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as long as one can remember, debate has ed over what is the best way to 'chill' after a night on the tiles. Well, thanks to The Event five lucky readers won't have to worry about what music to play, whatever else they may decide to do. We've got five copies of the new Chillout Room albumwhich won't be in the shops until February 1 - and some special packets of Chillout room king-size Rizlas to give away to some lucky souls.

The album, which is aimed 'at those seeking post-club tranquillity' features tracks from Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, Primal Scream, Everything But the Girl and a whole host of other chilled out acts. To win all you've to do is tell us as creatively as possible why you need to chill out. Pop your answers on a postcard along with your name, school, year and a contact number and post them in the usual place by Wednesday. January 27. Stay cool, people.

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NT, once just a version of Windows but now a mysteriously named band. Caeser Bazlinton

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C?O£JDDDDD . A name that could conjure up many images. Obviously there is our very own and dearly beloved Norfolk Terrace, stark and jagged of award winning architecture.

Then we have the National Trust, found on a map with areas marked in red and green, where nice people can go and walk their dogs, providing they are not let off the1r leads or leave gates open. Or musically, it is perhaps reminiscent of those terrible 'chart dance' acts, N-Trance, N-Tice, N-Ormously lacking in talent.

But in all cases you'd be wrong. Flee from your pre-fabricated prison to frolic naked by the lake, forget your dogs, let them off their leashes to be shot by Welsh farmers fearful for their sheep, throw away your bargam bin dance. and tune your ears to the sound of NT, No Title, the Glaswegian collective who blend styles and sounds into their own soulful, rhythmic 'vi be'. Uke so many of today's groups, NT strive to create music that cannot be pigeon-holed into specific genres. As head honcho Andy Docherty explained: "The NT kind of sound basically speaks for itself so 1ts not really there to be categorised, there's a mix of old and new styles, but we're pretty much Influenced by early jazz and soul." This No Title, relaxed approach to mus1c seems to surround the group m all respects. Friends since school,

Andy, Sace, and D.J. Easy have long been notable figures on the Glasgow club scene, promoting a range of nights that Andy says "were always pretty much ahead of the times." He believes that this extends to the music of NT, ruefully acknowledging that "if we could have put out this album earlier on people would have noticed. people are into it, but there's a lot of sim1lar stuff around, beat bass with vocalsbut when we started do1ng 1t not many others were."

In fact. recent debut smgle Responsib"ities was ong1nally recorded way back in 1991, the first t1me that the band had been in the studio together. Says Andy: "We spent about twelve hours 1n the studio. and I wrote the tune as we put the breaks down.''

U we don't have music then we're r *ked

The song has only surfaced now because the studio helpfully lost the tapes, so it was rerecorded before NT went on the road with the Fun Lovin' Criminals, a tour which gave the band some new and welcome exposure: "I think because we're more underground a lot of people hadn't heard of us on that tour, they'd just come to see the Fun Lovm' Cnmmals," explains Andy, ''But if they hadn't heard of us when we came on, they sure as hell knew who we were when we went off!" NTs commitment certainly showed to those ·criminals fans who saw them on tour, their fiery musical ambition summed up by the Responsibilities lyric, "'If I can't have mus1c then there's nothing left', a philosophy that Andy believes sums up well the aims of NT on their quest of musical evangelism: "What's life without music? You really have to have it around you to give people some feeling- If we don·t have music then we're , .. ked, really."

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What's the big fuss then?

New Order were the first band to ally the then totally disparate worlds of dance and raincoated indie music, retaining powerful, heart searching lyrics, but embracing new technologies such as samplers, drum machines and synths.

Who did/ does what?

New Order emerged from the ashes of Joy Division following the tragic suicide of singer tan Curtis in 1980. Guitarist Bernard Sumner took up vocal duties, Peter Hook created the distinctive bass-led sound, Stephen Morris played drums, and the band recruited new

member Gillian Gilbert to fiddle with the newfangled sequencing technology.

Sold a few records then?

New Order's breakthrough single Blue Monday is still the best selling 12 inch of all time due to its huge popularity in the burgeoning club scene.

Ironically, the single never made the band much money because of its elaborate packaging, intended to look like a computer disk sleeve. The band achieved their only UK number one with 1990's official World Cup song World In Motion, which featured the rather dubious rapping talents of John Barnes.

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Blue Monday, with its stark, distinctive rhythm is an obvious classic, which can be found along with the rest of the band's singles on The Best Of New Order, a must for any self respecting music collection .

Did we mention swimsuits and silicone?

To promote one release New Order filmed a performance of the song on the set of Baywatch. lt is disturbing to think that New Order could have been in some way responsible for David Hasslehoff's musical career - the quality of which can be deduced by the fact that he's huge in Germany.

So what does the future hold?

In the early 1990s it seemed as if New Order had dissolved, w1th the various band members pursuing other projects; Sumner with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr in Electronic, Peter Hook in Revenge and later Monaco, and the newly married Stephen and Gillian playing in the aptly named The Other Two. New Order have recently resurfaced with a series of gigs and the promise of even more activity in 1999.

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veryone must have, at some stage or an oth er, attended a ce rtain e.vent , sometimes known as a 'gig', where popular beat combos perform therr 'hrts' in front of a payrng audrence.

Of course. the style of event could have varied greatly Maybe you we re wrtnessmg the 'Stones or U2 tn a stadium. with those impressive light shows that all too clearly illuminate the fact that from where you're standing the musicians are the size of verttcally challenged peas.

Or perhaps you've been to a fes tival, paytng neatly one hundred new pounds sterltng for the prtvilege of spendtng a ratny weekend standtng tn soggy cow poo that's so sticky you can never manage to find the bands that you want to see.

Thts ts. of course. far removed from the grown-up people s gtg of a classtcal concert where only the <;nonng of the audience will keep you awake.

F-or some unlucky tndtvtduals. thetr only xpuience of a musrcal performance comes from school days when some mates eagerly flog you a t k_: to go and see them play a drngy rugby club.

•1 r ve'ltny of plasttc ftzzy watery beer . nk rta nment tnevttably ensues. i111 to tile , 1Ur !track of your under-talented mates trytng to

convince you, their mums and the neighbour's dog's fleas that they're going to be the next big thing.

But for those of yo u who have never experienced any of th ese aura l pl easures, or indeed for anyone who likes a good value night out. why not try the NME Carting Premter tour, which visits the LCR on Saturday. January 23.

The tour has become something of an institution in the musical wo rld. and indeed in the ltfe of UEA. where the tour has visited for the past two years.

This year the organrsers have gone for a more dtverse line-up, and the tour features furry quadruped newcomers the Llama Farmers. the One Love. genre-embractng laid back baggyness of Delakota, frtsky punksters ldlewild: and headlining the innovator and Thorn Yorke collaborator James Lavelle. in his guise as UNKLE. To get a small i1penttf for the tour The Event spoke to ldlewild singer Roddy Woomble. perhaps the man with the coolest name tn rock n'roll to ask how the opening nrght's gtg in Glasgow h<1d gone down, and to frnd out hts hopes for the tour Says Aoddy ·1·m lookrng forward to the tour At the moment tt's hard to say because we've only

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<tlr .acly plnyed on flllfllCrOUS occast:)tlS. n•ost r-;cently suppor1mg Ash last October whore they sent the crowd tnto a frenly that even a headlining band would be pleased w1tt1 'E'Jery ttme we've played Norwich we've go·tc dnwn really well. and tt'll be really good fun.· Thts is the first NME tour that has foi1tured bands from a broader musical spectrum somcth11 g tt1a1 Aoddy and ldlewild see as a good thing The Glasgow grg demonstrated ti"tS. says Ruddy As Glasgow's got a brg h1p-hop scone there wero a lot ot people there to see UNKLE. but I t11ink its good to l1avc a mrxture of styles.

1t is perhaps a stgn of the trmes and the growtng -:onvergence of mustcal styles that the different groups of fans can all exist tn t1arrnony gone are the stlly days when 'tndte people looked down upon t11etr 'disco music' favounng brethren. and vtce-versa Aoddy sees thts as berng evident rn the audtence at the Glasgow gtg "Ifs not the ktnd of t11rng where you'll get a crowd that'll walk out or throw things. because everyone comes to NME tours to watch four bands and they'll be tolerant of the ones that they don't want to see but I thrnk that most people come with a band tn mtnd."

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What is the biggest selltng LP of all time?

What's Morrissey's first name? Who rs the lead srnger of U2? Can you name that tune?

If you you can answer all these questions and reckon your knowledge of all things musical cannot be beaten, then why not pit your wits against the NME in the Music Quiz that will be held after the gig on Saturday, January 23 in the Hive. Representing the NME will be News Editor Jody Thompson, and members of the bands may also take part. A range of goodies and booze is up for grabs and there's a late license on the bar. Entry is free provided you register at 11 pm in the Hive after the gig.

D Feminists .or phoneyst Darcy Hurlord investigates the Girl Power credentials of the latest wave of female pop sensations - Boy:zone beware •••

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e honest. When you heard Johnny Vaughan and Denise van Outen singing Especially For You over Christmas, did it bring a nostalgic glow to your heart?

Did it bring back happy memories of the original Kylie n' Jason version made back in the days when they were still successful and we were all in primary school? Of course it did.

As any Retro-goer knows, the late eighties and early nineties were a brilliant time for teen bands.

There was Bros. for a start. Matt, Luke and Craig, with their spiky hair, ripped pale blue jeans and tasteful red leather jackets that made them look a bit hard. And their fans were called Brossettes and dressed the same, provided their mums let them .

Rick 'hedgehog' Astley: who could forget his marvellous haircut which will terrifyingly be resurfacing this year in a comeback album . Oh , joy unbounded. And then there was the question that perplexed many a Smash Hits reader - who was your favourite New Kid On The Block? Most people probably went for 'lush' Jordan or 'cute' Joey, but you might have chosen Donny, Danny, or, erm, Brad was it (?) just to be a bit different.

But before you grow misty eyed and begin to mourn this bygone age, teeny bands have continued to thrive, albeit with one big improvement. No, it's not that today's bands have proper dance routines (which they do), nor that they're better looking (which they're not). lt's that they have more

women in them. For this change we have the Spice Girls to thank. Vacuous tarts though you may well consider them, the Spice Girls are responsible for a transformation within pop music.

Back in 1996, Madonna was still stuck in her Evita opera singing phase, and girl band action went no further than Eternal, Salt 'n' Pepa, and those decaying totems of bad taste, Bananarama. Of course, there was always Hole, PJ Harvey or Bjork, but such hard stuff was never going to make it with the eight - 12 year-old demographic more concerned with lollipops and lipstick than hate, loss, pain and sounding like a supermarket checkout. Then Wannabe came out. Suddenly, people realised that teenage girls would no longer exist on a diet of Take That and Boyzone.

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ike lightning, record company executives were on the phone, commanding their toadying minions to SIGN SOME GIRL BANDS, NOW, and before we all knew where we were, All Saints, B*witched ana Billie had bounded onto TOTP, and into our lives. Gawd bless 'em.

Had bra-burning scorched its way into popular culture? One accusation constantly levelled at the Spice Girls is that they're not real feminists. They don't wear enough clothes, men write all their lyrics and thought up the 'Girl Power (innit)' philosophy; and naming themselves Sporty, Scary, Posh , and Baby (to say nothing of the longlamented Ginger) Spice,

they are reducing their undoubtedly intelligent and well-rounded personalities (ahem) to a set of two dimensional caricatures. Girl Power? Surely just a flimsy slogan , designed to sell as much merchandise as possible. Well, okay, there is some truth in these arguments, but when one considers the industry in which they work and other bands who are their rivals , the Spice Girls really aren't as bad as they're made out to be. Pop music is still an inherently sexist business, mainly because most A&R people, executives, and promoters are men.

In these circumstances an ideologically watertight, Germaine Greer spouting, feminist band is very unlikely to ride high in the Top Ten . As far as clothes go, surely they can dress as they like?

The fact that you don't need to wear a micro-mini invisible skirty-boob-tube to get to Number One has already been proved by the combat-wearing All Saints, but if you like wearing them, why shouldn't you? Anyone who thinks that such scanty attire sends out the wrong message to young girls about how they should 'dress for success' is forgetting that children see similarly attired women in the advertising and film industries all the time, so even if the Spice Girls donned nuns' habits or cast iron chastity belts girls would still see the same thing elsewhere.

Incidentally, Take That weren 't exactly decently attired all the time, were they? Remember those 'controversial' devils' outfits, eh?

Phwoah ... no, sorry, no, I mean Goodness! How dreadful! Readers, let us avoid double standards.

True, they don't write their own lyrics, but then again, how many teen bands do? New Kids On The Block didn't, Boyzone largely don't, Gary Barlow did in Take That, but he was the only member that did ... so why criticise the Spice Girls? Yes, they are fairly superficial and vacuous, but hey, Chesney Hawkes never came across as a witty, intellectual genius in his Smash Hits interviews, and neither do most other teen bands.

What about Girl Power? "Girl Power means girls doing what they want to do." Not really a Simone de Beauvoir statement, but the basic idea's alright.

The arrival of the Spice Girls has meant a lot more successful women appearing in the public eye than before, which has got to be a good thing.

The fact that two Spices and one All Saint have managed to be both pregnant and attractive is an inspiration to women everywhere. Don't argue.

The Spice Girls may not be the perfect feminist band, but they've made it much easier for one to come along.

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the round u p o f this fortnight's music releases Snowpony The Slow Motion Wor ld of Snowpony

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A band that features former members of both art school squeakers and bleepers Stereolab and distortion-mongers My Bloody Valentine is always go1ng to be worth listening to, and this, Snowpony's debut album, does not disappoint.

For fans of Snowpony's ancestors there are squeaks and bleeps a-plenty, along with GRR's and FZZZ's of guitars whacked up to their overdrive limits.

The Slow Motion World Of Snowpony blends together cutting guitars with samples from the likes of Nick Cave and Sonic Youth, even introducing a background of jazz that gives the record a distinctive sound and lifts Snowpony

Reef UEA LCR November 23 Reef are a part of West Country life, as fixed as rough cider or Glastonbury, the town and festival near where most of the band grew up. One can almost imagine lead singer (if that's the right word) Gary Stringer leaning on a gatepost, floppy hat on his straw-like ha1r, tweedy waistcoat over brawny shoulders, and long piece of dry hay protruding from between his lips as he grunts ·Get orff moy laarrnnnd' at the unsuspecting wanderer. The West Country came East for last terms gig at the UEA, as did several tons of BBC recording gear and roady, here to transmit the event live on Radio Wunneffem. Because of this the gig was extremely professional, with bright lights coming on between each song to ensure that all guitar

above most of their contemporaries.

Tracks such as Love Letters and the mouthful 3 Can Keep a Secret (If 2 are Dead) stand out as beautifully crafted songs that many of today's 'female frontad indie bands' would kill for.

The slow motion world that Snowpony inhabit looks like speeding up at any time now.

Caesar Bazlinton

Sizzla Kalonji

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Sizzla's fusion of a traditional reggae sound and modern hip-hop creates an album that can be listened to and enjoyed by most open-minded people.

The vocal style transcends both genres, and gives us something altogether a little different.

The tunes on the album have a commercial tinge to them, maybe due to the lack of l1ve instruments which are normally associated with th1s style of music, but th1s does not detract from the overall impact of the songs.

Kalonji is an album of differences. most strikingly between the style of several of the tracks.

Highlights include the soulful Saturated and later Freedom Cry. which is the Sizzla equivalent of chill out music.

Although this album may not reach a mainstream audience, it certainly deserves a bit of attention not least because it successfully creates a bridge between reggae and hip-hop without losing sight of its roots.

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swaps went smoothly, and in performance the band were as tight as ever. However, as they ploughed through the hits , Place Your Hands, Consideration, and so on, you couldn't help thinking that behind all the hemp fumed funkiness and guttural growling lies Reef's great downfall.

The funky guitar is all very well, but when Stnnger opens his gob you just want to run away and hide under a flower : "AAAAAARRRRRHHHHHH CAAAAAAM BAAAAAHHHCKKK BRIIIIGGHHHHTTTARRRR" he growls in his West Coast USA/ West Country UK drawl. No Gazza, we won't come back, we can't cope with your second rate 'we're the English Black Crowes, we are' racket. In fact , perhaps the band should return to their native Somerset, where they and their noise could be more usefully employed in the Luke Turner fields - as scarecrows.

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3 Colours Red 's new single. Beautiful Day, is a glorious ballad , laden with epic strings and a majestic chorus.

But don't expect Revolt, the band's second album, to follow this lead - because it very obviously doesn't.

Despite the album title, Revolt is hardly a 'putsch' in musical terms.

In fact there's not much here that's different from the band's debut, Pure, and it does at times leave you feeling like you·ve been smacked in the face by the kind of headbanging tosser that would turn up at a 3 Colours Red gig.

However. the melodic punkisms go some way in compenating for this , and Revolt is certainly full of energy, from the indie-driven guitars of Pirouette to the heavier rock of Paralyse.

Beautiful Day is the stand-out track, and_ the album as a whole is as good as the recent offerings from Placebo and Symposium, but don't expect anything mind-blowing.

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Saturday was a nice day. The sky was blue. the wind was fresh but tolerable, the company was delightful and there didn't seem to be anything to worry about. yet for some reason we were all mcredibly annoyed After a quick search of the room the source of our ag1tation soon became clear. Progress1on Sessions was on the stereo.

Unlike LT J Bukem's previous efforts, this album, which features the 'talents' of MC Conrad and DRS. is an extremely disappointing record to say the least.

Its drum & bass beats are so nondescript that they fade off in to the ether and cease to have any 1mpact on the listener's consciousness, while the aimless, cliched rapping that sits atop the stereophonic pile is a bigger windup than the average clock spring. The net effect of this combination is that while Progression Sessions plays on without anyone really noticing, the rapping impinges enough to render the listener angry without knowing why. Completely pointless as a record, but perhaps useful as a subliminal mind weapon.

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The Chester quartet's latest offering is the title track from their top ten album Six. Arthur Baker of U2 fame has also got in on the act, giving the song some major surgical treatment. With a thumping bass-line, and some picturesque Morrissey style wailing from lead singer Paul Draper, this is a sure hit for the boys obsessed with Mavis.

Mark Edwards

Lowcraft One of Us Lowcraft: do you want to be One Of Them?

The Dali-esque cover, which shows three forks standing in the sea is rather nice, but going by the whiny, sub-glam debut single from this Oregon fourpiece, it could be a while before anyone wants to be in their gang.

Darcy Hurford

Xscape My Little Seeret This insipid five minute death trawl through the anal cavities of R'n'B details how good the lard loving 'atlanta diva's' are at committing adultery.

Their extreme poetic genius is evident with lyrics such as, "everyone cheats but ya gotta know when and ya gotta know where."

If I found this in my toilet I wouldn't bother A/ex McGregor flushing.

Placebo Every You, Every Me This latest release from Placebo's second album sounds just like an inverted Nancy Boy. Three bars of Every You Every Me have a memorable hook to them, but unfortu nately the rest of the song is as dull as dishwater.

The angst-ridden lyrics may come as a surprise to Placebo fans. Ahem.

Shakir Khan

Audioweb Test the Theory Test The Theory is an attempt at a mainstream,

guitar driven heavy dance tune which frankly doesn't work.

Although it has a catchy choru s, the song gives us nothing new, and the vocals leave a lot to be desired. it seems that Audioweb are testing our faith in them by putting out such an atypical and uninspired single.

Daryl Bram/ey

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en a film bills itself as being about "real life" and then credits the directorial duties to one Chris Columbus, responsible for such gritty dramas as Home Alone and Mrs Doubtfire, one could be forgiven for being just a lad cynical. No crossdressing nannies here though!

Julia Roberts plays lsabel an independent minded photographer who has to deal with the fact that her boyfriend's kids cannot stand her and that their mother, divorcee Jackie (Susan Sarandon), consistently undermines her attempts to get close to them. That is, until the two women find that they must resolve their differences when Jackie finds that she has cancer. lt is Julia Roberts who comes out of Stepmom the best, this being the type of script she is used to. Indeed this can be counted as the only film I have seen with Roberts in that didn't make me long for a machete. I might reluctantly go so far as to say that she is rather good, considering she has the most sympathetically written part. Sarandon, on the other hand, has to deal with some painfully twee moments. Jackie dancing around the house with her kids, miming Ain't No Mountain High Enough into an electric curling tong, is not a pretty sight! That said, her later scenes are extremely poignant. Plus she gets some superbly bitchy lines.

While Stepmom pushes all the right buttons, (cry here, laugh there), it leaves one feeling manipulated into responding to the actors on screen, an uncomfortable feeling in a film so unforgivingly self-righteous. Real life? If that means kids so perky that I feared for their sugar levels then I'm quite alright where I am, thanks for asking.

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redicting the next big thing in Hollywood is a minefield at the best of times, where the guess of the average cinema goer is usually as valid as that of the most seasoned studio exec. You need only look at the case of Matthew MacConaughey to see how dangerous it is. The studio invested a small fortune 1n him, placed him in a John Grisham scripted movie, lit him like an early Greta Garbo picture, then sat back and watched the critics jump on the band wagon. Yet where is the 'new star' now?

If studios can't manufacture fame, how can an independent actor carve out their own sure-fire route to stardom?

To tell the truth, they can't. There is no formula for actmg success, it cannot be planned and it can't be manufactured. Stardom just happens.

contemporary production of a classic play while remaining true to the original". And for Vaughan it provided a chance to work against his size and act internally and emotionally. lt was a chance to go inside the role of the psychotic loner Norman Bates.

Yet Vaughan has not allowed his performance to become a copy of the original: "clearly Anthony Perkins did a brilliant job, but I'm Vince Vaughan and I've had my own life experiences that I bring to the screen'' You can't help thinking. when he mentions this, of how his school sent him to a · psychiatnst at age five , or of how his father paid h1s way through college by working in the violent ward of a mental institution.

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The one about whom there is the greatest buzz is Vince Vaughan. the 28 year old star of Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake. His breakthrough came in 1996 w1th the cntically acclaimed Swingers, in wh1ch he starred w1th his fnend and Swingers scnptwnter, Jon Favreau.

Recently he's starred in Return to Paradise and the soon to be released Clay Pigeons. But those of you with more mainstream. multiplex tastes will remember him as the one from The Lost World who actually had legs long enough to stride over the fallen logs that everyone else scrambled over.

In -fact, his size is one of Vaughan's most striking features. At 6'5" he certainly has the stature for leading man status, although you can't see him teaming up with Tom Cruise to make a buddy movie. Indeed, keeping Vaughan 's fame in shot has not always been easy, as Van Sant was to realise on the set of Psycho: the bathtub scene with Anne Heche sees Vaughan 's legs spilling everywhere.

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boxing: ''You can practice boxing for forty years, but you'll never know who you are as a boxer until you fight.

When I was trying to break into acttng, I didn't take three week trips to Mexico with my friends ... I had to keep pressing. pressing. And when I wouldn't get a role, I'd find a way to make that okay: I'd get stronger."

Vaughan doesn't have to worry about getting roles nowadays. Both Leonardo DiCapno and Joaquin Pheonix were considered for the role in Psycho before Vaughan was offered it, desp1te th e fact th at he was far from the logical choice for the diminutive Bates. Unfortunately, although Van Sant collected together a wealth of talent who all put in respectable performances - Vaughan and Heche, Julianna Moore(The Lost World) , William H Macy (Fargo).

Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) and Viggo Mortensen (Portrait of a Lady) Psycho 1s not an exceptional film.

Two actresses whose stars are in ascendance are Denise Richards (Starship Troopers, Wild Things) and Bntish actress Jane Horrocks .

Just as her Wild Things eo-star Neve Cambell (Scream) made the break from TV to celluloid in 1997, 1998 catapulted Denise Richards out of TV and onto the silver screen. After four years of televiSIOn success on Melrose Place, Richards career didn't begin to attract attention until her role as

Carmen lbanez in Paul Verhoven 's Starship Troopers. Ironically for the former Me/rose star, American critics dubbed the movie 'Starship Troopers 9021 0' for its many unknown faces and minimalist plot.

Though given more to work with in Wild Things , Richards has till recently been stuck in the kind of 'physical' roles that characterised the early careers of Demi Moore and Sharon Stone. However, the forthcoming Dairy Queens sees her in a rather more taxing role as a long-suffering daughter pressured into entering beauty con tests by her mother.

Then Tail-lights Fade. a Malcolm lngram comedy, released later this year provides Ri chards with her first lead role. The good advance buzz Tail-lights Fade 1s producing in the American movie communi ty means that though she m1ght not be there yet, the next eighteen months could see Richards take a major step up the star ladder.

Jane Horrocks, best known for her performance as Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous. is definitely one to watch th1s year. Ameri can aud1ences have gone in to raptures over her performance as a cripplingly shy girl who fmds release as a singer in the Brit-flick Little Voice. And word is that crit1cs across the US are pushing her as a Best Actress nominee at this year's Oscars. But Horrocks, for whom the part was written, has so far refused to cash in on her new found prestige, and has not yet committed to her next acting role. Little Voice may have Horrocks tipped for stardom and Academy Awards but, as she revealed shortly before Christmas. ''I'm not ambitious. I've decided I like doing one job a year."

So while the new mtllenntum 1s sure to bring new faces from America and Britain it also seems to herald a new breed of stars: actors whose real life grounding will see them survive the excesses that defined the stars of the 80's and 90's. But then again, they wouldn't be movie stars if they did , nght?

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Films like About Last Night force us to remember with horror the days when roll-necked jersey dresses and crimped hair were common, and the scariest thing about The Lost Boys now is Corey Halm's Hawaiian wardrobe and the thermal dressing gown he uses for a coat. This is Spinal Tap demonstrates 80s fashion at its most worrying with audience's POV shots of the band's shiny trousers. Their mullet haircuts are just too painful to think about, even with people like Anthea Tprner trying to start a revivaL But the 80s wasn't the only decade to take some enduring actors and put them in worryingly transient fashions.

Well, maybe some people would wear John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever suit now, but that's an exception. Grease gives us a double whammy as a 70s film remembering the 50s.

Not only unstylish, but hopelessly inaccurate, no doubt as The Wedding Singer's take of the

80s will seem in years to come. And the nineties is doing it too. The selection of stage clothes sported by Whitney Houston in 1992's The Bodyguard now look like they were snatched from the wardrobe of your local drag queen and . . . .

Clueless IS already startmg to feel d1stmctly passe.

In 20 years' time your children will ask you: "did people really wear knee length socks and platform shoes in the 90sr But if the clothes we used to wear were bad, just think about the clothes film-makers seem sure we're going to wear in the future! .

Luc Bess~ and Je~n Paul Gault1er may ha~e been _the first people ~le to coax Bruce WilliS out of a sweaty-vest -and 1nto a rather tasty fluorescent polyester jacket for The Fifth Element, but how many of us can realty see ourselves with a copy of Gary Oldman's side shaved haircut? Even in 200 years? And if the- 23rd century really means we all hav t raid· the ba1tl m cabin t t0 k e o . . TOO e ma & an_ outfit out of _rtlieropor&, and you-have to-look like Milla Jovovich to do it, I'm quite happy with slouch trousers. and fleeces thank you very much.

Film makers have been predicting the hideous fashions of the future in a plethora of films since the early days of cinema and usually with no more appealing results. Just take a look at Sean 'sexiest man alive' Cannery's shining example in his 1974 sci-fi flick Zardoz.

Twelve years after he first graced the silver screen as Bond, he discarded his tux in favour of some slightly less timeless thigh high leather boots and a pair of red pants. You can't help thinking it's oot the most practical outfit to wear while defending the universe from the forces of evil.

Yet futuristic fighters all seem to sport the most unsuitable clothing. A perspex bra must have inhibited Barbarella's movement a fair bit, but perhaps she thought that a clear view of her chest would be the best way to distract her enemies while she reached for her phaser.

Princess Leia's king sized sheet and masking tape was hardly more appropriate space wear. Neither, come to think of it, is her method of wearing croissants on your ears, although it is a novel way of carrying provisions for a long haul intergalactic flight.

But before you resign yourself to total fashion obscurity remember that so far all of the predic~ions film makers have made about what we

would be wearing this year have been hopelessly inaccurate.

According to Space1999 every woman on the pl~net wouldf this summer be sportm_g a t~ste ul purple bob w1th pomty fnnge, while tho men would favour a style rather more in the jumpsuits and. moonboots variety.

Unless Vogue suddenly does a U~turn fro~ their forecast that V1ctonan Will make a comeback th~s y~r we can take hope from th1s. F1lm makers may be good at creating an atmosphere, but Nostradamus they ain't (although worryingly enough, the white worn by practically the entire cast of Space 1999 has · made a strong appearance on this year's catwalks • spoo~!) ..

Even the more recent pred1c- . . tions of 1995's Strange Days of harsh metallic clothes worn on,the eve of the milienium are way off the mark from this year's frilly forecast A good thing too, Juliette Lewis' chain mail dress looks just a tad uncomfortable.

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These early experiences of the groupie are a useful preparation for when fame really strikes. lt is at this point that groupie action really gets serious.

A tale Is told of how one exceedingly famous, but now sadly defunct, boy band used to go with the security guards to a place where the young ladies of the crowd were all clearly visible. They would then pick out whichever nubiles they liked the look of, and during the

gig the helpful roady would 'rescue' the maidens by taking them backstage where the band members could 'meet' them.

Female goth-mettters Rock Bitch have slightly less subtle methods of snaring audience members for their aftershow shenanigans. The group have gained a reputation for their on-stage antics, with the various female members of the band getting rather nude and frisky, and taking part in acts which have no place In a wholesome publication such as this. To select a member of the audience to come back for some friendly after-gig frolics the band throw a 'Golden Condom' Into the audience. The lucky person who catches the little rubber hat has the privilege of getting to know the band on a rather more intimate level.

Unfortunately for Rock Bitch their audience is largely composed of hoary old rockers who haven't washed since Thunder's first gig.

While deflowerlng Innocents is probably all very well, after a while it must all get rather dull. Soon the pop star wants to move on, to !lnd sexual solace with his or her musical, and fornicatcry, equals...

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he trend for pop stars socialising together sexually probably took off in the sixties, though George Formby's risque lyrics about cleaning windows makes you wonder exactly what he got up to with his ukulele.

Northern strummers aside, the most Olympian of all these horizontal athletes was undoubtedly Mlck Jagger of the Rolling Stones, a man not averse to rolling with whomsoever he could get his hands on. There are probably many people scattered over the world today who can quite justifiably claim that papa was indeed a Rolling Stone. Jagger's pop career has been steeped in sexual scandal, and even now the papers are full of his exploits, which look as if they will lead to the end of his marriage to Jerry Hall.

One Mick's most legendary girlfriends was fellow popster Marianne Faithfull, in whose knickers Jagger passed many a drug-hazed evening. On one occasion, which has since passed into rock'n'roll folklore, the police made a drug-bust on Jagger's house. On bursting into the living room they found Marianne Faithfull reclining on the hearth rug bereft of clothes while Jagger enjoyed a chocolately snack. Relatively har mless, one might think, until one considers 111at Jagger was munching 111e Mars Bar not from its wrapper, nor was it deep fried in batter. Ratl1er he was appreciating the choccy delicacy from a rat11er tender area of dear Marianne's personage, and ensuring 111at he ate it quickly, before it melted.

Get 111e picture? Good, now go and have a cold shower.

Jagger was also seen in the cult British film Performance, where he stars as (difficult this) a pop star. As a film made in the sixties, and because it stars Mick Jagger, there is Inevitably and a lot of sex scenes involving Mr. Ups and eostar Anita Pallenberg - who incidentally was in the middle of a relationship with fellow Stones' man 'Keef' Richards. In fact, many of the scenes went just a teeny little bit too far, and the pair did end up getting down to the dirty old deed on camera.

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version of the film, but surfaced a short time later on 111eir own, winning an award at a European porn film festival.

In the 1970s it seemed as if Mick had had so much nookie with groupies, popsters and film stars of the female variety that he had become bored.

Therefore he decided to pursue fellow chaps of the industry, and in particular the new and trendy David Bowie, who was at the time soaring to stardom at the height of the Glam era. Cynics claimed that Jagger's fawning interest in Bowie was not true bisexuality. Instead he was just trying to appear trendy again by being seen with the seventies icon. However, the evidence of Bowie's then wife Angie seems to suggest otherwise - one morning she came upstairs to find the pair in bed. Not batting an eyelid, she merely left the room, went downstairs, and made breakfast in bed for the two stars. Now there's room service for you.

Today's gen~ration of pop stars have, of course, followed nobly in Jagger's footsteps by getting together with each other. However, they are notably less full-on than their precursors, preferring to probe each others' windpipes rather than their whatsits.

Blur singer Damon Albarn has a long history of snogging other stars. He began back in the pre-Parklffe early nineties when he pinched Justine Frischmann, Elastica's front-woman, from Suede singer Brett Anderson.

Rumours suggest that Suede's song Animal Lover tells of this affair, and that each man would leave a love bite on either side of her chest to prove that they were both still seeing her. In the end Justine left the fop for the psuedocockney cheeky-chappy, though their relationship recently came to an end.

Following this, Damon took up a bit of a residence in London's Trendy Met Barâ&#x201E;˘, where he found the time to play a bit of tonsil tennis with none other than Shaznay of 111e All Saints, obviously thinking that he could get some genuine Laaahndan credentials from her silly name.

Perhaps it is the All Saints who now present the ultimate example of pop star couplings, with them a-shagging and a-bagging everyone from Jamiroqual's Axe man to Live and Ktcking's Mr Jamie 'hey look at me aren't I trendy' Theakston and ex¡Take-Thatter Robbie Williams. The cheeky Acid Jazz fret man even went as far as to get big-nosed Nick up the duff In time to spoil their tour plans. Bobby. however has been a less constructive influence on the Saints. encouraging his lady to leave the band, although as the rest have satd she can have Tuesdays off for snogging Williams, she'll be staying for the time being.

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Nor is Hopkins too happy at his daughter's romance with said Reaper. Thankfully, he lets Hopkins stick around long enough to enjoy his 65th and final birthday, solve his company's problems and make sure his daughters both know their daddy loves them.

But, as always, Brad's knack of seducing the audience for three bllm-numbing hours somehow shadows a potentially heart-wrenching story of staring death in the face. Perhaps, though, death may have seemed a more frightening prospect if his roots weren't showing quite so much.

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Flamingos tells the story of the 'Filthiest Person Alive' contest, and features such delights as chicken sex and 300 lb drag-queen Divine notoriously eating dog shit - for real.

Making the Bre!!_ Flamingos became a cult classic, its success fuelled by word-of-mouth and outraged reviews. Variety dubbed it "one of the most vile, stupid and repellant films ever made". The selfstyled 'Prince of Puke' went on to make two more similarly twisted indie features before moving towards the studio-financed mainstream with his next four films, which featured, most notably, Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, and a pre·talk show Ricki Lake. These films included the suprisingly inoffensive Hairspray, the delinquent spoof Cry·Baby, and the hilarious black comedy Serial Mom, in which a typical American housewife gets homicidal with members of the community who

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And now your flatmate keeps caning you mercilessly on Tekken3/Gran Turismo/Colin McRae Rally. Are you convinced that it's only because they get to practice all the time on their little machine? Well, now's your chance to prove it: just surf the web to this site and save your PC from total neglect by getting a Playstation-in-yourmultimedia-PC emulator!

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The controls are a bit awkward to use (try pulling off Forrest Law's 10-string combo on a keyboard) and don't run all games, just quite a few. They will also crash more times than you'd wish , but then they're only emulators, not the real thing. The people who created it are improving it all the time, and it seems to be quite an underground culture.

A whole host of geeks are each sitting by their multimedia PCs and putting them to good use, making programs that work like real games machines. And they're not just doing Playstations.

Every kind of machine worth emulating, from the Super Nintendos to the old-school arcade machines like Space Invaders has been attempted. So you can be really cool and say that you've experienced the very best that the history of video games has had to offer so far, and without having spent a penny in the arcades or forked out for any of these old machines. Just visit:

http://www.emux.com/emugames/psyke.html This emulator, called Psyke, is highly accomplished, and runs Playstation games through your CD-Rom . There's also another rather popular Playstation emulator called PSEmu Pro (also at emux.com, or go to http://www.psemu.com). As with Psyke, you need to download the Playstation BIOS which

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These things are bringing people together where there would otherwise have been a bitter rivalry!

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originates) in this fourth instalment has been given the additional amusement of pulleys: there are two sets of balls hanging from the ceiling on a pulley, and an equal number of balls on each end of the rope maintains the balance. Thus when you add a ball to one set, the balance is lost and the balloons creep closer to the 'line of death '.

The challenge of getting through the entire series of puzzles in arcade mode is fantastic . and there are also three modes of play: player vs. computer, two player battles and even a challenge mode. This means there 's little danger of the game getting boring too quickly.

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While it may be fun to over-analyse these festive capers . it has sadly become the case that money has taken priority in the modern production.

The obsession has become the master, the pantomime has become a highly profitable , production l1ne industry (oh. no it hasn't. .. ).

In Britain 's theatres a small group of production companies hold sway .

These panto giants. of the commercial rather than Jack-eating kind, manufacture slick presentations of named stars, C-list support actors. gimmicky effects and seamless set changes.

Panto is thus robbed of the one quality that made it endearing: a degree of genuine amateurism that gave the whole thing. with all its pointless

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hough Marx wasn't exactly fond of eligion , you could dare to suggest hat Christmas has certain socialist or even communist elements. The logan 'Goodwill to all men' is plastered across cards, banners and extremely tacky gold and silver coloured plastic crests, which also display snowmen and Father Christmases getting up to seasonal activities.

'Peace on Earth' is on-message. and mil lions rush round in a desperate panic attempting to find the perfect thing to give away.

What could be more Marxist than a fair exchange of goods and services? Meanwhile the less imaginative present-buyers bring about an. albeit limited, redistribution of wealth via the gift voucher.

Along with this exchange, the news in the Yuletide period is full of good deeds and acts of charity, suggesting that for the two week period man helps rat-her than competes with his fellow man.

Perhaps one day the christmas season could undermine capitalist notions of money. But only if it was extended through the whole year. and every commercial enterprise agreed to give away presents rather than sell them. Which is unlikely given that the retail world sees christmas as primarily an opportunity for making lots of money.

Still, you can dream. Dream. that is, until the new year period.

As the clock strikes midnight on New Yea r's Eve/New Year's Day (although with recent tre nds it's happening even earlier) socialist visions evaporate as capitalism rears its ugly head.

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A deep examination of the traditional pantomime plot reveals that they're all about getting rich and social climbing . The male lead - traditionally played by a woman - and his mother - usually played by a man (what is all that about?) - make a fortune overnight thanks to some act of extreme providence. Poor at the start, though often in love with someone rich, the average Jack or Cinders is able to change their social position overnight, invariably overcoming some sort of foe along the way.

Aladdin's Genie makes him and his family rich , thus enabling him to marry some princess he's only just met, while Cinderella's fairy godmother allows the exploited younger sister not only to hob-nob with the aristocracy, but marry the best looking Prince of the realm after one dance. We won't even go into the appalling treatment of Buttons. it's all about money, and not only do most panto heroes turn out to be money-grabbing chancers on the make , but often their methods for achieving success are shocking.

Take Jack of beanstalk fame .

Jack is a particularly nasty piece of work. After squandering his family's wealth on some magic beans. he makes up for his mistake by breaking into the giant's castle, stealing his only means of income (the golden goose) and then killing the poor Giant. who is understandably miffed at Jack's rather 'unEnglish' behaviour.

With this savage criminal act glorified in panto fo rm, it is no won der that children up and down

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audience participation and corny lines , a sense of fun .

Now, as it rolls off the production line, the modern panto has become a soulless, prepackaged product to be consumed with the same lack of regard you would show a beef burger.

Face it, pantomime without fun to excuse its terrible plots and pointless excesses . is a particularly dire affair.

To start with , whoever thought up the 'Oh no it isn't/Oh yes it is' couplet, has a lot to answer for. Not only has this 'gem' somehow prevented generations of pantomime writers from producing anything remotely original by way of a gag , but how anyone could think the resulting din. generated by the parents of prepubescent children the average child rarely sinks so low to actually shout out themselves represented some kind of theatrical achievement is unknown.

The modern pantomime has also become a centre for the talentless: has-beens from Neighbours, hairdressers,

dysfunctional Come famil ies, wimps from the Square. children 's TV presenters and page three girls 'for the Thrillennium ' are all drawn like moths to the panto candle. Alas, none are burnt- they're paid for their services.

1t might be nice to see someone you recognise onstage for about five seconds, but as these 'stars' reel off lines with all the passion of a defective pressure cooker something is lost. You only have to look at this year's Old Vie panto , which was shown on television over Christmas.

This production had an advantage over the others in that it actually featured some talented people, like Adrian Edmonson and Paul Merton. Yet for all its professionalism, clever jokes , and posh effects , it was still extremely tedious and dissapointing.

Pantomime should belong to the amateur: the parent/teacher associations, community groups, Scouts. Guides, and various others. These people see the whole thing as a fun way to raise some money for a good cause. and this usually produces the right spirit in the performance.

Unfortunately, however, it's the commercial that get all the attention and steal the limelight.

The golden days of pantomime?

They're behind us ...

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Singling Out the Couples Stella DuHy

Hwee Hwee Tan must have really enjoyed her time at UEA. After all, how many novelists refer to the LCR and the Waterfront in their debut book? Foreign Bodies is the story of how Andy, an ex-pat Brit in Singapore is arrested and tried for running an illegal football betting syndicate. He dumps his lawyer-cum-girlfriend Mei, is deserted by best friend Eugene and, with the ultra-strict Singaporean law against him, does he stand a chance? The novel takes a sideways look at life and traditions in Singapore with each character narrating in turn stories from the past which affect the whole situation. Mei tells of her complicated family history including some hilarious scenes with her live-in mother, possibly the most annoying woman in the world. Naive old Andy thinks of nothing but beer, girls and football. There are many passages devoted to deep religious and philosophical thought, which can be skipped over if you're not in the mood. Similarly, if you're not too clued up on Singapore and its seemingly never ending list of acronyms (MAT, NUS, NTUC, HOD, POSB etc etc) or 'Singlish'. then some parts may leave you confused. Reading the paragraph about the author at the start leaves you thinking she's based this novel on some parts of her own life, with references to UEA and Oxford, and life in the Netherlands. Although Foreign Bodies is not really a story about footie betting, in fact until the end,' it rarely touches on the subject, the fast-paced contemporary style is sure to appeal to many. If nothing else, read it for the superb description of everyone's favourite Thursday night piss-up.

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If this book is anything to go by, Stella Duffy got more than her fair share when they were handing • out the genes for cynicism. This is a hip, ultramodem fairy tale of sex and love in the sprawling metropolis that is London. However, this is no ordinary fairy tale. The main character is a princess, who is perfect in every way, and lives in a tower block somewhere in Notting Hill, London. Having managed to escaped unnoticed fiom the king and queen, she sets out to wreck the relationships of those unfortunate enough to be chosen by her. Her dislike of couples stems from the fact that when she was baby, she was bestowed with gifts of beauty, intellect and wit. Unfortunately "no one even noticed the Compassion Fairy had failed to arrive." As a result she grows up to be perfect, except that she lacks any compassion or love.

Picking up the shattered pieces left behind is her brother David, the prince. The pace of the novel quickens as it becomes a surreal race between brother and sister. Through the princess' destructive behaviour the author examines the precarious nature of most modem relationships, gay and straight. Her observations are sometimes funny, often insightful, and always true, even if the cynicism can can be a bit heavy-handed in places. The book is strongest when the author delves in to the minutiae of love and sex, and is weakest when she strays from this. The prose is neat, breezy and snappy. This is a good book, With a novel twist on the age old Ayo Manssray dilemmas of the heart.

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A confession that will make many of you angl)l that I have abandoned a widely regarded as a moral lmmerat11ve. Others, however, will praise my decision to leave the ranks of the squeamish Jetty and embrace the full JOYS of nature and creation.

What is it, I hear you ask , that I have done?

I shall tell you, brothers and sisters: I have resctnded the ways of the leaf loving vegetarian and become, once again, a meat eater.

People become vegetarians for a variety of reasons. most obviously because the thought of our fellow creatures being bumped off, chainsawed and bunged in the oven is too horrible to even contemplate. Others choose to eat only plant products because it's, well , kind of cool, or because by eating leaves and water you aren't going to get vel)' lardy. For the record , my reason was that I had salmonella. If you have not suffered from this particular ailment it may be of some interest to know just a few of the symptoms that can put you off eating meat or eggs ever again . Firstly, it seems as if the enllre contents of your stomach have turned to liquid. Secondly, an incendial)l device detonates in your insides, forcing th is peculiar green goo out any way it can. This goes on for several days, usually uncontrollably, always messily. By the end of the ordeal you will have lost a couple of stone, and have taken on th e appearance of a part icularly unhealthy looking skeleton.

However, after a year of vegetarianism, one becomes ever so slightly bored with eating the same old food.

Hmm, what to have for tea tonight? Ah, of course, what could be better than pasta and tomato sauce. Again. For the fifth day running. But, the vegetarians Cl)'. what aboul one of those delightful meat substitutes. quorn or soya? Whtle these products may look vaguely like economy mince, they taste of absolutely sod all, and need the addition of about three cloves of garlic, a bottle of Tabasco and a lot more than a dash of wi ne to create the slightest hint of a decent flavour.

What is even more frustrating is that, when eating out.

the vegetarian option is always either a veggie-burger or some kind of pasta dish that features sptnach or mushroom - and sometimes, tn a tit of gastronomic inspiratton the chef may even have combined the two.

Other restaurants believe they have found a brand new species of vegetable to present to hungl)l vegetarians. the fish . One can only marvel at the skill it must have taken to turn a living creature into a simple root crop So while your mates are tucking in to whopping great piles of nicely cooked dead stuff, you put up with this, and what's worse it will always cost the same as theirs.

Oh. the injustice.

All of this IS pretty powerful evidence against pursuing the sacred course of the carrot - but for one thi ng. What about all the cute little sheepies, and th e little !owi ng cows that will be murdered to satisfy our cravi ngs fo r meat? Undoubtedly the vegg ies do have a point here. The way in which many animals are reared and ultimately killed is often cruel and indeed it is a shame that animals are raised in these terrible conditions. Al though it looks as if things are changing with the increase in outdoor pig farming and the growing availability of organic meat, there is still a long way to go. However, it seems that the best way to solve the problem is not to surrender and give up eating meat.

Instead we should use our power as meat- eating consumers to force the meat producers to change their methods and create a greater (and cheaper) availability of free range and organic meat.

Ultimately, we all have our own choice. Eat what you like, allowing neither the bacon-sarnie-waving carnivore nor the guilt-inducing veggie to force you to stop doing what is rig ht fo r you . Perhaps the great poet and smger Leonard Cohen should have the last word on the subject:

Other restaurants believe they have found a brand new species of vegetable: the fish

"Some people choose to eat meat.

Some people choose not to eat meat.

If these thoughts interest you even for a moment Then you are truly lost. " Wise words indeed

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The most comprehensive guide to what's on around Norwich this fortnight means that Norwich will become a smelly place indeed as everyone develops a morbid fear of showering .

Antz Little wee beast1es Woody Alien and Sharon Stone star in a charming tale of mvertebrates in love.

Star Trek: Insurrection Men in silly clothes fly around the universe in a spaceship for the ninth time.

Prince of Egypt The Bible story gets psuedo-D1sney treatment by Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks company, Sunday School has never been so much fun .

Meet Joe Black Death becomes Brad Pitt in an overly long swoonathon with a very silly plot indeed .

Small Soldiers Diminutive computer generated chapp1es battle it out in this Toy Story with guns.

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Babe: Pig In The City Nauseating cutey film 'for all the family'. Pig in the oven with apple sauce and nice roast taters would be preferable.

Enemy of the State Will Smith is chased around a lot and gets j1ggy with Gene Hackman to help get the state off his back.

Little Voice Former Ab-Fabster Jane Horrocks sings to us in this Oscar tipped film based on an award winning West End play.

Ever After Cinderella is given a new feminist tint. though she doesn't burn any undergarments.

Pyscho Gus Van Sant's remake of the Hitchcock original

The Mask of Zorro The film that made Cathenne Zeta Jones a US star reveals itself to Odeon aud1ences.

Mulan Usual Disney fare with Eddie Murphy as the voice of the dragon. Thankfully Elton John and Tim Rice haven't provided the soundtrack.

The Parent Trap Yet another remake, this time the charming ol' story of two twins trying to reunite their divorced parents. Aah .

The Siege Typical Uncle Sam vs. Johnny Foreigner KABOOM style action flick. Bruce Willis 1n it. Need we say more?

CINEMA CITY Marquise Wednesday, January 20, 2:30pm , Thursday, January 21 2路30pm , 5.45pm French film about a dancer and would-be actress sleepmg her way to the top of the court Louis XIV. The Truman Show Wednesday; January 20- Saturday, January 23, 815pm Jim Carrey actually does some acting rather than making silly face in this tale of a man who has been owned from birth by a TV company. This no good , he try escape ...

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Friday, January 22. 5:45pm , 8:15pm, Monday, January 25, 8:15pm, Tuesday, January 26, 2:30pm, 8:15pm, Wednesday, January 27, 8:15pm Thursday, January 28, 2:30pm, 8:15pm Kale Moss's ex Johnny Depp stars in a film based on Hunter S. Thompsons classic road novel.

Rien ne va Plus Friday, January 29 - Monday, February 1, 8:15pm (not 31). Tuesday, February 2, 2:30pm , 5:45pm.

A French and Swiss collaboration that plays homage to Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief.

The Exorcist Friday, January 29, 11: 15pm Late night classic horror chiller. Look forward to that long, dark and quiet walk home to an empty house afterwards.

Wallace & Grommit Saurday, January 30, 2:30pm The brilliant trilogy from animator Nick Park visits Norwich for a matinee performance .

Now Voyager Sunday, January 31 , 2:30pm Belle Davis stars as a spinster dominated by her mother who embarks on a disastrous affair.

High Sierra Sunday, January 31 , 5:00pm Humphrey Bogart's breakthrough movie in which he plays a gang leader in charge of a heist that goes wrong .

Elizabeth Sunday, January 31, 7:30pm The story of Elizabeth I, complete with British luminaries such as Dicky Attenborough, Joseph Fiennes ... and Frenchman Eric Cantona?

UNION FILMS Halloween H20 Thursday, January 21 at 7pm, LT1 This follow up to the original Halloween slasher movie features a rather inebriated Jamie Lee Curtis reliving the events of 20 years before. Run of the mill horror fare.

Portishead NYC Friday, January 22, 11: 15pm Part of the NME sponsored film festival.

Port1shead filmed live in New York.

Godzilla Saturday, January 23, 2:00pm Big scary monster stamps on Americans. Hooray!

Lou Reed Saturday, January 23, 5:45pm The second NME film, th is time a documentary about cult icon Lou Reed.

Divorcing Jack Friday, January 22 9pm, LT1 Not a film about matrimonial mishaps, but an insightful and brilliantly written comedy about Northern Ireland.

PredatoriTerminator 2 Sunday, January 24, 7pm & 9pm, LT1 An evening with Arnie is in store with these two action thrillers, both classics of their genre. But before getting ecstatic about his acting talent, just remember Jingle All The Way.

Gilda Sunday, January 24, 5:00pm This risque (for 1946) tale stars Glenn Ford as a gambler who gets involved in a bit of how's your father with a German tourist and his wife.

The Spanish Prisoner + Short Sunday, January 24, 7:30pm An underachieving thriller from 1997, The Spanish Prisoner features Steve Martin engaging in a brilliant confidence trick.

Modulations Monday, January 25, 5:45pm An exploration into the rise of the phenonemon of electronic music, from Kraftwerk to The Prodigy.

Storefront Hitchcock Tuesday, January 26, 5:45pm The UK singer/ songwriter filmed live in a derelict shop in downtown Manhattan.

Whoever would have thought that Mike from Neighbours would appear in anything except a pair of tights in a pa1~to, the preferred career path of many an actor following their departure from the Aussie soap.

However, he performs with aplomb in this tale of the dark underbelly of LA life in the 1950's. 'Mike' (real name: Guy Pierce) plays a cop whose determination to do everything by the book slowly ebbs away as he uncovers corruption and sleaze in the police force. Kevin Spacey also appears along with Kim Basinger who won an Oscar for her part in the film, regarded by many as one of the best crime thrillers ever made.

fortunes of an expatriate American family.

Enter The Dragon Tuesday, January 26, 9pm, LT1 Bruce Lee gets all chop suey in this, possibly the greatest martial arts film ever made.

There's Something About Mary Thursday, January 28, 7pm, LT1 Last years blockbuster comedy comes to lecture theatre one. LT1 will be as full of people as Mary's hair was as full of ... erm, well whatever, just get there early.

The Exorcist Friday, January 29, 9pm, LT1 Good and evil do battle in our own dear university as the Exorcist pops in after twenty years of being banned on video.

Flame Wednesday, January 27, 5:45pm Slade pretend to be a band in Velvet Goldmine glam-pic predececessor.

LA Confidential Tuesday, February 2, 9pm, LT1 See Don't Miss.

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Friday, January 29 - Monday, February 1, 5:30pm (not 31), Tuesday, February 2, 8:15pm.

A Merchant Ivory film following the varying

World Cinema shown on Mondays. See posters for details.

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9pm-2am FREE SUPERFLY MOJO'S, CLUB Funky sounds fo r Norwich groovers.

10pm-2am £3 THECONCEPTCOMEDYCLUB London circu it co mics. All drinks £1 .50.

Tables ca n be reserved in advance with the club.

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NME CARLING PREMIER TOUR UNKLE+IDLEWILD+DELAKOTA+ THE LLAMA FARMERS UEA, LCR, GIG Annual tour of the NME's favourite bands . Mo Wax Label boss James Lavelle leads the way, but don't expect any of his famous friends. Quiz in the Hive after the gig. £8 adv.

MELTDOWN WATER FRONT, CLUB. lndie, Newpop, alternative dance and other student favourites.

In the Studio: All Our Yesteryears, 21.30pm - 2am £4/3.50 CWFS@ZOOM ZOOM , CLUB Uplifting house & garage.

10pm-3am £5 A NIGHT FOR DISCERNING ADULTS RICK'S PLACE, CLUB £ 3 with flyers before 11 pm DANCE CLUB MANHATIANS, CLUB 9pm-4am £5

WORLD OF CHEESE WATER FRONT, CLUB More cheesy tunes than in a brie factory. £1 with UE A ca rd , free buses.

THE KRUSTY KLUB GIG, FAT PAULY'S Noisebox records presents three live bands and DJ .

8pm-1am , FR EE ENTRY! Cheap booze CAROUSEL Theatre Royal A musical! Wh oopee!

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SUN DAY SERVICE MANHATTANS, CLUB House night.

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CLUB CLASSICS FROM THE 70s, 80s & 90s RI CK'S PLACE , CLUB FREE all night with Stud. ID/ £1 with flyers before JOY RIDE CONCEPT NIGHTCLUB East Anglia's premier Soul and R'n'B night. £3 A TALE OF TWO CITIES SEWELL BAR N THEATRE, DRAMA Ad aptation of Charles Dickens classic of love intrigue and revolution .

Runs until Saturday, January 23 7.30pm £5/3 cone .

WILDE CLUB GIG , FAT PAULY'S Twinkle+Kaito+Postalowa CARWASH LIQUID, CLUB Funky 70s disco night.

Wear your flares and get in for free . Otherwi se £3.

UNDERGROUND MOJO'S, CLUB Lo-Fi and lndie night. £3 1

CLUB FLINT RICK'S PLACE , CLUB 11 pm £2 before GO RGEOUS MANHATIANS. CLUB Happy House club night.

9pm-4am £5 DELUSION-FUSION WATERFRONT, CLU B Hardcore 1Opm -6am £12adv

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SU PERFLY MOJO'S, CLUB Serious Funk.

10pm-2am £3 TH E CONCEPT COMEDY CLUB London circuit comics. All drinks £1.50.

Tables can be reserved in advan ce with the club Doors 8.30pm £4

CLUB CH AD IKON , CLUB Superclubs go head - to-head with Ikon's new students only night. 60p a pint.

Free before 1Opm with UEA card .

STUDENT NIGHT LIQUID, CLUB Cheap, very popul ar stud ent night from one of Norwich's poshest cl ubs.

Free before 11 pm with UEA card ESTEEM MA NHATTA NS , CLUB Gay night.

9pm-2am £2

LCR DISCO UEA LCR, CLUB Hell comes lo earth for its weekly visit. Drink enough and you might get lucky and die beforehand. £2.50

PURE SWING MANHATIAN S, CLUB Uplifting swing for the people of Norwich.

9pm-2am FREE

LCR DISCO UEA LCR, CLUB Classic night of drunkenness.

10pm £2.50 CHAINS ON VELVET WATE RFRONT, CLUB .

A change of days but still the same metal, goth, gru nge and industrial from UEA 's Deviant Soc. 1Opm- 2am , now alternate Thursdays £2 before 11 pm £2.50 after.

CLUB CLASSICS FROM THE 70s, 80s & 90s RICK'S PLACE, CLUB FREE all night with Stud . ID/ £1 with flyers before

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HEATHER NOVA GIG, WATERFRONT Fern rock at its finest, see Don't Miss.

FREE TICKETS FROM UNION BOX OFFICE WILDECLUB GIG, FAT PAULY'S OVAHEAD + HYPEASTATION + OFFLER + IV AN'S NEW BAND Headliner's LP launch with support from UEA's finest, Hyperstation SLEUTH THEATRE ROYAL Crime thriller on he stage, originally filmed with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.

Until Saturday 6, £3-15.50

CHARLIE HIGSON VISITING WRITERS, LT1, TALK Fast Show star and producer better known as the unsure aristocrat Ralph visits UEA to talk about his work and read from his books King of the Ants, Happy Now, Full Wack and Getting Rid of Mr. Kitchen. Suits you sir!

7p!'", £2 on the door, season ticket £10

CARWASH LIQUID, CLUB Funky 70s disco night.

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Free before 10pm with UEA card 60p a pint STUDENT NIGHT LIQUID, CLUB Cheap student night from Norwich's latest club Free before 11 pm with UEA card ESTEEM MANHATIANS,CLUB Gay night.

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THE KITCHEN OFFYERFACE CLUB NIGHT THE WATERFRONT, CLUB Tech house, DN'B, Techno, Trance 10pm-6am, £10adv CLUB FLINT

RICK'S PLACE, CLUB £2 before 11 pm GORGEOUS MANHATIANS, CLUB Happy House club night.

9pm-4am £5 CWFS@ZOOM ZOOM, CLUB Uplifting house & garage.

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LAUREL AITKEN AND THE PRESSURE TENNANTS + CAPONE & THE BULLETS FAT PAULY'S, GIG The Godfathers of ska £5 adv MELTDOWN WATERFRONT, CLUB. Saturday's regular slot for DJ Paul Fayers.

9pm-2am £4/3.50

The Event has got three pairs of tickets to give away for what promises to be an mteresting gig at the LCR on Tuesday, February 2.

New Model Army have been out of the public eye for a while now, because they've been on the quest for "a perfect album" and keeping themselves busy with road protests like the Newbury by-pass, but are back now to entertain their fans with old favourites and some new songs to boot. Their latest album, Strange Brotherhood, was produced without the aid of a record company, which the lads believe allowed them to take a more natural approach to the recording . Fans have responded favourably, so expect to hear these songs thundering out of the LCR. To get your hands on a pair of tickets all you have to do is tell us: Who was in charge of the original New Model Army?

Post your answers, along with your name, school, year and a contact number in the Hive competition box by Monday, January 25.

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