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CONTENTS Three Years of Joy Joe Worthington 5 Comedy at La Havana An Interview with Pete Walsh and Joe Wells 6 Hakuna Pesa and A Tribute to Ben Gregory Tom Betts 8 Joy Film Joy Matt Redman 9 William Blake, Sedition Chris Soul 10 Sedition Hushed Joe Worthington 12 Poetry Maggi Gillison and Amy Strike 14 Playing Possum Andy Roberts and Natalie Evans 16 Media Clash and Bootworks Theatre 17 New Theatre Andrew Wilford 18 I Am Joy Festival bands 23 Dirty Cabaret Cat Gillison 27 Barry Holt Piers Otley 29 Olivia Stevens Interview Chris Soul 30 The Dead House: Part 2 Short story by Sarah Jones 32 Start with Art Rosemary Graham 33 Oxmarket Round Up Gill Collins 34 Outside In At Pallant House Gallery 35 Marrakesh To Agadir Tina Johnston 36 The Joy Scroll Fiona Winterflood 38
The I Am Joy Arts festival 2009 is here! After much sweat, tears, beer and crazy dancing the festival is upon us and The Joy Magazine is your happy guide; to be consumed as you eagerly await a performance or as you relax very late in a nice cool bath. Cool. This year’s festival will be cramming so much joy into your week you will need a week of hellraising sorrow to compensate. So go check out the joy of art at the Guildhall with an exhibition inspired by Blake’s trial for sedition. (You might see a pig’s arse.) You can read about the history and the artists in these pages. Or go and watch some cracking good stand-up comedy at La Havana. Read an interview here with comedians Pete Walsh and Joe Wells (no pub jokes allowed.) Use our centrefold map to get lost with Andy and Nat on a Joy Walk. Or go and see some new theatre performances at the Happy Medium, skank with Hakuna Pesa at The Hope or watch some innovative new films at the Boys Club, all of which are covered here in The Troll. (The Troll is the nickname for this magazine. It needs to be treated nicely. Stroking is good. Abandonment is very mean.) If you don’t already know about the Joy Magazine here’s a blurb: it’s a new publication aiming to showcase and promote the arts in Chichester. If you’re an artist, a critic, an illustrator, a poet, a performer or anything of any age then get involved! It’s an open submission and the troll won’t bite. We had a brilliant launch party at the Joy Gallery in June, so thanks to all who came - it was a packed night! Enjoy the festival and the read! Get involved! Chris Soul, Chief Wombat
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MAGAZINE TEAM I Am Joy Management Joe Worthington, Chris Chapman and Oli Baker Chief Editor Chris Soul Design/ Editorial Cat Gillison Editorial Nick Gillison Art Review Joe Worthington, Sam Worthington and Chris Soul Music Chris Chapman and Cat Gillison Performance/ Culture Chris Chapman, Cat Gillison, Matt Redman and Chris Soul Photography Jordan Ring, Christoph ‘Toff’ Rigert, Matt Redman, Stephen Kennedy and Alex Gillison Illustrators Mike Stout, Joe Worthington, Jo Tromp, Amy Strike, Zoe Scammell, Lawrence Eliot, Chris Soul and William Blake Advertising Robert Palmer and Chris Soul
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thunder on the Trundle Photographs by Toff
Again big thanks must go to all of the above for all their help. Cat is a brilliant designer and deserves muchos recognition! Thanks to Zoe for spending hours drawing the festival map. Cheers to Caoimh and The Chichester News for their support. Also thanks to West Sussex County Council (CIF) for supporting the festival and the festival magazine. Thanks to everyone who has helped realize the magazine in whatever capacity!
SUBMISSIONS Send your stories, poems, art reviews, illustrations and enquires to thejoymagazine@googlemail.com or search for the Joy mag on Facebook! THE I AM JOY CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION 2009 Soon we will be launching a creative writing competition with the best work published here and the possibility of workshop prizes and more... Check out www.iamjoy.co.uk for future details or email thejoymagazine@googlemail.com to be put on the mailing list! Start sending poetry and 300-500 word monologues and stories to the above email!! POETRY NIGHTS Are you interested in reading or performing your poetry, stories and monologues? Let us know!
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CONTACTS
I Am Joy website www.iamjoy.co.uk
I Am Joy email for The Joy Gallery and The Joy Festival iamjoy2007@googlemail.com The Joy Gallery 18 Southgate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1ES Tel: 01243776530 Magazine Submissions/Enquiries thejoymagazine@googlemail.com Details of submission guidelines opposite Advertising please email enquiries to thejoymagazine@googlemail.com
CHIEF EDITOR DESPAIR!
In the last issue I pleaded for someone to find my lost blue book of draft poetry and plays. It is still lost, but now I have a new brown book. I prefer blue.
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THREE YEARS OF JOY 3 years of JOY. Enough sweat to fill a swimming pool, now I am pleased to introduce the Joy Magazine Festival Issue. These pages are brimming with the imaginations of many, splendid concoctions of words and of course where, what and who will be entertaining you at this year’s I AM JOY ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL. This year I AM JOY have chosen to raise money for the Arap Moi Childrens Home in Kenya. This charity has been supported by Hakuna Pesa for some time and we wanted to add to their efforts. The value for money this year is wild! £2 is nothing to you and I and we hope that your generosity will surpass this small amount and you will donate JOYFULLY whilst being thoroughly entertained! Joe Worthington
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COMEDY
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Pete and Joe performing at The Lion’s Den comedy club Images courtesy of The Lions Den JW If it’s a free gig and people are there on the off chance then it’s not a good sign. I hate doing gigs to low numbers. If you’ve got a bigger group then you get a group mentality.
A rainy Summer evening and Matt Redman interviews comedians Pete Walsh and Joe Wells. The interview was recorded in Pete’s bedroom. A crazy unedited 50 minute audio podcast will be available at www.iamjoy. co.uk.
PW Big is better. At La Havana it’s only three quid but people come to see you. They want to see something. If it’s free, people will just turn up and they won’t participate. They’ll sit in the corner and not be part of the atmosphere and it’s segregated. You have to work twice as hard.
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Comedy at La Havana
Matt Redman interviews Pete Walsh and Joe Wells
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Joe Wells, from Portsmouth, a speaker on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and published at 16, has been performing political and ethical routines as stand-up comedy for the past two years. He has also been booking comedians to play at La Havana in Chichester each month. Pete Walsh has been perfecting celebrity impressions. With a growing online YouTube profile under the pseudonym MoleDMC, he recently celebrated 1 million hits, and brings these characters to life in the form of stand-up. Matt Redman I would like to start off by asking what you admire about each other’s comedy craft? Pete Walsh As well as being a stand-up chap and a good character, Joe doesn’t curse and swear like I do. He has a more intelligent view to comedy and he’s a lot friendlier. Joe Wells You’re making me teary. Pete can do impressions that I can’t do - the most basic of accents or anything like that, and it really annoys me that I can’t. My admirations manifest themselves in jealousy. I think he has a natural flow, mine’s more of a monologue.
MR How has it been for you getting these big comedy names to Chichester? JW What I like about Havana is that it is already starting to get a bit of a name for itself. Comedians do talk to each other and say: ‘you should go and do this gig’. They will travel a lot further for a lot less money if they know it’s gonna be a nice crowd. PW It’s not always about money. Havana is off the beaten path. You don’t get groups of drunken idiot’s walking in. You have to go and seek it out. *** The answers to the question on ‘What have been your best and worst gigs?’ are kind-of unprintable, but the general conclusion is met that gigs aren’t as good if they on the same night as live bands (unless in Joe’s case they are socialist workers events where the audience has a shared politic) oh, and that Pete won’t be performing in Littlehampton ever again.
JW This is a nice conversation.
I turn my questions towards a slightly darker side of the comedy circuit, as Joe had recently suspected Alan Carr of using one of his jokes on the Friday Night Project. The conclusion isn’t totally clear and the word ‘thief’ not fully justified as we discuss television writing teams, gag coincidences and authorship. I suggest a sinister world of writers going around comedy clubs with notepads in the back row, but my alluring overly dramatic comment is rightly met with a cautious breath.
MR I thought we should start with something warm, as I hug my coffee. How different is your performance technique to large and small groups?
Joe discusses places like the Jongleurs comedy club which has, very rarely, any performers of originality. He describes the gags as “hack old pub jokes.” “But the people that
PW I think he’s being modest. He’s actually done a lot of homework for his act. I’m a little bit lazy because there’s not much I can do with impressions. I’ve got certain impressions I want to do, but the crowd only want to hear certain things. Joe will actually bring something fresh.
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Joe Wells
Pete’s draws influence from the voice work of Kenneth Williams on the 1980’s cartoon Willo the Wisp, Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, as well as Stella Street by John Sessions and Phil Cornwell. Answering my question about non-comic influences, Pete describes in detail his fondness for the hard work ethic of the Rolling Stones, “You do 58 gigs in a month, how can you not have some success on the back of that?” Joe lists his external influences as political commentators such as Germaine Greer and Tony Benn.
do those (Jongleurs) gigs,” he says, “are on thousands and thousands a year. I don’t have anyone’s bank balance but people that headline La Havana are on teacher’s wages. You’ve heard of them, but not the acts at Jongleurs, so we win.” Pete agrees. Pete and Joe then discuss Tim Vine amongst others who were recently plagiarised in skits for television adverts for Ginsters. Pete says that too much of a law on ownership would become stifling to creativity; jokes can be told more ways than once and “you have to accept people are going to steal your stuff but that’s what drives you to be one step ahead...” The next phase of my interview delves into comedy influences. Joe lists: Mark Thomas, Stewart Lee and Doug Stanhope. On Stanhope he says: “I don’t agree with him on everything, but he certainly makes you think.”
The audio recording threatens to end as the computer warns of low disk space. “It’s got all those pictures of funny cats clogging up my hard-drive,” Pete quips. We go on regardless. The interview becomes quicker and stranger as we discuss the death of the sitcom and Pete claims that it has been replaced by reality TV. We all agree though, that the recent comic darkness of Psychoville on BBC2 is a good example of a contemporary (mutated) sitcom. Then onto visual humour. Joe finds David Cameron’s face funny. Pete describes an unprintable modern equivalent of slipping on a banana skin. Pete then decides that if Ian Beale had super powers, it would be time travel so he could go back 25 years and chose not to have spent his life in Albert Square. Pete’s favourite rude word/insult that isn’t a swearword is “Chuff...its raining chuffit.” Joe likes the word ‘toss-pot’. “If you think about what it means, it’s a container…” Giggles all round. We start to wrap up the interview discussing the up and coming Joy Festival and their future projects... ***
JW Geoffrey Heathcote’s gonna be there, so is Pete (Walsh). The problem is everyone’s in Edinburgh. We do have Del Strain, a Scottish guy. I’ll be MC-ing and Dan Moore as well.
PW Plus some special guests. We’ll have some fun... Joe Wells chats about his English literature degree and his hopes to make a documentary on OCD. Pete wants a HD camera to make more films, enhance his sketches and do more gigs. With the help of Pete reading the end of my notes as I can’t control my laughter anymore, we joyfully plug Pete and Joe’s online videos and networking profiles. There is a pleasant pause. JW I don’t want this to end. PW It’s great, isn’t it? Joe then asks Pete who would win out of a fight between Chris Packham and Arnie, he decides Packham. Joe wants Pete to put on the Benny Hill music but he can’t find it so we settle with the music from the end of The Shining and relax, very well rendered on this balmy Saturday evening. Joe and Pete are organising and performing at the I Am Joy comedy evening in La Havana on Tuesday 11th August 7pm - 11 pm. To view Pete’s videos please log onto youtube.com/moledmc, get him on myspace.com/moledmc and ‘become a fan’ to stalk him on Facebook. You can find Joe Wells at youtube.com/qwerty6060, join him on myspace.com/joewellscomedy and follow his activities by becoming a fan on Facebook where you can also keep track of comedy nights in the group ‘La Havana comedy’.
THROUGH THE BARS An interview with Geoffrey Heathcote Amongst Alex Jordan making his debut at La Havana, another comic performed at the last minute to a packed crowd for the first time due to a no show-er. His name is Geoffrey Heathcote. Prior to the interview, Geoffrey was taken in by the police regarding a suspected poisoning of a girl on his property. The following interview is being conducted through his solicitor. First up Geoff, what this nonsense about a girl being poisoned? Basically it was my birthday and I invited some girls from the Facebook to come. I bought some drinks with my benefit money and what I thought was alcopops turned out to be bleach. The packaging was the same so I thought it was ok. The one girl that turned up was blind as I told her I looked like Jude Law! I know, I do look like him a bit LOL! She drank some bleach and didn’t wake up so the police are asking me silly questions. What’s on your iPod right now? I don’t have an iPod but I have a tape player
with 2 tapes. One is Akon for when I want to dance with the pretty girls and the other is Cliff Richard to calm me down when the pretty girls try to run away from me. How did you get into comedy? I fell into comedy through my acting and how I love Jude Law. I keep trying to contact him but he never gets back. I guess he is very busy. Maybe my stand-up will lead me to a Hollywood career and lead me to Jude Law. Your act has a lot of aggression, is this due to being the classic tortured artist? Yes. Are you looking forward to playing with other stand-up comics at the I am Joy comedy night? Hopefully I won’t get prosecuted for manslaughter, laugh-out-loud. I’m sure everything will be alright. The other performers are rubbish though so I’ll be giving out tips on comedy as well as keeping pretty girls safe and locked up LOL. I will also have a surprise for
Geoffrey Heathcote the girls at the show!!! Can you give us some tips on attracting girls for the readers? Girls like smells. Sometimes I clean myself sometimes I don’t so I smell strong and the girls react. I can be musky and sexy at the same time. If a girl is not interested I just keep raising my voice and telling them how pretty they are. But then they run away. I usually stick to not washing. The police want some fingerprints from me so I have to go. You can see Geoffrey perform at the comedy night in La Havana on 11th August 7-11 PM and he wants to meet lots of pretty girls. Check him out at youtube.com/geoffreyheathcote.
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Hakuna Pesa are a Ska/ Reggae band with ‘mixed spice’. Their name comes from lead singer Tom Bentley’s brother’s tattoo! In Swahili it means ‘no money.’ I Am Joy are really pleased to again have the band perform on home turf for the festival’s finale. Everyone must skank! Recently they have been getting fans skanking at Kent’s Lounge on the Farm and Chichester’s Real Ale and Jazz Festival where they supported Bob Marley’s old band, The Wailers. Tom Bentley and Hakuna Pesa have ongoing charity work, helping to support the Arap Moi children’s home in Nakuru, Kenya. Last year Tom helped coordinate an arts project at the orphanage in Kenya. He took a graffiti artist and a web designer out to re-paint the orphanage, creating murals with the kids. Tom and Hakuna Pesa want to raise the standard of the children’s well-being through such outreach projects and by making money off of gigs and CDs. In February Tom plans to record an album with the kids in Kenya with a week for workshops and a week to record in a local studio. It may even involve rap as 50 Cent is popular there. This is not all. Tom and the band want to make sure that the kids get the right nutrition, learn good skills and find inspiration through the arts. Hakuna Pesa are currently unsigned but already they have a massive fan-base. Tom Betts, on Sax, says they are ‘ready to move’ and the ‘fans are demanding more.’ They have a new manager and are looking to have more regular gigs in Brighton and Chichester with the possibility of a new studiobased ‘experimental’ album to come. The only way is up... You can next see the band at the I Am Joy Festival at The Hope on Saturday August 15th. Check out Sidi Man’s drum workshop in Priory Park on Saturday from 12 - 4pm. Bring a bongo and get banging! Call Sidi on: 07551 246617 www.myspace.com/hakunapesatribe
Lewis, Tom and Ben at The Dublin Castle, London
Hakuna Pesa at The Real Ale and Jazz Festival by Jordan Ring
Sidi Man Photograph by Jordan Ring
A TRIBUTE TO BEN GREGORY Ben Gregory was a talented young musician who started playing the trombone from scratch at the age of 19 at Chichester College jazz course. He was inspired to play the trombone ‘after seeing and hearing Glen Pine of The Slackers (amongst others)’ and was one of three of the remaining original members of Hakuna Pesa since the bands formation in September 2003.
over the last three years such as concerts, African drum workshops and took part in a sponsored walk from New Elfam (London) to the cross in Chichester covering 80 miles in 3 ½ days with just a dodgy map and a key ring compass for navigation. He was always dedicated to raising money for the band’s small charity which works with the Arap Moi children’s home in Kenya.
Ben and Hakuna Pesa went on to support great bands such as The Beat, DJ Hype and The Slackers and performed a live session on Radio 2 in the summer of 2008 and again featured in the highlights of 2008 in January of this year. Mark Lamarr actually dubbed Ben ‘the guy with big arms’, much to Ben’s amusement. Ben continued his passion for music and jazz at Middlesex University playing with other bands such as the Dan Spanner Big Band, the Spanner Jazz Punks and the Ska Toons SkaKestra.
He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him and played music with him. He was a solid individual, a great friend who would always have time for anyone and lend a sympathetic ear to a friend in need, and a fantastic listener and always one to give strong unbiased advice. Ben was also the most reliable and consistent member of the group, he never missed a practice or a gig and always played with all his heart and soul. We will be truly lost without him and we thank him for all he has given us over the years. May your soul rest in peace. We miss you brother.
As a core member of Hakuna Pesa Ben also was involved in the planning, organisation, and implication of numerous charity events
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Hakuna Pesa and I Am Joy will be raising money for the Arap Moi children’s home, Kenya
Tom Betts
FILM
16mm by Fiona Challen
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The vast range of local submissions for the Joy Festival film evening is overwhelming. These last two years I have slowly been contributing to, collecting for and researching the talents of local filmmakers across the south of England. This year there will be a wealth of films from Chichester residents, along with others from Portsmouth, Waterlooville, Midhurst, Worthing and Brighton showcasing a broad range of genres including, documentary, thriller, performance, drama through to horror by traditional directors, poets, artists, comedians, students and professionals alike. Themes range from drug addiction, perverted fetishism, relationships, death and romance; what more would you expect from a film night?
Selection of stills from some of the films that have been chosen so far. All films selected are in colour with the exception of 16mm and The Return of Ellen Love. (From top) Soho Sunset by Rob Hurtt Scarface 2 by Pete Walsh and Matt Redman Picnic by Jon Small The Return of Ellen Love by Ben Barton Endless Cry by Vesa Kuosmanen Music Video by Xanthe Hoad Me Plus One by Russell Oastler
Aside from introductions of the films by myself, Pete Walsh a.k.a MoleDMC will be assisting me in presentation on the night. Towards the end, aspiring outlaw actor and impressionist Geoffrey Heathcote will present awards and prizes to films for special recognition in the style of an Oscar award ceremony on some old red carpet that my parents just threw out. To close the evening, a short film will be premiered - Scarface 2: The PC World Is Yours, which is a comedy by Pete Walsh and myself. Set in Bognor Regis, Pete does an entire impression of character Tony Montana in a narrative showing the uprising of Scarface once again, this time through the business of laptop repairs. Matt Redman JOY-FILM-JOY is on Thursday 13th August 5 - 8pm in the Boys Club cafe, 34 Little London, Chichester Due to the content of some films a 15+ age limit has been placed on the evening. Entry with festival wristband which is also available on the door ÂŁ2. Refreshments available.
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HISTORY
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From Milton: a Poem in 2 Books (1804-11) By William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
William Blake (1757-1827), a painter poet and printmaker, settled into a cottage in Felpham, near Bognor, in 1800. He had moved from London to work for his patron William Hayleigh. For twenty pounds a year Blake rented his cottage from the landlord of the Fox Inn. It was here that Blake illustrated Milton and drew his house complete with an angel visitation (1): ‘He set me down in Felphams Vale & prepared a beautiful/ Cottage for me that in three years I might write all these Visions/ To display Natures cruel holiness...’ The view from his window was of the South Downs. From here Blake wrote his epic poem Jerusalem for the Preface of Milton (2.) Some historians argue that Jerusalem for Blake did not concern a literal place, but a kind of ongoing collective state of mind. In Milton a key character is Los, who attempts to build Golgonooza: The City of Art. (3)
“From Golgonooza the spiritual...” From Milton: a Poem in 2 Books (1804-11) By William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
Preface to Milton From Milton: a Poem in 2 Books (1804-11)By William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
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In 1805 William Blake was tried and acquitted for sedition at the Guildhall, Priory Park in Chichester. I Am Joy’s Sedition Hushed exhibition is a response to this event. What exactly happened and why was Blake here anyway?
Blake found Felpham spiritually enriching. Yet, during this time the threat of a French invasion from Napoleon Bonaparte was imminent. Blake had found spiritual and artistic renewal with the view of the sea, but beyond was France. Perhaps Blake felt that at the limit of his spirituality was the horizon of political reality. The myth goes that on the 12th August 1803 Blake walked out to see a soldier urinating in his garden. In fury Blake collared the soldier and damned the King and all soldiers. This is not entirely true and instead there are different points of view as to what happened leading to his trial. In a number of sources there are two soldiers who indicted Blake for sedition: Private John Scofield and John Cock. It should be noted that due to the threat of French invasion many British soldiers were stationed on the South Coast.
e k a l B m a i l wil At Chichester’s Record Office I was able to get hold of a copy of Scofield’s formal Indictment against Blake: ‘Blake, a Miniature
n o i t i d se Painter... did utter the following seditious expressions... that we... the People of England were like a parcel of children that they would play with themselves... and if Bonaparte should come he would be Master of Europe in an hour’s time... that even Englishmen would have his choice, whether to have his throat cut or to join the French... that he damned the Army - his country and his Subject, that the soldiers were all bound for slaves...’ Scofield then writes that Blake forced him out of the garden, damning the King. The soldiers wanted Blake hanged.
At a trial in January 1804, Blake found great support from his patron William Hayleigh and an old friend, Counsellor Samuel Rose, who defended Blake as his barrister. I found a copy of Rose’s defence: ‘Gentlemen, the story is very improbable if we further consider Mr Blake’s situation. Mr Blake is engaged as an engraver. He has a wife to support... by his art - an art which has a tendency like all the other fine arts to soften every (extreme) of feeling and character... from the influence of tumultuous discordant... which destroy the happenings of mankind. If any men are likely to be exempt from angry (extremes) it is such a one as Mr Blake. ‘
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Blake’s Memorandum of August 1803 is a complete refutation of Scofield’s Indictment. Blake writes: ‘I have all the Persons who
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From For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise I want! I want! (1793-1820) By William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
were present at the Stable Door to witness that no Word relating to Seditious Subjects was uttered... the truth is, I did not speak to the Soldier till then, & my ordering him out of the Garden was occasioned by his saying something that I thought insulting.’ It is apparent that Blake had the backing of his friends and fellow villagers, who probably resented the soldiers’ occupation. At the end of his defence Blake reveals his anger: ‘If such a perjury as this can take effect, any Villain in future may come & drag me and my Wife out of our House, & beat us in the Garden, or use us as he please...’ I’m still not entirely convinced as to what really happened. Maybe Blake had uttered seditious words, but was then defended loyally. We have to turn to his artistic and poetic milieu to understand how Blake really felt about having a soldier in his garden, for whatever purpose. In the ‘Sedition Hushed’ section of this magazine there is a picture of Urizen by Blake. Urizen is a character of reason and of law; of spiritual law. Historian Peter Ackroyd states that Blake wrote a poem in Felpham in which the Eternal Man cries: ‘war is energy enslaved.’ Urizen laments this war ‘whose smoke destroyed the pleasant gardens’ (‘Blake’ p264.) If Blake had uttered seditious words they were against the prospect of a war he perhaps feared. If he had been seditious it could be suggested it was in defence of Nature and in defence of his Jerusalem from possible destruction by such forces of chaos. The question is: was it a polemic against war? Today it is funny to regard Blake’s Jerusalem poem as our alternative national anthem; one that was written near Bognor and based not on monarchy but of something else. What is this something else? ‘And did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England’s mountain green...’
Tailpiece to the preface of Hayley’s Designs to a Series of Ballads (Chichester, 1802) By William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
Chris Soul Thanks to Chichester’s Record Office and the British Museum for sources on Blake.
Sedition: Chichester 2009 My response to sedition with the forces of chaos Chris Soul
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St. Richard and the Baby Cat Gillison
Tick the Boxes Joe Worthington
Untitled (Bomb) Edward O’Bryan
Sophie Robert Olliver Jones
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Sedition Hushed will be a collection of artwork that follows the theme of sedition. William Blake is the vessel for inspiration and many of the artists involved with this exhibition use Blake as an iconic symbol in the means of the production of their work.
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Head of a Damned Soul in Dante’s Inferno c1789 William Blake © The Trustees of the British Museum
Worries about the pop, sneezing on holiday Laurence Elliott
For an idea to grow boundaries need to be pushed. Sedition suggests rebellion, Hushed means we can’t. Graffiti is the writing on the city walls. You can’t ignore it yet there seems to be a distinct lack of it here. Are we behind? Is there a missing section to what we want in this town?
Councellor Braveheart-Potter and The Birth of The Bastard Warchild Matt Redman
Art for most is escapism. We choose to revolt but only in our minds, hidden away from the mainstream playing games with paint and guitars. Where’s the hate? Do we have to catch a train to be disgusted only because there are more people somewhere else feeling the same? It’s called being obedient, well I’m not! I have never been.
There are some majestic pieces of art work in and around this town. I have smelt the turps that has made some of them. But we are subdued, bitter in the light of our domain being run by people who can’t see the talent around them, seditious or not. There needs to be a renewed feeling, it’s already happening, but it needs to be recognised. I AM JOY for me is a chance to change not to dominate. It makes a single statement, a collective roar and belly flops on any horrid choir chanting! But don’t let me be the judge... there is something happening and you must find out what it is and isn’t. That’s why this year at the Joy Festival the art exhibition is taking place in an old monk monastery, not to belittle the traditions but to awaken the old to the new. Take the paintings of Robert Olliver-Jones; they pierce you, jolt the senses and the horror is no match for the delight. The strength of paint is immense. It questions the sensibilities that this town holds so dear to enact some change. I am surrounded by people who agree: sedition through creativity... Joe Worthington Artists include: Laurence Elliott, Robert Olliver-Jones, Matt Redman, Ian Sherman, Jakob Anckarsvärd, Joe & Sam Worthington, Cat Gillison, Chris Soul, Nick Hicking, Samantha O’Kelly, Emma Dexter, Becky Rose, Mark Hoad.
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POETRY
The Joy Magazine Issue Two August 2009 Foetus coiled, hemmed in by steel bars, Imprisoned in her own flesh, Half twisted, semi-paralysed, Aftermath of an arterial brain blockage She lies, twitching like a road kill bird Flapping a winged night-gowned arm In readiness to take flight Soar upwards; fly free While her lightning blasted brain conjures Magical metempsychosis. Dreaming deep in her cloud coma, Lady Lazarus levitates Glides upward before a sky blue cyclorama, Witnessing a dress rehearsal of her own demise As she dances below a gridlock of mercurial spotlights. And all the while Odile dances Singing a silent swan song Amidst a phantasmagoria of shades, Death Black-cloaked Svengali of the night, watches Waiting impatiently to close the final curtain. “It won’t be long now,” the theatre nurse says. “Your mother’s heart is very weak, She’s so frail, she could go at any time.”
Photographs by Alex Gillison
But the next morning Death has fled the theatre. Night’s mute swan awakes And with heart fluttering Chirps for breakfast.
The Penultimate Stroke
But instead of flying free She finds her body trapped Hospital cornered, Bandaged between starched white sheets. Jarring cacophonies, clashing sounds, Clinical smells, stiffened surfaces Confusing her senses Her bony fingers stretch Seeking the familiar, a reassuring tactile experience. Discovering a throw draped over her bed, She strokes chocolate cream fur Finding there through vicarious touch Comfort in the velvety coat of a Siamese cat. At visiting time Clutching a bunch of snowdrops in my trembling fist, I tread a long sterile corridor Half expecting her to be gone, To have already flown away with Death Instead, I find her alert Propped up on plump feather pillows Her skeletal shoulders plumed A white satin bow tied at her thin neck, fastening A featherstitched bed jacket, trimmed with swansdown. Half blinded by last night’s dark floodtide of blood, Gazing with a cyclops stare, she points upward with a bony finger, ‘Last night, I was up there,’ she croaks. ‘On the ceiling, looking down.’ Slowly, she turns her head, gazes at the ward’s farthest horizon Fixing her tunnel vision stare upon a single sealed white exit. Reed thin, her voice warbles as she speaks, ‘I want to go through that door, the one at the end, I want to discover what lies beyond.’ Maggi Gillison
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Fall The end of the world again
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Open your eyes, then walk away from the breath warmed bed, needing to sleep still, leaving skin dust in the neatly turned sheets. The room is a fridge. Sometime in the night a cold snap’s snapped, A pumpkins candle grin lighting the fuse to autumn. Outside the gravel’s hard with frost, And a clockworm bomb’s writhing out the last moments To Fall. Right then at the window it happens: Everything around you starts to rise, Slow motion, even as you stop, jaw dropping orange light winks out of your best beads floating over the dresser. A shirt lifts up its arms to hold you. As you pass the kitchen, the pans already fly, let go of the formica ground click as they hit the ceiling which, splitting now with a pop, clean breaks the cage that your birds in; interstices of freedom set him on fire work him into the sky, you’re through the door, red-orange light outside like Autumn leaves. What’s left of your house takes off; a balustrade balloon. Meeting your car mid-air. Speakers, peanuts, the rest of the kitchen drawer, a fridge Freezers open, cheese and Carling’s float. Racing to sky line you see some books, a bedside lamp, and Number Five’s dog. You’re so lost seeing it all go, you hardly noticed you’re leaving too, gently plucked from the ground now that leaves alone flame over, lonely owners of the surface of the world. The sky grins goodbye, an Autumn leaf drops and a noise stops Fall, and rising, it all flowers so slowly Open your eyes, smile.
Illustration by Amy Strike
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PLAYING POSSUM
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Playing Possum (Andy Roberts and Natalie Evans) have been together for three years, and are currently working on their third project Letters as part of I Am Joy Festival. Playing Possum have performed at BAC, Camden People’s Theatre, The Showroom (UoC) and performed for two weeks at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008, gaining four star reviews from both Threeweeks and The Scotsman. Nat and Andy worked together for the MA Theatre Collectives course at the University of Chichester and have not looked back since, now holding the title of being the only resident theatre company in Chichester. Playing Possum are the resident theatre company for the I Am Joy Festival and will be running performances, workshops and walking tours throughout the week. These will take place in the Ha Ha Happy medium, the Boys Club and various other places in and around Chichester.
LETTERS (work in progress) Playing Possum’s third project. “No-one knows how to talk to each other anymore. With our lives saturated by the internet and mobile phones, everything we need is at our fingers tips and distance is now irrelevant. Communication has become cold and impersonal, emails and texts are instantly disposable and forgotten. A letter can last forever. It is something that can be kept and cherished, a physical link to a friend or loved one. A letter is more human, it has taken a journey, and has been in contact with many people along the way. Help Play Possum to rekindle the lost art of the letter, and be part of its journey. There will be stories, confessions, and a lot of toying around.” 14th August 5pm - 8.30pm at the Ha Ha Happy Medium
Playing Possom Andy Roberts and Natalie Evans Photographs by Jordan Ring
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Playing Possum have wandered around Chichester looking at the sights and all Chichester has to offer. With its marvellous cathedral and beautiful gardens, there is lots to see, but in true Playing Possum style these walks contain none of them. Walking around the back streets and forgotten corners of Chichester, Playing Possum’s guided tour enriches you with stories and facts you never knew, and answers questions that you never knew you wanted to ask. These walks will take the spectator to and from other performances and events going on at the festival, maybe leading the public in a direction they wouldn’t usually take. Everyday 4.30pm - 5.30pm starting at The Joy Gallery (see centrefold map for routes and details) WORKSHOPS A Short Celebration of Life, Love and Laughter Playing Possum will be running workshops at the Boys Club from Tuesday to Friday entitled “A Short Celebration of Life Love and Laughter”. These workshops will be a variety of games, performances, fooling around, and general celebration and merriment. The workshops will be aimed at children from ages 10+ and there will be the option for the participants to come back every day and be part of a final showcase/dress rehearsal on Saturday afternoon in Priory Park. 11th - 14th August 12pm - 2pm at The Boys Club
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MEDIA CLASH
Wednesday 12th August 6pm - 8pm, The Happy Medium
A unique experimental improvisation event sees I Am Joy and Rezonix bringing together artists from athousandplateaus alongside independent collaborators to perform live. Part conspiracy, part spontaneity, VJs, Sonic Artists, Musicians, Poets, Performers, Painters and Writers have been brewing a seditious storm in this audio-visual experience that promises to be a cocktail of agitation, inspiration, and disregard of rules. This has been explored in studio processes, supported by the University of Chichester, to provide a bank of materials and artistic exchanges that will be brought to this pilot event. Participating artists include: Constellations, Court of Hidden Faces, Dogeeseseegod, Keith Sutton, Littlecreature, Jez Stevens, Stella Mandella, Maike, Keith Sutton, The Rosa Luxemburg Guerrilla, The Abbadon File Redux, Deskpunk, Pete Walsh, Laurence Elliott, Visualante, Littlecreature, Ruby Tiger plus more. athousandplateaus.ning.com
BOOTWORKS THEATRE COLLECTIVE www.bootworkstheatre.co.uk
Bootworks Theatre Collective (C.I.C.) is a multi-disciplined group of artists committed to making high quality and original theatre and performance. We strive to be both highly innovative and accessible with the work we create. Our commitment to touring to non-traditional locations and presenting cutting edge street theatre to audiences of all kinds engaging audiences from all walks of life is an area of our ongoing work that we are proud of and intend to continue and evolve. Bootworks (and The Black Box) have been making and touring work since 1999. The main work and company is Directed by Robert Daniels and Produced by Emily Coleman. Bootworks is a theatre collective making a reputation, as one of the UK’s most innovative and unique theatre collectives. People of all ages and backgrounds will enjoy our work. Its nonverbal style is particularly accessible to audiences. Audience and promoters/press alike often comment on its intimate experience, inventive, energetic and skilful style and filmic visual direction. The Black Box has proven to meet and often surpass the expectations of those who have commissioned and seen our work in the past, and our work is always overbooked and praised by our audiences for its quality and originality.
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE BOX Saturday 15th August 12pm - 5pm, Priory Park
A parody of ‘The Western’ in all its forms, bringing together the spaghetti classics of Sergio Leone with more than a hint of the modern epics. Bootworks and The Black Box takes you to the dusty, sundrenched wild wild west on a blazing saddle in search of a fistful of dollars, featuring a host of good, bad and downright ugly characters. Raymond Hunwicks
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THEATRE
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NEW THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE AT THE I AM JOY FESTIVAL 2009 I Am Joy Festival 2009 is going to be bubbling with new theatre and original performances from young companies and artists throughout the week. Alongside Bootwork’s The Good, The Bad & The Box at I Am Joy in Priory Park and Cat Sneddon’s haunting Snow Globe Bride installation performance at the Sedition Hushed exhibition, the festival celebrates the work of many artists emerging from the University of Chichester’s B.A.(Hons) in Theatre Performance, Performing Arts and M.A. in Theatre Collectives. Help Playing Possum to rekindle the lost art of the letter with The Letters Project performing at the Ha-Ha-Happy Medium. Also at the Ha-Ha: Tastes-Like-Theatre are asking Where Have All The Ladies Gone? I Am Joy 2009’s very own ‘wondering’ women, Victoria Kember & Hannah Streeter, continue their quest through the festival. Who knows when exactly they will appear on the scene, what they will have to report or how they will perform their mission. Tastes-Like-Theatre will be turning their time to song, poetry, standup comedy, in short all manner of Joy exploring the limits of their own ‘lady-within’ whilst walking, sometimes crawling, through their land of lost ladies.
Where Have All the Ladies Gone? Jordan Ring
New theatre collective Wide Eyes are Katie Duffy, Graeme Kelly, Rebecca Joyce & Rob Taylor currently await graduation in Performing Arts. Wide Eyes’ debut work Better Than S-E-X is the ensemble’s exposé of the nation’s favourite pastimes and in particular the ‘beautiful game’ where, ‘We stand in the crowd and we see men that watch men they will never know but always love.’ The absurdity and abhorrence of the culture engendered by sport and soccer sensationalism are twinned in the collectively devised theatre performance. Wide Eyes’ Rob Taylor will also be performing his stunning solo I Am Woof! Rob writes that the theatre piece was ‘devised around verbatim material collected from two interviews, one from a working class South African tank driver who has just finished a six month stint in Iraq, and the other is with a young man about to graduate from university, and become a young officer responsible for a unit of 30 men…He about to turn 22 years old. The piece concerns itself with the differences in opinion and perspective between the two. It explores the two personas from different backgrounds and their attempts to
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understand and articulate extreme emotions of fear, anxiety and excitement.’
Performance Researcher at The University of Chichester. New Theatre & Performance at the I Am Joy 2009 Festival has been supported by the University of Chichester’s Performing Arts Department.
Sam Hunt’s Dr. Seuss inspired solo performance Green Eggs & Ham completes the oeuvre of I Am Joy theatre at the Ha-Ha-Happy Medium in an evening that promises a short cavalcade of original work blending cultural critique and animated contemporary comment with dynamic 21st Century theatrical form.
I AM JOY FESTIVAL 2009 New Theatre & Performance at a glance:
I Am Joy Festival 2009 theatre and performance has been organised by Andrew Wilford. Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts and
Bootworks perform The Good, The Bad & The Box at Priory Park on Sat 15th August,12noon - 4pm. Snow Globe Bride installation performance at Sedition Hushed exhibition private viewing Monday 11th August and then daily at various times. I Am Joy 2009 Theatre at The Ha-Ha-Happy Medium on Friday August 14th, 5pm - 8pm
DYLAN’s ICECREAMS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE I AM JOY FESTIVAL
Look out for his van! A range of core flavours including, Vanilla, Honey, Caramel and Malt complemented by a changing seasonal flavour of the week, which has so far included, Rhubarb Ripple, Strawberry, Blackcurrant, and Tayberry. Real Dairy Ice Cream in small 5 litre batches from Manor Farm, Langrish (near Petersfield) using milk from the farm and as many local ingredients as possible!
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Colour Doomed is a live drawing and painting competition, which promotes and inspires the practice of creating art with music. As a reward one artist will receive a free exhibition in The Joy Gallery. Mr. Krums eclectic array of 60s psychedelic, hiphop, funk and soul, will be getting your mind dripping off the wall, while Larry Elliott, Jo Tromp, Mike Stout, and Jordan Ring will show you how it done, plus more artist to be confirmed...
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The next evening of Colour Doomed, hosted by Pete Walsh, will be held in The Hope on 1st August featuring Joe and Sam Worthington, Sam McGann and Jake Why.
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JOY FESTIVAL BANDS Tuesday 11th August 6pm – 10pm at The Boys Club 34 Little London, PO19 1PL
Futures. Futures. Photgraph by flickr.com/eleinx
Hailing from a place within, Futures. is a story of loves lost and loves found. From tales of adventure, to tales of utter despair; we stand, hand in hand, holding onto eternity. A time to begin again. Combining a love for popular melody with the cinematic sounds of Mutemath, a major influence on the band; Bristol fourpiece Futures. are Simeon, Phil, Dave and Joel. Following the latter’s debut album release New York Kiss with Chichester based Indie band Retrofect, this outfit’s latest offering is a raw collection of diary-like expressions captured in the vessel of a song. Like colour defines a mood, we can define ourselves in sound, an explosion, an emotion. Make these our futures.
Lulla Violet
myspace.com/futuresfullstop
Since 2007 Lulla Violet have made quite an impact on the South Coast, which has really began blooming since the recording of their 2009 EP titled Lordess (available on iTunes and at their I Am Joy performance). They have played many a show from London to Southampton, and everywhere in between, with acts such as Nine Black Alps, The Xcerts, I Heart Hiroshima, Lo-Fi Culture Scene and many many more... The four-some will be touring in the summer, and have been asked to be the main support for tours later in the year too.Be sure to catch them at this year’s festival. You’ll be suprised what Chichester has been keeping secret these past few years... Lulla Violet
‘Haunting melodies carrying a darkness that explodes into a big cavern of sound that you are happy to be trapped in – Intelligent music, garnished with gravel. A very full live music experience.’ FeedMe Music myspace.com/lullaviolet
Factory_Born Live at The Chichester Inn
Factory_Born Factory_Born are a four-piece band based in Midhurst, Sussex. Formed in October 2008, they began as a hard rock band, but have since evolved and incorporated electro, prog and funk into their already chunky sound. Prior to Factory_Born, Luis and Dan had been playing together for the past few years, and in parallel, Mike and Sam had being doing the same, getting through many band members along the way. This is a new beginning. The combination of Luis’ raw, commanding vocals, Mike’s flamboyant, highly flammable guitar playing, Sam’s tremendous spasm-inducing bass lines and Dan’s disturbing, raucous drum beat is the key to the Factory_Born sound. After the inclusion of the synth, they were complete. The world will never be the same... myspace.com/factoryborn
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Joseph Dunn
Joseph Dunn
Joseph Dunn armed only with his guitar and passionate voice, cuts through the air, sometimes with violence, other times with sheer soul. His voice could persuade magicians to tell him their secrets and girls to tell him their wildest dreams. His lyrics, powerful and intelligent, stir emotions. His guitar playing, as intricate as a Roman mosaic, sometimes even produces bass lines simultaneously. His music makes you feel as if you are standing in an open field and a dark room, by yourself and surrounded by loved ones. Between songs he has the confidence and wit of a stand up comic. He takes influence from heroes and books. The whole youth of today carrying knives is fiction, but Joseph Dunn’s beautiful talent is most definitely fact. Adam Thomas Debut EP produced by This Charming Sound available now. myspace.com/joedunnsound
Joanna Glass
Hello everybody, I’m Joanna. I am sixteen years old and love to sing, very much indeed. Because I am a mere adolescent I am finding this writing an ‘about me’ malarkey exceptionally difficult so it shall be very short and sweet I suspect!... Anyway here goes, I shall at least have a bash at it!
Joanna Glass
Basically, I would like to be a singer forever and ever. I have done a few gigs here and there but nothing like the brilliant I Am Joy Festival which you should ALL go too, and love and worship. Ha, anyway I hope you like my music if you come watch me sing... A Joyous Jolly day to you all! Joanna recently played at The Joy Magazine launch party to a jarge jolly gathering. Cheers Jo! myspace.com/joannaglass
WEDNESday 12th August 7.30pm – 11pm at La Havana Spitalfield Lane, PO19 6BF
Open Mic Night The Heart Shaped Buttons at La Havana
Acoustic night featuring:
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Drewvis (of Brighton-based skankers Second Time Lucky), Jo Jo & The Heart Shaped Buttons, Tim Sturdy, Tyler Rome (of Worthing post-rockers Comanche Sigh), Bella Kardasis; Max Fletcher; plus more…. Every year at I Am Joy we host this open-mic night and every year we are blown away by the unusual, the bewitching and the outright outrageous! To perform please get in touch but places will be slim! Email: iamjoy2007@googlemail.com
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Thursday 13th August 8pm – 11pm at The Hope Spitalfield Lane, PO19 6BF
Flies Are Spies From Hell Piano-led instrumental rock in the vein of Mogwai, 65 Days of Static, Pelican and Oceansize. Formed in 2004, the band have released two EPs and a limited edition single and have played round the country from Plymouth to Leeds, sharing stages with the likes of Russian Circles, Vessels, Fell City Girl, And So I Watch You From Afar, This Town Needs Guns, *Shels and UpCDownC. Last year they toured with Red Paper Dragon and Monsters Build Mean Robots, and again in May this year with Wild Dogs in Winter.
Flies Are Spies from Hell
‘Fantastic drumming, brilliant piano, heavy guitars (I especially loved the long haired headbanging rhythm guitarist who looked like he’d wandered out of a metal band) and a suberb sense of exactly when to put in a break out or launch into a solo. This is the kind of music that makes you see stuff in your head, I especially liked a track with a very Arabian feeling opening riff that just went on to become more and more epic... I’m listening to them now and they don’t lose anything to the studio either. Prima.’ Review from a recent London gig.
Flies Are Spies From Hell will be releasing their first album later this year. myspace.com/fliesarespiesfromhell
Codes In The Clouds Paper Canyon video trailer still
Codes In The Clouds
Instumental rock music is experiencing a new peak in England. Codes In The Clouds, the quintet of Morahan, Peeling, Smith, Major and Power from Greater London and Kent have found a firm place in this vast growing post-rock scene. With their harmonious and blissful sound they weave guitar melodies, liable to explode any minute. If you still can’t imagine intense music without vocals then you will be surprised how easily these boys will let you forget this prejudice. Energetic and charming at once, surprising and unpredictable at all times. www.myspace.com/codesintheclouds
Monsters Build Mean Robots
Monsters Build Mean Robots
MBMR are a Brighton based band currently releasing through DIY label Nice Weather for Airstrikes (NWFA). Formed in late 2006, Monsters Build Mean Robots have created a unique sound, with influences ranging from Post-rock and Electronica to Folk and Dark Pop. The release of their debut in October 2007 saw them mix electronic loops and beats with layered guitar, organ and vocal parts. Creating an epic, slow build form of Post-rock, they gained local and national recognition through the likes of Stuart Maconie and Artrocker magazine. Since the album release the band have been touring the UK and working on the live show, evolving their sound to incorporate more instruments, including live drums, bass, cello and violin. This adds to the textured and looped guitar parts that are integral to the MBMR sound. The vocals have progressed from layered and accompanying sounds,to melodic, harmonious centre points, with strong and structured lyricall themes. MBMR are currently finishing off their second album for NWFA. NWFA has also gained credit for event promotion in Brighton and Chichester. These events have attracted the likes of This City, Bearsuit, Vessels, Bossk, And So I Watch You From Afar, UpCdownC and Clearlake. myspace.com/monstersbuildmeanrobots
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SATURDAY 15th August 5pm – 8.30pm in Priory Park Joey Nightmare Joey Nightmare are a Chichester based band, playing shows all over the country. Made up of five members: Joseph Carter, Tiffiny Tremain, Alex Coburn, Joshua Price and Benjamin Thatcher.
Joey Nightmare
Joey Nightmare has an energetic, yet ambient sound fused with clicky guitars and a disco/off beat rhythem, creating its dancy sound. ‘Catchy-as-hell saccharine dance-pop. We’ve got high hopes forthe live show these guys (and girl) can pull off, they’re amazing! ‘New Slang, Banquet Records myspace.com/joeynightmare
Droptear Modelmaker Droptear modelmaker
Starting as one man and a laptop, Droptear Modelmaker have become a 5 piece alternative electronica band. Combining a live rhythm section with drum machines, trumpet through looping pedals, and noises all over the shop, Droptear Modelmaker have taken a new approach to electronic music. With a huge focus on live performance, Droptear have played at some of Brighton’s most established venues; Concorde 2, Komedia, The Old Market, and Coalition (formerly The Beach). Now looking towards a summer of festivals and short tours, the future for DTMM is looking, sounding and smelling very exciting. www.myspace.com/droptearmodelmaker
Tribal Vibe
Tribal Vibe are a 5 piece band, based in Brighton. Their sound is often described as a fusion of Funk and Ska with a broad influences from reggae in all its forms. The band have played all over England with their main stages in and around the festival circuit.
Tribal Vibe
Tribal Vibe have also made appearances on ITV’s Beat the Mix and we’re voted ‘Best Band’ by the producers. The band is made up of Elliott Locke (rhythm guitar and vocals), Devan Belgrave (Drums), Henry Castledine (Sax), Dan Pavely (Bass) and Nuaziln (lead guitar). A strong theme within their music is the rejection of securities that the world presents and for the battle of the mind and soul, standing together as one people. myspace.com/atribalvibe
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Wise Children
‘Astonishingly beautiful’, Wise Children are an Indie/Folk group that started in the Summer of 2008 when a picnic went wrong. Since that day the band have, like a small child rolling down a hill, made rapid progress, receiving critical acclaim from the likes of Huw Stephens (Radio 1) and Tom Robinson (BBC6 Music) whilst still less than a year old. Their debut self titled EP presents the dark and more haunting side to the band, but is by no means the extent of their creative talent. Live, Wise Children offer a mix of uplifting and brilliantly crafted songs which are to be released in the coming months. Meanwhile they are continuing to play numerous shows, supporting the likes of Alessi’s Ark, Jeniferever, Tommy Reilly, Fanfarlo, Klaus Says Buy The Record, Sam Isaac, etc. myspace.com/wisechildrenuk
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DIRTY CABARET FRIDAY 14 AUGUST AT THE HOPE
Debuting at the I Am Joy Festival last year, Dirty Cabaret has become a regular attraction in Chichester. Incorporating themes taken from the circus and fairground beneath the cover of darkness, Dirty Cabaret is a regular night of bands, burlesque and circus performance. Inspired by Tim Burton’s Red Triangle Circus from Batman Returns, Willy Wonka’s riverboat trip and The Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the evening brings these diverse influences together in a dizzying eruption of sound and colour. With Dirty Cabaret, Cat Gillison has created a sinister vaudevillian show that lures its unsuspecting spectators with lollipops and bright swirling psychedelic colours, then unleashes upon them a nightmarish barrage of excitement and danger, guaranteeing thrills and amazement in equal measure. Dirty Cabaret goers are treated to a range of acts including Burlesque dancers, jugglers, unicyclists, fire dancers and fire breathers, clowns and bands with gypsy cabaret influences. Nick Gillison myspace.com/dirtycabaret
To hear a.P.A.t.T. or more specifically their album, Black & White Mass, is to experience a musical odyssey like no other, avoiding the usual pragmatics of pop, they are a law unto themselves dabbling in sounds. They are unique, taking elements from The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Cardiacs, and morphing them into a symphony of gremlins rearing their heads and disappearing again; Black and White Magic kicks off in twisted cabaret fashion, but with all the pieces still falling together as they should. In grand circus style, the second track fetches you onto a.P.a.T.t.’s weird magic roundabout. They’re a bunch of illusionists who will whistle you into a lull and then make you fall into their traps. a.P.A.t.T.’s last album entitled Black & White Mass recently earned ‘Album of the Week’ on BBC Radio 1 and their latest single entitled Martins’ Quest was Huw Stephens’ tip for the week. They have also just finished working on a sitcom, starring Ralf Little and Johnny Vegas, entitled ‘Massive’.a.P.A.t.T., who of course play a hapless, avant garde band; Ralf Little’s character describes the band as “Shit”. a.P.A.t.T. sound like the best bits of eveything you’ve ever heard. YOUR favourite mixtape.
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Not too long ago, before disillusion had taken over, shy and troubled musician, Mishkin Mullaly met shy and troubled artist, Philippa Bloomfield, and found an instant musical bond. They soon added a violinist, Keely McDonald and an Irish fiddle player. Then a further addition of Garry Mitchell (bass), and Ella Stirmey (Cello) completed the unusual band, with a sound impossible to pigeon-hole. After realizing their potential to form a band like no other, they coined the name Birdeatsbaby – a frightening and unforgettable title to match the songs which were quickly unravelling before their eyes and ears. They strike a chord with Cabaret lovers, classical enthusiasts, and a range of alternative rock types who love the blunt and often shocking lyrics, haunting and heart-breaking melodies and the sheer pomposity of it all. Their first studio album is a blend of Weimar Cabaret, Baroque Classical and Melodic Rock – a collection of songs that touch on the subject of feminine innocence and sadness; thoughts and musings on failed relationships; and accusing outbursts of betrayal. It embraces true cabaret style by observing these topics with a sardonic and tongue-in-cheek attitude. Birdeatsbaby inspire and unite those who feel as they do: that all is not right with the world.
myspace.com/birdeatsbaby www.birdeatsbaby.com
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Le Band Extraordinaire
Le Band Extraordinaire are a DIY outfit gaining popularity in Brighton having played sold out shows alongside The Noisettes, Wild Beasts, Amanda Palmer and The Fiery Furnaces. These multi-instrumentalists blend melodic pop hooks with experimental arrangements; Blazing horns, intricate guitars, frenzied drums and enigmatic vocals create a quintessentially English sound, unique in combining a diverse set of influences, ranging from XTC, Kurt Weill, Super Furry Animals, Kate Bush, and Zappa. LBE will be self-releasing their debut single in September, with an album to follow. ‘Taking the essence of Tom Waits’ bleary-eyed bar room blues and mixing in a measure of indie-tight arrangement, together with liberal dashes of jazz and theatrical vocals, Le Band Extraordinaire are ploughing a likeable and genuinely unique furrow ... Accomplished songwriting and arrangements...’ The Source (June 2008) myspace.com/lebandextraordinaire
Dirty Jaguar ‘Rock and Roll that’s building a barricade while mending a broken heart’. Dirty Jaguar Photograph by Matt Redman
The band, comprised of guitarist and song writer Alex Gillison, bass guitarist, Grant Light, and drummer Paddy Maude-Roxby, have been playing gigs around the country alongside bands such as The Mummers, Joe Black and Calvin Harris since 2007. They have thrilled audiences with their own brand of alternative garage rock. The music has a feeling of anger and angst brewing beneath the surface like a dormant volcano well overdue an explosion and this is echoed in the sentiment of the lyrics. Gig-goers have labelled them ‘the English Kings of Leon’ and they have been tipped for stardom by a variety of producers and industry professionals. Dirty Jaguar will be the guest DJs at Dirty Cabaret on 14th August as well as performing on Saturday 15th August at The Hope alongside Hakuna Pesa.
myspace.com/dirtyjaguar
SUNDAY CIRCUS Sunday Circus started in the Spring as a weekly get-together for people who are into fire-spinning and other physical skills. We wanted a session where people could swap moves and bounce ideas off each other, teaching and developing their skills with the end goal of performing them. Since we started the sessions we have had all kinds of people training amazing things: poi, staff, juggling, diablo, capoeira, contemporary dance, slack rope, unicycling, acrobatics and other disciplines have all now shown their face in Priory Park, with the level ranging from complete beginner to those who have been learning for years and have performed around the world.
In the future we are aiming to develop a full fire show with the help of many of our lovely fire friends, so if you’d like to get involved either learning or performing or both then come join us in Priory Park, Sundays at 2pm onwards. We’ll see you soon, either at the park or the next Dirty Cabaret night! Tom Norfolk www.sundaycircus.com. sundaycircus@live.co.uk Tom Norfolk and Oli Baker will be running Circus workshops at this year’s I Am Joy Festival on Saturday 15th August in Priory Park 12 - 4pm.
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We were invited to perform at the first Dirty Cabaret night, and loved it so much we have done every one since. The nights go from strength to strength, and we have tried to develop what we do to match that; we started off with glow performance and with the change in venue we have been able to use fire, sharing the new tricks we’ve been working on as well as the new props like fire snakes and fans.
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ART
BARRY HOLT AN OBITUARY Great Artists are not always the famous ones. Piero Della Francesca - one of the greatest of Renaissance Artists wallowed in obscurity for nearly 400 years before being ‘discovered.’ Barry Holt would not have thanked me for comparing him with Piero but in truth they both shared an attitude of no compromise to their Art.
While he loved colour, he had a canny ability to make black paintings look light and uplifting and to make white paintings glow with colour. He used to say ‘it’s just a painting!’ His view on art was that it was all an adventure. It was a question of mark making, of commenting on our world using anything that was at hand - plasterers scrim tape, Dulux house paint, plaster, sand - indeed almost anything that would contribute to a visual display. But most of all (again like Braque) he loved surface. The sensuous flow of paint or the craggy ridges of sandy dried mud. The contrast of matt light-absorbing black next to pure glowing Dulux black. He would say ‘don’t worry if you scratch the gloss surface just give it a light sanding and another coat of Dulux!!’ Basil was a hugely knowledgeable man. He devoured articles on contemporary Artists and read Modern Painters and spoke with real insight about Artists both obscure and well known.
Swimmer Goggles Barry Holt
A local Horsham Lad, Basil was liked by all those who came across him. He discovered the Islands of North West Scotland and had many happy times visiting them with his family. He loved cricket too but most of his interests were Art related. He exhibited with the local group ‘Artel’, producing great work for Chichester Museum and other venues. He was a regular and successful exhibitor on the ‘Open Doors’ Art trail established in Chichester. Basil was a very youthful Artist. He had a fresh eye, a young approach; an enthusiasm and always humour. His illness was diagnosed more than six years ago but he never lost his positivity or enthusiasm. A true Artist of really great integrity. He should remain an example to all Artists whether drawing or sculpting, whether young or old. Piers Otley, The Mill Studio
His view on art was that it was all an adventure
Luge Rider Barry Holt
Barry (or Basil to some folks) was a painter in the purist sense. Like George Braque, his background was in decorating where he got his simple love of paint and surface and texture. He was an explorer: a no-nonsense mark maker with a passion. His work ranged from Installation to life painting to portraiture to pure abstract.
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CULTURAL CRUSADES
AND CURATORIAL QUESTS A Bargeman’s Tale, Unity Arts Trust, I Am Joy and Athena Writers Group An Interview with Olivia Stevens by Chris Soul
CS: How did this project come about? OS: Originally I was approached by Chichester District Council and part of the re-landscaping framework was that they wanted to feed public art into the process. I applied for the post and got the job. I jumped at the chance as this was my first professional opportunity after completing my Masters in Museum and Gallery Management in London last year. I was absolutely thrilled to be back involved in the arts scene in Chichester. The Southern Gateway Forum had wanted me to look at all the different ways of commissioning public art. Monumental pieces of art in the public realm are great, but we can also think of community engagement when we think of public art, and temporary projects rather than permanent artworks too. CS: In the last Joy Magazine we ran an article on Chichester possibly commissioning a new public piece of art in response to Channel 4’s Big Art series. Is community engagement the key factor? OS: Big art gets big publicity. It sends out a powerful signal about a City. Having grassroots projects going on is really important on an ongoing basis though – the tinder that creates the edifying spark for a thriving cultural scene. For A Bargeman’s Tale I had to consult and work alongside WSCC, CDC, the Chichester Canal Trust and the school as well as including art as a discussion point throughout a series of public consultation events organised by the architects Terra Firma. It’s been quite a journey - my diplomacy and advocacy skills have improved somewhat! CS: How did you approach the school?
School installation for A Bargeman’s Tale Olivia Stevens and Duncan Mcafee
OS: The school has an art and science specialism so I thought that with their locality and working with an artist on quite an innovative project would really help to demonstrate to them in their minds, as young artists, the possibilities of contemporary art. This is what I’m passionate about. Art is not just about sculpture and painting but mediums like ‘sound art’ and people are making a living out of it. I think that’s really important. Even from the youngest age; to be exposed to and begin to understand the possibilities. We’re taking the project to two primary schools as well which is really exciting. CS: How did the pupils respond to the project?
Chris Soul: Hello Olivia. Cheers for the beer. Tell me about A Bargeman’s Tale at Chichester Canal Basin. Olivia Stevens: A Bargeman’s Tale is an outdoor art experience, a sonic artwork. It fuses field recordings and local experts voices within the context of a poetic ghost story for the canal basin. It involved a collaboration between the lead artist Duncan McAfee and local poet Andrew Bailey and evolved out of five workshops with twelve students attending Chichester High School for Girls. The story concerns Henry Smithers, a bargeman who drowned in 1863. Sounds sinister - but it’s actually a really uplifting composition.
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CS: Plug it. How can we listen to it? OS: From Friday July 17th you can go down to the Canal Trust HQ and shop and place a twenty pound deposit which you get back when you return the equipment. You go off with your MP3 and headphones down the canal and listen to A Bargeman’s Tale. We’ve also installed a listening post in the hut in case anyone stumbles upon it and doesn’t have a deposit. It’s totally free and totally amazing and the writing is awesome; each time I listen to it I enjoy it just a little bit more. It’s beautiful; both moving and uplifting. CS: And it runs until? OS: It runs until September 17th. The website is www.chichestercanalart.co.uk and you can listen to the MP3 track. A CD is also on sale at the Canal Trust HQ for just three gold coins!
(Joe Worthington arrives eating a packet of crisps. We discuss the ‘rich city with bored kids’ context) OS: I think less bored now. It really is changing. I can honestly say since I graduated in 1997 I can’t
the artist Duncan Mcafee and the student group
Olivia Stevens is a curator, visual arts manager, writer and a passionate voice for I Am Joy. At the Chequers pub we met to discuss her recent crusades and quests.
OS: They really engaged with the idea of telling the story of Henry. He is the focal point. It’s about reimagining his life story and his demise. They loved it. Duncan got them using ‘cut-up’ techniques to encourage collective ownership of the work and develop their ideas and writing. Their creativity was astounding and they were so open to new ideas.
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personally think of one art graduate from my year who has stayed as long as I have, who came from a fine art background. There were very few opportunities... whereas now... Joe Worthington: They need a voice. OS: You guys (I Am Joy) have given them a big joyous voice and because of that they’re staying. You’ve created a reason for them to stay together and make things happen. JW: We wanted to create a community... It was tangled. OS: Yeah. It wasn’t joined up. It was like a disparate text scattered around on a huge blank canvas... but now new networks are forming, collaborative initiatives and online creative communities like A Thousand Plateaus are beginning to grow their membership. A sense of community is for me personally really important to develop new ideas with like-minded people, talk art garbage or genius - it depends on your perspective! CS: Do you think school and university prepares an individual to become an artist outside the bubble of the institution? OS: Mmmm. Hard to say. When I left university back in 1997 I curated Strange Fruit. I dived into it straight away. All my friends were like lost sheep; let out of the field of academia into the great unknown not knowing what to do next. I think in general universities have to do a lot more. There need to be links to the outside world to see how art actually functions in the wider scheme of the world and that there are lots of different routes you can take on the curious and rhizomatic art map. Art Sat Nav – now there’s a thing – Funding Sat Nav – to be guided to the funding – even better!! CS: So what did you do when you left university to prevent yourself becoming a lost sheep? OS: Organising Strange Fruit helped to give me and my fellow graduates a focus to make new work. It all happened in the grounds of Chichester University so it helped to promote the Uni too. It wasn’t easy to get funding and I was on a steep learning curve! The Uni gave me a £400 bursary and I even got sponsorship from (amongst others) Little Chef! Brilliant - but bizarre! JW: I love Little Chef. OS: Curating is a type of artistic chefing perhaps!? Sorry I digress. CS: And from there you managed to do some exhibitions in disused shop spaces?
Students listening to A Bargeman’s Tale
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show I‘ve curated was called Urban Romantics which involved 24 artists exhibiting their work in the Bargate Shopping Centre in Southampton. That came about because one little shopkeeper in Chichester gave me the opportunity to do an installation in a fetish shop window there. Then the marketing guy asked me to fill some empty shop units. I ended up doing a really big show across 3 shop spaces. It got national coverage and was even in The Independent. That blew me away! I was doing it all off a crappy Brother typewriter and at one point I didn’t even have a phone and had to use a pay phone. It was mad. I was doing it on a shoe-string, all on my own. It was a great experience though and somehow it worked... CS: I still think there is the possibility of putting on a one night show in Woolworths... OS: Apparently some councils are doing that: the artists and empty shops initiative. JW: A BBC reporter contacted The Joy Gallery thinking that was how we had set up the gallery, but it wasn’t like that. In the middle of Woolworths you could have a real venue. CS: We talk about using empty shops but Chichester, if it wants to be the City of the Arts, needs a venue. I have this dream of building a grassroots theatre/ venue. Sod it, let’s build a theatre out of scrap wood. (According to Olivia 88.5% of the world’s chairs are wasted. A theatre made of chairs...standing room only...) OS: Tim Sandys-Renton is heading up a campaign for including art and culture in the Graylingwell redevelopment; It’s recently changed it’s name from studios4artists to Unity Arts Trust. We think there is a real opportunity to establish studios for artists and designer-makers in Chichester, and so do the District Council; CDC have stipulated in their planning document for Graylingwell that 1500 sq meters should be made available as studios for artists and makers. I think this is imperative to keep artists in this town. Like Joe here with his pigeon shed. JW: I’m in a goat shed actually! OS: I hope the goat’s gone! Just putting up studios is not seen as being of enough benefit to the community. The emphasis needs to change much more towards education, i.e. really giving something back to the community as well as facilities and professional development for artists. That was always our plan, but we need to emphasize that more. Tim has been a superhero and has unflinching enthusiasm for this initiative. I’m thinking of making him some superhero pants which he can wear to important meetings! (Suddenly Joe leaves the interview to pick up his brushes in his goat shed. He is inspired.) OS: Artists need space and facilities. We want to support artists at the beginning of their careers... It would not just be a space where artists will bury their heads in their art, it’s about a community too, that looks outwards through sharing their skills with the public, as well as inwards to each other for support, inspiration and collaboration. CS: Would it be an open submission/ admission? OS: It will be open to anyone to apply, but it will
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have criteria based on standards of art and/or craftsmanship, and will expect a real willingness on the part of the artists to help provide public benefits. We haven’t fixed the criteria quite yet though. We need to get it right. It will be open to any artist living in the region. CS: So what are your future projects? OS: To carry on supporting The Unity Arts Trust as a trustee and I’ve set up Antler Art Projects too. That’s the professional umbrella under which I will be trading as an arts producer and manager. I am very keen to work with I Am Joy, arts groups, individuals, schools and writers. It will be all about curatorial intervention through brokering partnerships. Phil Riley at the school is keen for us to work together again developing ‘artists in schools’ projects in the future. I’m also planning to programme a live art project, I Am Live Art, for next year’s I Am Joy Festival if everything goes to plan. CS: That sounds really cool. A new strand of joy! I believe you are also the co-founder of a writers group. What’s it called? OS: The Athena Writers group. It was set up back in 2006. I was frustrated that I wasn’t writing more poetry and that there weren’t any creative forums that fitted my creative inclinations. I’m so lucky to be running it alongside Andrew Bailey – a very talented and frighteningly knowledgeable local poet. It’s not just about poetry though, it’s for writers working in any literary form to come and workshop their writing. Blimey this has been a mammoth chat! I do tend to talk – quite a lot! CS: Yeah it has! One and a half hours to be precise! But it’s been really cool and interesting to hear about your work (Interview ends. Olivia and I wander into the goat shed to embellish the mammoth...)
THE ATHENA WRITING GROUP Meets: Last Tuesday of every month Venue: The Fountain Pub, South Street, Chichester Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm Contact: Olivia or Andrew: athenawriters@yahho.co.uk Web: athenawriters.blogspot.com A forum for sharing, critiquing and developing all forms of creative writing. Antler Art Projects Olivia Stevens: olivia@antlerartprojects.co.uk Unity Arts Trust: uat@btinternet.com A Bargeman’s Tale runs from 17th July to 17th September at the Chichester Canal Basin www.chichestercanalart.co.uk
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THE DEAD HOUSE The second in a series, these works formed part of an exhibition of short stories and paintings recently shown at the National Theatre. Read Part One at www.iamjoy.co.uk
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Hugin speaks first. ‘Smog descends on their city without warning, a gluey darkness over the noon. They are disenchanted, the children of Mother Nietzsche, a shrinking people suffering severe incuriosity.’ Munin replies. ‘What unimaginable stories they swallow, forgetting the endings. They will resolve in the beautiful skin of the leviathan.’
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You may wonder what we are all staring at when you appear like this, wreathed in seaweed, looming in the Thames, sultry and swollen. Disorientated by sonar, you were following sounds that could rip you apart like an opera singer shatters a glass. In fascination and revulsion crowds are peering over this orphaned baby, embarrassed by the residue. The air smells of ploughed earth as you dissolve, sweating out fatness, softening in the heat as though made of soap or wax. There have been rumours of ambergris inside your belly, stained with the indelible smoke screen of squid dinners. We wonder at the properties of this stuff that bears no resemblance to any substance ever seen. Distilled waxily into the water it will harden and float, perhaps a cure for all ills, perfuming what it touches. You are twisted and coiled, a crooked serpent sea-monster as you belch up squids in a panic. Your names are just as tentacled: Taninium, Lotan, a tremulous Nephilim. The people dwell on their ailments as they look upon your helpless body, suddenly deeply suspicious of the motives of their neighbours. They look at each other with knives in their eyes and cranberry mouths. A man sits away from the crowd, he says “if a flame can fall a cedar, what hope has a fish in a puddle?” *** Your dark hulk is almost indistinguishable now, dimming in the spare water a colza oil flow bright to dark, treacle deep, now an illuminant. The occulting light makes the spectators tired, sceptical. The end of the story is buried somewhere in the middle of the next. The crowd is yawning, dilutes, dispels. Outside my window the stars are loud, clashing over the crescendo moon. The constel-
lations stretch and dash in octaves and zigzags and hairpins. The clouds are alienated, asking for percussion to land. I want to go back this very night, climb right into your musky benzoic mouth, wade through the blue mud and the indigestible beaks of squid and cuttle-fish and there find the ambergris, the whaley grail, the Jonah of the lamp. Instead I lie awake and think of you, failed whale, distracted, driven round the bends by the ringing buzzing hissing clicking cricket’s tunes that whooshed inside your sensitive earholes, the shipping forecasts inside your head like the sea inside a shell. I want to press my ear to yours and see if I can hear it too. I imagine being the only one to show up to your rescue, standing on Jubilee Bridge playing sheer music to mend your ears. You would seek asylum in my bassoon solo playing a low ‘pppppp’ with your muted tones beneath, sotto voce with sousaphones and sarrusophones and other such lovely words. Now they are measuring your broken body in the lab, listening with stethoscopes as they wait for the venous hum to cease. You are forlorn, dismantled and they find that Jonah is reduced to nothing more than a whole potato and a few fragments of plastic. Disappointed, they will roll you up in bubble wrap, stuff you in a massive jiffy bag, pack you off to a museum to make an exhibition of you. Children will peer through the holes of your bones, wear you like a mask, making a spectacle of your poor skeleton. Sarah Jones Sarah is 28 years old and on the MPhil course at the University of Chichester, having completed a creative writing MA in 2003. She has had exhibitions of paintings since 2001 in Chichester at the Oxmarket, Chichester Gallery (in the Hornet, now closed), CFT and Minerva theatre. She has also written an essay on the Cathedral artwork for a book on Chichester and the Arts. She is currently working on some portraits and new experimental writing for another National exhibition in 2010. If you missed Part One read it at iamjoy.co.uk
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Chill wind bites with northern gnash As I traipse through snow-trenched Country lanes and snowdrop-spattered banks Cling on forbidding disturbance. Mud-spattered grasses gorged with icy mounds Create stiff frozen swathes standing proudly Erect and empowered with nature’s essence And the call of Spring not far away. My sensitive face is tortured By cold intense and increasing As the evening draws in from the Dying day sun escaped and broken From earlier welcome warmth. My heart is happy nearing home A splendid haven for a suffering soul Which is now enlivened by the torrid Vestiges of a winter day. Refreshed, renewed, reminded Of the ravages of life’s patterns, I recline, sink restfully restored to My retreat infused with new Understandings and invigorated energy For the exciting possibilities ahead.
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Illustrations from top Gordon Rushmer Young Marine 42 Commando Carolyn Booker Boats at Beer Appeal Launch Oxmarket Gallery
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Oxmarket Round up
the Oxmarket has played an important part of the artistic life in Chichester
The annual 3 week long summer exhibition at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts – Artists from the South opened officially opened by Councillor John Ridd, Chairman of Chichester District Council at a busy and very hot private view on 29th June. Guests were able to cool down with a refreshing glass of Pimms while enjoying the work on show and meeting the artists. The show itself was a riot of colourful landscapes by Andy Waite, Barbara Macfarlane, Frances Hatch and Carolyn Booker; while poignant images of the British Army in Afghanistan by Official War Artist Gordon Rushmer; who’s work was complimented by a Festivities Recital Evening on July 12 by the ever popular Village Voices who performed “No Rhyme…No Reason – the poetry of War”. The Summer Show Private View also saw the official launch by the Dean of Chichester Cathedral, the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling of the Oxmarket Centre of Arts Renovation Appeal. Since the Centre first opened its doors in 1971, the Oxmarket has played an important part of the artistic life in Chichester by offering good quality exhibition space at reasonable cost for local artists and makers to display their work. The historical nature of the building gives it its unique atmosphere, with the splendid vaulted ceiling of the John Rank gallery and wonderful acoustics for musical performance. Sadly the exterior fabric of the building is now a major cause for concern and the pebbledash render needs to be replaced as water penetrates behind this coating, causing serious damage to the structure. Specialist repair work of this kind is expensive, and we need to raise £70,000 to renovate the whole building with a lime wash render similar to that which covered it when it was originally built in the 13th century as the church of St Andrew in Oxmarket. As part of the fund raising there will be a series of special events and exhibitions throughout 2010 and 2011, the first of these is the Hidden Artists 16th to 29th August; in which original postcard sized pieces of artwork are offered for sale, the artists identity being concealed – among the work for sale is work by some well known local artists. The Hidden Artists will be revealing themselves on three occasions in August, November and December, so a fresh and plentiful supply of art is needed and anyone who would like to create and donate a piece of original artwork please call in to the Centre and ask Darrell or Sophia for an Artists Pack; there are no restrictions on subject matter or medium, except that it must fit within the boundaries of the window mount supplied. Your support in helping us achieve our target will be much appreciated. Gill Collins Management Board for Oxmarket Centre of the Arts, Chichester
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PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY
OUTSIDE IN
Outside In aims to provide a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or because their work does not fit a prescribed norm.
ART Since the early twentieth Century, the terms Outsider Art or Art Brut have been used to describe individuals who produce art from the edges of society. Typically having little or no contact with the institutions of the mainstream art world, they rarely receive any formal recognition, despite the often highly personal and idiosyncratic characteristics of their artwork. This August, Pallant House Gallery plays host to a unique exhibition which turns the spotlight on the work of Outsider and marginalised artists. Set up in 2006, Outside In aims to provide a platform for artists who are marginalised due to health, disability or because their work does not fit a prescribed norm. The main arm of the project is a biennial open art competition which was held this year across the whole of the Southern region from Cornwall to Kent of England. In 2007 the competition was confined to Sussex and by 2011 the aim is to make the project national. This month’s exhibition showcases the selected and prize-winning artworks by entrants to the competition displayed prominently in three of the Gallery’s main spaces. Alongside the artworks selected for the exhibition, six awards will offer the opportunity to have either a residency or a solo exhibition at Pallant House Gallery.
Ria Pratt Its A Dogs Life
During the Outside In exhibition Pallant House Gallery will take on a distinct Outsider Art focus. From 4 August to 11 October the De-Longhi Print Room will house an exhibition of the work of the well-known Outsider artist Scottie Wilson. Despite his unorthodox background (and virtual illiteracy) Wilson’s work was admired and collected by Picasso and Dubuffet, and he is now considered to be one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the twentieth century. Alongside, there will be a Gallery trail and tours focusing on five Outsider and marginalised artists in the Gallery’s collection including Pat Douthwaite and Paul Klee. A series of events will also help challenge and raise debate regarding marginalised and Outsider artists. An exciting new development for this year is a film programme in partnership with the New Park Cinema Festival featuring films with a focus on Outsider art such as a rare showing of the first two episodes of Journeys into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker and the critically acclaimed Junebug. There are also two scheduled talks - one by renowned self-taught artist Chris Hipkiss in conversation with collector Rose Knox Peebles and another by French artist Gilles Ganachaud who will be exploring the work of Raymond Isidore - the artist who created the astonishing mosaic-covered Maison Picassiette in Chartres, France. For more information about the events and exhibitions please contact the Gallery on 01243 774557 or go to the Outside In website www.outsidein.org.uk Also showing in August is The Scottish Colourists: Paintings from The Fleming Collection (until 1 November 2009) www.pallant.org.uk
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Marrakesh To Agadir
On The 9.30 Bus The bus leaves Marrakesh half an hour late, which is remarkably close to “in time” by Moroccan standards. It is overcast and the legendary view of the snow-capped peaks of the Atlas Mountains towering over Marrakesh is not happening today. We drive west for a while, till Chichaoua, and then turn south towards the mountains. It is foggy but I know that the weather will be better on the other side of the pass. We are slowly ascending. With increasing altitude the fog grows thinner, until it gives way to a piercing blue sky. A few clouds cling to the peaks like cotton wool smoke to the chimney of a gingerbread house. There is only little snow on the peaks. The distant hills look almost purple in the sunlight. The soil is light brown, beige, the vegetation is sparse. We pass simple dwellings, a desperate combination of old stonework and breezeblocks, painted pink or not at all. Stones are piled up along the way, maybe to build a wall. Spiky cactus plants with red-orange fruit protect private land like barbed wire.
Photographs courtesy of Tina Johnston
A mosque on the hilltop, a village spreading down the hillside. The sun is penetrating through the windows of the bus. My Moroccan fellow travellers pull the little red curtains. The curtains are not wide enough and slide off sleeping faces. Agitation is rising. A man works in the field. A man and a donkey. The donkey pulls a wooden plough. More dwellings fly past, powdery pink against brilliant blue. At the foot of the Atlas: Imi-n-Tanoute, the last big village before the big climb. A town rather than a village. Roadside cafes and stalls rush past. My fellow travellers are getting restless. The bus is hot. The fan is blowing warm air. The winter sun is merciless. What will it be like in summer? We are climbing. I don’t look at the road because Moroccan drivers are reckless, without fear. We are in the mountains now, soft rolling beige hills, trees dabbed with pink and white blossom.
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The Joy Magazine Issue Two August 2009 My neighbour is making his way to the driver. He wears several jumpers and is sweating. “The heating is broken,” he says in perfect English, when he comes back. I see a woman collecting herbs into a rugged wicker basket. She is wrapped in brightly coloured sheets of fabric, her hair hidden under a sunflower yellow scarf. She turns round and waves as we pass. The beige soil changes to red, the red earth of Africa. Shrubby trees appear, the Argan trees. The curtains are being re-arranged, politely, with consideration. Now everybody’s face is shaded. Red and brown hills with dots of green wherever I look. Black goats frisk about by the side of the road, guarded by a herd clad in a matching black djellaba. A villa, luxurious almost, on its own, like displaced, backing onto the road. A woman looks down from the balcony, unsmiling. Her headscarf has golden trimmings and coins dangling from the seams. The bus stops at Restaurant D’Msira, a roadside cafe half way to Agadir. A woman fries greasy pancakes. I order mint tea. The man with several jumpers and I share a table. He has cooled down.
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“Your English is good,” I offer. “ I live in New York,” he answers. He has his own company, a photo lab. He can’t be older than thirty. Soon I know a lot about him, but he doesn’t want to know about me. I try to pay for my tea but he has already paid for it. The horn calls us back to the bus. After the break the mood on the bus is relaxed, almost cheerful. New friendships have been struck, conversations flow effortlessly. The driver has disconnected the heating system. A man sits by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Why? Behind him green sprouting fields. The colour looks unreal. Berber music is sounding from the loudspeakers. The snowy peaks, now cloudless, look near. I remember the tyres of the bus, super slick, no profile at all and hope we will be alright. Chameleon villages huddle on the hillside. Suddenly we are out of the mountains. In front of us lies the Souss Valley, flat and endless, with its acres of greenhouse agriculture. We descend. The photo lab man hands out cards to everyone. Tarik Assir. “How did you get to work in New York?”
“I won a green card in the lottery.” A green card lottery? Like my friend Hamid. I did not believe it at the time. After a year in Chicago Hamid fled back to Morocco, to tranquility and simplicity. Tarik will only ever come back here for a holiday. “Visit me when you come to New York.” Not very likely. New York is not my type of thing. Even Agadir is too busy, too fast, too loud, I think whilst driving to the local bus station in a petit taxi. I can’t wait to get to my little village in the hills, where everybody knows everybody and every day passes in slow motion. Tina Johnston has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Chichester University. Tina has now set up her own publishing company. Her own book Tomorrow Inshaallah is in print and there is a page on Amazon, if you want to have a look. She is looking for new and established writers, writing either about travel or related subjects for her publishing company. Tina Smart MA, Green Sunset Books www.greensunsetbooks.co.uk
Tomorrow, Insha’allah! A new novel by Tina Johnston
The novel is set in her favourite country Morocco, featuring Kate, who after escaping an abusive marriage spent many years living and travelling in a campervan. Seduced by Morocco’s firework of colours, spices and scents, mystic and music, by the friendliness of the people and their hospitality, Kate is ready to settle again. She is building a house in one of the remote hill top villages by the sea. This can sometimes be a nightmare, especially for single women. With humour and patience Kate takes on the male dominated society. The motley cast of Moroccan neighbours introduces her to village intrigues, family disputes and traditions... But when Kate escapes for a weekend to Marrakech, she falls in love with Phillipe, a French ex-pat. Kate gets pushed to her limits and towards a decision that could have devastating consequences.
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The Scroll in The Troll THE JOY SCROLL A story written by lots of people….be one of them! The Scroll is simply a large game of consequences. I will be wandering around the IAMJOY festival with the scroll, at gigs, exhibitions, workshops etc collecting mad ramblings, lyrical wonders and general mind spillages from you all. It will also be at other future Joy events. Think of me as a sort of herald/sheherazade/word thief.
The Joy Scroll had its debut at the opening for the Joy Magazine/Troll a few weeks ago. You all scribbled on it sensationally, and started the scroll rolling. Ta muchly and big hugs from bears wearing fluffy jumpers to you all! Keep writing, rockin’ and rollin’!
Excerpts from the Joy Scroll
Fiona Winterflood
The 3rd issue of The Joy Magazine is due for release in the Autumn and it will be a creative writing bonanza issue. Submit your poems, stories, monologues, travel pieces, cartoons to thejoymagazine@googlemail.com. If you missed Issue One then you are very silly and should check it out on the website: www.iamjoy.co.uk
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Fiona Winterflood with the Joy Scroll Photographs by Jordan Ring
Come get involved and have your words recorded in the scroll. Simply follow on the story! Follow the line that has been left exposed from the last writer and create a random and collectively marvellous story! It will be exhibited at the festival for all to read and there will also be a reading of the scroll.
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SATURDAY 21st JUNE 17.15
Station House
Funky blues-soul fusion
Here’s a band whose members come from a non-blues background, so the unique blues sound they’ve created holds a fusion of influences including British funk, soul, jazz, calypso and reggae.
Thursday 30 July to Sunday 6 September 2009 Wednesday to Sunday 11.30am to 4pm Admission Free
The band started out as the ‘house band’ of the Station Tavern in London in the mid 90’s. A regular spot turned into a long-term residency at the venue and the ‘house band’ simply became ‘Station House’.
West Dean College tel: 01243 811301
Each member of the 7-piece line-up is a versatile player in his own right, having played and toured with a wide variety of artists. Leading the band is Sam Kelly on drums, voted British Blues Connection “Drummer of the Year” for five years running, while Spy, on Bass and Vocals, has been playing reggae bass for more than 20 years, performing with some of Jamaica’s most prominent artists including Gregory Issacs and Desmond Dekker.
West Dean Gallery tel: 01243 818258 Please use West Dean Gardens Entrance
Gigging since age 9, Paul Jobson’s talents on keyboards have seen him touring with a variety of funk and blues bands, while the talents of Tony Qunta on Guitar have been heard on tours with the West End musicals ‘Dancing In The Streets’, ‘Tell Me On A Sunday’ and ‘Soultrain’. Drumming since the age of six, percussionist Jerome Marcus enhances the vibrancy of the band’s already contagious groove and his vast experience includes work with Rory Gallagher, Mary Wilson & The Wilsations, Haircut 100 and many other chart bands. Guitarist TJ Johnson discovered blues in the mid 80’s, after first working with Sam Kelly in Germany in the Precious Wilson Band, and alongside him is Winston Delandro whose long running career has seen him working with some greatly acclaimed artists, such as; Joan Armatrading, Billy Ocean, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Ruffin, Mica Paris and Osibisa.
West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ
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