Here & Now Issue 21 | June 2018

MASTERCHEF WINNER 2018!

We interview Kenny Tutt - 9

ONE LOVE WORTHING

One Day Multicultural Festival - 7

WHAT’S ON NEAR YOU

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What’s on, in and near Worthing - 31 to 42

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HERE & NOW IN WORTHING & ADUR

Your Guide to What’s On in June It’s finally arrived, Summer that is. You’ve dug out your deckchairs, poured your first Pimm’s and picked up your copy of Here & Now. WITH THE WARM WEATHER and our What’s On Guide packed with free festivals, free art, free street entertainment and more, June is an exciting time to be living here in Worthing.

We kick start this guide with the Worthing Children’s Parade (16 June), which heralds the start of another glorious summer for the arts

in Worthing. Set to be the biggest on record with 23 local schools participating in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts themed festivities, the Parade has also joined forces this year with Guild Care to bring you an amazing Charity fair in Steyne Gardens afterwards. See their Facebook page and hereandnowmag.co.uk blog for more info on all the activities and extra Harry Potter magic!

Every weekend in June, you are spoilt for choice for stuff to do. From afternoons wandering around Worthing Artists Open Houses, (3 weekends June/July) and the Adur Art Trail (217 June) and open gardens in Ambrose Place (24 June) and Goring (16-17 June) to Worthing

Theatres Summer of Circus shows and activities throughout the month to music and dance in our fabulous venues (see Connor’s music listings).

If you’re in town on 16 June, you’ll likely bump into one of our local performers taking part in the Big Summer Busk, raising money for WCHP. And if you’re on a Sat night out for a bit of Soul Stew at the Cellar Arts Club, you may come across hundreds of families dressed in pink, walking along the Prom on the St Barnabas Midnight Walk (30 June).

Make sure also to catch one of the many community festivals and fayres this month. A few to look out for; One Love Worthing celebrates our diverse community with a one day festival of music and activities at the Assembly Hall (24 June), Avalon Festival at St Paul’s (23 June) and the Heene Community Centre Summer Fayre (23 June). Over in Adur, there’s the Lancing Thai Festival (30 June) and the Sompting Festival on the Rec (30 June – 1 July).

There you have it, just a taster of June events and good stuff to do… See the listings for more! n

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ONE LOVE WORTHING: SUNDAY 24 JUNE 1-6PM FREE

A One Day Multicultural Festival One Love Worthing came about from a desire to counteract divisions in our society and bring the community together and celebrate diversity.

OUR FREE MULTI-CULTURAL EVENTS raise awareness for community support groups and give people the chance to meet others from different backgrounds, enjoy great food, music, activities and stalls and show how we have more in common than which divides us.

Last year was a great success; “I loved the adult/child mix element... often these things are carefully delineated but I loved popping my head around the corner to see my two boys happily drumming with an adult ensemble and I know they found some of the poetry interesting even though it had an adult feel to it. It felt relaxed, open and free. Well done to you all for organising it!” Beth “Amazing! Inspiring! Just what we need to bring people together. An antidote to the hate. An embrace of the love. One love.” Melody We return for our fourth, biggest event yet at Worthing Assembly Hall on Sunday 24 June, 1-6pm with even more to offer!

Expect more stalls, Caribbean and vegan food, facepainting, henna, art and fun activities with Brighton and Hove FC, classes from Flamenco Dance Academy and Balasana yoga.

Enjoy performances from Celebration Samba, DJ Tony Kalume, Lisa Lo, Chesswood School Choir, Worthing Steel Band, Spring into Soul Choir, Capoeira Nago School and Nelson Navarro.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please get in touch if you would like to help as a volunteer or get involved in any way. Contact Luke at weareoneworthing@gmail.com n

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50 SIDES OF WORTHING

Kenny Tutt, Masterchef Winner 2018 Kenny Tutt was crowned the winner of MasterChef, achieving the title ahead of 55 other determined cooks in the amateur chef competition.

KENNY CLEARLY HAS EXCITING VISTAS opening up before him. Here & Now caught up with him to find out more about the ex Durrington High and Northbrook pupil and what’s next for the Bank Manager from Worthing.

Who taught you to cook and when did you start cooking?

When I was young. I’ve always been interested in food, Mum was a good cook and I just picked it up from there. I originally wanted to be an air pilot possibly in uniform but although I was in the Air Cadets it wasn’t to be and I’ve worked happily in banking for 18 years!

What is the most important bit of kit in your kitchen?

Great knives are the most important thing for me.

I have to have a great set and a decent sauté pan that can also go in the oven.

What is your most well-thumbed cookery book?

Michel Roux book on Sauces is one I’ve used a lot.

You can do a lot with a jus or a good sauce!

MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace serves up food descriptions that often cause a stir and 2018 was no exception! What was your favourite?

This one was from John Torrode, when he described a dish as “of restaurant standard” and said it was “heart thumpingly good”, that was pretty special for me.

What did you feel was the best thing you cooked in the competition?

My final dish for the last challenge; roast scallops, followed by pigeon breast and finished up with a bitter chocolate and ale ice cream dessert, which is the modern British food I love.

What is your favourite food at home?

I love fish and shellfish, also a good steak. In fact all the classics.

Is there anything you’d change about British food or cooking?

I think it’s the opinion of it that needs changing.

We are lucky here we have really good produce all around us, on the hills and in the sea and we should make the best use of it.

Can you see yourself taking on ‘food issues’ in future like some other famous chefs are doing?

Yes, and I think there is still work to be done on children’s food and we’d also benefit from more responsible advertising in this regard.

Worthing has a great food scene, do you eat out here?

Yes, and among others I enjoy Fiordilatte and I like the food at Crab Shack.

Will you open a restaurant in future?

At this point I’m not sure. Everyone tells you it’s hard work but maybe ultimately I would and maybe with a different take on good food which doesn’t always have to be ‘high-end’ or look perfect.

Who would you invite to rave with you on Worthing beach?

My wife; we always have a good time together.

What single thing would you do to improve Worthing?

Worthing is changing but it needs and deserves a lot more investment. I do get out of town a bit but I love coming home to Worthing and I think Goring seafront is like a bit of paradise!

We’re pretty sure Worthing will be seeing more of Kenny, watch this space! n

Julia Carrette

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WORTHING ARTISTS OPEN HOUSES 2018

On the Art Trail Colonnade House, creative hub is participating in WAOH with exhibitions

from two locally based artists - Ruth Mulvie and Peon Boyle.

RUTH EXHIBITION ‘THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE IT’, jokingly plays with the idea of the holiday resort as a place of pleasure and escape. Wed 13 June - Sun 1 July (closed Mondays).

Peon runs her own print studio, Sussex Printmakers at Colonnade House, this exhibition is an opportunity to enjoy her

work and try out some techniques with two free sessions: Gelli Plate on 16 June, 10am & 2pm and Collograph on 23 June, all day.

Connade House are supporting WAOH with a new Discovery Trail, illustrated by Bella Chalk, encouraging you to creatively explore some of the houses taking part this year. Pick up a Discovery Trail leaflet from Colonnade House or any of the 25 houses taking part. n

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE IT, RUTH MULVIE

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ANNA PRINTER, VENUE 46

JACOB TAGHIOFF, VENUE 16

HERE & NOW readers are probably familiar with the annual art trail in Worthing, but for the benefit of those not already in the know, let us once more invite you to enjoy art in all its forms in the exciting variety of venues throughout Worthing.

DURING THE THREE WEEKENDS of the Open Houses 16/17 June, 24/25 June, and 30 June / 1 July, 57 venues will open their doors to invite you in, free of charge, to look at the work of 275 local artists.

You might see stunning glass work and charming seascapes in a sunny seafront villa, or you could be in a Crescent Road restaurant enjoying taster dishes, looking at amazing

paintings and listening to the singing chef ; you could be surprised to find digital art by some of Worthing’s youngest artists in, unsurprisingly, a nursery, and if you make your way up Crockhurst Hill, you could be delighted by painting, printmaking and textiles by the fabulously well-named A. Printer.

The surprises and delights have been added to this year with the participation of a record number of schools; Chatsmore and St Andrews are exhibiting GCSE students work, Our Lady of Sion has a rich mix of genres from students and visiting artists on display in the school chapel; Bohunt School are going all out with a mini arts festival, including music, dance, drama, gymnastics and of course, art, with food and drink, and they are hosting work by two local primary schools. Worthing College has art for all interests, from students, staff and alumni, and St George’s School of English once again promises a feast of work by over 20 artists.

VENUES ACROSS WORTHING

It is always worth going the extra mile and taking in the venues outside the centre; there are often lovely gardens to enjoy, as well as music, spoken word and, of course, cake. The art trail reaches ever westward, with 2 venues in Ferring this year. Pick up a brochure from one of the many distribution points, or check the website for full details of venues, artists

BRENDA BROOKS, VENUE 35 and opening times, and plan some grand days out enjoying the art of Worthing. n

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FASCINATING ADUR

PHOTO: GRAHAME ALGAR SHOREHAM FORT TODAY

Shoreham Fort

I can’t recommend visiting Shoreham Fort enough, both for families and history buffs alike. Day trippers should know that this ancient monument is open every day to the public, and won’t cost you a penny.

Fascinated by the Fort’s military history?

Make sure you pencil in the Military History Weekend (MHW 2018), 2-3 June from 11am – info at shorehamfort.co.uk/visiting/events

What does a moon, a Powder Monkey, The Showman’s Dream and a cannon full of jewellery have to do with Shoreham Fort?

Read my Five Fascinating Facts to find out!

1. In 1855, due to a rippling FEAR OF AN

ATTACK along the Sussex coast, plans to build a six-gun battery and defensible barracks were put in motion. The work was to be completed by 1856. To ensure the work was swift, a penalty of £35 (£3,655 in today’s money) was fixed for each week’s delay. Shoreham Fort was finally completed in 1857.

2. The fort was built in the SHAPE OF A

LUNETTE, a rectangular half-moon. Rooms used to contain gunpowder were built either side of the fort. Modifications were later brought in when it was discovered that a spark from hobnail nail boots could cause an explosion.

3. The fort was built to hold SIX GUNS,

each one being manned by up to seven men.

Usually a young boy, otherwise known as a Powder Monkey, would have to deliver shells to the guns by hand.

4. Francis Lyndhurst, Grandfather to

Only Fools and Horses actor, NICHOLAS LYNDHURST, brought film making to Shoreham Fort. The silent film, The Showman’s Dream, was filmed in Shoreham due to the smog-free air creating a better quality of lighting.

5. In 1915 a small article in the Liverpool

Echo told of people using old cannons as banks.

A large amount of JEWELLERY was found in one of the guns at Shoreham Fort - at the same time a large sum of money was found in another cannon in Bradford.

Find Ella on Twitter @Grace3Dav. If you would like to highlight something fascinating in Adur message Ella and tag in @hereandnow_mag n

Ella Davies Here’s a few other Adur events coming up 2 & 3 June Shoreham Rowing Regatta, Shoreham Rowing Club, Shoreham Beach

3 June Donkey Derby, Adur East Lions, Buckingham Park

15-16 June Brighton Shakespeare Company, Comedy of Errors.

Coronation Green, Shoreham

29 June French Market, East Street Shoreham

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Literary Awesomeness This Month Okaaay, hello Worthing!

When I was given a shot at writing this, after much enthusiastic clapping and awful dancing around, I may have panicked a tiny bit. talk about what they have been reading and hand out the all-important rewards.

16,049 children in West Sussex took part in Animal Agents, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017.

Do you have some time to spare this summer and would like to help your library encourage local children to keep reading during the holidays? You might have lots of experience working with children or families, or you could be a young person (14 years +) looking to develop new skills for your CV. If you think you would like to help this summer pop in to your local library or visit www. westsussex.gov.uk/src to find out more. n

WHAT IF ABSOLUTELY NOTHING was happening during the coming month? What if I ended up with zilch, zero, nada, and then they would kindly tell me to go home and stop wasting everyone’s time ‘thankyouverymuch’?

Luckily, I quickly found that we have tons of literary awesomeness in and around the area this month. With the upturn in the weather recently, it’s time get out there.

So here you are - have at it!

Ongoing (yay!)

One for comic fans, Worthing Museum is hosting an exhibition of memorabilia by TANK GIRL creators Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. They even have the first copy that features her on display! In a world where everyone wants to be Barbie, be Tank Girl instead. FREE

1 – 3 June GLASTONWICK Festival is back! A weekendlong foray into music, beer and above all, poetry (the beer sounds quite good too though). Church Farm, Coombes

2 June TWO VOLUNTEERS AT WORTHING LIBRARY AT THE END OF A VERY BUSY DAY - 2017

I may be slightly biased, but I heartily recommend a day at the Writers’ HQ Worthing writing retreat. Great for any budding writers out there.

They also provide the most amazing lunch... held at Freedom Works offices

9 June, 2-4pm If poetry is more your thing, why not see a reading at Worthing Museum? To accompany Gary and Bambi Goodman’s exhibition ‘ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS’; Gary will read poems alongside Susan Evans and Daniel Searle. FREE

13 June, 7pm City Books Presents: HENRY NORMAL – A NORMAL FAMILY, a reading by comedian Henry Normal and his wife Angela. Based on his book about adventures with their son who has autism and the uplifting messiness of everyday life.

Ropetackle Arts centre.

14 June, 7.30pm West Sussex Writers are holding ‘HOW TO SURVIVE AS A FREELANCE WRITER’. A talk with Alison Hawes. Alison is a children’s author who has published over three hundred books, a feat that I can’t imagine achieving in a million years (or even three million). Seriously, over three hundred books! Goring Methodist Church

16 June, 6.30pm If you like your stories scary, why not go and see SISATA’s production of ‘FRANKENSTEIN – THE FALLEN ANGEL’ in Highdown Gardens?

The original telling of Frankenstein is 200 years old now, and this adaptation promises to be a “radical reimagining”. Well worth a look and don’t forget to take a picnic!

Hopefully this covers all your local literary needs!

Still hankering for more, or think I’ve missed something? (It’s highly possible.) If so, you can post your events at hereandnowmag.co.uk. There are tons of events coming up in the next few months as well so please keep checking in! For now, I’m off to dust off my Tank Girl costume... n

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Gig Buddies: Stay Up Late Get out to more shows and volunteer at the same time!

IF YOU WANT TO GO OUT to more gigs or shows, whilst giving back to the local Worthing community, Gig Buddies could be just the thing!

Gig Buddies is a project which matches adults with a learning disability or autism to a volunteer who has similar interests in events, to go to shows together. It’s all about inclusion, and forming friendships based on shared interests. It’s also very important in preventing isolation among a population who can be at risk of being excluded.

The project has been going in Worthing for to heavy metal, festivals to pop concerts. The five years – Andrew Walker, who was one of project organisers are great at matching people the first people to join says “Gig Buddies is an based on things like music taste, interests and awesome thing to go to – whatever buddy you personality! n are paired with, you’ll have an awesome time.

The best things I’ve done is go to Star Wars – we For more info, and to get involved, go to went to see the force awakened in Brighton. When gigbuddies.org.uk n The Last Jedi came out I booked it in Worthing, it finished at 2.30am – I got the gig ALEX & ANDREW buddy award to say that I’d stayed out the latest that month! Me and my gig buddy take it in turns to choose things – we do great things together.”

Pairs of Gig Buddies have been to all sorts of different gigs – from comedy

Community Updates MAKE A WILL FORTNIGHT

EXCITING VOLUNTEER POSITIONS!

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TAKE PART IN GUILD CARE’S ‘Make A Will Fortnight’ 4-15 June, and have your Will written, or amended, by a local firm. Rather than charging you their usual fee, firms will instead ask you to donate to support the charity’s work. Over 3,000 local people benefit from Guild Care’s services every year. By taking part in this scheme, you will be making a difference to local lives.

TRANSITION TOWN WORTHING CIC carries out energy conservation and sustainability projects in the community. This includes developing green spaces, providing energy advice, running workshops, seed swaps and Eco Open Houses events.

In the pipeline are new projects for which we are seeking new funding.

HERITAGE LOTTERY FUNDED LAST FISHERMAN STANDING announces final exhibition : 26 – 28 May.

The growth of TTW requires careful planning and management which is creating exciting opportunities for roles. Additional Directors are sought to join the Board, which includes the role of treasurer.

From Splashpoint via the Fish Factory, Worthing Pier, St Paul’s Café, Worthing Museum, and Worthing Library all the way to West End Galleries on Rowlands Road, the exhibition will feature many highlights of the project’s work.

As TTW is part of a growing network of Transition projects across the country anyone joining us will become part of a big team all working toward similar ends which is about investment in community development to make a positive impact on climate change.

Local will also show visitors how to make and mend fishing nets on Saturday 26 May from 11am at East Beach opposite Coast Café (weather dependent).

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The Last Fisherman Standing, a two-year Heritage Lottery funded project which has celebrated and shared Worthing’s rich fisheries heritage from the 1800s to the modern day, is holding a final exhibition trail.

Volunteers will be available to chat about the project and its legacy, and the project team will also host three guided walks sharing insights into the project. Meet at 11am outside the front of Splashpoint Leisure Centre for a two hour walk. Walks will go ahead in all weather.

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Minibus Appeal Our door-to-door community transport is a lifeline for many.

It enables local people who cannot drive or may not be confident about leaving their home alone to easily access Guild Care’s help.

THIS MEANS FEWER PEOPLE ARE ISOLATED and can attend our variety of services, including dementia day care, or even enjoy trips out as part of our children or adult support programmes.

Last year our minibuses undertook almost 25,000 journeys around Worthing and the surrounding areas, collecting and dropping passengers home.

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This is why we are asking you to help fund a new minibus within this 85th Anniversary year. It will be a minibus for your local community, funded by people like you.

Doreen Cannon, from Broadwater, says “Guild Care’s community transport makes all the difference to me. Without this service I would have to pay for a taxi to bring me to their day centre in Worthing. The only other alternative would be the bus but, because I am losing my sight, I struggle to walk to the bus stop and need help with steps. It’s quite frightening to go out alone.

The drivers are always so friendly and polite and they look after us all so well. It’s more than just giving me a lift, this service prevents me from being alienated. I couldn’t ask for more.”

Michelle Sidney, Charity Fundraising Manager, says “Each minibus costs £55,000 to purchase and adapt for the needs of disabled passengers. We need the help of our local community, from members of the public to businesses, to raise these funds and ensure local people can continue accessing the help they need.”

To donate: guildcare.org/minibus or please call (01903) 528613. n

DADIFESTO

We’re Armed and Extremely Dadly When you tell someone you live in Worthing many may immediately think Socks and sandals, ‘Man from C&A’ styling and more man-made fibres then you can shake an Alan Partridge-shaped stick at.

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS, as the songs goes. No, of course, they blooming aren’t. Nor is it for many Dads who live here.

Just because I am a father doesn’t mean my fashion sense has taken a backseat. Nor does it mean that I want to be inundated with pointless D.I.Y gadgets, novelty football tat, or anything to do with Golf.

Yes, it’s Father’s Day. The one day of the year that your poor old fella gets to claim a bit of glory. A few pressies and maybe just maybe - if he has been a good boy, not be woken up at the crack of dawn with a ‘Ninja Turtle’ style attack to his nether regions by free-roaming toddlers.

I’ll take it as read, that if you are greedily consuming this fascinating piece of literature, that you are either a dad yourself, or as someone guilt-

I WANT A SHOUT OUT TO THE DADS WHOSE ONLY SOCIAL LIFE REVOLVES AROUND THE FRIENDS THEIR PARTNERS HAVE MADE ON THE PLAYGROUND.

linden with a sense of troubles and who is thinking ‘So What Do Dads Actually Want For Father’s Day?’.

So, let me help, well I am kind like that.

I can’t speak for all dads, but what I want is this.

To be able to take my son out and not have someone call me a babysitter or patronisingly say ‘Oh, aren’t you good giving mum a day off?’

I want a shout out to the stay-at-home dads that goes to ‘mum and baby’ groups and is ignored because they don’t have a ‘proper job’, is probably a paedophile or only there to have an affair.

I want a shout out to the dads that commute, they don’t see their kids during the week and feel a huge amount of guilt because they have to miss sports days or is late for Parents Evenings because his boss is a git.

I want a shout out to the dads whose only social life revolves around the friends their partners have made on the playground.

I want a shout out to the dads whose kids have grown up, flown the nest but still will always be the man that first held their tiny hand.

I want a shout out to the stepdads that find they struggle as they try to build bridges

with new

by Dan Flanagan families.

HEAD BOY @ DON’T

BELIEVE THE HYPE | I want a shout TOTROCKINBEATS out to the separated dads who only see their kids at weekends and choke back the feeling that they aren’t allowed to talk about it, because ‘real men’ don’t.

I want a shout out to the dads who aren’t afraid to change a nappy that finds it hard to take their kids out because all the changing facilities are in women’s toilets.

I want a shout out to the dads that want to take an active part in their children’s upbringing and not conform to some 1970’s sitcom stereotype.

The one where they are only there to hand out the discipline, shout obscenities on the football field and look at a washing machine like it something that Marty McFly has brought back from the future.

I want a shout out to the dads who understand when it comes to having kids, it takes a boy to make one, but a man to raise them.

Yeah, that what I want, what I really really want.

(Well, that and a date with Maxine Peake, or I’ll settle for Public Enemy and The Stone Roses playing a double-bill at TotRockinBeats. Mostly I just settle for not making an involuntary noise every time I stand up or put my socks on). Yeah, that would be kind of cool.

Until next time brothers and sisters – Remember to ‘Fight The Power!!!’

PS: If anyone reading this and thinks ‘Yes, this it a bit of me’ (The dad bit, not the Maxine bit obvs), then check out ‘Dad La Soul’. It’s a new monthly club I am running for dads and their kids to hang out and do cool stuff like filmmaking, DJ, science, stand-up comedy workshops. It’s on a Saturday morning and takes place at GuildCare day centre in Worthing so that any wannabee granddads can join in. Feel free to drop me a line dan@ totrockinbeats.com if you’d like to know more. n

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HEALTH & WELLBEING

10 Keys to Happier Living

To find out more, come along to the Action for Happiness Worthing monthly meet-up group – next one Tues 12 June, 7-9pm, Coast café. More info at facebook.com/ actionforhappinessinworthing

We are spoilt for opportunities with our flat coastline and hilly Downs but even so, modern life can make being active difficult. The key is to keep it simple, incorporating small changes into your everyday routine, such as walking to the shops instead of taking the car.

ACTION FOR HAPPINESS

No. 3 - Exercising

Mind and body are intimately connected, and studies show that taking care of our bodies is just as vital for mental

wellbeing as for physical health.

INCREASING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY - especially outside – helps improve our mood instantly, reduce stress and even treat depression.

For the more ambitious, buddying up is a good way to combat the inevitable dips in motivation, be it power walking with a friend along the prom, joining a yoga or dance group or even rowing like Issy!

To find out more, see facebook.com/actionfor happinessinworthing and come along to the monthly meet-up group – next one Tues 12 June, 7-9pm at Coast café. n Jacqui Moorhouse

On the Crest of a Wave SPORT ON THE HIGH SEAS

PHOTO: JOEL DINNING

Issy Walker shares her love of rowing and encourages us to make the most of our fabulous waterside location.

As the weather has improved and everyone has flocked to the beach, many have taken to the sea.

AMONGST THE PADDLE BOARDERS AND KAYAKERS, you may have seen groups of people going backward, or perhaps you have seen us training on the rowing machines in the club house next to Crabshack, near Splashpoint.

Currently, we are preparing for the start of the season, where we compete all along the South Coast in CARA (Coastal Amateur Rowing Association). Worthing Rowing Club races on the sea in boats ranging from a single rower in a boat, to 4 rowers and a coxswain, who steers and provides encouragement. Coastal rowing races are exhilarating. There is, of course, the element of competition, made more complex by the

waves, and on occasion, other team’s boats. But it is not solely about racing. Training and competing together form great friendships. We all work together to improve ourselves, and the team.

As the sea is painfully cold over winter, we move to the river as the days get shorter, and race there too. This year, we competed in the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race on the Tideway (the largest women’s race in the world), and came 5th in our division, beating many crews in the division above us. A few of the other juniors and I recently got the opportunity to travel to Nottingham to represent our region, Wessex, in a national rowing competition. It was an amazing experience and something that I never really thought I would get to do.

Upcoming, we have a junior Learn to Row course for 13-18 year olds in May half term. Soon, there will also be a Learn to Row course for

16+. Worthing and Worthing Town regattas are scheduled for Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th of June (weather-dependant), so come and support your local rowing club, or simply come and watch for a while.

Much like all the other clubs who share the sea and rivers in our region for various sporting activities, we too welcome all, whether you have rowed before or aren’t sure what the differences are between rowing and canoeing. For me, joining the rowing club has been one of the best choices I have made (thanks mum for nagging me to do sport). I hope some of you feel encouraged to have a go, or at least that everyone has learned a little more about what exactly it is that those people going backward amongst the waves are doing.

For more info visit worthingrowingclub.com or drop into the club. n Izzy Walker KEEN ROWER AND STUDENT AT BOHUNT SCHOOL

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BUSINESS FEATURE

Finance Corner Expert Advice for First Time Buyers BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME is a very exciting experience but can also be quite daunting. Without doubt it will be the most important purchase of your life so far and it can be difficult to know where to start. Here are some initial pointers to help you on your way.

Before buying, look at location and your longer term objectives. Consider how long you will stay in the property and if you will need to be close to certain amenities – are transport links important, school catchment areas, the distance to work, local shops etc. This will help you focus your search on the right area and property type.

MATT SUTTON, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF EMERALD FINANCE, your local award winning financial advisers, is here to answer your financial questions.

Got a query? Email on info@emeraldfinance.co.uk

AFFORDABILITY – It’s vital you check what you can afford and how much a lender will lend you before you go on your property hunt or you could be wasting your time. To ensure you get the best deal and to know the maximum you can borrow pop into Emerald Finance where one of the qualified Mortgage Brokers will search through over 100 lenders to get the best deal for you.

MORTGAGE – You will need a decision in principle or a “DIP” from a lender before most estate agents will take your offer seriously. This is a document that is formal confirmation from a lender that they will be happy to lend you a defined amount towards your purchase. It’s vital to getting an offer accepted

but you only need one, so don’t get talked into getting several as this can have an adverse impact on your credit score.

CREDIT SCORE – A good score is key in getting a mortgage so if you haven’t checked yours, then do. Basic tips are to get yourself on the voters roll, make sure your direct debits are paid on time and that you don’t go over your overdraft or credit card limits if you have them. Check your report at www. equifax.co.uk or www.experian.co.uk – most offer a free trial period. If you need assistance pop into Emerald Finance and we can show you how to rebuild your credit score.

HELP TO BUY – There are government incentives that can help you along the way and in some cases make your money go further – speak to one of our mortgage brokers for more information.

REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS – Costs of updating or renovating often come up higher than most of us expect! Even if you just plan to put your own touch on the property make sure you have calculated how much you will need to spend and how you will get the money to cover this.

If you are looking to buy your first home pop into one of the Emerald Finance offices at 77 Rowlands Road or 10 Chapel Road in Worthing for a no-obligation chat, or call 01903 222940 to book an appointment at our offices or your home. n

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LOCAL BUSINESS

Latest News

Adur & Worthing Business Awards The Adur & Worthing Business Awards 2018 will be held on Friday 16Â November.

LAUNCH EVENT - Wednesday 6 June FREE 5pm Arrivals, networking, drinks & canapes 6.15pm Presentation.

The Official launch event will be held at Hummingbird Restaurant, Shoreham Airport. Register on the Chamber website at worthingandadurchamber.co.uk.

NOW IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR, the awards have become the feature business event across the area showcasing a thriving business community. Organised under the umbrella of the Adur & Worthing PHOTO: MARTIN BLOOMFIELD Business Partnership (AWBP) ADUR & WORTHING BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS 2017 as a not-for-profit organisation, the Awards are organised by a committee of successful local business people. These include Electronic Temperature Instruments, JSPC Computer Services, Seagull Travel, Worthing & Adur Chamber of Commerce and Adur & Worthing Council.

Why attend the launch event? If you are thinking of entering the Adur & Worthing Business Awards, you may be interested to hear the top tips for entering the awards from a panel of previous winners, judges and sponsors and ask any questions you may have.

There will of course be plenty of time for Networking so bring plenty of Business Cards! n

Full details of the award categories, entry details and ticket purchase can be found on the Adur & Worthing Business Awards website awbawards.com.

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LOCAL BUSINESS CONTINUED

Worthing Digital Here & Now highlights local groups and networks that support our business community, one of which is Worthing Digital.

A FEW YEARS AGO, if you worked in the digital sector and lived in Worthing, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re on your own. It’s that thought that prompted Worthing’s first ‘Tweet-Up’ (a local meetup organised through Twitter) in August of 2008. Ten years on, the group has over 300 members and continues to grow.

JUNE BUSINESS LISTINGS THIS MONTH’S NETWORKING AND EVENTS 31 May

Tues 26 June

Cyber Security – Are You Protected?

10.30am-12 noon. Free interactive presentation by Barclays Bank to help you to evaluate your risk and to start the process of protecting yourself and your business from Cyber Attack. Freedom Works Worthing

WorthingDigital talks: Minimum Viable Products & Behavioural Insights. 7-9pm Fresh Egg, 1-13 Buckingham Road. Info & book meetup.com

Wed 3 & 20 June The Breakfast Club, 9-10.30am. Meet the members and network. Continental Breakfast. Every month. Freedom Works Worthing. £5

Wed 6 June Business Awards Launch Event. 5.307.30pm. For anyone thinking of entering the Adur & Worthing Business Awards.

Hummingbird Restaurant, Shoreham Airport. Book via Chamber website

Thurs 7 June

WorthingDigital run two events every month. The first is a Thursday evening social at The Corner House. This is a relaxed and informal meetup (you won’t find anyone swapping business cards) but you will have a chance to meet and chat with veterans and newbies from across the digital sector. Most nights are a friendly mix of software developers, designers, photographers, project managers, video producers, trainers and even voice over artists. It’s free, friendly and everyone is welcome - you’ll always learn something.

The other monthly event is an evening of talks that explore the many aspects of digital culture. We’ve covered a wide range of topics from digital marketing to cloud computing and everything in between. All our events are free and open to all.

It’s an exciting time to be working in digital in Worthing. Two of our established co-working spaces, Freedom Works & Colonnade House are expanding to provide more facilities for freelancers and small businesses. The Council have announced a project that will bring super-fast gigabit broadband to the town. We’ll be hearing more about this in an upcoming talk, so keep an eye on our events page and of course the listings in Here & Now. For info meetup.com/WorthingDigital n

Finance Thursday with Barclays Bank.

9am-4pm. Informal chat with expert advice on a range of subjects including business growth, GDPR compliance, business borrowing. Freedom Works Worthing

Thurs 19 July NETXP CHICHESTER BUSINESS EXPO. 10am-3pm. Chichester College.

Business to business exhibition with a game themed difference! 40 plus exhibitors. See netxp.co.uk for info.

FREE

THE REGULAR (MOSTLY FREE) EVENTS Networth First Wed of month. 5.307.15pm. Cafalatte, Chapel Rd. FREE ‘Not Networking’ First Tuesday of each month. 9.30-11.30am. Book. Eventbrite.

FREE

Friday 15 June Chamber Hub 12.30-2pm.

Impulse Leisure, Lancing Manor.

Informal networking. Book. worthingandadurchamber.co.uk FREE

Fri 22 June Networking Breakfast: What Can Arts do for Business? 7.30-9am. Panel talks about Corporate Social Responsibility, Includes Rod Lunn, CEO Shoreham Port, Suzanne Heaven, Marketing Director Gemini Press, Martin Allen, Chairman of Ropetackle. Plus an update on the Forward Steps CSR programme.

Ropetackle, Shoreham. £14/19 Register.

See Chamber site for info.

BNI NETWORKING Every Thursday.

6.30am. Dome Cinema. bniworthing. co.uk Book. £10 inc breakfast.

Worthing Digital Social Third Thursday of month. 8pm. The Corner House pub.

FREE First Friday Network First Friday of every month 12.30 – 2.30pm.

Burlington Hotel. FREE Worthing Business Oracle Last Fri of month. 9.30-10.30am. Starbucks, Broadwater. Book. Eventbrite. FREE

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THOMAS H GREEN - MUSICAL TIME MACHINE

Shake your Tailfeather 2008-2012

In Worthing 2018 a weekend evening can be a blast. If you’re willing to explore, there’s always something going on, something lively, curious and original, almost certainly something you can dance to.

IT WASN’T ONLY THE MUSIC THAT WAS HOT, SO WAS THE TEMPERATURE ON THE DOME’S DANCEFLOOR, BUT SHAKE YOUR TAILFEATHER WAS GATHERING ITS CROWD.

IT WASN’T ALWAYS THUS. Rewind the clock only a decade and Worthing was very different…

Promoter Gerard Luck’s Sweet Release parties ticked over during the late ‘90s but tailed off in the new millennium. Within a few years, if you wanted to dance, Worthing was dead as the proverbial dodo. However, a few DJs were still enlivening pubs and back rooms. One of these was Chris Freestone who, with Simon ‘Bumchin’ Hedges and others, did a night at the Frog Pond pub (Bath Place, now a hairdressers) called The Groovatarium.

They were heftily into soul and funk. So was Norman Murchie who, with Tristan Forshaw as Fraggle Rock DJs, pulled all-nighters at Giuseppe’s Café (Warwick St), then moved to The Wheatsheaf when it opened (Richmond Rd, recently closed and boarded up). In the summer of 2008, Chris Freestone and Bumchin relaunched under the name Shake Your Tailfeather. Norman Murchie soon joined them.

“The name came from the fact that Worthing had just been given the Birdman event,” explains Freestone, “I launched it on the same day [6th July], thinking that Worthing would be packed. I fly-postered along the beach with help from the Frog Pond staff - who politely then took them down the next day, so as to not litter! The logo came from an image of a stripper we found online which we used as a template to create a backdrop, complete with the aforementioned feathers.”

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Do you have any musical memories of Worthing?

Perhaps you even have photos? We’d love to hear from you.

Please email Thomas at editorial@hereandnowmag. co.uk (subject field: Time Machine). We look forward to hearing from you.

The name also came from the classic soul song ‘Shake the Tail Feather’ (recorded by Ray Charles, Ike & Tina Turner and others), and soul, in all its liveliest, sweatiest permutations, was what it was all about. The night soon began to bubble, and moved to the Dome Cinema’s Gallery Bar. “We gave out free badges, compact mirrors and other paraphernalia,” remembers Freestone, “maybe there was even a backdrop by then too. The opening night was poor as we used the Dome’s PA, a mistake.”

have that sensibility. It was a reaction to all that. It worked really, really well to begin with but fell on its arse at the very end. It had run its natural course, done what we set out to do, put on credible night in Worthing.”

It wasn’t only the music that was hot, so was the temperature on the Dome’s dancefloor, but Shake Your Tailfeather was gathering its crowd.

Shake Your Tailfeather was always a collective and changing circumstances, including some members leaving town, meant it folded in the summer of 2012.

However, from its ashes rose Inappropriate Handclap, put together by Norman Murchie, Simon ‘Bumchin’ Hedges and Steve McMahon. They adopted some of Tailfeather’s remit and expanded upon it.

“It finally gave people round here the opportunity to go somewhere and listen to music that wasn’t mainstream,” recalls Norman Murchie, “It got very busy and became like a little community.

It was the only party in town!”

“It was what I got into DJing for in first place,” adds Simon ‘Bumchin’ Hedges, “When you’re behind the decks you can read the crowd, read what’s best to dance to; that’s why we do it. We only covered costs really, but it didn’t matter. You’d be playing those same records in your bedroom anyway, and it gravitates from there.”

The arrangement with the Dome was a simple one, involving a private members scheme to circumvent licensing laws, but when the venue’s management changed in early 2010, and an unaffordable hire fee was introduced, it was time to move on.

“A gig by Pete Fij and that chap from the House of Love [Terry Bickers] in front of about five people in that little unkempt top room at Coast, swung us there,” says Freestone, “I got the first event there to coincide with Norman’s birthday in April. After that we were off. Norman invested in a PA and before long we were DJing, working behind the bar, selling homemade patties and the all-weather beach parties were born.”

“One of my favourite nights was in the early days at Coast,” says Murchie, “It took a while to get the lighting sorted so we only had an old table lamp with tassels. Towards the end of the night it was quite hectic, turned a bit housey. My friend Steve McMahon was flicking the lamp on and off for dramatic effect. There were probably only 50-60 people there but every time that lamp went off, it just created this atmosphere, this reaction. The beach parties with the fireworks were very special too.”

Norman Murchie also puts Shake Your Tailfeather’s success down to a fresh attitude towards soul and the culture surrounding it.

“There’s a lot of history of northern soul round here,” he explains, “Sometimes that can be a bit one dimensional, one sound all night, you can’t have a drink on the dancefloor, respect all these rules that were put together back in the ‘60s. Tailfeather didn’t

“The three of us pushed ourselves a bit further musically,” says Hedges, “I’ll play anything from Sister Sledge to house tunes, disco re-edits. It still has a core atmosphere that you never quite know what we’re going to play.”

Inappropriate Handclap, along with Samurai Nights and the recently resuscitated Utopia parties, is one of Worthing’s most popular nights, filling Coast every month throughout the summer and beyond. But it was undoubtedly Shake Your Tailfeather that restarted the nightlife in this town.

“It was like the Sex Pistols at Manchester Free Trade Hall,” Murchie jokes, “In that almost everyone doing anything round here came to it on a semi-regular basis. It made people say, ‘Hang on, this could work!’

It hadn’t been happening in Worthing for a long time. If you were going to do something, it had to be cheese or nonsense. Shake Your Tailfeather gave out the idea that if you did something they were into, other people would get involved.”

He’s right. Go and do something you’re into. Get people involved. Do it. Now. n

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MAKE ME FAMOUS BABY #2

Space to Create

“How do I get to the Assembly Hall?” the young man carrying a violin case asked the taxi driver at Worthing station.

“Son,” she said, ”you gotta practice!”

ONLY 15 YEARS AGO BANDS REHEARSING for their gigs at local venues of the time such as the Fountain (now Slug & Lettuce), Inn on the Prom (now Brio Restaurant), Maggies Bar (now Tangerine) or Divines (now AMC) might rehearse in the basement at the Conservative Club Union Place, at the back of the Vintner’s Parrot, or any number of pub, church or school rooms. But there would always be noise complaints.

Choirs can rehearse at places like Heene Community Centre, St Botolph’s Church Rooms, and almost every local school, where you just need a space and ideally a piano. But pop bands tend to be very loud, which doesn’t go down well with the neighbours, and they usually need a drum kit, amps and PA for vocals.

That always used to mean each and every rehearsal involved the loading and unloading of cars. On a weekly basis, just in Worthing, there could be twenty bands or more, all heaving their Premier drums and Marshall stacks back and forth, months before they would be heard performing at a venue.

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Thirteen years ago, one Worthing band decided there was a better way. Derrech and some friends started a rehearsal studio, where drums, amps and microphones could be set up all the time, and where bands could just turn up with guitars and drumsticks, plug in and play. They found premises in Ivy Arch Road, and Ivy Arch Studios was born.

Fast forward to 2018, and there are now three separate fully equipped rehearsal studio complexes, all within easy walking distance of Worthing Central Rail. Here & Now visited all three, and each were busy with bands of all ages rehearsing, having lessons, and writing songs.

It’s Thursday night, and Richard Yandle is on the Ivy Arch Reception. “We’ve now been here thirteen years. It’s run by Derrech, Nige and Chris. There’s lots of band movement here. Royal Blood used to rehearse here back when they were a three piece.

Next thing we know they’re on tour in America with the Foo Fighters.

“We don’t just do rehearsals, bands can record here as well.” I can see there’s some interesting band gear for sale, something we found across all three facilities.

H&N: Is there space here for new bands?

Richard: “On the ivyarchstudios.com website, you can check schedule online and then call us.”

“WE DON’T JUST DO REHEARSALS, BANDS CAN RECORD HERE AS WELL.”

H&N: How about prices?

Richard: “We have four different rooms at different prices. If you want a block booking, we’re always up for a deal!”

In the largest studio room which is 30’ x 26’, Ivy Arch have been hosting 60s legends The Pretty Things, rehearsing for their Final Tour. Fitting that they should be ending their long careers here, as they were one of the stars of the infamous Worthing Phun City Festival, 24-26th July 1970, which Thomas H Green covered in our July 2017 issue (check our blog hereandnowmag.co.uk/ thomas-h-greens-musical-time-machine if you missed it!).

Worthing-born 70s Rock star Keith Emerson, of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who sadly died in 2016 opened the studios, and they were thinking of renaming the place in his honour. “In the end, we’re known by everyone as Ivy Arch, so we didn’t rename, but we are considering renaming one of the rooms.”

Richard speaks very highly of Emerson. “He was a lovely guy.” He goes on to say “We like to support and produce bands from here. We work with a great original Rock band, with a late 60s Garage sound which plays here, called Break The Fable.”

It’s not all bands at Ivy Arch though: there’s also a radio station based there: Sunshine Radio (worthingsunshineradio.co.uk if you’re looking for a new online Worthing-based radio experience)

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has its studio just by the reception desk. They have also been hosting a Summer Holiday Rock club called Mad 4 Music for 11 to 16 year olds, which runs for a week and ends with a gig.

H&N: What would you say the ethos of Ivy Arch is?

“I’d say always that we’re reasonably priced, that the rooms actually work with sound, bands like the sound. And we’re relaxed. We don’t make a fuss!”

Almost next door to Ivy Arch on Ivy Arch Road is Sound House Studios.

Where Ivy Arch looks quite low key from the outside, you can’t miss the flags and signs announcing Sound House.

We spoke to owner and musician Steve Gardner about how they started. “When Northbrook College vacated this building to occupy their built-fromscratch recording studio complex in West Durrington in August 2016, the owner came to one of my band’s gigs [also called Sound House] and told me he had somewhere for us to rehearse. But when I saw the place, I saw the potential for something special.

“We moved in two months later and have continued to significantly upgrade the facilities ever since. Currently we have eight rooms, including our largest room and two smaller booths, all with drums, amps and PA, but watch this space, because we have plans for much more!” Some have air conditioning, which can make a hot summer night’s practicing a little cooler.

It’s not just band rehearsal space here. There’s the Dance House studios (entrance on the West side of the building) for dance and martial arts, which Steve runs as a separate business.

Drumming lessons are available with Louis, High Tyde’s drummer. Steve has also extended into band management, with local bands Jacob Aaron & The Reign, Teal and My Pet Shark, and into live gig promotion, with a charity gig with soul band The Last Word, and new band nights at St Paul’s. Sound House has plenty of spare amps and guitars, so it’s possible to walk in empty-handed and still be able to rehearse.

Steve’s background, with many years in the corporate world, shows when he talks about Sound House’s ethos; “Highest quality facilities and great service to support young bands.”

Noticing the bands in tonight are all male, I ask Steve what the gender split of his clientele.

“About a 70/30 gender split male to female. We’re getting more and more female bandleaders and bass players.”

It’s clearly a busy music evening. I ask Steve how busy it is generally: “I count two hundred and forty bands on our books so far. And we still have spaces, particularly weekly daytimes.” This was much the same picture with all three facilities; busy evenings, but plenty of free space during traditional working weekdays. Worthing bands, consider getting some days off in the week!

Newest kid on the block is brothers Yiannis and Andreas’ project, Ridiculously Cool Music Studios, in the little Southcourt Industrial Estate just next door to Worthing Central Rail’s car park. It has taken three years since getting into the two storey building to opening this February. Both rooms have the necessary music equipment, but are lit and furnished more like cool venues. One is called

the Ridiculous room, the other the Cool room.

There is neon - or LED - or possibly laser lighting, which means you have a choice of colours. There are paintings on the walls.

They tell me “we built it ourselves! We’re musicians, and in Brighton we’ve been rehearsing for years and asking each other ‘Why don’t they have this?

Why don’t they have that? Simple things, like ‘this wall should be pink!’ and we promised ourselves that one day, we would have a rehearsal place that looked cool, and felt inspiring. We’ve also put air conditioning in both rooms. If musicians need little extras, often we won’t charge them. For instance, we have a digital multitrack recorder, and if a band wants to record a song, they can use it for free.” Plus we saw there’s a spacious kitchen and chill-out area upstairs which will soon have a pool table.

Yiannis and Andreas have created something quite unique which fits nicely into an expanding sector in Worthing’s cultural life.

Today’s little tour only tells part of the story for rehearsal-hungry Worthing area musos. Further out of town, but within the city limits, are more music facilities, which we’ll explore next month. n

Mike Pailthorpe

Mike Pailthorpe runs the Music Business Degrees at Northbrook MET, and S’koolFest (23 May 2018) the yearly Festival for Sussex young new music talent. Twitter:@mikepailthorpe As last month, we asked our experts for their Top Tips for new bands.

TO P T I P S Ivy Arch’s Top Tips: “Always write your own material and listen to each other. We recommend recording yourself.

Always listen back. What you think you sound like, you don’t. Don’t just turn up the volume when you’re rehearsing; concentrate on your timing, that’s really important.”

Sound House’s Top Tips: “Find a regular slot you can all make for rehearsals and stick to it! The more you play together, whether you are being paid or not, the luckier you’ll get.”

Ridiculously Cool’s Top Tips: “Just do it, get out and play. Don’t wait for ages to start recording, either: produce your own stuff yourself if you have to.”

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JUNE LISTINGS

Your Guide to What’s On

PAINTING: RUTH MULVIE

IF YOU ARE INTO ART AND CULTURE, want to find a garden that you can gain

inspiration from, hear a new band that you will love to follow or are looking for a new outdoor pursuit, we cover everything from circus to cinema.

If your thing is having a nosey around the local area, listening to or seeing all the new fab talent that is on our doorstep or being part of something…

This is where you will find all the current listings for all the best places to hang out in Worthing, and Adur.

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LISTINGS - MUSIC

Connor’s View AS COLLEGE DEADLINES APPROACH, Worthing is seeing lots of great young bands coming out and gigging their own original material locally! My view this month happened to come from behind the sound desk at Zoe-Beth’s ‘Ignite’ EP launch in Coast Café, where she was supported by Anabelle Mather (accepted by Berklee College of Music), Jake Holyoake and Northbrook College band Lisa Original Music Lo. This plethora of young talent playing original Acoustic, Soul and Pop material to a busy Coast Café garnered a great reception. You won’t regret catching Worthing’s young bands at events such as ‘Music at Northbrook MET’ in the Lido (24 June), Spraxa at Bar 42 (6 June) and Nelson Navarro’s DJ set at the Cellar Arts Club (21 June). Meanwhile, Shoreham Allstars can be seen with their own collection of young talent at shows at the Lido (9 June, 7 July) and the Duke of Wellington (16 June). See these young bands now before you’re paying £30 a ticket for them! n By Connor Burke

Worthing

Fri 1 June Kylie On Show, St. Paul’s. 7pm, £16 OTD - Tribute

Blacken Blues Band, Piston Broke (Shoreham). 8:30pm, FREE - Blues

Sat 2 June

Ruby & The Revelators w/ The Stash DJs, Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for nonmembers – Soul, DJ

Pretty Addicted, Seething Akira and Deltorers, Bar 42. 8pm, £4 adv. – Dance/Punk/Metal

Alice on Sax, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE

That’ll Be The Day, Pavilion Theatre.

7:30pm, £26 – Variety Show

Glastonwick 2018, Ropetackle Arts Centre, The Duke of Wellington and Church Farm (Shoreham, Coombes).

6pm, £15 (Friday ticket) – Beer/ Poetry/Music Festival

Rapture 80s Party, Cellar Arts Club.

8pm, £2 for non-members – 80s DJ

Jazz Café: featuring Adam Glasser, Pavilion Café Bar. 8pm, £9 – Jazz Happy Endings, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE - Covers My Pet Shark and Friends, Duke of Wellington (Shoreham). 9pm, FREE Funk

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Glastonwick 2018, Ropetackle Arts Centre, The Duke of Wellington and Church Farm (Shoreham, Coombes).

6pm, £25 (Saturday ticket) – Beer/ Poetry/Music Festival An Intimate Evening w/ Mark Stanway (ex-Magnum), Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 8pm, £15 – Rock Rock’n’Roll with The Stuntmen, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE – Rock’n’Roll

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The Informers, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Blues

Fri 8 June

Mad Badger, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Noisferatu, Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for non-members –Noise/ Experimental

Sun 3 June

Ruiri Bissett, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE

Gretchen Peters w/ Kim Richey, Pavilion Theatre. 8pm, £29.50 – Singer-Songwriter Harvey Jlober, Cellar Arts Club, 4pm, £2 for non-members Glastonwick 2018, Ropetackle Arts Centre, The Duke of Wellington and Church Farm (Shoreham, Coombes).

6pm, £10 (Sunday ticket) – Beer/ Poetry/Music Festival

Motown, Disco and Soul Night w/ Treeanna, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Covers Bushman Brothers, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE - Rock Lorelei Rock, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sat 9 June

Bustin’ A Groove, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 5pm, FREE - Covers

Whitney: Queen of the Night, Pavilion Theatre. 7:30pm, £25 - Tribute

Porchlight Smoker, Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

South Coast Soul Revue 10th Birthday, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 8pm, £15 – Funk/Soul

Tue 5 June Greg Heath Quartet, Hare and Hounds. 8pm, FREE - Jazz

Wed 6 June Spraxa + Supports, Bar 42. 7pm, £3 otd – HipHop Rude Mechanicals, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE – Folk

Thu 7 June Human Cargo, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 8pm, £15 – Spoken Word/Song

Coast Summer Party w/ Apples I’m Home, Coast Café. 7pm, £7 OTD Folk

REVIEW

Live at the Lido MUSIC AT NORTHBROOK MET SHOWCASE

On the sunniest Bank Holiday Sunday that Worthing has seen in many years, Underground Vision, Northbrook MET Music Business Diploma student Jake Barnes’ event management company put on a fabulous day of new young live music at the open air stage at the Worthing Lido.

songwriter performed songs in a variety of genres from indie pop to downtempo. Chequered Red, a six piece funk/ pop rock band played two sets full of charisma and talent that would make anyone a fan. The day finished with an unannounced HipHop set

by Nelson Navarro as the blistering sun finally started to calm down.

Jake Barnes Are you part of Worthing’s original music scene? Send your previews and reviews with a high res photo to editorial@hereandnowmag. co.uk subject header ‘Worthing original music’ and you may see one published here!

KEWPIES LIKE WATERMELON (pronounced Kew as in ‘Kew Gardens’, but pies like ‘peas’), an Indie rock band from Northbrook college played their first public gig, formed and fronted

by Lucy Sarjeant. They have been recording, and an EP is coming out soon.

PHOTOS: CHEQUERED RED AT THE LIDO TAKEN BY FINN JONES (OF THE WORTHING BEATLES!)

The Worthing Beatles, Worthing’s very own Beatles tribute act played all your favourite hits from the legendary group, and everyone surprised themselves by knowing all the lyrics. Spraxa, a talented and skilled Hip Hop artist full of potential broke up the day with rap that was both honest and family friendly!

Bella and Matthew, two incredibly talented artists who first performed at last May’s S’koolFest, played an acoustic set.

Christian Le Surf, a keyboard playing singer-

PHOTO: JAKE BARNES. KEWPIES

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LISTINGS - MUSIC CONTINUED The Vincents, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE

Fri 22 June

Mason. 8pm, FREE - Jazz

80s party w/ Dumb Waiters, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE – 80s

Micky Hart and the Hartbrakers, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Classic Rock

Gloo + Supports, Bar 42. 8pm, FREE - Punk

Thu 28 June

Jazz Session, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

9pm, FREE – Jazz

LeeFoxWood, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Southwestside, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE - Hip-Hop/Rock

Sat 16 June

Purple Shoes, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE

3 Choirs Soul and Gospel Event, St. Paul’s. 7:30pm, £17.50 – Choir/Gospel

Vertical Roosters, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE

Sun 10 June

Emersis + Supports, Bar 42. 8pm, FREE - Metal

WPO: Summer Concert, Assembly Hall.

7:30pm, £9 - £16 – Classical

Union DJs 90s Night, Cellar Arts Club.

8pm, £2 for non-members – 90s DJ

The Diablos, Duke of Wellington (Shoreham). 9pm, FREE – Country/ Rock

Acoustic Sunday, Cellar Arts Club, 4pm, £2 for non-members - Acoustic

Bowie Night w/ Spiders from Marz, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE – Tribute

Ratamacubit, Worthing Lido. 2pm, FREE – Latin

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

The Shoreham Allstars, Worthing Lido.

2pm, FREE – Youth Showcase

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

Taylor Maid, Egremont. 4:30pm, FREE – Big Band/Swing Purple Shoes, Duke of Wellington (Shoreham). 5pm, FREE - Americana

Bloody Mary, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Rock Covers

Sun 17 June

Lee Pryor, Piston Broke (Shoreham).

4:30pm, FREE

Jukebox Junkies, Worthing Lido. 2pm, FREE - Covers

Tue 12 June

Time Travellers, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 5pm, FREE – Jazz

Jason Henson Quartet, Hare and Hounds. 8pm, FREE - Jazz

Wed 13 June Professor Elemental Returns + Supports, Bar 42. 8pm, £5 adv. – Noise/Experimental/Hip-Hop

Thu 14 June World of Mouth, Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for non-members

Fri 15 June African Night Fever, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shoreham). 8pm, £20 – World Music Daniel Gilmore, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE

Ian, Matt and Theseus, Piston Broke (Shm). 4:30pm, FREE

Tue 19 June Marti Pellow, Assembly Hall. 7:30pm, £41 - Pop Steve Waterman Quartet, Hare and Hounds. 8pm, FREE - Jazz

Thu 21 June J.C. presents the Fuzzy Noise Show, Bar 42. 8pm, FREE - Alternative Rock Nelson Navarro, Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for non-members - DJ Welly Wailers, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE – Sea Shanty

Charlotte Glasson, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 8pm, £15 - Jazz

The Jackals, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sat 23 June Avalon All Day Festival, St. Paul’s.

12pm, FREE – Pop, Soul, Folk Rura, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm).

8pm, £14 – Folk/Scottish Saturday Sessions: The Ukulele, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 12pm, FREE Inner Soul Collective, Egremont.

8:45pm, FREE Jazz Session, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 3pm, FREE – Jazz Deadbeat Angels, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Rock Covers KXB Band, Piston Broke (Shoreham).

8:30pm, FREE

Sun 24 June Music at Northbrook MET, Worthing Lido. 1pm, FREE

Fri 29 June Martin Simpson, the Connaught Studio. 8pm, £16.50 - Folk Starlets Burlesque Worthing Show, Southern Pavilion. 6:46pm, £24.20 – Burlesque/Cabaret Joe Bunn, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE Rockin’ The Joint, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE Serotonic, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

9pm, FREE – Indie Covers Archie Deacon and the Bishops, Piston Broke (Shm). 8:30pm, FREE

Sat 30 June Soul Stew, Cellar Arts Club. 8pm, £2 for non-members – Soul DJ Alex and The Middlemen, Egremont.

8:45pm, FREE Finn Jones, Smugglers Return. 9pm, FREE The Retaliation Blues Band, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Blues Dolly Dagger, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sun 1 July Jazz Breakfast w/Mike Hatchard, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 11am, £10 - Jazz

The Informers, Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

Adur Concert Band, Worthing Lido.

2:30pm, FREE

Tue 26 June

Karandash, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

5pm, FREE – Klezmer/Balkan

Celebrating 23 Years of Jazz, Hare and Hounds w/ Kelvin Christiane and Geoff

WIN 2 TICKETS TO SEE OLI BROWN SOUTHERN PAVILION, FRIDAY 6 JULY It is 10 years since the release of Oli Brown’s first Blues album, Open Road, and to celebrate he is carrying out some selected UK dates which promise to be exciting and will show the reason why so many reviews constantly praise him as a singer, song writer, guitarist and exciting live performer. You now have the opportunity to be part of this celebration and be in with a chance to win two tickets!

JUST TELL US, WHAT WAS THE TITLE OF OLI’S FIRST ALBUM? Email your answer to Here & Now at competition@hereandnowmag.co.uk by Monday 18 June with the words Oli Brown in the header. Winner will be notified by Wed 21 June. Good Luck!

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DJ Jazzman, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE - DJ

Three Fold, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

5pm, FREE – Folk Rock

COMPETITION!

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What The Funk, The Railway (Lancing).

9pm, FREE

Sun 8 July Lancing Brass, Worthing Lido. 2pm, FREE – Brass Band

SPRING INTO SOUL

COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR INTO SOUL.CO.UK Worthing’sSPRING Gospel Community Choir, Spring Into Soul parades some uplifting Soul classics in three, 15 JULY 2018 four SUNDAY and five part harmony for a slightly earlier 5PMusual DOORS OPEN July 15th at evening out than on Sunday St.Paul’s.

Once again, all profits to Chestnut SPRING INTO SOUL PLUSgoSUPPORT House Children’s Hospice, hopingWORTHING to break the ST PAUL’S, CHAPEL ROAD, £2,000 barrier for this worthy cause, while making Worthing feel uplifted, soulful and full of £12 hope.

TICKETS £10/£5 + BOOKING FEE FROM SEETICKETS.COM ON DOOR Show starts 6pm, home before 9pm, £10/£5 from PROFITS GO TO CHESTNUT the choir or £12 on the door.

TREE HOUSE CHILDREN’S HOSPICE

This Summer’s show features more well known tunes, as Spring Into Soul explores its more Soulful side. Still accompanied by a full band, the choir grows year on year as more and more Worthing area people become turned on to the amazingly therapeutic benefits of singing in a supportive group. “We even have more men in the choir this term, which adds a lovely, rich bottom end to our sound “, said Siggi Mwasote, choir director since the began nearly ten years ago. If you enjoy the 3 Choirs event in June, come and try the full Spring Into Soul experience on July 15th.

Long Haul, Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

Thu 5 July The Soap Girls, Glove and Grace, Bar 42. 8pm, £5 adv. – Punk/Grunge

Fri 6 July Oli Brown, Southern Pavilion. 7pm, £19.80 - Blues Hannah and Pete, View Café Bar. 8pm, FREE Lux Delux, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE The Grey Blues Band, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Blues/ Rock Nigel Bagge Band, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Sat 7 July The Alter Eagles, Ropetackle Arts Centre (Shm). 8pm, £16 - Tribute The Shoreham Allstars, Worthing Lido.

2pm, FREE – Youth Showcase Synthony 101, Egremont. 8:45pm, FREE WOB, Duke of Wellington (Shm). 9pm, FREE – Pop Punk Poetry The Alibis, Piston Broke (Shm).

8:30pm, FREE

Taylor Maid, Duke of Wellington (Shm).

5pm, FREE – Big Band/Swing Strange Brew, Piston Broke (Shm).

4:30pm, FREE

Sun 15 July Spring into Soul Community Gospel Choir, St Paul’s.

5pm, tickets £5/£10 from seetickets.com

REGULAR EVENT LISTINGS Open Mic w/ Bustin’ A Groove, Thomas A Becket.

Every other Tuesday from 12th June at 8pm

Secret Shore Shanty Singers, Ye Old House at Home.

Last Tuesday of every month from 7:30pm South Downs Folk Singers, Ye Old House at Home. First Wednesday of every month from 7:30pm Open Stage, Bar Next Door. Every Wednesday at 8pm.

Open Mic w/ Karl, Piston Broke (Shm).

Every Wednesday at 8:30pm Tim Keegan’s Beach House Music Club w/guest musicians, Beach House.

First Thursday of every month at 8pm Open Mic, Tangerine Bar. Every other Thursday from 14th June at 8pm Karoake, Warwick. Every Thursday at 9pm Open Mic w/ Bustin’ A Groove, Crown and Anchor (Shm). Every Thursday at 8pm Madi Laine w/ Chris Simmons, Beach House. Last Sunday of every month at 8pm South Coast Blues Jam, Charles Dickens. 3rd Sunday of every month at 2pm

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A Jurassic June and July awaits!

This June-July, things are getting Jurassic as we have a gigantic offering in store for you at the Connaught Cinema and Pavilion Theatre.

THAT’S RIGHT, BURSTING ONTO OUR SCREENS is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the two and a half hour instalment will give you all of the dino-mite entertainment you need. A sequel to the 2015 release, Chris Pratt returns four years after the theme park was closed down, and this time Jeff Goldblum, who starred in the original trilogy, makes a welcome return to the big screen.

But that’s not all we have for you. My favourite event of the year is coming to the Pavilion Theatre this July, as Dinosaur World Live bursts onto the stage! A chance to see incredible puppetry bring to life all of your favourite historical dinosaurs, you can expect to see a life sized Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor, Segnosaurus and of course, every child’s favourite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex!

My personal favourite element of live theatre is puppetry; I find the craftwork so beautiful, as well as the way actors can bring so much energy and life into these inanimate objects. Not only can you and the family enjoy this spectacular show, but afterwards there is also a post-show meet and greet, so you can get up close and personal with these incredible creatures.

There may even be a rare appearance from the mythical blind dinosaur… Doyouthinkhesawus?

Okay I’ll leave the joke telling to the comedians.

Seats are selling very fast though so make sure you book your tickets before they become extinct. n

by Stephen Sheldrake Marketing Officer, Worthing Theatres, Museum & Art Gallery Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is showing from Wednesday 6 June at the Connaught Cinema. Dinosaur World is live on stage at the Pavilion Theatre from Friday 13 July - Sunday 15 July. To book visit worthingtheatres.co.uk

COMPETITION!

WIN TICKETS TO THE GIANT BALLOON SHOW

As part of Worthing Theatres’ SUMMER OF CIRCUS, on 1st July they are staging a hilarious show that is fun for the whole family! To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets, answer the following question:

The Giant Balloon Show is...

A) A Brilliant, crazy one man show that sees the performer end up inside a giant balloon B) Winner of the International Festival of Fools C) A celebration of all things Balloon with an 80s soundtrack and a thrilling theatrical experience D) All of the above!

To enter, email your answer to competition@hereandnowmag.co.uk by midnight Wed 13 June. To be entered, Balloon must be in the subject line. One entry per person. Winner selected at random and notified by email or phone by Thurs 14 June. Good Luck!

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Open Air or Share a Chair; Worthing’s got a cinema experience for you.

WORTHING’S MOVIE GOERS have an increasing choice of venues; smaller venues include the Cellar Arts Club or the Studio at the Connaught, or if you prefer your film alfresco style, you may catch the Screen on the Green, 25 May with The Greatest Showman at Worthing College.

Those who like a little more luxury will be thrilled to hear that our stunning Edwardian Dome cinema has just opened Screen 3. With luxury seating, and it looks pretty swanky, there’s also perfect date night two seaters complete with cup holders for your Pims and posh popcorn.

Check with the cinema for specific screen info. n

THEATRE JUNE 2018

CINEMA JUNE 2018

Sat 9 June

Thu 21 June

Tue 5 June

Sat 2 June

Darkest Hour, 7.30pm. Ropetackle

Tom Allen: Absolutely, 8pm. Pavilion Theatre

Peter Rabbit, 10:15. Connaught

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 10:15.

Connaught

Thu 7 June An Evening With Adam Henson, 7:30pm. Pavilion Theatre

Sat 9 June Whitney: Queen of The Night, 7:30pm.

Pavilion Theatre

Sat 16 June An Audience With Eddie Hall, 7:30pm.

Pavilion Theatre

Mon 4 June Blood Father (15), 19:00, Lancing Parish Hall for all info bfi.org.uk/ neighbourhoodcinema/luxor-revivalcommunity-cinema Book Club, 11am. Connaught

Tue 5 June Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) – Midnight opening, Dome Solo: A Star Wars Story (12A), parent &

Friday 22 June Gandini, 8 Songs Workshop: Basic Juggling Technique. 4pm. Pavilion Theatre

Sat 23 –Sun 24 June

Sat 23 June

Mon 11 June On Chesil Beach, (15), 11am. Connaught

My Neighbour Totoro (u), 10:15am, Connaught

Tue 12 June

Sun 24 June

ROH: Swan Lake (12a), 7:15pm.

Connaught

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, (15), 2pm. Connaught

Thu 14 June

Mon 25 June

Ropetackle Film Club: Wish You Were Here, 7.30pm. Ropetackle

Ocean’s 8. parent & baby screening, 11.30am door, 12 noon start. Dome

Fri 15 June

The Happy Prince (15), 11am, Connaught

The Greatest Showman, (Subject to Release). 7pm, Ferring Film Society

Wed 27 June Glyndebourne: Madama Butterfly, 7:15pm. Connaught

Thu 28 June

Sherlock Gnomes (U), 10:15am, Connaught

Wed 27 & Thu 28 June Block, Pavilion Theatre

Sat 30 June

Battle of The Sexes (Matinee Film – Wimbledon Special), 8pm.

Ropetackle

Sun 17 June

He Ain’t Heavy Workshop, 3pm, Richmond Room

Sat 30 June

baby screening, 12noon. Dome

He Ain’t Heavy, 7pm. Pavilion theatre

Oscar Wilde Live: An Ideal Husband, 7:15pm. Connaught

Sun 1 July

Graves of The Fireflies/ My Neighbour Totoro Double Bill, 7:15pm. Connaught

For A Few Dollars More, (15), 3pm.

Connaught

Sat 16 June

Garbuix, Various Times. Pavilion Theatre

THEATRE JULY 2018

Fri 22 June

Sun 10 June

Wed 6 June – Thu 14 June

Giant Balloon Show, Various Times.

Pavilion Theatre

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Various times. 9 June autistic screening, 11 June parent & baby screening Dome

Tue 3 July – Sun 8th July

Friday 8 June – Thursday 14 June

Rainbow Shakespeare: Taming of The Shrew, Various Times. Highdown Gardens

Edie (12a), various times. Connaught

Fri 8 June Who Framed Roger Rabbit (PG), 8:15PM. Connaught

Sat 30 June Show Dogs (PG), 10:15am, Connaught

Sound of Music, 2pm.

Connaught

McQueen (15) 3:30pm, Connaught

Tue 19 June

CINEMA JULY 2018

Pride 7:30pm, A fundraising event for #Worthingpride18

Mon 2 July Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, (15) 7pm.Lancing Parish Hall for all info bfi.org.uk/neighbourhoodcinema/ luxor-revival-community-cinema

Wed 20 June Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A) disability friendly screening, 12 noon.

Dome

Thurs 5 July Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (12a), 7:20pm. Connaught

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Stuff to Do

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MAY LISTINGS

Tue 29 May

Wed 30 May

Sat 26 May

CAPOEIRA Active morning. 9-1pm.

Includes face painting. Emmanuel Church, St Michael’s Road, Heene. capoeiranagouk.com

Angling4Education Fishing Days.

10.30am. For disabled children. Info angling4education.com/sendprovision

Record Fair. 10-4pm. St Paul’s Worthing.

FREE entry

Sun 27 May

A Night of Jazz and Soul with Lisa Lo. 7-12pm. With Music at Northbrook. Cellar Arts Club. Free member/ Student £1

Train Rides Worthing Model Engineers 2-5pm. Field Place, Worthing. 50p per ride

29 May – 3 June Just Dreaming Pop Up & Gallery.

Colonnade House

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Thurs 31 May Wine Tasting. 7.30pm.

Thomas A Beckett Pub. £5. book at the TAB

Garden Party from 3pm. Live music and Gin Festival. The Bull’s Head Goring.

FREE entry

Out of The Earth Art, Jac Lancaster – Fairbairn. Colonnade House

Superstar Arts Quiz and games night, including card bingo! 6.30-9pm. Prizes.

Heene Community Centre. £15 pp includes buffet and is fully supported.

Everyone welcome - friends and family.

JUNE LISTINGS Green Revolution: Winning the Carbon War. Doors 7.30pm. 8-9.30pm.

The Steyning Festival Big Top. steyningfestival.co.uk Book. £10/£6

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Fri 1 June Steyning Live Lounge 7-11pm -10th Anniversary Party in the Big Tent.

Shooting Field, Steyning. 07515 937685

Sat 2 June Bake Off Family Event. 10-2pm. Cake, Tea, coffee and cold refreshments.

Bake Off Comp. Games for adults/ children. Crafts, Messy play, for Stand up 2 Cancer. Goring Methodist Church.

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Rapture 80s Party Night from 8pm to midnight at The Cellar Arts Club. Free members/£2/£1 Horace Duke Day. From Noon (would be his 95th Birthday) in the Town Centre. FREE Car Boot Sale. 9am. Adur Rec. Charity: Davison Youth Concert Band The Great Little Farmers’ Market.

9-2pm. Selling local produce. Goring Car Boot Sale. 9am. Broadwater Green.

9am. Charity - Worthing Scope. FREE entry Steyning Farmers’ Market. 9-3pm. High Street Car Park, Steyning

Sat 2 - Sun 3 June Shoreham Fort Military History Weekend. 11am-4.30pm. See article in this issue Food and Drink Fair. 10-4pm.

Conservative Hall, East Preston.

Sat 2 June – 17 June Adur Art Trail. See locations and venues at adurartcollective.co.uk/art-trailvenues-2018/ Includes Shoreham Art Gallery as Venue 4. FREE

Worthing 10K - On the Prom for St Barnabas House. Contact events@stbh. org.uk or 01903 706355 Craft Fair 10-4pm. The Village Hall, East Preston. FREE entry

Tue 5 June Worthing Antique, Arts & Collectors Club. 7.30-9pm. Guest speaker Christopher Payne, BBC’s Antique Roadshow. Worthing library lecture theatre. £5 worthingantiqueclub@ yahoo.co.uk

Tue 5- Sat 9 June Alight With Colour. Jan Bennett, Jo Dowers, David Webb. Colonnade House Colonnade House. FREE entry

Wed 6 June Cellar Arts Club AGM. 7-9pm. Members meeting. Cellar Arts Club.

Thurs 7 June Indian Summers Fashion Show and Bollywood Dancing. 7-10.30pm.

Charity event. Breast Cancer Care, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust and Ovarian Cancer Action. Tickets £12 each in advance at justgiving.com/fundraising/ Sarah-Hand3 or /£15 on door. Worthing Dome

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Worthing Area Actors & Creatives Summer meet-up. 6-11pm. Beach BBQ, drinks at Cellar Arts Club. see FB page for info Art Class (adults) 10-12. £3 Info 01903 200184 every Thurs. Offington Park Methodist Church Hall.

Worthing Speakers. Meetings on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. Burlington Hotel. Info/book worthingspeakers.club

Fri 8 June Family Board Games Club. 3.30-6pm.

Every Friday. The Lounge at Activus.

FREE The 29 Market 9.30 to 12.30. East Preston’s Charity & Community Market.

The Village Hall, East Preston

Sat 9 June Beginner Modern Jive workshop, Jive Play. 12.45-5pm. Never danced Modern Jive before/fairly new to the dance/ looking to reaffirm those basics. Ivy Arch Road. Book jiveplay.co.uk £15/pp.

Indian Summers FASHION SHOW & BOLLYWOOD DANCING

Thursday 7 June 2018 7pm-10.30pm Worthing Dome Bollywood comes to Worthing for a second year. A ladies only event, we are supporting three amazing charities: BREAST CANCER CARE, JO’S CERVICAL CANCER TRUST & OVARIAN CANCER ACTION.

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Sun 3 June Party on the Green from noon.

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Summer Fair & Fun Day. 12-3pm.

Fletcher’s Field, Angmering World Gin Day midday start. Live music, 40 Gins and food. The Cricketers Broadwater Murder Mystery Dinner. Charity event.

6.30-10.30pm. English Martyrs Church.

Book - anyaswish@gmail.com Car Boot Sale. 9am. Adur Rec. Charity Adur Valley Scout Jamboree Traditional Summer Fayre! 12-3pm.

BBQ/Circus/Bouncy Castle/Stalls/ Cream Teas and more. Sompting Abbott Prep School.

Theatre Quirkshop. 3-5pm. All welcome. Cellar Arts Club.

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National Garden Scheme Open Gardens SOME 3,700 GARDEN OWNERS open their beautiful gardens to the public each year, sharing their passion and raising funds for NGS charities through entry fees, teas and slices of cake.

Sun 24 June AMBROSE PLACE Hidden Back Gardens. 10am 1pm & 2pm - 5pm So, with an official opening by the Mayor and Mayoress of Worthing, Councillor Paul Baker and Mrs Sandra Baker, some of the residents of Ambrose Place, Central Worthing, will open their hidden back gardens.

Entrance in Richmond Road, £6 per person. Entry points are at Ambrose Villa, (corner of Richmond/Portland Roads), and No 4 (near to St Paul’s Church). Refreshments available in the gardens of No 5 and Ambrose Villa for £3 pp.

Sat 16 - Sun 17 June CHANNEL VIEW, 52 Brook Barn Way, Goring-by-Sea. 2-5pm A seaside Tudor cottage garden blending traditional, antipodean and subtropical plants. Dense planting, secret rooms and intriguing sight-lines, with flint paths inlaid and a wildlife pond, and much more. Home-made teas. Admission £5, children free.

For info www.ngs.org.uk

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Tues 12 June Action for Happiness. 7-9pm. Info P21.

Coast Cafe.

Wed 13 June - Sun 1 July Exhibition: There’s No Place Like It. (closed Mondays) Ruth Mulvie.

Colonnade House

Wed 13 June A Bunch Of Amateurs. 7.45pm. The Rustington Players. The Woodland Centre Rustington. Tickets ticketsource

Thurs 14 June Book Signing - Pam Weaver. 10amnoon. The Old Bake House Tea Room, Tarring.

Fri 15 June Superstar Arts Summer Party at Davison High School. 7-10.30pm. Fully supported. £11 entry inc. finger buffet, live music & disco West Sussex Geological Society 7.30pm meeting at St Stephen’s Church. Info 01903 209140

Songwriting Workshop. 2-5pm.

Cellar Arts Club. Contact Bob to book bobburkemusic@outlook.com Big Summer Busk 10am - 5pm.

Musicians, singers and dancers. Worthing Town Centre. Contact richard.amey@ hotmail.co.uk - Worthing Churches Homeless Projects. Donation to charity

Sat 16 – Sun 17 June Musical Extravaganza - 7.30pm.

Songs from musicals. Fundraising. At St Symphorian’s Church Hall. £5. 01903 268109 Worthing Artists Open House weekends 11am - 5pm. 16/17 June worthingopenhouses.com FREE Worthing and Worthing Town Rowing Regattas, starts from Splash Point

Sun 17 June South Coast Blues Jam 2-5pm. Charles Dickens, Heene Road. FREE entry Worthing Mencap Diamond Family Jubilee Picnic. 2-4pm Broadwater Green (wear pink or green for the aerial photo) FREE entry Fundraising Art Auction. 2-9pm. Cellar Arts Club. FREE entry.

UPSTAIRS AT THE GHOSTBOURNE CENTRE

This town is looking like a Ghost Town. All the shops have been shut down. So sang someone singing the Specials wrong, and they hadn’t even seen the empty shops in Worthing.

Tues 19 June MAKATON for beginners. 9am. Signing Workshop. Heene Community Centre.

Book www.makaton.org

Fri 22 June 8 Songs: Choreographed juggling vignettes set to 8 classic rock and roll songs. 8pm. From Dylan’s stream of consciousness realms to the Velvet Underground’s troubling landscapes, from David Bowie’s soulful escapades to the rocking Rolling Stone’s anthemic joy de vivre. Pavilion Theatre. Book Worthing Theatres.

Sat 23 June Summer Fair & Dog Show. 11-5.

Clapham and Patching Village Hall. FREE entry

Sat 16 June Worthing Children’s Parade. Starts 10am. Parade through town, followed by an afternoon of music, food, stalls, entertainers and fairground rides at Steyne Gardens. FREE Craft Session 9.45am For Father’s Day. At St Symphorians Church.

Sussex Day - Family Fun Day. 11-4pm.

Clapham and Patching Village Hall. Free entry Pro Wrestling. 6pm. Durrington Com Centre. £6. Book Kapow@outlook.com

Heene Summer Fayre. 10am. Fun for all the family. Petting Farm, Pimms Tent, Fun Stalls, Grand Raffle, Fire Engine, Vintage Red Double Decker Bus, Entertainment, Craft Stalls, Heene Community Centre. FREE entry Avalon Festival 12 to 12. Music, Stalls, Kids activities. St Paul’s Worthing. FREE entry

Sat 23-Sun 24 June Worthing Artists Open House. 11-5pm. worthingopenhouses.com

THEY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE SQUATTERS living next door to an estate agents with a sign saying ‘LANDLORDS! INCREASE YOUR RENT!’ in the window. Well I have seen the empty shops in Worthing, and I have another one of my cunning stunts to get some of these shops let.

We hold an Arts festival, but all the stages are the empty shops.

Each empty shop contains a band playing original music or a huge installation of artwork all over the walls and the floors, or a play performed in the wide open unused space, or a different workshop in every section of the shop, or a pop up restaurant serving delicious snacks for merry festival goers. We use my ‘Boringly Named Places of Worthing’ idea of renaming the shops with imaginary titles like ‘Dr. Flossop’s Wigs and Dysentary Medicine’ to name the ‘stages’.

And to add to the benefits and intrigue of this anti-abandonment festival, we place an information point in every ‘stage’. On this information point, you will be able to read about the history of the shop you’re in, what the shop can be used for, and the cost to have a business there. Surely this would be a great way to showcase the shops to potential business owners.

And what would we call this grand Arts Festival that’s based in abandoned shops?

We’d call it Worthing Ghost Town Festival of course.

And it wouldn’t even matter if it rained.

Until the next time, Bard-fans, goodbye. n

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Sun 24 June

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ONE LOVE - Festival Celebrating Diversity. 1-6pm. Assembly Hall.

Celebrating our diverse community.

Music all afternoon, Food/Bar/Craft and Charity Stalls, and Celebration Samba. All welcome. FREE entry

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Night to Remember Midnight Walk - 10.30pm to 7.30am from Worthing Leisure Centre. Choose 7, 13.1 or 20 mile route. *For Men, Ladies and children. Registration £20/pp includes a fundraising pack, night pack (tshirt, torch and medal), refreshments en route and breakfast upon return. Reg closes 24 June you cannot enter on the night. stbarnabashospice.org.uk

Worthing Artists Open Houses. 115pm. worthingopenhouses.com

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Exhibition: Ben Fearnside - Metal on Canvas. Colonnade House

Retro and Craft Supplies Market.

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THE WORTHING BYPASS

This column will not change the meaning of your life PROLOGUE: This column contains little more than

in-jokes for those with a passing knowledge of World War II and the greatest comic radio/book/TV series ever written. It does not contain any spoilers, unless you think the meaning of life is actually a number, in which case you’ll be mightily disappointed. Come to think of it, whichever way you read it, you’re going to be mightily disappointed.

There is nothing finer than a long soak in the bath, ask Winston Churchill (or, so I’ve heard, MP Tim Loughton).

Winnie would submerge his grand mass for hours, composing awe inspiring speeches to the nation whilst ANYWAY, ALL puffing on OF THIS GOT cigars and ME THINKING: quaffing whisky and PERHAPS WE champagne, COULD ALL DO WITH A BYPASS... all before breakfast.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME: today’s spouses have far less tolerance towards saving the nation, lest you’ve forgotten to hang the washing out or feed the cat.

The odd fulsome dip to reboot the batteries and contemplate the long, dark teatime of the soul is a favourite relaxant of mine, especially during the day – a rare rebellious act teetering on the very edge of reason and naughtiness. I think I was 42 when I started afternoon bathing. It should come as no surprise that the Ubiquitous Hack is often found answering the door in his dressing gown, barely dressed to greet the grasping hordes (or Amazon delivery drivers).

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The news therefore that the original cast of the Radio 4 production of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has reassembled to record previously unreleased material on its 40th anniversary was met with a good dollop of sentimental reflection by this fanboy. This is partly because of the outrageously surreal writings of the late, great Douglas Adams who inspired me like no other, but more so for the fond attachment to the floundering dressing gown clad hero, Arthur Dent. Dent is lost in space, quite literally, when his home (earth) is destroyed to make way for an inter-galactic super highway. There are many weird and wonderful heroic characters in the Hitchhiker’s Guide but Arthur Dent is the everyman with which we most identify, or which I do. I often feel lost in space. Or even the bath.

be destroyed to make way for an inter-galactic super highway.

Meanwhile wrinkly Winston, sat in his bath, thinking of ways to win the war and preserve humanity, probably didn’t give much thought to Worthing being a dumping ground for Göring’s Luftwaffe. Worthing, as history buffs know, was a bomb drop for the Luftwaffe after hitting London, releasing the weight of the unused artillery on their way back over the channel.

Said history buffs are known to grumble, why not Bognor? But then geography buffs interrupt and remind them that Bognor Regis is to the west and the German bombers were flying back to the east. It would have been fine if they’d been flying back to Spain, not Germany. The Spanish Armada for example could have desecrated Bognor on their way home if they had not been desecrated on the way here. History: just a series of ifs and buts.

bath – it’s the nearest you’ll get to nirvana – pop a Babel Fish in your ear whilst Here & Now gives you a Hitchhiker’s Guide to Worthing, or at least tells you where all the micro-breweries are located. n

Anyway, all of this got me thinking: perhaps we could all do with a bypass and the real purpose of this column is not to educate, inform, amuse or disgust (what am I saying, of course it is, especially the latter). What it may also be about is that the Worthing Bypass is not a concept, ideological, concrete or otherwise. It is in fact, a coded dialogue containing the fundamental secrets at the heart of the universe; what seekers breezily describe as the meaning of life.

Or it could be utter nonsense, whichever gets there first.

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The Ubiquitous Hack

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