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Neo-Nazi terror group targets Leeds University students Fascist thugs on campus

azi activists have been A spokesperson for the Yorkshire Combat DC and has Gay and Bisexual Society said: entering Leeds University anti-fascist magazine, By Leeds Student reporter a reputation for beating up "This is all that can be N Union in an attempt to Searchlight, described the anyone who disagrees with expected in this political compile a hit list of possible activity as "highly dangerous". other universities in the past, enough details to convict the him. climate. These people are enemies in the student He said: "Yorkshire Combat and it was only a matter of attackers. Tony White is. by clearly ill-informed and have community. 18 is collecting names. People time before they started at These events come in the comparison, quite welt dressed nothing better to do. It's for Leeds Student has obtained should be aware that these Leeds." wake of a rise of fascist and is alleged to he responsible this reason that we take the photographs of Dave people aren't joking." In recent weeks there has activity in Leeds. Record shops for the theft of an address precaution of not displaying Appleyard and Tony White, Dave Appleyard was also been a spate of incidents selling anti-fascist merchandise book from the offices of the our names and numbers in members of the fascist recently chased out of the carried out by rightwing have had their windows now defunct Northern Star. public." paramilitary organisation Union by a member of the groups against Leeds students. smashed and have been According to Searchlight, Combat 18, founded in Combat 18, who have been union executive and two The Islamic Society has daubed with nazi graffiti. Also, both men arc "very violent". A 1992, is a Nazi paramilitary sighted entering Leeds members of the Anti-Nazi complained that its mail has leftwing paper sellers have Spokesperson said: "In Leeds organisation who are University Union regularly League. Before leaving, been opened. More seriously, been attacked with hammers there are some extremely committed to armed race war. over the last few months. Leeds Appleyard threatened to break an Asian student at Leeds and other weapons. violent people who are They produce a number of Student understands that the the fingers of one of the group. University claims he was tied Appleyard is described as perfectly prepared to go down publications which incite purpose of the visits has been A spokesperson for LUU and beaten by a gang of fascist tall and thin but well built for their actions". violence and give tactical to collect the names and executive saw it as inevitable thugs. He described how he with a Gazza-style haircut. He The spokesperson for LUU advice on how to smash their telephone numbers of leftwing that fascist extremist groups was told that if he revealed the has 'York' and 'Shire' exec described the group as "a opponents. Across the country, students. The details have been would start targeting Leeds. identity of his assailants, they tattooed on the sides of his bunch of boneheads." C18 cells have been gathered from societies' "There has been an increase in would return to kill him. The neck. Student societies have responsible for firebombings, noticeboards, mail boxes and Combat 18 activity," he student said that he was too He reportedly considers reacted strongly to the news. A issuing death threats and filing cabinets, explained, "they have targeted scared to provide police with himself as the 'hard man' of spokesperson for the Lesbian, viciously attacking people. Members of Combat 18 active at Leeds University Dave Appleyard Tony White

• Appleyard is well known as a headcase who • White Is believed to be responsible for the theft regards himself as the hard man of Yorkshire's of an address book from the office of The Northern Combat 18. In the past Appleyard has been Star which has been used to compile a death list of involved in beating up a freelance photographer 'Red Scum. and enjoys a reputation for violently attacking anyone who disagrees with him, be they man or • White has helped co-ordinate recent Combat 18 woman. activity which has featured fire bombs and attacks.

• Appleyard is thought to be an influential • He claims that he is not really a Nazi but has figure In Yorkshire's Combat 18. been seen wearing a Ku Klux Klan T-shirt.

• Appleyard is tall, thin but well built. He has • White prefers a more respectable image, short hair and the sides of his neck are tattooed steering away from the jack-booted look of his with 'York' and 'Shire'. colleagues. Information compiled in association with Leeds Anti-Fascist Action

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2 News Sun special Luvvie in Leeds • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Leeds University Lord Richard Attenhorough will he in Elliot's no dope Union's ban on 1.eeds next week - and students could get The Sun the chance to meet him, writes Torn mks. newspaper could / 4 eeds University I nion programme is particularly 'Dickie' will he present at the regional By Simon Grecnhalgh premiere of his new film Financial A ltair ., relevant fur the University he overturned by a 'Shadowlands' Secretarr Elliot authorities, who in future Special at the Odeon. As a student you can get Reuben has launched a 'drugs Reuben claimed that the years may have to face the Constitutional ticket for £4 - £6.50 if you forget your DIGEST awareness programme' aimed campaign on drugs awareness prospect that possession of General Meeting St S card - and for £15 the chance to at the University hierarchy was motivated by a comment drugs, such as cannabis, will next week. A elbow your was through the adoring masses to meet the great Man at the which he argues is "largely from one University official, he decriminalised with those petition. organised caught receiving a 'caution' reception afterwards. NEWS 2,3,4,5 uneducated on the subject of stating: "If he was dealing in by Revolutionaryonary rather than prison. The film, which stars Anthony Hopkins narcotics". cannabis. he must have been Communist Party COMMENT 6,7 Reuben confirmed that in and Debra Winger in an account of the A pilot programme began dealing in heroin as welt," students. received ARTS 8.9 on 1 uesday night with Reuben dismissed this notion past years students have been life of author CS Lewis, opened in around 290 Reuben giving a 'Drugs "as quite clearly untrue". expelled from Leeds London over the weekend. Lord Dickie is MUSIC 10,11 signatures to force Lecture' a hich he hoped Reuben emphasised that University for drug now touring the country to unveil his film CLASS/JAZZ 12 would be attended by a the drugs awareness possession, but hoped the the meeting in the at regional premieres over a "gruelling- campaign would lead to "an Riley Smith ilall BOOKS 13 number of lop University programme would attempt to ttwo week period. officials including the Vier make a distinction between increase in drugs awareness on Tuesday at FOCUS 14,15 Chancellor, Registrar. and different calergories of drugs that would make Leeds Ipm. If the Recruit dispute University more progressive. • • • • • • • • CULTURE 16 Pro-Vice Chancellors. and their effects. The lecture meeting achieves • • • • • • • • • emphasising that in an included a talk on 'student following the attitudes of quoracy it will be It•s all change at Leeds Metropolitan THE GUIDE .. 17-23 "education establishment drug use' which he identified senior police officers. many able to reject the University Students Union. After the quorate doctors, and a variety of 24 where drugs feature quite as mainly confined in ban imposed at last Annual General Meeting the Union has got a CLASSIFIEDS scientists who helieve drugs is new-look constitution prevalently it is important canna his. LSD. ecstasy and month's OGM. and a change around TRAVEL . 25 that the authorities are more amphetamines. not an issue any more. but one in officers, writes Alison Wragg. SPORT ... 26, 27, 28 JIM are of the issue". The drugs awareness of personal choice." Among the changes there is now an officer Ents elects dealing with disabled students, However the most controversial issue has been the I POLICY I Matt Logan will he creation of a Lesbian. Gay and Bisexual Headingley Estates - an apology next year's Officer. Entertainments Warwick Taylor. President of LMUSU Exec. said: "Alastair Neely had it less Leeds Student is an independent Secretary at Leeds newspaper serving students at permanent post last year. but was valuable n our 25th February University Union Leeds University, Leeds 1994 edition of Leeds as many people came to see him. He has a after a dramatic Metropolitan Univetsity and Student we carried a very positive role.• I victory in this usher colleges in and around report on a claim by •nipol However reaction was not universally Leeds. All our journalists abide - the universities' housing week's election. He favourable. Les Rix. who is a first r ear by a code of conduct. but if you service - that some Leeds defeated his only studying Public Relations at LMU. said. have any complaints please housing agencies have been rival, Ian Darvill, "There should not be a separate LGB contact the Editor, using rumours of a by just 139 cotes to Officer. This is just giving them attention, potential housing shortage 136. Exec yet they claim that they want to he treated Leeds Student Newspaper normally. Leeds University Union for the forthcoming recounted the votes PO Box 157 academic year to pressurise twice to ensure Leeds LS 1 111H students to sign contracts that the close result The end is nigh early and to pay excessively was fully accurate. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The rent strike at Sentinel Towers - Leeds Editor high deposits by way of University's troubled multi-million pound Richard Fletcher bond and advance rental to secure accommodation AGM residential complex - could he drawing to Deputy Editor under the headline a close, it was revealed this week, writes Rosa Prince "Headingley housing David Smith. Assistant Editor Leeds University A new deal offering lower rent and a hoax" and showing the Union's re- John McLeod picture opposite of shorter contract has been put forward by arranged Annual Chief News Editor Headingley Estates who the University. If residents accept it - and General Meeting is Matt Roper operate as a property the signs are that they will - then the near managment and lettings to take place at half-year wrangle at the Towers could he Assistant News Editors 1pm next over. Helen Crossley agency and estate agents from SI Utley Road, Thursday in the "I'd like to say we've won, but I don't Tim Gallagher Headingley. Haadingley Estates Pic: Ed Crispin Riley Smith Hall. think I really can," said Ceri Nursaw, Gareth Hughes Leeds University Union Welfare Officer. David Smith We wish to make it The meeting had clear that it was not our Estates operate or have apologise for any originally been due "I'm just glad something is finally Focus Editor intention to infer or imply operated their student misunderstanding which to take place in happening." Helen Sage The proposals now on the table would that as may have appeared lettings service in such a may have arisen as a week 6, but was give residents the option of paying rent Arts Editors the case that ileadingley manner and we unreservedly result. cancelled because Liz Ekstein for 39 weeks instead of the 51 for which the agenda was not Emma Hartley they initially signed up. .And the weekly ready. charge would be £46 from next term Music Editors rather than the original £51 at the start of Alex Sanders Middle of the road to success the year. Johnny Davis Speak easy A t a time when oinipiaint, 1:111+ crstly Public Relation, Classical & jazz iThstudent apathy arc all too Hy Lucie Spurr student, wits elected In serve as Steven Ranger Education at a price Iroticiont. it I ecds. Vice Chatiman. He is eurrentlr Speakl% atch. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Christian White pro'. !t• Wins: H oil a V4 ,01'1... pl ace me lit as .1 PR concerned with Nine out of ten academics in higher and Rooks Editors V0 ,1., ti i 111(!11 helyc r, v, ;Po.,!,13111 lor k1 AT people's speech further education stronely agree that Stuart Dotes l..ist acrk f:idi and liar as nadir .ma! Flames and language financial hardship is damaging students' Jiihn McLeod }.4 ,,I1,3rd 1)...:n .ire Ii misersu 11111. difficulties, will academic achievement, writes Ian Rose. The Guide rk.ri! snit •r111‘, 11.01111.:.11 reiSirx,:,ins 11.0.e lure a stall in the According to a survey published this week. Stephen Hill I . reception more and more students are being forced to 1-11: ■••,. .; Sports Editor u.f %1,:r in It\ k1/2 hew he s: , , concourse of Leeds take on part-time work in order to subsidise 1711011,11 ~erect nt at L: its ;;0... ■ Roger Diiunit,;twill .111. or act dr,trth.tise!) Nletrioporitan their grant, student loan, overdraft and :J11. 11., It 114* m. ■r-L Plano FAlitor University's City parental contribution posiir.a.r1 die the sari.- on Cent Norms , Leeds University Union I'd Crispin litesiticto and 1 it Iran. a fill-1-nel ClifiLei and Is priimntking equal Site all next week. For more details Welfare Secretary. said that it was not studc.nt al Roundlia: Schmid pilv,Il'ip:ltein 01 males and is idealistic in his moil,. CS uncommon for students to have to drop out NEWSDESK contact Clare earned the posItont of Student tenitles aithin the Part). She also claiming. "I want to vhange in order to cope with their financial debt (11 Hepple or Jill 314251 DAY Development Officer intends raise student awareness things! Mr prtorittes arc Second year Psychology student Kathy 434727 NIGHT The membership of the about their right to sow on the up- recruitment and training and I Shepherd on 071 Bennett said that she had been forced to get Liberal Democrat Societies at coming local elections in May. strongly believe we must be both 734 6030. a joh at The New Inn to finance her studies. hoth universities in Leeds has Clein, a Leeds Metropolitan radical and relevant.-

Leeds Student independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 1 News 3 Defence presents case at rape trial he trial at Leeds Crown semen taken from the clothing However, Jackson later September 1992, just before the evidence linking Jackson with Court of a man accused of the victims were 100 million By Rosa Prince withdrew the confession, last attack. Jennifer Jackson the crime is conclusive. They Tof a series of sexual times more likely to have come claiming that police had said she had known her claim that Jackson would like to assaults on Woodhouse Moor from David Jackson than a man detection revealed an imprint of intimidated him. Asked by husband for several years take a blood test which he has continued this week. David unrelated to him. Jackson's address. There, police Robert Smith QC for the before that, and that on the believes would prove his Martin Jackson is denying The prosecution also found a notepad on which defence why he had made the nights of the attacks he had evidence, but cannot get the charges that between June 1991 produced a letter, received by experts claim the letter must confession, Jackson said: was been with her or her parents. legal aid to do so. and October 1992 he committed the police, signed "Jack the have been written. frightened. naive and in a Mrs Jackson claimed that He said: "I have been one rape. three indecent Stripper". In January 1993 a This week the defence position where I felt they needed her husband usually picked her begging my barrister to have assaults, two attempted indecent hoax rape claim was made to presented their case, and David to hear something they wanted up from the hospital where she my blood tested. 1 know the assaults and four assaults police. In the letter sent to the Jackson took the stand to deny to hear so I went along with worked late at night, and profile will he different to the occasioning actual bodily harm police, "Jack" claims that he is that he was the "Woodhouse them to protect myself." therefore could not have profile they have got there. I on students in Leeds. the true Woodhouse Moor Moor Rapist", a name given to The defence produced an committed the attacks. Jackson know I'm innocenL" The prosecution wound up attacker, describes the assaults the attacker by Leeds students. alibi for Jackson on the nights also claimed to have spent the In summation. Paul Worsley their case last week, presenting and denies the hoax rape, The court heard a confession, of four of the five dates the evening planning a church event Q.C. prosecuting said: "It is up testimony from the women blaming it on a "joker... made by Jackson immediately attacks are alleged to have with his future wife on the night to the jury to decide if David attacked. Crucial to the jumping on the bandwagon". after his arrest admitting two taken place, in the form of his one of the assaults is alleged to Martin Jackson was keeping a prosecution case were DNA This letter lead the police to attacks, acknowledging wife. Jennifer. Although the have taken place. guilty secret from his family and samples which showed that David Jackson. Laboratory responsibility for the letter. couple only married in The defence deny that DNA church." The case continues.

Dream 11•■• Animal lovers march on two by two Network defacer By Darren Behar working 4eedS University Union Anirnal -initially greeted with By Matt Roper I Rights Society launched their 'scepticism, Network Radio Leeds ethical research campaign is beginning to attract more ecurity guards at Leeds this week with a demonstration on and more attention. writes SUniversity remain baffled this the Parkinson steps. The (Moe Edwards. week over the identity of the campaign is part of a wider The specialist sections are national event included in the mystery vandal of the statue proving particularly Animal Rights National Day of The Dreamer'. impressive; as Rob a first year The student prankster left Action. said. "The specialist spots are Jaine McCard, spokesperson university chiefs fuming when he good, like the '80s one: loads for LUAR, said: "SCAR is a added a woolly scarf and a giant of stuff I haven't heard for national coalition of local student joint to the seemingly ages." But still many people animal rights groups. Similar unreachable statue outside the are yet to hear the sound of demonstrations will he taking Edward Boyle Library. And in a 100.6 FM. Mark Brown, a DJ place all over the country." new twist the spliff-wielding for the station, said: "People The demonstration itself was a saboteur has threatened to strike have been turned off it because peaceful event, with an again. of had press". but feels that enthusiastic number of students The joint joker told Leeds the response on the whole has turning up. The organisers said Student: "It was just a spur of been good. they were "pleased with the the moment thing. I was a bit Network not only. caters to response", but stressed that there pissed up at the time but I was Animal rights activists on the Perky steps Plc: Ed Crispin specialist listeners. but along was still a lot more to be done. with popular music has other more bored than anything else. with other methods of research. uncovered homfic research that nationally renowned for its The campaign calls for an end programmes like reviews, The whole thing was really easy. such as clinical studies, human was. and according to him still is, closed-shop atti tude." to animal research at the comedy sections and I did it at about 11:30pm in the being undertaken. Demonstrators on the march University that is not directly tissue and cell cultures and interviews which Wave evening and didn't have any Smith believes that cats, pigs. echoed his call for greater relevant to medical progress. computer simulations." included bands like 'Belly' and problem dodging the security cows. mice, dogs. rats and rabbits openness. One said: "Prospective McCord continued: "Even when it Robin Smith, an adviser from 'Sonic Youth'. guards." are all victims of vivisection at the Leeds students. many of whom could possibly be of relevance to the. British Union for the Abolition With initial problems of He pledged to wreak further University. He said: "The are attending an open day at the human suffering, animal of Vivisection (BUAV), was at reception being solved, and a havoc on campus, but when University should be willing to time of the demo, should be aware experiments are unethical and the demonstration. He has been special club feature coming up. pressed to reveal his next target agree to talks with the BUAV. as of the amount of vivisection that often misleading." campaigning at Leeds for many the future of the station looks he would only reply: "It's Bradford University has done. goes on, because animal She added: "We believe years and published a report two good. There's even a rumour something very big. Rest assured regarding animal research and its experiments are shrouded in vivisection should he replaced years ago highlighting the plight of an interview with 'East-17'. you haven't seen the last of me." of many animals. His study alternatives. Leeds University is secrecy.- Full house for Action party Froggy fracas over ciggy sin he elderly community came from Age Concern and the ropers flared in the French A fracas then followed as an cigarettes, saying 'I hate people Tto Leeds this week as part of By Tim Gallagher groups with whom Student Tedepartment at Leeds onlooker stepped in and who smoke'. He's got no right Leeds University Union Community Action works. University last week as a grabbed the mature student by to tell us not to smoke." Action's Tea Dance_ nice to dance," confirmed keen The event was organised by disagreement over smoking the collar, and the two men Another History student, Philip While the 200 guests were hopper Doreen Swain. Action who exist, according to almost escalated into a full-scale squared up to each other. It Baker. added: "He's often enjoying tea, cakes and biscuits, Wednesday's festivities were co-ordinater Emma Roberts, "to punch-up. writes Sam broke up only when the French sticking his nose in where it's they were entertainerd by music, the fifth annual Action tea party, allow students to give Mountford. assistant intervened and parted not required." a raffle and a bingo competition. Indeed the afternoon has something back to the The confrontation was the two. Student opinion seemed to The event provided the become something of an community they live in". sparked off when a French She later commented: "I can be divided on the issue of elderly with a fun day out and a institution among retiree ranks. Students, as well as assistant, who does not wish to understand that people who are whether the man was right to chance to socialise. "It's lovely "I came last year and I intend to pensioners. benefited from the be named, was smoking a non-smokers are disturbed by take the anti-smoking rule into to get out when you're old," come next year if I'm still dance. "It's nice to get away cigarette outside the Modern it, but he shouldn't have reacted his own hands. One first year said party-goer Emma Williams, around." said Tea Dance fan from student life and meet Languages Library, a no like that. It's against freedom." German student said: "When "we don't get the opportunity to Marae Holmes. different people," said Action smoking area. She was accosted The mature student is well you arrive in the morning with go out at night now - it's The Lord Mayor of Leeds, helper Laura Edwards. by a mature student from the known in the History a hang-over, the last thing you lovely." Keith Louden, opened the The afternoon was hailed as History department who department for his vehement want is people smoking." Some of the more plucky events, and the party was a success by the pensioners too. demanded that she put her anti-smoking stance. One Second year French student pensioners broke away from financed by his charity. "We've had a brilliant time." cigarette out. As she went to do second year student Claire O'Leary said: "I don't their fraternising and took to the LINKAGE. LUU and several said Walter Conyers. -The so, he allegedly delivered the commented: "He came up to me know how far people can go to dance floor. Accompanied by local shops also provided Council and students are doing coup de grace by snatching the and a couple of friends at a stamp their opinions on others. LUU's dance band, this proved funding. us proud. Book us in for next cigarette from her mouth and History department social event The person who whipped it out to be a popular activity. "It's The party-goers were drawn year." stubbing it out himself. and told us to put out our of her mouth is more to blame."

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 News

OFF CAMPUS Coma victim fights back Eggling _Post student who suffered project at the t niversit ■. It was really good to come a near fatal accident Spyros was due to return to By Vicki Worgan back," he said. "1 don't 01111MM Atook an Important Crete at the end of August. remember much about the step toward rehabilitation But he was so seriously his mother and sister and University, but this has IFTM111111 this week when he returned injured that his mother and Anita Rayner. the helped." to Leeds Metropolitan sister flew over to hold a 24 International Student The moment of triumph University. hour vigil at his bedside. Development Officer, who came when he was invited to Spyros Efentakis, an After spells in Leeds has been fully involved with use one of the computers. Blow job Erasmus student from General Infirmary and the his case. Without any hesitation Heraklion University in Younger Disabled Unit at The visit included the Spyros took hold of the A 26 year old German ruined his Crete. was returning to Pinderfields Hospital, computer labs where he ran mouse and found that he chances of a job in the police force Beckett Park last July after Spyros's recovery has been so his projects and the machine remembered exactly how to Spyros back at LMU when he turned up for his interview visiting a friend when he was impressive that last Tuesday rooms where he programmed use the system. but as regards total four times over the limit and hardly knocked off his bicycle by a he was able to visit the faculty robotics tests. Lunch followed "I was very encouraged by able to stand. Matthias Wagner's rehabilitation this visit today motorbike, sustaining brain of Information and at the Grapevine restaurant. this," said Heather Batey of predicament was compounded by has only been the start. Now damage and falling into a Engineering Systems, where reports that he was caught speeding in Throughout the visit the Leeds General Spyros has to build on the deep coma. the wrong direction down a one-way he was working on his Spyros remembered more Infirmary's Head Injuries things he used to do prior to Working on an electronic street. Charged with drink-driving. he robotics project and more of his time at the Team. "Spyros has come a his accident: be needs to engineering and robotics explained: "I was nervous, so I downed He was accompanied by University. long way since the accident. familiarise himself with life." half a bottle of schnapps and some lager." The police commented: "He's blown the job." Debating Society talks to the top Leeds

Banger in Mash By James Miller lovelies 1 trainee chef in Portugal was startled top model rr he Debating Society at A agency is to find a live hand-grenade from heading for Leeds in a Leeds University Union ' ' World War 11 in a sack of potatoes. 1 has enjoyed a highly search for the next Cindy The lad was left in a sweat, holding the Crawford. successful 1994. After their writes Paul device until bomb disposal experts Greenough. recent achievements at arrived. The competition, launched Edinburgh and by model agency Elite Birmingham, the University Premier and Society reached the semi- National Student Extra Magazine, offers the So near.... finals of a competition at winners many prizes. Innertemplt in London last Stuck 3.000 feet up Glencoe mountain including a year's supply of week. in Scotland. a climber was dismayed to ice cream from sponsors The speakers. who were hear his rescuers call: "Hang on, Haagen Daas. up against three legal be back in the morning." The team had Paula Whiteman of Elite teams, had to argue the got to within 104Ift of the man when a Premier explained her reasons motion 'This House would blizzard sprung up, making conditions for looking at student 'talent'. talk to terrorists'. too hazardous to continue. He was "Students are very young and eventually recovered safe and well. The team was praised by fresh. ideal for modelling. Stewart Holmes. President They also have a tot of time to of the Debating Society. He spare in the holidays to go on said: "It is surprising how Chocs away The Debating Society Plc; Sam Wells photo-shoots." she added. well we did against the Female entrants must be English rugby's fly-half hero Rob barristers, as many of our the semis." University's own, sponsored arguments,- he said. "We aged between 16 and 24 and Andrew has revealed that he is fighting speakers are new. Louis The Debating Society has by the Yorkshire Post. are not a censored chamber over 5'8" tall, whilst men !Stably, who only recently a distressing addiction. Rob, who a good record in Holmes said: "We hope to and are keen to hear all should be between 16 and 30. kicked the French into touch on started debating at Leeds. competition. winning at hold a bigger competition sides of an argument." and at least 6'0" tall. Saturday, is now trying to kick a did particularly well." Liverpool last year and next year." The Debating Society Entrants must send a photo serious chocolate habit. He used to eat Mahly, a second year becoming European He also emphasised the meets every Thursday at and details of height. chest three Twix bars a day at a cost of £3.50 History student, said: "We Champions in 1991. Society's willingness to 7.30pm in the Council and waist measurements to: a week, but is now "down to one or two did well. heating Glasgow. Six or seven debating tackle all kinds of debates. Chambers of the Parkinson Student Models '94. Elite a week". York Legal College, Exeter competitions are held each how ever controversial. Building at Leeds Premier. 40 Parker Street. and Southampton to reach yearr including the "We encourage all University. London, WC2. Sub-snub Macho man week? Reforms split NUS and Exec A Loch Ness vicar has refused to marry an Edinburgh couple who in the spirit of equal originated through LUU links ohn Patten's explanation be prevented from using the wanted their ceremony held in a 'opportunities Leeds with a Leeds and Wakefield Jof his embarrassing By Nicholas Vysny Union's facilities. submarine which is shortly to be used University Union will he based 'Survivors project' that climbdown over students Rose also expressed for underwater tours. The Reverend holding its first 'Men's provides information. advice. union reforms has this Although he welcomed the concern that the University Frary Buell of Drumnadrochit pointed Week' from Monday. and support for sexually week highlighted differences dropping of clause 20 which administration would have out: "Church is the place I marry following on from the abused men (there will he a between the National Union divided between core and the power to interfere in the people." Wo ► en's event this week. display in Riley Smith Hall of Students and Leeds non-core activities - thus in union's budget setting, and rues Simon Greenhalglr during the week). University Union. theory safeguarding the that a clause aimed at The week-long celebration But on a less serious note Lorna Fitzsimons, NUS funding of Union societies - hindering membership of A bridge too far of 'Manhood' follows there are plans for a buffet. President, said that the NUS he expressed reservations the NUS would also affect complaints by a number of Offering free beer and crisps. was "very pleased to see about its replacement, LUU relationships with A Northumberland photographer may male rights campaigners that and a 'Lads' Night' in The that the Government's final Clause 21. and about the bill more than two hundred be able to provide evidence of his own was heing sexist in Old Bar featuring horse proposals so closely mirror as a whole. other national tragic death. lie was taking pictures of holding an exclusive's female betting. our ideas" and that she felt Rose described the organisations, Including the the construction of the New Stakeford festival. while ignoring the However Men's Week has that the amended legislation amendment as "a giant national University Bridge in Ashington when a 45 tonne problems and needs oi' male not been greeted with support would "promote the status stride in the right Athletics Union. concrete beam dropped from a crane students or sympathy in all quarters ol of students unions and NUS direction". but warned that Rose promised to carry and crushed him. The organisers reject the Union Liz Rouse, L.UU as the best providers of more needed to he done. He on campaigning. but Lams that Men's Week will Women's officer. is opposed services and allow for time claimed that the proposal to conceded that this would he simply he an opportunity for to the online of the event. and continued democratic abolish the so-called "closed difficult without the drinking. arguing that the believes it represents a Compiled by representation of students". shop" would he an backing of the NUS. He was festival will mix "serious "distinct lack of sensitix ity But LUU General Jonathon Gunning "administrative nightmare". nevertheless confident that issues %Anti tun" and knowledge for NS by Secretary John Rose did not If allowed to go through, "minor change is still the idea hehind the csent A'omen's Week takes place". share the NUS's enthusiasm. non-members would have to achievable".

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 News Wimmin's Week a right on target? Leeds University However. many women Women's Week, claimed that students have beep By Nicola Woolcock remained unenthusiastic about the workshop went really well celebrating the choice of events: "I don't - it was very relaxing and International Women's Week attended by men just us much see that even half of the events provided useful information. over the past Ilse days, with a as women. Indeed, the majority are specifically to do with Women's Week has been '1 Ltst sAl NTH HAIM] 1111AINFA MIX l programme of events of those who turned up were women." said second year successful so far. Next week I'll organised by the Union. men. English student Emma Wright. be producing an information Women have had the Leeds University. Union "HIV/Aids, LGB. and Third leaflet about why we had one opportunity to attend a talk Women's Officer Liz Rouse World First are all issues and its significance. This year I 'MAWS on HIV and Aids. a defended the event: "Lesbian, involving men as well as think we've had a good balance discussion of the abuse of Gay and Bisexual discos are women. The rape discussion is a of events. Different people Women's Rights and a renowned for having a good good idea. but why isn't there turned up each time, which \D HI 410$ review by the Latex Theatre atmosphere and being pleasant something more practical like a means that we provided for a Group. among other events. to relax in," she said. "This self-defence demonstration, for wide range of people. rather MIRCH However the relevance of event was organised in example?" than catering for just one type." EI4NS LOLNCE some of the LUU events this conjunction with the LGB A women-only cartoon Last year's LUU Women's year has been questioned. Society: the profits raised will workshop was run by Jacky Week programme included a Many women said that the be divided between Women's Fleming on Monday lunchtime. 'No Means No' debate with inclusion of a Third World Refuges such as Rape Crisis, "It was really good, I found it Judge Pickles as well as other First video and a Lesbian, and a helpline for the parents of very enjoyable." said M Rowe. events. International Women's • Gay and Bisexual disco on gay children who are 'coming a third year Geography Day has been celebrated on Sty the agenda made the week our." student. "It's only by chance March since 191 I. It has gained WOMEN ON seem more a promotion of Rouse added: ''A women's that I picked up a flyer and significance and prominence general awareness than a only disco would not have read about it. The Women's worldwide. and has been the celebration of women, worked. We needed a mixture Week events should have been date of demonstrations for ducTioNs It was claimed that the of women-only and mixed publicised better. with more issues Such as equal-pay, child- MIT En LGB disco was completely events. The most important posters telling us what was care. and free contraception. ,yam unrelated to Women's Week, thing is that people get together happening," she continued. since it catered for and was and raise money for services." Rouse, who co-ordinated See Comment. page 7 Women's Week Plc: Sam Wells Leeds keeps on choking Green fingers dial the way This week saw National No D up your sleeves and each. musicians and theatre groups. 1 Smoking Day. but despite the .1A.unearth your gardening Students base the chance to Already the response from increasingly evident risks to gloves tot the tenth annual British win a stilling £71111 by enterme Leeds students has heen health, and the continuous John Telecom Environment Weel.. the Youth and Students case enciimaging. Geography student Cleese television campaign, '4/o- Goma Want/cr. Untries w ill he judged on a Flora McDonald say s.- "I think its Leeds students Were unwilling 10 The week will lust from 20th regional basis so if you limey a great way to keep the heed the message, writes David to 30th May and British Telecom doing something lovely for Leeds environment on the top of Lit:crick are looking forward to receiving here is your chance_ everyone's agenda." While figures reveal a marked exciting ideas from universities If you think that the campus The closing date (or entries is decline in the number of smokers all over the country . could do with a clean or that the 22nd April and full details can be nationwide. the student By entering a fabulous idea for Old Bar could do with a brush up found nut from Hilary Price. BT population seems determined to a project to brighten up Britain this is the conics: for you. BT En v iron mem Week '94 ignore the dangers caused by you can he eligible for an welcomes WON; ail eIllUrOUS iCumpaign HOP, PO Box 272, smoking. arnatang HT Communny As aril entries I04), perhaps incorporating London ' C I A 2EG, or by Not many smokers at either Aorth between £250 and il.001_1 environmental entertainers like Cd11111!, 1171 -BWIP, university in Leeds had been aware of the event. and few were prepared to rise to the challenge of giving up for 24 hours. Signs of improvement at Exec Claire Benson, a third year English student at Leeds Beds 1 Diversity Union mind how much goes on in the the 1. nion foyer. giving University, commented: "There's J 14Executive is planning to Union. £5110 per year is a small directions to the main sections price to pay." of the building. The really no point: I'll only start IL 4 spend 0,000 on replacing the again tomorrow, so what will I You smoke. .I choke Pk: Deb:obis Sint: direction signs in the Union However some students replacement signs will be based reacted angrily to the idea, on a colour-coded system with have gained'?" However the day did succeed Similarly enlightened, the vast building, writes David Davies. "When the grant is being cut smaller. similarly colour-coded Another popular response was to raising people's awareness of majority of smokers welcomed The expense is being summarised by Katie Alston: "If the issue. "I will try to be more the introduction of no smoking justified in terms of the signs' this is the last thing we want to signs positioned throughout the see our money spent on." said Union, each containing further you really do want to give up. considerate of other people; after areas into the Leeds University usefulness and durability. John James Thompson, a first year directions to specific rooms. surely you'll have a better chance all, I know the current trend is Union Building. "So long as Rose. LUU General Secretary, If confirmed, the new signs if you choose your own time to against smoking," said Andrew there are still places where I can said: "It is only a one-off Politics student A main sign board will he should be in place by the do it, rather than one imposed by Barnard. a second year History smoke. I think it's a good idea." payment and the signs should suspended from the ceiling in middle of the summer term. somebody else." student. added Claire Benson. last for ten years. Bearing in Science of the lambs Non-sabbatical job pressure breaks Law damaged a sink. A Leeds University research pressure and student apathy It is a non-paid job and fitting it non-sabbatical-" As yet the police have not ob rifarm has suffered an attack are to blame for Leeds By Robert Murphy in with his studies must have The absence of one Exec apprehended the thieves, but J by animal liberation activists. University Union finding itself been very difficult." member is not expected to have investigations are continuing. writes Gareth Hughes. with an Exec position unfilled In a University of (7,500 too severe an effect on the English student Vanessa officers have already assumed Three lambs were stolen in this week_ Law is students, not one came forward workings of the Union. Many Thomas. a supporter of animal their roles. the raid last Monday at Quarry Societies Secretary Eddy Law constitutionally entitled to retain to stand for election to the post. societies work with Jill Al. The rights, said: ''It's one thing to Farm. near the resigned last week - and there is the position because there is no This may be due to traditional Whitehead on a day-to-day basis, care for animals. but their intruders broke into the isolated no one to replace him_ He one to succeed him. student apathy, or possibly fears but Law's job was important tactics are too aggressive and centre by cutting through announced his decision to Union that nun-sabbatical duties would with regards to sorting out the extreme. They are undermining However he found that it was meshed panels. Council. but because nobody interfere with coursework. finances of societies. and how the efforts of those animal rights simply too much work to carry Once inside the laboratory stood for the non-sabbatical post Law expressed concern about they are actually run. supporters that obey the law to on with while taking his finals. they daubed "Animal Liberation in the recent Exec elections, the Whitehead. Societies the workload that the post places Anyone interested in standing increase public support and Jilt Front" slogans on the walls, job remains vacant. on full-time students and said: "I for the position should see Chris concern for animal rights Administrator. said: "He is along with the threat: "Re-stock Although other non-sabbatical perfectly justified in giving it up. don't feel the position should be Westwood in Exec for details and we'll he back." They also issues."

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 6 Comment & Analysis `...there is always a bar full of filthy scumbag no hopers"

men who walk around in number. couple who are grappling here is an easy cure cowboy outfits with fake So how does this cure you with each other so ferociously for chronic revolvers slung around their of depression? Because after that you wonder whether at T depression. It is open Rupert Hamer waists are a suhtle reminder about ten minutes when you any moment if one of their all das , it is a stone's throw that you are, indeed, leg it out of those ridiculous limbs will come off. away from campus. off the surrounded total weirdos On top of this is the by - saloon bar swing doors the Headrow, and it is a hell on Friday weirdos who are living out a whole world is transformed, hole of a pub. sobering thought that back at bizarre fantasy which most Your grass is greener and Here you can sit at the home they probably have four people jettisoned at the age of there is no human need bar, order a drink and or five kids who have to four. greater than to feel that how survey some of the most witness this horrifying ritual daughters go on the hunt for night and compare notes. There is dancing as well. On ever bad things seem, there hideous and deprived people every night of the week. gratification together and Nice. the floor you will see a 65 year is always a bar full of filthy, in the history of the modern For this place is a big presumably take their men But there is more to this old woman dressed as if she is scumbag no hopers. world. pulling joint. But it is a back to same house as well. place than just sex. Much, 17. stumbling around to a And the sad thing is we In the corner there is a pulling joint with a And then maybe they swop much more. There is also jaunty country and western all know a place like this. particularly gruesome difference. Here mothers and over half way through the style, panache even, and the

:it HACK The slap dash ma nner of LUU An open letter to out - no one has attempted to do interests or the members of conducted properly. The LUU Executive anything about it. It is seen as a LULL democratic processes within our A weekly sketch of student politics 'clever' thing to do, although it The slap dash manner has union must be upheld at all Why is it that an attitude of 'let's means we have been paying found its way inw other areas times. o one could question less poetic way of finishing the see what we can get away with' NUS less than the correct too why didn't the AGM happen I hope that as an Executive LMUSU Exec's sense issue on Monday. He turned the seems to have found its way into affiliation? at the specified correct time? you will decide to be truthful Nof self-importance. Like pages of the agenda with a the running of LUU? Maybe you can explain why Even worse, why was the ballot with NUS and register the delegates at an awfully dignified air. Routine business The item which I wish to we are cheating NUS out of for the open places on UC not correct number of students with important international chin- followed. Then it was time to draw to your attention is the fact money, and depriving Leeds counted in the correct fashion in them. Maybe you will take my wag, they sit round the table in go In Camera. that LUU has the wrong number students of their correct level of the first place? I know the comments to heart. all I want is their 'Conference Room' In Camera could one day he of students registered with NUS. representation within NUS. Is recount will make no difference to see everything run properly drumming notepads with pens a cheap American TV show in I am told the number registered there something wrong with to the result, and wastes time. and openly. It is easiest for all of and displaying those honestly which chisel-jawed presenter is a couple of thousand short of having a bit of straight forward But the time was only wasted us if no one has cause for keen expressions. Warwick Taylor talks to a series the true number registered at honesty in the Union's dealings? because it was not done correctly complaint. This week saw one of your of guests w ho make him seem Leeds University. Yet although Those of us involved in the in the first place? It is critical regular. run-of-the-mill Exec interesting. At present. members of Executive know running of LUU are here to that the elections which take Michael Zatman meetings. in the chair, of however. it is the jazzy title by about this - which is how I found openly represent and act in the place within the union are LUU Speaker course. was Warwick Taylor. which Exec's secret for-our- still nobly aspiring to the title of ears-only discussions are President more than half way known. Dead fish and the Sun Fighting crime in LS6 through his term in office. The army of punters in the Missing minutes came first. press gallery arc ordered. Dear Editor ant not a Third World dictator. I Dear Editor were not caught. but surely "The minutes of the last outside for about half an hour am not a racist. am not there is more chance of arrests meeting are missing." said on these occasions. When they Yes this onewill run and run. And prejudiced against Muslims; most I feel it necessary to respond to if incidents are reported and the Taylor. "What does Exec want re-enter they have the sense of you know why? Because it's of all I am not blind or stupid. the view expressed by Laura police are able to build up a to do about the missing the person who went outside in important; the issues of both It is important to remember Wilkinson in your article on dossier of crimes. minutes?" Struck by a a parts game. censorship and democracy are that we are all individuals. There crime in Leeds 6 last week. If Miss Wilkinson and people thunderbolt of inspiration, he Exec members look at each crucial, and we. as students, are will be an SGM on Tuesday 15th How does Miss Wilkinson like her spent more time trying conspiratorally. their eyes improvised: "The Mysterious some of those who should be March with the intention of expect the police to ever make to help the police help LS6 - Missing Minutes," darting knowingly. as if they responsible for safeguarding basic overturning that OGM motion: inroads into the stockpiling instead of being negative and One could imagine Taylor have been whispering about the human freedoms. Although I have have never agreed with the incidents if people such as obstructive - it has more chance racing home that night, sitting absentee's sex life and have just been compared to Bukassa and Idi Revolutionary Communists so of being a pleasant place for us down at his typewriter and discovered the perfect way to Amin, 1 don't remember either of strongly! 5(X) hundred people are herself do not report crimes. titling a manuscript 'The expose it in the most hilarious them sticking up for freedom. needed. If you reacted against She says that she sees all to live in. Mysterious Missing Minutes. A fashion. 1 ant happy to apologise to what happened there, and you reporting crime as futile and Thomas Aclandan thrilling detective varn would Or perhaps that is being those members of the Islamic believe that censorship is tedious. Maybe her assailants 2nd Year LMU student follow, in which the razor-sharp unkind. They may have sent Society who did vote as a result of something we can't support, then Sherlock Taylor out-sleuthed all non-Exec members out for what they read. heard and be there at 1pm and don't you the dozy old "'ell°, wot have we something as innocuous as a understood; but I am not prepared dare rely on others to be there for Get off your backsides hearers" from Millgarth to quick game_ of Trivial Pursuit. to apologise to those who (.a) you. Indeed if you have a strong DearEditor LUU forego their opportunity to masterfully demystify the Conscientious. forehead walked in front of Liz and chatted view that we should ban The Sun Last week's comment claimed have a say in the affairs of their mystery of the missing minutes, scratching union officers one throughout her opening proposal. then be there also. But listen. and that those who voted at the union, and then turn around and For more than forty years moment, maniacal, know-it-all clearly not listening, and (h) did vote according to what you controversial OGM 'enforce their complain that it is being run by a people would crowd into games players the next The not vote on the original believe. Don't let yourself he views' on the the rest of the minority. if you want your say theatres to watch the dramatic contest is doubtless full of amendment until alter a.count was manipulated by others. student population. The OGM is then you will have to get off your climax when Taylor. marvellous passion and vigour - especially called and those Islamic members Only adead fish devised to let ordinary students backsides and do something about in deerstalker and long flowing when Warwick Taylor loses stood at the front waving to their swims with the tide have a voice in the affairs of the it. Attend your OGMs and AGM. dressing gown, walked coolly again - before the board is comrades with their union cards. I Elliot Reuben Union. Every fortnight students at Sandra Cohen around an Exec meeting and - to hastily shoved into a draw, and universal astonishment and everyone adjusts their collar consternation - told of how his before the door is thrown back It's time for people to 'Shut up' infallible powers of deduction open to the world. Dear Editor struggling through huge The Editor had led to the indubitable There is one further amounts of work. 1 am fed up Leeds Student conclusion that the minutes possibility. A room full of I am writing to remind LAID with the constant noise levels in were missing because no one people with nothing to do is students about the group study the library. We are adults, so 1 Leeds University Union had bothered to write them. fertile ground for role play, As rooms available for our use in don't expect librarians to PO Box 157 "We'll have to put soon as the door is closed the City Site library. It's a very constantly monitor the talking them down as behind the last hack, Taylor simple procedure: you print in the library, but why can't we Leeds 1UH missing. may carefully FM his pipe with your name on the sheets outside he more considerate to those Letters should be addressed to the Editor and clearly marked which is dope and declare: "Right the door of the rooms under the doing individual study? I don't for publication,lic The Editor reserves the right to edit letters, which exactly what everyone, today we're playing times you wish to study and they like to hassle people to be quiet - should be no longer than 300 words. The deadline for letters is the they are." crime thriller - it's called 'The are allocated on an hourly basis. the ignorant stares I receive are Tuesday proceeding publication. was Taylor's Mysterious Missing Minutes'." Iam talking of this service unwelcome. So please, shut up. because, as a final year student A frustrated 3rd Year

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Comment & Analysis Now they're out-doing each other in the right-on stakes ith the arrival of female sex? her heart would bleed for the shop Unions doesn't it. But of Men's Week - to The concept of staging a 'Crays ("A celebration of Reg 'n' course, in Nursaw's words, we complement the long W Women's Week should be Ron and all they've brought to do need a "celebration of established Women's Week - applauded. Events such as Aids this planet. After all, what about Leeds University Union Exec manhood" and a "compliment awareness seminars can only he their problems and needs?"). to Women's Week" What a members have proved once beneficial. But Women's Week at So-fibiAT- Good grief, the androgynous Ceri compliment. again that they are capable of Leeds University Union - thanks on-for-the-sake-of-it-brigade. meaningless Week for Exec to Nursaw must be evert more nght- Men's Week will achieve little more than empty political to Liz Rouse - is about Women's Week is not about the squander money on. Message - on than Liz Rouse. Wow, nothing of value for Llars statements, and a good old- categorising women as a minority lives of women in Britain, or even 'I'm oppressed. you're oppressed, Nursaw is now as stuck for an male population, and serve fashioned waste of money. group and thereby tagging any old Leeds University today. Their true we're all oppressed." agenda for Men's Week as Rouse merely to ridicule Women's The true agenda of minority group in with them. experiences are being denied, and What is it about students that obviously was for her little week. Week - a proud and worthy Women's Week was clearly "Third World First - a worthy therefore subjugated in the name all of a sudden we all want to be Free beer, horse racing in the Old event with a history dating revealed this week with the cause, let's bung that into of whatever the so-called victims who need support groups Bar, a football quiz - definitely a back to 1911. inclusion of a Lesbian, Gay and Women's Week." "Gay rights - Women's Officer deems to he and awareness weeks. valid contribution to the And while Women's Week Bisexual disco as part of the that's right on isn't it? Must trendy this week. Too right Liz Rouse is pissed alleviation of world strife. continues to be hijacked by week's events. What on earth include that." You can almost hear And what is Ceri Nursaw off about the fact that there's a Let's think about it. Your ignorance, the justification for does male homosexuality - Liz Rouse saying it to her saying to her male friends? Men's Week, and for once who Union funds are being squandered it's continuation is as much in surely the ultimate rejection of women's committee. "Never mind darling, you can be can blame her for it? Ceti on free beer for the lads. Makes doubt as that of the farcical women - have to do with the Thanks to the ignorant, right- down-trodden too." Another Nursaw's got so damn right-on you feel really good about closed Men's Week. Studying the screen

that the games could not be term: "My overdraft is better addictive: "Presumably there now because I paid most of it are laws against making the off with the money I got when SPAADTLIGHT games addictive. There must I sold the computer and all be, otherwise there would be a my games. If I hadn't sold it huge public outcry." all I expect that by now Student addiction to computer But Paul Larkin, writer for would have taken out a the magazine Game Zone. student loan to buy some games seems to be destroying bank says there is little doubt that more games. Once you've balances, degrees and social lives. computer games are designed finished one game a couple of to be addictive: "They are times you lose interest in it Amelia Hill investigates. programmed to be habit and have to buy the next one." forming - some of the It is the price of new games companies actually use that has deterred Danny, a ideo games, such as university work. Thomas, a psychologists to work out the first year mature student, •Streetfighter 2 first year Maths student, best methods of making them from using his own games VTurbo', are highly failed his exams last semester that way." console more: "When I was compulsive and often because of his addiction to Jared rents out anything working I would spend about compared to nicotine - computer games: "I just used between two and twenty-four £700 to £800 on games every dangerous, addictive and to play it all the time - 1 would video games every night: year. Now I'm a student I expensive. be on it for anything up to "Many more people take them can't afford to spend that sort That there is an addictive seven or eight hours every out over the weekend than of money - I suppose I've element in computer games is day. Finishing the game I had during the week. We do tend spent about £100 on games an issue with which few started was more important to to get regulars who will take since October." He players and manufacturers me than my work or my out the same game again and compensates by playing on the argue. Nintendo side-step the friends. Time passes so again until they finish it. newest computer games in the question by encouraging quickly when you're playing a Sometimes they spend a Union: "It has become a sort worried parents to ensure computer game: I used to fortune!" of routine. Every time there is that their children "enjoy think I'd been playing for Nintendo claims that a lecture that finishes at 5pm, other hobbies and play sport about half an hour but when I familiarity with computers is I'll come down here for an as well". But once students looked at my watch, I'd see it a good thing: "Video games hour or so." reach university, many of was more like three or four are a glimpse into the world Matt denies that computer them seem to succumb to hours!" of high technology. By using games affect his social life: their childhood preoccupation Thomas's parents made video games, players will "It's part of my social life - I entirely. Matt Skene. a first him sell his computer after learn to feel at ease with the sit around with friends, have year English student at Leeds Christmas when they heard technology." Matt agrees with a smoke, and play Sega. It's a University, began playing on about his exam results. He is this: "Computers are today's nice. relaxing evening in." computer games when he was unsure whether he is relieved *thing'. It's just living with Laura Martin, a second year. 9 years old: "My brother got to he rid of it or not: "Now the times." disagrees: "I go round to see a computer for Christmas and there's some distance between As graphics and animation friends. perfectly normal, I suppose I've been slightly me and it, I can see that I was Improve, computer games are social people, and won't have hooked since then." addicted and that I didn't becoming increasingly a word spoken to me all Matt has a computer at his really hale a life away from popular. There has been a evening because they're house in Leeds and spends an it. But I still miss the games - 50% increase in the number playing computer golf or average of 3 to 4 hours particularly when I'm tired or of computer game shops in something." playing on it every day: "Last need to escape from and around Leeds In the last The obsession with night I was playing until university life for a hit." Matt two years, the total number computer games seems to be 5.30am even though I had a 9 agrees that computer games now standing at 12. There are mainly a male preoccupation. are a "modern day escape also a growing number of Sarah Heenan. a first year o'clock lecture in the BA (Hone) In Tetrla & Sega studies morning. Once you've started from reality: you enter video rental shops which have English student, claims: "All a game you've just got to another reality that is as recently begun to rent out the games are appallingly Centre in Headingley, claims disagrees: "That's just a line complete it - I sort of feel like potent as the one we live in games such as 'Ritzy' and sexist; girls aren't allowed to that most computer games are that the computer companies life isn't ratified until I've today. One where you don't 'Blockbusters'. play them with the boys educational: "The Avenger come up with. Maybe it is true finished whatever game it is have to worry about exams - The price of a Nintendo because in the games the games teach the player for smaller kids, but I've begun." just about rescuing game is £50, while a Sega women are just there to be thought-solving techniques, certainly never learned Obsession with these games princesses." game costs £40. Thomas spent rescued." whilst the Fighting games anything from my computer obviously leads to reduced Jared Dhaliwal, a salesman his entire £400 student David Sitters, a salesman at demand fast and precise games that could be classed as interest in one's social life and at Ritzy's in Headingley, says overdraft on games in the first The Next Level in the Arndale reaction skills." Thomas 'educationar."

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8 Arts Roman Holiday Postcards from Rome West Yorkshire Playhouse

o other nation produces tourists quite like England does. Every summer, thousands of sweaty Brits sporting pasty white flesh (later to become red-raw sunburn) migrate to Nsunnier dimes in search of fun, romance and drunken nights. Postcards from Rome is a "bittersweet comedy", and the second play from the Playhouse's new writer-in-residence, Adam Pernak, who neatly encapsulates here the fellow British tourists on your package holiday nightmare. Meet Shell and Carol, two lipstick packers from Wigan who have come to party; Wesley and Maj, the stuffy middle-aged couple; and Henry, the solicitor with a brooding secret. The play does take a while to get going, but once it does, it's well worth the wait. The five's paths constantly clash during a weeks frantic sightseeing, leading to some hilarious scenes and sticky situations. Shell's sure she's found true love with Henry, who reveals himself to be the least desirable holiday romance ever; Carol turns to the bottle for companionship, and Wesley religiously clings to his meticulous itinerary whilst his wife Maj begins to let her life slip away. Postcards from Rome has its moments, such as Carol's drunken tirade against foreigners, and Shell's passion-killer no-no chat-up line: "I love your paunch..." But ultimately the play is let down and almost spoilt completely by it's dull beginning and an ending which is slow, full of dodgy metaphors and rather inconclusive. Despite this, it's still worth seeing Postcards from Rome for its atmosphere, wit and performances, especially by Sue Devaney as Carol. A play for anyone who has ever been on holiday, and especially if you can't afford to get away this year. But do try to arrive late and leave early. Hannah S. Lawrence

strength of the film lies, for - like a soap captions, blown them up and scattered them was fired because they found out. He Short Cuts opera - it has a deeply voyeuristic feel. irreverently around a whitewashed room. decides to sue his firm for wrongful Whilst we are never told anything Cartoon images once coherent, now termination, and eventually finds Hyde Park truly revelatory about the characters or their dismembered and relocated, are stripped of representation in the form of Joe Miller lives there is enough going on to keep you any humour and placed out of context. (Denzel Washington), a homophobic lawyer The intention, I take it, is to breathe is director Robert Altman's first outing hooked for the duration. Like a souped-up acquaintance of Beckett's. However, the new life into dated pictures. Although the 'since The Player and despite the sensation fix of Neighbours this is ultimately escapist, pairing of the two was not very plausible; I and should shoot a ray of sunshine into effect is bizarre and often thought-provoking, I prejudice is unfortunately stronger than that this "slice of life" was cut from the couldn't help but wonder what it actually same pie as a great many other stories by your life. Recommended like vitamin C. justice, and I didn't believe Miller loved the achieves Perhaps now I am doubly aware that law so much that he would put aside his Hollywood writers writing about their by knackering something up I too can be the home town, it is hugely enjoyable in a personal convictions about homosexuals. Emma Hartley author of a new creation. Mmmm. Then again, However, director Jonathan Demme, sprawling, soapy sort of way. Raymond this does raise the bewildering question of Carver provides the original material (eight responsible for The Silence of the Lambs, what art is, and the possibility that any painted the intracies of the relationship short stories and a poem) from which the apparent deficiencies in these works are more script is built, and the result is an easy Hirst & Jeffries quite well. Though Miller is interested in suggestive of art's often suspect nature, than of sprawl of backstreets, picket fences and seeing justice served, he doesn't immediately any fault in the part of the artists. sprinklers on which to slake your thirst for Parkinson Gallery get over his prejudice, and isn't converted These are works of newly formed American suburbia - which at this stage of into a pro-gay crusader. He develops a artists with new ideas. They deserve a viewing the term is infinitely more alluring than an f the three exhibitions currently on display respect for Beckett, and the rapport is since whatever you think of Modern Art, it earlier fondness for Northern ghettos. Vin the Parkinson Building Gallery two genuine, even if the relationship isn't exactly O would be unreasonable to dismiss their work A cast of many and famous people aroused my curiosity instantly. If my first believable. with a philistine "I could do that!" Perhaps the has been assembled. Around such sparkly impressions of the works exhibited by Hirst The language in the film is the strongest recommendations of this exhibition stars as Tom Waits, Andie MacDowell, Jack and Jeffries were tinged with perplexed movie's main weakness. For a complex topic are that it is there, that it is free, and that you Lemmon, Madelaine Stowe, Tim Robbins, amusement, this was at least an interested like AIDS, it is too simplistic and it makes can't form worthwhile opinions on such Robert Downey Junior, Chris Penn, a web reaction; something the Bloomsbury paintings many scenes (most notably those which take matters without recourse to experience. of stories is spun. There is the TV in the other room failed to evoke. For me they place in the courtroom) seem patronizing. anchorman whose son is run over by Lily made an uninspired collection, faded and But Tom Hanks is the reason to go Tomlin, who is married to Tom Waits, who fusty; lacking freshness. James Bowe see Philadelphia. He delivers a powerful, drinks in the same bar as Robert Downey Jeffries' compositions are arresting moving, compassionate and believable Jnr., who is a make-up artist with a nice line even if not instantly appealing. By presenting performance. Hanks is an actor who has paid in fake cuts and bruises, and whose photos her work behind circular and domed glass Philadelphia his dues; after all the cinematic catastrophes get accidentally handed to a fisherman who frames, she challenges the conventions that such as The Money Pit, Bachelor Party, or the has a picture of a real corpse from the confine images to rectangles. It is an attempt to Odeon Man With One Red Shoe, he has finally fishing trip he went on with Fred Ward, narrow the gap between the artist's subject and found a vehicle worthy of his talents. This is who meets the TV anchorman at a recital; its visual representation, to provide an hiladelphia is the first mainstream movie the film he will win the Oscar for. and round and round it goes until the list of alternative mode of perception -a new form. Pto address the general subject of AIDS, Good performances are turned in by coincidences is as long as my arm, but still However the images within the focusing specifically on discrimination in other members of the cast: Jason Robards, shorter than Tim Robbins, who plays a frames are abstract ones, and there is a strong the workplace, and though it failed to live up Joanne Woodward, and Antonio Banderas as hilariously stupid policeman on a big sense that these images are merely functional, to my every expectation, it comes with a Hanks' lover. Washington, however, comes throbbing motorbike. that the full significance of the work lies in the recommendation. off as Malcolm X in a suit. His style of There is no single theme or idea, and not in its expression. In the helpful The story focuses on Andrew acting comes from the "same style, different tendency for the stories to converge: instead blurb provided in a handout describing Beckett (Tom Hanks), a brilliant, young, gay movie" school of thought. Bruce they repeatedly intersect and crosscut, in a Jeffries' offerings. Wittgenstein is quoted: "Of lawyer in the City of Brotherly Love. Highly Springsteen, the virtual embodiment of manner which - since this is California - what one cannot speak one must remain commended for his legal abilities by his Americana, performs the title track, played causes people to throw up their hands and silent." Asa legitimisation of this work's status powerful law firm, Beckett is mysteriously against panoramic scenes of Philadelphia. remark on the awesome synchronicity of the as art, this is a lame device which cuts no ice dismissed under the pretense of misplacing The song is haunting and melancholy. And thing. Or would do if these coincidences with me. an important legal document. Although he appropriate. were visible to anyone other than the Hirst has taken her father's cartoons did not tell his employers he was gay or he audience. And inevitably this is where the from the Sixties: removed their topical was suffering from AIDS, Beckett argues he Nicole M. Campbell

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 Arts 9 SLIM PICKIN'S cogito Est Sunday Greek actress, Melina LMercouri, actress of stage and screen and, singer and politician died of lung The Cherry Orchard cancer Her age, a hit of a mystery, is variously placed at between 68 and 7L Raven Theatre She will probably be best remembered for both her roles as Ilya in hekhov's Cherry Orchard is considered a classic, and the 1960 film Never on Sunday for which rightly so: the orchard, which for generations has belonged she won first prize at the Cannes film Cto a female landowner's family, ends up being sold and festival and as Greek Minister of Culture. hacked down, a symbol of the gradual breakdown of Czarist The later post she undertook in the first Russia. It is a poignant play; but, as the Theatre Group's handout Greek Socialist Government in 1981, from tells us, it has always been interpreted in a melancholic mood, then until her death she fought an and they will bring out the "light-hearted comedy" Chekhov had impassioned campaign to bring the Elgin intended. And this is where the problems begin... Marbles back to Greece. "Highlighting the comedy elements" does not mean She took up this fight because, as turning what is essentially a play about loss and change into a she stated in an interview, she felt that they farce. And yet that was the result. Most characters were walking were "the symbol and the blood and soul of cliches, their traits exaggerated to a ridiculous degree. In all the Greek people. Because we have fought fairness, the student and the upwardly-mobile serf's son were and died for the Parthenon and Acropolis. reasonably good, and 1 found Emma Cardy-Brown, as Liuba the Because when we are born, they talk to us landowner, expressive and touching. The rest ranged from the about this great history that makes implausible to dreadful. The landowner's daughters were the Greekness... Because this is our cultural most irritating: Anya was interpreted as a Victorian brat who history and belongs to this country and this wailed "mama dahling" at the drop of a hat, whereas Varia's temple." religious, tense nature was conveyed by non-stop flailing of arms When one sits down and thinks and hysterical shrieks that made one wonder whether she was about this, Miss Mercouri actually has a about to have a stroke. The German governess' accent ebbed and point. Although our museums seem to be flowed at will, props were virtually non-existent: not as much as a stock full of other countries' national painted backdrop to convey the orchard which, after all, is the treasures, I dare say that if another country centre of the whole plot. The audience were faced with the same suggested whipping Nelson off the top of boring white screen throughout. And the ending, in which Liuba his Column, to place in their museum, or must part forever from her childhood home and orchard, was perhaps borrowing the Crown Jewels for a done hastily, with bizarre goings-on in the background (the couple of hundred years, we'd probably governess doing the splits among other things), which robbed the break of diplomatic relations. audience from the chance to feel the play's most moving moment. The Marbles were 'rescued' by Ail in all, a disappointing performance which missed Lord Elgin from the ruins of the Parthenon the play's whole point without offering the compensation of any at the start of last Century. The relevant successful innovations. authorities approved this. However, it is entirely possible that they were trying to Rea Podas save what they could of their most famous national monuments, which were, at the time, under heavy bombardment from the Turks. manner of the gamekeeper's impotence and of Montmirail, and his servant 'Jaqueasse', who In 1816, after some deliberation, The Northerners during one of their slap-stick chases round the by some remarkable turn-of-fate (and our Government bought them off him and forest pretends to be an as yet chaste (chased?) wizardry gone awry) get transported from entrusted them to the British Museum, "to Bradford Film Theatre but enthusiastic maiden calling for the red- war-torn medieval France to present day class- be preserved and kept together". Very nice. blooded huntsman. war torn France, where they spend the bulk of Legislation in Parliament (dating from All in all this is a film that can not be rr he Northerners is set in the 1950's in the the picture attempting to retrieve the magic- 1753) deems that anything entrusted to the recommended highly enough. The quirky, street of a housing development that was potion that will send them back to where they museum should be kept together "for the 1 grisly and touching world view of director built to be a bustling residential utopia. Cut off came from. benefit of international scholarship and the Alex van Warmerdam comes through and this the rest of society, the inhabitants of these Jean Reno, bearing more than a enjoyment of the general public." from is spoilt only a little by the subtitling. This was environs provide a particularly trenchant passing resemblance to Yosser from The Boy.; 1 am at odds with two things here. only frustrating because I'm sure 1 missed illustration of the futility of life with the From The Blackstuff and sharing that character's Firstly, were the Marbles, Elgin's to sell in some of the visual humour - which was unproductive existence they lead. - Such blinkered defiance and single-mindedness, is the first place? OK - he didn't rip them off meticulously clever. I left the cinema feeling poignant abandoned cement-mixers! outstanding as the Count, while everyone the Parthenon, and he was allowed to take refreshed, optimistic and willing to look for Mirroring the minimalistic stasis of around him forms some kind of ordered chaos, them; but from a Government under great the quietly comical in the daily routine. with varying degrees of success. Waiting for Godol, this film is a similarly strain. Surely it would be a gesture of good The norm for these kind of fish-out- difficult dramatic piece to gain a full bearing will to give them back. Secondly, would of-water films is to provide a handy means of on. The characters toy with our sympathies Jim Biswell "international scholarship" or "the commenting on society's absurdities, but Les throughout the film and the lack of polarity enjoyment of the general public" be greatly between good and evil presents refreshingly Visiteurs isn't having any of that. The nearest it affected if we did give them back? Why gets to social satire is to helpfully point out should groups of snivelling GCSE students complex and over-ridingly human situations. what a banal and meaningless word 'okay is benefit more than the average Greek. The In one of the households there is a Les Visiteurs On the plus side however, we do get a never- British Museum pleasantly informed me sex-maniac butcher whose wife embarks upon ending stream of jokes about poo-poo, vomit, that entry was free and that "the museum is a religious puritanism. These minor conflicts Hyde Park Cinema bad smells, toilets, farting and the total open 7 days a week". Well if you come perhaps not timeless, but add an interest, destruction of anything inanimate, especially from Athens Comprehensive I don't call a unique nonetheless, to a supposedly box-office sensation in its native country, motor vehicles. I think you can see that this round trip to London free. meaningless daily routine. Arising from the ALes Visiteurs is a new, French time-travel comedy. It begins with a visual reference to film possesses class. The fact is that the Marbles aren't limited extent of the characters' world each Try and ignore the atrocious ours, they never have been, and now that contention is made all the more amusing Terminator 2 (a different sort of time travel subtitling (Kelvin Costner?), this ul d the Greek Government has made consistent because it is unavoidably played out in front of flick) and ends with a smarmy twentieth century hotelier sitting in some genuine definitely appeal if you fancy something with overtures about the fact that they want the whole street. Domestic propriety breaks a Continental flavour but are tired of the po- them back, they shouldn't be for much down and the gossips' tongues start wagging - twelfth century muck. Roughly translated, this means that the film goes from the ridiculous to faced material which emerges from France, longer. Surely all the international scholars another telling vignette of suburbia. and which causes them to think that they are realise that an item of history is always best Waiting for Godot the sublime and back again, whilst studiously Other chiming with the only Western country capable of producing observed in it's natural surroundings if comes in the form of the gamekeeper (like avoiding all routes sign-posted "intelligent". In spite of these shortcomings, it still proves to be decent cinema. They make good trash, too. possible. If they don't they've probably lost Pozzo, he also goes blind) whose particular their marbles. (Boom!Booml) obsession is with catching the postman, whom very funny. he suspects of reading his mail every morning Basically (and believe me it is basic), R.Domeneghetti in the forest nearby. The postman learns in this this is the story of Count Godefroy the Hardy Matthew Goodman

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994, 10 Music PARADISE FOUND worked it out." Weatherall's reputation for doing things his f 1y ou're lucky," said his PR man. "He never, ever Claire Rowland bonded with the tattoo own way is legendary. He's come on to the decks at top house speaks to ISIM1E„ Melody Maker or DJ Magazine and Andrew Weatherall when he dropped clubs and played two hours of ska, and because he's Andy he hates Mixmag just as much." Lord Sabre of king Weatherall he gets away with it. (Mixmag once said he could Paradise himself brushes off my ensuing gratitude at being into The Orbit last week. play Andean nose flute music - and the B-sides -all night and allowed anywhere near him with a smile. " I don't mind - because I know YOU won't take the piss". Andrew Weatherall, the crowd would love it. Perhaps that's why he doesn't like dub/techno DJ/producer, legend in his own lunch-out time and them.) I've heard rumours that he used to resolutely refuse to general law unto himself, is A Nice Bloke. He's very ever learn to mix, but he insists that he picked it up within a understanding that it's half past eleven in the Orbit so I'm not week. "When you're playing different styles of music at all in a particularly professional state for this journalism business, different speeds mixing's out of the question. But playing in a and when the unthinkable happens and the dictaphone breaks club now you've got to keep people dancing. You can't dance down he offers to finish the interview by fax. Taking the piss to a shit mix so it's got to work." And how does he get away would be way out of order. with those "unusual" records? "Easy really, whip 'em up into a "I was one of the last generation who could spend a dancing frenzy and then drop the difficult tune. Sometimes it few years messing around, not having to commit ourselves to works and screaming, hooting etcetera will occur: get it wrong anything. No disrespect to you university lot but I learnt so and you have to pretend to be rooting through your record box, much from being kicked out of home at 18 and doing building thus avoiding all eye contact." Has it ever gone really badly site jobs and stuff like that." Spending a few years as wrong? "I suppose the most extreme reaction would have to be Windsor's "resident weirdo", he started DJing at mates' parties threats of violence". - playing everything from The Clash to Grandmaster Flash to Thankfully no-one threatens him at the OrbiL To be "633 Squadron". The Boys Own fanzine crew introduced him honest he's not that stunning as a techno DJ - his subliminal, to acid house in the late eighties, and he spent a couple of years acidy, left-of-centre set is good but lacks immediacy. However, as "a total raving nutter". Memories of this time are somewhat you could do much worse than see him play dub at Soundctash hazy. (Asked whether he thinks drugs are going to have to or his own club Sabresonic in London. Alternatively, try the become less integral to the dance scene if the people involved MI Toddington North Services in Bedfordshire, where (as he are to be able to keep it going, he replies "as surely as night reconstructing The Orb on the "Aubrey Mixes" that really scrawls Sabres of Paradise's fax number on a dog-eared receipt follows day".) • raised him into the public's (heightened) consciousness. Gold with my eye-liner) some probably unwitting assistant has He began his Djling for real as an indie DJ at The Trip, discs and universal acclaim followed each, no mean feat relieved him of forty-odd quid for a tankful of petrol, Walkers moving on to one of THE original acid dubs The Shown, but it considering he'd never set foot in a studio before "Loaded". "I BigBag and medium coffee. Hey kids, pop stars are real people you know... was his production work on Primal Scream's "Screamadelica" informed a man (Brian O'Shaugnessy) that I knew absolutely (transforming what had been a jangly, unimportant little C86 nothing about it, and he informed the machines. That's how 1 Andy Weatherall plays Sounciclash at the Music Factory, 24.3 band into a clubby, spacey uniquely wonderful thing) and

Eyes.-esque impression of Billy Bragg at Bristol's very stylish product standing as warm Brownswood Vic Chestnut,' various free music festivals. One could perhaps testament to Leeds prominence over the last few be forgiven for thinking that the Aeroplanes' years. Jingo have collected tracks from most of Workshop Drunk (Texas Hotel) tack of success was absolutely justified. Sadly, the places Lorna Cohen has just discovered and it's not_ thus we have Back To Basics providing "Roth", Multidirection (Tonkin' Loud) caving a few beers with Vic might be fun. While previous albums have been the sound of that basement. Rhythm Invention, aybe if you got the first round in he'd marred by over-ambition and utter pseudo the new and much touted signing to Warp, he Japanese have long appreciated flesh out some of the tales on his record, tell you twaddle on the part of Langley, they have handed over their glorious "Ad Infinitum" and Ttheir jazz. Innovators like Coltrane, more about what fired him to pen these always demonstrated that the band are Cortex offered up their horribly hard to get hold Blakey and Davis were always treated frequently intriguing sketches of smalltime potentially classic songwriters (Love Come of "Feel It" just to show where it's all going to be with a respect reserved for visiting royally, American life suffused with paranoia, edginess 'Round, Colour Me, Yr Own World) and this going. If you buy now you'll find a cheeky tittle while not even the phenomenon that is and regret.Some might choose to quiz him on finally is an album without a single duff track. 7' bootleg by the "Men in Frocks" with a saucy kareoke could remove jazz from its pivotal Michael Stipe, the voice of R.E.M, who Vic The lyrics are much more accessible and much use of sampling that got itself neatly banned and role in Japan's pervasive musical culture. shares a home town of Athens, GA with and by less veiled in poetry (although we're still at we all have a vague idea who did that don't we? But it hasn't been easy. The all accounts knows, But I'd ask first about "Kick home to Mr.Pretence with 'Honey l', a dialogue Horizon I is available from Jingo stagnancy of the scene in the late 70s and My Ass", about the friend whose life he ruined partly narrated in French) and the pace of the Records, PO Box 117, LS1 CITY. early 80s left the movement with no option and who took a swing at him. simultaneous guitars, all seven of them, has other than to re-evaluate itself, and it was "Drunk" is made for the small hours, become even more breakneck. An effortlessly Alex Sanders to this end that the United Future musically stark. You wouldn't be likely to have a cool record, the work of no less than 28 different Organisation - the DJ/production trio knees-up to it, nut unless you were planning a musicians which is probably about as many behind Talkin' Loud's latest compilation - celebration of tears and introspection. It may, on people who'll buy it, somewhat tragically. went underground, inspiring a jazz-fusion balance, not sell millions and become the choice club culture with itself at its epicentre. for a new generation. Su when they'd be calling Ann Coates The selection here basically last orders, Id politely ask Vic if he's still feeling reflects the foundations on which the disjointed and whether he's now keeping more Top ten recent vulture-esque death Oriental hip-bop live scene has flourished, appointments, as he documents in "When I Ran Moodswings unleashing a rush of talent such as Cool Off And Left tier". Would he mind me cash-in reissue obscurities. Spoon and Kvote Jazz Massive Project. describing his music as tortured, quiet, indie Live at Leeds B2B (Arista) Compiled hr Muth at Crash - Both are featured here, and their cosintrY-folk? Yes, probably 1w would, but it's contributions do not disappoint now Horizon 1 Frank Zappa Flat rats The problem with such eclectic I hope Vic feels better now, anyway. Leeds 93-94 (Jingo Records) compilations is that invariably they are There is very very little that is pure, as he 2 Frank Zappa Sheik yer bouti open to the charge of hit and miss, and sav,...ings in -Cluefoot". And I'd mumble to y<41.11' "Leeds on the scene" pamphlet now; 3 Frank Zappa Zoot Allures 'Mullidirection' is no exception. The agreement and ,:ogge4 we move somewhere L./what does the council know that you haven't 4 Frank Zappa Chu.nga's Revenge Brownswood Workshop's most endearing It me 41,∎iii done at weekends for about 4 years? So long 5 Frank Zappa One size fits all quality is not the strength of its selection Phil Scowen and thanks for the extra hours. These two (the tracks are plagued by albums will last long after the leaflets lie in the 6 Frank Zapp Overnite senstation underproduction and tack rap) but its gutter and the tents have collapsed at the 7 Frank Lipp; Weasals ripped my flesh underlying aim to export this otherwise The Blue Aeroplanes forthcoming 'Summer extravagance'. &Frank Zappa Cruisin' with Ruben exciting movement. Lite Model (Beggar's Banquet) Moodswings have produced an album 9 Frank Zappa It's Uncle Meat' Talkin' Loud should be applauded that is eminently listenabIe to but seems to lack Wacka jawaka once again for talkin' jazz in a language something in its conception. Why record a dance 10 Frank Zappa which few other labels are willing to rive in Bristol and take it from me you can't album live? All we get is crowd noise, some lad understand, but the hard work is yet to .11.-top down the newsagent for a pint of milk chatting at the beginning and the odd confused It's not all comedy at Crash and come: the survival of the scene will always without finding Gerald Langley (the Blue whistle carrier. This record would have Aeroplanes singer, clad in sunglasses reciting be perilous in the consumer capital of the benefited from some quality studio production that's for sure. world where trends are sucked in and spat piss poor poetry to anyone who'll listen. Equally and a free crowd of friends with every sale. A embarrassing was Rodney Allen's (their out at a rapid rate. Persevere. good album that shot itself in the foot in the guitarist) previous incarnation subverting name of originality which isn't a bad reason. influential adolescents with his Stars Martyn Beauchamp in their Horizon however has the right idea. A

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 Music ympathy for the Devil Inspiral Carpets Devil Hopping (Mute)

ast week, Inspiral Carpets delivered one of this years great TV moments by staggering through "I Want You" on Top Of The Pops, Laided by the Godfather of scowl, Mark E Smith. The Inspirals transformation into a psychedelic Dead Kennedys was pretty Rock and roll dreams came astonishing, but not as shocking as "Devil Hopping" turning out to be 100% proof classic pop. That it's their fourth album, shows both how through for Akin Ojumu. quickly time flies, and also how undervalued they are. Despite their original role as one third of the Madchester mafia, MARCELLA DETROIT the Carpets always had more in common with Teardrops-y crafted pop, I Believe (London) than James Brown sampled beats. "Devil Hopping" shows the Inspirals following their pop instincts and showing a depth and maturity This is a classy pop song, despite her much previously hidden. Their cheesy fairground hammond organ is publicised vocal range she avoids the thankfully held in reserve, allowing Clint Boon to display his talents on temptation to descend into operatics right until various pianos and keyboards. The immediate but limiting rush of early the closing moments of the song. Definatly, an Carpets tunes like "Joe" has been purged from their sound, to be replaced improvement from the tiresome Shakespear's by more longer and building songs like "Plutoman", which reminds me Sister, I Believe is still basically a MOR tune, but of a less manic "Reynard The Fox". Mark E may be absent from the album its amazing the difference a bit of subtlety but his extricated influence is felt on "All of This and More". makes. Lyrically, "Devil Hopping" is the British cousin of Pixies "Bossanova". There's no social comment like "Sackville" here, Tom is SENSOR more likely to be singing love songs to spaceships. More interested in Switch (Ultimate) outer space than Oldham Athletic. "Devil Hopping" is a great example of how bands can improve if the spotlight and pressure is removed for a For a start this is not Wham Rap, although there is while. The Inspirals have certainly vindicated themselves here, and a irresistible catchy hook. Impassioned ranting maybe they'll become fashionable again. It certainly is a funny old world. does not always create good rapping, but I'ieitham Al-Saved uncompromising vocals are Martin Futrell complimented by Kerstin Haigh's soulfulness. The dark and light aspects of the song come together resulting in a future Thursday night bop crowd The Voodoo Queens Banco De Gaia Magnapop puller. Duchess ot York Maya (Planet Dog Records) Hot Boxing WHALE Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe (Warner) (Play it Again Sam) uriously enough, The Voodoo Queens tie thing's for sure - Mr Banco de Gaia ew Wave of New Wave? More like a Interesting, a mixture of the ubiquitous funky only played one song, a very long k_lis a big fat show off. He's got more C bunch of no-hopers clamouring for drummer rift and intermittent power chords. number, with about ten, equally tricks up his sleeve than that horrible little N attention as part of a rather dubious 'scene' lames Brown would be bemused, but who cares, interspersed, fifteen second breaks., or so man Paul Daniels and vet still manages to held together by a couple of half-decent this a decent stab at a musical crossover and is it seemed to me. The content of their lyrics give you the feeling there's more he's not bands, I'd say. Far closer to the essence of worth a listen. The only dilemma is whether to is basically a rivetting devotion to the showing you.This, the third album release the original New Wavers are Magnapop. skillfully loot-shuffle across the dance floor, or let men of the Queen's fantasies, with titles from the recording arm of the Club Dog What's more, they come recommended by yourself go in a spot a deranged head shaking such as "Dream Boy", "Choc Eves" and empire has a lot to live up to, following as it some top names, most notably REM's spreading greasy spilt ends, dandruff and "Mr. Machismo". They reach a literary does in the footsteps of the heavenly Michael Stipe, who produced their first El', goodwill as you strut. high with "Supermodel (do You mean 'Abduction' by Eat Static and the much and Sugar/Husker Du man Bob Mould, superficial?)" but fail to expand on the praised 'Feed Your Head' compilation. who took over for this, their new album. ECHOBELLY idea, preferring to repeat the one line What's more it manages to, no problem. And what an album. This is like Insomniac (Rhythm King) throughout the track. It's not ambient, even though the 'Plastic Letters' re-recorded, with the extra To do a great injustice to far signs are all there (tweeting birds, benefit of having seen lb more years of Standard issue indie tune, crashing guitars in the superior bands, the Voodoo Queens helicopters and assorted squelchy noises) music, turning Magnapop into a classic loud parts giving way to waifish vocals in the occasionally sound like L7, the Breeders, and it's not dub even though in places the American indie-pop band, continuing in quiet bits, Not a terrible song. this is like The and once or twice, were reminiscent of basslines are almost skull-crushing. It's a the same tradition that has recently given Sound Of Music, just bearable if you are The Primitives, only faster. The non-vocal wolf in sheep's clothing - very clever, full of us Belly and Sugar (how much of this is guaranteed that it will never have to be endured guitarist, who was superbly inanimate, Eastern promise and not to be ignored. due to Mould I can't say), but better than again. detached and sexy throughout, produced Imagine Orbital, only with the sense of either of those.The key to the whole thing is the odd few notes that fitted surprisingly urgency turned down and then diluted with Linda Hopper's voice. This is a woman TORT AMOS well, and were the highlight of the a little of The Orb's pomposity. Maya is the who knows the virtue of restraint. No Pretty Good Year (East West) evening. Sadly,the entertainment was at soundtrack to Aladdin that Disney daren't matter what is happening around her, she its highest when they weren't playing. make. knowing no doubt that if they had it Yet more Kate Bush warbling from this year's would have been transformed from good never feels the need to let rip and break the "I hate it when bands go off and spell that her smouldering tones create favourite CD artist. Amos seated on her own in clean family fun into a spectacle packing pretend they're never going to come throughout. The subtlety of the vocals on front of a piano has produced a pleasant tune back", preceded an encore that saw the cinema seats the world over with space which again cadets, drop-outs and losers. betters like 'Lay It Down' and 'Texas' return of the Glasweigan support band, creates a beautiful juxtaposition with the shows off her This isn't the sort of long-player the A.C.Acoustics, providing a benefit gig manic guitars, giving the whole thing a impressive voice. which grabs you and screams 'listen to me' - type finale. The two bands gelled so well, wonderful lazy, summery feel. Beware there is a more subtle than that it charms you, slowly that the song was abandoned half way, There's no relief. You'll be in built tedium gaining your attention and then your after the lead Voodoo Queen had grinning like Peter Milligan from the factor in this appreciation. 'Heliopolis' for example gently managed to unplug herself in a frenzied moment you hear the tirst few notes of record, a few too massages the senses as about forty-two solo. opener 'Slowly Slowly' until the end of the many playings different rhythms and tunes emerge and At times, I thought there must brilliant last track 'Skin Burns', and then, will soon expose then subside, yet managing never have been a pig being disembowelled cliched though it sounds, you really will a glaring lack of overpowering each other. backstage, such was her screaming. want to start the whole thing all over again ambition. Never Banco de Gala play at Centime "My voice is tucked, I'm and keep going till your jaw aches. This is mind I'm sure later this month and anyone with half a supposed to sing this one, but I can only easily the best album I've heard for, ohh, this will be a very brain will be there to see Mr Showoff prove shout it", she said, which is a fairly good don't know, ages. Don't rest till you hear it. good year for summary of her talents. how much cleverer than any of us he is. Git. Amos.. Steve Nex Nick Collins Joe Williams

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1993 12 Classical & Jazz The Nutshell Guide

An occasional series on musical celebrities performing in the Leeds area. Get the Max Peter Maxwell Davies

BBC Philharmonic Distinguishing features? A Cheshire Cat St George's Hall. Bra4fin-d grin at the beginning and end of performances, But wait a moment, isn't he a composer as ithin the next twelve months Peter well as a conductor? Yes, and... Maxwell Davies expects to write Well, composers are artists and they're Wanother of his Strathclyde meant to be angst ridden. Sorry, no sign Concertos, compose two orchestral works for of navel gazing creative agony. the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and an So, what does he have to smile about? opera for Welsh National Opera. All of this How's 186 published works and associate makes it faintly astonishing that he could conductor/ composer of the Royal spare the time to conduct the BBC Philharonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic in Bradford at the weekend. At Philharmonic for starters? the heart of the Saturday concert programme Doesn't he live somewhere rather odd? was his own Concert Suite taken from the Yes, the isle of Hoy in the Orkneys. ballet Caroline Mathilde. This was premiered There are precedents for this? Benjamin at the Royal Festival Hall a couple of years Britten living in Aldeburgh on the ago. The suite performed in Bradford is taken crumbling Suffok coast, but that's from Act II of the ballet and tells the story of positively metropolitan by comparison the love affair and subsequent detection and with Hoy. banishment of Caroline Mathilde, the Could this explain the prolific output? It daughter of George Ill, from the court of her certainly could, there's nothing else to do! mother-dominated husband King Christian Erin, Orkney, doesn't that ring a bell? I VII. supposes you're making a gratuitous Maxwell Davies conducted from a reference to the Satanic child abuse score of the work, but without a baton as is enquiry his habit. The Maxwell Davies hallmarks But of course our boy had nothing to do were there - wailing flexitone and shrieking with this? Absolutely not. woodwind - unfortunately the brass wasn't But there is an embarassing composition quite adequate to the demands made of it. Tasmin Little, not always at ease with her Instrument lurking somewhere? Yes Black Pentecost But this piece was much more Maxwell for baritone, mezzo-soprano and chorus , Davies the pasticheur than the rigorous the dry acoustic of St George's Hall was with a work that is often mistaken for high and composed back in 1979. experimenter we have sometimes heard. The probably ideal for this work which was romanticism but evinces something much And Pete would rather let this one gather strata of the sometimes dissonant harmonic originally conceived with the boxy acoustic closer to classicism. This was Mendelssohn's dust? I think so. overlay, particularly in the strings where the of the opera house in mind. It allowed the Fingal's Cave which was immaculately So why should we be taking any notice of writing was often strikingly reminiscent of BBC Philharmonic's clean articulation of the performed by the BBC Philharmonic. The him anyway? He's just finished a three Shostakovich, were never allowed to obscure piece to impress without overwhelming the Beethoven Violin Concerto which followed concert series in Bradford. the underlying dance rhythms. Hence the audience with sheer bombast. was a disappointment. Tasmin Little's OK, the big one. Is he any good? Well he work began with a ponderous march to The final item in the programme playing tended towards flatness almost has the Orkney Wedding with Sunrise denote the activity in the public square. would certainly have benefited from a throughout and the huge cadenza which going for him - the sunrise is represented Then came that staple of ballet scores, the warmer acoustic. It was the famous Borodin concludes the first movement started badly by a lone piper in full ceremonial get-up court ball, requiring a gavotte which was Polovtsian Dances. In these the Bradford and was bludgeoned thereafter. Not even the entering from the back of the concert hall formally recognisable but distanced and Festival Choral Society made a brave if beautiful muted strings against the soaring at the end. No, he's not in the big league of given a menacing air by the eccentric slightly improbable attempt to impersonate and unmuted solo violin at the beginning of conductors but those in the know reckon percussion accompaniment. The practical the sexy young maidens and youths of the the second movement could quite remove the believe that his compositions will survive balletic underlay which determined both the Polovtsi tribe who sing nostalgically of their sense of a soloist not, on this occasion, at one well into the next century. musical forms and lent it narrative- drive distant homeland. But the piece brought the with her 1757 Guadagnini. made the musically complicated Suite a concert to a rousing high romantic close, Christian White satisfying experience as a whole. Moreover, acoustic notwithstanding. The concert began Christian White

Composer Simon Jeffes, the leader little too repetitive, and lacking in real Penguin Cafe of the Orchestra, takes inspiration from a direction, lacking the confidence to break out wide variety of sources, from baroque and experiment as much as they could. Also, Orchestra strings to Irish folk music and African at times the music tended towards the drumming, and blends them together in embarrassing, because the audience was Irish Centre compositions of incredible potential. Once being pulled in two directions - towards the initial novelty of the fusion has worn off, classical and modern - at once. Some of the irst, 1 will lay to rest some inevitable, the complexity and at times brilliance of the less successful compositions failed to bridge 1' slightly comic misunderstandings: no. music becomes apparent. Bizzarely named this gap, and so the audience fell into the there are no penguins in the Penguin Cafe compositions such as 'Telephone Rubber gap between, unsure of how to react, unsure Orchestra, an.d no, they do not play Band' bring together the omnipresent sounds whether they should engage their classical exclusively in cafes. However, the slight of technology - the dialling tone - with the sympathies or their sympathies for more wackiness of their name is a hint at the effect rhythms of African drumming in an attempt experimental forms. that they are trying to create, of experiment to humanise them, by turning technology Even so, the Orchestra found an through a traditional, classical framework. into music to remake the present as a eager and responsive audience at the Irish The composition of the orchestra is as positive instead of a technological Centre, who seemed happier with the unusual as its aim: it is comprised of a string nightmare. Indeed, the underlying theme of inconsistencies than I was. So if you are trio, a pianist, a ukulele player, a trombonist the Penguin Cafe Orchestra seems to be this looking for the different, dangerous, cutting and a bass guitar among various other praise of human potential, which is age of experimental music, then you will be instruments, as well as samples of telephones expressed through compositions like disappointed.But if you are looking for ringing and rubber bands twanging. Over the - Lifeboat' which weaves together the something that thinks that it is at the cutting last twenty years the popularity of the intricacies of the string trio with the rhythms edge , but is more likely to end up being used somewhat reclusive Penguin Cafe Orchestra of world music. as easy listening backing music , then look no has grown steadily, and the success of their Although in theory, and most of the further. last album, Union Cafe has resulted in this time in practice the Orchestra is brilliant, it full English tour did sometimes fall flat. At times it seemed a Steven Ranger lilitikok Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 1 Books 13 Comic COSMiCOMiCS halo Calvino (Picador 115.99)

y hackles always rise when I read a sentence like "it was the only name available for everything that required a name". It always makes me think of those smart-arse Mpassages in Umberto Eco's novels, when he refers obliquely to some philosophical theory, knowing most of his readers won't get it. Rest assured, however, that Calvino is not indulging in that annoying fictional onanism. Keep reading and this book of science-inspired short stories ll hesitate to call them science fiction - that might imply all sorts of damning criticism for some people) and it reveals some post-modern delights. Linking the beginning of the Universe and Canberra in 1922 through the consciousnesses of beings such as "Old Qwfwq" land others with similarly typographically gauche appellations) allows Calvino to create a series of tales which project his view of human nature into all sorts of amusingly anachronistic situations. Old Qwfwq is our narrator for ten of the twelve stories and a piece of scientific information printed at the head of each piece incites him to these extended anecdotes. Very soon one realises that despite all the science, Calvino is mainly interested in sexual jealousy and linguistics. Explaining how the proximity of the moon allowed people to reach it by ladder provides the scenario for a bizarre love quadrangle between Captain Vhd Vhd, Mrs Vhd Vhd, the Deaf One and Qwfwq. Swiftly following this, Calvinn ponders whether thinking was possible at all before the existence of sins - although the fact that such meditations are set in a time before the planets had formed seems not to disturb him. Another story depicts conscious life at a time when all matter was condensed to a single point (although there is still a room for a female character to have breasts). Calvino uses this to meditate on prejudice: "there were those who insisted that the concept of immigrant could be understood in the abstract, outside of time and space". No-one will fail to be amused by the sharp wit of a phrase like this, although some will be disturbed by Calvino's view of sex with Mrs. Flub/Saco in this environment: "it was at the same time vicious contemplation (thanks to the proximity of the punctiform convergence of us all in her) and also chastity (given her punctiform impenetrability)". The best story in the book is called The Dinosaurs, in which a Dinosaur comes to live with the New Ones and undergoes various experiences of alienation and confusion of identity, much of it figured through sexual desire and the story-telling and dreams of his new companions. Excellent also is the story of the mollusc who proclaims "when you're young all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy." A better place to encounter Calvino for the first time is If on a Whiter's Night a Traveller, but for admirers of his work this will be an enjoyable book. Mark Tranter

young boy's uncle, Arthur Ownby, maintains a childhood past and fears of monsters waiting semi-mythic landscape, overrun by menacing The Orchard Keeper solitary life in the valleys, cut off from all but in the future, The interplay between Hofhrtan's coyotes, sullied to ominous earthquakes, those still bonded to the land through hunting female characters crystallises this whore Lila's dead daughter can snuggle to her Cormac McCarthy (Picador £5.99) and trapping. contemporary malaise, as they struggle to long-lost mother. These three characters are connected come to terms with the choices that determine Having said all this, there is still ne would do well to review this book by by the death of the boy's father, killed in self- their lives. something throwaway, insubstantial about this Omerely translating a section of its prose defence by Svlder. The decomposed body is The picture on the cover. which type of fiction - it doesn't startle, it doesn't into the space I am allocated. instead the found, concealed and guarded by the old man, depicts a baby asleep in a teacup, connects the linger in the mind. It lett me a bit empty, more following passage, describing kittens loosed driven in part by superstition, until nine years two main strands of the novel: 'mailers and than a hit unfulfilled and the happy ending from a box, will hopefully suffice. have passed. babies, and tea drinking/. fortune-telling. The made me want to vomit. A four-hour tea and "One of the cats wandered behind the McCarthy has in this book taken the baby revealed in Rae's empty tea-cup is part of sympathy session with a friend would be a meat block and on his return to the chair he baton straight from William Faulkner's hand, her future and of Lila the fortune-teller's past much more memorable and life-enhancing stepped over it carefully. It went by in a and as The Orchard Keeper was first published so that Rae's anxietites about her pregnancy - experience. drunken reel, caroled off the meat case, in America in 1965, three years after Faulkner's will her lover be present at the birth, will she Emma Liggins continued. Lost, they wandered about the death, the sense of an elegy extends to the love her child more than her mother loved floor, passing and repassing each other, passing of that great mythologiser of the her? - run alongside Lila's guilt about the baby unseeing. One staggered past a coffee-can next American South. Though at times dense and she gave away and the mother she spurned, to the stove, slipped, fell in the puddle of difficult, McCarthy's writing is well-worth Over the endless cups ot tea and Just Champion! tobacco spittle surrounding it." experiencing in its own right. coffee, decisions are made, bits of the past are Alex Ferguson (MUFC ,f 11.95) A remote rural community in Ian Copestake exorcised, characters reach out towards each Tennessee provides the setting for Cormac other across oceans of loneliness, There is sweet memories. Remember Giggs's something reassuringly familiar about these McCarthy's elegy on the passing of white double at home to Southampton? Or exchanges, these people: think of revelations A Americans' experience of the wilderness. Such Pailister's free-kick against Blackburn? Well, re- over coffee you've had which leave you details, which the author opens our eyes to Fortune's Daughter live the good times with Fergie as he gives you changed, a little less confused and imagine through the precise, evocative quality of his his version of Linited's championship season. It's Alice Hoffman (Picador £5.99) them rendered in crystal clear prose. in voices language and observation, represents that part an unashamed piece of hype, but United fans you almost recognise. of an elegy whi‘.11 is devoted to a celebration of will find it hard not to enjoy Fergie's ussn ver had the urge to have your future life The poignant, interior monologues ot its subject. Conaequently the plot emerges as a mixture of utter cliche and cutting honest('. revealed to you in all its terrible glory, just Hoffman'a emotionally scarred women, with clearing does in a forest, only atter close E It's not a Fever Pdih, but as tootball so You can gel outside the hopeless their strange ability to cut themselves oft from experience of the undergrowth. writing goes it is pleasantly brutal and amid, uneertainty that dogs your days? Wallowing in their bodies while alining their wrists,: making A young boy grows up laying traps and proceeds at a. cracking pace A bit like present sense ot insecurity, it was a relict love/giving birth echo around your head like for minks, while the local wild one, Marion nIV United, really Sylder, risks jail or death making illegal to realise that I'm not the only one unable to the cries of a child in anguish We hold our John McLeod whiskey runs on the mountain roads. The .make decisions, trapped between ghosts ot breath as the world (hes inhabit becomes L Leeds Student independent Newspaper 11th March 1994,

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HYDIN The Hyde Park Cinema is under new management and in the the refurbishment of arts buildings. Juliette Garside casts a font has a word with manager Liz Rhymer about the soft breeze of local history most Leeds students

n 1977, when Geoff Thompson inherited the Hyde Park period, the distribution centre for the North. In 1927, talkie filmy Picture House from his uncle Len, he had two hours to were pioneered here. with the opening of the Electrocord Studia, decide what to do with the place He felt it "seemed a in Domestic Street, Holbeck. It stands today as a dilapidated shame to let it go", and against all financial logic he gave up reminder of a greater. bygone age in British cinema. his job, and the cinema was given a new lease of its long life. Or There have been times when the Hyde Park seems to have so the legend goes. That was just one of the many times the fate made more money as a landmark than a functional cinema. It of the Hyde Park hung in the balance, saved from the bulldozers starred in Wetherby along with Vanessa Rederave and for an by a split second decision. Over the century there have been a episode of First of the Simmer Wine a mock Victorian postbox hundred or so screens in Leeds alone, most of which have was planted outside. After each day's filming, the crew would disappeared without a trace. There are only a handful left today. find that a certain amount of mail had been deposited in it, and Why the Hyde Park survived remains a bit of a mystery. have to cart it all off to a real postbox. Peter Ustinov, Michael The fact that it ever came into being as a cinema is a matter of Patin and Victoria Wood are just some of the showbiz people pure chance The original proprietor, H & W Child, built it as a who have filmed and given talks there. During the filming of a hotel, but thanks to a certain Lord Cardigan, responsible for comedy series, there was a great uproar when posters were put building most of Leeds six and creating what is known as the 'dry up announcing "this cinema is now opening for bingo only". square mile', (ever wondered why there's only one pub in the The idea was a little too close to home. For sixteen years area?) refused to give him a license. Lord Cardigan did not want Geoff Thompson struggled to support his family, the anything to lower the tone of what was then a middle days area projectionist Terry Bottoniley and his wife Marian. the usherette (the man wouldn't even hear of fish and chips shops), and so the on little more than the takings from the sweet sales. The Hyde building became the Brudenell road Social and Recreation Club. Park was saved from financial ruin when Geoff remortaged his As you can imagine, that inspired idea did not last long, and in house, then by a City Council takeover in '88, and again in '93 1913 the Hyde Park was eventually converted into its present when Robins Cinemas took over the Picture House and its 135, form as a cinema by architects Thomas Winn and Sons Ltd. 000 debt. Geoff's uncle Len did not have much more success, And so it was that a few months after the outbreak of the first despite a lifetime in the business. He acquired the cinema in world war, the Hyde Park became part of the cinematic boom of 1962. and after spending a fortune doing it up, held a big parts the early nineteen hundreds. Advertising itself as "Now open on the opening night. For a fortnight nobody turned up, and he with the best and steadiest of pictures. Exceptional music. was forced to close and rethink his ideas. He reopened on a Tasteful decorations and every comfort. The coziest in Leeds", it smaller budget. catering for the growing student population and opened on November seventh 1914 showing 'Our Only Son', a pinning his hopes on movies that the rest of the circuit had great patriotic drama. rejected. The war does not seem to have adversely affected the Picture The Hyde Park has not been financially viable in decades, PICTURE House On the contrary, apart from the loss of a projectionist to and yet in 80 years of existence it has never been dosed for the armed forces, it cashed in on the excitement generated by the longer than six months. What made Geoff Thompson war and flourished. Without television or radio entertainment, dedicate the best years of his life - not to cinema, by his own people were flocking to the big screens to watch the most admission he never watched the films he showed - but to a fascinating motion picture of all, the Pathe images of the great building? Perhaps it's financial troubles have been a blessing war, images in stark contrast to the decadent opulence of the in disguise. Nobody has ever had the money to do it up, so all picture palaces that were built to house them. As well as the old fittings have remained - even the original gas lamps usherettes, a projectionist and his assistant, the cinema kept a full are still used • and the building has lost none of its late time fireman (compulsory by law until the late forties because of Edwardian charm. The layers of years have only added the highly flammable nitrate film that was used) and a three character. Now it seems that the future of the Hyde Park piece band to accompany the silent films. The then manager of Picture House is secure, at least for a good few years to come. the Hyde Park, Mr Joseph Hardy. would greet his customers in Takings have trebled since Robins Cinemas took over, and the main entrance, in full evening dress under an enormous they now have money to spend on badly needed renovations. chandelier. and personally see them off after every performance. However, manageress Liz Rhymer assures me that the Leeds was the centre of much innovation and excitement in renovations will not alter the character that has inspired so the film business during that period, and has its own claims to much affection over the years. make in the long running, international argument over who But perhaps the thing that has seen the Hyde Park through actually invented cinema. If you go down to Leeds Bridge today, nearly a century of existence is a mysterious pull, something as

• V 7 I you will see a plaque dedicated to cinematographer Louis Le indefinable as the poltergeist which is said to have haunted it 4 Prince, who is said to have made the first official film screening since before the sixties, the ghost of an old fireman. As l•z . . in 1880. It showed a man cycling over Leeds Bridge, The stakes puts it "it's amazing how a building can engender that sort of t were so high in the race to invent film that Le Prince is said to emotion in people. It did it to me the first time I walked in I I have been assassinated by the opposition on his way to France to here, years ago. It immediately grabs you, it's a sort of publicise his invention. Years later Leeds actually became, for a existential link, I don't know."

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Tocu • 15 lets the long overdue TLC treatment G OUT Ltherunning for some European Community money set aside for ktoeye over the local history of the place (left), whilst Emma Hartley te0.1hange blowing down Brudenell Road toward the only piece of leNppreciate on a regular basis (right)

IAA ere are many things to like about the Hyde Park. and Christmas. But then we found out about this European heritage rd Sat many more things to put up with because you like the money, and didn't want to do too much until the plans were dotal Hyde Park. The sub-Odeon selection of sweeties is drawn up and forwarded. incase we prejudiced our chances by irrelevant in the face of the flicker of the gas lamps. The looking too smart." /311114 fact that you have to queue outside in the freezing cold in the Bit like asking for a hand out whilst wearing a pair of Guccis. "Iklmiddle of the night in Brudenell Rd is a positive bonus by But whatever else changes in the Hyde Park. isn't it true that Niflacontrast with the vomiting, urinating revellers you have to there'll always he at least one person who won't he able to keep IrOistomach as you loiter talbeit relatively briefly) outside the town away. I speak. of course. of the alleged Hyde Park haunting. w"icentre screens for a late-night movie. And. I don't mean to imply W0000000000000000! Ibis- heaven forfend - that the place is quaint, or dinky in some way "Geoff seems to think that it is the old fireman from years and that an American tourist would home in on. but I actually like the years and ago (see piece opposite). He told stories about hearing tptgt smell of the place. It reminds me of my granny's front-room. footsteps on the stairs and doors slamming when he was in the ritk So on hearing about the impending renovations. whilst canopy outside. And at the time I just thought: oh, that's ilit5ti pleased that some Eurocrat has seen fit to cast an eye and nonsense. It's just an old building - it has it's idiosyncracies and )64' (hopefully) a fistful of ecus to this direction, it was in urgent need creaks and groans. But having said that. on a couple of occasions pat of reassurance that I went to Liz Rhymer. anxious to be told that I've seen it myself now and I'm inclined to think there's a little only the curliest of the cinema's ragged edges would get the more in it than that! ado wash- and-brush-up. Sitting comfy in the back row of the "You get things like somebody calling your name - shouting lith* auditorium, I received the full Horlicks treatment. for you - at the top of the stairs when you know there's noone "Well, we'd like to return the place to it's former glory really. there. And my gloves keep disappearing. I'll put them down lit When we first came here we thought it would just he a case of down and then, a few moments later. find them twenty yards OE redecorating and re-upholstering the seats. But when we got an away. Once the cleaner found them on the stairs of the left circle trot estimate in it came to ten thousand pounds just to paint the - and I never go that way, especially with what happened when ai entrance foyer, because they'd have to remove that horrible artex the BBC were filming here. Wpt( paper without damaging the ornate plasterwork.' "When they were filming First of the Summer Wine, there was "at Oh... I quite like that paper. But then I guess it's not a feature a bunch of men hawking gear in and out and setting up in the lit of my workplace. auditorium. There was a very burly camera man who took his jut "It's out of keeping with the character of the building. It was gear up to the top left of the auditorium, and when he came down w stuck up in the sixties and it's almost as bad as the carpet.' he was ashen. I wasn't here, but apparently he was inconsolable: I have to admit Tye never noticed the carpet. Must be there was no way he'd go back up there. He was shaking and oil something to do with spending most of the time sitting in the crying - white faced. to dark. "But the most spectacular occasion was when we had the "When people walk into this cinema 1 want them to be builders and electricians in for the box-office and the rewiring. I hip gobsmacked and amazed. The plasterwork needs picking out,- the came in and because there had been so many people around I just 111 auditorium could become "splendid', and we'd also be in a assumed there were people in the building. It was getting towards ilea position to provide some sort of cafe. Originally I thought of the dusk and the entrance hall lights were off, so the only light was sat basement as an ideal situation, but it turns out that in the 1950s from the vestibule outside. And as 1 came in 1 saw this guy walk or this great long canopy that was on the side of the building through the foyer in a long coat and black hat and disappear into towards Brudenell Rd was taken down. It was glass and wrought the toilet. I assumed he was an electrician, so I just went up to my 0 iron and very beautiful. With it being an existing structure, as far office. Then I heard all this clattering so I came straight down NI as the plans are concerned, we're trying to raise enough money to again and it was the workmen coming back from getting supplies. oi put it back. It'll have to be bullet proof glass, of course, or So there had been nobody in the building except myself and to something else unbreakable." whatever that was. 0. Good plan. An alternative venue for students of dubious "I think he's just letting you know that he's here. There's applicauon to spend smoky afternoons. But apparently the appeal nothing really sinister about all this. I mean, the building's got a 00 is meant to be broader. .. lovely atmosphere and I don't mind being here on my own. In 'We want to screen films earlier. But when people finish work fact sometimes I prefer it." 104 they don't want to drag straight out to the cinema at six o' clock. On the Seooks Doo scale it has to be admitted that these 001 At the moment there's no added value here. It's not like you're in stories are strictly of the girl-guide camp-fire variety. No 0 town ectoplasm. no phantasmagorical hysteria. But they are also 0 and you can go for a cup of coffee or a bite to eat while you're strangely appropriate to the building itself - easily mistakable for yu waiting for the film to start. We're getting people from oei Utley. Ilkley and even further turning up now, because of the the day-to-day but quietly surprising. And if you can suspend films we're showing. But they're not going to keep coming hack your disbelief again - which is after all the Hyde Parks stock-in- ;P unless we do something for them. trade - in order to maximise appreciation of the place. they're a 'The foyer was all budgeted and paid for by Robins before real addition to the myth.

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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 16 Culture Postcards From back from things which in everyday life are too dam Pernak is writer-in-residence at the Adam Pernak is the newest thing at close for us to evaluate. In explaining this West Yorkshire Playhouse. He has won the phenomenon, Adam quotes Fellini: "when people Royal Court Young Writer's Festival and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where A go to Rome, they get a sense of rebirth". Adam was nominated for the Writers Guild Award for should know: like his heroines, he too has been Best Fringe Play. His new play is Postcards From Rea Podas talked to him about on a package trip to Rome, and has felt the special Rome , a comedy now showing at the West Bananaman, being 23 and the British Yorkshire Playhouse. atmosphere that brings out one's impulsive For Adam Pernak, writing plays is a abroad. All that was missing was streak. The factory life is also something he is no vocation that beckoned to him early on in life: at stranger to: having done temping work in a the age of ten, he was inflicting on his the sunshine and the post. Wakefield lipstick factory, he encountered the schoolmates his theatrical creations during atmosphere of the canteen, which he describes as assembly, with topics including such cult figures "a woman/girl domain, in which a man feels like as Dennis the Menace and Bananaman. Like an eavesdropper". He has made the girls from another Steven Berkoff, he not only wrote the Wigan, because he has lived there, and hes things but starred in them as well; but things noticed an attitude of "emotional honesty and didn't get serious until he was about seventeen, bluntness" which appealed to him. On the whole, when plays such as Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the play investigates the idea of the British Caryl Churchill's Top Girls left him fascinated, abroad, each with his or her own "emotional wondering whether he too could come up with baggage". They come into contact with people something of his own. whom they would never have normally met - the He then became a student at Warwick class system would have seen to that; and when University (reading English and American they do, things are never quite the same again. Studies), and it was during that time that he wrote Adam Pernak remarks that men in his his first play, Blind Voyeurs. It was performed on plays come out quite badly in relation to women, student radio - and no one listened to it. But this and compares his approach to that of playwrights did not deter Adam; his next play, killers, was like David Mamet, who is more sympathetic staged as a student production, and he had the towards his "men behaving badly". Is he a "new masterstroke of sending the script to the West man" himself? I ask. He just laughs. On a more Yorkshire Playhouse and the Royal Court theatre. serious note, though, it is always a danger for a Replies were received within three days: Royal writer to end up creating stereotypes: the reserved Court decided to stage Killers, and The Playhouse middle-aged, middle-class Englishmen; the wanted to be his patron. Adam Pernak had bubbly working-class girls whose no-nonsense managed to get his foot in the door. sincerity sorts them out, etc. How does Adam Despite claiming he is a non-celebrity avoid this trap? "Well," he muses, "the secret lies who dwindles into unimportance next to Mark in writing honestly, in trying to put down what and Steven McGann (who starred in Killers 1, 23- you think would happen instead of forcing it; this year-old Adam is a friendly, intelligent and should hopefully result in believable characters." unpretentious man who has come a long way - and Adam is currently working on True Love it looks like there's a long way ahead too. But for the Royal Court Theatre; the play isn't doesn't his young age predispose people when finished yet, but is already sounding quite they approach his plays? Well, not everybody promising. It tackles the recently-publicised knows his age to start with; it's usually critics and problem of celebrity stalkers: having done his interviewers who are concerned with such trivia. research by stalking a few celebrities himself, But it does provoke curiosity: does someone so Pernak attempts to go into the world of both the young have something to say already? Adam stalker and the stalked (a well-known TV actress) himself confesses he does feel naive sometimes, and show both sides of the coin before the final especially when working with experienced confrontation. Adam himself has not been actresses such as Ann Firbank (who plays in stalked (yet), but says it's really quite scary, Postcards from Rome), who refers to him as "a getting letters from strangers who assume boy". familiarity on the evidence of having seen one of Killers was a sombre play, its plot his plays. revolving around two brothers who both become Any long-term plans? Well, he'd like to killers in different ways (one in the Gulf, another have his own theatre, a small one, probably in the in a dispute) and the effects on their parents' North. And he'd like to encourage feedback from marriage. Postcards from Rome, on the other the audience: the Playhouse's "OutLoud" hand, is a light-hearted comedy about the way sessions, where the audience have a dialogue people's behaviour changes during holidays: Carol with the writers as to what kind of plays they'd and Shell, two factory girls from Lancashire, go on like to see, have been a big success. In the not-so- a package holiday to Rome and have various distant future, he will be writing another play for encounters with a stuffy middle-aged man and his the Playhouse, and will be collaborating with ailing wife, as well as a mysterious solicitor who American director Devan Dickson as part of the is hiding something. Despite the overall emphasis BBC's "Screen 2" season. Adam Pernak has come on comedy, the play also exposes the various ways a long way since Bananaman. in which holidays can change one's perspective on life. The fresh backdrop serves as a step taken Sue Devaney as Carol Photo: Simon Warner Al the West Yorkshire Plaithouse until 2 April A Playwright

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 -1111.11111re Guide 17 Previews Nasal Assault In Brief Stage Wheatfields Hospice Charity Chariot Race, I. Sunday 20th March, Woodhouse Moor, Cyrano De Bergerac Your chance to get Roman and raise loads of Raven Theatre LUU cash for a worthy cause in the process. Next weekend sees a sponsored romp around "There's nose business like show business...", Woodhouse Moor, and teams are wanted to to twist a lyric, and if the song rings true, enter, Three people are required - two to then this perfectly-produced proboscis is the pull and one to ride, and you should aim to hooter to top the lot. Edmond Rostand's play raise 00 minimum in sponsorship. There about the nasally-challenged romantic are loads of prizes, including beer by the swordsman-poet was first brought to life in barrel-load. Contact Wheatfields on 787249 1897, but next week, LUU Theatre Group will for an entry form. be swashing their buckle around the Raven Theatre with the superb Anthony Burgess Leeds Tibet Week Events translation. Saturday 12th IOam-4pm, Dayschool at The play, set in Paris in 1640, tells Swarthmore Centre, Clarendon Road. Slide the story of Cyrano De Bergerac, a man with a show, talks, & discussions. passion for verse, swordsmanship, large Sunday 13th :- Tibet Fair in Granary Wharf, handkerchiefs, and his cousin, the beautiful 10a m -4Xprn. Goods, books, handicrafts. Roxanne. Unfortunately, due to the rhinotic Sunday 13th :- 'Lord Of The Dance, protuberance in the middle of his face, he Destroyer Of - video, Headingley hasn't the courage to approach her and COmmunity Centre, 8pm. declare his love. Before he can work up the Monday 14th 'Song For Tibet', video, will, he finds that she has fallen in love with Hopewell House, 173 Woodhouse Lane, Christian, a handsome young man from 8.00pm. Normandy with a normal size nose. Tuesday 15th :- The Ecological Destruction Fate deals Cyrano another blow to not yet consummated. moving the language is, the subtitles having In Tibet', slide show & talk, ESS the bonce as Christian has been assigned to If you've followed the plot so far, also been written by Anthony Burgess. And Room 9,12, Leeds Uni, 6.00pm. his own guard company, and Roxanne asks then congratulations. Basically, this is a fast- if you've somehow managed to avoid that Wednesday 16th :- Talk and course on Cyrano to look after him. Unable to refuse moving comedy with a distinctly tragic edge, film, then Steve Martin's updated version, Tibetan meditation, Friends meeting house, her wishes, this he duly does, but takes on with love triangles spiralling out of control, 'Roxanne', starring himself and Darryl Street Lane, Roundhay, 7.30pm. more than he bargained for when he agrees to and emotions being sacrificed for the good of Hannah, tells roughly the same story, but write love letters to Roxanne for the others. A highly popular play, 'Cyrano De replaces the guardsmen with firemen. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra„ Leeds Town poetically inept Christian. Bergerac' enjoyed a run in the West End last So for a night of passion, romance, Hall, Saturday 12th Mardi, 7.30pm. Cyrano even goes so far as to tell the year, with Robert Lindsey in the title role, poetry, dashing costumes, and the rhinoplaslic Pianist John Lill celebrates his fiftieth intellectually limited Christian what to say to and Derek Jacobi has also portrayed the efforts of the make-up department, get birthday by playing Brahms' Piano his cousin when the two are alone together, sizably-snouted one for the RSC in 1985. yourself down to the Raven Theatre any night Concertos No.s I & 2 and only then getting and to his great disappointment, his efforts Taking on the challenge for Theatre at 6.00pm from Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th rip-roaringly pissed. Great gig, better party. pay off, and Roxanne and Christian fall in Group will be Jon Spooner, who's last March. Tickets cost just 03.00 1f2.50 for TG love and get married. Happily, this foils the performance was as the lead in 'Torch Song members), and are available every lunchtime Halle Orchestra, St George's Concert Hall, efforts of the villainous Comte De Guiche, Trilogy', but you're most likely to compare from 12-2 on a stall in the LUU extension, Saturday 12th March, 7.30pm. who has also been attempting to seduce his portrayal with that of the gorgeous Gallic down from the Porters' office, or on the door Alternatively, if you don't want to get Roxanne, but unhappily, he then decides to god, Gerard Depardieu, who starred in the each night. It should be magnificent, but if Brahms Sr Liszt with John Lill, pop over to send the pair off to fight in the war with highly successful French film of the play. you're sat on the front row, don't forget to Bradford for a feast of Tchaikovsky. Spain, with Christian & Roxanne's marriage If you've seen it, you'll know how duck when Cyrano turns your way... 'Capriccio Mien', Piano Concerto No.1, and excerpts from Swan Lake are all on the programme, so don your tutu and a long coat, or you'll get sonic very funny looks on the train.

Sean Hughes, St George's Concert Hall, Fleshing It Out Wednesday 16th March, 8.00pm. Seanie's strange soapy show transfers to stage and stays stupidly surreal. Sud it, just competition, does not take her man problem Cashman, who can hardly even have had go. lying down, as the saying goes... She's a time to change after finishing his role as Stage woman with a mission, she knows what she Herbie in 'Gypsy', once more at the 'Chandralekha', The Sphinx Theatre wants, more importantly she knows what Playhouse. In fact, Jane Arden, who played Group, Studio Theatre LMU, Tues & Weds The Merchant Of Venice she doesn't want - and particularly sad Gypsy Rose Lee herself, takes the role of 15th & 16th, 7.30pm. West Yorkshire Playhouse specimens they are too - and she goes out to Shylock's daughter. Just so long as they Acclaimed journalist Amrit Wilson's first get her goal. don't get confused and break into song... play examines the particular experience of What a mistake to make! A loan of three However, the contest gives rise to However, if not unknown, there are being Asian in Britain today, and also plays thousand ducats, which, if not repaid, will be the bloody bargain between Antonio, a at least some new faces descending on Leeds. havoc with my spell-checker. Creative, exchanged for a pound of flesh, taken from merchant, and the despised Jew and money- Gary Waldhorn arrives to play the Jew after humorous and powerful, "Chandralekha any part of the anatomy... It really doesn't lender, Shylock. Snubbed and insulted by a his role as Jacko's boss, Lionel, in lives out her many lives confronting bear thinking about. society that has always tormented and Brushstrokes', which could be an interesting Christian missionaries and macho comrades But this is the deal which drives the rejected him, he sets out to really stick the switch. And for all you women out there, alike with a rare clarity of vision." Sounds fast-moving action of Shakespeare's 'The knife in. Portia's lover is Richard Lintern, currently on excellent. Merchant Of Venice' - starting at the West The show, which promises to be an screen as heart throb Daniel in 'The House Yorkshire Playhouse today. Set in sixteenth easily understood "theatrical tale of love, Of Eliott', so go along and swoon if nothing Two Old Farts, City Varieties, Saturday century Italy, a prosperous playground of the revenge and justice" is not exactly ground- else. 12th March, 7.30pm. 'The Merchant Of Venice' runs in wealthy and titled, the play traces two breaking in the casting department, but they Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton create a the Quarry Theatre until April 23rd, with intertwined strands of plot. For those of you all look good so I suppose you can't really stink with their incontinent cabaret. ticket prices starting at just £3. Overall it who desire passion, the cause of the action is argue. Nichola McAuliffe, who starred as promises to be a fresh, original production of a bizarre marriage lottery, whereby the Kate in "The Taming Of The Shrew" at the The Dubliners, St George's Concert Hall, one of Shakespeare's less predictable plays, suitor's eligibility is judged entirely on his Playhouse last Spring plays Portia. She's Friday 11th, 7.30pm. and well worth going to see. ability to choose between three caskets. also well known as 'Surgical Spirit's Sheila More old farts, but at least they can play Somewhat 'boxed in' by this, her Sabatini. Natalie Highwood some decent music. dead father's wish, Portia, the prize of the Antonio if portrayed by Michael

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 1 A 18 The Guide 4, G 44, FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 1 ut s Clubs 7,;)irz-, Stage falClubs 1'b1 7%42' lift COOKER ci ARCADIA - hiLt J soul r funk, featuring urry VARIETIES MIL'S its MISITFR CRAIG'S - Student night. i2.50 entry THE MI_ KIC FACTORY - Dainv • UP YER RONSON at DJ II. Billy Pearce Charity Concert in aid of Wheatitelds Hospice - THE WORLD at RrTZ'i''S - Student niglu, £1 a pint m San: garage. LO NUS. 9 Ann TOP BANANA re THE TOWN & COUNTR1' - arr. 7 311pm . UP 'THE JUNCTION ar THE GALLERY RICKY'S THE MUSIC FACTOR Y - Hip-hop and u, DOWNBEAT at CIVIC THEATRE as Friday ARCADIA . Student night, Cl.50 before 10.311pin. 0-50 Ether pint Flight jut 13_50 NUS, 9 ?fpm w lun.£1 s MA MST/IVAN! at MISTER CRAIG'S HOlp pint If 1 in Arcadia). 80p double. £1.50 'Mad Dog' - mum.: Funk & Doter. TRIBE at RICKY'S • Acid put. BACK 10 BASICS it THE MUSIC FACTORY - Dame. inc house, garage. & funky groove. LOVE TRAIN Al TOWN ee COUNTRY CLUB - 70s FuEllt. THE LIZARD CI.1 ,11 al RICKY'S - BOA Rock. £3 STUDENT NIGHT at YELL - LI is pint. LI spirits. £4 %LI M usic 10pm to 2ant ANS THING GOES at THE WAREHOUSE - Dance THE HOUSE 41 THE GALLERY 9pni Err 21un, te, •Ilh Oyer, cheap drinks POWER Statist[ night, £1 casual dres, CAFE MEX SEX CASINO at ARCADIA AI.TERNAll YE, 1 INTHE at SCR UMPIES - 11.6pin, all The Dui Club, 7pm onward:, .C1 on door, teeth guest DJ,: Mark Stige DENIM & DANCE at MISTER CRAIG'S Afternoon Janes & Tai Dhami playing Soul, jazt & ftmk. STOMP at LMU - Indic, grunge VAGUE at THE WAREHOUSE - E5, erno-dressing THE GROVE INN WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE INCARCT.RATED at SCRUMP/ES • Alternative e hanklar SATURDAY BOP al LMU • £21 C4 guest. Lim Murray & Martin Fletcher 'lunchtime) QUARRY THFATREas Friday 32.50 / Ili Olt. . The Jon Strong Band levening) COURTYARD THEATRE as Friday TIME TUNNEL at RIM'S - ars wit. 12 511111 ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL GRAND THEATRE as Friday The Wonderstuff - 7,30ent CIVIC THEATRE as Frick, S tge CITY VARIETIES 73(y St.g c Andrew Newton. hypnotist - 8.00pin. ivEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE Film ALRAMBR.A WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE lei 442111 QUARRY THEATRE Cats' • 7.30pm. QUARRY THEATRE The Merchant Of Venice - 8.00pm Thr Witham Of Venice' - 7 30pm. from 14 t:OURTYARD TIFFATRE COURTYARD THEATRE Pusteards. Front Rume 3.00pm & 7 ,I5pnv S'HOWCASE CINEMA Music 27 GeMeni Road. Birsiall Tel 0924 420071 'Pageants From Rome' - 7.45pin. from £4 GRAND THEATRE Tickets £4.15 1 £3,00 NUS GRAND THEATRE tel 459351 / 44097 I Me & My (jiff - 2.30pm itt 7 30pm Remains of the Day 'Me & My Girl' • 7 30prit CIVIC THEATRE THE DUCHESS A Bronx Tale Aladdin CIVIC THEATRE The Mikado' • .1.30pm & 7 30prit The Bluetits The Mikado' - 7.10pin CM( VARIETIES Schindler's Lt.4 Coul Runnings TOWN Sr COUNTRY CLUB Wayne's World 2 My STUDIO THEATRE LMU tel 533114 Two Old Farm', Barry Crya & Willie Rushton - 7.30pm Life Daryl Hall On Deadly Ground Ram Theatre present Hamlet' - 7.30pni. £4 501 £3 00. RILEY SMITH HALL as Friday BELUSHTS Philadelphia RILEY SMITH HALL LULI HARROGATE THEATRE as Friday Wes Martini Free Willy LUU Music Theatre tin:tient 'Jtmus Christ Superstar' - 7.3fprit, ALHAMBRA THE The Pelican Brief £4 'CHIC - Il}prn & 7 10pm Pepper Pr& HARROGATE THEATRE tc1 042.3 501116 SHEEFIFID CRUCIBLE In The Name Of The Father HOLY TRINITY CHURCH Age Of Innocence Three Steps Tn Heaven - 7 45pm. form 1,.5 50 'Grapes Of Wroth' • 2_30pra & 7. 30pm. String Serenade - 1 05pm. free The Three Musketeers ALHAMBRA tel. 0274 752000 SHEFFIELD LYCEUM 'Can' 7_30Tan. Irma 4:10. Romeo & fuller • 200pm & 7.45pm Mrs. Douhl lire ALHAMBRA STUD/0 Film Mark Hurst • II nOrm, £3 COTTAGE ROAD CINEMA SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE Cottage Road. Fat lIeadingley Tel 751606 ~ Music ODEON CINEMA 'Grapes Of Wrath' - 7.30pm. Tei 430031 SHEFFIELD LYCEUM LOUNGE CINEMA The tleadrow 'Romeo & !Met - 7.45pni IOWN & COUNTRY CLUB 'North Lane, licadingley. Tel 7511511 Philadelphia 200.3 00, 1k.00 The Wm1dersinti - 7.00pin Ms Life - 130. 515. g.15 LEEDS TOWN HALL HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE C001 Runnings - 12.5. 3.50. 6.05, 8.30 Royal Philharmonic Orehesna play Brahma' Piano Conceit", 1 Brudenell Road, Leeds 6 Tel. 752045 Mrs Dunhill= - 1.55, 5.10.8.03 Musi c A 2 - 7.30pm. Orlando Fri to Sun. 6.30pm, plus Sat & Sun 3.011pm The Age of Innocence - 135 (Mon to Fri only'. 4.50, & 7 50 ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HILL Bhau On The Beach - Eri-Sun 8.30. Mon - Thqrs. -. 4. 30 (not Mon C.TTY ARIETIES Halle Orchestra play works by Tchalkwocky - 7 30pm. Lute show Fri I Rekerimir Dogs- The. Three Musketeers - 1 15nn Sat & Suit only llte Country Kings - 8.1.81pm NEW BEEHIVE INN CELLAR. BRADFORD Line show Sat 1201 - True. Romance Mueh Ado - Thu only. 1.55, 5,10. 05 'THE DUCHMS The Capin Aces - 8.00pnt. t.1 / Three COIMIN - Mw-- Mop in Mars Ii 311pm The Rocks Horror Picture Show - 11 00 t.sperimeniation■• in Elastic Dub THE DUCHESS Philadelphia - 10.40 THE MAIM Archer?. 01 Loin MGM MOVIE HOUSE True Romance 1030 Elsie Moon THE DRUM Vieux Lane, LS I Tel 451031 Reacvotr Dogs - 1035 ROYAL PARK Fail Sale Schindler's List • 2.00. 7.15 PICTUREVILLE CINEMA FitAellag & Captain Jeans rim GROVE INN On Deadly Ground - 1.00, 3.2.0, 3,43.830 Raining Stones • 6.00 & 8 15 THE GROVE INN Legs Bkto The Pelin Brief - 1 15, 5.05. 8.00 13Frl Folk Club present Tom McConville ROYAL PARK Free Willy - Sat & Suit only., I NI. 3.00 In The Name Of The Father - 5.43 ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL Pied Modern Egg Khali Oct The Beach - 8 15 'The DIM!' ners 7 3111pm. PARKINSON COURT ODEON • See Monday BET2 University Of Louis Symphony Orehe-stra play works by Sium- Naked 5.40 & 800 Saerm Aninny Whytan.. fierhpz & Tehatkovsky 7.30pm. PICTUREVILLE CINEMA 11-40 Film DI Zhivago - 7.00prn ta Telly RFTI PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Film In The Name Of The Father • 5 45 & 8 IS ht The Line Of Fire - 5.45pm & S.I 5ptn 'Comalintt Street' (ITV, 7.31}pml - Kevin & Sully have a Bill PHILIREVILLE CINEMA RPT2 Mother's Day shuck when they dmcaver Mere hod, descended Century - h. Wpm In Die Line Of Fire - 5.45 & 8. 15 Night On Earth - :5_30 A 8 00 from a sea cucumber called Norulan.11fletheen Expatiate' In TheName Of The Father • 8_15pm BErI 1C4. 19.1RIpm • Chris's- friend & mentor dies. and hr mutt BETZ Century - 6.00. In Tits Name Of Th.; Father - 8.15 decide what to do with the remain,. Btustog them is of course-. Night On Earth - 8.00pni BETZ tar 11)11 Night -On Earth - 5,30 & 8,00

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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 The Guide 19 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY TV FILMS Eix9. Friday 11th March :- 'Uncle (C-I, 2,00pm)- Moody Victorian 4Clutitlbs Clubs 6 ") Club S loziem thriller to till those long-lectureless Friday BEAT SURRENDER at THE MUSIC FACTORY 60's t. DIG! at THE GALLERY / ARCADIA - IOpnt to tam. Live LOADED at THE MUSIC FACTORY Indic dance dub afternoons. Plenty of dark interiors and C230 on doot, il it pint 00s. jax latin 1 Junk 1 soul / hip-hop. ' pNyetiedella • i2 harrassed heroines. My life tin film. THE ROOST nt ARCADIA - Else put . .E2 admission. f I a CIRCUS CIRCUS at THE MUSIC FACTORY - A oi Rt II In NIGHT at THE WAREHOUSE - f2 hetore Itinn. A Streetcar Named Desire (BBC2, 12.15am) pun pop. 60's to 911's• CI a pint. I HE lW E HIGH CLUB 40 RICKY'S r oatt...fiky DECADENCE at SCRUMPIES - Gothic Alrsrnanse. - The Marlon Brando version of the 78'S NIGHT at VLSI ARCADIA - 70's disco HELL RAISER at THE OBSERVATORY - Rock night. 8-1 2 Tennesse Williams play is still worth BLACK LODGE at SCRUMPIES - Hardcarei altemat i ye. PARTY NIGHT at MISTER CRAIG'S - tl before 12prit. MELT at ASHFIELDS -iMemon Cenirei - 10pm err tam, £2 watching over 41) years later. Brando plays 10pm to 2urn. C2 / CI 50 H lSIANAS :u RITZY'S - E I a pint. entry. it.20 bitter 1 lager, El 30 cider STUDENT NIGHT at STOGGrS - A CLUB CALLED COLIN at LEEDS METRO POL1T AN Free hefare. I 1pm. El Stanley Kowalski, and struts around in a GORGE( 'S at LEEDS I i I thil3 llIpm Iii lam. UNIVERSITY - Ca on the dllin tiri to Urn sweaty T-shirt insulting everyone. U2 NORTHERN EXPOSURE at RICKY'S provide the soundtrack. Not. Saturday 12th March :- stage stage '42nd Street' tBBC2, 12.15pm) - Tap your (L-7 Stage way down the avenue I'm taking you to-oo. WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE WEST VORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE GRAND THEATRE as Friday QUARRY THEATRE as Friday forty-second street and join us, 'cos were in COURTYARD THEATRE as Friday WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE COUR'TYARD THEATRE as Fnday the money - we've got a lot of what it takes GRAND THEATRE IIA Friday QUARRY THEATRE as Friday GRAND THEATRE as Saturday to get along. Choreography by Bushy CIVIC THEATRE as Friday COURTYARD THEATRE:US Friday CIVIC THEATRE as Friday Berkeley makes this backstage musical buzz CITY VARIETIES as Mondm CITY VARIETIES as mondAy GRAND IIIEUTRE as Fray even a fter ni) years, STUDIO THEATRE LMU CIVIC 'THEATRE as Friday STUDIO TimaiRE. LMU 'In Broad Daylight The Sphinx ptesent 'Cliamdrelekha - 7 30pm, C4 50 (I3.00 CITY VARIETIES as Monday Scarlet Theatre ple-et0 'Paper Walls' 7.1ttpm, t."1_50 , Ea ihl - (BBC], 11.15pm1 - Brian RAVEN THEATRE LUU STUDIO THEATRE LMU as Wednesday RAVEN THEATRE URI 4% Turulay Dennehy as a nasty piece of work who LUL' Theatre Gump present 'Cyrano De Bergerac' - 6 00pm, i I RAVEN THEATRE LUU as Tuesday HARROG KIT. THEATRE as Friday terrorises an old couple. In broad daylight, it.? 50 HARROGATE THEATRE as Friday THEATRE IN THE MILL presumably. as Friday HARROGATE THEATRE ALHAMBRA BUTG present 'Mud& Murder!' - 7 30pm,13 1 i2 ALHAMBRA as Enday Sunday 13th March :- Cats' 100pm & 7 30pni, ALHAMBRA as Friday SHEFFIELD LYCEUM ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL 'Never So Few' (BBC2, 3.00pm/ - Steve ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL 'Pickwick' 7.45pm Taras Cossacks • S Wpm. from £7.00 McQueen & Frank Sinatra fight the Japanese Stan Hughes 8:00pm. trom 1:8 00 SHEFFIELD LYCEUM as Wednesda‘ SHEFFIELD LYCEUM in Burma to take your mind off your furry Pickwick' - 2.00 pm & 7 45prn tongue and blistering hangover, Music 'The Godfather Part 2' (C4. 9.00pmi - More Robert De Niro, this time joined by Al LEEDS TOWN HALL arj Music Pacino, and directed by Francis Ford CLOTIVIVOlUiEKS CONCLItt If %LI. Lunchtime Organ Music - 1.05pm, tree. Coppola. and still chillingly brutal, it says THE DUCHESS Serenades For Wind - I ItIpsn. tree Compulsion. Shed CLCS1 RELTIAL ROOM THE GROVE INN here. Apparently even better than part I. BELUSM'S Chamber Music Recital , 7 30pin. kt ; f 1 5(1 St Patrick's Night with Slur but I'm a big scarcely cat who doesn't like A Titue Of Honey YORK UNIVERSITY' ROYAL PARK blood. so have to take their word for it. Orchestra play Strauss & Mahler - Spin saishot THE GROVE INN University Choir & 'Salesman' (BBC2, I I.3(1pm) - Fly on the wall lam Session ALHMABRA STUDIO THE DUCHESS THE DRUM Soprano I prow recital - 1.05mu. free- thine Lying Down documentary about Bible salesmen. These Nectar 3 THE IRISH CENTRE THE DRUM flies on the wall make a helluva lot of films, LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNI Goals Dont Shave 'yl.thocuts Pilfeiws don't they, in between making all their Etienne St THE DUCHESS documentaries. WHITKIRK PARLSH CHURCH Paw & Houtswini Quartet play works by Haydn, Schubert Tuesday 15th March :- Carmine BELUSHTS Szymanowski . 7 30prn. *A Film The Price Of Ivory 'Dead Calm' (BBC1, 9.30pm) - Nicole TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB Kidman & Sam Neill take on board smooth- Al Stewart THE GALLERY l'ICTL;REN11.11. CINEMA DIG! Unfiagiven - 5.30 & 8.15 talker Billy Zane, and discover a whole new THE GROVE INN meaning to choppy seas... Al Dickinson 8E11 'Hedd Wyn : The Armageddon Poet' (C4, g Film THE DRUM In The Name Of The Father - 5.45 I0.35pm) - The first British film to be Unsophimientes l'h• Servant S 15 PICTURE MLLE CINEMA BFT2 nominated for a best Foreign Film Oscar. Raining Stones - 6,00 Orlando 6.00 & 8.00 this is the true story of a young Welsh poet 11w Man Who Fell To Earth - 8 15 4111 Film who died in the World War I trenches. Beautifully sad. BET! In The Name Of The.Father - 5 45 PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Telly Thursday 17th March :- Bhati On The Beach - 8.15 The Man Who Fell To Earth - 5 30 'East Of Sumatra' (BBC2, n.00pm) - Jeff REM Ranting Stones - 8 15 •Unloved Country' (.13BC2. 9.38pml - South _African nurse Chandler plays an engineer who flies up Naked - 5.40 & 800 with a passion for Hallmom Dancing And that's the truth Anthony Quinn's nose on his native tropical Let's hope she doesn't get the two inked up. eh folks?! urri island. Or something like that Absurdly Shall On The Beach 6,00 'Running The Halls' tt'4, 6.30pm) • Yet another US comedy series :thou' primary-coloured kids with day•glo socks. cute good. Telly In The Name DI The Father • 8.15 dimples. and an informed and caring altitude io world crises. 'The Lady From Yesterday' (ITV, 12.20am) - 'The Greot Outdoors' (C4, 8.3Uptu) - isn't sit f••Irang BFT2 has disappeared, leaving nothing but a pile The Oprah VI'InTrey Show' 1C4, 5.00pnil • Some Jerk has a mm-vellous when you're hanging upside down suspended to it Naked - 5.40 & 5.00 '14'S- accurate Marriage Lahoramry which predicts whether by a hunger rope of crumpled bed sheets. Why do people relationships will last. Several couples gel divorced 'The Wunder Years' 1C4, 6.00pmi • Kevin & Winnir DO IT keep filming my life story? ininiedialely to save time. INIA X - Titanica - 8.00pin Bet that makes you watch. Posies

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OWNED BY STUDENTS RUN FOR STUDENTS Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th March 1994 IP" Sport 2 British American Football: A mess? hroughout the season Universities' term times means In the aftermath of Leeds Celtics semi-final not sure of the exact rule. Not problem, is to restrict teams t the progress of the that a few more weeks are Jost. only was this break taking their players only from TLeeds Celtics, and that. The new system of defeat. Roger Domeneghetti takes a look at detrimental to a game that. designated Universities. This of most. if not all. of their moduralisatiun that places the organisation of the British Student perhaps more than any other would make it harder to rivals has been clogged by exams in the middle of our relics on momentum, but they Union cards. organisational problems, all of second term adds further Ameriban Football League also ruled incorrectly, a move Lastly on the issue' o which are an intrinsic part of strain and the inadequacy of that led to the match winning referees, Jones appreciated the British Student American many of the pitches means a touchdown for Glasgow. Universities. however some use that the standard was 11{11 the Football League. light shower can sometimes amature as the players. getting When I spoke with Seth best but short of employing pleyers who aren't students. In a league of of this size - ruin a fixture. This year the paid only a small expense fee Jones. the director of the professionals, the cost of Steve Lubock, Celtics' there are 28 teams - in a sport two weeks set a side for re- so that they turn up. However Northern Conference, he which would be prohibitive, president says that several as complex as American arranged fixtures in the North poor decisions can mean that recognised all these problems he felt we could only wait in teams they base played this Football - there can be up to were absorbed by the regular whole seasons of effort go to and identified some potential time for them to improve, He year have admitted to this use 50 players in a squad; games season backlog. This meant waste. The Celtic's game is a solutions. dismissed the rumour that of 'ringers'. as if it was only last three hours; each one that when the first round of case in point. Over half of As far as fixtures are referees had been told to natural and that it should be needs an ambulance present; the playoffs was called off Glasgow's yardage came from concerned it is clearly beyond crack down on the Leeds more an everyday part of the game. the list goes on - such (affected by weathers they penalties, and whilst the the League's powers to change than others. However it is hard to prove problems can only he could not be re-scheduled. referees were within their University timetables, however This is nut a whinge from a which players are 'legal' and expected. But is there Leeds and Glasgow were rights to penalise Leeds they to avoid having to knock disgruntled fan. Considering which aren't. especially when anything the BSAFL can do? immediately promoted and overlooked most of Glasgow's teams nut of the play-offs the poor attendance to the some employ the use of fake One of the main problems their would-be opponen is infringements. At this without them actually Celtic's last practice perhaps NUS cards or letters of arises from cancelled games. Sheffield and Paisley were standard of play there are crimpeting, an all weather they didn't deserve to win. If registration. Due to the fact that few people given no chance to upset the bound to be mistakes, I 'ever pitch is to be bunked at a they can improve on this next The final and perhaps the play American Football when form book. either all should be penalised central location (such as year they may he able to heat most alarming prohlem is the they come to University means Further problems arise or none. The referees also Gateshead) as hack-up. all comers lincluding the standard of refereeing. In the first few weeks of our from the use of illegal players. stopped the game for 15 On the issue of illegal referees) and finally win the short it is consistently Winter term are taken up with League rules allow teams to minutes at one point to discuss play ers, Jones feels that the Championship they cu richly inconsistent. Referees are as training. The difference in use players from other a call over which they were one way to deal with the deserve. A fitting end to the season for LUU LUU snookered

fr here was a fitting finale to time of 10.05 stood up as the 5th fastest time of the day. by Warwick a very successful season for the cross-country dub in After Danny Gibbons then Durham last Saturday. forced his way to the front on he BUSC. finally a nearly 4 years) in the quarter- They celebrated recently leg two with a good run of Trecognised U AU event, was finals. .1.H. Low played gaining the Mike Brooke 10.25. Leeds were never to he held in Coventry this year. brilliantly under pressure to award for most improved headed. Paul Sudlow (10.50), hosted by Warwick I. niversity. prevent the match from going university sports club with Duncan Southgate (10.45) and It was a high quality event. to an undesirable tie-break. another impressive victory. Nick Mannian (10.40) all producing record breaks of 95 A thoroughly drained Leeds Since many of the club's consolidated the lead, and even and 101. All round. the A team went on to lose to athletes were away competing the Fastest lap of the day from tournament produced an Warwick in the semi-finals by at a mixed relay in Paris, Edinburgh's Phil Mowbray excellent set of results for an a disappointing score of 6-1. Leeds were unable to field a (9.45) could only bring them under-rated Leeds side. Leeds B, led by Simon present women's team. Yet back to within 20 seconds on captained by Adam Williams, reached the later the men more than made up the final leg. Chatterton. stages with a series of for this by winning at Mark Colpus (10.04) was Leeds A fought their way convincing wins, and were Durham for the first time in always well in control at the through tough early rounds in more than a little unfortunate the club's history. front as he cruised to the third which they faced the number 2. to go out to Warwick B on a Willie Speake amazed fastest individual's time for the 3 and 4 seeds. Richard re-spotted black in a quarter. everyone, himself included, as second year running. Goodchild and Jim Wilde did final tie-break. Tony Devereux, he shot into the lead on the Leeds Uni Past had earlier particularly well to win a Y. Poi. Andy Seferta and Steve first of the two-mile legs over dominated a surprisingly low- number of crucial frames. Tittle all performed very well. this attractive riverside key women's race. Lucy Leeds them went on to John Little. the Leeds no. 1, course. Although he was just Wright 111.501. Caroline produce perhaps the biggest also played well throughout, caught at the finish by Martin Young (13.25) and Lesley upset in the tournament's and picked up a silver medal in Roscoe of Leeds Uni Past and Leavesley (12. 50) finished over history, by knocking out the individual event, losing 3-1 and also the runner from a minute dear of Manchester Queens University. Belfast to the Irish under 2Is Edinburgh University. his past in second place. Ino.I seeds and undefeated in champion in a high class final.

Please keep Leeds shot down those sports THE ARMCHAIR rAn the 20th of Feht point lead going int41 the fourth k.../Leeds l'nileraty rifle team and tina1 detail shot agaitts4 '/1an.hr:,ler in the However. Leeds' hopes st a reports Saturday 12th Ala Bt 1 ...,L,V1i :.:10.114.Fitit. : ' ); l. 131?_ ft. 1 1Shit %.1„:,', ,. ; • slay I, io second round of the Crisric Cop were dashed by brilliant 7 I 5prn Crutis 1 :I.10p ILIMUni le,v: 1 .. '..c. _i_. ' sop ,, ... H .,11.,03, ... N..-f At. i.",pitt Thr the coming in. Ater !..stn,: the lirst t mud io 1 road I, I99) and (hrts I 191, FlOttLV:. C4',11 thalkil41.,,i4lAtiii,.4 itt.Weatthl TtlallarAiC4 RakiiAvada, both M;a1..fie..G.,r ;Ind Lo .;r111.11l horn Mat.Lhe..ter. them a 13th.BBC/:3.00pni- Mach of the Day:(.11e.ltir.a vs Itiruhrrs-JMC2 5.10pm Rugby Sprint); 7XXVInCttats team, point amid. the leant dripping 1994; 10.40 Athletics:CC I .45prnFoutbalILtalia..AC Milan vs Samptloria. Monday (4th: finCt . 8.0tiptu A the N.latt..hestei te.wi toutto it 4'! {honks ...Ards atrainsi Drop them into Quostion.or Span:11.15mm Match of • a /7Y 1 1 Niv sell's Indvear '9,1.TutesdaY 15th; 1,..1;r! adi.ra ro the i aeds I (Tits?, our hest HBO 12midnight Cheltenham lea': UV mTh tv:h Live-Arsenal vs Torinol.I:55:tm either our LUU a - ..1 I it toa. Maa,ttester Ill riser SporT AM ‘1 edriesdri, 16th 8 A( "l'upris "7 nsalffispro .Wpm Chelletthuni Festivalirt, 11■■Vint' !C:111 .41:11 1.1111.0 or LMUSU i 2.-a)iim Champ•, ,u, I r..112.x-114iiliehIN TtligMtki■t7th• _1 I midnight.: Cheltenham Festival trout the lull t.ri:(••ri the kirk anLI office before strength LccJs tk.ratt Tint ..11„t• leis v,trulti 5pm the Monday 101. were hris K v., ho fatuiate rule [Lite THE TERRACES cm'nJ ')f and cP). and Richard Phillips who has been selected mo preceding 13ri.g who hear hr' pros.ioi.o. hest FL: it re m;Ill I he English -1.kiN%n Vs Hull ,Its 'hr. Cita! iongc Cup Saturday 12th March: Bradford City Vs Swansea r. I hatkict st-h..1..1 ,tt hmi to soiree a ■Ni, and .1 9ms I , nitersities rifle team in a mals.li shelf t't(I publication. Semi-final Wigan cabtleforci mat frearitagleyi Sunday 13th: Leeds t lid Vs r'ClilbCfStOne Rivers (hi; BradlOrd !Northern Vs Leigh I' h r. Wakefield Trimly V. Widnes. tai

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Agony and Ecstasy

LUU Football club end 16 year UAU wait THE FINAL WHISTLE

axing tasted success Metropolitan to qualify for the 3-2 at half-time. Stu Whittle Brighton, the team that had Issue beyond doubt. part from being in the regional quarter-finals. Leeds battled grabbed four and also beaten them in the group The final score, an discovered as a Tory tournament, the well and though they didn't set managed a stunning own goal. stages. Leeds, however, were impressive 6-0 victory, This H MP with some very seven representatives of the house on fire, they did The semi-final against reaching peak form and felt was a fantastic result for A Leeds University Football enough to win 3-0 and duly Birmingham was evenly confident of victory. A burst Leeds who, won their first strange sexual habits, dub travelled to Cheltenham marched on to the knock-out poised at 3-2 to Leeds at half- of four goals in a five minute UAU honours since 1977 and probably the worst job to take on the best that the stage. time the subsequent spell of the first half combined their first ever S-a-side around at the moment is rest of the country had to From the quarter finals introduction of club captain with a couple of outstanding championship. The team that of England cricket offer. onwards the length of the Elder led to an avalanche of reflex saves from Myers set grew in strength as each captain. Leeds got off to a games was extended to ten goals. Elder grabbed five and the tune for the game. game progressed and it was Mike Atherton has now disappointing start losing minutes each way, and this along with a brace from Brighton threw everything at a unanimous decision that captained England in five Leeds In the second half but to the best team won. their first group game to change seemed to help the boys Petros. the Leeds team ran out one day internationals and a from Leeds. worthy winners by a massive no avail. Man of the The Squad: Myers. Brighton 3-I. Needing a Test match in his first stint victory in their final group A strong Swansea side were 10-2 scoreline. Tournament, Molefe broke Petross, Molefe, Elder. in the position. Yetalready game against Manchester dispatched 6-5, after trailing Their final opponents were away to score and put the Christos, Whittle, Anderton. his captaincy and team have been dismantled by the tabloids and so called Leeds Celtics lose out in national semis 'quality press'. This is perhaps not unfair criticism as it is plainly powerful Glasgow running the following drive was finished cor the second year obvious that the present .Urunning, the Northern game. Superb tackling by off with a 15 yard touchdown England team are not good Conference Final became the defensive end Tyrone White, pass that levelled the score. annual slugfest between the linebackers Al McGregor. steve Several dubious enough. Leeds Celtics and the Lubbock and Jon Whybourne, penalties stopped leeds The bowling attack Glasgow Tigers. This year. and Man of the Match. Gazola recovering, and allowed without Devon Malcom is rues Steve Lubbock. the provided the offense with the Glasgow to move into scoring restricted to line and length game slipped out of Leeds' field position to get into the range once more. The Celtics at best, and Atherton and Grasp in the final seven Endzone. almost kept the Tigers out. but Stewart are the only minutes, and glasgow ran out Shortly before half- more refereeing errors led to the batsmen, at the moment, winners. 20-6. time the offensive line. led by Glasgow QB diving in from the who can score runs under Early on the match Chibuzo Okereke, managed to one yard line with the pressure. developed into a defensive give Quarterback Brian Bear conversion, Leeds trailed 1,1-6. However it should be struggle, as both teams tried. the time to find Shane martin The final blow came remembered that this and failed to move the for a five yard touchdown pass when Glasgow blocked another England side is very football. An interception by and a 6-0 lead punt and scored with a minute safety Matt Gazola provided At the beginning of left, for a final score of 20-6. inexperienced with only four an early chance to score. as- the second half. Leeds started to Despite the score, the Celtics of the squad having toured did several good runs by move the football, but an injury played their best game of the the West Indies before. running hack Steve Barlowe. to Barlowe stopped the game year and have a lot to look Batsmen such as Thorpe, but penalties kept Leeds from for half an hour, which forward to next year as few Maynard, Hussain and scoring. seriously disrupted the Celtics. players graduate this year. The Ramprakash cannot be Fortunately for the The match continued as before. best of luck to those that do. expected to he Test Can... the defence took up until late in the fourth quarter sensations overnight. Had the strain and shackled the when Glasgow blocked a punt See article page 27 • Celtics In action they been integrated one at a time over the previous 3-4 years then maybe England would not be losing by 160 runs in a 50 over game. Anyway lets put things All sports reports should be handed in to either our LMU into perspective. The West Indies are the best team in or LUU office by 5pm on the Monday preceeding the world, and - hey its not as if we've lost to Pakistan recently... well Australia... publication. Anyone intrested in writing sports ring OK how about India?..Sri Lanka..? Richard or Roger on 434727 or 314251 Peter Jeffrey

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