The Red Bulletin July 2017 - UK

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BEYOND THE ORDINARY

BEST OF THE FESTS

FOUR MUST-SEE ACTS WHO’LL ROCK YOUR SUMMER

FINDING THE EDGE

IN SEARCH OF THE RIGHT STUFF IN NASA’S ASTRONAUT SCHOOL

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Justin Bastien

Whenever we need a photographer who can handle tough conditions, we call Californian Bastien. He’s swum in the icy waters of the Pacific for us and shot eagle hunters in Mongolia. This time we sent him to the Johnson Space Center, NASA's astronaut boot camp. Bastien's opinion after three days in the heart of the US space programme: "Astronauts are heroes. Period." PAGE 30

Andrew Woffinden

The London-based fashion and portrait photographer is used to working with exceptional women, shooting the likes of Oscar-nominee Naomi Harris for Esquire and rap music’s enfant terrible M.I.A. for the Observer. Still, up-and-coming pop star Dua Lipa impressed him. “She has such a cool vibe,” he says. “She's really confident and knows exactly what she wants.” PAGE 4 4

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Space. In terms of exploration, discovery, risk, reward and pushing the boundaries of human experience, there is no greater adventure. In every way, it is the ultimate trip. However, in more than 50 years of manned space flight, just under 550 people have earned a ticket for that journey. In this issue we travel to Houston, to NASA’s astronaut boot camp to identify the key ingredients that separate regular folk from those with the right stuff.

Exploring the limits of experience can also be a mission conducted in inner space, as exemplified by drum-and-bass legend Goldie, who swapped the celebrity merry-go-round for a voyage deep into self via bikram yoga. He’s emerged with a remarkable new solo album, his first in 18 years.

Finally, for diver Gary Hunt, going to the edge is a literal challenge, but with six Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series titles to his credit, it’s one the Briton has mastered with exceptional skill. As he prepares to battle for a seventh, we find out how he plans to push the boundaries of the sport even further and why the only fear of falling he now has to deal with is that of slipping into routine.

We hope you enjoy the issue.

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NASA boot camp

US astronauts aren't made in space, but an hour south of Houston, Texas. The Red Bulletin goes to space school

44 Dua Lipa

The pop newcomer with the singles chart in her pocket

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Kitesailing

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Goldie

How one man overcame his dyslexia and took his fledgling sport – and sustainable energy – to the next level The yoga-loving, MBE-awarded, drum-and-bass don returns

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Plunging from a 27m-high platform is all in a day's work for the British cliff-diving champion

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Festival highlights

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Colombia to Argentina

Red Bull TV is airing some of the summer's top music events.

Here's who to look out for, according to giants of the scene Two men, four wheels, 10,685km, 49 days, one gruelling ride

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Singer and model Dua Lipa doesn't do contingency plans. She has her eye on one prize only: pop success

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BULLEVARD Life And Style Beyond The Ordinary

12 Actor Josh Duhamel talks sons,

buddies and Transformers

14 Red Bull X-Fighters hits Madrid 16 Secret garden: Cuba's Jardines

de la Reina are diving heaven

18 Eiza Gonzรกlez, bank-robbing

beauty in new film Baby Driver

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headphones have it sorted Disappearing ink: the tattoo that vanishes after a year The Aerion AS2: fly supersonic with your gin 'n' tonic Peru's wall-mounted hotel Eating local in the Faroes Land Rover to the rescue

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86 Game-changing chronographs 88 Unmissable events for

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90 Essential outdoor gear 96 Global team 98 Neymar Jr's Five comes home

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What does it take to become an astronaut?

We spend three days at NASA boot camp and get the expert advice of its space veterans, instructors and graduates

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The affable action star returns as Captain Lennox in Transformers: The Last Knight

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fter sitting out Transformers: Age of Extinction, original series cast member Josh Duhamel returns as Lt Colonel William Lennox in Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth film in Michael Bay’s franchise.

The former model and soap opera star, now 44, has more authority figures in his future: he’ll play a sergeant in the video game Call of Duty: WWII (out in November), and a detective investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls in the USA Network pilot Unsolved.

We called Duhamel in Los Angeles – where he lives with wife Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas – while he packed for a recent trip to London. the Red bulletin: The first Transformers film turns 10 this year. Does your life today feel drastically different to a decade ago?

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josh duhamel: Well, I’m a little greyer, that’s for sure. It’s not easy to be part of a [franchise] that’s this successful and global. It was a lot of fun. I remember meeting [with Bay’s] producers for a different movie and he poked his head in and goes, “I want to show you what I’m working on” – this was 2002 or 2003.

And I was like, “Transformers?

Like the cartoons from the ’80s? That sounds like an awful idea.” [Laughs.] But I went over there anyway just to see. And I got it immediately: they’re completely reinventing this. A month or so later he calls me in to read for it; we’re off to the races. I try not to take any of this stuff for granted; any job that I get, I try to treat it like it’s my last.

You studied biology, with a view to becoming a dentist. That seems like a very practical plan.

When did you decide that you wanted to become a professional actor?

I think I always wanted to be an actor, I just didn’t have a clue coming from North Dakota how you even begin.

People ask me about their kids, “How do I help them get into the business?” How about letting them finish school and grow up a little?

Because you’ve gotta be careful what you wish for.

But you can escape fame at your cabin in Minnesota...

There’s something in my blood that says I need space around me. Now that my boy [Axl] is almost four, he’ll be old enough to start coming with me. It’s literally out in the middle of the woods on this lake, and you would never, ever know it’s even there. It’s my happy place.

What lessons from your dad will you pass on to your son?

Try to find a woman who loves her dad. Try to find somebody who sees life from an optimistic point of view.

Another thing he just said recently: it was early spring, the lake had just thawed and the water was very cold. When I put my foot in, I was like, “Oh my God, I can’t jump in that. I’ll have a heart attack.”

And he’s like, “Come on, be a brave soul!” So I went for it.

That’s how I want my son to approach things. Don’t be a reckless soul, be a brave soul.

Are you directing your first movie this summer?

Looks like it! I wrote it with my writing partner, Jude Weng [who has directed episodes of Crazy ExGirlfriend, Fresh Off the Boat and Black-ish]. It’s based on this thing that my buddies and I do every year called the Buddy Games. We visit Montana or Minnesota – like 20 childhood friends, we’re all still very tight – and it’s a weekend of straight-up competition, from go-kart racing to paintball to golf and ping-pong. Wiffle ball’s a big one. There’s also a lot of beer drinking going on.

Ultimately, it’s about how important friendships are as you get older. So it’s got a sweetness about it, but it’s also a comedy.

Transformers: The Last Knight is in cinemas from June 22

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Freestyle motocross

An arena steeped in history, flying motocross bikes and one rider, Tom Pagès, whose goal is to relentlessly push the boundaries of the sport

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he Red Bull X-Fighters FMX competition at Madrid’s historic Las Ventas Arena is loud – really loud. As a competitor blips the throttle of his motocross bike ahead of a run, the volume in the stand goes up in tandem. A fan with a chainsaw motor salutes the rider with a matching throttle burst and the crowd responds with a roar of approval. It’s a seething cauldron of passion, an arena in the most ancient sense, where combat is intense, full of risk, but rewarded with huge admiration from the 24,000 fans crammed into the venerable bullring. “I get the feeling that there are more people and it’s louder every year,” says Tom Pagès, winner of the last four events here.

For many, the Frenchman is the sport’s most heroic competitor and their deafening validation is a measure of the ingenuity he brings to the event. “Creativity makes this sport interesting and playful. I like being different. It motivates me.” His motto is simple and a courtesy to the crowd. “Would I ever come to Madrid without new tricks? Never!”

Pagès has a tip for those who can’t be at Las Ventas on July 7, but who will be watching live on Red Bull TV. “What should you concentrate on? The tricks speak for themselves. The complexity depends on the risk and the scale. Style is important but how well the action flows is the decisive factor.” redbullxfighters.com

Trick shot: Tom Pagès takes flight at Madrid’s Las Ventas arena in 2016

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Divers’ delight

Think Cuba has been frozen in time since the ‘60s? Wait until you see its reefs – they’re as pristine as they always were

he diving world’s secret has been a solid six-hour bus ride from Havana for two decades. And with Cuba and the US normalising relations, the island’s capital is bracing for fresh swells of gringos there to ogle Chevy Bel Airs and overpay for drinks. But the secret spot? It’s in no danger.

With unspoiled coral reefs and incredible biodiversity, the Jardines de la Reina has been a known entity in the global diving community since 1996. That’s when the Cuban government banned all fishing in these waters – bar the unfortunately-too-tasty-to-

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three live-aboard boats or their funky floating hotel. You can get in two to three dives a day in water where visibility runs up to 20m.

With the Great Barrier Reef in peril due to overheating waters and invasive human activity, sights like this may one day be a thing of the past.

Fortunately, no matter how many Americans join Cuba’s growing tourist throngs, the Jardines’ exclusive guest list means the spectacle off the island nation’s southern coast remains, at least for now, very much a thing of the future. www.cubandivingcenters.com ANDREAS TZORTZIS

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resist Caribbean spiny lobster – restricting the quota of divers to just 500 a year and transforming the Jardines into a marine park. A mere 80km offshore, the mangrove-islanddotted expanse sprawls over 1,700 square kilometres and offers the most diverse and protected diving in the world.

Morays, stingrays, groupers, barracudas, zebrafish and more swarm among giant coral mountains in some of the healthiest reefs in the world. The Galapagos of the Caribbean is a time machine, and scientists believe it’s relatively unchanged since Christopher Columbus first moved through these waters (and gave the archipelago its name). But the most prized sights have an even more prehistoric pedigree – saltwater crocodiles and 2m reef sharks prowl mere inches from your face.

For more than 20 years, Italian dive company Avalon Outdoor has owned the exclusive rights to dive, and the distance from land requires you to book on one of their

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Rare species of crocodile hide out in the mangrove islands

Reef, nurse and silky sharks are abundant in the archipelago

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BULLEVARD Eiza González: “I’m a fangirl, a movie freak.

My favourite ever film is Reservoir Dogs”

Eiza González

The From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series star on channelling real-life tragedy into scorching success in highoctane heist movie Baby Driver

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t the age of 12, Eiza González lost her father in a motorcycle accident. Fifteen years later, she’s starring in Baby Driver – a film about a getaway driver who has to listen to music all the time to drown out tinnitus caused by a car crash that took his parents at an early age. The parallels are clear.

“It definitely hit home because I saw it first-hand.

It’s one of the reasons I felt a connection with the story – this addiction to the adrenalin, the rush,” González tells The Red Bulletin. “I inherited that from my father, his addiction was running cars and motorcycles. It’s my homage to him, the way I let go of a part of my life that hurts. He lost his life doing what he loved, and that makes me feel really good about it. He would be very excited about this.”

He would be very excited about most of the choices González has made in her life.

At age 17, the Mexican actress became a sensation in two hit Latin-American TV shows –

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Lola...Érase Una Vez and Sueña Conmigo – both about a teenage girl with dreams of being a rock star. In a case of life mimicking art, González released two successful solo albums before catching the eye of director Robert Rodriguez who cast her as Santanico Pandemonium, the snakedancing vampire vixen, in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series.

For Baby Driver, where every shot is choreographed to one of the summer’s essential soundtracks, González’ affinity for music also played a crucial role. “When we got the script we got the playlist, so I drove to my audition listening to the music. It was a chance to get what [director] Edgar Wright was feeling. It really helped me get into character.”

That character is Darling, girlfriend to Jon Hamm’s Buddy, and a bank robber for whom González channelled a real-life criminal. “I based her on Candice [Martinez], ‘the cell-phone bandit’. She’s famous for walking into banks on her phone.”

González also learned to fire two machine guns at the same time (“They’re goddamn heavy – you’ve got to learn to control it. I had to lift a lot weights.”) and took part in car chases with co-stars Hamm, Jamie Foxx and Ansel Elgort.

“The reason they look so real is because they are real – we were in the car 16 hours a day.”

Next up, Gonzalez is in Alita Battle Angel, a Japanese manga adaptation that James Cameron has been trying to make for 17 years and which he’s now placed into the directorial hands of Robert Rodriguez. “My creativeness explodes around Robert, Edgar, James – insanely talented people who actually changed filmmaking. What I want to do in my career is curate amazing filmmakers, because being around that energy, it’s an adrenalin rush.” babydriver-movie.com

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They double up as your smart assistant, suggest music, co-ordinate your appointments and even order pizza

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ive years ago, phones learned how to speak to us. Now headphones are following suit. The first set of smart 3D-headphones are called Vinci and could revolutionise the audio market thanks to

a suite of functions that go far beyond just listening to music.

So just what can these Bluetooth cans do? Well, they can play whatever song you tell them to, by voice command, but they’re also gesture-controllable. They’re

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noise-cancelling for optimum sound quality and work as standalone music player, with 32GB of storage. Best of all, though, they don’t even need to partner with a smartphone, being cloud-connectable, so you can access streaming services, calendars, and all your favourite apps direct from the ’phones.

The headphones’ Alexa-like assistance will not only plan your route to work and order you a car-share, but on your daily run they work as a fitness tracker and recommend songs to match your tempo.

And if you’re still hungry after a night out, Vinci will find somewhere that’s still open and order you a pizza. With a 15-hour power reserve, they could just become your new constant companion. vinci.im

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Test drive a tattoo for a year and if you like it, make it permanent

Ephemeral art

‘Tattoo fail’ memes may soon be a thing of the past

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Ephemeral is a New Yorkbased start-up that promises to deliver tattoos that vanish after a year. It’s the brainchild of NYU graduate Seung Shin, who, in 2011, got a tattoo that didn’t go down well with his family. The costly and painful laser removal procedure etched the need for a better solution into his mind.

The technology is simple – the reason regular tattoos are permanent is because the dye molecules are too large for the body’s immune system to break down. Ephemeral’s ink uses smaller molecules trapped in a structure large enough to resist the immune system, but which collapses after a year. After that, a solution can be applied to remove part or all of the tattoo, or the owner can just let it fade away. And if one year is too long, Ephemeral also has three- and six-month options in the pipeline.

Ephemeral is opening its first tattoo parlour in New York

THE SELFDESTRUCTING TATTOO City in summer 2018 – with an estimated cost of US$50 to $100 for an average-size tattoo. Good news for anyone who’s ever appeared on Tattoo Fixers, although perhaps not for makers of the show. In 3,000 years, historians may have trouble finding any 21stcentury mummies with comical Homer Simpson mouths tattooed across their buttocks. ephemeraltattoos.com

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ody art is older than recorded history itself. Tattoos have been found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummies and human bodies of all kinds ever since. But whether tribal, criminal, on soldiers, sailors or followers of fashion, the motives for inking one’s body remain the same – social status, self-expression and commitment. A tattoo, after all, is permanent.

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Real-deal body art with a no-regrets return policy. The only thing you won’t get back is the money you spent

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his is one hell of an aeroplane.

The Aerion AS2, expected to make its maiden flight in 2021, has a luxury interior, three turbofans and a maximum range of 9,816km, and, with a long-range cruise speed of Mach 1.4, travels almost twice as fast as the quickest business jet today: the Gulfstream G650. “It would save CEOs an average of 17 working days

a year,” says the company’s spokesman, Sean McGeough.

There’s just one little problem the engineers need to solve first: the plane literally packs a lot of bang for the 120 million bucks it will cost to buy one. Travelling at 1.4 times the speed of sound means one hell of a racket. The passengers on board – a maximum of 12 – won’t hear the constant sonic booming, but the noise would be slightly off-putting for the people living 15,000m below.

This is no problem while crossing the Atlantic, but current laws make it illegal for flights over land, where the AS2 would have to creep along at 850kph (the standard flying speed for passenger jets).

An Austrian firm has also been involved in designing the cabin of the Aerion AS2

This is why Aerion’s engineers are working on new methods that can outfox physics; wavebreakers and new aerofoils could split wavefronts and limit noise. The goal is similar flight times to Concorde, but with lower fuel consumption and 50 per cent more range.

You could have breakfast in London and be in New York in time for that business lunch – as long as the queue at immigration isn’t too bad. aerionsupersonic.com

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Guests who stay at this adventure hotel in Peru sleep on a rock face 400m above the valley floor

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world’s most extreme hotels.

We talked to the owner, 37-year-old Ario Ferri.

THe red bulleTin: How did you come up with the idea of a hotel on a rock face? ario ferri: I came here nine years ago to install a via ferrata. The work took over a year and during that time I mostly slept in portaledges on the rock face. I wanted to share that wonderful sensation with others.

What mod cons can guests look forward to?

The three pods I built all have three beds and four tables.

The electricity for the lamps

comes from solar panels attached to the pods.

What if we have to go to the toilet in the middle of the night?

Not a problem. The pods have separate bathrooms with a toilet and sink. And there’s a 25-litre canister of water available for a quick shower every morning.

Is there breakfast in bed?

Actually, until recently there was. But now there’s a fourth pod: a dining area guests reach via a horizontal beam.

You could say that just getting to breakfast is an adventure. naturavive.com

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o you want to take the lift up to your hotel room?

Then you’ve come to the wrong place. In order to put your feet up at this hotel – three glass pods suspended on steel cables – you’re going to have to sweat. It’s a 90-minute ascent along a via ferrata – a mountain route equipped with fixed ladders and cables.

Skylodge Adventure Suites opened in Peru’s Sacred Valley three years ago and has since established itself as one of the

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Ready for a night of high anxiety? You can book the Skylodge Adventure Suites on airbnb.com for £358 a night (including breakfast and gourmet dinner). Tip: make enquiries three to four months ahead

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At his remote, Michelin-starred restaurant in the Faroe Islands, chef Poul Andrias Ziska is championing truly local cuisine

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ike a sourly pickled gastronomic juggernaut, the vogue for Nordic food rolls on. In the never-ending quest to distil the cuisine to its essence, the search for the ultimate taste of the north comes down to a pungent mix of exclusivity and ultralocal ingredients. And in chef Poul Andrias Ziska’s restaurant, KOKS, this mission has a new champion.

Located in Kirkjubøur – a minuscule village with just 75 inhabitants at the last count – on the tiny Faroe Islands (population around 49,000), the splendidly isolated kitchen is the archipelago’s first Michelinstarred restaurant.

Because of the Faroes’ remoteness and scarcity of resources, Ziska has taken

Nordic cuisine to the next level, sourcing everything from the islands’ meagre store. The 26-year-old has taken staple island flavours such as sorrel and sea purslane and fused them with Faroese ingredients such as skerpikjøt, mutton hung in sheds near the sea until it’s covered with a blue fungus – a fermenting technique called ræst.

The only trouble is Ziska’s success has put the restaurant firmly on the foodie map and the Michelin award has led to a surge of interest. As a consequence, getting the chance to sample KOKS’ 17-course tasting menu during the islands’ short summer season could prove nigh on impossible. koks.fo

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Land Rover is building a lifesaver for the Red Cross, complete with its own reconnaissance drone

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hen Land Rover wanted to make the ultimate Red Cross rescue vehicle, they turned to their Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) Department, the division created to develop performance machinery, and all the toys James Bond gets to play with. The result of SVO’s work has now arrived, under the title Project Hero.

Based on the 240hp allwheel drive Discovery, the division’s engineers have kitted it out with everything a Red Cross rescue team could need, including it’s own roof-

mounted drone, which thanks to self-centring and magnetic retention technology built into the car, can land on Project Hero while the vehicle is in motion. Operated via a simple tablet app, the drone, while airborne, can transmit live footage to the Red Cross’s emergency response teams, helping them react more quickly and effectively.

The Hero, which has been developed for the Austrian Red Cross will be first deployed for a year at Erzberg in the mountainous Styria region where it will be used in simulations to develop new techniques for disaster relief and on test-runs for complex natural disaster scenarios. landrover.com

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ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE To date, fewer than 220 people have qualified to conduct spacewalks. So how do astronauts prepare for the most dangerous mission of their careers?

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SINCE 1961, NASA ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN TRAINING AT THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTER IN TEXAS FOR THE GREATEST ADVENTURE ANY HUMAN BEING CAN UNDERTAKE: SURVIVING IN SPACE. THE RED BULLETIN VISITS SPACE BOOT CAMP TO QUIZ NASA’S EXPERTS ON TEAMWORK, FITNESS AND ERASING THE NOTION OF COMFORT ZONES

IN THE NASA POOL At the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, astronauts practise spacewalks in conditions similar to weightlessness in space. There is a mock-up of the International Space Station at the bottom of the hangar-sized pool

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THE GIANT A Saturn V rocket – some 110m long – at the Rocket Park Museum in Houston. The largest rockets ever built by NASA took 24 astronauts to the Moon and back between 1968 and 1972

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PRECISION WORK Astronauts learn how to dock incoming objects with the International Space Station on the Systems Engineering Simulator in Houston. Pictured: a Japanese supply ship hovering over the robotic arm of the ISS (top left)

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ur journey into space starts behind a mousy-grey, wiremesh fence. It’s 7am and we’re at the entrance to the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center, an hour’s drive south of Houston. A series of massive, faceless buildings and a network of never-ending link roads, there is little to suggest that here on the Gulf Coast of the United States they are pushing back the frontiers of human experience. For five decades now, the NASA astronaut corps – currently 30 men and 14 women – have been learning how to survive in space here, supported by a 3,200strong team of technicians and engineers. There is almost nowhere else on Earth where so many highly qualified people work together to solve such complex problems.

Almost nowhere else does one learn so much about teamwork, selfbelief, fear and taking the initiative.

The Red Bulletin spent three days talking to veterans, instructors and the high-flyers of the current crop of astronauts. The result: a NASA guide to space that also delivers expert tips for how to live life on Earth.

HOW TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT EXPERT: CHRIS CASSIDY, 47 STATUS: CHIEF OF THE ASTRONAUT OFFICE DAYS SPENT IN SPACE: 181 PREVIOUS CAREER: NAVY SEAL

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he red bulletin: As Chief of the Astronaut Office, you’re one of those responsible for training and selecting new NASA astronauts.

What would we need to be particularly good at to get onto your team? chris cassidy: We’re looking for people who can get along with their colleagues, but also someone you trust has his or her side of the mission taken care of in the most complex of situations.

We’re also looking for good teammates, somebody smart, capable and who’s technically sound…

Cassidy’s first launch into space in the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009, in Florida

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Sounds tough.

It’s hard. So is picking out candidates in the selection process. We don’t go by testimonials. If somebody has great grades at a fantastic university it doesn’t mean he’s going to be a great astronaut.

So, what makes a great astronaut?

Someone with a quick sense of being able to prioritise. When you fly into space, lots of important things are happening at the same time. An astronaut always thinks: “What’s the next thing that could kill me?”

You’ve spent 181 days in space. What was your most dangerous situation?

The two re-entries back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). With

“WHAT’S AN ASTRONAUT’S SECRET WEAPON AGAINST PANIC? WIGGLING YOUR TOES” 45 minutes to go we were at 17,500mph, and suddenly were going at zero. The other risky time is spacewalks. You leave the protective shell of the space station to go and work on the outside of the ISS. You’re one of only two people to have got through both Navy SEAL training and the NASA astronaut selection process. What’s the secret?

The trick is understanding the difference between, “I can deal with this myself,” or, “OK, I’m getting overwhelmed. I need to offload some of these tasks.”

That’s all? You ask for help?

Exactly. Think of people as buckets. When your bucket is full, you need to offload some of these tasks. When your bucket is empty and you’ve got capacity, you take on some of theirs. A good teammate understands and looks around to see if others need a little help. That happened in SEAL training a lot. Teamwork helps you master even the toughest tasks.

Difficult tasks often pop up without warning in space. Do you teach young astronauts a trick in case they panic in spite of all they’ve learnt in training?

Wiggle your toes.

You’re joking!

Not at all. If you wiggle your toes, it’s surprisingly relaxing. It settles you right down, at least for a second. Then you can find your bearings again.

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“WHEN YOU’RE FLYING JETS, ANY MISTAKE CAN END IN TRAGEDY. THAT STRENGTHENS YOUR NERVES.” VICTOR GLOVER, ASTRONAUT

THE FLEET Ellington Air Field near Houston is where NASA maintains its 20 T-38 supersonic training jets. Astronauts have to fly at least four hours per month to hone their decision-making skills in stress situations

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he red bulletin: What makes you so special? victor glover: How do you mean?

You’re one of just eight members of the astronaut class of 2013. There were more than 6,000 applicants for those eight positions. What do you think made them pick you?

That’s difficult. NASA doesn’t give feedback. Beyond a certain point in the

selection process the résumés they have are really impressive. We’ve got military pilots with operational experience, folks that are scientists and who go down to work in Antarctica. It all comes down to two final interviews.

How do NASA job interviews play out?

You sit there in front of a panel of astronauts and psychologists. In the first interview, they try to get to know you. In the second, they clinically dissect aspects of your past. It’s more a behavioural interview than a technical interview. It’s really an interview you can’t prepare for.

But I bet you did prepare for it.

I tried to work a unifying theory into my answers. That’s a good interview tip: find a unifying theory.

What was yours?

That theory was service. I’ve been a flight instructor and I served my country as a fighter pilot.

I tutored folks when I was in high school.

I spoke a lot about my family and raising my four daughters. So what was different?

Maybe I told a good joke. Or maybe NASA liked my poem.

Hang on a second… you had to write a poem to become an astronaut?

Yes. We were told to write a poem, a tweet or a limerick.

A simulated tour of Mars: astronaut Victor Glover in the cockpit of the Space Exploration Vehicle

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Could you?

Eyes fixed, gazing off into space/My mind in awe of the human race/This is all dizzying to me/Because I gave so much blood and pee/Happy to be here, via the colonoscopy place.

NASA obviously liked your sense of humour. Did you have a strategy if a question was out of your comfort zone?

I don’t really have a comfort zone.

Really?

I told them about when I was flying at an air show and I made such a big mistake I almost crashed my airplane, an F-18 Hornet, and what I learned from that. Of course a story like that is risky at a job interview. But astronauts clearly have to deal with mistakes. And if you can speak openly about mistakes, nothing will rattle you that easily.

Once you’d made it into NASA, like every other newbie, you had to undergo the two-year astronaut candidate training programme. You make it to the final eight out of 6,000 people, and then suddenly within 24 hours you’re a rookie again. How does a high-performer like you deal with that loss of status?

Very well. It’s a challenge for everybody who comes into the astronaut training programme. But you’re learning from the best. There are astronauts in the office who have sat on top of bombs to go into space.

I understand that teamwork is the most important quality for flying into space. But you still want to impress your bosses in order to get a seat. So how do you succeed as the “new guy” in the astronaut office?

I like to talk, I like to ask questions, I want to know the details that it takes to be good. But you also want to make your commander’s life easier and be a workload reducer. And in this job, anybody can become your boss. It’s a very flat organisation.

Where would you like to go on your first mission?

There’s a good chance that someone from my class will be on the Orion some day [NASA’s latest spacecraft. The first manned flight is scheduled for 2019]. My personal dream is to walk on the Moon, which we haven’t explored so much in the last few decades. And the Moon is our interface with the Universe.

“NASA ALSO CHECKS YOUR CREATIVE SKILLS. I HAD TO WRITE A POEM”

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THE LEGEND NASA astronaut John Young’s spacesuit for the first Space Shuttle test flight in 1981. The American remains the only person to have flown four spacecraft: Gemini and Apollo, the lunar module and the Space Shuttle

Astronaut Tom Marshburn in the Virtual Reality Laboratory in Houston.

“They have you spinning through space”

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Sounds like sharing a flat!

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as much as you possibly can. Do your job.

Don’t leave any tools behind or let them float around. The small things add up.

How do you handle arguments on the International Space Station?

Give your input. But if the group consensus or your commander’s decision is not what you wanted, then dive in and embrace it anyway. The goal of a commander is to make sure that everybody has the same vision.

What is a commander’s vision in space?

My commander, Chris Hadfield, had three goals: one, come back alive; two, get the mission done; three, have a good time.

Number three might not sound important, but it’s key for a really prolonged mission in a stressful environment.

The ISS cost $150 billion and astronauts from 18 nations have been on it so far. How does one forge a new international team each time?

We try to get to know each other as well as we can before we fly and then once we’re together on board. When I celebrated Christmas on the ISS with my Russian colleagues in 2012, we told each other about our traditions from home.

Sharing personal experiences is a good way of teambuilding. Another is humour.

If it is a situation that can’t be changed, humour is a wonderful way to get around stressful times. We use that quite a bit.

So you should be funny to be a good astronaut?

I wouldn’t say we’re funny, but we’re people with a certain slant on life. It comes with humility. Being able to put humorous things in an uncomfortable situation.

One of those happened on May 11, 2013, when you had to conduct an emergency spacewalk to repair an ammonia leak. Normally spacewalks are planned for nine weeks. You and Chris Cassidy had 36 hours. Can you train for that sort of situation?

It was another good lesson in teamwork and reducing work processes. I opened my laptop on the ISS and launched the virtual reality programme. That way I could see every square centimetre of the space station from the outside and commit it to memory.

There are those horrific scenes in sci-fi movies where the astronaut loses his grip when working outside the spacecraft and drifts off into space…

That’s unlikely to happen because you’re tethered or attached to the ISS’s robotic arm. But we even train for that emergency in Houston, too. You put on the VR headset and the programmers beam you to a likefor-like model of the ISS and have you spinning for about 30 seconds until you’re disorientated. You then have 30 seconds to fly back to the station with this little jetpack controller.

The toughest thing is you only have one attempt. Your first burst back in the right direction has to be very good.

Are there skills you learned in space that you also use in everyday life?

Totally. I can mentally turn frustration or regret into something useful very quickly.

How does that work?

It’s easy. Get over your ego. Frustration is often just an emotional response, not an objective one. In space you just don’t have the time to be mad if something doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to.

And on Earth?

The guy in front of me is slow to move off at a green light. Do I need to worry about that? About one minute? I don’t think so.

“MY TIP IS GET OVER YOUR EGO. IN SPACE YOU DON’T HAVE THE TIME TO BE MAD”

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BECOME A NASA ASTRONAUT* IN FOUR EASY STEPS 1. PREREQUISITES: US citizenship, BSc in Engineering, Biology, Maths, Physics or related area. Three years of research or 1,000 hours of jet flight.

2. CANDIDATE SELECTION: Occurs approximately every two to five years, depending on need. Apply in writing, undergo multiple medical tests and interviews. NASA hires the best (of up to 18,300 applicants) and gives them two years of basic training in Houston as Astronaut Candidates.

3. TRAINING: Includes outdoor survival training, simulated malfunctions on a mock-up of the ISS, Russian lessons, spacewalk training in the NASA pool. In two years you become an ‘active astronaut’ and can be deployed on missions to space.

4. MISSIONS: Working with NASA partners (eg, SpaceX). Flights to the ISS (four launches per year with one or two US seats), the Moon (as of 2019) or Mars (in approximately 2030). * European applicants visit esa.int

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he red bulletin: What is the most physically challenging part of being an astronaut? reid wiseman: Walking in an extravehicular mobility unit, or spacesuit, for six to eight hours. Once it’s pressurised it’s almost rigid. You can only move your arms in one direction, you can’t put your elbows up, and there’s no food, just water through a narrow straw.

Space fitness: astronauts on board the ISS work out on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device to avoid bone atrophy in space (pictured: the same device in Houston)

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Sounds exhausting.

It’s OK at first. But after four to five hours, you get really tired.

How do you fight that in space?

Double checks are incorporated into work processes as a matter of course. You make sure every movement is correct. If you can’t get the work done, phase out and come back into the Space Station. There is no harm in that.

Still, it does mean interrupting a spacewalk, the planning of which has cost several million dollars.

You have to have the mental fortitude.

Killing yourself out there would be bad for everybody.

How do NASA astronauts stay fit for physically demanding missions?

I like diversity: running, interval training, CrossFit, high-intensity training and weightlifting.

Are there times when you don’t feel like working out?

Totally. The trick is getting into your exercise gear. Once you’re in and you start, the rest is easy.

Physical health is a sensitive area in your profession. High blood pressure can destroy an astronaut’s career. A sprained ankle can stop you going into space. How does that affect you?

It doesn’t until you’re a year away from flying into space. Then it absolutely affects you and you think about it all the time.

We’ve had astronauts injuring themselves a month before they were due to fly. You start to build your own safety bubble. I put my bike in the shed. My family went on a ski trip. I didn’t ski. You try to live a normal life, but avoid all risks at the same time.

NASA hopes to send the first astronauts to Mars in the 2030s. Are our bodies up to spaceflights lasting years?

That’s exactly what we’re trying to research right now. We just sent Scott Kelly up there for 340 days to try to understand how the body withstands weightlessness for so long.

What about the mental part? Can our minds take the journey to Mars?

It’s important to define expectations precisely from the get-go: six months in the spacecraft, 500 days on Mars and six months back. Then it’s mentally digestible.

Where it becomes a difficulty is if you have a malfunction. You fly out and you spend 500 days orbiting Mars and never get to set foot on it. We’ve had people whose time on the ISS was suddenly extended. That’s a difficult time, mentally.

What did they do?

They got over it and got their job done.

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ers is the very definition of the phrase ‘meteoric ascent’. In 2015, she was discovered by Lana Del Rey’s management. Last year, British media outlets such as NME and the BBC crowned her newcomer of 2016, and 12 months later she has had three singles in the UK top 15 simultaneously, each with more than 110 million YouTube views. For a firmly established star, these stats would be impressive, but for a newcomer such as Dua Lipa, who three years ago was still manning the front desk at a London restaurant, they’re nothing short of extraordinary.

Born in England in 1995, Lipa was 11 when her parents moved the family back to their native Kosovo. It was to be a surprisingly temporary repatriation. Aged just 15, she returned to London on her own, with one clear goal: a career in pop. But at a time when the music industry continues to grasp around desperately for a workable model, and in which record companies chase diminishing returns by flooding the charts with identikit acts, the air has got pretty thin at the top for genuine artists.

So, how did Lipa break through? The short answer is that she bypassed the model and rebelled against the old rules of what a pop star is meant to be. She’s approachable, insists on direct contact with her fans, and speaks a musical language they understand. Her songs aren’t cookie-cutter examples of radiofriendly politesse. The recipe for success is to stay focused and not to consider alternative options, as the 21-year-old explains…

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“Empowering others is my main goal”

“I’m the kind of person who needs one option only”

the red bulletin: The music industry has been in crisis for years, reaching an audience is increasingly difficult, and pop stardom isn’t as glamorous as it once was. It’s a tricky landscape, so why target a career in music? dua lipa: Music has always been my one and only goal.

No alternatives?

I never had a plan B. If you believe in what you’re doing and you work really hard, things will work out. I’m a strong believer in that.

Isn’t that a bit careless, considering how tough the music business is currently?

You should always set your intentions on one goal.

If you feel like you’ve got something to fall back on, you’ll always have that thing in your head. You can always be like, “Well, if this doesn’t work out, I can go and do something else.”

Many people would find that comforting…

Not for me. I’m the kind of person who needs to have one option and one option only. And I just go and I work really hard. I would recommend that attitude to anyone.

When did you figure out you wanted to become a pop star?

When I went to school in Kosovo. I would get up in front of my friends and teachers and do school concerts. The second I discovered this passion, I was like, “OK, I’m going back to London.”

How old were you when you had that realisation?

I was about 15.

And your parents were OK with you moving to London by yourself?

They were like, “Are you sure you don’t want to go to university first?” Luckily, there was another girl from Kosovo planning to do her masters in London, and my parents knew her parents. I said I would live with her, so it made the move much easier.

How do you resist the temptations London has to offer when you’re experiencing the city as an unsupervised teenager?

I feel that because my parents had given me the opportunity to have these experiences, I never had the urge to go against their word, or to do things I shouldn’t be doing.

Around that time, you did all sorts of jobs in order to earn money on the side. One of those gigs was with a modelling agency…

Yeah, but I was never cut out to be a model; I never got any real jobs. The agency was like, “If you lose a lot of weight, we’ll be able to put you out for more jobs.” That put me in a really bad mindset.

At the same time, it inspired me to write [her 2016 single] Blow Your Mind (Mwah).

Disappointment inspired you to write one of your biggest hits?

All of my songs come from personal experience.

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“Writing about your sadness helps you through it” that we are all going through the same thing in one way or another, and being able to empower them, that’s my main goal.

So, with your music you turn sorrow into creativity?

Most of my inspiration comes from sadness. From break-ups to arguments, homesickness to missing someone, a hangover… anything can be inspiring.

Most people try to avoid sadness.

But you take that emotion and turn it into something positive?

Yeah, I write lyrics that are sad, but the music production has to be happy. A mixture of the two creates something completely on its own.

Writing about these experiences helps you let go of those things.

By taking sadness and being able to dance to it, I feel like it creates a whole other world.

Would you encourage people to embrace their sadness?

Absolutely. I think people should embrace all feelings. It’s important to express feelings and not be afraid to cry and let other people around you know how you feel. Confide in a good friend or write a song. Or just put your thoughts down on a piece of paper and never look at it again.

It’s a good way of letting things out.

Is there a place for honest emotions in today’s pop industry?

I think pop music is really changing: artists now have more creative leeway and they’re able to expand and change who they are, which is just so much more empowering.

Take Rihanna: she’s been able to make an album like Anti, which is not something people would have expected from her. But it is essentially

pop, and it’s f--king cool to be able to reinvent yourself as an artist with every album you release.

Did that feeling of creative freedom give you the confidence to call one of the songs on your debut album IDGAF – short for I Don’t Give A F--k – which is probably too explicit to be played on mainstream radio?

If something is not really allowed to be heard on the radio, and someone wants to censor it, they can censor it. But right now, with the might of music-streaming services, the power is with the people and what they want to hear.

And that democratisation also allows you to connect with your fans directly via social networks, so you’re no longer reliant on mainstream media…

Exactly. I manage all my social media channels myself, and that’s really important to me. My fans have been with me on this journey from the very beginning. I feel very lucky to have their support.

Do they appreciate your commitment? Any examples?

When I was in Madrid recently, I was hanging outside with friends, and this fan came up to me and said, “You’ve helped me get over so many things, and I love listening to your music. I also got the same tattoo as you.” I’ve got the word ‘angel’ on my shoulder – I guess it’s a metaphorical way of having someone look over me – and he had the same on his shoulder. That was really touching and overwhelming. I was like, “I’m meant to be doing this.”

What advice would you, the pop star, give to your 14-year-old self on Twitter?

I would tell me to always believe in myself. I’d say, “If someone tells you that you can’t do something, you should prove them wrong. And, obviously, forget about plan B.” Dua Lipa’s eponymous debut album is out now; dualipa.com

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Don Montague's kite-powered test trimaran. He's currently building an 18m version for the record attempt

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Since starting out in 2003, Montague has built several prototypes, the latest of which measures 9m in length and has hit speeds of 74kph

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on Montague moves quickly from area to area as he shows us around a vast warehouse in a long-privatised Naval Air Force base on the edge of San Francisco Bay. The lifelong oarsman – and watersport’s most relentless innovator – points to bags filled with massive kites, and lifts the pontoon of the 18m mastless trimaran in which he hopes to set a world record.

“Feel how light that is,” he says.

Montague yanks on the chain of a rollup door and a typical midwinter Bay Area gust blows through the building.

Outside, beneath the arch of its protective canopy, is his crowning

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Vancouver-born Montague made his name as a windsurfer.

But it was his innovative kite designs that helped the young sport of kiteboarding expand rapidly

achievement to date: a 9m trimaran powered by up to 60sq-m of kite that gets up on foils almost instantly and hits speeds as high as 74kph. This impressive vessel is the culmination of years of (still ongoing) fine-tuning that began when he attached a kite to his parents’ sailboat in 1997.

In the intervening years, he befriended Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who urged him to start a company – Makani Power – with the aim of using kites as a source of alternative wind power. They continue to act as investors, mentors and occasional test subjects.

Montague left the company four years ago to allow himself more freedom to indulge the ideas bouncing around his hyperactive mind. These include – in no particular order – the Jetfoiler, a motorised surfboard that skims above the water; an electricpowered foiling boat, and a rapidly inflating platform that can be used as a launching point for kites, or as a marina. He also recently had the uncanny experience of being levitated in a human-sized drone.

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the wind-powered watercraft record for the 4,120km passage, which currently stands at three days, 18 hours and nine seconds. the red bulletin: How fast do you need to go to beat the current record? don montague: We would be pushing 35 and 40 knots (64-74kph), which is around 80-90 per cent of the boat’s total performance. You’re pushing hard, and that takes full concentration [so as] not to die.

If there’s an error made, everybody pays. The focus required to go that fast is intense.

How prepared does your crew need to be?

A lot of the guys have already won the Olympics and gone around the world a few times. They know how to do tunnel vision and focus. I couldn’t train someone from scratch; they need a lifetime of [experience in] performance sport. Because what I need [from each crew member] is for him to be calm under the most extreme situations. I need him to think and, more than that, to anticipate.

You spend 10 days of the month in Maui, but the operations base of your company, Kai Concepts, is in the Bay Area. Why? In San Francisco, you have like-minded people who are moving very quickly in a broad range of skill sets. I was able to draw from the very best in the world. I’ve survived all these years because I built an amazing team. I’ve always surrounded myself with much smarter people Were you always active as a kid growing up in Vancouver, Canada?

When I was 15, my father was involved in a project in Alaska, developing really large freezing systems on boats to process fish quickly, so I would go up there in the summer. That was the first big travelling I did, going somewhere really desolate – it takes five planes to get there, and there are storms. Having those experiences at a young age sets you up for how your life will go, gravitating towards those extremes.

I thrived when that wind was blowing. The more it blew, [the more] I was on the roof, on my belly, hanging onto the railing with my feet sticking out.

My mother and father were freaking out, of course.

Did this wild streak of yours manifest itself any other way?

I was the guy who always took the telephone apart.

I took apart everything I could find, but I didn’t have a great background in engineering. Obviously I didn’t go to university; I didn’t make it through high school. I didn’t know I was dyslexic until I was

Right: the trimaran is loaded into the water in Alameda – an area chosen by Montague both for its immediate access to water and its location in the Bay Area, where he would have access to technology's top minds

KITE ENERGY A ND IT S P OTENTI A L So, how does kite electricity work? Makani Power – the company Montague helped found – has developed a kite outfitted with rotors that launch it 80-350m into the air. By looping slowly in a circle, the kite generates electricity, which is then transferred down a wire-packed tether to a ground station that can be accessed by the power grid. The resulting efficiencies are enormous: the kite can generate up to 50 per cent more energy than typical wind turbines, which require a lot of land and wind at lower altitudes. So, far how off are we? “I think the world is really close,” says Montague. “There are five different groups working on this. I predict that in 10 years, it’ll actually be viable and they will be producing energy on a large scale.”

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40, so I was told the whole time that I was stupid. And I was always getting reprimanded by the family: “Why don’t you get good grades?

Why can’t you read?” So you [find a way] to solve problems in different ways. Here’s an example: I couldn’t learn, but I had to pass high school.

This was before the era of small tape recorders, so I took this tape recorder apart and made it real small, then I ran a wire from it through my long hair and into my ear. I taped everything I could [to help me] pass the final exam, because I couldn’t remember anything. The point of my story is: I found a solution. By going through the process of taping everything, eventually it got ingrained there.

That’s a remarkable way of dealing with it…

I’ve used similar methods to solve problems all my life. I’m always anticipating what the next move is.

For example, if I was giving a speech in front of 500 or 1,000 people, I would make the most insane videos of what I did. From an early age, I was already on the computer, editing like crazy to make this 10-minute video.

Now the video is playing, the crowd is engaged… now I’m comfortable.

Coping mechanisms…

I can’t remember your phone number because all of the numbers are backwards. I can’t remember three numbers in a row. If you asked me to turn right, I’d have to stop and think about it. But you throw me on a board, there’s no issue, because

“I COULDN’T TRAIN A CREW MEMBER FROM SCRATCH; THEY NEED A LIFETIME OF EXPERIENCE IN PERFORMANCE SPORT” The five-man crew accompanying Montague on the record attempt will include Olympians and veterans of global circumnavigation

The steering of the kiteboat has evolved from a standard boat tiller to a hydraulic system operated at the mast and from the kite control chair. Optimal operation requires a crew of three

“I HAVE THIS SAYING I LIVE BY: “EVERY DAY YOU DON’T IS ONE LESS DAY YOU CAN”

all of the information is coming in and all of it is going out on what to do next.

After high school, you ended up in Maui, where your natural skill at windsurfing earned you sponsorship. But you quickly gravitated towards the gear side of the sport, working on sail design…

It’s a necessity for me to constantly design and change. I can’t ride the same thing twice – it’s not possible. You’re always trying to solve the next problem. You can imagine [what it’s like] being with people who aren’t like that. They go insane; they’re like, “Can’t we just sit on the beach?” And I’m like, “What?!” I have this saying I live by: “Every day you don’t is one less day you can.”

Then, in the late ’90s, you moved into designing sails for the totally new sport of kiteboarding…

I had already done 10 years of work on a computer program to develop sails, and I had a whole team working on it every day, constantly improving it. So I already had a base on [which] to do this right and do it quickly. I immediately went into ‘Don Monster’ mode and made 300 prototypes. I was getting them out as quickly as FedEx could bring them in, and I wasn’t even testing them because FedEx couldn’t bring them in fast enough and I’d already moved on.

That lead to all the different developments I made that allowed the sport to grow.

Sounds like you don’t do things at half speed.

Where does that motivation come from?

Some years, I spent more than four months a year in the factory, making it work. Nobody was asking me to do that; I just had to get it done. It’s like the Jetfoiler: nobody is asking me to make that, but I’m in there working on it day and night so everybody can have that experience.

You’ve said that a desire to share that feeling is what led to the development of the kiteboat…

I wanted everyone to experience the kite. If you can imagine going through the waves in a canoe, holding onto this kite, with everybody in the back, and all the exhilaration of all this happening… they can’t believe how it feels.

How did Larry Page and Sergey Brin get involved?

They really believe in producing energy from kites, so they had already been down this path. If you

know them, [you’ll know] they’re constantly thinking about new ways to produce energy. It was nothing new to them when I said I had a gigawatt of power already out there – every kitesurfer out there is making power right now, as we speak, so of course I can make energy. So they said, “Let’s start a company and use the kiteboat as a promotional vehicle to spread the word.”

It was that easy?

I did have to pitch to the top guys at Google. I was nervous. I had my little presentation as to why we should do this, and I had only got one word in when Larry took over and said, “Yeah, Don’s amazing, we’re going to do this, and I’m going to do it if the company doesn’t want to, so let’s meet outside.”

Then they left me in a little room for two minutes, and when they came back they had big smiles on their faces. They funded us $10million, right off the bat.

You were with Makani Power until 2013, when you decided to leave, shortly before it was acquired by Google X. Why did you go?

Our co-founder [and fellow kitesurfer] Corwin Hardham died unexpectedly at his desk. He was the leader of the team, and I was the behind-the-scenes guy. So when he passed, pretty much all of the burden was on me and other team leaders in the group. We were in the middle of negotiating at that time to bring the company into Google.

Google purchased the company. It seemed like my role at that time was more babysitting than being at the forefront, testing. I can do that job, but it’s work. So I decided my skill set was more suited to pursuing the kiteboat, which was still my passion.

But you stood to gain financially from an acquisition like that…

Oh, I could’ve gotten tons of money and tons of stock, but it just wasn’t really what I was good at, and it wasn’t what I wanted to do. I’m not in it for the money.

So, what do you hope to show with this record attempt?

It’s always been about promoting awareness and sharing that this is possible, motivating people to look at kites as an energy source. Indirectly, it’s a record attempt, an ego thing; something I wanted to do. And I get everything I ever want. It just takes time, sometimes. More time. project.kiteboat.com 57

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GOLDIE‘s career to date has been a long, strange journey: from a graffiti artist and drum-and-bass pioneer in the mid1990s to the yoga-obsessed MBE of today. Now, as he prepares to release his first album in nine years, the electronic music icon reveals how turning down Madonna might have saved his life, and why candyfloss chairs are overrated

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nterviewing Goldie is like attempting to steer into a hurricane: no matter how hard you to try to chart the course of the conversation, the sheer power of his personality drives the discourse along unpredictable and surprising tangents. The drum-andbass don is a mercurial presence – in a good way. Goldie’s mind is constantly racing, his thoughts starbursts of originality and oddity; his is a world where salt cellars and pepper grinders become vehicles with which to illustrate arcane theories. Like a deck of cue cards, carefully prepared interview questions end up discarded, flung aside by this force of nature. His excitement comes as no surprise, though: the 51-year-old Brit is, after all, on the brink of unleashing his first album in nine years.

Goldie rose to prominence in the mid-’90s with the release of his critically acclaimed masterpiece Timeless, becoming one of the first drum-and-bass artists to gain mainstream success. A double album, Saturnz Return, followed in 1998, alongside acting parts in films including The World Is Not Enough and Snatch. The turn of the millennium saw his career take a new direction, and after appearances on TV shows such as Celebrity Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing he was attracting more interest from the newspapers than from the music community.

Then, a few years ago, Goldie pulled the ripcord and bailed on life as a tabloid staple.

Having become obsessed with Bikram yoga, he moved to Thailand with his family. The new lifestyle stimulated his creativity: in a BBC radio interview in 2014, he enthused, “I think I’ve done more work in the last four years than in the 10 before.” His new album, The Journey Man, is the first fruit of this new surge of inspiration; a return to form that elegantly blurs the lines between electronic music, jazz and pop.

Here, Goldie tells The Red Bulletin how he beat his inner demons, and why heaven means living in the moment rather than sitting on a candyfloss chair for eternity…

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the red bulletin: It’s so pleasing to see you return to music after such a massive life change. There were obviously demons you had to conquer along the way – how did you manage that? goldie: I went into therapy at the Hoffman Institute, which is probably the best thing I’ve ever done. There are old ways of dealing with addiction, but I don’t think those ways work in the new world. Some people are attracted to the 12-step programme stuff, but that doesn’t work for me.

Can you tell us more about the Hoffman Institute?

I’m not allowed to say what the Hoffman Process is, but I will say this: the Hoffman Process deals with a quantum of aspects from both Eastern and Western [medicine]. A lot of people in the West are in denial about the Eastern approach, which is why the pharmaceutical companies are so large.

How did you get to the point where a complete U-turn felt necessary?

I was just sick of the way things were. [That feeling] started after the Mother project [the 60-minute drumand-bass epic on Saturn Returnz], where I bared my soul. Madonna phoned me and said, “Fly to America.

Come and do my album.”

Why didn’t you take her up on the offer?

I would have made a really shitty album with Madonna.

And I would probably have been found dead in a hotel room with a needle stuck in my arm. Instead, I decided to commit to my own art.

You make it sound like a simple decision…

It was, actually, because I have 12 people who sit inside me.

Um, OK… What did these 12 people say?

One said, “F--k Madonna – do your own album!” Another one was like, “No, you should make commercial music – you’re broke.” Then a third one got involved: “I hate to interrupt you guys, but you two need to stop arguing.

I think we should go for the artistic approach. Let’s be calm about it. It’s in the best interest of the boy.”

The boy?

The boy, Clifford [Joseph Price, Goldie’s real name].

Finding the boy again – that’s what the Hoffman Process is basically about.

We read that Bikram yoga also played a part in changing your life…

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ugly side of yourself. I always felt that I was the Dorian Gray of breakbeat.

In what sense?

Like, I have a grotesque picture tucked away somewhere, and every time I go astray, the picture becomes more and more grotesque. I see all the shit. I see every wank, every f--king scummy thing I did, all of it. Yoga has helped me to face my ugly self.

How? You look into the mirror as you break down because of the heat. It’s a very cleansing experience. I’ve seen big people come in there with all their super-aerobic muscles and big egos, and after a while you’d just see them on the floor, confused and broken, like children. I remember when I was going there with the same attitude, and Paul, my guru, said to me, “Do me a favour: next lesson, just THE RED BULLETIN

leave your ego at the door and see how you get on.”

Did it help?

Absolutely. I learned to breathe. I’m open now. But I’d break for the first three years.

I walked out of my first three lessons – I couldn’t take it.

Have these experiences influenced the way you approach music? Has it made things easier?

Yes, it has become easier, because what I do is invert.

What does that mean?

I’ll give you an example. One of my favourite tunes of all time is [jazz legend] Pat Metheny’s Are You Going

“I always felt I was the Dorian Gray of breakbeat“

With Me?, but instead of just covering it for the new album, I inverted it. When I listened to the tune as a kid, I always thought the lead line was a harmonica, and I only later found out it’s a synthesizer.

So when I approached the song, I was thinking, “What if I play some real harmonica in the back end of the track and expand it? And what if I use muted trumpets instead of Pat’s guitar?” I inverted the original and it sounds freaky as f--k!

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presenting your new album live with members of the Heritage Orchestra?

The Journey Man was done last April and May, but it wasn’t born until last weekend when I played the new tracks live with a band. That’s when the songs came alive. They’re out now, like Casper [the Friendly Ghost] flying around in a house, and they’ll grow over time. And even when I’m gone, people will play them.

The songs come alive when performed onstage? That’s an interesting viewpoint from someone involved in DJ culture for so long…

A lot of electronic producers use a click track onstage, with their music controlled by a machine. But my band plays completely live. This isn’t about hiding behind a little black box or waving your arms in the air; it’s conducting a small band and raising the f--king deities. It’s what a jazz band does: you move around onstage. It’s new-age shit.

How do you see the current state of electronic music?

I look at where people are in electronic music now, and I see them in the same way as some dickhead with a big old mobile phone from the 1980s, and a beeper on his waist. You look like a dick!

What are you doing with it?

You need to commit more. In electronic music, you have one job to do: you’re supposed to push things forward, not just press f--king buttons like monkeys in a circus. Every producer should ask himself, “Am I really applying my soul to the music? Am I using the full potential of what I can do?” You should be driving and joyriding that. But you know what? You’re not going to do that, so I’ll do it for you.

But I don’t represent you.

You made headlines last year when you threatened to melt your MBE in protest at the closure of legendary London nightclub Fabric.

What was that about?

People who think that I was actually going to melt the MBE

are missing the point. Let’s get this right for the record: it’s like your kid is nine years old and she’s won a 100m race, and you go, “That’s fantastic – let’s put your trophy away and close all the tracks down.” The kid is destroyed, because she wants to run. If you look at David Rodigan, Pete Tong and myself, we were all given accolades for our contribution to music and community.

And now they’re shutting loads of nightclubs down?

How does that make sense?

Why doesn’t the council make the neighbours [who have a problem with the clubs] sign contracts with a clause that you can’t complain about music, because that’s why the f--k they moved in the area in the first place?

On a more personal note, what does the future hold in store for you?

There’s this great quote of mine; I said when I was drunk at a party in Miami, but I still love it: what we do today, creates tomorrow. There is no future. Zero!

By that, do you mean we should focus on living in the moment?

Do you know what heaven is?

Heaven is hearing my wife’s voice, and my son playing; smelling the coffee machine in the morning. You know what hell is? Not being able to remember any of it when you’re gone. Do you know what I mean?

Sort of…

Let’s say that you create this heaven with a candyfloss chair. Are you going to sit in that candyfloss chair for eternity? You want to get out!

And it’s the same with hell: “You’ve been bad, so we’re going to keep on burning you!” But I don’t care – I get used to the pain after a while.

So the only thing that matters is the present. That’s my whole thing.

The Journey Man is out on June 16; goldie.co.uk

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ary Hunt has six Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series titles to his name, and recently won gold at the fourth FINA High Diving World Cup – with a perfect 10 from the judges – cementing his status as the undisputed king of his sport. But as much as his astonishing record singles him out, it’s the Brit’s talent for inventing new, mindbendingly complex dives that really sets him apart from the competition. However, instead of resting on his laurels, Hunt has dived even deeper into the rabbit hole, seeking to push the sport into uncharted territory.

This hunger to test the limits of diving – and himself – is all the more remarkable when you consider the man behind these breathtaking achievements has a fear of heights…

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the red bulletin: You’re a multiple Red Bull Cliff Diving champion – so it comes as a surprise to discover you have a bit of a fear of heights… gary hunt: Compared with a regular person, I don’t really have a fear of heights. I’m used to judging how much I can fit into a 27m dive and imagining throwing myself off high places, so that puts me in a different position when I’m on the edge of, say, a balcony. In that situation, I often scare myself to the point where I think I’m going to throw myself off the edge, just because I’m so used to imagining making that jump. But this kind of feeling only came about when I got used to being a high-diver.

So when you’re on the platform at a competition, totally focused and about to dive, you don’t feel that fear?

There’s definitely a point where you have to get into your zone. I used to go onto the platform, dressed normally, to have a look at the view beforehand, but I would find it really scary and nerveracking because you can feel the wind passing through your clothes and you know you're not ready to dive. It’s amazing how different you feel when you know you're going to dive. When I step out onto the platform in my swimming trunks, I feel so much more confident than if I just went up there and looked over the edge.

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“PERFORMING A DIVE WELL FEELS LIKE A PIECE OF ART. YOU’VE DONE YOUR TRAINING, Is that because you force yourself to approach the ledge differently? Do you go through a mental reset before a competition dive?

With something as risky as that, you have to put yourself in the right mindset. You can’t just flick a switch and decide, “OK, I’m going to dive off the platform now.”

I don’t have a routine. I try to break my routine as much as possible; to not be put off if anything goes wrong. Sometimes I go through mental preparations like imagining or visualisation, going through the dives in my head before getting up there. I think it’s very important for cliff diving, because you can’t do a lot of dives; your body just can’t take it.

Does your ability to control negative thoughts and the associated fear ever cross over into everyday life?

I don’t often feel frightened in everyday life, so I don’t get the chance to control my fears there. Only when I’m watching a scary movie!

What’s your pre-dive ritual?

I juggle. It started as a hobby, and then I began taking juggling balls along to diving competitions. I found it worked as kind of a distraction – a bit like squeezing a stress ball. I would just start juggling, which would help me forget about the stress of the competition. It gets my brain and my hand-eye co-ordination working, and obviously my heart pumping, too.

Diving from a height of up to 27m obviously has its risks, so how do you stop yourself thinking, “What if this goes wrong and I really hurt myself?”

That’s a very challenging part of highdiving. Everyone has these negative thoughts, and for some people it’s really debilitating. It’s often on new dives that there are more doubts – and then they physically can’t jump.

Has that ever happened to you?

Only once on a dive, and that was because my legs were shaking. It was the first competition of the year, in Corsica.

I’d done a couple of simple dives, but when I came to doing my difficult one, I felt ready in my head, but something in my body was too nervous, and my legs just wouldn’t stop shaking.

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FINALLY HIT THE WATER, AND NOW YOUR ART IS COMPLETE. NOBODY CAN CHANGE IT“ What about the doubts that begin to creep in while you’re standing there?

I do still have doubts and negative thoughts. I think the only tactic is to try to remember the feeling of doing the dive successfully, then focus on a couple of key points. For example, when I’m doing my back-twisting optional dive I’ll only focus on the number of twists. The rest of the dive I kind of forget about. The longer you stand on the edge of the board, the more tired you are and the more difficult it is to perform the dive. You just have to go for it.

But the thrill of getting it right and feeling that perfect dive at the end, is that what keeps you coming back?

Yes, it validates all the hard work. You know it’s risky. You know a lot of dives are painful. So when you actually get it right, especially in a competition, it’s payday.

Performing a dive well kind of feels like a piece of art. You’ve done your training, finally hit the water, and now your artwork is complete. Nobody can change it. That’s very satisfying.

Do you still think there’s scope for the technical difficulty to increase?

We’ve seen the sport improving and the difficulty increasing over the last five years, but I think you’ll see an even bigger change in the next five or 10, with the sport eventually being included in the Olympics. Some of the dives from five years ago are now considered intermediate. Almost everyone in the competition has ambitions for harder dives – if you’re not planning to raise your degree of difficulty, you’ll get left behind.

You have six Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series titles – what’s left to prove?

I still feel like I’ve got dives that I want to learn, and the Red Bull competition is

incredible for that, because it’s a series of events where you accumulate points, so you can try new things. This year, I have a goal to use a different intermediate dive at every stop in the series. So I’ll start the season with dives I’ve already learnt, and then during the season I’ll try to learn a few more tricks to entertain people, and also to keep myself on my toes.

Do you find everyday life more or less stressful since you became a high diver?

After seeing my father struggle with the pressures of a nine-to-five managerial position, I vowed never to have a stressful job. As it turns out, a lot of people would say that jumping from platforms 27m high seems like one of the most nerveracking professions imaginable. But I’m a very calm person in everyday life, and that is thanks to high diving.

Have any of the lessons you’ve learned from diving crossed over into other areas of your life?

The main thing I have learnt from diving, juggling and playing the piano is the satisfaction and sense of achievement from reaching goals after putting in the hours of hard work. I don’t think I was born to be a high diver, but with enough hard work and passion I made it to the highest level. You have to be willing to do what most other people won’t do.

You have to go the extra mile.

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2017 begins on June 24 in Inis Mór, Ireland; cliffdiving.redbull.com

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THE INSIDER SCHEDULE FOR TRUE MUSIC FANS: RED BULL TV WILL BE BROADCASTING MANY OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR FESTIVALS LIVE THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. HERE, SOME OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST STARS, PAST AND PRESENT, REVEAL WHICH LEGENDS IN THE MAKING SHOULD BE ON YOUR HIT LIST WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER

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Lianne La Havas wrote her first song when she was 11 and only learned to play guitar when she was 18

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f we were to believe the trend researchers, this 27-year-old Briton shouldn’t really be successful at all.

Her gentle, soulful songs often only have a guitar for accompaniment. Age, for example, ought to be much too fragile to find listeners in the gimmick-laden pop world. Thankfully, right from the get-go, she had renowned fellow musicians turning the spotlight on her talent. Indie rock giants Bon Iver took La Havas along with them on their 2011 tour of the US. Prince († 2016) was so taken with her that he invited her to perform live with him on legendary US comedy show Saturday Night Live and in 2014 he fired the opening shot of his UK tour from her humble home in London. La Havas’s second album – Blood – took her to number 2 in the UK charts in 2015 and with her new, more chart-friendly sound, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the world also falls under her spell.

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June 30-July 15, Montreux, Switzerland Legendary festival organiser Claude Nobs († 2013) was never too strict about the jazz part in the name.

In 1967, he began inviting musicians, regardless of genre, to come together once a year by Lake Geneva.

Legends such as Santana and Van Morrison have been festival regulars for decades.

The line-up: Usher & The Roots, Lauryn Hill, Kasabian, Brian Wilson, Erykah Badu, Sampha montreuxjazzfestival.com

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ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL “FIREBEATZ ARE IN MY TOP FIVE DANCE PRODUCERS RIGHT NOW. THEY HAVE MANY ORIGINAL IDEAS AND A UNIQUE UNDERSTANDING OF GROOVE” CALVIN HARRIS ON FIREBEATZ

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nergy, groove… and fire! The Dutch electric house duo say these are the main ingredients of their club tracks. And in view of hits like Sausage Fest back in 2013, we couldn’t agree more. The bass rumbles, the beat is relentless and the track builds towards a crescendo before setting off an explosion.

What makes Firebeatz different is the playful element of their music, regardless of how hard-core they might be.

Sometimes the throbbing bass drum is interrupted by a breakbeat, or a double bass might pop up in the middle of all those synthesized sounds. The pair’s unorthodox thinking has, in recent years, brought them remix gigs with stars such as Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Pitbull and their champion here, Calvin Harris.

Not a bad launch pad to a great career.

Harris is, after all, currently the world’s most successful DJ.

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ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL June 16-18, Las Vegas, USA

EDC started 20 years ago with 5,000 revellers.

It is now the largest dance-music festival in the world, attracting some 400,000 ravers and there are spin-off events in countries from Mexico and India to the UK. The line-up: Martin Garrix, Tiësto, Tommy Trash, Afrojack, Green Velvet, Zomboy, DJ Khaled electricdaisycarnival.com

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ROYAL BLOOD

LOLLAPALOOZA

“I WENT TO HEAR THEM IN NEW YORK. THEY WERE FANTASTIC, ABSOLUTELY RIVETING. THEY’RE SUCH FINE MUSICIANS. THEIR ALBUM HAS TAKEN THE GENRE UP A SERIOUS FEW NOTCHES” JIMMY PAGE (LED ZEPPELIN) ON ROYAL BLOOD

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rums, bass guitar and vocals.

That’s all it takes for this British duo to get huge festival stages rocking.

In fact, it’s precisely this purist approach that makes the band so appealing.

Whereas young rock musicians are increasingly turning to electronic sounds to be on trend, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher can still find vital inspiration in the blues-rock bands of the 1970s. You can hear the duo’s heavy sound on a debut album that took them to number 1 in the UK charts back in 2014 and elicited comparisons with rock heroes such as Led Zeppelin and Queens of the Stone Age. Their new album, How Did We Get So Dark?, is out on June 16.

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Rock star Perry Farrell started Lollapalooza in the ’90s as a tour of small joints in the US. It is now held in the centre of Chicago and is famous for its party atmosphere.

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August 3-6, Chicago, USA

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“BLESSED TO KNOW YOU, BLESSED FOR THE WISDOM YOU SHARE, BLESSED FOR THE MUSIC YOU CREATE, BLESSED TO WITNESS THE RISE OF A LEGEND“ DRAKE TO POPCAAN ON TWITTER

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aribbean sounds are big in pop right now. Justin Bieber and Drake both use Jamaican dancehall grooves on their latest hits. They got hooked via 28-yearold singer Andrae Sutherland, better known in his hometown of Kingston as Popcaan. His breakthrough on the domestic stage came in 2010 with the song Clarks. The track was so popular that sales of the shoes shot up in Jamaica.

When Popcaan released his debut album Where We Come From in 2014, the world’s trendsetters already had their eyes fixed on him. And he didn’t disappoint. The light, poppy, electronic beats and vocals, gentle by the standards of dancehall, revolutionised the Caribbean genre and unleashed a global trend.

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June 24-July 1, Roskilde, Denmark At 46 years of age, Roskilde is one of the oldest ongoing music festivals in the world. But its organisers are known to have a good nose for talent.

Every year, the 200 performers often include many of the world’s most exciting newcomers.

The line-up: Foo Fighters, A Tribe Called Quest, Arcade Fire, Solange, The Weeknd, Justice roskilde-festival.dk The main stage at Roskilde is called the Orange Stage.

In 2017 it’s opening act is Danish RNB star Phlake

WHEELS OF PAIN… OR HOW TO SURVIVE 10,685 KILOMETRES ON A BIKE WORDS : PATRICIA OUDIT PHOTOGRAPHY: BIKINGMAN/DAVID STYV

Weighed down with gear, scorched by the sun and laid low by illness, the duo had to suffer to achieve their dream

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AXEL CARION IS NO STRANGER TO LONG-DISTANCE RIDES, HAVING PREVIOUSLY CYCLED 12,000KM IN THE BALKANS. THIS YEAR, THE FRENCHMAN SET OUT TO BEAT SCOTT NAPIER’S RECORD – 58 DAYS – FROM COLOMBIA TO ARGENTINA

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beats per minute – their average heart rate during the record attempt

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kilometres – the average distance travelled per day

SWEDISH TRIATHLETE ANDREAS FABRICIUS JOINED CARION IN THE ENDURANCE TEST. WOULD HIS EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THE 74,600M OF ALTITUDE CHANGES ON THIS TOUGHEST OF BIKE TRIPS?

7,652 calories – the energy expended on the heaviest day; 204,108 calories for the whole trip (average: 4,080 per day)

9 hours and 38 minutes – the average time spent in the saddle per day

115 watts – their average pedal power

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JANUARY 13-26, 2017, PERU

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FEEL THE FORCE ON THE LONG AND WINDY ROADS

What can you say about the Peruvian coast?

It’s 2,400km of monotonous desert, with strong headwinds, interminable climbs and descents, and temperatures exceeding 40°C. “180km a day here destroys your morale.”

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CELEBRITY STATUS GOING VIRAL IN THE ANDES In Colombia, the duo had their fill of lulo, the national fruit. “We ate too much. We had up to six meals a day. That had a slightly negative impact on performance! Then, in the Dabeiba area of the Colombian Andes, we encountered Luis, a local farmer, who overtook us on the climb. The video soon had 10 million views and made it into the national press. People asked for selfies everywhere we went after that!”

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IN A DARK PLACE THIRTY HOURS OF RIDING BLIND

Food poisoning and three days of hell for Carion. The upshot: 30 hours of cycling with his eyes closed. “At times like those, you pray there’s a bar serving Inca Kola within 100km!”

JANUARY 9, 2017, ECUADOR

THUNDERSTRUCK SADDLE SORE IN THE DOWNPOUR

The heavens opened just after they crossed into Ecuador, and the temperature dropped from 40°C to 7°C. “We put on all five layers of clothing we had. It was tough. Plus, for the first seven days we were suffering in the saddle, even though it had been perforated to spare the area around our privates!”

JANUARY 22-24, 2017, PERU

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FEELING THE BURN INTO THE ATACAMA

Crossing the world’s driest non-polar desert, the Atacama, there were times when the pair cycled more than 120km non-stop, in 41°C heat, facing the most powerful UV rays on the planet. “They can penetrate material and get through the micro-perforations in your shorts to give you a ridiculous spotty tan that burns.

If you don’t apply Factor 50 four times a day here, you’re going to burn. It never rains.”

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1,452 metres – the average daily change in altitude

21.8 kilometres per hour – their average speed over the 50-day journey

Into the teeth of heavy headwinds on the fractured desert roads of the Peruvian desert

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LOWS AND HIGHS FACING HUGE CHANGES IN ELEVATION

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There were three mountain passes to get through in the Atacama, on the border of Chile and Argentina, at an altitude exceeding 4,800m. “Cycling 100km on a plateau more than 4,000m up, it’s like all bodily functions shut down.” Hallucinations and altitude sickness made it hard to focus on pedalling.

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THE ICE STORM BEATEN BY THE ELEMENTS

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ENDURANCE TEST ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE

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Farms as far as the eye could see – an unrelentingly dreary view. There was nothing to interrupt an interminable, 700km section of road as straight as a die. The mercury had at least dropped again. It was now a tolerable 35°C with a slight breeze.

The cloud was enormous, like nothing either rider had seen before. But they had at least seen it coming. Currant-sized hailstones soon became icy tennis balls, and the pair had no means of protection. “Or rather, we did: a tree, ideal in a storm! To get there, we had to manoeuvre our bikes under a fence. There was high grass whipping us, and lightning bolts crackling around the bike frames. It was terrifying. But that was the choice we faced: electrocution or death by hailstones!”

45 degrees Celsius – the highest temperature: in the Atacama Desert

FEBRUARY 19, 2017, ARGENTINA

NEW RECORD: 49 DAYS... FOLLOWED BY A QUICK RUN! Now in full record-attempt mode, the duo covered 2,000km in the final week. “We crossed the whole of Tierra del Fuego in a single day to get to Ushuaia. We only slept for an hour and it was -2°C. But the sun put on a magical display when we arrived. Despite our exhaustion, there was no way we could sleep.

Andreas went for a run.” bikingman.com

−2 degrees Celsius – the lowest temperature, as they reached Ushuaia on the last day

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kilometres in 12 hours, 56 minutes – the duo's progress on the quickest day

321 kilometres per day – the average distance travelled in the final week

416 kilometres in 16 hours, 38 minutes – their progress on the longest day

Even when in South America’s most desolate regions, doubt never entered the riders’ heads

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Lollapalooza (pictured are M83 in action there last year), the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Electric Daisy Carnival, Roskilde: four top festivals where there will be plenty of new talent on offer this year.

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See it Experience the best in electronic dance music at EDC

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The Orange Stage is at the heart of the Roskilde Festival

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Les Gets is nestled in the heart of the French Alps and its course at Porte du Soleil has a long history in gravity mountain biking. Will French riders Tomas Lemoine, Mehdi Gani, Antoine Bizet or Yannick Granieri take the top step of the podium on home turf?

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See 12 of the best FMX riders in the world and the most enthusiastic crowd at Red Bull X-Fighters in the famous bullring of Las Ventas, Madrid. The event will be broadcast live on Red Bull TV, Red Bull TV Facebook and xfighters.redbull.com at 8pm UTC.

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The third stop of the season takes place where the beach meets the mountains in Gstaad, Switzerland. Players will battle on centre court not only for match victory, but also for one of the tour’s most unusual prizes — a golden cowbell.

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SEIKO PRESAGE CHRONOGRAPH

Etched in time

The precision of the in-house mechanical movement here is rivalled only by that of the lacquer markers on its enamel dial – painted and polished no fewer than 10 times to ensure lasting perfection. seiko-presage.com

The pushers next to the crown are inspired by Tudor’s original chronographs

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME It was in 1821, at the behest of avid horseracing buff King Louis XVIII, that Parisian horologist Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec created the first stopwatch. The timepiece, which tracked the horses by marking spots of ink on its dial at the start and finish of each race, was dubbed the ‘chronograph’, from the Greek words ‘chronos’ and ‘grafis’ – literally, ‘time-writer’. Fitting that the precision timekeeping feature that transformed modern sport should be named in the language of the country where the Olympic Games were born.

TUDOR HERITAGE BLACK BAY CHRONO

The perfect match The modern chronograph has long since evolved beyond ink markers.

In 1844, Swiss watchmaker Adolphe Nicole developed the mechanism that could stop and reset the second hand. But Breitling is considered the undisputed pioneer, launching the first independent push-piece wrist chronograph in 1915, and helping design the first auto-chrono in 1969.

In 2009, the Swiss company’s 125th anniversary, it released the Caliber B01 – a movement accurate to an eighth of a second. It’s so good that Rolex partnered with Breitling to use a variant of the movement in this timepiece by its subsidiary Tudor, modified to feature a 45-minute counter – perfect for a game of two halves. Two exceptional teams, one amazing display of sportsmanship. tudorwatch.com

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ALPINA ‘FULL BLACK’ ALPINER 4 MANUFACTURE FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH

Dark horse

Inside the black-coated stainless steel casing sits Alpina’s own direct flyback chronograph caliber, surrounded by a softiron lining that shields this timepiece from magnetic interference. alpinawatches.com

TAG HEUER AUTAVIA

Comeback king

When TAG Heuer asked which of its 16 iconic first-generation Autavias it should revive, 50,000 fans raced to lodge their vote.

The winner was this: the 1966 Ref. 2446 with the Mark 3 dial as worn by F1 champ Jochen Rindt. tagheuer.com

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June The Luna Cinema With flagrant disregard for the British weather, outdoor cinemas are popping up with increasing regularity. Kicking off in the middle of June and running through summer until October, these can be found at some of our most elegant locations from Edinburgh Botanical Gardens to Hampton Court, all showing classic movies with a pedigree to match the venue.

Various locations; thelunacinema.com

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to 25 July Daft Punk –A Live Orchestral Rendition Find the French electronic musical duo with robot heads just a bit too robotic and electronic for your liking?

This orchestral reinterpretation could be the alternative you’re looking for. A light show and special projections keep it from becoming too ‘human after all’.

XOYO, London; ticketarena.co.uk

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June/July to 9 July Wireless Festival With festival season in full swing, you’re spoilt for choice.

Our pick for July sees three days of music for most festival tastes. On Friday, Chance the Rapper headlines, Skepta takes top billing on Saturday, and Sunday sees The Weeknd close proceedings. Pick one day or splash out on all three.

Finsbury Park, London; wirelessfestival.co.uk

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Monaco may have the glitz and glamour, Singapore the neon-lit futurism, Belgium may have the longest track and Italy the fastest, but nothing beats rooting for our local hero on our own circuit.

Last year, in front of 140,000 spectators, Lewis Hamilton triumphantly took the title of most successful British Formula One driver at the venerable British circuit.

Can he equal fellow Brit Jim Clark’s record of five home GP victories?

July Red Bull Soapbox What it lacks in cutting-edge technology, it more than makes up for in inventiveness, fighting spirit and foolish courage. This year, the wackiest race on the racing calendar sees bonkers teams with bonkers names and even more bonkers rides such as the Golf Trolley Dollies, the Loony Lunar Buggy and Leek Lightning (yes it is a giant leek, yes they are from Wales), take to this gravity-powered downhill run.

Alexandra Palace; redbullsoapboxrace.com

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THE RED BULLETIN GUIDE TO OUTDOOR GEAR: MAN IS THE MOST ADAPTABLE LIFE FORM ON EARTH, ALL THANKS TO OUR INGENUITY IN CREATING GARMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY THAT PROTECT OUR FRAGILE BODIES FROM THE HARSHEST CONDITIONS NATURE CAN THROW AT US

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MOUNTAIN PEAKS Scaling a mountain is, in every sense, an uphill struggle.

More than 200 human bodies litter the slopes of Mount Everest, but few died as a result of exhaustion.

Below freezing temperatures, altitude sickness, avalanches, blizzards, hidden crevasses and simply getting lost all make mountaineering one of man's most enduringly lethal pursuits. Give yourself every advantage you can.

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The Rab Batura jacket has a hydrophobic down lining inside a fully waterproof Pertex Shield skin, plus insulted zip baffles and storm flaps for when the weather goes rapidly downhill. rab.equipment

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1. Octomask dive mask with GoPro mount, octomask.com; 2. Suunto D6I Novo Black Zulu dive watch, suunto.com; 3. Exposure Lights Action9+ dive light, exposurelights.com; 4. Ameo Powerbreather PB01 Lap Edition double snorkel, powerbreather.com

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Oakley Crossrange XL Prizm sunnies deliver blinding good light and colour control, and grip your face even when you sweat. oakley.com

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DESERT HEAT It takes a special form of life to thrive in a hot, arid desert: one that can survive on little or no running water for long periods of time; that can endure scorching days and freezing nights, blazing sunlight and bitter, unrelenting sandstorms; and that can navigate a near-featureless landscape without losing themselves or their mind. With a bit of assistance, man is capable of becoming such a creature.

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Battle the wildest nature with this kit.

1. Crosscall Trekker X3 outdoor smartphone, crosscall.com;; 2. VSSL Flask and flashlight crosscall.com in one, vsslgear.com vsslgear.com;; 3. TomTom Adventurer GPS Outdoor Watch, tomtom.com tomtom.com;; 4. Jack Wolfskin Gravity Flex Pants, jack-wolfskin.com jack-wolfskin.com;; 5. Mountain Hardwear Rainshadow 26 OutDry Backpack, mountainhardwear.com

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U.I.M World Record Cork – Fastnet – Cork The ‘Allblack SL44’ is a state of the art purpose built all aluminium powerboat powered by 1120HP turbo charged FPT racing engines with surface drives, delivering in excess of 160km/h.

With the assistance of Red Bull Media we will be recruiting some additional crew members. The applying crew members will be selected based on their CV. They will then be offered to take up a weekend long training and assessment course at an RYA/ISA training centre.

The selection and training will be filmed as will the actual record runs and preparation before and after each event, all in a ‘fly on the wall’ style and for later use in a proposed TV production.

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‘A WORLD RECORD HOLDING OFFSHORE POWERBOAT RACING TEAM, CHASING U.I.M. OFFSHORE OCEAN ENDURANCE AND LONG DISTANCE WORLD SPEED RECORDS.’

Other upcoming challenges: Round Anglesey, Round Britain and Ireland, London to Gibraltar, Gibraltar to Monte Carlo, London to Monte Carlo, Napoli to Capri, Round Britain, The Southern Islands, Miami to New York.

London to St Petersburg.

To find out more contact the Team Coordinator at team@allblackracing.com Facebook @allblackracing Instagram @allblack_racing Twitter @allblackracing

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These UIM World Record’s are notoriously expensive to chase, each team member must be prepared to make a financial contribution to each record attempt to help the running of the team.

Interested individuals or companies will receive a fantastic return on investment by being part of something real, exciting, glamourous and thrilling. You will have an opportunity to achieve an official UIM World Record as an active and functional team member of Allblack Racing.

Want to be part of this?

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Football party Almost 90,000 players in more than 20,000 teams from 53 countries took part in Neymar Jr’s Five. The twist in this five-aside football contest is, for each goal scored by a team, a member of the opposition has to leave the field. The game is over when one team has no players left. The World Final takes place on July 7 and 8 in Neymar Jr’s hometown, Praia Grande near São Paulo.

Watch it live on Red Bull TV. neymarjrsfive.com

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“I can’t wait to see who makes it through to the 2017 World Final at my Instituto in Brazil” Neymar Jr will be present at the World Final – he might even challenge the winners on the field

The next issue of The Red Bulletin is out on July 13, 2017

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