QuenchISSUE 139 - NOVEMBER 2013 Features 5 LGBT+ 11 Fashion & Beauty 16 Food & Drink 25 Travel 34 Culture 38 Video Games 46 Film & TV 50 Music 58 DR WHO: THE 50TH 8 PAGE SWN ANNIVERSARY 52 SUPPLEMENTINSIDE Cardiff Student Letting OWNED & RUN BY CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION TEL: (029) 20781525 | www.cardiffstudentletting.com.cardiffstudentletting.com NO agency There’s plenty of time fees cardiffstudentletting.com QUENCH EDITOR’S NOTE THEQUESTION It’s midnight. I need help. Every other page on the you care about. (Unless it’s cat videos on YouTube, or from me, having played through it in entirety just before magazine is finished except this one. Tom Connick keeps whatever.) Blockbuster went out of business. While the review of hurling a stress ball at the Xpress Radio studio window. Anyway, I’m going off on a tangent. What’s up? How the game is lukewarm, I really liked it; it deviates from We’re listening to the Warioland 1 soundtrack, eating are you? By the time you read this, I will have caught its spiritual predecessor, Heavy Rain, by being far less cold pizza, and shouting at each other. Welcome to the up on a sleep, and I’ll be quite chipper. Being serious, ridiculous (unfortunately, you cannot ‘press X to Jason’ dirty world of editor’s notes, and Quench by extension. we’ve done our best to make this one of the best issues in this one), although me and Matt Grimster have been This page - the first one you see - is the last dying cry of of Quench ever - and between exclusive interviews butting heads over this all month, so you might disagree. the magazine as it goes to print. If you want an insight with some of the Doctor Who staff, some of the best I’d also like to give particular regard to Sophie Lodge, into how a student publication is put together, it’s a bit writing this university has to offer in our features section, whose meteoric rise from ‘updating Mike’s twitter’ like the opening to 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the and some excellent coverage of the Cowbridge Food (something I don’t think she ever actually did) to my apes learn how to use tools and start smashing things Festival, I think we’ve created a magazine which will deputy editor is something of legends. However, while with bones. appeal to everybody. I’m dead proud of this issue, I’m equally proud of her; I thought I might be doing things wrong, so I’ve been she’s taken to our production cycle like a duck to water, observing the management styles other organisations So how do I influence and I’ll bet you anything this magazine would be a lot employ. I used to work on a sales floor, and their time people in this miserable worse without her. Shame about my twitter, though. in meetings yelling at people and each other (because Charlie Mock and Charlie Andrews have joined our nothing sells ad space like misery), but I’ve found that era? Apparently, take team as online editors, who are leading the steady nobody takes a dome-headed 5’6’’ man seriously. charge to modernise our website. There’s some really So how do I influence people in this miserable era? selfies and ask people great stuff there, so I’ve sprinkled QR codes throughout Browsing the internet, I’ve found that the consensus the magazine linking people to some of our more active seems to be that I should take photographs of myself and what the fox says sections. You can find all the content in the magazine in upload them to Instagram, make “jokes” on Facebook, a more shareable form at http://quenchmag.co.uk, so and ask people what the fox says. Speaking of festivals, our coverage of this year’s Swn feel free to take a gander online if you want to accelerate Alas, I have a piece of obsidian where my sense of festival is as good as it’s ever been. Thanks to the excellent the inevitable death of print. humour should be, so instead, I’ve found the easiest way Urban Tap House, we managed to get interviews with Just before I finish - Quench would like to offer forward is to just put together a really good magazine. the majority of performing artists, so if you’re searching congratulations to Xpress Radio, who won bronze in I’m doing my best, but mistakes are made; last month, for something to listen to, type anybody who sounds the best station category at this month’s Student Radio three pages were rendered entirely unreadable by print interesting into Google and track them down. Swn Awards, as well as best live event for their excellent errors, but nobody complained because we put Walter stands head and shoulders above everything else on coverage of the 2013 Swansea-Cardiff Varsity. We’re White on the front cover. There’s a lesson to be learned the Cardiff events calendar, so we’d like to extend our surrounded by really talented people in student media, there (I think). thanks to everybody who performed, organised and and we’re honoured to share an office with the guys I’ve never really seen the appeal of attempting to attended for making such an excellent event happen. who bought you Cardiff Unplugged, The Detective, and be all things to all men in an effort to please a few. Elsewhere in the magazine, LGBT+ have produced a whole host of other great shows. My favourite people in the limelight weren’t born SEO pages commemorate Trans*gender Day of Anyway, I think that’s everything - I can only fit in so ready; lord knows if Mark E. Smith grew up at the Remembrance, Travel examine interrailing and budget many acknowledgements, and I’ve got a shedload of same time as me and had a blogspot profile, the only friendly travel, and culture talk about Morrissey’s horrible work to do, but thank you for reading this far. I hope you thing he would’ve been famous for is hurling abuse at autobiography. I’ve glanced through his book, and I can enjoy the magazine, and, as ever, you can find me on everybody. If your defining characteristic is that you confirm that Morrissey is not a charming man. twitter or send me an email with my details on the next follow the crowd, and do what everybody else is doing, Video games have a review of Beyond: Two Souls page - I’d love to know what you think. then you’ll be alienated the moment you find something (pictured above), which comes highly recommended MOCD 3 Q TRAVEL @quenchtravel · [email protected] Emma Giles Travel editor @EmmaGiles94 QuenchIS BROUGHT TO YOU BY... 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Food editor I’d like to take this moment to recognise Charlotte Wace’s Dylan Elidyr Jenkins contributions to the magazine, who exceeded my expectations at Food editor every opportunity. Char, you and your banner were the unsung heroes of freshers’ week, and we’ll miss having you in the office. Q 4 LIFESTYLE FEATURES These are the youth seeking sex education in a country following a syllabus so outdated that putting a condom on a banana while the teacher cringes in the corner GIRL MEETS is deemed adequate preparation for adulthood. It’s understandable then, that more and more young people are relying on porn to teach them what goes where or rather, as Caitlin Moran wrote in How To Be A Woman, “What could go where if you’re determined enough”. Our generation, those in their late teens and early PORN twenties who experienced the emergence of the internet and all its wonders in our early-mid teens, are perhaps the guinea pigs of porn as it is now. Sprawling and endless and free, porn is no longer a luxury reserved for those daring enough to Aimee-Lee Abraham examines the myths touch the top-shelf or go snooping for Daddy’s supply.