-BRO STATIONERS . 1 Oetober·SNovembef ELIZABETH OGIL'IJIE SEA SANCTUARY Mon-S.110-,n-S pm Admission Free s..t.ctiNd~~Scoffi,/tA,fsC-,c,i d eNt -~:... = ~· Thursday, October 20d988 20p Hong Maxwell Kong Davies The homeless thousands Lecturers Threaten Exam Boycott • Students may be held back a year if exams are disrupted.

by Graeme Wilson need any more mo ney. A recent ballot on whether or and Cathy Milton .. This seems 10 me to be an not the membership would with· NEXT SUMMER·s deg ree amazing attitude. draw fromn Government apprai· exams may not take place i£ the .. Our attit ude is no1 aimed at sa l schemes as a protest against Association of University . students although it wi ll affect pay (amongst other issues) pro­ duced a majority of 9.CXXl in favour. e,1:~c~;~~!'to!e~:t~~s 0~rcvi:~ :~~:~~\ is :ft~~:d a~~1e .~::; Chancellors and Principals. nothing to thank them fo r. Jt is Duffy said that the consequ· Last Saturday's AUT National aimed at the CYCP. They arc the ence of the proposed act ion wo uld Council meeting passed a mot ion people we are trying to influence be "irret rievable··. He said: "A to ballot members on whelher or by this action. whole year·i; work would not be not they will set the papers if the ir •· ) have no relish for this action examined and so a whole year demands arc not met by and I don·1 think any or my col· wo uld be un able to progress ... November. leagues want to take th is action. Sir David Smith. EU Princi­ Mr John Duffy. lecturer in the .. I know it sounds pious but we pal. speaking to Student yester· University's Statistics Depart- don·1 want to harm students· day, said: ''The University cannot ment and an act ive A UT membe r, interests and the action wil l harm affo rd 10 pay for such a rise. yesterday accused the CVCP of students interests quite seve rely. .. Last year the University had a trying to prese,nt a ··macho.man- "The whole point is that if the recu rrent deficit of £3.5 mill ion. agement image" to the Govern- Vice·Chance llors are prepared to "The AUT are trying to exert ment . He said: be havbe in a halfway decent man· pressure on the Government to ~The CVCP claim they have no ner there wo uld be no"t need fo r all ocate more money fo r the uni­ money. We. know ve ry we ll that this action." versities.- · they have money. Duffy said that the chances of "I woul d have to deplore such 1'They say that if they give us a the bal lot going in favo ur of act ion action whichn in any case is rise for 1988 the Gov<;rnment will •·m us! be very good" alt hough he unlikely to affect the Gove rn­ think that the universities don't said the position could change. ment .' MacDonald's Raided

argue that McDonald 's =====b=y =M=lc=hae==IH=•=ntt= ==== ~ ~!l!t~f :r~emca::v~;~: ;:~~a;rs~~ employees work in poor condi· T HE PRINCES Street animal righls and Third World lions for low wages. branch o( inte rna tio nal ham· groups were joining forces to The demoqstrators, waving burger cha in McD onald's oppose McDonald's exploitative placards and dropping slink bombs. mingled with the lun­ was the target o n Friday of a ~~~~~~s both at home and chtime crowd but aft er about ten demonstration by a group Third World First, the organi­ minutes were hustled out by the calling itself the McDonald's sation which promotes education m3:~i:;a n~:;r st~!~ager!ss Action Campaign (MAC). about economic iss ues in the non· Goalkttptr action from tht Unlvtrsily Hodtty Ttam's thrilling mcounln-with lnl"ff· "everal Edinburgh University industrialised world , point 10 declined to make any comment on "ith on Saturday, kadlng 2-1 with nn minutn k R, Edinburgh coattded two lal st )itt look part in the action, count ries like Costa Rica where the demonstrators· actions. one pis to emutt another dtrtat In cbt dluy brights of Uw flr 5C DMsioA . Edinburgh t1 young worker clai med that optatd the 5COm11 with 11 ~•I penally nick rrom Loughton, only lo sw«umb I ; ~.Mc'D, pa~ of World~ide staple foodstuffs are fed to cattle -htavy pttS5Utton tMllroktofhalftlmt. Tlw a,ging Wyatt ttStOfflltlw by0 London·\'/&! s Day, organtsed while millions of the indigenous McDonald's was a good company 10 wo rk for and suspected that the sidt's lead, only for lnvttklth lo u ploil thtir oppoMnl's intllptriffltt In a nigbl· , preenpcacei- ecology group. ~~~a~~~~ remain under· ..,..,. nna1t. l'or run report. tam to page,. protest had been organised by •H I 4~ j .. l I It II.,_ • UI ! tJ 6 '·: 1. ".. -· d son, ' s,,. ' Icing on O n t.he domestic front Me,_C bur$er rivals Wimpy. , ...... ' L:.:" .:.· ;..:· ·.:.·.:.· .:.· ·..:.·.:.··.:.·.:.·;..:" '-"'" ""' "'" .:.·.:..· ...... _ .....__ .... ___ __, 2 Thursday, October20, 1988 News Admissions policy Poll Tax Debate

by Alan MacDonald "robbing the poor to give to the leads to overcrowding rich", describing students as .. casualties" of this syndrome. by Amanda Rodrigues LAST MONDAY night a Bernard Ponsonby, prospective broad spectrum of speakers SLD candidate for the Govan address a debate at Teviot on constituency, affirmed his o pposi· THE LAW Faculty , accus­ tion to the tax and concentrated to med to a fi rst year intake of the motion: "This house wo uld not pay the Poll Tax". criticising the SNP for destroying 138 students, is having to the unity of the movement against cope with 170 this eyar, a All o f the speakers except for , the Po ll Tax .by advoc~ting non­ proble m the Faculty Vice one - a Conservative - agreed payment, w~1.ch he sa1~ ~~s ··a Dean Hector McQueen attri­ tha t the tux was un fa ir. But they hopeless pohttcal camp~1gn . were divided over whether non­ butes to a "mechanical" fai­ Andrew Brophy of the SNPs lure or the Faculty's admis­ ~;J;~ntt. was the best way to National Executive revealed sions policy. that no-one could be imprisoned ror non-payment. He Considerible overcrowding In Ron Brown, Labour MP for lectures has al ready proved dis­ Leith , opened lhe debate by sa'wthe prCscnt situation as a "gol­ ruptive and although D r. asserting that unjust laws have to , den opportunity- for Scouish McQueen is trying hard to keep be broken in the struggle for lib­ MPs to actually do something for tutorials down 10 the usual 12 stu­ erty. He we nt on to describe the a change by supporting an active dents by drawing in additional present Parliament as "a rubber non-payment campaign. tutors he admitted that things stamp for oppression", and Poll The final speaker was tan could worsen as Faculty resources Tax as "a class Jaw- Buchanan, the only Conservative become overstretched. The next speaker was also fronl councillor and therefore the only. In the past the ad missions pro­ the Labour Party: David Begg of proponent of the Community CCdure has relied upon a predicta­ Lothian Regional Council opened Charge which he described as for the opposition. He pointed out ble number of students decl ining ~a~~~rr :h:::~~~e~~e:es:~~ unconditional offers. This year photo: Hugh Pinney that a campaign of non-payment :~:n I however, a far higher number of would hit the poor an+<> by Clain Beanett includes cheaper bar prices. HELP AND ADVICE The committee·s everitual aim Stmng lht C...,,,..,, A PROPOSAL has been pas­ is to make enough profit on bar sed allowing Chambers sales, even at the decreased E,·ery Friday 9-10am Street Union to charge entry prices, lo enable the Union to 11 AG loucester Square 1t 93C111StWayside fees for their entertainments lower food costs. .Wlwds.tlr*yrl["'J~ evenings on Thursdays and However, the committee have C-..tyCslft.~Stnirt / Saturdays. stressed that the scheme will o nly Edinburgh EH3 6EB 1·-­t1s-u.r,-mpSdlNI. continue if the amo unt of alcohol Cilarrtol Rl*I ,The Uniqn·s Management sold increases in all three union · , .Phone: 031 -2,26, 3669 IIJl•1-Ci11Dfio''1Hfg11Sc.tool, t~~{t~·'.t~ ~ :drc~;~:~~!~ tStk~tt Or~dirC..... ~~z::t:;:-;.r:;:: /, ,~ ••'~' •• ,'& • _•, • ~'• \ • I .• 1 t J • ,•,I, Thursday as part of an experi- I at least £250. tJ~(Tel:"2-­ News _ Ski Clubs Cause Confusion not making clear its separate and by And~w Montgomery no n.university status from the EUSC, pointing out that the offi­ SKJ e nthusiasts at the cialskiclub stallwasapproacheda Freshe rs· Week Societies couple of time by people asking, ·Fair were faced with the con- '· have n't we just joined fusing situation of two ski you?"· cl ubs being ava ilable for Scot'-Ski's "unofficia l society" 0 ~~ membership - the officia l ~t~::i~in;a: -5~Z1~ a~ 1 ~~::,i~; Edinburgh Unive rsity Ski Fair as Societies Convener lain Club (EUSC) and Scot-Ski , a Catto expl ained that other non­ club not registe re d as a Uni- uni ve rsity orga nisations such as Photo: Tricia Malley versity society but providing Young Scot also have a space · AS THE Student Accommodation phimster said: "Edinburgh has provide 64o/o of first year under­ cheaper membership than there . Service gets ready to open its doors one of the worsl r~ords in the graduates with university owned accommdoation. This is the Yet, it has been suggested that at 10am, already a large queue has country in terms of providing its the G,.USC. _ poorest record out or all other Run by Ed inburgh Uni ve rsity the unoffi cial ski club is being run formed by first year 's who have first years with university owned accommodation problems to solve. accommodation." Scottish universities. · student Andrew Clouston, Scot- asa profit-makingventurewithno Edinburgh University can only Ski is unaffili ated to the Uni ver- reinvestment of profit s such as Accommodation Convener Neil ,ity, having members from both happens at EUSC. i:nere_ is a!ro • Edinbu rgh universities as welt as a ocncern about the fin ancial n_sk number of non-students. Its me m-~ that could_b e f~ced by the 60 Edm- bership fee for an academic year burgh Umvers1ty members should coSIS £1.50, compared with the the venture flounder. official ski club"s £5 fee. In response to these criticisms, Andrew Clouston said that of the , However, EUSC offers a CAMPUS TO CAMPUS me mbership fee, a sizeable prop­ broader range of skiing styles and , ortion is spe nt on mail ing and with Uni versity backing as a regis­ due 10 lack of lunds. The students taken to hospital, othe r administration costs and tCred society, are able to offer department , while small , docs whe n events at tlie that any Scot-Ski members who cheaper ski trips, free trainingand STUDENT offer specialist subjects such as joined under the impression that unjversity's Goudie Evening cheap hire of equipment for Ph ilosophy of Science and they were obtaining membership got out of hand. beginners. RAPED Pollution. The shutdown process· o f the o fficial ski club could The event , which originated in has already started with no furthe r St Andrews , involves older Scot-Ski, without such backing, " ... get their money back''. MANCHESTER Univer- admissions being considered. sity's Student Union has con· _ students taking a fresher under will have to charge more for its ski He also stressed that he had !heir wi ng fo r the night. T he resuh trips and a1 the mo ment docs !lot made clear Scot-Ski's posit ion as demned the police handling a. CONCERT this year was, according to one have a cheap equipment hire deal an independent ski club. It plan­ series of rapes in the city after source, the union being left arranged. ned to run weekly day trips to the a student at the university RIOT "swimming in vomit and beer'" The advent of competition for main ski ccn1rcs with the aim of became the ninth victim . and more seriously two students student members was neverthe- cutting transport costs; a "nexiblc Apparently the police GLASGOW University's suffering lacerations 10 their co-operative system" whereby a established the link between the Freshers' Week was marred _h,.ads. ~ ~r:si~~~t ~~~~;n ~ n~~ut~:~~ group of skiers hire a bus rapes, which have taken place by violence d u ring the said: " I don't approve of the fact together. over a 20-month period, at the Transvision Vamp concert that he's started another cl ub in Referring to the ri v-; lry positiOn beginning of the summer but did - A bogus announcement- ~as OXFORD competition with the recom­ his club was now in , Andrew not pass the information on to the d 1· h F h · S mended Sports Union ski cl ub. '' Clouston insisted that he was not officer who had been liaising with · ~~e: ~:1;::: ~~ ;ss:mb~~s nC::r • EEKS CASH She also criticises Scot-~ki for ''anti-Ski Club" (EUSC). th }~;t ~~~~:~~~~ Jt:~~sn1~!p~:;tit;~·- :. ~~:~~~~~ he r e e crowd set NEXT WEEK will see the launch were students in Manchester. While the attack was of Oxford University's attempt to However, it is hoped that In apparently violent, with some raise £220 million fo r '·general future 1hey can combine wi th the. · helpers being dragged over the funding" purposes. James Thin police 1owarn and advise students rai ling at the front, no serious The "fundraiser·· , which will be Dental in the city of safety measures. injuries were reported to have using private means, has already _ been suffered. created divisions between its Reprieve JAMES Thin Booksellers is supporters and those who see the now open until IO pm each DEPARTMENT Government as being the only weekday. DUNDEE body who should supply such sizeable funding thus providing by Ian Bruce Mr Thin explained that .CLOSURE opening hours have been · VIOLENCE the university with a solid monetary foundat ion . extende"d to give students THE SCIENCE and iechnology THE POLICE were called to A TEMPORARY reprieve greater access to the books. Department in Manchester compiled by Tia Riykafld Dundee University, and two has be en give n b y Educatio n '------• University is being force~ to c~se ~Iii Mierskandari Secreta ry K enneth Baker to D undee Den ta l Sc hool which was scheduled for closure in · 1989. The Min ister has given an assurance that there will be no Scottish closu res now un til 1990. Following a study of dental edu· cation in Scotland, a working pany of the Universities Grants Committee recommentled closure for the school despite receiving a statistically based repon from Dundee which argued against the shutdown. A second appeal to the Govern­ ment's subcommittee succeeded a nd the fu ture of the school no ~ rests with a committee responsi­ bl1 fo r ~~ ne;al~ ,~e ntal 1 ~~

THE PRESIDENT of the Pollock sfabbing pay students Poll Tax EU Democrats, Siobhan Mathers, resigned from the FOLLOWING the stabbing rejects the ~niversity's argument equivalent of two academics' pay, post last Friday. of a student outside Pollock by Graeme Wilson that St Andrews could lose over­ would be particularly valuable in She cited '·an increasing , Halls last week and several other similar incidents, the IN AN unprecedented mo~e, seas students to English univer­ the.present climate of cutbacks in dissatisfaction with the party"s sities when the poll tax is intro­ U niversity fundinf direction and a lack of confidence University is considering St Andrews University has duced in Scotland in 1989, as the At present St Andrews' in Paddy Ashdown·s leadership" operating a minibus shuttre decided to reimburse its latter would be perceived as approach seems isolated, and an as her reasons for standing down. service between George foreign, non-European Com­ cheaoer. Edinburgh University spokesper- Speaking to Student last Square and Pollock Halls on munity students the amount InStead, she feels the foreign son stated that they were definit- , Monday. Mathers said: '; It 's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday they have paid towards the students would~ capable of pay­ leynotconsideringsuchasystem. personal point of mine. It's just and Sunday evenings Community Charge. ing the amount , which will be 20 . Instead the University had the way I feel. between 5.30 pm and 1.30 The decision: which was taken per cent of the full charge, and decided to provide foreign stu- She said that she felt the "'vast am. Until a decision is by the University Court during consequently St Andrews could dents wit h infonnation on the ructions" in the nati onal party reached,. students living at a the summer, has already pro­ save the estimated £20,000 it Community Charge, taking the si nce he r election last March distance from the University voked an angry response from the would cost to reimburse. Ms view that the cost, overall , is not justified her resignation: " It are recommended to share taxi rides when returning SRC President Anna Turner. She Turner felt such a saving, the too excessive for them to pay. would be difficult to do anything with the party the way it is now. home late at night. --Toe conference was a fa rce. It wouldn't be fair for.me 10 stay o n feel ing as I do.·· Mandela Campaign David Milne. secretary of the EUSA Elections EU Democrats. sa id: "I'm disappointed but I think she's AT AN SRC meeting last Tuesday night. EUSA by Fiona Twycross 1;,USA Challenge" and stand have paind in promoting student done the right thing." for election in the by-elec­ welfare, and the interests of the Martin Pickering. vice- Secretary Mark Wheatley announced, in a personal IN A DRIVE towards ope- tions taking place on 27 wider community. He cited president of the club , said: " I achievements such as the new think she's wrong but I can capacity. that he was seeking --.. . ness, a Glasnost-style cam­ October. Welfare Advice Centre, and the understand her action. ~~a~s~!~i~\:~~~:rf::isation · I paign for greater awareness There are positions on commit- successful campaigning for light­ "Siobhan's politics always 1 among students of the impor­ tees at Chambers Street House, ing of the Meadows. At present tended very very much towards election of Nelson Mandela tance of the Students' Rep­ Mandela Centre and Teviot Row . there is a campaign underway to Scottish home rule and she's as the first Honorary President of the Students' resentative Council and House for first years interested in provide voluntary childcare for unhappy that this was nor Association. Union House Committees the running of the houses and the those s1udents requiring creche emphasised at the conference. organisation of entertainment, facilities. "The organisa1ion wollld was launche d at Thursday "I do think that if one takes o n a and wide opportunities for those, Nominations close at I pm on job like 1hat then ifs a bit hard if draw support from several lunchtime when students at in all years, on the SRC. October and nomin.ition fonns one doesn't stick to it ." groups, political and Teviot, Potterrow a nd EUSASecretary, MarkWheat- are available from the EUSA EU Democratis will be holding otherwise. and would gain Chambers Street were Icy, pointed out the role of the Offices,UnionHousesandUnion elections for the post of president the recognition which I recommended to " Take the SR<; and its· six sub-committees . Shops. two weeks yesterday. bclie_ve he deserves,., he said.

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Chapman, Springsteen and Sting were there, and thousands of white South Africans crossed the border for the occasion. A special Student News Ser­ vice report on the human rights con­ cert in Harare.

TRACY Chapman may be At nightfall , Gabriel in custom· ''talking about a revolution" ary purple waistcoat, appeared. but that was the furthest He played rm acrobatic and drama·

thing from the minds of the .::~t!;.,t;!,ce~ i:\~i:i1°~~;~~~~.: mainly white. young and (wit h Sting) and '· Don't Give Up" trendy people who waited for (with Chapman) as well as the up to nine hours at Beit overplayed "S\edSchammc~~:, Bridge. The set ended with 1hc crowd For Pilgri ms to the ·· Human yelling for "Biko''. Or some of Rights Now" concer1 in Harare, them were. A person behind me Zimbabwe. queues were asked in alt seriousness: "Who is ~~~~;ic. ~uecux:sh=~~:e Biko? Is he playing tonight?" 5 1 ~:i:;: queues to get into the stadium and Gabriel dedicated the song to queues to get out and finally. Mandela. the Sharpcville Six, queues to get back into SA 10 be those on death row. Soweto and searched and sni ffed . others: He urged South Africans to continue the struggle for human pr~imi~~~y :~~~e~ ~~~;~e 7;; ri ghts "from the inside·· population of Zimbabwe being Chapman·s set was. by co,TI- 90% black. This was perhaps due" parison. austere. Just one to the ticket 'prices - JO Zim- woman·s magnificent voice, babwe dollars per head. acoustic guitar. and thinking S1 in2, one or tfte many big names at lhe harare "Human Ri~hts Now'" concer1; lyrics. he r set provided the perfect Tl)C young and affluent whri.e the bubblegum in which it appears album. The work was divisible compared the Vietnam war with audience crossed the South Afri- i~rctrievably stuck . into three categories: sex. "I'm that in SA. which he called a On Fire:· "Cover me.. and --country at war with itself. ,. He ~~:~~~r ~::;e~ c,lit~~:ns: Chapman spoke or those who Sting oj}Cned with the old i~ Police number .. King of Pain". I " Dancing in the dark" during said he did not envy the conscripts Southern Africa·s biggest weren't present because they which he lifted a woman (of in the audience with the choices don't know if this_had any deep rockconcert. · couldnot afford it, could not open 10 political significance but he really course) onto the stage; classics. them. He also spoke " Born to Run" .. The River"· about ·'economic apartheid'' in The crowd drank , smoked and get passports or who were in " pushed his luck dedicating ·'H you more political stuff, " Hometown·: waved banners ranging from jail. "These are the people love somebody. set them free .. to the States. and an an ti -war song. "Welcome Brian Springsteen" who are really denied human Mandela. Despite these reservations. I through ·'Sting we love you'' and rights." Despi te two songs inspired by was "Twisting and Shouting'' with "PW Both!f· is o n anabolic repression in South America, the the rest by the time the set drew to steroids." set seemed stretched only just far Gabriel's set ended with the a close . The cast rounded off with e nough to cover the theme of the Even1 ua\ly lhe show opened fClil to Gabrlel's intellectualism .crowd yelling for "Biko!'. A ~~;i~~:fr!t~n1h~-~;~~::~~~n~~ with Tracy Chapman, Peter Gab­ concert. and theatrics. !:~u~!:i:",~;: ~\~fk::?~I! teen said: "We leave you with our riel. Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Chapman spoke of those who " I, 2, 3, Born in the USA. 0 dreams, use them we ll" and Youssou N'Dour singing Bob could not be present because they ~ : t~~:p~~g ;!;::r~i: he playing tonight?" d~parted. Marley"s ~Get Up, Stand Up"'. could not afford it, coul d not get l~t~~. This was followed by two popular passports o r who were in jail. Rick right in our own backyard. This Is about the only protest- Zimbabwean bands, llanga and "'These are the people who are complete with rasping voice, blue l am fo rced to conclude that :~!t::~~f~~~ e5:'c~t~o~~ricans in Oliver Mtukudzi. reall y denied human rights." t:a~!~~cu~~e~~~~e~~ : n~:r~~! ri~ Bruce Springsteen is more popu· Youssou then took the stage. 1nC crowd demanded an· Maybe it was the heat o r the jostl­ encore. Their enthusiasm, judg· cliche come true. . lar than the Pope. ing or the crowd or the promise of ing by her expression, was unex­ He had certainly perused his After rccitini from the Dcclara- things to come, but I found him pected. If the response of that • SA record sales fi gures tion or Human Rights (so he does monotonous and unintelligible. crowd is anything to go by then thoroughly: most or his material know that somethings hurt more · At least he was interesting. perhaps music can be saved from came from the Born in the USA 1. than cars and gi rls) Springsteen

The refugee isstle is extremely o n a boat. A further inducement These factors, andJ:heexposure homeland were aware· of these complex. They have been reach· for refugees to leave is the infras­ to Western life and money issues" would be naive - a large HO\G KO\G ing Hong Kong from Vietnam tructural damage still hindering afforded by the years of French numberofrefugees l spoketodid since 1975, travelling on boats the country as a result of the pro­ and American rule, mean the Vie- not reall y understand why they which are often dangerously over­ longed war with America. Furth· tnamese have begun to acq uire a were in Hong Kong.except to say, crowded and ill-suited fo r the errnorc, an economic embargo taste for the wealth and freedom Ml want to go to Australia/ journey across the South China initiated by American and fol ­ so patently lacking in their own America/Canada". They have an lowed by many of its allies further country. However, to say that· idealised vision of these resettle­ ___..:cb Y:.c•c.:•ccul..:;J--eff__re.;.:y ___ -~=~n:!!:;bo:::~~~;~ a:~:~ delays development of the coun· those Vi etnamese leaving their ment countries as havens of free­ they were headline-wor1hy news, try. dom and wealth without havi ng the slightest idea of what !he A LITTLE known fact about come for a variety of reasons. Currently the Viet_nam economy realities and difficulties arc or the British colony of H ong firstly being accepted by these is weak. Instances of famine arC Kong is that it is currently countries and, secondly, manag­ housing around 25,000 not rare, and a combination of high inflation and a strictly "plan­ ing to find a happy new life in refugees from Vietnam. ned" economy has made the earn­ !hem. ber of From June to Septem ing ability o f a Vietnamese ·mini· Refugees leaving by boat head this year 9,500 arrived, mal. Many Vietnamese are dis­ for either Hong Kong, Malaysia, making the "refugee issue" criminated against on the grounds Singapore o r the Philippines. the major political topic in of past aswc:iation with either the Once they reach their destinations Hong Kong. US or South Vietnamese govern­ 1hey are held in camps of widely The refugees are detained there ments in the years before the fa ll differing natures. The camps in in closed camps until they are of Saigon in 1975. the Philippines are regarded as by accepted by resettlement Some of the recent arrivals far the best - freedom o{ m~ve- countries. Some refugees have from Vietnam have revealed that been held for six years. Although they had only to pay a very small Hong Kong is 7,500 miles from sum of money to secure their Britain, it is still until 1997 a "passage to freedom". an indic­ British colony and thus the tion that leaving the country is refugee problem is o ne which much easier than in former years Britain should have been quicker when large sums of money : continued p. 6 to deal with. changed hands to secure a place 6 Thursday, October 20, 1988 Focus

refugees would be allo~ed to be chances. This is a complete mis­ HO\G KO\G resettled1, the remainder0 (the conception, but nevertheless 0it continued :~1°{~ ~e!:n1~~~c!~/re;,:~:n1': · f~:c'.7~~ts~~!a~n a~~~fe~ i~ mcnt is allowed and there is ample ally to be sent back to Vietnam . lack of purpose and the over­ space. Malaysia has recently This particular problem crowding - supremely ironic . announced a new policy of reject- appears now to have been solved. given that Horfg Kong currently mg new arrivals, something An agreement between the gov- has a labour shortage. the Indonesia n government has ernments ofYietnam, HongKong Although the Hong Kong gov­ always pursued Hong Kong the and Britain was announced last enrmcnt presides over the

~~ea:,th11~~:o~~:~ :ec:i;~;: ::~ • ;::ek :Jt~~~~\~~:: ~1~~~:,~~~ ::;o;:1:~~s~~~:ii:i~e~~~~a~~;: pohcy m 1982 whereby all repatriated. Money will bechang-' deal with the refugees must be refugees, once they had reached ing hands: the Vietnamese arc not ·. understood in the light of their Hong Kong, would be detained prepared to t~k~ back thc!r domestic pol itical obligations. un(il they were accepted by "third ref~gees un~ess 1t 1s worth their !he Hohg Kong people, st~cped countries~ for resettlement wilh while financially. • m the ethos of self-reliance, no movement outside the ~amps ' However, the very fact that the strongly resent the refugees' pre- allowed. British government is prepared to sence. The Hong Kong government has ~cce~t ~hat_ai:nountsto bl~ckmi:til However, Britain , which recently announced that it would is an 1mhcat1o n of how sen ous the largely appoints the Hong Kong open up the camps so that the problem is in_H ?ng Kong. As a government, should make the refugees will be able to look for matter of pnnciple, the recent greatest effort to ensure the swift work and at least have mo re of an decisior. is wrong. Pragmatically, resettlement of the Vietnamese. opportunity to control their own however,_ it is unfortunately the The original policy of finding the fa1es. However, this change will 0n,ly ~e nsible course. ·. refugees places in "third coun- not 1a1::e ellect untii next January fhis new concord_between the tries" such as America, Canada a! the earliest. , three governments involved has, and Austalia has been replaced by On 16th June 1988 a policy 'of course,_ had . no effect on th,e the _politically expedient mea­ change was introduced meaning overcrowding m Hong ~ ongs sureofrepatriation. I phoios oounesy of UNHCR that all those refugees arriving in . camps. The o ne on which Despite the many limitations to ~onh~~o:!:f~~::~:;!,e ~~~ · ;~;~~ ~:: i~:=e~o~e~7;~:l: this agreement be~ween ~ritain, those declared to be "political" half that amount. My job there Hong Kong and Vietnam, it does

was ro teach English in the adult I perhaps sugge_st a new awareness ~ducation department run by m t_he respect1v_e _g~)Ve rnmen1s of Save· the Children • their respons1b1hty for the TherC is little di"re~tion 10 life in refu~ees· plight. . the camp, and much trepidation at It remains to be seen whetl · I COM~IE\T The Wright the thought of any changes, such a broad political arrange! :~~~em~~~ i~ at~; i~::va~f;~ ~e;:;~l~it::~~fv: n,~;r~;~;~:1:~ Stuff Imi ght damage resettlement of the camps. / Ian Holwrhon EDINBURGH CANAL CENTRE WHY NOT COME ON DOWNTOTHE NEATEST PLACE TO EAT FAR FROM being the vlC- statirig "that a government must the Official Secrets Act. This WH ERE THE MUSIC MAKES YOU torr for common sense F:~::a~~i~ -!i~l~c~ohnar~~ult~~ ~~~~ 1~:ec':~~:\~:1:~~r?:ev~~: TA P YOUR FEET heralded by the newspapers, the public interest, but he shows carious reputation ofrhe judiciary WHERE YOU CAN the J..aw Lords' decision in his true colours in disregarding as independent. the "Spycatcher" case repre- 1he principle in relation 10 Ml5. Another worry is 1he judges' sen ts a blow against the rights , He declares that all information unwillingness to recognise that o r the individual and is a known to Ml5 members must there is a public interest in the AWAY d e monstration of the necessarily be kept "'secret and case. Lord Keith declares that his judici~ry's .continuing preoc- ~~n~:~,a~;;~~~~~i~:\;~~e~:~~ rCjec1ion of the injunction is not YOUR HOMESICK BLUES cup~t1on with secrecy for sec- ween secreis of greater o r lesser ~::~c ;;~~~s~"J ~~;;~i:~;~~~ 0 THE MOST MOUTHWATERING OF MEALS recy s sa ke. importance''.', · siderations of freedom of the FROM VEGETARIANS TO HADDOCKS TO VEALS •• sc~:1:;~0~~~g: r:;~:n~~l~::: Lord Griffith states that the press"· He describes Wright's A PRICETJ-IATSJUSTRIGHT it is pointless 10 prevent the publi- decision in Australia means that ~cti~n-~ asa mauerof"trcachery~, STUDENTS' DISCOUNTS "we cannot look to the law in ut a1 s to consider whether pub- FROM SUNDAY TO TIIURSDA Y NIGHTS -~f:!~~/:e~n::~::~or:a~h~~~ ~i:~ Australia for any assistance when lication of information on the FROMOUIETTOTllELOUO THEMOSTftJN(l'ORPARTIES) cussed throughout the wo rld. a ~ember of our security servic<:s ~~~m::~r~;t:~~ii:s.~~hb~:t:! ACOUPLETOA ROMAlmC[DINNER FOR TWO) CROWD .\lEETlSGl'LACEl'iTHECITY ~:;esv:c :~r:cr;,e ~:n1~:h~~ w1sh_es !O :;tray thetrcrets of ~IS j UK and abroad , might beof great WE'VE GOT THE SCENE, WE'VE GOT THE CUISINE 1 :"_h~:~n. ~t t:;~~=rAu~;:1~.:~ a~; ,be,senleffi,,1d;e"m'ocnyrcoa" "". try which call s Forfllllffllofubrwtorr nidtlllill.t.,-lur,rytnav,.,_,.,t.r,r~Md­ ~~::~0 :~h:~::m:~ \:~n~~ty ~~ mcred1bly lax or dastardly com- ' .. y /W#tnH!CxtlWUiJ,JwpC...Ctr1/rf, n.,~1...,llMto. Tff:IJl .lUIJ10. ocnfidence 10 cover a~ entire ly munist sympathisers, it is !hat new area. they operate a much more open ~------Generally lawyers are thought system and will not enfo"rce the of as highly paid fossils who. parnaoia of the British Govern­ BREAKS AND unable to do any original thinking ment. STAFF LIST for themselves, merely eke out Workable openness is possible, OPPORTUNITIES the law from statutes and as shown in other countries, by casebooks. While 1his may occa- allowing people to publish and be Do you ha\·e thecommitmentand enthusiasm necessary to work sionally be true, it definitely does damned, and let the author or MANAGER: JamesBttbdl on this exciting new conimuni ty support scheme for adults with not apply to the legal magicians in publisher take the risk of criminal ADVERTISING: Colin Howman learning difficulties {mental handicap) in Lothian? the House of Lords. Before their prosecution if he oversteps the decision, confidence Jaw covered limits. Impartial advice and not The Social Work Department need BEFRIENDERS who rould private matters between individu- censorship can be given by an lllllllllllll link up with an individual to pursue a social activity, hobby or 'als and employer-employee expert_ body such as the D-not_ice EDITOR: TomBradby skill. Befrienders would be paid an alowance for every day they relationships, provided a contrac- committee. However, foltowmg DEPl!TYEDITOR: F.-Simpson work with a person. , tual agreement had beCn signed. ~ !he ··Spycat~her" decision, _t he NEWS: GratmtWilsoa Now, without the aid of any legal 1udges seem m danger of appoint- CathyMitlon reasoning. we are told that all civil mg themselves as state censors INTERNATIONAL; Andy Marshall ;!u~=I~~~::~~ h~~;p~:a!':~~~~~ot servants owe an implied life-Jong who all~w !h~ Government, _a_nd SPORT: CartMarston !J:n:~-~f ~~fe ~ dutyofoonfideiltiality"totheGov- not the md1v1duals of the Bnt1sh MUSIC: =!~ CO-Cech 1s the essential S...CKaaa: Supported Accommod•tion Te.im, of the state" were those of the precond1t1onofanyotherformof FEATURES: Gat.Drummolld 2o.24 Alb,ny Street; Government. Fortunatc1y the freedom" and the basis_ of any ~~~~A: DaridStmllou5t EDINBURGH. jury did not agree with him. How- ~ori:n of democracy_._ It 1s a sad WHATS ON: :!r:o1r Telephone (offict hours) 031-556 9140 ~:::d:s :; ~~:~c~:~s~ ~ot~~; ~~:~~:~j~tb~~:~; !~st:~~;t~~~i: FASHION: == judiciary should not forget that we the House of Lords. '------' Crossword Answers are still a democracy; to allow full . This seems li1tle more thm · ·un:) democratic discussion of events, capitulation to a dubious and ill­ £Z "J:Jti1!3 zz ·p:,.(eJd 61 '3U!;)$ 81 ·:,.-.10,q LI ·:,uoiJO.:i S: I ')neuoiJV ( I 'S;)J,{d 8 the public must first hearof them. founded atlempt by lhe Govern- • "J 3PP0"H L ·:,1q w!lll9 'J:,pu.,iu3 ·s: ·1:,:,d ( •s:,:,elf z ·:i1d e1s I UMOQ ·p:iJ!J.LZ"s1u:,.-.3 Lord Keith does make a token · ment to cover up for juries' unwil­ 9Z ·AiqineN ~ "!!JOO, tZ 'Je:i.t IZ •.)S()(J J-'A "j)l "JfS 81 'J-M3 91 'Jl?JV t,\ ·~v refer~nce 10 the ~blic interest , lingness to ba~k secrecr thr~gh "( [ -.. 1qouu3 ZI 'SS-'[ 11 'PU!J!JOI •,(J~l.JV 6 '1:,1171 t'dllJ.>S [ SWJJV :SJ:ll<\SUV Focus Thursday, October 20, 1988 7

Pubs Board a full-time member of staff to nurture chances of finding somebody willing to take a the board and lobby EUSA and the Finance year out who has a genuine passiori for both Committee on its behalf, publishing and EUSA seem im,pr?bably slim. Several problems with this strategy have been missed. The new, pruned Pubs Board could be at ·a turning-point. There are many opportunities 1for- such a small company to expand its Harare Beat productions, providing that it is run by someone with imagination, drive and, above all, a sound ANOTHER concert, another wave of knowledge of publishing. There is already controversy. One wonders whose these concerts competition from upstairs (Precedent. are for - for the purposes of encouraging and Publications - producers of Review 88 etc.), • uplifting those struggling for self-determination or to raise awareness amongst the ignorant. 1 EUSPB can either stay stagnant, expand or ESTABLISHED I\ 1887 decline - the options are open. Whatever may be said about the concerts they As far as we can make out, Mark Wheatley's. seem to succeed significantly in raising knowledge of publishing is negligible if not non-· awareness. Nobody can ba_dger people into . _existent. Neither is there any reason to suppose activism. in the end the choice rests on the 'that his successors will be any more individual. Yet in the last resort, nobody can turn knowledgeable. Their argument is that future around and say "I didn't know." The would-be publisher secretaries are more likely to be elected if they It may be Jhat those white South Africans who have a background in publishing - as, for did go to Harare, went for all the wrong reasons. example, the Deputy President almost always But in a way the concert is as near as anyone may IT MAY have escaped moSt people's notice but comes from a background in the Unions etc. we now have a Secretary who would be publisher. get to getting a message through to this troubled What they miss is that all - or most - of the part of the world. Or at least have his successors as publishers. sabbaticals elected at present are hacks. This is, Mark Wheatley's grand design is to effectively not intended to be derogatory, but the point is In Zimbabwe the presence of white South abolish the post or Publications Board Convener that for many, a year as a sabbatical is a vital step Africans in force was inevitable. For a start the and place the Secretary of EUSA as head of the on the career ladder. Most of those going into ticket price was largely prohibitive for many Publications Board. newspapers or publishing cannot afford the time blacks inside and·outside South Africa. This might seem to make a great deal or sense. to take a year out - neither would they want to. Pubs Board has lost Polygon agd now is Nevertheless, whoever makes up the crowd, ·sentially concerned, as far as publishing goes, Lastly. the new pqst would not solely be the concert in Zimbabwe and those in london . Jth newspapers - and only three newspapers at concerned with publishipg. There would still be a have proved to be potent forces in getting the th.at. Wheatley argues that· his plan would give responsibility to publicise the A~ociation. The message across.

Lcllci:s Dear Editor, Dear Editor, I WRITE in reply to Ian A cRoss I WRITE to reply to last week's Robertson's disturbingly ni ppant Crossword I. Fight (sic) (5) insipid "Comment" by the ever­ ''Comment .. article in this week's 4. Communication (6) alert Ian-finger-on-the-pulse­ Student. He was obviously as 9. Robin Hood's art (7) Robertson. Not onl y was this unimpressed as I and many others IO. Grate(-5) pathetic and trite attempt at were by the stunt pulled by the 11. Not as much (4) journalism filled with factual and, debates committee, but he then 12. Dign ify (7) even more sadly, gra mmatical goes on to discuss the subject in an 13. Donkey (3) inaccuracies, it was also distinctly even more lighthearted manner, 14. At a dislance (4) pompous, arrogant and smacked using cute phrases such as 16. Always (4) of the insensitivity of which the "boobophiles" to · show us just 18. Title(3) Debates Commillce stands how harmless and trivial it all is. 20. Wordy(?) accused. Unfortunately this is not the case. 21. Rip(4) Criticism goes hand in hand Fi rs tl y, if Mr Robertson ever 24. Cleaning item (5) • ·1h debating and we are readi ly had a reasoned discussio n with 25. Bad (7) en to accept it . However. I felt someone inrormed on the subject 26. Happenings (6) there wre a few poi nts which need of pornography and its effects on 27. Fatigued (5) to be clarified regarding the FW women. he would soon become debate. Firstly , it was our aware that no o ne seriously con­ intention to provide an cerned about the ·issue would e ntertaining debate. I considered suggest that a man will look at the speeches fa r fro m the page 3 then promptly rape some­ I. Raw mate rial (6)~ '·exceptio nally aggravating body. The real problem is mo re 2. Runs(S) inadequacy"' of which Mr subtl e than that. pornography 3. S1rip(4) Robertson wrote. On the reduces wome n to the st3tus of 5. Make (8) contrary, the fact that the o bjects and thus reduces rape to 6. Sewing guard (7) audience believed the speakers to being a fair ly harmless activity, 8. Cremation fires (5) be genuine attested to quite the "just a bit of fun on a boys night 13. Jason·smatc8) reverse. Secondly, the audience out''. It is this attitude that we mist IS. Relinquished (7) we reached was not typical of fight aga inst, the trivilisation of a 17. Develop (6) those who regularl y attend horrific crime. 18. Fishing net (5) debates, that is, in general, those 19. Implored (6) Agas(S) 0 n. ;~~s~~;: a~s7::::. ~; ;:~i?n~ O:~ Similarly, one of the reasons Crossword by Big To!Jy 23. Sharp (4) through our presentation we were men find things such as page three successful in actuall y making that titillating is the impression that audience think about the real these woman are "dying for if·. self seems prey to such fee lings. or simply go underground. It is our which so far has not been Rive n issue at hand, evidenced by the and can only be satisfied by that so his comments on Ivan Lcndl responsibility to educate children standard of floor contributions. particular man , thus massaging the intell igent discussion it mCri ts. and Richard Gere woud suggest I to view each other as people, perhaps the Debates Commille Thirdly. and consequently, we his ego. an often overlooked am sure if he seriously considered regardless of sex. colour orr elig­ will consider a serious debate on 1 ion. so that the prcsentatmn of encouraged those who might not !~:c:h~~ ~~:o~~~~~d :~~~h~: the issue. he would be forced to the subject. I would certainly agree that there is considerable one to another as an object would hope that everyone reading this ~~:;;i~~:~:~:~a~es~d~~:':!y and worst or all judges to tell 12 difference between a picture of be not only unexciting, but incom­ will stop to consider the issues have had the wisdom of Mr ::ar: ~~~s;\~t!~~:~tp~/~~l~~~~ Ivan Lend I full y dressed no doubt, prehensible and offensive. We before by buying their copy of the 1 and recognised fi rst and fo remost must fight particu larly agai~st_ the Sun or Sunday Sport. because n:~~~;~c=b~~ home from school alone, with the ~7:~~~j;~: ;:~t as a brilliant sportsman. and lhc so-called .. liberalism .. of sections ·· ifs all just a bit of fun. innir· to taken place, I find myself asking. to p button of their school blouse of the far right. Their idea of nd0 insti tutionalisation of the por­ quote Samantha Fox. a woman What have we done to incur the provocatively u ne. trayal of womc as second class citi­ ··freedom·· is simplv the thin end who has done about as much for wrath of such an old has-been? th!t ~~ {~n!r~'sovne'Jand:t~~:~~! zens if no t objects. as done by oft he wedge. al lowi ng the Harvc)i sexual equality as Enoch Powell pape rs like the Sun. Any excite­ Proctors of this world to get their docs for race relations :~;~·~!n~: al:h;on~~~~~at;~~ li ve in a status-ridden , bodyorien- !t men t women fi nd in watching 6 Yours since rely, last time he attempted to speak in lated societ and thank goodness someone wit h a nice bum pl ay ten­ ~~!. i~~u!~n~~~~;it~~J ~°i4 Alison Davie a debate? Or is it that just like the for that. .• It is th is body orientated nis is incidental , while in pornog­ would draw the line on what is and rest of the Student crew who'd ~;;!~t~~!e~:~:s1:;tg~~:n!~~ raphy women arc degraded fo r is not acceptable in the interests of the sole purpose or exciting men. ··freedom of the individual~. PS: I am not a "loony fem inist .. in ~n~~~~!. ;: R~~r:o~~:,:a they look, often leading to depres- 1 r:~ sion, anorexia nervosa and a shawl and dungarees. but a like ,a right tit\ours. ' suicide, in an att~,mp\ to. find an feminis t human being. ~ ,~ J\.-,1 k" . .. , , , answer to ~ t-lu:1r fcebngti , 9! 5 d: ~ ! ',:i.:J , , 1 Deha~: ctl:,~;; inack:qu DC)l. Mr· Ro~rtson tiiro- 8 Thursday, October 20, 1988

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IN A thrilling match in Glasgow on Saturday the men's first Unfortunately, the last five Edinburgh's inexperience gave hard way indeed. However it XI managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, yet still minutes were powered by lnvcrhay two goa ls and a scarcely surely cannot be long until !he did enough to give much hope for the season .:1head. Duracell balleries and 1he rest is deserved viclory. That great hard work o f the team and coach best termed (as Loughlin on his philosopher P.S.V. Eindhovcn Mike Ye ll owears reaps a tangible "Right, lads, Ok, we're better wedding night might admit) a once remarked "Wisdom isn't a and much deserved reward. than they arc, right OK, and we'll go home and I'l l take the ball with ''learning experience"". Suffice to me .. if no o ne passed to him . gift but must be learnt ... On Satur­ die for our mates, right , so lei's say, lh

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Dunfermline's own boys Big Country made history this summer with their tour of the USSR, which received no support from Mos- . cow's Kremlin. David Miller was in the USSR to trace the Peace In Our Time tour, speaking to the band and the public and witnessing glas­ nost in the making. Rocking Russia ' -

HE KGB men had never seen anything "However, the publicity which the tour will gener- dom to good use. quite like it. Half a dozen TV crews and 250 ate is vital to the success of the band's new album As the·gig ended, the music press and TV crews left music journalists were rushing around Peace In Our Time'', said Sian. for the impressive surroundings of the Sovietski Red Square with little regard for the sane- The Peace In Our Time tour was sponsored by Ten- Hotel to attend a champagne and caviar reception. Ttity of the Soviet Union's political heartland. nent Caledonian Breweries as part of Tennents Live!, The audience were still singing and dancing as they As Mikhail Gorbachov's motorcade sped into the a million pound music sponsorship package and one headed home to the concrete sprawl that is suburban Kremlin for an historic meeting of the Politburo, which showed that rock music can benefit from big Moscow. Moscow was about to be exposed to the cheap com- business sponsorship without being exploited. Big Country had achieved a little of what they had mercialism of rock music for the first time. By sponsoring the tour, Tennents Live! have hoped for and the Soviet Union had taken another The massive press corps had flown into Moscow the encouraged more bands from the UK to tour behind step towards peace in our time. night before to report on the opening concert of Big the iron curtain. Country's Peace In Our Time tour. Tennents Live! Project Manager Jim O'Toole told The Scots band were about to make music history The List: " Tennents Live!is delighted to be involved by becoming the first Western band to tour in the in a unique event exporting an essentially Scottish · USSR without the support of the Kremlin. music to a unique auctience. Phonogram, Big Country's record company had "We would be delighted if in a few years time some spent £250,000 to fly the world's music press into of the emerging bands which are a key element of Moscow in an attempt to revive the band's flagging Tennents Live! will be able to undertake a similar fortunes. tour of the Soviet Union." But why had the band decided to play in Moscow in . So not everyone was trying to exploit the innocence the first place? and good will of Soviet young people, but what did ''We first became interested in East-West relations the audience think of the gig. at the time of the Reykjavik summit" said Big Coun- Tanya Saitova, an English language student , was try's lead singer, Stuart Adamson. unimpressed by ·the performance but shared Big "The band hope to have broken down political bar- Country's concerns for world peace. riers but even if we achieved nothing, just looking "The concerts that the band are giving in Moscow· into the kids' eyes and knowing that we've made con- can only help in the course of peace. Now more and tact is enough," added Stuart. more bands from the West will come to the Soviet Big Country's motives were clearly well inten- Union. I greet it and find it good," said Tanya. tioned. Well intentioned but naive. Members o( the audience paid £5 for a ticket to the The record company had very different ideas. concert, which is big money to the average Russian Phonogram saw the opportunity or breaking into a teenager. Many were angered by the technical dif- vast untapped market and they gladly exploited the ficulties which beset the concert from the start. situation, with very little thought for what the band "We have paid a lot of money 10 come and see Big had hoped to achieve. Country play here,,. said Pyeter Krylov , a soldier in Phonogram are working on a deal with alt indepen- the audience. dent Soviet record label. If the deal goes ahead, "lt's badthatwehave1owaitforalongtimefor1he Phonogram will access to a vast untapped market of music. nearly three billion people, and potential profits of Only five minutes into Big Country's set, a power manymillionsofpounds. -cut wreaked havoc with the band's amplifiers, When the stakes are so high, peace in our time is of keyboards and electric guitars .. little importance to the entrepreneurs of the music It took almost an hour for the supply to be restored. industry. By that time many of the audience had left, leaving Phonogram's International Marketing Manager, only a few hundred teenagers who were determined t:;e ~~e~ya~e~~:~ea~~at the company's intentions to e~~fl ~h~o;Jv~:i:t:~~~~s!~!u~feg~~:~ at rock con- Photo: Kane Rutherford and TenMnls Live!

• "Wew.ouldf1eyerc;ome, hereSimplyfor Gb mi:iiei-fial 1 certs had been expected to sit quietly, but the few . reasons._ra'\'\he riu~ni~'Qt t_qe'to~r ~s~aki(t&.~\'t9ss. • .,·, 'hundred fans that remained put theirnew-foun~_frt;e· • • ..,. , t , •• , , ~, • • \'tc. ·,'.', , tJ , 1 1 1 1 4 , \ \ • '-' 1f I "'l ·I ' , I f 'f I I i _\. I j f _t \ ' I ''t 1-'\i\ j ,._..._.., ~ •.-.'<~ • - • • • • ,. • • • ,. ~ ,,..._. _•.••• _,. . • - .,. • • •. • • • • • • • • U Thursday, October 20, 1988 Features WOOOF! IZ draws much of its material from merciless parodies of established comics. Do you have a high regard for the "clas­ sic" comics, such as The Beano and The Dandy, that you ake the piss out of? V"Not really." But you must have reai:t them when you were younger - I thought everybody did? "Not a lot; just enough to get the general idea of what they were about. They're all a bit cheap, the same stories trundled out week after week. It's a bit of a rip-off really."

Have you any idea what those bastions of comic--dom, DC Thomson, think of Viz? "The editor of The Dandy has been recommending us to cartoonists. I would imagine.that the editors and cartoonists probably think it's alright, but there's two v«;ry different levels. You'~e g~t µte mana~ng directors and then there's the staff, and the managmgd1rcctorsare JU.SI completely out of date, and the staff are just exploited, I think." Indeed - remember, DC Thomson is the in~tuti~i:i, th~t ~~ no trade unions, has as a cover strip on one of it~ comics a 1mg~1s:1c ~lttle tyke called True Brit, as well as a shock-headed ajiarcho-punk who . delights in beating up a weedy specky git each week.Md this is " fun for children"!?! This aside, what ther COmics do you rate? "Let me sec ... Tin Tin is about the only one, there's nothing else I'm particularly bothered about. Occasionally I read Roy Of The Rovers • Much-loved by students and "normal" people just to rip-off a few ideas." What about 2()(X) AD and the like? alike, Viz is the funniest piece of literature in "Oh no, I hate that stuff." existence. Editor Chris Donald spoke to Craig So do you think much of the current renewed interest in comics, as a McLean as the third Viz compilation annual, serious medium? "I think that's a load of toss! All the people whodo2{)(XJAD and all The Big Pink Stiff One is published. those comics as a sort of 'art medium' they haven't got anytime for us. There's a whole conglomerate of comic-y people who all know each .A.YE, MLREET, l'LL HI\VEA60! other and they're all the arty-farty ones. Of them there's a few nice ANIC laughter reverberates round the flat from AN¥. _'::/'Ail£ BUSH APOONO? ones, the English cartoonists are alright basicaUy. But with the Ameri­ behind my flatmate's closed bedroom door. No, cans it's such a load of drivel, they talk crap . ,. he is not recalling his drunken antics of the night All this attention doesn't relate to Viz then? before, and nor is be going mad at the thought of .. Not really. People who read those comics tend to be obsessive comic M fans; where as we just get nonnal people reading our comic ... I would another year's ceaseless toil ahead of him. He is in fact play­ hope." ing with a big, pink, stiff one. Well okay, he's actually reading If true, this is worrying: there must be about 150,000 normal people The Big Pink Stiff One. That is, he is reading the latest out there (a dangerously high number), while all those who buy 2(!00 offering from that House Of Fun, Viz. Although; as I'm sure AD are mutants. Aaargh, this means I, and many others, are normal , Finbarr Saunders would agree, reading The Big Pink Stiff mutants! What a chilling thought. That aside, would you say that you've One" is just as funny as the thought of anyone picking up a created a market for a certain type of humour (for normal people), or big, pink, stiff one. But that's another story. has this humour always existed but you're just the first to tap it? "I think it's always been there, just childish nonsense-type humour­ Such is the popularity of Viz that TT1e Big Pink Stiff One is the third compilation annual to be released upon a suspecting pu~lic, following everyone's got a childish sense of humour." in the illustrious footsteps of Th e Big Hard One and Th e Big hard Puerile you mean? "Yeah, puerile that's just a word. I'm sure there's always been a mar­ Number Two. What's next - The Big Erect Knob perchance? Any­ ket for puerile rubbish, and we can chum it out as quick as anyone." way, I met Chris Donald, Editor of the mighty organ (fnarr) in the sort Has any of your puerile rubbish ever been attacked, by people of pub Sid The Sexist would undoubtedly frequent in search of "bush" or whatever he calls it. So how did the man at the helm of Britain's fun­ objecting to, say Sid The Sexist? niest comic start out? Well, we've got that funniest offem ale entertain­ ers, Margaret Thatcher, to thank for that. You sec, Chris was working FURTl½ER INQUIRIES AAVE in a government office in 1979, 1he year TholCh amu lO power: PR0'..e) FRUITFUL. I FlND'RJNK ROCK' TO BE A FORM CF t-'IJSIC ; IBE ART OF "I was working in the DHSS as a clerk, and during the day when I ~ING~ STIRRING EMOTIQ,i should have been doing my DHSS clerking, I was sitting doing doodles BY AIJARMONlOUSGa'1BJN,~:nW CJ, and cartoons." s:,JNDS- SCXJNt:6 S> COMBINED· So that's why student income support claims arc always screwed up. RECORD OR !:CORE Of :rHESE FOR But we'll forgive Chris (thlstime), for as we all know, this soon built up. REPA'.X)JCTLON. THE LATTER &.ING With a friend Jim Brownlow, he released The Viz Comic Bumper Mons­ TIE 11cM WHICH I SUBSEQLIENTI.V Ur Christmas Special, which sold out of its Original print run of 150 in PUPCIIASED. - two days. From then on, there was no stopping Viz, and almost ten years later sales per issue arc not far short of 150,000. With such a scale of opci:ations it is hardly surprising that the actual writing of the comic has moved on somewhat, no lqngcr relying on two bored youifg men doodling away. . "You get complaints from middlC-agcd women whose kids have read "There was only me and my brother (Simon Donald, Assistant the comic and grannies who've bought it as a Christmas present for Editor) full-time last year. Then we got two contributors, Graham grandchildren. And we get the odd newspaper thing, like ridiculous Oury and Simon Thorp, who were freelancing, and they were doing stories in provincial newspapers sometimes. There was one in Leeds stuff regularly. We were using so much of their stuff that we thought we that said we'd been suggesting that drinking lots of beer was good for might as well give them a job. And they were both dead keen, so they you, that young children should go and drink lots of beer." work for us now." . Which, as everyone knows, is utter tosh. For any kids reading this, But you still rely on people sending material in as well1 BEER IS BAD. Go and drink lots of snakebite, yes, but beer, no. "ibere's a handful of people around who send stuff in regularly. Does such scare-mongering bother you? There's one bloke who works for DC Thomson in Aberdeen, and sends "Not really, it's quite amusing. That one bothered our publisher stuff in. He'll probably lose his job now!" - because it was such a bliitant load of rubbish. So he wrote them a biting Do these cartoonists come up with their own ideas, or do you com­ letter-and they wrote a biting letter back, so there wasn't really much mission particular strips? point." "The first time we ever commissioned one was in the last issue where weu.,HERE: \AH Prf !.,JEll\&.E,­ Is this indicative of your relationship with newspapers, particularly we wrote this story called Johnny Condor, and we didn't have time to STADtvM, ALL5Ef TO MAKE M'f the tabloids? draw it ourselves so we fanned it out 10 someone. That's what most 1/JTEl<:~A'rrc.JAL OEB\JT. Ro88Y " We have a funny ~rt of relationship with The SUn cos they rung us comics do all the time." 808SON1hl..t>ME.1b BE H8

When I mention Edinburgh University's recent run-in with ~ Sun HESE days the Viz range cnends beyond the basic comic and in their offer of £6,500 to sleep with Muriel Gray, Chris replies: annuals. There are now Viz I-shirts, boxer shorts, badges, a .. rd probably want £10,000 for sleeping with Muriel Gray!" Du/l,JNC Mi calendar, and even a rcoord. But this is small beer (did Such incidents are merely the trivial side of the tabloids. ln your take­ EL£CTIUCAL STCllH, you spill my pinl?) compared to ideas for a television adapta­ 8uSr£A.~ WAS Ttion of Viz. How are plans for this coming on? offs of tabloid-type journalism, do you see them as just that, trivial rags STRUCJ,tW TJ.IE. open to ridicule, or a more insidious, power-wielding force in our T£5TICLE.S SY A, "Well at the moment they're not 'cos we haven't written ii yet. the society? ME'T£0RJTE l,,JI.IICJ.I plan is to make a pilot in spring nexl year, which 'II nol necessarily get · "1bcy arc a bit hideous and powerful, but I think ridiculing them !H"'INE:t:> .STIL(NG£ broadcast, aod there would be a series made in the autumn next year . ., would help as much as standing outside Wapping ..." _ COSHIC. /LAV$ ••• And what kind of format would this take? . Considering Murdoch's bloody success at Wapping, he may have a .. It changes all the time. Originally it was Harry Enficld's idea, and he .... J.if&7'EiSTICL£$ was suggesting a village called FulChester, a soap opera that every week <;/l£W TO T'ITAAIIC po!°t_ .. but it's quite alarming the number of people that read Th~ Sun, PflDPOe.:TtONS , AIVO had the same six or seven cbaracten. But now he's always tOO busy, so it's disturbing. If only a few more people realised what a load of twollop J.4EWA&Cb/\lVMJC£b we're working along slightly different lines, having six SCP8.f8.le shows itis . . . " TUAT TI-IE..V A.OW with one characer in each. Peter Cook's expressed an interest in playing And then there's the London Evening Standard which described Viz Postman Plod." as "'witlessly foul-mouthed cartoon strips." ~--­.,Wb ~t.AIAIQ) Yeah, and what about Maureen Lipman as Mn Brady Old Lady.and "'We were quite pleased with that 'cos it was some sensible, serious ~--·· John Ocese as Mr Logic, and George Michael as Buster Gonad (the bloke who writes a column every week and has these right-wing, one with the "Unfeasibly Large Testicles")! moralistic views, and be strung together a few good phrases!" The possibilities are endless. Bui surely the o nly credible Sid The Sexist 'o\'OUld be Harry Enfield. How did your involvement with him come about? · "He used to write to the letters page a few times, but didn't use his own name. So we ripped-off a few of his letters -well there was a bit of a mix-up actually. What happened was he signed it "Sir Henry" which is one of the characters he does on stage. And it was a Jeucr about football hooligans, supposedly written by a football hooligan, but we didn't think "Sir Henry" looked right on a letter supposedly from a football hooligan. And he got a bit upset and wrote in complaining, and sent us a fiver, saying 'Here's£5 for going to all the trouble of changing my name'! Eventually we met him and had a good laugh about it." You went on to write the ... Buggerallmoney'' character for him. Was that an enjoyable experience? " It was a pain in the arse at time 'cos he rang up on the Wednesday before Friday Live, about 2 o'clock in afternoon, and he wanted it in five hours. So I had five hours to write this rubbish and it took about fif­ teen minutes." When I tell him that Friday Live is being repeated on WednesdaY5, Chris pauses, surprised: TWAS the publishing deal with Richard Branson's Virgin empire "Wonder if I'll get any more money .. that finally pushed Viz towards the massive audience it has today. How did such a deal guaranteeing nationwide distribution and CR.LJMBS!TJ.4AT regular publishing dates, come about? BOY:S TOY 804T IS I"We were selling about 7 ,000 per issue but it was mainly in Newcastle STUCJ< IN-,UE. and I couldn't distribute it, I was having to sell them all myself and it was Hll>l>L£OFT1-IE 0 a right pain in thcarse. I couldn't get it into shops 'cos you needed a dis­ POND. MAYBE ._ tributor, and I thought it'd be nice to have a publisher to do all that side MY TESTICL£S CAN HEi.P- u of things, and we'd just have to put the comic together." A deal with IPC Magazines fell through, so then Chris wrote to Bran­ son. C "I don't know if that was a good idea but it worked out in the end 'cos he put us on to his publishing company who published it for about two H years. But before Virgin got sold on the stock market they sold off all the bits that weren't making much money. The book publishing bit got I sold to another publisher somewhere and that publisher didn't like the • look of the comic, but John Brown, who was the managing director of Virgin Books, left and started his own company, so we're independent now." The fact that the Viz team now gets royalties from television Presumably this made a big difference to your whole operation? demonstrates how far it has developed from the two-man bedroom .. The main difference was that there was a deadline, every two .operation of ten years ago. But now that you're in the major league, months from August 1985, which was a right pain in the arse, we still and conseqllently more business-like, doesn't this detract from the haven't got used to it-we nearly missed that last deadline. Apart from spontaneily which perhaps made the comic so radical in the past? that sales didn't go up too dramatically 'cos the only distribution we had "A lillle bit 'cos, like, we have script meetings where we sil down and was through all the Virgin shops. Basically, John Brown liked the comic write things rather than you'd be silting in the pub and suddenly have a itself but it didn't really fit in with Virgin Books, so he only spent about dead good idea. So it's not quite so spontaneous." twenty minutes a week he said, trying to scU it. And that was 'til April HoNE~'f, I l>Ot('T . But Viz still has the man Chris calls "the most talented funny person 87 when he took over the publishing of the comic full-time. Since then KNO\,J Wtll'li TtlE. in the world ," Graham Oury, Deputy Editor. sales have rocketed." FOCI( 111-1 [XINt;. " He'd done two years of a postgraduate course in botanical science at Did Virgin demand any changes in an issue? Leicester University, and we bought him, we gave a bit more money "They had a lawyer who read everything and there was a couple of that he was getting there!" things they wouldn't print. They didn't say change it, they just said Whether he's the funniest person in the world as a direct result of sorry, we can't use that. There was one thing it was an interview with a being surrounded by planls for considerable periods of time, or is just band who were claiming that the Eurythmics had ripped them off, it was inherently humorous, Chris doesn't say. Whatever, if anyone knows just one of those stories we make up, and was completely over the top. any funny botanists out there, let me know. And at the time the Eurythmics were busy suing Virgin over the sound­ I've got this ace idea for a comic . track to the 1984 film, and Virgin thought they might use that to get back at them. We had to drop that." l Ah, corporate sensibilities destroying art and creativity again. Is it any different with John Brown publishing? ... There's solicitors who read every single bit. It's quite funny 'cos nowadays thcf occasionally say, you can't do that, you'll have to • Next Week ... Will Billy Corkhill ever get off rethink that bit. We had a story about Paul McCartney, we were gonna say that he'd ~tolcn all the money from Live Aid! He'd offered to help • with Sheila Grant? Is Doreen really gone count it at the end of the gig, and he drove off with it in a van and he forever? Who'll be the next person to move into didn't come back. And John Brown said, 'you can't do that, you'll have to ask McCartn~y if it's alright first.' I spoke to his PR man and told him the Corkhill's extention? Find out next week in the story and he said, there's no way you can use that, we object most Student when Gillian Drummond talks exclu- strongly. Which is really bloody small-minded of him, it was the most sively to "our Billy", alias John McArdle. harmless thi(!g, nobody could have taken it seriously . ., i4 Thunda'y, October 20, 1988 Music

Arter tWo more pints The ·F1at­ THE FLATMATES mates manages to squeeze onto ------the stage and the 50 or so fans _Th_e_ V_ en_u_e______crowded near. Their previous per- formances I had seen were incred­ MY EXPECTATIONS were ibly happy affairs and ~n had Detached high as I entered the V enu:. I ~s ~~~~e~~=Y ~e:e ~=~Ym~~ : ,~~v:io~u:n~:: :td ~~~:ei~ had seen The Fla tma tes tWlce The size of the hall and crowd entirely or potential A-sides and before a nd thoroughly must have stiffled their lively per­ pulsating highpoints. But we enjoyed them. The first thing sonalities, especially the pretty already knew how good the songs that struck m e was the size of lead singer. we re so it was the li ve experience the place, some people may . Their music has a sixties feel to o f House or love which was so call it intimate, I'd rather !~ · com.plemente~ by'SOme super.b exi raordinary. • describe it as minute. The Jtngly-~angly gmtar work. The!r Apart from the delicate, bird­ 1 stage was_ sm a ll er than an ·:ri~ ~~;ev'lr/~!!c~;~h~~~s~~ ~ like guiiarist, the driven drum­ ave~age sized coffee table couldn't stop myself from joining mer and the bassist who was so forcmg the bands to become in most of the time. • utte rl y slain by it alt that he rarely uninteresting statues. · As I left I couldn"t help reeling ve ntured beyond his fringe , in As I arrived the support (The disappointed, they had played Guy Chadwick we had o ne of the Cock-a-toos I thi nk!) had just fil- we ll and had an attractive sound, oddest pieces of meat around. Jed the stage. They were an amaz- but the cramped surroundings had Julian Cope should hand over his ing hybrid or The Beatles, The destroyed the joy in their faces. i tortoiseshell crown immediately Monkeys and The Beach Boys in would strongly recommend The to the far weirder creature. image and sound. Their best Flatmates but only at a larger, Like ET in a striped T-shirt number. Bryan Rose, had the friendlier venue. As for The with eyes too big for his face Guy close hannony singing of The Cock-a-toos, go just for the did in fact seem like he'd just Beach Boys added to the manic hairstyles, I loved thei:n. arrived from another planet - guitaring of, say The Wedding we swallowed all thii.t gushing ·dazed but wondering. Suddenly Present. Bob Nichol THE HOUSE OF LOVE overkill and .. ,imeless transcen­ he hid his face in his arms as if dence" we would have expected a The Venue blinded by the white light/white band so ethereal that Guy would heat of the guitars. Once he have to shimmer rather than screamed. sending guitar and FOR ALL its technical sweat and they would no doubt bass into a thrashing panic. He polish and finely crafted melt into incandescence at the could have sung / Wanna Be songwriting The House Of end of the set. Your Fish but there was no doubt that this was the mainman Love's debut album seemed Face~ with such constant bit of the moment and he deserved to me a detached in its assurances of their sainthood, lit­ an attempt at The Stooges' hal­ execution . The well placed tle demons inside me secretl y lowed an them. The best cover of excursions into noise wished they would make some Dog can still only be a tribute but seemed contrived rather minor slips so we could revel in this was one which would have their mortality. Of course The touched Iggy's strange heart. It than bursting out of an House Of Love cut through this excess of emotio n and Guy ended a rare sot bristling with bullshit like a knife through but­ oddness a~d rio isy brilliance. Chadwick's vocals, although ter. the basses. This group would be beautifulhy phrased, A spiri tually plodding but well­ THAT PETROL EMOTION .brilliant on headphones before seemed a little dry and dis­ It was soon clear that the meaning crowd were either too bed wlfen the child's urges can record gives just a poor sketch of tant. dumb or too dumbfounded to _B_arr_o_w_l_an_d_s_____ enter you - at the Barrowlarids this band. Cut loose from vinyl respond as ecstalically as they they demanded full attention, and Yes.ii was a beautiful baby but they are a much wilder and more might have. Was this· why there IN THJS era of beat-orien­ the audience was mystified ullimatcly stillborn and cold. fluid thing using their excellent was no encore? Anyway, it seems though appreciative. Performing live, House of Love material just as a departure point important to wonder, having got tated music (hip-hop, house, The audience wanted to dance have the irritating burden of to chug and throb away from. All as near-perfect as possible, what clubbing), Hugo Largo (from and it was easy with the Petrols. NMEJMM"s messy and indis­ the essential gems were in thece The House of Love will do next. . New Y o rk) escape from the Steve mack shows you how , with criminate praise heaped upon - Christine, of cou~. Destroy tight body-beat by not using a his shorts and head shaking back them in the past few months. If the Heart, an impossibly Ne.ii Scarth drum. They drift, but still and forth. His knees were incredi­ attack, with three basses, ble , inexhaustible. The mnusic is e lectric violin a nd childish simple pop, but ii merges into funk Swamp, tuneful rock Big which is their first release for a innovation of the early offerings voice. The songs slide in and Decision, and (unfortunately) JAMES major label and judging by the Such as Hymn From A Village but o ut of each other effortlessly; into the dreary ballads like Ce/­ ;:.______· large and enthusiastic crowd their have thrown off the amateurism one cannot apprehend a lophane and The Bottom Line. Queen Margaret Union progression towards a more lhat has often dogged British indie chord, it always sh ocks you; Taken simply, the music is groovy catchy commercial sound was bands. Unfortunately parts of the subjects are those desires and: unpretentious, though I accepted with open anns as was JAMES could be the missing their set had a rather samey feel and fears that a re awake in couldn't help feeling that the fhe vocalisl by the front row. and were only saved by the manic our dreams· the sound is raw drums were too high-pitched and link be tween The Smiths and Yahoo and What For?. their latest moves of the front man shaking the Bhundu Bovs. A mixture singles best displayed their new his mop for all he's got. Anyway (wailing, ~unding, screech- {:ff,!·!~~l~ha~at~~;-"~ 1:t of spiralling g~ita rs a nd a n infectious hook-lines which seek who couldn't like Morrissey's ing) for pain ~nd it floats for Mack's singing is carefree ·and dis: off-beat vocal style fused into to widen their appeal and help favourite band? (Ahem). hopes and desires. posable; the lyrics do not linger pure pop. them out oft he anorak band sect. . oppressively like Mark Smith's. Their set was a showpiece for It must be made clear that they The ·1ead singer's persona is thar But very groovy, overall. ~heir new album Strip-Mime still have the integrity and musical Scou McFarlane or a child: she longs for absolutes, but is crushed by the menace_of James Saller MAKE TSHIRTS SWEATSHIRTS POLO SHIRTS MONEY MADE TO YOUR CLUB DESIGN p, rt-e.d p BYSELLING STUDENT NEWSPAPER YOU CAN FAST FORWARD SPORTS Sonic You th (New Double LP) +Auto G. Poster £7.99 MAKE10p PER COPY 36 WEST PRESTON STREET The Thanes/Hey Girl+ Six (LP) £3.99 SOLD EVERY TEL 667 5464 ASK FOR IAN JIM The Waterboys/Fisherman Blues (LP/Cassette) £5.99 or Julian Cope (New LP/Cassette) £5.99 WEDNESDAY NIGHT Love and Money/Strong Kind of Love (LP/Cassette) £5.99 CLIENTS do not INCLUDE: Enya/Waterm;uk (LP/Cassette.) £5.99 AND THURSDAY. 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CLOSE LOBSTERS ATIACCO DECENTE Loopholes/ What Is There I Don't Care How Long It To Smile About? Takes Great·White Cope Fire?" All Or Nothing! 7" 'Glorious" is the o nly word to THE VERY existence, coupled describe Loopholes. It has the wit h the critical acclaim , of JULIAN COPE unca nny knack of lifting 1he spirit Anacco Derente, is refreshing in long after it 's fini shed without the itself, demonstrating that there G lasgow Pavillion aid of the normally obliga tory arc people willing to take the risk chorus. This is catchy withoul the of adopting styles and instrument THE RETURN of the saint? catch. in that it doesn'1 (couldn't) outwith the " normal" popular become a tired old _pop tune. music spectrum. · No, this is Julian pre-canoni­ Sparkling immediacy coupled _sa tion. He has taken a step with lasting appeal is all too rare But/ D011 '1 Care is not · backwards in order to prog­ these days. cxhiiirating for that alone. ress from being merely a sex AllaCCo Vecen1e use their instru­ fiend into a sex god. Resplen­ What . . on lhe othe r hand has ments well, presenting here a no particularly outstanding fea­ dent in a leopard-skin top simple melody enhanced tenfold tures, except perhaps the chiming by flamenco gui1ar. hammer that Bet Lynch would be guitars. In the context of an LP it dulcimer and 1he like, and by proud of, Julian and his pas­ may take a renewed signilicancc. inventive vocal harmonies. Truly sionate friends turn the but as a single it does nothing. inspired , ~nd truly inspiring. sedate Pavillion into a heav­ ing mass of bodies. Craig Mclean CraigMcLna The complete professionalism of his band give Julian a free rein and Cope, that bastard ch ild of innocence and lunacy , takes full THEWATERBOYS mately makes most others appear advantage of this. He pouts and Fishermen's Blues shall ow and insincere. postures to his audience; taunts Ensign LP · Ignore the preuy sleeve; for­ and teases them as he gets close­ give the self-indulgence (When but not Quite close enou_gh. Julian Will We Bemarrietl?); 11nd apologies for the delayed IT MAY come as a shock to f.:ins rejoice in the image ry evoked on JULIAN COPE release of his new album. But as a of The Waterboys. but those _ such tracks as Fisherman 's Blues My Nation Undefground first listen who could ask for tormented, tortured "pagan·.. and Wiren Ye Go Away. for 1his ls\and LP more? The new ma1erial is days are long gone. Fo r !he Ayr­ pervades all the senses and creates superb. My Nation Underground sh ire boy has pulled up those far more than si mply an auditory I'M DRIVING in 1hiscar. right , and we're going faster and faster all particularly stands out as Julian thorny roots and plu nged head­ expe ri ence. The sound is occa­ the time. and Copey'sscreamingat me and I'm saying, "Julian, we just lispes endearingly. long into his adopted Irish cul­ siona ll y muted and inharmonious. can'! goon like this·· , but my head just keepse,cpanding untillhere·s no My only criticism is that, despite lure. There is, however. no need But it is such idiosyncracies. room left for ll'! Ybody , and the ultima1e rock 'n' roll clichC screams his confessions of an obsessive to despair. Mike Scott is still as whilst rendering the n13jority of on _ despise of the white arse-hole creative and emotive as ever. Waterlxiys· records initially inac­ Neatly wrnpped wi th the obligatory dressing of insanity, all danger male, Julian is still capabteofpan­ except that now , God forbid, he cessible. which eventually and edge in My Nation Underground seems present by way o f necessity de ring to their egos occasionally. appears to be almost carefree. become the qualities they are ra ther than for irs own sake. But the progression of Cope's LPs might Performing the masturbatory cherished for. lead one to e,cpect this. The dissolution of Teardrop E,cplodes left Space- Hopper for insta~cc. Scott's enrhusiasm for ··1 1tc. Julian without David Balfe to add lacquer to the product ;rnd to tell him Nevertheless, Cope rises above love and music" docs. perhaps. A record for those senlimental when he was just being a complete wanker. Bui still Cope had the this with, what is now his anthem, lay him open to ridicule at times; moments, as the man says on "a imagination, pe rhaps unpredictability, to produce two e,cacting and Worf,! Shut You, Mouth. Add to but just drop your guard for a ni ght that"s fu ll of soul.·· coercive LPs. And then Saint Julian. Much asil should be dismissed as this Reward sounding so fresh that moment and he"ll lead you into a pomp and drivel , it is ultimate in that here Julton has reached where he it could have been written yester­ whirlpool of se nsa tio n that ulli.: Vicky Senior wan ls to be. That is, wilh the stalusofthe perfect rock idol. day and Reynard The Fox. during MyNa1io11 UndergrOund isvery muchinduplicatetolhis. Notthatit which Julian manages to parody fails in what i1 sets out to ach ieve, but merely attempts too little. And himself wi~hout losi ng any of the so Cope, th ough remaining one of the most enrenaining fi gures in cha_rasmat,c content of the song. rock, hasstagna1e d, and My Na1ion Underground is folly. Cape's music Julian guaran_tced that '"'.e left the no longer pounces at you and rips flesh from your side, but instead theatr~ emotional_derehcts. Pure settles for nibbling little pieces o f rubber off of your carpet slippers. Joy (triumphs agam). THE Ra1her sad in fact. · Alun Graves Vicky Senior GOLDEN BENGAL SONIC YOUTH Of course, there is plcn1y of sell-out, but I feel that for some Daydream Nation Lee and Thurston's usual lime Sonic Youth have been 9a ANTIGUA S"nlEET Blast First LP indulgence and guitar abuse, slightly unsure of which direction sometimes beuait£ul (The to take, having left behind the EDINBURGH DOUBLE albums rarelv seem a Sprawf), occasionall y redundant. 1err'i fying rawness of their brilliant good idea, but this o ne is I wouldn't be surprised if this earl y work, without making the TEL: 556 3460 surprisingly coherent and aspect of Sonic Youth doesn'1 decisive leap into more accessible relatively- not to mention eventually disappear altogether territory. Daydream Nation just unexpectedly - free of self­ (he lied). might signal the start of something CURRY FROM £2.95 indulgence. Doub1less Daydream Nation great. Reconfmended by Good Food Guide Stephen Barnaby Daydream Nation sees Sonic will produce accusations of a Restaurant and Hotel Guide 1988-89, WfAC Youth progress (or regress as you wi ll) o ne step further towards ore 12 oooa-2.00 p.m. traditional song structure than its 5.00p,J!!,-Midnight predecessor Sisler. The opener, ALL BOOKINGS WELCOME Teenage RiOI is nol only about the most mainstream song they have TAKE-AW,A Y SERVICE IS AVAILABLE ever done. but one of the very best as well ; Call(Jle is almost a , genuine pop song (sort of). After hitting an all -time low in crap ~ ~-MOD/CA'S pretentious lyrics on Sisler, PIZZERIA · RESTAURANT Thutston Moore is often ~ 17A FREDERICK STREET. EDINBURGH 031-115 WH surprisingly straightforward. The Sample the soft s~rroundings and f ritmdly atmosphere brilliant Hey Joni is personal and of Mo dico·s arrd enjoy 1heS11JNrb food a,ul direct in a way you never thought varied menu at affordable prtce.r. he could be, and this strain of reminiscence is continued on STEAKS · VEAL· CHiCKEN · SEAFOODS !fypers:~ti~:'- Or at!~:! I think it !TALI.AN SPECIALITIES IS. , MOUTH WATER JNG SWl;E;r.,' '' ' • • • • - - - - .... • • -• •••• •• - ~ •• • • • ,...... 1 12 year old Tom lfanks (right)just loH<<•s working in a toyshop in Big, as his manager Robert Loggia discovers. BIG carnival "make-a-wish~ machine, the one he has left behind. his wish is uneXpec1edly granted, Odeon with predictably chaotic results. Although Big bears a marked Dir: Penny Marshall similarity to the recent "Vice At first, the grown-up Josh, Versa", director Penny Marshall played by Tom Hanks, is confused WHAT HAPPENS when a manages to avoid the cloying sen­ and lonely, but soon finds a niche timentality of the first film by 12-year old boy wakes up for himself as a professional combining broad comedy wit h a transformed into a grown­ guinea-pig at a New York toy wistful plea for lost innocence. FILM SECTION up? That's the dilemma fac­ company. Josh takes to yuppie­ And at last Tom Hanks fulfils the ing Josh Baskin in Big , a huge dom like a duck to water, but mat­ pro mise of .. Splash", giving a MEETINGS summer smash in the States ters are further complicated when finely-tuned performance that he encounters high-nying viper will enable him to join Steve Mar­ Wednesdays at and now set to start box. office Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), an tills ri nging over here. tin and Robin Williams at the office-slut who has perfected the fo refront of the new breed of 1.40 pm at the difficult art of climbing the ladder comic actors. He's finally hit the Jos fi is tired of being a kid; his to success by lying on her back. Student offices. mother treats him like a baby, he's Big time. bullied by his classmates and ignored by the school sweetheari. But when Josh asks to be big at a

DISTANT VOICES, characterslot about towardsthe atti eachtud eother of butthe '•ii~~~ffi~~~ii~;;;;;i STILL LIVES 1 1 1i;:!~~;~~twgh~~hat~~u=c~:~~ O •·ilmhouse !~: ta kin g place.· Dir: Terence Davies Terence Davies could certai nl y A FISH CALLED THIS FILM was, for some not be accused of sharing British WANDA utterly incredible ·reason, fam ily life in a nostalgic manner. The '·Father" in the film is a 1.45 pm. 4.45pm. 7.45pm acclaimed as a masterpiece at mean-spirited wife beater. The this year's Cannes Film F~sti­ highlight in the lives of these E) val. Seeing it. however, must people in 1940s and 1950s Liver­ rank as the most depressing pool seems to be indulging in a MIDNIGHT RUN experience that it is possible community sing-along in an ai r­ to have, short of committing raid shelter or attending a funeral. 1.45pm,4;45pm, 7.45pm Gripping stuff indeed! suicide. Terence Davies has described A quest for realism is the key There are some strengths to thi: Sadly. these attributes arc small his film as an "homage to a culture clement in Distam Voices, Sri/I film . The acting is competent and crumbs of comfort indeed when long dead and a way of life which E> Uv~s. The writer-director Ter­ in . the case of Freda Daire who set against the utter tedium which ence Davies has drawn upon his' is now only a distant memory". plays " Mother'' and Pete Post­ results from watching this film . Pretentious drivel - do nor own experiences of growing up in lethwaite who plays ;' Father". it is The major problem is that there is expect the film to be as worthy as FRANTIC a working-class Liverpudlian fam­ actually rather good. In addition, no coherent narrative structure­ its director's apparent ain:is. I.50pm.4.50pm, 7.50pm il y in the 1950s 10 present an Davies uses music brilliantly to we see events through the indi· unembellished picture of British evoke the atmosphere of the post- vidual memories of the charac­ RodMcLtao family life . . ters. This means that we learn a ODEON CLERK STREET 031-667 7331/2

* MAKE YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR TOP MOVIES* TOM HANKS stars in BIG(PG) Complete programmes at 1.30, 3.40, 6.00. ROBIN WILLIAMS stars in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (15) Complete programmes at 2.15, 5.30, 8. 15. PHIL COLLINS JULIE WALTERS in BUSTER (15) Complete programmes at: Friday/Saturday 1.45, 4.00, 6.20, 8.45. Sunday/Thursday 1.35, 3.45, 6.05, 8.30. A Great Movie to look forward to: From 1 l-th No11ember SEAN PENN , RO BERT DUBALL in .,;, : .:::: · .· ..co't'.oRs (1s1 · Thursday, October 20, 1988 17 Arts standing head and shoulders with the universal condition qr ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF (metaphorically speaking) above man or whether it was merely ind­ AN ANARCHIST the rest of the cast. One has to dental to this production; the lat­ acknowledge, however, that it is ter seeming the more probable. Bedlam Theatre always difficult to act the minor· What was intended and worked 'Ice Hot' pans and one was conscious of verywellwasthegroup ofpolice­ October 15 much awkwardness and superflu- men acting the burlesque Tom ous movement. philiips' amusing perfonnance ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT The direction of Richard Met- called to mind Herbert t..om·s sentiment appeared to be the calf came into its own with clever deranged Chief Inspector flavour of the hour for the use of semantics aad fast inter- Drey£uss, addingj touch ofinsan­ change between the characters ity to 1he underlying notions of the Bedlam interpretation of which can so easi ly be fumbled or hyprocrisy of organised lies and Dario Fo's Accidental Death lost. the crocodile tears of social demo- of an Anarchist. cracy . • . . a touch of insanity to In this comedy of the absu~d. the the underlying notions or The action concluded with a audience was immediately intro­ ra ther gratuitious use of impro­ duced to Fo's self-awareness as a the hypocrisy of organised vised humour taking the drama left wing anti-autho ritarian wri­ lies ... into the realms of political count ter. The farcical plot was re minis­ Bouing's disguises as the enig­ for its own sake. However, it is cent of Joseph Conrad's "The Sec­ matic maniac were quite hysteri­ seldom that one finds oneself ret Agent", where the death of the cal,involving an eye-patch, a con­ amidst roars of uninhibited laugh­ und~rdog is negligible in the ter in the stalls of the Bedlam world of fasf moving politics and vincing wooden leg and a some­ what severe asylum style haircut! Theatre, but this was indeed one promotion. It was difficult to judge whether of those occasions. Stewart Boning as the pro­ the variety of accents was tagonist dominated the play intended to re0ect Fo's concern Helm John.ston

LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET Theatre Workshop October 13-15 Revealed!

" THE TIME for tenderness and meTcy is long past" -it is · this directive which dictates mark Nivf'n at. the creature in "Blood and lee". the li fe of Lady Audley in heT infancr and whose Jover sp~cads,, frantic attempt to preserve her newly-acquired wealth BLOOD AND ICE his love regardless. Thus pain in childbirth and estrangement in a nd status fmm the poten· Traverse Theatre love turn Mary back to conven­ ti a lly devastating effect of her October 11-16 tion. She instructs a wayward dark secret. The secret? maid: " Love is never free to any Abandoning her child, and woman" but it is better directed at staging her own death in AFTER much sweat and herself. OTder to commit bigamy. tears Pen Name's production Wendy Murray conveys well In the midst of today's artistic of Liz Lochhead's Blood and Mary Shelley's tragic dilemma 11 clime, with public demand for Ice has emerged as a power- :~f~. :s~~~=,~~~he:pi~~~:!Z:: na turalistic drama or comedy, the ful play about the dreams of from Byron, played somewhere Gloria Theatre Company has Mary Shelley. She dreams by between Devil's advocate and taken the courageous step of creatiog a heady stage adaptation day of the good of sexual Devil incarnate by John Lawr­ of Mary E. Braddon's melodrama freedom (which is to be ence. Byron's uncompromisi ng. of the same name, involving denied) and by night of the almost sadisticmalecmancipation plenty of dry ice and a frenetic terror of a monster. serves further to sharpen Mary's piano score adapted by Nicholas Lochhead'scontrol is ambidexler- agony wilhin. Bloomfielcj musical director of the ous; with one hand she presents mJ:: Ma~na~t~~~~!ti~esilie~: company. The success or this adaptation ~tclr::tn~o~d~~;~ ~~ht~:~ philosophy of Byron and Shelley lay in the attention paid to all spirit of sexual liberation cham- ~:·:~:et~:k~:~x::~~n~m!~:~ aspects of the production, from. the lurid green light evoking a ::cra~~.r H:o~~~;r thea1re by raising issues against a ~:1: 0 ~~z Hammer horror to the tiltin_.g takes us in1 0 the candlelit world of pos1-revolution backdrop and, .stage reminscent of a manic sur­ Frankenslein's ·mo nster. This like the monster itself, they will realist painting. all of which monster is, like Shelley's progres· never 1?.0 away· created a complete theatrical sive ideas, a product of science Stephen Chittenden experience or sight and sound. which works nong too well . . ·· "NB": ThTs-WCelc at thC'rraverse;· The only reservation then lay in "This must be love" its cry tor- , Tack 'nTartan in "Allofmeloves the acting which began by high­ men ts !vfary. whose children die in all ofyou. •• lighting all the excesses of the mance, notable for the beauty of melodramaticfonn with e:uravag­ SNO/BRYDEN THOMSON/ its technical clarity and precision, ant speechifying and considerable MIRIAM FRIED embraced the more lyrical aspect arm-Dingi ng posturing. In the sec­ of Brahms· work, particularly ond half this was abruptly dis­ Usher·Hall during the waltzing second sub- placed by a critique of Victorian 14th October ject of the opening movement. constraints upon womanhood, th and the audience's sympathies LAST Friday evening con- :~:;~1e ; 1a;r~:e::·sinm:;.s~ were never totally captured either certgoers at the SNO's Usher opening woodwind tutti of 1he way. They were never fully Hall performance, the sec- Adagio. while both the soloist and involved in 1he horror of Lady ond under Bryden Thomson the orchestra's rendering of the Audley·s dastardly acts and as Musical Director, were final movement was poised and amusement at the sensationalist presented with a combina- accurate. aspects of the drama was confined to uncomfortable embarrassed tion of the thoroughly famil- Va~ihdaenn ~~~~:t}~~:i~i~;~~ sniggers. iar and the clearly less well phony displayed enormous depth There was an attempt to st ing known. The programme and complete conviction of the audience into a frenzy ofter­ included Brahms' Violin interpretation. The expression of ro r and indignation by a sensa­ Concerto, ferocity that Vaughan Williams tional plot description accom­ The programme opened with intended in the climax of both the panying the play, which read: the Berlioz overture, LeCorsaire, first and final movemen1s was ·'Lady Aud\ey°s secret is not that in which 0urryingstringscales and powerfully achieved. The. con­ she is a bigamist, or a seductress, accompanying syncopated chords· trasting muted passages skilfully , or a criminal; but that she is sane for wind and horns the orchestra balanced and controlled. Effec­ and powerful. For women her handled with neat skil l. There fol-. tive control and balance were also story is a potent revenge fantasy. towed the Brahms. the opening features of the polyphonic second Fqr men she is a nightmare . ., orchestral tutti played at a sedate movement and the trio of the Gripping stuff but inreality the pace. typifying the mood of slight third. in which exposed woodwind audience·s reaction was larg\!ly detachment and reserve which . and brass soloists exhibited pow­ confined lo 1hat of mild and characterised the playing both of erful rhythmic sense aided benign interest. soloist and orchestra throughout throughout by Thom~n·.s dcf1 Sung Khang the work. Miriam Fried's perfor- direction. Tessa Williams 18 ' Thursday, October 20, 1988 Arts ARTS OF THE EARTH A conscious analysis of the state of our world is currently to be found in the E might Fruitmarket Gallery in Glen Onwin's exhibition, "Revenges of Nature". · just be a Alison Brown went down to find out more about art, alchemy and atrocity. fragmen ''Wtary mo­ Together the twenty-seve n placed in the Gallery that it need "Revenges of Nature" is par- ment and where we're going works fathom a massive lime scale not be visited at alt . 0nwin is 1icularly damning upon mans sci­ might take millions of years, fom "Massa Confusa" (1984) aware that although he is entific and industrial progress. we could be in a flip over situ­ which shows how the envi r0n­ interested in getting his concern ation where something else ment came into being "on a cos­ across; ··a lot of people don't want In this short time that mic scale" to the "Post-l945 to be told how 10 think ." In re lay­ humanity has been in existence, will become dominant . " he has and is progressively · pondered artist Glen Onwin aspect of the new nuclea r land­ in a message. his art can be more scape", feedi ng us abstract im ages powerful than surface value destroying th e earth, '" All you've in front of his work "First and atmosphere to the possible would first suggest. got to do is pick up a newspaper . . Life" (1986) . A panel act ing bleak outlook of the planet's .. we're chopping ourselves to like a microscopic look at the pieces.~ The exhibitions' title , future. Onwin sees these abstrac­ O7~~r·i~ui~; rkby is hi:s~~al:J living o rgani sms in thei r exis­ tio ns as "a kind of wholeness ... By panel comments upon the tence on this earth; the not bringing essentially realistic materials and technique. Wax, destruction of the rain fo rests. sulphur, coal, earth, mercury, Tropical plants) from the skips at Cyanophytes, crucial to all ele ments into them •.th ey can pro­ ject meaning; become "physical". water and organic mall er combine the Botanics) are waxed into the future life, of which Onwin in a textural frenzy on canvas. panel surface like a "vegetable believes us to be only a part._ 0nwin was spurred to use such unconscious, with - growth and "All you have to do is pick materials after graduating from decay". The frame is actuall y 0nwin, a quiet, but intense and up a newspaper ... we're Edinburgh Co llege or Art in the made from rain forest wood still we ll-read artist, born educated chopping ourselves to l 970's where there was a tremend· exhibiting timer marks. thus con­ and now teaching in Edinburgh, is ous movement back to the truth of tinuing this picture o r exploita- Nf:! ~t~~h:!!\a~~!i!e°~~ happy to 1alk about his work . In pieces." materials. Using and searching for tion. a lynchpin date in human develop­ doi ng so, not o nly does his fundamental materi als that could ment'' and triggers off a sub­ 0nwin is q uick to point out enthusiasm in art and making art be e mbodied "with a different sequent theme in 0nwin's work . emerge, but his inherent interest He wants the viewer to read into though that. " I don't consider The images lie static upon the in meaning; projecting a long­ them. finding meanings that even myself morall y above any of this, wall, but act as symbols for the sighted view about the union in On win himself has not thought of How on earth can you I'm doing it myself by making nuclear age. He covers areas such this world between man and pulling in . Indeed the exhi bition represent something so these works, that's why I've used as sea dumping and land disposal nature. is accompanied by a "source difficult to comp,rehend? bits of timber , wood taken from acid rain, and the "Unthinkable" room", where books, leafl ets and these very fo rests. I think (1985). The latter has to be the His main interest is to talk photographs provide the most powerful piece, portraying about the environment, but meaning; th"eir own presence". interested viewer with a parallel His previous maj or exhibitio ns That's something everyone the unportrayable; the nuclear encompassing it within a broad flurry of ideas, getting, in a basic can understand a bit of explosion. " How on earth can you complex of time and place. He "Saltmarsh" (1975) and "'The sense. information across. 'To Recovery of Dissolved Sub­ represent something so difficult to presents mythic and modern some, the inclusion of publications flying glass cutting! stances" (1978) explored this. comprehend?" 0nwin agrees that interpretatio ns of the physical by Friends of the Earth or ''Acid everyone is part of this process, "the more you talk about it. the world , historical , alchemical. Esse ntially everything was made News" would seem to be ramming from salt the su~ 1ance itselr · and nobody can stand back and less difficult it is to realise what symbolic and ecological: all of our future ecological devastation. used to say something. but itS' his· say, 'I don't do that', because they they are actuall y doing .. more which re fer to, o r impinge upon and past and present atrocities. do. it's a kind of dilemma; we're people.will die of lacerations than the idea of man's responsibility in torical. cullural. positi ve or nega­ down o ur throats; but not so. For tive . part of this natural cycle ... of the actual blast, glass will . _t he planet's maintenance. one th_ing, the source room is so Detail of Antarctica (1988) "~ velopment is Inevitable".

explode and move out from the centre at hundreds of miles an hour, that's something everyone can understand; a bit of flying glass-cuuing! But it's nothing to the reality of the situation. I don't have the knowledge to this, nobody does!" His image is bleak; swirls oi dust and sharp iacera- · tions created from earth, metal ,· glass, stone and ash , movein tur­ moi l over the canvas surface. Two spheres introducing the nuclear winter, unchor the explosion down; u grim visual interpretation of what we might be lucky enough not to :.ee. Similarly the piece .. Antartica" is to bring our awareness to one of the last places 10 be exploited. It's outer whitepanels are pure. but the centre panel shows the begin­ ning of exploitation. The bitumcnastic surface reflects cop­ per, and other metal deposits buried under the surface. Antar­ tica is a mineral rich environment. Development is inevitable, but 0nwin would like to see this "greed element'' of total exploita­ tion' 3t fa st'i:onfr611ed . :< I 1·. r , ,1,1u ~., J n:.1'111 ,. ><,J;, .,i rll 1" Media Pink Soap

T HEART, the makers of British These days few soap operas can bear to be without at least Soap Operas seem one gay character. In the light of Section 28 Andrew Ross A to believe that we sees how prejudiced the soaps are. all want to watch ourselves on the telly. Not for us the costumed pa_ntomimes of went to a job interview wearing a of Section 28 , legislatio n whic~ 'Dynasty' or 'Dallas'. Instead pink triangle badge, the inter­ was introduced partly as a resul t viewer turned out to be colour of hysterical tabloid treatment of Soaps here seem to work on blind. , ho mosexuali ty, it is mo re impor­ . Cashman 011 the Clause the catharis principle; that it tant than ever before that the gay is therapeutic to watch he peO pie in charge of these community get~ fa ir treatment seem, as fa r as Colin is concerned, to believe that lesbianism exists (it people like us on the televi­ Tsoaps were, almost to a man, fro m the serious media, since it is to be running the ir own little mor- does in the risible Prisoner of Cell sion going through hell. o r woman, liberal university now increasingly difficult for the ality play. Block H. but we're talking about In !he early eighties the staid graduates of the 1960s and 1970s gay point of view to be heard. Barry has now gone straight real life here) and the gay male and established world of the and they took a concerned liberal When Michael Cashman, the and Colin 's life now revolves characters who are present ari;_ British Soap Opera was turned middle class agenda to the small actor who plays Colin in 'East C? n· around his wordprocessor and his just as much confirming pre­ upside down by the arrival of, first screen. It was in the light of this ders' was seen campaigning filofa x. Now there is nothing left judices as breaking them. What is 'Brookside' then 'Eastenders'. very self conscious sort of 'social against Section 28, Colin was ,to distinguish Colin fro m any needed in the soaps is not just a Whereas 'Coronation Street' had awareness' scri ptwriting that we organising a holiday with Dot tother pleasan1 yuppie . ' gay presence, but a gay perspec- begun on the catharsis principle, The story of gay characters in tive~ While all this is missing then presenting a fairly accurate pic- British soap operas is a story of its no surprise that legislation like ture of Northern English working lost opportunities. Like Queen Clause 28 can be passed with so class life, Over time it had become Victoria, scriptwrite rs don't seem little media attentio n. an institution, seeming more like a li ving museum th an a represen­ tation of reality. Sl~C~'l'IC)N211 In the next edition of The Media The two newcomers Were to present the lives of modern urban dwellers, not stuck in a 'pints of Page Andrew Sparrow on Scotland bitter', Hovis bread commercial were presented with the characiet Co tton. when Cashman was fun­ on Sunday and David Stenhouse mentali ty, but facing up to mod· of Colin in Albert Square. draising for the Terrence Higgins em problems. They aimed to Colin is well educated, polite, Trust, for AIDS treatment, Colin takes a wry look at Mark interact with the real world, upwardly mob ile, well mannered, was having the test, and was found rather than just with the rest of intelligent and ... yes, gay. The to have multiple sclerosis. Worst Wheatley's 'Midweek'. ·the Street' and very soon they painful inoffensiveness of the of all, the writers of 'Eastenders' became 'issue soaps', rattling character seemed to suggest that through, in their teething years the scri ptwriters were almost dar­ issues like teenage pregnancy, ing anyone to take offense. This adultery, alcoholism, drug addic- attempt to isolate the bigotry of tion, prostitution, petty crime, their viewe rs might seem under­ mob violence, armed seiges, senil- standable, but it led to the prob­ ity, raci_sm , unemploymcnt,credit lem that Colin was so nice that it card debt, strike breaking and was difficult to remember what he rape. (Spot the issue, spot the was thefe for. Accordingly Colin soap!) and the podgy Barry seemed more Sl~C~'l'IC)N211

like flatmates thail fove rs, never :a~~i~h:~s abna~~~o: ;;i~=nt~~: touching and eve n arguing in a I sort of 'best friends' way, until , Phil Redmonds 'socialist soap' 1 0 0 'Brookside' woul~. _come o ut any -~;e:: ~el~ bi~t ~~y ~ h~~~';r~~w; better was to be sadly disap­ ·men were actu.ill y ·allowed to hug pointed. The character of Gordon each other. was resurrected and returned to This de monstration of what was the series with a male lover, Chris, little mo re than a wholesome You can afforcl to do all kinds of in tow. chummyness showed what an Here again, the scriptwriters abject failure the Jj beral experi­ things with a Student Coach Carel. fe ll in the same traps that 'Easten­ ment had been. The BBC switch­ dcrs' had created. Chris and Gor­ board was jammed all that night don show .no affection to each and for much of the next morning. (It gets you 33% off National Express o ther. They are polite, inoffensive 'Points of View' was inundated middle class boys, who behave with letters demanding that these and Scottish Citylink standard fares) li ke best chums. There is however unn atural acts were removed another perspective here. There from our screens. The scriptweit· Why sit around getting bored discounts on Midweek return fares. always seems to me to be the ers had dared the ir audience to undeclared questio n about every when with a Student Coach Cord you It is valid on our luxurious Ropide take offe nse, and they had. It can afford to get about a bit? coaches where you will enioy creature scene which occurs in the Collin's seemed that the great British vie­ household as to how such a weal­ wing public could cope with a If you're a student in fuU-time comforts like reclining seats, refresh­ thy old wo rld couple as Paul and character whom they were told education (or a sixth former aged-16 or ments, hostess service, l toilet and Annabel Collins could have a was gay, but not with a character over) you can get a Student Coach ashroom. · daughter who turned o ut to be a who did anything to demonstrate shoplifter and have a nervous that fact . ·, Card for only £3.90. A Student Cooch Cord lasts for a breakdown and a son who turned · It will save you 33% off standard full 12 months with no restrictions. out to be gay. fares throughout Britain on National You can get your Student Cooch Gordon's sexuality is an embar­ or such selfconscious liberals, Express and Scottish Citylink servic~. Cord at Student Travel Offices, many rassment , not an issue and essen­ F the scri p~_writers of 'Brook- . tially GordOIJ and Chris serve as side' and. 'Eastenders' seem It also entitles you to TO% off some Notional Express and Scottish Citylink light relief, a comic trio, along remarkably sque amish abo.ut continental services. You even get agents. with the increasingly dotty addressing this issue head on. By . Annabel's Mum. It is hard to presenting gay people in thts recall them even touching each sanitised way, they are guilty of • other. Their sexuality is toyed just as much parochialism as with in story li nes. When Gordon 'Coronatiori Street' is. In the ligh~ AfARKS & SuccEss

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Careers In I I I Retailing

by Cathy Milton amoun1 ·or locali sed market RETAILERS COME in all anepidfflllc. for all the needs of the famil y at research and generall y keeping shapes and sizes. The follow- Asuperstoreisasinglelevtfself- one location. Departmeet stOtt:S EVER SINCE Napoleon dis- yo~:;;s ;:::· num ber or core ing is a selection or the exist- service store that offers a broad _:8,.;' :.:u:e=~~Yrao':r':; ::::;: missed Britain as a nation Or · respo10nsibilities that witi always . ing variations. = rits~r ha~~C:::r:e ,.~:•=:~ major pur-chues. Debtnhams now ! ~~re::~ ~~~~ ar~~~~~ar~:~ ~::/ r:~: s~r~epl;a~:!~~~~:~~ Th~~r:~et~~~::u~: ::!!t~~~ ::~ 2~~:;ns~·- ~:. :~us~1!•::,.: ~:d~ :;i:rc;~ensiveran ge of 0 1 image which has deterred an; :~~~ ~•r_:;;; i:;.~ S4,000 ~~~"1i~~~es;o~~~o !;~:~~~~g ~~! :;::~~on .:::ket~:;r•~~r~t~ 1 1 0 the~rt;:n~:~o;~.=;:.: many graduates fro m consid- cash-flow. within thtir nationwide sl.ructure. sq. fl. or selling space are hyptr- lhrough which they atttmpe lo ering careers w ithin this Chris Hay, Manager of Wm. Multiples have become increas- markets. capture consumer loyalty. They in ~~~~~~r' reta iling in the 1900s ~;~s' p:ir~~~a r ~~o~~ ~~ £1~~~ ingly important in lhe retail indus- Tht development of these retail- ~~~ ,/:~1~:ise quality as is big business. Despite the com- p.a. j£1incd the company afte r :i·s~ol:: ;:~~~I ,;~r:u~~:; ing operallons indicates a shift in 1 0 ~~~~i;~~n;e~~~~~=c~~siiin~:!i;: lea~~nt~~i::Jed for Wm. Low's adults in Britain, 38 million of :ea~ u:~~r.;~f~:r: ~~ s:v::: in ::i•,;;:rin°ih~a~~~:C.t~l~ spending patterns, the industry par1-time as a student and was ~~~:e ~au!~~=~:::~ from one that consumers increasingly ste Ta~~ a11°.:~u~ragl _c_o.. ~~ .. u~lhat ;,,d has expanded leading to increased attracted 19 retailing "t he more he shopping as a family and recrea- .... ~ 10 "'""' ...... , ca~:r7.~r~~~~:ea1ea~~~e:!s;e sa;.~'s~i~: " I enJoy most days at , M::hp!:d ,n~;::C::OtsDi~::!: ~~":~.ac~:i:~:a~~;er rt:~~=!*!~! ~:1::~n bttn the preserye ortht fi ercely for market shares 1he work. Each day is different and Sainsburysandtheirrivals. :::. nothing to discourage this lntheUKlhecreditelementwas need to stock shelves with the therearealways newchallenges to Multiples rely on expert mer- the predominant appeal or mail broadest possible range of goods be met . chandlsingandcompletelyreliable Superstores now handle nearly order schemes. Mail order retail• at the lowest possible prices iscor- ·· If you·re looki ng for a 9.5 job stock mo~·ements. They have zs per cent of all grocery trade. operations have more recently respondingly heightened. then retailing is not it . The hours recently had 10 race competition The sucees.s of these developments been in decline although the recent Retailers are at1emp1ing to are anti-social. from the out-or-town superstores. indicates consumer responsiveness launch or the up-market Next solve this problem through " But il is a good choice of The rash or superstores and to price and transport costs. home shopping scheme may expaationn~ings. The th eindu scalestr ofy istheir increas- oper- careeThe mr orethat yo offersu put in a the sec muroere job.you __:;:hype _____rmarkets .:....:._seems ______set to become Department_:______stores aim 10 cater herald a new departure. _

ingly dominated by fewer. but get o ut." be a 'people' person. becom ing a manager the graduate The merchandiser is concered larger, firms. Chris went through part of the "' When we look at students' recruit will normally go through with marketing. He or she will While 1oday's retailers have • company training scheme (which CVs we look for exposure 10 some months' basic trainin~. work closely wit h !he firm 's out· recognised that they must expand he said has changed considerably people - a cacation job during To some extent the terms buy­ lets and their individual needs. to survive in the '80s they are also in the eight years he·s been wi1h which you had to rub shoulders ing and merchandising are used as Sue Raby is the Personnel increasi ngl y aware of the need for the firm). but said that his was wi th other people." synonyms but many firms now see Training Officer for Principles for effective management to deal mostly "on the job training." the two fun ctions as distinct. Men (part of the Burton Group) with the increased complexiti es He has been at Perth for nearly Personnel Manager for Dixons Retailing depends on anticipat­ who deals wi th merchandising that growth brings; this is were three years rut before that was George Brai nhill told us that he ing the needs o f an increasingly you come in. moved roughly every 18 months recruitment. expects to recruit about 100 sophisticated consumer. She says "We look for someone In terms of graduate careers in - each move representing a grad uates next year, "all on the This means providing the right who is high ly numcra1e and has the industry there are roughly two•. promotion. reiail side.·· goods, at the righ1 time, place and sound analytical skills. options for graduates: store mal1- Employers look crucia ll y for a ··Any degree is applicable. We price. The buyer is constamly .. We arc quite keen to sec agement and buying or merchan- proven ability to get on wit h look for intellectuall y sharp, aware of these objectives and people with textile degrees bu1 we dising. (There are other roles in people in aspiring store managers. bright and practical recruits. Per­ every decision he or she makes train anyway so its not vital. the indust ry, such as data proces- Any previous experience in retail , sonali ty is an impor1ant fa ctor. presupposes 1hem. ··We recruit graduates wi1h a si ng and pe rsonnel. bu t these arc Saturday or holiday jobs wi ll be ··Candidates do not need to be Price is generall y considered broad spectrum of degrees, for not so much specific to retail as10 important to them. numerical as we operate an in­ paramount and chis has led most insta nce law and geography a ll large corporations.) You will also need to show an house training scheme.·· retailers to centralise 1heir buying graduates since s1a1isti csare a pan Store management is the abili1y 10 organise. and motivate Those stlcccssfull y r~cruitcd by operations to take full advantage oi their careers. backbone of every retail o rganisa- yourself and 01hcrs. This is where. Dixons go through a 15 month of savings through bu lk buying. "We also look for people who tion. upon which its success or fai- involvemcn1 in extra-curricular t,rainingplan. Buying for a major retailer has have an eye on trends. lure ultimately depends. activities. such as societies· Julie Cecil joined Dixons :1ftcr become a nerve-shattering occu­ ·· w e operate an in-house train· As a store manager you will ·administ ration o r the Students' completing a history degree at pation. The risks are high because ing scheme which runs for six supervise and control your store Associution. will help. Nottingham University. the budgets arc huge and the weeks. one afLcrnoou a week . 10 make a trading profit. As Mr J.K. Findlay, Personnel She got the impression that scope for cock-ups is even greater. Rec ruits get talk:. from Buyers, Product range and marketing Officer for Wm. Low said: .. We Dixons were looking for personal­ Buying is a skilled job which. and Merchandisers. go on vi:.its'to policy is usually determined' by look for person_ality and ability. ity, ability to co-ordinate a shop while dependent on predicting our warehouse:. and basic:1lly head office. but within this We arc not worried about the type and that no previous experience consumer needs. is based on learn our business. framework your store will need to of degree a potential recruit actu­ was necessary. analysis of solid fac1s. Today"s ··we al:)() pay for rccrui1s to be turned to the special needs of ally has. • Reaching store i;nanagement buyer must have an exhausti ve attend the College of Dis1ributc your local consumer community. '·You·re either retail ori ented level can take between five and knowledge of the market, curren t Traders for a 12-wcck period. one This means doing your oryou·re not. Youeitherlikecus- ten years depending o n both the trends and awareness o f the oper­ night a week. T he course is textile homew~rk; that is. a certai~ tomers or you don'1. You have 10 individual and the firm. Before ations of riva l fi rms. rcla1cd ."

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EU FO LK SONG SOCIETY 20th 8 pm; 48a Pleasancc Fiddle Workshop sessions - all LES ESCOG RIFFES UN/VENTS welcome. I pm: French Dept Basement HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lunch and eleclions-4 new first SHI NTY CL UB CEILIDH publici ty pos1s arc to be filled. 2 1st CATHOLIC STUDENTS ~~~~~i,kpatrick 'ubmy. Wil­ Eveni ng. C hambers SI Un ion along with the Internatio nal Co­ UNION liam Robertson Building Happy Hour 8-9 pm ordina1or and Ball Convener. 6 pm ; 23 George Sq (Cafe) 80p £2 UNVIERSITY CHAPLAINCY CHRISTIAN UNION £1 Fe ll owship meal. EU SCOTTISH .NATI ONALIST · I. 10 pm : JC MB, Kings Buildings. 7 pm : C haplaincy Centre EU LUNCHTIM E DEBATE All welcome. . ASSOCIATION (Common Room) CU discuss ''I'm not not ashamed I pm; Teviot Debating Hall E U CHESS CL UB 7.30 pm ; Executive Room. Plca- i Mr Magnus Linklater , editor of of the Gospel. .. Free Heineken. The sco1sma11 discusses " pressures Evening; Plcasance ~;::members welcome. on the press". MEGA DISCO Members or all standards wel- SHAG Evening; Tcviot Debati ng Hall 22nd ENGINEERING SOCIETY 10 pm-3 am: The Mission, Vic- Free PO LITI CS SOCIETY LUNCH 1.30 pm; EngSoc Room, Sander­ toria S1. PARK ROOM DISCO CHAMBERS ST DISCO I p m; Politics Dept; son Building, Kings Buildings The latest 'Kids Love Jelly'/'Rcd Evening; Tevio t Unio n Evening; C hambers St Disco 31 Buccleuch Pl Sea Turiles' disco. Free 26th The usual happy hour and ha lf POETRY SOCIETY decent disco. ESCA GENE RAL MEETING EU AMNESTY INTERNA- Evening; Pleasance 7.30 pm ; Chambers St Union TIONAL - COLOMBIAN Student and guest readings. LAGS BENEFIT DISCO The fi rst general meeting and EVENING T he La ughing Duck, Howe St. elections. 8 pm ; 24 George Sq (Basement) 9 pm-2 am Tickets £2. £ 1. 50 (concessions) ROCK NIG HT STUDENTS 25th SOp/£1 - T ickets from EU from Local Amnesty Groups. or CATHOLIC Evening; Chambers St Unio n UNION LAGS. at the door. Feee. 7. 15 pm ; 24 George Sq BRIDGE CLUB Short ta lk by a Colo mbian refugee Spot the lo ng hair, jeans and Student mass with music. · Evening; Pleasance. EU COMMERCE ASSOCIA­ and an Amnesty speaker. trainers night. a long with a couple Beginners· Class. TION 1.45 pm; Wi lliam Rober1son of Megadeath T -shirts. THE BI VVY BAC BAND 24th ANGLI CAN SOCIETY 7.30 pm ; Chaplaincy Centre Buildi ng entrance. DAVIS McBRIDE 9.30 pm ; Chambers S1 Unio n Visi t to crabbies G reen Ginger. 7 pm ; Chapl aincy Centre Folk and jazz with some ancc- G R EAT HIG HLAN D BAG- Free; All welcome. Mother of Ro bert MacBride, dotes thrown in . A lso appearing PIPE SOClETY EU CENTRE FOR HUMAN UN IVERSITY CHAPLAINCY ANC member on death row. in Ryla nd Campbe ll. "The Bard 8-10 pm; Societies Centre ECOLOG Y 1. 10 pm ; Chaplaincy Centre speaks. of Soho.·· Inexpensive instruction. 5.30 pm; Faculty Room North, Midweek Service. All welcome. DHT Lecture on the ··Greening of Aid .. GREEN BANANA CLUB from Czech Conroy. Part of lhe 8 pm- I am Potterrow Union A utumn 1988 Lecture Series - Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm THEATRE '· Getting It Right". The usual goth bop. King's Theatre \etherbO\\ bceum BROWN LEVEN STREIT 2294840 .\rts Centre GRIND LAY STREET 2299697 STAT rO"N E RS THE RO YA L B~CCHARAT aH~IG~H~STR=EET,.,______SCANDAL SHADOW OF A GUNMAN MOS IE AND THE SPACE Tue 18-Sat 22 Oc1 INVAD ER Until Sal 27 O ct Wed & Sat Mat 2.30 pm 7.45pm ;£2.50 T ue 18-Fri 21 Oct; llam £2 The best range . £5.50-£11 cones Tue-Thurs. 3. 15 pm (all tickets£3) Stage adaptation o f the books Royce Ryto n·s p lay about a card Sean o·cascy's play. about Maisie the Kitten by Aileen scandal concerning the Prince of Pauerson by the Lookahead Wales. shortly to become Edward """''~_,...... T chatrc Company l:19.M!!! WH.W. VII. AS YOU LIKE IT ""'-""""' PRIDE OF THE NORTH Fri 28-Sat 19 Nov FPOM £4.15!!! Mon 24-Sat 29 Oct STORYrELLJNG FESTI VAL 7.45 pm ; £2.50-£7 -·.... 7.30 pm; Sa1 29 Oct, 5 & pm Wed 26-Sat 29 Oct 7 .30 pm £2 ShakeSpeare ·s comedy of the £2-£4 T raditional sto rytelling sessio ns strange goings on in the Forest of - Nos1algic va riety show. by Dunca n Willi amson A rden. - ----~ EXHIBITIONS

Cit\ .\rt Centre \ational Gallen Gallen of The best brand names . 2MARKETSTREET ?252424(ext 6650) 0 of Scotland '.\lodern Art Mon -sai 10 am-5 pm SHAPE AND FORM THE MOUND 5568921 Exhibition by young Scottish con­ Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm Mon·Sat 10 am-5 pm ; Sun 2-5 pl'h temporaries. GENOSE DRAWINGS of the NEILLANDS BEQUEST LYN H ANSEN 16th and 17th Centuries (from21 Oct) Until 5 Nov. from 28 Oct. A collection of paintings, draw­ Recent works ings and watercolours bequeathed JOHN MUIR WOOD to the gallery by the late George 5th Nov Neil lands. Stills Gallen Photography 105 HI GH STREET 5571HO Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm 369 Galler The best value . REGARDING 209COWGATE 2253013 PHOTOGRAPH Talbot Rice Gallerv 5 Until Nov \ OLD COLLEGE . 6671011 (rxt 4308) Mon s·i o.30am-5.30"pm Tue-Sat Noon-6 pm BROWN Work 6y 40 photographers which Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm IDEAS AN D IMAGES S TAT1DNERS ai ms to explore ~he nature and SEA SANCTUARY until 22Nov WE"AEBETTEA vocabulary o f photography. until 5 Nov New works by Marga ret Hunter a Includes work b}' David Bailey, Exhi biti? n by E lizabeth Ogilivie_ ~td"!ate?la.5~ow Art School }-. ·. HiroSatoandAndy Wic ner. dcvelop1ngthetheipeof 1hesca._-, l .. _., ___ . Thursday,October20, 1988 23 The Weekly Guide STl)deNt To What's On ~ 2. VERTIGO (PG) Cameo f ·Jl I 5.45 pm 8.1 5 pru Wed 26 HOMESTRE£f BI G BUSINESS (PG) 3. LES PATTE RSON SAVES I. WALL STREET ( 15) 8.30 pm from Sun 23 T HE WO RLD ( 15) ••••Filmhou,e 2.45 pmThurs 27 A WORLD A PART(PG) The double identical twin movie 2 pm, 5 pm, 8 pm Fri 21-Thurs27 LOTHIAN ROAD 2.15 pm, (no1 Sun), 4.30 pm , 6.40 starring Bette Midler a !1 d Tily Sir 'Les Patterson·, Dame Edna 2. PARTIN G GLANCES (1 5) pm , 9 pm. Fri 2 1-Thurs 27 Tomlin . Everage and Pamela Stevenson 3 pm, 6.450 pm, 8.40 pm Set in 1963 about a journalist and . I. DISTANCE VOICES. ST ILL T HE BLUES BROTHERS (15) ac1ivist who strugg!Cs against 2. BEETLEJUICE LI VES ( IS) DRAGNET (PG) apartheid in South Africa whi lst 2.20 pm , 5.20 pm, 8.20 pm Fri 21- Odeon 6.30 pm, 8.30 pm Fri 21·Thu rs 27 10.30 pm £2.50 Sat 22 looking aft er a 13 yea r Molly and Thurs 27 SOUTHCLE RKS TREET her young sisters. Sequel that doesn't malch up to the ori ginal. BUST E R ( 15) 2. AM E R ICAN FRIENDS ( IS) Filmsoc TH E UNBEA RABLE LI G HT­ Fri 21-Thurs 27 5.45 pm , 8. 15 pm Fri 21· & Sat 22 NESS OF BEING (18) Low budget biography of Great I pm Fri21-Thurs27 Cannon T rain Robber Buster Edwards OTHELLO (PG) Ambitious adaptation of a com­ LOTHIAN ROAD sta rring phil Collins and Julie 6.45 pm plex novel about a womanising Walters. 1. ASTERIX AND Czech brain surgeon who falls in C LEOPATRA (U) SPLENDOUR IN THE G RASS 2. love for 1he first time. Set in I. A FIS H CALLE D WANDA GOOD MORNING VIET­ 2 pm Sat 22 (PG) NAM Prague. ( 15) 8. 30pm 2 pm ,5pm.8pm, Fri 21·Thurs27 Fri 2l·Thurs 27 . Pleasancc Thea1rc Fri 21 A Vietnam film with a difference. 2. T HE B ITTER TEA RS OF Wo rthy seeing fo r John Cleesc PETRA VON KANT ( 18) and Michael Palin as a s1ammer­ Robin Williams or 'Mork and THE WITC HES OF Mindy' fame stars as a radio di s­ 5.45 pm. 8. 15 pm Sun 23 and Mo n Dominion ing anima l lover who unwittingly 27 EASTWICK (1 8) jockey for the armed forces in NEWBA ITLE TERRACE wipes out a series of pct poodles. W ITHNAIL & I (1 8) saigon. Very funny, but only in 9 pm George Square Thealrc Sun places . I. THE DEAD (U) 23 2 .45 pm Mon 24 an

20th JO H NY SUNBEAM Ncgociants. Lot hian Street SALVATION and 225 6313 GOOD AN D GONE 9 pm; Free T he Venue, Calton Road, 1111111111 R&B. 557 3073 THE CROPDUSTERS and 22nd 23,d 25th WRA YGUN AN D T HE DANCING BEARS · The Vef\ltC . Calton Road ROCKETS WRATHC HILD BARBA RA DI CKSON Oddfellows, Forrest Road 557 3073 ' T he Venue, Calton Road Pl ayhouse . G reenside Place BOXING CLEVER and The Cropdusters rousing folk 220 18 16 557 3073 5572590 A NN TURN ER'S NO MERCY tunes being recorded fo r a forth· - pm; Free Bri tish metal band . Ticke ts from £6.50 BAND ~ ockabill y. coming li ve album . Music Box. Victoria St. ME D USA I OUC H and 220 1708 TH E D AN BLOCKER VERY VERY ELEPH ANT NOISE SNEAKY LI BERTY 9.30 pm ; Free EXPE RIENCE Music Box , Victoria Street Negociants, Lothian Street Soundtrack Rock Club negociants, Lothian Street 220 1708 225 63 13 The Venue , Calto n Road KING BISC UIT T l ME BLUES 225 6313 £1 arter9pm 9 pm; Free 557 3073 Negociants. Lothia n Street 9 pm; Free Funk·rock wi th TALKING Rumo ured to be of ·Velvet Local heavy rock/metal double 2256113 Country and western HEADS inOuence. Underground' ilk. bill. 9 pm ; Free T ongue•in•cheek. Resident band. LlTTLE WO LVES THE BROTHERS Preserva1ion Hall , Victoria Street JUST ADD WATER BLUEFINGER and LIGHT preservation Hall , Victoria Street 2263816 Music Box, Victoria Street CAHN AND CAHN Preservation Hall, Victoria Street 226 3816 £1 after 9. 30 pm 220 1708 Music Box. Victoria Street 226 3816 9.30 pm; Free. Dundee based rock 'n roll , Painless yet pleasurable pop/ 220 1708 9pm; Free rhythm 'n blues. funk. £1 aftcr9 pm - Mainstream pop from Bluefinger. TEXAS BREAKFAST 26th, 21st STRATEGY Lord Darnley, West Pon GERRY MULVENNA Lord Darnley, West Port 2294341 , TEXAS BREAKFAST Royal Oak, Infirmary Street 2294341 10.30 pm ; Free Oddfell ows, Forres! Road JOHNNY THUNDERS 220 1816 E vening; Free. 10.30 pm ; Free Blues/rock band of growing popu· The Venue, Callon Road heavy Rock? larity. 8pm; Free 5573073 THE TEX FILLET FIVE Former 'New York Doll' 15 years on. Negociants , Lothian Street CAMEO Information LYCEUM 225 6213 Theatre Saver concession cards ELEPHANT NOISE Aftemooo shows are [1 .20, 9 pm; Free cost £:1 and last all year. This Musk Box, Victoria Street evenings £:2 and last show £:2.90. Al.MSOC More to ngue-in-check country. Membership of £11 to students enables members to get £:1 off the 2201708 allows free entrance to all full price each time you and a friend 9.30 pm ; Free CANNON go to the Lyceum. SIX APPEAL perlonnances. Membership Preservation Hall , Victoria Street Performances are £2.50 and £:2.90. evailable at all shows and non· ESCA . membafs may purchase guest 226 3816 NORTH SEA GAS DOMINION tickets in advance from any Union Edin~rgh Students Oiarities £1 after 9 pm . Platform I. Rutland Strecl Students pay [ 1.50 for all Shop. Appeal are at 17119 Guthrie Street Evening. performances except evening (225 4061 ). Anyone is welcome to performances in CiMma 3. The pop down and meetings are from 1 THE SILENCERS ALMHOUSE The Venue , Calton Road Dominion is dosed on Sundays. till 2on Tuesdays. ALCHEMY Student prices are 75p for 557 3073 Bannerman's Bar, Cowgate OOEON matinees, early evening shows BEDLAM Current Tenncnts ad features £:1 .50 and £:2.50 for main evening 556 3254 Performances up to 6 pm cost EUTC members may purchase This Scots band's new single , pre­ £1 .50 and after 6 pm cost £:2 with shows which are bookable in tickets at discount rates. Company Eve ning advance. No concessions on meetings are arranged at the viously supported 'The Prelen­ m atriculation card. Not appllc.able d'ers·. on Friday and Saturday evenings. Saturdays. Bedlam for anyone interested in any aspect of the theatre. Phone CHARLIE McNAIR'S BAND . SNO QUEEN'S HAU 225 9893 for details. BLUES GUITARS, THE Preservation Hall , Victoria Street Scottish National Orchestra Platfonn Jan concerts offer NIGHT BLOOMS, NARCIST 226 38 16 concerts offer student concessions studenl discounts where siandby TRAVERSE Preservation Hall, Victoria S1ree1 Evening. on Fr iday evenings on presenta1ion tickels can be pul'Crnllsed for 0 .00. Student membership is £4 for four 2263816 ofmatric card. Subject 10 8\/allability. years. Three Dutch blues/rock bands. 24 Thursday•~October 200 1988 Fashion

Quality, presentation, and a kind of unapologetic perfectionism dominate the aspira­ tions of Caplan owners Ken Bvyle and Robbie Kelly. Talking to Ken Boyle about the style and contents of 1he shop was a bit like experiencing a message comOining Mikhail Gorbachev and Jeff Banks-popular clothes with a world vision. BS: This looks on first sight like an expensive designer shop, with lots of navy and black in the window against the white walls. Given that this is a second-hand shop, do you think that's a bad thing? KB: No. That's exactly the impression we wanted. In fact, I think ifs derogatory to call the articles that we're selling second-hand _and I really resent that. BS: Well, what would yo u call them? KB: Clothes. BS: But a lot of them do happen to be second-hand. KB: Not in the sense that they're worn or in poor condition. They're second-hand in the fact that they might have graced somebody else's frame. But from the condition they're in , not on very many occasions. BS: Would you say you intellectualise about the stock.you get in ? KB: Of course. But what the shop stocks is partly down to what's available. If you're · dealing in second-hand clothes you can only buy what's available. And the styles we buy for the shop are based on pure instinct - I say pure instinct, but that instinct iscol­ ourCd by any number of influences. I dare say the fashion magazines of the day play some part. I don't specifically concentrate on one style. I try to keep a very open mind, but I do like a quality finish. You can be very flexible with materials but I don't like a cheap manufacture. BS: How much custom do you think the shop will get given the high numbers of boring dresers in Edinburgh? KB: I hope and believe that the shop will work. There are obviously better sites in Edinburgh than St. Mary's Street. On the o ther hand, if you do something particularly specialised, it should be enough to attract people. Edinburgh is a relatively small town centre and basically, if the fuckers can't be bothered shifting their bums from Princes Street twenty minutes up here, they don't deserve it! BS: This is an.extremely unusual layout for the kind of shop it is. How did it come about? KB: The fittings we had specially made. The shop started off when minimalism was theoretically sweeping the st reets of London. Robbie and I went down to London to look round some shops before we actually hit upon a series of fittings to get an idea. But it has changed a bit now. unfortuantely you have to respond to the public demand.

BS: So you have CC?mpromised.

KB: I really liked the shop when it was "minimalist". But we found that people weren't 'really prepared to come in and look at half a dozen jackets and so we've stocked up somewhat. But the presentation has never been more important than the original clothes. Whatever anyone may think of the layout, it's always taken second place to the · l HEN is a second-hand shop not a second-hand shop? See one and you've· clothes. Wseen theffi all. Or so it would seem . Faded pink twinsets,_a seedy burgundy dressing gown in the window and maybe a multi-coloured si lk scarf just about Despite the feeling you get that in Caplan thC well-worn "customer is always right" is more rheiorical question than definitiv~ statement, no o ne could dispute the work wrap up· the co~tents of man; of the lesS adVe~turOus. · that goes into the stock or the integrity behind the selection. And the hardline approach is ju_stified, especially considering Caplan's stylised individuality against the • But if yoU've ev_er been into ~aplan in St. Mary's Stree~ , perhaps you'll have complacency of the average Edinburgh offering . n~tic.ed soine obvious difiCrences. That is.~if yoJ haven't been intimidated by th~ quizzical expressions of t~C twO se've!~!.fdressed shC?P owners, who sit behind a huge central table, sewing with Victorian in1 i::nsity. Briony Sergeant

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