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Welcome To Iceni Magazine, Welcome to Issue 14! We are halfway through the year and hopefully the weather will deliver on its promise of sunshine. As the festival season fast approaches, music is the predominant topic of issue 14. We have an interview with the formidable 90’s rave icon ‘Jim Tang’, so for those old school ravers and new uk dance music lovers, Dreamscape - Jim Tang’s reunion festival, will bring a fusion of music to get the crowds moving. We also have an interview with the upcoming Scottish band LaFontaines, as well as a review of their last concert held at the Waterfront in Norwich. If music and festivals isn’t up your street then perhaps reading about how cinematically important Norfolk is for the film industry and what films have made use of our wonderful landscapes, stunning beaches and historical buildings over the past 50 years. With Father’s day also fast approaching, perhaps reading our comprehensive motoring section will be right up your street? From an interview with Tom Chilton to just how much local hero Alex Brundle and the ART Grand Prix Team have achieved during this year’s Le Mans races. If sport is your thing why not join in with the World Cup celebrations by watching every game live at The Surrey Tavern over June and July. And with our local fete and carnival season also beginning, perhaps you can join in locally by looking for what is happening near you on our website. We hope you enjoy issue 14.
Thought Of The Month Caravan holidays are so much fun. Last weekend we decided to visit my favourite seaside resort Skegness. The holiday was everything you would expect...sun, sea & sand. We went to the club house and joined in the games, ate fish & chips on the beach, paddled in the sea, ate doughnuts just in time for me to beat everyone at putting! All this got me thinking...you don’t have to pay lots of money to have fun. These holidays are designed for everyone to have fun with family & friends and I can safely say I’d pick a caravan holiday over anywhere in the world. Well apart from Spain. By Alex Wiseman
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“You Reap What You Sow”
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NORFOLK ON FILM
ICENI TALKS TO...
Insight
Jim Tang
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ICENI NEWS
OUT & ABOUT
Skydiving Story
Bure Valley Railway
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ICENI NEWS
Chelsea Inspired Garden Show
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Swagger & Jacks Gentlemen’s Grooming
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Monthly Recipe By Eric Snaith
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Motoring Review Volvo V40 Cross Country
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Out & About Bure Valley Railway
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Iceni Magazine Online
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Norfolk On Film Insight
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Fosters Solicitors Dangerous Dogs
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Iceni Fitness Beach Body Ready
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Jason Bill Architect Atelier-Bill Collaborative
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Iceni News Skydiving Story
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Google+ What Is it?
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Iceni Book Review The Scourge Of Soho
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Iceni Columists Keri Beevis & Mark King
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Ask Dave Who Owns My Website?
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Iceni Music The LaFontaines Review
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The Whisky Shop Five Father’s Day Whiskies
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Smart Home Benefits Insight
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Iceni Music The LaFontaines Interview
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Iceni News Attleborough Rose Queen
Iceni Talks To... Jim Tang
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ESP Promotions Announce The Full Line Up For Dreamscape
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Iceni News Chelsea Inspired Garden Show
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Iceni Motoring News
Youth Music Give A Gig Campaign
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Iceni Fashion Perfect Swimwear
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Iceni Interviews... Tom Chilton
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Iceni Horoscopes What Do Your Stars Hold
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SWAGGER & JACKS Issue 14 2014
Swagger & Jacks Gentlemen’s Grooming
Swagger & Jacks Gentlemen’s Grooming Fathers Day Gift Sets are available via our Swagger & Jacks Online Barbershop at www.swaggerandjacks.com or ‘Click & Collect’ for collection at our Barbershop at 16 Bridewell Alley, Norwich Lanes. As an ICENI Magazine Reader, qualify for your ‘Free Postage’ on all Swagger & Jacks Grooming Products online at www.swaggerandjacks.com using coupon code ICENIFathersDayOffer, valid until 30 June 2014. Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Beard Care Set - £39.95 Includes a Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Beard Oil, Swagger & Jacks Argan Oil Beard Shampoo and Swagger & Jacks Beard Brush Swagger & Jacks Beard and Moustache Set - £35.00 Includes a Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Beard Oil, Swagger & Jacks Argan Oil Beard Shampoo and Swagger & Jacks Moustache Wax Swagger & Jacks Moustache Set - £15.95 Includes a Swagger & Jacks Moustache Wax and Handmade Kent Moustache Comb Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Shave Cream Set - £64.95 Includes a Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Shave Cream, Swagger & Jacks Post Shave Moisturiser, Muhle Double Edged, Closed Comb Safety Razor and Feather Platinum Safety Razor Blades x 10 Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Shave Oil Set - £64.95 Includes a Swagger & Jacks Ultimate Shave Oil, Swagger & Jacks Post Shave Moisturiser, Muhle Double Edged, Closed Comb Safety Razor and Feather Platinum Safety Razor Blades x 10 Swagger & Jacks Gift Vouchers Available for our signature Traditional Cut Throat Shave for £25 (1 Hour Service) or a £20 Gift Voucher for products and services at our Swagger & Jacks Barbershop, Norwich Lanes. Terms & Conditions Apply:- ICENI Offer is limited to one coupon code per Reader and cannot be used in conjunction with any other Swagger & Jacks Online Promotions. Offer valid until 30 June 2014.
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ICENI - OUT & ABOUT Issue 14 2014
New Bure Valley Railway Buckenham Players Fathers VIP Day ...have great pleasure in inviting you to join them at THE WEDDING PARTY, a new play by Tom Nash. The bride and groom may be in love, but are their families? What happens when two ends of the social spectrum meet? The bride’s parents appear to be at war and the groom’s parents are a bit on edge, the maiden aunt is all atwitter, and what does the irascible Uncle Arthur make of it all? As guests you’ll be right in the action, as the wedding unfolds around you - literally! And just like all good weddings there’s a row, a fight and some drunkenness. The number of guests is limited, so you’d be best to get your RSVP in quickly to take your place at the bridal event of the year. You’ll be sorry you refused the invitation… From 19th - 21st JUNE, 8p.m., at New Buckenham Village Hall. Tickets: £7.50 (£6.50 for concessions) which includes a glass of bubbly to toast the happy couple! BOX OFFICE 01953 860320 / 861438 or at King’s Stores, New Buckenham
Join the Bure Valley Railway for a special train and lunch package on Sunday, 15th June 2014. Starting from Wroxham, experience the magic of steam through nine miles of Norfolk countryside, following the picturesque Bure Valley, before arriving at Aylsham. On arrival receive a complimentary drink and sit down to a two-course set lunch, including coffee and mints, at the Whistlestop. After lunch each Father has the opportunity to drive a steam engine before the return journey to Wroxham. Limited spaces are available for this special package and therefore must be pre-booked (Adults £23, Children £12). Alternatively, come and enjoy a steam train ride starting from either Aylsham or Wroxham and treat your Father to a cream tea or purchase a small memento from the well-stocked gift and model shop. Trains are running throughout the day. Under 5’s travel free. For further information contact: Susan Munday, Bure Valley Railway, Aylsham Station, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6BW, Tel: 01263 733858 Website: www.bvrw.co.uk Email: marketing@bvrw.co.uk
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FOSTERS SOLICITORS Issue 14 2014
Fosters Solicitors Dangerous Dogs - The new laws. On the 13 May 2014 the Law changed in relation to Dangerous Dogs. New offences have been created, and longer sentences imposed for some existing offences.
someone, and makes them think they could be attacked or injured, you could be sent to prison for up to 6 months, or fined up to ÂŁ5000.
All dog owners and people looking after dogs for friends and family need to be aware of the changes in the law, and their responsibility.
If your dog injures someone, or injures another animal, you could be sent to prison for up to 5 years, or fined. Again, your dog could be destroyed, and you could be banned from keeping animals.
The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, as amended, means it is an offence to let a dog be dangerously out of control anywhere. This now includes not only a public place, but also a private place, or in the owners home or gardens.
If your dog kills someone, you could be sent to prison for up to 14 years.
There is also now a specific offence which relates to a dog attacking an assistance dog. This offence is now punishable by up to 3 The law applies to all dogs, however big or years imprisonment. small, and whatever breed. In all of the above circumstances the Court A dog is considered dangerously out of could order that your dog be destroyed, and control if it injures someone, or makes you be banned from keeping animals. someone worried that it might injure them. This could include jumping up at a postman If you are facing proceedings for an offence or delivery driver at the door, displaying under the Dangerous Dogs Act Fosters aggressive behaviour in a park, or chasing Crime and Defence Team can assist you. people down the street. This can include representation at the Police Station and at Court as well opposing any A dog could also be considered dangerously application to have your dog destroyed. out of control if injures someone’ animal, or the owner of an animal thinks they could If you would like to speak to a member of be injured if they tried to stop your dog the Crime and Defence team please call attacking their animal. the main switchboard on 01603 620508 or email dreynolds@fosters-solicitors.co.uk The penalties now in place mean if your dog is dangerously out of control - if it frightens PAGE
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ICENI - NEWS
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What’s the hardest thing about skydiving?
- The ground! guy written off that “wouldn’t get anywhere or achieve anything in life” eh?) I was over the moon with the amount I’d raised in such a small amount of time for the Big C Centre, so much so I had completely forgotten what I’d actually signed up for… *gulp*
to help the Big C Centre after my mother Anne Reeve passed away of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (a rare type of cancer) in 2007.
The day of the jump came around so quickly and I didn’t even have the time to contemplate what I was about to do was completely crazy, putting my complete trust in another human being to get me back to earth from 13,000 feet without looking like a chopped tomato! All of a sudden I was sitting down in this small plane all geared up, no going back. I was starting to let the teasing from friends and family get into my head, comments such as “Don’t worry Chris, no one has ever complained about a parachute not opening” and “what’s the hardest thing about skydiving? - The ground!” of course making me more nervous.
The Big C Centre (Norfolk based cancer charity) worked tirelessly to help Anne throughout her treatment and our family. I am now on a mission to raise as much money as I can so that more and more men and women survive the disease, after seven years of taking in the impact.
The time came, I jumped and the skydive was an absolutely phenomenal experience. The moment you leap out of the plane is just indescribable. Obviously I’m here to tell the tale so landed very safely… just a sore backside! I’ll share all the photos and video of the skydive soon, so stay tuned!
I started this mission last weekend - by jumping out of a small plane at 13,000 feet!
Lastly I’d just like to thank a few people I couldn’t have done it without: Robert Ashton - the boss with the expert sales skills, something that came in extremely handy when fundraising! The donators - obviously I couldn’t have hit the targets I did without the generosity and kindness of all the 83 different donators, thank you! My family, friends and girlfriend - none of which wrote me off and backed my ambition to skydive from day one, constantly supported and boosted me when I needed the confidence to jump.
Here is what Chris had to say on his skydiving story - I was inspired to skydive
Two months before the jump when I started fundraising I set myself a target of £600. After less than a month I found that I’d already raised over my target and was encouraged by people I spoke with to aim for £1000. The competitive side of me came out and I realised that I’d be much more happy with doubling my original target and so set out plugging my donations link everywhere online. I even managed to wangle an interview on BBC Radio Norfolk which boosted my final amount raised to £1252 (not bad for a young PAGE
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I’m looking forward to pursuing my next adventure/fundraiser in 2015!
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The Diary of a Norfolk Family.
I am well known for being unobservant. People walk by me all the time, smiling and waving in my face, and I just don’t see them because I am miles away on Planet Keri. Friends and family thought that laser surgery would cure me, Above: Keri Beevis as I was blind as a bat, but all it did was prove I genuinely am the least observant person on the planet, even with 20/20 vision. I am the person who walked headlong into Pat Cash at Wimbledon and didn’t notice. I am also the person who had six giant refuse sacks of garden rubbish sitting outside my front door and didn’t notice for nearly a week that my neighbour had kindly taken them to the dump for me. So we have established that I can’t see what’s right in front of my face, but let me just say in my defence that my lack of observation was clearly passed down to me from my parents. When I was a kid I remember we routinely got lost on family holidays, usually because we missed signposts. Florida was our best effort, when what should have been a two hour drive from the airport to our villa, turned into ten hours touring swamp and gator country, passing through Deliverance style towns and almost entering the state of Georgia. How we didn’t eventually end up in Alaska, I’ll never know. It wasn’t just holidays. My dad was the man who had a hefty luminous twirly sign nicked from right outside his video shop, while he was sitting about two feet away from it with the door wide open. Mum also has her unobservant moments. I remember buying her a Will Young CD back when I lived at home. One evening I was in my room and could hear her down in the lounge listening to the CD. The same track played over and over. After about eight plays I was ready to throw myself out of the window, so I ventured downstairs to find out why she liked this one track so much. As I entered the lounge she peered up from the book she was reading. ‘You know, I do like Will Young, and I’m glad you got me his CD,’ she announced before I could say anything, ‘But I do have to say that all of his songs sound really similar.’ REPEAT BUTTON, MOTHER, REPEAT!!
By Mark King After three seasons in the top flight of English football my beloved team Norwich City F.C couldn’t avoid the drop, and got relegated to the Championship.
Above: Mark King
I remembered the first time it happened when I was just a child. It was such a shock it left me in a daze. I walked along the seafront in Lowestoft trying to clear my head and ended up in the amusement arcade. I spent the next two hours pumping my ten pence coins from my stash of pocket money into the Space Invaders machine, while trying to take my anger out of the never ending line of space ships that kept on floating down the screen. Moments come when you feel dazed because of failure and you think it’s the end of the road, but now I don’t end up at the arcade but, down the Fat Cat and Canary with a pint of ale in my hand, and a group of fellow distressed supporters. We will moan, groan and pick over the bones of every bad decision made. We will pass judgement and blame, then head home to family life. Every cloud has a silver lining and this could be a positive event for the family. Both my children like football, but it’s hard to get tickets together to go and watch a game at Carrow road. We are already making plans for next season and are hoping to see some live action in the Championship. The other positive is that they may actually get to see a few winning games. It’s hard to convince a five year old, just turned six, to stick with the Canaries when all they do is lose. Children like to be winners, and are easily drawn to the big teams like Man United/City, Chelsea, Liverpool, or Arsenal because of this. You as a parent want your children to be winners in life too, it’s only natural and hopefully next season we will all be winners! Then again the last time Norwich got relegated they kept on losing and ended up in the third tier of English Football! What do I do if that happens? I will have to see if they have Space Invaders on the Wii!
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FATHER’S DAY
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THE WHISKY SHOP’S FINEST FIVE FATHER’S DAY WHISKIES Looking for the perfect way to say ‘I Love You Dad’ this Father’s Day? A thoughtfully selected dram can be the ideal present to share with your dad on Sunday 15th June and luxury drinks retailer The Whisky Shop, which has a store in Norwich on 3 Swan Lane, presents the Finest Five whiskies for Father’s Day.
The Glenlivet Gallow Hill Single Cask - £235.00 The Whisky Shop / www.whiskyshop.com An enchanting Speysider, The Glenlivet Gallow Hill is a Single Cask malt whisky, bottled at natural strength. The exclusive bottling is a new release and will make a lasting impression this Father’s Day. Tasting Note: Concentrated fruit - clementine, pear, a note of pineapple - with toasted almonds and moist gingerbread behind. Mouth-coating and sweet overall - milk chocolate, treacle toffee enlivened by sweet orange. A long refreshing finish.
Aberfeldy 16 Years Old – Single Cask - £165.00 The Whisky Shop / www.whiskyshop.com From the Highland distillery, Aberfeldy 16 Years Old Single Cask is a new release exclusive to The Whisky Shop and is a delectable dram for any whisky aficionado this Father’s Day. Selected by Dewar’s Master Blender Stephanie Macleod, the single cask chosen for individual bottling was a refill American oak ex-sherry hogshead. The cask was chosen as it reflects the key characteristics of Aberfeldy with its heather honey taste, but also contains unique and interesting flavours. Tasting Note: Dull gold. Light nose-prickle. A mellow nose with integrated aromas, at natural strength, opening up with water to reveal a dry, dusty, herbal note and a trace of orange peel. A smooth texture and a sweet taste, with light acidity and beeswax, and a long warming finish. PAGE
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Woodford Reserve Classic Malt - £120.00 - The Whisky Shop / www.whiskyshop.com From the smallest distillery in Kentucky, this American Malt Whiskey is a champion choice for Father’s Day. The Woodford Reserve Classic Malt joins the range of limited releases. As the name implies, Classic Malt is distilled wholly from malted barley and so it is not a Bourbon. Tasting Note: 9CT gold in colour. The first aroma is of green malt, hay and bread dough, soon becoming Thai prawn crackers, then sweetening to vanilla infused cake mix. The taste is fresh and sweet, with fresh cereal notes – ears of barley, oats - but with a pleasantly spicy kick in the medium length finish.
Glenturret Triple Wood - £46.00 - The Whisky Shop / www.whiskyshop.com A Highland whisky from the Glenturret Distillery which is well-known for its status as a visitor destination. Glenturret Triple Wood is a new release single malt exclusive to The Whisky Shop. Combining a mix of woods, the influence of Spanish oak is particularly apparent in the colour and aroma. Tasting Note: Deep gold, with amber lights. The first impression is of rice pudding; husky porridge with double cream. After a while a faint note of strawberry jam. The taste is sweet and lightly meaty, with some spice and gentle acidity towards the end and a warming finish.
Yamazaki Distiller’s Reserve - £42.00 - The Whisky Shop /www.whiskyshop.com An intriguing single malt whisky from Japan’s first distillery, the Yamazaki Distiller’s Reserve new release is sure to hit the right note with your Dad this Father’s Day. The Japanese whisky differs from its Scottish cousins as it is a vatting of different styles of whisky as well as different cask types in comparison to Scotch malt which is predominantly from distilleries specialising in one style of whisky. Tasting Note: Full gold. A gentle, elegant fragrance topped by soft fruit - strawberry, white peach, cherry – and backed by sweet tobacco leaf. A smooth texture and a sweet taste, with a crisp acidity, traces of coconut and a medium-length, warming finish, leaving a hint of planed oak.
Andrew Torrance, Managing Director of The Whisky Shop, said: “Whisky is the perfect gift for Father’s Day and The Whisky Shop has an unrivalled collection of malts and blends to suit all tastes and budgets. “Whether you join your dad in sharing a dram, or leave him to enjoy his whisky experience in peace, we have something to suit every palate.” The Whisky Shop is the UK’s largest whisky only specialist retailer with a full range available online at www.whiskyshop. com and at 22 stores nationwide, including premium flagships in London’s Piccadilly and on Manchester’s Exchange Street. For further information please visit www.whiskyshop.com
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ICENI - NEWS Issue 14 2014
It’s That Time Of Year Again, When Attleborough’s Rose Queen Competition Is Searching For Its Next Rose Queen Of 2014. This year, Attleborough is on the lookout for Rose Queens who are ready to help the community and show us their shining personalities. Competing for the title of Rose Queen is all about representing your town and displaying your community spirit; showing your willingness to become involved with the town. The winner of Rose Queen 2014 will work with the mayor and attend many upcoming events. On the 18th June when the competition takes place, all entries will be able to practice their walk from the stage before the show, and each contestant will be greeted onto the stage individually by the host, who will ask each girl questions relating to what they had filled out on their entry form, as well as being asked the ultimate question “What would winning the title of Rose Queen mean to you?”.
especially when she isn’t originally from Attleborough. “I was so pleased that Attleborough had such great community spirit and it reminded me of my childhood growing up; now I am a face in the community as I work in the town, I suppose the people see me as one of them which was lovely. I think a lot more girls should think about entering the competition, because what girl doesn’t want to be queen for a day. It’s just for fun and no one is judging them, everyone on the committee is just so pleased for people to enter. You get to dress up and have your picture in the paper and you get a prize for winning.” Ashlee had a great time being Rose Queen, and being with the prince and princess. “You do have to like children as I had a lot to do with the prince and princess, I was really lucky because my prince and princess were lovely.
All contestants are to wear their own Ashlee Mead clothes with this year’s theme to be My message would be to just go for it, Rose Queen 2013 formal, from a nice summer dress to prom you have nothing to lose and it’s a great dresses. Girls are to arrive in their deluxe experience, it was a really special thing to be outfits, half an hour before Doors open at 7pm picked as rose queen and I think it still is.” with entry to watch the competition costing £3. There will also be cash prizes for those who come 1st, 2nd Not only will there be the exciting competition for Rose and 3rd. With 1st place winning a lovely sum of £100 Queen 2014, but organizer Katie Thurston and the rest courtesy of Peter Beales Roses; a family run garden of the committee haven’t stopped there. M&CO, who centre. 2nd place will win £50 by a sponsor still to be thrives on the towns community will be putting on confirmed and 3rd place will receive £25; sponsored by their very own fashion show for the event, starting at Taylors Barbers. 7.30, there will be models sporting a variety of M&CO outfits, for all ages and genders. Ashlee Mead, 26, (pictured) won the title of Rose Queen last year in 2013. Ashlee works for Christine Attleborough’s committee have also organised this Butler, Attleborough’s local dentist who offered her the year’s carnival, taking place on the 12th and 13th July chance to enter the Rose Queen competition on behalf which is set to be bigger and better than last year. Events of the company. “I thought it would be a really good and activities are still to be confirmed and being kept experience and good to do something for the town - not secret until closer to the time. expecting to win.” “When the night came around, I went down in a summer dress, nothing special as it was a really hot day. Everyone else was dressed in ball gowns so I immediately thought it was game over.” Ashlee is originally from Thetford town, and didn’t expect such a warm welcome,
To find out more information to enter Attleborough’s Rose Queen 2014 competition, please contact Katie Thurston on 07780533531 - The Competition will start at 7pm on the 18th June with everybody welcome. PAGE
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ICENI - NEWS Issue 14 2014
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Chelsea Inspired Garden Show Raises £1840 For The East Anglian Air Ambulance A Garden Show in Aylsham has raised £1840 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance with over 3000 visitors enjoying the glorious weather over the weekend at Woodgate Nursery. Inspired by the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the Woodgate Nursery Garden Show showcases local companies’ gardening skills, with visitors voting for their favourite garden design.
with his hand built fairy castle complete with moat, fairies and crocodiles ! The Show attracted thousands of visitors from around the county, including budding young gardeners who took part in willow weaving demonstrations and a children’s treasure trail. Whilst Purdy’s Tea Room served refreshments outside to visitors enjoying music from the talented Claire Lawrence.
This year’s winner was the ‘Wind in the Willows’ garden, using a mixture of wild flowers, Iris and pond plants to create a garden full of colour and interest – designed by the Woodgate Nursery team.
Peter Purdy, owner of Woodgate Nursery is pleased with the success of the Garden Show: “Saturday was our busiest day so far this year and I am delighted with the weekend and especially our charity raffle – which has this year raised three times as much as last year.
In second place was Sue Bell Garden Designs of Little Melton for her ‘Time for Tea’ garden which had a more modern look with paving, box hedging and a mix of Heuchera and Salvia. Followed by Mark Sapwell and his ‘Woodland Walk’ a design of shade loving plants and native woodland trees. Kevin Myhill created a fantasy garden which proved a real attraction for the children
I would like to thank all the garden designers and exhibitors for their hard work over the two days and everyone who donated to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.”
K.Myhill Fairy Castle Garden
Pictures from this year’s show can be seen on the gallery at www.woodgatenursery.co.uk Wind in the Willows Winning Garden
Woodgate Garden Show - Garden Design Area
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ICENI - FASHION
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Whether you are holidaying in the Florida keys or off to the English Riviera this Summer M&S has the perfect swimwear for you. From trend led pieces combining beautiful prints, colours and shapes to shaping costumes which subtly flatters your silhouette you’ll be sure to find the perfect swimwear for your Summer holiday!
M&S Collection Colour Block Swimsuit £35
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M&S Collection Bikini Top £22.50 Bottom £16
M&S Collection Top £17.50 Bottom £14 M&S Collection Gingham Bikini £17.50 Bottom £14
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MONTHLY RECIPE
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This dish was very popular during the spring and summer months, when crabs are at their best. The Crab ice cream works really well – the difference in temperature freshens up the dish and boosts the Crab flavor. The bitterness of the Lovage really adds to the dish, but if you can’t get hold of any you could use Parsley. For the Crab Ice Cream: Brown meat of 5 Crabs 300g Milk 25g Glucose 1g Salt 1 leaf of Gelatin soaked Salt and Lemon juice for seasoning
Images By: Jamie Maxwell (www.Jamiemaxwellphotography.co.uk)
Brancaster Crab, Crab Ice Cream, Brown Toast, Radish, Lovage Serves 6 Eric Snaith Head Chef at Titchwell Manor
For the Radish: 3 ice Radish (keep the green leaves) 6 red Radish (keep the green leaves) 60g Chardonnay Vinegar 20g stock Syrup
Slice the ice Radish as thinly as possible and pickle in the Vinegar and stock Syrup. Slice the Radish and keep in water. In a pan bring the Glucose, Milk and Salt to the boil and add the Gelatin, allow to cool. Add the Crab Butter powder (optional): meat and blend until smooth, pass through a fine 50g salted Butter melted mesh sieve and season with Salt and Lemon juice. Churn in an Ice cream machine. With a piping bag Approx 25g Maltodextrin (enough to dry out the butter) pipe the Ice cream into cylinders and freeze. Bringing the dish together: Smear a little Mayonnaise on the plate then add For the Crab and Lovage Mayonnaise: two heaped teaspoons of Crab mix. Add the two White meat of 5 Crabs types of Radish, dress the Radish leaves with a 1 whole Egg little Olive Oil and lay over the Crab, roll the Ice 1/2tsp Dijon Mustard cream in the toast crumb, add another small pile splash Chardonnay Vinegar of crumb and finally add the Butter powder. 300g Vegetable Oil 6 leaves of Lovage, finely chopped salt and lemon juice for seasoning Whisk together Egg, Mustard, and Vinegar for 1 minute then slowly add the Oil while continuing to whisk. Add the Lovage and season with Salt and Lemon juice. Combine Mayonnaise with white Crab meat (you won’t need all of the Mayonnaise for this). Keep some Mayonnaise for later. For the brown Toast Crumb: 3 slices of Granary Bread Toast the Bread, then bake in an oven at 180c until dry, blend to breadcrumbs in a food processor
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Beach Body Ready
With summer quickly approaching, pretty much everyone dreams of having a beach ready body.
With my Ab Attack Workout - You can! The Ab Attack Workout: Crunches x15
Lying down on the floor, curl up and forward so that your head, neck, and shoulder blades lift off the floor. Hold for a moment at the top of the move and slowly lower back down. --Rest 10 secs--
Russian Twist x12 each side
Sit on the floor leaning back with your knees bent. Have your arms extended out in front of you and twist your body to one side. Pause briefly before twisting in the opposite direction. --Rest 10 secs--
Toe Touches x12
Lay on the floor with both your hands and legs in the air. Without moving your legs, lift your chest and shoulders off the floor and try to touch your feet before slowly returning to the starting position --Rest 10 secs--
Plank – Hold for as long as possible
Start on your elbows and knees. Straighten your legs and raise your body so that you’re supported by the balls of your feet. Hold this position – do not let your hips drop to the ground. --Rest 45 secs-Repeat all x4 For best results complete this workout 4x a week, taking a days rest in between.
This workout is taken from my 5 Week Shape Up programme - Contact me to register your interest so that you get in awesome in shape this Summer.
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COMPUTERS & INTERNET
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Google+
What is it and should you be on it? www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk As a relative newcomer to social media Google+ emerged in 2011 as Googles’ vision of a social media platform to rival long established Facebook. Google had previously attempted to break into social media with their Google Wave and Buzz offerings but had seen little success. Google+ changed all that and in its first year alone managed to get 100 million subscribers and continues to grow steadily - mainly amongst the business community. What’s the main difference between Facebook and Google+? Well it’s Google ‘Circles’ and ‘Hangouts’. What are these you ask? Circles enable you to create different groups that you place followers into and can then interact with separately. So for instance you could create a circle for your customers and a circle for suppliers. The content you share with these circles is likely to be different and allows you to target unique content of interest to each circle. It’s helpful to know that people will know when they’ve been added to a circle but not what circle they’ve been added to. Hangouts are group video chat areas that allow a small number of people in your chosen circle to connect and ‘hangout’ with you. What benefit does this have a business? Well you could use one to invite customer to an exclusive video demonstration of your product or service or even for internal project collaboration meeting. These are great features in their own right but the other advantage of Google+ is it’s a Google product and is heavily intertwined with its other products including search. Google now places more weight on your social media output than it ever has with recent Google algorithm updates. Being prominent and active on Google+ means you could be ranked higher, by logged in Google users, when they’re performing search queries. So how do you get started on Google+? To do this you need a Google account, most of us have Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive or other member of the Google family so you can then just add Google+ to your existing account. If not, just search for Google+ and sign up - this can then be used across other Google products. Fill in your details and think carefully about your onscreen Google+ name. Ensure you enter as much
@PKirk_designer information into your profile and ‘about’ sections as you can as the more comprehensive you can be the more likely you are to be followed and added to circles yourself. Create your first circles but be selective about who you add to them and follow yourself. Here’s a few tips to help you get the most out of Google+ • Find people by using Google suggestions, by topics, shared circles or communities and build up followers slowly and carefully to ensure quality • Create a weekly publishing schedule for sharing content • Content should be a mixture of articles, videos & images to offer your audience variety and hopefully unique content • Content initially should be 80% entertaining and 20% promotional/ industry specific then 50/50 once you’re established • Use @mentions, #hashtags and text styling options • Use ‘Hangouts’ to engage with your audience • If possible, reach out to influencers (people with more authority than you in your chosen field) and communicate via ‘+mentioning’ or commenting on their posts • Search Google for “circle” or #keyword circle to find shared circles that you can add and participate with. So as a business should you add Google+ to your social media suite? Obviously as I’ve mentioned with it being a Google product it has it’s potential search advantages and it’s got the best visual categorisation of followers with ‘circles’ but you need to do a little research before potentially taking the plunge. Find out where is our customer base is - are they on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or on Google+? There’s no point being on a platform that’s not used by your audience demographic. More importantly though there’s no point being on every social media platform available if you’re over stretching yourself to regularly publish unique content for your followers. Be selective and be realistic. If you decide to embrace Google+ get your profile completed, circles set up and then regularly listen, discuss and share interesting content to those circles, this is turn hopefully gains you more followers, more authority and ideally more prominence in search listings. Remember social media is about listening, discussing and sharing.
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Every issue - Dave Lincoln of Horatio Creative (www.horatiocreative.com) will be answering any Web or Design questions you may have. If you would like to contact him, you can do so on Twitter: @HoratioCreative This week we have a question from someone who would like to remain Anonymous (oooh mysterious!) - Who owns my website once it is online? Now, this may seem like a silly question as you (the client) have paid for a product, how can you not actually own it? The short answer to this is that unless you have signed a contract with the company who made your website which explicitly states that you (as the customer) own the product, you don’t.
I paid for the website – how can I not own it? Copyright law stares that as soon as content is created it automatically becomes the property the author. There isn’t anything you have to do to make this happen - it just does. What this means for you as a client is that although you have paid a fee, a designer and a developer automatically own the design and code that make up your website. If you provided the content to the website designer for inclusion into the project you will own this, as long as you have written it or taken the photographs yourself. Even if you got your images from a stock photography site, and purchased these they are still not yours - you have purchased a licence to use them. PAGE
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Permissions and Licensing It is very important that the content you provide to the designer must legally be owned by you – or you at least need permission to use this in the way it is on your website. Don’t just nick images from Google to use - you will be surprised how easy it is for you to get caught and landed with a heavy fine. After a website is complete what you actually own (in most cases) is the license to use it. This is not set in stone either - some companies will automatically turn ownership of the website over to the client when it is complete (as we do), others will charge a purchase fee. Either way - make sure you know where you stand with this before you start, and get this in writing, it may save some nasty (and expensive) surprises in future.
Other Considerations If your web company is purchasing your domain name for you, make sure you are the listed contact and legal owner of this insist on it, as reasserting domain ownership can be a nightmare! Ideally I would recommend setting up your own account and purchasing the name yourself - don’t worry about not understanding all the technical stuff, your web company can log into your account and change this for you when needed.
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SMART HOMES Issue 14 2014
Smart Home Benefits Smart home technology is on the rise, and the products and services available are becoming more efficient, attractive and affordable with every day. If you are considering the possibility of adding smart technology to your home, there is no time like the present to speak to your local custom installation company (#LiveInstall can tell you who yours is) about getting a survey done; you will be surprised by the extent of the possibilities available to you, and what can be achieved on any size of budget.
‘relax’ setting that, at the press of a button, will turn on your favourite music and dim the lights. Entertainment features are possibly the most well known and desired of the whole smart home range, but less people are aware of just how affordable they are. Enjoy superior sound with a multi-room speaker system that operates using wireless streaming audio from your smartphone or tablet, then change the volume, track, album or radio station without leaving your seat. A home cinema system, complete with projector and surround sound, will take your enjoyment of films and television to another level.
Everyone has their own unique vision of what they would like their home to look like, and of what it should be able to do. Since there are no pre-defined set of features that must be included in a smart home installation, you can speak to your install expert about exactly how to suit your needs.
Getting the right smart wiring put in is a major investment in the future readiness of your home. With the various areas of technology associated with the home advancing and improving all the time, the right cables will ensure that it is a simple task of unplugging the old, which HD televisions will become for example, and plugging in the new, If security ranks highly for you, your smart such as your 4K screen, without destroying any home could allow you to take central control walls to make changes.You will also be prepared of cameras, alarms and locks, either from a for any changes of set up in your home; if a single control panel or a smart phone. To take bedroom later becomes a study, have the right one example, in case of a fire, the system could sockets ready for the computer, printer, and simultaneously alert you, phone the fire service, more, all connected to your network. These unlock the doors and light the way to safety. wiring additions are without doubt a long term When you are away from home, the technology contribution that would contribute significantly offers you peace of mind; check that you set to the market value of your home if you were to the alarm, or make sure your pet is alright by sell it in the future. watching them on your cameras. It isn’t only new couches and springier mattresses that can offer you more comfort at home. Integrating your heating with a control system such as HDL could let you allocate what time you would like the heating to come on for each day of the week, so that you never have to rise and shine in the cold. Choose a pre-defined
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ICENI TALKS TO... Issue 14 2014
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Iceni Talks To... Jim Tang Article by Ciara Jack Jim Tang is the legend that lies behind the promotion and flyer design of 90s rave masterminds, Dreamscape. Set to coincide with the festival season this summer, they are planning to give the 90s rave a comeback. In light of their 25th year anniversary reunion in August, we caught up with Jim to find out more. Dreamscape came about in the early 90s in the explosion of the rave scene. He tells us, “It was the brain child of original founder of ESP Promotions. They were able to get an allnight licensed venue in Milton Keynes - it was originally a warehouse.” Jim’s position as promoter came about when he and his brother set up a graphics design company. “Originally I got involved with the dance scene back in the late 80s early 90s. I had a graphic design agency, we used to design all the commercial stuff, such as the flyers, for all the raves. I worked for a lot of the promoters in the midlands in the 90s; Pandaemonium, The Edge, The Eclipse. It was (the late) Murray, who used to own Dreamscape, who asked us to design a flyer for him. At the time he was planning to do a two-day rave, which was just unheard of. Nowadays it’s normal now to have a weekender at a festival, but back then it was quite unheard of.” From then on they became acquaintances and eventually good friends alongside their working relationship. “The actual event didn’t go ahead in the end, it got pulled. But that was my involvement from then on.” The reunion is set to take place at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, a homecoming event of sorts. However, Jim tells us that this won’t be the first time they’ve put on an event since the heyday of raving in the early 90s. “It’s a reunion and it’s not a reunion. Towards the beginning of the millennium things quietened down, people sort of lost interest and stopped going to raves as much. For about a decade it had been quite dormant.” Jim puts this fragmenting of the rave scene down to the emergence of new and more specific PAGE genres. “House splintered the music scene, it’s become
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more commercial and underground. There weren’t so many genres of music, it was just hardcore rave. Now we’ve got House, Drum n’ Bass and Dubstep.” However Jim recalls how things started bouncing around social media about a Dreamscape doing a reunion and eventually making a comeback. “I started talking to the current owner of the brand who knew my involvement and background and we just started talking again about bringing it back. We had started doing smaller events across the country but we always wanted to bring it back to Milton Keynes. At the time, however, there weren’t any suitable venues.” With growing interest across social media, scale is still the key focus in Jim’s eye. “We always wanted to do something big, like Nottingham and Peterborough Arena, but it didn’t feel right at the time. It was only by chance I bumped into our old license officer three and a half years ago, who used to work for the Milton Keynes council. I bumped into him at a Madness concert!” Jim has often recalled a cat and mouse like game of pursuit between rave organisers and the local authorities. However this time around, the deal was much more straightforward. “He used to licence all the raves for us. We got chatting, he said ‘The National Bowl in Milton Keynes is there, so maybe you want to come down and talk to the council.’ So I talked to the council and they were up for it – they knew the brand of Dreamscape, who we were and how we worked.” However, despite local authorities being more familiar with the renowned Dreamscape brand, he says it still isn’t easy getting them on side. “It wasn’t the industry as we know it now. Especially with all the festivals nowadays - it’s more corporate run. We were quite wet behind the ears and we didn’t have the Criminal Justice Bill, which stopped a lot of raves and a lot of events. They’re a lot stricter now. But it felt a lot more involved back in the day.”
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The spontaneity of setting up a rave is often lost to the process of coming to agreements. However Jim talks about the process with an ease that implies that it’s worth the extra effort. “Now we do have to go through endless police meetings and council meetings to satisfy that we adhere to their conditions. Now it’s more to do with health and safety, and of course it is paramount that our events are safe.”
During the height of rave culture he recalls “there were a lot more ravers, and you would get a decent attendance.” Nonetheless, social media has gathered momentum for their big event in the summer. Jim hopes for a mixture of new ravers and some veterans from the 90s, “We hope we can involve the ones who perhaps don’t go out as much as they used to. It’s been challenging!”
Rather unexpectedly, he also recalls Norfolk as being a hot spot for ravers. “Norwich had some brilliant events back in the day. Norfolk was one of the main areas where big events went on, Kings Lynn was the main focal point for a lot of outdoor events. The Norfolk area had a massive following in the 90s during the rave scene.”
The future for Dreamscape looks bright, Jim describes a much more stable environment for the brand. Jim’s chatty and warm personality is only part his return to their promotion, as they promise to host more current and younger artists at their events as well as the more familiar old school music.
Having played a few smaller events Jim is optimistic about The Reunion, “The reaction we’ve had so far has been great.”
The Reunion will be on Saturday the 16th of August at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes.
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ICENI - MOTORING Issue 14 2014
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Brundle And Art Battle Back To Finish Fourth At Imola • Second top-five result in as many ELMS rounds • Fastest lap by a McLaren driver and first non-Ferrari finisher Brundle and ART battle back to finish fourth at Imola Alex Brundle just missed out on a GTC class podium finish at round two of the European Le Mans Series - the 4 Hours of Imola - May 18th, after a battling performance helped him and the ART Grand Prix squad come home fourth in Italy. After making a solid start to his campaign at the Silverstone opener last month, the 23-year-old Kings Lynn resident along with co-drivers Ricardo Gonzalez and Karim Ajlani - fought back to score their second top-five finish together in as many races after qualifying eighth during the morning’s exceptionally tight and yellow flag-interrupted session. As the line-up’s designated Pro driver, Brundle would have to wait until the final 50 minutes of Sunday’s race before taking his turn behind the wheel. But his strong pace nevertheless made a telling contribution to the final result after he moved the #99 McLaren from sixth to fourth over the closing stages. In part that was thanks to a string of hot laps that were the fastest set by a 12C GT3 all afternoon. Gonzalez had set the tone earlier in the day with a spirited 45-minute opening stint that helped him hand the car over to Ajlani in a net sixth place. So narrow was the mid-field margin however that the Swiss-Syrian re-joined seventh before engaging in a three-way scrap with the Team Russia by Barwell BMW and Pro GT by Almeras Porsche. ➜ PAGE
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Gonzalez then continued to lap well once he returned to the fray, allowing Ajlani – whose final run was interrupted by a Safety Car period - to give Brundle the car in sixth ahead of his decisive 50-minute stint. “It’s been a fantastic team performance this weekend and I’m particularly pleased with how well Ricardo and Karim drove,” said Brundle. “It was difficult to find a clear lap in qualifying, which masked our potential even though we were less than a second from pole, so I knew there was an opportunity to move forward in the race. “I got in knowing that fourth was the best we could realistically achieve, and I probably got everything I could out of the car over those final 50 minutes. I was trading fastest laps with my team-mate Kevin (Korjus, in the team’s sister McLaren) which was essential if I was to catch one of the cars on track and jump another that made its final stop after us. So it was very rewarding to see our potential realised.” “The team has worked hard since Silverstone to find a set-up that makes the car more comfortable to drive for all three of us collectively, but we know there’s still plenty to come. I mean, we’re still losing at least 15 seconds per pit-stop compared to others due to the mandated fuel flow rates, so there’s a massive chunk of time right there. But in terms of the car, I was very pleased with how it felt to drive.” Brundle will be back in ELMS action with ART Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on July 19/20. But before then the Briton heads to Le Mans, first for the Official Test Day (June 1) and then the world famous 24-hour race on June 14/15. There, as one of Onroak Automotive’s official development drivers, he’ll be leading the exciting young line-up of Mark Shulzhitskiy and Jann Mardenborough in the OAK Racing-entered #35 Ligier JS P2. And that’s followed by a trip to Watkins Glen in America with OAK Racing for round seven of the United SportsCar Championship on June 27-29. Follow Alex Brundle on Twitter: @ALEXBRUNDLE
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ICENI INTERVIEWS Issue 14 2014
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Iceni Interviews Tom Chilton,
29, currently one of the
leading World Touring Car Championship drivers takes time out from his growing business ‘Hot Laps’ and racing to talk to Iceni about his career so far. Finished 5th in overall drivers standings in 2013. Interview by April Clayton So Tom, How did it all start for you? When I was younger my dad was a bit of a ‘petrol head’ as we call him, someone who loves cars. One day, my dad’s mates were round helping him and started to race them around in the large field next to us. Bearing in mind I was only 8 years old, I started to race them too, just in a field against my dad’s friends. So I guess my love for racing and cars came from my dad. I have always been a keen racer, though as a kid I was rather large, which meant a lot of seats weren’t big enough for me so I never did Karting like a lot of professional racers did, I just practised in a field drifting and quad biking. For those who don’t know a lot about racing, once you had decided you wanted to be a professional driver, how did you pursue this dream of yours? It’s very important to make the right decision at the right time; it’s a motorsport so you have to be noticed. For example, Lewis Hamilton won every major race before he got into Formula 1. My first big Championship Race was at British Touring Cars at 17 where I came 3rd against Yvan Muller and James Thompson. I was really lucky and you have to take that step and move up a level.
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What advice would you give to young people wanting to be a professional racing driver? The key is to go for your goal, to keep pushing and to keep consistent. You have to keep practising, the more laps you do, the more you learn. It’s important to stay on the track and just keep going. Though it’s not just about being consistent, you’ve got to have the whole package. You have to be fit; I do around 2 hours daily, 3 days a week. I have nutritionists, physios, everything you can think of to make me at my best. I would say it’s definitely harder for new and upcoming drivers, in the old days it was easier to look better, whereas now a lot of drivers are really good and its harder to stand out. What are the best bits about being a professional driver? Oh everything! It’s mostly the fans I have to say. Them coming up to you and supporting you, it’s nice to see the photographs that they have taken at previous races and wanting me to sign them. It’s also really nice to just be a part of a team, travelling around the world with the same people, you get to know everybody, and it’s a family team environment. Everyone is in it because they love what they do; we all love the adrenaline and the rush.
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Can you remember the first race you won and how it felt? My first ever race that I won was a Go Karting race for my 10th birthday party with all my friends and family. My first major race was in British Touring Cars in 2004 at Silverstone. I went from being in 10th position to 1st place, I was closing in on Anthony Reid, he had a common trick where he would slow down in front of you and then floor it, but this time he did it wrong and I was able to just go for it. When I was passed him, and I could see the finish line all I was thinking was ‘Yes I’m going to win’ and the excitement that came over me was phenomenal. What sort of things do you do to get ready and prepare for a race? Well I am quite a neat and tidy person in the truck beforehand; I like everything to be ready and clean. I do have a thing where I put my helmet on as I look at my reflection in the window of the car to focus and I have a routine of doing everything in the same order. I think when your good at something you don’t change it. Your brother, Max Chilton made his Formula 1 debut in 2013, have you ever wanted to get into Formula 1 racing? Well the main thing is that I am too big to fit in the seat of the car. The speed is just crazy, I would absolutely do it for the adrenaline. My brother weighs around 65Kg which is the perfect weight for Formula 1. If I went into it I would be spending more money on them getting me into the seat. It’s really important that the drivers are light enough to be able to move the car around. Sadly, it’s becoming more about being a light driver, not just a fast driver. Both you and Max are racing drivers, has this made you both very competitive towards each other? We are two big kids really; when we were younger we would race against one another and play the Play Station and were always quite competitive at that. We would go around in old bangers, crashing into one another. In 2007 we shared a car at Silverstone. That in itself showed that I was too big. Max was 13 seconds faster than me because he was lighter in the car. From then on I instantly knew that my weight was and is a disadvantage. We are very competitive, especially playing golf; he plays more so when I win he gets very annoyed (laughs). Max is worse, I’m more laid back. When he was 8 years old, in a go karting race, he bent the steering wheel because he didn’t win.
You’ve been on shows such as ITV’s ‘Take me Out’ and BBC2’s ‘Top Gear’; what have these been like? At the time, ‘Take Me Out’ seemed like a good idea as I was looking for sponsorships. It was the same TV studio as Xfactor, plus the show was getting a lot of ratings. It was a really good laugh though; looking back it’s a bit of a cringe moment but I met a nice girl and we had a good time. I’ve also done a few Top Gears, we were laughing so hard at one another. It was all jokey, jokey and we were just being boys. If you could choose to go on a TV show, what one would it be? (Takes a while to think) It would probably have to be Scrap Heap Challenge. That would be awesome; it’s where you’ve got to build a boat or a car; anything with an engine. You also own your own business called Hot Laps; tell me a bit more about this? Well like you said, the business is called Hot Laps, which is where people are able to go full power around one of the UK’s best known circuits; Brands Hatch. They are able to join me in my 720bhp Nissan Skyline for some full powered laps. I have the ability to change the engine mapping at the touch of a button giving my passengers the ride of their lives. All my passengers who I have taken round, have absolutely loved it. The Nissan Skyline is a four wheel drive twin-turbo V6 cylinder engine. It is frequently tested against other iconic high performance super cars and has been proven faster on track and road than cars such as BMW M3, Audi R8 and Ferrari 430 so its super, super fast. You don’t get many chances to do a hot lap with a professional driver so at Hot Laps it’s the perfect experience. For more information on Tom Chilton’s Hot Laps experience, go to http://www.hot-laps.co.uk/ PAGE
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ICENI - MOTORING Issue 14 2014
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Volvo V40 Cross Country It’s a great car; not the cheapest – but you get what you pay for - usually.
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Volvo V40 Cross Country BY TIM BARNES-CLAY, MOTORING JOURNALIST FOLLOW TIM ON TWITTER: @CARWRITEUPS OR VISIT: WWW.CARWRITEUPS.CO.UK
GONE ARE the days of ‘wardrobe on wheels’ or ‘only teachers drive those’ jokes. Volvo now has some seriously stylish cars in its stable - and the V40 is one of them.
family might need – from a week’s worth of shopping to a couple of baby buggies and all the gear that goes with young kids.
Start/Stop is fitted as standard across the range, together with Bluetooth hands-free communication and wireless music playing, plus City Safety auto-braking technology and the V40’s world-first pedestrian airbag. The Cross Country is also the only car in its class to be available with Pedestrian Detection technology.
thinking that it “offers the solution for drivers who want a premium vehicle experience with low emissions and low running costs, but who don’t want to sacrifice equipment, styling or safety features”.
Of course, safety is never an issue with Volvo - and the V40 is no different. It is one of the The V40 Cross Country combines safest cars in its class, having achieved high class-leading driving dynamics, scores recorded by EuroNCAP in crash tests. interior comfort and a rugged And, as you might expect with a diesel turbo, personality with low emissions, the £24,805 D2 Cross Country SE Powershift impressive fuel economy and pioneering is an efficient motor. On average it can return safety technology. up to 68.9mpg, so it certainly endorses Volvo’s
Put simply, the V40 delivers unprecedented choice in the premium hatchback sector without compromise. It’s a great car; not the cheapest - but you get what you pay for - usually.
It has a more rugged style than the standard V40, and is distinct to the sports styling of the R-Design model. It features a number of unique details which include: silver roof PROS rails; contrasting front bumper, honeycomb • Attractive • Economical • Safe mesh grille and upright day-running lights; sculpted sills and contrasting rear bumper CONS with integrated skid plate. In D2 SE Powershift guise, the 1560cc, four-cylinder, eight valve, oil-burner delivers 113bhp, with 62mph from standstill arriving in a conservative 12.1 seconds. However, the relatively wide car is planted well on the road and takes corners with little body lean. The diesel rattle is barely noticeable, even on start up, and the seats are ultra supportive on long commutes.
• Not the cheapest • Not the fastest
The V40 provides enough space for four-up, or five if you have two adults in the front and three small children in the rear on booster seats. The boot, although not massive, is decent enough to shove in everything a young
• Max. power (bhp): 113 at 3600 rpm
FAST FACTS • Max speed: 115 mph • 0-62 mph: 12.1 secs • Combined mpg: 68.9 • Engine: 1560 cc 4 cylinder 16 valve turbo diesel • Max. torque (lb/ft): 199 at 1750 rpm • CO2: 108 g/km • Price: £24,805 on the road
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NORFOLK ON FILM
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NORFOLK ON FILM arely a day goes by now without news of the latest blockbuster film emerging from the ether. More often than not the movies in question are reboots of old favourites, the current trend to revisit what has gone before currently usurping any artistic desires to write, produce and film something original. However, for as long as audiences are willing to shoehorn themselves into a multiplex to watch yet another retelling of the Batman story, we can expect this trend to continue. Another ongoing trend in the movie world of film is the popularity of Norfolk as a film location; long stretches of uninterrupted coastline with seemingly unending beaches, brooding salt marsh and overwhelmingly big skies proving to be a particular favourite with film makers both in the UK and abroad. ne famous example if this was the use of Holkham beach in Shakespeare In Love (1988), the final scenes of which see Gwyneth Paltrow stride across Holkham’s windswept sands as the survivor of a shipwreck and, in doing so, becoming the inspiration for Viola, the shipwreck survivor of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. That magnificent beach at Holkham has been used on numerous other occasions as a film set, including in Operation Crossbow (1965) which alternates between Nazi Germany developments of the V-1 and V-2 wartime rockets and the efforts of British intelligence to thwart their attempts, those parts of the film showing attempts to make the V-1 fly being shot at Holkham. The beach plus its adjacent pinewoods was also used for several parts of the 1976 film The Eagle Has Landed and in television productions such as The Avengers and Kingdom - with at least the beach providing some authentic Norfolk in the latter, even if some of the dialects heard in it were anything but! Kings Lynn was once elaborately turned into 18th Century North America for scenes that were shot as part of Hugh Hudson’s 1985 blockbuster PAGE
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Revolution which starred Al Pacino and Nastassja Kinski. The film, which told the story of a man’s unwilling participation in the American Revolutionary war also involved dozens of local people who were recruited as extras with Hudson later extolling the virtues of the town, saying it was “the best place in the world” to film the scenes he wanted. Sadly for Hudson and his all star cast, the film was a commercial flop although it did, at least, put Kings Lynn very much on the filmmakers map after such esteemed praise from the film’s Director. lm Hill, the historic cobbled lane in Norwich with buildings that date back to Tudor times was used as a set for the 2007 film Stardust whose cast members included Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer. In the film, Elm Hill was transformed into the streets of magical kingdom Stormhold with the Britons Arms Cafe becoming the Slaughtered Prince pub. So thrilled were the owners of the Britons Arms at the transformation of their historic building, one that included a mural and new thatching that they applied to both the local Council and English Heritage for it to be retained, only to have their request turned down. One highly improbable transformation that took place courtesy of a little ‘movie magic’ was that which took place in the Norfolk Broads as part of Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 production about the Vietnam War, Full Metal Jacket. In the scene, a helicopter, being flown by a stunt pilot was Elm Hill, Norwich
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required to fly low down along an adjoining canal, the area doubling for paddy fields, whilst a soldier fires a heavy machine gun out of the helicopter doors at the people below. This scene was shot at dawn with local police supposed to have briefed locals beforehand, there was, however, a communications problem that led to many people, including fishermen, finding themselves dramatically and unexpectedly being subjected to a US military helicopter machine gunning their normal tranquil positions! n 2007 some young actresses at a Norwich based model and casting agency were asked if they would like to submit details about themselves with a view to taking part in Atonement, which starred Keira Knightly and James McAvoy. The film, part of which was set in the Second World War required extras to play the part of casualties of war in France with those girls eventually selected finding themselves lying in a field near Walpole St Andrew, victims of a war time massacre in enemy occupied France. Some of the ‘victims’ ended up not being able to see their efforts, however fleeting, at the Cinema however, as, with Atonement being given a 15 certificate, they were too young to legally view it! The 2008 production Dean Spanley, which starred Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O’Toole included scenes filmed at Holkham Hall, Elm Hill and the cloisters of Norwich Cathedral. he Go-Between was a British romantic drama film made in 1971 which starred Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Michael Redgrave. The main location for filming was Melton Constable Hall in North Norfolk, however many other locations in the county were used including Hickling Broad, the village green in Thornage, the village of Heydon. The Cathedral and former station at Thorpe are also featured whilst the films fictional Brandham Hall was based on Bradenham Hall near Dereham. Winterton beach was used for the 1977 film Julia which starred Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave whilst the prestigious and very famous Blickling Hall has been featured in several films including The Wicked Lady, made in 1945, a story about the wicked Lady Skelton who
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alternated her grand lifestyle as the lady of the house with stealing husbands, killing off ageing relatives and moonlighting as a highway woman with her grand home, named as Maiden Worthy in Buckinghamshire was actually filmed with Blickling as its mighty backdrop. It is, of course, by no means unusual for one part of the country to be used to represent another as the example above demonstrates, with Norfolk standing in for Buckinghamshire in this instance as well as, in Full Metal Jacket, the wetlands of Vietnam being replicated on the Norfolk Broadsbecause Norfolk has itself been usurped on a few occasions, including in Clockwise, the John Cleese vehicle from 1986 which sees Cleese as a harassed Headmaster, desperate to reach the fictitious University of Norwich for a conference. His whole journey to that location which did, of course, include him supposedly driving through Norfolk as well as in and around the confines of our fine City was actually filmed in a host of locations chosen to ‘pretend’ to be Norfolk and Norwich, including the West Midlands, Humberside and rural Shropshire. Equally misleading is Ricky Tomlinson’s 2001 comedy Mike Bassett England Manager which opens with the leading man taking his club side, Norwich City to Wembley glory before joining them on an open topped double decker bus ride around Norwich - only for Norwich to not be used in those scenes, the shots of the Canary team riding in triumph around the City having actually been filmed in St Albans! Article by Edward Couzens-Lake
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JASON BILL ARCHITECT Issue 14 2014
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Jason BILL architect atelier-bill collaborative t 18 years old, I left Norfolk to study Architecture and was inspired by works of Architecture around Europe. I recall one summer working on the remote island of Smøla, off the coast of Norway, later traveling down the coastline visiting works of ecological Architecture. This experience, along with a semester in Kaiserslautern (Germany) and working in Haarlem (the Netherlands) fostered an interest in modern Architecture. After qualifying as an Architect, I returned to Norwich and whilst working embarked on a Ph.D. researching the Swiss Bauhaus Architect ‘Max Bill’ at the University of East Anglia. I was drawn to Max Bill’s ability to transcend the various arts - Architecture, Graphic Design, Painting, Sculpture and even the first director of the new Bauhaus opened in Ulm following the inspirational efforts of Sophie Scholl & her siblings in the ‘white rose’ group. The draw of international experience soon provided the opportunity of travel to Tōkyō. I recall one night going to the studio of rising stars ‘Klein - Dytham’, it was a late interview and the most surreal experience just before midnight. The ground floor of their studio was being used as a lively dance space, Astrid Klein took me to the offices upstair surrounded by models and sketches of their vibrant design ideas, whilst music throbbed through the floor. Astrid provided the heads up on an opportunity at Richard Rogers Partnership Japan and a project in Harajuku, not far from their practice in Omotesandō. This connection to Klein Dytham would later resume a deçade later. Working in Richard Rogers studio was my first experience in a creative design studio, pushing boundaries and working with inspirational colleagues focused on making Architecture. Their project in Gifu prefecture thoughtfully used external structure to remove the potential for contamination of the pharmaceutical spaces beneath. Careful design reduced the steel weight, providing considerable savings with light penetrating into the deep plan at each structural bay. The form of the building wraps around the hillside and draws on the thermal sink of the ground to mitigate the need for energy intensive air conditioning. Whilst in Japan, I enjoyed traveling and specifically visiting the works of Architecture by Fumihiko Maki, Kazuyo Sejima and Tadao Ando. Fortunately I was provided a personal tour of Hillside Terrace by a member of the Asakura family that commissioned the work by Maki - that spans from 1969 to the present. I recall meeting Naoko at Daikanyamachō in a heat wave in July during my first trip to Tōkyō, in a friendship that we have sustained since. Even more remarkably, Tadao Ando’s studio provided the opportunity to visit their Ōsaka practice, a rare opportunity for a western Architect. Through their kindness I was able to explore remote works of Ando from his early years. From Japan, I headed east to arrive on the West coast of America - working initially in an practice collaborating with Stephen Holl to design the beautiful Bellevue Art Museum. Later working for Mahlum Architects on progressive sustainable projects, such as The Evergreen State College - Seminar II building. This was the first academic project in America to achieve their highest sustainable award - more remarkably, by integrating the ecological design from the outset, the Architecture was achieved within the lowest 95% of the cost index for building type. PAGE
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Whilst in America, I was offered the position to be lead Design Architect for a project being built in Seattle in collaboration with a New York practice. This wonderful opportunity provided the chance to frequently travel to Manhattan to develop the design - an experience sadly tarnished by the events of September 11th. One of my strongest influences as a designer was the experience of working with a Japanese colleague in Seattle, whose passion for detail and interior design left a lasting impression. After America, I returned initially to work with Munkenbeck + Marshall Architects in London, before gaining experience in Foster & Partners Riverside studio. The opportunity of working in a large Practice, and part of a team of around six Architects developing the $400 million Boston Museum of fine Art project, reinforced my passion for design and the pleasure of working with creative people. Whilst I retain the opinion that Architecture on any scale matters, and it is the care for design, passion and commitment to detail that makes Architecture - working on a project of such scale provided the confidence to establish a practice when the time came in 2004. For personal reasons I returned to Norwich, and established the practice ‘atelier-bill architects’. The economy was buoyant, and commissions were forthcoming. In the early years of the Practice, there was the opportunity to re-trace the work of Max Bill. The work of the practice has been focused on a mix of bespoke homes, Housing Association projects and other developments such as ‘the Black Dog’ restaurant in Bungay, which created a beautiful restaurant space in what was effectively a garage workshop. The transformation of the space was a remarkable achievement. Additionally being selected to be on the ‘Greater Norwich Development Partnership’ to give advice on design for major developments around the city. What however has been deeply troubling, given the previous solid design experience, is the resistance of Local Authorities to creative thoughtful design. As was debated in Alain de Botton’s Channel 4 programme. More recently, recounting my time in Tōkyō, I have established ‘PechaKucha’ nights in Norwich, a concept devised and shared by Klein Dytham - the European Architects I first met back in 1999. PechaKucha was created as an event for designers to meet, network, and show their work. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of ‘chit chat’, it rests on a format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. It has been a sheer delight to attract presenters in Norwich such as the late John Winter, a Principal from Hawkins \ Brown whom I first met in 1993, architects from various ‘Living Architecture’ projects, two Architects from the Česká republika, a German photographer and South African artist, both a Canadian, American, and Australian Architect and last summer our first Japanese presenter, with a mixture of presentations of Architecture & the Arts by those working in the region, and even a presentation on bespoke bike design. PAGE
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ICENI - BOOK REVIEW
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THE SCOURGE OF SOHO The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM Dick Kirby Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all time. Born into grinding poverty in 1922, Challenor served with the prestigious Special Air Service during World War Two, was parachuted behind enemy lines, captured and escaped twice and was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery. Joining the post-war Metropolitan Police, Challenor began his one-man crime crusade. After four years with the elite Flying Squad, Challenor was sent to London’s West End to clear up crime in Soho. Pimps, racketeers and crooks were rounded-up and often found themselves in possession of a bewildering assortment of armaments of which they denied all knowledge. More sensible gangsters, like Reg and Ron Kray, took off as soon as his name was mentioned.
as being a paranoid schizophrenic and sent to a succession of psychiatric hospitals and care homes. Policeman-turned-author, Dick Kirby, has interviewed former friends and colleagues of Harry Challenor and has meticulously studied court records and official documents to write the sensational and extraordinary story of the man whom became The Scourge of Soho.
A reward of £1000 was offered by the gang leaders to anyone who could successfully bring sufficiently damaging allegations to have Challenor transferred, but in the end, it was not needed. During a political demonstration in 1963, half-bricks were planted on innocent protesters which resulted in three young policemen being imprisoned - Challenor was certified
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NEW BOOK RELEASE RRP: £19.99 ISBN: 9781781593509 204 PAGES • HARDBACK PUBLISHED: NOV 2013 PEN & SWORD TRUE CRIME
By Dick Kirby
This is a book about the remarkable career of Harry Challenor, his bravery in World War Two, the trials and tribulations of his job in the police force and his committal to a mental hospital. Harry was born in 1922 and went on to serve with the Metropolitan Police Force from 1951 to 1964, it tells of his time with the Flying Squad and London`s West End where he was sent to clear up crime in Soho. The story tells you the reader what happens during his time as a policeman and what happens when he leaves the force. An interesting read. PAGE
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The LaFontaines Review by Ciara Jack either a guest appearance or a backing track. This is not the case for the LaFontaines, who have bassist John Gerard providing a brilliantly strong vocal melody. The band’s sound is full of genre quirks, with Kerr’s Scottish rap, John’s indie style quirky vocals and elements of rock - and even at some points jazz - emerging through the drum section in their recent single ‘Under the Storm.’ These aspects all come together in a way that is finely tuned to create a full and On the 9th of May the LaFontaines developed sound that translates brilliantly supported the Bad Rabbits at the Waterfront to a live audience. studios in Norwich. Despite being given a bizarrely stubborn audience, the band gave The downside the the Waterfront Studios an incredible performance which deserved is that the odd arrangement of sofas at the a livelier crowd. back can create a sedentary atmosphere at the back of the audience. The LaFontaines The Waterfront Studios provides a much had all the right components to get an more intimate atmosphere with the band, audience jumping; a tight performance, which is saying something, given that the devoted fans in the front row, and audience venue on the floor below isn’t exactly engagement from frontmen Kerr and John. Wembley Arena. However, this provides a great atmosphere for devoted audience However, a man behind me watched with members who want to be within grabbing the reserved complacency one might give distance of the band. The LaFontaines gave when watching a really good falconry display. an energetic performance giving extra life to their indie, electro and rap mix. In the words So next time the LaFontaines come to of frontman Kerr, ‘It has to be seen to be Norwich, go and see them. believed.’ Their singles which are available on iTunes are catchy in their own right, but their Especially grab the opportunity to witness live performance proves the point. them in an intimate venue, as it seems they are starting to reach higher places. The combination of melody accompanying rap is nothing new. However, in the case of Which is both deserving and unsurprising. live performances the melody often comes in the form of guest vocals which relies on PAGE
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The LaFontaines interview by Ciara Jack As is the case with a lot of University of East Anglia’s buildings, The Waterfront’s dressing rooms share the same understated chic. However, despite this as I meet frontman and rapper Kerr Okan, singer and bassist John Gerard shows me the closet sized bathroom and says triumphantly, “See, we have a wooden toilet seat. Look at that.” The LaFontaines are a five piece from Glasgow, and are a mixture of indie, electro and rap, which frontman Kerr describes as “reading very badly on paper.” They create their upbeat eclectic sound through a mixture of genres, with Kerr rapping with an undisguised Scottish accent – although he makes a conscious effort to make his local dialect understandable. “I rap in the way I speak, but I try and filter out the slang I use so it can travel across the pond a little bit. No “Ayes” or “bowfin”. The band met locally with Kerr and the two guitarists and drummer, Iain, Darren and Jamie, forming the band after leaving school. “I was the only rapper in Motherwell – in fact I probably still am – the only rapper from Motherwell. We’re all local enough and based in Glasgow.” The band met John at a local recording studio, “The bass player had a baby then joined the army. I used to manage their recording studio, so I used to help out while the bass player popped one out and shot some folks!” John tells us that their unique sound is due to a very democratic writing process. “It’s never been a forethought process - we all have different tastes in music and we’re all allowed to play it in the same band. That’s just how the sound has arrived so far; everyone is free to do what they want.” Kerr nods in agreement, “Everyone’s free in their own realm, it’s like one big melting pot. We know what will work.” John then admits “But I’m not allowed to rap. We’ve agreed.” PAGE
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The band has decided to keep their individual identities, even with regards to their physical appearance, Kerr adds “We don’t even look similar in terms of how we dress.” John admits that their own personal tastes remain isolated outside of performing, “ I never listen to hip-hop ever. If I was doing the dishes or cleaning out the budgie cage, I would listen to something else.” I ask about the budgie and Kerr quickly cuts in with “He puts the budgie in his mouth!” When asked if this is at all hygienic, John confidently answers “Well it is if you clean the budgie first!” After a bit of discussion about the budgie (it can roll on it’s back, as well as having the patience to sit in someone’s mouth) we return to discussing influences. John describes his musical taste as being along the lines of Everything Everything and The Doors, whereas Kerr talks about how OutKast shaped his vision for the band to be flexible. “For example OutKast – they aren’t strictly hip hop.They can go and make a song like ‘Hey Ya!’, which is a pop song. So we’re a bit like that in the sense that we don’t really conform to a genre.” One thing that seems a bit of a mystery is where the band have got their name from. “We are named after the internationally known voice actor, Don Lafontaine, he was the guy who – you’d go and see a movie – and he would tell you what was happening in the trailer. We sent him an email and never expected him to get back to us. But, he did, and he said his daughters would be blown away if their dad had a group named after him. I (Kerr) chanced my arm wrote him a little script, and asked him if he could do us and introduction for our gig, and he told us that was no bother. But it was when I was reading the paper three weeks later we saw that he’d died.” With their now posthumous band name they decided to be sentimental, “We decided to keep the name in his memory.” Their trip to Norwich was as the support for the Bad Rabbits. “They’re the most fun band we’ve ever been touring with. It’s been more like holiday rather than work.” When asked if there were any good tour stories there was an uncertain silence, followed by a careful judgement on how many they could actually talk about. John says surreptitiously, “There’s always good stories...” Kerr then elaborates on a tamer anecdote, “We had the vicinity of another beautiful dressing room like this, so we just abused that. We were playing Fruit Ninja (it’s a game we devised), like the iPhone game but with real knives and fruit. It’s great.” John adds, “It’s harder when you start using grapes, better skill is needed.” The band recently had the opportunity to play in New York, which they regard as their most memorable moment of the year so far. Kerr recalls,“It was like we were out of Entourage. It felt like we were the band. We played to thousands of people in Central Park. I would say for the overall experience we had, it was one of our best achievements.” However, the most memorable moment of the trip landed them on page 3 of The Sun and got them thrown out of a restaurant. Not for its more explicit content, but for an altogether bolder reason. “We annoyed Daniel Craig when we were in the restaurant.” John then admits, “We had too much to drink and started singing bond songs...” This act of audacity was not without reason, however. Kerr adds “He did refused a picture so... we started singing Skyfall.” Their experience was a plush one, with the hotel being previously host to a speech by Obama and Jay Z’s producer performing a DJ set. Kerr adds, “We had rooftop parties with like Argentinian bankers and supermodels. Everything we do we like to have fun, so thing with this band is that people just give us really nice things!”
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ESP PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCE THE FULL LINE UP FOR DREAMSCAPE - THE REUNION!! Since the initial announcement back in February that DREAMSCAPE would be reuniting for its 25th birthday celebrations, the fans have been on tenterhooks, eagerly awaiting the announcement of the full line up and main stage acts. ESP Promotions supremo Jim Tang has not disappointed the fans with a main stage boasting world famous acts and ravers favourites such as: Grandmaster Flash, Goldie, Shades of Rhythm, Stanton Warrioriors, Baby D, Alison Limerick and SL2. “Since finding out that we had The National Bowl back in mid February it has been all systems go! Not only will this be the best dance music event this year in the UK, it will have been delivered in the shortest time in history I should think!” Laughs Jim Tang. “We were inundated by DJ’s and Sounsystems all wanting to play at The Reunion and have over 200 performers now. We have been holding out on the main stage announcements until we knew for certain that we had the right line up to send our old skool fans mental on August 16th.” And the announcement has not disappointed. Since the news was leaked today the fans have been going nuts and ticket sales have seen a distinct upturn. This was certainly the news everyone has been waiting for. “Bringing together the very best in the UK Dance Music Scene such as Whizz Kid, Accelerated Culture, Sidewinder, Dreamscape and Ultra Vegas with Datatransmission under the ESP Promotions umbrella has paid off big time. To say we are looking forward to the event in August is somewhat of an understatement.” says Jim. Jim Tang’s brand ESP Promotions has been at the very core of the British underground rave scene since day one. “ESP Promotions were always the pioneers of the scene and we are resetting the standard of the UK Dance Scene once again with Dreamscape, The Reunion. We know that this is just the start of things to come. Those of us that were there the first time around have never forgotten just how fantastic those days were and how legendary the raves were. This will be a nostalgia trip for the old skool and a new experience unlike any they have ever known for the younger generation.” “I am delighted that we have managed to put together a line up of such relevant, brilliant and legendary headliners that will just make everyones day perfect. This will be one summer that we will never forget.” Concludes Jim. PAGE
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YOUTH MUSIC GIVE A GIG CAMPAIGN ENABLING ARTISTS AND FANS TO HELP RAISE FUNDS AND CREATE LIFE-CHANGING MUSIC-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE FROM 2nd JUNE The National Foundation for Youth Music is calling on musicians, promoters, venue owners and music fans to put on and attend gigs to support the charity’s work and enable thousands of disadvantaged children and young people have access to life-changing music-making opportunities. Whether this is one of a run of nights at London’s 02 by a headline artist, or a small gig in a village pub, Give a Gig will be a fun way to bring musicians, friends and communities together to enjoy music, while raising funds to enable others less fortunate to enjoy it too. Youth Music developed the campaign idea as one of the few charities that uses music as a core part of its work. Youth Music’s Executive Director Matt Griffiths says: “We hope this fundraising campaign offers great flexibility to music fans who might like to give to a charity that uses music to help change lives. We don’t mind who you are or where you are, we welcome all Give a Gig supporters regardless of the size of the gig, the type of music or the amount of money raised. Of course, the bigger the better, but most of all we want people to have fun performing and attending gigs.”
rewarded for their work. So we are happy for Give a Gig supporters to take essential expenses out of the money raised. We hope that in these circumstances, those putting on a gig will be fully transparent about their costs with the supporters who come to their event.” Youth Music’s Ambassador, Jen Long, presenter of ‘BBC Introducing’, Radio 1 said: “I’m supporting Give a Gig becauseYouth Music is one of the few charities that puts music at the core of its work, using it to help thousands of disadvantaged children every year. But for each young person it supports, there’s another one waiting for help. So go on, Give a Gig. If you book them, they will come.” If you’d like to put on a gig to support the workYouth Music does, sign up now at www.giveagig.org.uk. Twitter: @GiveaGig Facebook: www.facebook.com/giveagiguk
Give a Gig will be supported by a bespoke website that will enable bands, performers, venue owners and promoters to list their event. The site will also host ticketing and venue information, music videos, gig news, info on how to put on a gig, and a dedicated area for fans to review gigs, making it an online resource for fans and artists alike. WeGotTickets are the preferred Give a Gig ticketing partner, and are kindly donating a portion of all their booking fees in June as part of their ‘Give a Gig Month’. Youth Music acknowledges that there may be costs involved in putting on a gig. Matt Griffiths continues: “We’re aware that, in some instances, putting on a gig can cost money - whether it’s for hiring a venue or sound equipment. And some performers taking part in Give a Gig may be professional musicians. While we hope many promoters, bands and musicians might consider offering up their time to Give a Gig for free, if they are able to do so, we fully support musicians who believe they should be properly
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ICENI - HOROSCOPES Issue 14 2014
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Horoscopes For June Aries 21 March - 20 April
Libra 24 September - 23 October
This month is likely to be largely progressive, Aries, with opportunities to explore far horizons as well as more homely pursuits. Though Mercury regresses from early June, potentially putting plans on hold, you’ll have a chance to review options and revise your strategy. From June 20th, you may be inspired to forge ahead with any DIY projects.
With Mars encouraging you to forge ahead, you can do well if you’re willing to accept a challenge. Anything that stretches your abilities might also pave the way to success. However, go easy around June 14th, when tempers could more easily be aroused, and you may feel less like backing down. As the month winds down, a determined push could help you achieve a long-term goal.
Taurus 21 April - 21 May
Scorpio 24 October - 22 November
Finances get a boost, although putting money aside might be a good idea too, for Mercury rewinds early on. Avoid a cash flow problem by good planning, and stave off a potential embarrassment. Later, the Sun’s move into Cancer on the 21st, enhances communication and intimacy through heartfelt conversation. Yet, beware of giving out mixed signals as the month winds down.
Financial matters can flourish, if you’re willing to explore new ideas for earning extra cash. And yet the Full Moon midmonth, could coincide with an urge to splurge, though. If so, opt for small luxuries rather than a major purchase that you might regret later. Your more adventurous spirit comes to the fore later in the month, with new horizons beckoning.
Gemini 22 May - 21 June Though Mercury jogs backwards from June 7th, the month ahead holds plenty of promise. A Full Moon in Sagittarius on the 13th, can enhance feelings in a key relationship, bringing passion and energy into the mix. Though some plans may be delayed, there’s still plenty of fun to be had, with your social life and other interactions likely to go well, and create much fun.
Sagittarius 23 November - 21 December Mercury goes into retrograde motion at the end of week one, so you could experience delays concerning everyday interactions. While it’s not a good idea to commit to anything major, use this chance to sort out any niggling difficulties. The Full Moon on the 13th, can however, coincide with some very intense feelings, so think carefully if you’re prompted to speak your mind.
Cancer 22 June - 23 July
Capricorn 22 December - 20 January
A chance to relax and reflect, might enable you to make progress later in the month. Taking time out to consider all you’ve achieved and where you’re heading, could put things in better perspective, and help you to make more informed decisions. Later, the New Moon in your sign on June 27th, encourages a fresh start in any area of life you choose.
With both Mercury and Neptune on the rewind this month, you may need to be a little more careful around communication issues. Think before signing contracts or deals, or before making any promises, as it may be difficult to keep them. Yet, the New Moon in Cancer on the 27th, spotlights an opportunity to take a relationship to a whole new level of commitment.
Leo 24 July - 23 August
Aquarius 21 January - 19 February
Social opportunities blossom, as someone from the past could make a reappearance. You might even consider a reunion of old pals to catch up on news and gossip. The Full Moon on June 13th, enhances romantic potential and encourages your adventurous streak out to play. However, time to relax and recharge could also do you the world of good, so do find a balance.
Romantic opportunities can be fun and delightful early in June. However, finances may need some attention when Neptune reverts on the 9th. Keep an eye on your purchases, as well as any key personal information, as this can go a long way towards avoiding confusing glitches. Yet, the chances are, a more efficient perhaps even fitter you, can emerge as the month ends.
Virgo 24 August - 23 September
Pisces 20 February - 20 March
You may want to reconsider your options, or research your plans more deeply, as your guide planet Mercury enters its retro phase from June 7th. Yet, this may not be such a bad thing, bringing a chance to tweak your strategy for greater success. Indeed, social opportunities blossom, along with the New Moon in Cancer later in the month, suggesting some exciting new associates can brighten your hopes.
Although you may experience delays, going over key issues can help you to unpick some of the reasons behind these, and ease any confusion. Yet, you’ll need to go with the flow if some of your earlier plans do not work out. Despite this, with care and attention, your relationship sector can blossom. The last ten days of June can be particularly positive for you to demonstrate your personality, and give out alluring vibes.
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