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EDITOR’S LETTER This week, TNT is the bearer of good news: the Notting Hill Carnival is definitely going ahead, despite concerns fuelled by the riots. Turn to P8 to read the highlights, and, on P10, there are other top ideas for bank holiday fun. If you’re planning an extended weekend trip away, turn to P59 for 21 pages of travel tips. On a budget? Find out about visiting Iceland on the cheap on P70. Enjoy!
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Madame Jojo’s has been one of Soho’s best-known venues since the Sixties and developed an illustrious reputation for alternative cabaret in the Eighties, when it became famous for its nightly drag performances. And, now, with burlesque back in vogue, Madame Jojo’s has returned to its roots, hosting Lola LaBelle’s travelling roadshow which scours the country to unearth the next big thing in burlesque. Expect feather boas and sultry dancers aplenty. £10
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Making its fifth tour, Potted Potter condenses JK Rowling’s seven books into a 70minute show with songs, magic and Quidditch. The two guys performing the show are grown men and perhaps should know better, but that’s the curse of Harry Potter, isn’t it? Even adults with proper jobs get sucked in.
Wander into Soho for a spot of Swedish afternoon tea, served in a pop-up parlour and walk-in picnic. Apparently, the Swedes insist on having seven different kinds of cookies with their coffee and they’re all being baked on site. It certainly beats the British tradition of serving up a packet of soggy HobNobs.
The Camden Fringe is tickling funnybones all over the capital, and this performance, at the wonderful Bloomsbury Theatre, promises to be one of the highlights. It’s partly stand-up and partly funny songs, with comedians waxing lyrical about life’s minutiae. At this show, the material is all based around museums.
Until August 29 Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0HH pottedpotter.com Leicester Square
August 24-26 Soho Square, W1D 3OX visitsweden.com/relaxingskane Tottenham Court Road
August 26 Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon St, WC1H 0AH camdenfringe.com Euston
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With an exciting new story developed for the stage, the caped crusader will be doing battle with Gotham City’s most evil villains. It promises to be closer in tone to the high-camp TV show than to Christopher Nolan’s darker reboot of the film franchise, but it’s a worldwide arena spectacular, brimming with multimedia sequences, stunts and pyrotechnics, so it promises plenty of bang for your buck. £40
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Watch as these expert chefs turn back the clock and recreate a Tudor kitchen, down to the details of their outfits and utensils. And, most importantly, the food of the day is prepared in front of the audience. There are no mod cons, like stainless steel pans, here, just plenty of red meat roughly hewn with giant machetes.
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SPEAKER ‘NOT HAPPY’ WIFE IS IN BB HOUSE Sally Bercow’s husband – the House of Commons speaker – is “not exactly chuffed” his wife is in the Big Brother house, she admits. The 41-year-old joins the likes of celebrity Kerry Katona, The Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs and Australian-born picture agency boss Darryn Lyons in the new-look reality show. Mrs Bercow said she hopes John “doesn’t divorce me over it”, and said she was doing it to “stick two fingers up to the Establishment”. There are 11 contestants in the new Channel 5 series which airs for three weeks.
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The prison population is soaring by more than 100 inmates a day as courts Ken Livingstone goes OTT with an analogy hand out ‘harsh’ custodial sentences about his mayoral fight with Boris Johnson to those involved in the London riots. Nearly 1300 have been through the FREE ADMISSION justice system since unrest swept BOOST FOR MUSEUMS across the capital for four nights. Analysis by the Guardian suggests those Free entry to famous museums is charged with offences linked to violence boosting visitors, official figures and looting have received sentences 25 per reveal. The biggest draw was the British cent tougher than normal. Museum, which saw a 5 per cent rise from The number of people in English and 2009 to 2010 to 5.84 million admissions, Welsh jails jumped by 677 in the six days VisitEngland said. The second most popular up to last Thursday to 86,608. attraction was the Tate Modern, which The Prison Governors’ Association has saw a 6.6 per cent increase to 5.06 million warned jails will soon be full if sentencing visitors over the same period. The Victoria continues at this rate. Some 70 per cent of and Albert Museum, the Natural History those appearing before courts have been Museum and Tate Britain also had a rise.
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handed a prison sentence. In contrast, during the past year, only one in 10 criminals charged with serious offences was remanded in custody. “This is causing massive problems for prisons,” Harry Fletcher of probation officers’ union Napo told the Guardian. “When people are being held so far from home it causes real difficulties for their families.” The harsh sentences – including six months’ jail for a student who stole a £3.50 case of mineral water – have been criticised by some as overly draconian. Andrew Neilson, campaigns director for the Howard League for Penal Reform, said there had been “some very bad sentences, which will be overturned on appeal”.
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CIRCLE & DISTRICT: No service between High Street Kensington and Edgware Road until August 23.
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If you’re thinking of taking a last-minute getaway over the bank holiday weekend, you might want to think again. As many as 20 per cent of road journeys will be affected by the high number of people opting for a mini-staycation. Congestion over the bank holiday will increase from two to four hours a day compared to a normal weekend, the Trafficmaster company forecast. A spokesman added: “These unplanned holiday and leisure trips could lead to highly unpredictable traffic conditions and longer delays over the bank holiday compared to normal.” Trafficmaster also warned of increased traffic around the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
Taking over the streets, but this time in a good way
Carnival time Bright colours, flamboyant costumes and plenty of dancing – Notting Hill Carnival is going ahead after all. Yay! WORDS CLARE VOOGHT
After 47 years of ladies in sparkling bikinis and men in feathered headdresses parading through the music-filled streets of north-west London, Europe’s biggest street festival was this year under threat of being cancelled for the first time ever, over fears it would trigger more riots. Then last week it was announced the party would not (save for a 7pm curfew) be stopped in the face of a bunch of teenage looters. But defiance is what Notting Hill Carnival is about – its roots are in 19th-century Caribbean carnivals that celebrated the abolition of the slave trade. This year, the event will be bigger and better than any before, says the director of Notting Hill Carnival, Ancil Barclay: “We had backing from the home secretary to the dustman in the street. This year we have more support than any other year for Carnival. And this year we also have more performers than any other year.” With an extra £50,000 spent on stewarding and the Metropolitan Police increasing numbers of officers, organisers are making sure the 80-float procession and 500 musicians set to 8
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perform – along with over one million attendees – are kept safe. Carnival began in 1964 with 500 people, when steel bands paraded through W11, reminding Caribbean residents of their homes and drawing them out on to the streets. Now, it has grown, with scores of other nationalities joining the party. “It’s the largest culturally diverse festival in this part of the world,” Barclay says. “It’s an opportunity to see the Brazilians in the streets of London, it’s an opportunity to see the Asians in the streets of London, it’s an opportunity to see people from all parts of the Caribbean showcasing their art forms, their food their drinks, we have people from Germany we have France. It’s an international melting pot.” Carnival is embodied by five “disciplines”. There’s steel pan, calypso and soca music from Trinidad and sound systems (originally from Jamaica, playing hip hop, r’n’b, reggae roots and culture calypso). But the biggest part of the carnival is Mas (or Masquerade – the costumes and floats made for the procession), which Barclay cites as the must-see part
of the festival. For anyone wanting to uncover what goes on at Carnival away from the procession, there are parties in the surrounding streets. Sancho Panza, held where Middle Row and Conlan Street cross over (sanchopanza.org), hosts secret gigs throughout the festival (they’re announced the day they happen, but past acts have been Rob da Bank and Stanton Warriors). There’ll be bars serving Notting Hill-themed cocktails and free flower garlands being handed out to some of the 10,000 people expected to turn up. Camila Beeston, brand manager for Sancho Panza’s sponsor, Passoã, says the atmosphere there is intimate despite the numbers. “Sancho Panza is all about enjoying life, sharing with your friends, experiencing the exotic, freedom and spontaneity.” It’s good to know that years on, against the odds, Carnival still hasn't lost its heart and soul. ›› MORE BANK HOLIDAY IDEAS Notting Hill Carnival Across Notting Hill. Free. Aug 28-29, 9am-7pm. nottinghill-carnival.co.uk Notting Hill Gate
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SWIM IN HYDE PARK THE SERPENTINE If it’s a hot one this bank holiday weekend, don your cozzie and cool off in Hyde Park’s Serpentine Lido (outdoor swimming pool). Inflatable lilos optional. £4
For all your retro homeware, vintage clothes and vinyl needs – plus cabaret, burlesque and vaudeville – hit Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair in Spitalfields. There’ll be 1940s style cupcakes and tea plus independent sellers and fashion experts touting vintage, re-worked and handmade clothes. While you won’t find the clothes on the high street, you also won’t find the prices there either. Organisers pledge that customers will pay up to 75 per cent less. FREE
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SHOULDER PADS SUNDAY MAGGIE’S CLUB Serving Slush Puppie cocktails and decked out with Rubik’s cube tables and Sonic The Hedgehog murals, Maggie’s nightclub in Fulham is all about bringing back the 1980s. True to form, this Bank Holiday, they’re celebrating power dressing with a shoulder pads party, and if yours are the biggest, you’ll win a mystery 80s prize. £15
Sunday August 29, 10am-6pm The Old Spitalfields Market, 16 Horner Street, EC1 6EW vintagefair.co.uk Liverpool Street
Sunday August 28, 10.30pm-3.30am 328 Fulham Road, SW10 9QL maggies-club.com Fulham Broadway
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The Aussie bloggers and promoters are presenting a DJ set from a secret guest who shared the bill with Pulp at Wireless.
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Why leave London for a festival when Shoreditch is having its very own street party? Courtesy of The Book Club, there’ll be art installations, dressing up, live bands and DJ sets from the likes of vintage-modern spinners The Correspondents and pop icon Little Boots. There’ll also be all kinds of food from healthy Japanese to good old-fashioned meat, courtesy of The Meat Wagon. And once you’ve stuffed your face and danced your feet off, play musical bingo, check out an exhibition on the tragic muse – think Elizabeth Taylor and Brigitte Bardot – before playing your own tunes (bring your own CDs) at the Bring & Share DIY disco. FREE
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LONDON’S FRINGE ACROSS CAMDEN Missing the Edinburgh Fringe this month? Catch the last weekend of Camden’s hilarious version of the Scottish festie, with comedy, theatre and dance acts across the area. Highlights are Guardian Reader at The Camden Head and violent granny shocker Bye Bye Bernie at Etcetera Theatre. £5+
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A series of posters by iconic French artist Henri de ToulouseLautrec of 1890s Moulin Rouge star Jane Avril. The on-and-off-stage images explore all aspects of her life as an embodiment of bohemian Paris.
Didn’t book that beach getaway? Party with Caribbean sand between your toes just around the corner from Oxford Circus at Zebrano’s Love Island – because they’ve shipped in five tonnes of the stuff to make the place look like a tropical island. There’ll also be a BBQ and bucket cocktails aplenty.
Until September 18 Somerset House, WC2R 0RN courtauld.ac.uk Temple
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Brush up on your pop culture and end the bank holiday on a high note by winning the Rough Trade pub quiz at The Lexington. £6
House and techno fans won’t want to be left out of this one – held in a secret location (duh), Secretsundaze will dish out their brand of beats on both Saturday and Sunday, to celebrate 10 years of their legendary London parties. The line-up includes Underground Resistance veteran Rolando and Detroit’s Moodyman. Who said you had to wait until nighttime to dance? £35
Monday August 29, 8pm-10pm 96-98 Pentonville Road thelexington.co.uk Angel
LATE NIGHT ART V&A Friday nights are late nights at the V&A, so not only will you be able to check out the exhibitions without pushing through the daytime crowds, you can do it with a drink in your hand. This Friday, the people at Bombay Sapphire are bringing their imagination bar, serving creative gin cocktails with ingredients like foam and almonds. FREE
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 August, 2pm-10.30pm thesecretagency.net/ secretsundaze
Friday August 26, 6.30pm-10pm Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL vam.ac.uk South Kensington
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If you like South American partying but fancy something different, as an alternative to the crowds of Notting Hill Carnival, celebrate the Brazilian contingent in the West End. With breathtaking circus performers and some of South America and Europe’s leading live music artists and DJs (DJ D.Vyzor, Paraisso and DJ T), this is set to be a great big Brazilian-flavoured evening. Also catch some spectacular Capoeira – a martial arts influenced dance form known for its power kicks and fast leg sweeps. Tickets are usually a tenner but if you arrive before 8pm, entry is free. Now that’s something to shake your tail feather to.
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Saturday August 27, 12-5pm 65 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH southlondongallery.org Peckham Rye
Phil Willmott’s catchy musical adaptation of Phileas Fogg’s journey around the globe. FREE
Until September 4 The Scoop, More London Riverside, SE1 2DB morelondon.co.uk/scoop London Bridge
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Dance until dawn with US duo The Martinez Brothers, spinning house and techno alongside Alex Jones and Cedric Maison, brought to you by London label, Hypercolour.
See where the Queen chills out, with a sneak peek into The State Rooms. You’ll see some seriously lavish furniture, priceless paintings and exquisite sculpture, plus Kate’s much-hyped wedding dress up close.
In what might be the last glimmer of sunshine this summer, hurtle down the Thames James Bond-style on a speedboat. Boats leave hourly, seven days a week and comedian guides provide the banter as you speed past MI5, down to Canary Wharf and back, spotting the big landmarks. This has to be the best way to travel on The Thames.
Friday August 26, 10pm-4am 26-44 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 7XJ ilovethenest.com Dalston Kingsland
Until October 3 Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA royalcollection.org.uk Green Park
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London’s best-kept secret is the flying trapeze lessons run by Gorilla Circus. It’s ridiculously fun – an unusual way to keep fit. My father used to be an Olympic diver and I think I’ve inherited a bit of the adrenaline junkie from him. When I want to chill out I paddle in a dragon boat up the Thames with my Sisterhood girls. It’s the most relaxing time with a bunch of the best girls ever. The Sisterhood does amazing challenges for charity (sisterhoodchallenge.com). The most interesting person I’ve met is Norman Jay, who set up the Good Times Sound System. It was when I first moved from South Africa to London and I was taken to the Notting Hill Carnival. He was a massive inspiration for me and instrumental in me wanting to be a DJ. My favourite place for a drink is Morton’s on Berkeley Square. The service is outstanding and the barmen can make a new cocktail to suit your taste. For when you’re hungover in London you can’t beat a good old fry-up. Bonne Bouche on Marylebone High Street does the best eggs ever. What gets me up in the morning? My flatmate’s cats! She has a pair of Siamese that look like they come from ancient Egypt. My perfect weekend would mean no alarm, sipping freshly brewed coffee, my favourite tunes on the radio, playing gigs, cinema and cheese – I love cheese! Of course, for me, there’s nothing better that spinning at some amazing gigs and I love ending my weekend with a trip to the cinema. I like to go to the Everyman in Hampstead so I can lounge on the couches. The last naughty thing I did was have quite a few shots when I DJ’d as a support to the Black Eyed Peas’ apl.de.ap as I thought my work was done. Then apl.de.ap finished his set early so I had to go on but I was tipsy! I never normally drink – I’m renowned on the club circuit as the DJ that drinks coffee.
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POSH POPCORN If you think popcorn is all about salt or sweet, think again. Haute foodies Joe and Seph have made the ultimate in decadent flavours to test your palate. Vanilla cheesecake combines a smooth caramel, Madagascan vanilla and British cream to make the richest popcorn ever made. Then there’s the crunchy feast of Australian honey and hazelnut. Costing £2.95 a pack, the treat can also be heated in the oven and served warm. joeandsephs.co.uk
DOMINO’S GOES GOURMET Junk food king Domino’s has launched three gourmet pizzas. The posh, thin crust, hand-stretched newbies include Florentine (feta, spinach and baby plum tomatoes), Firenze (Ventricina salami, pepperoni and Peruvian roquito peppers) and Rustica (chicken breast, smoked bacon, spinach and baby plum tomatoes). Prices start at £12.99 for a small pizza. Yum. dominos.co.uk
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BE A WINE CONNOISSEUR Just what exactly are wine experts gaining when they ostentatiously slurp their vino before spitting it out? Learn for yourself when TV wine pro Oz Clarke comes to Vinopolis with one thing in mind – teaching you how to “sniff, swirl and sip” properly. Sessions will focus on five wines from his list of the top 250 for this year. Tickets to glean some of Clarke’s specialist knowledge are from £59 and sessions at the London Bridge venue run at 3pm and 5pm on September 17. vinopolis.co.uk
THE BANANA TREE Indochinese THE SCENE Westbourne Grove – and its surrounding offshoots – is competitive turf for restaurants but The Banana Tree has quickly carved out a niche for itself, with people travelling across London to dine in this trendy locale. It’s an inviting space – long flat benches are perfect for big groups and high, double-fronted windows ensure the place is bathed in sunshine. Well, for a few more weeks, anyway. But for those seeking privacy, there are some cosier, more secluded corners toward the back. THE GRUB It’s not quite Indian and it’s not quite Chinese. Instead, The Banana Tree offers some truly surprising combinations of flavours and spices that you won’t find at your standard high-street carry-out. For starters, it’s hard to go past the spicy lamb served in a lettuce leaves on a bed of bean sprouts, all dressed with delicious coriander. Don’t over-order – they’re proper-sized portions. Equally, the spring rolls are delicious if your tastes skew towards the familiar. For the mains, the curries are the highlight – whether it’s the lamb and lemongrass, chicken and coconut or the delicious spicy duck. The trick at this joint is to order the supplementary platter which, for an extra couple of quid, gives you a cracking side salad and some truly memorable little bhaji-like extras. It makes the meal, elevating the curries above the standard sauce-and-rice routine. TOM STURROCK
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It’s not set amongst rolling green hills and you won’t find any of that boutique festival bollocks here either, which is kind of the point of Reading. It was only ever about the music – and the music was preferably rock. Witness the festival’s impressive heritage. Every iconic band from The Who to The Ramones played here in their heyday. Carl Barat and Pete Doherty buried their respective hatchets to reform The Libertines for last year’s festival (the £1m inducement certainly didn’t hurt either) while Nirvana performed their last UK gig at Reading in 1992, with frontman Kurt Cobain arriving on stage in a wheelchair to parody the rumours about his health. The Stone Roses took their last gasp as a band here in 2004 after a disastrous set, and rapper 50 Cent, got bottled off stage after 20 minutes for not being “rock” enough. Somehow, we don’t think that’s going to be a problem for this year’s performers. Coming from two opposite ends of the rock spectrum, proggy space rockers Muse (pictured) and garage revivalists The Strokes are old hands at Reading and are both almost guaranteed to put on blistering shows. Alongside them, The Offspring and Jane’s Addiction represent blasts from the Nineties past and will no doubt stir feelings of nostalgia in festival-goers of a certain age. For fans of a more indie rock bent, Elbow, Friendly Fires and The National will fit the bill nicely. And, of course, the appearance of the recently reformed Brit poppers Pulp will be a rare treat for anybody. readingfestival.com
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OTHER LIVES THE BUZZ SO FAR Stillwater, Oklahoma, is the hometown of Other Lives, fronted by the gifted singer/composer and multiinstrumentalist, Jesse Tabish. Other Lives arguably pick up where Fleet Foxes first album left off, and the term “chamber-pop” readily springs to mind on first listen. But Other Lives’s music has many more dimensions than that, invoking everything from Philip Glass’s dazzling minimalism to Morricone’s dark epic sweep. The band’s first single, For 12, has already caught the ears of Thom Yorke and Bad Seed Jim Sclavunos and their debut LP, Tamer Animals, is out Aug 29. THE CRITICS SAY “Bittersweet and exquisitely orchestrated folk-pop.” Uncut THE PLUG Hoxton Bar & Kitchen N1 6NU hoxtonsquarebar.com Old St, Tue, Aug 30. £8.50.
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London’s bank holiday clubbing bonanza kicks off with reputation-gaining Spectrum. Headlining and making their live UK debut are Dutch pop/dance crossover act Mason, pictured, fresh from releasing their critically acclaimed album They Are Amongst Us featuring the likes of Roisin Murphy and Sam Sparro.
Blazing to fame off the back of their Mercurynominated Stars Of CCTV album in 2005, Hard-Fi have since gone off the boil. So, it will be interesting to see what these purveyors of punk have up their sleeves for their third album Killer Sounds. The Staines quintet will be previewing and signing said album this week.
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YoYo Seb Chew and Leo Greenslade spin hip-hop, dubstep, garage and grime, plus a live performance from Aaron Delahunty. Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ (020 7460 4459). 7pm-2am. £7, £5 before 11pm.
I Love Mondays DJ Victor spins commercial dance, disco, pop, garage, R‘n’B and funky house. Moonlighting, Greek St, W1D 4DR (020 7437 5782/cc 020 7287 3727). 10pm-3.30am. £5, NUS £1. Popcorn The 14th Birthday Part 1 DJs Michael Woods, Jonesey, Jamie Hammond, Harvey Adam and Terry T-Rex spin progressive house, commercial dance, pop, hip-hop and R‘n’B, plus a chill-out room. Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers St, WC2N 6NG (020 7930 2020). 11pm-5.30am. £8, guestlist free.
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Rehab DJs Val, Satoko, Zoe Demonettes, Joe, Saral and Hale supply indie, electro and pop. The Roxy, Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ (020 7255 1098). 10pm-3am. £5, NUS/w/flyer £3, £1 before 10.30pm.
Cheapskates Old school hiphop, electro and disco courtesy of DJ Downfall. Moonlighting, Greek St, W1D 4DR (020 7437 5782/ cc 020 7287 3727). 9pm-3am. £6, NUS £5, w/flyer £4.
What Ever Happened To P-Rock? Resident DJs spin pop-punk and punk-rock, plus live music from Mike Herrera of MXPX, Cancer, Real Adventures and The Rocco Lampones. The Macbeth, Hoxton St, N1 6LP (020 7749 0600). 8pm-1am. £5.
Dance Nights Princess Karina and DJ Gary Baldi spin dance hits. EC3 Live, Crosswall, EC3N 2JY (020 7488 1766). 11.30pm-3am. £10.
TUESDAY 23 Bootcamp Rob C and Scewpulous provide techno and house. Eagle, Kennington Ln, SE11 5QY (020 7793 0903). 9pm-2am. £3, mems £2 before 10pm. Forca Brasil DJ Fred spins salsa, samba and Latin tunes, plus live bands. Salsa!, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277). 6pm-2am, last adm 1am. £4, free before 9pm. Latino Sound DJ Kirisis and CLI play R‘n’B, hip-hop and dance. Sound, Leicester Sq, WC2H 7NA (0333 240 1010). 9pm-late. £5-£10. OMFG! DJs Lady Lloyd, Joshyou Are and Niyi Maximus Crown play pop, disco and electro, with host Queen B Munroe Bergdorf. The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 10pm-3am. £5, free before 11pm. Panic! Max, Gaz and That Perfect Fumble play indie, electro and post-punk. The Roxy, Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ (020 7255 1098). 10pm-3am. £5, w/flyer/NUS £3. Raw Power Gemma The Stylist spins punk classics, party anthems and indie, plus live music from While She Sleeps, Bastions and Cytota. Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ (020 7460 4459). 7.30pm-2am. £5.
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Diffrent Strokes Manny Norte, Phatcatz, Maintain, CJ I DJ, Lonyo and MOBO Award winner and Kiss FM DJ Manny Norte play neo soul, 1980s pop, US house, funk and R‘n’B. Cherryjam, Porchester Rd, W2 6ET (020 7727 9950). 9pm-2am. £10, £5 before 11pm. Filthy Habits Student Night DJs play chart hits from the 1980s, 1990s and now. The Roxy, Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ (020 7255 1098). 8.30pm-3am. £5, NUS £3. Guanabara Samba School Samba, Afrobeat, pop, house and nu disco, plus Capoeira masterclasses, break dancers, Brazilian street food and cocktail making. Guanabara, Parker St, WC2B 5PW (020 7242 8600). 5pm-late. £5, free before 9pm. N*A*S*I*N SoniX, Brahim and Punk Gareth play punk, rock, metal and ska. The Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette St, W1D 4JB (0870 060 3777/ cc 0871 231 0842). 11pm-3am. £5, w/flyer £4, NUS £3, mems £2. Push It Good DJ TBX spins old skool hip-hop, funk, soul and dancehall. The Silver Bullet, Station Place, N4 2DH (020 7619 3639). 10pm-3am. £3.
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THURSDAY 25 Booster DJ Ferno, Sharon O’Love, Dan K, La Gosse, Fabio Luigi and Zack Hadley play house, tech-house and electro. Area, Albert Embankment, SE1 7HD (020 7091 0080). 9pm-3am. £7, concs £5. C’est La Vie DJ Colin Francis plays house and commercial dance classics. Embassy, Old Burlington St, W1S 3AP (020 7851 0956). 10pm3am. £20, ladies free before 11.30pm. Deepo Ivaylo, Olanski, Patrick Turner, Asad Rizvi and Fresh Tee supply house and deep bass. The LightBox, South Lambeth Place, SW8 1SP (020 7434 1113). 10pm-6am. £15, concs £10. Everything Taboo DJ Andrew Elmore plays retro electropop and acid disco. The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 10pm3am. £5, free before midnight. QueerlyOut DJ Robby D spins commercial dance, pop and R‘n’B. Escape Bar, Brewer St, W1F 0SU (020 7734 3040). 9pm-3am. £5, mems £3. Roller Disco Funk and disco for a wheeled audience. Renaissance Rooms, opposite Arch 8, Arches, Miles St, SW8 1RZ (0844 736 5375). 8pm-midnight. £10, £7.50 skate hire.
Santa Clara Samba Night DJ D Vyzor spins Brazilian rhythms, plus live music from Rodrigo Lampreia and Beto Landau. Guanabara, Parker St, WC2B 5PW (020 7242 8600). 7pm-2.30am. £5, free before 9pm.
Socalicious Soca and zouk from DJs D’enforcas, Spice, Bliss and Qt 2 Hype. Club Colosseum, Nine Elms Ln, SW8 5NQ (020 7720 3609). 11pm-5am. £15, adv £5 & £10.
Trannyshack Miss Dusty O, Tasty Tim and Lady Lloyd spin commercial dance and pop. Madame Jojo’s, Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040). 10pm-3am. £6, w/flyer £3, free before midnight.
State Of Style Club Andy Hill and Cavey play rock‘n’roll, soul, ska, indie and pop, plus Casablanca Sunshine perform live. Buffalo Bar, Upper St, N1 1RU (020 7359 6191). 8pm-late. £5.
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Calentito Pop, R‘n’B, and soul. Salvador And Amanda, Great Newport St, WC2H 7JA (020 7240 1551). 9pm3am. £10, guestlist £5, free before 9pm. Euphoria Angel Kiss, Oliver MARSH, Intro, Marc Phill, MEF and DJ AD play electro, house, techno, pop, dance and R‘n’B. Euphoriom, High St, W3 6NG (0208 993 2915). 9pmlate. £10, ladies free before 11pm. Favela Blockparty DJ Limao plays Brazilian funk, Latin, house, R‘n’B and hip-hop, plus Zalinde performs live. Guanabara, Parker St, WC2B 5PW (020 7242 8600). 8pm-late. £10, free before 10pm. Lost In London Cesar Ruiz, Rachel Harvey, I Am Santiago, DJ Masa and Niroshan provide house and tech-house. Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR (0845 371 4489). 10pm-late. £10 & £15. Over The Moon Commander B, Jolly Roger, Ice, Spider, PnP and Prezident spin hip-hop, R‘n’B, reggae and funky house. Moonlighting, Greek St, W1D 4DR (020 7437 5782/cc 020 7287 3727). 10pm-5am. £10, w/flyer £5, w/flyer free before 12.30am. Partylicious DJs Slimline, Graham R, Rhys White and Easy B spin dance, funky house and drum‘n’bass. Club Aquarium, Old St, EC1V 9DD (020 7251 6136). 10pm-8am. gents/ ladies £10, ladies £5 before 11pm. Roots Dance Hot Iration Steppas, Aba Shanti-i and Lion Roots Sound play dub, reggae and jungle. The Scala, Pentonville Rd, N1 9NL (020 7833 2022/ cc 0844 477 1000). 10pm-6am. £12. Rebecca Saforia The DJ and producer spins electro and house. Gigalum, Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW (020 8772 0303). 7pm-late. Free. Spangulation Marco La Rosa, Dave Bennett, Marc Antoine, Danny Covington and Dean G play trance and techno. Club 414, Coldharbour Ln, SW9 8LF (020 7924 9322). 11pm-7am. £12, £8 before midnight. Wolfstock Presents Joy Orbison, Darius Syrossian, Waifs & Strays, Harry Wolfman, Jack LNDN and Lukey Lockits supply house, 2step, jungle, techno and dubstep. The LightBox, South Lambeth Place, SW8 1SP (020 7434 1113). 10pm-6am. £12, adv £8.
SATURDAY 27 Brazil Rocks The Brazilian Knights spin Brazilian and Latin rhythms, plus Zalinde performs live. Guanabara, Parker St, WC2B 5PW (020 7242 8600). 7pm-late. £10, free before 8pm. Carnival DJ Mike, Halan, Gregg, Nicky D, Anas, Special Selection, Tyfaya and DJ Flag supply dancehall, R ‘n’ B, hiphop, house, UK funky, zouk and Afro beat. Club Colosseum, Nine Elms Ln, SW8 5NQ (020 7720 3609). 11pm-5am. £17, adv £13. Funkin You Joey Negro, Arkoss, George Jack and Robert James spin disco, house and funk. Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). 10pm-late. £10-£15. Inferno Andrew Elmore spins funk, house and dance. The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 10pm-3am. £10, free before 11pm. Powder Your Nose Presents Subb-an, Claire Ripley, Scott Palmer, Jonny G and Charlie Dave Kent spin deep house and tech-house. The City Arts & Music Project, City Rd, EC1Y 2BJ (020 7253 2443). 10pm-late. £15. Pukka Up Records The Futuristic Polar Bears and Mark Robinson play house. The Hoxton Pony, Curtain Rd, EC2A 3AH (020 7613 2844). 8pm-2am. £10, £7 before 11pm. SW4 Official After Party Damo, Hilton Caswell and Gavyn Mytchel play dance, dubstep, electro and drum‘n’bass. Gigalum, Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW (020 8772 0303). 7pm-late. Also Sun 7pm-late. Free. XXL Saturdays Dance tunes from the resident DJs. Arcadia, Southwark St, SE1 1RU (020 7403 9643). 10pm-6am. £15, mems £8.
SUNDAY 28 The Arts Club Carnival After Party DJ Smutlee, Silky Boys and Moroka spin UK funky, tropical bass, soul, hip-hop, dubstep and kwaito, with live music from Terri Walker. Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ (020 7460 4459). 6pm-1am. £12. Creche Bank Holiday Special DJs Robert James, Cozzy D and Alexis Raphael spin house, electro and techno. The Queen Of Hoxton, Curtain Rd, EC2A 3JX (020 7422 0958). noon-midnight. £10, guestlist £5 before 4pm. The Hot Caribbean Carnival After-Party Spice, Dtee, Jerome, Djahman, Tate, DJ Friday and Shakit supply soca, dancehall, R‘n’B, funky house, hip-hop, reggae, reggaeton and zouk. O2 Academy Islington, Parkfield St, N1 0PS (020 7288 4400/cc 0844 477 2000). 11pm-6am. £15, adv £10. Miss Moneypenny’s Jim Shaft Ryan, Matt James, Mas, Praiz, John Trill, Dholakia and Ed Smoove play house, electro and disco. Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR (0845 371 4489). 11pm-6am. £20, adv £15, NUS £12.
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White Heat DJs Matty and Marcus spin indie, punk and electro, plus live music from Sex Beet, The Castillians and Jerry Tropicano. Madame Jojo’s, Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040). 8pm-3am. £6, w/flyer £4.
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John Bucchino Cabaret songs by the New York-based singersongwriter. The Pheasantry, Kings Rd, SW3 4UT (020 7351 5031). £25.
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Louise Golbey A young, upand-coming singer-songwriter and musician, showcasing her own style of Neo Soul. Boisdale’s Of Canary Wharf, Cabot Hall, E14 4QT (020 7715 5818). £10. Leftover Crack, The Filaments, Chewing On Tinfoil, Anti Vigilante The New Yorkbased alternative outfit incorporates ska rhythms and metallic elements into its anarchic, rabble-rousing hardcore punk sound. The Underworld, Camden High St, NW1 0NE (020 7482 1932). £12. Me Contemporary hard rock by the Australian band. The Old Blue Last, Great Eastern St, EC2A 3ES (020 7739 7033). £6. Helder Pack’s Diplomataz The London-based percussionist and his vibrant six-piece plays Latin and African melodies. 606 Club, Lots Rd, SW10 0QD (020 7352 5953). £8-£10. Sebadoh Lo-fi indie-rock from the American outfit. Electric Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP (020 7485 9006). £16.50.
TUESDAY 23 Another’s Blood, Kites, Waylayers Indie-rock band from London. The Barfly, Camden, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AN (0844 847 2424). £6. The Boy Who, Tom Morley, Hannah Clive The Londonbased outfit plays alt folk and neo blues-rock. The Social, Little Portland St, W1W 7JD (020 7636 4992). £6, adv £5. CSS Indie-rock and alt pop from the Brazilian fivepiece. XOYO, Cowper St, EC2A 4AP (020 7729 5959). £15. D12 The Detroit-based outfit performs hip-hop. O2 Academy Islington, Parkfield St, N1 0PS (020 7288 4400/ cc 0844 477 2000). £17.50. The Deptford Rivieras Film, soul and lounge music by the sax-led combo. Boisdale’s Of Canary Wharf, Cabot Hall, E14 4QT (020 7715 5818). £5-£20. New Found Glory Punkrock by the band from Coral Springs, Florida. Electric Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP (020 7485 9006). £17.50. John Patrick & The Keepers The singer-songwriter leads his Australian indie-folk outfit. The Slaughtered Lamb, Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DX (020 7253 1516). £8.
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Twenty Twenty Pop-rock band. O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT (020 8354 3300/ cc 0844 477 2000). £12. The Vaccines The London-based four-piece plays anthemic indie. HMV Forum, Highgate Rd, NW5 1JY (020 7344 0044). £12.50-£15.
Jason Webley, Thomas Truax Alt folk by the Seattlebased singer-songwriter and accordionist. Underbelly, Hoxton Sq, N1 6NU (020 7837 4412). £10.
Big Mamma’s Door The 1950sstyle soul and blues band. Charlie Wright’s International Bar, Pitfield St, N1 6EN (020 7490 8345). £6. Boothill Foot-Tappers, Blubbery Hellbellies Folk-punk with a twist of country by the London-based band. Bull And Gate, Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2TJ (020 8826 5000). £10. Nina Ferro Australianborn jazz and soul singer. The Pheasantry, Kings Rd, SW3 4UT (020 7351 5031). £17.50.
ED SHEERAN Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Monday October 11. £20+ With electric-acoustic guitar, vocals and looped live beat box, Sheeran has performed 246 gigs during the past 12 months. Get in quick to see this one.
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WEDNESDAY 24 Alessi’s Ark, Stealing Sheep London-based folk-pop singer. The Barfly, Camden, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AN (0844 847 2424). £7.50. The Antlers Indie-rock from the Brooklyn-based three-piece. Everyman Screen On The Green, Upper St, N1 0NP (0870 906 9060). £12.50. Arkestry, The Inky Depths The London-based five-piece plays groove-laden psychedelic rock. The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £6. Big Deal, Weird Dreams Alt electro by the Londonbased duo. The Tamesis Dock, Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP (0207 582 1066). £6. Sharon Corr, Mike Dignam The violinist-songwriter and former member of The Corrs performs pop from her debut album, Dream Of You. O2 Academy Islington, Parkfield St, N1 0PS (020 7288 4400/ cc 0844 477 2000). £15. The Descendents, Face To Face Punk-rock by the American band. O2 Academy Brixton, Stockwell Rd, SW9 9SL (0844 477 2000). £18. Fixit Kid, Bad For Lazarus, Mother Destroyer Contemporary punkrock by the Derby-based band. The Macbeth, Hoxton St, N1 6LP (020 7749 0600). £6, adv £5. Oh Harry, Abigail Hardiman Indie-pop by the Swedish singer-songwriter Harriet Ohlsson. 12 Bar Club, Denmark Place, WC2H 8NL (020 7240 2622). £6. Passenger Acoustic folk and roots from Brighton-born singersongwriter Mike Rosenberg. The Slaughtered Lamb, Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DX (020 7253 1516). £8. Splinter Group, The Dirt Diggers, 26th Jan 1976 Atmospheric alt folk from the singer-songwriter. Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, concs £4.50.
Shepherd’s Bush The White Keys Funk soul and pop covers band. Dover St Restaurant And Bar, Dover St, W1S 4LQ (020 7629 9813). £8, free before 10pm.
THURSDAY 25 Hands Make Fire The four-piece plays indie-pop. The Bowery, New Oxford St, WC1A 1EP (020 7580 3057/ cc 0844 477 1000). £8, adv £6. Modeste Hugues The awardwinning London-based singersongwriter and guitarist plays music from his hometown of Betroka, Madagascar, combining traditional sounds and South African dance rhythms. Upstairs At The Ritzy, Coldharbour Ln, SW2 1JG (0871 704 2065). Free. Julien K, A New Tomorrow, Seven Dead, Mar Of The Playwrite Alternative electro from the Californian outfit, featuring members of Orgy and Dead By Sunrise Monto Water Rats, Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £10. Mike Fantastic, Just Me Again Electro-pop from the Cardiff-based five-piece. O2 Academy Islington, Parkfield St, N1 0PS (020 7288 4400/ cc 0844 477 2000). £8. Never The Bride Londonbased pop-rock band. Bull’s Head, Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, SW13 9PY (020 8876 5241). £10. Off!, F*cked Up Hardcore punk by the Los Angelesbased band. XOYO, Cowper St, EC2A 4AP (020 7729 5959). £14. Payback The nine-piece plays soul and funk. Dover St Restaurant And Bar, Dover St, W1S 4LQ (020 7629 9813). £12, free before 10pm. Rival Schools The New Yorkbased band plays post-hardcore. The Underworld, Camden High St, NW1 0NE (020 7482 1932). £12.50. Water Tower Bucket Boys, The Coal Porters Roots bluegrass and Americana by the Portlandbased band. Bush Hall, Uxbridge Rd, W12 7LJ (020 8222 6955). £12.50.
Hejira, Florian Lunaire, Naomi Kashiwagi The London-based band plays experimental, psychedelic-influenced rock. Cafe Oto, Ashwin St, E8 3DL (020 7923 1231). £6, adv £5. Hey Carmen, Bwani Junction, The Singing Pictures The Cheltenham-based band plays energetic indie and alt pop. Hope And Anchor, Upper St, N1 1RL (020 7354 1312). £6, concs £5. The Incredible Blues Puppies The five-piece plays Chicago blues. Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills, off Merantun Way, SW19 2RD (020 8542 5511). £10, adv/concs £8. Long Lost Sun Sarah Russell and Jethro East play electronic alt pop. Cargo, Rivington St, EC2A 3AY (020 7739 3440). £8. Q-Tip Hip-hop from the New York-based songsmith and founding member of influential rap trio, A Tribe Called Quest. IndigO2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260). £28.50-£40. Revelin Sky, Gary J Armstrong, Ghost Writers, Thank Pablo Indiepop from the London-based fourpiece. Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £7, concs £5. Sic Alps, Father Murphy, Fawn Spot Mike Donovan’s San Franciscan outfit plays lo-fi alt pop and bluesy rock. The Victoria, Queensbridge Rd, E8 3AS (020 7275 1711). £7. Monique Thomas, Elisha La’Verne, Hannah Francis, Izzi Dunn, Charlene Soul from the singer-songwriter. Under The Bridge, Fulham Rd, SW6 1HS (0207 957 8261). £15. The Troubled, Shades Beneath, The Great Gatsby, The Badheads Indie-rock by the Londonbased band. 100 Club, Oxford St, W1D 1LL (020 7636 0933). £10, adv £8, £4 after 11pm. Ben Waters Boogie woogie and rock‘n’roll from the virtuoso pianist. Boisdale’s Of Canary Wharf, Cabot Hall, E14 4QT (020 7715 5818). £12.50-£50. Juan Zelada, Miss Bee, Deborahgrace, Raba, Andrew Morris The London-based musician plays pop-driven indie-blues. The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £8, £7 before 10pm.
SATURDAY 27 Blaze Bayley, Bury The Hatchet, Black State Highway, Whetstone Classic metal by the ex-Wolfsbane, ex-Iron Maiden and solo singer-songwriter. Monto Water Rats, Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £10. Blunter Brothers Funk, soul and blues from the Londonbased ensemble. Dover St Restaurant And Bar, Dover St, W1S 4LQ (020 7629 9813). £15, diners free before 10pm. Miss Pooja, Sudesh Kumari, Mangi Mahal, Harjit Harman, Amar Arshi, Prince Roshan, Neeru Bajwa Asian pop by the Rajpura-born singer. HMV Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £25-£50. Charles Shaar Murray And Crosstown Lightnin Blues from the singer-guitarist and band. Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills, off Merantun Way, SW19 2RD (020 8542 5511). £10, adv/concs £8. One Step Beyond, Xsara Pop, R‘n’B and rock from the Kent-based girl group. Cargo, Rivington St, EC2A 3AY (020 7739 3440). £8. Iwan Rheon, Weird Naked Indian The Cardiff-born singersongwriter and actor plays acoustica. The Bowery, New Oxford St, WC1A 1EP (020 7580 3057/ cc 0844 477 1000). £8. Sister Sledge, Gwen Dickey, Jaki Graham, Kenny Thomas Soul, R‘n’B and disco from the American four-piece, performing its hits including We Are Family and He’s The Greatest Dancer. HMV Forum, Highgate Rd, NW5 1JY (020 7344 0044). £32.50 & £42.50.
SUNDAY 28 Cerebral Bore, Amputated, Basement Torture Killings, Disentomb, Morphosis, Cancerous Womb, Ancient Ascendant, Scatorgy, Oblivionized, B*stard Divine Death metal from the Glaswegian four-piece. The Purple Turtle, Crowndale Rd, NW1 1TN (020 7383 4976). £13. Elena Hargreaves Acoustica from the singer-songwriter and musical theatre performer. With guest Stephanie Hargreaves. The Pheasantry, Kings Rd, SW3 4UT (020 7351 5031). £17.50. Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson, Sandra Cross The London-born singer-songwriter performs lovers rock. The Hootananny, Effra Rd, SW2 1DF (020 7737 7273). £15. Ayah Marar, Ms Dynamite, Stereo MC Pop, electro and soul by the London-based singer. Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green, Kilburn Ln, W10 4AE (020 8969 0098). £15. P Square, WizKid, Ice Prince, Basketmouth Afropop by the Nigerian brothers, Paul and Peter Okoye. HMV Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £30-£100.
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Museum of heartbreak From a bike to a brain scan image, a new exhibition reveals the emotional stories of items left behind when a relationship ends WORDS CAROL DRIVER
What you see is what you get at the Museum of Broken Relationships. It doesn’t purport to be anything else – it’s not the Museum of Glad We’re Still Friends or the Museum of The Laughs We Shared. The clue’s in the title. Showcasing hundreds of items donated anonymously by hurt lovers, it delves into the stories behind the things left behind when a relationship ends. It’s a voyeuristic peek into the lives of the broken-hearted. From the unusual and bizarre to the trivial and pretentious, each piece has an intriguing story. There are more than 100 items on display, including a grand piano (from a “tempestuous and short-lived affair punctuated by brief bursts of high living and champagne”); a set of keys (which “no longer bear any emotional significance to me, since my ex turned out to be a calculating bastard”); and an ‘I love you’ teddy (note reads: “I love you. What a lie! Damn lies! Damn lies!”). It’s the first time the award-winning concept – taking place in two venues, the Tristan Bates Theatre and 38 Earlham Street (both Seven Dials, Covent Garden) – has come to the UK. Created by former lovers Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisi, it has toured the world, and has a permanent home in Zagreb, Croatia. It seems we just can’t get enough of rummaging around inside other people’s private lives. Although Vistica admits the couple’s break-up eight years ago was “hard and horrible”, they found, once the pain had subsided, they didn’t want to let go of the happier memories, and still wanted to keep in touch. “We thought that it’s so unfair just to have to erase a part of our lives and go on without it,” Vistica says. “We thought that maybe there was a way of keeping alive a piece of history that has marked us so much and was beautiful at some point – a museum where you can store emotional heritage which is usually hidden in wardrobes.” Normally when a relationship ends, the first thing the ’dumped’ person does is remove any item reminding them of their former lover – ticket stubs from the first cinema visit are thrown away; DVDs and books are returned or binned; and, sometimes, jewellery is pawned. But, it’s clear from what’s on display at this poignant exhibition, for some, there are things which they can’t bring themselves to consign to the realms of history. Vistica reveals she is sent hundreds of items for the
exhibitions, with hurt lovers keen to express their stories. “For some people, donating their item is cathartic – they give their object and they’re surrounded by others and they don’t feel alone; you’re helping other people to recover,“ she explains. The material is displayed at the venues along with a description explaining what it meant to the owner, as well as information including location, date and length of relationship. One of the items is a bike, with which a note reads: “I’d wanted a bicycle for ages and when I started seeing Jerry, a cyclist, my interest really took off. “We’d been married about a year ... and he bought me a bike as an early birthday present. “The night I found out he was having an affair, I got on my bike and rode for an hour, crying my eyes out. As the relationship disintegrated, I’d go for longer and longer rides. At the end, through the most traumatic months of separation, the bike he bought for me became my saviour, a symbol of freedom and my constant companion.” Another intriguing item is a photograph of a brain scan, submitted by a traveller during her stay in London. ››
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Intriguing: a Hitler figure is one of the 100 items on display at the exhibition, right The note reads: “This is my brain after the ultra sounds and the ENT (scan) but before the lumbar puncture, where you stood and complained about all the money that had been wasted on this trip. I think the headache dulled the alarm bells that were sounding. “Four months later you dumped me. Badly. By email. Three days before my birthday. I bumped into you recently and you couldn’t figure out why I might not want to ‘catch up for a drink sometime’.” Another item is 150 pages of Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past, in a brown envelope. The man who donated it, who we’ll call ’Mark’, explained it was what remained from the three-volume set he and his wife used to take on holiday. Mark used to read the novel aloud while the couple relaxed on the beach. He admits it “sounds weird” but says wanted to donate the pages as “I felt it was symbolic”. He explains: “I’m in a new relationship and needed somewhere to put the book. It seem philistine, even violent, to throw it in a bin. “The great thing about the museum is it’s intensely meaningful; you have somewhere to get rid of something but the symbolic weight you’ve invested in the relationship is honoured by the exhibition.” Mark was married for 20 years before the couple “gradually turned away from each another”. He adds: “My
wife went in to quite a profound therapeutic process and I think she discovered or dug up a lot of stuff that had been buried which changed her quite significantly. “In a very true sense, she stopped being the person I married – and relationships either change their dynamic and evolve or they don’t. “A lot of the things we meant to each other, there was no longer any space for them. She came out, and she’s gay. “Bizarrely, by a strange kind of reflective parallelism, both my ex and I joined Guardian Soul Mates at the same time and we both fell in love with women at the same time. “I think it made it easier as neither of us feels dumped.“ The exhibition may come across as melancholic, but organiser Vistica is keen to point out that it’s as much about celebrating the happy times in a relationship as it is about finding closure. She says: “It’s full of all different kinds of human emotions. Bad things happen, but that’s life – and it’s rewarding in so much as these are the things that make us change and think about ourselves.” One thing’s for sure, though, it’s probably not the best place to take a first date. ❚ Museum of Broken Relationships. Until September 4. £3.50 for a one-week ticket. 10am-10pm. The Tristan Bates Theatre and 38 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Convent Garden, WC2H 9DD tristanbatestheatre.co.uk Covent Garden
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Mobile: "It lasted 300 days too long. He gave me his mobile phone so I couldn't call him anymore." ZAGREB, CROATIA
Red wig: "I can only assume it was obtained before our break-up, in preparation for fantasy fulfillment." NEW YORK, US
Under-knee prosthesis: "It endured longer than our love. It was made of sturdier material!" ZAGREB, CROATIA
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An unopened candy G-string: "After four years, he turned out to be as cheap and shabby as his presents." WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND
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Charlie Simpson The Fightstar frontman talks about his solo career, space travel and reinventing his image. Just don’t ask him about his old band Busted. INTERVIEW ALISON GRINTER
Why are you going solo? I’ve always had it in mind to do it; it’s not something I just decided to do recently. With Fightstar, we decided to take a break from recording. After five years and three albums, I think we burned ourselves out and I didn’t feel ready to go back into the studio. We said ‘let’s just take a year or two out and not do anything’ – and that’s when I decided to go away and do something completely different.
He escaped before grandpa noticed his jumper was missing
Your album sounds quite melancholy It comes across as quite a sad record lyrically, but, for me, what I connect with is something that’s melancholic but has a really uplifting feeling of hope throughout. The single Parachutes goes a bit Mumford & Sons. Are you a folk fan? Mumfords are great and the nu-folk thing is great, but the influence really comes from the Seventies records my dad put me on to when I was younger. Stuff like Crosby Stills & Nash – less folk and more Americana. And I love The Beach Boys and the big harmony sound. (TNT is briefed before the interview not to ask Charlie about Busted, but we manage to ask a few). You’re always asked if Busted are going to get back together. Will it ever happen? As far as I’m concerned, absolutely not. I can categorically say it would never have anything to do with me. It definitely won’t involve me.
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You reinvented yourself from pop artist with Busted to rock star with Fightstar. Did people want to see you fail? You’re right – a lot of people thought it wasn’t going to work, and I knew it would because I knew what I was doing was completely honest. There was nothing contrived about it. I worked hard with Fightstar and it was a triumphant feeling. It’s the same with the record I’ve just made. I can say, ‘I love this record’, and I think that’s very important. Is having your own label about having creative control? Yes – that’s the ultimate prize. There is no one to answer to, not only just in terms of the music
you’re making but also everything down to the artwork and videos. When you’re releasing an album campaign you’re in control of it. You’ve said Fightstar were burnt out. Did you ever have moments onstage where you didn’t want to be there? Rarely – it happened maybe twice. Everyone has their bad days but I feel very privileged to be doing this for a living and I would never take it for granted. Do you get more female attention now that you’re a rock star? I don’t really think about that stuff. I wouldn’t really notice. That’s not the kind of thing I think about. It’s not really on my agenda. There’s a lyric in one of your songs where you sing about sending people into space but are worried they won’t come back down. Why? It’s a metaphor in a sense, but I do have an obsession with space travel and astronomy – I love it. When I wrote the lyric, I found it an amazing concept that we were willing to send people into space when we don’t know what’s
going to happen there. It’s all about unknowns and not knowing the consequences. Did you watch the last Discovery space shuttle journey? I did – I was very intrigued by it and it’s kind of sad. I know the economy is in a complete mess and that the last thing the Americans are going to do is spend billions on space travel, but I think it’s really important to keep that alive, that we keep exploring because it’s part of humanity’s duty to do that – Americans are now relying on Russian satellites and I think that’s really sad. Are you going to be signing up for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic? No, but I’d love to do that – you know the zero gravity thing, when the plane goes straight down and you feel weightlessness? It’s how they filmed Apollo 13. The plane will come crashing down to Earth and you’ll reach zero gravity – that would be awesome too. Album Young Pilgrim out now. Booking now for gig at Islington Academy. Thur, Oct 27, £13.50 Islington Academy, N1 Centre, N1 0PS o2academyislington.co.uk Angel
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN FILM review by Tom Sturrock STARRING: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang | 15 | 112mins
ONE DAY FILM STARRING: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess 12A | 107mins
The gimmicky premise of this movie invites us to check in with two friends Dex (Sturgess) and Em (Hathaway) once a year, on the anniversary of the day they first met to find out where they are in their lives. In the wrong hands, such a film might descend into a sickly schmaltz-fest. So we’re hoping that An Education director Lone Scherfig has the smarts to explore problematic male/female friendships in a fresh, compelling way. 30
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After two studios spent a combined nine years developing this Conan reboot, the script went through a major rewrite three weeks before the start of production. That’s not a good sign, and the end result is a £50m turkey, a film that is, to put it bluntly, one of the worst mass-market popcorn films of the past 20 years. The plot, if you can call it that, is familiar. Young Conan’s village is attacked by the armies of warlord Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang), who is searching for the last piece of a magical mask that, as we know from a pre-credits sequence that borrows heavily from the first Lord Of The Rings film, imbues its owners with dark powers. Conan’s father meets a grisly end and the young barbarian vows revenge. We flash forward to find that Conan (Jason Momoa) has grown into a glowering gay pin-up who runs around in a little kilt and heavy eyeshadow. In the course of hunting Zym to avenge his father, Conan finds himself protecting Tamara (Rachel Nicholls), a ‘high priestess of pure blood’ that Zym needs to capture to complete his evil plan. Their inevitable coupling culminates in one of the most gratuitous shots of a man’s naked arse since Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. But then, this is a film that feels gratuitous from start to finish. There’s lots of fighting – on bridges, in fields, in ships, in temples – but it all feels utterly pointless. You’ve played video games that invested more heavily in chararacter and story and, by the end of it, you’ll be pining for the 1982 original starring Arnie, which looks like Shakespeare compared to this one-dimensional, incoherent mess. GOOD FOR: People who will sit through anything. Seriously, don’t do it. It’s an abomination.
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Described by critics as “a visionary douchebag”, Stanhope’s humour falls into the Marmite category – some will find the American’s abrasive routine offensive while others will lap it up. He recently upset the Down’s Syndrome Association with a tasteless joke about Sarah Palin’s son. You’ve been warned.
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Don’t let the deathly dull name put you off – this show is the leading showcase for contemporary Illustration commissioned in the UK today and features works by such luminaries as prolific cartoonist Ian Pollock and cuttingedge ‘exponent of line’ Simon Spilsbury, plus work by recent graduates.
Bruce Joel Rubin’s stage version of his 1990 cinematic tear-jerker is worth seeing – if only for an outsize performance by Sharon D Clarke as a New York psychic. Reluctantly cajoled by the ghost of murdered Wall Street trader Sam into protecting his sculptor girlfriend Molly, Clarke’s a larger-than-life force and impossible to resist. LK
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JO ROMERO Tell us a joke. My friends all say ‘you’ll meet someone when you least expect it’. I say, I think you’ll find that’s sexual assault. Who was your nemesis at school? All the pretty blonde girls, with ribbons in their hair, who wouldn’t let me join in. Have you ever died on stage? I’ve walked into many gigs and thought ‘uh-oh, this looks like a scene from The Accused – there’s a pinball machine and I’m Jodie Foster’.
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In a much-anticipated adaptation of the hilarious TV show, the four socially troubled teenagers celebrate finishing their A-levels by going on holiday to Crete. However, in classic Inbetweeners style, not everything goes to plan, and the boys end up making even bigger idiots of themselves on an even bigger screen. On General Release
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Tell us about your show Jo Romero: Touched For The Very First Time? It’s about how I turned my back on drink and drugs and Benylin binges and emerged into a new life of sexual intensity, naked Nigel Harman and AA discos – oh, and a bit of Arctic Christian Dating.
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Joe Hill-Gibbins’ revival of Martin McDonagh’s 1996 portrayal of rural Irish stagnation returns. Rosaleen Linehan reprises her role as the mother from hell, doing her utmost to scupper the last chance of her 40-year-old daughter Maureen (Derbhle Crotty) to find happiness with Frank Laverty’s Pato. Cruel, black, bitterly funny. LK
How does Madonna feel about you nicking her lyrics for the title? She’s used one of mine for her new single: He’s Flaccid And Over 50. Camden Head, 100 Camden High St, NW1 0LU. Aug 24-28. £5+ camdenhead.com Camden Town
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All grown up Like a fine wine, actress Anne Hathaway seems to get better with age. But that doesn’t mean her fears have completely disappeared WORDS PIERRE DE VILLEIRS
Anne Hathaway is not the sort of person to shirk from a challenge. Take, for instance, her decision to play Emma Morley in the big screen adaptation of David Nicholls’ bestselling book One Day. From the moment it was announced the American star would play the very British Morley – a Yorkshire writer who strikes up a one-off relationship with a handsome TV star – thousands of fans of the book took to the internet to complain. “There was a lot to be frightened of and I wasn’t sure I could do it,” Hathaway concedes. “I’m not British is the first thing, and she’s from a region of England that I don’t have any experience with. And it’s a book that is beloved by millions of people and who were both looking to make sure that she was believably British and from this very particular region, in addition to being Emma Morley. It was really hard but I eventually made peace with the fact that my Emma Morley was that Emma in the movie, not the same as the book.” Hathaway’s desire to conquer her fears has seen her blossom from a dorky teenager in The Princess Diaries in 2001 to the sex-kitten playing Catwoman in the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. Inbetween she’s screwed Jake Gyllenhaal in a car in Brokeback Mountain, gone toe-totoe with Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, channelled Nigella Lawson as the White Queen in Alice In Wonderland,
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was nominated for an Oscar for Rachel Getting Married, got funny in Get Smart and exposed herself in Love And Other Drugs. “I just want to act and be the best actress I can be,” the star says. “And I think that means working with the best people, and playing the most challenging roles that are available to you at that moment, and that’s the plan. And so far, it’s led to some really exciting places.” The latest twist in her career path sees Hathaway go from a college student in the 1980s to a successful novelist in the naughties in One Day. For those not familiar with Nicholls’
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wildly popular book, the plotline follows Emma and Dexter (played by British rising star Jim Sturgess) who land up in bed together in college but decide to be just friends. The film then visits the pair over the following decades on the same day that they first met – July 15 – to see how their lives have panned out and if they eventually become more than good mates. Hathaway really bought into the film’s message, that falling in love can be a complex and frustrating. “People are vast and life is complicated and messy,” says the actress, is who reportedly in a relationship with actor Adam Shulman, after the high-profile breakup with Italian real estate developer Rafaello Follieri in 2008. “I definitely believe that you can keep love hidden, probably maybe even from yourself for a very long time.” Morley’s early years also struck a chord with Hathaway. “Just the way you feel lost in your early 20s and just nothing feels right,” the 28-year-old actress says. “I think in order to understand where you want to be, you have to be a little out of place where you don’t want to be at that moment and so I just think your early 20s is just, it hurts. Maybe not for everyone, but for me. It just felt so uncomfortable, and awkward and I’m happy to be through it.” The growing pains Hathaway suffered in her early ›› TNTMAGAZINE.COM
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20s was made worse by the fact that she had to carry the burden of being a kids’ role model after appearing in two Princess Diaries movies and fantasy film Ella Enchanted in 2004. Around that time she famously noted, “Anybody who was a role model for children needs a reprieve” and moved on to more dramatic roles. Hathway cast off her clothes, along with her mantle as squeaky-clean star, when she appeared topless in gangster drama Havoc and Ang Lee’s cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain. “I made my peace with nudity and didn’t want to be self-conscious about my body or let that get in the way,” she explains, when asked about her several revealing performances. The actress proved she had box office clout with The Devil Wears Prada and comedy Get Smart, before winning critical acclaim as Jane Austen in Becoming Jane and as a recovering addict in Rachel Getting Married. The extent to which Hathaway has moved up the ladder in Hollywood was underlined when she co-hosted the Oscars alongside actor James Franco earlier this year. With Franco looking like a deer in the headlights, it was up to a bubbly Hathaway to save the day, with critics applauding her poise. The actress is set to become an even bigger name when she follows in the footsteps of Halle Berry and Michelle
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Pfeiffer by portraying the sexiest superhero of them all, Catwoman. With the entire cast of The Dark Knight Rises sworn to secrecy, Hathaway is tight-lipped about the plot, with an image of her straddling the Bat-bike the only indication that this might be her most eye-catching role to date. Ask the star if she has matured a lot since bursting on the scene as a teen and she is emphatic in her answer. “Definitely. I highly recommend it, growing up is a good thing to do,” Hathaway says. “I think I’ve mellowed a lot, I think I’m much less panicky than I used to be and I think as a result, I feel a lot more confident. I’m less concerned about, ‘Oh my God, what’s coming next?’ I’m kind of excited about what’s coming next, and I’m less scared about how I’m going to handle it. I’m much more engaged in the journey at the moment, and obviously there’s still a ton of problems and insecurities knocking around in there, but I’m enjoying things a lot more.” ❚
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If you pine to wear designer threads, but just can’t justify the inevitably large dent in your budget, then you need to hotfoot it over to the old Truman Brewery Boutique Sale. For just four days, a great big corner of the rustic creative complex will brim with international designer brands – all the names you lust after – at prices that you can afford. Take your pick from menswear and womenswear brands such as House of Holland, McQ, 3.1 Philip Lim, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Connected Generation. There will also be the opportunity to bag accessories from designers including Daisy Knight, Joux Joux Le Shoe and Olivia Morris. Expect to pay up to 90 per cent off the recommended retail price, too. It’s guilt-free shopping at its best. OPEN Aug 24-25, 11am-8pm; Aug 2627, 11am-7pm; Aug 28, 11am-5pm COST That depends on what you find – it could be a blow-out. boutiquesale.co.uk Old Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury St, E1 6QR Liverpool Street/ Aldgate East
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It’s rare to get a chance to combine exercise with eating, but a new event organised through British Military Fitness is bringing the two together. On Sunday, September 11, Brockwell Park will host London’s first running and eating challenge in partnership with Yoomoo Frozen Yogurt: The Yoomoo Grub Run Challenge. The course will consist of two loops of approximately 3km around Brockwell Park. After the first loop of 3km participants will enter the eating station, where they will collect five pots of frozen yoghurt, find a place to sit and get eating. Once they have finished eating, competitors will continue with their final 3km loop. “It’s certainly a different way to spend a Sunday morning in September,” BMF event manager Sarah King says. “Don’t let the eating part of the challenge put you off The frozen yogurts are delicious and there is no time limit on the race so it’s up to you how long you take to complete the course.” BMF is also the largest and longest running provider of outdoor fitness classes in the country, running classes all year round in 121 parks across the UK.
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Freaky facials Forget traditional face masks. Gold, bee venom and even chocolate are keys to a radiant visage WORDS TNT STAFF
Most women are well versed when it comes to facials – you lie back on a treatment table while lotions, creams, astringents and masks are soothingly applied to your skin. But what if you suddenly caught a whiff of something strange, were probed about your emotional state, or you caught something being applied to your face that you’ve only ever had before on toast? Facials are becoming more offbeat. Here, TNT reviews some of the strangest.
Bee venom, The Hale Clinic WHAT IS IT? A facial that teams vigorous lymph drainage massage with products containing (ethically sourced) bee venom – dubbed as a natural botox alternative. At the same time, reiki-like techniques are said to bestow spiritual enlightenment. BENEFITS The massage drains liquid causing puffiness and sagginess from your face and your skin reacts to the bee venom by increasing collagen, which plumps it out. VERDICT Despite the images I had of bee-
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baiting followed by a good pummeling to the face, it felt so good I nearly fell asleep. The massage was firm (a good thing) and not at all uncomfortable. As the venom only makes up one per cent of the cream, I didn’t walk out red-faced and oozing, just plumped and baby-faced. Who said beauty had to hurt? Even when there are bees involved. CV WEIRD FACTOR 4/5 7 Park Crescent, W1B 1PF
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Oxygen, Ajala Spa WHAT IS IT? Karin Herzog’s oxygen facials have racked up a major celebrity following. During a deep cleanse, a series of essentialoil laden masks and creams are applied to the face and “extractions” (hardcore blackhead removals) are made. The gimmick here is that the products are said to deliver pure oxygen straight to the skin. BENEFITS Oxygen is mildly antiseptic, allowing it to battle spot-causing bacteria.
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Creams sterilise both your face and the therapist’s hands, meaning that extractions can be made hygienically. It aims to leave your skin balanced and congestion-free. VERDICT Wrapped in a thick white gown with soothing music playing, this is clearly going to be an enjoyable experience. Even during the gory blemish-removal, when my therapist apologises in case she’s hurting me, I’m relaxed. The jury’s still out on whether oxygen really can be delivered to the skin in this manner, but my complexion does look better and I enjoy imagining it has just taken a deep breath. FM COST £95 for 1hr 20mins. WEIRD FACTOR 3/5 Ajala Spa, Grange Hotel, EC4V 5AJ
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Validation facial, Lush Spa WHAT IS IT? Most facials work on improving your skin but this promises to make you feel beautiful from the inside using a soundtrack of affirmations and carefully chosen music to accompany the treatment. Therapists make an assessment of your skin, but also want to know your current, and desired emotional wellbeing. BENEFITS I am supposed to emerge brighter and more confident. As my face is cleansed with deft, expert strokes from the therapist, I am enveloped by gentle music intermingled with the sounds of waves and a row boat, plus voices speaking soothingly about “self confidence” and “feeling grounded”. Within minutes I’ve floated off into a deep meditative state, dimly aware of the hot cloths and luxurious unguents being applied to my face. VERDICT My face looks fresh, taut and buffed, and even though I was initially sceptical about the “validation” part, I feel revitalised and ready to take on the world. AG COST £75 for 1 hour. NEXT WEEK WEIRD FACTOR 3/5 Lush Spa, 123 King’s Road, SW3 4PL
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The Olympic army We bring you four of the Games Park’s most interesting jobs WORDS FRANKIE MULLIN
The London Games will be the UK’s defining event of 2012 – and it’s less than a year away. Test events have kicked off and the final piece of turf laid in the stadium, but work is not over. The sheer scale of the project is mind-blowing. Expected to cost about £9bn, the Olympic Park will employ some 14,500 people over the course of its creation, making it Europe’s biggest construction site. So what exactly is going on at the Stratford site? Who’s working there and what are they doing? We talk to the falconer in charge of pest control, a gardener who helped plan what will be the UK’s biggest new urban park, a chef and a tour guide. Meet the people creating the London Olympics. 40
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Keddie’s job is flying birds of prey inside and around the London 2012 Aquatics Centre to deter pigeons from nesting and roosting. An ethical form of pest control, birds such as hawks are flown at the “nuisances”, scaring them away. “I’ve worked on construction sites for six years but this is the biggest,” he says. “The Aquatics Centre is going to be one of the most famous buildings in the world.” Keddie, who is part of Hawkwise Pest Control, based in Essex, says there’s a close bond between him and the hawks he works with. “I get the hawks at 20 weeks old and they live until 24. We train and work together every day,” he says.
Price is in charge of choosing the plants and designing the London 2012 Gardens and Great British Garden. The UK’s largest new urban park for more than 100 years is being created in the centre of the Olympic Park and will be open to the public after the Games. “Working on such a large-scale, and seeing designs go from drawing-board to reality, is really exciting,” Price says. “It’s pressured because of the high profile, but in the end this is going to deliver parks and gardens that people will be really impressed with. The gardening team involves a range of specialties. “Usually I work alone or with just a few people,” Price says. ”Now I work with a huge team that includes ecologists and artists.”
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ON THE JOB GARY GALLAGHER CAREER MD of app agency Paper Bag Ltd AGE 28 LIVES Blackheath FROM Northern Ireland How did you get into your line of work? A computer science graduate, I was a professional software developer for five years before forming Paper Bag. I’d always planned to form an IT startup and mobile app development was a natural fit – it’s cutting-edge and a fast growing market.
Simon Thompson, Olympic Park chef
OLYMPICS-RELATED JOBS Steve Girdler, of Adecco, the official recruitment agency for London 2012, gives us the lowdown. WHICH SECTORS WILL BE HIRING? Opportunities will range from catering, cleaning, security and administrative support to media, hospitality, sport, leisure and customer services. Some professional and technical posts will also be available. WHEN WILL HIRING BEGIN? Many businesses are already preparing to staff up. If you’re interested in securing a job related to London 2012, sign up at jobsforthegames.co.uk
Thompson ran a financial services company before making a career change and becoming a chef. Now he rises at the crack of dawn to work in the Olympic Park’s landscaping and basketball canteen, feeding everyone from directors to traffic marshals and machine operators. “The stereotypes about builders’ canteens are way wide of the mark,” Thompson says. “Our eaters are pretty demanding and have diverse tastes. We sell as much salad as we do homemade chips. All of our ingredients are sourced from local markets.” Thompson doesn’t miss his more desk-bound days. “I’ve met people from across the world and been able to see the Olympic Park grow around me,” he says. “Of course in this kind of job the hours are long - typically 3.30am-8pm – but I love it and have a smile on my face every day.”
Steven Richards, Local tour guide
With the eyes of the world on London’s handling of the Olympic Park project, it’s no wonder people want to see what’s going on for themselves. So far, more than 150,000 people have taken guided tours around the site. Richards is a Baptist minister in Hackney, but takes tours around the park in his spare time. He says he likes showing both locals and those who don’t know the area how east London is being regenerated. “The best thing is when people who are sceptical about the project become really positive once they’ve seen it with their own eyes,” Richards says. “It would be great to bring everyone in the country round so they could see for themselves what has been achieved.” Be warned, tours are NEXT WEEK booked far in advance, so Jobs that let you travel secure your place early.
What do you do day-to-day? Because the company is quite young, each day tends to be very different. My duties involve sales, marketing, project management, strategic planning & product development. The best part of my job is the diverse range of sectors we work on and the people I meet. We’re working with Body in Balance TV at the moment with KD Web to develop an iPhone & iPad app for the “perfect bum”. What’s the most challenging? Like all start-ups at the moment, managing cash flow and growing a business in economical uncertainty.
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Charity Fundraisers: Immediate Start! Location: London Salary: £8.50 p/h - £13.50 p/h You should be hard working, enthusiastic, with a willingness to learn about & represent charities such as UNICEF, Amnesty and NSPCC. You should genuinely want to make a difference and be available for full-time work. The Recruitment Team | 0207 281 8908 | recruit@gift-fundraising.com
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To compile inventories of rental properties, conduct check in & check out inspections and write reports. Must have own PC with MS Word and broadband connection. Own transport useful. Full training supplied. Mike Wilby – mike@atticinventory.co.uk
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Oakley is one of the world’s leading sports performance eyewear, apparel, footwear and accessories brands.
The ideal candidate will be outgoing, enthusiastic and sports minded. You will have at least 1 year’s retail experience, ideally in a sports environment and want to work in a challenging yet rewarding role. Assessment days on Wednesday 24th August. Andrea Reid | luxrecruit@uk.luxottica.com
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Events Crew Location: London Salary: £6.50 - £10 per hour
www.eventsherpa.co.uk SHERPA is the leading supplier of intelligent, articulate and professional porters, drivers and crew to the UK event industry. We work at some of the UK’s biggest events; from F1 at Silverstone and new product launches, to bigbudget private and corporate events.
We are looking for reliable, hard working, well-presented team players with excellent spoken English who are not afraid of manual labour. SHERPA work is ideal for but not limited to Antipodeans in London on their working holiday visa as it is a great way to see London, meet new people and the hours are flexible.
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We provide property management services to blue chip corporate clients relocating their staff to London
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Office Administration Location: Battersea Salary: £16 -£18K depending on experience. Required:- Hardworking and very organized. Must be fluent in English and be computer literate. Send CV to Lee@procamtv.com
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When you first pop up from Vauxhall Tube station, it’s overwhelming. With shiny blocks of flats, crossings straddling three lanes of traffic at a time and the imposing MI6 building across the river, it looks like a city thoroughfare with little more to offer. But, pierce the surface and there’s much more to this urban landscape.
Vauxhall’s atmosphere is young and lively – it’s full of 20-something professionals getting sweet deals on modern flats (south of the river, you see), and has a huge gay community. Robin Sansay, manager of Moving Space estate agents in Kennington Lane, says: “The gay community has grown a lot and Vauxhall is well-known for being tolerant and open-minded.” Vauxhall attracts a multicultural crowd too. Its new apartments have brought in a wealthy overseas market of particularly Asian and Russian students. And there’s a large Portuguese contingent, which has in turn attracted many South Americans to the area. Yes, there’s a Starbucks and a Pret, but the foreign influence also adds some good independent eateries. A favourite with locals is Madeira Patisserie on Albert Embankment (madeiralondon.co.uk) for morning coffee and pastries. In contrast to its shiny modernity and inner-city feel, residents are spoiled with fresh produce. The nearby New Covent Garden Market (newcoventgardenmarket.com) is the
Vauxhall: forward-thinking and ultra-modern biggest fruit, vegetable and flower market in the UK. But wake up early – or don’t go to bed – as it starts in the small hours and finishes by 11am in the week and 10am on Saturdays. And if you’re looking for other ways to escape the city views, Vauxhall Park is the area’s patch of greenery, with Vauxhall City Farm on its edge (vauxhallcityfarm. org) – home to a farmyard animals and
a community garden. Riding lessons happen on the farm, plus there’s a textiles room where craftsmen weave, embroider and knit. With Vauxhall’s plethora of pubs, the area awakens at the weekend. There’s the Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Kennington Lane (an alternative gay club with comedy, cabaret, jazz and bingo; rvt. org.uk) and the LED-laden Fire (fireclub. co.uk), inspired by the video for Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body. There’s also the hyped Renaissance Rooms’ roller
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Another in-demand area is the period Bonnington Square – a bohemian area away from the main roads with a central garden and a co-operative cafe (bonningtoncafe.co.uk). For bargains, gets an ex-council flat in Black Prince Road, Vauxhall Street or Tyres Street. Although rents are relatively low in the whole area. NEXT WEEK Cheap but nice, fast-living Sharehouse nightmares but liberal? We’ll move there.
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The world is your canvas: graffitti artists in Bristol have been working on what is set to become the UK’s largest street art project. Once complete, See No Evil, on Nelson Street, will see several multi-story buildings in the street covered with art. Pity the poor bugger who gets stuck cleaning the brushes.
An award-winning Australian swordswallower was arrested while busking after a New York policeman took issue with his act. The Space Cowboy – whose real name is Chayne Hultgren, a 33-year-old from Byron Bay, NSW – was jailed for brandishing a sword in public. “After 24 hours locked up I am now released from jail!!!” he posted on Facebook. “All my performance props have been confiscated, but I am a free man.” “He was disorderly, creating a hazardous condition,” a police spokesman said. “He was swinging whips and in possession of a sword.” Impressively, Hultgren holds five world records, including one for pulling 400kg by fishhooks in his eye sockets.
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BRAVE NEW WORDS UNITED KINGDOM
The newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has some eyebrowraising new inclusions, including entries for sexting, retweeting and mankini. Gastric band and cyberbullying – the 46
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use of electronic communication to bully a person – are among the other 400 new entries in the dictionary’s centenary edition. Sexting is defined as “the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone”, while to retweet is to “repost or forward a message on Twitter”. The mankini is a “men’s one-piece bathing garment with a T-back” – which was, memorably, made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character. “These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date,” Angus Stevenson, editor of the new edition, wrote on his blog.
KANGAROOS NERVOUS AUSTRALIA
The powdered testicles of the great red kangaroo are newest must-have item
in the Asian market for aphrodisiacs. The Australian Competition And Consumer Commission is investigating claims made about Australian companies who are illegally selling the product in dutyfree stores and pharmacies frequented by Asian tourists. Linda Stoner from Animal Liberation was outraged that kangaroos were being killed for their testicles. “It’s really sickening that people are killing kangaroos and preying on the naivety and gullibility of people and it’s disgusting people in Australia are profiting from the misery of kangaroos,” she said.
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Years that Fairy had been rated the UK’s number one detergent, before finally being usurped by Aldi’s budget range
Kiwi sheep play ‘hard to get’
SHEEP GROUNDED NEW ZEALAND
It might have seemed like a good idea at the time but Auckland’s ‘Running of the Sheep’ has been banned. The plan was for a flock of 2000 animals to run from Aotea Square to Queens Wharf at lunchtime on October 17, the Monday before the Rugby World Cup final, as part of the Real New Zealand Festival being held around the tournament. However, New Zealand 2011 director Leon Grice, event organiser Steve Hollander and Real New Zealand festival director Briony Ellis have decided to cancel it. “We do not believe it is healthy nor conducive to showcasing New Zealand to play out this controversy in front of the world’s media and international guests,’’ Grice said.
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A new book about bizarre plots during the Second World War claims British spies planned to spike Adolf Hitler’s food with female hormones in a bid to make him less aggressive. The story is contained in Professor Brian Ford’s new book Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II. Estrogen in the Nazi leader’s meals would – unlike drugs – be undetectable when his food was tested before being served to him. “He had testers who used to taste his food. There was no mileage to putting poison in his food because they would immediately fall victim to it,” Prof Ford said. “Sex hormones were a different matter. They only affected you if you took them for weeks or months on end, so no one would have ever realised that the hormones were in the food.”
Hours that Illinois woman Anna Cullen spent ‘wedged’ in her bathtub after slipping. She is suing the manufacturer
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‘CHUPACABRA’ FOUND UNITED STATES
Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, the chupaabra is a mythical beast, or cryptid, that has captured the imaginations of those who believe it truly exists. The name means ‘goat sucker’ in Spanish and comes from the animal’s reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock. And now, staff at a Maryland hospital insist they have captured one in nearby woods. “It’s like a kangaroo, dog, rat mixed. It’s got a rat-tail and a head like a deer. I don’t know what it is,” said X-ray technician Joe Livermore, who lured the creature into a cage with leftover Chinese food. After the staff took plenty of close-up pictures, the animal, nicknamed Prince Chupa, was released. The pictures haven’t led to a confirmation of the species yet, either. An animal control officer who suggested Prince Chupa was a mangy fox, bu staff at the hospital disagree on account of the creature’s long, rat-like tail.
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14 months in jail for giving someone herpes? Bit much
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It’s not nice, but armed robbery’s worse
Passing on herpes to his girlfriend got one man much more than a slap. Cara Scott, 24, took her now-ex, 28-year-old traffic officer David Golding, to court for giving her the STI. Now he’s facing 14 months in jail after being found guilty of GBH. But did everyone really need to be so dramatic about it? Yes, he lied. Yes, he betrayed her. But has he really, as she claims, ruined her life? Six million people in the UK have genital herpes – that’s 10 per cent of the population. Does that mean six million people’s lives are totally meaningless? I don’t think so. People don’t get locked up for passing on cold sores and, medically, the implications are the same. Nigel Scott from the Herpes Virus Association put it well when he said it was like prosecuting kids who gave their friends chicken pox. It’s all caused by the same virus. We get it, it can’t be nice to have herpes. The social stigma behind it as a dirty sex disease isn’t helpful, and it must be awful to have to tell (or not necessarily, as we’ve seen) sexual partners you’ve got it. But jail? Come on. Crimes like armed robbery and the sale of heroin can get 14-month prison sentences. Passing on an infection is hardly the same. Unless, of course, it is life-threatening, like HIV. If six million people have herpes, lots of those must have got it from a partner who lied or didn’t tell them about it. Golding was the first to be prosecuted, but anyone with herpes and an axe to grind with a past lover could potentially come forward now. And when jails are now full of rioters (some of whom, statistically speaking, might have herpes too) courts shouldn’t be dishing out 14-month prison sentences for things like this. Maybe Scott should have used her energies to fight the stigma behind the disease. She said getting herpes was “disgusting” and “soul-destroying”, but if there wasn’t so much shame surrounding it, she probably wouldn’t have seen it that way. Instead of doing anything constructive about it though, she used what boils down to spiteful frustration to bring a court case that ironically ended up reinforcing preconceptions. » Agree or disagree? Is herpes that big a deal? letters@tntmagazine.com
BRING BACK THE NASTINESS Gary Barlow has jumped into X Factor as Mr Nice Guy, vowing to end Simon Cowell’s era of “cruelty”. But while middle-aged women might love little Gaz, all this kindness and sensitivity just isn’t going to get ratings. Won’t they learn that a bit of controversy is what makes reality TV fodder so successful? Simon Cowell, however despised, made the show exciting with his cruel taunts. He brought the judges their good cop/bad cop dynamic. If Barlow isn’t prepared to speak the harsh truth, one of
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Turning Right An expert on far-right extremism insists UK activists are unlikely to fade away WORDS TOM STURROCK
At last year’s general election, the far-right British National Party (BNP) were routed across the board. It was hailed as a knock-out blow to the country’s radical right-wing, to a brand of politics derided as intolerance in a suit. The BNP’s leader, Nick Griffin, lost out to Labour incumbent Margaret Hodge in the east London seat of Barking, and was dealt a frightful ear-bashing for his troubles. “On behalf of all the people in Britain, we in Barking have not just beaten but we have smashed the attempt of extremist outsiders,” Hodge said after retaining her seat. “The message of Barking to the BNP is clear, get out and stay out. You are not wanted here and your vile politics have no place in British democracy.” But events of recent weeks suggest that, although the BNP bogeyman may have been hobbled at the ballot box, the firebrands have not yet flamed out. Far from it. Two weeks ago, as the country was convulsed by riots, the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right ‘street protest movement’, seized on public outrage to reinforce its hardline antiimmigration stance. On September 3, another flashpoint looms, with the EDL planning a march through Tower Hamlets, organisers promising to take “our message into the heart of militant Islam within our own country”. According to Matthew Goodwin, author of New British Fascism: The Rise Of The British National Party, there remains strong grassroots support for policies espoused by the BNP and its ilk, even if it has not been mobilised effectively. “In Britain, we’ve never had an organisation that’s taken advantage of it, that’s presented itself as a modern, credible alternative – the BNP tried but failed miserably,” Goodwin says. “The traditional weakness in Britain is that these parties have shot themselves in the foot.“ According to Goodwin, the key driver of support for far-right parties like the BNP and, its apparent successor, the EDL, is opposition to immigration and the sense that 50
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the government is out of touch on this issue. In particular, though, those on the far-right are obsessed with the ‘cultural threat’ posed by Muslims, homegrown or otherwise. “Even though the BNP is pretty much finished, the trends that fuelled its support remain in place,” Goodwin says. “That section of the public remains concerned about Muslim communities and the way they integrate and the way the major parties approach that. “So while some people, especially on the left, were celebrating the failure of the BNP, I would be far more cautious because it’s not going to suddenly disappear. Where do all these ideologically committed activists go? Some of them are so committed that they won’t just withdraw, they won’t just decide that the time has passed. They’re more likely to conclude that direct action is the answer.”
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The rise of anti-Islamic sentiment is not a peculiarly British phenomena. And, unavoidably, any discussion of its European counterpoints recalls Anders Breivik, who murdered 69 people in Norway last month. Breivik was a rabid Islamophobe who frequented hard-right websites and whose online manifesto fetishised a coming ‘clash of civilisations’. In discussing the resilience and ideological oomph of the British far-right, Goodwin ponders an uncomfortable hypothetical: what if Breivik had grown up in Leeds or Bradford or Birmingham, instead of Oslo? “Breivik is not unique; the scale of violence was unique but his motivation was not unique. I must have sat down
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Clockwise: BNP leader Nick Griffin; police try to contain an EDL march; Anders Breivik
with 50 activists who talked about the same kind of direct action and the threat of Islam,” Goodwin says. “So if Breivik was to implant himself in the British farright or if there was a British equivalent, there’s no doubt the groups over here offer a climate for people like him and the frames to justify acts of violence.” According to Goodwin, the internet and its seething miasma of hard-right proselytisation is a crucial factor in establishing these so-called frames – the fundamentals men like Breivik embrace, the prism through which they come to see the world. “The internet enables the far-right to offer their view, their diagnosis with what’s wrong with the country, without interference from other media. It’s a process called ‘narrowcasting’, where people no longer tune in to BBC or CNN – they begin to get all their information from one forum, one source. “These sites, like The Brussels Journal or the Gates Of Vienna, bring like-minded people together to exchange ideas and exchange tactics. The far-right has been one of the quickest movements to realise the potential of the internet.” The robustness of this online community, broiling away in the corners of cyberspace, bolsters Goodwin’s conviction that, with or without the BNP, the sun is unlikely to set on these far-right groups any time soon; not unless governments can engage and ameliorate the grievances of those drawn to the right-wing fringe. “I think the far-right will basically go in two directions,” Goodwin says. “You’ll have the organised parties who try to influence policy, but you’ll also have these groups, movements, lone wolves, who reject the ballot box, who come to the conclusion that the political parties haven’t made any progress. “Where do those activists go? Do they just withdraw or do they adopt a more confrontational approach?”
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RIGHT OR WRONG? EVOLUTION OF EXTREMISM The EDL is a protest movement, while the BNP is a political party – it is a crucial difference that is enshrined in their antithetical origins. The BNP was born of an entirely party-political process, when, in 1979, the National Front split following a disastrous showing in the general election. The leader of the day, John Tyndall, found himself marginalised, so quit the party and founded the New National Front which soon became the BNP. In 1999, Nick Griffin defeated Tyndall in a leadership challenge and began modernising the party, which culminated in unprecedented success in the 2006 local elections. The EDL is a relatively new organisation, springing up in 2009 after an Islamist group demonstrated against British troops returning from Afghanistan. The EDL draws heavily from the subculture of football fans and hooligan firms are prominent in its organisation.
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All done: Matt Giteau
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Matt Giteau’s international career is over after he was left out of Australia’s 30-man squad for the World Cup. But coach Robbie Deans denied any friction between the two and said he would “absolutely absolutely” have no hesitation recalling Giteau should injury strike any of Australia’s key playmakers during the tournament. “It’s nonsense [that we don’t get on],” Deans said. “His attitude is exceptional. You don’t get to play 92 Tests and have that sort of longevity in the game without having a good attitude.” Deans said Giteau “took it well” when called to the Wallabies team hotel in Sydney on Wednesday to learn of his World Cup snub. “There’s no easy way to deliver that sort of news,” Deans said. “We met down in Coogee. I wanted to be able to talk to him face-to-face.”
STORM ON A ROLL RUGBY LEAGUE
Melbourne Storm inflicted another brutal blow to St George Illawarra’s NRL premiership defence as they clawed their way to a 8-6 win at AAMI Park on Friday night. The Dragons’ free-fall down the NRL ladder continued, with their fifth successive loss, while the Storm celebrated a club record 12th straight victory. Clear competition leaders, Melbourne now have the minor premiership all but wrapped up with only two rounds remaining. The home side was forced to work hard for their win, taking an 8-6 lead into the sheds at half-time after skipper Cameron Smith slotted a penalty goal after the hooter, after Dragons prop Michael Weyman was penalised for time-wasting after being tackled. Defence dominated the second half, with neither side able to score. 52
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Tough at the top: Carlton captain Chris Judd is on track for a third Brownlow Medal but he was well-held against Hawthorn on Friday night. The Hawks clung on to win by 12 points over the Blues, a win that secures a top-four spot and an all-important double-chance with two weeks left to play before the AFL finals start
HEWITT INTO US OPEN TENNIS
Ten years after beating Pete Sampras to take a first Grand Slam title, Lleyton Hewitt will return to the US Open as an underdone wildcard. Ranked 165 in the world, Hewitt has been handed the wildcard entry allotted to Tennis Australia in return for an American spot in the Australian Open. Hewitt, 30, has missed most of the leadup events, including last week’s Cincinnati Masters, in an attempt to get his body right for the Open, which starts next week at Flushing Meadows in New York. “I’m really looking forward to New York,” Hewitt said of his entry into the year’s final major. “It’s 10 years on since I won there and I’ve still got the passion and hunger, which is great.”
BIG WEEK FOR ... Australian MotoGP rider CASEY STONER has experienced some epic lows since he clinched his first world title at the tender age of 22 back in 2007. Stoner’s struggles with injury and illness, as well as problems with his bike, left him powerless to stop Valentino Rossi going back-to-back, before Jorge Lorenzo broke through last year. But it’s turned around this season, the Australian winning six of the 10 races so far. If he adds a seventh victory in Indianapolis on Sunday, a second world title will be there for the taking.
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QUOTES OF THE WEEK I would have been Blind Freddy not to notice there were a few things out and about Sacked Wallabies skipper Rocky Elsom, replaced by James Horwill ahead of the World Cup, admits he saw it coming
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PREVIEW Bully-boys United to be tested by rivals MAN U V TOTTENHAM MONDAY 7PM, SKY SPORTS 1
MAN U V ARSENAL
SUNDAY 3.30PM, SKY SPORTS 1 This week promises to further establish the early-season pecking order in the Premier League, with reigning champions Manchester United taking on two top-six rivals. United manager Alex Ferguson has invested heavily in youth during the past 12 months but there’s no time for rebuilding at Old Trafford, not when there are trophies to be won. Back-to-back home fixtures against Tottenham and Arsenal represent
a real test for this emerging United side, especially when the injuries to their firstchoice defence are taken into account. That said, United will still start favourites in both matches. Tottenham will be desperate to show they are capable of beating the top sides as well as the midtable ones and that they are not satisfied treading water in fifth and sixth place. Arsenal, for their part, need to offer their fans a glimmer of hope that the doom and gloom summoned by the departure of Cesc Fabregas will not last the entire season. What a shot in the arm it would be if they were to rumble United.
THE CHAT | Cook to become top dog
There’s a great rule in life. It’s called the grandma rule – would you do it in front of your grandma? Collingwood president Eddie McGuire offers his view of what is and isn’t acceptable when it comes to sledging
I truly believe I’m from the same cloth as the Mayweathers, the Pacquiaos, the Bernard Hopkins of the world. I’m from the same pedigree as them guys Boxer Anthony Mundine does what he does best – talk himself up in a way that’s totally unsupported by his results
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RUGBY UNION does Alastair Cook sit in the pantheon Q Where of England’s greatest batsmen? Gooch, England’s leading Test run-scorer, last A Graham week backed the opener to surpass his record of 8900 runs and it’s a pretty safe bet. Cook, at 26, is already closing on 6,000 runs, so Gooch’s mark could go before he turns 30. The challenge is less likely to come from the existing records than from teammate Kevin Pietersen, who is still young enough to pass Gooch’s mark. Who will be the Englishman to reach 10,000 runs? It’s still too early to rate Cook alongside the likes of Hobbs, Barrington, Hutton and Hammond, but he’s heading toward that territory. It’s amazing, when you consider his spot was being questioned 12 months ago.
Australia v New Zealand The Tri-Nations decider Saturday 10.30am, Sky Sports 3
ATHLETICS World Championships Runs all through next week Saturday 11.45am, British Eurosport
MOTOGP Indianapolis Grand Prix Big runs: Alastair Cook
Casey Stoner is on course for the title Sunday 4pm, British Eurosport 2
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Scathing Argus report hangs Hilditch out to dry
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In the AFL last week, a player copped a one-match suspension for making a partcularly nasty sledge about another player’s mother. Where is the line when it comes to trash-talk? It is now a given that racial vilification is out of bounds, but what should be made of West Coast’s Patrick McGinnity telling Melbourne’s Ricky Petterd that he would “rape” Petterd’s mum? Players say all kinds of horrible things to each other on the field. Some of it will be about an opponent’s girlfriend, sister, mother etc. Let’s not be naive. But it’s right McGinnity was punished, as
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invoking sexual violence moves the needle more than the garden-variety grubbiness. That said, the AFL shouldn’t be too heavyhanded about players’ on-field speech, not unless it veers into full-on vilification. The one-week penalty is spot-on. It says: ‘We don’t want to get too involved, but just keep it clean, boys.’
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A report into the shortcomings of Australian cricket, released last week, effectively axes the unpopular Andrew Hilditch as chairman of selectors. Well and good for Cricket Australia to attribute blame – and there have been some acute failures – but the infatuation with the Twenty20 dollar is also part of the problem. Prompted by Australia’s 3-1 defeat in the Ashes, the Argus review took seven months to complete and has recommended that the chairman of selectors become a full-time position. It means Andrew Hilditch, the man who must carry the can for some perplexing recent selections, will be out of his job. As the Australian team has fallen from grace, bashing the selectors has become a national past-time. The main gripes are hard to refute. No Test-qualty spinner has been unearthed since the retirement of Shane Warne more than four years ago. This has been compounded by the scatter-gun approach to selecton. New spinners have been brought in and then quickly discarded, only for another no-name to be plucked from obscurity. There has been a lack of consistency, a lack of logic, behind certain selections. There appears to have been no plan. It’s all very well to talk about rebuilding, to lower expectations, but you can’t plead ‘transition phase’ and then continue to pick the same under-performing players. In mitigation of all this, Hilditch could well argue that the cattle wasn’t available – there simply aren’t enough good players in their mid-20s capable of succeeding the likes of Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey. On this point, Cricket Australia is culpable. Playing Test cricket simply hasn’t been incentivised properly. Instead, Twenty20 has become the golden goose. In June, Cricket Australia announced its 25-man list of contracted players – the country’s most likely. A month later, a 15-man Test squad to tour Sri Lanka was named – it included three players deemed unworthy of a central contract. It indicates that Test cricket is not the priority that it was 10 years ago, so why should anyone be surprised when the Test team founders?
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On your marks The Athletics World Championships kick off in South Korea this weekend WORDS TOM STURROCK
There’s been an intense focus on next year’s Olympics but this is a massive sporting event in its own right, one that normally throws up its share of controversy. So it’s worth paying attention and, let’s face it, you won’t have much choice if one of the Brits wins something. So who are the ones to watch in Daegu and what are their chances?
injury-marred start to 2011, has been building impressively. What are the odds? The heptathlon is harder to predict as it’s not part of the Diamond League, but she looks nailed on. Will be a minor disaster if she gets beaten.
VALERIE ADAMS, NZ: shot put
Hailing from Hackney, Idowu is one of the sport’s real eccentrics, his shock-value hairdos ensuring he stands out. He’s also the reigning world and European champion and his form this year has been solid enough to suggest this free spirit has a few hops, skips and jumps left in him yet. What are the odds? Definitely among the favourites, but Portugal’s Olympic champion Nelson Evora will be in the mix, as will Frenchman Teddy Tamgho.
The Olympic and two-time world champion casts a long shadow – she’s 196cm tall and built like a brick shithouse – over Kiwi sport and looms as one of its big hopes heading toward the London Olympics. After a post-Beijing letdown, Adams has rediscovered her best form in recent months. What are the odds? Adams will start hot favourite to clinch a third straight world championship, with her stiffest opposition to come from Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk.
USAIN BOLT, Jam: 100m and 200m The fastest man on the planet needs no introduction – he stole the show in Beijing and again captivated at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Nobody has ever won the 100m-200m double at consecutive World Championships. If Bolt (above) manages this in Daegu, he’ll be everywhere. What are the odds? He’s so laidback that people assume he must be beatable. He’ll be tested by his countryman Asafa Powell, but if Bolt is at his best, the rest have no chance.
JESSICA ENNIS, GB: heptathlon The 25-year-old will be one of the faces of next year’s Olympics and is one of the host’s biggest hopes – probably the closest they have to a ‘Cathy Freeman’ figure. Ennis is the reigning world and European champion and, despite an 56
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SALLY PEARSON, Aus: 100m and 100m hurdles After finishing a disappointing fifth in the hurdles at the last World Championships, Pearson will be desperate to chalk up a major win to go with her Commonwealth title and Olympic silver from Beijing. Although she will also run in the 100m, it’s all about the hurdles for Australia’s top track athlete. What are the odds? Pearson has been dominant in the second half of the season and will be bitterly disappointed if she is again the bridesmaid in Daegu.
STEVE HOOKER, Aus: pole vault The Olympic and world champion is the captain of his nation’s Olympics track and field team but has been short of his best form since cruising to Commonwealth Games gold in Delhi last year. Although his focus will be on London, he needs a good showing in Daegu to get back on track. What are the odds? Unfortunately for Australia, they’re not
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good. Remarkably, Hooker comes in as an underdog, with Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie dominant so far this year.
OSCAR PISTORIUS, SA: 400m Pistorius, for those who have been on another planet, had his legs amputated below the knee when he was an infant and runs with the aid of prosthetics ‘blades’. Debate continues to simmer about whether he should be allowed to compete outside the Paralympics. What are the odds? He’s not going to win anything, but his personal best of 45.07 would have placed him fourth at the 2009 World Championships, just shy of a bronze medal.
CASTER SEMENYA, SA: 800m Pistorius may lead the way in the controversy stakes this year, but the furore that engulfed Semenya in 2009 will be a hard act to follow. After she streeted the field to win the 800m, questions were raised about her gender, and tests subsequently revealed she has an ‘intersex condition’. What are the odds? She looked set to dominate the sport after she won in Berlin but the controversy surrounding her appears to have taken a toll. Still, she’s one of the favourites.
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MITCHELL WATT, Aus: long jump The sky’s the limit for this 23-year-old Queenslander, who was a schoolboy champion in 100m, 200m, long jump, high jump, triple jump and shot put. The 2009 World Championships was his first major meet and he came away with a bronze medal. In short, he’s a freak. What are the odds? Along with Pearson, Watt is Australia’s big hope and has been out in front of his rivals, which include Britain’s Greg Rutherford, most of this year.
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DOPING DISASTER JAMAICAN STAR WITHDRAWS The spectre of performance-enhancing drug use is never far away in elite athletics, and even as unprecedented doping regulations come into force, the finger of suspicion has come to rest on one of Usain Bolt’s Jamaican teammates. Sprinter Steve Mullings was left out of the Jamaican team after testing positive for a banned substance, representing a major setback to Jamaica’s chance of defending its relay title, as well as raising questions about whether any of Mullings’s countrymen might also have skeletons in their closet. To further protect the sport from the scourge of doping, the IAAF will collect blood samples from every athlete at Daegu. It is the first time a heterogeneous population of nearly 2000 elite athletes competing in a major sports event will be blood tested under the same optimal conditions, within the same time period.
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UP IN THE AIR The travel industry was hit by a juicy sex scandal this week. Cathay Pacific were forced to delay an upcoming marketing campaign that promised its crews would “go the extra mile to make you feel special” after photos of a pilot and flight attendant engaging in a sex act in the cockpit were posted online.
The airline has said that it didn’t think the airline was flying at the time the photos were taken. That’s a relief! Good to know that pilots are focused on the job in hand. I was treated to a much more decorous air show last weekend in Eastbourne, which played host to Airbourne, a free seafront spectacle of aerobatics that included displays by the Red Arrows, wing walkers and parachute jumpers. As well as wowing the crowds with amazing loops and flips, pilots showed us some love by drawing a heart with a smoke trail (see below). We also enjoyed a helicopter ride over the stunning cliffs at Beachy Head, otherwise known as one of the UK’s top suicide spots. If you fancy embarking on a flight of fear, see our feature on page 62, where our brave writer hangs upside down in an aerobatic super-plane. Happy travels!
GALWAY OYSTER FESTIVAL Galway, Ireland Get ready to consume more oysters and Guinness than you ever dreamed of as thousands descend on the scenic west coast of Ireland 23-25 for this long-standing celebration. Pubs along the Guinness Oyster Trail hand out plates of the free molluscs to make your pint marginally less wet and the atmosphere gets steadily rowdier. Guaranteed fun, unless you’re an oyster. SEPT
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beauty is awarded the honour of presenting the mayor with the first oyster. DO IT BECAUSE: Even if you’re no fan of Oyster or Guinness, it’ll be a craic. HOW MUCH: You’ll need money for booze. galwayoysterfest.com
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The 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coastal Path has been named in the top ten walks in the world, alongside Peru’s Inca Trail and Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The path in West Wales – the only British entry on the Cheapflights list – took third place behind the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, US, and the Santiago de Compostela pilgrims’ walk from France to northern Spain. The route covers almost every kind of maritime landscape from limestone and volcanic cliffs to sandy coves. It attracts a million walks every year.
Italians have the worst reputation among British motorists. Nearly a third surveyed by YouGov (31 per cent) cited them as the “worst drivers” in Europe, followed by the French (13 per cent), while the Swedes are perceived as the least “worst drivers”. Among 635 British adults who have driven a hire car abroad, 17 per cent found the other country’s drivers to be aggressive, with similar numbers (16 per cent) admitting they struggled with driving on the other side of the road.
Qantas passengers may get a rude shock from the airline’s in-flight entertainment: the TV options currently include a programme all about the female orgasm. The French-made documentary, The Female Orgasm Explained, which includes excerpts from porn movies, has already caused a hoo-ha among the Australian airline’s economy passengers. The doco was first shown on Australian TV and Qantas then decided it was a good idea to help passengers understand the female orgasm.
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GETTING THERE Take a direct train from London Paddington to Kemble (1hr19) with First Great Western (firstgreatwestern.co.uk). From £39 return. Then take a taxi from Kemble railway station to Cotswold Airport
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The nearest tourist-friendly town to Cotswolds Airport is the delightful Cirencester, which has a host of country pubs, classy restaurants and hotels. Somewhere Else offers a more modernised (and importantly, delicious) take on country grub feed, with specials from £4.95 (somewhereelse.co.uk). Indian Rasoi guarantees a hearty curry feed for affordable prices. Mains from £7.95 (indianrasoi.org). The Royal Oak is a solid boozer with an array of ales (royaloakatsouthcerney.co.uk). The Waggon & Horses is a sleek and charming pub with a great bar menu (thewaggonandhorses.co.uk). The 17th-century Stratton House Hotel offers a far cry from your usual Best Western with a flag-stone floor and beautifully rural surroundings, from less than £60 a night for a single room (strattonhousehotel.co.uk).
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Only three minutes’ walk from Cirencester’s town centre, four-star B&B The Old Brewhouse is friendly and full of character. There’s also a pretty courtyard in which to chill-out in. Doubles from £75 per night, including breakfast (theoldbrewhouse.com).
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Much to the dismay of both my insurance premiums and my mum’s whiskey habit, I’ve embarked on some ludicrously silly and dangerous things in my time. I’ve bungee jumped off hanging cable cars, flung myself out of planes and played ‘catch the tomato with your face’ at La Tomatina. But the most terrifying thing an adrenalin-junkie traveller could face? Topping the last heart-thundering high. And while the UK’s big-budget theme parks and rickety pierside carnival rides provide an illicit, momentary thrill, they don’t really match up to the rest of the world’s most esoteric extreme sports. As I hang upside down at 3000ft in a world-class aerobatic super-plane, and suddenly start plummeting towards the ground, I feel the carrot cake I’ve had for lunch reacquaint itself with my oesophagus. It’s at this moment I realise that the UK harbours crazy, high-octane activities that guarantee the ever-illusive ‘once in a lifetime’ experience – you just need to know where to find them. While I’m no excitable egotist, I approach a day’s worth of ‘extreme aerobatics’ with mild ambivalence. I’ve seen Top Gun. I’ve flown easyJet … and survived a landing while hungover. Surely there’s not that much more to flying? After slinging on a jumpsuit and picking my callsign (Red Baron), I’m briefed about the capabilities of the plane by my co-pilot, ex-RAF squaddy ‘Hadders’. Before I know it I’m in the cockpit of the two-seater Extra300 with the canopy locked down and the propellers whirring. The take-off is deceptively relaxing as the ground vanishes beneath us and miles of summery green Cotswolds countryside blankets the near 360° view from the cockpit. Soon, the plane gently banks skyward. We’re soaring towards the heavens, and just as I feel I could touch the clouds with my fingertips, we’re upside down and back to where we started. And that’s just the entree. The plane has its own learner driver-style set-up, meaning I can learn the ropes and – with no experience whatsoever – start looping the loop and barrel rolling. Hadders then takes/wrestles back control and embarks on an utter master class in adrenalin-pumping ridiculousness. I’m thrown around like a ragdoll, giggling all the way as he flies aileron rolls, stall turns, Cuban Eights and my (but not
my stomach’s) favourite – the Lomcevak (roughly translated from the Czech, ‘mule kick’) which has the plane spinning vertically before flipping back around to rotate every gyroscopic way imaginable on its way back to Earth. As deliriously grin-plastering experiences for the adrenalin-happy go, you’ll be hard pressed to find anything crazier or more enjoyable. For some, though, merely sitting inside the cockpit isn’t enough. There’s also the option of stepping outside the plane and standing astride the nose for a refreshing spot of wing walking, which guarantees stomach-lurching drops and
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dives with nothing but some goggles and a harness to stop an impromptu skydive. Then there’s the less-disorientating, but just as amusing, tank-driving to master. While you’re unlikely to get anything stronger than paintballs to pelt your surroundings with, it offers a day out that can be as historically enlightening as it is stupidly amusing, as you swing the cannon around and hum across a muddy, battle-scarred course in a war-worn tank. Just watch out for sheep. The UK may be more known for its quaint afternoon tea breaks and lazy afternoons down the pub, but there’s a whole world of adrenalised excitement ready and waiting to NEXT WEEK be explored – by the brave and the faint-hearted alike Explore the sights of Cheltenham Just make sure you pack an extra pair of undercrackers. Extreme aerobatics from £325 exelement.co.uk Wing walking from £499 intotheblue.co.uk Tank driving from £95 exelement.co.uk
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WHY IT WORKS This image could have been taken in the Fifties. It has a timeless appeal, reinforced by it being shot in black and white. Sean has chosen to place the truck to one side of the frame, allowing more of its surroundings to be captured, which creates an incredibly detailed picture. Using a horizontal frame allows more of the landscape to be shown.
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tones, as this will help with texture. Visually, your eye will be drawn to the lightest tone first. Tonal range refers to the scope of tones between the lightest and darkest areas and this varies in each image depending on contrast – for example, on a grey day, the contrast is low and can become dull, whereas if it’s sunny, it will have high contrast.
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CASA DE ANIA OVERVIEW Set in a tranquil neighbourhood in the Vedado suburb of Havana, Casa de Ania is a private house, known in Cuba as a “casa particular”. Homely and spotlessly clean, this Casa is close to the city’s famous seawall, the Malecon, and about a 20-minute walk from the Old Town. We were treated like old friends by genial hosts, Ania and Alex, who own the place. WOW FACTOR If you’re travelling alone, or like to meet fellow backpackers, a stay here is a great place to meet like-minded folk, as there is a cosy communal living area and a hostel atmosphere – a rare find in Cuba. Ania is like a mother to her guests and she’s happy to offer Spanish lessons for a small fee if you’re looking to learn the lingo. She can suggest activities in Havana and help you plan your travel route across the country. ROOMS There are two super-clean and air-conditioned hostel-style rooms, each with three beds, and one private double room with an ensuite bathroom. The decor is a little chintzy, but this is in-keeping with the style of other Casas Particulares in Cuba. BILL PLEASE A private double room costs from £16.50pppn when booking with HostelBookers.com.
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The seat of one of England’s most famous universities, and immortalised in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse crime stories, Oxford is the perfect destination for a day trip from London. Oxford University is 1000 years old, making it one of the three oldest universities in the western world, along with Paris and Bologna, and it’s home to 42 colleges. Take a walking tour to explore some of the university’s colleges with their pretty courtyards, grand dining halls and centuries-old facades peppered with gargoyles that vary from squirrels to dogs. Drop into Exeter College to see the spot on the lawn where Inspector Morse collapsed after a heart attack and then died at last at the end of the episode. Make a stop at Bodleian Library, used as Hogwarts library in two of the Harry Potter movies. Take a stroll through the university’s famous beer halls where you’ll find a chalkboard paying tribute to legendary former Aussie PM Bob Hawke, who entered the Guinness Book Of Records for sculling two-and-a-half pints of ale
in 11 seconds at University College. Follow the university’s regatta course by enjoying a tranquil cruise along the river on a soundless electric boat with Oxford River Cruises (oxforddrivercruises.com). You’ll pass by ancient Folly Bridge, the university rowing houses, good-looking barges and even fields of cows, with the city’s towers and spires providing the backdrop. On the river itself, you’ll see students rowing in preparation for their inter-college tournaments and the ubiquitous punts, used on the Thames for centuries. Keep your eyes peeled for the Isis tavern, one of the few UK pubs reachable only on foot or by boat. If you think Oxford is all about spires and world-class academia, think again. Learn about the city’s bloody history at little-known and new attraction, Oxford Castle Unlocked (oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk). Once a lock-up for rapists and murderers, the museum offers access to the 18thcentury debtors’ tower and crypt. visitoxfordandoxfordshire.com
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Home to more than 100 colleges and universities, Boston is a hub for students. With a reputation as an intellectual centre, expect a surfeit of first-class museums. Top picks include the Museum of Fine Arts, with masterpieces galore, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, set on the waterfront. Expect a lively nightlife with plenty of bars and clubs in which to sink a few bevvies and meet the locals. bostonusa.com
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One of the world’s literary capitals, historic Dublin was the Unesco City of Literature in 2010. It was also the birthplace of top authors including James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Dublin’s literary reputation dates back more than a thousand years to when monks would transcribe the Bible into exquisite manuscripts, one of which – The Book Of Kells, which dates back to 800AD – is on display at Trinity College. visitdublin.com
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You may lack the big brains to go to Cambridge University, but the city is worth a visit for its cute backstreets and imposing architecture. For an authentic way to explore the city, rent a bike (citycyclehire.com) for £9 a day. Punting is the classic Cambridge pursuit and a 45-minute guided tour of The Backs (behind the colleges) is £15 on the spot or £11 if you book in advance with Scudamores (scudamores.com). visitcambridge.org
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Regarded by Italians as one of their country’s most bellissimo cities, Bologna is home to Europe’s oldest university, established in 1088. Its university quarter is a hive of activity with a glut of hip cafes, bars and clubs to keep the student population entertained. On campus, visitors can enrich their intellectual side with a trip to the Naval Museum or the Museum of European Students. Pasta fans can improve their skills at one of the city’s many cooking schools.
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nights to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. We’re planning to rent a car. What romantic spots do you recommend we explore? Gina and Tremayne, via email is a much larger island than most A Sardinia people think, which means you can’t cover all of it in a short break. It’s best that you choose one region to focus on during your trip. Alghero is a great place to start as the city itself is worth a couple of days on foot. Then pick up your hire car and follow the coast northwest taking in the spectacular views. Stop off at Grotta di Nettuno (Neptune’s grotto), the Med’s largest underwater lake, a magical place. Spiaggia della Pelosa is a popular beach in the north to soak up some of the September heat. Alternatively, if you choose the south of the island and Cagliari airport, you will find superb beaches either side of the city. The Costa del Sud’s 12 miles of stunning coastline should keep you busy. Spiaggia Porto Pino is one of the lively and better beaches in the area. The drive east from Porto di Teulada is spectacular as it winds along the coast and up to Capo Malfatano. Spiaggia Piscinni is a great place to stop for a dip en route. Alternatively, go east to Villasimius and the Costa Rei, a popular area due to its magnificent white beaches. The Stagno Notteri lagoon is also a particularly pretty spot.
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recommend basing yourself around the Banglamphu area of the city as its proximity to the major sights is ideal for a short stay and the area is great fun. Banglamphu is home to the lively Khao San Road and no stay in Bangkok would be complete without a trip to this travellers’ mecca. Love it or hate it, this backpacker high street of bars and guesthouses is definitely worth a look. Utilise the nearby Chao Phraya Express Boat stop (near the 18th-century Phra Sumen Fort) for a scenic route to the southern regions of the city. From the boat, you can reach the unmissable Grand Palace and Wat Pho (home of the reclining Buddha). You can also hop off further down the river at Peninsula Pier for the rooftop Sky Bar atop the State Tower, which is a fantastic place to go for sweeping views of the city. The 142-acre Lumphini Park is a great spot to go to relax away from the city’s buzz too. If you are in Bangkok over a weekend, head to the popular Chatuchak Market, where you’ll find more than 8000 stalls selling everything from antiques to trainers, and from vintage Levi’s to pythons, all for ridiculously low prices.
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Cool capital Favourable exchange rates means Iceland now welcomes budget travellers with open arms. Here’s our bargain guide to Reykjavik WORDS JENNI SHEPPARD
I don’t want to sound cheap, but an Icelandic hobo just bought me dinner. Reality hits hard as I stagger from a dark Reykjavik bar into blinding round-the-clock light at 4am and collide with the leather-clad chap who introduces himself as Gislin as he rolls down the street. Who could resist such a charitable drifter as he flings his arms round me, proffers congratulations on visiting Iceland and makes straight for the baguette stand? The man’s generosity is typical of the 300,000 Icelanders who embrace a precarious existence on this magnificent island, once known for its high prices and now notorious for Eyjafjallajökull’s disruptive volcanic ash cloud. On the flip side of the financial crisis, excellent exchange rates mean prices are now comparable with London, and cheap accommodation in Reykjavik is booming. I stay at budget digs, the Kex Hostel (see grid) – a former biscuit factory on the edge of town. I only manage
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to grab one night here, such is its popularity, but I can’t resist returning with backpackers and Reykjavikers alike to drink Viking beer in its shabby-chic bar and lounge among recovered bric-a-brac and aged sofas. Seeking an alternative, I check into the HI Reykjavik Downtown Hostel. I’m suffering a stinking hangover after my night on the tiles so the friendly receptionist, Klara Arnalds, recommends “hotpot hopping” in the geothermal pools of Vesturbær baths, which offers free entry to those with a Reykjavik Welcome card, costing £10 for 24 hours. I can’t resist the idea of soaking in seething hot spring pools of varying temperatures alongside the locals, and soon the morning after the night before is melting away under the warm hubbub of hotpot gossip. The card also gives me free access to Reykjavik’s museums, so I spend an hour fascinated by the fiery illusions surrounding an excavated 10th-century longhouse at the underground Settlement Exhibition (minjasafnreykjavikur.is). This tale of Vikings settling on such explosive terrain spurs me on to discover the region on a Golden Circle tour. I catch
my breath amid crashing double cascades, tiptoe through temperamental geyser fields and feel humbled by mighty tectonic rifts. A truly unmissable experience, no matter what your budget. Reykjavik Excursions (re.is) offers one-day tours for £47, but carpooling at samferda.net/ or travelling by the Iceland On Your Own bus (re.is/IcelandOnYourOwn) is a cheaper way to explore this alien land. Awed but weary, another hotpot visit beckons, this time to the Blue Lagoon (bluelagoon.com), a bizarre spa supplied by a geothermal plant on the road between Reykjavik and Keflavik airport. Admittedly, with entry at £26, it’s not exactly budget, but I can’t resist the chance to cake myself in silica mud and float on milky-blue waters, surrounded by blackened lava rocks, overwhelmed by just how weird this feels. To get the most milky-blue bang for your buck, it is cheapest to combine spa entry with travel to or from the airport. Reykjavik Excursions run all-inclusive Blue Lagoon buses with onward transfer for £33pp. Returning to Reykjavik, I decide on a more authentic commune with nature and board one of the boats frequently leaving the harbour for the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to spot something special in Iceland’s crisp waters. Topping anything the Blue Lagoon has to offer, I am treated to majestic minke whales performing multiple dives as puffins flap frantically overhead. Elding (elding.is) runs ››
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three-hour voyages but before paying £42, check its website for the probability of sightings. After seeing these animals in their natural habitat, it’s difficult to wander the streets behind the harbour, where pricey Icelandic eateries serve up whale steak and roast puffin. But I assuage my conscience in the myriad foreign downtown restaurants, which serve up deliciously fresh budget dishes and still maintain an Icelandic edge. How can I resist an earthy barley risotto grown in volcanic ash? Investing in a hearty meal proves crucial when I join the runtur (round tour) on Friday and Saturday night, as Reykjavik fills with rowdy Icelanders letting loose until the early hours. A trip to Vin Bud (vinbudin.is), the government alcohol outlet, gets me some cheap pre-pub drinks and I soon find myself dancing like a maniac in indie joint Hressó (hresso.is). When free entry and live music are guaranteed until 5am, why not let loose yourself? Who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to bump into Gislin while you’re there. ❚ Jenni flew to Reykjavik with Iceland Express, and stayed at Kex Hostel and HI Reykjavik Downtown Hostel. visiticeland.com
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Uno in downtown Reykjavik has an extensive menu of deliciously fresh Italian dishes, including generous helpings of bruschetta from £5 and half portions of pasta for those with smaller appetites – or pockets. Try the Byggotto risotto, made with Icelandic barley grown in volcanic ash (uno.is).
Fabrikkan is an award-winning diner popular with stylish Icelanders. Here you can enjoy square gourmet burgers in black leather booths. The speciality burgers have names like Miss Reykjavik, The Trucker and The Big Bo and are all priced about £10. Vegetarians can swap meat for Portobello mushrooms (hamborgarafabrikkan.is).
Recommended by Icelanders and Jamie Oliver, homely seafood restaurant Thrir Frakkar is the place to splash out on traditional Icelandic dishes such as plokkfiskur (fish stew) or saltfiskur (salted cod) for about £20. If your conscience and stomach can handle it, smoked puffin and whale steak are also available (3frakkar.com).
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The government-owned off-licence Vin Bud is the only shop permitted to sell alcohol. You must be at least 20 to purchase beers, wines and spirits here, but prices can be a third of what you pay in a bar. A good way to start a bar crawl on a budget (vinbudin.is).
The lighter it grows outside, the darker it gets in Hresso, a rowdy bar on Austurstræti with free entry, a casual dress code, live music and a dancefloor. Expect nothing less than an Icelandic band in a fit of musical passion, a drummer who beats his kit to death and a singer who croons from the rafters (hresso.is).
Since opening in 2001, Nasa has been Reykjavik’s biggest nightclub and the capital’s main live music venue, playing host to both homegrown and foreign acts, such as indie band Cut Copy and Icelandic DJ Páll Oscar. Doors open at midnight and admission costs £5-15 (nasa.is).
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About 15 minutes’ walk from downtown Reykjavik, Kex Hostel is the place everyone is talking about. Open since April, this former biscuit factory has become the drinking and sleeping venue of choice for Icelanders and backpackers alike. Dorm beds and private rooms start at £20pppn (kexhostel.is).
Located on a residential street within walking distance of downtown Reykjavik and Vesturbær pool, Guesthouse Butterfly is a cheerful bright-green, family run property. Sunny single rooms are available from £69pn, including breakfast (butterfly.is).
Situated in renovated 18th-century buildings above the 10th-century Settlement Exhibition, pastelcoloured Hotel Reykjavik Centrum could be mistaken for a painstaking recreation of 1900s Reykjavik. Beautifully furnished double rooms cost from £83pn. Suites and apartments are also available (hotelcentrum.is).
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Hip city This is Sarajevo in 48 hours WORDS JANINE KELSO
DAY 1: 09:00 Begin your day like a local by sipping a strong Bosnian coffee from a tiny cup in one of the city’s 1300 cafes. 10:00 Visit the spot where the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot at Latinska Cuprija (Latin Bridge), an Ottoman bridge crossing the Milijacka river. The assassinations of the Archduke and his pregnant wife, Sophie, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in 1914 prompted Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia, and is believed to have sparked World War I. 11:00 Head to nearby main shopping drag Ferhadija where you’ll find shiny boutiques and pedestrianised paved streets dotted with Sarajevo Roses – flower-like scars in the concrete caused by motor shells explosion and painted blood-red. These are anonymous memorials to the civilians tragically killed by Serbian criminals during the four-year siege. 13:00 Wander over to the city’s atmospheric warren of narrow streets that make up the Turkish Quarter to grab a traditional lunch. Bosnian House (bosanskakuca. com) is a good option, decked out in antique furniture and 19th century Balkan paintings. The eatery serves up local favourites, from Sogan dolma (stuffed vine leaves) to cevapcici (sausage in pitta). Dishes from £3. 14:30 Follow the clink-clink of the coppersmiths at work in Kazandziluk (Coppersmith Street) where you’ll find shop shelves loaded with Turkish-style coffee pots sitting alongside bomb cartridge shells and deactivated bullets that have been beautifully engraved and transformed into umbrella stands, vases and pens that make for novel souvenirs. Mosques 74
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and minarets spike the sky in this part of town, and streets are lined with coffee shops, where your drink is served in a copper pot with a Turkish delight. 15:00 Enjoy a gloriously gloopy hot chocolate, a cup of tea or something stronger at Zlatna Ribica (5 Kaptol) – meaning ‘goldfish’ – an intimate cafe decorated with antique mirrors, lamps and the eponymous goldfish that swims around a glowing vase-shaped bowl. Menus are contained within books attached to the ceiling via telephone cords. Don’t leave without visiting the glamorous toilet, which is tarted up like a ladies’ powder room. You’ll find a mindboggling array of toiletries and a tiny television to entertain punters when on the throne. 21:00 After enjoying dinner in the Turkish Quarter, drop into cool haunt Kino Bosna (facebook.com/kinobosna), a cinema-turned-hip-bar and live music venue where punters sit in the former movie seats, drinking beer in a smog-filled room while dogs roam about. DAY 2: 09:00 Chow down on a pastry at 24-hour bakery Pekara Edin (Mula Mustafe Baseskije 69, Bascarsija). 10:00 If you’re visiting in the searing heat of summer, cool off at Terme Ilidza (terme-ilidza.ba/en), a water park with a clutch of geothermally heated indoor and outdoor pools, and water slides. Open from May to September. 12:00 Soak up the city’s multicultural side by visiting its myriad religious places of worship. The medieval Orthodox Church (Mula Mustafe Baseskije 59) contains tapestries and old manuscripts, and is in the same road as the neo-Gothic Catholic Church and the
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Latinska Cuprija, where Franz Ferdinand was shot
Jewish Museum, once a synagogue, which dates back to 1581. 14:00 School up on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s history by dropping into the National Museum (zemaljskimuzej. ba) for displays on Bosnian music and natural history. 15:00 Within spitting distance of the National Museum is Tito’s Cafe (caffetito.ba), full of memorabilia of Yugoslavia’s popular former leader and easy to find thanks to the World War I tanks standing proud outside. 16:00 Just outside Sarajevo is the Tunnel Museum (Tuneli 1 Ilidza), which showcases the surviving 25-metre section of the 800-metre tunnel dug under the airport by besieged citizens to allow food, weapons, manpower and aid to come into the city during the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo. Besides two rooms filled with war memorabilia, you can walk through the section of the tunnel that helped Bosnians survive the attack from Serbian nationalists. 20:00 For sweeping views of the city at night, walk up steep and winding streets to locals’ favourite Kod Bibana (biban.co.ba), a bar/ restaurant set on top of a hill. In summer, sit in the garden and order a beer and ustipci – massive doughballs served up with a big dollop of sour cream. Janine Kelso travelled to Sarajevo with Balkan Road Trip. Four nights on the Route 30 tour (two nights in Mostar and two nights in Sarajevo) is £236pp, including B&B accommodation, transport and a local guide balkanroadtrip.com. Fly to Sarajevo with Austrian Airways from £281 return. austrian.com
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Magical Machu Picchu Celebrate the centenary of the re-discovery of the Lost City with a tourist-free trip to the jaw-droppingly stunning ancient site WORDS JANINE KELSO
WHEN TO GO: After the rainy season, which lasts from October I feel like I’ve just stepped into an Indiana been on most travellers’ radars for some until March. Avoid heavy rains of Jones movie. Perched on a lush-green ridge time, with millions having followed the January and February. Peak season sandwiched between two mountain peaks famous trek, there’s a renewed buzz about is June until August where prices and shrouded in swirling mists that lend the place this year as the ancient site are high. Avoid the crowds and the the site a mythical glow, Machu Picchu is celebrated the anniversary of its re-discovery rain by visiting in April or May. an arresting sight. After undertaking the last month. four-day, 26-mile Inca Trail trek where we With its remote setting 120km from CURRENCY: Peruvian Nuevo grapple with crumbling stone steps and Cusco, Machu Picchu lay forgotten – well, Sol (PEN). 1 GBP = 4.50 PEN. steep gradients with the aid of Popeyeby Westerners anyway – for 400 years until ACCOMMODATION: A strong porters, we are rewarded at dawn it was unearthed in 1911 by American dorm bed at Pariwana Backpacker with a sunrise over one of the world’s top archaeologist Hiram Bingham – who was Hostel in Cusco is £4.93pppn when archaeological sites. Choking back tears, apparently the inspiration behind the booking with HostelBookers.com. there are hugs among our group. The trek Indiana Jones character. A private room at The Point was challenging, but it was worth the Of course, the natives had known Arequipa Hostel, in Arequipa, is blisters and lack of oxygen for this about the existence of the site long before £7.37pppn when booking with drop-dead gorgeous view. Bingham decided to swing by, but they Hostelworld.com At this hour, the site is gloriously quiet and SEE: peru.travel understandably wanted to keep it to free from the busloads of snap-happy tourists themselves. In fact, some Peruvian scholars donning multi-coloured ponchos and hats with earflaps that are fed up with Bingham being hailed a swashbuckling hero, arrive mid-morning. For now, though, it’s only the llamas because he looted the site, taking 44,000 skulls, bones and that wander between the ancient stones, chomping on the artefacts to Yale University, 366 of which were returned to fluorescent-green land speckled with wild orchids. Peru in March. We meander freely around the labyrinth of pathways that After four days of uphill tramping, our burning muscles separate the crumbling buildings, but as I step on to a grassy are in need of some TLC, so once we return to the nearby verge to snatch a quick photo with a llama, a pink ribbon village of Aguas Calientas, we head to the hot springs from adorning its ears, a guard blows a whistle at me. Oops, which the town owes its name. I’ve strayed off the track. Soaking in an outdoor hot tub filled with toasty As we stroll around the fabled ruins, our guide, Alf, gives sulphurous waters of 38C, far-reaching mountains providing us a potted history of the place. Built circa 1450 for the Inca the verdant backdrop, my friend and I are soon joined by emperor Pachacuti, the Lost City was once a plush palace two local teenagers, who waste no time in telling us about used by noble folk but it was deserted during the Spanish their ancestors. invasion. According to legend, the Incas chose to build their “I’m descended from the Incas,” one of them tells us precious citadel here because of auspicious astronomical and proudly. “We’re a tall and strong tribe.” Standing just over geographical factors. 5ft, he doesn’t look too tall to me but I’m impressed that We’re led to the Intihuatana stone, a ritual rock the locals are so rightly proud of their roots. positioned to point directly at the sun during the winter Even though we’ve become accustomed to the high solstice. We are instructed to press our hands to it to “ground altitude, we indulge in a cup of coca tea, the alpine beverage ourselves” and feel its hidden energy. I don’t know if it’s the of choice in Peru. Known as “the divine plant” by the Incas, rock itself or the drama of Machu Picchu, but I feel as though coca leaves increase the absorption of oxygen into the I’ve been touched by something magical. blood. Cocaine is made from coca leaves but drinking coca Although a visit to Machu Picchu via the Inca Trail has tea doesn’t result in any unnatural high – or cause any ›› TNTMAGAZINE.COM
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Power to the poncho: Peruvian locals damage to your health. Leaving behind the remains of Peru’s Inca civilisation and the country’s most-visited site, we take a night bus to the dusty city of Nazca where more mysterious legends abound. We’ve come to see the town’s famous lines, created by a civilisation that existed long before the Inca Empire. Only viewable from the sky, we head to an airfield where we climb aboard a six-seater Cessna. “I hope you ladies have strong stomachs,” the pilot grins as we get strapped in. “A lady threw up during the ride yesterday.” With these reassuring words at the forefront of my mind, I clutch a plastic bag and hope my breakfast stays where it is. As the small plane swings from side to side, I feel faintly nauseous but I soon forget all feelings of sickness as a raft of fascinating shapes springs into view. There’s a giant pair of hands, a monkey, a condor and a humming bird amongst the cartoon-like geoglyphs. Aside from animals, there are perfectly shaped triangles, rectangles and straight lines. Etched into the dry plains by the ancient Nazca people more than 2500 years ago, the lines were only discovered in the 1920s when commercial airlines started flying over the desert. Following reports by pilots who had spotted the mysterious shapes, North American historian Paul Kosok went to take a closer look and he is now credited as the official discoverer. Created by removing reddish-coloured pebbles that swathe the landscape, exposing the stark-white earth beneath, the lines have been preserved for so long thanks to the desert’s arid and windless climate which has hindered erosion. After the flight, we head to a small museum by the airfield, which attempts to explain why the Nazca people 78
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created these gargantuan shapes. Baffled scientists and learned folk have spent years coming up with a range of weird and wonderful theories to explain their purpose, especially as they can only be viewed properly from the air. Some have suggested they provided a landing strip for aliens from outer space, while others ascribe the creation of the lines to religious regions allowing the Gods to view them from the sky. As Nazca people were involved in shamanic practices, some think the lines were produced for shamans to fly over after taking psychedelic drugs.
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Two hours from Nazca is the tiny resort of Huacahina, once a retreat for moneyed Peruvians and now a hit with young surfer types who want to give sand-boarding a whirl. Sited next to a palm-fringed lagoon, the region is dominated by giant far-reaching dunes that rise up to 300 metres in height. We take a buggy up to top of the dunes – an adventure in itself as the vehicle keeps breaking down – and then we’re given wooden boards which we strap to our feet. As I’m not much of a surfer, it’s slow progress as I struggle to work my way along the slope. I change tack and sit on the board, speeding down the hill sledge-like for a real adrenalin rush. In a quest to escape the tourist hordes, I decide to take a leaf out of Bingham the explorer’s book and attempt to get off the well-trodden track, heading to the pretty town of Arequipa to see the second largest canyon in the world. Forget the Grand Canyon, the Colca Canyon is twice as deep and doubly impressive.
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While the Inca Trail is famously well-trampled, a two-day trek into the Colca Canyon provides a step away from the gringo massive. As I stand at the rim at dawn, the mistcloaked bottomless pit before me seems other-worldly. As the haze begins to fade, we spot a condor, or Andean vulture, gliding over the canyon from cliff to cliff, riding the thermals, while showing off its three-metre-long inky-black wings. The bird makes a striking sight and soon the canyon is a hive of condor activity, with hundreds of the creatures taking to the sky, thrilling onlookers by flying nearly close enough so that we can reach out and touch them. ›› It’s no wonder the birds inspired what must be the
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world’s most overplayed panpipe tune, El Condor Pasa, covered by Simon and Garfunkel. As the sun rises, the birds disappear to hunt for food and we begin our hike. My heart begins to thump as we begin to descend into the abyss, taking tentative steps, as the path is rocky and slippery. Terraces have been sliced into the canyon’s verdant hillsides, built by the Collagua and Cabana people in the ninth century. Even today, the locals grow their crops in the same way on these huge staircases. Stretching four miles across at some points, the canyon is an impressive site, all green valleys and mighty rivers, flanked by two volcanoes. We set up camp for the night and hit the sack at 9pm as the next day will be an early start. Rising at 4am, my legs turn to jelly as we climb uphill for three hours. At last we’ve made it and we celebrate with a hearty breakfast in the village of Cobanaconde, before driving back to Arequipa. The days of experiencing Peru as an undiscovered destination – as Bingham did 100 years ago – might be over, but my short adventure has proven that it is possible to go places where tourists aren’t cluttering up the sites. ❚
Lord of the board: sandboarding in Huacachina Flying high: condors in the Colca Canyon
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