLAND WHOSE REGIONAL IDENTITIES ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP THEIR BRIGHTEST TALENTS LIVING IN THE LOCALITY RATHER THAN SEE THEM DEPART FOR ,ONDON THE MO MENT THEY l NISH SCHOOL !LL ARE CONTEXTS WHERE IT S PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR PEOPLE IN ONE WALK OF LIFE TO KNOW PEOPLE IN OTHER WALKS OF LIFE n THE ANTITHESIS OF THE HUGE

COMPARTMENTALISED AND DEPERSONALISED MASS OF ,ONDON IN OTHER WORDS "UT ,ONDON OF COURSE IS HOME TO THOSE LITERARY COMMENTATORS WHO EXPRESSED SUR PRISE AT * + 2OWLING HANDING OVER MONEY TO A POLITICAL PARTY 4HUS WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT "RITISH WRITERS BEING DEPOLITICISED

THEY ACTUALLY MEANT ,ONDON WRITERS WHICH SUGGESTS THEY REALLY OUGHT TO GET OUT OF THE BIG CITY SOMETIMES !LL THAT SAID HOWEVER ) WOULD VE BEEN A LOT HAPPIER IF 2OWLING HAD GIVEN HER CASH TO /XFAM

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The theme for this issue is “Underground” In The Underworld Earth %ARTH IS GROUND UNDER THE FEET TO TREAD LIKE TIME UNNOTICED AND INDIFFERENT 4HE MOST IT LEAVES IS m ECKS OF BROWN ON SOLES BOUND TO FORGET THE DEBRIS ONCE IT S BEEN WASHED

OR SIMPLY BE IGNORED LIKE CONCEALED SCARS !ND YET ITS REACH EXTENDS BEYOND ALL ELSE

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THE SHOOTS THAT SPROUT FROM MOTHER S STOMACH m AILING AGAINST ALL THE IMPRINTS EACH FOOT EVER STAMPED

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) CRY OUT TO ONLY AIR @-ERCEDES

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) CANNOT MOVE MY PEN THE WAY ) DID

4HE SUBJECT ALWAYS LEADS ME BACK TO YOU

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GET OFF AND MOVE BACK NODDING KNOWINGLY TO THE STRANGER AGAIN LIKE YOU VE COME BACK FROM THE FUTURE AND SEEN WHAT THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WILL LOOK LIKE )T LASTS ALMOST A SECOND 4HE BLUR OF MOVEMENT A LIMB MAYBE THE CLUNK OF A HEEL OF A SHOE AGAINST THE WINDOW 4HAT S WHY THE JOURNALIST WANTED THE FOOTAGE 4HEY WERE TRAIN SURl NG TOO ONLY ON THE ROOF OF THE TRAIN 4HE PATTERING OF FOOTSTEPS ABOVE ,AUGHTER #HATTER 7HEN HE FELL THERE WASN T REALLY ANY REACTION NO PANIC LIKE YOU D EXPECT 4HERE WAS A QUICK SCREAM MORE LIKE A YELP THEN AN ESCAPED BUBBLE OF A LAUGH 4HE SILENCES WERE MORE VIVID THAN THE NOISES )N THE TUNNEL THERE WASN T ENOUGH LIGHT TO SEE ANYTHING BUT THERE WAS ENOUGH TO SEE THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO SEE 7HEN HE FELL HE FELL BACK INTO THE VOID BEHIND THE TRAIN (E WAS GONE -Y CAMERA WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAUGHT ANYTHING 4HE ENTERPRISING JOURNALIST ONBOARD KNEW THAT ) SEEM TO RECALL MONEY BEING OFFERED OR MAYBE MY MIND IMAGINES THAT SO THAT ) FEEL BETTER ABOUT GIVING HIM THE FOOTAGE FOR FREE !N ACT OF CHARITY NOT MORBID INTRIGUE THE KIND THAT WILLS YOU TO JUMP WHEN THE TRAIN APPROACHES FOR NO EXPLICABLE REASON /F COURSE ) HANDED OVER THE FOOTAGE (E ASKED FOR IT AND ) JUST HANDED IT OVER LIKE A PLANE CRASH VICTIM BLINDLY OBEYING THE CREW@S INSTRUCTION TO JUMP JUMP 4HE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION AS A COMMODITY WAS LOST ON ME (OURS LATER AS WE RETURNED TO GROUND LEVEL THE MORNING LIGHT WAS STARTING TO SPREAD 4HE FOOTAGE SAT AWKWARDLY IN MY CAMERA A WEIGHT IN MY POCKET THAT MADE ME KEEP MY HAND IN THE OTHER POCKET TO KEEP BALANCE ) DELETED THE VIDEO )T NEVER MADE THE NEWS ANYWAY

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(APPENING AS ) DO UPON A CLOVEN BUTT AMONGST THE LEAVES "UT ) FEAR TO BEND AND GET TOO CLOSE 4HE SOIL GRINS AND BOILS LIKE QUICKSAND

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The Kids Are All right 4EENAGE TEARAWAYS TEARFUL TODDLERS AND BOISTEROUS YOUNGSTERS WHO S THE PICK OF THE BUNCH

Tom -­ Hollyoaks )T S A HARD TASK TO CREATE THE PERFECT CHILD IN TELEVISION 4HERE S A l NE LINE BETWEEN CUTE AND OBNOXIOUS AND THAT S BEFORE YOU SEE IF THEY CAN ACTUALLY ACT ,UCKILY (OLLYOAKS SEEMS TO HAVE FOUND THE PERFECT BALANCE IN LITTLE 4OM 7HAT HE LACKS IN NOT BE ING ABLE TO PERFORM THE SOAP CLAS SIC CRYING ON DEMAND LEADING TO SOME DECIDEDLY DODGY SCENES HE MAKES UP FOR IN LIKEABILITY 0RAISED AS 46 S CUTEST CHILD ACTOR LITTLE 4OM #UNNINGHAM HAS SEEN HIS SHARE OF DRAMA DURING HIS EIGHT YEARS OF LIFE IN THE (OLLYOAKS VILLAGE "OTH

PARENTS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH MA NIPULATED BY THE EVIL WOULD BE STEP MUM #LARE TAKEN INTO CARE ALMOST DROWNING AND MOST RECENTLY HIS BROTHER AND GUARDIAN -AX BEING KILLED LEAVING US TO WONDER IF POOR LITTLE 4OM WILL EVER CATCH A BREAK 3URPRISINGLY 4OM APPEARS TO BE A SOMEWHAT NORMAL EIGHT YEAR OLD

ADJUSTING TO HIS TRAUMATIC SITUA TIONS IN THE SPAN OF AN EPISODE OR TWO AND BEING CHEERED UP BY THE PROMISE OF A NEW COMPUTER GAME OR ACTION l GURE (E SWITCHES FROM BEING VERY GROWN UP FOR AN EIGHT YEAR OLD CON

SOLING NEW AND WIDOWED STEP MUM 3TEPH TO MAKING TREASURE MAPS IN A m ASH REMINDING US HE REALLY IS STILL A KID AT HEART AND WISHING WE WERE STILL HAVING AS MUCH FUN AS HE IS )T S HARD TO IMAGINE WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR LITTLE 4OM SEEING AS THERE DOESN T SEEM TO BE MANY MORE LOVED ONES LEFT TO BE KILLED WRITTEN OFF 4HE FATE OF 4OM IS UP TO THE (OLLYOAKS WRITERS ALONE BUT

CONSIDERING THE AMOUNT OF SWEETS

CRISPS AND l ZZY DRINKS HE S FED UP ON THERE S SURELY SOME SORT OF DIA BETES STORYLINE ON THE CARDS +ATE 3LEMMINGS

Tommy, Chuckie and the gang -­ Rugrats

4HESE 46 KIDS MAY NOT BE ON OUR SCREENS ANYMORE BUT THE 2UGRATS WERE PRETTY COOL IN THEIR DAY 4OM MY #HUCKIE 0HIL AND ,IL WERE THE FOUR COOLEST KIDS IN TOWN AND NOT

JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE BABIES WHO COULD TALK &IRST APPEARING ON OUR SCREENS IN THESE TODDLERS GOT THEMSELVES INTO ALL SORTS OF CRAZY SITUATIONS THAT SOMETIMES MADE NO SENSE BUT WERE A WHOLE LOT OF FUN %PISODES SAW ANTICS SUCH AS WANTING TO TRY 3PIKE THE DOG S FOOD n SOME THING WE VE ALL WANTED TO DO NOT /R GETTING LOST IN A SHOP AND THINK ING THAT A MIRROR WILL TRANSPORT YOU TO ANOTHER WORLD 4HESE LITTLE KIDS REMIND US BIG KIDS ABOUT WHAT CHILDHOOD IS ALL ABOUT AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN WE WERE SMALL AND

INNOCENT WITH NO ESSAYS TO DO AND NO LECTURES OR SEMINARS TO GO TO )T ISN T JUST THE FOUR TODDLERS THAT MAKE THE SHOW THOUGH 4OM MY S COUSIN !NGELICA IS ALWAYS THERE TO ANNOY THE GANG AND MANIPULATE THEM INTO DOING WHAT SHE WANTS THEM TO DO ) M SURE WE ALL KNOW SOMEBODY LIKE THAT 4HEN THERE IS THE LOVEABLE THREE MONTH OLD $IL

4OMMY S BABY BROTHER WHO NO BODY CAN UNDERSTAND BUT THEN WHO UNDERSTANDS BROTHERS )T S OBVIOUS THAT THE 2UGRATS WERE EXTREMELY POPULAR THEY WON

THE @+IDS #HOICE !WARDS FOUR YEARS RUNNING WERE BROADCASTED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE 5KRAINE AND THE .ETHERLANDS WERE MADE INTO MANY l LMS SEVERAL SPIN OFF SERIES AND VARIOUS VIDEO GAMES !LL 46 CHARACTERS ARE GREAT BUT LET S FACE IT THE KIDS ARE COOL 4HEY CAN BE WHO WE WANT TO BE SHOW US PLACES WHERE WE CAN T GO AND DO THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO BUT WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO 4HAT S WHY WE WATCH 46 AND THAT S WHY IT S SO BRIL LIANT 2ACHEL #ONQUER

Lisa, Bart and Maggie -­ The Simpsons !FTER SURVIVING LONGER THAN ANY OTHER LONG RUNNING CARTOON FAMILY SHOW THE KIDS OF THE 3IMPSON FAM ILY HAVE BECOME POP CULTURE ICONS !S THE TEEN TEARAWAY "ARTHOLOM EW * 3IMPSON IS

PERHAPS THE MOST POPULAR AND FA MOUS OF THE THREE (E DEl NITELY HAS A LITTLE BIT OF HIS FATHER IN HIM

FREQUENTLY BETTERING (OMER IN HIS REBELLIOUSNESS AND PUERILE PRANKS (IS LOVE OF COMPUTER GAMES COMIC BOOKS AND )TCHY AND 3CRATCHY IS THE EMBODIMENT OF HOW WE PERCEIVE EVERY TEN YEAR OLD BOY ,IKE MANY OLDER BROTHERS "ART IS FOREVER TEASING HIS LITTLE SISTER ,ISA !LTHOUGH YOUNGER THAN HER BROTHER BY TWO YEARS SHE HAS A SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE RIVAL ING THAT OF MOST 3PRINGl ELD RESIDENTS 3HE HAS A THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE AND A STRICT MORAL CODE BECOMING A LITTLE SELF RIGHTEOUS AT TIMES (OWEVER

SHE STILL SUFFERS FROM THE SAME IS

SUES ANY GIRL HER AGE PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO MATTERS OF THE HEART 6ERY MATURE FOR HER AGE SHE LIKES TO TAKE TIME OUT BY PLAYING WITH HER -ALIBU 3TACY DOLLS 4HE YOUNGEST OF THE THREE -AR GARET h-AGGIEv 3IMPSON OFTEN RE CEIVES THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SCREEN

TIME BUT THAT DOESN T MEAN SHE HASN T BEEN THROUGH HER FAIR SHARE OF MISHAPS 3HE WAS THE CULPRIT BE HIND THE SHOOTING OF -R "URNS IN THE ONLY MULTI PART CLIFF HANGER EPISODE OF THE SERIES 3HE IS A POTENTIAL BABY GENIUS OFTEN SHOWING APTITUDE MATCHING THAT OF ,ISA -AGGIE MAY BE THE LEAST EXPOSED OF THE FAMILY BUT THAT DOESN T MEAN SHE IS LOVED ANY LESS BY THEM OR THE FANS !LL THREE ARE EASILY RELAT ABLE WHICH IS WHY THEY VE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME ,IKE THEIR FATHER THE 3IMPSON KIDS AREN T PERFECT 4HEY HAVE CER TAIN TRAITS THAT WE WOULDN T WISH UPON OUR OWN CHIL DREN BUT THEIR FAULTS ARE

WHAT MAKE THEM WHO THEY ARE AND THE 3IMPSON FAMILY WOULDN T BE THE SAME WITHOUT THEM -ARK -C+ENZIE 2AY

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)T S DAUNTING FOR ANYONE TO BE FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF EXPLAINING WHAT EXACTLY 3TEPHEN &RY MEANS TO "RITAIN 7HICH IS WHY IT S SUCH

A RELIEF THAT COMEDIENNE *OSIE ,ONG HAS AL READY PERFECTLY SUMMARISED OUR ADORATION FOR 3TEPHEN &RY IN A RECENT EPISODE OF .EVER -IND THE "UZZCOCKS SAYING @#AN ) JUST ASK IF THERE S ANY CHANCE YOU D CONSIDER ADOPTING SOME OR ALL OF US 4HE MAN IS THE ACADEMIC UNCLE YOU WISH YOU HAD BUT UNTIL THAT PAPERWORK GOES THROUGH THERE S ALWAYS 3TEPHEN &RY IN !MERICA

THE 46 EQUIVALENT OF JUMPING IN HIS ,ONDON CAB AND GOING ON A VERY SPLENDID SUMMER HOLIDAY 2Em ECTING ON HOW CLOSE HE CAME TO BEING BORN AN !MERICAN &RY DESCRIBES THIS SIX PART SERIES AS AN EXPLORATION OF THE COUNTRY A THEO RETICAL @3TEVE &RY WOULD CALL HOME 7ITH STATES EXPLORED OVER SIX HOURS SOME RECEIVE AN UNFAIRLY BRIEF COVERAGE BEFORE &RY HAS TO

GET THE SHOW BACK ON THE ROAD !S A l VE PART -ORE &RY IN !MERICA HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED FOR ""# THOUGH THE SHOW WAS CLEARLY NEVER MEANT TO BE AN EXHAUSTIVE TRAVELOGUE OF THE 53 OF ! )N THE l RST EPISODE FOCUSSING ON .EW %NGLAND THE GREATEST PLEASURE TO BE HAD IS IN WATCHING &RY INTERACT WITH THE VARIOUS SPECIMENS OF !MERICANS HE MEETS FROM HARDY l SHERMEN IN -AINE TO RED NECK DEER HUNTERS AND )TALIAN !MERICAN 'ODFATHER Al CIONADOS IN .EW 9ORK 3TATE /BVIOUSLY &RY MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO BLEND IN 7HERE HIS COLLEAGUE (UGH ,AURIE SUC CESSFULLY HOPPED THE TRANSATLANTIC DIVIDE TO BECOME A CHAMELEON AND ONE WITH A CON VINCING ACCENT ON &OX S (OUSE &RY SOMEHOW MANAGES TO RENT A ,ONDON CAB IN THE MID

DLE OF !MERICA WHICH HE THEN DRIVES AROUND WHILE BEING QUINTESSENTIALLY %NGLISH )T S CLEARLY NOT THE l RST TRAVELOGUE OF THE 53! AND THERE LL BE OTHER CHANCES TO SEE THE PROLIl C &RY ON 46 THIS YEAR BUT WHAT MAKES )N !MERICA UNMISSABLE IS THAT IT IS THE MOST COMFORTING TELEVISION YOU RE LIKELY TO l ND 7HEREVER 3TEPHEN &RY WENT IN !MERICA HE WAS GOING TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB IN A BOWLER HAT AND THE SERIES IS BUILT ON THAT CULTURE CLASH BUT THERE S ACTUALLY A REAL UTO PIAN PLEASURE IN WATCHING 3TEPHEN DEVELOP GENUINE RAPPORT WITH ALL KINDS OF !MERICANS )T S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU WONDER IF DEEP DOWN WE RE NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL THAT IS IF YOU RE NOT TOO BUSY LAUGHING AT ALL THE SILLY ACCENTS *OSH "UTLER

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7ITH THE NEWS LAST OF WEEK OF A PLAN TO MAKE A SPIN OFF OF 0EEP 3HOW WITH A FEMALE TWIST AND THE RECENT NEWS OF A POSSIBLE SPIN OFF FROM 7ILL AND 'RACE FEATURING *UST *ACK AND +AREN 4HE %VENT HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE YOU BACK TO LOOK AT THE BEST AND WORST SPIN OFFS FROM THE PAST &EW 46 SPIN OFFS HAVE BEEN AS MUCH OF A HIT AS &RASIER A SPIN OFF FROM #HEERS -OVING THE CHARACTER OF $R &RASIER #RANE FROM THE BAR IN "OSTON @WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME TO 3EATTLE AND INTRODUCING HIS FAM ILY HIS @NORMAL DAD AND A BROTHER WHO WAS EVEN MORE PERNICKETY THAN &RASIER PROVED A VERY SUCCESSFUL DECISION AND AFTER SEASONS AND THREE 'OLDEN 'LOBE WINS THE RADIO DOC TOR TOOK HIS LAST CALL IN !NOTHER SPIN OFF SUCCESS STORY WOULD BE !NGEL A SPIN OFF FROM "UFFY THE 6AMPIRE 3LAYER

FEATURING "UFFY S LOVE INTEREST !NGEL A @GOOD VAMPIRE PLAYED BY THE DEVILISHLY HANDSOME $AVID "OREANAZ 4HE SHOW SAW HIM CONTINUE HIS l GHT AGAINST DARK FORCES ALONE !

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4HE 46 SPIN OFF HAS CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS NO LONGER JUST RESTRICTED TO l CTIONAL 46 SHOWS THERE ARE NOW SPIN OFFS FROM REALITY 46 SHOWS 7ELL IN THIS CASE THE WORD @REALITY IS USED LOOSELY AS WE RE TALKING ABOUT 4HE (ILLS WHICH IS A SPIN OFF FROM ,AGUNA "EACH 4HE 2EAL /# "OTH BILLED AS DOCU SOAPS ABOUT THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF PARTY GIRLS IN ,OS !NGELES THEY HAVE BECOME CULT HITS AND MUST SEE VIEWING FOR MOST @TWEENS AND TEENS 7HETHER THEY REALLY ARE REALITY 46 SHOWS OR NOT IS A DIFFERENT MATTER .OT ALL 46 SPIN OFFS HAVE BEEN SUCCESS STORIES HOWEVER 2EMEMBER *OEY 4HE SPIN OFF FROM &RIENDS FEATURED ONE OF THE CHARAC TERS WHO WAS RARELY EVER FUNNY ALONE WITHOUT #HANDLER OR 0HOEBE 7HAT ABOUT "AYWATCH .IGHTS 4HE WHOLE APPEAL OF "AYWATCH WAS TO SEE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE RUN AROUND ON A BEACH WEARING NOT VERY MUCH CLOTHING SO WHO ON %ARTH THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO TAKE THE SAME BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE PUT THEM IN CLOTHES AND HAVE THEM RUNNING AROUND ,!

SOLVING CRIMES )T WASN T A GOOD IDEA 3O IN CASE THE PRODUCERS OF THE NEW 0EEP 3HOW OR THE PRODUCERS OF THE *ACK AND +AREN SHOW ARE READING MAKE SURE YOU BRING US ANOTHER &RASIER AND NOT ANOTHER *OEY ,AUREN / .EILL

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! KIDS 46 SHOW BASED AROUND A MISCHIEVOUS BADGER WHO LOVES MASHED POTATO 3URELY NOT 7HAT ON EARTH POSSESSED THE ""# TO GIVE THAT THE GREEN LIGHT 7ELL WHATEVER THE REASON WE CAN ALL BE GLAD THAT THEY DID )F THEY HADN T ALL OF OUR CHILDHOODS WOULD BE JUST THAT LITTLE BIT DARK ER AND THE WORLD WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN THE BRILLIANCE THAT IS "ODGER AND "ADGER 2UNNING FOR AN INCREDIBLE TEN YEARS BE TWEEN AND EACH MINUTE EPI SODE WAS A GEM WITH SLAPSTICK HUMOUR VEN TRILOQUISM AND OF COURSE LOTS OF MASHED POTATO 4HE EARLIER SERIES FOCUSED ON "ODGER S !NDY #UNNINGHAM ATTEMPTS TO HIDE "ADGER FROM ANIMAL HATING LANDLADIES AND HEADMIS TRESSES WHILE LATER ON THE ATTENTION SHIFTED TO "ADGER HIMSELF .OTABLY WE FOLLOWED HIS

FRIENDSHIP WITH A RATHER STUPID MOUSE UN SURPRISINGLY NAMED -OUSEY 7HATEVER LOCA TION THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN THERE ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE A HANDY COLLECTION OF TUNNELS RIDDLING THE BUILDINGS ALLOWING "ADGER TO POP UP IN THE MOST SURPRISING PLACES !ND HE OFTEN CAME ARMED WITH MASHED POTATO TO SPLAT IN THE FACE OF THE NEAREST VILLAIN AN AC TION THAT SOMEHOW NEVER FAILED TO BE AMUS ING %VEN THOUGH IT MAY NOT BE SHOWING ON 46 ANYMORE "ODGER AND "ADGER STILL HAVE CULT STATUS #UNNINGHAM HAS KEPT THE SPIRIT ALIVE

BY TAKING HIS ACT ON TOUR APPEARING AT 'LAS TONBURY &ESTIVAL AND NUMEROUS UNIVERSITIES 3O WHY HAVE THEY NOT BEEN TO 5%!

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AGAIN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SIXTIES BASED

AND INCLUDED A STORY ABOUT HOW "ALDRICK ASSASSINATED 0RESIDENT +ENNEDY 4ONY 2OBINSON IN WINKLE PICKERS )MAGINE "Y THE WAY FOR ANYBODY WHO HAS A LIFE AND MISSED IT IT S WELL WORTH l RING UP ""# I 0LAYER TO CATCH THIS WEEKS POSTER BOY 3TEPHEN &RY AS A TEAM CAPTAIN ON .EVER -IND THE "UZZCOCKS &OR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN CON TRIBUTING TO 4ELEVISION DEMOCRACY THE .ATIONAL 4ELEVISION !WARDS WEBSITE IS OPEN TO RECEIVE YOUR VOTES UNTIL THE END OF /C TOBER (ARD UP 46 STARS NEED YOUR LOVE )N THE MEAN TIME HAPPY WATCHING

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Franks Bar Film club ; 4.30 pm [Sundays, fr ee 3UNDAYS ARE UNEXPLAINABLE THE ABSENCE OF RELI GION HAS FORCED US ALL TO WAKE UP AND DO NOTHING BUT WASTE THE DAY SLOWLY WAITING FOR THE ONSET OF -ONDAY AND THE JOY IT BRINGS 4HERE IS A PLACE TO GO AT PM ON A 3UN DAY WHEN YOU ARE POSSIBLY JUST STARTING TO GET THE CRAVING FOR BREAKFAST HAVING WOKEN UP MERE HOURS AGO &RANKS "AR PLACATES THESE NEEDS NES TLED INTO THE TINIEST NOOK OF "EDFORD 3TREET YOU MIGHT HAVE PASSED IT SEVERAL TIMES AND NOT REAL ISED ITS VERY EXISTENCE !LLOW YOURSELF TO WANDER IN THIS 3UNDAY GO UPSTAIRS AND SIT DOWN ORDER A STACK OF BLUEBERRY PANCAKES WITH MAPLE SYRUP A CUP OF COFFEE AND ENJOY THE l LM WITH THE REGU LARS WHO HAVE MADE THE 3UNDAY l LM CLUB THEIR HOME !LAS THE l LM WILL END BUT BY THAT TIME IT WILL BE EARLY EVENING AND AN APERITIF WILL BE NEEDED 4HERE IS NO NEED TO GO HOME GET SOME CAKE READ THE PAPER AND PLAY A BOARD GAME (OME IS NOW TOO FAR TO LEAVE FORGET ABOUT -ONDAY AND LET 3UN DAY WRAP ITS GIANT LAZY ARMS AROUND YOU &RANKS "AR IS NOT #OSTA COFFEE IT REPRESENTS EVERYTHING

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"ORN IN (ACKNEY ,ONDON IN -C#UTCHEON S UPBRINGING WAS SOMEWHAT ERRATIC DUE TO THE ABU SIVE NATURE OF HER FATHER WHO FADED IN AND OUT OF HER LIFE UNTIL HER MOTHER *ENNY WON SOLE CUSTODY OF -ARTINE AND A COURT ORDER PREVENTED HER FATHER FROM SEEING HIS DAUGHTER UNTIL SHE WAS EIGHTEEN $ESPITE THIS -C#UTCHEON KNEW SHE WANTED TO BE A PERFORMER FROM A VERY EARLY AGE APPEARING IN AN !MERICAN COMMERCIAL AT THE AGE OF AND ACHIEVING LIMITED SUCCESS WITH A BRIEF SPELL IN AN ALL GIRL GROUP CALLED @-ILAN IN HER MID TEENS )T WAS -ARTINE S ROLE AS 4IFFANY -ITCHELL IN THE ""# SOAP %ASTENDERS WHICH TURNED HER INTO A NATIONAL CELEBRITY 0LAYING A LOVEABLE ,ONDONER

SHE WAS MARRIED TO 'RANT -ITCHELL 2OSS +EMP BUT THE RELATIONSHIP WAS WROUGHT WITH DIFl CULTY AS POSSESSIVE 'RANT CARED FAR MORE FOR THE COU PLE@S CHILD THAN HE DID FOR HIS WIFE -C#UTCH EON S CHARACTER WAS SO POPULAR THAT OVER MIL LION PEOPLE TUNED IN TO WATCH HER l NAL SCENES AT THE END OF WHEN -ARTINE HAD DECIDED TO LEAVE THE SHOW TO PURSUE A MUSIC CAREER (ER DEPARTURE FROM %ASTENDERS WAS NOT WITHOUT CON TROVERSY AS A PUBLIC ROW ERUPTED BETWEEN HER AND -AL 9OUNG WHOSE DECISION IT WAS TO KILL OFF 4IFFANY -ITCHELL -ARTINE S DEBUT SINGLE @0ERFECT -OMENT REACHED THE .UMBER ONE SPOT IN THE 5+ IN BUT SHE STRUGGLED TO REPLICATE THIS SUCCESS AND AL THOUGH A .UMBER TWO ALBUM AND ANOTHER FOUR TOP TEN SINGLES FOLLOWED DISAPPOINTING SALES FOR -C#UTCHEON S THIRD ALBUM PROMPTED HER RECORD

LABEL TO DROP HER -C#UTCHEON WENT ON TO EARN A ,AURENCE /L IVIER AWARD AND CRITICAL PRAISE FOR HER STARING ROLE IN THE 7EST %ND MUSICAL -Y &AIR ,ADY BUT HER RUN WAS PLAGUED BY ILLNESS AND HER STAND IN ACTU ALLY PERFORMED THE ROLE MORE REGULARLY THAN HER 2ECENTLY -C#UTCHEON HAS APPEARED IN A NUMBER OF "RITISH DRAMAS AND l LMS MOST NOTA BLY OPPOSITE *ASON $ONOVAN IN %CHO "EACH AND AS (UGH 'RANT S LOVE INTEREST IN THE ROMANTIC COMEDY ,OVE !CTUALLY BUT HER DREAM OF BREAKING (OLLYWOOD IS YET TO BECOME A REALITY -ARK "UCKINGHAM

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-Y LAST MEMORY OF 4IMMY -ALLET IS MEETING HIM ON A "UTLINS HOLIDAY WHEN ) WAS ABOUT (E SANG WELL MIMED ALONG TO @)TSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI AND ENTERTAINED US WITH HIS CRAZY GAMES AND AT THE TIME HILARIOUS JOKES "UT WHAT HAS BECOME OF 4IMMY AND HIS MALLET NOW 7ELL SINCE GRACING OUR SCREENS IN THE EARLY S IT SEEMS AMONG OTHER THINGS HE S SPENT HIS TIME BECOMING THE VOICE OF ANIMATED CARTOON CHARACTERS AND CREATING A RATHER BIZARRE WEBSITE (ERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD HIS WEEKLY PODCASTS WHERE HE INFORMS US OF HIS ADVENTURES MOST RE CENTLY FEEDING A PET CROCODILE AND LEARNING TO SURF AND GIVES US ADVICE ON BEING A TOURIST AND GETTING YOUR l RST JOB 7HILE ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO HIT EACH OTH ER OVER THE HEAD WITH SOFT TOYS IT APPEARS 4IMMY HAD A HIDDEN TALENT ART (E S RECENTLY STARTED PAINTING RATHER SPECTACULAR %NGLISH LANDSCAPES WHICH YOU CAN BUY FOR A MERE a IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED *UST LAST MONTH HE APPEARED ON A ""# POLITICS SHOW REASSURING THE "RITISH PUBLIC NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE CREDIT CRUNCH !CCORDING TO 4IMMY ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO STAY POSITIVE IS TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH FRIENDS IF YOU HAVE ANY HE ADDS POSITIVE THINGS AND MAKE SURE YOU ENJOY THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE (E SUGGESTS ADMIRING THE SEASONS AND RIDING A BIKE 2EALLY ) M NOT CONVINCED 4IMMY IS REALLY IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD 4HOUGH LOOKING BACK THAT MAY

EXPLAIN A LOT OF HIS EARLY WORK ON 46 AND RADIO

HIS STRANGE FASHION SENSE AND WHY HE STILL CAR RIES THAT MALLET WITH HIM EVERYWHERE HE GOES "UT MAYBE THAT S WHY AS CHILDREN WE LIKED HIM SO MUCH AND WHY OUR PARENTS SIGHED WITH RELIEF WHEN WE ALL GOT OVER OUR 4IMMY PHASES +ATE 3LEMMINGS

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Playing with Freshers

7E VE ALL EXPERIENCED WHAT IT S LIKE TO BE A &RESHER AND NOW WE CAN WATCH IT THROUGH THE EYES OF $RAMA 3OC 4HE %VENT TALKS TO !LAN 3TRATFORD ABOUT THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF WRITING AND DIRECTING HIS OWN PLAY @&RESHERS BEING PERFORMED NEXT WEEK 4HE %VENT 7HAT IS THE PLAY ABOUT !LAN )T S ABOUT TWO m ATS OF FRESHERS DURING THEIR l RST WEEK AT 5%! MEET ING FOR THE l RST TIME $EALING WITH THE AWKWARDNESS OF MEETING STRANGERS WHO YOU THEN HAVE TO LIVE WITH AND ALL THE UNINTENTION ALLY FUNNY MOMENTS THAT HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THAT 4HEN THERE S THE UN FORGETTABLE EXPERIENCES OF YOUR l RST ,#2S AND THEN THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MORNING AFTER THEN DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN THE NEXT DAY AND THEN THE NEXT -OST IMPORTANTLY IT S ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS AND HOW THEY CHANGE IN JUST A FEW SHORT DAYS % 7HAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE ABOUT &RESHER S WEEK ! *UST ONE NIGHT THE IDEA OF DOING A PLAY ABOUT UNIVERSITY AT UNIVERSITY MADE ME LAUGH AND IT ALL SNOWBALLED FROM THERE 9OU RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO CONNECT TO AN AUDIENCE AND ) CAN T THINK OF DOING THAT IN ANY BETTER WAY THAN TAKING A SHARED EX PERIENCE SUCH AS FRESHER S WEEK AND DRAMATISING IT )T MAKES THEATRE REL EVANT TO ITS AUDIENCE WHICH ISN T AL WAYS POSSIBLE WHEN WE STILL RE ENACT PLAYS FROM l FTY A HUNDRED OR FOUR

HUNDRED YEARS AGO 4HEATRE SHOULD DO MORE TO BRING ITSELF INTO THE PRESENT ) HATE THAT THEATRE IS SO ELIT IST AND THAT GOES ALL THE WAY FROM SKY HIGH 7EST %ND PRICES TO PRETENTIOUS DRAMA DEGREES 4HIS PLAY IS WRITTEN TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE AND IF WE CAN GET PEOPLE TO WATCH THIS PLAY WHO WOULDN T ORDINARILY WATCH DRA MA THEN IT WILL ALL BE WORTH IT % 7HAT WERE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES IN WRITING THE PLAY ! %DITING 4HERE ARE A BILLION STORIES TO TELL ABOUT THAT WEEK 4HE ORIGINAL SCRIPT WAS HOURS LONG !S IT IS WE HAVE l FTEEN MAIN CHARACTERS ALL OF WHOM HAVE THEIR OWN STORY ARCS IT S A VERY CHAOTIC PLAY DARTING FROM ONE STORY TO THE NEXT BUT ) THINK THAT ACTU ALLY REm ECTS FRESHER S WEEK QUITE WELL 4HE REST OF THE PROCESS WAS RELATIVELY EASY BECAUSE EVERY CHARACTER IS BASED ON SOMEONE ) VE MET WHILST AT UNI VERSITY 4HE STORIES ARE ALL ONES ) VE OVERHEARD ON CAMPUS OR EXPERIENCED OR READ ABOUT % 7AS IT DIFl CULT GOING FROM WRIT ING TO DIRECTING ! )T IS DIFl CULT DETACHING YOURSELF

THERE ARE LINES ) LOVE THAT JUST DON T

WORK WHEN READ OUT LOUD AND AS A DIRECTOR IT S YOUR JOB TO CHANGE IT ) VE BEEN REALLY LUCKY ) VE HAD TWO REALLY BRILLIANT ASSISTANT DIRECTORS PUSHING ME TO CHANGE THE FEW THINGS THAT WEREN T WORKING 7E EVEN IMPRO VISED SCENES WITH THE CAST AND A LOT OF THE l NAL SCENE HAS COME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF THAT ) LIKE HOW AS A CAST WE CAME TO A CONSENSUS ABOUT HOW THE CHARACTERS STORIES SHOULD BE CON CLUDED % 7HAT HAVE YOU ENJOYED THE MOST ABOUT WORKING ON THE PLAY ! 7HEN SOMEONE INTERPRETS A CHAR ACTER IN A WAY YOU NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED !DDING LINES OVERHEARD IN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE CAST (AVING PEOPLE IN THIS PLAY WHO ARE SO MUCH LIKE THEIR CHARACTERS

SOMETIMES DURING REHEARSALS ) DON T KNOW WHEN THEY RE ACTING AND WHEN THEY RE NOT IT S VERY SURREAL 7E VE HAD A RELATIVELY INEXPERIENCED CAST BUT THAT S BEEN THE MOST REWARDING THING SEEING PEOPLE GROW IN CONl DENCE "RINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER WHO HAVE MET THROUGH ONE SHARED LOVE OF ACTING 7E HAVE A TEAM OF PEO PLE WORKING ON THIS SHOW FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD INCLUDING &INLAND

!MERICA &RANCE #ANADA AND OBVI OUSLY %NGLAND AND THEN REALISING THAT WE RE NOT SO DIFFERENT TO EACH OTHER WHATEVER OUR BACKGROUND WE LAUGH AT THE SAME JOKES AND HAVE ALL THE SAME ANXIETIES !LSO WE LL HAVE GONE FROM READ THROUGH TO OPENING NIGHT IN EXACTLY THREE WEEKS WHICH IS AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT IF WE PULL IT OFF % 7HAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS HOPING TO GET INVOLVED IN SIMILAR PROJECTS ! "E AUDACIOUS JUST GO FOR IT ,OOK AT ME ) M NOT A DRAMA STUDENT ) DON T DO CREATIVE WRITING INFACT ) DON T EVEN THINK WRITING CAN BE TAUGHT BUT THIS WILL PROBABLY BE THE ONLY CHANCE ) WILL EVER GET TO WRITE AND DIRECT MY OWN SHOW 9OU ONLY HAVE THREE YEARS AT UNIVERSITY SO DON T WASTE THEM

TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY YOU CAN GET 4HE TWO SADDEST PHRASES ARE hWHAT COULD HAVE BEENv AND hWHAT NEVER WASv YOU DON T WANT TO LOOK BACK AS YOU GRADUATE FROM HERE WITH THEM SWIRLING AROUND YOUR MIND % (OW DID YOU PERSONALLY GET IN VOLVED IN WRITING AND DIRECTING ! ) D NEVER WRITTEN FOR OR DIRECTED

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THAT SOLD OUT IN A PROPER THEATRE IN .ORWICH %VERYONE HERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ME DESPITE MY INEXPERIENCE AND ) AM ALWAYS VERY THANKFUL OF THAT % 7HAT ARE YOUR ASPIRATIONS FOR THE FUTURE ! 4O KEEP WRITING ) D LOVE TO WRITE FOR $OCTOR 7HO ONE DAY ALTHOUGH IF ) AM LUCKY ENOUGH TO WRITE PROFES SIONALLY THEN IT WILL PROBABLY BE FOR SOME CHEAP CRASS COMEDY ON ""# 4HREE

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Thistle Do Nicely )T IS ELEVEN YEARS SINCE 4RAVIS RELEASED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM AND THEY ARE STILL TOP OF THE 3COTS 4HE BAND VISITED .ORWICH ON A TOUR TO PROMOTE ALBUM NUMBER SIX /DE 4O * 3MITH #HARLOTTE &AUTLEY PLIED DRUMMER .EIL 0RIMROSE WITH #OLMAN S -USTARD TO l ND OUT ABOUT "EN 3TILLER

2OALD $AHL AND THE STATE OF MODERN "RITAIN

)T WAS MY l RST #ONCRETE INTERVIEW !LHOUGH ) WAS EXTREMELY EXCITED ) WAS ALSO A LITTLE NERVOUS SO ) DOWNED A GLASS OF ECONOMY WINE FROM THE RED BAR ARMED MYSELF WITH A TRADI TIONAL .ORWICH GIFT #OLMAN -USTARD BEER VARIETY FENDED OFF SOME OBSESSIVE MATURE STALKERS AND WAS l NALLY GREETED BY THE LOVELY DRUMMER .EIL 0RIMROSE #& &IRSTLY WELCOME BACK TO .ORWICH ) HAVE FOR YOU A SMALL PRESENT .0 4HANKS THIS IS GREAT ) LL BE HAVING THAT WITH MY BANGERS AND MASH ;LAUGHS= #& 3O HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING BACK IN .ORWICH ) UNDER STAND THIS IS QUITE A SMALL VENUE FOR YOU .0 )T S GREAT 7E LIKE THE SMALL VENUES THEY ARE JUST AS ENJOY ABLE AS THE LARGE 9OU GET MORE OF THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THE REAL FANS THAN LARGER PLACES WHERE YOU ARE PART OF A LINE UP ;!T THIS POINT ) GLANCE AT THE DREADED $ICTAPHONE )T APPEARS TO HAVE GROUND TO A HALT !MID MANY APOLOGIES A WORLD FAMOUS ROCK STAR HELPS ME TO UNDERSTAND SUCH AN ADVANCED DEVICE= #& 9OUR BRAND NEW ALBUM WAS PRODUCED IN LITTLE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS 7HAT IMPACT DO YOU THINK USING LESS TIME HAS .0 !FTER COMING OFF THE "OY 7ITH .O .AME TOUR WE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE REHEARSAL STUDIO AND WROTE THE STUFF TOGETHER IT WAS VERY CREATIVE 4HE ALBUM WAS PRETTY MUCH RECORDED IN TWO OR THREE WEEKS 3O YEAH WE HAD AN ALBUM WE HAD l NISHED RATHER THAN TAKING TWO YEARS #& $O YOU THINK THIS IS A BETTER WAY TO CREATE MUSIC .0 9EAH ) THINK IT IS )T IS WITH A LIVE AURA INSTINCT THAT YOU DO YOUR BEST WORK 4HIS LEAVES LESS TIME TO l DDLE AND MUCK ABOUT IN A RECORDING STUDIO WHERE YOU CAN GET BOGGED DOWN IN THE INTRICACIES OF IT /UR MAIN INSPIRATION CAME FROM RECORDING ON THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 3GT 0EPPER ALBUM USING THE ORIGINAL EIGHT TRACK EQUIPMENT 7E WERE INSPIRED AS MUSICIANS YOU ARE MEANT TO PLAY LIVE AND BE RECORDED THERE AND THEN ! LOT OF BANDS DON T ACTUALLY PLAY THAT WELL THEY PUT IT ALL ON A COM PUTER WHICH JUMBLES IT UP #& 2EVIEWERS DESCRIBE /DE 4O * 3MITH AS HAVING THE ROCKI

EST EDGE SINCE YOUR DEBUT ALBUM (OW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THIS .0 7HEN YOU SEE THE BAND LIVE WE ARE A LOT ROCKIER 4HE AL BUMS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL HAVE BEEN A GOOD REPRESEN TATION OF US BUT WITH THE MIX EQUIPMENT AND THE MICROPHONES YOU TEND TO DILUTE THINGS IT S JUST WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THESE l LTERS 4HE END RESULT YOU GET IS STILL 4RAVIS

BUT IT S CLEANED UP IN THE STUDIO "UT THIS DESPERATION WAS TO GET BACK TO BASICS SO IT IS REAL AND MAGNETIC AND YOU CAN FEEL WHAT S GOING ON IN THE ROOM #& $O YOU READ YOUR OWN REVIEWS .0 7ELL WE VE HAD A FEW FROM MAGAZINES AND YOU CAN TELL THEY HAVEN T GIVEN IT THEIR FULL ATTENTION 7E VE ALWAYS TRIED TO WRITE GREAT SONGS THAT IS THE POLICY OF GREAT MUSIC WHATEVER KIND OF BAND 7E DO LIVE IN A WORLD OF OBSESSIVE CELEBRITY CREATED CULTURE CONCERNED WITH WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE ON THE SURFACE "RITAIN IS A COUNTRY BUILDING THINGS UP THEN RUNNING AWAY WHEN THEY RE NOT IN 6OGUE 0EOPLE CAN POINT THE l NGER AT US AND SAY @THEY VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION

BUT THAT DOESN T MATTER BECAUSE OF OUR FANS 9OU JUST NEED TO DO YOUR BEST WORK AND NOT WORRY ABOUT PERCEPTION AND BEING SUCCESSFUL #& 7HAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON CURRENT ARTISTS SUCH AS 0ETE $O HERTY AND !MY 7INEHOUSE WHO DOMINATE OUR MEDIA .0 ) FEEL SORRY FOR THOSE PEOPLE THEY ARE VERY TALENTED )T S DIFl CULT BEING IN A BAND 4HERE IS A LOT OF TEMPTATION YOU CAN ENJOY YOURSELF AND HAVE A TASTE OF IT BUT YOU NEED PEOPLE LOOK ING OUT FOR YOU AND THEY VE GONE DOWN A DARK PATH 4HEY HAVE NOT SQUANDERED THEIR TALENT IT S STILL THERE !MY 7INEHOUSE IS AN AMAZING SINGER BUT SHE CAN T REALLY BE SINGING PROPERLY WHEN SHE IS OFF HER HEAD #& (OW DO 4RAVIS MAINTAIN THEIR DOWN TO EARTH ATTITUDE .0 7E ARE JUST WHAT WE ARE IT S WHAT HAS GOT US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY 4HE WORLD HAS ENOUGH NONSENSE WITHOUT A LOAD OF INDIE OR ROCK MUSICIANS TRYING TO BE SOMETHING ELSE #& 9OUR VIDEOS ARE SO LIVELY $O YOU HAVE ANY EXCITING ONES PLANNED FOR /DE TO * 3MITH .0 )N THE MUSIC BUSINESS THERE ISN T AS MUCH FUNDING AND

THERE ISN T THE SAME BENEl T OF DOING EXPENSIVE VIDEOS AT THE MOMENT 4HE ONES WE VE DONE RECENTLY HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE HOME GROWN BUT MAYBE IF SOMEONE COMES UP WITH AN IDEA AND THE BUDGET IS THERE AND WE CAN GET ONE OF OUR COMIC FRIENDS INVOLVED #& 7HAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH "EN 3TILLER .0 )T WAS BRILLIANT HE S SUCH A FUNNY GUY #& (OW DID HE BECOME A FRIEND .0 (E S BEEN COMING TO OUR SHOWS FOR YEARS 7E RE WELL INTO COMEDY SO QUITE A LOT OF OUR FRIENDS IN THE 5+ ARE COMEDIANS 4O "EN WE WERE LIKE @IF YOU HAVE A DAY OFF COME AND DO THIS VIDEO #& 7HAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN THE 2OALD $AHL ILLUSTRATION ON THE ALBUM AND THE MUSIC .0 )T WAS MORE OF AN ARTISTIC NOTION 7ITH THE PREVIOUS AL BUM WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING MORE GRAPHIC DESIGN Y BUT THE MUSIC DIDN T MATCH UP 4HIS ALBUM THE MUSIC AND THE WHOLE FEEL RELATED TO HAVING THIS KIND OF ARTWORK #& !RE YOU A FAN OF 2OALD $AHL .0 4ALES OF THE 5NEXPECTED AND HIS CHILDREN S BOOKS ARE FANTAS TIC AND ) VE GOT A LITTLE DAUGHTER THAT READS ALL HIS STUFF #& 7HICH OF HIS CHARACTERS WOULD YOU BE .0 "&' (E S BRILLIANT AND ) USED TO READ THOSE BOOKS TO MY DAUGHTER SO ) VE GOT A FONDNESS FOR THAT CHARACTER #& $O YOU THINK HAVING A FAMILY HAS AFFECTED 4RAVIS MU SIC .0 ) THINK IT INFRINGES UPON US ALL FOUR OF US HAVE BEEN TO GETHER SO LONG 7E VE GROWN UP TOGETHER AND EXPERIENCED THE FAMILY THING 7E RE STILL HITTING THE ROAD AND HAVING A LAUGH BUT AT HOME YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES SO IT S GOOD TO HAVE AN ANCHOR LIKE A FAMILY AND SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO #& #OULD YOU COMPARE TOURING TO STUDENT LIVING .0 ) DON T THINK WE DRINK AS MUCH AS STUDENTS ) DIDN T SEE MUCH OF STUDENT LIFE AT ALL ) WENT TO UNI FOR HALF A YEAR AND DROPPED OUT BUT ) KNOW PEOPLE WHO DID AND ) KNOW THAT IT CAN BE TOTALLY BONKERS #& /DE TO * 3MITH WAS EXPECTED TO BE THE l RST SINGLE BUT WAS IN FACT JUST A TASTER WHY WAS THIS .0 )T IS SUCH A MAD SONG IT IS A PROG ROCK EPIC AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE IT AS A TASTER IT HAS ELEMENTS OF EVERY THING ON IT )T HAS SUCH A LOT GOING ON WE COULDN T SEE IT PLAYED ON THE RADIO AS A SINGLE #& 7HAT IS THE STRANGEST THING A FAN HAS GIVEN YOU !PART FROM MUSTARD .0 -USTARD IS GREAT 4HE ONLY SCARY THING YOU GET IS IN !MER ICA WHEN BOXES OF COOKIES TURN UP IT S NICE BUT YOU WORRY ABOUT THEM BEING SPIKED 9OU GET THE OCCASIONAL BRA LANDING ON THE STAGE BUT IT S ALL GOOD FUN NOTHING TOO BIZARRE #& 7HO COULD THE NAMELESS * 3MITH BE .0 (E COULD BE AN EVERYDAY MALE OR FEMALE WHO HAS A NOR MAL EVERYDAY LIFE AND AT THE MOMENT EVERYTHING IS A BIT SHIT WITH PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY )T IS THE NINE TO l VE WORLD WHERE MOST LIVE #& $O YOU THINK THE SURROUNDING WORLD HAS CHANGED YOUR UPBEAT VIEW .0 ) THINK THERE ARE STILL SOME GREAT UPBEAT SONGS ON THE AL BUM BUT THE ALBUM IS JUST SO DIRECT ) THINK WE ARE IN DARK TIMES THERE S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT )T S THE STATE OF POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY IF YOU RE INTERESTED IN IT IT IS DEl NITELY IN A BIT OF A QUAGMIRE !ND ON THAT NOTE ) THANK .EIL FOR HIS TIME (E KINDLY l NISHES THE INTERVIEW BY EXPLAINING THE $ICTAPHONE AGAIN ) CERTAINLY WON T FORGET HOW TO OPERATE IT OR THIS WHOLE DAY FOR A LONG TIME

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Albums Oasis

(AVING REACHED THEIR l FTEENTH YEAR IN THE INDUSTRY /ASIS HAVE CEMENTED THEMSELVES AS A LONG LASTING PRESENCE IN "RITISH ROCK .OW AS THEY APPROACH MIDDLE AGE WE ARE TREATED TO THEIR SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM $IG /UT 9OUR 3OUL 4HE MOST NOTICEABLE WAY THAT THIS EFFORT STRAYS FROM THE RECENT /ASIS FORMULA IS THAT UNLIKE PREVIOUS RECORDS IT DOES NOT FEEL LIKE A TAME IMITATION OF S MAMMOTH $El NITELY -AYBE AND SUCCESSOR 7HAT S 4HE 3TORY -ORNING 'LORY 4HE ALBUM IS NOT SO MUCH A COLLECTION OF SONGS

$IG /UT 9OUR 3OUL BUT AN ENSEMBLE PIECE THAT m OWS FROM ONE TRACK TO THE NEXT 4HE "EATLES INSPIRATION IS AS ALWAYS

EVIDENT BUT RATHER THAN EMULATE THE &AB &OUR /ASIS HAVE TURNED PSYCHEDELIA AND DRUG INDUCED LYRICS h3OMEONE TELL ME ) M DREAMING THE FREAKS ARE RISING UP FROM THE m OORv INTO THEIR OWN 7HAT DIFFERS THIS TIME IS THE OVERALL TONE IN THE SAME WAY THE BAND HAVE GROWN OLDER THE MUSIC ITSELF HAS MATURED FROM AGGRESSIVE AND REBELLIOUS TO A CONl DENT GROOVE BASED ROCK THAT MAKES $IG /UT 9OUR 3OUL FEEL LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR 4HAT IS NOT TO SAY HOWEVER

THAT THE ALBUM IS DEVOID OF THE ROCK N ROLL POUNDERS WE VE LEARNED TO LOVE /N THE CONTRARY

"AG )T 5P 4HE 4URNING !IN T 'OT .OTHING AND RECENT SINGLE 3HOCK /F 4HE ,IGHTNING PROVIDE ENOUGH BANGS CRASHES AND SNARLS TO MAKE EVEN THE MILDEST LISTENER PUNCH THE AIR CAN IN SATISFACTION #OMPLEMENTING THESE ARE SLOWER

@TRIPPIER TRACKS THAT GIVE A SENSE OF DIVERSITY TO $IG /UT 9OUR 3OUL S

ARSENAL AS WELL AS SHOWCASING AN EXCITING NEW EDGE TO THE BAND S SONGWRITING CAPABILITY 7AITING &OR 4HE 2APTURE 4HE .ATURE /F 2EALITY 'ET /FF 9OUR (IGH (ORSE ,ADY 4O "E 7HERE 4HERE S ,IFE AND &ALLING $OWN ALL l T INTO THIS CATEGORY THE LATTER SO MUCH SO THAT IT WOULDN T SOUND OUT OF PLACE IN A NIGHTCLUB %NDING TRACK 3OLDIER /N ECHOES AROUND THE EARS EPITOMISING /ASIS S POLISHED NEW SOUND A l TTING CLOSURE !LL THAT SAID THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE ALBUM IS NOT AN INNOVATIVE

MIND TRIPPING GROOVE SONG BUT ,IAM 'ALLAGHER S FANTASTIC ) M /UTTA 4IME ! SIMPLE HEARTFELT ,ENNON TRIBUTE THIS BALLAD IS YEARNING TO BECOME A CLASSIC

SITTING COMFORTABLY ALONGSIDE 3TOP #RYING 9OUR (EART /UT ,ET 4HERE "E ,OVE AND DARE ) SAY IT 7ONDERWALL 'IVE IT A FEW MONTHS

AND YOU LL BE HEARING THIS SONG BEING CHANTED AT BARS AND PARTIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IT S BLOODY FANTASTIC (AVING PREVIOUSLY STRUGGLED

TO SURPASS THEIR EARLIER WORK

/ASIS HAVE l NALLY BROKEN THROUGH AND REMINDED US WHY WE GREW UP WITH THEIR MUSIC IN THE l RST PLACE $IG /UT 9OUR 3OUL IS ALSO A REASSURING GLIMPSE AT WHAT IS YET TO COME 4HIS ALONG WITH THE RECENT EMBARKMENT OF

AN EIGHTEEN MONTH WORLD TOUR

WILL SATISFY OLD AND NEW FANS NO END /ASIS ARE BACK

Keane

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Funeral For A Friend

0ERFECT 3YMMETRY

)S )T 4HE 3EA

-EMORY AND (UMANITY

+EANE /NCE HAILED AS @4HE .EW #OLDPLAY HAVE RETURNED FROM THE DUSTY WASTELANDS OF THE STU DIOS WITH 0ERFECT 3YMMETRY AN OF FERING THAT IS DECIDEDLY MIXED TO SAY THE LEAST 4HE OPENING TRACK

3PIRALLING IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS THE LYRICS AND VOCAL DELIVERY ARE HIGHLY REMINISCENT OF *AMES $EAN "RADl ELD FROM THE -ANICS WHILE THE MELODY IS SOMETHING EVEN "OY 'EORGE WOULD HAVE RE JECTED IN THE EIGHTIES #LEARLY +EANE ARE AIMING FOR A NEW SOUND SOMETHING TO DISTINGUISH THIS NEW ALBUM FROM THEIR TWO PREVIOUS ONES 4HEORETICALLY A GOOD IDEA IN PRACTISE IT DOESN T WORK AT ALL "UT THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE ALBUM IS A COMPLETE LOSS 4RACKS SUCH AS 9OU $ON T 3EE -E !GAIN !ND !GAIN AND 9OU (AVEN T 4OLD -E !NYTHING ARE EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL AND HEART WRENCHING

WITH THEIR GENTLE MELODIES AND 3YD "ARRETT STYLE LYRICS ,INES SUCH AS @DIPPING MY TOE IN THE WATER AND WATCHING YOU DROWN EMPHASISE THE SURREAL PROGnROCK ASPECTS OF THEIR MUSIC AND THE TROUBLES OF THE BAND FOLLOWING THEIR PREVIOUS SUCCESS AND 4OM #HAPLIN S DRUG PROBLEMS $ESPITE THESE TRACKS THOUGH THE ALBUM STILL SUFFERS 4RACKS LIKE 4HE ,OVERS !RE ,OSING AND 0ERFECT 3YMMETRY ARE EMPTY TRY HARD PIECES OF SONG WRITING THAT SHOW THAT +EANE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO DEVELOP BEFORE BE COMING THE EXCITING INm UENTIAL BAND THAT THEY DESERVE TO BE (ERE S TO ALBUM NUMBER FOUR +ATHERINE *ONES

!HHH FOLK MUSIC )GNORE IT ALL YOU LIKE BUT IT S NOT GOING ANYWHERE 0ROLIl C FOLKIE 7ILL /LDHAM AKA "ONNIE @0RINCE "ILLY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR l FTEEN YEARS NOW AND RECORD ED SIXTEEN ALBUMS INCLUD ING THREE SO FAR THIS YEAR (IS LATEST OFFERING IS A LIVE EFFORT RECORDED DURING HIS SELLOUT TOUR OF 3COTLAND AND )RELAND

ACCOMPANIED BY 3COTTISH FOLK BAND (AREM 3CAREM AND PERCUSSIONIST !LEX .EILSON ALSO 3COTTISH BIZARRELY /LDHAM HIMSELF IS FROM +ENTUCKY l GURE THAT ONE OUT )T S A LARGELY SOBER AFFAIR WITH PULSES BARELY RISING ABOVE A MURMUR THROUGHOUT 4HE SONGS HOLD UP WELL LIVE AND THE MUSICIANSHIP ON DISPLAY IS VERY COMPETENT PARTICULARLY /LD HAM S AGELESS VOICE "UT THE MATERIAL ITSELF IS FOR THE MOST PART DULL AND IS MOST SUCCESSFUL WHEN DEVIATING FROM THE TRA DITIONAL FOLK BLUEPRINT SUCH AS ON THE RAUCOUS !RISE 4HEREFORE 3OME OF THE QUIETER MOMENTS ARE NOTEWORTHY TOO SUCH AS THE GORGEOUS HARMONIES IN ,OVE #OMES TO -E AND THE MOURNFUL TITLE TRACK "UT COME THE END OF THE EXHAUSTING SIXTY EIGHT MINUTE RUNTIME YOU WON T REMEMBER ANY OF THIS LET ALONE l ND YOUR SELF HUMMING IT ON THE BUS 3O A DECENT LIVE INTERPRETATION OF UNDERWHELMING MATERIAL $UNCAN 6ICAT "ROWN

"RUCE 3IGRIST

7ELSH POST HARDCORE l VE PIECE &UNERAL FOR A &RIEND HAVE A LEGION OF DEVOTED FANS MAKING -EMORY AND (UMANITY A PARTICULARLY AN TICIPATED FOURTH ALBUM 7ITH THE BAND PROMISING A RETURN TO THE GUITAR DRIVEN ANTHEMS OF DEBUT ALBUM #ASUALLY $RESSED AND $EEP )N #ONVERSATION AND MANY FANS HAVING FELT LETDOWN BY THIRD OF FERING 4ALES $ON T 4ELL 4HEMSELVES

-EMORY AND (UMANITY COULD RE ALLY BE THE MAKE OR BREAK RECORD OF &&!& S ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER 3O DOES THIS RELEASE LIVE UP TO THE HYPE SURROUNDING IT 4HERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO l ND OUT

/PENING TRACK 2ULES AND 'AMES EMPLOYS THE CLASSIC &&!& FORMULAE CRASHING STADIUMnSIZED GUITAR RIFFS THRASHING BEHIND THE STARTLINGLY ADEPT VOCAL RANGE OF LEAD VOCALIST -ATT $AVIES +REYE 4HERE IS AN UNMISTAKABLE DEPTH TO $AVIS +REYE S VOICE WHICH CAN CLEARLY BE HEARD ON STAND OUT TRACK -AYBE ) !M ,YRICALLY INTELLIGENT RIFF DRIVEN AND BEAUTIFULLY MELODIC CHARACTERISTICS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE MAJORITY OF THE ALBUM 4HIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT -EMORY AND (UMANITY IS WITHOUT ITS FAULTS TRACK #HARLIE $ON T 3URF IS A BIZARRE ALBUM CHOICE WITH hl LLERv WRITTEN ALL OVER IT 4HE ALBUM IS NOT A RETURN TO THE GLO RY OF #ASUALLY $RESSED AND $EEP IN #ONVERSATION 9ET THE BAND HAVE TAKEN GOOD ASPECTS FROM THEIR PREVIOUS ALBUMS AND DE VELOPED THEM ENOUGH TO MAKE -EMORY AND (UMANITY A RATHER IMPRESSIVE RECORD INDEED 'EMMA (ENZLEY

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The Mixtape

T.I. (Featuring Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Jay-­Z)

3WAGGA ,IKE 5S "IG NAME RAP COLLABORATIONS CAN OFTEN BE A DISASTER JUST ASK .ELLY OR #ENT "UT THESE FOUR HEAVY WEIGHTS ALL BRING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO THE TRACK PROVIDING MORE BRAGGING AND SWAGGERING THAN A CAT IN A CRÃ’ME FACTORY +ANYE ON PRODUCTION DU TIES GETS THE JOB DONE MAK ING MEANDERING ORGANS SOUND @HIP HOP WITH A HOOK THAT HAS CLUB APPEAL (E SAMPLES THE LINE h.O ONE ON THE CORNER HAVE SWAGGER LIKE USv FROM LADY OF THE MOMENT - ) ! S 0APER 0LANES $ID SOMEONE SAY BAND WAGON .ONETHELESS 7EST ONCE AGAIN PROVES HE HAS AN EAR FOR A HIT 4HE l RST VERSE PROVIDES AN EXPLOSION OF GENERIC +ANYE BOASTING HE S NOT ONLY @THE SHIT BUT ALSO @THE URINE .EXT IN LINE IS *AY : WHO POPS UP TO SHAMELESSLY PLUG *OCKIN *AY : AND 2OC A WEAR 2EAL SUBTLE *AY ,UCKILY HIS m OW REMAINS hDOPE BOY FRESHv ,IL 7AYNE S LYRICAL CONTRIBUTION IS TYPICALLY AMUS ING hRUNNIN THIS SHIT LIKE ) GOT FOUR THIGHSv BUT IT S STILL SIG NIl CANTLY SHALLOWER THAN THE l NEST MOMENTS OF 4HA #ARTER ))) 4 ) IS THE ONLY RAPPER NOT SWAGGERING THROUGH THIS TRACK YOU CAN HEAR HE S REALLY GOING FOR IT PERHAPS TO EARN HIS PLACE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE WORD @FEATURING (E MIGHT BE hCOLDER THAN &EBRUARYv BUT THIS HAS THE WHIFF OF A QUICKIE MICROWAVE HIT 0ING 2OB -ORBIN

4HE 0ROMISE 9OU REALLY HAVE TO HAND IT TO 'IRLS !LOUD &OR A GROUP FORMED ON A REALITY 46 SHOW THEY HAVE ATTRACTED AN UNPREC EDENTED LEVEL OF SUCCESS WITH ALL EIGHTEEN OF THEIR SINGLES REACHING THE 4OP AND FANS INCLUDING #HRIS -ARTIN AND THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS 7ITH FOUR STU DIO ALBUMS AND ONE CHART TOP PING 'REATEST (ITS COMPILATION UNDER THEIR BELTS THE GIRLS ARE POISED TO RELEASE THE l RST SINGLE FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING /UT OF #ONTROL ,0 4HE 0ROMISE HAS A DISTINCT S FEEL ABOUT IT WITH WISTFUL INSTRUMENTATION SWELLING UNDERNEATH THE GIRLS VOICES 6O CALLY ALL l VE ARE ON GOOD FORM .ADINE #OYLE EASILY BREEZES THROUGH ONE OF THE SONG S CUTE BRIDGES BUT IT S 3ARAH (ARDING FOR A CHANGE WHO GETS TO PLAY WITH THE MONEY NOTES 0RODUCERS 8ENOMANIA ONCE AGAIN RESIST LETTING THE SONG FALL INTO A PREDICTABLE ROUTINE AND ALLOW IT TO TAKE A MORE UN CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURE %VERY VERSE HAS A DIFFERENT TUNE AND THE TRACK BEGINS WITH TWO CHORUSES THE l RST OF WHICH IS NEVER REPEATED )T WORKS AND 4HE 0ROMISE IS HIGHLY LISTENABLE FROM BEGINNING TO END 7ITH A JOINT AUTOBIOGRAPHY READY TO GO AND #HERYL #OLE LIGHTING UP 4HE 8 &ACTOR THE SINGLE LOOKS SET TO FOLLOW ITS EIGHTEEN PREDECESSORS UP TO THE HIGH END OF THE CHARTS 3HAUN +ITCHENER

The Hallowe’en Mixtape Courtesy of Lisa Thom

h4O MAKE YOUR PARTY GO WITH A BUMP IN THE NIGHTv

* 3 "ACH 4OCCATA AND &UGUE IN $ -INOR $ANNY %LFMAN 4HIS IS (ALLOWEEN !QUA (ALLOWEEN :OMBINA AND THE 3KELETONES .OBODY ,IKES 9OU 7HEN 9OU RE $EAD (ORRORPOPS 7ALK ,IKE ! :OMBIE 4HE -AGNETIC &IELDS :OMBIE "OY 3CREAMING ,ORD 3TITCH 3HE S &ALLEN )N ,OVE 7ITH ! -ONSTER -AN /INGO "OINGO $EAD -AN S 0ARTY 3CREAMIN *AY (AWKINS ) 0UT A 3PELL ON 9OU 4HE 'OTHIC !RCHIES 3CREAM AND 2UN !WAY 3UFJAN 3TEVENS 4HEY !RE .IGHT :OMBIES 4HEY !RE .EIGH BORS 4HEY (AVE #OME "ACK &ROM 4HE $EAD !HHHH 4OM 7AITS #EMETERY 0OLKA "OBBY h"ORISv 0ICKETT AND THE #RYPTKICKERS -ONSTER -ASH

-ICHAEL *ACKSON 4HRILLER 4OTAL 4IME

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4HE 2EVIEW

%MMA 'ALAL 9OU WERE HERE A YEAR AGO SUPPORTING +ATE .ASH HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE BACK .ATTY 2EAL GOOD 4HAT WAS THE l RST TIME PEOPLE HAD KNOWN ME BUT NOW PEOPLE ARE HERE AFTER LISTENING TO THE ALBUM AND SEEING ME AT FESTIVALS %' ) SAW YOU AT 2EADING WHEN YOU STORMED OFF STAGE WHAT HAPPENED THERE . "ASICALLY THE l RST BAND WENT ON FOR REALLY LONG AND TO GET ON TRACK THEY CUT INTO MINEx 0RICKS )F IT WAS ANOTHER BAND THEY WOULDN T HAVE DONE THAT 4HE OTHER FESTIVALS WERE GOOD THOUGH %' 7HAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR *ULY . 3UMMERx 2EMINISCING WHEN YOU RE YOUNG IN THE HOLI DAYS MEETING FRIENDS AND DOING MADNESS ,INKING GIRLS AND GOING SOMEWHERE YOU CAN T SLEEP SO YOU USE THE GRASS AS YOUR PILLOW 4HOSE LITTLE BITS THAT MAKE YOUR YEAR %' 9OU RE FROM ,ONDON $OES THAT INm UENCE YOU . ) D SAY IT INm UENCES MY MUSIC A WHOLE HEAP BECAUSE ) WRITE ABOUT WHAT S REAL TO ME "EING THE l RST BORN FROM A SINGLE MOTHER YOU RE OUT ON THE STREETS FROM THE AGE OF TEN

JUST l NDING YOURSELF IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS %' 7HAT DEl NES ,ONDON FOR YOU 7HAT DO YOU MISS . ) MISS BRIGHT LIGHTS THE ABILITY TO GET LOST )T S HARDER TO GET LOST NOW BECAUSE MY FACE IS A LITTLE MORE BAIT "UT IF YOU RE IN TUNE WITH YOUR SENSES ,ONDON CAN EITHER NUMB YOU OR EXERT YOU )T S THAT WHAT ) MISS %' (OW DID YOU GET INTO ALL THIS . -USIC WAS THE ONLY THING ) COULD EVER DO 4HERE WAS NOTH ING ELSE ) PICKED UP A GUITAR KNOCKED ON A STUDIO DOOR DID OPEN MICS GIGS AND THEN ) GOT SIGNED 4HIS SHIT JUST HAPPENS BECAUSE IT WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN %' !RE YOU AIMING TO CONQUER !MERICA . ) USED TO SAY ) DON T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT !MERICA BECAUSE THEY RE NOT THE MOST OPPRESSED PEOPLE WHO NEED THIS MU

SIC TO UPLIFT THEM /N THE m IPSIDE THEY CAN BE SOME OF THE MOST IGNORANT PEOPLE AND MAYBE NEED THIS MORE THAN OTH ERS ) CAN T DISCRIMINATE ) JUST WANT TO TAKE THE MUSIC TO THE PEOPLE %' 7HAT "RITISH ARTISTS STAND OUT FOR YOU AT THE MO MENT . %STELLE $IZZEE ) USED TO LIKE +INGS OF ,EON BEFORE THIS ALBUM %' )T SEEMS TO HAVE WON THEM A LOT OF NEW FANSx . &OR ME IT S THE OPPOSITE 3EX /N &IRE MY FOOT ) THINK THEY VE SOLD OUT %' 7HAT ARE YOUR FANS LIKE . 4HEY RE LIKE A CROSS SECTION OF EVERY TYPE OF STEREOTYPE %VERY TYPE OF PERSON YOU CAN IMAGINE COMES TO MY SHOWS 9OU GET DREADS RUDE BOYS POSH BOYS INDIE KIDS OLD MEN

COUPLES COCKNEYS FARMERS %VERYTHING %' (OW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC . -IX UP MIX UP &OR WANT OF A BETTER WORD WE CALL IT MIX UP )MAGINE YOU LISTEN TO EVERY SINGLE TYPE OF MUSIC AND THEN PUT IT ALL TOGETHER 4HAT S THE KIND OF MUSIC ) DO

!LMOST A YEAR TO DATE SINCE HIS l RST LIVE AP PEARANCE IN .ORWICH

TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD .ORTH ,ONDON RAISED .ATTY TOOK TO STAGE ONCE AGAIN NOT AS +ATE .ASH S SUPPORT ACT BUT TO AN EAGER ARMY OF HIS OWN FOLLOWERS 4OURING IN SUPPORT OF THE AL BUM -AN ,IKE ) .ATTY S SHOW ILLUMINATED WHY THIS PAST YEAR HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL FOR HIM 7ITHOUT A TRACE OF ARROGANCE .ATTY AND HIS BAND BLAZED THROUGH A SET LONGER THAN THOSE OF MANY ESTABLISHED ARTISTS 4HE PLAYLIST WAS UNPREDICTABLE WITH *ULY AND "EDROOM %YES PLAYED MIDWAY RATHER THAN BEING SAVED FOR THE ENCORE #OL OURED 3OULS AND "ADMAN WERE DEl NTE CROWD PLEASERS WITH CHANTING SO INTENSE THAT THE SINGER STOOD BACK IN APPRECIA TION 2Em ECTING HIS UNCLASSIl ABLE STYLE THE CROWD WERE MUCH THE SAME .ATTY S INDISCRIMINATE SOUND INVITED ALL WALKS OF LIFE TO JAM OUT IN 4HE 7ATERFRONT THAT EVENING PEOPLE WHO WOULD RARELY BE TOGETHER IN REAL LIFE SITUATIONS .ATTY S HON ESTY m OWED IN HIS l VE MINUTE INTERLUDE DEDICATED TO DRUGS AND REVOLUTION 4HROUGHOUT THE SET TRACKS FROM THE UPCOM ING ALBUM WERE SAMPLED AND RECEIVED WELL BY AN ALREADY SATISl ED CROWD &OLLOWING AN ENCORE OF BRIGHT LIGHTS HEAVY BASS LINES AND HYPED DANCING FROM FANS AND .ATTY ALIKE THE REFRESHED CROWD DISPERSED SAFE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IF TO NIGHT WAS ANYTHING TO GO BY FOR .ATTY IS GOING TO BE A LOVELY YEAR %MMA 'ALAL

Soapbox

Roots Manuva

3T 'REGORY S #HURCH TH /CTOBER

.ORWICH 7ATERFRONT TH /CTOBER

4HERE HAS NOT BEEN A POOR 3OAPBOX ACT YET %VERY 4UESDAY AN ORIGINAL MUDDLE OF MUSI CIANS POETS AND COMEDIANS GET ON A STAGE IN A GORGEOUS CHURCH THAT S NOT A CHURCH ANYMORE AND MAKE THE WALLS SHAKE 3PANISH STYLE DUO !NNIE AND $ANNY START THE NIGHT OFF WITH EASILY GROOVEABLE POPPY SONGS !NNIE S IN HER ELEMENT WHEN SHE SITS IN HER JEANS WITH A SHINY GUITAR PUSHING SONGS OUT LOW AND VELVET 3IMPLE AND CATCHY LYRICS ABOUT BEING IN AND BITTERLY OUT OF LOVE

AND AN AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION NUMBER ABOUT DECIDING WHETHER TO SPIT OR SWALLOW HAS THE CROWD TAPPING THEIR TOES -ISTER #HRISTOPHER IS HEARTSTRING PLUCK ING HARD STRUMMING INTENSITY ZINGING OUT OFF THE FUNNY CLUTTERED STAGE l LLING THE SPACE (IS VOICE QUIVERS OUT BALLADS FROM THE BELLY UNA BASHED ODES TO SOMEONE AMAZING (E EXPERI MENTS WITH RHYTHM UN SELFCONSCIOUSLY STRING ING OUT INTERESTING FRESH MELODIES (E GOT SO EXCITED JOGGING ABOUT THE STAGE HE WHACKED

THE MIC WITH HIS GUITAR 7E ARE SCRAP METAL

YOU ARE THE MAGNET -ARCUS +EELEY AN ANGRY )RISH GUY DID SOME BRILLIANT POEMS ABOUT HATING PEOPLE IN CLUDING ONE ABOUT COUPLES SITTING NEXT TO HIM ON PLANES BEING FORCED TO hEAT PORRIDGE MADE WITH TEARS OF ANGUISHv (E IS RECKLESSLY CYNICAL AND DISGUSTED WITH HUMANS DRY AND BITTER AS AN EMPTY PINT GLASS LETTING US INDULGE IN HIS FANTASIES OF SATISFYINGLY UNUSUAL VIOLENCE 4HE SECURITY GUARD LATER SAID hTHE ONE ABOUT THE PREGNANCY WAS GOOD v 3POOKY "ELINDA 'ILLET SNEAKS INTO YOUR EARS AND CURLS AROUND YOUR THROAT SQUEEZING IT WITH HER STILL WATER VOICE AND HER ECHOING GUITAR -ISTER #HRISTOPHER S GUITAR AND PER CUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT m IRTS WITH HER l NGER PICKING AND IMPRESSIVE VOCAL HIGHS AND LOWS !TMOSPHERIC *ONI -ITCHELL SEDUCTION HAUNTS THE AUDIENCE l NISHING OFF ANOTHER RED HOT ORIGINAL NIGHT AT 3OAPBOX 3USIE 3HOWERS

7HEN HIP HOP CAME TO .ORWICH LAST WEEK IT TOOK THE FORM OF 2OOTS -ANUVA AKA 2ODNEY 3MITH WHO IN THE CAUSE OF HIS LATEST ALBUM 3LIME 2EASON TREATED A SOLD OUT 7ATERFRONT CROWD TO A MIX TURE OF OLD AND NEW /PENING WITH !GAIN AND !GAIN FROM THE NEW RECORD 3MITH

TOGETHER WITH BACKING BAND THEN RIPPED THROUGH THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED -ETRONO MY COLLABORATION # 2 5 & & AND ! -AN S 4ALK 3LIME 2EASON HAS SEEN THE *AMAI CAN ,ONDONER RELEASE HIS MOST AMBITIOUS RECORD TO DATE WITH A GREATER FOCUS ON SAMPLING AND SYNTHS 4HE NEW MATERIAL HAS SEEN 3MITH HAILED AS A LYRICAL GEN IUS 4EN YEARS AFTER LANDING A RECORD DEAL WITH .INJA 4UNE S HIP HOP SISTER LABEL "IG

$ADA 3MITH HAS RELEASED HIS FOURTH STU DIO ALBUM AND CAN BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE LEADING PIONEERS OF THE 5+ HIP HOP SCENE WITH ALMOST VETERAN STATUS #ROSS ING BOUNDARIES INTO DUB AND ELECTRONICA

IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO PIN A GENRE ON 2OOTS -ANUVA TO HIS AD VANTAGE AS IT HAS WIDER APPEAL AND WITH FOUR RECORDS UNDER HIS BELT THE MAN IS SHOWING NO SIGNS OF STOPPING (IS MEMORABLE POP SAMPLES INTE GRATED WITH HIS WIT WERE ALL WELL RECEIVED

BY THE PUNTERS TEARING IT UP ON A RAMMED 7ATERFRONT DANCE FLOOR &OLLOWING THE IN TRODUCTION TO HIS NEW ALBUM 3MITH AND CO BELTED OUT CROWD PLEASERS -OVEMENTS FROM HIS DEBUT "RAND .EW 3ECOND (AND

*OIN 4HE $OTS AND 4OO #OLD FROM S !WFULLY $EEP THE LATTER OF WHICH HE DEDI CATED TO THE STUDENTS WHICH RAISED A BRIEF FURORE AMONG AN AUDIENCE DOMINATED BY LOCALS 4HE CROWD REACHED FEVER PITCH DUR ING AN ENCORE OF 7ITNESS (OPE 4HE 7ATERFRONT RESEMBLED A SCENE FROM 5+ HIP HOP S ANSWER TO -ILE WITH HANDS RAISED AND CHEERS OF APPROVAL 4HE HOUR LONG SET CAME TO A CLOSE WITH NEW SINGLE "UFF .UFF WITH FANS WANTING MORE 4ONIGHT 2OOTS -ANUVA CERTAINLY DEM ONSTRATED HIS STATUS AS AN ELDER STATESMAN OF 5+ HIP HOP PROVIDING A HIGH POWERED SET THAT WILL HAVE NO DOUBT INSPIRED MANY TO GO HOME AND GET THEIR MITS ON THE NEW RECORD &REDDIE !LLEN

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Main Feature -­ Burn After Reading

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HE ADS FOR "URN !F TER 2EADING THE NEW EST FILM BY THE #OEN "ROTHERS &ARGO .O #OUNTRY &OR /LD -EN

MARKET IT AS A SCREWBALL COMEDY THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE HEYDAY OF THE GENRE WHEN (OWARD (AWKS AND &RANK #APRA MADE SUCH CRAZY CLASSICS AS "RINGING 5P "ABY AND )T (APPENED /NE .IGHT FILMS IN WHICH ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE WILD LY IDIOSYNCRATIC AND BOUNCE OFF ONE ANOTHER IN A FRENZY OF MAD ENERGY )N POINT OF FACT HOWEVER

@"URN IS ACTUALLY MUCH CLOSER TO A TRAGIC COMEDY ALONG THE LINES OF THE )TALIAN ,IFE IS "EAUTIFUL WHICH BLENDS THE LIGHT AND COMEDIC WITH THE GRIM BACKDROP OF THE HOLOCAUST AND ALSO &ARGO ANOTH

MAND 0ITT #LOONEY (OWEVER AS THE FILM PROGRESS

Dir: Ethan & Joel Coen Release Date: 17/10

hWHATEVER DECISIONS THIS MOTTLED ENSEMBLE MAKES

THEY JUST CAN T WINv

h IT ISN T A NORMAL COMEDY ;AND=THIS ISN T A HAPPY WORLDv ER #OEN "ROTHERS FILM 4HE FILM FOLLOWS THE PATH OF /SBOURNE #OX *OHN -AL KOVICH WHOSE MEMOIRS OF HIS #)! CAREER END UP IN THE HANDS

OF ,INDA &RANCES -C$ORMAND WHO AIDED BY "RAD 0ITT S DOPEY AND FUN #HAD ATTEMPT TO BLACK MAIL /SBOURNE WITH IT 4HIS HAP PENS WHILST SEARCHING FOR LOVE THAT APPEARS IN THE FORM OF (ARRY 'EORGE #LOONY A NEUROTIC AND PARANOID GOVERNMENT MAN WHO

APART FROM ,INDA IS ALSO SLEEP ING WITH /SBOURNE S WIFE +ATIE 4ILDA 3WINTON WHILE DIVORCING HIS OWN &EEL OUT OF BREATH 4HE WHOLE FILM WILL LEAVE YOU THAT WAY FLITTING BACK AND FORTH BE TWEEN CHARACTERS AND PLOTLINES WITH RECKLESS ABANDON

4HERE IS A MOMENT ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH THE FILM WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT IT ISN T A NORMAL COM EDY AND THAT THIS ISN T A HAPPY WORLD 4HE CHARACTERS ARE SHARPLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE SEEMINGLY SANE -ALKOVICH AND 3WINTON AND THE CLEARLY INSANE -C$OR

ES THE LINES BETWEEN THESE TWO WORLDS BEGIN TO DISINTEGRATE

WITH THE CHARACTERS BEGINNING TO SHIFT TOWARDS THE OTHER SIDE AND THROUGH IT ALL THERE IS THE FUTILITY OF HAVING SEEN THAT LIFE ISN T WORK ING FOR EITHER FACTION 7HILE HUMOROUS IT S DIFFI CULT TO WATCH AT TIMES BECAUSE WE KNOW WHATEVER DECISIONS THIS MOTTLED ENSEMBLE MAKES

THEY JUST CAN T WIN 4HIS IS WORLD WHERE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OVER COME THE HIGHER POWERS 4HIS IS WONDERFULLY TYPIFIED BY A #)!

DIRECTOR PLAYED BY *+ 3IMMONS

WHO WATCHES AS THESE CHARACTERS SELF DESTRUCT AND THEN SHRUGS HIS SHOULDERS AND TRIES TO DETERMINE HOW TO CLEAN THINGS UP ,OGAN 'IANNINI

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The Mutant Chronicles

Dir: Gil Keenan Release Date: 10/10

Dir: Simon Hunter Release Date: 10/10

$IRECTOR 'IL +EENAN S FOLLOW UP TO THE EX CELLENT -ONSTER (OUSE SOUNDED FANTASTIC ON PAPER 3O IT S A REAL SHAME THAT THE PIECES DON T COME TOGETHER TO CREATE A SATISFYING WHOLE IN HIS FOLLOW UP #ITY OF %MBER 4HE CITY ITSELF LOOKS INCREDIBLE A WON DERFULLY NUANCED DYSTOPIA l LLED WITH AN CIENT MACHINERY SHROUDED IN THE GOLDEN HUE OF MILLIONS OF TINY LIGHTS 4HE CAST

BOASTING "ILL -URRAY 4IM 2OBBINS AND !TONEMENT S 3AOIRSE 2ONAN IS PARTICULARLY IMPRESSIVE FOR A PROJECT THAT COULD BE DIS MISSED AS @JUST A KID S l LM 4HE CENTRAL IDEA IS PERFECT FAMILY FARE AND THE #') ON SHOW IS AS GOOD AS ANYTHING IN 0RINCE #ASPIAN

"UT SADLY THE PLOT WHICH STARTS STRONGLY

FALLS APART TOWARDS THE END )NDEED WHERE A BIG CLIMAX COULD HAVE REDEEMED %MBER S LOGICAL FAILINGS THE STORY SIMPLY JUDDERS TO A DECIDEDLY UN DRAMATIC HALT +EENAN KEEPS THE VISUALS INTERESTING BUT THE STRONG SENSE OF STORYTELLING HE DEMONSTRATED PREVIOUSLY SEEMS TO HAVE DESERTED HIM HERE !ND WITH THIS MUCH PROMISE ON DISPLAY THAT S A HUGE SHAME ,IAM / "RIEN

) VE NEVER PLAYED THE VIDEO GAME UPON WHICH 4HE -UTANT #HRONICLES IS BASED BUT WATCHING THE l LM IT IS HELPFUL TO IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WATCHING A VIDEO GAME AND THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS HOLDING THE CONTROL LER 4HERE ARE RIDICULOUS MISSION OBJEC TIVES WE HAVE THE BOMB WE RE GOING IN

AND SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY WE NEED TO l ND A KEY TO UNLOCK THE BOMB THERE ARE ABSURD BOSS l GHTS THE MUTANTS DON T SEEM INTELLIGENT BUT OH YEAH LET S HAVE ONE ATTACK IN A PLANE AND THERE IS DIA LOGUE THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN BY A SIX YEAR OLD

"UT IN SPITE OF ALL THAT THIS STORY OF A GROUP OF SOLDIERS LAST ATTEMPT TO DESTROY AN ALIEN MACHINE THAT CONVERTS HUMANS INTO BLADE ARMED ZOMBIES IS IN A MASO CHISTIC WAY AN ENJOYABLE ROMP !IDED

BY CHARISMATIC BUT POORLY UTILIZED ACTORS 4OM *ANE 2ON 0ERLMAN *OHN -ALKOVICH AND WITH VIVID STEAM PUNK IMAGERY IT ISN T WORTH PAYING TO SEE BUT MIGHT BE WORTH A WATCH ON $6$ ,OGAN 'IANNINI

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Brideshead Revisited

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Mirrors

Dir: Alexandre Aja Release Date: 10/10

Dir: Julian Jarrold Release Date: 03/10

3AW 6 -ORE GORY HIGH JINKS AS THE JIGSAW KILLER S LEGACY IS CONTINUED

BY MORE WILLING APPRENTICES

'HOST 4OWN 2ICKY 'ERVAIS TAKES ON (OLLYWOOD IN HIS NEW l LM IN WHICH AFTER DYING HE GAINS THE ANNOYING ABILITY TO SEE GHOSTS

1UANTUM OF 3OLACE %VELYN 7AUGH S NOVEL IS SET IN S %NGLAND )T BEGINS WITH THE MEETING OF /XFORD STUDENTS #HARLES 2YDER -ATTHEW 'OODE AND 3EBAS TIAN &LYTE "EN 7INSHAW 4HE STORY FOLLOWS #HARLES 2Y DER S INTENSE AND VARYING RELATION SHIP WITH THE ARISTOCRATIC AND DEEP LY #ATHOLIC &LYTE FAMILY *ARROLD S ADAPTATION COMES ACROSS AS A THREE WAY LOVE STORY PORTRAYED THROUGH A SPOILT AND WEAK 3EBASTIAN A BEAU TIFUL BUT SIMPLE *ULIA &LYTE (AYLEY !TWELL AND A FASCINATED #HARLES 2YDER 4HE CHARACTERS LACK THE PSY CHOLOGICAL DEPTH FOUND IN BOTH THE NOVEL AND THE TELEVISION ADAPTATION

FROM *ARROLD HAS ATTEMPTED TO COMPRESS THE STORY WHICH GIVES THE l LM A HURRIED NARRATIVE AND DELIVERS THREE RELATIVELY SUPERl CIAL CHARACTERS &ROM A CINEMATIC POINT OF VIEW THE l LM IS DROWNING IN THE VISUAL GLUT OF LIFE AT "RIDESHEAD 4HE COS TUMES ARE ENVIABLE AND THE SETTING IS EXQUISITE #HAMPAGNE SEEMS TO m OW FROM ONE SCENE TO THE NEXT ALONG WITH A CLEVERLY CONDENSED SCRIPT &LORENCE 3TIFF

!LEXANDRE !JA S NEWEST HORROR PROVES TO BE JUST ANOTHER NOTCH ON THE LOST IN TRANSLATION !SIA TO !MER ICA REMAKE BEDPOST !N ADAPTATION OF +OREA S )NTO THE -IRROR THE DIRECTOR HAS TAKEN SOME LIBERTIES REPLACING SCARY WITH COMEDY +IEFER 3UTHERLAND PLAYS AN EX COP NOW SECURITY GUARD AT A BURNT OUT DEPARTMENT STORE

WHO DISCOVERS THAT THE SHOP MIRRORS HOUSE MURDEROUS DEMONS .OW IT S HIS JOB TO STOP MIRRORS FROM CAUSING HIS FAMILY TO STAB THEMSELVES AND DEFEAT HIS WORST ENEMY n HIS OWN REm ECTION #ONSIDERING 3UTHERLAND IS KNOWN FOR A LIMITED RANGE AND

HIS COUNTERPARTS !MY 3MART AND 0AULA 0ATTON WERE EMPLOYED SOLELY TO DROP A ROBE OR SPORT A WET T SHIRT

WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THE l LM S GOAL AS INNOCENT FUN NOT /SCAR NOMINA TION "EARING IN MIND THAT IT ISN T SUP POSED TO MAKE SENSE THE NAUSEATING DISLOCATED JAW THE COUPLE S SOAP OP ERA PLEAS AND GRANDMA EXPLOSIONS ARE EMBARRASSINGLY CHARMING "UT DON T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB *ACK "AUER *ENNA "ROGAN

Gomorra

The House Bunny

Dir: Matteo Garrone Release Date: 10/10

Dir: Fred Wolf Release Date: 10/10

.APLES THE PRESENT 6ARIOUS LIVES ARE DICTATED AND CORRUPTED BY THE #AMORRA A -Al A LIKE ORGANISATION 4HROUGHOUT THE #AMORRA IS POR TRAYED AS A MICROCOSM IN ITSELF WITH LITTLE WIDER CONTEXT 7HEN AT THE END OF THE l LM THE INTERTITLES INFORM US OF THE ORGANI SATION S SOCIAL IMPACT THE SUDDEN CONTEXTUAL REVELATION FEELS CHEAP AND UNSATISFACTORY )F ONLY WE D HAD THIS SORT OF STUFF IN THE NARRATIVE IT SELF AND NOT AS PART OF SOME 4ERRY 'EORGE LIKE POST SCRIPT BOTH (OTEL 2WANDA AND "LOOD $IAMOND INVOKE SIMILAR TECHNIQUES )T S AT TIMES AN ENGROSSING l LM

THE ACTING IS NOTHING SHORT OF EXCEL LENT AND INDIVIDUAL SCENARIOS ARE HANDLED EXTREMELY WELL "UT WHERE IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BLEND BETWEEN #ITY OF 'OD AND 4HE 7IRE IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY PRONE TO 3YRIANA 3YNDROME POTENTIAL EMOTIONAL WEIGHT LOSES OUT TO NAR RATIVE DEVICES AND WE CARE LITTLE FOR ANYONE BY THE l NAL FADE TO BLACK /VERALL THIS WAS A FRUSTRATING EXPE RIENCE 2ICHARD -C#ULLOCH

4HIS GOOFBALL COMEDY STARS 3CARY -OVIE S !NNA &ARIS AS A RECENTLY EVICTED 0LAYBOY "UNNY WHO l NDS REFUGE IN A COLLEGE SORORITY HOUSE 4HE PREMISE DOESN T EXACTLY SUGGEST HIGH ART BUT IF 4HE (OUSE "UNNY HOPES ONLY TO PROVIDE A FEW LAUGHS

IT STRUGGLES EVEN WITH THAT 4HE AWKWARD ENCOUNTER BE TWEEN A BIMBO 0LAYBOY MODEL AND A BUNCH OF GEEKY SORORITY GIRLS OPENS UP GREAT POSSIBILITIES FOR CHARACTER BASED COMEDY BUT INSTEAD THE l LM RELIES ON CHILDISH SLAPSTICK FUNNY VOICES AND TOILET HUMOUR PROBABLY LOST ON THE AU

"OND IS BACK IN A DIRECT SEQUEL TO THE SMASH HIT #ASINO 2OYALE

0RIDE AND 'LORY %D .ORTON S NEW l LM PROVIDES AN INSIGHT INTO A MULTI GENERATIONAL FAMILY OF .EW 9ORK COPS

-AX 0AYNE -ARK 7AHLBERG UNBUCKLES HIS HOLSTER TO PLAY KICK ASS $%!

AGENT THE SUBTLY NAMED @-AX 0AYNE 0REPARE FOR VIOLENCE

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DIENCE WHAT WITH THE MOVIE S !

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4O CELEBRATE TH .OVEMBER BEING !MERICAN %LECTION .IGHT

3EE&ILM&IRST HAVE HUNDREDS OF FREE TICKETS TO SPECIAL PREVIEWS OF THE NEW l LM 7 4O GET TICKETS TO SPECIAL PRE VIEWS SIMPLY GO TO WWW SEEl LMl RST COM AND ENTER CODE (URRY 4ICKETS ARE ON A l RST COME l RST SERVED BASIS h7 v IS THE STORY OF 'EORGE 7 "USH FOLLOWS HIS JOURNEY FROM 9ALE FRAT HOUSE TO 4EXAS OILl ELD TO 0ENNSYLVANIA !VE AND

IN THE PROCESS REVEALS THE MAN WHO WOULD BECOME THE ND 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES &OR TERMS CONDITIONS SEE WWW SEEl LMl RST COM 3EE&ILM&IRST ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR l LM AMBASSADORS 4HIS IS A CHANCE FOR ANY OF YOU TO RECEIVE REGULAR TICKETS TO SCREENINGS AND TAKE PART IN THE EVENTS THEM SELVES !LL YOU HAVE TO DO IS AR RANGE FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND OTHER STUDENTS TO GO AND SEE l LMS FOR FREE BEFORE THEY GO NATIONWIDE

THEN PROVIDE THEM WITH YOUR FEEDBACK !LL YOU NEED TO DO IS CONTACT STUDENT SEEl LMl RST COM FOR FURTHER DETAILS

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Skinwalkers

Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein Release date: 13/10/08

Dir: James Isaac Release date: 13/10/08

%SSENTIALLY A TALE OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL TWO GROUPS OF 3KINWALKERS 7EREWOLVES BATTLE IT OUT TO PROTECT OR DE STROY A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY CALLED 4IMOTHY ! PROPHECY EXISTS THAT ON HIS THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY HE WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF ALL WEREWOLVES FOREVER 4HE l LM COMMENCES AT A RELENTLESS PACE WITH BLOOD BEING SPILT WITHIN THE l RST l VE MINUTES AS THE EVIL WEREWOLVES TRACK DOWN THE GOOD WEREWOLVES WHO ARE PROTECTING 4IMOTHY AND HIS LOCATION

3KINWALKERS IS GENERALLY WATCHABLE MAINLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE NON STOP ACTION MEANT THERE WAS NO CHANCE FOR THE VIEWER TO BECOME BORED )F YOU ARE A FAN OF THE GENRE OR CAN BE ENTERTAINED BY END LESS l GHTING AND BULLETS m YING EVERYWHERE

THEN THIS l LM COULD BE A REASONABLY EXCIT ING WATCH )F NOT THEN STEER CLEAR

'ARETH 7ILLIAMS

&OLLOWING THE NUMEROUS SEXUAL AWAKENINGS OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY UNDER GONE A VOW OF PURITY 4EETH IS A SOMEWHAT LUDICROUS TALE OF A GIRL WHO HAS THE STARTLING ABILITY TO BITE BACK $AWN / +EEFE *ESS 7EIXLER HAS A DYS FUNCTIONAL FAMILY HER STEPBROTHER IS IN LOVE WITH HER AND SHARES A BEDROOM WITH HIS CRAZY GUARD DOG AND THE l LM CHARTS HER DE VELOPMENT FROM INNOCENT VIRGIN TO PSYCHO PATHIC TEMPTRESS !LTHOUGH THE l LM S NARRATIVE IS INTRIGU

ING TO BEGIN WITH THE INTRIGUE DIES AFTER A BRIEF TIME LEAVING YOU WITH ONLY YOUR CURI OSITY TO CARRY ON WATCHING -OST AMUSING HOWEVER ARE THE NUMEROUS PHALLIC IMAGES IN THE l LM OF TREES AND CHIMNEYS AND AN ALARMING NUMBER OF RAPISTS FOR SUCH A SMALL TOWN #OLETTE ,ILFORD

UEA  To  City  Centre £1.50  each* Cheaper  Than  The  Bus

Courtesy  Taxis 01603  446644 *Prices  Based  on  4  Passengers  Per  Car

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7ITH THE l NAL INSTALMENT OF THE 3AW SERIES 3AW 6 JUST AROUND THE CORNER IT SEEMS LOGICAL TO EXAINE THE SKILLS OF ONE OF THE MASTERS WHO SET THE HORROR GENRE BAR FOR YEARS TO FOLLOW 2IDLEY 3COTT #HRISTOPHER 7ILSON DISCUSSES THE TALENT OF THE AUTEUR BEHIND !LIEN

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ITH ANOTHER DOSE OF TEDIOUS TORTURE HOR ROR HITTING CINEMA SCREENS IN TIME FOR (ALLOWEEN IT MAKES ONE WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HORROR GENRE #ERTAINLY THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF A

GENRE ONCE OVERRUN BY GREAT INNO VATIVE DIRECTORS SUCH AS #RAVEN #AR PENTER AND 2OMERO 7ITH THIS LACK OF DECENT SCARES IN OUR MULTIPLEX CINEMAS THIS AUTUMN IT IS A PERFECT TIME TO VISIT OR RE VISIT THE ULTI MATE HORROR PICTURE

!LIEN 2IDLEY 3COTT S l LM IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW ON SCREEN HORROR SHOULD BE DONE 3ET ABOARD A TOWING SHIP KNOWN AS THE .OS TROMO !LIEN TELLS THE TALE OF A CREW OF SEVEN INVESTIGATING A DISTRESS CALL FROM A NEARBY PLANET 4HROUGHOUT THE l LM 3COTT DOES FANTASTICALLY TO CREATE A SENSE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA THROUGH HIS DIREC TION REALLY GIVING YOU A SENSE OF HOW TOUGH THE CHARACTER S LIVES MUST BE ABOARD THE SHIP )T IS THIS SENSE OF

h!LIEN IS A PER FECT EXAMPLE OF HOW ON SCREEN HORROR SHOULD BE DONEv EMPATHY THAT REALLY SEPARATES !LIEN FROM OTHER HORROR l LMS &OR ONCE

THE DEATH OF A HORROR l LM CHARACTER IS NOT JUST AN ACCEPTABLE INEVITA BILITY IT IS AN EMOTIONAL LOSS TO BE

MOURNED !LIEN ALSO FEATURES THE S H O C K S C A R E S HORROR FANS CRAVE )T EVEN REMAINS TERRIFYING ONCE THE AUDIENCE HAS SEEN THE THREAT AS WELL AS INSTILLING FEAR IN THE VIEWER EARLY ON WHEN ALL THEY CAN HEAR IS SCUTTLING AND SQUEAKING OUT OF SHOT 4HIS IS A TECHNIQUE SO IMPORTANT TO THE SUCCESS OF A HORROR PICTURE 4OO MANY MODERN l LMS WE RE LOOK ING AT YOU *EEPERS #REEPERS LOSE ALL SENSE OF PERIL ONCE YOU SEE THE COM ICALLY BAD DESIGN OF THE @TERRIFYING CREATURE "UT NOT !LIEN WE CHALLENGE ANYONE TO NOT BE SLIGHTLY FEARFUL OF THE ACID SPITTING FT THREAT FOUND HERE 4HERE IS TOO MUCH OF !LIEN TO DIS CUSS IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE "UT WE REALLY HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THIS AD VICE IGNORE THE LURE OF 3AW 6 AND INSTEAD SIT DOWN TURN THE LIGHTS OFF

TURN UP YOUR TELEVISION AND WATCH 3COTT S @ MASTERPIECE 4HEN WE HOPE YOU TOO WILL BE ASKING ON A DAILY BASIS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HORROR GENRE

&OLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE #OEN BROTHERS LATEST MASTERPIECE "URN !FTER 2EADING 2ICHARD -C#ULLOCH EXPLORES WHAT HAS CAUSED THEIR POPULARITY AND WHY IT CONTINUES TO m OURISH

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O THOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE WORK OF *OEL AND %THAN #OEN IT WOULD HARDLY COME AS A SUR PRISE TO FIND THAT THE SIBLING FILMMAKERS ARE BIG AD MIRERS OF 3TANLEY +UBRICK S MASTERPIECE $R 3TRANGELOVE !FTER ALL IF YOU CAN T LEARN A LESSON IN BLACK HUMOUR FROM A FILM THAT TURNS THE CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR HOL OCAUST INTO A COMEDY WHERE CAN YOU LEARN IT FROM 7HILE THE #OENS HAVE NEVER BEEN HUGE BOX OFFICE DRAWS FOR THE AVERAGE CINEMAGOER THEIR

CULT REPUTATION HAS BEEN BUILD ING FOR NEARLY YEARS DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO THEIR ABILITY TO INJECT HUMOUR INTO THE DARKEST OF SITUATIONS 3INCE THEIR DEBUT "LOOD 3IMPLE SCOOPED THE 'RAND *URY 0RIZE AT 3UNDANCE THE BROTH ERS HAVE PROVIDED US WITH COUNT LESS SCENES THAT SOMEHOW MAN AGE TO FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN THE HORRIFIC AND THE HILARIOUS )N LAST YEAR S .O #OUNTRY FOR /LD -EN FOR INSTANCE *AVIER "ARDEM S BRILLIANTLY DEADPAN INTERCHANGES WITH INNOCENT 4EXAN SHOPKEEPERS AND RECEPTIONISTS BRING ELEMENTS

OF FARCE TO AN OTHERWISE BRUTALLY PROFICIENT KILLING SPREE ! SIMILAR TREATMENT IS AFFORDED TO 3TEVE "USCEMI AND 0ETER 3TORMARE IN

h THE BROTHERS HAVE PROVIDED US WITH COUNTLESS SCENES THAT MANAGE TO l ND A BALANCE BETWEEN THE HOR RIl C AND THE HILARIOUSv

&ARGO WHO WHEN NOT BUSY KID NAPPING OR LEAVING A TRAIL OF CORPSES BEHIND THEM ARGUE OVER WHERE TO EAT DINNER OR WHO GETS TO KEEP THE CAR ONCE THEY VE FIN ISHED THE JOB .EEDLESS TO SAY THE LATTER OF THESE CONVERSATIONS TAKES PLACE JUST AFTER "USCEMI HAS BEEN SHOT IN THE FACE 0ERHAPS WHAT IS MOST CURIOUS ABOUT THE #OEN BROTHERS IS THAT THESE KINDS OF TOUCHES ACTUALLY MAKE THEIR CHARACTERS SEEM MORE HUMAN (OW ELSE DO YOU EXPLAIN THE KINSHIP FELT BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WITH A FILM LIKE 4HE "IG ,EBOWSKI A MOVIE WITH SUCH A

h7E VE BEEN REMARKABLY LUCKY IN THAT WE VE BEEN FREE TO MAKE THE MOVIES WE VE WANTED TO MAKE THE WAY WE VE WANTED TO MAKE

FOLLOWING THAT IT HAS SPAWNED ITS OWN ANNUAL FESTIVAL -OST OF US WILL NEVER BE EMBROILED IN A VAGUELY (ITCHCOCKIAN WEB OF KID NAP MISTAKEN IDENTITY AND 'ER MAN NIHILISTS BUT WE CAN STILL LEARN SOMETHING FROM @4HE $UDE #HANCES ARE WE VE FORGOTTEN WHAT THE LESSON IS BUT IT ALMOST CER TAINLY INVOLVES 7HITE 2USSIANS AND OR BOWLING

THEM v 2ICHARD -C#ULLOCH

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• Blood Donation. LCR. • Blood Red Shoes. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. £8 • Romeo and Juliet. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £10+ • Stan Tracey Trio. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £12.50 NUS • Action Man vs. Barbie LCR. 10pm. £3.50adv.

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22nd • Amnesty Talk: Phil Feller. 1.33 Union House. 5pm • David Hare. LT1. 6.30pm. £6 • Romeo and Juliet. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £10+ • Mystery Jets. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. Sold Out • Carnival of the Bizarre. LCR. 8pm. £5.50 NUS • Etran Finatawa. Norwich Arts Centre. 8.30pm. £10 NUS

• Bring Me The Horizon. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. £11 • Freshers. UEA Drama Studio. 7.30pm. £3.50 NUS • Film: Wanted. LT1. 8.30pm • Games Night: Wii Sports. Blue Bar. 8.30pm • Lost Thursday ft. Macka B. LCR. 9pm. £6 NUS

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24th • Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.

LCR. 7.30pm. £17 NUS • Freshers. UEA Drama Studio. 7.30pm. £3.50 NUS • My Brilliant Divorce. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £13 NUS • Official Skins Party. The Waterfront. 8pm. £10 • The Kabeedies Presented By Tilting Sky. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £5

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30th • Roots and Culture. The Waterfront. 8pm. £8 NUS • Ed Byrne: Different Class. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • The Sadies. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £10 • Stone Gods. The Ocean Rooms. 8pm. £10 • Games Night: Guitar Hero. Blue Bar. 8.30pm • Film: Teeth. LT1. 8.30pm

3rd 31st

• Music At One -­ Alexander Porter. The Assembly House. 1pm. £4 • Ed Byrne: Different Class. The Playhouse. 8pm. £16.50 • Sway + Richard Blackwood -­ Norfolk BHM Finale 08.

Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £5 NUS • Halloween LCR. 10pm. £3.50pm • Film: Shaun of the Dead. LT1. 8.30pm

1st

25th • UEA Volunteers Flashmob. Outside Primark. 3pm.

• Strung Out. Queen Charlotte. 7pm. £9.50 • The Big Ballet. The Playhouse. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. £15 NUS • James Hunter. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £10 • Meltdown + Wraith. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS • Club Retro 80s Special. LCR. 10pm. £4.50 adv.

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29th • Toni Morrison. LT1. 6.30pm. £6 • Paul Heaton with Cerys Matthews. The Waterfront.

7.30pm. £16.50 • Poisoning Pigeons In The Park. The Playhouse.

7.30pm. £10 NUS • Olafur Arnalds. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £7 NUS

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• Nestle Policy Ballot.

• Soapbox -­ original music, comedy and poetry.

St Gregory’s Centre for the Arts. 6pm. £2 • Fleet Foxes. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. Sold Out • Halloween Ghost Walk. St Helen’s Wharf car park.

7.30pm. £5 • Fashion Disaster LCR. 10pm. £3.50 adv.

• Bellowhead. The Waterfront. 7pm. £12 NUS • Club Centro: Bobo Stenson Trio. The Forum. 8pm. £14 NUS • Pub Quiz. Blue Bar. 7.30pm • Johnny Flynn. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £8

• Sparks in the Park. Earlham Park. 5pm. £5 • Mari Wilson. The Playhouse. 7.30pm. £15 NUS • NROne Calling ft. Barlights. Norwich Arts Centre.

8pm. £4 • Meltdown Halloween Party. The Waterfront. 10pm. £3.50 NUS • Now 90s LCR. 10pm. £4.50 adv

• Less Than Jake. LCR. 7.30pm. £14 • Seth Lakeman. The Waterfront. 7.30pm. £16 • The Big Prize Quiz. Blue Bar. 7.30pm

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27th • Nestle Policy Ballot.

• Alphabeat. LCR. 7.30pm. Sold Out. • Sonic Arts 51 ft. David Behrman. UEA School of Music. 7.30pm. £4 NUS • Ennio Marchetto. The Playhouse. 8pm. £14

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• One Night Only. LCR. 7.30pm. £10.50 • Funeral For A Friend. 7.30pm. Sold Out • The Research. Norwich Arts Centre. 8pm. £6 • Bingo. St John’s Cathedral Parish Hall. 8pm

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LEGO Batman (Xbox 360) &OR THOSE WHO MAY NOT HAVE DELVED INTO THE ,%'/ SERIES BEFORE THE PREMISE IS SIMPLE TAKE A WELL KNOWN FRANCHISE FROM POPU LAR CULTURE AND REDESIGN WITH ,EGO BLOCKS 4HE PREVIOUS TITLES 3TAR 7ARS AND )NDIANA *ONES FOLLOW THE STORYLINES OF THE l LMS WITH A QUIRKY DESIGN CONSTRUCTED AROUND ,EGO BUILDING BLOCKS ,%'/ "ATMAN TAKES A SLIGHT

LY DIFFERENT SLANT KEEPING THE SAME SIMPLISTIC LOOK AND GAMEPLAY BUT CONTAINS AN ORIGINAL STORYLINE 4HE GAME IS SPLIT INTO THREE ACTS WITH EACH FOCUSING ON A DIFFERENT VILLAIN THE *OKER THE 2IDDLER AND THE 0ENGUIN 4HE DESIGN IS IN KEEPING WITH THE FRAN CHISE S STYLE YOU SOLVE PUZZLES USING TOOLS

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AND WHEN PLAYING AS "ATMAN AND 2OBIN

DIFFERENT SUITS THAT GIVE DIFFERENT ABILITIES 4HE DIFFERENT SUITS WOULD BE FUN IF YOU DIDN T UNLOCK THEM ALL WITHIN THE l RST MINUTES OF THE GAME AND IT WASN T ALWAYS FAIRLY OB VIOUS WHEN EACH WOULD BE NEEDED AS THEY ARE GENERALLY WITHIN ABOUT TWO INCHES OF THE OBJECTIVE 4HE GAME HOWEVER SWITCHES FOCUS HALFWAY THROUGH YOU GET TO PLAY THROUGH THE VILLAIN S PERSPECTIVE OF EACH ACT WITH MORE CHARACTERS AND MORE ABILITIES THAT GIVES AN INNOVATIVE TWIST TO THE GAME 4HOUGH THE GAME FOLLOWS THE SAME SYS TEM AS THE PREVIOUS TITLES THE STORYLINE LACKS CHARM IT S WEAK AND WON T PULL YOU ALONG LIKE THE 3TAR 7ARS SAGAS DO 4HERE IS LOTS OF CONTENT TO UNLOCK INCLUDING NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTERS LIKE .IGHTWING AND "ATGIRL BUT THE GAME ISN T WORTH THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU WOULD HAVE TO SPEND REPLAYING EACH REPETI TIVE LEVEL TO COMPLETE IT )T CAN BE A FUN GAME ESPECIALLY MULTIPLAYER AND YOU DO GET TO PUNCH !LFRED TO PIECES 5NFORTUNATELY IT LACKS THE EDGE TO RANK IT ALONGSIDE THE ,%'/ 3TAR 7ARS SERIES #HRIS "ULLOCK

Gaming Great Fire Emblem ABILITY FOR VARIOUS PAIRS OF CHARACTERS TO HAVE @SUPPORT CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OTHER )F THEY SPENT ENOUGH TIME SIDE BY SIDE ON THE BATTLEl ELD THEIR RELATIONSHIPS GREW AND

$ESPITE THE SIMPLE TITLE &IRE %MBLEM WAS ACTUALLY THE SEVENTH IN A SERIES OF GAMES 4HIS WAS THE l RST TO GET A WESTERN RELEASE AND JUDGING BY ITS QUALITY WAS ABOUT SEVEN GAMES TOO LATE ! FANTASY 20' GAME UTILISING TURN BASED STRATEGY &IRE %MBLEM FOLLOWED A REASONABLY GENERIC @CRAZED SORCERER SUM MONS APOCALYPSE STORYLINE THAT WAS MADE EXCITING AND ENGROSSING BY THE RICHNESS OF ITS CHARACTERS 4HE KEY TWIST WAS THAT IF ANY OF YOUR UNITS WERE KILLED DURING BATTLE THEY DIDN T JUST COME BACK AFTER THE VICTORY LIKE IN EVERY OTHER GAME 4HEY WERE GONE FOR GOOD AND YOU HAD TO CARRY ON WITHOUT THEM /VER THE COURSE OF THE GAME YOU COULD USE ANY OF PLAYABLE CHARACTERS EACH ONE WITH HISTORY

PERSONALITY AND QUIRKS THAT BUILT UP VERY REAL IDENTITIES EMOTIONALLY INVOLVING YOU WITH EACH OF THEM AND MAKING THEIR LOSS FEEL LIKE A PUNCH IN THE GUT !N ADDED FEATURE WAS THE

THEIR HISTORIES WERE EXPLORED IN DETAIL 9OU WERE THEN GIVEN A PERMANENT BONUS TO THEIR CAPABILITY WHEN l GHTING TOGETHER !DDED TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TRAIN ALL THE CHARACTERS UP TO HIGH LEVELS ON ANY GIVEN PLAY THROUGH THE STORY THE REPLAY VALUE WAS MULTIPLIED SEVERAL TIMES OVER 4HE CORE GAMEPLAY STOOD UP EXCELLENTLY

WITH ALL MANNER OF DIFFERENT UNIT TYPES AND A SIMPLE @ROCK PAPER SCISSORS MECHANIC TO DE TERMINE HOW THEY FARED AGAINST EACH OTHER 4HE ONLY DISAPPOINTMENT WAS A BARREN MUL TIPLAYER MODE BUT THE MAIN ATTRACTION WAS ALWAYS THE INDIVIDUAL ACTION )N SHORT !D VANCE 7ARS MEETS $UNGEONS $RAGONS 'EORGE !NKERS

(ANDS UP IF YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR A NEW $3 n NOW KEEP THEM UP SO 7IRED CAN COUNT ALL OF YOUx YUP THAT LL BE NOBODY 5NLESS YOU RE ONE OF THE 5+ SALES EACH WEEK AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING m IPPANT LET S PRETEND YOU RE NOT YOU PROBABLY DECIDED SOME TIME IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS WHETHER OR NOT THE $3 IS FOR YOU

! N D YET HERE IS .IN TENDO S SECOND FACE LIFT FOR THE CONSOLE !S WELL AS A CERTAIN UBIQUITOUS LETTER THE $3I FEATURES A WEB BROWSER A MEGAPIXEL CAMERA AN 3$ MEMORY SLOT AND AN EXTRA INCHES TO THE PREVIOUS INCH SCREEN THAT ALL l TS ONTO A SHELL THINNER THAN THE $3 ,ITE 5NDE NIABLE IMPROVEMENTS n SOME WILL MISS THE '"! SLOT NECESSARY FOR 'UITAR (ERO AND THE RUMOURED 4ONY (AWK S -OTION BUT THE 3$ CARD SLOT THAT REPLACES IT HAS LONG BEEN NEED ED #AN THE SAME BE SAID FOR THE $3I ITSELF 7HEN THE $3 ,ITE WAS RELEASED ONLY A YEAR AFTER THE $3 IT INVITED CRITICISMS FOR BE ING TOO SOON FOR AN UPGRADE AND WHILE IT

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