9 OCT 1993 ilLoluso 1E0 ir29th October 1993 'UDEN UM BRACES ITSELF FOR RENT STRIKE AT 'FAULTY' TOWERS rate residents are staging a off all the time still." rent strike in protest at the Residents are being urged Icatalogue of disasters that to pay their rent cheques into a have plagued their halt holding account opened by The strike was called Leeds University Union and following a barrage or the union will then negotiate problems, including flooding with the university on behalf of and mice, at the hrand new the students. This way, Sentinel Towers. residents avoid being Residents are demanding a automatically evicted for not reduction in rent and in the paying. length of contracts. Jason Proctor. first year But the university is medical student and resident refusing to negotiate a rebate said: "The rent strike is despite admitting the definitely right. Sentinel problems in a three page letter Towers is nice place but it is to residents. just not worth the money. £51 The students have rejected per week is too much, it an offer of one week's rent and amounts to more than the a microwave per parlour entire grant. compensation from Carl "There are just so many Potter, the director of little things wrong. For the Residential and Catering amount we are paying you Services. don't expect to find mice in the The students are kitchen and the fire alarm demanding a reduction in their going off all the time." rent from £51 to 4:40 and rent Ceri Nursaw said: "We to be charged for 39 weeks have already discussed it with instead of 52. our solicitor. We are Leeds University Union is demanding as compensation supporting the residents. Ceri £51 for the two weeks Nursaw, LUU Welfare disruption at the beginning of Photograph by Sam Greenhill Secretary, remarked: "The term. We are going to go all Sentinel Towers is plagued with problems and sky high rents were the last straw rent at Sentinel Towers is more the way on this one." strike. graduates and overseas residents are expected to pay things have heren out of our than the amount of the full She added: "The account Some of the blame has students would be living there. "energy costs", which have control. we have never offered maintenance grant." we have set up is to prove that been attributed to the policy of However. there weren't been quoted as at least £50 for a free week's rem before and Resident Clary Ng said: the students are able to pay the last year's Exec. They knew enough to till the complex so this term. overall we have been very "People here do not think it rent but do not want to. that the accommodation was the rooms were allocated to The Director of Residential sympathetic At a meeting on Monday, and Catering Services, Carl goes far enough. Many of the £51 and for 52 weeks, but did first years.On top of rent Reporter< Smn Roe_ John Rcvill 52 out of the 60 students that not protest at the time because which is £300 greater than the Potter said "We hove done problems here stilt have not And Manua ficatwhanir been fixed. The tire alarm goes attended voted for the rent they assumed that only post- full maintenance grant. everything we can, but some

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UNIVERSITY GF LEEDS 2 News Handy OGM Success hints for Who you gonna call? students The much-publicised record of student hosts have been WI to and blows smoke rings in the Ian MacLellan, apathy was put on hold this week when the roam the streets of H\ Amelia Hill kitchen of a student house in latest Metropolitan University OGM was Leeds University' Leeds 6 unhindered Hyde Park" he said. declared quorate ter-N.3 Paul Greenough., • G Union Housing this Halloween. it was revealed Society., will take you on a Other spook spats include a Under discussion were the issues of racism journey to chill the very depth toilet in Richmond Mount Welfare Officer has this week. compiled a 'list of and government proposals for student union of your souls. where student's heads will After. Leeds University's top tips to help reform. The agenda attracted the first quorate DIGEST Apparently there are aver audience of the year. very 014 n 'Ghostbusters' mysteriously he wept upon and students eat down 25 ghostS in Leeds worth admitted that this year they a locked room where the theW iiiirr,1!-1:111,%,rit ren.s% Elaine Ratcliffe, VP Education and NEWS 2,3,4,5 will he leaving students to fend investigating. ailing sounds of Depeche Campaigns at LMU. said: very pleased at the response to the OGM - the issues under COMMENT 6,7 for themselves - because of Mark Carter. President of Mode can be heard. Matthew Raper. early Monday morning Ghoul, says that the ghosts So when on this dark, dank He advises hard-up discussion obvionsty concerned students. ARTS 8,9 lectures. tend to adopt the Halloween night you hear students to save on '1 hope that the next OGM - when the But during the week the characteristics of the house strange moans Pram deserted heating costs by agenda will include government plans that MUSIC 10,11 restrict a GP's prescription of the low dose Leeds Universitvs resident they occupy. attic rooms, who you gonna using draft pill - will he equally as popular," CLASS/JAZZ .... 12 ghostbusters. the Ghoul "One ghost smokes dope excluding tape un BOOKS 13 doors. plastic sheeting for NY Rag on the Run FOCUS 14,15 double glazing and • • • • • • & • • • • • • • • • • ••• • tin foil un radiators CULTURE 16 With hangovers from the Beer Festival Bitter pill for women to reflect heat back THE GUIDE .. 17-23 into rooms still hurting, Leeds Rag maintained the CLASSIFIEDS 24 Other suggestions momentum this week with another night include cooking of charitahle liver-bashing writes Liz TRAVEL 25 communally to cut Weselhy. SPORT ... 26, 27, 28 down on gas used. Three hundred and eighty people and using showers organised themselves into fifty teams to instead of baths. embark upon the renowned Otley Run. For more Despite an approximate 3,000 pints being POLICY . consumed, only £250 was actually raised. nutirrnat If in on how to cut down on But Paul Knight of Rag remained positive: Leeds Student is an independent bills. contact British "The prime objective of the event was not Newspaper serving students at Gas on 11274 to raise money, but to promote awareness. Leeds University. Leeds 733311, or This year's Otley run was the biggest Metropolitan University and Yorkshire yet". other colleges in and around Electricity - 0345 With tantalisingly few tales of Leeds. Alt our journalists abide embarrassment, and a "surprisingly small by a code of conduct. but if you amount of chunder", the evening was have any complaints please obviously a clean success, contact the Editor. Anti - harassment Leeds Student Newspaper Prices "to rise" Leeds University Union Week • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PO Box 157 Pie; Ed Crispin Union bosses have claimed that prices will Leeds LS I ILTH A major public he two Leeds Universities status and may have to pay up to rise if the University continues with plans By Gareth Hughes awareness to contract out the catering services at Editor I are to co-ordinate an thirteen pounds for three months campaign - The Leeds University. Richard Fletcher awareness campaign following supply. Leeds Anti-Racial stronger pills, which are Sutcliffes, a division of Granada PLC, controversial new government Amber Dalton, a Second Year Harassment Week Deputy Editor potentially more harmful. have recently taken over the catering at proposals to phase out free FrenCh student, at Leeds is to be held Sam Greenhill Medical expert Professor Park Lane College and Goldsmiths. supplies of certain oral University, reacted angrily to throughout the City Assistant Editor John Guillebaud said: "People According to Phil Booth, UNISON contraceptives. news of the proposals: "I am this week. John McLeod react differently to the same spokesperson, prices rose at Park Lane The types of pill that could be outraged. Birth control should be The campaign is Chief News Editor affected, such as Marvelon. medication. We need to be able available to everyone, no matter college following the take-over by to offer them a choice": Not only being run by the Sutcliffes. "The price of milk rose from Rosa Prince Semodene and Minulet, are what their circumstances." Leeds Multi- popular among young women, would some female students be Anyone interested in 36p to 44p. toast from 12p to 18p, and Assitant News Editors Agency Racial and particularly students. forced to take a type of pill protesting against the apples from 20p to 40p, a 15% price rise. Marlyn Beauchamp Harassment Group If implemented. the plans unsuited to their needs, but it is government plans should attend However, the most notable increase was in Helen Crossley to to combat the would mean that the safer, also feared that the new the price of the popular 99p breakfast. John Revill a meeting at the LMU at I pm on rise of racism lower-dosage pill% would be proposals could precipitate a 4 November. Ann Furedi, all the which now costs £1.78. Matt Roper sharp rise in unwanted across the city. removed from the prescription Birth Control Trust, will also he Leeds Anti-Fascit Focus Editor lists and would instead he pregnancies. speaking about ihe proposals Helen Sage Women wanting to continue Action, a member available over-the-counter from during Healthy Sex week at of this group is Fire Alarm problems pharmacies. Doctors would then using the safer pill would no • • • • • • • • OOOOOOOOOO • • • Arts Editors Leeds University, which starts on currently working be under pressure to encourage longer be able to claim Problems with Leeds University Union's Liz Ekstein 15 November. with Leeds Emma Hartley women to change to older but exemption because of student See Spotlight Page 7 fire alarms have continued this week, University and writes Richard Fletcher. Music Editors LMU. as well as On Wednesday night the alarms were Alex Sanders Welfare Services to accidentely triggered by sensitive smoke Johnny Davis improve the support sensors in the Riley Smith Hall. The Union Class/Jazz available to was cleared in under ten minutes, despite students who have Mark Funnel] Uni hall wash-out a problem with emptying the Riley Smith Books Editor been victims of Hall. Approximately four hundred gig- racial harassment. John McLeod An annual scavenger hunt to ascertain its cause." goers continued oblivious as the band ..held at a Leeds University By Charlotte Lomas They also aim to The Guide Residents remained played on drowning the alarms. hall of residence ended in ensure that all Stephen Hill convinced that the events were The new fire alarm has been plauged with chaos when gallons of toilet The damage was described incidents are Juliente Garside related. Student Will Benedikz problems since it was installed in water flooded a corridor. as "adequate enough for said: "People were trying to reported so that it September. Sports Editor Bemused students at concern" by one sub-warden, nick anything - traffic cones. can be combatted. Roger Domeneghetti Charles Morris hall watched as who went on to deny the For Sale signs and even a Events planned the water poured down a rumour that the ball cock had MacDonalds chair. include a 'Rock Leeds Student still needs staircase before reaching the been stolen as part of the "The chair in question was against Racism' Junior Common Room. scavenger hunt. allegedly returned after the concert, and new staff. If your interested First year student Tim "Something went amiss 'Wrestle against NEWSDESK student thief was caught on in writing for your student Pollard remarked: 'The water independent of the scavenger video camera." A Racism'. The week newspaper pop into either 314251 DAY came out of the cistern and hit hunt," he said. "We're still will end with the resident who preferred to our Leeds University Union 434727 NIGHT the ceiling. It flowed down the waiting for the report from the remain anonymous said: "The signing of a special corridor, down the stairs and plumber. It was an unfortunate Hall is really embarrassed si•ning of an Anti- office or LMUSU office. into the J.C.R." situation and we're still trying about the whole thing." racism charter.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 News 3 From blind date to blind hate t's not often that a Leeds before finally being chosen to breakfast the next morning. I "I was very worried about R student appears in front of appear on the show, ?vlatt Roper thought he had been beaten up. slagging him off to the camera. Ia nationwide audience ot However the date didn't go "He seemed to think that I But a lot of the stuff you say 19 million people_ But for ton well for Joanna. Forced to the show. She had her own would want to carry on the about each other at the end is Joanna Burton. a second year choose between three less than personal floor manager and `relationship'. He said that he scripted." History student at Leeds gorgeous 'bunks'. she plumped staff. Everyone just grovels to found me phyisically and So what of the question University, an appearance on for the one with the nicest her." cerebrally attractive, but in the everyone wants to know: how everyone's favourite TV show. name. Joanna picked out a trip to end he was just obsessed with much shagging goes on? Blind Date. has meant celebrity However, when the screen Sweden, which would normally himself. According to Joanna there is status among Leeds' TY went hack Joanna was not have been her perfect "I think it's safe to say that plenty of dirt to spilt 'There addicted student population. impressed by her dream date: destination - if it hadn't been this will not he another Blind certainly are rumoured orgies. Joanna described reaction "It was a total shock. I was for her date. Date marriage." You can tell which couples to the show as: "Unbelievable. trying my best to look pleased. "He was drunk and Joanna was also have shagged straight away by Complete strangers have been But all I could think was that obnoxious all the way through disappointed that the she the way they talk about each stopping me in the street to ask no one could he that ugly." the dale," Joanna said. "He didn't have more time to enjoy other on TV. E%eryone gets me about it. Everyone wants to According to Joanna, Cilia was very arrogant, totally in herself during the trip: "The 'together' at the parties after know what Cilia was like? who was not a lorra laughs either: love with himself. When we whole date thing is very the shows - if you understand snagged who? All the dirt." "The less said about her the went to a club on the first artificai. You never have any me. But that is totally separate Joanna was selected from better, she didn't take any night, he cleared off with two privacy because there are from the actual show. In the 6,000 date hungry applicants, interest in us at all. The only Swedish girls to an all-night always ten crew members end it's a good way to meet getting through two auditions time I spoke to her was during party and didn't turn up until going around with you. people. NO* happy ending for ,!Hanna Govt minister visits Leeds Housing week A government minister was eeds City Council has claims three people-die in fires ..confronted by angry By Sam Mouritford Llaunched a winter safety in bedsits and shared houses demonstartors when he visited initiative to improve standards in every week Leeds University Union on could come to Parliament. private rented accomodation in s Smelt gas? Then go along to Wednesday. Ellie Dashwood of the the city. writes Al Gardner, LUU's I-lousing Week, writes Tim Boswell Under-Secretary Revolutionary Communist • The campaign aims to remind Tins Gallagher The events will of Stare for Higher and Further Students said that she was not owners and managers of run from Wednesday 3rd to properties of their responsibility Education was confronted by surprised by Mr. Boswell's Friday 5th November in the ter maintain standards in haste Ellie Dashwood of the response and that it was was " a Riley Smith Hall and include a services Amenities such as Revolutionary Communist party classic MP's avoidance of the series of talks on student rights baths, toilets and emetgencs as he tried to get to ameeting issue. and safety for those liking in arrangements are among those with sabbatical officers from In the half hour meeting with private rented accornmialion. deemed cruc I Salo) LUU and LMUSU sabbitical officers from LMU The week is deemed Campaign Packs wall he sera to He refused to give any and LUU the minister discussed particularly relevant killowing landlords to remind them of their assurance that he would attend a the planned refornis of student the deaths of two Li v erpt tot obhgattons, public meeting of students in mums. students_ poisoned by carbon Environmental Health Leeds to discuss Government Mark Walton, Cknnmunications monoxide front their gas fires, inspectors are combing Leeds policy towards higher education Secretary. said: " I felt that it was last March, bedsit land issuing orders to when he visited Leeds Unikersitk almost a waste of time. it was just a Representatives from West landlords to raise property Linton on Wednesday. PR exercise for him and he wasn't Yorks Fire Service, the Gas standards. and closing down Consunier Yorkshire A. the Leeds University- VC. intrested in hearing our opinons, houses that are Judged to he Electricity and West Yorkshire Alan Wilson looked on helpless. "He evaded any difficult unlit for habitation. Last month Police will he giving lunchtime He added that he was unable to questions that we put CO him. by alone. two abandoned houses talks. undertake to address such a either arguing that we had were compulsorily purchased Ian MacLellan. LUU's meeting because he lied "over misunderstood the consultation from their landlords to be Welfare Housing OH icer I02 higher education institutions document .'r claiming that for legal brought back into use as rented claimed that although most to look after". reasims tie could not answer. He accomodation. while closure students are now comfortably When pressed about the also took the liberty of selecting orders have been issued on some settled in their dies, some are financial problems of students who he wanted to speak and so basement flats still has file problems. stich as frozen lees and top-up avoided those lie thought were Ens it- won: Mal 1-health He urged students ant to grams, Boswell said " I talk to difficult" 'iffieers point out that they are allow rhemselkes to he %%asked my family.' As well as discussing the not Necking to hound lanlbrds over by !he ir landInrit, He urged those w ho had effect of the reforms on RAG out of business. but hi eneiiumge 'Siutlenic Its my with bud complaints to write to hint. and and _societies Boswell compared them to inuitU;Ori their properly }muslin:0)11041,ms dons have to that he would do his best to student unions U.' trade unions in at a reastsitab Niallilard and to put up with it.' he sid. 'The,- consider what they hail to say. Francirs fascist Spain or communist Russia,. uperade ir rf Tle...cssatS _should find out st h.ir 111,-11 He maintained that students Tim noswen numb proester talk Cluidw,lck Pie: ltd Crispin Campaign for Fiff,kit Rights alit and hnu in e Xcf,_ I Own!

Firework havoc in Leeds six Leeds Metropolitan University Student Union

ith November 5th a week guyers. Geographer at Leeds Waway, the sound of Although by law there are University. said: "I ordered a fireworks has become strict guidelines on selling pizza last night, anti when the Oppose the Government's commonplace throughout fireworks to under 16s. deliverer arrived. he had been Leeds 6, writes Ito ward children as young as use have chased by little kids throwing Maim. been playing with them in the rockets at him." proposal to limit the Not all people are filled with area. It's not only children traditional Bonfire Night cheer One house in Chestnut though who are causing the however, as local children have Avenue lost its roof tiles when problems as some students arc availability of contraception caused mayhem in many numerous low-flying rockets determined to have some fun of streets with their annual were fired at the house: and their own. One resident of assortment of hangers and bangers thrown are often Ebberston Terrace admitted rockets. Windows have been thrown at passing people, or that he regularly fired rockets Thurs 4th Nov 1pm, City Site, Ents Hall smashed and residents placed under police tyres. at the houses opposite -roll on intimidated by penny -for-the - Andy Burne, second year November 6th!

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 4 News

OFF CAMPUS Women stranded at union he Leeds Universits manth, a cut that left Mans By Catherine Needham the t niun's role. "The which they feel should never 5fi Mang POO insurance premium has he disrupted. One female Union women's women to walk home by and Martyn Beachanip VE1'Oen Tminibus service is themselves. rocketed from £27.000 to student said: "The whole again under attack rollowing 1.3.1U Financial Secretary. of eligible applicants, Had £82.000. We considered this thing is disgraceful and F=PM a weekend in which students Elliot Ruebcn. said: "Last younger drivers been unacceptable. and so dangerous. What if uric of us were left stranded hs the weekend we only had use allowed last weekend, the changed the policy," he said. had been attacked while temporary cancellation of drivers to start with, and service would not have been "We's e had lots of walking home on our own?" the service - for the second hen e% ery one of them fdl cancelled. applicants for the driving Sara McDonnell. a second time this month. sick with the flu." Second year student Liz. positions • but that doesn't year English student, said: Splitting Embryos This disruption is the 1,t bus come under fire Magree said: "I object to necessarily mean that "I waited for the minibus on latest in a line of troubles fur its decision to take out putting myself and other they're all suitable" he Friday night as 1 had no Identical babies could soon he horn years which have plagued the an insurance policy which people in danger in an added. money for a taxi home. apart following a medical breakthrough service since September: the lifts the minimum age of attempt to cut costs. It's just But students have reacted When it didn't come i ended in America. service failed to run at all drivers to twenty-five. too dangerous." angrily to this latest up staying the night with The process involves splitting a human 0110 SI eckend earlier this leaving a desperate shortage Ruehen again defended cancellation of a service friends." embryo to produce clones which, in theory. could he implanted one by one to produce twins. triplets or even quads. Although the experiment has sparked a Reform row in the medical world the Rag raiders hit "gay Paris" breakthrough could have its advantages. imminent If a first child needed an organ transplant By Alison Wragg a genetically identical twin could be produced to keep it alive. By Simon Greenhalgh 4 reds students arc has) ritics, supporters. and I preparing for this ∎ ear's k....the remaining mildly Paris Flitch, all competing to interested membership of complete the quickest journey It's The Real the NUS will soon have a liossilde to the French capital. better idea about the future The current record stands Thing of their unions. at a storming five hours. The consultation period although the average remains Russian scientists have come up with a for the Government's around the half-day mark. Yet new drink ready to cis al fizzy drink planned reform of strident the ling-standing record could giants Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Thr unions is scheduled to end well he under threat this year sparkling beverage contains ground on November 1st, and an v.ith the 1993 hitchers facing reindeer antlers and ginseng. official announcement is the added incentive of a expected in the Queen's mystery prize awaiting the speech. first arrival!, No Joke The impact of reforms In IC:-Ii011Nr.: to gars Ihat may well be delayed by a now too Res cm research raw the ntiniber heavy parliamentary dangerous. Myles Brcomet • phone calls reveals N‘ rillOrgm... timetable, and expected coordinator of the event at that one young ho} rang 999 when his resistance to ans changes. both Leeds universities. said: ill It it flare It tnl W cc tahix instead of However, John Patten has "Women are required to he ihe cornflakes for breakfast. pledged to: "do something last in. and first out, of Officers in Taunton. Somerset, Falling asicep on the nay home from Iasi year's Amsterdam hitch about the National Union of vehicles,' he said. meanwhile received a call from a man leave Leeds not having done Office fur either enquiries or hitch can he had for free. If Students"; highlighting a "All hitching must be done complaining that his fish and chip shop it," registration. £50 is raised. the deposit is commitment to reform the in pairs, and information had opened five minutes late. A Those interested in helping The hitch costs include a returned. last remaining dosed shop . booklets are issued prior tit the spokesman said: We get plagued by Rag reach their target of £20 deposit. £8 return ferry A Paris Hitch reunion will The end of official event, along with emergency nuisance calls." £15.000, prepared to he ticket and a £22 coach ticket he held on Wednesday. consultations may be contact numbers." absolutely knackered, and are from Pans to Leeds, December 1st. in the Harvey concluded in November. but He added:It is the biggest free on November 26th, are if you raise £100 for Leeds Milk Bar. coupled with a future 'foot stamping' and best sponsored hitch in the advised to go to the Rag Rag in sponsor money. the French wine promotion. Church brawl debate is certain to follow . country. No student should Three feisty protesters were arrested in a brawl at a church service in central London this week. The Ethiopean Know your Soccer star retires IA Christians were rebelling against the appointment of a new patriarch, Aba ernard Hart, a fourth Dynamic rights By Vincenso Pelosi Paulus. The scrap was witnessed by an Byear Russian student at laine Ratcliffe, VP aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Leeds University, was a year Education and Campaigns phonecalls from his es- who was a guest at the sets ice. E ago described as the \* Careers in at Leeds Metropolitan "midfield general" of the captain , he refuses to re- Loopy Gran University. launched a double championship enter the soccer world. campaign this week to inform winning Charles Morris Peter Chipchase, close International students of what they can do friend and long-time team- To celebrate her 85th birthday Gran, football team. to help prevent Government mate said on the departure Ruby Landgon, took control of a Cessna But an enforced exile in education reforms being of this much lured Marketing plane and daringly looped the loop over the football wastelands of pushed through. write.s the Isle of Thanet. Kent The danger the Ukraine has reduced playmaker: "There can only Relvecti Cunningham. loving pensioner said: "Il was totally Hart to life on the soccer he one loser at the end of the thrilling." The campaign includes an scrapheap. day and that's the game of information stall, which was at Hart said:"A year of football. Beckett Park on Wednesday. obligatory vodka drinking "Obviously the news has Brunswick on Thursday. and and cheap champagne has sent shockwaves in the Visit your Careers Office Balls Up for further details today is at LMU's City Site today. certainly taken its toll. Yorkshire District League. The stall contains a display A poor juggler who placed his nine hulls Football was my passion but Personally i'm as sick as a on the ground while using a cashpoint in explaining the Government's after five abysmal parrot but you've got to Wincester,Vhants was in for a hard lesson proposals and their effect on performances for Leeds respect the lad's decision." in the evils of human nature. A thief Leeds Metropolitan University Medics & Dentists I've This sorry tale is sadly nicked his balls. Students' Union. decided to hang up my boots just one of many cases where Ratcliffe aims to provide for good." our budding English players students with information on Three games a week was lose their way in foreign ZENECA how to help the Student the norm for Hart in the climes only to return to Pharmaceuticals Union. promoting action such first two years of his realise that the game they Compiled by Florence Wilson as signing petitions and university life, but now, once loved has sadly lost its first ame applicalions iris writing to local MP's. despite frequent pleading appeal.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993

News Focus 5 A WEEK OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN LEEDS 6 THE MOST BURGLED STREET IN TAIN? In the week that Chestnut Avenue, Leeds 6, was dubbed the 'most burgled street' in Britain, Leeds Student looks at two examples of crime and violence in `studentland; Violence against students living in Leeds has been rising for years as Leeds 6, home for the majority of students, has deteriorated from a once leafy suburb into a ghetto of poor quality rented housing. The inevitability of burglary has turned the area into an insurance blackspot, with insurance companies refusing to insure Leeds 6 residents or charging them the same premiums as those living on the infamous Moss Side estate in Manchester. Violence and harassment of students is now commonplace and only the worst cases raise the eyebrows of fellow students.

`You'd go to the pub and expect to be robbed when you got back'

Ctudents living in Leeds 6 more houses will have been Frightening tales of student University and former on escalating premiums, many problem? I can't remember the lahave been alarmed to burgled but not reported to the vulnerability in Chestnut resident, said: "We had to refuse to accept that the local last time I saw a police ear discover that they are living in police because people who Avenue have become move out because we were police are doing everything in down this road. what has been dubbed aren't insured feel they don't legendary. burgled seven times and our their power to help the They may argue that 'Britain's most burgled street.' need to." One resident, who asked not landlord refused to fit a situation. there is an extensive plain Chestnut Avenue, lying at The street is believed to to he named, said that on the burglar alarm. It got to the Gareth Stanought, a second- clothes presence here, but the heart of student bedsit land offer such easy pickings to night of the England-Holland stage where you'd go to the year theology student and surely what we need is a in the Hyde Park area has the local thieves because of its world cup qualifier the street pub and expect to be robbed current resident. hit out at blatantly obvious and dubious distinction of being the blanket student residency. was burgled fourteen times. when you got hack."Although police presence in the area. preventative police influence in most burglar-friendly road in Fleet-footed burglars devote Mark London. a third year residents may he resigned to a "What the hell are the Chestnut ,A venue." the country. substantial time to studying the English student at Lecit. life of insurance claims based police doing ahnut this Another resident. who Of the SA houses in the make-up of a street and the asked not to be named. turned street -14 have been burgled in mu% mesas of its vulnerable his anger im his landlord_ 1le the last ten months alone. residents. ulistinately refuses to fit its And loval police r The detective continued: with a burglar Warm. arguing consinced that the actual "There are gangs of youths that it wouldn't make a number of incidents is even who hang around and wait for difference! I can't enjoy myself higher in what crime experts students to go out and then use when I'm out and the house is have described as "a brute force to break in. They empty, and even when I'm in I playground for thieves." just kick the doors down. feel uncomfortable. It's a "The true figure will he "It's got to be the most nightmare." much higher," one detective is burgled street in Britain. It's The West Yorkshire police reported to have said. "Many frightening," he added. press office told Leeds student that it is doubling the number of officers in relation to this problem, but it was reluctant Suprise attack at Newlands to speculate on whether the street is the most burgled in A second year Computer attacked around here I just had Britain. .,M.Science student was to take it." pushed. kicked and spat upon The incident is the latest of outside the Newlands Pub as he several attacks which have led walked home last Thursday to concern for the safety of Reporting team: Martyn night. students. Beauchamp, Charlotte Describing the attack the Welfare secretary. Ceri Lomas, Phillip Baker, victim said: "I was just walking Nursaw urged victims to report Tim Gallagher. Rebecca along when a guy stepped out in any attack which takes place. Cunningham front of me and spat at me. She said: "Both men and "I tried to get past but he women are getting assaulted but pushed me into the road and aren't reporting it. eithv,_,Chestnut Avenue: Britain's moat burgled street? Picture: Ed Crispin demanded money. because they don't think ift - "He was obviously on serious enough or are scared of something. As I made for the repercusions. Complacent assault: 'He just walked calmly away' pub he started to kick me. We've recently spoken to Walmfley Road. Leeds 6. She into the car with her. complacently away. "I fell powerless act Milgarth Police about such ast Tuesday evening at was only going from her front Ruth screamed and her This is yet another because he was with a gang of attacks and they need people to about 10.45 a friend who had been getting example which highlights the eight others who were all come forward so they can step postgraduate student at door to the car. but as she opened the car door a man into the passenger seat came dangers fur female students shouting encouragement at up patrols in dangerous areas." Leeds University was attacked while getting into grabbed her. running round to help her. in Leeds. him. In the meantime she She tried to close the door She managed to drag the Ruth was not alone and "The landlord of the pub was recommends that students avoid her car. but the man. aged about 25. attacker off but instead of she was only walking about sympathetic but I was told by any areas where there is anti- Ruth's car was parked directly outside her house in stopped her and tried to get running off he walked 10 yards to her car. one of the locals that if 1 gut student feeling.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 6 Comment &Analysis I'm just glad that my parents loved me.... HitOrnalirr: CCOCN are like end keep oat anyone who hen: 1:•. nee ding ■kt,TNe akirilt,C1 tin •ILti !Dia balloons One toile Nth:lure and doesn't quite fit. The result is than ,omeone v.. It h art Theitt are exceptitin1;. hiti they. are the result ts shrivelled wreck viimplacency and self- eeo. 'The. person who rare. T And ally do people behave sioisfava ion. With no one ■11-011-.• in and _suddenly yl.11 At the rime of untrue the Rupert Hamer in this ridiculous self-seeking arOUnd to ask any awkward realise their persvinality has eclair is raLtIlit tip and the les psychological. They questions everyone cart Idled the loam, 01110: V. ttil ten denied alai vita] parental home tired but happy after a Back in this loathsome hanging out vri his tomtit) l_tke on Friday love during their formative years. day's 'mutual masturbation.' office there is no clearer many students he is pretending help. And if that's not enough example than some of the He is pretending he is editor of It is one enormous cry fur ..treed not to stand. Cliques are a fact of student they can always talk dirty 'aiairnalisia' who produee tlits The Sun. not of scane minor minded political maraievering. The assistant news A: WW1, toe. "They form amazingly. over the phone to each other outsized beer mot student paper which roost col' us lie offered the depot). the dim butt eheenul ham Revall, atilekly otay tall apart after about la -w so-and-so is malty I i ha:. loil!.: bee a nos read 4.,n this and only then editorship to the stfuirmy Sam Greenhill, oddly now deputy ho ltaS just handed me a pint. three tents %shell people realise ineompeteta itrol should be ,I111111111 tha t Levi, Arruirrit if we are really bored. rrimitierd to be promoted by.. that they never liked cacti other sacked. etc. etc. ',Ike, awl i tat It RI .Cell can eselusively reveal bow editor, it lir ilereed Diet in stand As for myself. I'm just Like many uns:ci,ily he gained ars position It has against him in the election. um.. aell,ell, baying people any Like most they arc glad that ON parents loved ,noefict,. pmts ofricefice politics' nothing do wah sibility The only reason that I aro pints. a feu tither designed to protect. within me, and personal advaneement is everyilime to do vvith sanall• willing this columnis that I also round LUU Minibuses Any Questions?

Dear Editor hasn't. The truth of the matter is and insurance of their buses The problem is that no this - if we make the same and both of those groups don't DIARY Since there is some confusion insurance company wants to amount of claims we have done have the same accident records I I over the situation with the insure drivers under 25; in the past, next year we will as Societies and women's of winning the grand prize of a union minibuses , 1 thought I students; minibuses; all of the have no minibuses at all. Bear minibus; consequently no one trip to New York, Elliot replied would write to clear a few above who have lost £53,000 in In mind that of the 10 or 15 wanted to insure those two with that the only reason he would things up. 3 years. l approached in the other universities I spoke to under 25 drivers. visit the Big .Apple would be to Three weeks before our region of 40 to 50 different none had a service anything All 1 can do is apologise to check into a rehabilitation policy was due for renewal, I companies. agents and brokers. like Leeds Universities, and those societies which will suffer; centre. The Diary wonders received a letter from our Only seven even agreed to talk any that allowed societies to but I hope you can understand insurance brokers saying that about it; of those two told me use this service would only that we didn't have a choice whether the increasingly public our insurance premium had to get lost after ten minutes permit 25+ drivers. about this - there is only so drug habit of LUIJ's Financial been raised *slightly', in this and a further one after about a 1 think it is also fair to add much money in the pot; it's not Affairs Secretary is affecting case meaning from £27,000 to day. After some bargaining that changes made were about choosing money over his judgement; after ail why £82,000. This is not a figure with the original company, a nothing to do with John Rose - service, but simply choosing to else would he make such stupid that this union could afford slightly reduced figure on the "Coincidentally last year's have a service at all. Any more Unfortunately the comments to a journalist - even if it wanted to and even if basis of the changes you will sport secretary" - and that nut questions, feel free to come and piece that the particularly when he knew that we could, it would be now be aware of - no other only are sports drivers 21+ but see me in Exec. Diary had planned the conversation was being irresponsible to just throw company gave us a workable also action drivers. Why? recorded. money at a problem and hope offer - most said only if all Because sports contribute a Love, Elliot Reuben to run in this it goes away - it doesn't and it drivers over 25. large amount towards the hire LLILT Financial Sec While on the subject of LUU, section has had to Diary was confused by the be withdrawn. remark of an Exec member, Leeds Student probably the most unpopular paper in Leeds? who claims that John Rose We apologise has been nicknamed the Dear Leeds Student- Your comment that 'there has clear that our answerphone gives involved. with training and its 'Teflon man' - or to put it been no attempt to publicise the explanation. apology, and the preparation In this situation. the bluntly, no shit ever sticks to We are wnting in reply to your fact Nigherne cannot currently number for the samaritans. responsible attitude towards our him. article in the latest edition of provide the advice and support Because of your anicle, a far callers is surely to realise our Leeds Student, in the hope that Callers expect when they greater amount of money has had limitations and attempt the To LMUSU where union you will allow us to set the telphone is inaccurate. to be spent repairing the damage fullest coverage we can give. President, Warwick Taylor. record straignt on a number of It was impossible on a tightly- caused by its misrepresentation without putting on someone who seems to be experincing a is so emotionally and phsically unfair accusations levelled at restricted budget. and at a very of the farts. gender crisis, The Diary spotted drained from training and Nightline. short to advertise the fact We would like to apologise to El Presidenre climbing aboard working the phones that they Of the 28 nights we have been that every small number of those callers who tried to use our the union's women's minibus at covered. We service nn the 3 days in question. may not he up to the high running this year, there have nights would not he Beckett Park and inciting that only been 3 nights when we have and reassure all concerned that. standards we have set ourselves. believe our answerphone the driver drops him outside his been unable to provide a normal message. which is only ever now intensive training has How would Leeds Student have front door. Having barged his service, whilst your article, switched off when phones are in finished, the situation is very treated it if a caller had rung up The Diary has 'obtained' a way onto the bus the espically the final paragraph, use. fully explains why we are unlikely to arise again. one of our exhausted trainers and copy of a Network 963 driver and female passengers implies that the entire service is unable to provide the We started off this year with a been inadequately dealt with? kill interview with Elliot Reuben. had to then endure ten minutes completly out of action service. very small number of members. Yours Faithfully t.UU's Financial Affairs of Warwick informing them completely. Your article does not make most of whom were heavily The Nightline Co-ordinators Secretary The off-the-cuff about how important he was comments - which for some Year Sir they play the guitar or church popular press, You partly achieved create apathy. People should he reason have not been broadcast The Diary can reveal that the organ, all christains discover this by using eye-witness at:counts encouraged to think about racism. • WI:112 recorded at the NME identity of the phantom I Air, favourably struck by the (heir faith through Intellectual to de scribe the confusion and even if all they do is wear a hadge Ilia- lino. be eau the scribbler whet added glasses inaccuracies in Rupert processes and not as Rupert nuital antagonism between some and read a leaflet. al least they arc inter iew descfibine h1111%tAf and moustaches to the awful Hamer's article "anyvINV, I supposes "personal crises". protestors anti police. awaie. :1% '.,ached' and then went on pictures of LUU Executive in know that Jesus loves me". One can see however why the However your enmletnnation No matter boss confused the to aditio an unnatural the union foyer none After all one has to feel author might have such a ut she • 'majority of the potato, 11w 'majority' of people connection with drugs. Finally other than RAG sabbatical, rather gratified by any article preoccupation both with good demonstrators ..„ as people who on the march believe in equal when asked what chance lie had Myles Bremener. that infers one is "incredibly looks and personal crises - nice could, return home; removing rights, which is the fundamental good looking" photo Rupert. their Anti-Nazi league badges, point that your paper seems to "Embarrassingly naive" "Ridiculously Happy" impress their fiends with tales of have missed. be positive, however, can describe only police brutality and get on with The Editor Leeds Peter Mallard Rupert himself who has clearly their lives' frankly sickens me. TASC Leeds Student invested little more than his Dear Editor I am not a member of an very limited experince in this ethnic minority. or under threat Leeds University Union Due to constraints on space. article. if he had, he would have Having attended the march and from the BNP or any other a large number of letters P.0 Box 157 realized that there is no such been left confused and searching fascists. so are you saying that I have unfortunately not thing as an exclusively for answers on how to fight should not protest with, and for, Leeds LS1 1 UH been published this week. "handclapping guitar playing rascsim, hoped your paper might those who are? Letters should be addressed to the Editor and clearly marked breed" of Christain; it is simply offfer an alternative to the knee- Views such as this will only Leeds Student apologise to for publication. The deadline for letters is the Tuesday preceeding one form of expresion. Whether jerk sensationalism touted by the serve to alienate the 'majority' and those who have written in . publication.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 Comment &Analysis 7 The University has dumped its problem on the innocent he decision by residents each resident a measley £51 - their first choice of 1 of the beleaguered last year's Exec who did not one week's rent - as rebate accommodation yet it was the Sentinel Towers to go on complain because they for problems which still have only place they were believed places would be rent strike can only be not been put right despite the eventually offered. Applicants applauded. filled by post-graduates and fact that it is the end of week say their requests for Since STODEAT overseas students who could Introweek, four. alternatives were denied. afford the fees. complaints about this so Anyone paying the As a result they have But this does not excuse called "plush" hall have inflated price of this hall - If the building was not that. found themselves having to the Residential and been made in a seemingly £300 more than the ready for students then it is But this is only the tip of live way beyond their means. Catering Services from never-ending torrent. maintenance grant - should the fault of Carl Potter, no the iceberg. Many students The financial pressure on using first years to prevent The Director of not expect to find mice in one else. Students agreed to have complained that they students is bad enough embarrassing vacancies. Residential and their kitchen or to have their pay rent For fully functional were "dumped" in Sentinel without the university If the university could Commercial Services, Carl rooms flooded out because of rooms. Towers because the university authorities helping to topple not fill the hall with people Potter, has written to every faulty showers. If the flats were not ready authorities were unable to fill already hard-pressed people who could afford the rent tenant. apologising for any On top of this fee they are to he lived in then residents places. over the edge. then it should solve the inconvenience caused. also expected to pay "energy should not have to pay until Many say they did not It seems that some of the problem itself, not dump it He has only offered costs". they are. It is as simply as specify Sentinel Towers as blame could he directed at on innocent people. Splitting headache SPOTLIGHT

The government is talking about sex. Gareth Hughes and Anne Duncan peer under the covers to discover what is happening on the contraceptive front.

hat would you do if question of what to do next is faced with possible vital. W pregnancy in your Only recently, a relationship? How would you distraught female student react? Who could you turn rang the Exec office at Leeds to? University Union to ask Two developments have where she could get the taken place in the past week morning-after pill. that may affect your decision. Unfortunately the officer From early next year, the on duty did not know and 'morning-after' pill will be could only suggest the student more readily available. contacted the Citizen's Meanwhile, the Advice Bureau. government announced last Now, the government has week that it is looking to decided that the morning- remove certain types of after pill ought to be available contraceptive pill from NHS over-the-counter at every prescription lists. local pharmacy for £2.50 a Surprisingly, despite pack. years or sex education and Presently, the morning- media coverage, many after pill must he prescribed by a doctor and in certain students still find themselves Thls time, they were lucky. But what do you do it you discover a little split? in situations that they are situations some doctors will unable to deal with. If a not do this if they consider The morning-after pill months supply or switch to pill. pill. condom bursts or comes off the woman has acted can be taken up to 72 hours older and more dangerous Femidoms, the newcomer There has also been no during withdrawal. the irresponsibly. after sexual intercouse has types of pill. on the scene, are more definite link made between taken place. 11 should only be Unwanted pregnancies effective but they are breast and cervical cancer. used, however, in urgent are more common than cumbersome and expensive to However. it has been proven situations because there may people think. buy. They are. ht•oever, that the pill protects against be unpleasant side-effects. Condoms are only 85 to reusable, though they have ovarian and endometrial including sickness and 95 % effective and are not not vet taken off in the 1 K. cancer. vomiting. recommended to prevent In the past, medical The proposal to drop the In a less welcome move, pregnancy alone. Spermicidal experts have linked the pill to safer type of pill is therefore the government is proposing creams. which should be used thrombosis, cervical cancer ironic at hest, dangerous at that safer, but more in conjunction with the and breast cancer. worst. expensive, forms of the pill condom, the femidon and the Of course, modern low- Anyone seeking further should be removed from cap are often forgotten. dosage pills are far safer than information about prescription lists altogether. Despite this, many older forms. In America, contraception should contact To continue using these students still rely soley on the during 1988, six women died The British Pregnancy types of pill. women will have condom hecause of fears of after taking penicillin; none Advisory Service on Leeds to pay up to 4:13 for three 111% and long-term use of the died as a result of taking the 443861.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 Film Festival Irish Reels La Belle Vallee Art Gallen Odeon Cinema !ter the screening of his largely Gaelic pening with a lively conversation between Alanguage film 'La Belle Valley', director Paul O/Shane Connaughton tscreemsfrnes Turner defended what he called its "narrow Left Foot' and the 'Playboys') and Hugh cultural references'. Linehan (editor Film Ireland) ostensibly about Actually, it would be rather hard for any cultural expectations and Irish cinema, Irish film made from a Welsh perspective to have Reels comprised a series of lectures purely Welsh references, because as La Belle Vallee complementary to the Film Festival theme of demonstrates there is so little in that country's I reland and C i Mena '. cultural experience that is sheltered from English Six lectures followed in palatable influence. Set in the wreckage of a minin g sizes ranging from the conventional and more community huddled around a recently closed pit specific such as Dermot Cavagnah's in South Wales, the film observes the subsequent (University Northumbria) analysis of an Mac deterioration and dissipation of a fragile family Daughters of the Dust adaptation of John B. Keanes The Field for unit with unflinching honesty. Kevin, an cinema, to more open-style debates between Odeon Cinema unemployed miner, leaves his girlfriend Sian and MGM Cinema speaker and audience on media portrayal of her two children and ends up homeless. The children turn to alcohol and joy riding. Sian seeks such favourites as politics and sexual politics emember the monotonous, drizzly rain at f you have a story to tell, one of the things to D comfort in the exotic embrace of Nahuel, a Gaelic in Eire and Ulster. 1.‘the beginning of term? Then you'll I be considered is how you're going to tell it. Personally, I found Martin speaker from Patagonia, an ancient Welsh hters Of The Dust director, Julie Dash, understand how 1 felt watching Mac. 1 just Daug WC ()one's (University Ulster) presentation on wanted it to end. It's about three Italian- settlement in Argentina. challenges notions of what cinematic story- the representation of terrorism /freedom American brothers and a building site that "The Argentinian-Welsh perspective is a telling can be whilst black cinema struggles to fighting to be the most thought-provoking. becomes a 'labour of love' - though it certainly typically Welsh perspective. During the war we find a dialectic that works for it_ Using three Northern Ireland Office public was hard work! received many reports from Welsh Patagonians. It is 1902, and the Peazant information ads resembling Coke/Levi style Mac is one of those films vou can't get It also allows a comparison with a time when descendants of African slaves, are preparing campaigns with the obligatory sure-hit sound inside. The beginning is a muddle of arty things were so had in Wales that its people for a move north away from their home on the tracks and a hefty smattering of bloodshed. shots, flashbacks, banal dialogue and moody crossed the world to settle in barren plains at the sea-islands of Georgia. The matriarch Nana e[cCloone showed how the image of the moments with no sense of story By half way feet of the Andes and farm - no prizes for conflicts with her daughter-in-law Haagar, hooded, simian terrorist was being replaced by through I didn't have a due whatwas going on guessing - sheep. over the preservation of identity and the better-looking, Hollywood style anti-hero - fine if it's an Agatha Christie 'who-dun nit', The use of Gaelic didn't exclude in a experience as they picnic on the beach the day These ads seemed to be appealing to women but unfortunately this was more of a hs-hy-do- negative sense, but made me feel like 1 was before they leave. The large and specifically to 'shop your neighbour' it-at-all'. I kept waiting for something peering into another world, and one which was predominantly female family are all forced to The presentations didn't strictly keep tanyflutsgh to happen. but the biggest drama constantly referring back across to mine. This was when the film broke down. By then I'd c hoose between mutually exclusive categories to the promise of defining images in Irish mysteriously failed to excite Channel 4 given up hope. - stay and remain unique, or engage in the cinema but inevitably fell into debates a% err the programmers who refused to buy the script until Some scenes were funny with 'special Turner won the Royal Television Society Award struggle for integration on the mainland. Northern Ireland issue itself. Lacking any moments of male bonding (with each other, for a previous direction. If you missed it at the The narrative of this piece is special publicity, the event was yes, but also with cows. and with cement) and festival, catch it on the box - for something fragmented. and non-linear and it is this aspect embarrassingly badly attended for a two- a wry look at life, but they weren't worth Channel 4 should show more of, it s been long of the film which lends it the considerable university city with a pride of 'Irish Night' sitting through one and a half hours of nothing hard slog getting it there. originality it has. We start with Nana's life as a loyalists young woman so the bulk of the film is a flash tar. Having said that, others in the audience I left not knowing a great deal more mainly the over fifties1 seemed to find it Juliette Garside into the future, where another hash forward about how Ireland should or should not be illuminates the presence of an !inborn child. extremely amusing • I wish I had whatever portrayed in cinema but with a heightened they were haying with their popcorn! Once Upon a Forest Daughters serves as as brilliant expose awareness of the tension, and dilemmas It took director/writer John Turturro of the struggle to find a means of expression - inherent in Ireland' and quite honestly feeling 13 years and a 'mammoth effort' to get Mac' MGM Cinema everything works in terms of symbol. appaled at the state-sponsored adverts the on screen, and sadly it shows. If it were a toss metaphor and disguise. Couched inside Irish have to put up with. ip between Mac and cleaning the cooker. n animated film about rodents in a wood, is Arthur Jafa's sensuous and pictorial personally, I'd give the film a miss. Anot one I would normally take the time to cinematography, the film is a metaphor for Natalie Bright-Bard see, I lowever, Hannah-Barbera's "Once Upon a ifsel• as Nana s voiceover says. 'I am the Vicky England Forest" is not only entertaining, but important. utterance of my name'. Not only is this film We are served up a dose of cute not- rare and delicious visual experience, it is a A Bout de Souffle Ruby in Paradise always- identifiable, woodland 'filling- who valuable new expression of identity. reside in Tirling Forest'. When a lorry carrying Hyde Park Cinema Hyde Park Cinema toxic poisons overturns and explodes. their Liz Ekstein pastoral idyll is polluted. All the mummies and Cadarc1„9 irected in 1959 by Jean-Luc Ruhr! in Paradise is a film about coping The daddies are temporarily gassed, along with The Real McCoy DNeuf de Souffle, meaning breathless. is a l‘heroine is a young American girl who has Michelle, the youngest member of the gang. Jessie French film. On the run from the police escaped the rough environment of her Thus a quest to find special herbs from a tar of the central characters still find time to West Yorkshire Playhouse Tennessee home town "without getting meadow ensues. philosophise on life, death and sex. pregnant or beaten", only to land in the This dangerous mission which he Real McCoy is a light hearted, low budget Set in a Paris of cafes. crooks and stagnant situation of a wintry Florida seaside involves crossing a road(?!), dodging greedy 1 comedy which sees Kim Basinger as a students, the resulting film is simply as stylish resort. The pace of the film starts slow and eagles and being brave in the face of cynical, mother with an unusual profession - hank as hen. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the amoral accelerates, mirroring the transformation of the marsupial bullies from a neighbouring forest, is robber! Karen McCoy has just emerged from and endearing Michel who commits petty boldly undertaken. And needless to say the prison after serving a six year sentence for crimes with childlike exuberance and whose sleepy ghost town into a resort throbbing with life, as summer approaches. fillings succeed. The music is great and while robbery. She really wants to begin a normal lift downfall is brought about by love. Jean Seberg the environmental messages are suitably subtle Just as she has managed to secure her but her ex-convict tag means she is unable to is the beautiful American student who is the and simple for the audience this U rated film shopgirl job, a flirtation with the manageress' find decent work or regain access to her now object of his affections. She cant decide if she's attracts, they are direct enough to meet its older slimeball of a son leaves her not only estranged son. in love or not and turns him into the police to viewers with equal poignancy. The romantic interest, as well as most find out - with fatal results. humiliated (she realizes that she is one in a If our world is ever going to be 'saved', of the comedy, is provided by Val Kilmer, who The whole is set to a jaunty 50s long string of flings) but also ultimately costs then this kind of cinematic animation is vital plays a blundering robber much in awe of the cartoon-style soundtrack and Godard himself her her job. Ruby's second boyfriend is culture for our younger generation and, surely, infamous McCoy. Terrance Stamp is plays the police informer. Don't see the tacky apparently every girl's dream: caring, sensitive not beneath our own dignity. As someone once unconvincing as a sinister criminal who Hollywood remake with Richard Gere, go see and intelligent, but is not capable of said,. 'I believe the children are Our future, teach attempts to entice McCoy back into her old the real thing instead. understanding Ruby's own priorities. Its an them well and let them lead the way.' profession: when gentle persuasion fails he Eleanor Rose interesting point in the film, as we see how Sara Buys resorts to kidnapping her son as a means of well-meant comments and gestures can blac nevertheless sound patronizing and superior kmail"Fhe limited resources available are from the needy person's point of view. !apparent in the spartan number of action This is one of the best independent ,locations, which lends the film a synthetic feel. American films I've ever seen. It can be slow, 'The plot is essentially formularised and but never boring, and it gets you involved. .characters portrayed with only a minimal raising interesting questions about how "dead- ,!amount of depth. But as an action comedy it is end" a job can be if it's done with efficiency highly successful, with many moments of and enthusiasm. Beautifully shot and !genuine humour. It is unfortunate that it was excellently acted, this story of a sensitive, 'almost entirely overlooked by the American determined "mere" shopgirl is really worth :public and looks destined for a similar fate at watching, so if you're into thoughtful, finely !the British box office, since it deserves to go out tuned filmmaking, make sure you don't miss With a small bang, not a whimper. this one. Blathnaid Mahony Rea Podas

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993

Arts 9 Piano forte cogito The Piano here is a moment, actually about 5 Showcase Cinema minutes, in Tarkovsky's film Audrey TRublyev when two of the main characters are digging foundations for a bliquely titled, The Piano is large and unwieldy in name only. Jane Campion's heart- monastery: the camera stays on these two bruising and already highly acclaimed period piece has all of the social mores and none of and then slowly rises. The scene above the Othe inhibitions of the Victorian colonies - the two things combining to provide the tautest ditch is of a large religious procession, exploration of sexuality and obsession this side of Madonna's leather bra. Also shot in vast-o- filing out of a nearby castle. The point vision, the cinematography will provide dreamscapes for haunted film-goers for many years to being that the effect is one of the world come. going about it's business no matter what Ada, played by Holly Hunter as you've never seen her before, is a Scots woman who has the camera chooses to show us. been wilfully mute since the age of six. She is sold into an arranged marriage by her father and The above statement raises a few travels to New Zealand only to find herself unmet on the beach with just her daughter, her piano questions: What is the film maker trying to and some sixty foot breakers for company. Her husband, when he turns up the next day, refuses achieve? Will the response be a universal to take the piano on the long haul inland, so it is appropriated by his estate manager, Baines, and one? Is any structured and constructed sold back to Ada one key at a time in return for sexual favours. form ever more than just art? Who cares Although the initial arrangement apparently turns Ada into a whine and Baines, played anyway? by Harvey Keitel, into a fool, Ada retains her sense of isolation and self-possession until Baines, To answer these questions could smitten, is unable to live without her. Sam Neill as the husband portrays a slow descent into take forever. Each director has his own frustration and jealousy with the kind of anal retention usually only associated with oysters, and motivations, each cinema-goer their own everything in the film gets overtaken by the magic that Campion weaves. prejudices and expectations, all of which Whereas most "gritty" films about nineteenth century women start sadly and end makes the water muddier than a communal tragically, this one transforms the trials of Ada into advantages (for instance when art attempted bath in a rugby changing room, rape is thwarted by her cumbersome clothing). It expresses an optimism about the lot of women, Taking one director, Peter which sits excitingly by its technical and artistic brilliance and means that this is one of a kind; Greenaway, and one film, The Baby of Macon , we may be though hopefully not for long. Intricate without being fussy, erotic rather than pornographic and able to find some explanations. The Baby of Macon is a epic without appearing stately, dull hearts and minds might remain unmoved. But dull hearts visual masterpiece, a renaissance oil and minds- I'm not talking to you. painting brought to life, but critics from Emma Hartley papers as diverse as The Telegraph and The Mirror have cried foul at the treatment history plays chronicle the War of the Roses as and links they held for the audience. of sensitive issues. Greenaway suggests 'Forbidden Planet an American Football game between the The whole show gave rise to this has led to audiences staying away: two Yorkists and Lancastrians (including King Lear opposing emotions: patriotic admiration for London cinemas failed to complete their Grand Theatre being sent off for being a fictional character). the Dad's Army troupe rendering "There'll runs because of low attendances. The comedies are amalgamated into a single always be an England": repulsion at the glitzy Obviously the response evoked from this criticism is not in line with Viisappointing? Yup, you could say that. play by fusing their common plots of American-style presentation. The excellent the desires of the director. He is not naive You could also say, ''What a pile of over unrequited love, mistaken identities and solo singers, however, inspired both a longing enough to believe that no-one will be hyped trash." The encore - cum - dance "mindless bimbos", whilst Othello is performed for that bygone romantic era, and a recognition shocked or offended by his film, but his extravaganza is just about the only feature in rap. of how embarrassing and naive the songs are with for "virginal" audiences, untainted by worth recommending, but bear in mind you The show is big on audience for our, perhaps more cynical, generation. preconceptions, is a genuine one. The have to sit bored out of your brain for two participation, but hardly bothered by textual problems here are obvious, even in hours before you reach this bit. accuracy, and would probably cause a Maya Socolovsky offering a title you allow prejudice to creep To be fair, Return To The Forbidden coronary to any English students present who in I when George Michael entitled his Planet is technically and musically stunning, were concerned with iambic pentameters or album Listen Without Prejudice he stepped easily holding its own against its West End the question of monarchy in the tragedies. The Darwin's Dead Herring onto a new plateau of forlorn, naivete). counterparts and as a concert, fine, it could humour is sometimes subtle but often Studio Theatre. LMU The Baby of Macon deals with have worked brilliantly. But, played as a live completely riotous. There's no pretence that child exploitation and institutional rape: comic strip of the Batman genre, it never really we are actually watching a play, this is a show A tale of evolution contrived by Darwin, the these subjects and their treatment have makes it off the page and out of a very flat in the old fashioned sense of the word. ...perverse teacher's pet of the Heavenly been largely responsible for the moral second dimension. Dubbed as ' Shakespeare's outcry. The director's intention is The RSC have hilariously crafted Creator with his warped ideas about Se); and Forgotten Rock 'N' Roll Masterpiece ', the Shakespeare's plays into a superior form of the literal 'Big Bang'. We're not talking questioned as various attempts are made to Shakespearean wordplay is amusing, but pantomine, as well as gently mocking our conventional sex here (whatever that may be), justify or condemn what are ostensibly belongs to that brand of humour which only intellectual fixation with the bard. Go and see since this is a production by Faulty Optic, a individual interpretations of the film, based, one might assume, on cultural, ever encourages a faint smile, never it, I guarantee you'll leave choking with mechanical theatre company which employs uproarious laughter. And the pauses between laughter and unable to look seriously at a man moral and political backgrounds. animated figures, soft toys and weird Greenaway takes the stage nearly gags are far too long. wearing tights again. inventions. So what we're actually talking As a kind of cult thang, musicals like Akin Ojumu as often as his film. Appearances on The about here is cuddly toy sex. Late Show and a series of Return To The Forbidden Planet and the The Picture the set. To the right an Rocky Horror Show have a secure base of debates/screenings worldwide show a rare Nostalgia interpretation of Heaven, remarkably like the dedication to the film and it's audience. frenzied fans wherever they play. Whoever Blade runner 'room of weird contraptions' scene thought British audiences were reserved, think In a recent press conference for Civic Theatre where the athletic Priss meets her unfortunate the new film he consistently expressed the again! But I suspect that a lot of people were end. On the left a representation of Earth, left, like me, wanting to be able to respond like emember the classic songs of the 40s when hope that his audience agreed with him remarkably like the set of Bagpuss from archive about almost every issue and offered we were at war? The light rock and roll the fans, but not finding anything there worth R kid's TV where that wise, wooden bird would concise answers for those who he felt had years of the 50s?" Well, no, actually. The responding to. tell those wonderful stories. The action leaps missed the point. Emma Stokes songs and prevailing mood of Showstoppers' from scene to scene as Darwin's bizarre The first worry this raises is the nostalgic variety show were catchy and mutations are dispatched from Heaven to effect of the film as an independent Reduced Shakespeare familiar but they were recreating the good 'ole Earth and accept whatever fate awaits therm medium. Can Greenaway allow his "baby" days that I never had the first time around. With no spoken word, Darwin's Dmi to walk on it's own. If there is a specific St. Georges Hcrll The amateur status of the cast was evident in Herring relies heavily on an eerie and engaging message, who is it fpr and, it the the unsynchronized dance routines, the soundtrack coupled with simple, effectivc individuals or organisations don't get the ow darlings, when one is involved in the sometimes gaudy leotard costumes, and the lighting which serves to stir the imagination. message. does that invalidate the film as an Ntheatre there is no greater challenge than muffled sound of singing in unison, as well as The animated figures demonstrate realistic artistic creation? performing Hamlet. but playing it once, then a rather school-playish self-consciousness in human mannerisms in both choreographed I believe not. Freedom of faster, quicker still and finally backwards must many of the performers. and improvised scenes, but at nearly ninety interpretation is the vital element of surely entitle you to be called the "mother of I found myself very much a spectator: minutes long, it's all a bit too much - you can cinema, if not all art. Didacticisms not only all luvvies". This is how the Reduced appreciative of the emotions awakened in the only be entertained by mechanical knick- serve no purpose but fail to adhere in most Shakespeare Company (RSC-geddit?) attacked audience, moved by the fellow feeling knacks for so long. cases. Perhaps the only solution is to create their finale, albeit with a greatly abbreviated predominating, but unable to be personally What results is a nightmarish fable of 'virtual cinema' that is able to adapt to each form of the bard's tour de force. involved. Old favourites such as "It had to be atmosphere and absurdity which would individual, invalidating criticism and assuaging controversy. Sound a bit too The RSC's irreverent tribute to You" and "As time goes by were for me first appeal to the philosophical, or just the plain much like the real world? Nah... Shakespeare involves them performing his and foremost associated with "When Harry abnormal amongst you. entire catalogue of plays in less than the time it Met Sally" and the sentimental BBC sitcom, but Stuart Davies normally takes to see one. Consequently, the I was aware of the very different memories Ian Newman

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10 Music SPACEMAN FREE egendary lazy guy Jason Pierce is LYING in his chair. Stephen Dick made a pilgrimage to a man of wisdom, he ticks the garlic bread but I must digress, Nol exactly known as a workaholic, his band "Have you written any songs for the new album?" Spiritualized have managed to produce just one album Bradford, tuned in, turned on and "Yeah, there's a lot of stuff ready. Some tracks are L complete and others are very dose. We've been doing it very almost two years ago and the next one might not be ready for another couple. Jason deadpans that he was "Not at all droppdroppeded out with respected slacker lazily, but after the tour we're going back into the studio. surprised" at the album 'Lazer Guided Melodies' being in the Pierce and his band That's partly why we're doing this tour, to see how the stuff NME's top 100 of all time, and neither was J, "but it's only the we've recorded sounds live. We have a few radically different NME isn't it". Currently promoting their 'Electric Mainline' EP Spiritualized versions of the same songs, because we found that as we and touring with loopy Americans Mercury Rev, it's two of started to do the songs we'd the best bands of our time recorded they changed "Yeah, it's a good dramatically when we played combination. The idea, I guess, them live, so we may find a was to have bands that would way of putting out a few have a similar audience. We different versions of the same want people to be into the tracks. Yeah, we're really hole show, not just one band. pleased with them. e want them to come and see "Actually, 'Medication' he whole thing and really get may end up on the album as ff on it. A lot more people are well, we've done that a few etting into it and coming to times. The album will he shows than before. I've probably come out in er, een Mercury Rev a few times; nineteen-eighty something. hey're a bit more freer, more Oh no, I'm in the wrong azzier than we are. We all love decade aren't I. 199 hem dearly. apparently." Their live album, The new songs are 'Fucked Up Inside' was certainly something to be released in the summer as a pleased about. Like 'Take limited edition mail order Good Care Of It' and 'Good thing and it showed just how Dope, Good Fun', these are their sound is completely melodies guided by some transformed live. The sheer magical force, just like Luke power and energy of the whole Skywalker. thing is incredible, although "Well we're not waiting to strangely Jason is not quite so happy; "I wasn't that happy we've ever performed. We did it as a mail order thing so that it see how much applause the songs get before we put them on with the live album in that it had quite a lot of freeform jazz. wasn't perceived as like hey, this is the Spiritualized live the record, we're not fieldtesting them. We were going to do a We've tightened up a lot more now, and we're much more album. Hopefully there'll be one of the Glastonbury set out questionnaire - hand out bits of paper at the end of the show inimal. We sound much different live to on record. I think soon - we'll put it out in the same way. I guess it's kind of a and ask what people thought of them, which were the best e're a lot more dynamic and electric, it all feels a bit rawer way of bootlegging ourselves, rather than letting someone and whether they could suggest any changes." . d a bit more garagey. Some of the new album and stuff will else do it, and at least we can guarantee some kind of decent Unfortunately it looks as if it's going to be a Inn, •e a bit more like the live stuff, as we're actually playing live quality". time before we hear anything else from Spiritualized. Pisse. the studio, whereas Lazer Guided Melodies was much mare The menu is passed round so that the band can order off with the way the last single was handled, they couldn' onstructeci. food. Jason runs through what everyone has ordered so l can fire their record company so they fired their manager, keen o "But that's not why we did the live album. That was use it for this piece, and starts talking about his favourite making a fresh start. But if their recent output and tonight' •asically just a record of what we were doing in the States; it's colour and other things I might be interested in. He opts for show is anything to go by, it'll be well worth the wait. 01 the best live album in the world, and it's not the best fruit but I recommend the garlic bread too. Realising that I am

Tree"). Still, there's always those tedious types late 'tills. Pele ready to call this type of music one- But you see, all this sideline work has dimensional, static and unoriginal. lt6s none meant that, well, 1w got frustrated and this LP Duchess of York of those, just fun. Ignore them. Pele are the is basically him doing something about it. It's anti-Pink Floyd. and. I can't say fairer than that. been said that Acid Jazz is becoming a UK Ow' lesson in lad-rock. Liverpool, as we all Motown with a formula sound, and if so, this Aknow, has a freehold on those groups of Chris Mooney album sidesteps all that by a good few feet. Recommended Jazz Funk Reissues jolly young men churning. out perfect pearls of Sadly, the more soul-orientated tracks are Compiled by Matto and Steve at Crash pop, and tonight a couple more turned up to often happy to cop out by failing into a storm the Duchess. Cloud 9 groove and jamming, but the rest is all cheeky 1 Tower of Power Pele are not a band to cynically keyboard textures, crisp percussion and Urban Renewal observe while lounging at the bar. You need Millenium (Acid Jazz) cascading b-lines. 2 Lou Donaldson Alligator Boogaloo to finish your pint, get down the front and While it's an admirable effort, the 3 Lonnie Liston Smith Think! dance like a mad bastard. So, what Behind a kitsch sleeve looking like a hybrid buzz on this LP does drop slightly toward the disappointment when their enthusiastic ilof Japanese comics and Jeff Koons' "art" 4 Grant Green Carrin' On end after a smashing opening septet, so best opening "1-2-3-4" degenerated into a maudlin lies .well, quite a lot. The list of players reads 5 Beaujolais Band Talk Talk & More Talk get the CD because of the two extra mixes: ballad that sounded worryingly like The like a footy programme, and makes it look as if 6 jimmy Mc Gruff Electric Funk "Peace and Love" is miles better off without Wonder Stuff (they've got a fiddle player, see). it's a, like, wow, laid-back, muso's cool-ective 7 Candid° the cliched idealist lyric and a gorgeous snare Beautiful This didn't last for long, and they swiftly sort of album (maaanl. Which it is. And which, effect added. "20/20:Mad Dog Mix" starts as a 8 Duke Pearson Sweet Honey Bee returned to what they do best : jump-along often, is a warning of an exercise .in tedious anthems. cheesy Bontempi organ workout, but when the 9 Moacir Santos Saudade dross. Are Pete a lad's band ? Well, take the Caribbean/ Brazilian percussion kicks in, it's Not so fast! Some research saves this 10 Flora Plain Milestone Memories name. Lads like football, right ? And whose smart! from a lambasting on those grounds. Leader the greatest football ever ? Easy this, innit ? Mark Brydon certainly has paid dues. If the This will be a hit with the more And "The Drinking Song" must elevate Pele to conservative ranks of the Digl crowd and more Thanks to Crash Records for the pinnacle of their genre. In it, the aggrieved name means little. its because he's been a backroomer on House tune when the artists leftfield M-People dements. The bass, which is all that's top in the world of singer is dumped by his girlfriend for a Tory the soul of this album, should warm you on voting, Man. Utd_ season ticket holding were even more anonymous than now. Having those cold, lonely nights in one of the sad pop scumbag, So.. "I did the bastards ear." All to a been a participant in Sheffield's House scene, igloos that most of us live in. On the other typically impeccable tune. co-producing Knish (one of the first UK acts to It's not all lively pop-by-numbers. To put out a house track in the halcyon era of '881, hand, why not buy a copy and leave it in your their credit, Pele know how to change the pace he also co-founded 'Ws funksters Chakk. But suitcase for next year's travels, giving yourself a real summer classic when you least expect it. effectively (in "Oh My Lord") and address most notably, he was part of the FON studios RSCORD5 issues (in the SNP-baiting "Swinging from a team, becoming a sought-after remixer in the Marc Starr

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Music 11 harvey bawl

Plumy Davis trawls through clangour this weeks bargain bins. MY LIFE STORY PJ Harvey Girl 4, Girl B. Bay C (Revolver) 4 Track Demos (Island) Grandiose in ambition and sound, soft in lyric t ought to smack of a record company cash-in. An LP of demo versions of 'old' and wrist; Scott Walker, songs, padded out with 'previously unreleased' material (which usually means Marc Almond and Pet Ia handful of rehearsal room doodlings too crap for the last album). Maybe it is, Shop Boys have between but sheer quality screams from every groove of these songs and the '4 Track them defined a breed of Demos' does justify itself as more than a financial ploy. pop music that is The depth of sound and instrumentation on 'Rid of Me' (the album) are 'undeniably English'. My of course missing, but the originality and power of the music are easily as great. Life Story (Jake If anything, the sparseness actually emphasises Pollv's ability to say a lot with a Shillingford and big little. 'Rid of Me' (the song) loses its contrasting verse/chorus textures but the orchestra) are the end result is no less subtle rightful heirs to this title. The new material is more of a letdown. ('Ecstasy` and 'Goodnight' are Seedy. glam, pompous little more than painful dirges, not even saved by Polly's schizoid Edith Piaf- and moving this is a meets-lan Curtis wailing that usually embraces a sort of ecstasy in the most complete gem. Sadly tortured agony. And it is Polly that makes though, I'd warrant that Culture Beat might shift PJ Harvey so special - not feminist but more units this week. brutal and honest about her femininity to the point of catharsis. No amount of Madonna's public masturbation antics in conical bras could ever be as vital (or as PAUL WELLER perversely fun).as Polly screaming 'I wanna bathe in milk, eat grapes, Robert De The Weaver EP (Go! Disks) Niro shit on my facel'Full marks to her - cash-in or no cash-in, lyrics like that deserve as many releases as possible. Step forward Lord Weller, prince of all that is Claire Rowland groovy in pop. Not content with writing some of the greatest songs ever when he was IS (The Jam) and then looking a bit of a ponce but still being Salt 'n' Pepa Corduroy Red House Painters quite loveable (The Style Council) he is now trying (not unsuccessfully) to become Neil Young. And as Very Necessary (ffrr) High Havoc (Acid Jazz) Duchess of York if to prove it he covers 'Ohio' on the b-side. Smart.

They talk about sex, nasty men, nice men, his an album so outrageously cheesy ow to describe a band like the Red SVEN YAM women and sluts. There it is, the Tthat I would not be surprised to see it HHouse Painters without sounding like .4n Accident in Paradise (remixes) (WEA) relationship game as defined by Salt 'n' for sale in a delicatessen. It's also an album a metaphor crazed pretentious fool, Pepa. Complete credit to the ladies they so ridiculously retro that I am currently nohodys managed it yet and nor can I.In Bald techno geezer flavour of the year Mr Vath haven't ever changed their formula for having to have a flared stereo made to play the same way that an obsessive artist can, includes here almost half an hour of mixes of the success; funky backing track, chat about it on. It's also staggeringly good. day after day, week upon week, paint title track from his album. And very good it is too. some girl's stuff and an idiotically catchy Billed a 'concept album', "High pictures of the same solitary tree, believing Although I think citing himself with a 'lyric' credit chorus and hooray another top ten hit. Havoc" takes us back some twenty odd that ultimately he will create a perfect is perhaps a tad rich. "What a man" with a delightfully years to the world of sixties/seventies image, so, perhaps, Mark Kozelek believes large input from the En Vogue style factory thrillers, and I'm sure that Jack Lord, that if he can analyse and dissect his failed CULTURE BEAT will go this way. "Heaven and Hell" Michael Caine or Patrick McNee would relationships enough, he may one day Got To Gel It (Epic) borrows Public Enemy's sirens and register have been proud to chase villains to such meet the perfect girl. dissatisfaction without ever actually inciting an incredible, foot-tappingly funky Transferring such intimacy to a This summer all over the Spanish coast a million greasy perms sweated, shuffled and snagged to the a riot. "Break of Dawn" faces a street reality soundtrack. Indeed, how could they have live performance is not an easy task and anthem that was 'Mr.Vain' Exactly why the young in which boyfriends don't figure but works resisted, given such choice titles as "Follow tonight the 'Painters just can't manage it. lady singing supposed that she was 'Mr.Vain' is only as an album track novelty because in That Arab" and "Nobody Move"? Tension For starters Mark Kozelek is the total still anybody's guess. Anyhow, this is the sequel reality Salt 'n' Pepa talk about sex a lot. and suspense are kept up all the way by antithesis of the proverbial rock -star, with and it's not quite as good. Home truths and personal content is thin songs such as the "Pusherman" rip-off "The his hang ups about sex, his aversion to on the ground and it would be nice if Salt Frighteners" with its chorus of "We're drugs and his deep rooted loathing of rock 111,1MBO TAXI and roll. He's not a happy man. He's not and Pepa could fall to earth somewhere gonna get you", and we see the jazzy Do You Always Dress Like That In Front Of Other detectives pissed and off duty in the superb much fun to be with. between woman in love and wronged People's Boyfriends (aawfist) strong diva for this album leaves a lot of "Corduroy Orgasm Club". Obviously, as a Clearly he has a talent for writing these haunting, beautiful, sombre songs, middle ground to cover. 'soundtrack' the record is largely On one end of the stick 'indict' can stand for Although the subject matter is instrumental, but its all so up tempo and reaching depths of misery and self loathing innovation, talent and originality. Unfortunately it that even Morrissey never imagined. Then limited and the rhymes often cheery that it never gets dull- only a bit can just as easily stand for thoughtless pap embarrassingly poor the over all experience more cheesy again Such unrelenting, frank, gleaning credibility because It is deemed 'quirky' is a kin to eavesdropping on a night club Throughout the album, the band introspection can tend to embarrass and or 'funny'. This is, of course, the latter and quickly powder room and hell, that never ceases to tread that oh-so-fine line between bore. When you're standing face to face succeeds in being very irritating indeed. The b- appeal. So caught up are Salt 'n' Pepa in amusingly tongue in cheek and utter crap; with the man, a lot of the slow sadness so side is called 'I Want To Marry A Serial Killer'. their image as straight talking broads they like those students who buy lOp overwhelming on the albums is lost. have completely lost the art of the subtle "Hammond Organ Plays Pop" albums in The music remains fascinating, TILE LEVELLERS remark. Salt 'n' Pepa would rather tell a Oxfam and think they're being ironic, but the perfect background to tales of love This Garden (China) salivating man to "Get off my bra strap they definitely come out on top and catch madly unrequited, yet the man -behind the honey, stop sweating me" and presumably the bad guys in the end. Your mission, music is a let down, when depression For students in stripy leggings, nose rings and the result is immediate. But there is a fine should you choose to accept it, is to BUY makes up nine tenths of your character 'amusing' green hair everywhere. The 2nd biggest line between telling it how it is and lacking THIS ALBUM: this article will self destruct there's something seriously wrong, which concert ticket sellers this year (oh dear) have a imagination, calling a track "Sexy noises in five seconds. won't change no matter how much you personal hygiene problem and consequently stink, sing about it, turn me on" may well be the latter. Nick Moffat Kate Toon rather like their music. Arf. Alex Sander& an album so

Leeds Student Independent ,newspaper 29th October 1993 12 Classical & Jazz Bax Evasion Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Bax: Symphony No.3 etc Leeds' Tolm Hall

he RLPO launched their boldly orchestra. Milanova's instrument sang with a unorthodox programme with a pitch beautifully sensitive and detailed eloquence, Tand a roll that suggested they were far tugging at the orchestra's commitment and from being either ship-shape or water-tight teasing out a very fine support, like the for the hazards of the Hebridean Atlantic: the proverbial thorn from the lion's paw. darker recesses of Mendelssohn's 'Fingal's More enchanting still were the Cave' defied insightful illumination. It is an smiles and the enthusiasm the Bulgarian all too commonly received phenomenon of emanated - she was there to enjoy herself. the sphere of live performance that the most This elevated the overall delivery and popular pieces attract the most pedestrian atmosphere to the league of something treatment. Nevertheless I expected better special, and an unusually discerning Town from so highly regarded an orchestra. Hall audience rewarded her with a rapturous Unusually the RLPO had another reception that reaped a rare result: a stunning 'pre-concerto' appetiser on offer which, in gem of an encore. terms of renown, must come approximately at Conductor Vernon Handley, like his the opposite end of the scale from the predecessors Beecham and Sargent, is clearly Mendelssohn - Sibelius' Pan and Echo' a dedicatee and zealous exponent of British Dance Intermezzo. So did this piece composition, and had evidently reserved accordingly excite a particularly distinctive special attention for the music of the second and memorable reading? Unfortunately not. half, Bax's Symphony No 3. Here the As with the previous piece the orchestra orchestra did his fancy full-bodied justice, meandered apathetically along with and the Achilles' heels of the first half (such rehearsal-like indifference; only a few as awkward brass flourishes and the general notable individuals (particularly clarinettist want of spirited effort) were calloused over Nicholas Coat performed with any real flair. with some powerful playing. Still, this 'come- Palpably unnerved by these bleak portents, I back' was always destined for lack of began to put my disappointments down to a recognition on the part of the audience, who protracted hangover from the CBSO euphoria fidgeted with increasing vigour as each new of the previous weekend. discordant excursion wended its intractable That is until Vanya Milanova, like a was towards carefree self-annihilation. Joan of Arc in her gleaming silver raiment, For me the affair was inescapably cut a mighty swathe into the orchestral torpor sicklied o'er with pale casts of thought as with her bow of burning gold. Sibelius' lingered yet with nature, the night to me a Violin Concerto in D minor places fierce more familiar face that that of Bax. demands on the soloist with its labyrinthian progressions and complex repartee with the Mark Funnel! Violin soloist Vanya Milanova

however, less impressive - the work lacks the disappointing. From Wales, he would have overstated 'prettiness of it all served to create Halle Orchestra animated and depictive qualities of Dukas' appeared more at home singing drunkenly in a a sense of superficiality tantamount to kitsch, tour-de-force, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. rugby club, than attempting to meet the which got to me in the end, and made it alI a St. George's Hall, Bradford demands of the sensitive themes of the bit of a drag. Anne Waldek Rachmaninov Concerto in C minor! However, Having said that, it started ith great expectation, I arrived in the second half was rescued by the dramatic promisingly enough. Haydn's Divertimento in WBradford to listen to the latest in the Sinfonia of Leeds improvement of the orchestra. Their tone and B flat opened with a depth and richness of tone series of Halle concerts. The Halle programme tuning, but mostly their tendency to express that was truly exquisite. The Quintet bounced offered a chance to listen to several well Clothworkers' Concert Hall dynamics, greatly improved the harsh tones of the melodies around with a cheeky child-like known works; Beethoven's 'Leonora' and the solo piano part in the first and second charm that never became flippant, thus Mozart's Concerto in B flat as well as the more pnigramme encompassing music from the movements. The impressive opening of the consistently maintaining a voluptuous fullness obscure Symphony in C major by Dukas. Aclassical to late romantic era was on the 'Allegro Scherzando' finale augered well and in of sound. Josef Janda's bassoon bubbled The 'Leonora' Overture began, under agenda for this concert. The amateur chamber this movement piano and orchestra worked gloriously throughout the entire piece, adding Lawrence Foster's direction, with phrasing that orchestra congregated on stage for a pre-concert well together. All in all, this proved to be a a satisfying presence to the group's constantly drew out the lyricism and rhythmic gossip and giggle, inconveniently interrupted wholly enjoyable concert, with an overexaggerated dynamic phrasing. patterns of the piece. The music worked itself by a disorganised tuning session. Unfortunately encouragingly equal mix of young and old, in The programme's flavour dovetailed up to a climax through a dramatic rush of this proved to set the precedent for the rest of both orchestra and audience alike. refreshingly in Lukas' Pastime for Five', a scales which gave way to a highly rousing the first half. The rendition of the demanding childish episodic portrait of Czech peasantry. trumpet call, played off stage, representing the 'Tragic Overture' by Brahms was not always Felicity Jones It provided opportunity for the Quintet to relief of Leonora. My only criticisms of this convincing, with some dubious tuning in the show off some precise, disciplined articulation, performance was that the balance was not all brass. However at times the Sinfonia captured and an impressive command of a difficult together satisfactory as some delicate solos the essentially dramatic nature of the piece. Academia Wind syncopated rhythm. were overpowered and the intonation in the The orchestra felt, however, much My spirits were raised when the top strings was somewhat hazy. more enthusiasm for Haydn's Symphony No. Quintet Quintet got out the old favourite,. 'Humoreska' Mozart's piano concerto No.18 in B 41 in C, especially as they grew in confidence as (and they coped admirably when some fiat explores to the full variety of vivid the first movement Elegant string section City Art Gallery wriniclies behind me decided to la-la along five possibilities arising from the hill complement playing and good use of dynamics added to the semi-tones out of tune and three beats out of of wind instruments and the usual impressively accurate triplet section. After a y. my! How civilised! The Wednesday time). But it should all have ended there; complement of strings. The performance was shakey start to the 'Andante', the orchestra Mlunchtime Chamber Music programme at instead we were forced to sit through Reicha's confidently moulded and garnished by some regained control to treat us to pleasurable the City Art Gallery proves that Leeds truly Wind Quintet in F major - a piece of such exquisite solo work, especially in the second ensemble playing and the enthralling, conorous can adopt a continental, cultured pose when it contrived 'niceness' it would be best left movement by soloist Radu Lupu. It was silver toned flute solo.The finale movement wants to. Yet this week's offering never quite overturing a toddler's birthday party. marred only by the broken notes of the horn opened with much exuberance and fervour and lit my fire; rather it doused it slightly. There comes a time when civilised and moments of overpowering strings. bore impressive precision. The problem? As I saw it, a niceness gets too much and you need a piece The performance of the Dukas was From the inaccurate opening chord to desperately unmeaty and unvaried selection of of music with some balls. impressive and full of energy. The thematic the grimace at receiving a bunch of flowers at pieces. It was not as though it was basically material found within the symphony was, the end, the widely acclaimed pianist proved incidental music; simply that the consistent Josh Berle

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Books 13

The Bone People Good Bones Margaret Atwood (Virago £4.99)

ood Bones is a collection, but of what is not easy to describe. If writing is an art, then this is a sketchbook of poetry, recipes, re-worked fairy tales, celebrations and denunciations, Glinked by the theme of searching out the women in traditional Western culture. So Shakespeare's Gertrude is re-written as a gun-toting Mae West manque, who murdered Hamlet's father because he was a prude about sex and wasn't having any. The Little Red Hen is here - becoming an over-apologetic, humble doormat after telling the bread-hungry cat, dog, rabbit et al to kiss off. Cinderella's sisters are ugly and therefore oppressed minorities blamed for getting in the way - stupid buggers. Cinderella had a life to get on with, didn't she. In examining pantomime and fairy tale wicked stepmothers, Atwood concludes that they are actually the focus of those tales: without them there would be no plot. Writing that is as extremely gender-specific as Atwood's is invigorating and vital. For anyone starting to feel weary with current concentration on matters of gender and sexuality Good Bones is a must, for it is not just that Atwood examines the world from this perspective but that she does so with such remarkable compassion and commitment. This is not the first time that wicked stepmothers have put in a good word for themselves, but it is certainly one of the most delightful. What is going on here is actually very simple. In going for reversals of traditional roles, and highlighting the vacuousness of many of those functions, Atwood does run the risk of covering old ground: but her insight and rigorous re-appraisal combined with common sense would challenge even the most trenchant of non-feminists. One of the most glittering stories, 'Epaulettes,' describes a world where war has become defunct because it's too expensive. Yet something has to replace the display it offered for the strutting power-mongers behind it: so what better than a version of Miss World? What the hell, the reasoning goes - it works for the birds. Atwood is also incredibly funny and very moving. 'Homelanding' sees a female ambassador visit another world (describing herself as a cavern person as opposed to a prong person) with no intention of being taken to their leaders but rather to their sunsets. Current fans of Margaret Atwood will be delighted with this patchwork quilt of her abilities to defamiliarise and re-appropriate. For anyone who doesn't know her work it is an enthralling introduction, designed to keep all its readers from getting stupid. Liz Ekstein Margaret Atwood - consistently impressive But problems remain. "Artificial disappointed. Virtual Worlds reality is the authentic postmodern condition, Don't get me wrong, Cant is far from Poor Things and virtual reality its definitive technological being a bad book. As the title indicates, it is the Benjamin Woolley (Penguin £6.99) expression," writes Woolley at one point. This small Irish border town that is the central focus Alasdair Gray (Penguin .0.99) does not quite hold together. Writers on of the novel. We first see the town in 1959 at the his book sets itself a difficult task - that of postmodernitv are usually far more cautious in end of an era - the railway is about to dose. As he master of artful illusion returns with Texamining the meaning of reality, defining what it is they are talking about. The people begin to leave, financially driven as so Tprobably his most accessible, and simulation and artificial reality. Throughout book as a whole suggests that the "artificiality" often in Irish history across the sea to England or entertaining, novel to date. Written in the form the book Virtual Reality is used as a or "authenticity" of any experience may be America, one man arrives and changes the face of a nineteenth century diary, with a touchstone: the image of a user dressed in a undecidable since it depends on a range of of Carn. He is James Cooney and with his supporting cast of illustrations, appendices suit which will stimulate his/her senses factors from the metaphysical to the foreign-earned money, Cooney opens up a meat and even an erratum, Poor Things depicts the enabling a total immersion in the world mechanical. What is the criterion in Virtual processing plant. Prompted by this injection of young life of Archibald McCandless, an generated by the computer. With this in mind Reality? Is it the user's attitude towards cash and jobs, Carn drags itself into the impressionable Glaswegian doctor. While Woolley leads us through the areas of reality? towards computers? or how many twentieth century, transforming its culture into a pursuing his medical studies, McCandless falls technological development, mathematics calculations per second the computer can do? sad replica of kitsch Americana. McCabe deftly under the influence of the strange physician artificial intelligence, philosophy, literary The problems Woolley tackles are too big to be details the desire for escape, into the worlds of Godwin Baxter. In a bizarre Gothic twist, theory, and so on. presented fully in a book this small. Dallas or Elvis, or out with bands or bikers. Baxter reveals that he has revived the life of a The wide ambit of the book is one of Virtual Worlds will, however, plunge What these people most desire to escape are young mother-to-be who tried to drown its problems. Even in the area of 'popular you into current debates about science, their histories, both personal and national. herself in the murky waters of the Clyde by science' the book can be confusing, introducing technology, literature and art, and create an The book turns upon those who fail to removing the brain of the unborn child and people who may be unfamiliar to the average appetite for many of the books it refers to. escape. Some, like Sadie Rooney, never manage transplanting it into its mother's head. reader without fully explaining their ideas or to break free of the town, never manage to And thus Bella Baxter is conceived. the relevance of their work. To people Mark Tranter evade their parents. Others, like Cooney and Bella is perhaps Gray's most memorable and interested in popular science this will seem Josie Keenan, return after years abroad. Josie's exciting character to date. Her innocent patronising as so many of these figures have story dominates the second half of the novel. inquisitiveness, her willingness to learn about received fuller treatment elsewhere. When Josie's mother dies and she is abused by her the world and question every social Woolley describes Ludwig Wittgenstein as Carn father. She has a fling and winds up pregnant. convention that limits her gender, acts as the "the Cambridge philosopher whose ideas were She kills the baby and goes to England, setting motor behind the book. A wealth of social as wild as his eyes," he makes himself Patrick McCabe (Picador £5.99) her on a downward spiral of bar jobs and sordid foibles - monogamy, the notion of women as ridiculous. sexual encounters. Returning to Carn, she private creatures - are placed under the Having said that, Woolley has made arlier this year I reviewed McCabe's third triggers the novel's horrific final sequence. microscope as Gray dissects the consequences some effort to produce a 'hypertext.' By this he Enovel, the Booker-shortlisted Butcher Boy. It Behind all of this is the Dolan family, of patriarchy. Medical science is also placed in means that his book frequently refers to other was one of the most powerful and moving heroes of the IRA, commemorated by a statue in the dock for its horrific and irrational the town square. The sentiments of the town books (often novels), television programmes, works I have ever read. I rushed to the potential. This fantasy of ultimate male power change as the Troubles escalate, and someone computer software etc. When the ideas of one bookshops with masochistic abandon, ready is certainly a satire of its major theme. and eager to suffer the pain of black laughter. decides to blow up their favourite pub. In typical postmodern fashion, the of the big names - like Godel or Turing - are The reason that this novel works less inadequately summarised, there are always And there was nothing there. novel ends with a series of disclaimers which Fortunately Picador have now well than Butcher Boy is that it lacks focus, trying cast a doubt on everything which has gone ssignpostsignposts to more information. This is perhaps to show us a whole town rather than a single the strength of the book: it weaves together remedied this incredible oversight by producing before. But what is certainly undoubtable is Corn, McCabe's second novel, in paperback. person. Less is more, perhaps. If you haven't Gray's huge talent as a writer. Go on, treat such a bewildering array of ideas that you are read Butcher Boy read Corn first. left both with a desire to discover more, and a Needless to say my expectations were yourselves. long reading list. enormous, but I have to admit to being Mark Robson John McLeod

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 14 F( THE DATE RAPE CASE THE CAMPUS

A student in London has been acquitted of raping his

Austin Donnellan, who was cleared of rape last week friend: it was ok because she was too drunk to say `No.' The case has reopened a sensitive wound and the thorny debate over 'date rape' is news again. Helen Crossly and Julia Oldham describe the case that Helen Crossly examines the implications. took 11 jurors one hour to acquit Austin Donnellan

"A person who is drunk, and because she is drunk ast week a 21 year old graduate was cleared of raping a fellow student after consents to an act which she would not when a drunken Christmas party last year. The trial at the Old Bailey lasted for sober, still consents. Drunken consent is enough." Lseven clays and the jury of nine women and two men deliberated for over an hour before giving their verdict. Austen Donnellan, a history graduate from Kings College. London. stood hose were the words of Judge grounds. accused of taking advantage of his friend and fellow undergraduate's drunken Geoffrey Grigson who last week The Donnellan case has again highlighted the problems in defining stupor. havinit had his previous sexual advances denied. Tpresided over the date rape case rape. Mary. Koss, an American The prosecution described how Donnellan and the woman had become at the Old Bailey, in which Austen Donnellan. a 21 year old student from psychologist. introduced the phrase triends ai the end of their first year and. despite their growing intimacy and their Kings College, London. was accused of 'dale rape' in 19)15. and her wider regutar kissliig. she tlisisted that they remain "good friends", Donnellan admitted raping a fellow student after a college definition of rape. to include verbal to lalline In hire with the woman but be tired of the pattern of their fnendship as Christmas party. coercion and the presence of drugs and the c, ,man would kiss him passionately one week and relay intimate details of The case has opened up a wide drink in sexual encounters. has led to he; sexual encounters with other men the next. The woman admitted that at once debate about the definition of date rape claims in the United States that more stage she feared Donnellan may have thought she was leading him on. She said and the implications in this case for than a quarter of female students have - When students kiss no one takes it seriously. but I began to realise that Austen students are plentiful. In fact, many of been raped. Koss' view has many didn't weand a kiss as any other student would." the articles in the national newspapers opponents, including feminist tin the evening in question Donnelltui escorted the woman hack to her hall last week took particular interest in academies, who fed that the definition of tesidence because they had both been drinking heavily. She claimed to have what one called "the apparent of rape has been widened so much that woken up at bed to find her 'sweet trusted friend" having 01..11 =.es and then ,ctua I familiarity of the scenario - an end of it now devalues its true horror and intercourse with her. term party. barrel-loads of drink and meaning. Donnellan claimed that when he asked the woman it she minded it he events that all sides might bitterly On the whole, women's groups returned to the party she "beckoned me to kiss her again and suggested to rue 1,4 regret the next day." expressed anger at the acquittal last lie on top of her. She was making sexually explicit gestures to me and began to During the trial, a forensic week and described it as a "backlash" remove my T-shirt. I asked her if she was sure and she continued. saying "fuck examiner from the Metropolitan Police against women. Siwan Hayward, me." When thc defence asked the woman if. as Donnellan maintained, she had was called in to explain the behavioural founder of the No Means No anti-rape asked him into her bed, all the woman could say was: "That might have happened effects of alcohol. For most of us, campaign, said that she still believed the but it might not have happened. I can't remember anything at all," though, these effects need no explaining accuser. She said: "Women don't lie During the hour they spent having intercourse Donnellan insisted that "at no to us because we witness them or about rape". time did I think that intercourse took place without her consent or knowledge." experience them every week at the No Means No was founded after He added: "This was not a dead piece of meat I was having sex with. T think she Union or Poly Bop. Many of us will Judge Raymond Dean's comment that, was very aware of what was happening. If she was not aware. I would not have have had first hand experience of the when a woman says "No" she does not proceeded with sex." embarrassing side effects of a boozy always mean "No". Earl Russell, However, later in the night. Donnellan awoke to find the woman stroking his night - and the morning after trying to Donnellan's tutor at King's College. said back and body and responded by undoing her nightshirt and climbing on top of remember the night before. he believed that his student her The woman then reportedly said: "I cannot believe you just tried to do that." It was the result of a drunken "understood that no means no". It before leaving the room. The following week Donnellan was accused of raping evening which led to the allegations seems that the definition of rape is the woman. against Austen Donnellan. The woman becoming ever more difficult. There is The acquittal has brought into question the complaints procedure at Kings admitted to being so drunk that she did still too much confusion surrounding College. If Donnellan had not taken the action of calling in the police in an not remember leaving the party or the whole debate. attempt to clear his name, he would have laced internal discipline at the college going home, and, in cross-examination, This confusion appears to extend to and would not have been allowed to complete his degree. The college had while she denied consenting to sex, she the courts. It is hard to see the logic attempted to strike a deal with Donnellan whereby it he pleaded guilty to an conceded that she could not remember behind sentencing in some cases. A unspecified lesser complaint and left, the original complaint would he withdrawn. anything and therefore could not recall couple of weeks ago Angus Diggle The woman did not want the police to be involved and would not withdraw her saying "No". However, if no means no received a three year sentence for complaint unless Donnellan was removed. and yes means yes, who has the right to attempted rape. In his defence. Diggle Simon Rix. President of London University Student's Union, which includes judge what a woman means by silence? said: "I spent f200 on tier [the victim]. I King's College, said he expected a review of the complaints procedure. Ile said: Throughout the case Donnellan had every right." From this evidence it insisted that the woman was yen aware "Date rape does exist... but it is not on for the college authorities to have would appear that Diggle's previous 'It Is so much more we disciplinary procedures that have low standards of justice." of what was happening as they had experience of sexual relationships had The coordinator of the No Means No campaign at London University. Jayne sexual intercourse and that he had been limited to brothels. A. comparison with the image of a friend Aldridge. acknowledged the failure of the complaints procedure but said it was asked her consent two or three times. In between the attitudes of both Diggle and acquaintance. difficult to envisage a system which offered confidentiality and did not have the end, as so often in rape trials where Donnellan only serves to highlight the A Home Office study last similar flaws. there is no corroborative evidence, the growing ambiguity about rape, revealed that of the 4,142 rs case came down to his word against especially as the image of the rapist as a reported to the police, most v hers. Few juries will convict on these brutal stranger is becoming obscured committed by an acquaintance

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993

(ells 15 )EBATE ABOUT VIEWPOINTS Views from around campus. Compiled by Julia Oldham

"Date rape is much more wide spread than you would think. A friend of mine was recently in a situation of V trust where it was completely abused. I've also heard about an incident at the Poly-Bop. I don't know whether it's true or not."

Louise Ingham, second year IATU, English and Philosophy.

had reported the incidents to the police. Despite these statistics the crime of 'date rape' is increasingly seen as less "Date-rape can trivialize rape sometimes. It obviously serious compared to rape by a stranger. has questionable boundaries. Sometimes alleged victims Public sympathy for the victim is often of date-rape can undermine ordinary rape." conditional on the conduct of the V woman. The perception seems to be that Martin Longden, 3rd year LUU, International History somehow if a woman gets into bed with and Politics. a man he can no longer be expected to control himself. Such altitudes are still all too prevalent. In fact. being raped by someone you are involved in a relationship with can often seem more painful than when "Women do need to show more responsibility. Men the rapist is stranger. Jo Wright, a make mistakes - general randioes-s isn't a crime, is it? If second year French student al Leeds there is something leading up, it's very easy to get the University. said: "One of my friends wrong idea. les very possible for there to be a genuine was date-raped two years ago and she misunderstanding." still suffers really hadly from it. It is so much more worst, than normal rape if Feirmle. 2nd year f . 'U. English. you know the person and it's sointolo. you've trusted. You're la °tried about Wing doubted and so you Dever report it," Following last week's cast, with details of the accuser's sexual history "II casts the whole occasion of having sex under splashed all over the national cloud." newspapers. the chance of women reporting rape seems to be ever Gareth Lloyd. 3rd year LI Electronic Engineering. V decreasing. LUU Women's Officer. Liz Rouse, believes that the publicity which the case received will deter women from coming forward. She said; "The whole system of rape trials in this country "II looks as if the whole date-rape thing is going to end needs to be reviewed. In last week's trial up with a 'cry wolf image which will end up trivialising it was the woman who was put on the rape in many people's eyes." stand and made to feel like the guilty V one. There was too much concentration Matt Richards, 2nd year LUU, Electronic and Electrical on her sexual behaviour and character Engineering. instead of the situation in question. "After the many negative aspects for women in the trial I can't stress enough how important it is for victims of rape to come forward to either myself or to the Rape Crisis centre," she "I believe that the woman has every right to say 'No' at added. any stage of the act, but not afterwards." The Home Secretary. Michael Howard. is currently looking into the Amanda Jennings. 2nd year IAA r, Law. V whole rape trial procedure. Austen Donnellan last week pressed for confidentiality to be extended to cover the accused, who he claims has his "name dragged through the mud" regardless of his innocence or guilt. It is "Any excuse like "I was drunk" or "she was drunk" is obvious that changes do have to be bollocks, because you would still be aware of what you made to the judicial system regarding were doing and you still know the meaning of the word rape, among other things. but the 'No'. Anyway, asking for consent won't spoil the removal of the victim's right to moment." anonymity is not one of them. ithan normal rape It you know the person and it's someone you've trusted.' However, at the end of the day the Leo Rossiter. 2nd year LUU, History. rr many by an intimate (husband, victims of rape while a further 10 per real changes have to be made at a much boyfriend • current or ex - or relative). cent claimed to he victims of attempted lower level. The responsibility lies with Last year, No Means No questionned rapt. Eighty four per cent of those who all of us, both male and female. Isn't it ri 1,700 female students nationally. claimed to have been raped said that the about time we took control over our le Results of the survey revealed that 10 rapist was someone they knew. Less relationships and held the debate in the 0 Per cent of women reported being than two per cent of those questionned bedroom and not the courtroom? lemawaim■ Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993

16 Culture The Trials of Julian Barnes Julian Barnes's seventh novel, The Porcupine, appeared in paperback this year. Matthew Pateman took him for lunch to celebrate. eclining a second cigarette trom Julian the process seems surprisingly easy and Barnes (the first had sandpapered my impassibly hard. To begin with you don't need Dsensitive trachea)! had two revelations. to want to be a writer. Barnes began wanting The first. and not particularly astonishing. %vas to he "a good reader, not a good writer'. ;Meet. that I was envious of this man currently do some book reviewing and realise- that you screened behind the club sandwich from "could do no worse than a lot of the people which the hard-boiled egg had been vou are reviewing". (So far, so good, unceremoniously discarded ("You don't have thought.) Next, try your hand at a longer piece eggs in a Club sandwich"). This man, in the of non-fiction; it won't get published but it's casual clothes which are a perfect fit for his good practice anyway. Now come. the warm and casual manner, confronted by John autobiographical first novel followed by the McLeod and Matthew Paternan, was quite a lot question "Can I invent, can I go outside the of what I would like to be. The second social sphere I move in'" (Getting trickier, but revelation was that, while Julian .Barnes is an yeah, I reckon l can cope). easy man to describe to casual, warm, egg- But how does this invention occur? hating smoker Cat tarts cigarette...0 he delights Obviously vou "start with the story". Second in dodging away at the last moment, so that You need some characters and some of those nut only he, but the world and even oneself are only need to he "sketched". Then you need called into question. AU this from saving no to sonic scenes. a French tag. The opening of The Porcupine has a Since winning the Somerset quite marvellous scene in which the women of Maugharn prize for his first novel Metroland in the city undertake a mute protest. Completely 1980 and being given the confidence- that without words, they march through the city "three serious readers thought it stood up to a streets using the everyday objects of domestic Julian Barnes - Prickly when pushed second reading", Julian Barnes has become one drudgery to make their point. Clattering of the most prominent figures in contemporary saucepans and banging spoons, the women into his great ''state of the England" novel, a first place". fiction. Shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize create a spectacle of unbridled fury, but novel which "all English writers want to He's written 'two or three' screen- with Flaubert's Parrot, the subsequent years without violence and without words. It is a write". The desire to continue writing and plays himself but has never got past the first have seen best-seller after best-seller. His latest remarkable, unforgettable piece of writing. Yet improving ("I'm not happy if I haven't written draft (send it to a friend in Bulgaria, I thought, novel, The Porcupine, is set to continue the all this came from a passing comment in a something for a couple of days") is another It'll be on screen in a month), and does not trend. phone call to (yet another) Bulgarian friend: handy hint for the aspiring wannabe. The only succumb to the self-flattery of assuming that a Set in a country "which is a sort of "She said that a group of women were outside vaguely uncomfortable point of the whole good novelist is necessarily a good script- Bulgaria", the novel is "about the trial of the her window demonstrating by banging their interview was when Barnes seemed genuinely writer. "You need to commit to each genre Communist leadership". It also tackles the kitchen utensils and it was the most terrifying bemused when asked if he still had this desire, specifically". relentless question of finding ''new certainties sound she had ever heard. I thought, 'I can do this ambition. After his initial hesitation the Barnes's commitment to writing in a moral vacuum". The deposed Communist something with that' ". That, Barnes said thoroughly determined answer was "of novels is undoubted. If you include his leader is a foul-mouthed, abusive tyrant. His without saying it, is what it take to be a great course!'. (Silly us.) detective stories written under the pseudonym language, his actions, his attitudes are novelist. These ambitions are intractably Dan Kavanagh he has produced 11 novels in designed to be all that is offensive to all of our Not that Barnes is just a novelist. literary: to write "the great, the perfect novel, 13 years. He's been translated into more liberal, democratic instincts'. Only a hard-line Indeed, his although, of languages than most people have even heard Stalinist could find much to cherish in him. Yet next book "She said that a group of women were outside her course, I of, has a list of literary prizes longer than a lot by the end of the novel "you sort of see his will almost window demonstrating by banging their kitchen utensils never will"; of arms sewn together, and is the (unwilling) point of view". Moral certainties are not that certainly not and it was the most terrifying sound she had ever not to lose subject of a small library of academic studies, easy to come by. be a novel interest in This last point seems slightly odd. Written, like all Barnes's work, on an but "a heard. I thought, 'I can do something with that' ". the world Barnes's novels exude a breadth of reading and electric typewriter, the first draft was sent by collection of he is intellectual flair which is formidable. Yet when Barnes to one of his friends in Bulgaria (to stories or journalism". In his capacity as a writing about - "Those novelists who depress faced by questions which hint towards have one friend in Bulgaria struck my journalist, Barnes has been working for The me most are those who seem to have lost intellectualism he sidesteps them, finding parochial ears as unbearably exotic, to have New Yorker for the last couple of years and has touch, who have written the same book ten them 'suspicious' and steering the conversation more as downright greedy). This friend wrote just finished an article on that "strange times". The more flamboyant ambitions of back to a less threatening line of enquiry (but back having translated the draft and telling institution" Lloyds of London. Trying to seeing his words turned into film do not affect lobbing in words like "discourse" to prove that Barnes that she'd have it ready for publication explain the mechanisms of British life has Barnes greatly. Three of his novels are in a he could talk about books that way, he just in a month. A few faxes and a second draft given Barnes an "odd way of objectifying my very early stage of pre-production but they won't). later, Bulgaria was the first country in the own country" and it is this ability to put have "small chance of fruition" according to As I said, I envy Barnes his skill, his world to have a copy of The Porcupine on its himself in 'their position' which has enabled the phlegmatic writer. But if we do see composure, his mind. I also found him shelves; an event which Barnes modestly him to become such a complex writer; so much Harrison Ford legging it round France in disconcerting in his mixture of warm termed "gratifying". so that you really can sort of see the point of search of a stuffed parrot you won't hear casualness and impregnable defences. 1 went So, how exactly has Barnes got this view of the barbaric autocrat in The Porcupine. Barnes moan if the moguls make it more bonks to meet him disposed to like and admire him. position? How do you become a writer? Sifting At some future juncture, Barnes's than books. "If you don't like what you think In the the soft warmth of my memory I find through the information which Barnes gave, work on The New Yorker may well find its way they'll do then don't sell them the rights in the that I did. Julian Barnes - The stories so far .. . Writing as Dan Kavanagh . . . Metroland (1980), Before She Met Me (1982), Flaubert's Parrot Duffy, Fiddle City, Putting the Boot In, Going to the Dogs. (1984), Staring at the Sun (1986), A History of the World in 10 1 /2 Chapters (1989), Talking It Over (1991), The Porcupine (1992). Collected in The Dan Kavanagh Omnibus (Penguin, 1992).

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 The Guide 17 Previews Hungarian Rhapsody In Brief Dialogue with Peter Brook - West Yorkshire is systematically repressed, the confusions of Playhouse, Wednesday 3rd November, language take on a new dimension. Due to a 5.30pm ••q> St g ban of lonesco's work throughout the In association with Waterstone's. the Ceausescu regime, this performance has a Playhouse invite you to share a rare The Bald Prima Donna rawness and edge which is absent from opportunity to meet the world famous West Yorkshire Playhouse British productions. When, in a final 'coup director and theatrical innovator Peter Brook. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest de theatre' the entire action is frantically The man is a thespian giant, and if you're mimed backwards, a deep sense of insecurity interested in any of his activities, such as his Civic Theatre that history might repeat itself is apparent. RSC productions, his book The Open Space', The Soft Vengeance Of A Freedom Fighter An ironic notion of the tragedy within or the huge spectacle that was The The Studio Theatre, LMU absurdity haunts what emerges as an Mahabharata', book your place now for only extraordinary interpretation. £2 / £1 concessions. 'The Hungarian Theatre of Cluj' is If that sounds a bit daunting - I probably not a name which springs to particularly when you realise that the play is Mark Thomas mind as a driving force in international actually performed in Hungarian - don't be & Steve Gribbin - Sunday theatre. It's more likely to prompt queries put off. The performance in Leeds should be 31st October - Lee Evans & Jeff Green - Wednesday 3rd November - Leeds concerning who I where 'Cluj' is, or indeed to worth seeing simply from a visual and University Conference Auditorium, both technical angle, and, for those of us who's elicit suggestions as to what you could do gigs £5 adv. each. with it if you had one. However if informed Eastern European languages are a bit rusty, Catch two of the country's finest young the Playhouse will provide subtitles in that Cluj is actually the principal city in comedians in Leeds this week. The venue Romanian Transylvania, although probably English. Even if deeper implications might may be large (it was the old Playhouse site), not overly enlightened, you are nevertheless be lost on a privileged English audience, the but these two should get the whole house ready to experience the new production of wider message of a comedy "shaped by the falling down. They played a double-header 'The Bald Prima Donna' at The West sense that ordinary life itself is wildly, last year at the City Varieties Hall, and have Yorkshire Playhouse. inanely, incoherent" will appeal to most. numerous comic accolades between them, Romanian-born Eugene lonesco And I promise you'll never sec 'Cluj' in the including successful appearances at the wrote this play after reading an English same light again. Montreal Comedy Festival. At only E.5, you phrase book which taught him to say that The Bald Prima Donna' is being could do a lot worse than this, and the seats there were seven days in a week, and that performed from Monday 1st to Saturday 6th are comfortable too . ceilings were higher than floors. Hardly November. surprisingly, a set of cliche-swapping As for the rest of this week's theatre, characters who are completely out of touch there's a couple of other productions worth a Bonfire Night Celebrations with language and reality emerges. Take mention. The first is "One Flew Over The In case you hadn't noticed (and if you hadn't. typically bourgeois Mr and Mrs Smith, add Cuckoo's Nest", which is being performed in then the sharp increase in loud explosions the confused Martins, stir in a fireman who the Civic Theatre from Wednesday 3rd to outside your window over the next few days just happens to be visiting, and season with a Saturday f5th November by local charity should give you a due) its Guy Fawkes amateur group Leeds Art Theatre. If you've Night next Friday. But who gives a monkey's maid who thinks she's Sherlock Holmes. Pic : Kevin Low The net result? A parody of suburban not seen the film starring Jack Nicholson, the about blowing up Parliament any more? It's banality and Absurdist Theatre at its earliest play deals with the question of how to care piece, having been adapted directly from the all about fun, food, and fireworks, and Leeds and best. for the mentally ill - whether to keep them in book of the same name written by prominent City Council will be setting up their usual Normally performed with absolute institutions or whether to provide care in the ANC activist Albie Sachs, which he wrote free displays (weather permitting) in realism, 'The Bald Prima Donna' is community, as favoured by the current whilst recovering from a car-bombing attack Roundhay Park, Middleton Park, completely transformed by the Romanian government. Clearly, the issues are still very carried out by the South African Security Woodhouse Moor Sr. various other locations company. As part of an innovative exchange much at the forefront of the political scene, Force. to provide just that. Bonfires will be lit at with British Theatre communities they despite the play having been written thirty The play deals with both Sachs' 7.00pm, firework displays commence at promise "a fairground ride of the mind." The years ago, and the company will be struggle to come to terms with his permanent 7.30pm, and are said to be a little special this year to commemorate Leeds' Centenary Year. set's 'English interior' becomes a child's examining the problems at a very personal disabilities, and with his continuing struggle playroom, whilst the characters behave like level. It should provide an evening of very as a member of the African National automated dolls. The Smiths appear as be- good, powerful theatre, and with students Congress. "They tried to kill me and they able to buy tickets at the concession rate of £3 failed; that's all that matters, and all I have to Deacon Blue - St George's Concert Hall, rouged Victorian grotesques and the Martins Thursday 4th November, 7.30pm. it's good value for money as well. do is get better, that is my single, lovely, are kilt-clad Scots. The hilarious People keep telling me that this lot aren't Alternatively, for your £3, you could clean, political, public, and intimate goal..." phenomenon of the fireman's hose (not to quite as hip as they used to be, if indeed they mention the effect it produces on the maid) is go down to the Studio Theatre, LMU, on The production has the full support of Sachs and the ANC, and will have sign language were ever hip. But tough, 'cos I happen to definitely not to be missed... Friday 5th at 7.30pm, or on Saturday 6th at like them; they write damn fine intelligent 2pm, for Graeae Theatre Company's interpretation at both performances. However this excellent production is pop songs, they've a collection of excellent rooted in more than just humour. Coming production 'The Soft Vengeance Of A Natalie Highwood sing-a-long smash hits, and according to eye- from a country where the Hungarian tongue Freedom Fighter'. This is a very political witnesses, they're absolutely storming live. Presented in conjunction with Radio 1, tickets start at £12.50, so go along and commiserate with all the young upwardly-mobile professionals who used to listen to Nicky Get Into The Groove Campbell. New Orleans Mardi Gras - City Varieties, says it all. Set up to give fans of the musical la tin music". Thursday 4th November, 8.00pm. Complementing the disco, the other The Society Slot genre "the chance to enjoy live music and A night of New Orleans jazz, blues & gospel discos and to offer a base from which they can night is the live band & jam session in the which might well eclipse the following Royal Park Pub, LS6. Student bands from the LUU Jazz & Blues Society start up and perform in their own bands'', Jazz night's fireworks. Stars include Pauline & Blues basically revolves around two universities & colleges get the chance to show Pearce (blues & gospel singer), maestro Max This is the first of what we hope will become a separate nights out, which cover different their worth with a live set, but just as Collie, plus the New Orleans Masters, The regular feature in The Guide. Each week, we'll be aspects of the society's aims. important, any musician, no matter how Rhythm Aces from the USA, and the band taking a look at one or two societies from either The first of these is 'Gorgeous', the proficient, can go along and play with a whole within a band, The Saints Marching Band. University, giving you information about their disco in the Harvey Milk Bar, LUU, every bunch of like-minded people. Tickets start from £8 in the upper circle, but activities and how to get involved. If you'd like to Tuesday, which presents a wide selection of The society hope that together, the you can't help but wonder if this would go see your society profiled in these pages, please drop music from the add / hip-hop end of the jazz two nights will please all the members, and down slightly better in the open air, say all the relevant info into either Leeds Student office, spectrum. The night regularly entertains DJs give them all "the chance to play, dance, down at Granary Wharfe, where you could jazzy preferably with a contact name & telephone from Dream FM, Funky Divas, UYR and Back socialise, and have fun in an arena of join in the dancing instead of shuffling your number, 2 Basics, and is intended to be "a groovy and music", which sounds like a pretty good idea bum from arm-rest to arm-rest. The Jazz and Blues Society - the name exciting evening of jazz, hip hop, funk, and to me. Check them out.

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4 N• 4chubs Stage Clubs 'Wu VI> WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE PHUX at MISTER CRAIG'S • Su ideal eight, LI 50 4E1 tir 1ER R(INSEIN Al MUSIC FACIT1RY - f)arice & garage. QCARR V THEATRE • as Friday THE WORLD at RITZY'S - Student night, a pint. TRIBE in RICKY'S Acid Juce. Fmk & Dance THE COOKER at ARCADIA • Jazz sod funk with Fenn crn VARIETIES •00 808 UP THE JUNCTION at THE GALLERY - Student night, 50p LOVE TRAIN at TOWN a COUNTRY CLUB - from 'Yonne Disciples, The Slightly Naughty Jethro e3opm, from I:710 a pint / double spirits, £2 50 with NUS card. Spin to lani ANrrinNG GOES at THE WAREHOUSE • Dance. BACK TO BASICS at THE MUSIC 1- ACTORY • Dance Si GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL tel, 0274 752(81(1 CLUB CRACKERJACK at •1-1E MUSIC FACTORY Student night - fl with flyer cheap drinks THE LIZARD CLUB at KICKY'S - Best of Rock. LA / (_150. Ben Elton - 7 30pm, from £751) tt(R & 90's House L2 'If' / E0 00 V2 at THE GALLERY - Dame. DJ Paul Oukenfold Inpm In tam. LEEDS UNIvEitsm CONFERENCE AUDITORIUM THE NUB CLUB it ARCADIA - El it pint. 9.30pm doors. ray ARCADIA at THE tiALI_ER1' •9pm to 2am. £3501 14. tHE POWER HOUSE in THE GALLERY - 9pin 011 tarn. Lo Mark Thomas. comedian LS ads pd., El it L7, Casual dress I smart numeral) STOMP ai LEEDS METRO 11N1. ta.51) ;kW. indie, grunge ALTERNATIVE / INDIE AT SCRUMPIFS - 12-Om. all PARTY ON at LEEDS 'NI - 0.50 mb, afternoon. Sto g e INC ARE ERA TED at SCRINPIES Indic night . 1:2 so I 1 i VAGUE 1111HE WAREHOUSE - 15, cross-dressing. TWA Music TINIE TUNNEL. id MEN o0 meta. C, t: SATURDAY BOP at LEEDS METRO UN1 • e fa guest. CYCLONE al LEEDS UNI -1150. nidie/alteraative WES'T YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE tel. 442111 %IF!GA HALLOWE'EN FESTIVAL at THE 1 IN 2 CLUIL THE DUCHESS QUARRY THEATRE will; craft fare, happy 14Our Ma& of hands, alma and cabaret. Isaac 'Brighton Rock' - 7 lOpm, from L4.00. Stage Sums 2pm. • s. THE GROVE INN COURryA RI) :11 lEATRE Big Alan & Little Maga ilunchtimet The Bald Prima - 7 45prii. [mitt £4.50 WEST Y ORKSHIRE. PLAYHOUSE lel 442 III A 1-11AMBRA STUDIO ALHAMBRA - as Friday QUARK' TM' stage Family Fim Day comer, - 'King Of The Swingers • 3.00pm 'Brighton Rock' - 7 311pm. tickets from 14 COURTYARD THEATRE Musi c 'Someone Who'll Watch Oyu Me' - ;.45pm, tends now t4 SERIOUS PLEASURE at R11`..'' S Dame GRAND THEATRE tel 459 351/4-10 971 WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE as Enday Film The Inc noble Man' - 7 3Optii. from L0.50 GRAND THEATRE as Enday THE TRIM I CENTRE CITY VARIETIES Eel! 430 8418 CIVIC THEATRE td 476 96:1455 54)5 SHOWCASE June Tabor Andrew Newton, hypnotist - 11.110mn, £550 'Play On - 7.45pm, E4 00 27 Gchterd Road, Ringall. Tel. 0924 420071 THE DUCHESS THE STUDIO THEATRE IA111 id, )1 134 CITY l'ARIE.TIES Tickets e4 25 ,13 on NUS Neanyas Eyewitness Theatre present 'Lysistrain - 7 :10pui. f4 50 .t Andrew Newton. hypni4W - 3.00pm. £700 Once 1.1mm a Forest and In The Line of Fire LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION ALHAMBRA tel 0274 751 (83) ALHAMBRA - see Friday Sleepless In Scuttle Dennis and The Finn The Family Cat - £5 tidy 'Aspects Of Awe' - 7.30pm, front 48 50 THEATRE IN THE MILL - see Friday The Secret Garden Much Ado About Nothinr HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, Roar Lane ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL tel 0274 7520011 HARROGATE" THEATRE - sec Enda Dragon Jurassic Park Music On Mondays - Baroque Music • t 05-1 45prn Ennio Marcheno - 8,00pm, from 1630 Dirty Weekend The Piano ALHAMBRA STUDIO tel. 0274 752000 The Fugitive Rising Sun 'Spuitett Youth', dance & video - 730prn, 1630 I.E3 50 o Music Tma I homeward Hound g Film r: True Romance Hocus Focus THEATRE IN THE MII.J. tel: 0274 7113 285 Double Edge presents 'Invisible' - 7 30pm. LS L3 Sneak Preview on Sunday 3Ist Dave HARROGATE THEATRE iel: 0423 502 116 ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL !el 0274 752010 COTTAGE ROAD CLNEMA For full programme details for The Odeon. NIGSI Music 'A Midsummer Night's Ilrette • 7 45pm• from 15,50 Siberian National Folk Dance Ensemble - 8 (8)pm, from 1E6.00 Cottage Road, Far Headingley Tel 751606 House, Showcase CiTIVM21, Lounge Cinema. Cottage Road TI11 In:CIIEb.S THE DUCHESS THE SECRET GARDEN - 6pm Cinema and Hyde Park Picture Hours, see Sunday. Ail Day Event THE FUGITIVE - 11PM PICTUREVILLE CINEMA THE DRUM (THE FENTON) DELICATESSEN - I I pm, Fri & Sat- Passion Fish - 6.00pm Misery Junkies LOUNGE CINEMA Baraka 70nun - R 15pin Musi c ROYAL PARK North Lane, Headingley Tel 751061 HETI Reservoir HOMEWARD BOUND - Fri & Sal- I I. 2, 4, 6'. Sun 3pro Map Of The Human Heart - 6,18.11rm LEEDS TOWN HALL DAVE- preview on Sim 5.30mn 11w Wedding [templet - 8 15pin The John Chway Big Bend Stifle Philltannunie Orchestra play Mulilues Symphony No 6 - MUCH ADO - Mon to Thu. 0, 8 10. ODEON THE GROVE INN 7 30pin, front f4,00 HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE The Heathrow. Tel. 4318)31 Folk Club present Roy Wilcox & Endgei Guest SHEFFIELD CITY HALL Brudenell Road. Leeds 6 Td. 752045 TRUE ROMANCE - 2 I U, and 5 10, 8 10 except To ROYAL PARK PUB Northern Chamber Orchestra play Haydn, Shostakoyich. THE PIANO - 6.15, 8.45. Sat & Sun at 2.3(1 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE.- I 10, 3 30.5 55, 8.30. The Faraway Tree Delius, Moran • 7 30pm. MEAN STREETS - Fir and Sat, I I pm 'LOCUS FOCUS - 1.10. 3.20, 5.40, 8 10 THE HADDON HALL ricruREVILLE CINEMA HOMEWARD BOUND - 12 al. 2 55. Fri to Sun Right of Man Passion Fish - 6.00pm RLSING SUN - 5 15, 805, Fri to Sun, 1.55, 5.05, 8 Mon to Thu THE DRUM (THE FENTON) INA Film The Cement Garden -8.15011 TINA • 1.10. 5.311. 8 05, Mon to Fri The Termite Club IMAX TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - Sal 10.30. For full programme details fur The Odeon, MG Tilanaca - 8.0Upm ONCE UPON A FOREST - 1/0, 3.20. En to Sun For full programme details for 11w Odeon, ivIGNI, Movie HETI House. Showcase Cinema, Lounge (Animist. Cottage Road Raining Stones - 6.00, 8.15 Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House, see Sunday. BE T2 CI 'Telly PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Sunnse - 8.00pm Passion Fob, - 6.00pm MGM MOVIE HOUSE House, Showcase Cinema. Lounge Cinema. Cottage Road The Cement Garden - 8 15pni Vicar Lane, LS1. Tel. 451031 'Inside Victor I.ewiti-Smith' (BBC2. 10.00pm) - Comedy Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House, see Sunitut.. 1MAX DIRTY WEEKEND - I. 3.20. 5.50. 8.30 sores based in a hospital Obvious from the title. PILTUREVILLE CINEMA tel 0274 732277 Rolling Stones 'At The Mao' THE FUGITIVE - 1 15. 5.15. 8.05 'Whatever Happened To The Knockers?' (C4. 9.00pm) - Passion Fish • 6.00pm BET I THE SECRET GARDIThl - 1.15, 140.6, 8.35 Carry On Selling [Nu-it-To-Door The Cement Gairlen - 8 15pm Comfort Of Stranger • 6 00pm DAVE - Sun 8.35 [instead of The Secret Gulden I 'House of Cards' t BBEL 10.10pm) • A political Drama. IMAX tel. 0274 752000 Raining Stones - g 15pm starring Ian Richardson. Urquhart's plans to undermine the Thames - 8.00prn an 2 mis Prime Minister gather forced. A striking similarity with on 1 tel 13274 820666 Sunrise - 8.00put present upsets in the Tory party, which MU our beloved ev. in Raining Stones - 6.00pm Telly Maggie's Revenge', 1 digress ComEnn 01 Strangers - 8.15pm Cutting Edge: 'Whatever Happened to the Knockers?' BET 2 'Telly 'Note* & Queries with Clive Anderson' 9.00pIn1 l'hunnel 4, 9pm) - Documentary series on the Knockers, Sunrise • 3 00pin New tcrio, this week investigating 'What is happiness''. be agroup of young door to door 4alestnett peddling tea unseli and I.UL' FANTASY & HORROR SOC. NHL I watching. dishcloths. supposedly on behalf of the dissabled back in 1983. The Ilnin For Red (gusher - 71.10prit. 1:2 t f I 'Bill & Illlary's Excellent Adventure' tBlIC2. 9.t)Opni Tat years on, Cutting Edge catches up with them. THE NIGHT WITH THE NAUGHTY NAME EVERY MONDAY NIGHTCLUB

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Friday 29th October :- b e'-wp d 'No Way Out' (BBCI, 9.30pm) - Kevin du s ubs Costner looks chic as a sailor having a fling

HEAT SUR R EN OF II dl THE MI 'SIC E.ACEoR . r.tys DIG at 110E GALLI:RN ; Agc.A111.% sec Slustr I 0 511E11 & .111,11'E, TIIF 511 SIC /RV 1odic with Sean Young. Big mistake, 'cos she's :Ht's £. 511 rrfl L I u r1111 CIRCUS CIRCUS al .111E MC'sa I \clORY ; !Lair. „; hih nor, 1_2 r L2 iii Gene Hackman's inistress. Fast-paced HIE LOVE lit TTON at ARCAI14,1 ihinte. guest, TWA, (ills Ir, 4i I. i V „ pito ROCK NIGH I u W'NR1-11( - L_ 154 f 111rn glossy :make of the 19•1()'i thriller 'The Bt}; LI A gsout rvi.s F A BULOUS rt ti,.ens taEl 1..N1 THE 1111.1: ElIGH CLUB a, lilt ti;l.l..F.RY Clock. RUG in rm.. BALI i ey toc-ices • I J pint, 10pm In New house. larx.. 1 va uge A HE 1111-RSDAY 11,1/1, at I ELIAS LINT imish-. /'t rt,:a.! 2,1„ itusilihi dente 1111111, L nn door. 'Just Another Girl On The MT' 1t. LI a pint people 11 optri 'till I;,;,,, -4, GORGEOUS I I I-DS I. NI AC1,11111:7.1 l'11111:• El: it ads NIENAGIERIE ell RICKY'S £2 4E0 entry. Cl 4 1'4111_ Inp• 11-451.km) - 1992 winner of the Sundance ■ ROC*. / ALTERNA I Is t INDIF . t 1111 tiALLER) t2 granpe.cote intim os Zara. Finn .Festival special prize. Drama about a 1 1 lain 70'S NIG111 m VEl- StarLg smart-assed Brooklyn NEW ROM% 114's At rtu- L' HANGS • Free, cn.is 12ant Saturday 30th October l'iRg 1. t.-Gt 1-GO .1i SC R MPIUS 70's StaLge WEST 1 MIN:SHIRE PLAYHOUSE is 1-1.4110 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (BBC2, THE CIA IC THE VIRE - xs Wesluesdio, 3.00prni - Orson Welleti follow up to Citizen HARROGATE THEA IRE Fratas Kane. Story about a genteel American WEST I ORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - as Monday (.17 Stage ALHAMBRA - as Enda% ALHAMBRA - rei Friday RAVEN THEATRE family, and their fading 'magnificence'. ALHANIBR A STUDIO tel. 0274 752000 Pelicans present 'Death of .311 I ‘,1..1,1 Compulsive viewing. Show of Hands Theatre present 'Twelfth Night' - x 00pm. Lb 511 wEsT YORliSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - us Monday 7pm, tickets £. 11ti 1.511 'Tequila Sunrise' (ITV, 9.00pml - Mel 1.3 50 THE CIVIC THEATRE tel -455 505: 476 062 Gibson, Kurt Russell, and Michelle Pfeiffer HARROGATE THEATRE - as Fndu s I eed. An Theatre present 'One Flew Oro The Cuckoo': INeq' in smarter-than-average romantic thriller. • 7.34tput L4 Music 'Halloween' (ITV, I 1.05prril - A horror AIMAMBRA • as Frith') masterpiece starring Michael Myers as an Music HARROGATE THEATRE - art Friday 1.E.EDS LINIVERSITY CONP'ERENCE AUDITOR!' st THE DRUM Inn E'EtsiTON'i escaped murderer returning to his old Eterdis phis kit Green - £5 a& 11w Electric Lemon Cabaret present-, Bib & Braces. Vladimir haunts. THE: DUCHESS McTavish, Tony Mendoza - Rpm, 13 L2 '10 Atari Teenage Riot GRAND THEATRE. 11 °FIE Sunday 31st October :- LEEDS TOWN & Ctll N rat PttLsy Cline, A Musical Tribute' - 7 30pin. from (7 00 'Mystery Train' (Channel 4, 10pm) - Three ROTIKITTE: It CI) - e,l I tu.h. Tti F. DUCHESS stories linked to a Memphis hotel, including LEEDS TOWN HALL Musi c Ilse Ruth Healers Japanese Elvis fans, an Italian woman who Lunchtime Capin Music - ! ,05pm, free CITY VARIETIES sees the King's ghost, and Joe Strummer as a New Ot Iran- Mardt Gras- - nom £8 00 law-breaking Brit, Jim Jarmoscli directs. IIE DUCHESS Film Chapterhouse 'The Asphalt Jungle' (BBC2, 12 midnight! - ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL ie./ 0274 7520011 2 1Filrin. Heist movie starring Sterling Hayden, and Faster & Allen 7, lOpm, £7 50 Marilyn Monroe in a small role as a crooked For full programme details for The Odeon, MGM \loth: ALHANIBRA STUDIO Set 0274 752000 House. Showcase Cinema. Lounge Cinema. Cottage Road ST GEORt;E'S CONCERT I I A1.1, 4:1 1127.1 752000 lawyer's mistress, Great story. lent Edwards i harp • 1.115pm Monday 1st November :- Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House. see Sunday. LEEDS ART GALLERY Dea(0.•1 Bier 7 Vain_ from 1. 12 in PIC:rt./RE:V[1.1.E CINEMA Witcluntilty Liao, - 05rw1 For arognintme details for The Odeon. MGM Movie 'Face To Face' (BBC2,13.30pnd - Predictable Passion Fish n wpm DIG AT 'THE GALLERY linage. Shoot-a-se Cinema. Lounge Cinema, and Cottage romantic comedy, but well played by liaraka70num-ii tipto Coleen Altar-von and hand, plus DI Niorron 1.11 - Road timun:L.Ilet Elizabeth Montgomery and Robert BIM PIS I UREA' ILLI-7 CINEMA The Wedding Banquet - o Wpm Foxivorth as they get to know each other in Mim (/I- The Human Henri - 8.15pin RC...Cr% 0' Dor-, Kenya. TIFT 2 Film 151,525 Tuesday 2nd November 45 h 1)0 0,11.1 Vki joils Pins Lever Happened To Baby Ja ne' (BBL 1 . floc roil proprainwr toils for -Orr Odeon. 511,41 511isic 11.20pm) - Bette Davis & Joint Crawford star 110114r. Slit•N■mama. IA1111111ar (111C1112. cli13.11gr Road ii '//13 PI s ,St t'ieture tiottsr. see Sum*. in this black comic thriller about a crazy ex- 1E3 Telly 1'11 I I kt.1.11.1 V.I. 11 child star 11.0,q111.1,11 • ri 'The Lonely Profession' (Hy• I I .4erie PoOs drain, ;'■.• 'tts krt.- (1rose' 5, Idiom • r RC'A'n “:1 Fat iv 1 k nuivte st.irrine Harr,: Guardino as led op 11V1 A Ni ip 11: 'Retureu lilt I toes* inItt 'ft. kOprn, - I itaoica t'Vt "ttJ rprrrin4lv eoket. •A ,Eh sic i PANT•..0 IN., week., , Brit Wednesday 3rd November :- 1.,,Ikotgerini" 11),- W eshlaT 11 • 1.11(111r. 'Whilstlt. (BBC], - 'racking The Code' IRflCl, 4.3flpni I - Scientist:. 41.1, 111 Ilk I-.I. Telly Caine is impressive as the father of Niei:1 det eimitied ow i;vn,•,. that who we tall In lose with it 2 Havers, a top secret government ‘vorker euttlil make 3 ..hear) gap aboor 501 here, hilt 'itqvini ,l'oir. • 1 u11 lllux Your Mind' (Channel 4, 8.011pm) - In an el t:HLNESE ItAI. FESTIVAL who dies under mysterious C1rcurnstances. expand its popular appeal. Channel 4 is presenting it term, of I1am to Spin • Chinese Cullum' F.-shittaton, Racy Smith flail 'Stanley & Livingstone' (Channel 4, 2.00pm) short dramatisations. of classic navels for National lohrary 1%4 s 'Living Dangerously' (BBC!, 8.30pm) - Tonight. the - Pleasant enough history lesson, including ght at ambient., of being a bustard in the EEC. Week 1k said. from the depths of las anorak Liter toni the immortal words "Dr Livingstone t0.313pm. France,: Rather reads a monologue from !runes CHINESE CULTURAL FESTIVAL 'A Cook's Tour Of France' (1111C2., 8,011pmi - French tood Joyce's Ulysses 1.30pm onwards - Chinese & Calligraphy compentinn in MUM mmm. presume." ght, Blythe-non Hall 'Small Objects Of Desire' tBBC2. 10.10pm1 • Toni Thursday 4th November 'The European Match - Live' (Wednesday night, ITV, uunpons. And that's not a joke 'Paper Mask' (Channel 4, 1(1.00pm) - Paul Women interviewing 7.10gml - Okay; there's nothing else worth watching tonight, 'Woman Talking' IBBC2, 4.30pm) • McCann stars in this black comedy thriller so prepare yourself for Manchester Unnial versus Galatasary Telly men of their choice. Tonight. Michael Winner gets ripped to second leg pieces as a man posing as a deceased doctor. ALso The Golden Palace' (NYednesday. Channel 4, 10.00pml - 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' (Channel 4. 5.01/poil - Watching starring Amanda Donohue as his nurse in feel heart. This Again, on tomorrow night, and I'm only recommending it 'cos "The Buddha Of Suburbia' (BBC2, 9.2Spmt - Stan of a new someone else's problems always maker me the Casualty department. its the last in the seues. lour part drama SefleS, which 10110 a little special. show is tin women who can't slop gambling EVERY ABSOLUTELY RIM FRIDAY A chunky fortnightly blend of Old & New House, Jazzy Garage & Quality Dance Music. Resident D.J's Cath Valente & Lee Wright. Guest DJ's include:

OP14-2.1.4 October 20th - Mark Dawson (Kinky Disco) ner,....s, LIMP .1.6.0.v.. November 3rd - Tony Walker (The Gallery) LEEDS November 7th - Chris Thomas (Soul Funktion) METROPOLITAN ONIVERSffY i.D,E • GAL:NG-E. GFET.A 11usic 9pm ul 2am, Bitter, Lager & Cider £1. EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY Own" Mira woolist* LVII;SI.; City Site. ■ SEPT 2:9 OCT 13, 22 NOV 10, 24 DEC S Smarm 1.440ao, Ory Sim Lire& £2 Admission.NUS & Guests Only. Free Coaches back to Halls. LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Poo PM% LM, P.M dad Crad( At are 115 macaw um.es p= a .0.0+

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0 G Write On and Alaska. He'll be speaking about his brilliant Mah-vellous new book, "The Battle For Room Service", on Thursday 4th November at 8pm in the Clarke should keep you glued to your seats for the Foley Centre, Ilkley, and should he really full hour and a half, with its enormous range entertaining. Tickets cost £2.50. lIuS ic of feeling and emotion; it is quite justifiably The following night sees two more described as "a truly monumental symphonic cracking talks; at 7.30pm, Simon Brett (author Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra work". The concert starts at 7.30pm, but if of 'After Henry') will be speaking about his Leeds Town Hall you get there at 6.45, there's a free pre-concert series of detective books starring Charles talk on the programme, given by Julian Paris, and (surprise surprise!) introducing the Bradford Festival Choral Society Rushton. Tickets for the evening are new volume. Following that at 9pm will he & Northern Sinfonia available from £4.00. Desmond Olivier Dingle, pictured here, a If you like what you hear, you catch character created by Patrick Barlow, Artistic St George's Concert Hall up with the Orchestra again on Friday 5th ti Director of the National Theatre of Brent. It's another great week for classical music November, when they will be playing at He'll be giving a searing expose on the life of fans this week, especially if you're prepared Sheffield City Hall. This time the Mr William Geoffrey Shakespeare, revealing to travel out of Leeds a little way for your programme will include works by Berlioz family trees, props lists, and even music. However, it's right here in town and Bizet, 'La Mer' by Debussy, and it 4" • ' Shakespeare's unknown wives. Scholarship where we start our look at the coming Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'. Desmond Olivier Dingle, aka Patrick Barlow of the highest order, with its tongue firmly concerts, as the International Concert Season Again, the evening starts at 7.30pm. embedded in its cheek. continues at Leeds Town Hall. The Next weekend also sees the third ancy getting out and about this weekend? Both Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th concert in the Bradford Season, which Do you feel the need for some intellectual performance of Ricardo Castro, the piano F feature a full programme of four events at the competition winner, a couple of weeks ago exhibited the delights of the Halle Orchestra and physical stimulation? Well, look no Ilkley Playhouse. Amongst those speaking with the City Of Birmingham Symphony last Friday. On Saturday 6th November, the further, because next week sees the start of are some very famous names in literary Orchestra certainly set the standard for the Bradford Festival Choral Society team up the Ilkley Literature Festival, a series of talks circles; Liz Lochhead will be reading and rest of the season, and is a tough act for the with the Northern Sinfonia for what should and performances covering everything from performing some more of her unique poetry, rest to follow. be an excellent performance of Berlioz's travel journalism to Scottish poetry. Below is there's a comedy evening which includes Attempting it this Saturday (30th) "L'enfance du Christ", sung in French no less. just a selection of what's on offer... Henry Normal in the line-up, Canadian David Lloyd Jones will be leading The first recommendation is what novelist Kate Pullinger will be talking about are the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra under the company in a very accessible and joyous promises to be a very funny evening with her works, and Liverpool poet Adrian Henri the baton of Emil Tabakov, who are currently Oratorio; a charming and tender work as Mark Lawson, one of the country's top travel rounds everything off with an evening of on a fairly extensive tour of the north of writers. He's worked for The Independent poetry and song. England. In Leeds, the programme consists epitomised by the popular "Shepherd's and The Times, and won numerous For more details of these events, and of one work, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. Chorus". To learn more about the journalistic awards in his 'fearless search for a full programme of the festival (which also 6, which at eighty minutes is a mammoth programme, there will be a pre-concert talk numbing tedium'. Mark takes great pains to includes several writing workshops), you can piece of music, outlasting everything else in in the Terrace Gallery of St George's Concert avoid the perilousness of normal 'adventure' telephone 0943 601210, or look out for one of the coming season except Bach's St Matthew Hall by David Bryan, which is free and starts travel, and has visited some of the dullest the leaflets cum booking forms, and make Passion. at 6.40prn. The concert itself will kick off at places in the world, including New Zealand sure you reserve your places soon. However, Mahler's composition 7.30pm, and tickets are available from £5.00. WHERE TO GET YOUR BOOKS

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• The Guide 21 Chocolate Goodies Competition The Guide has got two pairs of free tickets plus a bag of promotional goodies to give away if you can muster the energy to enter our competition. After thirty weeks in the American charts, making it the most successful foreign language film there this year, 'Like Water For Chocolate' is coming to work its magic at the Bradford filmtheatre from 8th to 13th November. Lite's a bitch, and then she bites you. Mexican director Alfonso Arau has You can just Imagine the rest of the picture... 'Life's a Bitch' is the spot on title for a festival Londoners around a lose plot. Committed, he cast a spell of everyday enchantment which strained to grapple with a few subtitles, of the calamity-filled, cynical but achingly says, "to making films about the weaves its way through the bored frustrated we funny films of Mike Leigh. On tour at the unextraordinary lives of ordinary people", life of Tita, following the intoxicating trails have two pairs of tickets for the film's long Bradford Filmtheatre this November and spontaneity and fluidity of his films make the of aromas emanating from the kitchen to awaited UK screening at the Filmtheatre. December the festival concentrates on Leigh's best kitchen sink dramas look stiff and which she is bound. The youngest daughter And as tough that wasn't enough, you early directions and TV films, seen for the first formulaic. of a family cursed with matriarchal tyrany, undeserving undergraduates can also win the time on the same cinema screen. The festival opens with the definitive Tita is in love with Pedro, but doomed never 'Like Water For Chocolate' Book, CD After his cinematic debut with the 1977 production of 'Abigails Party', with to marry and to care for her mother. In the Soundtrack, and ... wait for it ... POSTER! again aptly named 'Bleak Moments', it was Alison Steadman as the monstrously kitchen she learns the secret culinary arts of Answers with your name, address and fifteen years before Mike Leigh was able to insensitive hostess. Other TV productions the servants: from crying into the cake telephone number to: produce another film for the cinema. being screened are 'Grown Ups', 'Nuts in May', mixture to the powerful aphrodisiac qualities The Guide, The limitations imposed on Leigh by 'Kiss of Death', 'Meantime and 'Who's Who'. of quails in rose petal sauce. Empowered by producing films for television may have, along Mike Leigh's work in cinema will he Leeds Student Newspaper, these, she uses her skills to finally combat with his personal vision, played a part in represented by 'Bleak Moments' on Nov 28th - Leeds University Union, her mother's despotism. restricting his subject matter to the lives of before the screening Andy Medhurst from PO Box 157, ordinary people, but not in containing the sight and sound magazine wil hosts a If you can tell us the answer to the Leeds LSI IUH scope of his inventiveness. It was first in 'Bleak discussion on Leigh's films - and 'Naked', his following question: Moments', then during the television years, most recent creation. 'Naked' won awards for What 'Villa' was involved in the 1910 Don't despair if you have no success in the that Leigh developed his unique 'workshop' the Best Direction and Best Actor at the 1993 Mexican revolution? competition, 'Like Water For Chocolate' is a creative process, working closely with actors in Cannes Film Festival, and is regarded as and then manage to send that answer in to treat well worth forking out for, and one improvising from their own observations of Leigh's best and bitterest creation to date. See The Guide before next Friday, and if after all worth catching before Hollywood cashes in the everyday lives of mostly working class listings for full details. this your poor overtaxed brains aren't too and does the remake. 1 First British Tour I 1st - 6th November The Hungarian Theatre of Cluj present BESSE LAAR The Bald Clinical Research Unit Prima Donna Here at the Clinic we assess the suitability of Eugene lonesco medicines which may be available on prescription or I for purchase over the chemists counter.

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Leeds Student independent Newspaper 29th October 1993 Sport 27 Sporting challenge

Does Leeds University Union need a sabbitical sports secretary? Roger Domenghetti popped along to see Fiona Smeaton, LUU's General Atheltics Secretary and bowled her a few difficult questions

none intrested in staff, what do they do? apathy as a whole and not sport at Leeds "Sue Jacklyn is the Sports merely about sport. "After A University will no Administrator for the all. how many of all the posts doubt he aware of John University, not just the sabbatical and non-sabbatical Rose's attempts last year to Union. She has to lecture on were contested? Very few. make the position of Sports sport and she has a lot of And there is concern about Seceratary into a sabbatical work to do in the P.E. sport. Just look at the post. department. Effectively she's Wednesday afternoon issue." Despite large publicity just administrative back up In his manifesto. General campaigns neither meeting for me. Secretary John Rose held to vote on the issue was "Clare Simister. her promised a swimming pool quorate and so it is an on assistant, has just been but in and sponsorship for all clubs, going affair. charge of Wcetwood. She has neither of which have yet This years seceratary, to look after the catering and materialised. I wanted to Fiona Smeaton is set to call a the bar, pitch bookings and know wether Fiona felt a Special General Meeting in any ground staff problems. sabbatical officer would help the next few weeks to have a Again it takes her away from this prnccess. third crack of the whip. So I the office." "To get a swimming pool went along to have a little So now I'm a bit clearer would take a minor miricale, chat with her and see if she on what everyone does this but in both cases a sabbatical could convince me to vote in year, but why is it important officer would be the only favour of making the post that the post is sabbatical? person with enough time. sabatical. "At the moment none of us There are 53 sports clubs. Before we can decide have time to deal with the Only someone with a vast whether Fiona's post should more complex issues of the amount of time could get be a sabbatical, what exactly post. Student numbers are them all sponsorship." does she do? growing - so are sports clubs I still wasn't sure whether "Basically 1 bring together - and I just don't have the it was possible to justify General Athletic Commities time to nurture the clubs having a sabbatical officer and we organise the funding properly, to sit down and with two people already of clubs. All the club captains plan for the future and work employed full time by the sit on one committee and out where their fundings University to deal with sport. decide on the funding for going to go." Surely it would be better just everyone else. I also have to But, traditionally, few to have one person, as at oversee the process of clubs people stand or vote for the LMU. "You can't get rid of applications for this. Other post, so if a sabbatical sports Sue Jacklyn as she deals with Fiona Smeaton, LUU's General Athletics Secretary than that I have to deal with post were to be created. University not just Union already expressed an interest the vote quorate. Keep those sports reports general problems that arise people might see it as an easy sport. Clare's her assistant. in this vote going through it The message then is coming in. Drop them into in the office." way to take a year out for So they're both involved with looks as if there is now more clearly this: if you care about either our LMU or Leeds Fair enough. But what free. the educational side of things chance than before that it sport get down and vote. University Union office by about Sue Jacklyn and Clare Fiona, however, feels this too." will happen. However, 500 don't expect things to happen 5pm the Monday Simister, the full-time sports is indicative of student With sports clubs having people are needed to make without you. THE TERRIBLE THE ARMCHAIR onday: 12.05art i ry Sap The WorlitWhibread round the V laid rare .00 l'he American 'Netball Big Match Kansas City k s The NVoild Tu 2nd 12.15 - I .15sim ('h 4 Filed hall Italia InterAfilan Vs Paipba TIPSTER 3rd: 7pm BBC,' Sportsnight Special Live Cos-tinge of the UEFA second round second leg Norwich Vs Itayern lunich 7.10pm ITV et again the Terrible clothing, a pen and binoculars. all you do is tell them the race European Nlatch Live t.allinsa) of Turkey Vlithester United YTipster lived up to his The cost of entrance varies number, horse number, and name last Saturday with last from around £5 right up to to £15 stake - or with the rail bookies weeks tip trailing home third. depending on the racecourse and whose minimum stake starts at THE TERRACES Having spent last Saturday whether you want to hob nob it about £3. With the rail bookies cooped up in a scruffy and in the members stand or feel you get a glorified 'raffle smoke filled bookies, the more relaxed in Taus. If you ticket' so its worth writing Terrible Tipster plans to want to spend the day in your selection down on the No rugby !cagily due nteniational commitments abandon the library this week members a jacket & tie is back so you don't get your and go racing for a day. essential, but to spend the day in tickets confused, if by any Nothing is more enjoyable Tarts you just need to look chance you select a winner. than a day at the races and reasonably presentable. At the This week the Terrible Yorkshire has a vast number of races you don't pay tax on your Tipster fancies Young Hustler racecourses for you to choose bets and you can either bet at the in the 2.35 Ascot, and Jodunti from. All that is essential for a tote offices dotted around the inthe 2.25 at Wetherby who is day at the races is warm course - minimum stake £2, and guarranted not to fall.

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29th October 1993 TVDEN Energy and speed

dominated by newcomers Orienteering Niki Jovanovic and Ben Murin, who manage 6th and THE Iiy Pam Badtag 7th respectively. Unfortunately star driver FINAL WHISTLE Dan Scott was caught out by T ast year. Gary Lineker made the ud, contours and cunning planning from the Lafrank admission on Match of the brambles were the organisers, and ended up Day that he would rather watch Morder of the day in minus one control. Never-the- Wimbledon on Teletext than in reality. Raincliff woods near sunny Ims he battled on and stormed This, coming from the King of good Scarborough last Sunday. The home only to be beaten by behaviour himself, was. an appeal for cream of Leeds University Sally the dog by one second ! the return of passing. 'good' football Orienteering Club battled Peter Daze had quite a and a sign of the growing repugnance through the brambles and good start. but lost his for route-one style hooligan tactics of defied the energy sapping concentration halfway which Vinny Jones is the patron saint. inclines showing the through due to worrying The Eighties were not the be,i opposition how to tackle one about his speed. Captain decade for football. Teams outside the of the hardest areas in the Anna was similaly out of big five or six only achieved success North Yorkshire Moors. form, proving that you have through graft not craft. Storming runs were had on to be firing on all cylinders to But now there are signs al rev n al. the blue course by Roderick be able to copy the course At Liverpool. Souness is criticised for Stanley (second and a mere down correctly. penchant for his purchase of ruthless three minutes behind the The 'Man of the Match' players (Stewart. Dicks, Ruddock): winner) and Gary Slater, however must go to Alan Arsenal continue to be reviled for their making the top 10. These runs Campbell who managed a tactics (though of course envied for thrashed Newcastle superb run on the intrepid their silverware) and Wimbledon are University setting us in good 'flysheet' course. A course 1 frowned upon for obsentties in West stead for our UAU matches demanding both stamina and Ham dressing rooms. later this term. courage, certainly not for the At the same time, the Norwichs and The testing red course was faint hearted. Does anyone know the way? Sheffield Wednesday's of the world reach prominance through playing some of the .best football around; ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + crowds continue to rise and the Eighties casual hooligan is being replaced by Rugby League in our hoots with Scott Carter place on the 28th November match went to a third race Netball Ninties passionate supporter. in his debut performance for in Sheffield. Skiers of any after the teams won one Such enthusiasm and invest in the LMU deciding to roll standard intrested in each. The decker was game shields us from the spectres of Another hard fixture for the gracefully down the slope, competing for LMU please closely fought and extremely Playing at home, on rather Sky's increasing hegemony over comparitively new Leeds demolishing the run as he contact Fiona on 751053. tactical, with York just slippery astro-turf. Leeds coverage, the possibility of Man. Utd. University 2nd Team saw went and Jason Hough skiing clinching victory. faced a traditionally strong dominating the Nineties and also the the side beginning to find skillfully with only one ski. Sailing In the afternoon, as York side from Leeds Metropolitan fact that money still talks in football their potential. Early Fortunately, recovery was had not put up a Women's University: a new addition to politics - Blackburn would be nothing defensive mistakes saw quick as the nerves subsided team, it was decided that the UAU league writes Louise without Jack Walker's backing. for York seize a big first-half and LMU 1st team skied The first fixture of the year, Leeds University Women's Wagener. example. Still at least Blackburn and against York, came up with Team would sail York lead. despite good tackling superbly. narrowly missing With some impressive team United are getting their success through winning the competition. only a surprise result for the Men's team, although the and strong running from work by the 2nds. Leeds led a entertaining football. beaten into second place by a Leeds University Sailing Women's captain was Leeds. Leeds, however close match by three goals Indeed. a reflection of football's very impressive display by Team writes Emma Priest unenthusiastic about this dominated the second forty throught. Special mention renaissance in the fact that other parties Liverpool University's. LMU and Jane Hodson. The event after the aggressive and minutes, with tries coming must go to Rachel Moffatt are now taking note. Smash - erstwhile from Keely. Sutton and 2nd team were knocked from was held at home, on unsportsmanlike tactics of and Morag Watson. who teen nag for girls uses messers Speed the top six despite a desperate Wintersett lake, using the York in the morning. Wrap,g, and were unlucky rarely missed a shot. Sharpe et al for a centre spread. The not to get more. In a game attempt to cross the line first University's fleet or 'lark' The women lost the first Unfortunately. Metropolitan Independent and For Him have tried to in which Leeds proved their by Robbie Haydon, whose dinghies, and the conditions race, despite a strong caught up in the 4th quarter get to grips with the phenomenon that own worst enemies, the efforts saw her ski out of were fair, with a moderate challenge by Helen Appleby and with just thirty seconds to is Ryan Giggs. Football can be team showed strength and course. into the swamp. although rather shifting (helm) and Lena Winbourne go, they scored the winning glamorous, And people might skill which bodes well for A novice LMU 3rd breeze. (crew). They made a strong goal, bringing an exciting appreciate the art of ftiotball even the near future. team hung in there, finishing In the morning the Men's comeback in the second. match to 31.32 win for Leeds an impressive joint eleventh Team raced York in an however, dominating a further if T.V. devoted mote Metropolitan. programmes after the fashion at Ski Racing place with Manchester exciting match, somewhat dismayed York from the The first team also faced Metropolitan 1st and ahead of marred by York's overly start, and gaining first. 'Standing Room Only'. some tough opposition, but. There is still work to be done if we Leeds University 2nd and 3rd aggressive attitude. second and fourth places. even with the temporary loss Last Sunday saw the first race teams However. Leeds UM. Newcomers to the Leeds this gave them overall can overcome the ugliness of football of a key shooter, they played (witness - Cardiff fans' behaviour in meeting of the Kings North- 1st team finished in fourth team. Brian Tennant (helm) victory as York bad insisted an exellent match, bringing Western League at Pendle in place after a close battle with and Graham Nelson (crew) that this match be sailed on Belgium) but the aesthetic revival at the the score to 36-22; our first very roots - i.e. on the pitch - has given Lancashire LMU 1st team's Salford 1 st made a particularly points and not the best of UAL! win of the season. initial run had us all shaking The next race meeting takes impressive showing, and the three. the same a start. Long may teams such as Norwich attain greatness. Long may football itself he entertaining and great. ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + ROUND UP + Murray Withers

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