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Monday 29.05.17 12A Gary Numan Electro friends Are they safe? Shrooms Blackpool grime Seaside sounds The Handmaid’s Tale ‘Brilliant’ ecently, one of my friends told me how genius it was that at ‘ R the start of Cars there is just one note that stays and stays and stays,” begins aff able electro overlord Gary Numan, a few days after landing in the UK from his California home to collect the inspiration award at this year’s Ivor Novellos. “I had to break it to them that when I was in the studio I started playing the fi rst note and couldn’t think what to do next. I wasn’t a genius at all, just bereft of ideas.” Numan’s status as one of pop’s most inventive synth-botherers is itself the result of a happy accident. In the late 70s, he had been signed to Beggars Banquet as a punk artist and released the Tubeway Army album in 1978. But after a chance encounter with a Minimoog left behind by another artist in the recording studio, he made an electronic album – 1979’s Replicas – instead. Four decades later, he is still at it: his forth- Our friends electric coming album Savage is a futuristic fantasy that is, he laughs, “just more of the same really, if I’m totally honest”. Of his top electronic picks – this sums up his own career, too – he adds: “It’s all about fi nding interesting noises, then making those noises musical. Whether it’s using a synth or a guitar, you just have to make interesting noises.”
Donna Summer I Feel Love (1977) “The last proper job I had before I got a contract with Beggars Banquet was at WH Smith. I used to drive a forklift at Heathrow and load up their lorries. Was it fun? GREAT fun! I Feel Love was th e song of the moment, and that was six months before I found the synthesiser myself. It’s a song that never seems to get old.”
▲ Depeche Mode Gary Numan unveils his favourite Never Let Me Down Again (1987) electro tracks, from the disco classic that “When the chorus comes in you can lean your head back, close your eyes and feel like you’re soundtracked his forklift truck-driving days fl oating off the ground. It sends a thrill from to the Nine Inch Nails song played at his your feet to the top of your head. I could have chosen any number of Depeche Mode songs – wedding. Interview by Peter Robinson their [1993] album Songs of Faith and Devotion was massively important to me. I was lost, musically, back then. I was writing some terrible old shit . I thought my career was fi nished; record labels wouldn’t touch me, I had massive debts. Then I heard that album and it took me right back to my love for music.”
2 The Guardian 29.05.17 ▲ The Normal Warm Leatherette (1978) “This was really cool for using a synth for rhythm and groove. Daniel Miller [AKA The Normal, who later set up Mute Records] did the synthetic groove thing a lot better than I had done. When I had my fi rst tour in ’79, I rang him up because I wanted him to support me on tour. He said he couldn’t because he had had an idea for a record company.”
▲ Sunna Power Struggle (2000) “I went to see this band live once. I had been talking about them a lot in the press, and I intended to have a chat but I got a sneaky feeling that they weren’t keen on me. They didn’t seem overly friendly; well, they totally blanked me. Regardless: this is a great song. ▲ The Human League ▼ Ultravox I’m a big fan of melody – a lot of people can’t Being Boiled (1978) Slow Motion (1978) do it very well, to be honest.” “My only exposure to electronic music before “This was a fantastic fusion of diff erent this had been Kraftwerk, but they were always elements and set a standard I then tried trying to be machine-like, and I still loved very, very hard to reach with Are ‘Friends’ elements of conventional music, so Kraftwerk Electric? and Cars. I was trying to be as good didn’t turn me on to electronic music as a as Ultravox. I had been arguing with my label musical path. Then the League came along because they wanted a punk album, but I was and their music had a human feel to it. passionate because I thought I was right at It worked for me.” the front of electronic music. Then I found out Ultravox were on their third electronic Nine Inch Nails album. So much for me being inventive and Closer (1991) experimental!” “I fi rst heard it at home when my [future] wife played it. It’s the best bassline ever, in the history of music. This ▲ New Order has got to be one of the three best Blue Monday (1983) songs ever made. We had it as our “Whenever this comes on, you know it’s fi rst dance when we got married, going to work. I get credit for being a pioneer, actually. We’re at the wedding, FIN COSTELLO/REDFERNS but you open a door and it allows other people there’s my nan and my aunties who have got great ideas to come through standing round, and out it comes: and take it even further. You hear other ‘I want to fuck you like an animal.’ My people doing things and you think: ‘Fuck nan was apoplectic. I don’t think it was
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29.05.17 The Guardian 3
Stuart Heritage Donald Trump’s Big Foreign Trip proves he is the world’s worst tourist – but he makes us Brits abroad look better
f all the things that Brexit has With every a glowing orb like a bewildered ITV daytime game ruined – up to and including the show contestant. He goes to Italy, and ends up O ability to make civil conversation breath of experiencing a papal visit so excruciating that with your dad – foreign travel has his trip, it came off like the pilot of an unmade sitcom to sting the most. Get an aeroplane entitled The Pope and The Dope. He goes to anywhere and you’ll understand what I mean. Trump has Belgium, and barges Montenegro’s president out Almost overnight, the predominant national managed to of the way so brazenly that the only logical expla- stereotype around the world has become the nation is that he somehow mistook the occasion Self- Sabotaging Brit. carve out for a beauty queen molestation contest with a Unless you happen to go somewhere brimming prize of unlimited ketchup-drenched steaks. Best with expats, all British holidaymakers this an image of of all, whenever he attempts to lurch into any sort summer can be expected to be treated with a terrified of publicly aff ectionate display with his own wife, outright pity. We’ll be met with sad glances and she furiously bats his hands away as if they are bewilderment in lobbies and cafes, seen as the old man made of bees. If you can magically bring yourself morons who willingly fl ung themselves into a several to forget that you’re watching the most powerful threshing machine thanks to a displaced sense of man in the world, it has been terrifi c. global importance. We’ve become the village idiots leagues out And it has given us a common bond with rest of of the world, seen as doltish and shortsighted and of his depth the world. Now, instead of trying to explain Nigel proud, and nobody can quite understand why the Farage to the people we meet on holiday, we can hell we’ve done this to ourselves. defl ect all the unwanted attention with Trump. It’s an awful situation to be in, because it “You think we’re bad?” we can ask. “Well, get a upsets the natural order of things. We’re the load of this git.” It’s a boon for us when we need it ones who are meant to sneer at foreign tourists; the most. However, the danger is that Trump will coming over here with their garish backpacks and refl ect badly on American tourists. eating at all the wrong restaurants and becoming All countries have their stereotypes, whether baffl ed to the point of tears by our strictly upheld it’s football hooliganism or a readiness to deploy escalator etiquette. We’re supposed to look at beach towels on sunloungers too eagerly. Ameri- them, being ferried between designer outlet cans have only just crawled out from underneath villages like cattle, and feel an overwhelming a stereotype that has long persisted. There’s a sense of superiority. After all, we’re Britain. At mention of them in A Room with a View – “Say, one point we probably owned wherever it is poppa, what did we see at Rome?” “Why, guess they’re from, plus we won Eurovision 20 years Rome was the place where we saw the yaller dog” ago. Our entitlement is spectacularly well-earned. – and the theme has continued through every- But, oh no, instead we’ve got to spend our thing from Euro Trip to Team America. American richly deserved two weeks off work forlornly tourists, the legend goes, are brash and arrogant. attempting to justify Brexit to a group of strangers The truth is, you could dump a truckload of who won’t stop acting as though they’ve just When the pope tourists of any nationality – yes, including mine – met the dope discovered an on-the-run lobotomy patient. It’s a into the middle of a city, and they would all look tragedy – and, worse, a self-infl icted one – but at preposterously out of place. All tourists least we might have just stumbled across an out. are bad. Even you. That out, needless to say, is Donald Trump . However, there is something especially bad Trump’s Big Foreign Trip has been hilarious. about Trump. His casual readjustment after He has been the very picture of a bad tourist shoving that poor Montenegrin. His alligator- gone feral. He’s the worst person you’ve ever wrestle of a handshake. His obnoxious, met abroad. Everything Trump has done unearned swagger. Donald Trump is the since leaving the comfort of the US has been world’s worst tourist, and the fact that astonishing, almost as if the Russians he happens to be American is have paid him to create a bonk-headed colossally unfortunate. one-man library of gifs designed to But one man does not denigrate all travelling Americans. represent an entire country, and
GETTY IMAGES With every breath of his trip, we would do well to remember Trump has managed to carve out an that, just as I’ll remember it on image of a terrifi ed old man several holiday whenever anyone leagues out of his depth. He goes to tries to bring up
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29.05.17 The Guardian 5 ‘Britain is the worst place to park in the world’
6 The Guardian 29.05.17 Bitter skirmishes over parking are raging between motorists and councils up and down the country. But could town or city we have probably ever automation, big data and visited,” Lee wrote. South Devon is the site of several such skirmishes in the endless war disruptive technology over parking space, a topic that inspires angry letters to local newspapers up provide a solution? and down the land. Meter charges are as fraught an issue as bin collections or Tim Walker reports the price of a pint of milk. Simon Lee, a DJ with the local radio station Torbay Sound, recently launched a Change. org petition to protest against the dis- trict’s latest parking rate hikes. It has attracted more than 700 signatures. There are just three free parking spots left in the whole of Torquay town centre, says Lee, a second world war amantha Moore may seem history buff who drives a Vauxhall jolly, perched among the Astra. “Torbay council used to off er S jars of fudge and fl ying £2 all-day parking through the winter, saucers at her sweet shop which was great for locals. But they on Fore Street in Brixham, put it up to £10 overnight. That was the picturesque Devon fi shing town. the ‘yikes’ moment that made me start But there’s one subject sure to sour her the petition. I expect it will fall on deaf mood: parking. Moore and her family ears, but I wanted to get a rant out live above the shop and pay Torbay there and see who else felt the same.” district council £50 a year for an off - Britain is home to more than 30m peak permit, which allows them to cars, which on average spend 95% of leave their Peugeot hatchback in the their time parked. In London, mini- nearby town-centre car park between mum parking requirements for new 3pm and 10am. properties were abolished in 2004; That’s convenient from Monday to according to the Economist , the Friday, when Moore’s husband takes average parking provision in new resi- the car to work. At weekends, she dential blocks soon fell from 1.1 spaces says, “Parking is a nightmare. On Sat- per fl at to 0.6, putting street parking urday mornings, we have to put the space at an even greater premium. car anywhere we can fi nd a free space As anyone who has had a prang in in Brixham.” That means leaving it on the supermarket car park knows, park- residential streets. “And then the resi- ing spaces have remained roughly the dents feel we’re taking their parking same size for decades, despite our cars spaces. We’ve had dog turds smeared expanding: the VW Golf, for instance, on our windows, rude notes left under has grown 55cm longer and 19cm the wipers, damage done to the car.” wider since the 1970s. Meanwhile, the Parking also has an impact on way we pay for those spaces has long Moore’s business. In January, she closed been “stuck in the 1930s”, says Donald her luxury soap shop, which catered to Shoup, a professor of urban plan- tourists, and opened Sweet Treats in ning at UCLA. “That’s when the → hopes of attracting more local custom. Yet, after raising the cost of parking to 50p for 30 minutes last year, the council recently doubled it to £1. “It’s not the holidaymakers we need to worry about, it’s the locals,” Moore says. “The minute parking charges go up, they just won’t come into town – and trade drops off .” Along the coast in Totnes, the tour- ists have noticed, too. The Totnes Times recently devoted its front page to a letter from Mark Lee of Bradford Teignmouth on Avon, who professed himself seafront meter …
LUXX IMAGES; MARK PASSMORE/APEX IMAGES; LUXX “shocked and disappointed” by the England’s lack of free on-road parking anywhere councils made a in the outwardly charming market surplus of £756m town. “Totnes well and truly takes the in parking fi nes
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29.05.17 The Guardian 7 parking meter was invented, and Torbay Sound DJ ← for most people it hasn’t changed: Simon Lee has you put your money in the meter and launched a hope to come back before your time petition against runs out. What other industry has the district’s changed so little in 80 years?” latest price hikes What has changed, of course, is the price of a space. Research conducted by the RAC Foundation suggests park- ing fees and fi nes produced a collec- tive surplus of £756m last year for 353 local councils in England. That’s a 34% increase since 2011, leading some to suspect that, in straitened times, coun- cils are using drivers as a cash cow. “No one wants a parking free-for- all,” says RAC Foundation spokesman Philip Gomm. “But with English coun- cils annually making north of three- quarters-of-a-billion pounds between them, it is right to ask whether this has become less about managing conges- and Spain always off er free coach park- council places a “workplace parking tion – the sole legal justifi cation for ing, he claims, adding: “Britain is the levy” on businesses that off er parking setting on-street charges – and more worst place to park in the world.” space to their employees, to both fund about shoring up declining budgets.” Devon county council did not and encourage the use of public trans- Terry Falcão, the outgoing mayor respond to a request for comment, port. Introduced in 2012, the levy – the of Teignmouth, spent three months while Torbay council said its parking only scheme of its kind in the country of his year-long tenure preparing a rates were set following a year-long – raised almost £35m over four years to paper on parking to submit to Devon review, which took on board the views pay for trams, buses and the redevel- county council, which oversees the of residents. As Cllr Martin Tett, a opment of Nottingham rail station. town’s on-street parking. The council spokesman for the Local Government took up his recommendations for a ‘Motorists Association, points out, “Where they t least 50 local councils residents’ parking scheme, but he says are do make any surpluses from on-street make no money what- they also added meters to a stretch of parking, [councils] are required to A soever from parking – or the seafront without consulting him. perceived spend it on improving parking and even make a loss – to keep “Motorists are perceived as an easy as an easy transport facilities.” their town centres busy target to raise revenue,” says Falcão, English councils reportedly spent and support high street retailers. Coun- who vacated the mayoralty in May, and target to £4.3bn on transport-related services cils aren’t the only parking providers, so can no longer park his Renault Clio raise in 2015-16, of which the £756m surplus though. The RAC Foundation also says in the mayor’s reserved spot. from parking charges accounted for private parking fi rms requested more Peering to read the small print on revenue’ just 17%. Brighton and Hove made than 4.7m vehicle-keeper records from the meter at the Eastcliff e car park in more in surplus parking fees than the DVLA in 2016-17, a year-on-year Teignmouth, coach driver Phil Parfett any other council outside London increase of 28%. Most of those requests complains that councils raise park- but,bu according to the city’s annual were probably made for the purpose of ing charges in towns, “and then they parking p report, almost all issuing fi nes to drivers. wonder why everyone goes to the thatt money was spent The management of private car out-of-town Tesco”. Parfett has on providing 46,000 free parks naturally has an impact on park- been driving coaches for 35 years bus passes for older and ing space elsewhere, says Gomm. and frequently works on the con- disabled people . “When pricing is introduced in one tinent. Seaside towns in France In Nottingham, the city location it creates a ripple eff ect and
8 The Guardian 29.05.17 problems, literally, further down the data may soon make parking and park- The logical explains AppyParking founder Dan road. Ask anyone who lives near a ing management less painful. Already, Hubert: “Cars can pay for a parking railway station or sports ground or most UK councils have introduced next step session with the click of a button. The hospital and they will tell you tales of cashless parking: rather than insert is the car is the sensor. When it drives out visiting drivers clogging the roads in cash into a meter, drivers type their of the bay, you’re charged only for the search of a cheaper or free option.” car’s registration number and a park- self-driving seconds you stayed.” In April, the public service union ing location code into an app. The The trial was conducted with vans Unison released a report on the extor- UK’s largest cashless parking service, car, which used by the plumbing fi rm Pimlico tionate amounts some hospital staff RingGo, purports to process more could render Plumbers, which claimed it had saved are being forced to pay for parking at than 2 million parking sessions every more than £100,000 in parking fi nes their own places of work . Among the month, and has been used by more parking over the year and reduced the average most expensive were the Royal Free than 6 million individual motorists. obsolete time to fi nd a space from 20 minutes to Hospital car park in north London, at 30 seconds. The ultimate goal is for cars £85.38 a month per space, and a Royal he problem with this sys- to inform their drivers whether they Liverpool and Broadgreen University tem is that drivers have can park in a certain spot, and to then Hospitals Trust car park, at £79.50 a T to keep downloading automatically pay for the spot until month. Hospital car-parking fees were new apps depending on the driver returns. “We want to make abolished across Scotland and Wales where they park. London parking forgettable,” says Hubert. in 2008, and Jeremy Corbyn has said a boroughs use several diff erent apps, In April 2016, BMW bought Park- Labour government would do the same including RingGo, ParkMobile and Pay- Mobile, the Dutch cashless parking for England. ByPhone. Teignmouth car parks (run provider, which is also RingGo’s parent Hospitals aside, however, free by the Teignbridge district council) company. This January, PayByPhone parking is not an unalloyed good, use RingGo, but the town’s on-street was acquired by Volkswagen, which says Shoup, a world authority on the parking meters (Devon county council) already controls 92% of Germany’s economics of parking. Rather, space use PhoneAndPay. In Torquay (Torbay biggest cashless parking provider. It’s is a commodity – in some areas, a very district council), it’s ParkMobile. a natural move for car manufacturers, valuable one – and people ought to pay At least one app is trying to reduce which, says Hubert, “don’t see them- market value to use it. “Some cities the confusion: AppyParking was selves simply as car manufacturers any have agreed on a formula for the price launched in 2013 as a parking informa- more; they see themselves as ‘mobility of parking: it’s the lowest price the city tion service, to let drivers know where solutions technology companies’”. can charge and still have one or two to fi nd a space and how much it would Perhaps carmakers are simply open spaces on every block . cost. Now, it acts as a single payment insuring themselves against the pos- “If the price is too low, there won’t be portal to several apps, such as RingGo sibility of a decline in car ownership. any spaces and drivers will keep cruising and PayByPhone, which between them In cities, at least, ride-sharing services around, polluting the air, congesting control some 85% of the country’s such as Uber and car clubs such as traffi c, interfering with pedestrians cashless parking locations. ZipCar and DriveNow are making it and cyclists. If the price is too high, too Last year, AppyParking trialled a increasingly impractical to pay for the many spaces are vacant, stores lose new parking payment system in part- upkeep – let alone the parking costs – customers and the space is wasted.” nership with the borough of Westmin- of one’s own vehicle. Arriving at the appropriate price point ster – which, with a 2015-16 surplus The logical next step is the self- is a process of “trial and error”. of £55.9m, boasts the most valuable driving car, which could render park- In London, Shoup suggests the bal- parking stock in the UK. The new sys- ing obsolete. Everyone from Uber to ance of charges between residents and tem uses “connected car payments”, Google and Tesla to BMW is working visitors may be out of whack. Kensing- to build an autonomous vehicle for ton and Chelsea, for instance, made a the masses. As and when they do, that £34.2m surplus from parking charges vehicle will be able to drop off and pick and fi nes last year, but while visitors to up its owner wherever they choose. So the wealthy borough pay up to £4.60 why would it ever need to park? an hour for a space, residents can get Back in Brixham, the distant pros- an annual permit for as little as £80, pect of driverless cars does nothing to and a maximum of £219. (In Torbay, a address the issue at the kerbside. In the full annual parking permit costs £365.) Rio Fish Restaurant on Pump Street, “When you walk around Kensington proprietor Steve Lee breaks off from and Chelsea, you see a lot of Bentleys at battering cod. “There’s more cars on the the kerb, so you’re giving a huge benefi t road all the time, and the council gives to a very small number of people who you less and less places to park,” he says. are much richer than the average,” says “The prices are horrendous. The skinter Shoup. “Land in London is some of the local governments get, the more of a most expensive on the planet. Why mess of things politicians make, it’s us should people pay so much for housing ‘It’s not the law-abiding citizens who get shafted.” MARK PASSMORE/APEX and cars pay so little? We’re losing a holidaymakers To Lee’s mind, it’s just another sign lot of potential revenue – which could we need to worry that Britain is going to the dogs – which be spent on extra public services – to about, it’s the is why he and his wife intend to sell up provide a parking subsidy.” locals’ … and emigrate. “We’re done,” he says.
PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS Technology, automation and big Samantha Moore “We’re going to Ibiza.”
29.05.17 The Guardian 9 In Glastonbury’s early years, festivalgoers could see the stage from their camper van. A new book collects images from the simpler gatherings that once embodied Britain’s countercultural heart Lost weekends
▲ Windsor free festival, 1973 Roger Hutchinson
Hyde Park, London, 1969 Graham Milne
10 The Guardian 29.05.17 ▲ ▲▲ Bath festival, Portobello Road, 1970 London, 1973 Keith Ulyatt Josh Mullinger
Glastonbury, Somerset, 1981 Derek Williams
▲ Stonehenge free Glastonbury, festival, 1975 Somerset, 1979 Homer Sykes Dave Walkling
Memory of a Free Festival by Sam Knee is published by Cicada on 16 June, £16.95
29.05.17 The Guardian 11 Health
f you want to learn about life, full of heavy shopping as well as get a walking stick. I did, when, a handbag, while reaching for keys, I after a period of denial, I reluc- maybe pulling on gloves, answering tantly accepted that multiple my phone and maintaining an upright sclerosis was causing me to posture. Then down comes the rain become unsteady. I felt as if my legs and I scramble for an unwieldy were being operated by somebody else; umbrella. That stick is an additional somebody who wasn’t paying attention. complication. My GP booked me an appointment Mobility issues had already limited with a physiotherapist, who observed my choice of shoes . Never keen on me walking to assess what was required, vertiginous heels, I surrendered to suggested a simple stick, and guided fl ats some years back. I also had to me on its correct use. So as not to place re-evaluate my handbags. I was never undue strain on elbows and shoulders, fond of clutch bags; mercifully, as they the arm should be straight, the handle are now utterly impractical. I need reaching the end of the arm. For me, a bag directly on my shoulder, not an ergonomic handle (which lessens low-slung as before. I’ve jettisoned callouses) was the way to go. bulkier bags so I can hold the stick I was then given a lesson in stick properly, close to my side. I suppose wrangling. Users are advised to carry the fact that my jaywalking days are their stick when climbing stairs, over is a good thing: no more speedily relying on stable bannisters instead. scuttling across roads. Journeys will So much for those “spot the fraud” now always take longer. My nemesis exposés, where people spotted climb- are amber-light-gambling taxi drivers ing fl ights of stairs, stick in hand, are who deem my transit too slow, and deemed skivers. That is what you are drive menacingly towards me as supposed to do. I was then taught how a warning. to stand up properly (push yourself up When Penny Anderson began But I have also learned that people without using your stick ). Also, if you using a walking stick, it made her are usually very kind. Drivers slow have one dodgy leg, the stick is held down to let me cross, people pick up against the good leg. Those fi lms where feel vulnerable, but quickly gave my stick if I drop it, and also open a disabled cop wobbles with one bad gates. However, they are occasionally leg against a stick are just plain wrong. her a new perspective callous, slamming doors, glaring in Maintenance, too, is important: a metal an accusing fashion when I can’t telescopic stick should make a pleasing reciprocate to hold the entrance open hollow thud. If it doesn’t, it is wearing ‘My stick is in return, or bumping in to me without out and needs replacing. All this is free, looking, usually while texting. locally provided by the NHS. I am now obsessed with bespoke It can take a while to get into your carved wooden sticks, currently on stride, but walking soon becomes an extra leg’ my wishlist. Regulation NHS sticks natural – the knack is to treat your stick are uniform and grim. It is important like an extra leg . It is also teaching me to me as an individual to stamp my a lot about people. My walking stick is identity on to an item that is now an a visible declaration that I am weaker unalterable part of my life. So, bored than others, which occasionally makes of regulation black sticks, and me feel vulnerable – but I also enjoy encouraged by the physiotherapist, quiet fantasies of being a cyborg with I decided to customise mine. Glitter an additional metal leg. scatters. But I dread cyclists on Anderson with paint was mentioned, but I’m not The action of walking in public pavements. Please don’t do this; her ‘beautifully a nine-year old girl. Someone else regularly reveals the unspoken you can’t see my limitations and I am personalised’ suggested ribbons, which are bit too hierarchy as we move along within that slow to get out of your way. walking stick Morris-dancer. Fortunately, I know notional bubble of personal space that I have also encountered a fresh and some very kind and talented artists, surrounds us all. If oncoming entwined dangerous level of manspreading . This who spent time carefully decorating couples threaten to sweep me aside, simple neologism takes on a sinister my black stick, creating excellent art a pointed tap on the pavement usually meaning when your stick is knocked using gold paint. alerts them. People with two sticks out from beneath you by a burly Ross Sinclair spent hours painting prevail, a wheelchair has right of way, man striding proudly, wide and long. his signature statement Real Life, a mobility scooter and everyone And no, he didn’t so much as look Alan Campbell added a lovely abstract back, let alone apologise, despite my crow, Kate V Rob ertson provided a I have learned that remonstrations (swearing). Then there hand clutching the stick, and Fiona are the people who wince with shame Wilson a tattoo-style skull and rose. on realising they have just barged I feel so much better about using a people are usually into a person with a walking stick. walking aid since it was so beautifully They shouldn’t be barging into, and personalised. Now when I set out, very kind. Drivers potentially knocking over, anyone in I reach for my keys, phone and stick. MURDO MACLEOD FOR THE GUARDIAN MURDO MACLEOD the fi rst place, let alone a woman with I am still me, a person who uses a stick slow down for me, a visible disability. but is not defi ned by it. It just holds While happy to lose my debilitating me upright. Which is all you can ask people open gates wobble, I now struggle to hold a bag of a walking stick. PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH
12 The Guardian 29.05.17 Dr Dillner’s dilemma Is it safe to take magic mushrooms? Sexual Healing Pamela Stephenson Connolly
Magic mushrooms are the safest cannabis. A BMJ article argues that I am 22 years old and have been with “ recreational ” drug to take , according psychedelic drugs may help depression the same girl for fi ve years. It used to to the 2017 Global Drug Survey. Out of and that there is no association with WRITE TO US be a long-distance relationship, but almost 10,000 people who took them, psychosis. A paper in science journal now we live together. It has been quite only 0.2% needed emergency medical PLoS One found no evidence of fl ash- Send us your own stressful as we are both working and treatment. But magic mushrooms, or backs (such as hallucinations or panic problem for studying, and we have settled into a psilocybin mushrooms, contain a com- attacks) from sole mushroom use. Sexual Healing, rhythm that isn’t particularly exciting by emailing pound that has been a class A drug Mushrooms aren’t habit forming and or romantic. We very rarely have sex. private.lives@ under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act since are far less toxic to our internal organs theguardian.com 1971 – like heroin and crack cocaine. than heroin or cocaine. However , you or writing to At a young age, you are experiencing should not take them as they are Private Lives, The the types of problems more commonly The solution against the law, and this article is not Guardian, Kings faced by older people in long-term Dr Robin Carhart-Harris , head of psy- promoting their use in any way. I am Place, 90 York Way, relationships. You have learned early on chedelic research at Imperial College, also keen to point out that there is a big London N1 9GU that the challenges of daily life can have London , explains that psilocybin is risk of accidentally taking the wrong a sobering eff ect on sex and romance. similar to LSD, but weaker, and mimics kind – psilocybin mushrooms are safe, But cohabitation is an adult step in serotonin activity in the brain. It but others, such as Amanita muscaria, which partners can learn what it is reduces brain activity in the thalamus, are toxic and can destroy your kidneys like to be together and how well they which tells the brain what movement or even be fatal. manage the necessary give and take . and sensations it is detecting. What- Carhart-Harris researches the Stress can have a profound eff ect on ever the mechanism, shrooms can benefi ts of psychedelic drugs on sexual desire and arousal, and requires make you euphoric, at one with the depression, and says that most experi- prevention and management. This is world and searingly insightful. Colours ences on mushrooms are positive – probably your greatest joint challenge. and geometric patterns may be vivid. people generally know they have taken But it sounds as if you are disappointed Carhart-Harris says magic mushrooms something and that they are not going that things between you are not idyllic, are not really recreational drugs: “It’s out of their minds. The eff ect is or at least occasionally pleasurable and more a drug of self-exploration,” he diff erent, he says, from when people exciting. You do not have to have these says. The environment, though, is unknowingly take these drugs. And feelings of malaise and disappointment essential to having a positive experi- while mushrooms are illegal for for ever, but it is important to explore ence – people need space, a “sober sit- everyone, young people in and address them with energy and ter ” to take care of them – and they particular should stay away. empathy, and without blame. may need reassurance that they are not “They are not for teenagers,” Sit down with your partner and tell going mad. Carhart-Harris prefers the he warns. They her all the positive feelings you have term “challenging experience ” over make you for her. Then ask: “What about you? “bad trip”: mushrooms can cause psychologically What’s working for you, and what is anxiety, panic and depersonalisation – vulnerable and not?” Creating a safe atmosphere to but studies show people still value the you need openly and non-defensively discuss experience as meaningful. the capacity sexual and relationship issues is essen- Studies do not show increased to make tial in terms of longevity as a couple. mental health problems from habitual sense of the Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based use – unlike the eff ects of cocaine or experience.” psychotherapist specialising in sexual disorders
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Private lives Doonesbury Garry Trudeau
Daily archive extracts from Doonesbury are on the back page of G2 A problem shared I’ve been rejected for so many jobs that I’ve lost confi dence
After losing my marketing job last September, Try not to take it too personally I have lost the motivation to keep applying Having been on both sides of the fence as for other jobs. I stopped counting how many interviewer and interviewee, there’s a lot interviews I had done when I hit double of luck involved. You have to be what the fi gures. I have a part-time job and write, so interviewer is looking for . You can improve I am kept fairly busy, which helps to keep the odds – be confi dent, research the company my mind off the fact that I haven’t seriously etc – but you can’t control the outcome. Tough applied for any jobs for a month now. I so as it sounds, don’t take it personally, because desperately wanted the last job I interviewed it isn’t . A nd don’t fall in love with a particular for and was gutted not to get it. I feel stuck job – it makes rejection all the harder. in the “can’t get a job because I have no Persianwar experience, can’t get experience because I can’t get a job” trap. Applying, researching Start writing your own blog a company and travelling to interviews, all I wonder if you are not being too hard on to repeatedly come to nothing, has been yourself. After all, you have a part-time role depressing. I now can’t bring myself to apply going and you have taken up writing. Maybe for anything because I have lost confi dence. rather than limiting yourself to a traditional Common sense tells me this situation won’t search for a full-time role, have you thought of fi x anything, but I don’t know what to do. freelancing/becoming a consultant? You could do this in your fi eld and expand into freelance Get feedback from interviewers writing alongside. Try starting your own blog . I’m an in-house recruiter and fi rst thing Sometimes we reach a dead end in our career I will tell you is the fact that you’re even simply because it might be time for us to do getting all these interviews is a very good things diff erently. sign. If these companies did not have an Monkeysoul interest in you then you wouldn’t be getting that far. Use every interview as a learning Widen your search experience. I would highly recommend asking It is a numbers game. When there are easily the companies for constructive feedback 100 applicants for jobs you have to look at to see where you might be losing points. the stats . Try widening your search if you A positive attitude is everything. I have are willing to move; that can make a major been in situations where I’ve had to pass diff erence. And try to go for roles you are on candidates who on paper looked great already qualifi ed for – ie pick jobs that very because it was clear during the interview that closely match what you did. Once you are in they had a chip on their shoulder. Remember the job you can try to expand your experience. that these companies want to fi ll the open job, caramel10 and before meeting you they hope you are that perfect fi t, so go in with a smile, listen, Next week My problem is that my ask good questions at the end and alway send HOW CAN I PAY MY friend and I – both in our a thank you note. FRIEND’S GYM FEES 70s – meet two or three WITHOUT MAKING BEv REilly HER FEEL BAD? days a week at our local, council-run, gym. My Stop, pause, regroup and evaluate friend’s pension is rapidly decreasing, as she I went over four years without a “proper” has come here from a country which is having job, and attended interview after interview . economic problems, while mine is doing OK – I’d applied – and been accepted – to be a thanks to the triple lock, it increases annually. delivery driver when I got the job I’m in My friend cannot aff ord the gym fees for now. So take heart, you’re not alone. What I this year and I would like to pay her annual would say is that you need to stop for a while. membership, but she is very independent It’s like re taking, say, a driving test – after a and I do not want her to feel under obligation. while, nerves will take over. Of course you’re How can I go about this? Any advice would be depressed. Other than giving it a (limited) most welcome. pause, I’d suggest trying to meet up with an Any answers? Be an agony aunt or tell us your employment agent who works in your fi eld. dilemma. To give advice or send us your problem for You need an independent eye to evaluate your Private Lives, email: private.lives@ theguardian.com CV, and if possible, your interview technique. or write to Private Lives, The Guardian, Kings Place, xtrapnel 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
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Blackpool rocks! Our coastal towns may not be the glamorous hotspots they once were, but they’re in the grip of a musical rebirthh – from DIY grime to escapist pop. As Britain hits the beach for bank holiday Monday, Dave Simpson reportss
ook!” shout some school- Bright lights, big mods and rockers traditionally spent “seaside town they forgot to close children, speeding past tunes … the beach bank holiday Mondays pummelling down” Morrissey sang about in Every- ‘L on an open-topped by Blackpool each other on the sands . The bright day Is Like Sunday . Blackpool has bus . “It’s Afghan Dan!” Tower; from left, lights and big tunes provided glamour eight of the 20 most deprived neigh- Famous for kiss-me- the new sound in otherwise isolated places far away bourhoods in the UK (another fi ve are quick hats and thundering rollercoast- of the seaside from the usual hubs of music-making. coastal). Almost 70% voted for Brexit , ers, the seaside town of Blackpool isn’t in the form of Bryan Ferry, the great Roxy Music while poverty and unemployment fuel a place you’d expect to fi nd grime, a Nadine Shah, aesthete, once told me that his obses- social problems. As 22-year-old MC genre more often associated with city Bill Ryder-Jones sion with glamour was sparked by a Dan Johnson says: “If you live here, it centres. Yet here I am, in a deserted and Afghan Dan childhood trip to Blackpool. “It seemed gets pretty dark.” pub car park, while 21-year-old MC incredibly exotic,” he said. It’s a point of view fi ring up a new Afghan Dan is rapping his latest track, Some of pop’s biggest names hail wave of music. “There’s this massive called Blackpool , just for me: “Grab my from seaside towns, from Pet Shop Boy collision of grim and glamour here,” ex- coat and head for the beach / Stare out Chris Lowe and the Cure’s Robert Smith plains Polly Hamilton, who spent seven to the sea / Shove my earphones in / (both Blackpool) to, more recently, Cat- years as Blackpool’s head of culture . “In Phone on silent and that’s me .” fi sh and the Bottlemen (Llandudno). terms of triggering creativity, that’s as Just over a year ago, the charismatic “You do have to make your own explosive as splitting the atom.” MC – real name Daniel Martin – was fun,” explains Leftfi eld founder Paul Daniel Martin didn’t christen him- in prison, but now he’s a sensation. ‘There’s Daley, who grew up in Margate before self Afghan Dan. As one of the few His YouTube views number millions the duo made Leftism , the era-defi ning mixed-race children in the area, he and other local rappers – such as Soph a massive dance album of the 1990s. Margate’s was given the name as a term of racial Aspin and tousled Joshua Tate aka Lit- collision of traditional bucket and spade holiday abuse. “So it’s been very satisfying to tle T ( aged 14 and 12 ) – are picking up was romanticised with a good old turn it into a brand,” he says. Brought similar stats. Five years ago, Blackpool grim and knees-up in Chas’n’Dave’s 1982 smash up by a middle-class, white family, he grime barely existed. Now more than glamour named after the town (“You can keep went off the rails at 11 when he found 20 MCs operate within a tram ride of the Costa Brava and all that palaver”). out the man he called Dad wasn’t his the Pleasure Beach. As Afghan Dan puts – it’s as But Daley remembers it as feeling “cut real father . “All kinds of madness: it, over the din of seagulls: “We’ve built off , bleak, especially in winter when drugs, robbing hotels, thieving from something out of nothing.” explosive everything shut down. So I started my mum. She was forever coming to Seaside towns have long played a as splitting playing in punk bands.” the police station to get me out.” prominent role in pop culture: Cliff In more recent decades, many such By the age of 16, he was living in Richard was On the Beach in 1964 and the atom’ towns have started to resemble the a care home. But, inspired by early
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instruments. And YouTube channels joined the Coral aged 13, likens their Flowsexposed , Blackpool Movement childhoods on the huge expanses of TV and video-maker Jack Wilkinson’s natural landscape to a 1990s take on BGMedia have popularised Blackpool Swallows and Amazons: “Running grigrimem . Music provides around Hilbre Island, wearing masks, a rarera platform for smoking weed, getting up to all sorts, disenfranchiseddis starting to write songs.” youthyou , desperate to be Lee Southall , another Coral guitarist moremo than reality TV turned solo artist, remembers how fodder.fod they’d stare out at the waves before Blackpool grime starting to play music. So does the sea, isn’tisn (yet) as commer- which has long fascinated painters and cialci as a Stormzy or a writers, also inspire pop? “It’s mysteri- Skepta.Sk Afghan Dan’s ous, especially at night, and that sparks catchphraseca “You the imagination. The continual fl owing cheekych bastard!” motion is a rhythm in itself. If you can isis unlikely to blast tap into that, it’s very powerful.” outo of Radio 1. When Ryder-Jones was seven, his LastL year’s Vice nine-year-old brother Daniel fell from documentaryd The a cliff . He remembers the body being ControversialC Rise fi shed out of the sea. “I had six years ofo Blackpool Grime of shock,” he says. “I was scared of the focused on the more negative aspects: sea . Now I love writing about it.” His eye-wateringly personal, sometimes songs are awash with coastal imagery. politically incorrect teenage rap In Daniel , on the 2016 album West designed to get attention. However, Kirby County Primary, he delicately – tracks such as JLG’s Dark Times or and heartbreakingly – addresses the Dylan Brewer’s Deep Thoughts, about tragedy’s impact on his family. the impact of his mother’s death, are Perhaps there’s something about powerful statements. the dual nature of the sea – beauty and The videos use Blackpool’s two darkness, grandeur and danger – that sides: stunning landmarks and back- feeds the creative impulse. Nadine street decay . “It’s the perfect place for Shah , the spiky singer-songwriter from making videos,” says Dan Johnson. Whitburn , asked her mother about the “They’re amateur, but really good.” fl owers she noticed on cliff s, discover- Afghan Dan’s works tap into the town’s ing they were memorials for people showmanship traditions: he has the who had killed themselves. “When Blackpool MCs, he started writing lyr- ‘I was goofi ness of Bez or Norman Wisdom, you grow up in a seaside town,” she ics: “Stuff about my life. But we’re all struggling with power tools or being says, “you’re constantly surrounded suff ering. Everyone has a story.” Being offered rudely awakened by his alarm clock. by this faded glory. They were tourist taught to record by a young off ender’s “I always wanted to try acting,” he hotspots. Now a lot of the buildings are team didn’t stop him landing a a part in says. “When I was 13, I was off ered a rundown or derelict. Drink and drug 15-month stretch, and a broken jaw, Waterloo part in Waterloo Road, but after the au- culture’s big because you’ve got the in Deerbolt prison . But he came out dition the lady asked, ‘Are you a good best hiding places: we used to go down determined to turn his life around. Road. They kid?’ Of course, bragging, I said, ‘No!’ to the dunes. Eventually, it gives you I get a similar tale from Soph Aspin, asked if Massive regret, that.” He’s back home an urgent need to leave.” This she did, originally from Manchester, now with his mum these days, making an heading for London at the age of 17. known as the Queen of Blackpool I was a good income out of music. One of her songs, Are You With Me?, Grime. Most of her family, including kid and has the lyric: “Take a look down at my her mother and father, are deaf and her inety minutes by car – and feet / With sand up to my knees.” She big issue was bullying and taunts. She I said no. a universe away – from explains: “It’s about how the sea em- was devastated when her parents split Massive N Blackpool lies the Wirral phasises how you feel. If you’re low, it up, and fell into delinquency and drugs peninsula, leafy coastal will envelop you and make you feel in- before starting to pour everything into regret, that’ home of the Coral and signifi cant. On the fl ipside, if you’re in a notebook or a keyboard. “People say OMD. Whatever’s driving the music a happy state, the world is your oyster.” I’ve got an old head. But I’ve matured here, it isn’t deprivation. Still, local Thus, for all Paul Daley’s grim mem- through music. I’m the most mature musicians can relate to feeling outcast: ories of 1970s Margate, visual art and 14-year-old I know.” Several of her people across the Mersey call them pop are at the heart of the resort’s re- tracks have had 4m YouTube viewss WoollybacksWoollyba or Plastic Scousers. generation. The reopened Dreamland apiece. “I used to get buzzed whenn I “We usedu to jump on the train to will host two festivals this summer got to 7,000,” she says. LiverpoolLiverpoo for something to do,” says – Gorillaz’ Demon Dayz and By the Sea . In the past, artists in such a formerformer CCoral guitarist Bill Ryder- “It’s all kicking off again,” says Daley . town would have had to move to Jones,Jones, in his small West Kirby studio . “I never thought I’d hear myself saying London or, if they were lucky, get “Liverpool’s “Live 25 minutes away, this, but I recently moved back.” EDUCATION IMAGES/UIG/GETTY; RACHEL KING RACHEL IMAGES/UIG/GETTY; EDUCATION signed to one of the few labels in bubutt it loves to make an outsider the area . Coastal towns may have oof you. ” Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination is out on few venues and little musical infra-a- If Blackpool grime is raw, 25 August (1965 Records). Lee Southall’s Iron in the Fire is out now (Wonderful Sound). structure, but websites now supplyy tthe Wirral noise is wistful and Bill Ryder-Jones tours from 4 June, starting at
PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS ready-made tunes for MCs withoutt gently p psychedelics . Ryder-Jones, who the O2 Ritz, Manchester
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Serious mischief He tackles big issues but can’t resist adding in jokes, once turning Hamlet into a story about rubber ducks. The great Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki lets Ryan Gilbey into his inner sanctum to talk about lazy actors, chatting up traffi c wardens – and why he’s hooked on Holby City
wice a year, Aki Kauris mäki bars and possibly the only pool hall in Then it’s back to seriousness. “Some climbs into his battered the world to feature a giant poster for countries don’t take anyone. It is the T blue Volvo and drives from Robert Bresson’s L’Argent. On this chilly biggest shame in Europe right now.” his home in a Portuguese May afternoon, Kaurismäki unlocks one Brexit, he thinks, will only exacerbate village all the way to Hel- of the complex’s bars, Cafe Moscow, the problem. “Europe going to pieces sinki . “When I was young, with my and leads me to a corner table. He’s a again is not a good idea, especially Cadillac and lousy roads, it took three big, spongy-faced man but he moves because of the extreme right-wing days,” says the 60-year-old Finnish lightly, even elegantly . He fl icks on the governments in Poland and Hungary. director. “Now, with good roads, at my lights and a jaundiced pall falls over the The Brexit propaganda worked very age it takes fi ve .” A shrug. What does room, fi nalising the air of Soviet-tinged well and then the propaganda guys van- he play on the journey? “Otis Redding. dourness familiar from his fi lms. On ished like a fart in the Sahara.” He gives Dylan. Finnish tango. I haven’t bought the wall are two slashes of scarlet neon. a grim smile. “Old Finnish saying.” new music in 20 years.” Near the door sits a jukebox from his If Kaurismäki tends to be over- Helsinki is the setting for most of 1994 rockabilly comedy Leningrad Cow- looked during discussion s about his humane and poker-faced com- boys Meet Moses. “It’s full of Czech hits. world cinema, it can only be because edies, including The Man Without I tried to use it once but…” His hands his fi lms are so funny. Were it not a Past , which won the Grand Prix at describe smoke rising in the air. for the one-liners, delivered by his Cannes in 2002, and his latest gem, In The Other Side of Hope, Kauris- cast in a parched monotone, and The Other Side of Hope. The story ‘If it is mäki returns to the refugee crisis, the the absurdist sight gags (the new of a stoical restaurateur who takes a subject of his previous picture, Le fi lm has some delicious ones on the Syrian asylum-seeker under his wing , Sunday Havre. There is a sense, by depicting topic of fusion restaurants) then he it won him the best director prize in and I have altruism in desperate times, that he is would be as esteemed as Ken Loach Berlin earlier this year. Did he enjoy trying to foster kindness in his audi- or the Dardenne brothers. Certainly, the festival? “Three days in a room. No a hangover, ence: you cannot help but emerge from he navigates the same hardscrabble smoking.” He gives me a you-do-the- his fi lms with more faith in humanity. landscape . He tackled destitution and maths look. “At least I had my wine.” I can watch “That’s why I rushed this one out . I unemployment in The Man Without a He has his wine now, too, though he is those wanted everyone to see that refugees Past and Drifting Clouds, criminality in going easy because he has to drive his are human too. Cinema can infl uence a Ariel and Lights in the Dusk, suicide in dog to the vet for a knee operation. senseless tiny bit. One penny makes a big river.” I Hired a Contract Killer, in which Jean- In Helsinki, Kaurismäki is the co- Marvel He stops. “No, that’s not it. One Pierre Léaud, unable to kill himself, owner of a complex, called Andorra , penny makes a Bill Gates.” His hangdog pays a hitman to do the job. that incorporates a cinema, several things’ look is interrupted by a sudden grin. Kaurismäki sets his fi lms in a brutal
18 The Guardian 29.05.17 world, though recoils personally from with a cigarette at some festival . violence. “I never like showing it. And “What is it? No, no, I don’t do Face- I don’t want to see it in fi lms, especially book. I don’t do Instagram. I don’t do when it is comic. On the other hand, if LinkedIn.” He looks exasperated. “I’m it is Sunday and I have a hangover, I can 60!” Nor does he do much publicity if watch those senseless Marvel things. he can help it. He’s sending Haji off to I’m too afraid to watch anything else in promote the fi lm in Sydney . “These that condition. Even Holby City is too actors, they are so lazy. It is good for scary.” Wait – you’ve seen Holby City? them to work.” “Oh, it is very nice,” he says brightly. Back at the bar later, everyone is “I’m hooked on it. The characters are there. Cast members from Kauris- well developed. But when they cut peo- mäki’s movies stop by to share a drink ple open, I can’t watch. Whereas the and have a smoke with him on the superheroes, they never get harmed. pavement under the heaters. The Except with kryptonite.” atmosphere is relaxed, the aff ection The new fi lm was intended to be the the camera properly. In that picture, Poker-faced unmistakable. He asks for everyone’s second part of his River trilogy, until the doleful hero avoids a parking ticket comedy … left, numbers and taps them into his new he announced earlier this year that it by asking the traffi c warden on a date. Aki Kaurismäki; phone. He slammed the car door on would be his swansong. He dismisses Did Kaurismäki ever try that trick? above, The Other his jacket recently, he explains, only to that promise now with a wave of his “Yeah, but I didn’t have any luck,” Side of Hope, fi nd that – crunch! – his mobile was still hand. “I always say that.” Technology he says . with Sherwan in the pocket. will ultimately decide whether any- By coincidence, when we step out Haji on the left; Before he leaves for the vet, I ask if thing follows The Other Side of Hope . on to the street , he has just received a below, 1989’s he’s feeling hopeful for civilisation. “I He shoots on fi lm and feels too old to parking ticket. “Eighty euros,” he says, Leningrad like people,” he says. “I watch them switch to digital. “It depends on the staring blankly at his Volvo. He got Cowboys Go in the street. I think, ‘Hmm, what’s laboratories. There are only a few left in eight while shooting The Other Side of America his story? Where’s she going in such a Europe.” Then again, he can see the up- Hope, though he claims parking is so rush?’ But mankind as a whole? I’m not side to retirement: more time to go fi sh- expensive in Helsinki that it’s cheaper so sure.” ing, chop wood, play cards. “It would just to take the risk. The Other Side of Hope is in cinemas now be nice to live a bit before I drop dead.” We stroll round the corner to a sushi In his younger days, he could make joint, accompanied by Sherwan Haji, one or two pictures a year, as well act in the 32-year-old Syrian who stars in the his brother Mika’s fi lms. “I’m paying the new fi lm. He describes the director’s debt now for being too fast early on,” he working style as a mix of the casual groans. He has been unforgiving about and the meticulous. “I did a long his own work, but when he recently speech in Arabic with no rehearsal. Aki supervised the digital remastering of his said, ‘I don’t know Arabic. Did you say back catalogue, he was pleasantly sur- everything?’ I said I had. Then he said, prised. “They’re all the same story. But ‘OK, next shot.’ But another time, he some are not as bad as I thought.” came up, looked at the set and said, Hamlet Goes Business, his 1987 ‘Stop the scene!’ The wall was the Shakespearean update in which the wrong colour: it had to be repainted in prince blocks his family’s move into a subtly diff erent shade. The lighting, the rubber-duck industry, is “quite the colour, every detail is precise .” good”; and he thinks it was during Over sushi, Haji tries to show Kau- Ariel, from 1988, that he started to use rismäki a clip of the director fumbling ALESSANDRO ALBERT/GETTY; CURZON ARTIFICIAL EYE ARTIFICIAL CURZON ALBERT/GETTY; ALESSANDRO PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS
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lessed are the meek, Utterly captivating … Elisabeth Moss dear,” says Aunt Lydia as Off red in The Handmaid’s Tale ‘B to a young woman called Janine in the woods ; the mob execution of a man; extraordinary, aff ecting “the ceremony”, which is Gilead-speak new TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s for Off red lying in the lap of Serena Tale (Channel 4, Sunday). Then she Joy (who is neither serene nor joyous, Tasers her for insubordination, before but is infertile) and being coldly, Janine is taken away to have her right slowly, mechanically raped by Serena’s eye plucked out. husband, the Commander, the man They are in the Rachel and Leah Off red has been assigned to for the Centre, also known as the Red Centre, purpose of procreation. That last is one where handmaids are instructed in of the most disturbing, horrible things the ways and belief system of the Last night's TV I’ve ever seen on television. Republic of Gilead, and in their role as Moss , who has already been one of servile surrogate breeders. “Ordinary This adaptation of Margaret the best things about two great shows, is just what you’re used to,” continues Mad Men and Top of the Lake , is again Aunt Lydia (a terrifying Ann Dowd) to Atwood’s novel is the best utterly captivating. A brilliant perfor- the now fully attentive handmaids, mance – quiet, not giving anything including Off red (Elisabeth Moss). away, because she can’t, and yet also “This might not seem ordinary right thing you’ll watch all year saying so much, via inner voice but now, but after a time it will. This will also with her face and her eyes. become ordinary.” The Handmaid’s Tale looks There has been a lot of talk about extraordinary – stylised, choreo- new resonance for The Handmaid’s graphed almost, menac ing. It sounds Tale since the election of You Know fabulous, too. An ominous, low note Who; fear of freedoms, rights and descends a semitone, lower still, long-established orders disappearing dragging you down with it, into danger. overnight. That line, especially, about By Sam Wollaston Dogs bark in the distance . Some people the not-ordinary becoming ordinary, are singing Onward Christian Soldiers. rings chillingly loud and true today, anywhere religion has been used as Even the fl ashbacks, so rarely totally when “normalisation” is a word you an excuse for terror, or where women successful, work here. Because they hear so often in connection with the have been repressed, wars in which are back to pre-Gilead (possibly round current US administration. Apposite rape has been used as a weapon (so just about now?), it feels like a brief respite, timing for the adaptation, or prophetic about all of them), slumping fertility in being allowed up for air for a minute, by Margaret Atwood. developed countries, surrogacy in the before being pushed back down again She wrote her dystopian novel in developing world … and so on. with a boot on your head. And they act Berlin, in 1985. The wall was still up; What I’m saying is that it does not like warnings – to Off red, maybe to us, on the other side was the eastern just have new resonance, it has never too – against normalisation. It wasn’t bloc and the Soviet Union, a powerful stopped resonating, unless you live in always like this, it’s not ordinary now: infl uence. And, famously, she didn’t a peaceful, matriarchal, uncontacted, don’t let it become ordinary. put anything in that hadn’t happened, unreligious tribe in the Amazon. AND ANOTHER It is a brilliant adaptation – some somewhere, some time. As much Maybe the adaption feels extra-poign- THING changes, but loyal in what it says and history fi ction as science fi ction, then, ant because the geography of fact and what it asks. Atwood clearly approves : even if the history was cherry-picked, fi ction are now in alignment in the US, Also brilliant, but not only was she a consulting from early American Puritans to cold even if in real life the constitution is lovelier, was Glasgow producer, but she’s in it, a Red Centre 1967: The Lisbon
TAKE FIVE/HULU TAKE war commies. just about hanging on, for now … cameo as a slapping Aunt . And it’s Lions, about Celtic, If you think about the 32 years since The Red Centre would be the Glasgow, people and brilliant television; I doubt there will publication, she could have easily standout scene if there weren’t so fitba. On the iPlayer, be anything better this year. Resonant expanded her orchard to include many stand out scenes: Off red’s brutal if you missed now, yes, but it will go on being so,
PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH any number of extremist regimes, separation from her daughter in the it last week. ringing in your ears, and your head.
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