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BY SHIRAZ LALANI SCORES 01 readers have hacked the Leeds Student campaign to scrap the controversial San ban at
Seventy-three per cent of AT PARTY NI callers to the special Leeds Student hotline want to see Britain's best-selling Fresher rushed newspaper hack on union newsagency shelves. Sun MO , And bosses have added their support as the campaign gathers momentum. to hospital after Neil Wallis. the paper's deputy editor. declared. "Isn't democracy a wonderful thing? People will make up disco accident their own minds and the truth will always out. People vote every day when they buy The BY SAM ROSE Sun." A FRESHER broke her neck Support after falling headfirst at a union The Leeds Student phone poll gave students the chance event that went horribly wrong. to have their say in the debate that was the talk of the Becky Tyler narrowly escaped being university last week. and the paralysed after she fell during a bar fly result was a resounding vole game last week. She hurled herself at of support for the banned PaPer- the game's velcro wall but tumbled Neil Wallis had the final word, "The ban is insulting when her playing suit failed to stick. and armeant. It's the sort of Dozens of students looked on in horror as thing you do to children. I Becky suffered a fractured vertebrae in the treat my 12-year-old daughter in the Same way, but when incident at 077', a regular disco night staged she% grown up I will have to by LMUSU. respect her intelligence - even She is now recovering in hospital and has had a if she wants to read The half-bodice brace pinned to her skull. The painful Mirror." 'crown' will have to remain in place for the next 12 SEE LETTERS, PAGE 7 weeks. Becky. a Youth and Community student is considering taking legal action against the event organisers. I screamed HOW YOU VOTED with pain but no one came over to help me." she claimed. "I 1/tit Idhrnv pill rr ■rAlt■I then had to make my own to way to hospital " IhAl tt idle Her art' Ill favour The organisers have expressed their sympathy. "We are ur hrinoria (hr Sun black horrified to hear of any such occurrence at one of our eR4 to tlini011shrise.s. ThiN is events." said Elliot Reuben of 077: "Rest assured that we ti 111.1k ”.1t1 t utedi have cancelled our contract with the suppliers of this equipment, who are clearly responsible for its operation." Sisovid tfK Sim rho Wahl? Simon Caffrey. President of 1.1101LISU. was "appalled and distressed" by the accident. "The union is concerned to do everything which is reasonably practical to ensure that all events and activities it organises are operated to proper r standards of safety," he said. "There will be no more stage k: CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AGONY: Becky recovering in hospital after the accident that could have left her paralysed Pk Willem Jaspert pull-out magazine 2 LEEDS STUDENT Friday October t8. 1996
the non- cancelled. THE wind of change has plight of refugees. larCe agdIlls1 Perhaps it means LUU been whistling through They would always e llAcK existent Estonian learn a Exec have followed the LIA.J. New shops. new the year disappointed. couple of weeks ago. coats of paint. a new sign instructed by experience The cock-up theory is example of LMUSU and STUDENT on the front door. New that never more than a very easy to believe, given up on general Exec members. new name dozen of like minded A weekly sketch of student politics simply through weight of meetings and democracy. This week in Britain's experience. Only LUU They'll do the whole thing badges. new egos. You people would follow their ptobably accounts lor hall Exec could fait to submit behind closed doors and biggest weekly can't even make off with pied piping. the people who did make hundreds of thousands of This y ear scents to he an agenda to themselves by hope no one remembers a self-imposed deadline they exist. It's on student newspaper pounds and get away with different. For 1_111S week's If you're now regretting and so declare their own increasing trend around the it under the new regime. OGM at LLIU there was your absence from the meeting null and void. world these days. But one age old pledge virtually no publicity. You great event. don't. As it NEWS But the conspiracy So what on earth is it of Exec members past is would have had to he aiming for new levels of theory is gathering that Exec are so keen to intriguingly missing from Bruce Hanky 's most absurdity. it was momentum all the time. No keep quiet from the Violence on the current crop: getting intimate companion - with announced that the meeting publicity and then questioning student public? students involved in union access to his personal of the few would not go constitutional suicide: it One is hard pushed to the streets of politics There was always diaries - to have the ahead. simply because the must be great to he able to imagine one earnest fresh-faced faintest hope of agenda had been published Leeds: special sabotage your own Anyone would evangelist who everyone discovering that a meeting after the constitutional meetings. It's like telling think the union knew would spend the was on the cards. deadline. report your tutor you couldn't he had mislaid Patties 4-5 entire year sprinting Or by some fluke you At just 2.7 seconds, this bothered doing a huge sums of around the union building might just happen to have meeting eclipsed even presentation and so the money or shouting about some been in the Riley. Smith Scotland's footballing meeting to do with the hall at the time. which seminar will have to he something. Not what you expected: student life and all that Page 6 IniurY FEATURE horror Dream on: on Minor fail what goes in your mind at party pages 12-13 OUTLOOK night Hitting the CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE high vote: the games until a full risk forces resit assessment has been carried election cometh out on all equipment. BY JUDITH KNIGHT AND PHIL KERFOOT Obviously processes need to pages 16-17 1 be reviewed." AN UNLUCKY student has fallen foul of Becky's mother, speaking from her bedside. said: SPORT university regulations and is being forced "Becky is going through hell: to postpone his final year after failing just the doctors keep having to three per cent of his degree in his minor tighten up the bolts on the Modahl on she brace and she goes into shock overcame her subject area. from the pain.- But others have Dr Brent MacGregor. Becky is being discharged drugs storm at the end of next week but been allowed to the Communications es 22-23 Undergraduate Tutor, said refuses to let the accident he pag continue their studies "A minor programme is forgotten. "I just want to let after twice failing determined by the partner people know how dangerous much larger department." these things can he " P1 proportions of their Tony Jones. Head of Undergraduates for main courses.leading Business and Economic to the system being Studies said."Students who described as a tail pre-requisites cannot -lottery-. progress on their In a recent programme Each situation Com munication. is considered separately but we have to apply the same Studies student at. Leeds rules to everyone to he University w ho does not fair- wish to he named. has The Taught Courses been told that his only handbook states that option is to take a year students have three chances out and resit a ten credit to pass a course and so the Management States student in question will exam that he failed in have another opportunity in his minor course area. June and may be able to ON THE N proceed. Negotiations A n 41 t It e r A BOSNIAN aid festival Is set I 01 h October in LL t kiley HORIZON Communications student to explode lint° the streets of Smith Hall and aims to continue Naga ManChenti There have been failed a compulsory twenty Leeds this Saturday when top raising money for Rout. Chiel Reporter with forecaster Stevie Sunshine ongoing negotiations with credit module in his major bands get together with other convoys to Bosnia. the Management last summer and tailed the acts in support of Bosnia 'The original festival to.•s int .1 salts It you hear Saturday: 1541, 1. convoys place in August in Tuila. department since re-so. but the department .1ii• thing you think mit.i.ht be day with has allowed him to The 'Art Of Freedom Bosnia as a result of a Outlook fier the September. but he is still A s. Jo let us know. It could scattered complete his degree Festival', which originally took 'collaboration between problem writ your home. a rest af the week: unsure where tie starids. showers. Max. uninterrupted. ptace in Bosnia. will consist of organisations including 'Anise-. . ,mpetition you've won or a Cloudy. driuly "I've been given no temperature: However Or MacGregor music. including British band For A United Bosnia' and .ifamt what your mates got with strong satisfactory explanation as has defended the decision Dodgy, visual pertbmianee 'Student Porkers Aid I oi up to the pees n Us meht. Leech 15C 153F1. Min winds. to why I've failed"• he saying."This isn't exactly a an and workshop. Bosnia'. IS I I'll,' IV ,I0.1 In am,,,thiry temperature: said. -and the situation Starlet,: parallel ease. He got WO The Leeds version of the The common -31111 01 blob that's out oi 11,111-1.1f . Your 9C i44F) seems so stupid that I've credits and could proceed. testis al includes inatisr club the Bosnian and Lixds festivals kept going to try and gel call will of c t,rst ht. n ested 111 Sunday: Cloudy but didn't meet P1‘,1110111MS such as Its Otwitlits. is to represent rhe mulfi•eitime 1:t111111104; L tWiltd0110.1, but it you 'antic sense.- day with departmental legation-ins. 1).11.11.e and Funky Mule and society that loos esists Ire pretel II could he a shots-cut It appears his parent outbreaks of 'The course was a me- hands ranging horn rock to Bosnia and to maintain Ili ill III.: your nante in pi department 1111•e pct rain leading to requisite And he .snood 4:.werimental drum and Kass awareness that tor man authority to influence the take the courses that hollow and toter through to opera The liosmans their problems .1,-• a clear night. decision Max. temp. 1nC on from it festival takes place on Saturday only lust bc:.•ripply 243 472
LEEDS STUDENT Friday October 18, 1998 Green gurus' award for
development LEEDS has gin the green light SAVAGE THUGS from Euro-bosses for its environmental friendliness in a competition against thousands of other European cities, writes Ben Sinunons. 11 has been chosen to receive the much sought-after 'Certificate of Distinction' presented by a European Conference in Lisbon. REVERSE OVER The Conference- was attended by Leeds City Council Leader. Brian Walker. who was among ore than a thousand delegates im around Europe. Leeds was congratulated for progress towards 'sustainable ldevelopment'. The award recognises the BATTERED GIRL steps being taken by Leeds to 'mprove the quality of life for its BY ALEX ROLLS .esidents and to enhance the :ty's environment. Be happy and healthy u In his speech at the A 'DRIVE-BY' attack by a violent gang conference, Councillor Walker has left a group of students seriously revealed some of the targets set injured. for the improvement of the city in the future.Plans are afoot to One of the victims suffered a broken reduce CO, levels and by the cheekbone while one of his female companions year 2006. Leeds will he was reversed over by a van after being kicked accredited to an internationally and punched to the ground. recognised environmental standard. The incident occured outside the Unipol offices at approximately 2.15 ant Passers-by last Thursday. The five Student in students, having just left ignore pleas Move On lip. noticed a drugs case small white minibus turning oft Woodhouse for help on A COURT called a Leeds Lane inter the side street. student to give crucial evidence Emma Bucking. a 2nd in a drugs trial last week. writes busy road year Sociology student al Nareed Raja. Intervene. Charlotte Allman testified Leeds University said. "1 "People were just trying to against alleged drug dealer Alex just thought. they were avoid the situation. They Johnson at Birmingham Crown stopping to get some food were looking at us and then Court. She said she had seen or something.- crossing the road without him preparing drugs which are doing anything even though said to have led to the death of Screaming there was a phone-box on her sister's boyfriend, Philip the corner," claimed Emma. Davies. But as the minibus door She stated that in June 1994 opened a gang of about Punches Johnson had arrived with seven men jumped out several hundred Ecstasy pills screaming -Who's starting-?" The girls finally managed to and a lump of cannabis the size and "Don't worry about us. get two male passers-by to of a football and that she had we're just on something" help. but the gang then seen him weighing the drugs recalls Emma. turned on Laura Shaw. After and packaging them. The men then proceeded receiving a series of punches Other witnesses later told of to drag Paulo Silva, a 3rd and kicks to the head she fell how Johnson had been year Engineering student at to the ground. Lucy's overheard telling of "the line of Leeds University; to the attackers then climbed back smack" that he dealt to Davies ground, kicking him several into their van and reversed which led to his death. times in the head leaving right over her leg leaving it The trial continues. hitn with a broken not broken but seriously cheekbone. They then turned bruised, before making their on Dan Whittles, another escape. Whitewash member of the group, but he The police have taken a managed to ward off their special interest in the ease A £12,000 facelift for LMUSU attacks. following a similar attack City Site has heen denounced Meanwhile the female recently and are appealing as "pointless and wasteful" hy students in the group. Laura for anyone who was in the angry students, writes Daniel Shaw, Lucy Gash, and area at the time to come Clarendon. Emma Booking were forward with any The project was pleading (or passers-hs to Mike McCarthy of the BBC in conversation outside LOU PIC Estelle Reynolds undertaken by unqualified and inexperienced union employees after the jobs were MENTAL Health Day got who launched the balloons. display alongside celebrity not advertised or put out to off to a flying start last said he felt it was contributions from NUS Housing hell advice tender. Thursday with a balloon important to get rid of the President Douglas Trainer, HOUSING advisory bodies - pick up a leaflet from Simon Caffrey, President of launch on the steps of stigma attached to mental Thar Morning .s resident have rushed to offer advice to Welfare on your right. LNIUSU, defended the union's Leeds University Union. health problems. He added. psychiatrist and a whole students in the wake of last - the landlord does not take actions, saying "We employed The event. one of many "it is wrong that the media host of MPs. week's provocative Leeds action, speak to Welfare whir can students who already work for throughout the country, places so much emphasis LMUSU also held their Student triton on the state of the give tire legal advice and/or take us. It probably cost the same watt staged to promote on looking good physically, own balloon release at housing market in Leeds, writes action on your behalf. as getting professional awareness of mental health and yet it is not fashionable Beckett Park on Friday. Anne Parkhouse. All students should also contractors but we thought it problems among young to think about tieing They staged other events Andrea Kerslake. LUU check that landlords have signed would help students out." He people, especially students. healthy mentally." throughout the week. Welfare Services Officer, says Unipol's Code of Standards. also denied claims that the It has been revealed that The union has held including a quit night. a that there are several things that which gives guidelines for refurbishment had been I in 4 people will suffer a events to try and help theatre workshop and students with housing problems dealing with tenants and botched, saying that there had mental health problem at people express their relaxation classes. can do: completing repairs quickly. just been a "few spillages". some time in their lives. feelings, Any students wanting - write and inform the There is pre sure for landlords to This latest storm comes with 1 in 7 facing serious They encouraged further information on landlord of the problem. giving sign the Code because there is after LMUSU spent El AM on mental health disorders. students to write their Mental Health can call a time limits for action fierce competition to not houses an Outward Bound weekend BBC Look North thoughts in a thought special helpline on Leeds: - follow up the letter with a and a surplus of student for members of exec. presenter Mike McCarthy bubble and pin it up in a 2440.156. phone call aci:ornmodatitin. 4 LEEDS STUDENT Friday October 18. 1996 NEWSFILE STUDENTS LIVING IN TERROR AFTER No smoke without fire Gang of youths TOBACCO giant Camel have denied that a major new campaign is aimed at encouraging students to take up smoking, write.c Naga Alunchetty. The "Toucan Talk" incentive scheme rewards smokers with a El plinnecard for every three packets smoked. Along with its new design, the rompany are making is big effort to attract new strike in violent eustome But Camel l'ress Officer, Geoffrey Erankcom refutes any suggestion that the company is encouraging non-smokers In try the brand, and claims that the new marketing drive is aimed at enticing smokers of other brands to switch allegiance. !application forms for the free phunecards will he easily available in hate campaign SIN shops to student smokers.
BY BEN BURKE-DAVIES AND NAGA MUNCHETTY A VICIOUS gang of local youths has launched a sinister series of violent attacks against students. The group of thugs are believed to he responsible for a series of armed attacks over the weekend in the Hyde Park area that have left some victim~ hospitalised and others afraid to leave their homes. Calling themselves 'The Youth of Today'. the mob of 10-16 year olds have been FAG ENDS: Camel cigarettes are assaulting their targets with targeting student smokers pc:Pete Colon baseball hats, iron bars and gill!' clubs, Other students have been terrorised by 'lasing stones and live Women learn in fireworks thrown at them. A Le e (ft St 14 den investigation has resealed that awareness days these .are not isolated incidents, but rather part of an AWARENESS days to help women tackle increasingly extreme 'student- violence against them were held last campaign. Last weekend, writes Jennifer Humphre•, bashing' The two day presentation put on by weekend. a barraee of African-Caribbean women, was open to unprovoked attacks were both men and women, and aimed to launched against passing increase public awareness of violence groups of students in the against women. The events were co• Woodhouse Moor area Several ordinated by Khadijah Ibrahiim an individuals were seriously hurt African Caribbean outreach winker from and required medical attention. the area. One luckless victim, Jason It is estimated that in Leeds each year Scott. an Architectural Technology ATTACK: A reconstruction of an attack in Hyde Park, a recent fteshpolnt plc: Pete Conon 35.000 women are suffering violence of some form from men who are known to fresher at EMU, suffered facial LUU where the police were called_ believe the scale of the violence. A local businessman, who them. injuries when he and several Other victims of the gang also I'm lust Wondering how much wished to remain anonymous. Sunday saw drama. poetry and dance friends were arnhu:hed after arrived for treatment and longer my luck will last." explained...It's utter madness I just in a display that aimed to empower leaving then house. paramedics had to give on the spot Fellow student Anne McCartan, feel as if I'm in New York rather women and let them learn about violence treatment_ an Environmental Health finalist at than Leeds. It certainly doesn't through powerful presentation. Punched The police claim they air aware LMU, agreed,"It's disgusting and help business." The information day which was held "All of a sudden we heard of the increasing problem and have pretty frightening actually It's • In a separate move, Leeds on Monday offered advice from a wide someone shout, 'Get them'.'," he taken steps to further their presence really strange not to he able to University Union are to debate a range of agencies. Local solicitors. said. " I knew one of them was in the area. However, students still walk hack home in satetv." whether to'introduce a safety counsellors and housing projects all behind me, and as I turned round remain apprehensive about their International I-Iasiur> and rninibu, for men joined together in order to support the he punched the square on the jaw future safety. Politics finalist, "row Button. The motion, to he brought up at weekend's activities and to help the and I fell to the ground. Thankfully Graham Cook, a Physics finalist summed up the wealth of student the nest union council meeting, cause at Leeds University says that he is resentment. "I'm sick ‘.1•1 these yobs ■11% s that it is not just women who Deputy Manager of Leeds Women's my mates were lucky enough to get away but I lust remember outraged by the continued thinking students are 17 safe touch. are at risk from being attacked Aid, Moya Woolven described the e% staggering 141 in a date incidents 'What's going on is Hopeful ly, one day someone will whilst on their way home and that as well attended and a big success " 10 reach absolutely mental and I can't leash them a damn good lesson.- men should he protected. This was the first awareness day of its The students managed kind in Leeds but organisers say similar events are being planned fur the neat Immo" The scoop on Proops - we talk to Greg
LEEDS STUDENT Friday October le, NEW SERIES OF VICIOUS ATTACKS No return from summer storage BY NAGA MUNCHETTY A FIRM which which ate worth well over stores the belongings f 1.0110. Mr vemhook's of international explanation for the firm's students over the apparent lack of concern summer is allegedly towards their student i►i,:t4MICT, Is that they are holding on to the -cylreincly busy at Om ume possessions that and onfortunatel) we arc have been entrusted quite behind schedule nu our to them. work Regardless of the Reassured outrage of international r Pernhook has students, the storage reassured Trailing Standards company Campustor. officers that students who far has apparently been heir details to the company experiencing financial w Ill have their cases dealt with within two days. difficulties with the ,tiindents have also been firm who handle their intormed by Campustor that delis cries and so cannot they will not reeci ■e their return many students' possessions until full possessions payment for the storage service has been made. Hut in the meantime, there Ignored are students such as Shenne Upset student Sherine who are without their winter Selrarajah claims to have clothes, stereos and other been ignored by the personal possessions. The Welfare Service at. Leeds company's general University Union have been manager when she rang up offering help to the students to find out what had involved with Campustor happened to her things. following their problems. She says that Laurie Welfare services have also Pembook did very little to got names of other removal help and she is still left and storage firms for waiting for her belongings international students to use in the future.
AREA: All the attacks took place in the Hyde Park area of Leeds Six, Below, we have highlighted three different cases and the people and places involved.
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A heroic fight-back by one victim of the mob proved to be in vain. Second- year Richard Tindall, a Broadcasting student at Leeds University, was Monday 21 October attacked along with three friends by at least 10 of the youths late on Saturday night. Isolated during the fight, he managed to force his way clear only to trip over as he fled. Once down on the ground, the gang repeatedly stamped on his head causing serious injury. Does the prospect of writing up application He suffered a fractured cheekbone, which may require surgery. forms fill you with dread? Are you uncertain about how to complete one, and a bit confused about what is and isn't relevant information? HYDE PARK MOORLAND If you answer yes to any of these questions ROAD why not come and meet Ernst & Young. As a leading International firm of Chartered Four friends were traumatised on A Friday night walk for Leeds Monday night by the so called "Youth University English Finalist Chris Accountants we handle thousands of of Today" when they were on a night Mooney soon turned into a applications every year. We will let you know out. The female member of the group nightmare when he realised that did not escape injury as she was hurled he was being followed by about what we look for and give you some helpful against a wall, whilst one of the other 10 youths. students had the shirt ripped from his He managed to avoid several hints and tips on how to complete application back and his watch stolen. Jay punches from the gang before forms and improve your chances of success. Connolly and the female, who does seeing two of the attackers not wish to be named, managed to flee brandishing golf clubs. to a nearby house in order to phone the Chris was able to escape by police. Meanwhile, James Robson and charging through the mob and friend were forced to seek sanctuary in running away. He later witnessed Brudenell Mount, where they were the same group of youths For more information, speak to the Careers Service picked up by their friends and the attacking another man who was police. laid prone on the ground. El ERNST &YOUNG The ()nisei kingdom firm of Erma & Young n a member of Lino e loins burrnanonal 6 LEEDS STDDEN1 Fndav October 18 1996 AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE ONE LONG PARTY STUDENT Lena Student is an itthlepenclent neuspeper toentris rdtalellix ar Lertb■Mctropaluan Utuvensily, Sze& Ilniverait) anaiither in aria around Letth. Ali out Jour-I-Wigs abide-by Anode as condom hill it you have any ritohlonl. pleasse contact the Va.., Conaticbis, :11111nbutimii. ;111,1 helpful eritleiam arc invites!
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Rooks Jennifer Matthews never told you Clubs Ocorge Ruder 0 what did you expect when Comment hate limehani you signed up i-n I ash for your stint of Ilotripuling Shigher education? NIatihev. Resell Certainly the thing that Fashion attracts new student'. to Clam Edwards this town in drove. I. its Clare Lister nightlife and reputation as Features the cultural capital of the Emma Al-Jumaili North. Clare Nlwanis But every student knows Chris Leadhcaier Mike Pflanz that Leeds life is not so rosy. During the summer you are 1.hrtings frequently informed that in .10c 11.11,11111: October you arc going hack
Music Iii an easy life in a lively. Lica bast happening city, a haven of Owen Gibson the club scene in the North. Picas Martin What you find instead is that aim Mofincy you are living in crime News central and that the image of Abhie Jones Leeds does not reflect this. Andy Kelk Higher education is big Shiraz Lahti], business, and whatever the Chief Reporter image studenlis Naga Munelleit!, of penniless living a shoe-string existence, Pictures the universities do make up a 11111cni Jasper large chunk of the local Ikputies economy. Octoher's new influx Pete Comm of students brings a new fleet of Nick Lee cars, stereos and hank accounts This does not only attract the Politics Tina Burris honest businessman who - have to realise that by choosing economics dictates - must Leeds as a place of study they Production follow flows of cash around the are increasing their chances of Steve Cooper country, but also allows a being a victim of crime. Many Oliver Quinn criminal subculture to fester in now have nothing of worth in Eleanor Rose the hean of student ville. The my possession so that if they Kale Toon universities. of course, do not are robbed (again, the thieves condone this behaviour. but as BY WARREN LUSH Science will be wasting their time. This David Adam education becomes more brings a strange kind of security market-dnven. it is not in their and is a stark realisation of how Sport Interest to acknowledge the life has changed since leaving Zoc Fella problem that many returning halls, Alex Couhhay students might feel the situation houses. What can we do The unions do give advice What is clear is that Leeds is Paul Wilson another number in West WatralltS though? The burglar ignores the Yorkshire Police's crime on crime prevention but a not as welcoming as it is Total Football It would he bad marketing Koh Ohene-Ditin alarm. does their job swiftly statistics, another case of burglar appears to ignore all sometimes portrayed to be. fur the universities to mention and leaves you vulnerable and simply getting a crime number security devices. An alarm There is a great social Iife and Travel crime figures in their hollow. The criminal does not for your insurance. sometimes does not deter them there is always somewhere to Charlotte Marra prospectus but the extent of the agree and piles on the pain the and their solution to breaking go every night. However, when crime problem Is given short Tamsin Martin next day when I disturb two ll the student can do is lucks is to ram through the front you do go out the burglars Jo Young shrift. Instead all we hear is that young kids breaking into a never go out. never go to door 'Crime Prevention' does come Out to play. There is "Leeds is an exciting and friend's ear outside my house. classes and implement a not slop the determined. risk always the risk that when you Chief Sub vibrant city" as the Vice- A Crime statistics show that 25% 24-hour surveillance operation taking burglar. do exploit the lively nature of 'Finn Miles Chancellor of Leeds of burglars return w ithin a short on the surrounding area and The government could the city that when you come Metropolitan University states Leeds Student vreb site time to ihe place they have drain pipes The idea of staying introduce stricter sentences fur hack you witness the darker in the 1996 prospectus_ Oliver Quinn already robbed to see if there is under house finest means you burglary.supposedly deterring We to the city_ Like most. 1 did drink too anything else worth stealing. To might catch them. But what the burglar from taking a risk. During Introweek we are touch in Intmweek and on the DEPARTMENT HEADS make things worse we could not would you dcv.' Run at them However. Britain's prisons are bombarded with images of first night - which was contact our landlord to inform with a machine gun screaming still overcrowded and juvenile merry drunken hinges and Rusinets Manager incidentally my birthday - I him of the incidents.This is "time to die punk"! The only offenders' involvement in meeting strange new people. Helen Whitcool. arrived home to find my front Leeds student life 199t% - forget option is to let them have your burglary further complicates the The literature on crime that we door smashed in and the parties and studying. This is a stereo, your money and even issue. Longer sentencing is not get goes under our beds or in Director of Communications contents of my pnvately rented ticorgc Butler real experience of Leeds. minus the light bulb in your room as going to improve things in the the bin, not a priority at all. house empty. We had been the glamour. long as your life is not least. Even if you did read it from robbed, and to make it worse Editorial hotline: A couple of hours after my threatened. The student is they had taken my housemate's The Prime Minister may talk cover to carver you know that (0113) 243 4727. burglary. the police gave us helpless and crime will a lot about law and order and you can never be totally sure of ear. So touch for the "easy" Some advice on crime continue to be a cloud above even if a way of fighting the preventing your house being Advertising hotline: student life in the party city. prevention after commenting their head outweighing the call Helen Whiteoak Burglary is a common carne epidemic was found it broken into. What is needed is that they had been very busy. social and academic image of would he a long drawn-out an awareness that student life is on (0113) 231 4251 , ':current's: in privately rented The burglary at my house is.just their university life. process. Therefbre. students also about crime. or 0850 488 543 LEEDS STUDENT Frelay octotter lB. 1996 7 wc)r-id Si116M- SAM IF'S Gun lobby? Forget it
A FEW raving lunatics have been barging onto our TV screens whingeing about the Government's ban on handguns. They ;isk why the •hould he penalised for Thomas Hamilton's insane massacre in Dunblane. They even complain about the money that will now be lost - a gripe that has to be in the poorest conceivable taste. a sick joke that these people are even putting such backward ideas across. The gun debate is now well rehearsed and is being played out once again on radio and TV :Ind in the newspapers. We're all accustomed to the formula. Dunblane campaigners appear rightly arguing the Government has not gone far enough. Then Play it safe? At least 15 comes the gun lobby, niggling about individual 11 get to that 9am lecture on time freedom and shooting as a recreation. /Cs a debate that has run out of steam. it's ethausred. lr can't go on anymore. The bun means that only .22 calibre pistols remain legal, and these under the control of gun LETTERS TO THE EDITOR clubs. The gun lobby has almost no ground left to defend. More importantly, it hasn't got anywhere lett to hide. Arguments The arguments about the right to choose and g f ] some might swear freedom from the state are all very well when talking about foxhunting or ID cards. The familiar territory is covered and each for the letter I )ear Editor. articles in tilitire. Let me quote in the Alin ,ide goes away having made its point. from the first paragraph: Son your shit out. But try these points on the gun debate and of the week lust thought I'd drop you a ",..fuekloads...posey they no longer hold water: the horror of polite line. I'm no Mary wankers...bollocks...shit". love, flungerford and Dunblane makes one side What's driving you crazy? Whitehouse or anything. but Is Leeds Student here to give Rachel Brown utterly obsolete. Need to get it off your surely it's not too much to an opportunity to potential Anyone who still believes that gems should be on the streets is self-evidently ignorant or chest? Tell 40,000 people courteously request that a word journalists. or merely to give Editor' reply; Sarah informs free tickets and column inches me she had had a few polite twisted. about it by writing to Leeds he had in Sarah Monk's ear Megadog. Friday October 1 I). to foul mouthed inarticulate lines herself that night, so Some people will say that view is extreme Student and letting off Perhaps a more scrupulous morons? And to think, you memory wasn't nit it could have and narrowminded. steam. eye might be cast over her couldn't print that sort of thing been. Wrong. Some people said that total You could get your opposition to slavery went too far. In the future the idea of civilians carrying firearms will he name in print and even equally unthinkable. scoop a cash prize. El's a One day people will look back and find it chance too good to miss. Cream of the hop incredible the gun lobby even existed. never Send your comments to: Su'n SPOT mind that it was given air time. They will find it astonishing that in the wake pleasures it offers which Dear Editor. of Dunblan• the Government could not bring The Editor includes little more than a itself to impose ❑ total ban. Leeds Student newspaper Dear Editor, challenge to ingest large Well done on totally taking us in with This time Labour's Jack Straw, former Leeds University Union quantities of alcohol, with the your 'Sun reporter' - we did all President of Leeds University Union. has got it AS a concerned parent I felt it sole intention of getting completely fall for it. However, one PO Box 157 right in arguing the measures do not go far my duty to write and inform drunk. major difference between a reporter from enough. Leeds you of a video circulating on As guardians of student the Sun and a reporter from Leeds The media likes conflicts so Straw versus LS1 1I.JH campus. This video of well being. I believe it is Student seems to be background research. Howard will run and run. But the debate that's drinking games gave rise to a essential that you instruct If your reporter had done any. she dragged on so long just can't be allowed to disturbing incident involving against the dangers of alcohol or fax: would have soon realised that the continue . my 18•year-old son. abuse. particularly in the light Union's Sun policy has, in fact, not (0113) 246 7953 Forotibe on lobby now. k S Just While a certain amount of of the well-publicised lapsed at all. The ban was decided upon impotsible 'fa take it se ousty. high spirits is expected at associated health risks Were by a quorate ()GM on 22 February 1994 or email: university. being admitted to you a little less concerned and will only run out on 27 June 1997. [email protected] hospital with acute alcohol with matters of the flesh that So the Exec are not being poisoning in his first week is young people do not yet need "condescending and arrogant" tyrants. we nut what I expect of the cream to know, this unfortunate are merely continuing a policy which Under the cosh or if you'd like to speak to of Britain's youth. episode may not have students have demanded. Our personal MERE seems to be no respite limn the the Editor in person, come This video is freely happened. opinions do not come into it, relentless series of attacks on students in Leeds. at any time to the editorial available at high street stores Violent teenagers are targeting students and and has assumed a cull status. A Concerned Parent Mat Ray office, upstairs in the inflicting extremely serious injuries. I am very concerned that fur LAX Exec students' union at Leeds other impressionable Editor's reply: I have resigned It's hard to think about long-term solutions when you're directly in the firing line. Metropolitan University youngsters may he tempted to to make way for this writer s Editor's reply.- Minutes of tart Meeting The unfortunate short-term answer is that you (City Site). partake of the dubious sounder judgement nn 77tursday IS August /994: "Sun just have to lie low and try to sidestep trouble. Policy has lapsed. We will not restock Where can we find a way out of this crisis' unless positive policy is passed." OWN GOAL: Shame on Damon? Turn to Sport • page 22
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What did Questions may vary front the Question Time you think of the Prime Minister's seriously political to the diwi. might Leeds Student newspaper performance at this week's cheeky. You can slue the PM 1111 Leeds University Union Conservative Party Conference? is it European fishing policy or whethei P0 Box 157 possible that. given Labour's swing to his son likes taking Ecstasy. Leeds the right and policy in favour of You can point to the tack of Ltil 1U11 LEEDS STUDENT Fla:lay Octotiar 18. 18316 ' 9 ciJI,Jcw The new column every Friday in Britain's brightest student read send email to David Adam now on [email protected] Game not over nee, on on a single game then. Oh no. At the whimsical flick of a telling switch, the entire arena of fun someone I could be transformed. Flick. was a it's football. Flick, it's 0postgraduate I hockey. Flick. it's that weird CLASSIFIEDS one with two crosses that no received the startled one ever played. The critics reply "gosh you must may claim that all the gullies FOR SALE MAni:hcsIct were merely variations on the Prime locution lust South be really old". same wobbly green lines Newcastle. Arsenal an , : Okay, so I can theme. but what you couldn't Liverpool,t garage, kpActilu, do with a wobbly green line bathroom and no 000 seats. understand the imperial Catering facilities, on site and metric systems, do we simply weren't interested ...hops and local amenities. actually notice that the excellent access to city centre There we were, sat in our by bus or train that: own police are looking retro) Adidas T-shirts. in our station.) L450 000 000 c..n 0, younger each year and (retro) trainers, playing our Ot will swap for sum•: yes. I can even now retro computer games, popularity, a local tan has.- and we truly knew we were and a cat in chani..e remember life before winning the European Cup living in the space-age world Oasis, but I'd never of human achievement. thought of myself as But even this techno- old. Well, not until now wizardry was to be surpassed. of them. anyway. The MI I may have had it's But for sheer simplicity faults, mainly due to having and elegance there was an Tomorrow, at Oxford less memory than the average undisputed champion. Much Street's HMV store, there goldfish, but what else copied but never mastered. begins a two week allowed you to go into Currys the granddaddy of all. Space exhibition of old arcade and take your first steps on Invaders. An entire and computer games, from the global generation of kids signed up We need a the earliest plug-to-the- intemeteyberspacehigh•ay to do swimming, ludo or telly consoles to the thingy'? Surely even Bill trampolining just so they could play the machine in the popular coin-operated Gates started off with 10 PRINT "Bill is Skill " cafe at the leisure centre. arcade Machines. So, could the old games he All of the classics will be 20 GOTO 10 Christmas Carol, making a comeback'? In the represented: Spare Invaders he ZXSI was quickly current fashion climate to Pas'-Man. Galas-tans to anything containing the word Defender High scores will be surpassed by its bigger squidgy 'retro' seems to he in. and battled for. countless earth- Tbrother with the keys and the printer that burnt Spare Invaders images have invaders repelled and visitor% been sighted on T-shirts in the Bob, Steve, will even get a chance to talk hog roll. and suddenly the world went computer honkers, Corn Exchange_ Does this to the original programmers. Schoolkids could talk about mean that old-style computers And the title of the will he too'? After all. exhibition? 'Retro-gamine'. going upstairs with their girlfriend to Penetrator. Pentium processors and three RETRO'? Shit the hedl 1 billion megabytes• of memory remember when these things without getting a smack from Angdam Mum and a packet of are all very well but where's were state-of-the-art. I gazed the fun in a computer that with uncomprehending condoms from Dad. Clive Sinclair was a national hero does everything perfectly? delight at the detailed Oh sure, the Sonic and graphics and marvelled at the and the coloured code sheets Manic Miner Mario generation may have sound-effects as we re- to access and Jet Christmas Opportunities Set Willy were traded on the better graphics and surround enacted the classic Stock Market. sound but what they gain in Over the festive season, we need friendly, personable Wimbledon finals with our How minty joysticks did performance they miss in Grandstand game. people to help us either on the shop floor or behind the Daley Thompson's Decathlon playability. And there's Oh sure it may look like break? How many calories nothing quite like fiddling scenes. There's a wide range of lobs available to suit a wide three wobbly green lines and with the volume control on had Attic Attack, and could variety of skills sound like a broken the tape recorder for an hour microwave now, but to us it anyone actually he arced to while loading a game to make You'll need to be over 16, and some knowledge of retail was Bjorg and McEnroe. And read the instruction booklet for Elite'? Classics, every one you feel like playing the you didn't need to spend £40 bloody thing. would be useful but not essential. 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18 1996 10 LEEDS STUDENT E1 41'3Y acl°6{1r Top banister OFFICIAL TO BE SACKED AFTER DRUNKEN CAMPUS ASSAULT to jet in from Down Under v,t.ILLD-BE lawyers are to receive top tips from a leading Australian legal eagle. writes Ahhie Jones. John Spender. who has just Slab hurled at become Australian Ambassador to France, has been appointed Viciiinl, Professor at Metropolitan Universals II: will lecture in the university - School of Law over a three sear period givine law students the benefit of his vast experience as barrister. judge. politician, and union security diplomat. BY ABBIE JONES Mr Spender says he is looking tOrward to coming to A DRUNKEN union steward is to be sacked Artists challenge Armouries England. "It will he really good to talk to students about after he hurled a concrete block at security how to he good lawyers and staff who ejected him. why its such a lase:mating Officials at Leeds job - and occasionally such a Troublemaker, despairing one he said University Union were He added, "I'll be raking a forced to escort student practical approach and want David Crabtree out of attacks union to talk about how to win the building on Friday cases - not lose gracefully " professor David Band. evening for 'disorderly after security Dean of Leeds Business behaviour'. He left but School at LMU where the then became violent forces him out School of Law is based, has outside. finally throwing welcomed Spender's a stone slab at the union appointment. sighted since the event bur-, -We're delighted that John door. security chiefs have Spender is to become one of "He was basically just confirmed that he will be our visiting professot's. He is being really drunk and stripped of his position if he an outstanding legal thinker pushing people around so does return. and his experience will also he had to he made to Action give our students a valuable leave-, said LUU Security international dimension to Supersisor Satirav LULI Exec has pledged to their studies." 13 h a itacharyya. take firm action against "Fortunately we managed unruly staff members but has said that this was an isolated ill close the door before Firework incident. "The union will take the slab struck it so no-one a tough line on member' who was injured in the cause trouble in the danger incident." building,- said Bruce Hartley. LUIT's Finance and FIRI:VvORK injuries Jr,: Drunk Administration officer. unacceptably high warn local "Security arc even more ew itness Chris Trailing Standards officers. proficient this year than last s; rites llama Orchard Heathcole. a first year Philosophy student at Leeds however. and Exec is backing With bonfire night them all the way " celebrations gettine closer, University, said the student fireworks are already selling ,eerned too drunk to know. .chat he was doing. "He was • In a separate incident a lust but e\i'n gang of youtlh also had to be people ! just off his he ad and I couldn't believe it when he removed lions the union treatment due to ill'ewoik building .alter becoming accidents. picked up the block. I know violent towards security staff_ CONTROVERSIAL: a new museum plays host this month to an exhibition of Half ol those hurt last year he was off-duty but you just They hurled a large stone militaria. 'Crystal Clear' presents exhibits until 27 October. such as of tomb-hike were children. Shopkeepers don't expect a union steward to behave in that kind of at the union door and police suits of armour and an action man stripped down to his bare essentials, which aim are being warned that they to explore the representation of conflict. The work is inspired by sources ranging way." had to he called to settle the should not sell fireworks. to disturbance. from a police marksperson to a gun club member. Plc: Emma Philipson children under lb Mr. Cnshtree has not been Setting off fireworks in the street is also warned of as a great danger It illegal and carries a maximum £5000 fine if offenders are caught Volunteers Anyone with suspicions about Xmas rail parties Crime preventio people using fireworks irresponsibly. can call the needed to help complaints hotline on 253 6111. are due to be axed deaf student tour was a success CHRISTMAS rail parties separate companies, the SECURITY roadshows held can and off campus has been mar he under threat due to cost of operating such A DEAF student is appealing in the last few weeks for new improved by an increase in privatistion of the railways, charter services has for volunteers to help her students at Leeds University patrols and the introduction Enjoy science writes Samantha increased from the old £27 complete her degree. writes were a resounding success of dug patrols. The service Riddleswetrth figure to a price tag of £42 PHYSICS can he fun that's Judith Knight according to the organisers. has also had talks at various Each December, trains per head. Instead of a cut of the message coming from the Rebecca Birtles needs writes Graham Iledhantsim. halls of residence and have next annual physics usually run from the Leeds the fare going to BR, it now someone to take notes in her area to London for the goes to Rail Express To attract the notice of handed out free copies of the jamboree. a Orr): Chris Animal Nutrition and crime prevention. travellers to do shopping. Services, Rail Charter passing students, they Fighthaek Davies. Physiology lecture after the organised a 'Crime Quiz' catch a theatre matinee and Services and Railtrack. booklet. Anyone who doesn't The 1997 Institute of withdrawal of funding for her , - of course - do some comperition, which also have a copy of this advice Physics' Annual Congress to Although originally university note-taker. partying on the way there intended to he for office aimed to increase awareness can pick up a leaflet at the he held at the University of She is looking- for someone. on and hack. At just £27.50. it parries, the party trips are Prizes were donated by the security service Leeds promises a whole heist preferably with a scientific has been a regular feature available to anyone who Sports Centre. Catering and Woodhouse Lane. of scientific events cosering background to assist for 3 of the festive season for wishes to get into the Security Services. Five lucky For any student who Formula One racing lo hours per week on a voluntary many people. but this year Christmas spirit students walked away with wishes to seek advice about financial forecasting. on basis. may see the very last party December 14. the piles of goodies which security arrangements, the The conference will he Anyone who can help be service. More details are available were on offer. Security Service can held at the university between should contact Anne-Denise The Security Service at contacted on 233 5494. In an the 24th and 27th March next Due to the selling off of from Richard Lee on Worsnop. in the Economic and the university say that in the emergency, they year. British Rail to three (01274i 411500. Social Studies building. pas; twelve months. security contactable on 233 2222.
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THE BAN on handguns in the clubs - any inic caught in been raging since Dunblane. wake of the Dunblane tragedy possession of a more powerful when sixteen infants and their WARE has caused anger among handgun faces up to ten years teacher were gunned down by members of Leeds University •N imprisonment. pervert Hamilton. pistol club. writes Samantha But gun enthusiasts are It now seems unlikely that CITY Riddleswordt. angry that they have been the government will reconsider OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK They fear that their society punished for the actions of the the han. and indeed pressure will be driven out of existence likes of Thomas Hamilton, the groups arc demanding further MONDAY - FRIDAY 9am - 8pm THE ULTIMATE by draconian measures man responsible for the Measures to prevent guns SATURDAY 9am - 6pm announced on Wednesday. Minhlane massacre and point falling into the wrong hands, SUNDAY 10.30am 4_30pm Multimedia Superstore Only .22 calibre weapons in out that he had been granted a The future of the university the Olympic class will he firearms licence by the police. pistol club is now plunged into permitted to be held in gun The handgun debate has uncertainty. THE BEST ADVICE, THE KEENEST PRICE, THE WIDEST CHOICE 12 LEEDS STUDENT Friday Ottabet 18.1996 'NB
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4 `I used to have a recurring lion represents an argument or dream about lions. I would batik with a stronger believe that they were opponent. If you fear the lion actually in the house, and I you will feel the wrath of the would have to stand on a table authoritative figure. but if you to get away from them. Then defeat it, you will win your they would start chasing me, battle. and sometimes one of them As this dream occurred a er found yourself naked it would get hold of my leg, few years back, it could have although I'd usually get away. represented a particularly strict I obviously had an active teacher or headmaster. In a chased through Morrrsons b imagination.- university context the lion could be a tutor, or perhaps a S a dream that you Tinukwo Okojie. scary landlord who seemed so may have had at some tells op the answers to yo Second year Psychology and nice when you signed the int. There you are. km and &nage Fo your these two . Management. contracts. But escaping from L Suddenly the hidden meaning . it should become sitting in the lecture theatre, the beast's clutches is a good taking notes. and everything hes:nines very dear. The dreamer has the odious little bousemate sign, so keep on at him refs Ntrarrir: In dreams, the seems to be perfectly normal. no doubt just passed the evening been drinking your milk and lion is recognised as signifying about that leaking spending their term's grant on the refilling the carton with water, is a figure in authority. To shower he's been That is until you realise that entire contents of the Old Bar. berate the buganilbach that your It I imagine yourself fighting a promising to fix! you are naked. Utterly staggering to Ritzy's, when they thought they saw getting off with unclothed. Completely in the managed in cop off with the Elephant girlfriend/boyfriend in the Sky buff. Entirely Au Naturelle. manAvomun in front of all their week. However. der 't let your be hard working friends. On the way home, they spent for revenge get the better of yak 4 4 l used to have a dream in • This could have a variety of which my brother and I and successful. their final two quid on a Salmonella dream of giving your houseman meanings. Firstly you could be a burger from Dixigy Pete's Fly-by- Being chased by were chased by a car. It bizarre sexual pervert who spends night Snack Bar ('100% British beef, may have been a red a car is their evenings watching -The mate" ),and so can look forward in Dreaming of s Lambourghini. It was particularly Good Sex Guide Late," and spending the next morning staring at completely unstoppable. It good, as the rewinding the best bits. If so, you the inside of their Leeds 6 toilet bowl wouldn't leave us alone, and vehicle should not be allowed anywhere Of course they could do if they hadn't apparently sig would drive through brick walls indicates that the near the unsuspecting general returned home Ei) find that their to get at us. We used to run dreamer will public, and will find none of the Chestnut Avenue mansion had been with flying col down a bank to hide, but it make a good completely emptied, toilet and all, by sordid little articles you usually good slapping they undoubtedly would try to run us over. living. (The fact the local scathes. Hnmim, suddenly G) read in this esteemed publication, the idea of secretly fancying your deserve can only lead to that the car is a However. if we lay down flat, it Alternatively you could have a lecturer doesn't seem so had disappointment en love. Try to would drive over the top of us. Lambourghini a. desperate subconscious desire for your Such are the presswes of university your anger as you'll just be and we could escape." sounds like especially lecturer. and will go to any lengths to life, that it is of little surprise that it into their hands_ goad news.1 Oh. and attract their attention, although judging impinges upon ow subconscious. Another common university Sarah Jones. dreaming about your by the parade of flared trousers, Many a student who has spent two or inspired dream is to imagine Second Year French and brother is a sign of a haircuts that Chris Waddle would three years in the salubrious environs sitting an exam, when it suddenly deem 'too unfashionable.' and Management. forthcoming marriage proposal. of Leeds 6 must have dreamt of being dawits on you that you have date 'interesting' facial hair cultivations that burgled This, you would think, is a revision. As a resuh. you are Career, car, and love life sorted haunt the corridors of academia. this is out in one dream? OK, maybe natural response to an obvious threat, answer a single question, al r rig S:%/cur: Being involved perhaps unlikely. we're reading a little too much but apparently dreaming of being fact that the entire exam has been in a chase implies that you will A third option is the 'official' broken into signifies more than just deliberately set in some obscure into this one... can's interpretation. This that to see your fairs invading your sleep. To foreign language (possibly S yourself naked signifies dream of a burglar in your house may have something in tin with sickness, poverty. 4 41 have a dream where I'm you will need to explain your implies that somebody close to you is Of course it's never that unerly personal shame, dishonest, white for somebody in love pointless ten credit exam in your on the beach and a bird actions to a friend. Seeing birds and comes up to me. It fly over your head represents a tv dream of a robber indicates that they Medieval Pottery elective. No, it' says.'Haven't you been fear of prejudice from enemies. have a rival in upon stealing their always that modal Final Year vi lover. failure in will automatically cipic warned?' Then it walks away. I But a crowd is a symbol of your degree. And naturally if,' the ignore it, but then lots of little assured and increasing exam set hr Do.:10t beaks suddenly appear in the happiness. So this dream could sand. They are followed by have two meanings: a) The heads, and millions of little dreamer has a guilty secret. A fishy dream which birds come out of the sand, and which should be revealed to a 4. Haddock. start flying into and over all the friend. The dreamer is reluctant contented. people on the beach." to do this for fear of making an 10 more curious dream interpretations. 5. Bronchitis. Dreaming of enemy. but shouldn't worry 1.Manicure. Jackie Docherly. because everything will come You are guaranteed a successful marriage with a much older partner. talented, popular and successful Second Year Psychology and right in the end. Or b i. The 2. Management. dreamer consumed a little too Deer. Dream of a deer and you will inherit the estate of an old man, and overcome some 6. Strawberries. If you are covrdir Ty enemies. If the deer is running, prepare to make money from your sporting ability. much alcohol the night before, the birth will be problem tillt Leeds Student: Scary stuff. In a and the brain isn't quite dream, a beach indicates that functioning properly. 3.Cake. Anyone who dreams of a combination of cake, butter and cheese should be careful Play this Tri 7. Bassoon.
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ISLAMIC with over 150 active members. Forget your preconceptions and Aims: To fulfil the religious and cultural needs of muslim meet and experience the warmth of students from every part of students, and enlighten others about Islam. African and the Caribbean. We provide services such as black Islam is not just a religion, but a way of life. Thus the Islamic barbers etc. We guarantee 100%entertainment with the latest in society offers a whole renge of social activities for it's members, Reggae, Hiphop. Soca, Acid Jazz, Soul and African Rhythms...to who originate from all over the world - even Britain. This is in make you feel at home away from home. Our calendar includes addition to providing the Green Room (in the Conference film premieres, trips to other Universities, and culminates in the Auditorium) for daily prayers & organising talks and an annual Union's largest Cultural Day. exhibition within the University to portray Islam in a clear & undistorted manner_ ARTS SOCIETY Thinking of spending all year in the Old Bar? Well think again! MOTOR SOCIETY We'll daub you in clay and throw you at canvasses, and if that doesn't tickle your fancy, there are more subtle delights to be What can we do for you? had here in Leeds. Most of all we want to reflect our Fancy orienteering across the Yorkshire Dales at 100mph with membership's desires, so your ideas become our events and your navigator directing you through the night or digging Colin activities. Our current activities include weekly life drawing McRae out of a ditch? classes and regular trips to galleries museums and theatres. What about Karting for the budding Damon Hill's amongst you (no need to have a car). Plus marshalling (RAC Rally, Hillclimb, CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS Autocross...), social events, Tools and much more. See our AIMS to constructively help the environment and introduce notice board in the Union Building and join in. people to the disappearing countryside. You could even email [email protected] Fancy a dirty weekend? Covered in mud, handing big tools, and getting sweaty in rubber boots! Help nature whilst working with HIKING SOCIETY friendly and committed people. We organize day tasks in and Aim: Do it with your boots on!! (Blimey! - ed) around Leeds, and weekends away in remote and exotic places. If you want to get out of Leeds to the hills, either on a big stomp come along, do an honest day's work, then relaxing the evening or a little plod-we're the society for you! From summer walks to with a pint (or several) of local beer. scrambling and winter walking/mountaineering with ice axes and crampons! We have walks every Sunday unless were away for LINKS SOCIETY the whole weekend (approx. 3 a term) when we stay in (St John's Ambulance) bunkhouses or tents. There is opportunity to train for your AIMS to provide a unit of ST John's Ambulance for existing and Mountain Leadership Award and not forgetting beer; we have new members as well as teaching first aid and providing cover socials at least once a week - Wednesday nights in the for Union events. Packhorse. We train in first aid skills, provide cover for Union events such as judo, discos etc, link up with other divisions to cover rugby AEGEE and cricket at Headingley, football at Elland Road and concerts Association des Etats-eneraux des Etudiants de l'Europe at LMU (all free entry). AIMS to promote European cooperation and integration amongst students. OVERSEAS PAKISTANI STUDENTS SOCIETY AEGEE has 15,00 members in 150 cities across Europe. It is a AIMS to create a friendly atmosphere among members and non-political party: students organize conferences which provide a forum for young people of different backgrounds to meet and foster better communication. discuss diverse issues, such as the environment. the media or Our society comprises around 70 members of different films and to visit new places cheaply. At Leeds, approximately nationalities. We welcome overseas Pakistani students and half the members are British, the rest from the continent. We aim help them settle in here in Leeds. Our society is well to encourage amongst British students a broader understanding practiced in arranging trips around the UK and celebrating of Europe, and to be a focus for ERASMUS students. special days on different occasions.
AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN AIMS to assist with the orientation of African and Caribbean PLEASE CONTACT THESE SOCIETIES THROUGH students into University life through the organisation of cultural THEIR NOTICE BOARDS . events and to mark important African and Caribbean occasions. We are the largest African and Caribbean society in the country
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Ninja Tune label focus Suede, Manics live and reviews galore! • ICES! After %ear truly awful Monito s at • Ritiy's. Leeds • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • NINJA TUNE comes up trumps 0, lilt • new and. aniaiingl!, enough. good nights our arts Up ,Vorrh and c. we 8-9 cpage 4 • salute you • Kiddies films special, Breaking The Waves review, Video Round-up
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• DELICIOUS and bray food, and gorgeous 11 J books • lanes are ma the 0111 % reasons to shit the • World Cale. you can also take the piss out of Ben Watt's Patient the Hey Hall rugger • buggers rending their reviewed and a fun quiz! • Guardians. Super. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 14-15 clubs WEEKS cover stair Ben Elton can do no Jamiroquai, Good Life vs • wrong at the moment. Catch his latest offering. Columbia and Monday nights out. • Poiramt. in Leeds until next month. Watch out for • Clair Lister's in depth • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • review next week. 16-23 listings • }-4 4P`,1 .1 • Your essential guide to the week ahead, whether • you're TV addict or a mad for it clubber HELP! We can't wait any longer. This week's • first downer is • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • undeniably the late • opening of what will lie the finest store in the • interview • north of England. And I centre • just got my loan too... American comic Greg Proops tells • juice exactly why he cannot stand A- American comedy 1T'S COMING to get you... 'The *riffles have • shined and lecturers arc IrYing to speak over the • noise iiiigtt- ;Intl Juice's weekly rant at British culture !h al 1)101,e .it who sonn■lt, Wo2 • 1101.1! 0•Vii•he Muse, hts nose, tiles, c'monj • TWO FAT LADIES AND ust as the age of ViodlOwIrcoloralif cigarette. Growing. old • the all tuckermr: ilisgracefully flew( I lookeit so much fun ONE FAT BLOKE conquering these new J cooks however. arc television chef is • like a breath of frersh THEIR OBVIOUS • 4 ,aiva I III. upon us, and you arr. lust for life was chatting to the Italian OVeL•i: • must agree it does mirrored by that of press in their own still the malt child 01 Cric-Sox:, Vod•Stic. Sue- The dishes themselses seem that way, were nothing Paul Gascoigne's, as language; the apparent old, forever the comt Coc, the awful list goes come 1313C2'. presented by the shyness that exists of attention and • on and on_ Why people along spectacular. and yoghun we were told, Cutting Edge between himself and willing to play for the want to spent half the Two Fat Ladie_s would not do. tit only dircumentary, CIIMI'S Gary Lineker: and the cameras at any • sodding day in Ritty's ( Wednesday. for breakfast or poorly Coming Hume relationship that he has opportunity. drinking crap cocktails N._ 0prn to take us tummies cream was (l' hannel 4. Alimilay with the rest of the Maybe he should is well beyond me. tight hack to the essential. and in large 9.111.1pm). Rangers Warn. join the Two Fru glory days of Delia amounts its). The boy done good But far more Ladies next time they Smith and Jane After their culinary as they say in the revelatory were his make a trip up to Grigson with their blat.se comments Scotland. Now that By Ben East & exertions, it was time trade. not revealing too home cooking and for a large glass of much more than we concerning divorce really would be Zoe Fefi traditional ways. wine and a well earned already knew, but still and the pictures of him emertaining.
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NMI TUNE e orient The best label in the world...ever? Probably. CHRIS MOONEY checks out Ninja Tune past, present and future and runs the rule over the competition
he crowd was up straight-laced white-boys to were doing it way before than there with anything pose as if they've just popped with seminal hip-hop TVague ever managed. in from smoking a punk on cuen'pastes like The atmosphere in the 56th and Crenshaw. Beginning "Beats'N' Pieces" and the queue was just as tense - with a nod to the past with chart-busting "James Brown would they get in? Inside flawless hip-hop. the pace Payback Mix", everyone was beaming at picked up when The Not content with being the each other, knowing that Herbalizer dragged acid jan UK's answer to Grandmaster they were in the right into the 90s. It got faster and Melte Mel and the rest, they place at the right time. taster at the hands of Dios then switched tack and One of Ninja Tune's rare Vadim and Food with the invented British house music. nationwide tours had hardest of drum'n'bass until We have them to thank for the arrived at The the last snare had tapped and stardom of Yaz., ('lloctorin' Warehouse. A line-up of the last bass-roll had the House") and Lisa "eeeeh" Di Vadim. The Stansfield ("People Herhaliser and D.1 Hold On'). There were Food is to some albums in the pipeline. cluhbers the 'Fu ck '88, Coldcut were the world was at their equivalent of The feet, and them...nothing_ Stone Roses Like their US peers supporting The loin g it way before then' Mantronix they fused Beatles at The growing hip-hop and Duchess, and house scenes befOre nobody wanted to miss rearranged your insides. retiring from public view. For out. Everyone outside was Coldcut it was the. beginning There weren't many unequivocal: "That was of years of record company disappointed faces at the end brilliant!" "What'?" "That was rip-offs and grief, including of the night either (unless you fucking ace!" "What'?" "...." one.arsehole label that refused count that bloke in the dress Not had for a label that is to release their stuff on vinyl, who had wandered in about six only three years young A little The solution was inevitable. months too late). We had been history lesson. Coition are one Their own label Ninja Tune. on a journey of the hreakhem. of those legendary names in The first releases on Nina that mystical force that forces dance music. Fuck '55, they Tune were faithful to the
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The newcomers on the grid, but they're very much the Villeneuve to Ninja Tunes' Damon Hill. Based in Brighton (,home to the excellent Loaded label). their recycled cardboard sleeves disguise the pristine product that lies within. Perhaps the leaders of the label arc the arse-kicking Fatboy Slim, whose back to basics album of simple hreakbeat soundtracks (Better 1 lying Throuph Chensi viol makes them this year's Chemical Brothers_ Other low-life highlights are Bentley Rhythm Ace (bass-rwihging future funk) and Flip Optimist. N.■hose epic single "Amife)- managed to bridge the gap between hip-hop and house in 12 memorable minutes. Brassie heats indeed.
Although only sonte4-ive years old. ],tines LalC110 .!; MO. Was:imprint has.(!ready revolutionised the face of moderaintusic. Acts such as DJ Shadow. DI knikli and Sam Sever virtual]) invented the genre that is trip-hop, whilst newer .protegees and signings Andrea Parker. J. Majik and Clubbed To Death are redesigning the frontiers of techno, hip hop and drum bass even as we speak. Nut satisfied with running one of the country's most successful record labels. Lavelle has also set up ptellishing.concipany. whietv tti clue to release artwork by his on in-house desig.ncrs and graffitiiattista, and likes 10 lys. of his ,ohs Duskid-Check out the mammoth '4-teas!, beauty that is Head: 2 on October nth,
Responsible for quitepossibl) the finest record this abide in Grantby's —Timber" - a swathe of James Bond strings, timpani and a knee-tremblingly am melody - Bristol's Cup Of Tea records has received a relatively small profile nationally but this is set to change when the kids catch up op the wicked sounds emanating from the likes of Red. Soul Static Sound and Monk And Canatello. If you thought Portishead were the only nioody. groove-friendly. lavish string-saniprrits 'sorts froth the.South West, you were right. But not any more. oh no. '
Already praised tothe skies by LeyedsSodent, *all of Sound's last few releases have been a hit patchy, notably the ropey Agent Provocateur. HoweVetthe. new compilation Give "Ens Enough Dope 3 is hang up to form, and the exclusive Ballistic Brothers track is probably the best thing they've ever done. Huge beats, mad artists, Frankie Fraser. etc. etc. If you're a newcomer get Back 2 Mono for the full story. ...AL . , Acid Jan %v•c- in dangt$1 1piasappe.arIng up their own woolly-hatted arses until their wise decision to launch this offs hunt, Atbletto annthmeed their arrival with Bloodsucka's "Radio Athletico-, which is still ICO worth tracking down: a lively hip-hop start descends into a distressingly moody acid breakdown. Their club ATIALET in London (Thursdays at The Gardening Club) features Wall of Sound's Derek Dah Large as resident. and has been getting sweatier by the week. music 5 if success CJ Bolland - The Analogue Theatre (Internal)
Flynn': familiar with Holland's music can't fail to recognise his swift change A over the last few years, moving onward and upward from underground techno DJ to hard (almost commercial) house performer, producer and all round good bloke. This latest masterpiece will not fail to stimulate the necessary orifices. Including massive hits such as "The Prophet" (a Pete Tong lave. but who cares?), no one can fail to be thrown into an orgasmic state of mind. collections Real thumpers to check out include "People of of lawless beats that took the Universe", "There Can Only Be One" and. of inspiration from all the DJ- course, -The Prophet" -3 hanging tunes which are friendly compilations that had stories within themselves. All the tracks have that been around for years. Slightly familiar beepy. squeeky and sometimes speaky sad blokes with goatees and intro, is major climax and a good old tune to jive. Tommy Hilfiger slatted groove. move or whatever you do to it. Think Rob muttering about a new scene Miles without the crap schoolgirlies dancing to it that had no name: hip-hop at the local Ritzy. without the rap getting in the The real climax (and shocker according to way. some music mags), is the final track. "Sugar is Sweeter". Yes, Sir Holland, isn't it just. Well. his
nly months later the bank account certainly whit) be after its huge commercial acclaim. It isn't, as 't)ITIC say, a rip-off whole curious "trip-hop" of Love To Infinity ' s "Sugar Daddy" -well. it is, phenomenon was in full O but it's much funkier, louder and yes. again it's a swing (although nobody has Pave of Tongy `s, Boliand has definitely saved the ever actually been heard best for last. muttering this profanity - it 's a So, there you go, the bloke from my home word that exists only in print). town has done it - doesn't Middlesbrough Along with Mo' Wax's Hewiz again produce some real heroes?! Oct the album, ger the and React's Dope On Plastic volume cranked up, get your mates round, et Villiff series, the first collection of the too you could be at The Orbit. Full marks, Mr cream of Ninja Tune helped to Holland, and "Kling Kung define something undefinable_ Ka" to you too, Although not as blunt. as Wall of Anna Murray Sound's "don't call it fucking trip-hop" message. the sleeve notes to Funkjazzrical Tricknology made it clear that Jeru The whatever this was, it your motivation? wasn't to be pigeon. The cream of the crop am holed: "Wick Wack still, inevitably 1)J Food Damaja - Wisdom from the :their "Refried Water Margin. Food" I 2 inches. (HITS FROM THE BOMB Wrath of the London Bent City featuring remixes just like you dream- from Wagon Christ Math (fM) pictured it: Forging and Fila Brasilia ...Whilst PHIL LINDFIELD put on his baggiest fuel funk flavours among a cast of strides and witnessed flexistentialism in for the Brothers & thousands, are this rom the Payday/ffrr label, this dark hip- Sisters of the Red. gourmet 's choice, action at Stealth hop album has all the distinctive flavour Enough Bollocks." Fof its executive producer and Gang Starr Since then the roster has I CAN'T think of any front-man. Guru: dark beats. jou samples expanded to include such sitried current artists who can Stealth and politically educated/pseudo-profound musicians as Funki coinsistently come up with the The Blue Note, lyrics. Potcini (porno-fixated unexpected. Youknnu the fern preaches "whatever you want ID do, sleaze-junglists), and nest Oasis simile will Mutton Square make it eles-er", a philosophy lie manages to put Up. Bustle & Out sound like The London, EC1 into practice with this LP (Welt, the word "math" (flamenco for stoned Beatles. you &mai is mentioned once or- twice...) -Wrath of the sink fast ,grn vy, - rudeboys). that The Chemical T ► Math" offers some chilled toe-tappers/goatee unassuming, Herhaliser. who Brothey;' latest will be strokers such as "Whatever " and"The Frustrated unpretentious and you describe the aural equivalent of a Nigga", some thrilling escapades into freaky have got the essential " themselves as "a car-crash. but it would he darkness with "Res enge of the Prophet , ingredients of Ninja Tune ,THE One Dav ", and a phat- beat machine a brave man to predict the "Physical Stamina" and " hest recording company in sing-a-long a In Nieces hits" in "Yu which won in an inter- Food's new sound. It you cracking " Britain if not the universe. ', calactic battle with Sun Rik". are want an introduction to the Plavin ' )(ascii Add to this Vans, Adidas and assembled throng On the top a complete experience, perhaps it is not under no illusions as to their world of Ninja then track down A ti huge amounts of people and you floor Funky Porcini muy luck. Hand member 011ie Refried Food (along with handy experimental enough. The majority of tracks have Stealth, the Ninja Tune entertain you with a set whiLh same hard. freaky intro. and sun - Tratles, who compiles hoot if you're lucky), along with begin with the night at London's Blue Note. varies from hmsshands In Hip- ", a the Hip-Hop the massively eclectic shot sounds, or as with "Black Cowboys also home to Goldie's club hop, on the middle floor Di Food Masterems series, nevi steinialism. "house of horror" piano which- leaves you Metatheadz. The Ninja tune crew will play anything from driving waiting for a Basta Rhymes vocal tor Madness knows who the real Then: really is use the club to bring then mix of tech no to drum and bass and on masters are: something for perhaps... ) ' fuel up beau ' to the world the bottom floor Coldcut will And then there 's the usual quota of "We recorded escryone. whilst at the same time playing make the crowd shriek with niggas" and "bullshit ". But as Jeru "The Real Hip-hop pioneers, "hitches". " what they, themselves want to strange and mutated forms of 's a lot of muthafuekas out- Killer" as a kind inventors of UK house. says himself: "there hear. dunce music. with at style similar to mine nowadays"_ of homage to compilers of the best DJ here On the average night the Every monthly night is You 're nut wrong. all those old mix ever (their Journeys hy decks of the three floor Blue different and a hfe-changing Coldcut tracks. The!. DJ), and owners cif the Note will he graced by DJ Food, experience, if you haven' t been. always used to have a bit of old coolest record label of the Funky Porcini, Coldcut and the go and if you have been you will Sophie Lloyd Humphrey Bogart dialogue and moment • what can Coldcut do Herhaliser to name but a few. he returning. The atmosphere is things like that. We thought next for the cause of dance Each will bring thetr own form electric and the music eclectic, they 'd like it - they did and they music I Ala than kidnap Jeremy \ ::s....tnd style of muliit an .[ha J I . I .orijoy. signed usi" Calculated stuff - Heal y?' who said drugs make you lose Stay tuned. 17 6 Juice Friday October 18 1996 good to be back The resurrection ? Oh yes! LOUISE SHERWOOD got all hot and bothered over the return of Suede, whilst OWEN GIBSON was bowled over by The Manic Street Preachers - so at the T&C last week it was a case of comeback kids in the area!
uede in Up" again, older fans cheerless expression. concert, the are wondering whether When he made his exit return! How it's worth forking out at the end of the show long has it for the new album and with a funereal bow he S dusting off now- looked quite the Suede taken them to release a new neglected classics such member "the living album while the as the to-die-tor dead". SinTe of the Week likes of the "Animal Nitrate- and Minor details aside, Gallagher Brothers the outstanding "Stay the hand were have leered and Together". brilliant. Suede have bellyached their To the night itself_ the knack or way around the The first strains of performing above and charts and been "She" belted out over beyond their brandished on the the speakers - before recordings. a trait chests of ludic kids the band even came on which is hard to find the world over? - with such intensity in my experience. More importantly, that caused us With Suede, the great does the long wan unfortunates in the songs get even better matter now they're balcony to twitch in and the ones you hack? our seats. By the time weren't so sure_ about Well, it would be they reached the stage suddenly take on a Tricky - impossible now for I was dancing in my. whole new dimension ChristianSands Suede to command seat (no easy feat). but - the hidden potential (Island Records) such a huge audience as Simon began to of "Filmstar" was now as Oasis, but thrash the drums the fully realised, We were personally I enjoy a temptation grew too all left wanting much This is Tricky on form: a confident, strong and I leapt up to much more, even after moody, timebomb of a track. The band that isn't universally adored by dance my heart out to an encore and songs rumbling bassline and breathy female mums and dads - "eh. the best track on the such as "She", "By vocals achieve an air of restrained they're not too bad, album_ Until a 21) The Sea" and the tension, and this single will imprint itself sounds like The stone bouncer looked chanty hit "Trash". on your consciousness after a few listens Beatles. I remember.." up at mr and told me Suede should and will Not to mention the the fun was over. So. continue to mean a despite not coming close to Tricky's past adulation of little kids back to my seat. great band, not just the glories as part of "Unfinished singing "so, Sally can The new kid. Neil material of that coat Sympathy"-era Massive Attack. The wait" and only Codling, added you bought last week. lyrics seem to be an oblique critique of dreaming of the day something to the hand when they too can but in the main he was the hypocrisy of marriage, and as such enjoy cigarettes and just another pale fare • • provide an intelligent relief from most of alcohol. Suede have with an even the inane excuses for singles this week.., something to prove- more • • • 411 • now they're Imperial Teen - "Coming • • ••• • Butch (Slash/London Records) • • • • • turning into bloody Paul working class Gallagher uses this Weller . heroes. It was the night we saw Jangly American guitary husine,ss. It reminds me make as an excuse to have a metaphorical fag and a the return of the of a less psychotic Pixies without the sense it sonic kind of breather. Bradfield uses it true dynamics and infectious tunes. Inoffensive sense. Not only that. but to raise the stakes even enough, without really being able to justify it', you get the feeling that, far existence. higher to the extent know by now whether you need from having lost it, weird where his this or not. through the personal bunch, heartbreaking tragedy of losing Richey. Silver Sun - aren't version ol they. they've found a depth of Lava sound and resonance of "Raindrops Keep The Mimics? I was all Cho My (Polydor) meaning that means that prepared to come into Head" becomes the they no kmger need the ■theT&C with all guns focal point of the Energetic Elute minute pop tunes. a In Redd fen ss empty sloganeering and blazing, readh to slag whole set. By this which tint and sparkle in most of the right places. posturing of the Mantes 'em off for the way point my hard heart 'bite vocal harmonies suggest the godlike Beach of old. they seem to have had melted and any Boys as a possible influence. which is certainly no After a summer plying turned into a crowd remaining feelings had thing Watch out for this lot... their wares to fields full of pleasing, MOR rock of antagonism were apathetic Oasis fans, the hand. banished by a Poppyheads - intensity and tightness of Yeah. so Richey 's gone cracking run All 1 Want the songs. combined with and its a bluely shame, through "La (EMI) the rapture of their fans but there's very little mom Trimessa l)urera" (who behave like real fans for sentiment in this which reminded you Anodyne. Anonymous. Anaesthetising. The world should behave, welcoming business and seeing the what made the does not require another shit indie band, and this their heroes with feverish hand trot out their set at Manics so great in weedy offering makes Juice Cruise sound like passion rather than staring Maine Road and the first place. Cannibal Corpse. May Satan make their Senseless into their empty pint lenehworth and looking anthemic tunes Things oshirts shrink in the wash. glasses) gave the completely disinterested married to impression of returning was it sad sight to see. intelligent lyrics (a Salad - heroes rather than washed Lacking the hale and sheer I Want You up has beens, Surprisingly, novelty these days. "don't give a fuck" (island Records) the old songs such as know) that actually attitude that made them so mean something "Stay Beautiful" and exciting in the )lest place (name me another This at least has a hit of panache about it. while "Motown Junk" come they amounted to little top ten band who falling firmly into the retro-Britrx-ip camp.Thc across just as well as more than some decent can sing about Muth angular, jolting, rhythms are defiantly uncommercial. "Kevin Carter" and and show up the likes of Elastica for the tunes and three pale and Pinter and get shadows of a once great "Design For Life" and unimaginative plagiarists they are Still, this teleao. seem to have benefited away with it). should find its way on to MTV somehow band. - I imagine.. most from the addition of All in all, hen, But. and it's a big something of a Aleem - Robbie Williams sired keyboards. In the light of Richey's triumph against the Why Hawaii? but. seeing them in their disappearance and the odds, htit then the (Concrete ) own setting, in fount of emergence of the new. Mimics know all An entertaining !lute bizzanty which includes an their own rabid and serail* Nicky Wire. about battling unlikely combination of Hawaiian guitar, a Dc la amazingly devoted tans James Dean Bradfield is, against adversity Soul style hntakbrat, and a dub bass tine, Not and squinting through a and, after a slightly forgetting the snatches of '88 hardcore Altem-S haze of lager and dry ice more than ever, the focus both musically and shaky period, keyboards. Seriously. in the inspiring and they've succeeded in brilliantly conceived visually This is reiterated Singles Reviewed by by the addition of hi, making that tricky images and slogans leap from young Matt James flashing up on the 'acoustic sato spilt but *faxen say, I■lbtil unmans to elder backdrop it all stuffy to statesmen without COCKPIT Every Friday Swinegate, Leeds, For mar• into 0113 - 244 3446 the garage Every Saturday
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He may have single-handedly invented house- 4N1 music, but that's not enough for some people. PHIL LINDFIELD takes Kevin Sanderson to task over Inner City's new album Hiatus Dub War - Live
hen the words house tunes to add to my the world of house. No "Inner City" already bulging house they have blatantly not. Wdrop into your collection by my "rave" Once again we are at The Duchess head do you - a) ponder IN's. This glorious subjected to more the meaning of life, the bubble is however burst harmonious vocals and HOW MAN'S godic ■I impressing all who hear universe and the when the album slips into fluctuating melody lines (ahem ise.) German hands them. they never seem to fundamental creativity your hi-fl and you realise more akin to the speakers Jo you know? Not exactly quite "make Tot ight of man or -to ponder that no, cheesy house is of your local Ritzy or tripping off the tongue are much of their set is culled why you spent so much SHIT!!!! The excitement "The Essential Mix". they '' Influenced by the Inan the brilliant new of your time in had you once felt at reading Inner City had the Chili Peppers. H•Blockx Wiyino Side sit Beautifid LP. nightclubs wondering the wonderfully eclectic classic opportunity to sound like Dog Eat Dog. While a more mellow why you were so pissed titles on the box, such as expand their repertoire minus the horn section and recording than it's and where no earth "Everylasting", "Do Mc but yet again as usual in atilt lire crackers up their predecessor, Duh War's record companies find Right" and "Rise Above" such circumstances, fell h~ 'lionise trademark live set has lost so many woman who turns into hitter hatred for back on the money Rut „bile they play none of its intensity. With have such a versatile anything to do with earner. As such they have hleavi nt_ set and silo Ioway new songs like --Flasshalr vocal range? happiness and dance produced another believe in what they 're and singles "Enemy Maker' Whatever your music. commercial dance album doing. it's hard to see who's and "Cry Dignity" response to the above The album's name which is the same as going to buy their new complementing old words a natural reaction Hiatus would have you everything else every album. Expect thesis to favourites "Strike It" and to a new album by the believe that Inner City pnxluced in the same return fur more UK dates the sublime "Over Now" leading Detroit gurus have departed from the genre. Don't do it. don't but don't hold your breath. the future's bright. the Inner City would he norm and would take us send them back into the Dub War are a future's war! YES!!! More uplifting further on a journey into charts. conundrum. never receiv ing a had rev icw and constantly Nils Eastwood
obvious. Musical styles Various Artists- vary more than one might expect, even veering Blaxploitation towards Jazz-Funk at one point iAlfonse Mouzonis' (BRIG) "By All Means"1. T For the most part DISC wore II' I' HIS though the clothes, it would look like instrumentation is classic Huggy Bear of Starsks '70s, all dramatic and Hutch. Blaxploitation orchestral arrangements. is a double CD that offers wah-wah guitars and a potted musical history of bubbling percussion. This the American inner city in music is cool and soulful the 1970s. throughout. reaching ,i31Thi If you are familiar with steamy, funky peaks. The Blaxploitation as a film unconverted might find it genre, then you already a little cheesy, some might know what this album 1k_ LUC _JP just enjoy spotting sounds like. Among the samples, but the discerning artists included are Isaac will return to this Hayes, Sly Stone and collection again and again. CUT YOUR TRAVEL Curtis Mayfield; yet this compilation generally Rafael Bloom Get da funk outta here COSTS BY AS MUCH AS steers away from the E3.60* with an exceptionally sweet Audioweb- vocal. Singer Martin is probably their best asset. He can sing in a Buy 6 Journeys Audioweb lovely angelic voice which adds to both the happy songs and the and get 4 Free (Mother) dark songs, and can toast like a psychotic Shabha Ranks. I ONCE WENT fora drink especially on one of the moss Eg. Buy 6 @ 0.90p = f,5.60 and get with Audi, iweb after a gig. obvious covers ever, the Clash's 4 @ 0.90p = £3.60 Free Hic! "Bank Robber", I'm glad to report that the But ultimately it seems that Awrilabl.s on laxly Mr.. ire 25p .40p. 56p. 70p. 1,10p. 90p album is . okay. The singles are and all raneers.Sor0try !aroma with rabsvgatat ps0.fte,m. •are pulling themselves in two playing as two at the same time all present and correct. Opener opposite directions. They have and not being that imaginative and debut "Sleeper" is fanwic. an obvious love fur both genres. at either t except on the first admirably demonstrating their but their r sound doesn't always three songs) makes for a sound It's a curious mkture oaf AT41L IV) FOR AILL work-"Who's lb Blame" should hesitant awkward sound if a indie and hip hop/reggae. using have a great dynamic depth to rather unique one. A lot of conventional guitiu-s with G-F 0 01C BUSES it. but this is sacrificed by a &limey, lap hop groups have 1131- samples and record scratching need to have a clubby bass crossed aver to indie to Male a very baggy sound, diluting the tension. mainstream. so there is no real Madchester sound This is also Massive Attack they are not. need to have one that is their failing. VA ABLIE, -111 0 Air When the dynamics work, such altruistic to both genres_ Thei i Being an italic pm, trying as on "Time". they sound like is next album should he bri 11.1 to play hip hOp means that they YOUR 1DIR. E conventional indie group. but mind Phillip Hanlon 8 Jadcee Friday October 18 1998 Opera North - Wozzeck
it is necessary to fed die anticipation of devouring a chocolate only to have It haste Irf bitter cough syrup to truly understand a performimee of George Buchner's Wuzzeek. Anyone expecting this opera to deliver soul-lifting arias and captivating story line, for the extra pounds spent straying away from the pub. should instead brace themselves fOr what appears to be a German %•ir film set to some loud musk. Buchner's own internal strife of having dealt with extreme political and social oppression in has native Germany are mirrored by the main character in this work. Wozzeck is created as a luJc()111). lower class common soldier who attempts to escape the secial situation dealt by Fate to irclaim a life of his own creation. 1-k is intended to be a hem among a dismal world, trapped by the evil forces which hold down the human spirit and ultimately doomed to Awake your soul. failure. This intensely brilliant concept is lost among the dials of the performance and can CLARE LISTER is only truly be understood by reading the programme in your kitchen afterwards. The disappointment of this opera cannot be exhausted by a attributed to the talented Opera North Company,- some ideas simply do not licking in an opera tidal wave of a film format The gray walls and bins of potatoes of milieu,/ life do not exactly set the tone for a gala spectacle. The tkcompanying score has Breaking The Waves impending Lbw: written all over it. barren of Dir: Lars %On Trier any traces of music to reach the spirit Further the translation of this work into Stars: Emily Watson, Katrin english diminishes any last hopes of pleasing the Cart lidge ears and is simply useless. It becomes extremely difficult to he-affected by the profound t'll make you think. It'll music and psychological roots of Wriszeck's struggle make you laugh. and it'll dancing and simply because the lyrics are inaudible and the ruled by the few blurbs of English that do escape sound idelinitely make 3 ou godfathers of extremely unpoeite - "anger is bad-. Pardon if I weep. This remarkable film the town, clad don't sympathise. sweeps you through a tidal in black, and Some might claim that there is insensitivity wave of emotion, and leaves adorned with on my part towards the tragedy which I am learned beards. The story concentrates camera also dictates exactly what you Holly Hunter in The Plana supposed to have witnessed, but what was truly you dazed and confused. on Bess, a naive and timid girl from should he looking at. leaving some Perhaps the most startling reaction tragic was the absence of an interval during Religious mockery, or just a the community who marries Jan. a expressions mysteriously hidden. and to this film is the utter confusion in which ID escape. Save your pounds. go to the portrayal of faith, a tale of worldly wise worker on an oil rig. others very well documented. The which it leaves you. Religion is the pound and wait fur a performance of M IhaterflY misunderstanding. or a Their blissfully happy marriage is film is shot with a grainy brown shade most prominent feature in this film. that remains throughout reminding and vet leaves you wondering or the Marriage of Figom later this season grave abuse of the power of blown apart by an accident which leaves Jan paralysed, and leads to a you of the isolation of the community, whether von Trier is mocking devout Sharon Genadinik love, Breaking the Waves is tragedy that reaches such unexpected and the era in which it is set. faith, or castigating the power of certainly not a -simple love proportions that the audience is religion, and its ability to brainwash, story" as director Lars Von rendered spellbound and bewildered_ BUT PERHAPS the mist brilliant or merely commenting on the marvel at the sheer devotion of such a THer states. It is much much However, it is not just the story touch by the ditector, is the division of Brother to Brother - that thrills and disturbs. This tale of the film into chapters. marked by stills annmunity mom. woe is related with of landscapes accompanied by loud The only blip in this near flawless West Yorkshire Playhouse The film is set in the 1970's in a comic touches, and rock 'n' roll music of the time, David film is the length. Over two and a half remote village in Scotland. where the a camera that Bowie. and Pnicul Hamm to name hours long. Breaking the Wirier leaver ' Tore a fast-talking, drug-dealing, black community are devoutly religious. never quite but two. a directorial stroke of genius you exhausted. but you can see that man with the addition of a BMW and scorning steadies. as that both allows the audience a there is really no scene or expression mobile phone. and you have the mkt pt alcohol, though shaking breather from this marathon movie, that could be omitted. The stills in stenaitypical image which Brother to Brother the wake of but also reiterates the desolation and between events last for an Intyvcrialh yet subtly undermines. Through a the emotion it is detachment of the community from uncomfortably long time. but for fascinating exploration of history, family, producing. the rest of Britain. some reason inspire you with hope fo relationships and sexuality, the three dynamic 0 The The genius though lies in the what is to follow. and the numerous actors - Wadi Reid. Ekyndaso and ;Michael acting. Emily Watson. as Bess. is scenes of Bess praying. with herself a lanna.sh - Daniels - forge the opportunity to spellbinding. Ranging from madness providing the imagined voice of God examine thentsels C4 and transmit their more to despair to intense joy, to glib' joy, are frequent to the extreme, but feminine side. slat plays a entnplicated character portrayed with such magic that it I he remoteness of imperialism and patriotism with as much skill as Miranda would he a crime to cut them. frinn black lives is enforced. as continual Richardson in lien and lit, and holds Thrilling and compelling. reiteration of Ride Britannia. land of Hope and more attention on sown than any Breaking the Waves will break your any and slidtes of the myul family mingled and Hollywood actress at the moment heat. With its nudity. full on pictures were interspersed with slide upon slide of black Her supporting cast are no less of gory operations, and religious gravesides, and tal.ess of black criminals reported in brilliant particularly Katrin Cardidge. hypocrisy, you will be stunned. This i national newspapers. as her sister-in-law. whose not a film you will enjoy, it is a film The media is viewed as terming a ',casein] unflinching self contnil betters that of you will live. stekotype for which black nun, confused with their identities. twiukl easily internalise. This is certainty then nut a "safe" production. In fact Mkhael McMillan perceives "safe" as dangerous. It is so cast' to pretend, to accept pre- 2 Days in the Valley conceived identities and fall into the trappings of a Mr: John flerifeld bureaucratic system. The vibrancy and skill of Stars: .latnes Spader. Eric Stoltz. Teri Hatcher, Danny Aiello Brother to Brother. the continual momentum which it adtieves through its flowing script. is. two soy and the lame plot does not redeem playing the anti-hero. and with dance song and haelsgrOund beat. seeks to erode hot babes, a slick James writer/ director John Heretekt incredible deftness rand looks damn this path and encourage individual aspiration Spades, Eric Stotts, comic However, despite this all round sexy lis it But perhaps the most while simultanimusls forming a unity, il finesse, and hard hitting music. and puntlessness the film hi ids delightful feature of this tannic test. stninehold hum which a voice can be heard. a would seem that you were set up incredible appeal. The script is very despite the satirisation of the McMillan describes Brother to Brother us a lie one superb movie. witty and sharp. and the actors bring American murder/ hitmen genre of rite of passage: -we brought our baggage, and in 2 days in the kirlley presents the it to life with impel-I:able comic film. is that the director knows the act of unpacking. shared anger, rage. fears, viewer with an array of characters, timing. Kremer there is enough when to stop. pain, laughter and jumped ti .r joy." This is u lea ranging from a suicidal dins•10r, a ration and graphic violence to grip There were no frills, and no makes the experience of Brother to another m. liarnan. a gymnast, to a nurse, and the attention. mist notably a highly unnecessary extras. A !pedal and unique. fir one realises this is perm nal eventually propels them towards the realistic hitch fight between Teri documentation of 2 days in the to all involved Although created to identity with sane clinuarne scene. This Hatcher and masher (amiable valley certainly didn't seem like 2 black men in particular. whose insecurities ate interweaving of various chera ter. banho, this one unknown and days in the valley. ft was mire like olt•n ignored, its themes i a love. hate and is a structure that is far from original blonde, Chaffin Theron, Perhaps ninety minutes in fits of Wellies pintails tear. universally apply to us all. in the Hollywood heights, highly they wen• fighting over the mime? Emma Betts) reminiscent of the 'timeline) mould. James Spider is the male stud, Clare Lister
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arts Wind in the Willows Dragonheart Dir: Terry Jones Stars: Terry Jones, Eric idle Dir: Rob Cohen Stars: Dennis Quaid izarre goings- Weasels in hulldozers. on are afoot in Saved by his best mate Bthis weird Ratty (Eric Idle) they adaptation of both get involved with the local aristocrat Toad Kenneth Grahame's (Ten-y Jones). His irnagine it classic novel. addiction to motor cars mediocre Robin Members of the and his propensity for food Prince of Monty Python crew I crashing them lands him Thieves. add a run around the Wild in a spot of bother with comic dragon and Wood dressed up in the weasels who are some stunning costumes that are ir5 ing to kick him out of his ancestral stately effects from the supposed t o make Jurassic Park them look like home. Go back to when you were six, clutch your This is one-of those people and anintals.Very strange. rare films that adults will sweeties and drool over these magical you'll have a Like the Maxie love as much as kids. pretty good Roundabout it's quite Eric Idle with whiskers movies - rediscover the land of fantasy easy to find yourSelf idea of Tarantino and actors trying to look thinking that Dragonheart. would he in Emma. Sean serious with fluffy rabbit The Adventures of Pinocchio This mediaeval fantasy Connery however was hallucinogenic substance!) ears on their heads is were taken when the centres im an homier-able seemingly horn to hreathe quite hilarious. It may not Dir: Steve Barren ideas for this film's knight (Dennis Quaid) who. lire. There are some go down as an all-time production were after seeing his (Lace, the genuinely funny moments classic, but worth Stars: Dawn French, Martin Landau formula ted.Even it this ponce, receive open heart and exciting action scenes. watching lust to WA) surgery from a dragon and wasn't the case. you're ,, film would be Li.indaui. but whim you 'this is destined to he a see the members. aeccimpttnial subsequently grow into a left with the impression better lithe voice of have hit vs ith cluldien thanks to of Monty Pinocchio to school, ihe tyrannical king (David that tongues were placed TPint icchio was nut Connery 's lovable dragon. /Wen -very firmly in cheeks. American. because this is theatre. a wicked theme Thewlis). vows revenge but ispretty disappointing together again ivtak_ park. and seen inside the against all these winged For anyone that nor an Arnerierth film. It is after the Hollywood hype. in the guts of a huge sea reptiles. This task brines doesn't know the story a British-French-German great Perhaps if as much strangest Because him into contact with line of this classic, pmduction. But for mime. monster, en at it enthusiasm had been film of the them is no use denying that Delco . a computer Maley (Steve reason the makers chose to _LVMs- channelled into the script. year. incorporate the magic to when Pim icchiit's never- generated dragon who Coogan) gets use Jonathan Taylor cast and story its into the the original story by Carlo ending desire to become a shares the King's heart and turfed out of his Thomas. the boy who brilliant effects Collodi with good film real hoy" does eventually Sean Ctinnery's voice. home by played the voice pan of the - i)nigtoilksoi wotIld fly as techniques, and some Inv true. it IN a big Somewhat predictably the some Lion King, to be homy-We. 1:4 great adventure film. As it wonderful acting. Dawn disapixiimmcnt hi see the Iwo join corer... to rrtum nasty But if you can ignore is, it tails a Mlle flat. A the American Yoko vi, this French is superb as the brave but blameless peace and morality to the wonderful idea turned into a film is brilliant. Pinocchio Bakers Wife. but heware of wesxien puppet turn into country. simple chance for those rutty be naive to start with. that rolling pM. just anodic' C4 vky Dennis-Quaid is a largely special effects people to but he is a quick learner. You Mr ill hate ihe American kid. unimpressive knight and is show off. Pinocchio's adventures are baddies, and love Geppetto Eleanor Clarke as out of place in a magic no sentimental journey.. but the puppet maker Martin and monsters movie Rebecca Davies Grumpier Ofd Men d Stars: Jack Lemmon W hat to rent and what to miss CONTACT LENSES Lemmon make up the ennuis double act in this sena-amusing Restoration ' siNirt to the first Grump 111;1111 inovie.Most of the plot revolve*: Dir: Michael -.111K anItind both of these fogies Hoffman attempting to pull Sophia Laren. At aims this can be funny, hut more Stars: Robert olien than not its a bit of a &TA' you:re infect-sled in old people Downey Jr romancing then get it rout If it's ithoutAS appall)); as snowing your (Iran then do the tv.viour able thine oral avoid at all cents
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lthough this He goes on to look 'after the monarch's dogs True Crime film was set Stars:Kevin Dillon at the time of and is then forced to A marry the kings mistress, ALICIA SIINERSI'ONE is no Charles H's He subsequently falls in loner clueless as NI restoration to the love with his new wife wholesome teerwer .1.4111.1 a yen NEW GLASSES throne. the storyline but is forbidden from for Ixiiicestock l fill 7ts ir,s ill het WITH doesn't really focus sleeping her. In a fit of fathers footsteps, Mary teams on the history of sexual frustration he runs up a with streetwise cadet THINNER (Kevin Dillon' and hums away to a Quaker run these events. detective in this tedious, corny assist in the LIGHTER Resloralitni has it mad house to and inapprivriately named birarre and some what care of the inmates. 5 tiU OTC Confused now SCRATCH RESISTANT minimal plot. Robert If There are a few vaguely just watch the film. It gets interesting twists ell vealed irl Downey Jr is a mad even stranger and becomes true Agatha Christie style NON REFLECTING doctor who touches the very tedious to watch. explanations. but not a hti he EVERY NEW ENROLEMENT OF Prohahls, nut worth spending LENSES heart of a man whom keep most luterested, Slow' to MONTHLY REPLACEMENT for some reason has a your readies on when there start. Tnie Crtme crawls through ate so manly better films and CONTACT LENSES WHEN PURCHASED WITH A FRAME hole in his skin the insipid murder case around. drags itself to Its predictable exposing his vital death Lower Ground Floor, Union Buildings, Leeds University organ. Lucy Worsie s Rebecca Davits/
Juice Friday October 18 1998 _FA books r Audiom 11 Authors If you can't be bothered to read then try a talking book. They are Watt's the story? an excellent option, as DAVID SMITH tells us Ben Watt is the man behind from Everything But The Girl's chart
4ong before Hollywood success. In 1992 he was taken into hospital. JENNIFER MATTHEWS realised that Jane Austen and en could reads Ben's true story in his highly acclaimed book Patient write a hit, classic literature was being brought alive f you haven't heard recorded over a hundered disease hardly anstmc, not changing your thorough an wholly Inure of Ben Watt then songs since then. even the doctors had heard perception of releasing nine albums and or. The disease that Watt simple and traditional you must have been everything method: the spoken word. I playing gigs everywhere. This suffering from is called thut the out of the country. Not hook is the first thing l've One of the great literal-) Churg -Strauss Syndrome, an girl). done apart from making extremely rare condition-it phenomena of the decade has only is he one half of records. I live in London," been the rising popularity of the the very successful caused Watt to have 85% of It may he perceived that his small intestine removed. book-on-tape. What began as a band Everything But this kind of book is boring and few Bible readings on local Patient is not only about the Girl, but he has morbid and some books of this library shelves has bloomed physical illness, it is.about the also turned from singer nature are, but Patient is menial torture that into a mass market of literature brilliantly written and very accompanies being ill. Watt on in all forms dominating every to author. interestingit begins with a several occasions comes very bookshop you care to step in. His book is called Patient description of his first close to death and he describes The success of an author is and it is an account of the experience of hospital the subsequent mental anguish almost judged these days on critical illness which "Keyhole surgery. it's nothing. that this causes. "People ask whether their work has made it threatened his life. He they say. But they all bring what it was like, and I say yes to the rack of audio books. introduces himself at the hack invasion. Scraping around and of course it was dramatic and All the greats are there of of the hook and nobody could needles:disorientation and graphic and all that stuff. but course, sometimes more than do it better. "I was born in sutures, we can't wait to get at times it was just kind of once over. Austen, Dickens, London in 1962 In 1981 I met home." comic and strange. It was .1 Eliot, Hardy and the Bronzes Tracy and we formed a band This book has been written suppose, my life-changing have been recorded variously. and called it Everything But from the soul, it is honest. story". some as straight readings by the Girl. Together we must have written and Watt tells us about the pain, When you read the hook famous actors (those who both physical and mental as if you will realise how true appeared in the movie of the it is second nature to him-I this is. hook are the latest fad). others guess it was. Throughout the hook it as full dramatis.ation.s with It may not necessarily shock draws you in and Watt sound effects and occasional you but it will move you. becomes almost a friend. dodgy acting. The pick still has However, Watt is not looking You will find yourself to be the BBC's epic 10-hour for sympathy, he is looking for worrying, turning the serialisation of David understanding. I think that he next page in anguish Coppetfirld. expects too much from the and praying that Watt Drama and poetry make the reader, we are incapable of is alright. He becomes transition to tape with distinct truly understanding what he more than the patient. success if not with the same went through as we aren't he becomes part of popular appeal. it is now capable of experiencing the your world. Read possible to buy the complete level of pain that he went this book and it will audio works of William through (Thank heavens), take you on a tour Shakespeare, although settling "I feel very ill-about as ill tie force of on a definitive version is no It as it is possible to he without emotion, through a hard than in the cinema: actually dying-confronting a life altering story. ' Branagh's Hamlet. Romeo and A Juliet and King Lear (starring • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • John Gielgud) is a formidable package. however. Fur poetry buffs there is even the chance ti hear luminaries such as Larkin and Eliot reading from their own work, although Richard Burton's The Love Poetry of John Donne is the clearest demonstration of verse as it was The Classic Quiz meant to he - spoken aloud- Verse-on-tape works not Are you a reader of the Classics? Do you least because much poetry was never meant to he left dormant know your Jane Eyre from your Wuthering on the printed page. Yet with novels the applause should he Heights? If so then try your hand at this quiz somewhat more restrained. while they popularise and and win a big box of classic books excite. they are not quite the real thing. Whereas a good tend g• your imagination tree rein. the Which popular writing was sparked off by Wilkie Collins *khan problem with talking hooks is that they start filling some of in White? the gaps for you. Instead of What was George Elliot's real name? hearing the voice of Austen in your head you hear it coming In Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure what is Jades firsty wife called? from a cassette machine, and I if course it never quite sounds What was Mrs Gaskall's original title for Mary Barton? how you imagined_ The aildli In Dickens' Middlemarch what have Casaubon and Will got in common? dramatisations in particular Mt just one step away from the What was the heroine's name in Charlotte Bronte's Villette? movies, where your interpretation is very clearly Who is the author of Rachel Ray? second to the director's. In George Eliot's Mill on the Floss Maggie forgets to feed Tom's pet and it Again, as on the screen. most hooks are abridged and consequently dies. What kind of animal was it? edited. giving a kind of snack- site 60p version. pushing the What physical disability afflicts Rochester at the end of Jane Eyre? full meal dangerously down the . What is the name of Fagin's child sidekickin Oliver Twist? menu. It means that audio books are by no means a Which of Conrad's novels is soon to be released as a film? substitute fir the genuine article, rather a welcome and In Wuthering Heights do Cathy and Heathcliff ever get married? ingenious complement. Not least on a two-hour _journey or the night before your English Send Entries to, Books Department, Leeds Student Newspaper, Leeds University Union. Or Ring 2434727 ,1/4Ltit...... am. 1, 2 ./Rice Friday October 18 1998 r Are they really funny, or are the comedians on Whose Line is it Anyway fed their lines? JIM BISWELL interrogates Greg Proops to discover why this American thinks himself so witty
reg Proops deflating the indolent sarcasm I'm a stand-up comedian." It is This is the mysterious Chippendales and of flocks of self-satisfied Brits: something that, as has been universe of Greg Proops, who variety act with is bizarre "When they say that most amply exemplified by Whose confesses that Marie Proops, chimpanzees." But and no Americans have no sense of Line Is Ii Anyway", he does the agony aunt for The Daily he has one slight mistake. irony they are by and large very well. On the thorny, if riot Mirror is indeed his aunt reservation in all of Ark right. So it's great when now corny. issue of how this (surprise, surprise!). He this. "I just hope there When I someone like me does. The show is put together, he takes a himself doesn't usually care are some normal folk asked him, quite British hate to have irony similarly guarded attitude and enough about people', mixed in with the legitimately thought, thrown hack in their face and offers conflicting answers: problems. but makes an students at the City whether he would are often extremely surprised - "Yeah sure we rehearse it for exception if he's sulking about Varieties. Because typify his brand of they have to say to me - are six months but we have really the sexual therapy of lapsed although they are much you joking? Welt am I?" This had writers ...no, no what am I bishops: "The Church is a great sharper than most people humour as "geek then is obviously a supremely saying we do it over three or place to meet people and they and get the jokes it gets a rock" he was hasty to confident man who knows four weekends each year and have proven that . indeed a bit freaky it the whole correct me: "Comedy when people are shilling him, its just like a party. We begin nice place to meet people for audience is students is not the new rock and who fully appreciates the drinking at eleven, there's a lasting relationships so why sometimes they tend, on and roll, comedy is envy this must create among cake around two, then we break shouldn't bishops too enjoy the occasion to scream insteac some of the sorry and diffident for drugs and Clive Anderson fruits of their faith. if they of laugh." Is he joking. or the new Gregorian wind bags who pass for critics gets up and does a dance in his didn't have such strict rules what? chanting." Strange in Britain. underwear: there's a parade. I'm sure we could wean them words indeed from a But he is quick to laugh off pin the tail on the donkey. back to normality. I mean man who has made his the criticism even when it has a someone puts on ABBA and priests are people too, they're name over here in certain sordid subtext of we all dance." Well that's that just people with funny hats." xenophobic griping: "When one cleared up then. But when And this, I suppose, is the Britain for a razor critics say 'Why is he so pressed Proops did eventually fare we can expect from this sharp and lightning confident?' lie why is he a crack: "Okay. I submit, I never Sunday's comedy expose, quick tongue, on that crass and brash Yank?) it give a straight answer to that eschewing as he is this vehicle For all would be makes me think whether they one so it'll never be answered time, unfortunately, would really want somebody and I can say something his legendary verbal gun-slingers, who .says 'Urn. um I hope this different every time," "turn with Whose Line Is It next one's funny.'" the Anyway? So listen. folks, just remember o believe, if you can, But. unsurpristrigk. this that Greg Proops is an asset to this anecdote which I is all part of his craft. this country. and one that is managed to glean Lulling me into a false hest served by our commitment about that hallowed but secretive sense of security with a to a challenging and exciting live comedy circuit. "I like it Smelting point which is protestation as to the here. Cable TV has killed live the Whose Line Is It ponderous nature of comedy in America. My Anyway' studio: television comics these hometown of San Francisco "Yeah there have days, he relished used to have five comedy been some really swallowing up your humble clubs. but sadly 'tis no more." embarrassing interviewer and spitting out But this was about as far as I moments on that the mere husk of what was could draw him on the current show. Last year left. " Yeah sure I like debate that is raging as regards Tony Slattery's I students. but I couldn't eat a the relative quality of sitcoms pants split open in Britain and America: during a taping whole one" he replied, to "American sitcoms are and everybody peals of laughter, when I certainly slicker. Usually on could see his pointed out what will he the sitcoms you can't tell the truth. goodies and that predominant group in the however meticulously they was really audience when he visits the have been planned, but Frasier amustng, I felt. I City Varieties this Sunday and The Simpsons are two cool was stunned quite as part of his national tour. exceptions_" frankly, gob- And in towns all over But Proops has no smacked." Britain the self-styled Stone aspirations this way: "Stand-up Ranger has been and will be comedy is my thing because 13
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HEY DJ PUMP Monday night is THAT PARTY
eroignise this cry -tii ).- Student night? me a chance, I'll spin one Ror you°. lost year Leeds AIdeaf held a hugely successful DJ competition. Once again we Without fear to our own safety this week we tell the truth about Monday clubs. are offering you the chance to he recognised by the country's ACRE PORTER packs no punches in her hard-hitting look at Monday clubs leading student paper. and to become our resident DJ. So send of Everyone went down, otten metaphorical blank cheque, perhaps they think that's cool Whatever a popular night out your tapes to DJ Dashing Dick al heap, cheerful, on their own and met everyone thereby taking a nice cut for ratan The humidity and may be, it shouldn't be confused loxds University. Union PO Box packed parties, there, and every week it was themselves (alleged to be a third temperature makes it not only with this place. The revolving 157, LSI LUFL Monday. by .1 ere brilliant Ito nick a phrase). But of ticket sales), while presenting uncomfortable but fortes you to dance floor is obviously not safe Or alternatively drop a tape Porter The Pleasure Rooms became, an image of being your SU. sweat and and soak and as hundreds of lunatics stand as into either Leeds Student office We at Leeds Student have and the night ended. For a year dehydrate ( I wonder why). tight as possible while at any at LUU or LMUSU and when been slowly watching who's people were lost. Planet Earth hit o, what should you believe. Within minutes of arriving your moment someone could fall and Dick manages to get off his arse been patronising and who's been the scene and hit the market with Our opinion is not law, but clothes hang to you as the do serious injury. And who's he'll sort out a proper postulating positively in trying cheap and tacky promotions. at least we don't get a cut perspiration builds to such a watching; and what safety competition together with prizes to deliver a Monday night S Then one week Umpa of the takings, so you decide. high level that it runs down the measures are there? Who knows and everything and nu doubt a deserving of your money. Our (according to club legend). But first a few points we've walls. Hairstyles are non existent but more important who cares. guest slot_ insert reviews the best of a had failed to open. Planet Earth was noticed. as people resemble drowned rats The same lack of care equals OH, and by the way - this job, but first read the potted rammed and Planet Earth, is by any and the party atmosphere is of the other venues saturating the Competition is open to all and history o over as standards a poor venue. It is the lager lager lager (and yet market with the same cheap we'll will have winners for behind It's a pack them in and rip out t ok the place to without air conditioning_ We more lager lager lager lager) drinks and cheap tacky music. categories and one overall the asked a doorman what it did mentality. It's as though alcohol Both Umpa and Ritzy want your winner so get on the decks and present every last piece of shrapnel be with its Ab Fab have "three fans that's all-, and the opposite sex have only money. They are big give us a mix. score. philosophy. And it stinks. Monday. When you get there you can tell. just been discovered, coupled to corporations and as such have Lotto our DJ Monday Fast If I wanted a sauna I wouldn't be the ending of the world. And it's the weight behind the contra:lit km today. The for students is an extension to the Forward to this year. More than dressed for a night out, but (tightening. manipulation. You spend a few weekend There's a little bit of ever, liceneees are desperate for thoudand pounds is tsloo issue- closing date your cash. It's a pack them in. between you and they time - is October 31. so cash hanging over from the madness of the official weekend. and rip out every last piece of laugh all the way to the come on -it's your future During the day you've caught up shrapnel philosophy. And it bank. and we'll ha% e prizes. with course mates and decided stinks. Flying teams blitz you, Hang on. you may prithably. to go out on the town for a cheap with amazing offers and in the well be shouting. Isn't night out. But because of past furore of it all you are taken in. Monday supposed to mythical word of mouth or At both LMU & LUU you can't be fun, we had a great present misleading flying. you even trust their advice. LMU has lime last week. Well believe. Planet Earth or Umpa or a fair blanket policy of only think about it. If they Ritzy are the he all and end all of supporting its own events, which really wanted to give Mondays. is Ok, but hardly advice you something to students The reality couldn't be need outside the domain of it would be cheap further from the truth. Several LMUSU bar. LUU is even access all week, but no years ago prior to The Pleasure worse. The Coc-six: has climbed to fill Monday they Rooms. Ricky's with its 10p a into bed with Ritzy and given flannel you with g- pint was a legend. An array of free access to your lack of reat party zones while musics created a scene unheard knowledge and to your resultant the other side of the week places like FLOOR Umpa with the ever descending Ronson FILLER desperately create an image in which you The world that o w ill spend and spend. remembered with Di Drugs Drugs However, help is at Dashing Dick hand. !.reds Student have talked to the Play that funky music - ILIAL owners at Nato, It's new Sweet WIld Chem (1976 i Revival is now matching the hig from the first guitar chord t ∎ Iblank page with only hnes, no a canvass boys. L2 tax b4 1 ItMI sees you the last scream this songs Drugs waiting to be filled. Life fills in tandem +Yoh get two free drinks. E2 after sees funk oozes nght through the experience, meeting people new people or cheap drinks comparable to imams. down the trouser oe eopl• again properly, intensively, in a elsewhere, with a venue none otases. and into your head. concentrated time. with cmicentrated out match. an atmosphere none laird the turd, oh the !link take r.. t roods and thoughts. could imaginably beat and music Dancing together forgetting tt«ked anti Life alWayS be interesting. time that makes this night the ill your problems. Punkin' - and hawed SUP I I I is of the essence and should mat br quintessential choice for anyone getting the funk and komir; them, or do you think OW") .1L1,' .1 wasted nits can't waste time, but who cares about having a night the funk. Someone shouts long way born being big and -Play that funk) music whit) incouutity should not sit them waging. your of real fun with friends. Why did clever? Next ww..k in a frank and til• away with the wrong people. and this white boy in 'third Hard limes return to Leeds? To uncensored debate Leeds Student en•inmment and ethos. There are so shakes the hips. flicks the world' reside at Nato. Why did Moiler will put the case We are inviting many thinkers, talkers and was to owner of Vague. Suzy Mason quiff and sunk the stuff Hu; ',our views now. so please write countries. , lamed with. but it:r up to you. Way once take up residence at an untried song is timeless. It sits u: Leeds Meanwhile 'no Leeds Student at again! I move (minim rise hoard and resentment and untested club called Nato? alo era and always will, for v I riivcrsity Union. Po Box 157, west' is and self analysis. I Move .to soda freedom, to the like Because it offered a brand new .s the funk. The latest SI 1.-UH. imposing minded open minded wile party. I know some but sun till chance and an alternative to the inemury of it is upstairs in We want you to decide our universal law to no and one vet - well, not even those I cram with. Vet quickly I cheesy mass consumption that is Vague. All the vaguerants policy. Sri fir the clubs page has affect because it ,•inurect, I we a soul with cur amber flashing beacon and I go to threatening to pull Leeds into an showing how it mast have made tongue in cheek reference cannot police it's own investigate. We remember our first meet, we laugh, we.. ,you know. been at the height of '76 lil- a) drugs. but should we be more borders or people. Or abyss. Mr morning turns to the afternoon. We leave. Again at this souls So come on, don't be drawn t he was the guitar chords., the responsible and more moralistic: are we wrong. Your say is Vital. house 1 meet a new face. Only Tuesday my image changed, but heresay, if you've not heard (rand claps and the James or should we he promoting what and once determined will by already someone new interaas without previous concept of rant', my new club onwso style horn, flow many believe to he the inevitable become the staled position of of Sweet Revival at firrsana card character. along with the clean lyrics total legislation of what is alto Leeds Student. So, lead on next Nato, then get there this week. Rat essentially My character remains which have held this song in all a culturally normal behaviour week and decide. the same. People must get past for it is separating itself out from the test and I will respect and help and he there for mid never let high regards for so Icing. And by definition of brine a way of the saturation of commercial guess what you needn't be a life_ Drugs are big business, the Stuck for down and be hones: to and rrusnvorrhy for and be a friend. .4 Monday. 500 people went last white boy to play funky stakes are high, the lives easily Something to do tonight connection is Oral. life is perfect when you are content with being. week, not one left unhappy. Nest music. lust and the profits feeding Check out Flavour of the And maybe thanks to the connections made today I am content, week if you go you'll say the day in TV listings same
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