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Happy New Year and a warm(ish) welcome back to The Event! Those of you who know me will understand how epic my holiday THE ONE WITH... hangover is: I hate Christmas and continue to hate it all year round and suffer from its traumatic ...LADY GAGAGAGA! effects on a daily basis. So, although I am mighty pleased that December has been and gone, I am now having to contend with that other wintery novelty where I find misery and others find fun... yes, snow. This issue is dedicated to everyone who remembers what the colour of tarmac is, when trees were green, when the sun had its hat on and when we didn’t all live like Pingu after a lobotomy.
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fashion|happy new you|5 arts|twitter treats for tweet twits|6 television|doctor matt who?|8 wired|games to look forward to|10 film|films past, present and future|16 music|top ten to watch in 2010 |18 canvas|festivals in eastern europe|21 creative writing|open page|22 venue|pow!|23 competitions|spot the difference|24
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The Event choose their fashion muses of 2010 whose style have become as legendary as their work...
The TV Show>>>
MAD MEN
The Music Star>>>
LADY GAGA
THE STYLE>>>
THE STYLE>>>
Mad Men
unavoidable in the press over the past year that it was inevitable
cuts and tailoring as sharp and
THE STORE>>> dapper suits in retro colours and the ladies look like they have
and it is easy to translate her theatrics to everyday fashion
THE STORE>>>
shoes and show-stopping dresses.
Mad Men
The TV Personality>>>
The First Lady>>>
CHERYL COLE MICHELLE OBAMA
THE STYLE>>>
THE STYLE>>>
lucky; they can just wear a dark suit and blend in with their peers. Women be immediate and brutal. behind her huge popularity and the desire of thousands of women to emulate her.
but makes bold fashion-forward choices. She did not play it safe at her
THE STORE>>> Lipsy has long been associated with website is full of the mini dresses in
THE STORE>>>
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HAPPY NEW YOU! OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW
ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80s....AND THE 00s
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Kat Jones Freya Barry
NEW ICONS>
Daisy Lowe
Rick Edwards
RETAIL RESOLUTIONS
WE LIVED AND LOVED THE NOUGHTIES The Fresh Prince of Bel Air on BBC2
Parkinson Who
DESIGNERS AND LABELS TO LOOK OUT FOR> Freya Barry
Dr
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ARTS> INTERNET> TWITTERERS TO FOLLOW Best Recent Tweet:
THEATRE
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@largeheartedboy
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GENERAL ARTS @lukewrightpoet
@theartsdesk
ART @DocPop
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@arjunbasu
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Best Recent Tweet:
Fiona Howard & Kirsten Peter
ARTS> CULTURAL CAPITALS
Kirsten Peter
The European Union states a Capital
Hannah Speed
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COMEDY>REVIEW> EDDIE IZZARD Late November 2009, the Brighton Centre; a
Glorious Stripped Glorious Valkyrie, and
Circle
Duncan Vicat-Brown
LITERATURE>THE ART OF SPENDING BOOK TOKENS 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
our
QI, The Mighty Boosh
Kirsten Peter
television
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Television provides a second opinion and presents the runners-up in the race to play the Doctor. the current reboot have done sterling work as the messianic wearer of suits, and from the please hold the strongly worded emails. Now, personally, we are among those
So, here’s to the ‘What if…?’ It’s far too early to say much about Smith, except that he must have something going for him to
Day it seems he’ll carry the torch manfully. and to have such a shiny new logo designed for him. So below we list the possibles, the unlikelys, and the Cribbins, and ask only that Doctor Who fan-service
Doctor Who Jesus Christ Superstar performed with license fee money and an Doctor is the Doctor Who has always been the eponymous hero. Christopher
JAMES NESBITT
Josh Butler
have, so it’s unsurprising that the unveiling
PATERSON JOSEPH
to life a roguish and daring character that was hundreds of years old and had the ability
Once heavily rumoured to be in the running for he would be leaving the role of the Doctor last year, there was an unprecedented frenzy
to do with the Doctor is anybody’s guess.
Minogue and John Simm, so the choice of the producers to select the largely unknown 27Since the launch of its re-imagined format in 2005, the show has captured the
came as a bit of a surprise. Newspapers and eagerness for him to get the role (despite his protests and public apprehension of following in
chops for the role, with a broad background including notable roles in drama (Jekyll, which Doctor Who show-runner,
Tom Phillips
(Peep Show and Green Wing moderately awful Red Dwarf-clone, Hyperdrive It would have also been a bold choice considering that, yes, he is black. While it is now
he described the role as ‘career suicide’, but it Jekyll as an elaborate
popular take on the iconic character. So,
Lords before, why not the most famous one? Perhaps Joseph’s most Doctor-esque role can be seen in the slightly dated - but Neverwhere, a 1996
shall see what Smith can bring to the table. Caroline Preece
fantasy author Neil Gaiman. Playing the dashing Marquis de Carabas, Joseph brought
ANTHONY HEAD he’s been around a bit longer than recent
BERNARD CRIBBINS He is also well versed at delivering an eyelid. For example; “we need to stop
was a great training ground for this role, and while Joss Whedon’s proposed Ripper/Watcher
If you’re gonna go old, do it properly and go OLD. Cribbins is the man up to the task of bringing back the wizened Doctor of William Hartnell and John Pertwee, rather than the standard whippersnapper heart-throbs (take a moment to marvel
days like it’s going out of fashion (John Simm,
Cribbins has already proved himself in the Who plots make any sense,
Josh Butler
comedy against Noel Fielding on Buzzcocks. than seeing one of the greatest tea drinkers in while the obvious problem is the fact that he’s
Who episode beckons. Micha Butler
commit this phrase to memory: ‘a wizard did it.’
character, writers of the series have never let a bit of logic prevent them from wrangling in a bit of ret-con and if they really tried they
may take him to task but don’t let the act fool
television
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PRIMETIME - HUSTLE
DOWNLOAD - GLEE
Hustle
Imagine High School Musical Hustle of Glee in Hustle
The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Role Models Hustle Heroes
when
Don’t Stop Believing Ella Fairhurst
Micha Butler
REALITY - CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER give CBB7
Big Brother
Big Brother CBB
Heat Gemma Henzley
JERSEY FURORE
GRAPEVINE
The Real World
CBB7
Film 2009 CSI,
. , Wallander and
Lark Rise Heroes So You Think You Can Dance? The Simpsons and
Big Brother Popstars
Being Human Primeval American
proposal of a long-running X-Factor stage show. Natalie Stephenson Josh Butler
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<G AMING><PREVIEWS> G T L O AMES O OOK
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UT
FOR IN 2010>>>
FINAL FANTASY XIII
BIOSHOCK 2
Set in a dystopian fantasy world, the latest Final Fantasy game and thus has a and use plasmids. FFXIII takes place in never seen the planet properly as the leaders pitch it as a dangerous place and so keep the
surprise that when this game hits the west it will
STARCRAFT 2
MASS EFFECT 2 epic, ; ME2 allows players to carry across their old ME1 near seamlessly with their developed character.
gearing up for the release of a sequel. With the
if Shepard lives into ME3 or dies at the end of
the sequel will have a lot to live up to and an The game is
single player.
M.A.G
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (Wii)
M.A.G they are working on a new
game for
of countries. Players can choose from one the ranks to gain skills and weapons. Higher
company have stated previously that Twilight game on the Wii, was not as perfect as they would have liked, so
M.A.G is set to sequel.
upcoming issues.
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<INTERNET>
NEW LEGISLATION THREATENS INTERNET
Richard Joslin
The Guardian
MY FACEBOOK FAVOURITE
<GADGETRY> ROLL-UP KEYBOARD
Sam Taylor
Grace Simpson
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MAIN FEATURE THE ROAD
The No Country For
Road
Old Men
The Road
Michael Blunt
The Road
9/10
Lord of the Rings A History of Violence The Road
OTHER SCREENS
I Young Adam Asylum Post Grad
Spread
Post Grad
American Gigolo Spread
Shampoo Spread
Micha Butler
3/10
3/10
Kiron Ward
2/10
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OTHER SCREENS
It Might Get Loud
It’s Complicated
The Holiday What Women Want
Iron Man
Parenthood Complicated
Emma Featherstone
It’s Batman Begins
Bert Wardlow
8/10
Duncan Vicat-Brown
5/10
DVD RELEASES
7/10
Sorority Row The House on Sorority Row District 9 Row Caroline Preece
8/10
Adam Scales
3/10
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TRIVIA TIME > 2010 PREVIEW
REWIND 2009 > ME WELLES Q+A The
Event
was
AND
ORSON
fortunate Zac
Efron:
The good: Me and Orson Welles. The
The Event: The bad:
IRON MAN 2 What’s it about? Iron Man
stage.
INCEPTION
Zac Efron:
What’s it about? of The Dark Knight
KICK ASS What’s
it
The Event: Me and Orson Welles,
Claire Danes: The theatre
about? Richard Linklater: The Event:
The good: Man
Iron
The good: Layer
Batman
Memento
Claire Danes:
Cake The Event: Iron
The good:
The Event:
Man 2
Zac Efron: There are a few that Watchmen
The Event: The bad:
The bad: Iron Man 2
Richard Linklater:
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. The Event:
for
Avatar
the panto Babes in the Wood...
Spiderman 3
Richard Linklater: The bad: Kick Ass
TOY STORY 3
The Event:
What’s it about?
Richard Linklater: Liam O’Brien
Toy Story 2. As
The Event:
Iron Man 2 or The Dark Knight.
RATED OR SLATED? > 2009 ROUND-UP The Unborn 2012 to Terminator:
Let as Night at the Museum 2
The Right One In Milk
Star
Trek
The Wrestler
District 9 Transformers
2 Up T4
The Last House on the
George Gilbert
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LOVEGAME OR HATEGAME? GAGA ON TRIAL The Event’s Duncan Vicat-Brown and Oliver Brooks
THE PROSECUTION The Fame
Paparazzi Hollaback
Love Game Stan
Paparazzi
Duncan Vicat-Brown
THE DEFENCE
C’est la Vie
Radio Ga Ga
Poker Face
Bad
Romance
Oliver Brooks
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TEN TO WATCH IN 2010 PULLED APART BY HORSES
ELLIE GOULDING
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BAND OF SKULLS
Baby Darling Doll Fact Honey I Punched a Lion in the Throat, Friends NME
Kerrang
Twilight
Under the Sheets e=mc hammer The Bends
Gemma Henzley
Black & Gold Wolves Sleepyhead
Fires Honest I Know What I Am,
The Wish I Stayed
Emma Lehane
Starry Eyed Lights Carrie-Ann Elsden
THE RUSKINS
Skins
THE DRUMS
IDRCHITECHTURE
Inbetweeners
Nourishment NME Random
ArtRocker NME Q
The
Observer Skins
Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Be A Jerk, Johnny I Felt Stupid
Old Isleworth
Nourishment Carmina Masoliver Sean Harris NME Awards Tour
Michael Blunt
music
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TEN TO WATCH IN 2010
DELPHIC
RUMSPRINGA
FANFARLO
ALESSI’S ARK
Notes from the Treehouse Reservoir
Reservoir Free Shake ‘Em Loose Tonight
Robert Williams
Helen Thomas
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Acolyte
Alex Throssell
Duncan Vicat-Brown
FEATURE >THE X-FACTOR V RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE X-Factor X-Factor
X-Factor
The Climb Killing in the Name. X-Factor
X-Factor You Are Not Alone
X-Factor
Lucy Moore
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ALBUMS
30 SECONDS TO MARS THIS IS WAR
THE BLACK KEYS 7/10 BLAKROC
VAMPIRE WEEKEND 5/10 CONTRA
6/10 Contra
Lie
30 Seconds To Mars
Contra Cousins
This Way
I Think UR Cousins
A Contra This Is War
Sweet Home
A-Punk
Long
Hope You’re Happy
This Is War
White Sky
This Is War Contra
Coochie, Hurricane Night of the Hunter This Is War Elizabeth Jackson
Jack Loughran
FEATURE>BEST-OFS AND GREATEST HITS>UNWANTED STOCKING FILLERS?
James Halling
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FESTIVALS: FRUGAL OR FRIVOLOUS? Josh Woodbridge From Leeds to V, from Glasto to Download,
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OPEN PAGE LEVELLING
UNDER THE SKIN Like a needle moving through a thread
They would die for food. was laced with you and all that could be
UNTITLED In remembrance of a policeman who drowned. The good old Bill. King took a chance for a dream Of peace and equality,
from pre-ordained paths which snake round and twist and turn and yet are followed
The lines around your eyes grow deeper the less you smile. I know that part of me knows that you were once happy, but those memories of you only The buildings are all the same, tall and grey with windows and doors in largely similar father, grinning as you show me things about the world that you never knew
bags, trying to avoid someone else's look. The cash machine is lined with others wondering whether the person in front has even tried to
that together pull and warp the supple clay of a child's mind. round the edges shows an out-of-town carnival. camera.
seemed unimportant became the thing to push me to the furthest part of my But I say, I’m just a girl, Whose family were brought back together with the return Of roast dinners on Sundays, Sure to die of a broken heart,
Now, there’s been the Burmese Using the internet to expose The repression of the regime which has been imposed.
does not feel like somewhere ever visited before.
underneath and there is a sudden longing it is that has got under the skin.
No two people follow the same set of stepping stones through life, each
from ourselves. Is it then through these paltry memories that endure the constant passing
YOUTH OF TODAY We cry, they smile. Their youth lets them skip jubilantly forward to the darkness of future.
Veiled faces, feel one way and yet the things I know about the world, the things that tell me to feel another. But keep the waves coming Keep striving for equality, Stand up for LGBT. Rights. Remember. We all have rights. Remember.
sadness that make me fear my own. Yet knowing them and running from them only seems to bring them to me at every corner I turn. Somehow, it feels dreams, to live with my fears rather than trying to submerge myself in the water that drowns everybody else. No, empathy is not universal; happiness
in what already exists within you.
It was those that gave us pens, Hands, So I want to hear you stand up
Next issue’s theme: THE WEATHER
They are too naïve and innocent to know the world’s cruel embrace. Their eyes wide open ready to absorb the like climbing trees and swimming in lakes. a distant memory. They too will grow old and resent the struggle for that fresh breath of life. We may grow old but in the heart we are forever young.
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VENUE>THE SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF THE CITY TUESDAY 12TH
THURSDAY 21ST
*Howlback Hum & Horses Brawl>Arts Centre>8pm>£3 *Blackout Cabaret>Birdcage>8pm>£1 *Heroes & Villains>LCR>10:30>£3.50
*Reel Big Fish>LCR>7:30>£14.50 *Laura Veirs>Arts Centre>8pm>£10
FRIDAY 22ND
WEDNESDAY 13TH
*Wolfmother>LCR>7:30>£17 *The Rebel Alliance Recording Tour>Arts Centre>8pm>£7.50 *80s Night & All our Yesterdays>WF>10pm>£3.50
*Jethro>Theatre Royal>7:30>£5 Arts Centre>8pm>£4
THURSDAY 14TH *Delphic>Arts Centre>8pm>£6 *A Box of Night>Birdcage>8pm>free
FRIDAY 15TH *Stars Of Sunday League + Alex Sheppard + Adelaide’s Cape>Arts Centre>8pm>£5 King Edward VII>8pm>free *Your Guilty Pleasures & Paradise City>WF>10pm>£3.50 *Concrete Social>POW! @ Mustard Lounge>see below/Concrete Facebook group
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SATURDAY 23RD SATURDAY 16TH Showcase>Arts Centre>1pm>free *Chopin & Liszt>Playhouse>7:30>£15 *Keno Kings>King Edward VII>8pm>free *Meltdown & Ska’d Up>WF>10pm>£3.50 *The Other One & Harmony>LCR>10pm>£4.50
MONDAY 18TH *Henry Rollins (Spoken Word)>LCR>7:30>£15
TUESDAY 19TH
*Martyna & John Bowman Trio>Arts Centre>2pm>free *Vivian Girls>Arts Centre>8pm>£7 *Terry Wisbey’s Texas Thunder>King Edward VII>8pm>free *Meltdown & Exile>WF>10pm>£3.50
*Man is Man>Playhouse>7:30>£12 SUNDAY 24TH *Rupa & The April Fishes>Arts Centre>8:30>£8 *Tom Paxton>Theatre Royal>7:30>£20
SUNDAY 17TH
WEDNESDAY 20TH
*Joe Mazzei>King Edward VII>4pm>free
*You Are Here>Arts Centre>8pm>£5 *Sonic Arts 57: Seanchaí - Jason *Comedy Dixon>UEA School of Music>7:30>£4 Store>Forum>8pm>£10.50 *Tom Russell>Arts Centre>8pm>£11
JOIN CONCRETE THIS SEMESTER
VENUE SPOTLIGHT>POW!
If you are one of the many people that joined Concrete at the beginning of last term but have yet to get involved,
POW! is an electronica club night run for students by students. It was founded in April 2007, a natural progression from a Will Holloway. Passionate about music, the POW! boys decided
write for at the address listed at the top of every page and mundane generic indie nights wasn’t enough. As such, they If you have yet to join Concrete, come and visit our stall at SocMart2 on Wednesday from 12-4pm in the LCR. Many basslines as well as pocket-pleasing prices. POW! mostly takes place at the student-friendly Mustard
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SOCMART2>13TH JAN>12-4>LCR Catch the next POW! on Friday 15th January, a Refresher Rave:
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
SUDOKU CORNER 5 6
Henry Rollins!
EASY
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Poker Face
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