Here & Now Issue 17 | Feb 2018

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WORTHING FOOD & DRINK SCENE 2018

Exciting Times are Ahead SO, WHAT DOES THE YEAR AHEAD have in

store for our town in terms of food and drink?

Last year saw Worthing go from strength to strength, with exciting new eateries, bigger and better food festivals, a blossoming of micro-pubs and the quality of the food and drink offer in town improving all the time. 2018 looks like it’s going to be more of the same!

As is the norm for this up and coming coastal resort nowadays, there will be some restaurants opening, some closing and some expanding. We’ve just got a Japanese restaurant, there’s a French bistro on the horizon, numerous chain restaurants in the ongoing “will they, won’t they?” debate around the Montague Quarter and other new developments, and there will be exciting news coming soon from the team behind The Corner House and The Beach House. Vegan offerings at many of the cafes and restaurants in town are increasing to meet the surge in demand.

and grain. Then there’s Silly Moo cider that’s pressed from apples donated from gardens in the local community (well, swapped for cider!) and mixed with the farm’s own orchard apples to give a unique blend, that changes each time… but tastes amazing! On top of that, the farm also grows heritage grains that are then milled into speciality flour. The farm’s sustainable cycle shows innovation, caring and passion… and that’s just one example, Sussex has lots of places like this.

Worthing itself boasts a great range of small food producers – Perfectly Preserved’s jams and marmalades have won awards, award-winning stalwarts Vice Puddings and Parklife are both still making their tempting cakes, Brontie & Co produce great chocolate that’s raw and vegan, Charlene’s Chocolate Factory do chocolate too, bread and pastries from The Pantry are legendary and Magpies Magnificent Pies turn out pastrywrapped pieces of heaven.

The Worthing Food & Drink Festival, Green Dreams and the Chilli Fiesta will all be back later in the year and rumours are that Sundowners (street food & music events) will be making a comeback too. Other major food and drink events are also in the pipeline, so watch this space!

Or you can take the food journey back to the source – we’ve fresh fish available on the beaches, great butchers, greengrocers and fishmongers, as well as a burgeoning allotment scene. If you’re in the know, foraging is also a great avenue to explore… just ask local experts.

But it’s not all about eating out, there’s a real buzz about local produce too. One of the interesting things about Brexit has been that people are now looking more closely at where their food comes from and what is available within the region. Sussex is blessed with some top-quality food producers, as famous London restaurants will tell you.

Perhaps you’ll be inspired to make and sell your own food in 2018, or even open a restaurant? There’s always room for one more in this seaside cornucopia!

Within half-an-hour’s drive from Worthing is Trenchmore Farm, where you can find fantastic slow-grown Waygucrossed Sussex beef, fed on grass, cider by-products

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ART & CULTURE

Drawn in to the Drop-In Picture Yourself at St Paul’s

HAZEL IMBERT TALKS WITH JUDE BITTON AND FIONA MCVEY OF INCLUSIVE ARTS

ANTONY DICKINSON, ST PAUL’S SUPREMO, has come up with a great idea to

Run by the indefatigable Jude Bitton and Fiona McVey of Inclusive Arts (formerly based in the much missed Heene Gallery), this is a drop-in, all-welcome group, every Friday, hosted by * Sight Support in Rowlands Road. The group includes some partially sighted artists, and provides everyone with a wide range of media to work in.

PORTRAIT EVENT: Friday 23 March, 5-10pm at St Paul’s

Jude explained that they offer a monthly project – looking at an artist, a style, a form, a material - and the group take that off into whatever genre they like. Last month was the Fibonacci sequence, which resulted in spirals created in mosaic, in silk painting, in water colour, and acrylics. Recent starting points have been the work of Modigliani, and of Hokusai –giant waves and cherry blossom! Fiona said that they encourage their artists to visit exhibitions, and have organised some group outings themselves

blow you away in March; local portrait artists are being offered the chance to create in public. Selected artists will produce portraits of 3 sitters (esteemed local characters) over the course of an evening. The event will be open to the public, free of charge.

The bar will be open all evening, and everyone will be able to enjoy an unusual social event, watching artists at work and seeing how the portraits take shape.

If this sounds like a challenge, it certainly is; artists rarely work in public. Television has recently presented us with artists working in front of the camera, and being publicly judged. Of course, working in public is old hat for landscape painters, and they quite often wear old hats, it’s true. But starting from scratch on a portrait, under the scrutiny of bystanders will require courage and confidence. Fortunately, the cheerful and welcoming atmosphere of St Paul’s will work to good effect, and the event will provide the artists with support and interest – which they may not often get in their solitary garrets!

WINTER SUNSHINE LIT THE LARGE ROOM, which was full of colour and activity.

Working in companionable peace were the participants of the Friday Mixed Media group.

January’s project was based on polystyrene tiles, with a design cut into them, being used to make prints on fabric and paper, with marble excheeseboards (!) for the inkplates.

The heaps of resources included RENEE WEAVER & PAT FIELD recycled items, an important part of Inclusive Art’s ethos. For example the stunning spiral mosaic being completed had shards of wing mirror and recycled blue glass being (carefully) put into place.

The portraits will be judged by a panel, and a favourite selected. The sitters will also choose a favourite to take home.

The competition will be open to anyone over the age of 16 with a Worthing/Adur postcode, who must submit via email a portrait they have created in the last 3 years. 15 finalists will be chosen from these entrants.

So, portrait artists! Come and be admired and feted. Send your application to curator@stpaulsworthing.co.uk The deadline for entries is Midday 14 Feb 2018.

For the rest of us, it’s a date in the diary for a memorable and unique evening out.

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This group has exhibited their wide variety of work in Worthing Library, and has also participated in Worthing Artists Open Houses.

Jude and Fiona provide creative art opportunities in various venues in Worthing; for example, they run a Sewing Bee, for all levels, at The Rowans, first Thursday of the month at 6.30pm. See Facebook page Inclusive Arts for info and updates.

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February 14th is when we highlight who we care about. This could simply be looking to put measures in place so that if certain events occur your loved ones are ok, or just looking at ways of helping loved ones out in your lifetime.

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Literary Local IT’S FUNNY HOW PLACES, like

people, seem to go in phases. The energy ebbs and flows, the vibrancy peaks and troughs. Some months it’s all change and go-go-go and others, well, we’re back in sleepy old Worthing where time moves at half the speed of everywhere else.

That’s no bad thing, of course.

We all need to rest now and then, and Worthing is most definitely hibernating for the winter.

It is our duty as inhabitants of this fine place to support it in its necessary slumber, and so it’s appropriate then that February’s selection of literary events is both quiet and gentle. Shh, the town is sleeping. Don’t wake it yet.

But the tiny shoots of a new spring are definitely on their way – you just have to look hard enough. The Ropetackle Centre is introducing a new arts portal for 2018, a regular professional development session for those working in the arts to learn new skills and working practices.

The first session is on February 17, although full details have yet to be announced.

There is also the Worthing Music and Arts Festival running

throughout the month.

An arts festival for young people to participate in classes, perform, and compete in their chosen category – with speech and drama featuring heavily. Unless you know someone participating, the WMAAF is likely to pass you by entirely, but it’s there every year, quietly nurturing and growing the new, young talent of the town.

And the trusty monthly poetry workshop with Iona Harrison at the Cellar Arts Club gives writers the chance to write, share and discuss their work in a safe and supportive environment.

So, despite the cold grey drizzle there’s no excuse – go forth and create, literary Worthingites. Spring will be here soon and your town needs you to blossom.

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Sarah Lewis-Hammond

Control Art Gallery WORTHING’S NEWEST ART GALLERY,

Control Art Gallery opened its doors in December. The gallery is located within the Train of Thought Emporium on North Street. Glenn Langler, who manages the gallery said, “our aim is to showcase art which has a slightly edgy feel; art which you may not find in more conventional galleries and by linking up with Train of Thought we’re able to offer a unique shopping experience combining collectable pop art, vinyl records and vintage clothing.

Worthing is a hot bed of creative talent and we are excited to be part of it”.

The gallery currently contains works

by Worthing based artists such as

Darren West and mr ben as well as limited edition prints by Henry Hate (tattoo artist to Amy Winehouse and Boy George) and other urban and contemporary artists.

The gallery aims to grow their portfolio of nationally acclaimed urban and street artists while at the same time support local talent. They also offer gallery space to rent so that local artists can show their work alongside more established artists.

Contact via controlartgallery.co.uk or FB @controlartgallery or by contacting Glenn directly on 07802 775620.

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truffles onto greaseproof paper. Coat your truffles immediately after shaping.

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Hide away from your adult responsibilities, grab your nearest and dearest and create your own private getaway with a duvet, pile of pillows, supply of snacks and lots of silly games to play by torch light!

SEE A STAND UP The massive bunch of red roses that’ll be dead in a few days, the hunt for the perfect piece of jewellery, re-mortgaging the house to pay for a couple’s spa retreat… Valentines doesn’t have to be so serious and expensive! Laugh your heads off at a comedy night, release some feel good endorphins and take the pressure of providing the perfect evening.

GO WILD IN THE WILDERNESS Swap fancy boutique hotels for sleeping out under the night’s sky.

Bivvying (aka Bivouacing) simply means sleeping outside without a tent. A bit nippy you say? Dig out the thermal sleeping bag, get a fire going and snuggle up to someone you really like.

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DADIFESTO

All you need is...

Give Us A Snog, Sweetcheeks

SO, IT IS FEBRUARY, the month that

has greeting cards manufacturers jumping for joy and married men around the world quaking in their boots at the mere thought of how they are going to be judged by the size of their package. Obviously, not that package. But the type of a package that comes up with bows and a large credit card bill attached.

But I’m not allowed to write about it. My dearest editor has decreed it so because the mag is already full of ‘L-word’ related stuff. Remember being a kid and being told not to do something, and all you want to do is that exact thing? Well, that is the type of mood I am in.

I am singing ‘L word’ songs, while my mind fills with terror; for having just got over Christmas and my wife’s

Anyway, I digress.

February is also famous for other things. So don’t get down if you are not ‘L-worded’ up. Here’s some other shortest month of the year things that can put a smile on your lovely little faces.

birthday I am again challenged to come up with a present idea that will knock her little boots off. No pressure then…

February 11th kicks off Worthing’s Half Marathon. This is where hundreds of middle-aged men in Lycra shorts, the super fit, the sort of fit and not at all fit and either very brave or down-right crazy souls take to the prom to beat their personal bests and raise money for some cracking good causes.

Go cheer them on while feeling terrible that your own New Year resolution to go running ended on the 3rd of Jan with a short sprint to the offie to grab another bottle of Gin to mark the kids going back to school.

February 13th is Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday as it is otherwise known. So, you can over indulge your small people with all things flipping, lemon and sugar-related, while peeling bits of batter of off the kitchen ceiling for the next couple of weeks. That will teach you for trying to show-off!

from Mars’ and thanking the Lord for popular Indie/Britpop groups.

We recognise this day is marked in other ways too.

February 16th marks the Chinese New Year, (this one being the ‘Year of the Dog’) so why not build yourself a dragon and parade around the town letting off firecrackers to ward off bad luck and evil spirits? Or, if you are so inclined, you are very welcome to pop round my house with gifts, such as fruit, sweets, cakes and red envelopes with cash, called hóng bāo.

February 18th marks the birthdays of Hip-Hop God Dr Dre, Disco God John Travolta, 80s Movie It Girls Molly Ringwald and Cybil Shepard and the all-round heartthrob swoon-fest, that is Matt Damon.

That has to be worth feeling cheerful about, has it not?

So, there you have it. Plenty of things to do to take your mind away from all things ‘L-word’ related.

Until next time pop-pickers. Keep it real, keep em’ peeled and keep on keeping on.

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On February 14th you can avoid the obvious and instead celebrate ‘Ash Wednesday’. This is where people of all ages run around singing the 90s smash hit ‘Girl

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MY COMMUNITY MATTERS

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This month My Community Matters highlights education, training and employment support opportunities.

HAS YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL signed up

for free science events?

Coastal STEMfest is a programme of interactive science events for secondary schools taking place in February and March. Provided free of charge, teachers have the opportunity to book workshops and take students to the exciting Big Bang @ Butlin’s, Bognor Regis, on Thursday 8 March.

Coastal STEMfest aims to inspire students to continue studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It also gives them opportunities to meet

employees from local companies in fun and interactive settings, who will introduce them to a wide range of careers and help them plan their study routes.

and consider careers in STEM”.

For further info visit coastalstemfest.co.uk

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Last year 26 schools got involved including: Bohunt School; Davison CofE High School for Girls, Durrington School and Worthing High. Last year a student from Bohunt School said, “This opened my eyes to incredible job opportunities and inspired me to discover more,

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The SEEK Project – want to develop a social / environmental business idea?

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WORTHING MUSEUM Open

Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm. Explore the exhibitions free of charge and have money left over for the gift shop! FREE

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DISCOVERING THE FASCINATING FACTS OF YOUR LOCAL AREA

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Lancing College: “See if you can see where the fairy princess lives.”

cold, car window. Blurred, soaring traffic flew past and as I scanned the landscape beyond, I saw it, its chapel towering over the horizon atop the flourishing South Downs countryside – Lancing College. A home fit for an imaginary fairy princess.

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Driving past, its exquisite Gothic Revival style grandeur left me bewitched. As a child, not only did it bring a (rare) few minutes of peace to noisy, excited car journeys, I felt its enchanting presence bring bedtime stories to life. Evidently, others felt the same, since it was once considered as a location for the Harry Potter film series.

Founded in 1848 by the extraordinary Revered Nathaniel Woodard (1811-1891), also the founder of Hurstpierpoint and Ardingly Colleges, Lancing College Chapel reaches 90ft into the Sussex sky, making it the largest school chapel in the world. Not content to hold just one notable distinction, the stunning rose window designed by Stephen Dykes Bower (completed in 1977) is largest in England at 32ft in diameter.

Head to Cissbury Ring to see the NEW FOREST PONIES Take sausage baguettes and hot chocolate in a flask. FREE The ALDINGBOURNE COUNTRY CENTRE, a bit further out but worth the trip, 15 miles from Worthing. Woodland walks, open farm (cuddle guinea pigs!), ride-on toys, castle playground. £14 for family of four, entry fee supports The Aldingbourne Trust charity.

Worthing Mums and Dads is a Facebook page for local parents and carers to find information about what’s on offer in Worthing.

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I encourage you to visit the chapel, if only to experience the arresting wonderment certain to take hold of you as you pass through the entrance into the colossal clerestory – before remembering all before you is right on your doorstep, in fascinating Adur.

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You can visit the chapel Mon - Sat between 10am and 4pm, or Sun from 12 - 4pm. I’d also recommend keeping an eye on the excellent events hosted throughout the year; consider their inspiring Inter-House Music Competition, 8 Feb FREE, or the College Singers and Student Voices performance, 23 Feb, exhibiting solo works, a chorus and orchestra, £9.20 – £11.35. To book, head to Eventbrite and search for ‘Lancing College’.

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I like to give myself a new challenge for the New Year, something to see me through the dark early months of the year. As experience has taught me when (if!) I manage to accomplish these challenges, I’ll always be able to look back proudly on my year.

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With Worthing Half Marathon on 11 February as my next event, I have been out before, during or after work in all conditions to get my runs in.

I’ve found that a simple plan is much easier to stick to, and would highly recommend for any beginners to use any of the Couch to 5k apps out there as an excellent starting point, (rumour has it your editor has left the couch!) while for casual runners looking to run their first big race, free online plans are a simple google search away.

The key to keeping injury free is to keep the pace low for the first few weeks before building intensity, and having a good pair of shoes. I cannot stress enough the difference a good pair of running shoes makes, fitted by a professional at your local running shop rather than bought off the internet, that way blood-blisters lie!

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BUSINESS LISTINGS Please mention Here & Now when booking your event and check websites for updates.

New Business Portal Businesses can preview and subscribe to the portal at the Better Business Show on 1 February at the Assembly Hall.

ADUR & WORTHING BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP will soon be launching their

new and improved Business Portal. The new digital platform will help to improve communication between business, partners and stakeholders as well as showcase local business, innovation and talent across the area.

Better Business Show 2018 Keynote Speakers 1 Feb, Assembly Hall, Worthing

With an interactive feel and e-bulletin facility, the portal has been designed to promote business activities across the area more quickly and to a wider audience.

Adam Stafford - Managing Director, Fresh Egg Adam founded the company in 2000 with his sister and best friend. The digital revolution was just getting started and Fresh Egg were at the cusp of it. Still privately owned, and one of the largest agencies of its kind, book to hear Adam talk about: • Lessons learnt and what he’d tell his younger

The portal is likely to launch in February with the first e-bulletin sent out later in the month. Businesses are encouraged to feed into the site on a range of themes including local economic success, community involvement and sponsorship opportunities.

self • The importance of having clear positioning • Accelerating growth from having product focus.

the company have rolled over a million little balls, selling in 12 different countries across the globe.

Matt Hunt - Founder of the Protein Ball Company

Penina Shepherd – Founder, Acumen Business Law

Matt lived outside the UK for 20 years on various continents and found an interesting synergy between culture and international business. His first business, OLOVES, launched with Hayley Hunt in 2005 (still running), paved the way as the first snacking olive bag to the travel and catering industry, picking up global accolades.

Penina is an award winning entrepreneur, author of The Freedom Revolution and founder of Acumen Business Law, listed by the Financial Times’ Top 50 Groundbreaking & Innovative Law Firms in the UK and Europe.

In October 2015, the husband and wife team started production of The Protein Ball Co, the all-round protein snack, based in Worthing. Book to hear Matt relive their story and how

She set up the firm on her own, from a complete standstill, at the start of the worst economic climate in decades, with a shoestring budget, in an industry that doesn’t welcome change, immediately after giving birth to her third child and when

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Old Car Badges, Old Postcards & Photos.

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Continental Breakfast and network before the Better Business Show.

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BUSINESS FEATURE

Better Business Show 1st February 2018 10am to 4pm An event not to be missed – FREE to attend.

THE BETTER BUSINESS SHOW will take place on Thursday 1 February 2018 at Worthing Assembly Hall. This event is collaboratively delivered by Worthing and Adur Chamber & Adur & Worthing Business Partnership. With a strong focus on ‘Buy Local’, this event is a ‘must’ in the 2018 business calendar for ALL businesses in Worthing & Adur, both large and small.

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THOMAS H GREEN’S MUSICAL TIME MACHINE IT’S STRANGE TO THINK OF THE BANDS who played

The Worthing Gig Scene

Worthing in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. In fact, it seems almost unbelievable now, the names that performed at the Pavilion and at the Assembly Hall. How’s this, just for starters: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Ike & Tina Turner, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, The Who, Bo Diddley, Genesis, Marvin Gaye, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, The Beach Boys, Supertramp, The Temptations, Cream, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Byrds, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf… Steppenwolf! Leather-clad and playing ‘Born to Be Wild’ where visitors now eat cake and drink tea at the end of the pier!

Promoter Freddy Bannister and his wife Wendy are primarily remembered for kick-starting UK festival culture. It was they who put on the Bath Festivals of 1969 and 1970, which inspired Somerset dairy farmer Michael Eavis to start Glastonbury, and it was they whose Knebworth events defined ‘70s rock gatherings. However, before all that, they developed their knack for promotion running concerts along the south coast. Bands would play a string of gigs, working their way from Folkestone in the east to Bournemouth in the west, and every Thursday night they hit Worthing.

…He was very young, in tight velet pants, and you almost couldn’t hear him for the screaming girls...

1966-1972

The Time Machine will return to these gigs in future, in more detail and from a variety of angles, but to set the ball rolling, we spoke to Robert ‘Yak’ Yates who, from age 13 to 18, would attend almost every week. Then a schoolboy from Lancing, the son of a yacht captain and a secretary, he’d take the bus to Worthing every Thursday with friends, and watch a mind-boggling array of now legendary musicians.

The first gig he saw was Cat Stevens in the autumn of 1966, just after he’d released his first single, ‘I Love My Dog’. “He was very young, in tight velvet pants,” Yates recalls, “and you almost couldn’t hear him for the screaming girls, ten layers of them in front of the stage.”

Hooked, he returned the next week for the Moody Blues. Then the week after that. And the week after that. And most weeks until 1972.

Along the way he caught Jimi Hendrix twice, the first time shortly after the Experience were formed in autumn 1966. The prime audience in Worthing

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Do you have any memories of music life in Worthing?

We’re interested in stories and scenes from any era, from the ‘30s and ‘40s to the ‘90s and Noughties.

Perhaps you have a photograph of yourself or a local band or occasion? We’d love to feature it and chat about it.

Please email to Thomas at editorial@hereandnowmag. co.uk (Head up Thomas H Green’s Musical Time Machine). then were teenage mods and Yates describes himself as “a kind of a pretend mod, a little school boy in a target teeshirt and a parka”.

ROY AT SEASIDE RADIO

“The mods wanted to hear soul music,” he recalls, “and one band who played regularly was [Brit-Jamaican outfit] Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.

We all turned up and there was a blackboard outside. It said ‘Sorry, Jimmy James Cancelled.

Replacement Band From London: The Jimi Hendrix Experience.’

This wild man came onstage and started doing these incredible guitar feedback numbers and guitar tricks, playing the guitar with his teeth. Most of the mods walked out saying, ‘This is crap, it’s not soul music.’

In the end only 40 people were left, absolutely transfixed.”

STEPPENWOLF

He saw Pink Floyd twice, when they were still led by Syd Barrett (“Fantastic, the first truly psychedelic band with a lightshow”) and The Who many times, controversially suggesting, “They were almost the house band in Worthing – it wouldn’t surprise me if they played Worthing more than Brighton.”

ROB YATES EARLY 1970S

He also saw many ‘70s greats before they were famous; Jimmy Page playing his guitar with a violin bow while still in The Yardbirds, The Herd with a very young Peter Frampton, and The Jeff Beck Group featuring an unknown singer called Rod Stewart (“very blues based – what an amazing voice”).

But he also rated some acts that are now less well known, such as Family, The Alan Bown Set, The Move (“their singer, Carl Wayne, smashed up a television onstage with a huge axe”), Brian Auger and the Trinity (“with Julie Driscoll on vocals”), Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, and local soul-pop covers act, The Total. Meanwhile, the weirdest gig he ever saw there was “the American hippy Tiny Tim, doing ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ and other songs from the ‘30s and ‘40s in a strange highpitched falsetto while playing the ukulele.”

Yates’ favourite Worthing gigs include Genesis with Peter Gabriel “singing in a succession of masks”, Janis Joplin (“Just incredible”) and Peter Green’s original Fleetwood Mac but, as he puts it, “The number one, no doubt about it, was David Bowie in the Assembly Hall. It was the week before ‘Ziggy Stardust’ was released [June 1972] and very short notice, only a few days prior

publicity. They wanted a dress rehearsal of the Ziggy show for a typical English audience in a not-too-big rock venue, to see how it would go.

Bowie came down with about three coachloads of entourage; wife, family, all the trendy Kings Road hippies from London. They filled up one side of the Assembly Hall. I’d seen him previously a couple of times as a folk singer doing Jacques Brel numbers with his guitar, but this was something else, this was a blinder. It was the first time I’d seen stage-diving, he came out dressed wildly, walked on the shoulders of the audience, his family all dancing like crazy, his wife Angie next to me going completely bananas. They infected everyone. I wasn’t a great dancer but even I joined them.

Best gig I ever saw.”

By 1972 Robert ‘Yak’ Yates, having embraced the hippy lifestyle, left Britain to live in Ibiza. He drifted back across Europe over a period of years, living in Germany, Holland and the south of France, before settling, aged 26, with a Danish wife in her homeland. He took a degree in sociology and spent his working life in social psychiatry before retiring a year ago. He’s now 65 and still lives in Denmark Chatting to him is the start of the Time Machine and Here & Now’s chronology of Freddy Bannister’s Worthing concerts, featuring as many memories as we can gather. Just for starters, Robert Yates is “99% certain” he saw The Doors in Worthing. Is that possible? And what of James Brown, did he play? Or Otis Redding? Did you see them?

Or any of the bands mentioned? What do you remember? Drop us a line.

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WHAT’S ON IN WORTHING Noel Coward with West End impresario Jack Waller and Peggy Mount plus Richard Coleman in the background

Mind of a Playwright DELVING INTO THE MIND OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST PLAYWRIGHTS “My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.” Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward is recognised worldwide for being one of Britain’s greatest playwrights, and with his iconic comedy masterpiece Private Lives coming to the Connaught Theatre this March, I thought it would be a great opportunity to delve into the life of this prestigious English gentleman to see just what made him so significant.

Noël Coward was a man of many talents, not only did he write more than 50 plays in his lifetime (1899-1973), but he was also a composer, director, actor and singer. Interestingly enough he actually cast himself as the charming character Elyot in the original production of Private Lives, one of his most highly-regarded plays that took him only three days to write!

Having had such a large quantity of his work published, with plays such as Hay Fever,

Design For Living and Present Laughter

entering the regular theatre repertoire, Noël Coward inevitably had a significant impact on culture in the English speaking word. Time magazine said that he had a unique “sense

of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise”. Coward actually developed his iconic staccato style voice from an early age as his mother was deaf; he acquired this style of speech to help her understand what he was saying.

He became well known for his iconic look, the ‘Coward Image’,

which became so recognised that a poster advertising the revival of Private Lives in 1968 used a caricature of Coward rather than the stars of the show! In 1969, Noël Coward was knighted, and he was then elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The beautiful Albery Theatre in London was renamed the Noel Coward theatre in his honour in 2006. The historic image below shows Noël on one of his many visits to the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, alongside stars of the West End. London Classic Theatre present a dazzling new production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives at the Connaught Theatre on 6-7 March. For more information visit worthingtheatres.co.uk

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COMPETITION On Friday 2 March husband and wife team Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan present their fascinating illustrated talk War Stories, to win a pair of tickets, just answer the following question:

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MUSIC LISTINGS February 2018 Thu 1 Feb Richard Durrant: Big Box Little Box Ropetackle (Shm). 7:30pm, £15 – Guitar/ Ukulele

Fri 2 Feb WSO: American Masterpieces Assembly Hall. 7:30pm, £19-28, Classical Shady Grove + Friends Ropetackle (Shm).

8pm, £10 – Folk Cyanide Sundae/Icarus Falls/The Azure, Bar 42. 8pm, FREE – Hard Rock/Metal Joss Cope + Owl Textures Cellar Arts Club.

7:30pm, £2 for non-members Zoe-Beth, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE – Singer-Songwriter Trapper Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE - Covers Hungry and The Hunted/Mr Steeps Warwick. 9pm, FREE Live Music Night at Tangerine Bar. 8pm, FREE Triple X Duke Of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE - Covers The Jackals Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Connor’s View REFURB AT BAR 42 THE NEW YEAR has heralded an exciting new development for Bar 42. Situated on Worthing’s beautiful seafront, the building refurbishment, beginning on 4 Feb, also means a step up for the music venue.

Worthing

Stephen Leopard Farmer’s (Lancing). 8pm, FREE – Michael Jackson Tribute

Jazz Session Duke of Wellington (Shm). 3pm, FREE - Jazz

Mark Wright and Charrise Rose & Crown.

4pm, FREE

Sat 3 Feb

Tangent Duke Of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE - Covers

The Vincents Duke of Wellington (Shm). 4pm, FREE – Retro Rock

Blooz Out Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Finch, Joy and Woods Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

The Legendary Frontmen of Rock Assembly Hall. 7:30pm, £29.50 – Rock Covers Spring Into Soul Community Gospel Choir Winter Charity Concert at St. Paul’s. 7pm, £10 - Choir Jim Mullen Organ Trio Ropetackle(Shm).

8pm, £17 – Jazz Synthony 101 Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE – 80s Covers Pete Mac Warwick. 9pm, FREE Afternoon Fundraiser for Shoreham Sea Scouts Duke of Wellington (Shm). 3pm, FREE

Dan and Mark Powell w/ Sam Flynn Rose & Crown. 4pm, FREE

Thu 22 Feb

Tue 13 Feb

The Blues Band Southern Pavilion. 8pm, £36 – Blues

Wed 14 Feb

Dave Hunt’s Retro Disco Rose & Crown.

4pm, FREE

Pete Valentine as George Michael Rose & Crown. 8:30pm, FREE - Tribute

The Long Haul Duke Of Wellington (Shm).

4pm, FREE – Texas Boogie

Thu 15 Feb

Tue 6 Feb Sam Outlaw Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £15 Country Tony Williams/Terry Seabrook Organ Trio Hare and Hounds. 8:30pm, FREE - Jazz Mountain Firework Company Duke of Wellington (Shm). 7:30pm, contact the pub for tickets - Americana

Fri 9 Feb Josh Smith USA Southern Pavilion. 8pm, £16 – Blues

So, prepare for bigger and better gigs to follow in 2018. With all of this exciting news, I want to see you down at Bar 42 this year!

Big Yellow Taxi Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Rock Hannah and Pete at View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE Happy Endings/Spoons Warwick. 9pm, FREE – Covers/DJ Talk of the Town Rose & Crown. 8:30pm, FREE

Wed 21 Feb

Tyler Piston Broke (Shm). 4:30pm, FREE

Sun 4 Feb

Lee Pryor Piston Broke (Shm). 4:30pm, FREE

Janet Penfold Quartet Hare and Hounds.

8:30pm, FREE - Jazz

India Electric Co. Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £10 - Folk

Mike Piggott Quartet Hare and Hounds.

8:30pm, FREE - Jazz

Jazz Breakfast with Mike Hatchard Ropetackle (Shm). 11am, £10 – Jazz

Tue 20 Feb

Taylor Maid Duke of Wellington (Shm). 4pm, FREE – Big Band/Swing

Bloody Mary Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Coastal Connections w/ Sophie Butler at Coast Café. 7pm, FREE - Showcase

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The Logical Hairs Cellar Arts Club. 4pm, £2 for non-members – Musical Comedy

Tony McManus Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £14 – Folk

Mark Knowles Original Music of Bar 42 tells us “…we’ll eventually have a self contained bar and patio and our tiny stage will be about 2 feet thinner but about 5 feet deeper. We are planning to have a purpose built stage area with cool stage lighting with capacity in the back room increasing from around 45-50 to around 80 allowing us to get bigger bands in the future. We’re doing a bit of refurb in the front of the bar too but nothing too drastic. We’ll be closed for 5 weeks and plan to re-open officially on 9 March. Then in March we can hopefully start putting on some more epic gigs like the Black Peaks and Drewsif Stalin. Future plans include more seating inside, improved patio outside and maybe even some heating!”

CONNOR

Sun 11 Feb

Fairport Convention Connaught Theatre.

7:30pm, £24 - Folk Welly Wailers Duke of Wellington (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE – Sea Shanty

Fri 16 Feb Wax Virgins Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, FREE - DJ Poacher Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Purple Shoes at View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE Rewind/Pete Mac Warwick. 9pm, FREE Murdoch’s Crazy Eyes Rose & Crown.

8:30pm, FREE - Covers Scandomando Duke of Wellington (Shm).

9pm, FREE – Folk Rock Mad Badger Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE - Covers

Sat 17 Feb Greg Harper’s Storytellers In Song Concert at Clapham and Patching Village Hall (Clapham).

7:30pm, £10 – Charity Concert George Michael Tribute w/ Pete Valentine Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE - Tribute

The Ennis Sisters + Dave Gunning Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £14 - Folk Jive Night w/ Rockin’ The Joint Egremont.

8:45pm, FREE - Jive DJ Jazzman Duke of Wellington (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE - DJ

Fri 23 Feb Starlets Burlesque Show Southern Pavilion.

8pm, £22 - Burlesque Martha Tilston Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £13 - Folk Harry Pane at Coast Café. 7pm, £5 – SingerSongwriter Jazz Café: Featuring Vasilis Xenopoulos Pavilion Café Bar. 8pm, £9 - Jazz Acoustic Friday Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for non-members - Acoustic Phonic Boom Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Chasing Zoe at View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE – Pop/Rock Covers Liquid Logic/Mr Steeps Warwick. 9pm, FREE – Covers/DJ The Jackals Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Blues/Rock Music Box Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Sat 24 Feb The Big Jive All-Dayer Assembly Hall. 1pm, £26 (adv) – Jive Bus Monkeys Egremont 8:45pm, FREE

Mr Steeps Warwick. 9pm, FREE - DJ

Eastfield & WOB Duke Of Wellington (Shm).

9pm, FREE – Pop Punk Poet

Pete Mac Warwick. 9pm, FREE - DJ

Shm Allstars Showcase Duke of Wellington (Shm). 3pm, FREE

LeeFoxWood Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Jazz Session Duke of Wellington (Shm). 3pm, FREE – Jazz

RG Winfield and Double Shuffle Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE - Blues

Chasing Angels Farmer’s (Lancing). 8pm, FREE

The Alibis Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Funk/Soul

Juliet and The Romeos Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

KXB Band Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE - Covers

Sat 10 Feb

Sun 18 Feb

South Coast Soul Revue Ropetackle (Shm).

8pm, £15 – Soul Covers

Sun 25 Feb

Sounds Around The World Cellar Arts Club.

4pm, £2 for non-members – World Music

Dumb Waiters Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Covers

Bonzo Bills Ropetackle (Shm). 7:30pm, £12 – Musical Comedy

Taylor Maid Egremont. 4pm, FREE – Big Band/Swing

The Royal Marines Association Concert Band Assembly Hall. 3pm, £13.50 – Charity Concert

Pete Mac Warwick. 9pm, FREE - DJ

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Kings of The South Seas Cellar Arts Club.

3:30pm, £5 for non-members

Ian, Matt and Theseus Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

Robin Bibi Band Rose & Crown. 4pm, FREE

Tue 6 March

The Logical Hairs Valley Bar (Findon).

7:30pm, FREE – Musical Comedy

John McCusker, John Doyle & Michael McGoldrick Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £16 Folk

Boxwood String Band Duke of Wellington (Shm). 4pm, FREE The Smileys Piston Broke (Shm). 4:30pm, FREE

Mon 26 Feb Glenn Farmers (Lancing). 9pm, FREE

Tue 27 Feb Tribute to John Greenwood Hare and Hounds. 8:30pm, FREE - Jazz

March 2018 Thu 1 March Rat Pack Egremont. 7:15pm, FREE

Fri 2 March Son Of Town Hall Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £12 – Folk Groove Aces Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Gary and Mel at View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE - Acoustic Maid to Measure/Mr Steeps Warwick. 9pm, FREE Nigel Bagge Band Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sat 3 March Arun Ghosh Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £12 – Jazz/World Music

Wed 7 March Flight Brigade Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £8 - Folk

Thu 8 March David Bowie Tribute Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE - Tribute

Fri 9 March Jo Harman Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £17.50 – Singer-Songwriter Milton Hyde at View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE – Folk/Blues Mr Lee Harvey Oswald/Pete Mac Warwick.

9pm, FREE Full House Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Sat 10 March Raghu Dixit Ropetackle (Shm). 8pm, £20 – World Music Big Girls Don’t Cry Pavilion Theatre. 7:45pm, £25 – Tribute The Revolver Revue at St. Paul’s. 8pm, £13 – 17 – Circus/Cabaret/Burlesque Burning Organ Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

REGULAR EVENT LISTINGS

The Cimarons Cellar Arts Club. 7pm, contact the Cellar Arts Club for tickets - Reggae

Open Mic w/ Bustin’ A Groove Thomas A Becket. Every other Tuesday from 9th Jan at 8pm

Alex and The Middlemen Egremont.

8:45pm, FREE

Open Stage at Bar Next Door. Every Wed at 8pm.

Spoons Warwick. 9pm, FREE - DJ

Open Mic at Tangerine Bar. Every other Thursday from 11th Jan at 8pm

Singer and The Saints Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sun 4 March WSO: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar Assembly Hall. 2:45pm, £19 – 28 - Classical Jazz Breakfast w/ Mike Hatchard Ropetackle(Shm). 11am, £10 – Jazz

with the Portsmouth Military Wives Choir

Open Mic w/ Bustin’ A Groove Crown and Anchor (Shm). Every Thurs at 8pm

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CINEMA & THEATRE LISTINGS Colonnade House

February Cinema 2018

Colonnade House mini festival Films on the Gallery Wall. Showcasing projects and films by some of Worthing’s most exciting organisations. Sponsored by Anchored In Worthing. See colonnadehouse.co.uk to book tickets.

Fri 2-Thurs 8 Feb

Friday 2 Feb

SMP My Little Pony (U) 10.15am.

Connaught

7pm David Lynch: The Art Life with Worthing Film Club.

Sat 3 & Sun 4 Feb

Early Man (PG) morning. Dome Coco (PG) morning. Dome

12 noon, 3pm.

The Explorers (Plus craft spaceship building) with Tot Rockin Beats.

Mon 5 Feb

4pm. The Explorers - for adults to see the heartwarming sci-fi classic.

Sat 3 Feb

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (TBC). Parent & Baby screening.

Dome

Wed 7 Feb ROH: Tosca (12A) Live, 7.15pm.

Connaught

Thurs 8 Feb

7pm. Wild Style & special screening of The 4 Elements Doc with Get It Together.

Mulholland Drive (15) 7.30pm. A beautiful woman suffers amnesia after surviving a car crash. Ropetackle

Sun 4 Feb

Fri 9 Feb

12 noon – 3pm. Short & experimental films brought to you by Close Up – Cellar Arts

Cocktail (15) Celebrating the films of 1988! Connaught Studio

Sun 4 Feb 7pm. Hamlet by Across the Border Productions.

Tues 6 Feb 7pm. Persistent Peril present Animated Existentialism v2.0, an evening of animated short films.

Fri 9 Feb As Described present an evening around film & technology, projection mapping and the potential hacked equipment holds for creative.

Sat 10 Feb 7pm. The Last Fisherman Standing present The Last Fisherman

My Life Story featuring Ricky Hatton.

7.30pm Q&A session with Ricky Hatton, plus entertainment from comedian Jed Stone and a raffle and boxing memorabilia auction. Pavilion Theatre. £10 Silver, £35 Gold, £50 Platinum

Downsizing (15) 8.30pm. Matt Damon experiences life in miniature in this comedy/drama. Connaught Studio.

Sat 3 Feb

Sat 3 Feb

Fri 9 March

Friday 9 Feb Fifty Shades Freed. Opening night gala screening. Dress to impress, walk the red carpet and grab yourself some special offers – see website. VIP tickets 9/10/12 Feb.

Sat 10 Feb Coco (PG) 10.15am. Autistic screening.

Dome

Sun 11 Feb Coco (PG) morning. Dome Early Man (PG) morning. Dome

Tues 13 Feb Black Panther (TBC) opens 13 Feb. Dome

Wed 14 Feb

February Theatre 2018

RSC: Twelfth Night (12A) Live, 7pm.

Kara Tointon and Adrian Edmonson star in Shakespeares greatest comedy.

Connaught

Tues 6 Feb

The Red Turtle (PG) 2pm. Ropetackle

Fri 16 - Thurs 22 Feb

ATOMOS 7.30pm. Atomising bodies, movement, film, sound and light into miniature shards of intense sensation, choreographer Wayne McGregor.

Connaught Theatre.

Phantom Thread (15) Various times.

Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the centre of British fashion. Connaught Studio.

Fri 9 Feb

Sat 17 Feb

Sat 10 Feb

SMP Paddington 2 (U) 10.15am.

Connaught

Noggin the Nog 11.30am & 2.30pm. The Viking storytellers bring the wonderful tales of Noggin to the stage for Children, Families and Fans. Connaught Theatre.

Thurs 22 Feb National Theatre, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (15) 7pm. All-Star revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic play. Connaught The Big Sick (15) 2pm. Pakistan-born stand up comedian Kumail and student Emily fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. Ropetackle, Shm.

Sat 24 Feb SMP Coco (PG) 10.15am. Connaught

Wed 28 Feb Royal Opera House: The Winter’s Tale (12A) Live 7.15pm. Shakespeare’s tale of love and loss becomes compelling dance drama. Connaught Dunkirk (12a) 7.30pm. World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French town of Dunkirk.

Ropetackle

Fri 2 March Bloodsport (15) 8.15pm. Connaught Studio

Tue 6 March Royal Opera House: Carmen (12A) Live, 6.45pm, encore Sun 11 March, 2pm.

Bizet’s classic French opera. Connaught

Tim Vine 8pm. Telling lots of silly new jokes, showing off new homemade props, singing some new daft ditties, and all with the appearance of confidence. Assembly Hall.

Thurs 15 Feb Work in Progress: The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar, Red Biscuit Theatre. 7.30pm.

Cellar Arts Club FREE

Sat 17 Feb Milton Jones is Out There 8pm. 8pm, Assembly Hall.

March Theatre 2018 Fri 2 March Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan: War Stories 7.30pm. Fascinating illustrated account of ordinary people swept up by the horror of war given by husband and wife team Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan.

Connaught Theatre.

Sat 3 March Some People V. Reginald D. Hunter 8pm.

Connaught Theatre.

Tues 6 March Noel Coward’s Private Lives 7.30pm & Wednesday 7 March, 2.30pm & 7.30pm.

Connaught Theatre.

7 – 10 March The Turn of the Screw Southwick Players, Barn Theatre, Southwick

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Craig Charles the King of Funk is coming back to Worthing after the sell out event last August. An evening overflowing with groove-ridden-beats, soul-jam-shakers plus dance-floor funksters including your resident DJ’s Inappropriate Handclap + support band Kat & Co. BBC Radio 6 pragmatic and animated music show host, Mr Craig Charles is off duty from filling our airwaves for the night and will be transporting his ‘trunk of funk’ to Worthing for your pleasure.

Serving up a trifle of 60’s and 70’s gems, we guarantee chic, unruly dancing and a belly full of good times. Mr Charles is ready to take you on an intergalactic journey through the illustrious eras, when Funk, Disco and Soul reigned all!

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Northbrook Theatre presents - Scratch Night from 7.30pm at Cellar Arts Club.

FREE/£2/Students £1 Better Business Show 2018 10-4pm Assembly Hall. See P23 FREE

Fri 2 Feb Networking coffee morning 9am at The Dining Room, Worthing. All welcome Worthing MNC Group Meeting 9.45 to 11.30am. Thomas a Beckett Pub Family History Workshop 10am-12noon.

Worthing Library. £5 book 01903 704809

Sat 3 Feb Quiz Night with dinner 7.30pm. St Botolph’s Church. Tickets 07738 022399 Kids Run Free 8.45am. All small people welcome. Victoria Park. kidsrunfree.co.uk

Mon 5 Feb Ladies Keep Fit (Every Mon) 10.45am.

Ferring Village Hall. All Ladies welcome £5

Tue 6 Feb Sequence Tea Dance Every Tue 2-4.30pm.

Ferring Village Hall. All welcome. Book 07847 309351

Worthing Photography Group first Tues of month. 6.30-9.30pm.

Durrington Community Centre. £4 worthingphotography.co.uk Scottish Dancing Tue 2.15-4.15pm. The Warren Room, East Preston Village Hall (call for details) Safer Internet Day drop-in. 10am-noon Worthing Library. FREE Painting For Pleasure every Tuesday 2-4pm at Ferring Village Hall. All welcome.

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Tues 6 and Fri 9 Feb Auditions at Lancing Rep Players I Am Hamlet and Being Rose. Contact info@ lancingrep.co.uk for audition times.

Wed 7 Feb WI Indoor Market (every Wed) 10-11am Ferring Village Hall. Book 07847 309351 Worthing Ladies Lunch Club 12-2pm.

Ardington Hotel £21 call 01903 230451 IT Hub 10am. Helpful session at St Symphorian’s Church, Hall Durrington. All welcome.

South Down Film Makers meeting every 1st / 3rd Wed. 7.30-10pm. Ferring Village Hall. Book 07847 309351 Music Quiz Night 7.30 for 8pm - get a team together or join a team on arrival.

Wednesday music quiz. £1pp entry. Cellar Arts Club

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Thurs 8 Feb

St Paul’s Worthing. £4 entry (Worthing Mencap & Buddy’s)

Cupid Capers 7-10pm. Blue Starfish Club, Club night for people with learning disabilities and their friends. Over 16s.

Men In Sheds Tues & Thurs 9.30am-3pm.

Findon Village Hall. Bob 01903 873963

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Irish Dancing Thursdays 5.30-6.45pm at Miller Barn, East Preston Village Hall. 0759 1480 815 £5

Fri 9 Feb General Auction from 6pm. Findon Village Hall. £1 entry. Details 078825130

Sat 10 Feb Sow & Grow Seed Swap 12.30-4pm (café open). Oak Grove College, Durrington. www.ttworthing.org for info Sussex Pathfinders – Shoreham Walk, 2pm. 5 miles Flat. Meet - public car park, off A259, on the west side, adjacent to Norfolk Bridge. Walk via Old Shoreham Bridge, River Adur, Downs Link, Norfolk Bridge. Check website/call 07842 792962 for updates. No dogs.

Poetry Workshop 3-5pm, Cellar Arts Club FREE/£2/£1 students

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Yarn 20/20 workshop Children’s crochet workshop.

10.30-noon and 2-3.30pm.

Shoreham Library. Must book on Eventbrite FREE Gary & Bambi Goodman’s “On a Night Like This” Exhibition 2pm opening in the Studio Gallery, Worthing Museum.

Sun 11 Feb Worthing Half Marathon 9am. Along the promenade and streets of Worthing. For younger runners, aged 5-17, the day also features the promenade Mini Mile, after main event. Info worthinghalf.co.uk Half Term Baking at Saddlescombe Farm. 10.30am-2pm. Experience making bread or pizzas in a traditional clay oven.

While the dough rises, you will learn more about the history of bead making at Saddlescombe Farm on a guided tour. Booking essential. Fully accessible.

Joe Bunn’s Bardic Trials: The End of Winter THERE ARE TWO HARBINGERS that

signify the end of the Winter season for me. The first is when I walk past the Guildbourne Centre to see the remnant limbs of Worthing’s Christmas Tree crumpled in a dismembered heap and cordoned off with red and white tape, like someone murdered the Christmas season. I sometimes like to lay wreaths of mistletoe and transcripts of festive arguments nearby to show my respect.

The second harbinger is the dismantling of the Steyne Garden ice rink.

I used to live next to Steyne Gardens and I would shed a single, frost-licked tear every day as I saw more and more yellowing grass revealed beneath where the ice rink was on my way home from work. The opposite of this feeling, however, is the joy at seeing the rink set up, showing that it can’t be long until Christmas is here again, the smile on my face when I would see the Mayor break a bottle of champagne against the side of a Zamboni, and then take the inaugural Bambi-walk on the ice. So I think, to stem to flow of sadness at the sight of a jigsaw puzzle of faux-ice pieces being bundled into

the back of a van, we need to replace it with a different sight for every season.

What follows are those sights.

SPRING

Why not build a huge temporary Butterfly house over the entirety of the Gardens? But instead of butterflies, we could instead have moths, to give it that quintessentially Worthing feel. You could visit the Moth House every day, and they would be trained to nibble off a little more of your clothing every time, so you would be beach ready for the hotter Summer months.

SUMMER

I know we have the yearly inland sandpit, but to complement that summer sight, why don’t we add the Steyne Gardens inland SEA. Simply cover it with a dome and use a huge pipe from the nearby ocean to sluice over a load of ocean. Provide scuba gear for the local street drinkers, or alternatively fill the dome with whiskey instead. Drunken sea life would be an incredible draw.

Or perhaps Tequila would more suit the salty atmosphere, plus lemon would go very well with the fish.

AUTUMN

The Autumn sight is simple, and solves the problems

that the leaking seawater would have wreaked on the grass of Steyne Gardens. We spend most of the year growing an exceptionally large pumpkin, one that is 4 storeys high, and as wide as the gardens. We place this titanic pumpkin on the grass and carve a scary Halloween face on the front. As Autumn cracks on, we take all the fallen orange and red leaves and fill the pumpkin with them. As the pumpkin begins to rot, so too will the leaves inside, creating mulch and compost. By the time the month is done, the pumpkin and leaves will have disintegrated to such

a degree that it will fertilise the fresh grass seed we will scatter over the top.

The grass will grow, ready for the ice rink to be replaced on top, to turn it back to yellow.

And there we have it, Bardwatchers, the three additional seasonal sights for Worthing’s Steyne Gardens. It’s a thought, anyway, and if you have any better ideas don’t hesitate to shout them into my face in the street.

Everyone else does, anyway.

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Mon 12 Feb Worthing Film Club 7.30 for 8pm.

Showing The Look Of Silence. Coast Cafe Tickets. worthingfilmclub@gmail. com

Tue 13 Feb History of Homefield Park 6.45pm.

East Worthing Community Centre.

Contact Friends of Homefield on FB or friendsofhomefieldparkworthing.co.uk Worthing General Auctions 5pm viewing-6.30pm Auction. The Barn next to English Martyrs Church, Goring. £1

Thurs 15 Feb Red Biscuit Theatre - Work In Progress: The Very Well Fed Caterpillar (Theatre) 7.30 to 10.30pm. Cellar Arts Club.

FREE/£2/£1 students Wrestling Spectacular 7-11pm. St Paul’s Worthing. Tickets Seetickets Open Mic Night with Matt’s Comedy February Funnies 8pm. They’ll be trying out new stuff, you’ll be letting them know if it’s funny or not, but you only Pay What You Like. Booking essential.

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Tue 27 Feb Dome Film Quiz 7.45pm. Chance to win 4 free film tickets to the performance of your choice and a variety of other film-related prizes.

Projectionist’s Bar, Dome. £1pp and the quiz begins at 7.45pm. Inc one round based on a specific film to watch before you come – True Lies.

Just Draw Life & Costume Drawing Class with Delaine and Paul 7-9pm.

Cellar Arts Club. All welcome over 18s. email peasrgreenpaul@gmail.com to book £8/£10

Sat 3 Mar The Cimarons & DJ support 7.30pm, Cellar Arts Club. £8/£6 wegottickets / The Cellar

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Fri 9 March My Life Story featuring Ricky Hatton 7.30pm Q&A session with Ricky Hatton, plus entertainment from comedian Jed Stone and a raffle and boxing memorabilia auction. Pavilion Theatre. £10 Silver, £35 Gold, £50 Platinum

Skeptics In The Pub Worthing, 8pm.

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Vintner’s function room. £5 entry

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Littlehampton Leap with Arun Divers for charity at 11am. River Arun, Red Footbridge. arundivers.org.uk

24 Feb Vintage & Retro Market 9.30am-3pm.

St Symphorian’s Church Hall. 07933 518 665 Drama Workshop (Theatre Quirkshops) 3-5pm, The Cellar Arts Club. Entry £2/£1

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THE WORTHING BYPASS

This column will not change your love life AS VALENTINE’S DAY rears its ugly head with its

usual self-serving, smug array of tacky love hearts, overpriced roses and sky-high restaurant charges, it is time to reflect once again on the nature of love and what it means to be human… Hope that was as good for you as it was for me.

Sixteen years on and we’re still all set: maybe next year, maybe next decade. To offset the cackling hordes of relatives intent on shackling me to the present pan hoarder, I have settled upon a thoughtful riposte.

Now on to business. Yes, I get ‘romance’. The Beloved Hackette has felt the full force of my winsome ways, even succumbing to a windswept seafront proposal that would melt the most cynical of hearts. We had mooted the heresy in directionless chitter-chatter down the years and in all truth felt ill-inclined to go through the whole marriage jamboree/nightmare. Sound judgement decreed she did not want to sacrifice her sanity by undertaking a binding contract with the Ubiquitous Hack, whilst yours truly had a life-long aversion to institutional rigmarole, especially the variety that costs money.

Well, dear Hackolyte, that all changed for reasons I no longer care to remember. In previous conversations she had informed me – as wisely as ever – that the only good reason to get married would be to receive engagement pressies. She especially had her eye out on a fresh set of pots and pans.

…We shall not rush into anything, without first doing nothing...

Like all good prospective suitors, I was a good listener (this is not true, not by a long shot); I just happened to remember that line because she insisted on reminding me repeatedly that eggs were not meant to stick like superglue to the surface of the frying pan. So I said it, straight out: “Fancy getting some new pots and pans?” I can hear the collective “aww, isn’t he sweet?”

I would have gone down on one knee on the wet sand but the now sadly deceased love of my life – a 15 stone Mastiff – would have taken such action as a provocative gesture and had me eating sand and seaweed whilst jumping on my winded, flailing frame. Lord above I loved that dog. Any road up, she said yay and we were all set for the big day. Yippee.

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“The first decade of our engagement,” I proclaim, whilst metaphorically sucking on a pipe and gazing wistfully into a long-distant past that never existed, “was a getting to know you period.” My audience, particularly the biological mother (I have no other but I’m always fighting against her natural inclination to disown me), is unsettled.

This pleases me no end. “This decade,” I continue, ignoring her protestations by waving away the grandchild ultimatum with a cursory “you’ve got enough already and step-kids count the same, or at least cost the same,” before in true statesman mode, I announce “is all about reflection and contemplation… Are we really compatible, I ask myself?” (this is true, I do ask myself this and we clearly are not, agreeing only that I am consistently errant whilst the Beloved Hackette is, in her own words, “occasionally mistaken, never wrong,” as she channels Mary Poppins, or is that Penelope Keith?).

“Anyway, a good period of reflection and contemplation is always healthy,” I reassure my only mother, adopting the most patronising tone imaginable. “The next decade,” I continue, ignoring her protestations that we should do it for the

children, “will be one of action and decisiveness,” before pulling the rug from under her unwisely weighty expectation by doubling back on myself, “creating the space for us to make a decision, whatever that may be. The lesson,” I sermonise relentlessly, pursing my lips whilst holding the index finger aloft, as school-mam-like as I can muster, “is that we shall not rush into anything, without first doing nothing.”

Doing nothing, so often derided as the curse of much-maligned procrastinators, is an overlooked source of heady delight. It always pops up as the first option on a business case and is rapidly overlooked in favour of points five or six about being the sector-leading provider of ‘blahblah-boring-blah’. A flotilla of consultants are herded in to recommend new models of working that are reconstituted from 70’s prototypes but dressed up in new Millennium lingo (I’m sorry, the new Millennium is indeed still frightfully new to me) and the usual soul-destroying restructure merry-go-round sucks the life out of real people pretending to give two hoots about a system that is clearly crap.

“Should have stayed with the old set-up” is bandied about by water-cooler wise-crackers until the new regime is ousted following a systematic review that picks up on point two of the last review recommending updating the old system.

Same thing happens again until some wit suggests that the old, old system worked best so might as well try that again.

Doing nothing, it’s the future – for me and, of course, the Worthing Bypass. Fortunately, it’s the only thing the Beloved Hackette and I agree on, which is why I love her.

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