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FOUR HUNDRED LEEDS STUDENTS CAUGHT UP IN DEMO CHAOS LEEDS ACTIVIST INJURED IN DEMO OLENCE

Riot police block the road Plc : Sarah Kaftan Leeds student received scene of the worst mass over the head by a policeman Paul said: "They were totally materialised - all injured." a serious head injury as violence since the Poll Tax riot By Rosa Prince with a truncheon and out of control. I saw a lass who, Paul believes that he and other over four hundred of 1989. everything went floaty for a had been kicked in the back by injured protesters were LMU and Leeds University Other Leeds students had changed the route of the bit." police and paralysed for two delayed in getting to hospital students were caught up in received minor injuries during march to prevent trouble. There was a sharp pain and hours. The police wouldn't let because police refused to allow violent clashes with the police the demonstration and around Paul was at the front of the then I think I went into shock her lie flat. She needed to get to ambulances through their in London. fifteen were stranded in group who were attempting to because it stopped hurting. The hospital." lines. Leeds Anti-Fascist groups London after the march up Upper Wickham cut was an inch and a half Paul claims that the medical Paul received seven stitches had travelled down to London demonstration degenerated Lane - where the head- long, and there was a lot of facilities were non-existent. "It in his head at Lewisham last Saturday to attend a into chaos. quarters are sited - when the blood around. was very hard to get hold of Hospital Casualty Department. march aimed at closing down The injured student, who police charged. The action of the police in any first aid. No one knew He says that he is still suffering the BNP headquarters in wishes to be identified only as He said: "The police rushed blocking the proposed route of what to do so I waited by a St. from blurred vision, and will Bexley, South London. "Paul", was among those forwards and we linked arms. I the march, and then charging John's Ambulance for around need to return to hospital. "It's However, the demo quickly prevented from marching past was determined not to let them the protesters has been half an hour during which time going to leave a nasty scar," he became a full scale riot, and the headquarters by police who through. Suddenly I got hit criticised by march organisers. around 15 people other people said. FOR IN DEPTH REPORTS ON LONDON DEMO: SEE PAGES 5 & 7

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A technical safety engineer Cliff is being prosecuted In a move to mark The prize, a cheque for £150, was presented He described experiencing a for Yorkshire Electricity found both by the police in a criminal Leeds' centenary, at a ceremony held recently at King's MUSIC 10,11 burning sensation in his hand, that the general earthing, case, as well as Rex himself in a the Association of College, London. CLASS/JAZZ .... 12 and was only eventually able to shower, and cooker were all private civil action. She is Dutch Bulb drop the shower: "I acted as faulty in the bedsit. expected to change her plea Growers have Rally and March the earth for ten minutes. I just The case has been taken to from not guilty to guilty in the kindly supplied BOOKS 13 ***** • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • couldn't let go of the shower," the county court, but had to be face of all the evidence. Leeds City Council FOCUS 14,15 with a consignment CULTURE 16 of five thousand Leeds Metropolitan University Student THE GUIDE .. 17-23 'City of Leeds Union are organising coaches for a march Meeting calls for union support Bulbs', which will and rally to protest against the CLASSIFIEDS 24 be on sale for 50p government reforms of the National TRAVEL 25 By Alan Gardner each. Union of Students. SPORT ... 26, 27, 28 The rally in Manchester has been tudents at this week's Leeds Spanish organised by Manchester Area National SUniversity Union OGM. Union of Students and will leave All resolved to oppose University Institute Saints Park, Oxford Road in Manchester POLICY I management plans to privatise at 12.30 on Wednesday 3rd November. I catering services. Although the Leeds Student A rally, to be held after the march will be issue will first have to go before wishes to apologise Leeds Student is an independent addressed by Kevin Sexton from the Newspaper serving students at Union Council after the meeting to the Institute Leeds University, Leeds was declared inquorate. Cervantes for an National Union of Students, Andy Dixon Metropolitan University and As reported in last week's inaccuracy. The from the NUT, Eddie Newman, other colleges in and around Leeds Student, University starting date for the European MP, and Terry Lloyd NIP. Leeds. All our journalists abide authorities plan to privatise the Instituto's courses Elaine Ratcliffe VP Education and by a code of conduct. but if you current Central Catering is not, as had been Campaigns at LMUSU said: "We want to have any complaints please Services (CCS) and give the stated, the 13th encourage as many students as possible to contact the Editor. Union contract to Sutcliffe December. 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A meeting is being This week the Leeds University Animal Sam Greenhill that any contract given to them to organise a boycott of all Phil Booth, UNISON Branch held for residents Rights group have been publicising will result in redundancies catering facilities to coincide Assistant Editor Secretary justified the motion of Sentinel Towers National Vegetarian Week, organised by the amongst catering staff. One with any future industrial action John McLeod saying: "Privatisation is a to address the Vegetarian Society to draw awareness to a member of catering staff at Park taken by catering unions. Chief News Editor symptom of higher education many problems cruelty-free way of life. Lane described Sutcliffe food as: The motion was passed underfunding - selling off assets Rosa Prince which have been LUAR have launched the Vegetarian week "something you'd get at a despite the insistence of General such as CCS to gain funds." Assistant News Editors experienced by by leafleting students and giving out free Martyn Beauchamp people living there. samples of vegetarian food outside the The meeting is this Helen Crossley Union. Monday at 1pm in John Revill Jaine McCard, speaking on behalf of Matt Roper You can't beat the TV system the Doubles Bar. 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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 News 3 Vicious attack outside union

itnesses are being the Old Bar to go home. heck of a lot of blood," she men, who are obviously very the 1 illy ersity campus. urged to come They were shortly By David Litterick said. dangerous, as soon as Using latest the forward after a W approached by three men One man suffered a possible. They are definitely information the police have violent attack on Leeds who offered them tickets for kicking two of them to the broken nose; the other, not students, but must described the men as all being University campus left two 'Ark', a disco in the floor before running off. exceptionally severe bruising operate on the campus on a in their 20s, over six foot tall, former students in hospital Refectory. When they Catherine Sladdon, the and swelling. regular basis." with very short hair. with severe injuries. refused, the men then asked duty member of Exec, was Detective Constable Black, LUU security members Anyone with any The attack occurred them if they wanted to buy called but did not herself of West Yorkshire Police, who witnessed the attack information should contact outside the Union building at any 'E' tablets. witness anything. described the attack as: refused to comment, but Detective Constable Black on 10.30pm, as three recent After they again politely "I only arrived in time to "incredibly alarming". students are advised to be Leeds 735353. All calls will be graduates, with life declined the offer, the three see them being carried off in He said: "It is very extra cautious when dealt with in the strictest membership to the Union, left men attacked the ex-students, an ambulance - there was a important that we catch these approached by touts, even on confidence. Staff shortage disrupts Nightline service

Shorthort staffing at Nightline Despite the lack of their S left some distressed By Peter McEvoy regular eight pm to eight am callers listening to an service, Nightline are answering machine, it has spokesperson: "The problem continuing to place their usual emerged this week. arose because several key advertisements promoting the Instead of being put through Nightline members graduated line. to specially-trained Nightline last year, leading to the current There has been no attempt to staff, the disrupted service has crisis in staff numbers." publicise the fact that Nightline left many worried callers to be "Although there was a good cannot currently provide the answered by an impersonal response from new recruits at advice and support callers taped message. both LMUSU and LUU expect when they telephone. At times, Nightline staff freshers' fairs, the intensive A spokesperson for appear to forget to set the training programme necessary Nightline stressed that the lack machine, and calls are left for all new members has not of staff is a temporary problem, totally unanswered. yet finished, forcing us to use and that they will be back at The message informs callers an answering machine." he full strength soon. "The answer technical that due to added machine is unavoidable". he difficulties, the service has Students have expressed said. been interrupted. It advises criticism that Nightline, which In the meantime, students those who feel in need to call claims to offer support, is only who have any problems can the Samaritans. able to offer a sporadic service telephone the Samaritans on According to a Nightline Leeds 456 789. at certain times of the year. Plc: Saul Vault Back from the dead Faulty fire alarm at LUU faulty fire alarm is not system of flashing lights to be of his devoted family, has he victim of a near fatal endangering students in By David Smith implemented in the RH Evans By Jim Turner recovered to a point where he is A 1 accident has fought a six the Leeds University Union and OSA Lounges, to actually driving again. He says week coma to become a student building, according to LUU sure that everybody is out of overcome the risk to students' Kevin's condition deteriorated to that he feels "marvellous", in Leeds, despite losing all Financial Affairs Secretary, the building within seven or safety. a point where it seemed he although he admits that he is memories and communication Elliot Reuben. eight minutes." The alarm has gone off because would die. Doctors predicted that lucky to be alive. faculties. Since its installation during The alarm is not connected its smoke sensors have Kevin added: "Everyone Kevin Hopkins suffered he only had hours to live. the summer holidays, the to the West Wing. making it activated too rapidly, reacting For three months after stood by me brilliantly...if it was terrible head injuries when he alarm has mistakenly gone off extremely difficult to hear in to cigarette smoke in the late regaining consciousness he could not for my family and the head lost control of his family's on four occasions, causing that area of the Union evening. Only from 2am should not even remember who his injuries service I would not be Vauxhall Astra GTE on his way disruption to various evening building. At the moment, in the the detectors be sensitive to family were. But Kevin fought able to walk or talk and would home from school last year, events. event of a fire alarm, bar staff smoke rather than fire. back against his injuries, and still be a mess." smashing the powerful car into a "Obviously some people and members of Exec are "Like any totally new following months of intensive Now Kevin is fit and well and tree. He was admitted to LGI, could begin to view it in an forced to run to the wing and system, there are bound to be therapy has now regained both studying a business and finance where his family kept an alarm-that-cried-wolf light," clear it themselves. snags to start off with," his memory and communication course at Leeds Park Lane agonised vigil at his bedside. Reuben said, "but Security will Reuben promised that this Reuben said, "but normal skills. Now Kevin, with the help College. Twice during the six weeks, not. So far they have made problem will be rectified with a service will be resumed as soon Uni buys local school NUS take stance on anti-fascism eeds University has agreed was not politically principle to acquire By John Revill A nti-fascism is now firmly demonstration may have been rights and LLin motivated. And we want to Leeds Grammar School's three ...back on the NUS agenda Vincenzo Pelosi mis-timed, and a direct affront Stress that the NUS' anti-fascist city centre sites - the senior move to a modern purpose following an outbreak of far- to the government's insistence stance will not be abandoned school in Moorland Road, the built school and it will allow right activity on campuses. BNP's East London that the NUS abandon its as a result of the proposed Junior School in Clarendon the University to develop its NUS officials maintain that headquarters which took place political role. NUS reforms." road and the playing fields at main campus". universities are being targeted last Saturday. This is underlined by But Gerald Hartup, director The VC Professor alan by fascist recruitment officers Jim Murphy, President of current Government policy Lawnswood - in return for a of the right-wing Freedom phased cash payment and wilson said, from various right-wing NUS Scotland, and coordinator which bans student unions from using union funds - which Association, maintained that University land In Alwoodley. "The possibility of groups, following the BNP's of the event, said: "Such action political success in Millwall. provides a vitally needed is in reality the money of such national campaigns are The announcement acquiring purpose new simply counter-productive. property adjacent to our A "diary against facism" response to what is a growing every student on campus - to yesterday followed weeks of "Although the campaigns speculation and rumour. campus is a marvellous has been distributed to the trend in racial intolerance both engage in political action. student unions of both Leeds on and off the university However, Murphy claimed: are legitimate, NUS would be A university spokesperson opportunity for the University wise to ensure it's not hijacked - too good a chance to miss" universities, listing all NUS- campus," "The act of anti-fascism was said, "The proposed deal will by rock-throwing be of benefit to both parties. It Leeds Student will bring a supported events. The first Murphy admitted, justifiable. Saturday's march was about protecting equal demonstrators". will allow the Grammar to full report next week. event was a march past the however, that the

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 News

OFF CAMPUS Locals trash TASC bash MENSIilnegpost t least 20 youths from arrived simply looking to: forcing at least 100 students Students at TASC have the Horsfield area "have a fight and to smash By Antony Denny to evacuate the building. expressed fear that the next OR' - attack may be much more Aran amok last week up windows". This is not the first time after gatecrashing a student The youths began their gatecrashers had escaped. that such an attack has serious. IFT1111P11 party at Trinity and All rampage after managing to They left behind them occurred. The College is said Police have arrested a 17- Saints College. The gain entry to a party held by considerable damage; one to be a frequent target; the year old youth in connection disturbance again raises the college's football club. youth was seen using a chair most recent occasion came with the disturbance. He has doubts over security at the Police were eventually to smash windows, and an the previous week when been bailed pending an Roll over Buzby college. called by Union officials just outside light was ripped some of the same men had appearance before Leeds Shaken witnesses claim after midnight, but not down. As they left, the gained admittance to the Youth court on November An old English sheepdog trapped by a that the gatecrashers had before most of the Union fire alarm was set off, Freshers party. Fifteenth phone cable saved her own skin - by dialling 999. The operator who answered the call Handbooks got no response but traced the call to Altarnun, Cornwall. PC Bob Harley Puking broke into the house and found Sheba Strictly ballroom late as usual the dog tangled in the phone wire. Owner Tony Lyne said:"She must festival By John Revill have got her leg caught in the flex, By Nick Curtis-Riley pulled the phone off the hook and he Leeds University dialled 999 with her nose. She obviously By Zoe James (-Inc of Leeds University's TUnion handbooks are needed help." 4...... /most popular societies, late again. his year's Rag Beer Ballroom Dancing. is having The handy guides were Not so randy Tfestival was marred, or problems recruiting enough due to be available on some might say improved, blokes. Although membership Friday afternoon, but now Plastic randy rocker Cher has confessed by incidents of drunken stands at 320, there are only the time of their arrival is to not having had sex for nearly two debauchery and vomiting. 100 or so men, a situation uncertain. years. According to Myles treasurer Natalie Cole puts Chris Westwood, LUU The 47 year-old singer made her Bremner, Rag Sabbatical, down to a severely un-macho Administration Secretary admission to 'Good Morning' viewers Friday's event was a: image. said: "The printers have after Richard and Judy asked if her "resounding success", Two third year Politics been crap. They were due to weight gain was because she was raising £1,900 for charity. students expressed an interest come out on Friday but pregnant. However, Faye Brown, in learning, but could not didn't." Cher retorted: "If I'm pregnant then it second year Politics student persuade any males to partner "They then said they is the immaculate conception. I haven't at Leeds University, said: them. Another keen debutante would be done and delivered been with anyone for nearly two years "During the 'Yard of Ale' had joined, but found that by on Monday. This didn't so if I am pregnant, I'm going to make competition people were six o'clock, her partner was happen either. I have been some news!" repeatedly throwing up into rarely in a condition to dance. 'phoning them ever since." buckets and then continuing Duncan Frost, third year he added. Carrot Evans to drink." Nick Wilde, a Psychology, said "After a hard "I do not know what the second year Economics and day at the office; legging it problem has been and I just A top London agency looking for a Big Politics student said: "It was around the dancefloor is too don't know when they will Breakfast Chris Evans lookalike completely disgusting. It put much like hard work." come out." attracted just one applicant - a carrot! me right off my pint of Others were more positive The guide, which contains Ray Whiting of Derek's Doubles, Brewer's Droop'. however, Tony Rhodes said details of welfare, health, based in South East London, says he Bremner dismissed this "I'm more keen now I know and sport has proved received the carrot in the post. saying: "Everyone who does about the female/male ratio." invaluable to Freshers in the Said Ray, "It may be the work of a the yard of ale throws up". Men interested in joining past. This year, however, as joker but the carrot's a damn good The winner of the are urged to contact Natalie last year, the late arrival of likeness." competition and the barrel Cole, or see the Ballroom the handbooks renders them of cider prize was Alex society noticeboard. Both useless. By now 1st years A mars a day Evans, with an amazing Leeds University and LMU have worked it out for time of 24 seconds. students are welcome. Plc: Ballroom soc. themselves. A sweet-toothed gang this week nicked over 230,000 Mars bars, together worth a total of £36.000. The raiders hitched a Leeds Metropolitan University truck to a trailer containing the Sentinel Towers complaint chocolate at the Mars factory in Slough. Student Union Berkshire. A Detective said, "They're A ngry residents at Sentinel students have already been probably feeling a bit sick. ...TowersA have stepped up By David Smith living there for a couple of their campaign for improved weeks, and so deserve quite a MARCH & RALLY Deja Vu accommodation by compiling incident a resident was lot of recompense." a detailed petition. allegedly dragged out of a Mr Potter said: "We have Organised by Manchester Area National Union of Students A not-so-cunning trickster was caught The document demands a nearby phone-box, beaten and reacted as quickly as possible. out when he tried to use a stolen credit reduction in rent and a quick robbed. Everything that can be done is card in a supermarket - which belonged solution to the Leeds Advertised as being being done," he said. March, leaving at 12.30, Wed 3rd Nov to the cashier serving him. University building's much- situated in a 'prime real estate'. "It is a new building, which She raised the alarm to nab Adam publicised teething troubles. the multi-million pound the University took over just From All Saints Park Oxford Rd Russell, of Ramsgate, who claimed he It sets out an extensive list development's surroundings one day before students Rally speakers Include: had bought the card in a pub. He got of students' complaints, stating include: "disused warehouses, moved in. There wasn't time 120 hours community service. that: "Rodents were observed factories, three nearby to find all the things that have Kevin Sexton(NUS) on several floors; there have motorways and an RSPCA gone wrong." Mr Potter also Deja Vu ? been several major floods in dogs' home". stated that everyone at Andy Dixon (NUT) the building; and unauthorised Carl Potter. Director of Sentinel Towers, where the Eddie Newman (Euro MP) Tipsy bank clerk Brenda Galvin persons have been found in Residential and Commercial rent is £50 a week, had gone sparked a massive robbery scare after kitchens and bathrooms." Services, said: "The residents there of their own choice. Terry Lloyd (MP) she left the front door of Barclays Bank The petition tells some will receive financial However, a first year open. Police with dogs raced round to startling stories of life at the compensation, although the student, who wishes to remain the branch at St Helier in Jersey when a Towers. A girl was followed final figure has not yet been anonymous, told Leeds Subsidised transport at £3 per student. Ask at worried neighbour called 999. They by a drunken vagrant who decided." Student: "Although I get a full the Exec offices at City & Becketts Campuses found a massive party in full swing. attempted to assault her. The But LUU Welfare grant I can't afford the rent official security could not be Secretary Ceri Nursaw said and this is the only SUPPORT YOUR STUDENTS UNION Compiled by Claudia J. Brown. contacted as there are no that she was not entirely accommodation that the operational phones in the satisfied with the amounts university offered me." AGAINST GOVT REFORMS building. And in another being discussed: "These See Page 2

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 The London Demo

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By now some of the Leeds presence, some 7,000, the people hidden agenda and using the EYEWITNESS Nearly four hundred Leeds Students were students had found their way to who were just out for trouble, black experience of racism to caught up in the violence at Saturday's anti- the front. Goodall described the had a field day. Emotions were promote it. 4 4We had been expecting a fascist demo in London. Leeds Student scene: "There was a range of running high. Demonstrators "I had white people coming peaceful demonstration but people at the front. Some were were heard shouting, 'The police up to me telling me what racism from the beginning, the examined the events that led to the worst left-wing extremists, in killed Joy Gardner' and 'Can was and not prepared to listen to police made their presence felt. social disorder since the 1989 Poll Tax riots. balaclavas, urging the crowd to anyone see a black policeman.' what I had to say from personal The police had blocked the road fight, but most people just The police were taunting us. I experience. The Missionary to the BNP HQ up ahead, and began as a peaceful other, but it was really enjoyable. weren't listening. The police just saw a group of white Effect: 'We know what we want they made several attempts to 'demonstrationI of anti-fascist Until we hit that blockade. started pushing into the crowd, demonstrators shouting at some and we will do it for you.' The push us away from the front of 'unity'. It ended in violence, "The police were sitting on horses were stampeding. People black people to break the police only people who can do anything the march. But they had also chaos and disorder. the top of their horses, ready to were throwing bricks at the lines and march on the BNP are the people who are blocked the back of the march For nearly 400 Leeds students pounce, riot gear at hand. They police." headquarters. It was outrageous." oppressed. behind us. We were trapped in the aim had been to protest were being taunted by the crowd. Leeds based Socialist It was during these clashes "The hidden agenda was to between.No one could see what against the recent election The blockade was about 150 Workers Party steward Brian that a black police officer was beat the police up and put was going on. As the back of the victory of the BNP in Tower yards from the BNP head- Richardson said: "It was attacked by protesters. Constable forward their own ideologies. I'm march moved forward the front Hamlets and to demand the quarters - so close that people incredibly scary. The BNP were Leslie Turner said: "They went not saying everyone was had nowhere to go other than closure of its headquarters. More were getting frustrated. And the behind police lines taunting.us. I at me time and time again for the involved. But the people who over a ten foot wall and into the than 25,000 attended the march, only way to return to the coaches was trying to stop people colour of my skin, calling me were running the demo were park. estimated to be the biggest anti- - without going the long way throwing things but the police 'traitor' and 'scum'. I was politicised.The SWP have hi- Then we saw police horses racist demonstration since the round - involved getting past the just charged in. We were trapped frightened for my life." jacked the cause of racism to charge into the increasingly 1970s. blockade. We felt trapped and in a small road. The only way It was this incident that led to further their political cause. I dense crowd.We wanted to get Organisers had planned to angry." out was to climb over the allegations by Metropolitan think it has had a negative effect. away from the trouble, so we protest outside the unofficial The march halted at the cemetery wall. The pressure built Police Commissioner, Paul And the backlash will be on moved to the side of the park, BNP headquarters in Bexley, blockade for two hours as up and the wall collapsed." Condon, that the march had been black people. hack onto the police designated however, in the preceding days demonstrators argued with Police fought pitched battles taken over by extremists: "They "The majority of people who route. Suddenly there were riot the police re-routed the march. police, asking for a delegation to with the protesters, leaving 19 are just interested in confronting were on that march can walk police running up the road to the When protesters arrived they be allowed through. officers and 41 members of the the police and causing damage." away, take off their anti-racist T- right of us so we ran to the park found their intended route With the tension mounting public needing hospital Wesley Zepherin, a black shirts, guilt trip and get on with fence to see what was going on. blocked by police. the crowd was addressed by treatment. In all there were 31 British third year student at their life.Black people live with Riot police, horses and Leeds student Tim Goodall, Holocaust survivor Leon arrests. LMU, was at the demonstration. racism every day. How can a uniformed police blocked the who was at the front of the Greenman, appealing for calm. It Louise Brooks, a LMU He also feels that the march was white person know what that is entrance to every side road. We march said: "The atmosphere was in vain. At around 3:30pm a student, claimed that the police 'hi-jacked': "The people who like? We have to live with the were physically pulled off the was peaceful. There was a group of protesters tried to break had handled the situation badly. were there were there for the actions. looks and attitudes." fence and forced along the side massive mix of people: families, through police lines. In the "The majority of the wrong reasons. I want to protest Reporting team: Matt Roper, of the park and back onto the children, all races. The Leeds ensuing violence more than 70 demonstrators were peaceful. against racist murders. But a lot Julia Oldham, Gareth Hughes road.Almost immediately riot students kept on losing each people were injured. But because of the large police of people there were following a and Claudia Brown police charged at us, truncheons being used indiscriminately. We knew we had to run, we knew we had to get out of the way. Leeds students caught up in violence We turned round and saw three riot police on top of someone in Approx 4.00pm the mud. He lay still as they Approx 12.00pm Small groups of Leeds kicked him.On our way up to the Five Coaches from 0 Leeds arrive late. Leeds students make their way rally point, maybe 300 yards to the police blockade and are further up the road we were Contingent joins the back of the caught up in the trouble charged at four or five times by march, friendly and peaceful riot police responding very atmosphere. violently to occasional stick and brick throwing, clubbing people Approx 3.30pm Approx 6.00pm repeatedly over the head like Trouble begins at police Amid the chaos Leeds 0 seals." blockade. Majority of students attempt to make Leeds University third-year Leeds students still at the back their way back to the coaches. students, Caroline Mullen and of march. A number have been injured. Ella Jenkins

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 6 Comment &Analysis "Anyway, I know that Jesus loves me" appeal to people who have meet on arriving in your new them so. idiculously happy, Yup, the man with the white been disorientated by the hall of residence. There is a constantly smiling, beard and the "interesting" loss of a relative or the embarrassingly knock at your door and that R son knows all about each of break-up of a relationship gleaming smile invites you naive... born again Christians Rupert Hamer our own personal sexualities and will cling on to anything are perhaps the most down the corridor for a "coffee and can advise us accordingly. which will help them make infuriating people you can morning". I have nothing against sense of it is utterly wrong, stumble across at university. You don't know anybody. on Friday But the They may as well be Their wide grins and You are keen to make friends Christianity. handclapping, guitar playing waving a big banner with shinning gnashersanake one and readily accept the "Let Sheffield Wednesday complacent invitation, spurred on by the seems to be talking about their latest soul-saving operation. breed appeal to people's horrible into your Life" written on it statement: "I love Jesus. And fact that the girl/boy is personal crises and how the Worse still, even if that lovely unhappiness and vulnerablity, as opposed to "Jesus Lives". Jesus loves me." Well, he incredibly good looking. "Big C" saved them. boy/girl did fancy you there is not their intellect. To convince someone by Anyway, I know Jesus would, wouldn't he. It's only about half way And then it hits you. This is no possibility of mutual loves me. I don't need some Oddly enough they seem through your second cup that the God-squad and it seems gratification. rational argument is wholely beardy weirdy telling me so. to be the first people you you realise that everyone they have you in mind for their And why? Because God told worthwhile and healthy. To Your democratic vote; use it enough people felt strongly at (E DIARY Dear Editor, Union whereby students make chance to have their voice the time that they wanted that With reference to last week's decisions that affect students. heard. particular newspaper to be comments regarding "The They are not a hand-picked Policies made at OGMs such as taken off the Union shelves. Following last .year's journalists. Following the Sun" newspaper, I too believe bunch of people that inflict the "Sun" ban, lapse Any students who feels that escapades at the Poly Bop, recent stories about her that censorship is wrong, and I their views on everyone else - automatically after three years. they still cannont condone this when a couple were expense account, the Diary believe in freedom of choice for they are students that go to the This ensures that such paper's sale in their Union discovered in the heat of wonders whether Lorna individuals. meeting because they care decisions don't linger on for should submit a motion to the passion in one of the photo bought her own drinks. If the decision to ban the about the issues involved. years after the students that next OGM - through Exec by booths and promptly ejected Or whether the bill is Sun had been made - as was If the other 15,700 students actually made them have left. 5pm of the Thursday for breaching the Union's currently being filed in an claimed- by a body of don't care enough to attend It also means that OGM preceding the meeting - and let safe sex policy, the Diary NUS entertainment expenses "unrepresentative students" and put forward their feelings decisions are NOT their views on the matter be hears of yet another file along with the alledged then I would have whole- about decisions that are made, unrepresentative of the heard. distressing tale. claims her portable phone, heartedly agreed with the then they can hardly moan students at the University at At Friday's LMUSU Stomp, and driving lessons. article. about them afterwards. any time. Debbie Jones a security guard patrolling However, OGMs are the Everyone who is a registered The "Sun" was banned 3rd year Psychology the toilets was intrigued by democratic process of the student of the University has a from the Union because the strange noises coming The Diary has been intrigued from one of the male cubicles. by the photograph that appears Leaning over the top, he on the LMUSU poster A shortage of drivers ? Leeds Student Sensationlism spotted two men arranged in advertising their OGM to be a compromising position. As held today. It has been so long Dear Editor, one of these, unfortunately I Dear Editor an entirely separate and the two were allowed to since an LMUSU OGM was I was rather amazed to read in did not get the job. Congratulations to the reporter of temporary group. remain in the building - quorate that the Diary couldn't your paper last week that the hereas I have no complaint the article "security cause ruckus Door security are regular although not in the cubicle - understand why the people in women's minibus failed to about the interview and the after refec. disco". members of a team which the Diary can only assume the picture weren't wearing provide a service the weekend decision not to employ me, I Her piece was excellent - exhibits a high degree of that unlike last year's flares and shirts with pointed heterosexual couple, the two collars. Further investigations before last. If this is true, then feel quite strongly that a friend complete with genuine professionalism in exercising its men were obeying the by the Diary provided the I would like to suggest that this of mine, who filled in an eyewitness report. That is. it was considerable, yet difficult duties Union's safe sex policy. answer; the photo was actually probably had very little to do application form before me, accurate in all but one small part thoroughout the Union of each - the attribution of blame. evening. taken at a Leeds University with the unavailability of never got an interview. The article talks of "security I would have expected a little Union OGM and not at drivers. Although only 5 out of the 8 guards from Leeds University more maturity in a newspaper so Considering the comments in LMUSU. As one of the many people posts had been filled by Union". To any student of LUU, well-respected nationally as this last week's Diary about the who responded to the poster Wednesday, when he went to this conjures up a very clear one. In future, you could do spelling abilities of Guardian campaign calling for drivers enquire about his application, picture of a well-built, green t- worse than to avoid the journalists, the Diary was Whilst Leeds University aged twenty five, I feel my Liz Rouse fobbed him of never shirted member of door security. temptation to sensationalise amused to hear that, during the Union students wait patiently experience raises serious even suggesting the possibility Playing nicely on this fact, incidents in this manner at the presentation of the for the union handbook, questions regarding the of a late interview. It seems you printed just that alongside expense of people who, at the Guardian/NUS media awards, members of Exec refuse to competence of the Women's completely unforgivable for the article. What you singularly end of the day, are ordinary an informant spotted six comment on the reasons for different spellings of the word choosing the printers Officer Liz Rouse. such an important service to failed to do was make clear that students. 'university', all produced on a responsible for the long wait. It seems to me that only not run when there were either this individual, nor any of screen behind the stage in the The decision was actually people who applied for this job people willing to drive it. the team of which he is a part John Rose were involved. The two students, General Secretary Guardian type face. taken by last years Admin at the last minute received Yours faithfully, who have since been sacked, Leeds University Union Sec, Mark Dignum, who the interviews. Fortunately I was David Wiggins were part of 'Introweek' security Diary understands choose the Whilst on the subject of the particular printers in Guardian conference, the question because a rather How to pay for the right to free education Diary is reliably informed attractive rep took him out to that NUS President, Lorna lunch and chatted him up. Dear Sir, Leeds between 1984 and 1987, FREE tuition. they may not even have a job. Fitzsimon, was extremely Mark has never seen the rep I was both surprised and I was hardly a militant, but I The more students' finances Would it not be better to tired and emotional by the again and the union is still saddened to read Julia find it incomprehensible that are squeezed, the more parents take a litle more away from time she made her speech to waiting to see the handbooks. Oldham's report in Leeds today's students treat this so have to pay, the fewer people those who can afford to pay, eg the mass of student Student regarding the attitude highly benignly. from less wealthy families who middle class parents whose of students towards tuition It is my view that at 18, get the chance to go to children are about to go to fees. every individual should have university. Is this not the university, amongst others, to Why is it that some form of the right to be financially reality? give back freedom to all young The Editor student contributions to independent of their parents, I cannot understand why people to make the most of Leeds Student university fees are considered whether they choose to take a any student would prefer a their abilities. inevitable to pay for increasing job or go into higher graduate tax to an increase in Is this not what student Leeds University Union numbers in higher education? education. general income tax. The politics should be standing for? P.O Box 157 Does nobody believe that This is the best way of graduate tax will hit people Leeds LS1 1UH education should be free any ensuring equal opportunities. very hard in their first few Dave Milne Letters should be addressed to the Editor and clearly marked for more? To do this requires a grant, not years after university, when Research Fellow publication. The Editor reserves the right to edit letters. The deadline As an undergraduate in a loan!, however small, and their earnings are lower and for letters is the Tuesday preceeding publication.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 Comment &Analysis "The failure of the left to to truly understand racism"

hilst the police and brutality and get on with on the left, and particuarly organisers of last solutions. their lives. However for the the Socialist Workers Party, weeks anti-fascism Yet again another W real victims of racism nothing are using racism to further section of the British left demonstration have spent the had changed. If anything it their own ideology. has become dominated by week blaming each other for had got worse. The OGM at Leeds those who have no the violence on Saturday; the It's easy to be brave when University Union on Tuesday connection with those they real victims of racism have you are among a crowd of the backlash from Saturday's their actions on those people. was a perfect example. Three claim to represent.For the been forgorteen. 50,000 anti-facists, not so easy demonstration. Reports of black different factions of the left left to fight racism, or The majority of the when you are a lone Bengali The problem is that in the demonstrators being lectured spent over fourty minutes indeed fight for socialism, demonstrators at Saturday's leaving on a run-down fight for recognition as the on what racism is really arguing about which group the majority of its leaders march could return home; council estate on the Isle of leading anti-racist group, the about and black police had the 'right' to represent must have experinced the remove their Anti Nazi Dogs. But it's not the left have forgeteen about the officers being targeted for the oppresed, and only a few oppresion and reality of League badges, impress their demonstrator, but the lone people that they claim to be physical and verbal abuse, minutes discussing the causes being black or working friends with tales of police fighting for and the effect of reinforces the view that many Bengali who will experince of racism; and therefore the class in Britain today. United we stand, divided we fall? SP:DTLIGHT

As well as fighting the rise of racism in the United Kingdom the different anti-fascist groups have been busy fighting each other. Richard Fletcher examined the funding and support of various groups.

he venom of anti-fascist Youth Against Racism in groups over the last few Europe. Tweeks has been directed A favourite tactic of YRE not only at the racists but at has been to 'infiltrate' the BNP each other. This war of words from within. Small groups of climaxed last friday; the day YRE members, mostly before two separate anti- skinheads in appearance, rascist demos. infiltrate BNP gatherings by While the Unity demo in claiming to be supporters. South London, organised by They use this access to attack the Anti-Nazi League and hard core BNP members. Youth Against Racism in This tactic was seen four Europe, ended in violence; the weeks ago during a picket of a smaller Anti-Racist Alliance BNP newspaper stand in Brick demo ended peacefully in Lane. The BNP sellers were Trafalgar Square. quickly joined by a group of The main anti-racist group, around 20 skinheads dressed the Anti-Nazi League, is often in bomber jackets and Doc accused of being a front for marten boots. The group, the Socialist Workers Party. chanting "Rule Britannia" little adventure for a bunch of importance of black self- Revolutionary communist council. In a similar vein, Youth and giving Nazi salutes, were white liberals." said ARA leadership, claiming that all party, WAR is anti-state and A spokesperson for WAR Against Racism in Europe is allowed by the police to join other groups have agendas anti-government. They claim said: "Both the ANL and accused of being a front for their BNP colleagues. spokesman Jim Blumelha. However the biggest other than anti-racism. not to be obsessed with the ARA look to the system and Militant. These and the more Moments later the group, division between the groups is "We will not line up behind BNP and choose to focus on politicians to oppose racism, 'mainstream' Anti Racist actually members of YRE and the white left and be told what specific issues instead. WAR believes that those Alliance, have very little in not the BNP, turned on the on the issue of race. The ARA to do any longer," Blumelha WAR are more concerned politicians are to blame and common. In fact it's very hard BNP paper sellers, attacking professes to be the only black led anti racist group stresses. with institutionalised racism at have no place in the fight to find anything that they them and chasing them down The ARA was formed in Far left group Workers both local and national level, against racism." agree on. Brick Lane. 1991 by black political Against Racism (WAR) rejects recently defending Bengali Whatever the beliefs and The divisions are Although the YRE boast of activists fed up with so-called the action of other anti-racist families on two estates in tactics involved, all the anti- highlighted by the different the success of their operation, left-wing, equal rights groups groups in attempting to Tower Hamlets. They were racist groups agree that tactics of the groups. The the ARA are critical. "You with no regard for the achieve equality through the also involved in exposing the racial attacks, and racism in Anti-Racist Alliance rejects don't eradicate racism by importance of racism as an state. 'apartheid' housing policy of general is on the increase, the actions of its opponents, having a little operation issue. They stress the Funded by the the Labour and Lib Dem run and must be combated. and is particularly critical of against the BNP. It's just a

Dear Editor. intimidate the marchers. Their intent on disrupting the headquarters is proof that The unity demonstration on presence cost a total of half a dmonstration. neither the police nor the state Saturday to close down the BNP million pounds. London Demo Letter On another occasion recently can be relied upon to fight need headquarters attracting over Despite the route of when Nazis marched passed the racism. It is clear that we 60,000 anti-fascists was the Saturday's demonstrationbeing mounted police and baton families of those such as Rolan spot where Stephen Lawrence a movement that not only fights against fascism but also largest anti-nazi demonstration planned four months ago, the charges. Adams murdered in recent racist was murdered, the police made takes on the broader struggle since the late 1970s. police decision to reroute it was Contrary to media coverage, attacks. The aims of the march no attempt to disrupt their against the system that creates It was frustrating to see such only announced a few days those demonstrators heading the were clear from the outset and action. the conditions which breed a positive and determined march before. march were not a mindless the openess of the organisers The fact that a small group of facism. end up with police incited When demonstrators minoritybent on violence but towards the police illustrates the Nazi thugs can march in glory of Steven Parry violence. The presence of over attempted to march on either the consisted of Holocaust violence was in no way intended a racist murder whilst 60.000 anti-nazis are denied their right Ann Brown 7,000 riot-police was original route or the alternative survivors, members of the Indian and all responsibility rests firmly BNP (SWSS) deliberately intended to police route, they were met by Workers Association and the with the police who turned up to march passed the

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 Arts Gardens Of Delight Caulkin and other over-paid super-moppets to shame by The Secret Garden turning in the kind of performances most directors can only dream about obtaining from actors of any age. MGM Cinema Jonothan Lynch ('Cal'), as a slender and waifish Lord Craven, gives the more sympathetic of the two adult roles chingly beautiful and so close to perfect that it an unexpectedly delicious pathos, his own childlike figure would give Black Beauty a run for her money, this adding emphasis to the similarity of his own bereaved Afilm defeats your capacity to be hostile. It is a predicament to that of his two young relations. And faithful adaption of a children's classic, directed by one of Maggie Smith, as the power-gaming Mrs Medlock, the brightest and most sensitive film-makers of her housekeeper and officious obstacle between the children generation, and it is a fragile and terrible thing to behold. and their delightful autonomy, is playing essentially the Francis Hodgson Burnett's novel tells the story of same role as she did with cousin Charlotte in "Room with a an imperious ten year old who is orphaned in colonial View", but with greater aplomb and more humour. India and sent to live under the protection of her However, "The Secret Garden" is a great deal hunchbacked uncle on a vast estate in the Yorkshire more than the sum of its constituent roles, since it carries moors. Her existence is as lonely in England as it was in metaphor effortlessly to a point where the India until she discovers a garden, rich in the kind of cinematography, script and soundtrack are mutually beauty and mystery of which childhood would, in a inseparable as an expression of thre film's meaning. It is an perfect world, be composed. Her resulting emotional articulation of a hope for redemption through other growth is echoed by the onset of spring in her secret people, and also an amazing example of costume drama garden which, together with Dickon, a well-adjusted and from a director whose personal unfamiliarity with green-fingered local boy, and Colin, her cousin and only England has detracted nothing from the accuracy of her competition in the selfish stakes, she tends whilst it sense of time and place. blooms into an Eden shared only by them. You must go and see this film, since if you do not Agnieszka Holland has taken what is, for good you will one day be unable to share it with your own reason, one of the best-loved children's books and cast a children. cinematic spell with it. Kate Maberly, as Mary Lennox, and the other three young members of the cast put Macaulay Emma Hartley

least one of the actors wasn't disabled and ultimately futile against the backdrop of Unemployment/112th there was a real smack of tokenism even as hatred and loyalties which surround him. True Romance stereotypes were attacked, Running these two Cal is an ordinary person longing for Odeon Cinema Art Gallery together was an odd choice indeed. Next to a quiet life, someone to love, a job - but these nobody came, which makes the question of luxuries are denied him for the simple reason rue Romance combines the style of is is not everybody's idea of a great night who these films are for and what effect they that in Northern Ireland it is impossible to Reservoir Dogs and a catalogue of pop rut. A documentary double bill is brave are supposed to achieve annoyingly poignant. remain neutral. This is a low-key film; it makes T programming: the film festival must have its point much less sensationally than Angel, culture from Elvis to Spiderman via expected something more than an audience of Stuart Davies. but the unglamorous nature of its hero and the Streetfighter 2 with an ease that will see this five plus the film-makers, but still. simple but poignant unravelling of the plot film become a classic. The actual cast itself are Unemployment, the first film, is not so Angel/Cal make it melancholy and very touching. as bound up in the mind of the socially much documentary as agit prop theatre Rea Podas inadequate Clarence (Christian Slater) as the transferred to the big screen. It turns several MGM comic shop he works in. Hopper, Walken, character studies into victims of the system Oldman and Pitt all play characters of cartoon and explores their problems as they encounter 6 cEvervbody's guilty" the hero is told in this The Bruce Lee Story depth thus ensuring that they needn't lose the the State. The cameos are piled on via poetry, .12.,Neil Jordan film, and we tend to believe cult cool and camp schmaltz status they have rap and even song. Inevitably it all collapses him. Angel is centred on a Belfast sax-player's MGM in reality. If Clarence could make a film he But "I am" is the only signifier you need to get attempt to avenge the meaningless sectarian Don't be fooled into thinking that this is is a would make True Romance, it is kitsch chic by back on the tracks: "just be yourself" the only killing of a deaf and dumb young woman. low budget Kung Fu movie. This is pure numbers and it works beautifully. creed. Innocence, in the form of the silent girl and the Hollywood gloss. Clarence and his prostitute wife Although I admire the film-makers music, is destroyed, having been set against Essentially split in two parts, the Alabama (Arquette) are charming outsiders for braving new-ish territory and promoting protection rackets, corrupt policemen and gory beginning scenes in Hong Kong allow the who run away to Hollywood with a stolen low budget cinema, I found the repetition of deaths. "She was beautiful", the hero keeps audience the expectation of a light-hearted suitcase of cocaine, but the mafia, quite ideas, imagery and information stultifying repeating, unable to make sense of a senseless look at Lee's life. However when Lee reaches naturally, want their merchandise back. The instead of enlightening. Aiming at a large muder. The futility and absurdity of the America it transforms into an inter-racial love plot is a comfortably familiar love story of market, they lose cohesion: and attempts at situation transform his personality, turning story only hinting at Lee's philosophy which screwball twists and slapstick gags. The injecting humour were reductive, making me him into an obsessive "avenging angel" bent on gave him the inner depth the film seems to be acceptable Hollywood star vehicle is taken and wonder what reaction the producers hoped to revenge. lacking. slighty warped in order to achieve a freshness achieve and from whom. As the hero's sanity crumbles further Jason Scott Lee's beautifully sculpted without resorting to tired cult absurdity. The With 112th and Central (seen through and further, the film spirals into surrealism, body and facial contortions should not divert story may be the staple tale of ingenuous kids the eves of children) we are firmly in towards an ending which combines religious attention from the artistically choreographed in the underworld, but these newly weds have documentary territory. However the imagery and film-noir-type revelations; a boy fight scenes. The strange vocalizations emitted incomparable street sass. They hide their differences between this film and Panorama who works miracles and a bent cop are swirled from Scott Lee's mouth sound more like a inexperience behind the influence of their are stark. A collection of interviews lead us together in a plot which descends into the strangled hamster than a Kung-Fu legend. through stories that are personal as well as absurdity which generated the killings. The idols; Clarence's sporadically psycotic However those of you familiar with Bruce Lee pertinent, an example to all those directors loneliness of the individual as he tries to make behaviour is stolen straight from Dennis movies would not find them as hilarious as the who opt for "power interviews" with the heads sense of the destruction surrounding him, the Hopper's back catalogue. rest of us philistines. of corporations. transient consolations of nightlife and the True Romance is no more violent The demon dreams Lee experiences As a production it sprawls, passing search for love - all typical Neil Jordan themes- then it is violently romantic. Where Reservoir that edge towards vaguely hallucinogenic from the trial of Rodney King to the are beautifully worked together in this portrait Dogs had a boys own quality to it that added references conveys a supernatural air within subsequent riots and back; through family of a man and his society's descent into an empty desperation to the violence, True the film. Watch out for the magnificent dream histories anda peace treaty between two local mindless violence. Romance has the warmth and delicacy of true sequence that occurs within the filming of gangs (the Bloods and the Kripps). Yet Cal is ultimately the story of a young love at its core. In this film all the violence is Enter The Dragon. With Lee given all the best somehow a coherence is maintained. The man's unsuccessful attempt to escape the perpetuated by the bad guys against the lines, his wife, Linda (Holly) seem stuck image quality jumps, sound is often appaling vicious cycle of hatred in Northern Ireland. A lovers. The inspired direction of Tony Scott amidst the twilight zone of daytime soap and the camerawork is of dubious quality: Catholic living in a Protestant neighbourhood, gives a romantic sheen last seen in Days of opera and TV movie. Unfortunately a rather major blunders in the world of broadcast Cal is harassed not only by Unionists (who Thunder and here dawbed all over Tarantino's dire subplot of a kung-fu enemy and family documentary. beat him up and burn down his home), but vengeance detracts from what is in essence a vision of the coolest couple alive. True None of which matters because also by fellow Catholics who emotionally fairly good and entertaining film, not about Romance deserves to be recognised as a unlike Unemployment this film actually touched blackmail him into joining IRA activities. Cal's Lee's death but his life. landmark fusion of style and box office appeal a middle class film reviewer with it's love affair with a young widow and his for it is the funniest violent comedy romance surprising self honesty. In Unemployment two progress in his new job, both attempts to break Sharon Wagner you will see this year. of the characters are wheelchair bound but at free from his old life, are very moving but and Jo Bean Alex Sanders

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Arts 9 Seemingly The Cement Garden Hyde Park Picture House

he plot of this memorable tale should be as follows: Jack is turning sixteen, Stuck T searching his way blindly through his developing, confused sexuality. His father has announcing T-shirt. In the first half of the film, just died while laying a cement garden; his Jack's sexual interest in her is portrayed with mother is increasingly ill. Intimidated by his the panache of a Carry On film, devoid of any older sister Julie, and detached from his subtlety. In a key scene, when the children younger siblings Lucy and Tom, Jack celebrate Jack's birthday at their mother's withdraws into his self as the unbearably hot bedside, Julie performs a handstand, revealing summer crawls past. her pants to Jack's amorous eye. Birkin Until his mother dies. Like a perverse transforms an electric moment into an excuse Blue Lagoon, Jack is left moribund with his for a quick laugh, grossly exaggerating Jack's siblings to fend alone. Do they decide to give confusion. For a film about incest, it is their mother a decent funeral? Oh no. Rather incredibly uncomfortable with its major theme, than risk the social services, the children bury preferring a sneer before sensitive insight the body in a trunk of cement in the cellar. As every time. the household mutates into a parody of It does get better. The later scenes, domestic bliss, Jack and Julie find themselves portraying young Tom's cross-dressing and slipping into an incestuous relationship which the arrival of the intrusive Derek, do conjure a other and determining their lives for even Julie's boyfriend Derek can do little to sense of the dreamscape the characters now interrupt. themselves. As one asserted, the world should seem to inhabit. The final image, of blue Last Call At Maud's police-car flashlights illuminating the coupling be run by post-menopausal women. With one Ian McEwan's novel, from which this bodies of Julie and Jack, is just as powerful as Art Gallery notable exception of course. film is stolen, is an hypnotic, sensitive exploration of sexual and social roles. Andrew on the page. But, ultimately, nothing has been -Flo not presume'. These words were on the Joanna Dossetor Birkin's movie converts it into a dirty little tale gained by transfering it to the screen. Why did L./Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Society's of sibling bed-hopping. The camera leers over Birkin bother? It may be of interest to some, it posters last term. Lesbian stereotypes tend to the scenario with the interest of a voyeur. Julie, may even be entertaining to others, but it is be limited - short hair of course, a masculine The Wedding Banquet played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, is rarely seen definitely not The Cement Garden. appearance, comfy shoes and the stigma of a Hyde Park Picture House wearing nothing but a micro-skirt and nipple- John McLeod sexuality marginalised in society. How he Wedding Banquet is a comedy that important then for lesbians to have a place of Ttackles some very serious issues. The plot difficult and unique task, and just because he their own to go to and be whoever they want centres around a young gay New-Yorker of doesn't succeed entirely, doesnat mean he has to be, and for twenty three years in San Taiwanese origin, whose decision to marry a failed. Go to Night On Earth, and you will be, Fransisco, Maud's was the place for women to compatriot is brought about purely by as I was, well entertained, seeing, at the worst, be around women. practical considerations. As the man's a set of short stories unlike any picture you Last Call at Maud's explores the bar's delighted relatives arrive from Taiwan for the have seen before history in documentary style, juxtaposing wedding and the banquet, the young man, his Martin Cole personal histories with details of the political white lover and the bride-to-be go into great, background from the fifties to the late eighties. very funny attempts to ensure that all runs The pace of change seemed dramatic, smoothly and no suspicions are aroused. All La Fine De L'Air particularly in individual lives where one goes well until a "lovers' tiff' breaks out - photo would show the demure 1950's fembot, between the two men. Odeon Cinema and another would illustrate a more complex The film illustrates the cultural A tmospheric lighting, moody shots of rain- self expression. conflict between the Chinese element and its washed streets, poignant music and a There was unpredictability and American surroundings: ritual, formality and Night On Earth poetic melancholy - the quintessential danger even, in being a lesbian in the 1960s discreetness are placed above personal ingredients of French cinema. None of them and 1970s, when police would raid bars and Hyde Park Picture House attitudes and considerations. When the young are in La le De L'Air. What we get instead is papers would encourage 'queer-bashing' man's lover presents his parents with an anti- a tawdry tale Of armed robbers, of prison and hysteria. Maud's was an exciting place where risply written and directed by Jim ageing cream and a blood pressure monitor, the desire for escape, all shot in a decidedly unexpected things could happen, in an CJarmusch, Night On Earth winds its way they are met with initial distaste. In a Western unatmospoheric documentary style. environment of softball matches, pool-playing, society, the individual is answerable only to around the world telling the tale of five Beatirce Dalle (yes, the one in Betty drunkenness and frequent celebration. himself; in the more traditional Chinese, he is simltaneous taxi journeys. The movie is Blue) plays a criminal's wife, and a criminal's Maud's was closing though, because part of a social fabric which cannot be essentially five seperate short stories, each sister, and ultimately a criminal herself. The 'change is the only thing that's permanent' and disrupted. "Who are we marrying for, if not for with a beginning, middle and end of its own. criminal husband (Thierry Fortineau) is a lover the eighties proved to be a difficult time our relatives?" asks the Chinese mother. As his Some work better than others (the Rome financially for the bar, perhaps due in part to parents stay on, the young man becomes journey is 20 minutes of the funniest cinema of horses and children and we're supposed to grief over AIDS and its effect on the whole gay alienated from his lover; his reluctance to ever, whereas, for example, the LA cab ride, sympathise with him. The criminal brother community. confess the truth is based on a sense of duty famously featuring Winona Ryder as driver, is (Hippolyte Giradot - yes, the one who was in In Forbidden Love (also shown as part and respect which Western culture cannot rather embarassingly predictable) but on the World Without Pity) gets a philosophy degreein of the Channel 4 Summer's Out season) understand and therefore brands submissive. whole, as five independent tales, Night On prison and we're supposed to sympathise with lesbians in Canada related their experiences of The only challenge towards the Eastern view is Earth is a roaring success. him. Dalle is initially pregnant when the police growing up and coming out, intercut with provided by the bride, who states that It's when Jarmusch gets down to raid her house to find a number of weapons scenes from the fictional romance of Mitch and husbands and children aren't actually that some amatuer moralising that he trips over his and stolen cash. They smash up the place and Laura in the style of a fifties novella about 'the important. own politically correct feet. The blind woman scare her daughter. We are not supposed to love that dare not speak its name'. The cultural and sexual identities of who doesn't let her disability get her down, the sympathise with them. For some, the double life they were the young man are intertwined, and his young Winona who is happy with her lot and I suppose that's my problem with the forced to lead was exciting; secretary by day, Chinese roots, with their strict adherence to shuns crass stardom, the German clown who film. It's advertised as a tale of the lengths that but by night hanging out in the rough lesbian heterosexuality, allow no space for his version doesn't need money - and so it goes on. I'm lovers will go to in order to be together, but underworld of fems and butches. For others, of love. Only through compromise is a sure it's possible, in some sensible and inthe end I don't feel for these people. The intelligent way to be "right on" without discrimination and hostility was less solution finally achieved: the son conforms to acting is fine, the direction proficient, but I just entertaining. Nairobi, a black singer, found her marriage in order to fulfil his parents' wishes resorting to what are, essentially, ham fisted don't care. There is never any suggestion that and obvious cliches. ability to pull before any of her male band by obtaining an heir, but at the same time his they are anything other than murderous What's more, it's with this "superficial members provoked machismo abuse from the lover is acknowledged as the person who criminals rightly convicted. Perhaps a Sartre or things don't matter" glue that Jarmusch tries to wounded, would-be studs. 'Women, women, brought him happiness. This is an excellent a Genet could have made these people matter stick his film together. Unfortunately, the five women' she intoned at one point, and the film, both thought-provoking and genuinely to me, director Maroun Bagdadi dose not. This seperate skits never really unite as a cogent discovery and love of other women was funny. It deals with culture-clash and gender was based on a true story, so, perhaps crime and believable whole. essential to the power of the experience in a subtle, sensitive way. Go see it. does pay after all However, I paint an overly bleak Mark Robson documented in this film; women valuing each Rea Podas picture. Jarmusch has set himself a very

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 10 Arts cogito Paper Chase

ollywood is famous for double-acts. Laurel and Hardy, Bonnie and HClyde, Thelma and Louise. Whether real or fictional, at some stage part of the Hollywood myth became things-in- twosomes. It's latest and most trivial of trends is the sequel. You may have noticed this. Silly sequels coming to a theatre near you soon include: Beethoven's Second and The Addams Family Values. It seems one obvious question must then be asked. Which came first - the title or the plot? Given Hollywood's current stance on repackaging art according to crass, formulaic production values, which seek to find a method and then 'disguise' it in oh- so-subtle ways, carbon copies of original insulting efforts are to be expected: although we would like to aver that Beethoven's Second would christen a symphony rather nicely. However, we thought we'd have a go at making a few suggestions of our own to those Hollywood wiseguys 1. Shitless in Seattle - sponsored by the California Sunsweet Prunes. Life Is Cheap...But Toilet Paper Is Expensive 2. The Firm 2 - aka The Floppy. 3. What's Talent Got To Do With It - the Take Hyde Park Picture House That/Kylie Minogue/Jason Donavan story. ne hopes when seeing a film called Life Is Cheap But Toilet Paper Is Expensive that it is not going to be a case of great title, shame about And of course that catchiest of the movie but in this case it seems that such fears are unfounded. Wayne Wang's film is more psuedo-documentary than feature, sort of catchy titles: a demented Holiday 93 does Hong Kong. 4. In The Line Of Fire Again - for Chrissakes, 0 It follows the exploits of an unnamed American who is on a mission to Hong Kong - last frontier of the Wild East - where he must haven't you learnt to get out of the way deliver a briefcase to the enigmatic 'Big Boss'. This set-up enables Wang to provide us with a hilarious montage of local weirdos; dance when someone's pointing a gun at you, all I instructors, prostitutes, taxi drivers and expert butchers. The travelogue style is captured perfectly. Wang's take on the stranger-in-a-strange- wanted was a nice pension and a flat in land theme comes on like David Lynch doing the Cook Report. The Spartan hotel rooms and banal tour guides are contrasted with horrific shots Benidorm, my mother told me that I should of slaughtered ducks and severed hands, for no apparent reason. Wang loses it somewhat in the second half, as the plot kicks into gear, and the have been a accountant, blah, blah ,blah... underlying Western (movie) feel takes hold. fade to black. Surely though the standout sequence is the mind-boggling chase scene. You can keep Bullit and The French Connection. Wimp Suggestions welcome, on a material. Wang's chase outdoes them all, as it is on foot. The sheer energy of the hand held POV camera will leave you breathless. postcard to Hollywood Person, If you want to know why the Chinaman killed the chicken and you've got a strong stomach, then you'll find Wayne's world hilariously Hollywoodland, Hollywood, USA. original, and quirkily entertaining. Hollywood sequels are all very Matthew Goodman. well but there also seems a desperate attempt on their part to remake as many foreign classics as possible . They are at Anchoress Akira The Miracle liberty to reinvent their own trash, but in Bradford Film Theatre Civic Theatre the process of crossing the Atlantic or Odeon Cinema going South, it seems obligatory to is director Otomo Katsuhiro's creation completely bugger up the plot. Take. for his is the debut film of Leeds Metropolitan A kira here's a kind of person who hates films ..of a feature length animation that stretches example, Nikita :- a glorious piece of French TUniversity graduate Chris Newby. The A Twhich merit adjectives like bittersweet, the possibilities of the medium into cinema that was hacked to pieces under the srory is that of a young girl living in the 14th lyrical and reflective. I'm not one of those unchartered territory. At over two hours it is name of The Assassin, with the clear century. At the age of 15 she decides, or has it people but The Miracle is one of those things. long for any film. However, Akira remains intention of warning the US public that this decided for her, to become an anchorite. It's set in a small sleepy town in was a bloodthirsty thriller. We think that Accordingly, she is walled into a stone room vital throughout, and is a fantasy of epic Ireland, creaking with nuns and prisoners. In the dreaded upcoming remake of Cinema on the side of a church for the rest of her life. proportions that may not have succeded in an attempt to alleviate the drabness, two of its Paradiso should star Pee Wee Herman, as The depiction of life outside her cell is so another medium. teenage inhabitants with literary pretensions, we hear he is very good at exposing his entirely grim that you can almost sympathise It opens with an explosion of searing Rose and Jimmy make up fantasy secret lives talent in cinemas. with her decision. Newby uses his story, white light, engulfing Tokyo; this light is for the more seemingly isolkated residents. A Akira, the result of a government experiment This brings us to the idea that which has its roots in fact, to explore issues of glamorous stranger eventually prompts some since Britain is thirsting for a hit film, they sexuality and power in a society which both that got out of control. We jump to the year genuine mystery, but when Jimmy tries to too should remake some popular classics. silences women and denies them control over 2019, into an anarchic Neo-Tokyo where Akira seduce her he discovers a link between her and For example - their own bodies. is being let loose again in the form of Tetsuo, a his supposedly widowed alcoholic father. 1.For Groundhog Day ... Hedgehog Day: the It is an ambitious film, competently subordinate member of a tough street gang, It's not always as gentle as it sounds. story of Michael Fish waking up everyday, shot. Visually it is tactile with lots of shots of who developes psychokinetic powers after a As Jimmy struggle s with past and present the predicting sunny intervals. hands touching things and the camera roving bike accident. The realisation of his powers film shows flashes of the bizarre and the 2. For The Player...The Trainspotter: lovingly over decaying surfaces. One of the awakens a thirst in Tetsuo to take his revenge frotesque in dreams and symbols which are including some cameos by the 12.52 from film's themes is the ability of a community to on a world that has not treated him kindly. occasionally clumsy alongside the subtle Kings Cross and a wonderful uncredited crush the individual. The trouble is that the A cross between Bladerunner and explorations of memory and faith. performance by the Flying Scotsman. village is depicted as being built on a vast Japanese Manga Cartoons, it has chase scenes It is however delightful in its 3. For In The Line Of Fire ...The Man Who grassy steppe, with all the dwellings out of that outdo the best modern camerawork and affectionate depiction of small-town life withb Saved John Major From A Flying Egg, what sight and miles apart. This allows for make full use of the big screen, combining this hilarious visual touches and a crisp rapport the hell did I do that for, I could have been maximum use of meaningful views of with a deep rooted paranoia. The presentation between charaters. holidaying with the wife and kids in that villagers walking off into the distance of an orderless society, where violent Mad Director Neil Jordan made this film in gorgeous flat in Benidorm, I knew I should surrounded by emptiness but it laeves one Max style gangs wreak havoc is hard to Ireland after a disappointing spell in USA and have been an accountant like my mother with no sense of the community as a body of imagine in moder Japan, and all the more it surely replenished some faith ion his ow frightening for it. told me to....blah blah blah... fade to black. power over its constituent parts. It also tipped abilties. To a sentimentalist like me its a dream the film over the edge into symbolism for it's Katsuhiro has unleashed a Titanic Jo Bean & come true:: a belief in miracles and a few years own sake. This is an intriguing and often imagination to create a world of Tolkien-like later Jordan made The Crying Game, a hatful Sharon Wagner beautiful film but not in the end one that is completeness, and in so doing brought feature of Oscar nominations and a retrospective at deeply moving. animation lightyears beyond Bambi Eleanor Rose this film festival. Juliette Garside Hannah Jones

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Books 11 Edinburgh

s a child I always dreaded the inevitable .i.momentA when one of my chums would Nights whisper conspiratorially "do you want to look at my . . . collection?" The specific objects of desire were not what worried me - the usual dodgy assemblages of key-rings, matchbox Trainspotting cars, marbles - but the general pathology Irvine Welsh (Secker & Warburg £8.99) which they implied. I wondered what these desperate monomaniacs would become. Little did I imagine they would be editors of books. hard-up student working as a waitress takes revenge on some sexist male diners by Boring your pre-pubescent pal with the mixing her bodily secretions into their food. A junky loses a leg after injecting smack exhibits of your dysfunctional personality is into a major artery. Welcome to Irvine Welsh's Edinburgh. Forget the fringe and the A one thing - printing 20,000 copies at a fiver a festival; Welsh's world is peopled with bigots, junkies, pimps and soaks. Written in rich throw is a whole different case of skewered Scottish accents, Trainspotting suggests that Edinburgh's culture is more likely to found in a butterflies. petri-dish, rather than behind the flap of a festival tent. It is a revolting yet very human world. Russell Hoban (who, co- Trainspotting has a hundred stories and many narrators. Our main guide is Mark incidentally, made a career out of boring Renton, who is helplessly addicted to heroin. Through Mark the novel depicts a dismal picture hordes of pre-pubescents with his juvenile of the city - the poverty, the violence, the rivalry between Catholics and Protestants. His fiction) wants to show his collection of addiction opens some truly revolting insights into the limits to which drugs will drive writing by . . . Russell Hoban. The eight somebody. We are forced to endure Mark injecting into his penis, and searching through his stories, fourteen essays & sketches and one own excrement for his precious opium suppositories which have been dislodged by diarrhoea. libretto in his collection, The Moment Under But perhaps most painful is the realisation that Mark knows just how bad drugs are for him, the Moment (Picador £5.99), do nothing to yet he cannot resist the initial rush as the needle penetrates the vein. His friends have little of solve that eternal question: "is he an out-of- this self-consciousness, however. Sick Boy enjoys perverted orgies with American cocaine this-world genius or an out-of-his-tree addicts at a local hotel. Johnny Swan will sell any drug to anybody if it earns him cash. Begbie loony?" Fans will love his verbal trickery, will beat up anyone that bothers him (especially June, condemned to raise his child alone). mystical insights and erudition; others may Their stories are ostensibly sad ones, portrayed very graphically. Some scenes I found be slightly puzzled by such outbursts like "the too disgusting to stomach. At times it seemed Welsh was too eager to be gratuitous in his head of Orpheus is its own body and the depictions of the physical cost of inhabiting this city. But never once did Welsh glamourise the Kraken is its great deep brother whose dark lives of his characters. Yet again, Scotland has produced a writer who asks us to have a damn mind is wild with the terror of itself." Others good look at some of the facts of that country's condition. If only England could do the same. still may simply wish he'd be happy with John McLeod Riddley Walker and be done with it. Irvine Welch - Pure brilliant, ken? Indeed, one gets the impression that this is Hoban's view, as he uses his entry in 21 Morris's themes echo those of Miller's Death of he does not merely record the lifestyle of the Authors Celebrate (Picador £4.99) to Biography of a Buick a Salesman. In fact, Miller's hero, Willy Loman, surfer, the acid head or the fashionable writer. reminisce about how he came to write such is more than hinted at in Morris's Will Lomax, Instead, he narrates his story from a point of an excellent novel. 21, as its title suggests, Bill Morris (Penguin £5.99) who finds the corporate ladder hard to climb. view only distinguishable from that of his celebrates Picador's birthday, and I can Although Morris is a competent subject by his fine ironies. This means he can genuinely think of very few birthdays I'd be he fundamental rule of fiction is to make writer, favouring the short, pithy sentence, his empathise with the haemorrhoid ridden young happier to join in. For each of its 21 years Tyour tale interesting. Not even the most story fails to engage. It drags its heels for the executive, while revealing the ridiculous and (1972-1993), a famous writer tells us what purple of prose can cover up an absence of first hundred pages, and the essence of the egocentric nature of her life. Indeed, pieces like made that year special. It's an impressive engaging and well-controlled plot. When both book is not worth waiting for. Morris makes 'The Me Decade' effectively analyse the guest list: Graham Swift (1974), Ian McEwan style and content wane, all you are left with is nothing of his many characters, merely giving American preoccupation with self in its (1976), Julian Barnes (1981), Kathy Lette lifeless literature. each one a role to play in the presentation of various manifestations. 'Jousting with Sam and (1991) and others. But, like so many coming of If Bill Morris has a tale to tell, then it the successes of the car. As a result, the book Charlie' is also rivetting in its portrayal of the age parties, the guests seem initially trips and stumbles through his narrative. Set in lacks any real life. A dull read. insanity of American fighter pilots in Vietnam. embarrassed to be there. And then, after a 1954, Biography of a Buick traces the successes of Peter Rees The important thing for Wolfe is that couple of rounds of fuzzy duck, they're telling the American car industry. It looks at the "all of this happened." Unfortunately, some of you some tale about people you've never met spying and conspiracy involved in the it happened too long ago to be interesting. The and probably have little interest in. After manufacture of America's dream automobile, Purple Decades is a retrospective collection, nodding politely and murmuring "really, no the Buick Century. Taking six main characters, which means that some of the pieces from the I've never met Andy Warhol" (Tama Morris flashes in and out of their lives and The Purple Decades early Sixties have lost any comic edge they had Janowitz, 1985), and "yeah, man, that stuff can recollections, always returning his focus to the and now seem nothing more than quaint screw you up" (Patrick McCabe, 1973), the prosperity of the car. Tom Wolfe (Picador £6.99) portraits. Also, Wolfe's essentially optimistic relief in talking to someone genuinely But Morris is mostly interested in outlook is at odds with the grim reality of interesting is intense (Clive James, 1982). If I symbols, and the Buick becomes the acceptable ollections of essays are to be regarded with America in the 90's, which he fails to address. was you, I'd stay home with a 4-pack. symbol for the affluence of mid-fifties Ccaution. Some might contain real gems by What cannot be forgiven, however, is Or else go to Liz Heron's party. Her America. He presents us with the icons and your favourite author that you missed just the absurd introduction tacked on to make this collection is well worth looking at. Streets of images of an increasingly self-confident because you don't read the right newspaper. book seem more than a crude money raising Desire (Virago, £7.99) is a celebration of 20th society. There are those we love, such as Others simply recycle ageing nonsense just to exercise. In it Wolfe is described in the same century women's writing about the city. Marylin Monroe, and those we are told to earn money without any effort. Sadly, Tom terms as Fielding, Zola and Joyce, but the Going through decade by decade, cities as distrust, like the uncharismatic President Wolfe's latest offering is even less evidence of the book cries out against such an varied as London and Lagos, Berlin and Eisenhower. There is also the underlying adventurous. Not only is there nothing fresh in offensive statement. Wolfe is a good writer - Buenos Aires are represented as they are threat of a fast-growing Nuclear development. this collection, but every single essay or extract his description of Mick Jagger's lips "hanging experienced by different women. In itself it is Morris draws parallels between the world of has already been used in one of his other off his face like giblets" is my favourite - and remarkable for the sheer vitality and D.C. politics, as viewed by the disillusioned books. his perceptions are often both witty and emotional energy of the extracts but it also hack, Moorey Caan, and that of corporate life In The Purple Decades, the ever white- intelligent. It's just that, for New Journalism, serves as a wonderful introduction to many in Detroit. The political soundbite - that what suited Wolfe creates a portrait of a changing too much of it seems to be tired and old. writers who might otherwise have passed me is good for the Buick is good for America - has America through an emphasis on Steven Ranger by: Irmgard Keun's brief appearance from an increasingly insidious resonance, as more fragmentation. His materials are the weird After Midnight was a revelation and Ingeborg and more corruption is revealed within the car subcultures and equally bizarre forms of New book reviewers are Bachmann's A Place for Coincidences should be industry. status-seeking that have evolved since the read if only for the line "In Berlin all people Biography of a Buick deals with an age Second World War. His tone is gently mocking always needed! Contact are now wrapped in greaseproof paper." Now in which that most popular of American as he examines their attitudes and aspirations. that would make an interesting collection. cliches, the American dream, thrives. Many of As the originator of New Journalism, John McLeod for details.

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Vague and Paradise Factory in Manchester serve a purpose, for he last time Eskimos and Egypt visited Leeds they played Alex Sanders met one half of this noise what ever reason a person steps into such a club they will come a disastrous show at Back to Basics with "a stage as big as network that is Eskimos and Egypt amid the out, however subconsciously, with an improved attitude. The Tthat sofa", Chris indicates a putrid pile of foam in the faded glamour of the Duchess of York to music we dance to is made by multi racial artists from vastly corner, "the PA was absolutely crap and they didn't have the discover why this band are a little different different back grounds, this is where Eskimos and Egypt could amps." But nothing's magically improved by choosing to tour from the daily Duchess fodder. come in„ "What's the depth in "Throw your hands up in the air" traditionally rock venues, for now their resident DJ, Sherman of type of lyric, it's just not us really. There's a time and a place for NME mini-fame, is virtually redundant because "indie venues those tracks. But just because you're doing don't have decks and don't accommodate dance based stuff doesn't mean it's got to DJ's". The major benefit of this trawl around be shallow." ropey haunts is a crowd who come to see It is this waywardness to the them and aren't "just into going out and definition of dance music that makes getting shit faced every week. They're not and Egypt an off beat band arsed about who the band is, they probably Eskimos whose records seldom chart and are all wouldn't even remember that there was a band on let alone who they were." They may but ignored by the music press. Yet the be over estimating the Duchess congregation band are quite righteously optimistic here but at least they cannot run and hide on about the future, " 'Perfect Disease' is our different floor like they did at the Music first album, that's how we look at it. Not actory. here's our album we managed to get one Eskimos and Egypt are lumped out. This is our first album and there's ogether with The Shamen, KLF, Sunscreem going to be another one. Just because nd the Utah Saints but the only real you're a dance band doesn't mean you imilarity between that motley bunch is their can't have a band mentality, we're constantly writing, constantly touring, onsummate willingness to straddle the harply carved boundary between rock and constantly promoting." And they are. At ance. Such a characteristic bubbles to the present they are working on new material ore on their track "GNR" and spawns this with Mark Stent, the engineer for the KLF xplanation, "We like Guns and Roses and a bit of a hero for the band and things usically, I think he's got a great voice and are constantly moving on for Eskimos and "Sweet Child Of Mine" was a great song. But it's just distressing dreadful GNR song with an offensive lyric) afterwards, so we Egypt. They deserve recognition for both bringing us some of that a guy with so much influence over people and the way redid it and put the vocal on top." the most memorable dance anthems of last year and for having they think comes out with that amount of shit. We did "GNR" Clubs have the potential to be the ideal forum for the gall to bring a DJ to the Duchess of York, it should have instrumental at first and then we heard "One in a Million" (a breaking down the prejudices of our generation. Clubs like happened years ago.

Fishbone while Lenny Kravitz sells millions. on them. publicised fondness for dub. Within the 60 Fishbone But, as they point out, they could be back in Having said all this, "Elderly Woman Behind minutes it is the sleezy/ sultry numbers which LA, punchbags for the likes of terrorists like The Counter In A Small Town" and work best while the Orb-ish ramblings, Bradford University the KKK, so perhaps being in one of the most "Indifference" see Pearl Jam getting it right. particularly the 14 minute 'Clock Factory' often upfront bands around isn't so jippy after all. Melodic, friendly and mellow songs, it is threaten to loose the plot entirely. While this ardly a more relevant time for this gig, impossible to avoid listening to them over never actually pulls it off in terms of being Hand yet the half of Bradford that should Marc Starr and over again- its just a shame I had to brilliant it succeeds handsomely in being 'quite be here seems unaware of it. But would it be a plough through the rest of this uninspiring odd' and 'very good'. In a generation where racist comment in itself to say that its the album to get to them. boys want Technics not guitars for Christmas ticket price which excludes all but the white Pearl Jam Nick Moffat and DJ's are the new pop stars elect, Andrew students who form 98% of the crowd? Weatherall has become the first pop star Pearl Jam (Epic) producer. Begone, faceless dance music. Whatever the case, Fun-Da-Mental do Sabres of Paradise well to dislodge awkwardness at having lost half a band and devote all energies to making magine the queues and riots in Harley Sabresonic (Warp) Johnny Davis the most of a chance to lambast Fascists. As IStreet if someone were to open a clinic so usual with live Hip-Hop, the DAT backing that members of the public could have their ith the requirement for discerning makes for a battle between watching band or faces remodelled to look like famous people. Wdance/trance/ambient music now backdrop, an anti-racist tool itself, mixing Brett would be there to have his jaw chiselled finding it's way into even the hardest of die vibrant African, Asian and Latin American and his hair quiffed; and so would Pearl Jam, hard guitar-kid's musical manifesto's the 'it all Ow' images. The atmosphere doesn't charge up like all desperately trying to look like Neil sounds the same' non-argument has now been it should because the strength of the sound- Young. officially laid to rest. What remains the largest bytes doesn't size up to the ardent stage and Obviously, supporting the great man prejudice against dance music today is Top Ten best sellers (LP's) screen displays. has had a big influence on the band; the probably that it is so faceless. Compiled by Matty at Crash Fishbone's presence onstage is a few sleeve picture of them closely resembles the Consciously or not, this is a truth that hundred fold weightier, and it makes them band picture on "Harvest", and the songs on Andrew Weatherall has both acknowledged that much more gripping. The sound straddles "Pearl Jam" are based on the same melodic and tackled. With Primal Scream he inherited 1 The Lemonheads Come on Feel... influences spanning half a century - the jazz of country blues style favoured by Young Bobby Gillespie, all scrawny good looks and a 2 Tindersticks Tindersticks the 50s, 60s radical funk, 70s skank styles and himself. However, even if Eddie Vedder and penchant for hedonism; the ideal star. In One 3 Pearl J am Pearl Jam all with a little 80s Hip-Hop impregnation - friends did have plastic surgery, there would Dove he has managed to assist the 90's 4 Trance Europe Express Various and yet all thrown up sweet, not as a hotch- still be no fooling me that Pearl Jam are little incarnation of the perfect 60's pop group who potch masking weak songwriting. more than the Simple Minds of grunge. The now nestle in chartland with the perfectly 60's 5 Cocteau Twins Four Calender Cafe Then there's the diversity within the songs on this album are pompous, self- pop single 'Breakdown'. The point is that 6 Transglobal Underground Dream of 100 teamsheet. Ask anyone to name any other inflated student anthem wannabees that only people crave personalities and if they can't Nations band with a rapper who touts a cornet, a sax- escape further comparisons with the Scottish have them they at least want recognisable 7 P J Harvey Four Track Demo's flaunting frontman who can sing as frantically stadium rockers because they are daring icons. Deaf, Dumb and Blind as Sly Stone ever could and an ivory-tickler enough to use distortion. As far as Neil It is fitting then that this album 8 Clawfinger who starts singing Bowie lyrics without Young comparisons are concerned, the arrives not as Andrew Weatherall The 9 Sepultura Chaos A-D warning or explanation. There'd be no reply. influence is there, but songs such as "Blood" Producer's solo album but cloaked in the 10 Red House Painters Third LP All there is after a Fishbone miss by a mile, and end up sounding like fictitious guise of Lord Sabre and his band The extravaganza is ringing ears.This second something ACDC wrote but were too Sabres Of Paradise: Weatherall choosing to encounter of band and correspondent might as ashamed to put on their last album. firmly remain Spector-like behind the mixing Crash Records: for all your home well have been the first because last year in "Rearviewmirror" is a song which will prove desks. entertainment needs. Manchester, a tank-sized sound system popular- but only with Chris Rea fans- and It would not, I think, be unfair to foolishly tackled them and got leathered. This the opening two songs "Go" and "Animal" are apply the phrases 'laid back' and 'largely 110 year's more relaxed attitude could be such ridiculous concessions to speed guitar experimental' to this record. There is also no RE•ORDS resignation at all the attention not focussed on wankery that I refuse to waste any more ink small amount of evidence of Weatherall much

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Music 13 fan's people M People Leeds Metropolitan

roudly clutching three top ten singles and a top three album, Manchester Dj Mike Pickering's M People cruise pinto Leeds sniffing the sweet smell of thoroughly deserved Martin Futrell finds some unusual success. M People have done what The Shamen did last year, and gems among this week s singles. turned a respected position on the fringes into across-the board appeal by the application of traditional pop values to hard dance THE OTHER TWO dynamics. Infectious choruses, simple tunes and a fine singer; Selfish (London) will that be a number five or six chart entry, sir? Tonight the packed crowd are warmed up effectively by New Order's quiet ones step into the spotlight Evolution and K-Klass, teams of bedroom technology boffins once more, to deliver a blast of untouchable pop. with a measure of chart success already. They play short sets of All the elements are here: Bubbling synths, thumping dance, both doing a mixture of hard, percussive experienced-girl vocals, effortless exuberance. workouts and more melodic, enticing stuff powered by a female This could be off the soundtrack to a mid 80s teen singer, and warm up the packed crowd effectively. romance flick. A song to transport you from your M People bid Leeds a good evening to throaty acclaim from this dank Leeds bedroom, to the technicolour dream of pleasingly mixed crowd, and slide into "Colour My Life" which your choice. Gorgeous. showcases a more sophisticated, jazzy approach. They utilise far more "live" instruments (bass, saxophone) than might have been ALISON MOYET expected from the pumping hits, and while this distinguishes Falling (Columbia) them from their support acts, it lowers the temperature and I'm disappointed. It gets dull for a while. But "You Just Have To Be Alison Moyet is a There" brings the beat back, dipping loosely and lithely, and the survivor. She has hits are received like hits should be, making it undoubtedly a survived the triumphant night of raised hands and dancing feet. MOR/Cover version The sassy, classy presence of Heather Small is the key. The hell that was her late magical quiver in her persuasive warm voice draws far more 80s, and returns with emotion than is usual from the love / heart / soul / life / heaven "Falling", a song that motifs the lyrics contain. restores her shattered The proud and yearning breakthrough single "How Can I Love credibility. It's the You More" is the peak. Like "One Night In Heaven" and "Moving voice you see. It first On Up", it's powered by stark beats and fine melodies, and rings hit me as a 9 year old out tonight, moving and powerful, on nodding terms with watching "Only You" perfection. This was a buoyant, celebratory night. The march of on Top Of The Pops. the M People continues apace. Over a decade later Phil Scowen she hasn't lost it. Producer Ian Broudie sprinkles a little stardust on her, and the result is magical. Buy this and "Selfish" and enrich your lives. "fascinated" by Lisa B with that sublime won't be too worried, because there are Universe Of Love vocal and react in the way you did when some corking singles on here ; " Into Your SHEEP ON DRUGS "Do what you feel" first came out. Dance Arms " is straight in to R.E.M. land ; lazy From A To H And Back Again (Island) Joey Negro (10 Records) acts have not yet managed to fully and and dreamy with all the hints of a great successfully fuse the temproary essence of tune, it falls short just enough to force Typical. The week I review the singles even the platinum on black fleeting club fashion with a permanence another listen, and another, and another. " normally reliable SoD go soft. This is basically Various (ffrr) brought by albums. Joey Negro slips down Big Gay Heart " is sublime, all country PWEI on downers, and not a patch on "15 Minutes the chasm that this contradiction creates, by twang and easy charm, its Evan's' Gram Of Fame" or "Motorbike". What's happened to the ouse used to be easy, acid house or trying to update his songs he loses what Parsons obsession shining through, but narcissism? the satire? the depravity?- the ROCK Hgarage house, we knew where we was first admired in them. there's no sadness, just sentinentality ; no AND ROLL? were. Then it all changed, multiplied like soul or pain, just bouncy easy going pop. bunnies, and got very confusing, bump Alex Sanders But You'll have to wait for the THE FAMILY CAT Springing The Atom (Dedicated) house, chicago house, tribal house, ambient release of " I'll Do It Anyway " before Evan REDD KROSS Lady In The Front Row (Quicksilver) house, intelligent house, a list of redundant once again waves his hair on Top of the labels created by style mags for consumer Come on feel... Pops, it's here that the most instant Better than I expected. Both these songs emerge junkies. Surely the only valid distinction, The Lemonheads. (East West) hookline on the LP is waiting to entwine from the indie ghetto because of great singing, however subjective, is between good music and annoy a nation of boyracers, soaring choruses and songwriting skills. I'd and bad music. You will have heard most e all know about Evan Dando don't housewives and teenys fed on " Mr Vain " previously ignored these bands because of what of "platinum on black" before, for it is a Wwe? He's a surf looking dude who and a sub-standard England side. the music press wrote. Don't believe the tripe. retrospective collection. The same could be plays guitar in a band, hangs out with But the overall picture ? said of the Joey Negro offering, his glorious chicks and uses the National Media as a Well, we know he can cut the BRYAN ADAMS anthem "Do What You Feel" was first shrink to discuss his addiction to mustard, but in such an inconsistent and Please Forgive Me (A&M) played 3 years after its original release and dangerous narcotics. He's a regular kinda frustrating manner. We can do without a sounds as good today as ever. guy. late night bar version of " Style ", or indeed Forgive you? No way Bry. Your crimes are far too But instead of just letting this track Evan's on his fourth album now, and it's a a thrash version of " Style " ; a pointless heinous to try for redemption now. This maukish stand as an uplifting house classic Joey confusing affair. He seems torn between drug reference and tuneless waste of vinyl, ballad won't help your cause much either. Sorry. Negro interferes with it in an attempt to thrashing out three minute efforts that hark and whilst Sugar and hosts of others are Next sinner please... bring it up to date for this, his first album. back to the days when he was Husker Du- entertaining those of you like your hair and But what has been done is a retrogressive Mg it with Buffalo Tom and Dinosaur Jr. , T-Shirt sleeves long, we don't need Evan's SULTANS OF PING Michiko (Rhythm King) step into Saturday Night Fever, not content and the more relaxed and refined College Rock efforts. Perhaps it's the drugs, KINGMAKER Saturday's Not What It... (Chrysalis) Tongue Tied (EMI) with compromising his sound for the songwriting direction he displayed on perhaps it's a slacker attitude, but Evan THE CAT seventies revival he misses the bandwagon 1992's " Its a Shame About Ray ". So " Dando is a talent in waiting, who could This weeks comedy records. The Sultans and anyway. Every song on this easy listening Come On.. " doesn't really [feel] (in italics) turn out to be the greatest underachiever of Kingmaker are standard Stomp fodder. Songs to album has its foundation in house music, like an Album. Its bit's and pieces pulled the nineties. If you buy this LP, get the CD, male bond to, not listen to. The Cat from Red but has been satined up to the eyeballs for together, hardly what we'd expected from because you'll skip some tracks and love an record that should have been Dwarf revisits the age old problem of not being the revival session. There was no need, some others. And you wouldn't want to able to talk to the girl you fancy. Tell me about it, listen to the tracks on "platinum on black", consolidating the sales figures of the hit " wear out your record player would you ? mate. "give it up" by The Goodmen with its Mrs Robinson " . frenzied shamanic drum sound or But the cigar-puffing executives at Warners Tim Vigon

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 14 Fo "Having seen it agaii

Andrew, a Leeds University student, uses Why? "People who knew me wont certainly view me differently iron pornography with his girlfriend as part of their sex hereafter, and people that didn't knol life. John McLeod asked him whether pornograhy me who might come across me woull very probably pre-judge me. The can play a part in a stable relationship. would assume that because of particularly activity I enjoyed I was bad person. The illusion of pornograph I had arranged to meet been put in touch with him by a friend. and necessary badness is the reason Andrew in a city- Prior to his entrance, I hadn't the have changed my name. It's an Blasi° centre pub. slightest idea what to expect. What kind which I think is wrong and unfounde I had of person uses pornography? at any level." Andrew was an intelligent, Andrew uses a variety carefully spoken man who talked about pornographic materials, fro, his use of pornography with magazines to hardcore movies, as pat conviction. As you'll guess, he of his sex-life with his heterosexm would only talk to Leeds partner. Both partners consent freely I Student if we their activities. "We've always had changed his very frank and open relationship atom name. matters sexual. We've discussed mar different things, one of which wt pornography. I said that I had watch( it; she said that she had as well. just happened one time that, think, probably initiated watchir it together, a "Pornography is about hate for women, power over women, revenge on women, ridicule and contempt of women."What is the feminist's argument against pornography? Puritan or pervert? Helen Sage reveals all

Matthew Patens an presents some views of opposites in expresses the pornography debate. en Channel 4 ran an episode of and the use of pornography was also clearly her concern. "I its "Dispatches" programme on made by some women: "When I was six believe that porn Wthe harmful effects of years old, my elder brother was given some should be hidden from pornography, the 40 helplines were jammed 'adult' magazines ane he used to show them those who find it offensive but ornography provokes more anger in people than practidally any other aspect for two days with calls from women who to me when our parents were out. Then he The Sun is read by a lot of people. of the debate over sexuality, vet it draws together people who are otherwise felt that porn had been harmful to them. began to sexually abuse me. He often read Page three is like 'tits over breakfast'. pfundamentally opposed. Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin agrees with (not Rachel Wingfield, of the Campaign the magazines before he abused me." trivialises womens' bodies on a daily ba radically feminist) Mary Whitehouse. Lesbian campaigner Pat Califia links arms Against Pornography, says: "We are getting Actual child porn is illegal in this which I find more offensive than hardc: with Norris McWhirter, Your best friend probably has a couple of naughty novels more and more calls every week from country but Rachel Wingfield stresses her porn which is generally hidden away." hidden in her bedside cabinet while your other best friend wouldn't let the stuff women who have been affected by porn in concern about the increasing availablity of Cathy Itzin, Research Fellow at t within a hundred yards of himself. So, what do our guardians have to say for many different ways." Campaigners believe such material in Britain. She says: "It is Violence. Abuse and Gender Relatic themselves? Whether puritan or pervert. macho slut or moral saviour. you'll they find evidence every day of porn being definitely becoming easier for certain types Research Unit at Bradford University t probably disagree with everything written below. related to sexual abuse and harrassment. of illegal porn to get into this country from found statistical evidence to suppose tl In a recent national survey on places like Amsterdam where the laws are the use of porn can be linked to sexi John Stottenberg: Pornography tells lies about women, But pornography more lax." abuse and many women recount their o' tells the truth about men. pornography female respondents said that Sexual harassment at work was also experiences to reinforce this evidence, Cherry Smith: pornography harmed women, was Real lesbians. according to some feminists, apparently do not linked to the use of porn. "When I was 19, I was raped two years ago. The man w use dildus, yet they appear with remarkablke regularity in American lesbian porn. degrading and humiliating and that it was assaulted by a man at work. I know for raped me was a friend of the peopli Scott Tucker: The very tact that certain activists make porn a centerpiece of should definitely be curbed. Evidence certain that he had been looking at porn struggle does, however, reveal the power of sexuality to rouse OW deepest linked pornography to sexual abuse and shared a flat with and I knew he regula anxieties and utopian longings. more specifically to child abuse, mags before he attacked me - he'd been watched pornographic videos of a vt Lawrence Weiner, Let us rely on the most tainted of languages such as harassment at work, men who force women sexually turned on by them and had to offensive nature." pornography and morality. to use porn and harrassment of those who relieve himself of his feelings." Many models who appear in porn in Andrea Dworkin; A saber penetrating a vagina is a weapon', so is the are involved in the industry. Sexual harassment on the street also had disturbing experiences. One worn camera or the pen that renders it; so is the penis for which it substitutes... The One very startling fact emerged. There occurs. One woman describes how she gets recounts, "At 18 I modelled nude fo persons who produce the image are also weapons as men deployed in war becoMe was significant evidence that those who had verbally abused because of her breasts men-only type magazine. I did it mainly in their persons weapons. had early contact with pornography had when she passes building sites. "My large the money, which I never received, but a Catherine Matkinnon: The sexualised subordination of -women to men is become "desensitised" to it. Those who had bust presumably means I am available and for fun and out of curiousity. It was pan the sex gender system... Pornography is central to the process to which this occurs. contact with pornography under the age of an easy lay. I feel these ridiculous a sophisticated, open lifestyle (as I thou) Pat Califra: Many people do not fantasise about the kind ot sex they actually 12 and sex under the age of 16 were more connections can only come from page three then), a result of the sexually liberal have. Fantasy is a realm in which they can embrace pleasures that we have very likely to regard pornography as "harmless type porn where big equals no brain." sixties). Now 36, I've been sexua good reason to deny ourselves in nail life. fun." This, claim campaigners, is a reason Concern about page three type porn is assaulted twice, harassed verbally a Angela Carter: The text constantly reminds the reader of his own troubling to keep porn highly restricted form widespread in LUU at the moment, with the offended many times by male sexuality self, his own reality and the 'innittation of Mat reality since, however much he children. return of 'The Sun' to the Union stationary its most disturbing form - sexual lust cut wants to fuck the willing women or man in his story, he cannot do so but must be The link between child sexual abuse shop. Liz Rouse, LUU Women's Secretary content with some form of substitute activity. from emotion." Andrea Dworkin; She is a thing she is supposed to he: the thing that makes him ere(. In literary and cinematic pornography, she is taught to be that thing.

Pomograhphy is a minefiled of speculation, hypothesis and bludgeoning argument. Whatever your position is, though, next time you see someone on an advert and you think "Phworr, she's a bit of all right', ask yourilt whether you've just turned pornographer. "The link between poi

[Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 !us 15 I realised I liked it" SOUNDBITES "1 get annoyed with people who say anything, in whim- _iSpornand anything hi black and white is not... Generally 1: don't agree with pornography but it I had arranged to meet Andrew in a she had as well. It just happened one think that the link between Can he used in a positive way by couples who want city-centre pub. I had been put in touch time that, I think, probably I initiated pornography and sexual attitudes is to ham quietly about sex together." with him by a friend. Prior to his watching it together, in a manner which direct or is as prevalent as some people entrance, I hadn't the slightest idea I felt - and my partner has subsequently might claim it is." Nikki Singleton. 1st year LUG, Animal Nutrition what to expect. What kind of person agreed - said 'take it or leave it, it might I asked Andrew whether, if it and Physiology uses pornography? be good fun.' We did it; it was good fun, could be proven that in pornography Andrew was an intelligent, and subsequently it's become a part of directly contributed to a sexual crime, carefully spoken man who talked about our sex life. Sometimes we use it, he might want pornography banned. "If his use of pornography with conviction. sometimes we don't. It has no particular the link in that specific case could be I have to admit that I was at my mates last night As you'll guess, he would only talk to bearing on our relationship at any one proven to be a general rule, then yes I and they stuck on a porn video. It wasn't anything Leeds Student if we changed his name. time; if we're going through a bad patch would, in the same way that I think it's too hardcore anti I do draw a line at donkeys and Why? "People who knew me would we don't use pornography as a salve, if very obvious that it's proven that guns children. lietween consenting couples I think porn is certainly view me differently from we're going through a good patch we kill people; therefore I want guns hereafter, and people that didn't know don't use it as a boost." banned. On the other hand, if it was the okay... People shouldn't he chanted of the naked me who might come across me would But it's not a thing that every case that the person had a psycho- human body," very probably pre-judge me. They couple might find useful. "I don't think sexual disorder, and pornography Gavin Wattley, 2nd year 1.MU, Consumer Services would assume that because of a everybody should try it. I think there served as a spur to that disorder, then I particularly activity I enjoyed I was a are possibly a lot of reasons why a lot of would say no. Alcohol causes car- Management bad person. The illusion of pornography people wouldn't want to. and might find crashes, alcohol causes violent crime, and necessary badness is the reason I it positively damaging. It might have a but I wouldn't have alcohol banned. have changed my name. It's an illusion bad effect on them, in the same way that Just because in the specific instant which I think is wrong and unfounded trying any sex game could have good or alcohol does cause crime, that doesn't at any level." ill effects. What I would say is that mean to say that generally it ought to be "I think page three is okay if people go topless On beadles I don't see wiry they shouldn't go topless in Andrew uses a variety of pornography is not necessarily evil; it's eradicated totally." pornographic materials, from not necessarily going to disrupt or pull Andrew finds it "very easy" to a newspaper I don't think porn should he Manned. If people eCatidn't get hold of it they'd only ger magazines to hardcore movies, as part apart a relationship. But by the same acquire hardcore pornography, banned frustrated„. Ls-till think ifs disgusting though." of his sex-life with his heterosexual token it's not necessarily going to bring in Britain. "You don't have to look very partner. Both partners consent freely to it together and make it brilliant." hard. You could walk into a number of Marjorie Burke, Catering Staff 1-MU their activities. "We've always had a Has using porn affected the shops in Leeds and it wouldn't take you very frank and open relationship about way Andrew views women? "That's a more than a couple of minutes to matters sexual. We've discussed difficult one, because any effect ascertain if hardcore pornography was many different things, one of pornography is gonna have - just like there." But what led him to it which was pornography. any book or film - is going to take place originally? "I don't know. Like many I said that I had at such a level that you probably don't other young boys just hitting puberty, it watched it; she notice it. I don't think it's had an effect was what was done. Why it is done I "Porn is everywhere, I saw a programme recently said that on the way I view women or men, either don't know. I was introduced to it in the which chinned that high rise buildings were phallic. positive or negative. I certainly don't go way that I expect many young boys are. My boyfriend claimed that was -sexist and asked around looking at women and thinking Then I had this falling off period where why buildings couldn't he shaped like a pair of 'she'd be really good for a fuck' in a I didn't see very much of it as I was too Means sense that 1 didn't before. I young to buy it, and my friends didn't looked at men and women have any of it. And then after that, Gerwgic Ommanney, 1st year Leeds University before, and I look at about sixteen or so, I saw more of it. men and women Having seen it again I realised I liked it; now. and having realised I liked it, I thought don't I might as well carry on watching it. And this is why I say that not everybody should view pornography as a lot of As long as it doesn't offend others or lead to the people quite genuinely do not abuse of women 1 don't see a problem with porn. In Rachel find it erotic or a turn on or a positive :sense it could be used as a -relief which Wingfield pleasant. But I do." might prevent rape and abuse." from CAP is Andrew bombarded with stories would Ian Limes, 1st year LEX, History like these every day. She is concerned that there isn't enough support for the victims of porn, although CAP are trying to set up a group for survivors of the industry and a helpline for those who need it. pressurising Photographs by She says of their work, '1 do stress that women to take we are not out to ban pornography but to action against harmful Sam Greenhill campaign for legislation to be passed which porn." would allow victims to take legal action The porn industry has always against those who have done them wrong." been a cultural misogyny. Rachel She continues: "I had a call form a Wingfield believes that women in the ex- woman this morning who worked as a present social climate are unable to enjoy partner mainstream model and sent some 'sexy' the fun of porn equally with men. wanted to use photos to her husband in prison. He then She says: "Men and women are far pornographic sent them secretly to 'Escort' magazine who from being equal within the porn industry, magazines, I went along printed them with her real name especially when the reasons for women with it because 1 was curious. I underneath. Since this episode she has entering the industry are often as a result of did find it arousing, but I also felt failed to get any more mainstream poverty and vulnerability. Seventy per cent disturbed. Was my partner going to start modelling work and has suffered much of porn models are prostitutes and I even seeing me as one of those women when we sexual harassment. have evidence of women in debt being were in bed? It drove a wedge between us." Under present laws there is nothing blackmailed by loan sharks to enter the sex this woman can do. CAP want to change industry." this. Rachel says: "We believe in This comment is typical. "When my n and child sex abuse"

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 16— Culture

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After a full week of the Seventh Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds Student invites you to wipe the

popcorn from your chin, put your copy of "Flicks" down and consider two of the more substantial events of last week. Emma Hartley talks to Agnieszka Holland, director of "Europa, Europa" and now "The Secret Garden" (below left ) and Akin Ojumu speaks to Stephen Poliakoff at the Screenscapes conference on the city in cinema (below right).

gnieszka Holland has probably given one too many interviews recently. Mine. She wasn't t one stage during the Screenscapes Conference Film director Stephen Poliakoff halts his rude, abrupt or patronising, in fact she was really rather personable; but I did get the lecture on the theme "Cinematic Representations of the City" to ask if anyone can Adistinct impression that it would take rather a lot more than a student journalist with a few Aremember any British movies that were set in Leeds or even featured scenes filmed in earnest enquiries to truly engage her interest. This is not, however, up there in the "ten most Leeds. Silence... well not quite silence since Wakefield and Bradford are tentatively mentioned, surprising" for this year, since Ms. Holland is a director whose first English-language film has just but as for the "Jewel of the North" if there has been a film that immortalises Leeds no-one cleaned up at the box office in the States and whose interview technique is therefore probably present last Saturday could remember ever seeing it. buckling under the strain of too many enthusiastic endorsements. Ah well - sleep soundly, Lynn The incident served as a timely reminder of the pathetic state of the British Film Industry, which Barber. remains, with the exception of notable recent successes like The Crying Game and Howard's "The Secret Garden", an adaption of the Francis Hodgson Burnett children's classic, is the purpose End, in terminable decline; whereas in other countries on the continent, and obviously in of our encounter, since it, her first since the Oscar nominated "Europa, Europa", is playing in the America, the cinema has encompassed and left its mark on their major cities. Fortunately this evening as the opening gala for the Leeds Film Festival. With her to the press session, she had sad fact did not manage to detract from an interesting and provoking discussion on the way in brought the four children who play the central roles in the film and Jonothan Lynch, actor, pale which cinema has portrayed the city. If one considers that film-making is almost exclusively a god and centre of attention for all the women in the room. (See him in "Cal" with Helen Mirren as 20th Century phenomenon, the urban environment has naturally figured prominently in a part of the Neil Jordan retrospective at the festival this week.) With hindsight I think it's probably variety of guises. Stretching from the nightmarish vision of a automated society in Chaplin's since even before l'd just as well that the first British screening of the film wasn't until that evening, Modern Times through to a city dominated by the forces of organised crime in modern classics high on a screen my fingers had this tendency to go kind of loose and floppy seen Lynch thirty feet is probably the most common landscape that film directors have around the biro they were holding. by Coppola or Scorcese, the city In an attempt to appear vaguely in control I asked about the film. "Ifs very faithful to the original chosen to work within. story", said Agnieszka, gazing concernedly in the direction of the kids, whose manifestly superb A British director who has exemplified the cinema's fascination with the city is Stephen Poliakoff sense of timing had caused them to start making a really large amount of noise just as I was trying whose feature films "Hidden City" and "Close my Eyes", along with the soon to be released to get into my stride. The question is really whether you like the interpretation or not. There are a "Century", are all set in London and derive much of their thematic significance from the way in few alterations, as in a normal adaption, but its really very faithful." which Poliakoff represents London architecture - both contemporary and classical. After the So you saw it as a children's film when you made it? "Yes, definitely. Although it's the kind of a conference Poliakoff expanded on his views on the city and cinema and explained its relevance story which can easily be many things. You can read it as a grown up and still get an enormous on his works. amount of pleasure from it. In the US, when it opened, it had very mixed audiences - children and In "Close My Eyes", the tale of an incestuous relationship between a brother (Clive Owen) and grown ups - but mostly I made it for the children." sister (Saskia Reeves), surreptitiously observed by her husband (the excellent Alan Rickman), So does the relative simplicity of 'The Secret Garden" reflect your move to Hollywood? How do Poliakoff identified three themes of importance. Firstly the new architecture that grew around you actually feel about America? "Extremely good, because America really loves me. It helps! I like the Docklands in the late 1980's; the fear of sexual diseases personified by the spectre of AIDS the audiences, though of course they watch mostly very stupid movies. But they are very open and and, thirdly, the unnaturally hot summers of that period. In his own words: "It's all to do with very curious. Very alive. But I really don't want to do only American movies. If something good the sense of powerlessness. As the weather's changing the whole city is changing, and that sense comes along at one of the big studios I will do it, but I've had a lot of offers from them for stupid of strangeness contributes to Owen's unexpected love of his sister." ideas, you know?" However, Poliakoff is at pains not to suggest that Owen is driven to break a serious social taboo No. But I really wish I did. At the thought of the carnival of stupidities constantly processing over by the sight of funny looking buildings sprouting up all over the East End. her desk, Agnieszka fails to suppress a laugh. "I've found a kind of satisfaction in turning down Without sounding like an "architectural reactionary" Poliakoff expresses concern over some very good financial offers - it's a freedom, I guess, but not the sort of freedom an American easily understands." aspects of the new architecture whilst proclaiming his modernism: "You don't have to be either Me either. But I've got this creeping feeling that I'd like a good rummage through the contents of Richard Rogers or Prince Charles to have strong views on architecture." Fair point, but having your dustbin. said that what are his views? "There are a lot of differences between Europe and America. The different reactions to "Europa, "I've never understood why fashion played such a part in modern culture. I can understand how Europa" were very interesting. It had some enemies: for instance, in Germany it was rejected. it happens in clothes as kids want to look like each other but I can't understand how the usually England and France liked it, but in America I had my best reaction. You know, in some ways I wealthy late middle aged people who decide how these buildings should look can show this think, they understood it better, which was a surprise to me. Maybe the distance on European extraordinary lack of imagination." history makes a difference, and I think they have a stronger sense of absurdity also." The incestuous love chronicled in Close my Eyes is an emotional extreme, but Poliakoff believes Perhaps your own status as an outsider is related to America's appreciation of your films? They it is an example of a person using an addictive relationship to seek refuge from a present reality deal with the themes of loss and abandonment and America is a nation of outsiders. They all left which is undoubtedly bleak. In his stage and screenplays he has consistently focused on the somewhere else to go to America. "Yes. Certainly they are more open with strangers than in some increasing absence of certainties during the two decades since the early 1970's when Poliakoff European countries, especially France. There they are very superficially friendly with visitors of a was a student, citing unemployment levels and AIDS as major problems for the generation he certain political stance, actors, you know? But actually, as a foreigner, to get to the centre of their has seen reach adulthood. society is practically. impossible. They think that they are the best, that they have nothing to learn. In contrast to the state of the nation, Poliakoff's relative fortunes as a writer and consequently America is more curious, because Americans can steal from those people who come from the director have soared in the intervening period. After dropping out of his History course at outside. It is the difference between the old world and the new." Cambridge he began concentrating on his writing career. His stage plays gradually progressed So how do you rate being a woman from the "old world" in the film industry? Does it work for you or against you? "I don't know. I think maybe it is an advantage. After being a stranger in my own from the fringe theatres as he achieved greater recognition culminating in the success of "Bloody country, I became a foreigner in a new country and everything was uncomfortable in a different Kids" a TV film featuring the formidable talents of director Stephen Frears and director of way, so this is quite characteristic for me. I don't know. I suppose there are some people who want photography Chris Menges. Although both men have since subsequently crossed the Atlantic to to help. you. And I believe that you can just, at the moment, begin to feel the meaning of women's direct films in America, Poliakoff has not been tempted by the allure of Hollywood. His desire to solidarity; very strongly, but you can feel it. Also we are more recognisable, you know, we are maintain artistic control over his work is partly prompted by horror stories of the compromise more unique. Really, there are very few women directors, so it is not very likely that anyone will that accompanies the bigger budget, as the role of "auteur" is replaced by the power of forget you." accountant when it comes to finalising the end product. It would be bucking the odds in your case, I thought, and continued to think so much more strongly Unfortunately, except for the Speilbergs of this world, the terms "artistic control" and "big after finally seeing "The Secret Garden". Twice. Agnieszka Holland is talented enough to survive budget" are not mutually compatible. However, the critical acclaim given to directors like Mike filming in any country in the world, with children (and animals, lots of them) and in the miserable Leigh and Ken Loach who produce low budget uncompromising pictures within the British Film Yorkshire spring. The least I could do was keep my eyes off Jonothan Lynch long enough to give Industry, is a sign of encouragement to Poliakoff. Meanwhile he will continue his journey her my sincere good wishes for a long, complex and glorious career. Salute! towards the heart of London, striving to be the perennial tourist in his own city.

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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 18 Classical & Jazz Ricardo Castro: profile

aving been seated at the piano by his aunt Hat the age of 3, where he used to play by ear until his first lesson at the age of 5, Ricardo Shaken by Rattle Castro, the 1993 Harveys Leeds International Piano Competion winner, recounted how he began his career. City of Birmingham His earliest aspirations to be a concert pianist were first realised when he won several Symphony Orchestra national competitions at the age of 11. From these early successes, it became apparent that Leeds Town Hall this was the beginning of a great vocation. When asked if he had wanted to do anything else, he replied that if he had not specialized in hen I previewed Saturday night's music then he would have gone into politics, concert at the Town Hall last week I although at present he holds no interest along forecasted that it'would be an W those lines. absolute scorcher. It's now Monday and the blisters haven't yet begun to heal: never He continued to progress and expand before have I bathed in the radiance of such his reputation by winning numerous orchestral brilliance. international prizes, including the ARD My reaction upon discovering that International Competition in 1987 and the Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 had been Concous Geza Ande in Zurich 1988. His elected for the first half of the programme winning the Leeds Piano Competition is for was decidedly ambivalent. I was hoping for him his greatest acheivment to date. During something spiritedly sentimental from the the competition, Castro explained that he did heavyweight Romantic department - not consider the possibility of winning - he just something that might compel Ricardo Castro took each stage as it came. For him it was the to make his (hitherto rather intractable) enjoyment of each stage that counted. personality resoundingly felt. Yet K467 is not Having played Mozart at Windsor a concerto for the fecklessly-fingered. and Birmingham earlier this month and again Described by Mozart's father as at Leeds, he denies that he is specializing in "astonishingly difficult", it is a work this composer and to prove this, he's playing renowned for its colourful thematic diversity Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 during and complex technical splendour. his forthcoming tour in the Netherlands and Castro and Rattle clearly weren't in again for his debut with the BBC at the the business of staking out interpretatively Barbican later this month. He does not believe fanciful parameters for the concerto. There that it is time for him to settle down and was nothing outstandingly idiosyncratic concentrate on specialising on one composer: if about their approach other than the inclusion anything he aims to expand his repetoire. ( - and invention?) of two quite breathtaking Having listened to his latest concert cadenzas in the first and last movements. It last Saturday night at the Leeds Town Hall, I didn't matter. This was Mozart performed asked him how compatable he was with Simon live better than I'll probably ever hear it Rattle and whether he agreed with the again. With an extraordinary dexterity and conductor's latest changes. Castro replied that delicacy of touch Castro injected a perfect Rattle was aiming to specialise within each period of music, trying to bring it as close to degree of sophistication and elegance into Simon Rattle - as If you didn't know the music, skirting the edges of the the original as possible, and that the use of split strings in the reorganisation of the commonly encountered pitfall of of a lesser stature or a CBSO that hadn't had discernible cracks in the cohesion of the orchestra helped this process. Rattle believes in overworking this aspect of the music. Rattle pushing it to the limits of its abilities overall delivery, both implying that the piece studying the style of the composer to the full Although some might have asked for some for half a dozen years they would have hadn't been very thorughly rehearsed, to gain insight into the character of the music more playful and cheeky Mozartian wit, the buckled under the sheer enormity of the strangely held the key to this astonishing tempi deployed were too brisk and his work. rendition. There from the podium Rattle was and has done so with Mozart. Unlike Mark playing too gloriously refined for such a As the rumbling of the opening bars directly infusing the music with his own Anderson, third prize winner of the H.L.I.P.0 (who thought that Rattle's ideas were charge to be considered as anything other breathed their doom-laden intensity into the colossal inspirational energies, and his than mere pedantry. Hall and the music mounted to the towering minions responded all the more strongly for somewhat radical), Castro believes the I have nothing but admiration for heights of the first great tutti it was clear that it. If I ever hear music performed at this maestro's interpretation is consistent with his Simon Rattle for taking on Bruckner's 9th - Rattle's account was to hold terrifyingly standard again I'll consider myself a very own and he regards Rattle as one of the especially without a score in front of him. In powerful insight. Occasional rough edges lucky man indeed. greatest conductors ever to have lived. every conceivable particular this symphony evident in the diabolical scherzo and an even Castro now looks ahead to many is huge. Had we been witnessing an orchestra less frequent suggestion of faintly Mark Funnell concert tours and a new life with his wife. I left him to continue with his hours of practicing, knowing that over the next few years the name surprises me how much we find of interest in two harpischord concertos, however, created Ricardo Castro will not be forgotten. Midland Baroque music that was effectively throwaway an entirely different sound, with the background pop - a demonstration perhaps of composers genius for stark simplicity being Anna Waldek Ensemble the degree to which today's music of this kind illuminated, and this aspect being ably has become disposed of as quickly as it is communicated by Katherine May. Clothworkers Centenary produced. The ensembles tight control and Concert Hall The programme began in typically discipline was occassionally wayward in regal style, with the First Symphony by Biber's 'Mensa Sonora Par l', but not without Sammartini. The tuning was slightly awry at maintaining the piece's dynamic colour. he Clothworkers lunchtime concerts got first, but any imperfections following this were Concluding with the theatre suite 'Gordian Tunder way this week with a dainty quickly eclipsed by the gloriously light Knott Clnty'd' by Purcell, the ensemble was performance by the Midland Baroque articulation brought to bear on the swifter finally able to project out from the Ensemble, on authentic instruments, of some passages of the Allegro and Presto. background, this being the least incidental of various short baroque works. Schmelger's 'Comment over the death all the pieces performed. The concert was thus The group, basically a string quartet of Ferdinand III' conjured up visions of central brought to a close in an atmosphere of plus harpsichord, elegantly danced its way European decadence, with an immaculate majesterial England. Definitely an effective through a light smattering of late 17th/ early display of baroque richness and depth of way to reinvigorate a student flagging from 18th century incidental music, interspersing it sound. Rousing changes of tempo, ballasted by the untold pressures of the first week of with helpful comment on both the pieces a rock steady basso continuo took us from lectures! played and the instruments used. It always moods of yearning to those of hope. Scarlatti's Josh Berle

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CURVE - LMUSU, Sunday 24th October. Curve are emerging from studioland where they've just produced their latest album, 'Cuckoo', for an eight month tour. Curve's move towards a harder, heavier sound promises to improve their live Rag's set, although the vocals remain secondary to the overall sound. The album is already doing well enough in the Indie charts to make any philistines who said 'Blindfold' was just a flash-in-the-pan swallow their words and maybe the cynics will even head down to LMUSU on Sunday for some serious swirling.

TOP BANANA - Town & Country Club, Saturday 23rd October. Riches Let's face it, Eighties revival is here with a vengeance - with New Romantics night at Now that the dust of Introweek has settled, and everyone is finding their feet in a The Exchange and Alphabet Street at new term, it's time to start working out how to make the most of your time this LMUSU, there's no escaping it. Jumping on year. And to work out how you're going to have a good time doing it. Which is the bandwagon, the Town & Country Club why this week The Guide takes a look at the Leeds Rag organisation, which is have snapped up top night Top Banana from the Metropolitan University. So don't be too probably the largest provider of entertainments in the universities after the actual shy shy hush hush aye do aye, wake up and Ents managers themselves. Leeds Rag is headed (for both Universities) by one go go down to the T&C this Saturday to elected sabbatical officer, Myles Bremner, and below we guide you through what enjoy a few careless whispers; failing that, he's got planned for the coming year. His target, along with that of all the Rag just dance away the heartache. staff, is to raise £50,000 for local and national charities by staging the events below, and they're relying on you to get involved. So, read on... Picture : Lisa Plasco HOLLYWOOD AND BROADWAY 2 : THE It's a relief to find that the Leeds Rag signed up, so if you fancy joining them on the this term, to be held in LUU Refectory on MUSICALS - Leeds Grand Theatre, Sunday organisation isn't typified by the state of the weekend on November 26th, pay your deposit Friday 19th November. 'Shark' has become a 24th October. office it's run from in the West Wing of the and ticket costs and then start collecting bit of an enigma, having sold out 4 Refecs in a How much do you trust us? Would you University Union building. Chaos theory sponsors. If you manage to raise £100, all your row, and it's obviously something Rag are really go down to this if we recommended looks old hat compared to the Total Disorder money is returned, and you get a free weekend proud of, but Myles points out that 'Shark'ing it? How can you resist the charms of Wayne which appears to greet you when you enter. in Paris! is as far as they go, and that the more sexually Sleep and Bonnie Langford bludgeoning However, out of the melee of bits of paper, T- The Hitch is a great example of Myles' advanced 'Shag' and particularly 'Phux' are shirts, stickers, Rag workers and God help and Rag's attitude that "raising money for separate entities altogether. their way through a few fairly decent tunes them, freshers, comes a reassuring feeling that charity can be great fun", and that enthusiasm The same can be said of the Rag Ball, from the top shows of the past God-knows- everything is under control; Rag is run is carried through the year by the regular which has already enticed over 300 punters how-many decades? You can? Oh. Well, smoothly and professionally, and Rag Raids to various cities. Every with its 'Pirates' theme. Tickets cost £27 for the for the faithful few, you can hear some great operates like a highly efficient Saturday and Wednesday night of Saturday 13th November at the times from shows such as 'Cabaret', 'Singin' business, pouring its profits afternoon, you can join a coach Queen's Hotel which is one of the biggest In The Rain', 'West Side Story' and '42nd into worthy causes. load of other fund-raisers social events in the calendar. Street'. Tickets start from £10.50 for a That's just the and descend on an And finally, as if every other event balcony seat at the matinee. image that Myles Bremner 15A? unsuspecting town with selling out weren't enough, Leeds Rag have wants to put across. For collection boxes rattling. managed to organise a definite packed house at him no more are the days Graham Buchanan, the co- the Town & Country Club in December. In ASPECTS OF LOVE - Bradford Alhambra, of people having to sit in ordinator, has a special trip conjunction with Radio Aire, The Wedding from Tuesday 26th October. baths of baked beans on to Leeds United's ground Present will be playing a gig on 6th December With the falling of the crisp, golden Autumn the Union steps. This is the on Saturday 6th November, in aid of the Spastics Society and the Off The leaves, romance rears its ugly head in 90's, and let's face it, if you're and he's keen to get as many Streets Fund. Myles says this should raise a Bradford this week (bitter, moi?) as Andrew trying to raise £50,000, you have to people on board as possible. (To whacking £7000; you'd be daft to miss it. Lloyd Webber's umpteenth musical returns do a little bit more than that. that end, he's offering a £1 record All the above are crammed into just to Bradford for at least the second time since In fact, Myles has got a lot more than token for every £15 raised, and a £5 bonus after this term. Look out for a Valentine's Shark, it left the confines of London. It seems that that planned. 5 raids as an incentive!) Rag Cuddle Week, Rag Week itself, and once the West End has finished with these The first thing on his mind is the That applies in particular to 2nd & 3rd everything from Bungee & Parachute Jumps to shows, it chews them up and spits them up Paris Hitch, the annual migration of several years, postgrads, and students at LMU in the Rag Parade. This last one is very the Ml, but with pleasantly hummable hundred Leeds students to Paris for the general. Myles realises that LMU is a great important, because as Myles says, "we're ditties like 'Love Changes Everything' weekend. This charity hitch is the nation's potential source of help which Rag needs to giving the Universities a good name amongst included in over two hours of entertainment, biggest, with over 1000 people having taken tap, but so far just 300 of the 1600 official Rag the local community". And if you can do that you can't complain. 'Aspects Of Love' takes part over the last three years. This time round, members hail from there, and most are first and have a brilliant time in the process, then you from Paris to Venice, from backstage at the target is to have 500 hundred thumbs years. you're on to a good thing. the theatre to the exquisite beauty of the Doubtless the other years will crawl It's all a long way from that bath of extended horizontally at the start of the Ml. Pyrenees, as it charts the tangled love affairs So far, about 150 people should have out of the woodwork again for the first 'Shark' baked beans. of five people over nearly two decades. Tune up your chuckle muscles this week, And a new season of gigs starts Wonderful, heartwarming stuff... because a bevvy of brilliant comics is about to tonight for the LUU Comedy Society, as they descend on the great urban sprawl of Leeds Comedy present three acts in the R.H.Evans Lounge. and Bradford, setting it quaking with mirth. Henry Normal, Roger Shakes & Alison Ross, ANDREW NEWTON, HYPNOTIST - Leeds To kick off with, you'd better book Ben Elton all compered by Danny Brown, will be City Varieties, Monday 25th to Saturday entertaining you from 8.30pm to 1l pm for just 30th October. some tickets right now if you want to see Mr St George's Concert Hall Ben Elton, who is playing St George's Concert £3, so pop along and make this first event a There's so many hypnotists doing the rounds Hall on Sunday 31st October. No Jim Tavare success. these days, it's hard to know which one to pick. However, this bloke manages to play introductions or blurb needed here; the man is Alhambra Studio Finally, for something slightly out of a comic genius, and anyone who doesn't think the ordinary, Friday 29th October sees a visit to at least 3 sell-out runs each year at the City so is a sad farty. Henry Normal & others St George's Concert Hall by Ennio Marchetto, Varieties, which must mean he's pretty good. At £7.50 for the cheapest seats, you LUU R.H.Evans Lounge "The Master Of Quick Change Origami" might well decide to wait for the next TV according to the Sunday Times. In just a series, but for a full, unedited evening of the Ennio Marchetto couple of hours, the man races through over ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC man (he's not got a support act, so it's the Man St George's Concert Hall 100 different characters, combining amusement ORCHESTRA - Leeds Town Hall, 7.30pm, From Auntie all the way) telephone the with amazement as his slips effortlessly from Saturday 23rd October. Bradford box office pronto. "Bears a distinct one night only, Jim Tavare and his faithful costume to costume. A programme of enormous romantic vigour, resemblance to Groucho Marx on speed" said double bass will be tickling your ribs with a Three sell-out seasons at the charm and contrast; the Royal Liverpool will the Daily Telegraph, but I wouldn't take their show described as a "cross between Jack Edinburgh Festival should be enough to be playing Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" word for it - go and see it for yourself. Benny, Victor Borge, and Beethoven". persuade you that this man is well worth your Overture, Sibelius' Violin Concerto, and More immediately, however, if you The gig is part of the Studio's comedy Friday evening attention. Tickets for the show Bax's Symphony No.3, and there's a pre- want some fine stand-up comedy from one of programme for this term, which featured Alan start at £6.50, and with the restaurant serving a concert talk from Raymond Wood. Tickets the top acts on the circuit, get yourselves over Parker two weeks ago, so keep your eyes open special Italian menu in the man's honour, you start at £5. to the Alhambra Studio this Sunday (24th). For for further delights in a cracking season. could go and make a night of it.

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20 The Guide 4, FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY

aAlt eiXO, e . 'a 4Clurros 1 1111.13 S Stage 14 - PHUX at MISTER CRAIG'S - Student night, £1.50 / £2. RONSON at MUSIC FACTORY - Dance & garage. TOP BANANA at THE TOWN & COUNTRY. 80s night. WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - see Friday UP YER STUDENT NIGHT at YEL £1 a pint. £1 spirits. RICKY'S - Acid Jazz, Funk & Dance. THE COOKER at ARCADIA - Jazz / soul / funk, first conic THEATRE IN THE MILL tel: 0274 383 185 TRIBE at THE WORLD at RITZY'S - Student night, £1 a pint. LOVE TRAIN at TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB - 70's, 14.50. ref in free. John Britton - 'Devised Work. In Progress' - 7.30pm. HYPE at RICKY'S GOES at THE WAREHOUSE - Dance. BACK TO BASICS at THE MUSIC FACTORY • Dance. ALHAMBRA STUDIO tel. 0274 752000 ANYTHING UP THE JUNCTION at THE GALLERY - Student night. Student night - £ 1 with flyer. cheap drinks. THE LIZARD CLUB at RICKY'S - 70's Rock, / £3.50 Jim Tavare - 8.00pm, / £3 CLUB CRACKERJACK at THE MUSIC FACTORY V2 at THE GALLERY - Dance. with Tim of Utah Saints. £5. VAGUE at THE WAREHOUSE - £5. cross-dressing, TWA. 80's & 90's House. £2.50 / £3.00. STOMP at LEEDS METRO UNI - £2.50 adv. indie, grunge. SATURDAY BOP at LEEDS METRO UNI - 121 £4 guest. PARTY ON at LEEDS UNI - £2.50 adv. CYCLONE at LEEDS UN) £2.50, indie/alternative THE SUB CLUB at ARCADIA - a pint_ RITZY'S - Dance . A INCARCERATED at SCRUMPIES - ladle night - £2.50113. SERIOUS PLEASURE at TIME TUNNEL at RIFFS - 60's night, £2.501 £3. 'I'M DUCHESS Ion Strong Sr tat ge Stage THE GRAND THEATRE Stage Wayne Sleep & Bonnie Langford in Hollywood The Musicals - WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - See Friday SOAK at Leeds Corn Exchange - 9.30pm till 4.00am - £14 5pra & 8.00pin, tickets from £10.50 CITY VARITIES WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE tel: 442 1 II WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE see Friday LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Andrew Newton. hypnotist - 8.00pm. tickets £4.50 QUARRY THEATRE GRAND THEATRE as Friday Curve plus Swervedriver - 'Brighton Rock' - 7.30pm, tickets from t4 CIVIC THEATRE - see Friday COURTYARD THEATRE ALHAMBRA - see Friday Music 'Someone Who'll Watch Over Me' - 7.45pin. tickets from £4 THEATRE IN THE MILL - see Friday GRAND THEATRE (el: 459 351/440 971 HARROGATE THEATRE - see Frida Film 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - 5pin & 8.30pm STUDIO THEATRE. EMU tel 833 134 THE IRISH CENTRE CIVIC THEATRE tel: 476 962/455 505 'The Faulty Optic Workshop'. 10am-4prn. £10/15 SHOWCASE Akan - ALHAMBRA tel: 0274 752 000 27 Gelderd Road. Birstall. Tel. 0924 420071. THE DUCHESS 'Candida' - 7.30pm, from £6.50. Tickets £4.25 / NUS Hair & Skin Trading Co. plus Pram STUDIO THEATRE, LN1U tel: 833 134 Homeward Bound Sleepless In Seattle DRUM (THE FENTON) 'Darwin's Dead Herring' 7.30pm, 50/L3.00 Music What's Love Got To Do With It Sliver The Termite Club THEATRE EN THE MILL tel: 0274 383 185 Once Upon A Forest Jurassic Park BELUSHI'S The Path & Lady Odi vete' - 7.30pm, i511:3 ALHAMBRA STUDIO - as Friday The Fugitive Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story West Martini - Live Jazz HARROGATE THEATRE tel: 0423 502 116 THE DUCHESS The Firm Dennis 'Shirley Valentine - 7.45pm. £5.50 Red House Painters Much Ado About Nothing The Secret Garden ALHAMBRA STUDIO tot: 0274 752 000 THE DRUM (THE FENTON) Rising Sun Tom & Jerry •140 'The Legend of St Julian' - 8.00pm, £6.50/£3.50 Sleepy People plus Sanity Attic In The Line Of Fire Film R.H.EVANS LOUNGE ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL COTTAGE ROAD CINEMA Comedy Society presents Henry Normal, Roger Shakes and MAYC Orchestra & Singers - 7.30pm, £6.50 Cottage Road, Far Headingley. Tel. 751606 Alison Ross, Danny Brown as compere. 8.30-11pm, i3X2.50 LEEDS TOWN HALL Fri 22nd - Secret Garden - 6.00prn & The Fugitive - 8.15pm For full programme details for The Odeon, MGM Movie Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play Mendelssohn, Sat onwards - Secret Garden - 2.00, 4.00. 6.00 House, Showcase Cinema, Lounge Cinema. Cottage Road Sibelius and Bax - 7.30pm, tickets from £4.00. The Fugitivcr 8 15pin Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House, see Sunday. ROYAL PARK Late show Fri & Sat - Boxing Helena - 11.00pm PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Mus ic Tiger Bay LOUNGE CINEMA THE CEMENT GARDEN - 6.00pm HADDON HALL North Lane. Headingley. Tel. 751061 PASSION FISH - 8.15pm ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL All week :- BFTI Halle Orchestra play Mozart. Beethoven & Dukas 7 30pni. Sleepless In Seattle - 8.10 RAINING STONES - 6.00, 8.15 from £4.00. I lomewanl Bound - 11.00, 2.00, 400, 6,00, Friday at 6.10 1W12 THE GROVE INN HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE THE PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH - 8.00pm Folk Club presents George Clark Brudenell Road. Leeds 6. Tel, 752045 HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE ROYAL PARK PUB The Spooks DECEMBER BRIDE - 8.00pm RUBY IN PARADISE - 8.00pm The Suawmen Fur full programme details for The Odeon, MGM, Movie SUBWAY 11.00pm ODEON HADDON HALL House, Showcase Cinema, Lounge Cinema, Cottage Road PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Homeward Bound - 1.30, 3.45, 5,55 Irish Folk Band Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House. see Sunday. PATTON : LUST FOR GLORY - 2.00pm Sleepless In Seattle - 1.10, 3.30, 5.55, 8.30 THE DRUM (THE FENTON) PICTUREVILLE CINEMA 2001 : A SPACE ODYSSEY - 5.30pni Once Upon A Forest - 1.20, 3.20 Elsie Moon SCRIPT TO SCREEN JEREMY THOMAS plus THE PASSION FISH - 8.15pin Hot Shots Part Deux - 5.15 SHELTERING SKY - 730pm IMAX Rising Suit - 1.55, 4.45, 8.10 IMAX TITANICA - 8.00pm In The Line Of Fire - 8.05 *A Film ROLLING STONES 'AT THE MAX' - 8.00pm BF1.1 Bambi 1.05. 3.05 Nur BYT 1 THE PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH - 8.15pm What's Love.. - 5.45. 8.20 ON STAGE : TWO WAY MIRROR - 7 30pm ODEON Thu rs 28th - Houses Pocus - 5.55 (replaces Homeward Bound) For full programme details for The Odeon, MGM, Movie HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE The Headrow. Tel. 430031 - See Monday Toes 26th - Aladdin - 8.05 (replaces In The Line Of Fire) House, Showcase Cinema, Lounge Cinema, Cottage Road SAN FRANCISCO - 2.00inn ODEON 3 Sat - Tom & Jerry - 10.30 Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House, six Sunday. LAWS OF GRAVITY - 0(1pm CAREFUL - 8.00pm ODEON 3 Double bill PICTUREVILLE CINEMA tel 0274 732277 BRAZIL - 11.00pm MGM MOVIE HOUSE MANHATTAN - 7.30pm PATTON : LUST FOR GLORY - 7.30pm ODEON 3 Vicar Lane. 1..S1. Tel. 451031 MEAN STREETS - 9.20pnt IMAX THE FIELD - 8.00pm The Fugitive - 1.15. 5.50, 8.05 MGM 3 TITANICA - 8.00pm MGM3 Secret Garden - 1.15, 3.40, 6.00. a.35 Double bill:- BFTl tel 0274 820666 THE HARDER THEY COME - 8.00pm Jurassic Park 1.15, 435 THE OUTCASTS - 7.30pm ON STAGE! TWO WAY MIRROR - 7.30pm MGM 3 INTO THE WEST - 9.40pm HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE tat 752045 THE OMEGA MAN I SOYLENT GREEN - 7.30pm /9.20pin AN EVENING WITH...7 - 8.00 THE CRYING GAME - 11_00 ODEON 3 tel : 43(1031 1:3 Telly MAC - 8.00pm CI Telly MGM 3 tel : 451013 CI Telly 'Blind Date' (ITV. 6.45pm) - Postponed from last weekend P1XART • 8.00pm thanks to some underwater antics. LUU SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR SOC 'After Margaret The Incredible Shrinking Politicians' 'Noel's House Party' (BFICE 6ASpm) - Up against Cilia, will 'The Bullion Boys' (BBCI. 9.05pm) - David Jason & Gorgon (111C2, 8.30prn) - Post-Maggie apocalyptic trend of 'Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves' - 7.00prn, Rupert Beckett LT Noel's Crinkley Bottom wither and die? Ah Its ha ha. Kaye star in gold bullion comedy drama. disillusionment with modern politicians. THE NIGHT WITH THE NAUGHTY NAME EVERY MONDAY NIGHTCLUB

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The Guide 21 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY TV FILMS

Friday 22nd :- to 'The Package, BBC1, 9.30pm - Gene C71 ulk) s il[Lih•s Clubs Hackman & Tommy Lee Jones in a CRACK THE SAFE at YEL £100 cash prize DIG at THE GALLERY / ARCADIA - see Music ESCAPADE at THE WAREHOUSE - rock night murderous military conspiracy type Cold HEAVIES HEAVEN at THE OBSERVATORY, rock night 8- CIRCUS CIRCUS at THE MUSIC FACTORY - 3 floors of BANANAS at RIMS - with radio Aim, £1 a pint. War action thriller thing. And a jolly good 12, free entry. pop, 60's to 90's. £1 a pint. GOTH NIGHT at SCRUMPIES one at that. BEAT SURRENDER at THE MUSIC FACTORY - 60's to ALPHABET STREET at LEEDS METRO UNI - 80's night. LOADED & JUICE at THE MUSIC FACTORY Indie I 'The Bank Dick', BBC2, 12.45am - W.C.Fields 90's, f 2.50 on door. El a pint. £2 on door. El a pint. Dance / Dub / Hip-hop I Psychedelia. / £2.50. comedy in which he foils a bank robbery, THE LOVE BUTTON at ARCADIA - Dance, guests TWA. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s AT MR CRAIGS - Labatts and Castaway El ROCK NIGHT at THE WAREHOUSE - £2 B4 1 1pm £3 MENAGERIE at RICKY'S THE MILE HIGH CLUB at THE GALLERY becomes a bank guard, buys some worthless GORGEOUS at LEEDS UNI - Acid Jazz I Funk, E2 / El adv 70'S NIGHT at YEL THE THURSDAY BOP at LEEDS UNI - Mad music for mad shares, and goes into the movies. At least 3 ROCK / ALTERNATIVE / IN DIE at THE GALLERY - £2 NEW ROMANTICS at THE EXCHANGE - Free, ends 12ain. people - £1.50, 9pm '01112am. plots for the price of one. admission, f 1 a pint. POGO-A-GO-GO at SCRUMPIES - Punk / 70's. £2 STUDENT DISCO NIGHT at STOGGY'S BAR, Burley rd. Saturday 23rd STAND at BECKETT PARK - Acid jazz I funk / hip-hop Di Mark McGarth, admission £ I, open 10-2pm. soul. I Love You To Death', ITV, 9.00pm - Kevin 8-12, £1 on door. No adm after 10pm, Kline, Tracey Ullman, William Hurt & Stag Stge Keanu Reeves in half-hearted black comedy. e Based on a true story... IRE PLAY HOUSE - See Friday 'After Hours', ITV, 11.30pm - Rosanna C1> Stage WEST YORKSH WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - see Friday GRAND THEATRE as Tuesday THE GRAND THEATRE - See Tuesday Arquette proves too weird for Griffin THE CIVIC THEATRE - tel '455 505 / 476 962 CITY VARIETIES - as Monday, hut tickets £5.50 Dunne to handle after they meet in a diner, CITY VARIETIES - as Monday WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE - See Friday ALHAMBRA - as Tuesday ALHAMBRA - as Tuesday and he decides to go home. However, the GRAND 'THEATRE - tel 459 351 / 440971 HARROGATE THEATRE - tel : 0423 502 116 journey turns into a surreal, comic 'The Invisible Man' - 7.30pm. tickets from £6.50 'Midsummer Night's Dream' - 7,45pm, £5.50 CITY VARIETIES - as Monday THE STUDIO THEATRE, LMIJ - tel : 833 134 nightmare. THE ALHAMBRA tel : 0274 752000 tysistrata' by Eyewitness Theatre - 7.30pm. £4.50 / £3.00 Sunday 24th :- 'Aspects Of Love' - 7 30pm. from £5.00 'Silent Running', BBC1, 3.00pm - Perfect Sunday afternoon fare; eco-friendly film THE DUCHESS Musi c about an astronaut trying to save the last Mus ic TAR THE DRUM (THE FENTON) few tree samples, orbiting above a de- Solar System THE DUCHESS forested Earth. Low on drama, but warm THE DUCHESS. THE GROVE INN Gary Clark & Boo Hewerdine plus Walter Wray and captivating. THE IRISH CENTRE One Dove Tim Wood 'Annie Hall', BBC2, 10.45pm - Film of the THE DRUM THE FENTON) ALHAMBRA STUDIO Django Bates plus Delightful Precipice Bill Sykes Leslie Moorhouse - 1.05pm ROYAL PARK week. Anxious neurotic Alvy Singer THE GROVE INN RILEY SMITH HALL. LUU F.A.T. 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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 26 Sport Sit down you all!

With all seater stadium looming on the horizon Roger Domeneghetti looks at the pros and cons of all

terracing and seating.

ny talk about the they have in Italy it does seem future of English we are moving, perhaps Afootball now is forced and a little too late, in impossible with out attention the right direction. to the Hillsborough disaster Up until the Hilsborough and the susequent reports and disaster English football inquiry by Lord Justice stadia were woefully Taylor. inadequate facillities for The disaster itself was viewing entertainment. Apart merely a consequense of from a few exceptions most decades of the authorities football grounds were built in responding inadequately to the early part of this century the problem of 'crowd and, prior to 1989, hadn't trouble'. changed since. The most well known The only modernisation change to British football that that occured, apart from in the Taylor Report will bring is the '70s when perimiter the fact that, now, by the fencing was introduce, was the begining of next season all repairing of terraces and Premier League and First crash barriers. Division clubs will have to The quality of seating, P.A. have all seater stadia. systems, toilets, facilities for This has brought an the disabled amongst other remember Luton's cup tie A move that was saw at Meadow Lane last a disaster waiting to happen. amazing amount of things was all dirisory. Can with Millwall in March 1985 implemented to increase the season was one of the best I've Boards of Directors around complaints from fans who feel you imagine going to the will know all seater stadia are 'family' atmosphere and been to I also went to the the country played on the fact that their clubs identity is Royal Albert Hall for, say, the not the answer to hooliganism. encorage more people to come Division One play-off final at that fans wanted to stay being taken away from them. Last Night at the Proms and In that game the Millwall fans to games had failed, in the Wembley and despite being standing and thus escaped the The clubs themselves are having to piss up the wall managed to turn the all-seater 1979-80 season the average sat down my support for cost and effort of worried that the changes that outside the toilet because the Robbers Stand back into a attendance was 19000 in 1986 Leicester was in no way modernisation. It is this not are being forced upon them queue was to big? terrace by systematically it was less than 13000. effected. whether we sit at a football are going to send them into Well at Wembley ripping the seats up and In 1983 a small section of So we have two opposing ground that matters. financial ruin. I admit - as a supposedley the greatest attempting to bounce them off terracing was reopened and views. Those who feel that all- Leicester fan - that come the football ground in the world the police. Jimmy Hill resigned from the seater stadia will be end of the season I will be a this is reality. In 1981 Coventry City board after 25 years with the detremental to the sport by KEEP THOSE little bit upset that I won't be Most of the complaints decided to turn their club. 'Somthing revered in removing an intrinsic part of able to stand in 'pen 3' about the implementation of Highfield Road ground into Aberdeen' he said 'is spat the sport and those who belive SPORTS REPORTS anymore. all-seater stadia from fans the first all seater stadia in upon in Coventry', for once it it is the answer to the sports COMING IN. Also I can't understand centre around the fact that England; Aberdeen already seemed he was talking sense. problems. DROP THEM INTO why if I go to watch Leeds they see it as an anti- had one. Despite my own It may be fair to say that to Rugby League club I can hooliganism measure. This is This was an attempt to reservations about not being have all seater stadia is EITHER OUR stand on three sides of the seen as ineffective as most irradicate hooliganism from able to stand I know that it perhaps going too far, LMU OR LEEDS ground but at Elland Road I incidents of hooliganism occur the ground. Again it did not won't effect the way I or especially when one can stand UNIVERSITY won't be able to stand at all. outside football grounds such work completely as those who anyone else support a team. at countless rugby grounds OFFICE BY 5PM However if I think back to as the suurrounding streets wanted to, could still cause Notts County now have a around the country, at the 1990 World Cup and the and pubs, trains and buses. trouble. More importantley stadium which is all seater. concerts, even racecourses. MONDAY. quality and size of the stadia Indeed anyone who can attendances flopped. Atmosphere wise the game I However Hilsborough was ( THE ARMCHAIR THE TERRIBLE Grands d 10.1 In 2 7.55p ker; 5pm C4 Sun ay 2.00a onal Golf TIPSTER Spec •rts 4. s Ne BB ooker; he offer from his twin race offering only £2000 prize of one of his favourite Ame im Ips Tbrother of a stake in a money, even if your horse wins horses, Amrullah, who Tuesday 26th BBC I: 2.15pm International Rugby Union ITV 1 1.40pm greyhound syndicate has you're still going to be out of retired a couple of years ago. Sport Special Wednesday 27th:BBC I 10.30pm Sportsnight; ITV 10.45pm rekindled the Terrible pocket. Having shown potential Your Match Th :BBC pm SI. s - BBC2 4.00pm Tipster's ambition to own a Even so, this won't put the in 1985 Amrullah went on to noo racehorse. Terrible Tipster off, so beware lose every one of his 71 races However, owning a of the unknown outsider he ever competed in. His racehorse is even less called 'Terrible Tipster' owner John Bridger profitable than following the romping home to win the described him as "a pet". T ES Terrible Tipster's dodgy tips. Cheltenham Gold Cup in ten This week the Terrible Excluding the initial cost years time. Tipster turns his attention to y 23 tober of buying a horse, it takes a Last week's tip acted like a Doncaster and fancies Play FOOTBALL: Leeds vs Blackburn; Hartleypool vs Bradford; stagering £16,000 a year to novice out for the exercise and Hever Golf to win in th 2.10 Barnsley vs Southend; Burnley vs Huddersfield. just feed, train and stable the experience. His performance and Dude in the 3.10 to win. RUGBY LEAGUE: beast and, with the average reminded the Terrible Tipster See you in the bookies. Halifax vs Wigan; United Kingdom Vs New Zealand (Headingley)

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993 Sport 27

Leeds swing into action Football whitewash Leeds University Golf Team started their campaign for the Northern UAU title last S Wednesday away to Durham writes Steve Church. With a side comprising of 3 new faces hopes were high, until it became clear home course advantage to Durham was clearly paying dividends. Leeds University 1 Leeds last man Nick Statham achieved the only P LMU 3 victory for Leeds, with halved matches for captain By Andy Myers Mike Stewart and number one Steve Church giving a final score of Durham 4-2 Leeds. lways a memerable fixture this year's Leeds Hard match at Durham Aderby was given the added spice of counting towards It was a high-spirited netball squad which travelled the final UAU points table. to Durham for the first match of the season in the The game played at UAU League write Louise Wagener and Claire Weetwood started at a frenetic Hartley. Amongst the regulars were some new R pace with the LMU side having faces and even some oldies returned from years the best of the early encounters. abroad ! However the progressively worsening After a mere ten minutes weather conditions and the discovery that Durham LUU lost the services of their were fielding two England players did dampen captain Matt Elder with a badly these spirits somewhat. T sprained ankle but with the The first team started off excellently, bringing the introduction of new boy Ian score to 12-6 after the first quarter. By half-time Hughes they seemed spurred though it had evened out to 21-21. Leeds put up a into action. good fight but even some impressive shooting by It was the Uni. side that took Dawn Shires and Anna Thomas could not pull the Leeds Unt defender goes In hard Plc : Lisa Plasco the lead on 25 minutes when an score back to our advantage. Final score 47-39. Anderson free kick was steered and had midfielder Tarino sent improvement and will be up domination. The second Team played a promising game, but into the net by Martin Walton. off in a decision as strange that there with LMU challenging for The second half saw the Uni. with four new Ist year players, so no previous The rest of the half saw much of the German ref. in England's league and UAU honours. came back into the game but the team practise. we were at a disadvantage. Final I competing and battling but little last game. Facing an uphill The Second team match was game was sealed with a second Score 43-24. in the way of possecion football. battle the Uni side fought hard a rather characterless derby lit clinical finish from Silk. The Minutes before half time LMU. but LMU side always seemed in up by two quality goals in an frustrated Uni team searched for Across flat country equalised when a defensive control. overall 3-1 win writes Murray a consolation goal and it came in Last week saw the first fixture for Leeds mistake by Stiff was clinically The third goal was enevitable Withers. The first LMU goal was the final minute with a N University Cross-Country Club at the Manchester punished. and it came with around 20 a true stikers goal from Nathan debateable penalty. University Relays, Wythenshawe Park writes Ellie The early action in the minutes left after another Silk. Gerrard added a second After the game LMU's Chadwick. A bright day and a short, flat course second half proved critical in the defensive mistake. Overall a w ith a glorious 30 yard strike. captain admitted he surprised by final analysis of the game. deserved victory for LMU. but LMU failed to add a third in the the Universities poor showing. combined to produce a large turn-out and some Within 5 minutes of the restart the University side will first half despite Ashley and The truth was however they swift times. the University went 2-1 down undoubtedley be looking for Macmillan's midfield never let them play. In the mens' event Leeds A-team finished 14th overall. but were in fact fourth university home. Particularly impressive legs were run by Mark Colpus who flew round the round the 2 mile B course in just under I() minutes (making him the Leeds Uni fight back too late fifth fastest leg over all) and Pete Steel who clocked 10.28. They were backed up by a strong However this was not the terratorial advantage. working Wilson but LMU hit team consisting of Chris Maxwell, Jim McCarron, case - within the first five Hammel went close and back straight away when a Tony Bennett and John Greenwall. R minutes, Andy Hey scored an Middleton had a try wayward pass hit Hinchcliffe The women were equally successful with the A- oppurtunist try beside the disallowed before a crucial five on the knee and he hacked on team coming home 14th over all (sixth university). posts which Hammel! minute spell decided the to score putting LMU in the An especially speedy performance was put in by converted. This was quickly match. Firstly Hincliffee used lead 26-13. Two late University first year Jenny Harrison who ran twentieth fastest followed by an Ian Bell drop his pace on the outside to tries by Chris Cain and Lowe leg overall with a time of 12.48. Fellow A-team I goal giving LUU 7-0 lead. Both sprint 40 yards to the line, brought them back into the members, Laura Woffenden and Michelle Birdsall also ran well. Past member of the University team. 4 UU opened their fixtures sides exchanged penalty goals Snape converting. game but the final whistle Lucy Wright, ran superbly claiming the prestigious 1 against local rivals and and then Mark Cain was put Then just before the half came too soon. I prize for fastest leg overall. near neighbours LMU. A late away down the wing. He time whistle slick LMU For LUU credit must be switch of ground from kicked ahead and only exellent handling allowed them to score given to new boys Phil Procter E LMU cover prevented another in the corner. and Owen Hollyman while for Beckett's Park to Weetwood Leeds destroy Durham led to a mix up leaving LUU LUU try. In the second half LMU had LMU Child and Hill exploited coachless. This coupled with Penalties allowed LMU to most of the early pressure but any space given to them. With high expectations for the new season the 1st injuries and lack of a serious progress upfield and good it was some time before Childs Special mention must be given football XI travelled to face a traditionally strong training sesion would have work put the winger in at the put Kennedy away to round to the referee who controlled Durham side writes Andrew Myers . The team F made one expect LUU would corner. LUU however with the the full back and score. LUU the game well and kept it remained largely unchanged from the previous be slow to get into their stride. wind behind them kept the replied with a try to the hard flowing throughout. season except for the inclusion of first year Mike Earl and the return of Andy Hassle. Sport reports On a comparitivley good day for football the should be LMU miss out on valuable UAU win eleven started with great poise and determination, submitted, and the first half an hour saw the kind of quality to either our There were clearly two This seemed to give went much like the first but football for which the University are renowned and LUU or Men's Hockey different brands of hockey on LUU a fresh impetous and with a two goal cusion LUU brought Leeds two goals. The first from captain LMUSU show. LUU preffered a clean their neet passing started to looked a lot more relaxed. Mark Elder after good work down the left wing office, by passing game and whilst this pay. Three LUU short corners First year Stuart McLean 5pm the Leeds University 4 notably from Martin Walton, and the second from looked pretty it was LMU's came in quick succession and put the game beyond doubt Paul Anderton. Monday LMU 1 stronger style that seemed to Rob Atkinson capitalised on with a fantastic goal on the With the half time score at 2-0 Leeds were able to preceeding By Roger Domeneghetti be working better with most the third. edge of the 'D' and from a soak up much Durham pressure in the first quarter publication of the play in the LUU half. Less than five minutes very tight angle. of an hour of the second half. The game, however If you have Ilespite the scoreline this Twenty minutes into the later and still against the LMU were still undetered was effectiveley settled when man-of-the-match any queries was a hard fought battle game LMU were awarded a generall run of play LUU and minutes after Scofield hit Cowking broke through and after sending the please with LMU possibly even penalty for a stick tackle. This were awarded a penalty flick the post Fielden came keeper the wrong way slotted the ball into the net. contact having the edge. was however missed by Neil and captain Rik Coope somewhere near Although Durham fought back with a goal of their Richard LMU started well but the Feilden, 5 minutes later he stepped forward to put it compensating for his mistake own, a fourth goal. which eventually came in the Fletcher on University side was able to had another chance to put the neatly to the right of the with a goal. Before the end form of a second Elder goal. was always on the 434727 or soak up all the pressure Metro Uni one up but missed keeper. Mclean scored his second cards. 314251. playing very well in defense. a second penalty. Early second half play making the final score 4-1.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 22nd October 1993

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THE A tough FINAL WHISTLE hether you think Bullfighting is an Wart, a sport or just plain barbarism there can be no denying the fact that as Spain's national sport it remains popular. This may be great for the 'punters' who pay their money derby Batt e but its not so good for the bulls. Indeed bulls are now not just being killed but also criticised for their supposed Rugby Union lack of quality in the arena. The debate as to why their .44 Leeds University 14 quality has changed is a long LMU 23 and heated one. By Murray Withers The whole style of bullfighting has changed in the past hundred years. In the here was always little early 19the century the between the two sides and emphasis was on the actual it was fitting that the game T killing of the bull. However should be decided by a try that this all changed after Juan would grace any game - a Bellmonte introduced his own wonderful solo effort by no. 14 style based around control of Bruce that had the strong LMU the bull with his cape. contingent in raptures. The Uni As the style of fighting had made the better running in changed so therefore the bulls the 1st half (Matt Coley's early had to adapt. Now they need try attested to this) and spent long more stamina and need to be periods ensconced inside the smaller to contend with the LMU's 22. However that longer and more intricate pressure was not translated into fights. Stock breeders now points and LMU took due look for bulls with what they advantage near the end of the half call nobleza or nobility. This is - gunning down a back who tried done by carefully selecting to run out with the ball - and then converting the opportunist try. cows and bulls at the age of The sometimes bad-tempered two. first half dissappeared in the 2nd Despite the apparent as the LMU found their rythum Leeds University and UAU'in action Plc: Ed Crispin attention to breeding many bulls cower or even fall over and began to dictate play while let themselves down with bad when the offensive was with and penalty kicks that never the front line control reflected in the before fights. But why? Some the Uni had clearly not ironed out handling (something replacement them. By the time Bruce's less emphasized their 2nd half overall scoreline. As skipper and feel that the bulls are tortured the errors that had led to the captain Dania] Hanson agreed winning try had been made LMU control.Whilst the Uni perhaps hooker Dave Iris confirmed- we too much in the preliminary LMU's try. Time and again they with afterwards) - especially could afford to miss drop goals played below potential the LMU showed our dominance.' fights. Others believe the breeding process is at fault - with studs being chosen via

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L MEN'S: MEN'S: MEN'S: inbreeding. 1st LUU 1 vs 3 LMU The most controversial U 1st LUU 14 vs 23 LMU 1st LUU 4 vs 1 LMU 2nd LUU I vs 3 LMU explanation however is that S 2nd LUU 30 vs 5 LMU 2nd LUU 1 vs 1 LMU IIV bullfighters are using their 3rd LUU 15 vs 7 LMU E 3rd LUU 9 vs 1 LMU influence to make sure that

ll bulls are rather weaker than WOMEN'S: R WOMEN'S: they could be. This allegation 1st LUU 0 vs 14 LMU 1st LUU vs LMU conceded WOMEN'S: and the continuing lack of U. 1st LUU 0 vs 1 LMU quality of the animals may 11Sa undermine the popularity of A. 2nd LUU 1 vs 2 LMU the sport. I bet the bulls are

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