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ne thing I love about this part of the world is the way it seems to attract people who want – or need – to live in an unorthodox fashion. I'm not talking about the folks we all met when we were 19 who self-identified as ‘weird’ because they wore odd socks to college. Craaa-aaazy. I mean those that have decided to leave the Rat Race, or at least take a pit stop, and have a go at that novel/aria/rock opera/ independent cheese mine. I think that lifestyles are a lot like romantic relationships – we all start out with a template as to how it should work, usually handed down from our parents. But the way to make it work for you is to tweak, adjust and sometimes re-write that template so that it’s tailored to you and how you want to live. Specifically. So back to the unorthodox people. If dove-tailing dogwalking with jewellery-making works for you and gives you Wednesdays off to make duvet forts, go for it! The current economic state dictates to a lot of people that full time nine-to-five
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employment just isn’t on the cards. We tessellate different jobs in a mish mash to make ends meet. When I first arrived in Brighton I worked two days in a clothes shop whilst commuting to London for freelance proofing snippets. Sometimes they’d send the PDF’d pages to me to work from home. Pyjama day! And with so many people working from home – freelancing and saving on those hot desks – there’s no reason why just because you’re working for your employer’s convenience you can’t work for your own too. This week I spent an afternoon watching ‘Footloose’ (the original version – of course!) for the first time whilst knitting a blanket for a side-line I have in craft fairs. The evening saw a spot of writing. It’s anarchy. And that’s just how I like it.
Award-winning and darkly twisted sketch group Gein’s Family Giftshop (as heard on BBC Radio 4) close their tour with a date at the end of the Brighton Fringe. Komedia, 29 May 2016, £10/8, www.komedia.co.uk
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thelatest.tv eing a video journalist is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and exciting jobs you can do. Every day is so different! Because it's our job to write and produce the news we rarely know what the stories are going to be ahead of time, as they are new, otherwise we would be writing the olds . Sorry for the clichéd journalist joke! At the beginning of the day we are attributed two stories to cover. As we do local news at Latest TV these are local stories from around the Brighton area. So it's often not the kind of hard news you might to get and the sorts of questions when I'm editing these can go over encounter on a national channel, you will be wanting to ask. As we the parts when I do my voiceover. which I think makes it quite fun work to such short deadlines we When I interview people I and often gives you the need to be as quick as possible at always ask them for the correct opportunity to be creative. I have each location we are filming, so spelling of their name. This is so I covered a wide variety of stories having an idea of what you want can use it for the lower third. It over the last year which have to film beforehand is very useful! may not seem like an important included art exhibitions, local business success stories, When I interview people I local charity events, full always ask them for the council meetings, fatal accidents, kidnap, and correct spelling of their name many more. Although we have to be as quick thing but often names can be spelt Once we know which stories we as possible at each location it's in different ways and you don't are going to cover we need to want to look unprofessional by begin arranging interviews. Which also really important to take the time to make sure that the shots getting it wrong. I will also check involves researching who the best look good. This includes doing a with the person before I leave if people to talk to are and trying to they would like me to copy them arrange interviews for that day. I'm white balance on the camera, making sure the shot is in focus in when I repost the finished piece often surprised at how often and also that it's framed nicely. I on social media, which means people are able to meet me at need to make sure I have a variety grabbing their email address or such short notice for an interview. of shots as well which tell the their name on Twitter. Obviously it's not always possible story. So there will be the Sometimes I may also want to though. do a piece to camera to help tell a It's usually a good idea to have a interview itself, which is mainly a head and shoulders shot of the story. It's important to make sure think about how you might want person talking, but also I need to that there is something in the shot your finished news package to get rushes of what's going on so or in the background which adds look, what kind of shots you want context or shows where I am. I will usually come back to the studio at the end of the day to do the edits of the two stories I have filmed. This also involves writing scripts and reading a voice over. When the final piece is done and you can watch your finished news package on TV that day or the next day, all the hard work seems worth it and there is a real sense of achievement. LatestTV News airs at 7.30pm every night
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hen the chill sets in, it’s good to bear in mind the warming benefits of staying young at heart. And it is chilly now! It’s even colder up North in Glasgow, and the crusts off your morning toast is just not cutting it as a good enough meal for the birds. Luckily Digital Nation is here with the perfect recipe for homemade winter bird food. A little bit of lard, a few seeds... well, tune in and find out the rest for yourself. Don’t forget your pen and pad to write it down! The best way to stay young is to stay in touch with the things that engaged you when you were younger – or even the things that are captivating the current crop of fresh-faced inquisitive faces. Feel your eyes widen and your jaw drop in admiration and a wee spot of the green-eyed monster when you feast on Edinburgh sculptor Warren Elsmore’s marvellous Lego constructions. Don’t you just want to dig out the bricks from the loft and have a go yourself? Activity adds fuel to the fire of warming up, so move the sofa back and clear a space and join in with That’s Lancashire’s visit to a school of Irish dancing. We even get to meet the young North West Regional champion – tipped to conquer the world next year – to see how the pros do it properly.
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One of the best things about being young though is the constant learning, with young minds absorbing information like sponges and asking the questions their elders sometimes forget to think of. With this in mind, and the current global political climate as it is, the news that schools in Cardiff have been invited to meet people from the Muslim community to find out more about their beliefs rings a happy note. Discussing the different faiths currently in the UK, our multicultural nation is continuing to be supported through the generations to come. And, of course, there’s still the likes of London Live’s blue plaque with a Star Wars twist, a fantastic cosplay outfit in Belfast that’ll knock the socks off of any Gallifreyan, and quite how far Leeds United football fans go for the love of the game. Tune in and don’t forget to your winter bird food recipe note pad! Digital Nation, 8.30pm, Tuesday 26 January
home match at the Amex, and with the track record of the last two matches ending in a draw, the fans are willing the players to pull all the stops out. Let’s have a return to form from before Christmas and we’ll be back at the top of the table before you know it.
Burn Up With Natalie, Tuesday 26 January, 6.30am, 8.30am & 7pm Give those New Year’s resolutions that are starting to slip a helping hand and join Natalie for a good old workout. It’ll warm you up on these chilly mornings too. And if you just can’t face working up a sweat before work, know that Natalie’s there to run through it all again at 7pm once you’re back from the office. Exercise at a time to suit you. Bonus.
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AND NOW FOR THE SCIENCE BIT s you might have guessed, I have no brain for science. It simply bores me now and even though I was quite good at chemistry at school, I hated it. Which is just as well as my teacher banned me from his lab claiming that my long hair was a fire hazard. He did hate me but rest assured I got my own back on him a few years later and saw him publicly humiliated as he had humiliated me. I can see that science plays a part in my life, by which I mean my immediate life. I'm not in denial about how the world works and I am far from being a creationist, heaven forfend, not that I believe there is a heaven (other than a box of Macaron from Julien Plumart). Which neatly gets me back to the science in my life which is baking cakes, surely the best use of chemistry known to man? One thing that really offends me though is the use of cod science in advertising. I simply hate it when a pretty model swishes her hair and flirts with the camera before the screen fades to a shot of someone in a white lab-coat followed by a close up of a microscope and then a single strand of hair being magically repaired by the product being advertised. Oh I'm not in denial that labs are involved in creating a wide range of products, they must be, before being sent of to be tested on bunnies and beagles! It's the cod terminology that grates, the silly invented words that are spouted to hopefully impress us. It does not stop me buying hair products either, with crazy “fly-away” hair like mine, help is definitely needed and I am a slave to my Malin & Goetz. I remember clearly though the days before the arrival on the supermarket shelves of hair conditioner. My hair was long,
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merely wide – and indeed it was, at least as wide as my shoulders on a really unruly day. In fact it only ever looked long when I went to the swimming baths. There you could see that my sodden curls reached half way down my chest and trailed behind me as I gracefully swam up and down the ancient pool avoiding the usual Elastoplasts. Why did swimming pools aways have sticking plasters lurking in their depths? And yes I was once graceful in the water and not the beached whale that I have sadly become. I then read in a magazine that oil, eggs and vinegar were all great aids to shiny and manageable hair. Can you see where I am going with this? Yes, you got it, mayonnaise. And yes, we did have mayonnaise in Lancashire in the 1960s. I made the switch from Silvikrin and Vosene to salad dressing in one easy move and providing that I rinsed thoroughly I don't think I ever smelled like hirsute coleslaw. Of course it was only a matter of days before mum spotted the rapidly depleted jar of Hellman's and started to ask questions. I fessed up and it became the subject of much mirth across the entire family. Mum did however admit that the mayo had worked and that my hair had never looked better. She did buy conditioner very soon after that and we both had lovely "manageable" and shiny curls from that point on. Working in the media makes me very conscious of how we manipulate language. Only the other day I caught an ad for an oven that used "hide and slide technology". Well the door does slide, and in doing so it does become hidden and I guess that mechanism that affords this miracle is clever, but is the word "technology" over egging things just as I was over egging my hair?
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The Chilli Pickle The Chilli Pickle is a local favourite with national recognition which combines traditional Indian methods with local produce and an individual style. Their ample Thalis spice up a midday meeting or a catch-up with friends, whilst the evening menu offers inventive street food, decadent Tandoori dishes and tasty regional curries, served in a vibrant and bustling setting. The Chilli Pickle featured in the National Restaurant Awards’ UK top 100 in 2011–14 and has retained its Michelin Bib Gourmand from 2010 to 2015. The Chilli Pickle, 17 Jubilee Square, Brighton, 01273 900383, www.thechillipickle.com
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ast summer I wrote a piece about the incident that happened on Celebrity Big Brother's Bit On The Side when Farrah Abraham chucked a flute of champagne across the studio at Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace after she called her a skank (or whatever). You can't really imagine how – as each season comes and goes – the stuff that goes on in that house can get any worse. So with a bit of trepidation the nation settles down to watch the newest, post-Christmas season as a means of curing the January blues. Watching famous people behave like drunken idiots on national TV makes us feel better about how we behaved when we'd been on the sherries over the holidays. But will it be as good as the last season? Maybe not – but there's nothing else to watch this month apart from Dragon's Den. The most But then someone slaps uncomfortable, someone around cringe-worthy the face and is episode I have dragged into the diary room, and the ever seen Gods of fate smile upon us once more. So far this season there's been homophobia, inferred racism, security guard interception and death! Last Tuesday's episode was possibly the most uncomfortable/cringeworthy/hilarious/tragic episode of Big Brother I have ever seen. The producers must have thought all their Christmases had come at once when David Bowie sadly passed away at the same time his nutty ex-wife was a contestant on their show. Press attention galore. I'm sure they didn't foresee how wonderful the subsequent sequence of events would be – that Angie Bowie would decide not to tell anyone other than John Partridge and David Gest that her husband of 10 years had died; that she couldn't help but then tell the first person she saw next about the death; how that person would be the loudest most unaware woman in that house, Tiffany Pollard; that she would misunderstand that it was in fact David Gest who had suddenly developed cancer and dropped dead in the diary room; that the whole house would descend into chaos, ultimately making the death of a national treasure all about his ex-wife. This all came after Winston McKenzie had declared to the house that gay adoption is a bit like child abuse. But alas! Things can get worse! In Thursday night's episode, Megan McKenna of Ex on the Beach fame rose the bar even higher by basically doing what she did best on Ex on the Beach and allow a droplet of booze to pass her pouty lips. Cut to later on and she is being cornered by security guards with stun guns in the diary room attempting to sort her out (prozac?). I'm aware that all this is just an atrocious display of human decorum (and famed humans at that) but as uncomfortable Celebrity Big Brother has become to watch, I can't wait to see what happens next! Thank God Alan Rickman's ex isn't in there as well! Andrew Bullock is a producer, presenter and writer. You can read more at www.drewjbullock.wordpress.com
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Chaula’s Lewes Chaula’s is renowned for its signature dishes, distinctive décor and friendly staff. All meals are made fresh to order and every curry has its own distinctively flavoured sauce. Also a wide variety of vegetarian and vegan as well as gluten and wheat-free dishes. Buffet available 12pm–3pm Monday to Saturday. Chaula’s, Eastgate House, 6 Eastgate Street, Lewes, BN7 2LP, 01273 476707, www.chaulas.co.uk
Chaula’s Brighton A second venue for this brilliant Indian restaurant is now open here in Brighton. Superb regional dishes, fresh tasting and exciting. Chaula and her team breathe fresh air into the idea of Indian food with authentic recipes served in bright and stylish surroundings. The cooking is executed with a light touch too, no heavy ghee-based sauces here but an altogether healthier approach – but not at the cost of flavour. Both delicious and affordable. Thali Deals available 12pm-3pm; Meal Deal for £9.99. Chaula’s, 2–3 Little East Street, Brighton, BN1 1HT, 01273 771661, www.chaulas.co.uk
THAI Street Thai Dishes served here are simple, healthy and delicious using the finest and freshest ingredients. Thai people love their street food and Street Thai is the most authentic way of eating and experiencing Thai food. Set menu is available every day except Saturday with two courses at £9.75 and three courses at £11.75. Street Thai, 5 & 20 Brighton Square, Brighton, BN1 1HD, 01273 207444
ITALIAN Donatello Flagship venue of this local family-run business serving excellent Italian food in stylish surroundings. Brilliant value meal deals on blackboards – two courses £7.95 or three for £9.95 – as well as à la carte. The haunt of celebs in season from soap stars to politicos. Fun, friendly and fabulous value. Donatello, Brighton Place, Brighton, BN1 1HJ 01273 775477, www.donatello.co.uk
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NEW YEAR NEW YOU? he Christmas lights and tinsel are now a distant memory, January has well and truly kicked in. But are your resolutions also a distant memory? The promises we make to ourselves as a new year dawns often dissipate just as rapidly as the fireworks. How can we ensure that we stick to those hastily made promises? The truth is that most of us unwittingly hypnotise ourselves into failing as opposed to succeeding, through what is known as 'faulty thinking'. Hypnotherapy can help reverse this subconscious pattern, becoming a tool for success. Most of us have similar resolutions such as being a non-smoker or slimmer – often telling ourselves that New Year’s Eve is the last time we will indulge in counterproductive behaviour. The pressure of achieving this is often too much, we fall at the first hurdle, become frustrated and give up. The essential component of any successful endeavour is the belief that you can succeed. This is where hypnotherapy comes into play. Firstly by helping you define the success you desire so that your goal becomes crystal clear. The next step is to build your goal. Hypnotherapy can help you visualise where you want to be in order to bring your New Year’s resolutions into fruition.
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FIVE-A-DAY FESTIVAL Europe’s prime vegan festival VegfestUK returns to the Brighton Centre fter a very successful event in March 2015 drawing 12,000 visitors altogether, VegfestUK Brighton returns to the modern and spacious Brighton Centre on 27th to 28th February 2016! VegfestUK Brighton is a celebration of all things vegan with loads of stalls serving awesome food as well as bodycare, clothes, accessories, gifts and also lots of campaigning groups and merchandise, plus stacks of info, talks, demos, performances, passion and positive
energy. Loads of freebies and tasters add to the attraction. VegfestUK events are all about going vegan. They’re not about eating less meat, or choosing eggs over fish, free-range meat, or anything like that. It’s about going vegan, pure and simple. Go vegan. For the animals, for the planet, for your health, and for sustainable global food production. And it’s so easy. VegfestUK will demonstrate just how easy it is to go vegan and stay vegan. Advance tickets to the event are available here: www.brighton.vegfest.co.uk/admission Tickets are £7 a day and £10 for the whole weekend (plus small booking fees). Buy One Get One Half Price offers running till January 31st 2016. Kids under 16 free.
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can think of few better ways of starting my column than with a glass of sherry. Sherry? You may well ask, tucked away at the back of your granny’s sideboard, hoiked out on Christmas morning, dusted and poured into tiny glasses. It’s little wonder that we have left this most elegant of drinks on the back shelf for so long. Well not any longer, I’m joining in a current trend and outing sherry as the stylish tipple. And where I like the cosy better to start than with and relaxed a glass of icy chilled fino. There are plenty to atmosphere and choose from but if you unpretentious want something service style reliable then head straight to the Tio Pepe. Once as ubiquitous as Mateus Rosé, Tio Pepe is a great drink, crisp and dry but with real length, and served cold few drinks can match as a pre-dinner aperitif. Much as I love gin, the heady aromatic notes can spoil the palate for later delights whereas a nice dry sherry opens up the senses. Ms C & Ms McD treated me to a Michelin starred dinner as my Christmas gift, a very welcome gift it was too and delivered as a mystery tour. Given a time of departure of 5.40pm, by car, I was able to guess that we would be visiting one of only a handful of michelin starred eateries that were within reach and none of them would have been a disappointing choice. When we headed east though I was able to narrow that choice even further, and as we stopped in St Leonards to collect two dear friends and headed north I was confident that we were on our way to The Curlew. It’s a few years since I reviewed The Curlew and chefs have changed but not their status as one of the finest restaurants for miles around. It’s a cosy place, not overly grand in any sense but smart nonetheless. I like the cosy and relaxed atmosphere and unpretentious service style. It means you can relax too and really enjoy the experience. First out were parmesan biscuits, shortbread-like and meltingly good, and tiny ham croquetas, very nice indeed. The choices were superb and to be honest I would have been happy to eat any dish on the menu. In the end I threw caution to the wind, forgot my gout, and chose a dish of Cromer crab that was perfection. Creamy white meat balanced with a foamy brown flesh and dotted with perfectly balanced micro herbs, yes for once micro herbs earning their place on the plate. Happy as I was I did envy Mr C’s magnificent oxtail dish, but it was a mighty portion and I was glad that I had chosen a more delicate option. Full marks for great sourdough too served with good butter and chicken butter with crispy chicken skin too. Yes, chicken butter, I will find out but think that no chickens were milked to make it. Main courses were equally tempting. Mr C chose stone bass, the others the beef but I chose lamb. I love milk lamb but equally love
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lamb faggots and this dish came with a faggot. God it was good, the lamb pale and sweet, perfectly cooked and meltingly tender, the Jerusalem artichokes a soft earthy foil and the sauce sticky and savoury. With this we drank a bottle and then a carafe of Oxney Organic Estate Rosé, a wine that I hoped would match the starters as well as the fish and lamb. It was perhaps too light for the beef but those partaking did not seem to mind. Dessert was a no-brainer, show me fig and I order fig. It was superb and came with a goat cheese ice-cream that blew me away. The others had ginger pudding, an apple confection and a bakewell tart with mincemeat that was slightly controversial as Mr H is a Derby lad. Ms McD decided that dessert wines were in order and she and one other had a glass of the Muscat de Rivesaltes which they loved. But not for me, for me there was something far more special. Which brings me back to sherry. I chose the Emilio Higado PX or Pedro Ximenéz. Long a favourite tipple, this viscous drink is dark fruits in a glass, treacly raisins and sultanas, chewy figs and sticky dates, all reduced to a plate coating tincture of heart-warming deliciousness. The Curlew is as good as it was the first time. Beautiful food and wine in lovely surroundings with excellent inobtrusive yet still attentive service. As for sherry? Well I think I might just break out the Tio Pepe now. The Curlew, Junction Road, Bodiam, East Sussex, TN32 5UY 01580 861394, www.thecurlewrestaurant.co.uk
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fast becoming the How to wear next big thing 1. Mix it up Choose workout gear made of performance fabric, so it’s not see-through or clinging to all the wrong places. Thin, cheap leggings simply won’t work for this look! 2. Accessorise well Stay with the same appeal – anything with a sporty edge. Mirrored sunglasses, a bowling bag, cross-body satchel or edgy jewellery with substance, i.e. nothing too delicate or pretty, all work well. 3. Don’t overdo it Opt for neutral key pieces in either grey, black, cream or white and then add bold colours and prints with one or two statement pieces. Think grey tech trousers with a cream cashmere zip up sweat and colour pop vest or a geo print outfit worn with neutral trainers. Just don’t go head-to-toe crazy vibrant. Bethanie Lunn is Churchill Square’s Style Ambassador – blogging regularly at www.churchillsquare.com, hosting events and now offering Personal Shopping services. Check out the website to view all the budget-friendly packages, starting at just £20.
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HOLLY WOULD BE CAREFUL ON SOCIAL MEDIA y friend Abi received a message on Facebook last week from a boy that she didn’t know. The message said: “Hi, this might seem a bit random. But I was speaking to a girl online for a few months and it turns out that it was an imposter pretending to be somebody else. They have a whole profile set up but they were using your photographs.” So a random stranger, or possibly somebody that she knew, had set up a Facebook page under a false name and was using Abi’s photographs to talk to boys. This type of thing might sound unlikely or like a plot taken straight from an episode of the MTV series ‘Catfish’, but it is actually quite common. For those of you that don’t know what a Catfish is, it is ‘to lure (someone) into a relationship by adopting a fictional online persona’ which is exactly what this person was trying to do with Abi’s photographs. It’s such a weird thing to have happen to you and understandably Abi has been completely shaken up by the whole situation. Luckily nothing bad came of this strange incident and the fake profile has since been
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Similarly, within the last week, my friend Leah had her photographs taken by an imposter in order to Catfish people through an Instagram account. Alarmingly, this imposter was giving out personal information to men about where Leah worked and lived which led to her receiving many messages from strange people. From 4pm to 1am last Sunday, Leah had received over 100 messages from strangers claiming that they had been speaking to her on Instagram. On this occasion the Catfish clearly knew quite a lot about Leah so they either knew her personally or they were at least friends with her on Facebook in order to access her information.
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understand it to be honest.” What’s more disturbing about this is that this person also sent explicit photographs, that weren’t of Abi, to the boy claiming that they were of her. She added: “It is just all so weird and seedy. If somebody wants to send and receive photos like that then can they please do so without using my face.”
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Leah contacted the police and the account was soon removed but she is continuing to receive some strange messages. Catfishing is clearly the work of disturbed individuals but it’s quite scary to think that there might be enough information about you online for this type of thing to happen. I’m always quite careful with making sure that anybody who sends me a friend request, I have met personally and I always keep my privacy settings high. But I think that this is something that more people should be doing in order to protect their identities. Social media is such an incredible tool for contacting people but when it’s left to the wrong hands it can be very scary indeed.
DJ Fatboy Slim and crime writer Peter James were among the guests at the Snow Dogs, Martlets Hospice event in
Brighton. The charity art project is set to have 50 individually designed sculptures of popular cartoon canines around the city's streets in September to November next year. A business, organisation or an individual will sponsor each sculpture. The aim is to raise money for the Martlets Hospice in Hove, which cares for people nearing the end of their lives. We can’t wait to see what designs are thought up.
Gogglebox star Stephen Webb has announced his engagement to boyfriend Daniel Lustig on Twitter after he was proposed to in India. Stephen told the Sun: “It was all so romantic, the best day of my life!”.
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RING A DING DING JULIAN’S TOP TEN TIPS... ‘CHOOSING YOUR WEDDING RINGS’ ou’ve decided to tie the knot, you’ve bought a stunning engagement ring and she said yes!
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So now to that perfect expression of your loving bond... your wedding rings. Whether you are looking for something traditional, or a more contemporary design, Julian Stephens specialise in handmade bespoke wedding rings. And offer a bespoke personal service like no other.
1. CHOOSE TOGETHER
accountant to a bricklayer is drastically different. Metals can differ greatly in appearance depending on skin tone. For example platinum ignites in all its bright white beauty against olive skin, and rose gold blushes beautifully against fair skin tones. We recommend you try all the different metals on with a good jeweller, and see which suits you the most.
5. ADD STONES / EMBELLISHMENT / PERSONALISING
Once you have chosen the shape and form of the ring you’re both comfortable with, there are various options to personalise your jewellery. Having a gem set, a secret gem on the inside, or perhaps adding a gem each year on your anniversaries. Engraving is a popular choice, a simple message, or your wedding date can be a handy reminder for anniversaries!
We wholly recommend choosing your wedding rings together, as the process and experience shared creates unforgettable treasured memories for a lifetime. It is worth bearing in mind that after the wedding days is over, the only tangible signifiers of your special bond are your rings, and the wedding photographs. Consider the ratio of spending, for example, spending ten thousand pounds on catering, and only two hundred pounds on rings may seem an even balance on food for the day that will be long forgotten. Yet your rings serve as a constant reminder on your hands.
6. WHAT SHAPE / CROSS SECTION
2. MATCHING ENGAGEMENT RING WITH WEDDING RING
Engagement rings come in all shapes and sizes whether your beau has bought you an antique solitaire or you’ve both chosen the ring of your dreams, not all engagement rings are designed or look good with a plain straight band next to them. Very often the wedding ring and engagement ring need to be married by design. Choosing an experienced jeweller at this point is a necessity. By incorporating design features from the engagement ring into the wedding band, one can create a harmonious combination.
3. STYLE / DESIGN / LIFESTYLE
The majority of wedding bands sold are plain bands, and common advice for wedding bands is ‘simplicity’. Fashions may fade, but a timeless band won’t. References to shared symbolic ideas can be represented in fine detail on a plain wedding band. Be it an engraved design, a gemstone, or an engraved nickname or simply the wedding date. There are infinite personalised possibilities to ensure your wedding rings are as unique as your marriage.
Court Flat Comfort/easy fit D shape Round An important consideration is what cross section it should be. The price on the band will depend very much on what weight it is, light weight, medium weight, heavy weight.
7. BESPOKE – CREATE DESIGN / SHAPE, WORKING WITH YOUR CONCEPT
Some people will know exactly what they want. And however subtle or outrageous, Julian Stephens has all the experience to deliver. Advice – look on the internet, if you want a ring made, take pictures to show a reputable jeweller, who can combine the elements and produce a design concept unique to you. Do you have a shared passion, interest, interesting surname. Any words that have particular meaning? Or perhaps a grid reference for where you met?
8. HOW MUCH?
4. WHAT METAL?
Consideration of lifestyle is paramount when deciding on which metal for your wedding ring. The difference of wear and tear on a ring for an
The beauty of bespoke is it can be very good value, designed to fit your budget. A good jeweller will execute expertise to help guide the design around your budget. Anything is possible from small to large budgets. For a rough guide to prices see www.julianstephens.com The price of a wedding ring is directly related to its weight.
8. STYLE
Before visiting a reputable jeweller, search on Google images for preferred design styles and bring them in.
9. TIME
The lead time for most jewellers to make bespoke wedding rings is 46 weeks. So allow at least 2 months before the date of the wedding. However most good jewellers will bend over backwards to meet any deadline.
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What hand, what order, width of band, short fingers, long fingers, reusing gold from family sentimental pieces. This is a shortened version of my more in-depth guide which you can find in my blog at www.julianstephens.com Julian Stephens Goldsmith, 37 Gloucester Road, 01273 692110 watch on
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SCIENCE UNLOCKING POTENTIAL
BRIGHTON’S ARTY ALISON KROG
NO TIME TO GIVE UP
Dr Caroline Oprandi keeping you up to date with science & technology at PACA he study of light is such an interesting topic. Pure white light that reaches us from the sun is in fact made up of a blend of different colours and Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated this in 1966 using a
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prism. The light that is visible to our eyes all lies within a very narrow range of wavelengths, between 390 and 740 nm. There is nothing very special about visible light. Its only specific significance is that this is one of the few wavebands for which earth’s atmosphere is transparent, and therefore most life on earth has evolved to take advantage of it through a variety of organs, most obviously the eyes. Giles Sparrow gives a brilliant account of light and electromagnetism in his little pocket book ‘Physics in minutes’. Giles Sparrow goes onto say that electromagnetic waves are one of the key ways in which we can learn about the universe. The most obvious form of electromagnetism is visible light but this is only a very small part Electromagnetic of the wider electromagnetic waves are one spectrum, which of the key ways in includes invisible radiations such which we can learn about the universe as infrared, ultraviolet and xrays. All electromagnetic waves travel through space (a vacuum) at the same speed (300 million m/s) but they have different wavelengths and frequencies. The waves are grouped according to their wavelength and frequency. The order of the electromagnetic spectrum starting with the shortest wavelength and highest frequency is as follows: gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, microwaves, radio waves. I find it fascinating that human beings have gone on to discover these different aspects of the electromagnetic spectrum and furthermore have found ways to manipulate and utilise them. Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons when he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt. Two years later, with his newfound knowledge on how to cook food in mere seconds, Spencer and his employer, Raytheon, patented the first commercial microwave oven – it cost $5,000. A countertop microwave oven in 1975 cost $672. We now have microwave telescopes that can allow us to see the sky in microwave frequencies. There are microwave sources that are invisible to optical telescopes, and there may be gas or dust clouds that block visible light but allow some microwaves to penetrate. Almost everywhere in space we see microwave radiation, and that microwave radiation is the "echo" of the Big Bang. It's called cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), and again was discovered by chance. Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) is a college offering sixth form, 11-16 years, youth centre, adult learning, community education, sports centre and pre-school. Find out more at www.paca.uk.com
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ew Year’s resolutions. Pah to all that. At Arty towers we laugh in the face of ‘dryathons’ and consider a bottle of Rioja one of our five a day. But one promise we always manage to keep up is to add to our increasingly covetable collection of local artwork each year. Ian Woodard And if that’s the kind of purposefulness that appeals to you, but you’re not quite sure where to start, I’d strongly suggest a chat with the approachable, affable and extremely wellinformed James Stewart at Zimmer Stewart Gallery in Arundel. Established in 2003 by James and John Zimmer, this warm and welcoming artspace shows emerging and established contemporary artists through a programme of six to eight exhibitions each year. James curates every exhibition – and coming from an accounting, rather than art history If all visitors background means he liked every can relate to both browsers and collectors exhibition, they alike. would not be James and John want doing a good visitors to feel free to come in and view the enough job work on show, talk about it frankly, and give their honest opinions. Their mission is to showcase art in many forms – Phil Tyler bringing new artists to Sussex – and they believe that if all visitors liked every exhibition, they would not be doing a good enough job. Zimmer Stewart appreciates that it cannot 'sell' contemporary art – visitors either love a piece or they don’t. It is the gallery's role to present the work well, inform visitors about the artists and their work, and let the art speak for itself. Then if people like what they see, they may want to start their own contemporary art collection. Work on show includes paintings, original prints, ceramics, sculpture and textiles. And if you do fall in love with a piece of artwork, but can’t quite afford it, the gallery offers Own Art Loans, which enable visitors to purchase art interest-free over 10 months. See zimmerstewart.co.uk for more. www.artymagazines.com Twitter @brightonsarty
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GUY THOUGHTS GUY LLOYD
ENTERTAINMENT JOE FULLER
Bowie, cross-dressing and all that jazz
Trip hop titans Massive Attack come to Brighton Dome
t’s four days since David Bowie died and I’m still feeling a dull ache in my heart. I’m not crying every minute but I’ve felt low. A low that’s quite difficult to describe. I missed Bowie’s golden period growing up. I was from a different generation that got in to music in the eighties, hence my love for my all-time hero Freddie Mercury but I do remember loving his music and being enthralled by his look and his attitude. I remember feeling a deep sadness the first time I heard ‘Space Oddity’ and from memory I think this was the first time I felt emotionally moved by hearing a song. That and the theme from TV’s ‘Black Beauty.’ ‘Modern Love’ became my own soundtrack to planned school disco snogs that would ultimately end in failure. ‘Changes’ will go round and round my head whenever I see a change in my life on the horizon and I’m fighting for things to stay the same. But I think what I admired most about him was his attitude, his innovation and his bravery. I He mean the guy just did his own effortlessly thing, time and time again. And I don’t care if you’re a reinvented musician, or a comic or a himself on his painter, or an actor; that for me, is the most exciting thing own terms about art. Being true to yourself. And of course it wasn’t just about his music. It was his look. And his looks. He never stood still. He was always ahead of the pack. Bowie made it OK to be different. He put himself out there and said to the world, “this is me”. And I admired that hugely about him. Along with Freddie of course. They were huge influences on me finding myself. And that was the person that loved blending in and going about my business, unnoticed, in my mainstream jeans and shirt. But it was also the person that loved cross-dressing and dressing in drag and sucking attention from everybody. They were all parts of me that I wanted to explore and will keep exploring. And that’s what Bowie did so brilliantly and comfortably. He effortlessly reinvented himself on his own terms. Growing up in a small-minded town in the East Midlands, I was never shocked by Bowie’s look but I would never have tried it in public. I would have been beaten up. But when I got in a band and I had my own stage, I suddenly felt more comfortable. And for the first time I knew that I had people’s approval and eventually, some admiration. And then I was comfortable wearing women’s clothes, etc. because I found this just got me more admiration. I was saying to people, “this is me” and I think the majority of people respected that. If you’re struggling to feel totally comfortable with yourself then it can be kind of liberating and inspiring to see someone else do it. They could be on Top of the Pops or they could just be in your local pub. Bowie made that possible for me and for millions of others. So although I feel great sadness at his passing, I say thank you David Bowie for inspiring people to be themselves. That’s all we ever wanted.
assive Attack haven't released an album since 2010, but retain a dear place in the heart of those who were around at their height in the ‘90s. They also remain relevant to a younger generation. You might have heard 'Teardrop' on the opening credits to the TV show ‘House’ for example, and it's fantastic that they reached people they might not have through such high profile exposure. The song is devastatingly powerful, with a memorable keyboard line, clacking reverby drum machine, and divine singing from the inimitable Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins fame. If I'm lucky enough to get tickets I will be hoping to lose myself in 'Teardrop''s unique, wellcrafted soundworld. 'Four Walls' and 'Paradise Circus' from their most recent album 'Heligoland' featured Hope Sandoval (of Mazzy Star fame) in a suitably sultry performance. The remix of 'Paradise A perfect Circus' in particular by union of Burial is a staggeringly beautiful piece that ethereal escapism wanders in a rainy, dark and passion evening landscape of vinyl murk. The original is also superb, in a sharper more accessible way; listen to both if you want to enter the band’s world in different ways and you'll be in for a treat. Massive Attack are an exciting live band too, with their 2014 sets featuring distinctive visuals such as heavy backlighting, tweets about Jennifer Lawrence, the Gaza Strip and other cultural ruminations. Their 2010 tour featured five backing musicians and two drummers, which is always a good way to flesh out electronic music in a live setting. This combination of attention to detail with visuals and constructing a raucous, engrossing live sound has created a strong reputation for them. The gig is sold out, but keep an eye out for returns and resales. One other huge reason to get into the Dome on Monday is support act Young Fathers. I saw them at the Haunt last year and it was a sensational show, loud, shuddering bass blasts conjoined with angry, vibrant hip hop vocals and an up-for-it crowd. This should be a perfect union of ethereal escapism and passion, and I hope to see you there. Somehow. Massive Attack, Brighton Dome, Monday 1 February, £36, www.brightondome.org or 01273 709709 for returns
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STAGE ANDREW KAY
LOVE & TREACHERY
Passion and drama from Puccini and drama and comedy from Ayckbourn in Eastbourne uccini’s powerful opera Tosca comes to the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne on 4th February. This magnificent, traditional, fully-staged opera is set against the dramatic landscape of Rome and the Napoleonic Wars and the corrupt Italian regime of that time. Opera & Ballet International proudly presents an Ellen Kent production with international soloists, highly praised chorus and full orchestra. Starring Vladimir Dragos as Scarpia with International Sopranos Maria Tonina and Alyona Kistenyova as Tosca. Directed as a Gothic, Victorian horror story, Puccini’s Tosca is an epic tale of true love and treachery featuring some of opera’s bestknown music, and is based on the play by Victorien Sardou. Once described as a “shabby little shocker” it tells of Floria Tosca’s true love for artist Mario Cavaradossi. Tosca is forced to enter into a deal with the Chief of Police Baron Scarpia, in order to save Cavaradossi, her lover, from execution. Scarpia’s price is Tosca’s seduction, but she cannot go through with it, and in desperation she stabs Scarpia to death. Cavaradossi is executed and, realising all is lost, Tosca throws herself from the battlements to her death. This most popular of operas, with its tender and moving arias Recondita Armonia, Vissi d’Arte and E Lucevan le Stelle, is a heady mixture of true love, suffering and deceit, with two of the best roles for tenor and soprano ever written, plus a pure evil villain as the baritone. Vladimir Dragos returns to sing his most famous role of Scarpia after his acclaimed portrayal of Rigoletto on Ellen Kent’s last tour. This production is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Congress Theatre Thursday 4 February, 7.30pm Tickets priced £22 – 34 available online at www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk or call Box Office on 01323 412000
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CONFUSIONS & HERO’S WELCOME
The Devonshire Park Theatre spring season opens with a very exciting theatrical event – the world premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s brand new 79th play Hero’s Welcome which is performed alongside a new adaptation of one of his most popular and studied plays Confusions. Written 40 years apart these two productions are being performed in a mini-repertory theatre season, with Confusions performed Monday, Thursday and Saturday and Hero’s Welcome on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ayckbourn directs this new production of Confusions in which we meet a variety of characters; from a devoted and isolated mother, to her unfaithful travelling salesman husband, through a solicitous waiter to well-heeled diners and an utterly shambolic garden fete, human frailty is laid bare as one hilarious situation after another unfolds. From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming. The world premiere tour of Hero’s Welcome follows a decorated war hero, Murray, who returns to his boyhood stomping ground with a new young bride, but is all as it seems? Once the welcome flags have stopped waving, few of his friends seem particularly happy to see him back. Murray’s declared intention of staying put and settling down threatens to stir up all sorts of old rivalries and resentments. Suddenly the couple, in search of peace, find themselves once more in the firing line. Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne from 22 – 27 February Confusions is performed Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7.45pm, with matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm. Hero’s Welcome is on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7.45pm with a Wednesday matinee at 2.30pm. Tickets priced at £15.50 – £21 with concessions available including a duo-show discount! To book or for more information call the box office on 01323 412000 or visit online at www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
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MUSIC JEFF HEMMINGS
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Villagers – Conor O'Brien of Villagers email chats with Jeff Hemmings inger and multiinstrumentalist Conor O'Brien is somewhat a star in his native Ireland, all three Villagers albums have made number one, and {Awayland} was the Choice Music Prize Album of the Year in 2013, Ireland's equivalent of the Mercury's. Last year he decided to re-visit his back catalogue, and re-record a batch of songs, live, and in just one day. The result is Where Have You Been All My LIfe?
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What was the inspiration and reasoning behind the new album? I like the idea of a recording being a document of where the songs are on a particular day, rather than a blueprint or something solid and unalterable. The album was recorded in a live setting, in one day. Was it a challenge?
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It was definitely a challenge. We planned on getting 18 songs on tape before the end of the day, and we succeeded. When you leave yourself no option of doing overdubs or re-takes, there's an element of "fight or flight" that kicks in. I like the way I sing on these recordings because I can hear myself letting go of everything and focusing in on absolute commitment to the song.
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voice singing it, the song suddenly wrote itself. It was so weird.
Did you specifically write Memoir for Charlotte Gainsbourg? How did this come about? Someone from her record label saw me playing a show in Paris and asked me if I'd like to write a song for her. I'd already written the first two verses of Memoir but I'd never known where to take it. When I imagined her
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Why the title of the album? It's such a dramatic declaration of commitment and that's what the session as a whole meant to me; diving into a feeling headfirst and letting it take you where it wants to go. It's dangerous and naïve but most journeys are if they're of any worth.
2 Gudjohr Hey Gurl 3 The Fooley Mantras The Truth 4 Tony Blair Witch Projekt Let’s Have Some Good Times 5 The Speak Flowers
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6 John Maher Over the line 7 Jim Guittard BJM-Like Song
COMEDY VICTORIA NANGLE
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Laughing Horse Comedy and Charity Chuckle sst! Did you know that every Saturday there’s a regular comedy night with a line-up of breakthrough and regular circuit comedians and it’s slap bang in the centre of town next to the clocktower? Laughing Horse Comedy is chiefly known when it comes into its own as an organisation over the month of May, with its massive contribution of shows to the Brighton Fringe – both as booker and facilitator for several venues including The Quadrant, The Hobgoblin and The Temple Bar. Having made its name
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10 Cath O’Drae Mugged by the system relationships with some of the breakthrough stars of 2015 and 2014, returning time and again with headline sets and also shorter appearances trying out new material – guaranteeing a star-spangled evening of quality laughs. Next Tuesday’s CC sees Zoe Lyons headlining, with support slots from Yuriko Kotani (back in Brighton again), David James, Bobby Mair, Harriet Kemsley, James Ellis and – get this – a mystery guest. With a back catalogue like they’ve got, it could be any number of Live At The Apollo stars. Charity Chuckle, Komedia, Tuesday 9 February, 8pm, £10 (proceeds going to Brighton & Hove Impetus), www.charitychuckle.co.uk Laughing Horse Comedy, The Quadrant, Saturday 6 February, 8.30pm, £7/6, www.wegottickets.com/event/343 784
11 Asher Fynn Love Is A Dependency 12 Freudstein Sister Sleaze 13 KIYOMORI NONE OF THE ABOVE 14 Ree NO TIME TO WASTE 15 Dan Sumner Glitterball 16 the punkees valeri 17 Sweetpeppersoup One decision 18 KiiNGS MEWS Learning Lessons 19 Sweet Jonny Carpe Diem 20 The Last Cry Rebekka
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MIKE WARD AT LARGE
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A GIANT LEAP BACKWARDS few weeks ago, at an extended family gathering, we FaceTimed my nephew and his fiancé. Or, come to think of it, we may have "facetimed" them, with a lower-case F and T, it was hard to tell. Dominic and Eleanor are currently taking a year off work so they can swan around Australia, doing nothing of any great consequence as far as I can make out, but safe in the knowledge that their sickeningly well-paid jobs will still be here for them when they get home. (How exactly does that work, by the way? I've never worked anywhere that offered that as an option.) So anyway, once my brother had offered to fire up his iPad, and once I'd suggested that simply switching it on would be more than adequate and he didn't have to speak like a twonk, we logged on and made the connection. And within, what, 15 seconds or so, there they were, Dom and El, live from Sydney, gawping at us as we gawped back at them. Isn't technology marvellous, eh? What will they think of next? Etc. Well, I'm hoping what they'll think of next is a way to make FaceTime, Skype and other similar video-call experiences less excruciatingly uncomfortable and awkward. Because what followed, as we passed the iPad around the room, was the most toe-curlingly stilted conversation you could possibly wish not to have. To a large extent, I grant you, this was thanks to the way my extended family just happens to be, particularly at one of these large, multigenerational gatherings we force The video ourselves to have on special factor occasions. But it's not just that. Compared becomes a to simple voice calls, video calls strangely are, let's be honest, horribly suffocating unnatural, with the participants somehow feeling obliged either to presence stare down the lens at one another, in a manner that would feel utterly creepy if you were to replicate it face to face, or, when this becomes too much to bear, to turn the device around and kill the time with a throughly pointless guided tour of wherever they happen to be at the time (..."and this is the downstairs toilet..."). Add to this the fact that even a half-decent video connection will freeze, stutter or break down at some point, and what you've ultimately got is a giant leap backwards for human interaction. Marvellous as it may be from a technological point of view, in practice the video factor becomes a strangely suffocating presence, knocking us off-kilter and steering us down conversational cul-de-sacs. Or maybe, as I say, that's just my family. Or just me. Next week: the popup toaster and why it'll never catch on. Mike Ward is the TV Critic of the Daily Star and the TV Editor of the Daily Express Saturday magazine. Hear him every Monday afternoon with Guy Lloyd on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 Twitter: @mikewardontv
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Annie Theatre Royal Brighton, 2 January 2016, ★★★★★ This excellent and heart-warming show always puts a smile on my face. The smart new setting works well, slick and witty although why the jigsaw motif I have still to work out, but it works and mainly because each rolling part is not just pushed on but is choreographed into place. What great dancing we get too, vibrant, delivered by a superb company. That includes a feisty gang of orphans who nail their numbers with such energy. At the centre of course is Annie, last night played by Madeleine Haynes. She had exactly what it takes to deliver this role, enough sass, enough sweet charm and enough sadness to deliver the bathos that makes the show that much better than your average schmaltz. But schmaltz is an essential ingredient and the principals dish it out by the bowlful. Jonny Fines is a super sleazy Rooster, all strut and spittle. Holly Dale Spencer is sweetness personified as Grace Farrell and Alex Bourne is charming as the soft-centred tycoon Daddy Warbucks. Lesley Joseph gives Miss Hannigan real edge, plays it less drunk than other actors in the role and it’s better for that, more measured. Whilst her Bronx accent is not strong she more than makes up for it when she sings, delivering her numbers with real guts and dancing up a storm too – I loved you Miss Hannigan! Andrew Kay Blood Brothers Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, 18 January 2016, ★★★★★ Blood Brothers is a phenomenon. Nearly 30 years since its first performance at the Liverpool Playhouse it has played around the world, a fitting testimony to its strong tale of tangled fate and good motives resulting in bad deeds. This performance was nothing less than a tour de force, both in terms of artistic merit and emotional resonance. The central roles of Mrs Johnstone (Lyn Paul), Mickey (Sean Jones) and Edward (Joel Benedict) were faultless, while Kristofer Harding’s stalking, menacing presence as the narrator provided a sinister ambiance to the story. Unsurpassed and unmissable, this is as much a cultural event as an everyman musical. James Gibson London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Prabava (conductor), Stefan Ćirić (piano) Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, 16 January 2016, ★★★★★ A crowd-pleasing programme ensured that there was a fantastic atmosphere in the sold-out Brighton Dome. Stefan Ćirić’s piano playing flowed well in a quiet, considered way but the highlight of Brahms’ piano concerto no. 2 was principal cellist Kristina Blaumane’s beautiful, evocative part in the moving ‘Andante’. Beethoven’s majestic symphony no. 7 was thrilling, played at a breakneck pace with almost no breaks between movements. Conductor Adrian Prabava drew a vigorous performance out of the second violins in the first movement, reminiscent of the peerless Herbert von Karajan recordings. The symphony flew by breathlessly, and the sight of out-of-breath Prabava epitomised his bold interpretation of the power of the piece and his full-bodied, passionate commitment. Joe Fuller
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