Issue 31 by Rhythm & Booze

rhythm and booze Brews, News, Bands & Reviews - Issue 31 - May/June 2015

Brews Just Like A LAdy

The name of a Stamford pub could be an apt one for its landlord following the establishment of a new venture. Dean Baker, landlord of The Jolly Brewer, has launched Baker’s Dozen Brewing Co, a microbrewery in nearby Ketton. The first brews are

currently underway and include Jentacular, a 3.3%3.5% ‘breakfast beer’ and the 4.7% Electric Landlady. Sharing its name with a Kirsty MacColl album, itself a take on Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Electric Landlady is a reference to Dean’s partner, Jolly Brewer landlady, Jill Perkins.

Other beers from the five-barrel brew plant will be a series of ‘unnamed’ brews, created to gauge consumer reaction. All of the new venture’s beers will initially be sold from the Jolly Brewer from the end of May, before being made available to other nearby outlets.

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the rhythm section Opaque, a six-piece “gypsy swing band” from Peterborough, are hoping to become Liechtenstein’s favourite band. Lead singer Moony discovered that the band’s YouTube videos were being viewed by users in the landlocked principality. Receiving a warm welcome during a visit to the country, which is nestled between Switzerland and Austria, he appeared in the national news, agreeing to return with the band for a series of gigs in October. For more details visit www.bandopaque.com A charity band day and mini beer festival will be held at the Dragon, Werrington on Sunday 24 May with live music from Claude Domino, True Pacific, Something a Little Mental, The Expletives, Another Girl Another Planet and Iron Fist. Raising money for the Kelly Simmonds Fund for Heltwate School, the event also includes a raffle, bbq and bouncy castle. The Crown on Lincoln Road, Peterborough launches its Sunday afternoon acoustic session on Sunday 3 May. Starting at 4pm, the sessions run every Sunday until the end of September. The pub will also be

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celebrating the Eurovision Song Contest Final on 23 May, offering drinks to anyone in European fancy dress. Taking place on 26-28 June, the Crown Festival is a three-day music, beer and cider festival. There will be live music every hour on the Saturday and Sunday, starting at 2pm, with a Meat Loaf tribute show closing Saturday evening. Easton on the Hill’s Gala Weekend and 9th Annual Beer Festival takes place at The Blue Bell on the weekend of 22-25 May. The event opens at 5pm on Friday and includes Soul in the Marquee – an evening of Northern Soul, featuring five DJs and priced £5. Saturday sees Easton’s Got Talent, a contest open to all and participants can book their slot by calling 01780 763003. A busker’s tent runs on Sunday from 12pm and Monday from 1pm, while the Briefcase Blues Brothers (priced £10, which includes food) closes Sunday evening. Monday also has live music on the main stage, which starts at 1.30pm and The includes Lounge, These Skies,

The Curfew, Let There B/DC and The Nuggets; the latter featuring a guest appearance from Replicas drummer Les Wheeler. “Sounds from across the musical spectrum,” are on offer at the North Street Bar, Peterborough on 16 May. Presented by DJs Jules and Otis, plus very special guest Mark Goodliff, Left embraces a variety of genres including Jazz, Reggae, Indie and World Music. The bar will be hosting award winning five-piece Jessie’s Ghost on 23 May, while Otis and Jules return on 20 June with Bounce to the Ounce a “delicious audio platter of Soulful Grooves.” Events at the North Street Bar are free. A charity day in aid of the Free Kicks Foundation takes place at the Ostrich, Peterborough on 3 May 2015. Raising funds for the football charity, the event features pub games, a race night and a day of live music from Psych-OBombs, Captain Obvious, Harsh Road South, The Feckin Eejits and James Edmonds, while Jump Back 45 will be spinning Northern Soul tunes.

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Pub News

The former Yates’s bar on Broadway, Peterborough reopened on 20 March as the Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce who was born locally. The pub, owned by the Stonegate Pub Co, is open from 8am daily (10am sun) with late opening (until 2am) on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. A feature of Peterborough’s city centre scene for over 130 years, Bar XXI (formerly the City & Counties Club) in Priestgate was due to close at the start of May. Despite its long history and extensive facilities, including squash courts, the building is likely to be converted to flats. The Solstice,Peterborough now has an extra bar, The Eden Bar, which opened in early April. The Fox and Hounds at Longthorpe has reopened after another refurbishment. Third-pint ‘taster’ boards and discounted ales for CAMRA members are featured. Oakham Ales is planning to expand brewing operations at its Maxwell Road, Woodston site, with the installation of new buildings and a small tower. Capacity is already over 6 million pints per year The Blue Bell at Werrington is now in the hands of Helen and Rob Warby. The Elgood’s house now offers eight real ales (four house and four guests), a variety of live events, discos and bank holiday beer festivals, the first of which is on 22-25 May. The Exeter Arms, Helpston

the Shoulder of Mutton, Weldon. will partially open at the end of April. Licensee George Sakkalli will be opening the Barn Bar and beer garden so that “locals can enjoy the spring weather”. He hopes to have the pub fully open by early summer. The Stilton Cheese pub is for sale with Fleurets. Current licensees Sue and Carlos Rosa are retiring. Steve and Sheila Shreeve celebrated 20 years at the Rose & Crown, Thorney in March. The pub now doubles up as the village post office. Steve said: “We’ve suffered the main road being bypassed, the smoking ban and the last recession… but we’ve bounced back.” In an extension to the food and drink, the back bar has been transformed into a post office and café, now serving coffee, cake and breakfast from 9am Tuesday-Saturday and 9.30am on Sundays. Four real ales are usually available. Baston’s Brudenell Playing Field is the venue for a music

festival on 16 May. Starting at 2pm, Bastonbury 2015 includes a battle of the bands competition plus Maisie Mae, Bianca & the Topcats, Fully Loaded and Albion. Festival goers can bring their own picnic, however there will be a licensed bar on site. In Stamford, the Danish Invader is being extended to include catering facilities. East Northants has a new micro brewery. The Shoulder of Mutton brewery, situated below the pub of the same name in Weldon, officially opened at the end of January. The White Swan at Woodnewton has reopened after refurbishment. Emphasis is now on fresh locally produced food. The pub is open lunchtimes and evenings Tuesday-Thursday and all day at weekends. The reopening of the Bell in Deeping St James in early April was celebrated with a Soul and Motown party. The Thai restaurant at the Stone Loach Inn in Market Continued over

Pub News (continued) Deeping has been renamed the Thai on the Square. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the pub may also be renamed. Popular licensees Pat and Jane Taylor held a retirement party at Smith’s in Bourne on April 12 after 11 years at the pub. The pub is now managed by Ashley Woolf and Chris Ward. Also in Bourne, reports suggest electrical store JH Wand in North Street is likely to the site for the area’s latest Wetherspoon pub. The Burghley Arms in the Market Place has closed. The Griffin at Irnham, already the hub of this tiny village, is now the site for the local defibrillator. Grantham’s Brewster’s brewery has scooped a gold medal win at the International Brewing Awards in Burton upon Trent for its Hophead Bitter. Part of Grantham’s Victorian station is available to let as a bar (with access onto the platform) via Lambert Smith Hampton – no doubt a good opportunity as there’s no convenient watering hole anywhere close by. Details at www.lsh.co.uk The Green Dragon at Ryhall has been voted 2015 Pub of the Year by Rutland CAMRA. After a year without a pub, since closure of the Horse & Panniers, villagers in North Luffenham are celebrating the reopening of the Fox & Hounds as The Fox. The 18 th century building has been renovated by Jason Allen who also has the Horse & Jockey

the Fox, North luffenham. at nearby Manton. He hopes to create a traditional feel with locally sourced food and a range of real ales. Details at www.thefoxrutland.co.uk The Fox & Hounds in Exton, near Oakham was due to reopen in May after a period of closure for extensive renovations. Owner Rochelle Bushell has won a variety of awards for her ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ wine lists. Picnics on the pub lawns are planned for the summer. Steaming Billy pub the Three Crowns in Oakham has a new licensee. Dan Wright has revived the traditional pub cob with a variety of fillings at £2 each. The Admiral Hornblower on the High Street is holding a ‘Beer & Beef ’ festival on May 22-25. The Odd House, also in the town has closed. Marston’s is opening a new pub adjacent to Oakham’s bypass in May. The Old Buttercross is expected to create up to 40 jobs – see www.marstons.co.uk/careers for details. The White Lion at Colsterworth has been awarded the East Midlands area Pub of the Year award by

owners Punch Taverns. A new business development planned for the south-west corner of Spalding is to include a new pub/ restaurant. In addition to the Brewers Fayre, the ‘Lincs Gateway’ will incorporate a Premier Inn Hotel and conference centre. The Hole in the Wall pub in the town has closed. The Great Northern Hotel in Station Street, Boston and the Red Cow Hotel in Wide Bargate, also in the town, can be bought for £125,000 and £225,000 respectively – both with www.poyntons.com Pubs No more The recently closed Drum & Monkey in Stamford looks set to disappear under a housing development. The former Hit or Miss pub in Foundry Road has already succumbed to developers. The long closed New Bridge Inn at West Pinchbeck was bulldozed in late March. Stamford’s former ‘Brewery House’ in Scotgate is on the market with Barker Storey Matthews as office space. The building was originally part of Melbourn Bros brewery.

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this charming Man Peterborough’s nightlife in the 1990s, a time when the record charts still mattered, is the subject of a new book from Jamie Jones. The Woodston-based author, whose previous publications have celebrated his beloved Peterborough United, now looks back at “a period I loved, a period I grew up in,” with I Blame Morrissey: My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster. “It’s partly based on my life,” explains Jamie, “but takes a look through the 90s. There’s probably about 50% of it now that’s true. To be honest, I’m struggling to remember which bits are.” One tale that is certainly true is the time when Jamie watched Ned’s Atomic Dustbin at the Cresset: “It was a great night in many ways, the band were brilliant but it was another occasion where my glasses got broken. There are two glasses breaking stories in the book.” Among the venues mentioned in the book are the old Tut ‘n’ Shive, the Sugar Club when it was based at Fifth Avenue and the far from salubrious Shamrock Club. “I have a lot of love for the Shamrock because we could go in there at 16, or less. We all drank Newky Brown because that was the one thing they couldn’t water down. All the lager was just horrible there.” A period when music and football, both local and nationally, was looking up, Jamie singles out 1994 as the decade’s best year for music. “That’s the year for me where

there’s a five-month period of albums that probably about six of my albums of all time were released during the period, which include Pulp’s His & Hers, Blur’s Parklife and Morrissey’s Vauxhall & I – my favourite Morrissey album.” Despite having Morrissey’s name in Old English font across his back and “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” after the Smiths’ song, Jamie hasn’t always been keen on the singer. “I’d always written him off as a bit of a dickhead, the glasses and hearing aid just seemed stupid and then, after listening to his live album Beethoven was Deaf in 93, things changed.” Those changes include Suede’s eponymous debut album going strait to No 1. “We were like ‘Indie records just don’t do that’ and now Frank Turner and Chvrches can get to the top and no one will bat an eyelid but back then charts mattered.” Jamie considers the Sunday at Glastonbury 94 to be “the greatest single day I’ve ever had at a festival” with line-up on the NME stage including Oasis, Pulp, Spiritualised, Blur and the Inspiral Carpets. But like many happy moments in the book,there’s a flipside. “I stayed up all night, taking legal highs that didn’t work, they were just caffeine and I couldn’t go to sleep and then in the minibus on the way home the driver of the minibus fell asleep, crashing into the central reservation. Thankfully, we were all fine.” Jamie is currently listening to Natalie Praas and feels that the new Laura Marling album

Jamie Jones is “superb” but feels that Peterborough is unable to attract artists of that calibre until a standalone university is built. “I djayed once with the Libertines at the Met Lounge, Steve Jason put them on twice. Both times they didn’t quite sell out, because people just weren’t taking a chance. Kate Rusby came here and the Cresset is half full, yet my mum and dad went to see her at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange and it was absolutely heaving. We as a community can’t turn round and say ‘nothing good ever comes here’ because sometimes you’ve got to give things a chance. “But I think if Peterborough could really kick on with the student community you could fit so much different stuff in. I prattle on a lot about this, but I work for a university and as my wife says, I’ve never really stopped being a student.” n I Blame Morrissey: My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster is available now from Amazon, Waterstones and other book shops.

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At just 38 minutes by train from Peterborough, Melton Mowbray offers a good selection of pubs, but also the chance to sample local delicacies – the pork pie and stilton cheese. An adult day return is £16.90 (£11.90 from Stamford) by Cross Country’s hourly StanstedBirmingham service. Beerwise, we found Melton to be a ‘town of two halves’. Conveniently the best of the real ale can be found in the various pubs along Burton Street, which runs from the station to the town centre. As you cross the station footbridge the first of these, The Boat, can be seen in the distance beyond the modern town hall building. This 18 th century pub owes its

existence to the canal basin which once stretched out to the east of the building. This has long since been filled in, but there’s an array of old photographs on the walls depicting the fascinating history of the area. Landlord Mick Jackson has created a great friendly single roomed local with a welcoming real fire located within an old fashioned range, bar snacks (including pork pies), traditional pub games (there are six darts teams) and occasional live music. Well kept Hooky Bitter, Wells Bombardier and draught Bass are usually available alongside a guest beer such as Timothy Taylor Landlord. The Boat was awarded Pub of the Year by Melton CAMRA in 2012 and

2013, and is open from 11am daily except Mondays. A few doors along lies the Harboro Hotel featuring a pleasant open bar area with floral displays, good food and four real ales – Landlord, Morland Old Speckled Hen, Black Sheep Bitter and St Austell Proper Job on our visit. Real ale hub, The Noels Arms at the junction with Mill Street opens at 4pm, so we decreed to return later. Virtually opposite the Noels stands the 14th century Anne of Cleves – a stunning medieval building reputedly given to Anne by Henry VIII as part of her divorce settlement. After several refurbs, the pub still presents a lovely feel with exposed beams, flagstone floors, high-backed wooden

seating and an array of wall mounted tapestries. The pub is renowned for its food and pleasant walled beer garden. The standard Everards fare of Original, Tiger and the seasonal Blue Boar were supplemented with Brains Dark and Henry Weston cider when we called in. Just beyond the neighbouring church is another Everards house – the Crown – a cosy two-roomed pub with welcoming open fire. The Beacon, Tiger and Original were all available. From here we decided to take a looping route through the Market Square onto the pubs on the north side of the town centre before returning to the Noels back in Burton Street. On the left hand side of the Market Place lies the Grapes – a smallish Pubmaster house, which surprisingly for its location gives the feel of a cosy back street local. A group of mature regulars were enjoying the Wells Eagle IPA and Sharp’s Doom Bar, but we were tempted with the Young’s London stout on keg. The bustling nature of the place, crimson and cream décor and Victorian doors are reminiscent of a traditional Midland Railway style station bar. Through the square and to the left, past the closed George Hotel and to the end of the road, a right turn brings you to Wetherspoon’s Kettleby Cross, named after a long-lost local monument. This is a typically cavernous JDW house, with good value food and 11 real ales from the likes of Banks & Taylor, Wharfebank, Purity, Orkney and O’Hanlons, along with the

more familiar Greene King, Adnams and Fuller’s breweries. The wood panelling throughout suggests another conversion of a grand old building, but this is in fact a new build dating from 2007. The ‘two for £7’ food offer and very pleasant Purity Brewing Pure Ubu made this a welcome lunchtime experience. The ‘top half ’ of town seems to the domain of the younger drinker, but both the Mash Tub (Marstons) and the King’s Head on Nottingham St were closed down, and the White Lion (Punch) appears to be open at weekends only. Also on Nottingham St, next door to the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe (other pork pie shops, as they say, are available!), The Half Moon is an attractive timbered building with stone-flagged floors and a strong sport feel with several screens (showing basketball from the USA on our visit), live entertainment and decent draught Bass at £2.80 per pint. Back into the Market Place and past the former Three Tuns is the Regal Cinema in St Mary’s Way, now sharing it’s building with the Cutting Room. This spacious pub

occupies the rear of the building, more recently a bingo hall, incorporating the original upstairs ‘circle’, and presents a certain Wetherspoon feel. Robinsons Trooper, and Adnams Broadside sat alongside Old Speckled Hen, Bombardier and Old Rosie Cider. Located opposite the Bell shopping centre, the Cutting Room was doing a brisk trade with a healthy number of drinkers enjoying the sunshine on the street terrace. A couple of doors down is the Generous Briton (Marstons) which was considerably quieter but did have Jennings Cumberland Bitter on offer and is clearly a popular live music venue. After a brief respite for more pork pies, we continued on past the austere looking Black Swan on Sherard Street and dropped in at the White Hart (Greene King), which had a very lively feel, with TVs, pool and loud (but not deafening) music. Pictures on the wall pay tribute to Oasis, the Who and the mod era, and the sounds of the Jam playing on the jukebox went down well with our party. With an hour remaining before our train we headed back to Burton Street to the

Noels Arms, where beers from its first annual Easter beer festival were available. This pub enjoys the status as Melton CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2014, and it’s not difficult to see why. There’s a variety of well kept real ales on at all times, including house beers brewed on the half-barrel Gas Dog Brewery plant located in the pubs outbuildings – beers bear locally themed names such as Leicester Legends and Shoot the Runner (a tribute to local rock heroes Kasabian) plus Eclipse, Bitter, Dark and Mustard Gas. Local CAMRA representative John Arthur was presiding over 20 further beers in the festival area, also out the back. In addition to local brews a good crop of Yorkshire beers

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were in evidence from Brown Cow, Half Moon, Hop Studio, Brass Castle, Saltaire and Blue Bee as well as more familiar breweries. Jo and Craig have run the pub for two years and offer live music every Friday,

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The Surrealist Sportsman’s Club david ‘dai’roll is finding life quoit interesting. On his recent trip to Whittlesey, the editor of RnB discovered that there is a bustling Quoit scene in the town with a pitch at the Straw Bear pub, while the Boat also has a team. The game (a big brother to hoopla you may have played to win a dead goldfish) has a long history with kings Edward III and Richard II both banning it (along with football and sundry other sports) in order to encourage archery. The first official rules appeared in print in 1881, developed from a league formed by northern pubs. There are, of course,

regional variations to the game. In the north of England the quoit weighs around 5lb and the pin sticks up between 3-4”. In the Scottish and Welsh game, the quoit weighs up to 11lb and the top of the pin is flush with the playing surface, making the game more like bowls and less like hoopla. The East Anglian game has lighter quoits and the pins (or hobs as they are sometimes called) stick above the surface (there is archive footage from 1961 at eafa.org.uk/catalogue/760). Most pubs connected with this look to come from Suffolk or Essex.

Quoits was a popular game in Peterborough in the early 1900s with many pubs having access to a pitch. The older part of the City College on Brook Street is built on what had been Stanley Rec’s quoits pitch. Over the years, pubs have toyed with pétanque and I remember one particular pitch being made for players just before a particularly wet summer. I think one game was played and then the terrain was given over to strongly sprouting weeds. Quoits could be revived for those pubs looking to embrace the traditional.

O n t h e ( Ti m e ) l a s h A visit to the pubs seen, however briefly, in doctor Who.

The Baron of Beef 19 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UF 01223 505022 gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-incambridge/baron-of-beef-pub The Mitre 17 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UF 01223 358403 www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/ themitrecambridge Although he’s recently been usurped by Matt Smith as my favourite Doctor, Tom Baker is still a man I’d like to spend an afternoon down the pub with. I don’t know if he still drinks – after all, he spent

much of the 1970s and 80s in the pubs and clubs of Soho with the likes of Francis Bacon and Jeffrey Bernard – but I’d be guaranteed an afternoon of anecdotes nonetheless. In 1979, Baker and co-star and future wife Lalla Ward (now Mrs Richard Dawkins) went to Cambridge to film scenes for Douglas Adams’ final Doctor Who script, Shada. Due to industrial action, studio filming was never completed. A few scenes were later included in the 20 th anniversary special, The Five Doctors (1983), after Baker declined to appear in the production. The cliff-hanger to episode two of the story,

which eventually came to video (with linking narration from Baker) in 1992, has the Doctor running from an evil alien sphere, intent on stealing his mind. He runs past The Mitre, stops outside The Baron of Beef and then darts down the alley between the two pubs, discovering a dead end (until Romana – played by Ward – turns up in the Tardis and rescues him). As it was in 1979, The Baron of Beef is a Greene King house. Along with keg lagers, Guinness and Aspall cider it has five hand pumps. On my visit, one was out of use, while the others were serving Greene King IPA, Oakham Citra, Pure Ubu and a house beer called Baron of

Beef. I can’t remember the name of the brewer of this last one (it could well be a GK ‘guest’) but the beer was just as forgettable. Although the interior has been opened up, the former snug – complete with fireplace – and a side door with “smoke room” etched into the glass, gives a suggestion of how the place once looked. Paintings of university life, punting on the Cam and such adorn the walls, chandeliers (with lampshades, bizarrely) hang from the ceilings and, besides the toilets, the place seems to be well looked after. The Mitre next door has eight hand pumps, which on my visit were dispensing

Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Sharp’s Doom Bar, Adnams Broadside, McEwan’s IPA, Nicholson’s Pale Ale, Hook Norton Lion, Theakston XB and The Great Yorkshire Brewery’s Top of the Hops 2015 – a beer apparently containing 2,015 varieties of hop. Much larger than The Baron of Beef, it is also open plan but more staggered with a dining area at the rear. Like next door, it’s decorated with pictures of local life, but the paintwork around the pub is in severe need of refreshment. During filming, Baker stayed at The Baron of Beef, which is opposite St John’s College. Not only did its choral

scholars appear in a scene during the chase, singing Chattanooga Choo Choo, they enjoyed many drinking sessions with the “good Doctor” in the Baron of Beef. However, the pub’s claim to fame wasn’t until five years later, in December 1984, when newspapers reported that Sir Clive Sinclair had attacked Acorn Computers boss Chris Curry over a newspaper advert questioning the reliability of Sinclair’s computers. A few months later, Sir Clive launched the C5 to universal ridicule. Suddenly, a time travelling police box that’s bigger on the inside than out, didn’t seem such so far-fetched.

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At the Made in Peterborough event at the Central Library in February, I met local poet Barbie Crowley who has had a copy of her poem Crown to Town put up in the Crown pub on Lincoln Road. This poem remembers the classic pub-crawl of many years ago and copies are available from the Crown for a donation to Cancer Research. The Made in Peterborough event was good fun and a chance for published local writers to promote their work. Hopefully it will be repeated (and could be replicated in other towns too), possibly with themed events (thriller writers, romance, etc) so if you are a published author or poet let Elaine Wilkinson at the Central Library in Peterborough have a copy of your book. For a different side of writing, Peterborough Scribes currently have an exhibition on at Peterborough Museum until 30 May. Called A Word in Your Eye, it highlights what a talented bunch they are. They had a joint project with Poets United several years ago and I’m still very proud of the piece created from one of my poems. A reminder about Write Club (first rule of Write Club, talk about writing…) the open night to discuss your ideas and to workshop poetry and prose, that meets at The Palmerston Arms on the last Tuesday of the month (so 26 May, 30 June 30 etc) from about 8pm.

Gervase Phinn will be at the Key Theatre on Thursday 7 May. The ever-popular former Yorkshire schools inspector continues to entertain with his tales. Tickets £18.50. Wisbech Arts Festival hosts its Poetry Parade on Wednesday 13 May from 7pm. Starting at the Town Council Chambers, it will then (depending on the weather) patrol the streets looking for unsuspecting members of the public to perform poetry to. Peterborough Green Festival starts on Saturday 23 May and there will be lots of poetry related pieces involved. Look out for poets on a bus on St John’s Square and listen out for broadcasts and podcasts of specially commissioned work. Local duo MC Mixy and Mark Grist, who perform together as Dead Poets, are bringing their latest show Deathmatch to Peterborough as part of a national tour. The idea being they each take on the role of a famous poet (Sylvia Plath, Walter Raleigh etc) whose life they present to the audience who then votes on which poet is better. The show will be at the Key Theatre on Sunday 7 June. Members of Peterborough’s Poets United will be performing at the church of St John the Baptist (just off Cathedral Square) from 1pm on Tuesday 16 June with a set to take the audience from Magna Carta to today. Stamford Festival this year

includes poetry and busking about the town. Watch out on Saturday 27 June as you don’t know what you might bump into. This year’s John Clare Festival in Helpston will be held over the weekend of 0-12 July. It will include the usual mix of talks, performance and tours. If you haven’t visited either the Blue Bell (recently refurbished) or the Exeter Arms (hopefully reopened by then) for a little while, this is the perfect time to do so. Each of the village pubs has a connection to John Clare, he was a pot boy at the Blue Bell in his youth and when his body was brought back from Northampton it lay in the Exeter Arms the night before his funeral. This year’s TS Eliot Festival – the tenth – is on Saturday 18 July at Little Gidding. Marking 100 years since the publication of The Love Songs of J Alfred Prufrock, guest speakers include Robert Crawford, author of the new biography Young Eliot. For the latest news go to the website of the T S Eliot Society (UK) at www.eliotsociety.org.uk Cardinal Cox is Poet-in -residence of The Dracula Society. His new book, My Words Were Now Written, collects the work he produced as poet-in -residence at St John the Baptist, Peterborough. It is for sale for £5 at the gift shop in the church, which is open Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

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The Vine (Bull & Bladder) 10 Delph Road Brierley Hill West Midlands DY5 2TN 01384 78293 www.bathams.co.uk/pubs/the-vine-inn Everything about this pub shouts tradition. Not just the look of the place – yes it’s a lovely unspoilt Victorian building – but the warm welcome from the locals and staff, the tiled and mahogany interior, small separate drinking areas, the food offering and even the beer range. Dating from 1877 as a pub, the building was originally built as a slaughterhouse, hence the unusual nickname. The neighbouring brewery of Daniel Batham & Son Ltd adopted it as its brewery tap, and remains so to this day. Despite its long history, you may not have

tried Batham’s beers if you’ve not been drinking locally, as they’re rarely seen outside the tiny tied estate of around a dozen pubs. Beer choice is usually limited to just Best Bitter and Mild (with a robust 6.3% XXX Special Strong Ale available pre-Christmas), but don’t be put off – both are delicious. Sporting a business suit after my earlier meeting and camera in hand, I may have stood

out like a sore thumb propping up the cosy front bar, but within minutes I was caught up in lively conversation with a gaggle of locals and long-standing landlord Melvyn Wood. He’s been there for almost 26 years, and was keen to tell me he’d been to Peterborough once to see his beloved West Bromwich Albion play. “Great away end”, he remarked, and seemed more than a little surprised when I told him that this nationally renowned part of London Road had survived up to a year or so ago. It was only 12.15pm, but the place was packed with drinkers and diners, even in the corridor. “Where’s the menu?” I asked. “There ain’t one, mate – just go in that room there,” was the reply. And sure enough in one of the smaller rooms, three ladies were presiding over a couple of tables full of traditional Black Country fare such as faggots, steak and mushroom pie, and filled cobs. Incredibly the rolls and pork pie are priced at £1.20, and the hot food comes in at a miserly £3 including chips and peas. Another local delicacy – the pork scratching – is also represented with at least four varieties available. The pub is open all day from 12 noon and there’s a large car park opposite, though if, as on my visit, it’s already full, there’s limited on-street parking close by. It’s a proper local so there are a number of darts and dominoes teams, and regular quiz nights. Chris Shilling

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“Like chalk and cheese” is the perfect way to describe the Who’s original managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. One was the privately educated son of composer Constant Lambert, while the other, the younger brother of actor Terence Stamp, was the son of a tugboat captain. This documentary, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, mixes archive footage with specially filmed interviews with the likes of Chris and Terence Stamp, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, to tell the story of the band’s rise to fame. Lambert and Stamp, who met while working at Shepperton Studios, realised that the only way to get on in the film industry would be to make their own film. They decided to make it about a young band, discovering the Who, then called the High Numbers, and accidentally fell into band management. Lambert’s origins certainly helped the band grow, both through the upper class’s ability to get loans that were unlikely to be paid back, while his classical music records taught Townshend much about composition. Although the rock opera Tommy gave both band and management financial security, it was the beginning of the end of the partnership. Stamp’s suggestion that Lambert wrote a ‘screenplay’ for Tommy, which Townshend wrote the songs around, is dismissed by the guitarist who claims that many of the songs came first. And it was through their new-found wealth that Lambert and Stamp got addicted to all sorts of substances. Kindred spirit Keith Moon continued to veto his band mates every time they discussed dropping their managers with the arrangement only ending during a meeting the day after Moon’s funeral. Lambert died in 1981, aged 45, and when Stamp reached that milestone a few years later, he booked himself into rehab. After the treatment ended, Stamp was welcomed back into the Who fold, working on various projects including writing the liner notes for a compilation album. The Who received an honour from the

Kennedy Center in 2008, and Stamp was invited to the award ceremony. It is heartwarming to see scenes of Stamp, Townshend and Daltrey reunited. And given how this film will rehabilitate and enhance the reputations of the two managers, it is a shame that Stamp died before it was finished. The Replicas Live, Cherry Tree, Woodston – 14/03/15

What’s the best way to spend a Saturday night? Stay in and watch The Voice, or seek out a live music event closer to home. I, and a great many others, chose the latter, venturing to the Cherry Tree to see the return gig of much loved local band The Replicas. It was at this point I allowed myself a smug smile of self-satisfaction. Arriving an hour before the band were due on was a wise move, as the venue was rapidly filling up, and the hum of expectancy was hanging heavy in the air. On talking with a few people, it became apparent that this was going to be something special, a sort of an ‘I was there’ moment, something not readily attributed to a local covers band. Due to the venue literally overspilling with a crowd that was growing by the minute, the management had to refuse entry to any one else coming in. Then, right on cue, the introduction from their opening salvo, and Gangsters came to the surface. Bang! The band were back. From that first song the crowd was whipped up into a musical frenzy that saw no pause for the first four songs. The appreciation bestowed upon the band served to highlight their undoubted popularity, and even though they had just recruited a new bass player (Neil Gaskell), their high-energy performance was seamless. The songs kept coming and the crowd lapped it up, taking every opportunity to join in with the words of each song and as a collective, virtually sang the whole of Mr Brightside. The noise was incredible, the applause even more so. Two-and-a-bit hours, which included three encores, flew by and the band looked like the champions they must have felt. Kirsty Flatt

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