26th November 1993

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GOVT. TO PRESS AHEAD WITH REFORM OF NUS

This page is dedicated to John Patten, Secretary of State for Education. Despite the advice of university bosses, former Conservative Education ministers, Tory MPs and students, he still plans to demolish the NUS. This page represents how much he understands about local student unions and the NUS. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

FOR IN-DEPTH REPORTS ON VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP, SEE PAGE 2, 3 & 7

OF LEDA. rr - 0 ( 2 Reform of NUS Around Campaigns past Union closed in protest the Country • • • • • • • • • • • • • 111 • • • The cry of "Thatcher - Union snatcher" John Rose. General Secretary Cardiff eeds University Union Union. will then address those drowned out Mrs Thatcher's speech at a executive will seek to gain students waiting outside, at LUU. said that the whole idea At the University demonstration by students from both maximum publicity for its followed by the unfurling of a of the stunt is to make students L of Wales. the union universities in Leeds. realise that: "ail the services you campaign against the NUS banner proclaiming: "Leeds It happened not this week, but hack in are here to use. will not be here if has organised a reforms by shutting the Union at University Union - Closed by November 1971, when the then Education these reforms are implemented.' massive balloon lunchtime today. Order of HM Government." Secretary had proposed voluntary He admitted that setting off launch to raise In a dramatic hid to raise Exec also plan to display membership. cuts in funding and severe DIGEST posters about the campaign all the fire alarm is something of a public awareness. awareness of the reforms restrictions on the independence of student around the Union building. publicity stunt. but pointed out Members of the amongst students. LUU plan 10 unions. Then as now there Union's Exec. was a furious 2,3,4,5 set the fire alarm off at one Students will then be given that it is just one aspect of a NEWS travelled down to response from Leeds University Union: "It o'clock without giving an leaflets detailing the plans and massive campaign that is on- 6,7 the House of Lords will completely destroy the National Union COMMENT advance warning. will be urged to sign a petition going throughout the year. and and have spoken to of Students as we know it today." said Ken 8,9 Eliot Reuben, Finance protesting against the imminent that it is being treated as a real ARTS many Lords in an Hind. then President Secretary, at Leeds University reforms. fire drill as well . MUSIC 10,11 effort to win their t, etas Student. jeopardised along with other "non-essential" Union services. CLASS/JAZZ .... 12 support. The produced a student paper - Gait four-page special issue for distribution to BOOKS 13 RIlvdd - published the public. "We do nothing illegal; perhaps Action loses out in proposals they think that checks should he there just FOCUS 14,15 a twelve page blank edition. in case we do." declared its front page. "We CULTURE 16 rythe government reforms need your support in our fight against the I of student union funding government over these proposals,' could also have a devastating London THE GUIDE 17-23 Mrs Thatcher's report, had it been effect on the work of Student CLASSIFIEDS 24 implemented, would have led. to the finance Commuuity Action. Under All over London of clubs and societies by individual 25 the government proposal~. students have been TRAVEL subscription - not diastmilar to the proposals Action does not qualify as a involved in a SPORT ... 26, 27, 28 currently on the table. core service and would variety of As it to prove that some things never therefore not he eligible for campaigns. change. the coordination of opposition to funding. Westminster 1 POLICY the Government's reforms came in for I "The effect would be University held a stinging criticism. "An utter waste of time." terrible." said Action co mock execution said Ken Hind after an NUS Emergency Leeds Student is an independent ordinator Emma Roberts. and North London Conference_ 'The only decision that was Newspaper serving students at "It would mean the complete University staged a made during the whole day was that we Leeds Cniaeraity, Leeds collapse of \Won, the loss of Gladiators-type were all opposed to the Report....lt was Metropolitan University and student ins olvement in 40 contest farcical" other colleges in and around different projects, including Inside Leeds University Union there was Leeds. All our journalists abide work with children, the Durham condemnation of a "bloody irresponsible" by a code of conduct. but if you elderly, the homeless and left-wing group which had publicly called have any complaints please people with physical Students at Durham for a general strike by students. "The chant contact the Editor. difficulties. We would held a candlelit vigil to protest should be 'Hands off our Unions' and not consider any reduction in 'Tories out' interspersed with silly giggling," Leeds Student Newspaper service as a complete against Voluntary Leeds University Union fumed a Leeds Student Editorial. disaster, as it would he Membership. and a PO Box 157 Reforms of the NUS is an apparent fixture failing some of those who we recent rally eds LS1 I UH attracted thousands on successive Conservative administrations' help." she added_ An Action outing. These would cease under NUS reform. hidden agendas. In 1985 the issue of The only alternative to of students. Other Editor voluntary membership was once again abolition, she said, would be schemes, including providing dreadful if we stopped campaigns included Richard Fletcher "under review", an attack seen by some as volunteers for various getting Action volunteers. a petition written a £44 membership charge for an act of revenge: "This persecution is a Deputy Editor community centres around Our Saturday Club would along a pavement each member. result of the NUS embarrassing the Sam Greenhill Leeds. Andy Austin of Hall have to be shut - most other and letters written Action has 750 student Government over grants." said the President members and is currently Lane Community Centre volunteers are busy on to MPs, "especially Assistant Editor of Labour Students at the time. John McLeod involved in many different complained: "It would be Saturday." old boys of Durham." Chief News Editor Rosa Prince North West Campaigns present _kssilan1 News Editors • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Merlyn Bcauchiii Rag & Leeds Student under threat Lancaster, Helen Crossley Leeds University: y reds Rag and Leeds Student I &wising for more income from • The future of Leeds Student Manchester and John Rev ill Leenewspaper will not sum groups like we' has also been thrown into Liverpool are Starting with the Union shutout on Friday, Matt Roper in their current form tt the Graham Buchanan, Rae Raid chaos by the announcement in organising a "Nurth Exec are planning a full programme of Spotlight Editor Government implements it Cu-Ordinator. said: "Over 75 per the Queen's speech. Leeds West Lobby" - 7th campaigns right up to the implementation of I)avid Smith proposed reforms of the NUS. cent of students do not realise Student currently receives December • when lhe Bill. This places in serious jeopardy what reform of the NUS really around £20,000 from both Focus Editor they will present John Rose, General Secretary. said that the funding of several charities means and what is going to Leeds University Union and Helen Sage MPs with an Exec were going to ask all students to sign which depend on support from happen if it goes through. Leeds Metropolitan University Arts Editors education charter a petition. and write postcards to Baroness Rag societies. People need to he made more Student Union, tinder the Lit Ekstein saying: "Save Our Match.. Government spokesperson in the The proposed reforms will aware of the consequences of proposals this funding would Emma Hartley Union". Massive House of Lords for Education. Keith take away the society's. funding this policy." he lost.. Both Unions would also poster campaigns Hampson NIP. NUS Trustee. and Tim Music Editors and facilities. with the result that Nationwide. student rag be required to charge Leeds are underway and Boswell, Minister for Higher Education. Alex Sanders it will not be able to operate societies provide o%,er £2 million Student market rent for the students have been Students are also asked to write a letter to Johnny Davis anywhere near as efficiently. per year for charities. The use of both of its offices, lobbying their local both their home, and Leeds MPs. Parents Class/I azz One result will he the British Institute for Brain Leeds Student Editor MPs. are also requested to write to their local MP. Mark Punnell disappearance of Rag in.ents like Injured Children, a national Richard Fletcher said: "The Shark and Beer Festivals, while charity supported by Leeds Rag, Books Editor reforms would have a local charities will be is lobbying against the changes South West LMU: John McLeod devastating effect on the paper. particularly hard hit. in conjunction with other and although we might he able The Guide Rag Sabbatical officer Myles charities. to survive on our advertising Bristol University Elaine Ratcliffe, VP Education and Stephen Hill Bremner said: "I am devastated Evelyn Cousins, a revenue, the quality and size of flooded their local Campaigns, said that LMU were planning a Juliettte Garside by the fact that the government spokesperson for B1B1C. said: the paper would obviously be MP's mail with weekly campaign, each relating to one Spores Editor has decided to implement this so "The loss of Rag support will affected. The paper produced Christmas Cards. service that will be abolished. For example, Roger Domenegbetti quickly. It is all a big shock to make a huge amount of under such restrictions would While at Bath 1...n successive weeks they will publicise the Rag and other societies in the difference to charities. If the he unrecognisable." University, plight of Rag. or Action. or Leeds Student., Union. It will make things income from Rag disappears it students organised On Thursday, 2hth February. a joint day of NEWSDESK harder to operate - with a lot of will leave a tremendous hole in Reform or tit S. reporting team! a balloon, release action will be held in conjunction with 314251 DAY Union funding else we will have our funding. NUS reform will Richard Fletcher. Hasid Smith, outside the towns LUU. This will aim to raise awareness of to find funding from elsewhere. have a grave effect on charities Rosa Prince, Sam Nlountford, famous Royal the activities which could he lost. 434727 NIGHT The charities are dependent on like ours. and I urge people to Charlotte Lomas. Alan Gardner. Crescent. This Friday they will be distributing Amelia Hill. and Gareth Hughes. us, and they are increasingly lobby their MPs against this." leaflets, and putting up posters

Leeds Student independent Newspaper 27th November 1993

Reform of NUS 3 FUTURE OF UNIONS UNDER THREAT T he futureuture of student Lorna Fitzsimons, National core a( livities, would atso lose a national and the Secretary of State's unions was thrown President of NUS, said: Student Unions currently local political voice. consultation ante in July. into chaos ~ last week. The decision to introduce receive a block grant from 'the bill will he published airing mild harm virtually esery after the announcement in legislation has been taken their univeraity, and the unions with the governments proposed area of student life tinev. Che Queen's speech that the against the ado ice of the are free to spend this money cm changes to teacher training. "Worthnbile student Government plans to bring adversity vice•chancellors, whatever tiles %%ash. Howeser. NUS behests that the hill urtivities, such as. Rag, student fora ord legislation to reform college principals, teaching under the proposals student will be published hy the end of ceemmunity action. student the arrangements fur the staff, parliamentarians of all onions nould only be able to next oak. it is also belie% ed cinema, student media anti all fundine of student unions. political parties, previous fund core services with the that the government heepw, lu nun- sporting clubs and The Government first Conservative education public money received through push the reforms through by societies. entertainments, announced their plans to ►inister., local crentuiteulties. the block grant. February. %i4ouItl be des aatated. heat are reform the funding of NI.S students and their parents." Those activities missing the reforms could then he the very kind of actisitie, John earlier this year, although The reforms. us laid dtiwn Perini the list of core services implemented by the start of the Major is promoting as active reform has been on the Tory in the ronstikation doeument include RAG, community next academic year, eitirenship." she added. conference agenda for the released earlier this sear, Action, student media, student lairna Fittain►ona claimed, lam 2(1 %ears, drama and all nun sporting outd divide student union the proposals on student Patti' 7 : F c t N.-Ntk 41 'A TVC, ration iita the speech activities into core and nnn- clubs and societies. Students union reform. as laid dussn in The ,"1., ;ad f..[ S Lurna •itr■inisn“m Conspiracy theory at NUS The Education Bill explained Reforms just a week before the k3. I slammed jQueen's speech. vital Thc '`" : Ilow.... .0 computer files nere stolen Lord-. rile Fue,di.A. !I•IC he 1 ice•Chancellor at from NUS headquarters in crumcni s c TLeeds I. nit urvil) London. prnp ,sa ft .r ihe futwe Professor Mau V4 ikon. Mill the student The highly selective Applauded lief Executive of I "Als burglary took place just six Edti'a' In Secroar ■, Irrhfl Patten Metropidlian t nit t'C•ii ■ days before the Queen's It aholishing Ilic "Lis: Lluse0 1/41a w mud (tic L 01 Speech. just as the NUS was shop in the Tr.ide I-;num sectrir. - proposeas to reform gearing itself up to respond to the amilicoit∎ of the hill has heen Lestie Wagticr, t bled any legislation that might he cum- Ned I t ectilitre dt•Siuna it, at Lail. outlined. The Its• ,..Liese of the hill said: "these reform. are The Union lost computer 211 - unnecessary , irrelet ant and hard drives and disks containing uW,c1111.11e cannier productive." financial, membership. c,,thi'll•JkItleilt ■Lit Ctisillt• thLtt Professor Alan Wilson said: campaign, media and tinanvial suppeal loi a student "Like my felion Vice- Parliamentary information of ninon pr..% idtd nut or plahili- Chancellors. 1 consider these value only to NUS. 1111.,Tli% used onit in respect (it proposals to he damaging. 'the midis-ea of the burglars i is !cos r fred by the expensis e and unman-kidy." have become the object of Secretary of Stare ." He continued: "At Leeds intense epoadation as no cash or Frtcutively MI: means that no alone, the services and ancieti•a other equipment was stolen. The mon•:., :WI he 11%ell 11S a union under threat include! some 15(1 thieves took only the computer unless it is ratified h. Patten. He I. MI:SU protr!ui at the proposals. hies ,ktItiv Reik socictica; the award winning drives, leaving the screens and is not required Iu specil in the mill present 311) •ormind j mend", ta ekasay mese 35 Cl,r✓:. The hill Leeds Student newspaper; keyboards. hilt what he will allow to he planning and funnel .1111s 11'14 culottes services such ham r,f eampatgi avautst current Leeds Student Community Lorna Fitasimons. NUS funded. and he is fully within his development en tlul servaaes its .Actri ■n. Rag. compaig.n. .1.4u1 Rose 1.ritsnued. '[Us Action vehicle runs projects to President said: "This is a terrible rights to change funding In the NI'S reform Leeds Student. not ev.ie11., aldinv nil.- help the elderly. disahled and thing to happen at a very regulations at any time ainsuItatum elocument published Joim R. General Wtheli the hill 111:11.17tal I! " disadvantaged: and eharity. difficult time fur NUS and Elaine Ratcliffe. 4P in Jul services delined of 1.e,Als t, 'user-sits ttii,'ii said- I t rushed RAG. student unions. Hut I am Educatitui and f'ampaigna at 'euire'. and theteloie The 13111 !hall the hill lhtnu h slit' ll it .,j "The Leeds University confident we will be able to Leeds Metropolitan University, funding, were welfare, catering. feared_ Non only does it speed:, (-,lionilrrisl ■ti Its First rca.hri: Union is one of the largest in provide a full service to our said: 'The idea that the Secretary sport and representation 01 an orceedIngly small number of it iAas a iormal readin4 is inch the country. It is extremely mend lership and the pu blic:." of State will be able to announce student interests sskthin the eine sea ices, it allows for those does not alloy, tor LIC1).tle 1The well-run and cost effective. I The Metropolitan pollee have whatever he likes whenever he institution The Education Bill that are included to be reduced at second reading mill he on cannot stress 101) strongly an no leads on the thefts. st• ridieuluu. Obviow4N suites that the Mulish:1 is alai 'or syhini by the Secretary ..it* Statc." Decemher 2nd_ opposition to these proposals." The class of 1967 68 speak out against reforms

6 6rrhese are nut reforms of Straw is scheme/10y critical Leeds graduates Jack Straw MP and Paul "It needs to he seen in the 1 the NC'S - these are of the Conservatives' proposals Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail, who both context of the Government efforts to destroy it." argues to cut funding: "It's attacking the so-called closed Jack Straw, Labour MP and astonishing that a government benefitted from their experiences at Leeds shop. A 'closed shop' implies former President of Leeds which is ostensibly less right- University Union in 1967-68, speak about the that people are forced to accept University Union. wing than Mrs Thatcher's. effect of the current reforms. obligations that they don't Straw was also President of should be the one to pursue realty want to accept. But the the NUS, in 1971. when it these policies. It's spiteful, it's only things that are involuntary fought off a previous unnecessary and it's also vary are a vital institution," he says. !axially react, and learning to are the benefits, which are Government attempt at such undemocratic." "It gives people an entry into think in a professional and available to anybody who reforms; an attack which was Paul Mcrae Editor of the journalism and a chance to managerial way." wishes to make use of them. spearheaded by a young up and Daily Mail and another Leeds teach themselves about it, Straw is also concerned that "There are no compulsory coming Education Secretary - graduate, agrees: "They are which is frankly the only way, the reforms will severely obligations so the analogy of a called Margaret Thatcher. short sighted and mean. I because you cannot be taught reduce students' participation closed shop is utter nonsense." Two decades later. Straw is think it would be an absolute journalism. in Union activities. He argues: Straw remains optimistic, again concerned about the tragedy if student newspapers "The great thing about "It's an effort to depoliticise the however: "I think the NUS future of student unions: "The were affected by these British universities is that extra life of the student community will survive because it's got a NUS is facing a tougher reforms." curricular activities. such as so that students become more reason to survive. It has government than it has ever Dacre was Editor of Leeds student newspapers, exist. They and more selfish, stay in the represented students faced in the past. There is a Student in 1967-68, the year are as beneficial as the bar drinking and no longer extremely well for over 70 that Jack Straw was President academic side, because you're take part in the excitement of years and it has got a great very nasty agenda behind what Jack Sinus the Government is cluing here." at Leeds. "Student newspapers meeting people and learning to the organisation. future ahead of it."

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 4 News

OFF CAMPUS amon_gEnite_—: No sign of the Royal Park escape. leaving the student 0E6E1ling Post University of Leeds privilege of scaling the on the ladder alone to face 011113P.:111M student tried to By Al Gardner ladder and pulling down relieve the Royal the sign. the landlord. A The student who won Despite his drunken Park pub of its Tetley's returned to his Leeds 6 state he managed to escape, RC. Y.V_ PATIa MINN sign after a heavy house after a night's made for the sign while the leaving the landlord with a drinking session. drinking_ He recalled how others held the base of the ladder. All would have new ladder and himself GAM US However. he was caught particularly attractive the ROOM red-handed by the Royal Park sign was, and gone well if the landlord with a bill from a hadn't been woken by the neighbour wanting to know Obscene caller landlord and left to Nee craved it for himself. LIVE MUSIC his wrath as his mates He nicked a neighbour's noise and put his head out what had happened to his deserted him. ladder tin their drunken of the window to find an ladder the night before. A girl telephoning BBC's children's The student. a second state believing it to be inebriated student tugging All through the programme. "Live and Kicking", shocked year who does not wish to borrowing), then made his at his sign. proceedings, the Tetley's viewers this week when she told ski be named, decided to take way with his friends to the The people holding the sign managed to stay where champion Martin Bell: "Me and the girls the Tetley's sign when he pub. They drew lots for the ladder made good their it was supposed to be. 1 he endangered sign wouldn't mind a look at your danger." The message went out on air during a five phone-in. Stunned Martin blushed furiously and said: "I could melt snow SLUG slimes to the rescue of graduates around me." all areas in 1990. This fell to universities as roughly T ne mploynieni amongst Graduates', aims to give By Alison Wragg LI graduates is up again. information and support on only 42% in 1992. Around comparable. he said: "Over & Toby Wakeiy Hot stuff now reaching the highest an informal basis. the country. 30% of students the past five years level for a decade. Information is shared on went on to further study in throughout the country, The rate has hit 14% how to improve employment Problem seems to be that few 1992. 6 up on l987, business subjects have seen overall; the older universities prospects and what to of them find suitable work to Dr Siddel. of Leeds the largest growth, while the Next time you order a curry with your include in CVs. match their qualifications. University Careers Services. sciences and engineering girlfriend - think twice! Angry are on 1 i% unemployment. However, jobs found In general. students have said that around 28% of have had a slower housewife, Debbie Spencer. threatened to whilst new universities and through the society tend to lowered their career students from Leeds expansion." divorce husband, Steve, for eating curry colleges have 18%. he found in what is classified expectations. and are University carried on in One recent graduate seven nights a week. She finally flipped according to the latest report as 'second rate' isuch as part- searching in a wider field. education; "The careers stressed the importance of when Steve went to work in Spain but released by the National time teaching) rather than in often with less of a graduate office is busier than ever. grades in the current climate flew borne early for a vindaloo from his Commission on Education. final career jobs tradition and smaller firms There•ie a heightened realism local takeaway after suffering withdrawal However, all is not lost as of intense job competition: This palm is also referred are fast becoming their amongst students that they don't know any of my friends symptoms. Debbie stormed to the a new society claims to deal to in the report. Despite the destination. must get on with it." who have decent jobs who restaurant threatening divorce and only with the problem_ SLUG an fact that only one graduate in Full-time posts were Describing the jobless rate didn't graduate with a I or a calmed down after he vowed to eat less acronym fur The Society for Unemployed seven is unemployed. the found by 51% of students in of students at both Leeds II." curry. He's already booked in at the Leeds Indian for Christmas Eve and Boxing Day! Fire incidents cause concern Its snow fun at Bod A n angry student this resident. said: "'We didn't Kiss of death smoke alarms then I A fire at a university ball week described the site break anything. and no one By Sam Mountford daren't think what would of residence caused manager at Bodington Flats was hurt. It was just half an have happened. The whole extensive damage last & Sam Rose us "a mi serable wankel.' hour of madness - that's all." It's not just ordinary people who suffer week, in the second such place could have gone up." from bad breath at inopportune moments following his spoilsport The only University incident in less than a reach the blaze as their fire The room is currently - eelebritiee do too. Actress Scan 'Young attitude to a snowball fight, official available for fortnight. engine couldn't gain access burnt out and will need a writes David Smith. comment was Carl Potter, refused to kiss Michael Caine until he The blaze took place at to the grounds. Luckily replacement mattress, desk brushed his teeth, claiming his breath The resident, who wishes Director of Residential and Tetley Hall. last Friday two sub-wardens were on and chair. to remain nameless, claims Commercial Services, who stank of cigars. Her ultimatum came evening at around 6.30pm, the scene to help put the Three weeks ago, before a love scene in the 'TV thriller. that the snowball fight, said: 'Snowball fights have starting in the room of fire out. another fire caused 'Blue lee. Sean had already refused to involving around 250 happened in the past and will third year student. Andrew When firemen did damage to a room in Tetley snog Nicholas Cage when he had a students from Bodinaton Hall happen again. The wardens, Branson. The fire is arrive, on foot. they had to when a kettle overheated. mouth ulcer. and Flats in the early hours Flats advisors and I agree thought to have started borrow fire extinguishers These fires come just last Sunday morning. was that it was alt fairly good when an oil candle left to finish the job. weeks after the end of LIIU brought to an abrupt halt natured.' Housing' Week which burning on top of a No-one was hurt. but when the site manager Asked about the criticisms Stitched up highlighted the danger of television smashed and set Tetley's Domestic Bursar telephoned both the police of the site manager's reaction. fire and warned students to light to furniture. expressed her concern: "If and University Security. he said: "I wouldn't want to A female fan got more than she Firemen were unable to it hadn't been for the be on their guard. bargained for when she went to see the Ion Hayward, another comment on that." Chippendales in action. At the end of a raunchy routine, she was hit across the head by a flying tray as one of the No porn at Bodington strippers was posing on stage as a waiter. pin e victory D esidents of Mortain to by the majority of parents The middle-aged woman was taken to IN.House. Bodingtors Kerry Medlock. President hospital and had to have stitches. She eeds University Wine whiskies. He added: "It's arc getting all steamed up over of Murtain JCR said: "I'm just certainly got more than an eyeful! L./Society scored a double all in the smell. You don't the proposed addition of an annoyed that they feel it victory last week in the actually taste the malt at adult channel to their satellite necessary to impose these Northern heat of the all. If you did your taste TV system. writes David restrictions on people over the Killer cut University Malt Taster buds wouldn't he able to Litierick. age of eighteen." Competition. writes Mark tell the difference after a However, it is not the The decision to subscribe Lupton. few glasses." content of the channel which to the adult channel was made Cult killer, Charles Manson. has written a Facing competition from The fourth year French has sent pulses racing - during a full house meeting. song for Axl Rase and his band. Guns 'n' Newcastle, Huddersfield student was confident of inhabitants have so far failed Residents now say it is no Roses. Manson. 59. is serving life for the and the host town Durham. his chances of success in to be titillated by so much as a longer a question of murder of Roman Polanski's wife. actress Society President Alastair the final: "Since I last naked ankle - but rather the pornography but of Sharon Tate. in 1969. The song, entitled Cassie sniffed his way to qualified two years ago refusal of the wardens to allow democratic rights. Medlock "Look at your Game Girl' will appear on second place and a place in I've had a lot more members of the JCR to went on: "Not all of the their new album although it is not listed. the national finals. practice." subscribe, programmes are pornographic, Guns 'n' Roses manager. Doug Goldstein. It was Alastair's nose In the team event Leeds The self-appointed mural nor all they all orientated says: 'Asl wants it to speak for itself." though, and not his pallet, scored an outright victory guardians object to the towards men." which helped him identify and earned themselves a unsuitability of the material on Warden Andrew Page the brand and region of case of ten year old show, and also claim that the said: "The channel would M. Compiled by Lucy Dixon five different malt Macallan Malt. acquisition of the porn reflect badly on the Down the hatch! Pic: Ed Crispin channel would not be agreed University as a whole."

[Leads Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 — News Foot fetishist gets the 'Boot erhaps drawn by his students from Leeds student's shoes. The him out to each other. He was As reported in Leeds foot fetish fantasies, the University. By Rosa Prince Flumpman then remained on staring at us, relishing it," Student two weeks ago. the famous Flumpman has p The students were the floor smiling up at the Claire said. Flumpman is indeed a master now made a spectacular shopping in Boots when they She added: "I treated it as students. After a while, the students of disguise. In his latest appearance in Boots. saw a man crawling around a joke at first, but he's really Claire was the only one of saw him tieing escorted out of appearance he is described as In a rare sighting away on the floor. frightened girls before." the four who observed the the shop by Boots security about 5ft II, with golden from level 13 of the "He was sort of fumbling The students ignored the foot fetishist in action. She staff. He was told that if he blond hair. llowever, on his University's Edward Boyle about; we weren't quite sure man, and joined the queue for pointed at him and said: returned, they would call the last sighting at the Edward library, the Flumpman was what he was doing," said one the cash desk, but he "You're the Flumpman!" He police. Boyle. he was said to have sighted strewing his small student, who wishes only to he continued to hang around. He ran off, but kept returning to Claire says that the man strawberry blond hair. pink sweeties all over the known as "Claire". for fear of knelt on the floor by the look at their reactions. could easily pass for a student. Perhaps we are dealing with well-known chemists and more unwanted attention queue, bent down and placed "We were sort of laughing "He was younger than I more than one Flumptnan harassing four female from the Flumpman. a Hump on one of the among ourselves and pointing expected, maybe about 23." here. Credit Gay awareness week Boyle to you By Paul Greenough grows 13y Howard Hockin y esbian. Gay and Bisexual l_eAwareness Week took place rr he Chief Librarian has he University of Leeds has ai Leeds University this week. .I. submitted a proposal to Tlaunched its own credit aiming to promote all kinds of build an extension to the card. The Mastercard, which sexuality', and to "celebrate Edward Boyle Library, writer came into use on 17 November, these kinds of love." Gareth Hughes. If is being offered to former Events organised included implemented. the library students of the University and discussions and debates on would he expanded southward. Hugh Wellesley-Smith, Deputy current members of staff, in bisexuality. the age of consent. Librarian. said that the and a drag ball held on Tuesday association with the Bank of extension was needed because night. Scotland. The card can be used of ever-increasing pressure on One of the more dramatic at over nine million outlets hooks and space at the library: events was the mock death of world-wide, and it is hoped "It would most importantly several members of the society that it will help further provide more desk space for who lay down in the foyer of the strengthen the ties between the students, more space for the Union building on Tuesday University and its former collections and we could lunchtime. Students were met by students. double the counter space." the sight of five prostrate bodies The benefits from such a It is by no means certain, covered by posters giving scheme should be great. The however, that these proposals statistics of gay teenage graduate will receive will be realised. Wellesley- suicides. preferential benefits, a lower Smith said: "It has been Tim Goodall. Social Services than average annual fee, and a submitted, but whereas the Secretary at LUU, explained: fee-free period for the first six extension of the Brotherton "The law on the age of consent months. Each time the card is Library was paid for by the has a big effect on gay and used, the University will Higher Education Funding lesbian youths, One in six receive money from the Bank Council, they can no longer homosexual teenagers has of Scotland. This will be used provide capital for work on committed or attempted to to support student welfare, so buildings. So the University even current students benefit commit suicide because of fear has to find the money." too. Dying to be Gay sit Leeds University Pie Ed Crispin and confusion."

In the limelight Leeds Metropolitan University Students Union A Leeds student was last week ...given the responsibility for By John Revill lighting up the streets of the centre of Leeds by turning on question was: 'Which soap star is this year's Christmas famous for her earrings?' I illuminations. guessed that it was Bet Lynch The benevolent student raised from Coronation Street" some money for charity in the As well as turning the lights WORLD AIDS DAY process as well. on. Fielding was allowed to Jeremy Fielding, a third year participate in an event similar to International History and Politics Channel Four's top show. student at Leeds University. was Crystal Maze. the lucky winner of a Radio Aim "I had to grab £1000 of C & FM competition. A vouchers," he said. "I am WED 1ST DEC 1993 His prize was to set alight the going to give half of what I city with the biggest grabbed to Bosnian charities. It's illuminations that the city has realty good, because C and A had for years. He also got to agreed to match everything that I Visit the stalls in the Students Union. meet Noel Edmonds. Leeds raised." Overall Fielding raised Rugby League player Garry about 1000. Schofield. and Tony from Of his meeting with the stars. Emmerdale. Fielding said: "Noel was very Get some information, red ribbons and "It was all really bizarre. but nice. although I felt really good fun. I was looked slightly that it was all in a days after extremely well," he said. work for him. Ciarry Schofield yet more free condoms! Fielding won his chance when was a top bloke. I never watch he answered a phone-in Ernmerdale so 1 don't know who competition on Radio Aire. "The Tony is."

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26 th November 1993

Comment &Analysis Message to killjoys: put this in your pipe and smoke it

I have never heard miserable? ast April a bunch of enough for a group of people talk about banning And yet there are moronic protesters people who are becoming alcohol despite the fact that people who believe that managed to help part of Britain's ever L 80 per cent of crime in because they have taken ruin The Grand National. increasing Anti-Pleasure Rupert Hamer Britain takes place under the moral high ground one of biggest days on the League. the influence of drink. and sit their with racing calender. Olt no. on Friday Worse still. an furrowed brows and the It is the one race on They. in their infinite enormous amount of women weight of the world on which nearly everyone in wisdom. saw the race as Britain is tempted to base wrong and so everyone else are subject to violence and their shoulders everyone a flutter. had to fall into line. same boring and These arguments are often raped by men under else should clamber up And each year is Tiles' arc getting predictable arguments. "So not only irritating but also the influence of the dreaded and join them. brings an enormous k'N rryst here these day s. fart you want to die of cancer dangerously flawed. People booze_ Weil, f**k off. We're amount of excitement and only has e to light up to see do you?" smoke for the same reason Is this a good argument happy down here with pleasure to people across the frowns on their horrible "Don't you know how that they drink. gamble and for closing (loon pubs all hangovers and blackened the country. puritanical faces. much smokers cost the NHS make love. Because they round the country and lungs. But this was not good And then out come the every year?" enjoy it, making even more people At least it's honest. Disabled students and LMU: Fact or fiction?

Dear Sir available . To try to help promised was that he would ensure that Paul is given a fair Your article also fails to Paul has been told it many matters. i made several phone redeye our best attention as far chance to complete the course. mention that Paul now has a times. what wil happen is that a Your article regarding the calls personally to the supplier as was humanly possible This includes making fact part-time paid helper, whose Learning Contract wil be blind HND student Paul Davis to ley and speed up the bearing in mind that we have a finding missions to other job includes accompanying agreed between paul and the was a classic example of the old delivery. commitment to the other 90 institutions who have taught or Paul to selected classes and Course team with the help of journalistic adage, "Never let I was present at the meeting students on the course. At no employed blind people. the liason with the teaching staff to the equal opportunities officer. the facts get in the way of a at the summer meeting you time was he promised that the technicians at Beckett Park ensure that learning materials This will result in a clearer good story". refer to in your article. paul was University would provide the have given their assitance freely are transcribed onto suitable understanding on all sides as to The responsibilty for told clearlt that there had never equipment referred to in your to help Paul set up his media fr Paul to access. This what he has to do to reach the obtaining the specialist been a blind student on the article. equipment. We have Based with appointment is once more a standard required to pass the equipmwnt lay between Paul's course before, but that we As far as support from the the students' union who are result of the efforts of the LMU course. We are meeting with Local Education Authority, the would happily allow him onto staff is concerned, I as Course well aware of the efforts that staff, particuarly Mr Lundy. Paul this week to discuss it with suppliers, and Paul himself. the the course provided he accepted Leader have spent many hours have been made on Paul's Finely to respond to the him. delay was caused by non- the fact that there would be talking to paul and trying to behalf. We do oot want medals. charge that Paul is behind with I am not naive enough to availability of equipment from many difficulties in the initial organise matters on his behalf. we would do the same for any his studies. Of course be is! It is pretend that all is perfect the supplier. This was stages, and that he could not Furthermore, the first year student who needed it, but we totally unreasonable to expect withaccess for disabled people compounded by Paul's realistically expect everything tutor. Kieran Lundy has acted certainly do not deserve to be that he could progress at the at LMU, but we are trying very insistence that the did not to be in place when he arrived, far beyond the call of duty in on the receiving end or such, same rate and take exactly the hard. deliver any of the equipment and indeed for some time spending hour upon hour, often innacurate publicity as that same assements as the other John Harvey (Course Leader) until every single item was afterwards. What he was in his own leisure time trying to provided by your article. students. We know this and See Editorial page 7

Dear Editor hail room out with vital from a parent to make them disgraceful at a time when all the right track. We do ned an times when I feel bruised from flashing fire alarm and act? When will they start students need guidance. Awareness Campaign, the ojn going fight for equality Last weeks front page headline doorbell before my arrival in listening to students? Disabled students experince workshops and a pressure and morale slips. It is at these "broken promises"referring to september. It was not until 7 The basic outlines extra stress at such times. group. I don't believe that this times that I feel the need for a the treatment of Paul Davis by weeks later after 2 regarding support for disabled Coping with settling into should be done by anyone campaigning group and a I.MU was distressing and all embarrassing fire drills and a students in the prospectus is Leeds. fighting for course, except Disabled people louder voice within the too familiar. As a profoundly diplomatic phone call from my not being met. the Disabilities access and chasing up themselves. Too often shied- institution and the students deaf student I have found the Mum to the Estates Manager Co-ordinator is over streched equipment as well as dealing bodied/hearing/ sighted people union. fight for equal access both on that they were installed. I had with no extra team members with the attitudes of so many have put a voice to our name. I end this letter with one my course and in Hall of been to see every single person being employed to meet the new peopleall adds up and to we need to join forces. a final question why isn't there Residence a continual struggle. I could think of, only to meet a increasing demand for meet with a locked door when society for all Disabilities must an elected Student Union I have met hurdle after hurdle brick-wall. The bureaucracy services. I have experinced seeking help at such times can be set up at LMU today. we representative for disabled when approaching the just passed the buck sketchy and inadequate help. prove too much. Ideally I are feeling increasingly Students ? university for support and downwards. eventually the The Welfare office for would like to see a drop-in isolated within the University. have come close many times to Handy Men were the most Disabilities shut down for a centre as well as the present While 1 Inc one refuse to Jo Atkinson giving up. helpful that I came across! two week period during appointments system. wallow in self pity and have Rich Hall I.MU promised to kit my Why did it take a phone call Freshers ' Fortnight. this is bast weeks Editorial wason huge zest fur life, there are Beckelts Park

The Editor David Gower a great cricketer? Leeds Student Leeds University Union Dear Editor atest match then you could an obvious talent as Gower Gower would he onmy last list P.O Box 157 imagine his frustation with why do you need to 'graft"! first any day. I and many Leeds LS1 1UH Regarding last week's Final the powers that he in this the way Gooch manipulated other cricket lovers will miss whistle about David Gower's country. The same powers the selectors, viz 'I'm not him. Letters should he addressed to the Editor and clearly marked retirement. I feel that Roger that he that prevented him playing if he plays' shows for publication. Letters should he no longer than 3(X) words. The Domenghetti was a little playing test cricket because he what a selfish ba****d he Yours Faithfully deadline for letters i' the Tuesday preceeding publication unfair about possibly the most is an individual. the way that really is, knowing that the Dave P. talented batsman that Gower was treated by the last relators would never drop England has ever had. set of selectors and the him. Effectively Gooch Personally. I don't blame present set is nothing short of ensured that Gower would Sorry to Gower fur leasing the game a disgraceful. Graham Gooch never get his recurs back and early. was mentioned favourably many a cricket and anyone whose If s4111 51 ere t he batsman because he obtained the commentator has romented letter has not DIARY that every international greatest number of runs On this apparently dirty, country that plays cricket through 'graft and hard underhand tactic. Gooch is a been published The Diary may return next week would pick automatically for work'. When you've got such great batsman, but david

Leeds Student independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 Comment &Analysis 7 LMU, Disabled students & Leeds Student newspaper he response of Leeds feeling were replaced by anger. Remember this is an Whether or nut LW' Metropolitan University Unfortunately they were not institution that only a couple 01' believes that last weeks stun T to last weeks front page concerned about the student years ago took court action was accurate or not, the - 'Blind student CfiliCiSCS. involved, but the bad publicity. against a student that owed them experinee of Jo Atkinson - a LMU for broken promises" - They can barely have had STUDEN under £50. Following the deaf student who writes of was amazing, T time to ascertain the facts of the inevitable court action. hailliffs LMLS's broken promises For the first few seconds it case. let alone talked to the demanded the meeting. she then. Davis - some are not so fair. arrived at the parental home 11 opposite - must tell them that restored my faith in LMU, and student concerned_ But they had without waiting fur my Having investigated the the student to seize his parent's something is wrong with how reminded me of those great already acted. Acted that is, to agreement, put me through to reporting of the story. I am possessions they deal with disabled ideals that were the driving stifle the had publicity. her line manager to arrange the satisfied that the article was This action was fully defended students. force behind becoming Editor By Monday afternoon, nut time and date. I(X) accurate. by LM[17 "We have a duty to Perhaps its time they spent of Leeds Student - to highlight one. but two members of senior Although some of the However the story was nut teach students to Ike in the real a little more time examining the injustices faced by management had contacted comments in the letter opposite really about individual members world. Il you gel into debt in the their treatment of students. students in educational Leeds Student demanding from Paul's course leader may he of staff, but about the attitude of real world you have the baillifts rather than attempting to stifle institutions. and among the meetings and corrections. One of fair - I am sure that individual LMU, and particularly its round." said Chris Price, former the inevitable bad press student community as a whole, these managers considered members of staff have worked management, towards its Director of LMU w hen But within seconds these herself so important, that having very hard on behalf of Paul students. challenged about the incident Richard Fletcher (Editori NUS: The way forward ?

closure of students' union services a national issue - if necessary bring every campus SPOTLIGHT and college to a standstill until the Tories retreat. Kevin Sexton, a member of the The present strategy of NUS has never been decided by your National Executive Council, writes in student union or any other. it a personal capacity about the future has been forced upon its by Labour Students Their belief is direction of NUS and the campaign that students will nut get against voluntary membership. invoked in demonstrative activity. They are now continuing their letter writing campaign and. now, sending ohn Patten. Education Major and Patten campaign. christmas cards to Tory MPs. Minister, wants to stop your They have not involved J The legislation could be passed automatic right to join NUS students in the campaign and by next February and they still through your student union believed, up until the Queens continue to put their weight affiliation. He wants to slop Speech.that the only way to behind campaign activity that students having the right to a win was to write letters to has obviously failed, if this Is national voice which represents MP's. it is quite clear from the possible end of your them, campaigns for them and Government announcements student union as you know it. services them and their that Lorna Fitzsimons's then wishing Merry Christmas sabbaticals' officers. The champagne breakfasts with to John [mitten is not the way National Union is the only Tory Lords and MPs have forward. The way forward is to potential barrier between more changed none of the Tories' make sure that ever) tory \ 1p attacks on students and the intentions. has the worst Christmas and privatisation of education, such It must now he quite New Year that they ever as the introduction of graduate apparent to students that the imagined. The tortes are way lax and tuition fees. only way to win is to hit the behind in the polls: their At present. many Tories where it hurts. we need policies for Education. the students and student union to organise campaign activities Economy, the Health Service officers will have some valid which involve the maximum and.by the majority of people criticisms of the way that your number of students. We need in this country. are hated. We National Union is run by the to organise campaign activities need to join up with all sections careerist right wing labour which involve the masinaum of the Labour Movement. both leadership of NUS. However. number of students. we need to within and outside Education. our National Union has the have a political leadership to to force them into u-turns on potential to he part of the organise activity which will their policies. defeat of the Tories ideas for ensure that not one students' Lorna Fitzsimons talks of a educAtion and the country as a union is lust to the present united campaign to stop the whole. Students organised proposals. Tories however, her policies of within NUS on many occasions So then, if t he giving into their ideas and have defeated, with the help of Parliamentary strategy of attacking those within the Kevin Sexton. Best friend of Lorna Fitzsimons NUS president? the labour movement the Labour students has not National Union who disagree Tories on issues such as tuition worked, as I stated it would not with her and Labour students Parliament by people who are can ensure defeat for the make our union more fees, student loans and the poll in an earlier Leeds Student then strategy shows that this is not prepared to give away parts of Tories; which put attacks on democratic, representative and tax. students have been part of what will? We, together, must the case. Unit!, in the student our students' unions and student unions at the top of the more powerful for the future. mass demonstrations. sit ins, organise activities which will movement is. and always has national Union to ensure their political agenda. organising a rent strikes, lobbies and other show the tories that their ci in 4.0/./ t., ,T)/en/her heen, based on mass collective own political career and campaign activity that involves s.' , direct action to protect legislation will never work and / et; iht.lr'd activity; centred around a maintaining a leadership of the tens of thousands of students r:s %.'i 1t ref themselves from Tory attacks. will never happen in one i, ii: he irr-re't that union leadership which is national Union t whatever taking to the streets and telling ,unison .n II we must get (organised again. institur . we need a national NUS .Irons' ON?: prepared to light and defend might he left of iti fur their John Patten 'keep your hands 4i/Oilid be ti gain confidence and ensure demnnstration, we need a wave Int% r'd 1414 all its members. In the crisis own political party. to keep off my union!' flyistrns: orgairlfs:1:0.0,1 if real fight to of occupations. shutdowns, sit 11111i4 that we put up that we are now facing, tie John Smith and Margret It is your students" union it% IA ;thin ins, work ins, lobbies of save our students' unions. must organise campaigns that Beckett happy. and your NUS. if the He is WWI one of tin' Parliament and local Tory. ow The present leadership have are based on the mass activity I urge you to seize the time leadership will not fight the 0411111114n ,'f the Save put all their efforts behind the MPs offices, whatever direct %rtulent..% idol ur cuttrptiVrt of all, not political Wheeling we have left in organising to government then we will action brings which makes the scenes tea and biscuits with and dealing in the corridors of build lighting campaigns which organise and, in the process.

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993

Arts

■■ 5=w p•i Im=121•LL- Posse Odeon Cinema

r Cowboyz 'n The Hood. Mario Van Peebles is part of the new wave of black directors to emerge from Hollywood. However there is not much which is new in his latest movie, Posse, Othe follow up to the widely acclaimed New jack City. Here, Van Peebles both stars and directs in his bid to jump on the revitalised Western bandwagon which began rolling with last year's Unforgiven. Mario the Director is starting up a posse. He's rounded up some of his pals; Tone-Lac, Stephen Baldwin, Billy Zane and blended them with the aging hacks of many 1970's black action films; Isaac Hayes, Pam Grier, Woody Strode to form an eclectic cast, but the resulting film is a cumbersome bore. The restless camera tails our heroes as they move from one standard Western cliche to the next. Gunfights, bar room brawls, dirty poker games and glorious sunsets, but there's little excitement and even less plot. You know something's wrong when the big, juicy watermelons outside the grocery store don't get blown up in the climactic shootout. Mario the Actor fails to pull off a convincing Man With No Name type; all the flashbacks in the world won't explain just what his beef is - he just makes like Clint and hopes for the best. The remainder of the cast rarely rises above the adequate. Posse ultimately fails as both western and action film, despite the copious amounts of big guns, gratuitous skinny dipping - no baths in Frontierland - and exploding buildings. Matthew Goodman

lovers are married with kids. And while their He was followed by Dr Fact's World of toppling into the audience. In the tiny space Peter Pan infidel husbands arc playing with Lola, the Facts, a hilarious duo who were enthusiastically upstairs at the Royal Park, the company respective spouses are anything but received. Then it was Neil Gawckwin, a gangly brought fringe theatre face to face with a rather Civic Theatre unemotional_ All this throws a dim light on the fellow with a very studenty/dnley repertoire startled student audience. question of fidelity and 'amour' in general. which endeared him to the audience. His If a measure of good drama is its ot on the trail of what really matters to the I'd describe this film as a kind of delivery was slow and gawky - reminiscent of immediacy, then this unmeasured Hstudent population, down I went to the maelstrom, with its integral atoms randomly Emo Phillips - but his jokes didn't always hit the performance certainly measures up. Leeds Children's Theatre production of Peter loving one another when they shouldn't, and mark. The guest slot Carpenter Toni and his Juliette Garside Pau(and you thought Abba - The Movie was a not loving when they should, Anyway, they all wooden computer games was also very silly, but a good laugh. bad move!). sleep with each other in true French cinematic There were pirates, indians, sword Topping the bill was Australian Phil style: that part of the film is easy enough to Davey, who was actually a bit of a Eddie Izzard fights and even some flying. The first scene follow! If you manage to get a coherent was a little forced but the production gathered disappointment. He was obviously more perspective it makes some moving comments experienced than the rest, but his brand of St. Georges' Hall guts with the change of scene to The Never on human relations, and a few cracking jokes K. Hands up who's heard of Eddie? That's Land' and soon elicited the necessary audience humour was closer to "lad-ism- than alternative like, Lola: I hate books, Baudelaire's wife burnt comedy. His jokes about the French, rugby 1/..../what I thought. Despite the odd televised participation. all of his. David: She missed a few then! players, periods and other such side-slappers festival, and Channel 4's Late License, Mr. The pirates were satisfyingly rowdy During her turmoils, Lola discovers raised a lot of laughs but I found him unsubtle Izzard has stuck to his mid-eighties decision and Ian Goodison showed us a new side to a that the one thing she thought she didn't have and slapstick, not witty. not to appear on the box. It is in fact quite pensive, classical Hook (or was it Hamlet?). in common with other women, a love of This Electric Lemon has a lot of zest - possible that none of you know what an The Lost Boys could have been dirtier and children, is the only thing she is left with - she check it out, it's not bad for 0.50 and will evening in the company of this man is like. Slightly' really was a little too chesty for that discovers that 'apres l'amour', comes le bebe! definitely cheer you up. 1500 people sit in a large concert hall part. This is nothing on the scale of French and howl as a man wearing lipstick chases At the risk of patronising the Rea Podas cinema's generally brilliant output, but an trains of thought across vast continents of performance the children did indeed steal the interesting and, at times, enlightening piece of comedic profundity. Well perhaps not Still, show, not however because of their size but cinema. Eddie lizard is very funny, so funny, in fact, due to their chirpy energy. Tootles (Julie Metamorphosis Sara Buys that to repeat any of his set would crucify it. Thackray), Tiger Lily (Emma Dubery) and Royal Park Pub Suffice to say that cats playing bongos, dogs Wendy (Janine Walker) all showed themselves destined for more than your average amateur afka's narration of The Metamorphosis is playing tag and Spock's secret Twix fixation Electric Lemon were the smallest elements of an evening that dramatics. KIN-cold, calm, distancing; the company Dead The show is not on the two-level The Fenton Earnest's performance of it jumped out and left me feeling ever so totally strung out. humour of pantomime so if you do go along to grabbed me. Some of the material was old stuff, avoid the dodgy looks grab a couple of kids to Its impact was not, as glibly stated in "monsters" may be familiar from his last tour, he Electric Lemon cabaret are in the middle of the programme, achieved through a but when it is matched with "top of the head" take with you. their autumn season. They have chosen to T comparison between the plight of Kafka's improvisation you can only go with the flow Natalie Brightbard. perform in the Drum, cleverly, for the tiny venue salesman, dehumanised by his employers and and hope the drop's not too far. His comedy creates a coziness conducive to having a laugh. family, and "those facing the trauma of lies in his delivery and various affected Apres l'amour Last Thursday it was packed and everyone was mannerisms, although perhaps the most in the right mood; so when local compere, Danny unemployment, financial hardship" and the important element is the honesty which shows Baker, took the stage mirth and merriment loss of identity in today's recession_ Cottage Road Cinema his followed. The impact was, inface the result of in all his material, even when dealing with He introduced the rather nervous Dave months of sweaty preparation, the lead actor transvesticism. nfidelity breeds confusion and, boy, is this Williams. The 'Hull-based funny fella" was strenuously perfecting scuttling, bug-like In the end no review will ever come I film hard to follow! Lola is a novelist striving indeed funny, drawing absurd conclusions from movements, until the company could unleash close to describing just what it is Eddie Izzard for inspiration. She is depicted here between logical starting points (if a tramp has a non-local a torrent of truly earnest, youthful energy. Al does up there for the best part of two hours. her thirtieth and thirty-first birthday, hovering accent, then he must he' on an exchange visit). He times the performers were rigid but intense, at Just go and see him. I did. between the two men she loves in a rather lacks experience, but his humour has a lot of best unnervingly out of control, reaching a detached, almost existential way. Both her potential, hysterical peak that sent tables and stools Stuart Davies

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 Arts 9 Pain in the co I gito l he sun strains a rising over studentland. The sky is steely Tblue, steely grey. It's freezing. Eyelids are heavy. Dimly she remembers an angry alarm, and how she reached out an alarm to placate it. Confrontation seemed too painful then. She cannot judge how long ago that happened yet now she senses an uneasy peace throughout the house. An eerie silence. She shivers and musters the agility in an ashen hand to draw the clock into her desperately short sight. Clumsily she comprehends its message. So I Married an Axe Murderer 10.30 a.m Guilt. The one place she wants Odeon Cinema to be - here in the seedy ease of bedclothes - is an arctic labour away f the title conjures up the image of classic Hollywood B-movie fodder from a bygone era, then you will from the one place she should be - the only be partially bemused by this movie. Mike Myers (of Wayne's World fame) makes his second foray Iinto the cinema. He plays a performing beat poet (Charlie Mackenzie) whose love life is fatally hindered library. by his fear of a lasting commitment. Consequently, whenever a relationship is in danger of leading to The cold is ravenous, marriage he produces amazingly tenuous excuses - even claiming that one ex-girlfriend smelt of soup - in consuming the visible vapour of her order to abandon the engagement. sigh. She fearfully draws back in her Mackenzie's attitude is transformed when he meets Harriet (Nancy Travis). Suddenly he's madly in fingers. Rash movements, she knows, love, he's smitten by her, ready at last to take the plunge. But there is one problem; a series of coincidences are a senseless waste of warmth. She lead him to suspect that his perfect fiance is an axe-wielding serial killer. Unfortunately the "is she, isn't she" must regroup, consider. The welcoming question is a non-starter, since the light hearted, tongue in cheek style of the movie dispels the notion that arms of the library have been open for Harriet could be guilty of anything other than a serious deficiency in taste when it tame to choosing her two hours. She has spurned them, and husband. the brutal chill has frozen her capacity The film is an unashamed movie-vehicle for Myers, which by itself is not a feature to be condemned. However, as the central figure in the film, his lack of acting versatility and screen charisma were progressively for remorse. Even her teeth are too apparent. My less charitable instincts hoped that the serial killer would return to her vocation and claim our lethargic to chatter. How to bring erstwhile hero as her next victim. herself back to life? Definitely targeting the same audience that relished Wayne's World, the movie contained a good If she could just... one instinct quota of humour. Myers' portrayal of Charlie's Scottish father, who alternates his love for Rod Stewart and remains. Edging towards the precipice football with a copious alcohol intake, shows a talent for mimicry and is very funny. Whilst the ever of her bed she extends her right leg in a watchable Brenda Fricker is brilliant as the sexually repressed mother. well-practiced routine. The narrowness On reflection the movie feels like a shotgun marriage between a Carry on caper and a John Hughes of her room is a gift as numb toe film where neither of these dubious genres gains much prestige. connects like a magnet with 'Power' Akin Ojumu button. As if receiving a miracle the room is bathed in blue light. With Little Voice vision comes sound - music sweetly Watch with Mother tin Cour en River harmonious, gently insistent. She Bradfind Film Museum Cottage Road Cinema Alhambra Theatre makes out two words telling her televisual salvation is nigh - "This" and c? you think that now you're at University rven tor a French film, Un Cour en Nicer im Cartwright and the Bristol Old N;ic won a "Morning"_ you're grown up, do you? Well you're not. .L.:tfeels very intense. Its Frenchness beckons Jcouple of awards for this production, He sits on the right hand side, You're probably just as much of a kid as ever from every street corner, with the rain, the including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best with heavenly hostess sitting by. They so there's no reason to be embarrassed about cafes, and the gestures of the characters. The Comedy. This is a bit surprising since it is not welcome mortals to their fold, a smile worshipping childhood TV stars. You thought plot deals with a slice-of-life situation in which notably comic, being of a profound nature and and a sympathetic recrossing of legs Big Ted and Humpty were real at the time, Stephane (Daniel Auteuil), a violin maker, dealing with triumph in the face of torment but never mind; we all make mistakes. conveying a wealth of understanding. watches his old friend Maxime (Andre and insecurity. Once she thinks of changing These legendary stars can now be Dussollier) fall in love with beautiful and seen in the flesh at the new Watch With Little Voice, LV, is a timid, lonely girl channels but the notion of the other talented young violinist Camille (Emmanuelle who spends her time listening to her deceased two makes her feel sullied and scared - Mother gallery at Bradford's Museum of Beart). An unusual and tense love triangle father's record collection in the privacy of her too carefree, too urbane, wardrobe Photography, Film and Television, along with develops whereby Stephane gains Camille's room. However, she is blessed with a superb coordination bereft of imagination. Bill and Ben, those 'gobbling' favourites, and love simply for the perverse pleasure of saving The Woodentops (your parents may singing voice to rival stars such as Bassey, What she needs is slow reassurance, to her "I don't love you". remember these.) And if you're feeling old friends, familiar features - to see He doesn't seem to be intentionally Garland and Monroe. Her mother, Man, is a particularly silly then turn yourself into an loutish tart who is drunk most of the time, and the puns coming well before they are instant killing machine using the Dalek voice cruel, spending most of the film looking tragically morose or puzzled. His true motives the two don't get on. spoken. What fears could she possibly simulator. Derek Griffiths is well cast as Ray have which would not be assuaged by The gallery is aimed at kids and remain somewhat ambiguous; his initial narrative voice significantly stops and we are Say, Mari's latest fling and a shifty cabaret their ever-present dictum of comfort adults equally which means there's an promoter, who exploits LV after overhearing and consolation: "I know ours do". atmosphere of fun rather than that stuffy left to gather what we can from looks and glances. her flexing her vocal chords. He persuades her Absolution seems as simple as 'museum' feeling. A word of warning - try not a Susan Brookes seafood supper, the to go within school hours as the museum is What might have otherwise been a to perform a few times, brain-washing her into full of hyperactive kids pushing buttons and slow-moving and tedious film is saved by the thinking that her performance would be a library but a grim and redundant doing their best to trip you up. powerful and moving music which fills the great tribute to her father. memory. The university of life is fully While you're at the museum don't script. Auteuil brilliantly demonstrates a man LV realises Ray's tricks and decides, networked before her. Today's miss TV Heaven, where for no charge at all for whom the very nature of love is alien. He to stop performing. The bitter truth is revealed seminars are perfect patios, divorce, the you can watch your choice of hundreds of has constructed an enclosed world in which with Man falling from grace and LV rising to private anguish of Bonnie Langford British television greats. Also well worth a "music is dreams" and is unable, or reluctant, new heights of confidence and happiness. and the good old British banger. She visit is the 5-storey high IMAX cinema which to relate the feelings inspired by Camille's This doesn't sound funny and it's not, feels the thrill of knowledge. allows you to feel totally immersed in what music to his life. His cold heart makes him being full of unsophisticated, predictable The sun is high over you're watching - that is, feel as if you're escape emotions, and his existentialism humour which apparently appealed to some. studentland. But she has no idea. The speeding down the Grand Canyon on a raft or destroy and humiliate Camille. It is a poignant but not to me. The lady to my right (forty- curtains are firmly shut. Judy deserves being eaten by sharks. and elegant film which takes the tired theme of something?) was achieving multiple, side- the kindest of lighting. Respect where So why not escape from that hideous painful love and newly explores within it the splitting shrieks of the most audible kind it's due. These people taught her student nightmare of essays, overdrafts and difficulty and danger of expressing and whilst all I could do was get embarrassed. everything she knows. the demon drink, back into the world where exposing emotions. Big Ted rules and dreams come true. Hannah Jones Chris Williams Maya Socolovsky Ian Newman

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 10 Music

Stephen Dick travelled into the heart of lot easier to do than this tour, it's a different sort of thing. On a NICOTINEt's only since the release of their eponymously titled debut AGE tourSTICKS like that you go out in front of 2000 people who haven't album last month that people have really started to sit up Leeds city centre to meet Stuart and got a clue who you are, so in a way that makes it easier Iand lake notice of The Tindersticks, but being the support because there's nothing to live up to. When we play here act on the recent Nick Cave tour threw them right into the Dicken of The Tindersticks - heavy smokers people have to fork out £4, so it's like different pressures in spotlight. Seemingly image-conscious, the band are always different ways. We're only proving ourselves to ourselves dressed in suits on stage and in photos, but at the soundcheck and composers of many a heavy tune. rather than to other people." However they felt about the it's Stussy jackets and Mambo shirts all round, and not a beach performance , for the audience it is in sight. Since their first release stunning. They only get the chance almost a year ago, The Tindersticks to play about half of the album, and have produced five wondrous the crowd is left shouting for their singles, flirting with as many labels favourites which had been left out. in the same time. They produce some of the Although there wasn't anything new, appetites will be whetted by most frank and emotional songs anyone has written for a long time, the news of a non-album single in set against a backdrop of the most the new year. harrowing music this side of Gallon "We'll be doing another Drunk. They've managed to sound so single soon, but it won't be out refreshingly original at a time when until January and we don't know most bands are simply obsessed with what it'll be yet. I think the new noise or just bleeps. stuff will be a bit different the way "Well we don't plan things are going, it'll be a lot more anything. It's not like, oh we want to concise. We've got a lot of loose sound like this or that. We just move ends so it may be much more with what we're doing and the sound spontaneous, but it's hard to know comes from the six of us. No-one gets what it'll sound like until we do it." told not to play anything. We work With each release yet more as much on silences as the actual critical acclaim is lauded upon the sounds . What we don't play is as important as what we do the band didn't make it so long just for the sake of it. band, people are flocking to see them, and the early singles play." "We had 12 days recording and then 6 days mixing are now rarities. Even the picture from their album sleeve has Their last single 'City Sickness', their most successful which we thought was a long time. We went in with a lot of been spotted on Jack Duckworth's wall in Coronation Street, to date, was the most beautiful abstract of the urban life we finished songs and some ideas of how it would turn out, and although Stuart is quick to point out that it's not actually one face every day, "In the city there's no place for love. It's just ended up recording 23 songs. Most of them worked and none of their posters. Nevertheless, indie-stardom must beckon. used to make people feel better - that's not like us". Following justified being B-sides, so the album became a double. "I don't think any of us want to try and become a this came what many people believe to be one of the best With this being the band's first tour since the album commercial success for the sake of becoming a commercial albums of the year, never mind one of the best debuts. and much of the press coverage, it's inevitable that most success. It's more to do with just feeling comfortable about Sprawled across four sides of vinyl, a double album may be people feel they've got a lot to prove. what we do. I don't think it matters where you go, as long as seen as a mite ambitious, but there's not really any fillers, and "Looking back on it there was pressure, but it was a you do things on your own terms."

so deep and meaningtul', I hear you cry I heir not exactly about to change the face of popular Admittedly I've spent this week Grant Lee Buffalo songs revolve around the death of the music. SWAfshoegazers with attitude) they suffering from flu. and am therefore in a mood American dream and frustrations about a take their starting point from the House of that makes the Pet Shop Boys sound like Leeds Metropolitall stagnant U.S. political system, hardly relevant Love's incendiary early singles before tearing tinnitus-inducing thrash, but honestly, I've to an average British student. the place up with bursts of Mercury Rev guitar given the album a fair go. The problem is, in ype is ugly. It is even more repulsive if If you went to the gig, get a life and if noise. 'Natterjack Joe' is a misanthropic the words of those infinitely more skilled you bought a T-shirt don't tell your kids they masterpiece full of spite and anger but Mint recvclers of rock. Teenage Fancluh. we've "seen Hthe recipient of such adulation is unworthy. Grant Lee Buffalo are over-hyped will get beaten up at school. 400 remain the sound of 1988. it all before." and over here. British musicians invaded the The independent scene is in danger of Chris Mooney U.S. during the mid-sixties now it seems the Matt Ball drowning under it's nostalgia and nothing I've Americans are back for revenge However, for seen tonight is likely to change that. every Beatles you get a Gerry and the Pacemakers and for every Nirvana you get a Mint 400 James Muir Grant Lee Buffalo. LUU Tartan Bar Its easy to see why 'musos have True Zero Hook rushed to embrace them, Since alternative oil up the circus is hack in town, two Hip Hop top ten sellers became mainstream and the charts filled up cclaimed "new" indie bands on a tour Small 23 (Alias) Compiled by Steve at Crash with soulful divas and geriatrics, this lost sponsored by Radio l and guess what? It's generation haven't had a hero to call their own. empty as the nation holds it's breath for "'I haven't heard of them either. 1 Snoop Doggy Dog Doggy style The whole tiresome exercise of only liking England's last pathetic chance for a place in the NHowever, you all know exactly what this artists if they haven't sold too many records is world cup, record sounds like. Two years ago it would 2 Del the Funky Homosapien No need for not only ridiculous but reflective of Grant Lee Up against it, opening tonight are have been hailed as the future of teenage rock, alarm Buffalo fans. It -s not hard to see the irony suction a Leeds university band. Suction and now it s lust treated with a yawn, a wave 31A/rifting Clan Enter the wutang behind the situation, to them Grant Lee Buffalo are. .alright,they are competenemusical and of the hand and "Oh no, not another bloody 4 Das EFX Straight up suicide can play medium-sized halls, sell a respectful with an alarming talent for making each song Nirvana." Yup pardners, Small 23 hail from MC Ren Shock of the hour amount of records as long as they continue to from the Chilli Peppers funk of Nobody' to the Chapel Hill USA, don checked shirts. are 5 represent, in their eyes, all that is 'musically Indic rock of 'Turn my back' sound like Alison mates with Superchunk and haven't cut their 6 Future Profits Blood of Abraham correct i.e no tunes, ugly musicians and Moyennot strictly an insult). hair since their sophomore year 7 Hooligans Put your hands up interesting sleeve notes. There will be many On to the future of indie rock ,the It's not that the music is bad, just 8 Kurious Uptown Shit casualties when people realise that Grant Lee innovative and imaginative Skyscraper, who desperately, desperately unoriginal. "True 9 Shaquile o Neal Diesel Buffalo are essentially AOR tat. am I kidding, Skyscraper are a Zero Hook" is potent pop-punk, but there are Apparently it s not cool to move so pr•dictable,generic post Nirvana guitar many better examples around. Often the 10 Cypress Hill Black Sunday the audience stand around seemingly more band,lumpen riffs,ludicrously forced vocals record is taken up by atonal drawling over interested in Grants twelve string guitar and and a serious lack of talent. seemingly random chords, in obvious Rush down to Crash for all that's which pedal he's using than the music. Seeing The main. act Mint 400 emerged a deference to Lou Barlow's Sebadoh. Only as the music was the epitome of dull they had year or so ago with one breathless Melody "Chopsocky," the longest track, drags the top in pop. to get excited about something. Every number Maker journalist heralding them as the best album out of its terminal mediocrity. Based seemed to built around the same blueprint; guitar band since 'The Stone Roses' missing the around an engaging lot of feedback, it has a slow bit, fast bit, slow bit followed by guitar mark by a few mikes but making the point that mourntul vocal that contrasts with the usual solo, fast bit, end. Great. "But lyrically the are Mint 400 are actually good,although they are screeching. A good time to fall asleep to.

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"Hello, Phil Scowen here with another meander through this weeks 45's" SNOOP DOGGY DOGG What's My Name? (Death Row)

recent myth had it that we're there's an undeniable return to rock. As a Bizarrely, gangsta rap could be the big draw surrounded by the ashes of pop Paul Weller five piece the band are very clear, very in 94 courtesy of Snoop Doggy Dogg, Amusic, that sometime around the loud and kick bottom in no uncertain whether he's sent down on a pending end of the 80's it keeled over exhausted, Town & Country Club terms. At 34 Weller's never looked so murder charge or not. His languid, Southern threw its legs in the air and said 'Enough'. dapper, locks flailing and white slacks sing-song drawl of a delivery is Irresistible The argument went something along the than their contemporaries. Weller forged billowing he darts between piano and on this first solo walkies, where he brags on lines that pop music with guitars was all Who influenced riffs with a class guitar with equal proficiency. There's no to the usual effect, namely: he's tough, he's washed up because everything had been conscience reminiscent of Ray Davies to songs from his previous incarnations just good in bed, he washes windows in his done. make his own distinctive vignettes. his (already substantial) solo catalogue spare time. With an impeccably fat Dr Dre Lack of originality should cause Following the exceptional 'Setting Sons' beefed up and punted into touch. The production, this is barking bad. no alarm, pop music's always had a album and a string of No.1 singles, Weller singles go down best of course, history of grand larceny. Elvis stole from shocked all by disbanding and forming particularly 'Into Tomorrow'. There's CHUMBAWAMBA black R&B and country, The Beatles stole The Style Council. Never to have the takes on 'Warr and 'Ohio' (by Neil Young) JESUS H. CHRIST (Tragic Flop bootleg) from Chuck Berry, The Smiths stole from impact of The Jam they pinched Soul and and two encores. People fretted that Going on for Elvis and The Beatles. The best bands Jazz motifs, used Mick Talbot's Weller might never peak again after The have always made original music through instrumental skills and produced some Jam: on his current roll there seems to be several years, chumb aw amb a a sound basis of loud echoes of the past. fine singles ('My Ever Changing Moods' no cause for concern. Pop's not dead, it this curio from Paul Weller's success is that he's stolen and 'You're The Best Thing'l. was just resting and the best is yet to be the Leeds and kept running. When The Jam Where Paul Weller the solo pilfered. mischief- exploded at the peak of punk they were proposition borrows, it's from Neil Johnny Davis m a k i n g immediately cleverer and more interesting Young. Songs are longer, heavier and collective is an electro-folk ramble through a large record To Hell With The Orb Radial pile. They use phrases and jesus h christ Humdrum Town & Country Club Spangle/Idaho snatches of melody from over forty sources, from film Kingmaker(Chrysalis) s you must have realised by now The Duchess of York s dialogue through Johnny Cash to the Hari ..Orb are a bit of a phenomenon. In the PT' always thought that Kingmaker have A Krishna mantra. You name it, they've half- past four years they have mushroomed Tt's not a dramatic opening. Hardly lbeen rather unlucky with regards to 'anyone seems to notice the one man inched it. A statement about the media attention, being lumped in with from a tiny weenie spot on the very fragmentation of society negating the periphery of musical consciousness to - at wandering onto the stage with his guitar. I Mega City 4 and the Senseless Things as dare say some don't even notice when he brotherhood of man, perhaps, or a railing Indic pop's shallow and mindless least - a medium sized spot located slightly against Christianity? It makes you think. off-centre. Around the world thousands of starts playing it, but those of us who are contributors with likeminded hoards of paying attention are treated to a fans, Having a certain support band on Orbheads know that taking their Orb M PEOPLE collections out of the freezer, checking the stereotypical singer-songwriter's gentle tour with them last year only managed to Don't Look Any Further (BMG) catalogue numbers and pressing that play ballad, It's not that great. but when the rest fuel unfavourable comparisons by the of the band appear everything changes. music press. But really, Kingmaker have button are as near as possible guaranteed Beatier and faster is how I like my M People, admittance to The Grand High Ball of Idaho create an awesome sound. They put had the last laugh when you consider the most of the best things rock music has to not smooth, plump and classy like this. amount of commercial success they have Aural Bliss. The Orb enter, two tiny figures offer into every song. The majority of them enjoyed over the past year or so. are more of those aching ballads, but with RUN DMC Kingmaker are well acquainted dwarfed by the huge spheres. Now in the Down With The king remixes (Profile) top twenty for the third time with ''Little added dimensions that make them with the three minute sing-along pop song; incredibly evocative, like the heavy bass but 'grating' rather than 'genius' is the word Fluffy Clouds" and on the verge of their Veteran rappers Run and DMC have found sixth album release it's impossible not to (they have two bassists) and brilliant use of more likely to spring to mind. Perhaps the feedback courtesy of the bloke who spends God and this is a brassy, crunchy workout real reason for Kingmaker's unpopularity feel that The Orb are riding high, as the telling us how they did it. Well done lads. ambient house scene which they created the entire set with his guitar jammed with the critics is the utter flippancy with against his amp. The singer has one of which they produce their art. Careless gathers more and more momentum. SLOWDIVE To the slides The Orb add their those sonorous, passionate voices that guitar riffs fuse with Loz Hardy's nasal, always sounds like it's about to let rip but 5 EP (Creation) often scornfully whining voice; conveying own space-age soundtrack. Starling with a laid back numbe It's mellow in places and very rarely dues. Radial Spangle arc an offhand air of not really giving a damn. another one of those out there' American Maybe dream pop guitar-stingers Slowdive It's difficult to know most of the time not in others. As the night progresses the have found God too. They've certainly lost assorted crowd, scanned with lasers, bob bands, and although they're better than whether they actually intend to be this must, they're nut remarkable. They seem to their axes here; this is an "ambient" swirl nonchalant, or whether they are making an appreciatively as they are subjected to bass which floats away somewhere on some capable of demolishing tower blocks. The be trying very hard to emulate Mercury 'ironic' comment on the flippancy of today's Rev's more conventional moments, and beats. Calming. thunderous Towers of Dub registers at least society. Or maybe they are just trying to be pull it off rather well. But it's the ability to 4.2 on the Richtor Scale and similarly Little funny, who knows? Kingmaker are a awitch between the slightly off-killer and BJORK Fluffy Clouds is transformed into a car throwaway band in a throwaway world, the downnght bizarre that makes Mercury Big Time Sensuality (One Little Indian) crushing monster The onslaught lasts (or and the fact that they are wholly conscious Rev and the naming Lips the spearheads of of this fact does not necessarily excuse two hours, a mixture of ear crunching The exuberance and wonder in Bjork's tone rhythms blended with their trademark their genre. Radial Spangle haven L vet them from making rather irritating music. broken through into that league, but they to raise this slightly pedestrian disco If you can imagine their hit 'Queen Jane' Orbscapes, and all of a sudden with workout to something more endearing. "It 'Outlands' they're gone, without a sign of a sound like they could get there eventually. multiplied, with a few slow numbers That makes one revelation, and one hope takes courage to enjoy it" she sings 'pretty boy' lead singer. They don't need thrown in for variety, you have 'To Hell for the future Half marks perceptively, and it is with her With Humdrum' Take it or leave it, one - the music says it all. accompanying growl, trill and warble that I Sara McDonnell Nick Collins Joe Williams

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 r 12 Classical & Jazz David & Geoffrey Greed &al ►s: Sonata in A Major ProkoJiev: Sonata in I) Leeds City Art Gallery

ith each new event the Leeds WLunchtime Chamber Music series continues to establish itself more and Flocking to Shepper more impressively as a very respectable thread in the present day cultural fabric of Leeds. Geoffrey and David Greed (father and son respectively) played to Andy Sheppard vet another near-capacity audience at the Art Gallery, and with such and In Co-Motion unflagging vitality as to warm the nle Irish Centre cockles of even the coldest and most disconsolate OAP. Minor technical imperfections ndy Sheppard is a very happy man. In are always rendered irrelevant when the two years since we heard from him quality performers decide to give Alast he has signed with the legendary performances their all. David and Blue Note label, becoming producer, writer Geoffrey Greed's account of Brahms' and arranger, and has been awarded an Sonata in A Major, with few instances Honorary Degree of Master of Music at the o f the former and providing ample University of the West of England. He has evidence of the latter, sprung spiritedly also become a father, this being especially to life and never looked back. significant, as can be seen in the titles of his new two-part offering-, Rhythm Control and The Greeds' instruments presented a textural contrast that was in Delivery Suite. Not surprising then, that these two the main colourful but which at times albums provided the basis for his came over as too stark. David Greed's contribution to the Leeds Jazz season, 250 year-old Zanoli violin is as gutsy a gratefully received by an enthusiastic stringed instrument as you'll ever hear, audience, although noticeably devoid of and, with an owner who is certainly not students. A pity if this is due to location, as aversed to some extraordinarily strong the Irish Centre's intimacy is the perfect bowing, its delivery occasionally had complement to the warm, full tones of this the effect of eclipsing bits of Geoffrey remarkable saxophonist and his melting-pot Greed's accompaniment, played as it of musicians. was on a Steinway with exceptionally His tendency to move away from rich but mellow dynamics. in all other acoustic tree-jazz makes tonight's particulars, however, the two men performance all the more absorbing, with established a very sensitive rapport, and each performer displaying a compelling David Greed's peculiarly robust playing command over his respective instrument. was not without its delicate moments. Their individual talent was particularly His mastery of the double string noticeable during the second half with less crossovers in the Allegretto was superb. structural tunes allowing more room for The pair worked very hard at improvisation, although they were still Prokofiev's testing Sonata in D with excellent at maintaining their plenty of rewarding moments, including characteristically crisp sound. Also more a memorably energetic Presto and an apparent as the evening progressed was their Andy Sheppard enterprising Andante. If only all artists ability to work with a variety of styles. and originality. the Rainbow', conclusive evidence that he is gave performances of such conviction on Haunting duets were masterfully And so, wearing the same grin that still one of the hottest artists on the modern this level I'm sure we'd all sleep better. merged into huge, colourful melodies, he walked on with, Andy Sheppard leaves us British jazz scene. leaving you captivated by their proficiency with a striking rendition of 'Somewhere Over Daniel Davis Mark Funnel!

sturdy and lucid ut being overbearing. Halle Orchestra The mezzo-soprano Sally Burges-, gave a particularly distinguished edge to the The Classical / Jazz page Leeds Philharmonic 'Sea Pictures' by Elgar, full of verve but elegantly refined. By contrast her counterpart is still very keen to Chorus Rosemary George (soprano) came over as shrill and a little choked by the Town Hall's unearth new talent, Elgar: The Music capacious interior it was a pity that the evening's second particularly for the fields Makers; Sea Pictures pi. wasn't more fittingly chosen to of opera and classical complement the two by Elgar - Parry's Choric Leeds lbw►? Hall Song The Lotos Eaters' snuggled down rather music, and stresses that inconsequentially between 'Sea Pictures' and neither previous A (ter the previous weekend's Nagano-led The Music Makers-, despite valiant efforts to ...triumph with the Halle at Bradford, Ibis bring it to eminence. experience nor an weekend's concert provided further proof that Nevertheless there was considerably if you give the Mancunian orchestra a more in these performances deserving of extensive knowledge is conductor willing to dispense them a hefty praise than disparagement. Its always a joy to necessary. If you're kick up the backside, they'll deliver the goods. witness so many folks pooling their Hickox, with punitively thorough and collaborative energies to such an effect, interested in having a protracted rehearsal schedules (for both especially so when there has clearly been no orchestra and chorus) justified his hob-nailed want of preparation. go please contact Mark treatment every note of the way on Saturday Mark Funnel! night Funnel! by leaving your Due to a production error, last week's The Leeds Philharmonic Chorus were name and number at on hard-hitting form. Although occasionally Classical / Jazz page omitted the name of let down by their disproportionately small Alex Atia from the review feature on the either office. tenor section (who shouldn't have struggled so Halle Orchestra's performance at St sally Burgess - not Doris Day hard to compensate), their delivery was both George's Hall, Bradford (Fri Nov 12th)

Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 11th October 1993

Books 13

Ways of Seeking The Search Geoff Dyer (Hamish Hamilton £14.99)

ome things are old hat - Spider plants, the ZX 81, As the novel swirls along, the towns are Kellogg's Cornflakes and even En Vogue. Until presented as little vignettes, more than stages in a Srecently the crime/thriller novel was also, for me at pilgrim's progress but actual critical moments - a Dennis least, in the realm of the comfortable, somewhat worn Hopper diner, a bit of photo-reportage or a picture deerstalker. With Geoff Dyer's latest novel, The Search, all postcard - until Walker reaches Nemesis the last town of that may have changed. the search ... It concerns Walker, a shady ex-con who has spent Here the themes culminate as Walker enlists the time as a "tracker" (a sort of futuristic bounty hunter). He help of a film maker. Together they search thousands of meets Rachel, a seductive suburbanite straight out of a snapshots for glimpses of Malory. What emerges adds to Chandler novel, and is persuaded to resuming "tracking" Dyer's already astute criticism of the photographic in the hope of finding her missing husband, Malory. The medium by highlighting the faintly terrifying idea that search begins and Walker tails off across Middle America we are all subject to a sort of inept panopticism. following a scent that's colder than last week's coffee Dyer's writing ability is never in doubt. (sorry, Chandlerese . . . I'm afraid it's infectious). His Wordplay clashes with neatly drawn description on adventures lead him through towns of varying size and almost every page. /et, despite this huge effort to offer detail as he follows Malory more by instinct than any something almost philosophical in nature, 1 felt let down. actual detective work. Walker is the epitome of bullshit Hollywood detective, all It is here that the novel lifts itself above pulp crude chat up lines and Indiana Junes action: "You know crime fiction and into a classical literary motif of self- what sort of dress that is?... It's the kind of dress I want discovery. The less Walker tries to find Malory the to put my hand up". sharper his instincts become. The names of various towns As an attempt to rewrite detective fiction it is lend clues to Walker's problems and inner feelings; in only partly successful, but as postmodern Chaucerian Despond he just mopes around, the desire to find Malory prose I can think of no better example - a little fading fast. Because of this the novel has a sporadic, unsophisticated perhaps, but none the worse for it. shifting feel that reflects, if not life in general, then at least one man's life. Stuart Davies An excellent Dyer-tribe. it could almost se.,rve as the substance in one ut Their adventures collide when thug this background Smith unravels a familiar Strip Tease the wrestling baths so prominent in th e meet again at the hotel of the title. Run by the theme - the universal struggle between good background fas it werei. improbable Olivio, a lecherous dwarf, this and evil. Carl Hiaasen (Macmilkm £14.99) There's so much to get your teeth into hotel represents a little England for its The tale is told through Taita, a here, so little that you would enjoy the taste of inhabitants. In reality, it is part brothel, part eunuch slave in the service of the sadistic Lord t the gates of Disneyland, a grinning in real life. Grisly murders, aggressive prose. gambling den, where acres of land are used for Intel. The narrative works upon two levels, A mouse glibly shakes paws. As you all genuine thrills . , Hiaasen is careful not to payment, and where everyone's ambitions depicting the sweeping affairs of state which pass into Hiaasenland, a huge topless woman alienate the reader with his cryptic crossword seem to conic to a sudden end. dominate the book, while also telling the story suddenly plunges you into a bath of creamed style, his thousand cameo characters. Each There are important issues here: this of the lifelong passion between Tanus and corn and attempts to suffocate you using only chapter ends with a sign off, a little by-line that is European colonialism at its most vulgar. But Lord Intel's daughter, Lostris. her bosom. Guess where I'm going on holiday. says 'Tune in next week'. It has a very this is not a post-modernist novel, and Bull's I found this narrative compelling at Hiaasen is a sick and deranged individual, but impressive structure and an epilogue full of characters view Africa through the usual times, probably because of Smith's skill in if we could all be as funny as him then the irony and pithy isn't-life-a-hitch-hut-it's-all- cliches: it is enigmatic, exciting because it is handling plot and action. Events move resulting collapse of Western civilisation we've-got realism. It's great. Did I mention the 'savage' and 'uncivilised', yet full of forward incessantly, and Smith's capacity for would be a cheap price. topless wrestling? possibilities. While Bull does nothing to grisly descriptions of ritual decapitation and If very sure of yourself, its possible to suggest that he condones these opinions, he "heroic" battle deeds certainly appealed to my argue that the main themes of this book are Phil Weinberg seems unable to offer a fresh outlook. prurient streak. corruption, addiction, sex and huge Epitomised by characters with such However, after a few hundred pages intoxicating amounts of power. If you aren't as ridiculous names as Rack Slider and James of constant limb chopping and love-making I concerned with limiting parameters, the 'Spongey' Hartshorne, this is not an enthralling began to sense the repetitive nature of the degrees of deviousness, perversity and The White Rhino Hotel novel. As the fodder for a colourful mini- saga, The sprawling 'set-piece' battle scenes, insanity will occupy a full-time team of Bartle Bull (Signet £4.99) series, The White Rhino Hotel is probably although vivid, ceased to impress as I began to criminologists for a good few weeks. perfect. But as fiction, it is an uninspiring read. feel that I'd heard it all before Erin Grant . _ the only talented Raffle Bull has used all the standard And you will be forgiven for thinking you There are some interesting facets to 'dancer' at the humble retiring Eager Beaver 1/ingredients. Take several main characters, have read this all before. the book. Taita is a fascinating creation. A bar. Erin Grant, fierce warrior for custody of from a variety of classes and cultural Peter Rees cultured eunuch, well versed in medicine. her daughter in the face of a psychotic, backgrounds, and throw them together. Not to architecture and mysticism, he works his way addicted ex who routinely uses the little girl in make things too abstract or formless, create a into a position of authority with the Pharoah his wheelchair stealing routine. Erin, object of place for them to interact. Pep things up with a and begins to guide affairs of state. He is desire of Congressman Dilbeck, who little sex or violence; and. to really make powerless to prevent the marriage of Lostris to drunkenly defends her honour with a broken something happen, find an exciting and River God the Pharoah, but Smith spins a web of intrigue bottle, wielding also a false moustache which challenging backdrop for your tale Africa is Wilbur Smith (Macmillan 19.99) as Taita attempts to reunite her with Tanus. fools no-one at the crucial moment_ He invites always a good choice. The result is The White He creates in Taita a refreshing figure in a her to a private dancing session, and greets her Rhino Hotel, in which Bull tries on the crown of ilbur Smith is the master of the African book where the characters are too polarised, in boots overflowing with vaseline. Wilbur Smith. But it doesn't really fit. Wsaga. He specialises in writing pacv often seeming mere emblems of good and evil. She is the girl who haunts Tracing the history of East Africa adventure yarns which sell by the barrowload. River God just about achieves what it Moldowsky's nightmares as he arranges from 1918-1921, things open with a lottery Reading River God, its easy to see why. Smith sets out to do. It is action packed, entertaining multiple bereavements in myriad attempts to where recently demobbed soldiers can win tells an exciting story, combining a pacy and at times amusing. But even on this Level hide Dilbeck's insane obsessions. His political vast chunks of African farmland as a reward narrative with colourful scenery and more the book has its problems_ Despite a morass of influence depends on the fortunes of the Sugar for their service. One is Alan Llewlyn, whose boat chases and sex scenes than a Bond movie. Egyptian history (included to add an edge of Subsidy Bill, and the Rojo Sugar family do nut wife, Gwenn, is sailing to meet him. While on With River God Smith leaves the realism) the setting merely seems gloss, want Dilbeck (their paid lobbyist) falling from board the ship for Africa, Gwenn is saved from environment of big game reserves and concealing a rather weak morality tale But if a dispossessed you like epic tales of love, sex, war and grace so soon. a violent attack by Anton Rider, plentiful diamond mines for the exotic climes Woo! That's not even half the gypsy who is bound for Africa to find the of ancient Egypt. However, the Emit of 1780 honour, this is an ideal read characters. The plot is so thick and tangled that freedom that he cannot find in England BC is enveloped in strife and turmoil. Against Ian Darby

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The student grant has been frozen now for three years and with risk bank overdrafts. There was a time when students were at university VIEWPOINT holidays. But jobs are hard to find in the present economic climate. 1 to keep out of the red and, Leeds Student asks, are students liable to ' Sara, as we shall call her, cannot be identified by her real name. She is appl experience is unlikely to do her many favours. Last summer she was despe Howard left drama school in London three years ago to study for a university degree in Leeds. Hampered by the local paper for a chat line job and she thought it would be a bit of a latq debt after his first year he was forced to fall back on his own resources. So, he signed on at a performing arts employment agency. Howard was surprised when they phoned the next day with a placement. However, he ara seemed very willing to talk in my own name, 'Mistress Gemma' and suspenders, white silk stockings and found himself playing a part in everyone's most dreaded detail about her job but admitted I started on the job for real. stilletoes. Do you like what I look like? birthday surprise. Howard joined a kissogram team. Sthat in general she likes to keep it At first I thought I could handle it, What would you like to do to me? quiet. I even thought it might be a bit of a Come on... Tell me. You cao tell me "If my mum found out she'd be so giggle. After a while though I had to anything, and I'll do anything for shocked and I'd.die of shame. When I walk out. One particular caller made you..." went for my first shift I realised that me so gut wrenchingly sick that I got Calls were 48 pence a minute peak "When the agency rang me up and offered me the job I was the office was above the Asda dairies up. went to the be and never returned. time so the management were making speechless but I was also broke so there was really no question of on Kirkstall Road where I had worked It was very mentally draining, one of an absolute fortune. me not taking it. As an actor you have to be prepared to adapt the previous Christmas. (Now there's the hardest things I've ever done. Most calls were about two minutes )ourself to different roles all the time. some good money to be earned if It is verbal long, that's "I would never have seen myself as the man for the job you're desperate. You can earn 6000 prostitution - It is verbal prostitution - average jerking and when I arrived to meet the team, the women were all very in 10 days packing cream in the week you're just off time. After you're just pandering to other that time the brash and busty and most of the men were real cassanova types. leading up to Christmas.) I was a bit pandering to other people's people's needs. I wouldn't breathing gets The emphasis on the job was definitely on having a laugh but worried that someone might recognise needs. I wouldn't heavier and the there were also a lot of professional rules we had to adhere to. me. recommend anyone ever Before I arrived at the office I recommend doing it ever ever ever. It's phone slams We just had to do our job and go. We weren't allowed to hang really did think that it would be anyone ever down. But it all around even if we were invited for a drink. nothing more than an innocent doing it ever really screwed. varies. My No calls would be accepted for gay or lesbian requests. chatline for people with no lives to talk ever ever. It's longest call was Most requests were for Chippendale look-a-likes for which I about what they'd seen on the telly really screwed. And boys, I wouldn't about an hour and a half and I got a definitely wasn't up to. My assignments would usually be having that day. use the lines even if you're desperate bonus because the whole point of your to dress up as a gorilla or a policeman. The whole set up was But as soon as I saw the nicotine because you don't get sexy women on job was to keep them on for as long as very corny but I suppose the mugs who ring up and pay £40 for stained smoke filled room and the the other end, only a bunch of well possible in order to make more money. That particular bloke I spoke to was the job must find it amusing. crusty old women I knew it was spread old women. Callers would often ask you what really nice. He rang the Carribbean We worked on a shift basis, which often meant doing something dodgy. I needed the money though and it was a job, so I told you looked like - I'd make something line and asked to speak to me three four or five calls in a night. Day calls would usually be in myself to show a bit of spirit and go up like, "Hi, you've got a sexy voice. times while I was there. He even sent secretaries offices at lunch time. for it. Would you like me to tell you a bit his photo in with a letter. I was dead My first assignment was nerve racking. It was at a 50th There were six different lines: strip about myself? I'm 21, have long chuffed. That often happened. birthday party in someone's house. I imagined that I would be line, gay line, mistress line. massage blonde hair and big blue eyes... What Sometimes they would send in photos bombarded by pissed revellers, but the reality was worse. The line, Caribbean line and transvestite am I wearing? Well I always love to of their 'manhood'. place was full of unamused po-faced old people. This was line. Training was by listening in on wear special underwear. Today I'm Early evening was always a busy possibly the worst situation to be in as I couldn't play up to the the calls for a while. Then I was given wearing a white satin Basque with time for calls as people got back from crowd. This proved to be a one-oft though. Most of the time the crowd would rise to the bait. After acting, the job was really quite easy and there was no dirt involved. The company who ran the business didn't seem to be into anything like pornography. The kissograms were just a sideline for their fancy dress shop. LIVE For women, the job is probably more nerve racking. But 0 La we would always be sent along with a couple of body guards just T ,7 • in case. I think for the Chippendale look-a-likes the performance S was more sexual and they would always get more hassle. A v. VI g rD CD We were all a bunch of exhibitionists at heart and I just E CO V, 0 0 %NO111 0 F M saw the job as another acting job. I would definitely put a stop at stg stripping though. I'd have to be pretty desperate for cash to x - = accept that kind of work." / to / mIr rimt

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sng living costs and summer rent many students are running up massive ll to study, now many are being forced into jobs in term time and the .Helen Sage speaks to students who have joined the sex industry in order VIEWPOINTS o be forced into prostitution? dying for graduate jobs at the moment and this particular piece of work

]crate for money and jobs were sparse in Leeds. Eventually she saw an advert in "I'd do just about anything for money, except give ugh. But, as she describes, what she ended up doing was little short of prostitution. Norman Lamont a blow job. However, Russell Grant would get a look in if the price was right. No seriously I can't believe that students could be forced into jobs in the sex industry, although I do remember something about it in the national press last year. The fact that the government can sit back and let this sort of thing happen is sick. It takes a lot of work faced with a lonely evening at My favourite line was definitely the Although the adverts for the lines are home. It was very sad and I did feel mistress line. That was for men who full of sexual connotations It is run work to get into university one shouldn't have to resort to such after a while that I had to do loved to be dominated. They'd get a under the pretence that it's not sexual desperate levels to stay there." something to help. I used to encourage kick out of doing the most disgusting and you're not allowed to mention sex Rebecca them to go out and meet people, join a things like cleaning out the loci. or certain parts of the body. club or something. Sometimes you'd be sitting around Sonic of the older women took the You would also gel men ringing up with nothing to do and you'd see whole thing really seriously and they'd from work. They'd close the office someone across the other side of the get very involved in the callers. They "I'd definitely talk on a live sex line. I haven't even got door for a few minutes and pick up the room clapping their hands loudly over seemed to enjoy it - I suppose in some enough money to eat at the moment. I snogged phone. They would make out that they the phone. You'd know that they were ways it must he an easier job for those someone for a pint once and I was offered £400 for sex. were important on mistress line women who get told off in the office V but I did turn it down. I have honestly considered business men. but and someone for talking too much. Boys, I wouldn't use the prostitution, but my morales wouldn't let me. I'd feel this might have had asked to be There were a couple of other been part of their lines even if you're desperate spanked. students there - I remember one of dirty. I do appreciate that some students do work in the sex industry. fantasy. because you don't get sexy On the them was a law student. There was one especially abroad where you have to pay for your own tuition." Fantasy was women on the other end. mistress line bloke who had a 'normal' day time job Hazel what it was all only a bunch of well spread you'd get men and was working on the phones to pay about. We were who got off on off his mortgage payments. all putting on a old women. being abusive There were also a couple of gay performance for and being men there who ran the shifts and "I would probably talk dirty on the phone. depending these men. Depending on what line you abused back. A typical insult was spoke on the gay line. They took their on how desperate 1 was for money. You have complete job very seriously. They thought they were on the tone of the conversation 'You're just a big fat slag, I hate you.' anonymity so it doesn't matter what you say or do. But would change. If you were on a strip That would be really degrading. were doing a service to the gay no matter how much I was offered I wouldn't be a line you would get them to take their One such bloke who was being community and that they were clothes off, the same with massage line. particularly cruel stayed on the phone working on some sort of help line. kissogram. I consider it morally wrong to sell your On transvestite line you'd get them for twenty minutes and I just refused They really were full of crap. sexuality." to go to their wardrobe and pick out a to be nasty hack, so he couldn't get off. At first the job was a giggle, I even Simon dress and then you'd tell them how He must have spent an absolute admit that I got a bit of kick out of it wonderful they were looking. I used to fortune and I thought 'serves you at first. But some of the phone calls get calls from an interesting guy/girl right'. were really nasty and in the end I was who was a transvestite who then had a Generally though you had to keep sickened by it all. I would say that it "I would talk on the phone. L5 an hour would be okay. I sex change and was now a lesbian. She your cool and only say what the caller boosted my confidence. Like any job it don't think there's anything wrong with it and it could wanted women to love her for what wanted you to hear. The rules of teaches you to handle all sorts of be quite enjoyable. It would be better than stacking company conduct are quite strict. situations." she was. I liked him - he was funny. shelves in Morrisons which is what I did last summer." Paul W.

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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 16 Culture Fully Operatic Opera North continues to flourish in the radiance of its hard-earnt reputation as one of the greatest British arts success stories of the last few decades. Mark Funnel! struggles to join them riding the crest of their 15th Anniversary Gala Birthday Week to find out how they've managed to stay not just alive but kicking, and what's in it for those vultures of culture, the students of Leeds.

ounded in 1978 as the northern branch of company. Ln those years where we've tipped of doing things but also to their congenial Company has introduced a new ticket-pricing English National Opera (but as a the balance in favour of more esoteric pieces working atmosphere, which means they are strategy for students comprised of two price Fvariation on the Welsh/Scottish regional we've lost out financially." often prepared to work for them "for tuppence bands, one with a £10 discount on all seats touring companies theme), Opera North Opera North prides itself on a profile compared to what they can make elsewhere priced £20 or more, the other retaining the acheived independent status in 1981. In fifteen that is externally diligently committed to Does Anita think that many students cheap £4 seats at the top of the house_ This years it has given a staggering 1,653 serving the north's major cities and that is attend operatic performances? They do!" she replaces the old strategy of a 50% discount performances of 97 different operas by 53 internally tight-knit and friendly. As Anita cries with surprising vehemence. "They're available on all seals for students, so it looks composers - the Company is nothing if not Morris explains, "Opera North is known for erratic - their commitment to opera is not as like this "research-led decision" might pay off. prolific and tirelessly dynamic. its good company spirit. It's small enough to sound as other areas of the community, largely Finally I asked Anita what advice she However, if hard graft is the primary retain a very involved feeling at every level." because they're not always here and because would give to students wishing to get ingredient in the recipe for success, how have This would seem to be another contributory of exam commitments. But sometimes they involved in Arts Administration working for Opera North seasoned their prodigious factor in accounting for the Company's certainly come in droves, particularly in the an outfit like Opera North. "I would output? Is there a precarious path to be success. Big names in singing like John Christmas period when they've found recommend they do some voluntary work in trodden between innovation and pulling in Tomlinson (who recently attested to this in an someone to cop off with and they're prepared the holidays, get involved in the Ents side of consistently big audiences? I spoke to the interview with Classic FM) are attracted not to splash out." After 12 months of things at University, with drama societies - Company's Head of Press and Promotions, only to Opera North's novel and exciting way comprehensive research on ticket sales the anything like that would look good on a CV. Anita Morris, about the difficulties inherent It's notoriously difficult to get in, but if you're in maintaining artistic integrity whilst the right sort of person and you're driven simultaneously remaining popular. you'll have no problem." "The season has to be balanced by Driven form the warm bosom of something that's going to get bums on seats Opera North's marketing department without and take money with something like 'II Re so much as a mention of the intrinsic CV- Pastore' or 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' that are not bolstering value of student newspaper safe bets at the box office but which give you journalism I wandered the hostile streets of press coverage, are seen as artistically more Leeds, a vessle of porcelain in a cruel and exciting and innovative and stretch the uncomprimising world.

e are being foolhardy - as usual. No follows is a series of misunderstandings and Wperformances of 'Toscaa 'Aida' or 'The anguish for all the lovers involved, except Marriage of Figaro in our anniversary week, Amyntaa, who is unaware of the distress. not even of Phyllida Lloyd's fresh and brilliant However, this does provide the singers with 'La Ballerina' Instead, to celebrate the fact that an opportunity to display a range of emotions, we have got this far, a slight Mozart work Patricia Bardon captures the essence which didn't even get a properly staged of the willfull and impetuous character of production in his lifetime (and has had Tamyris with what appears to be effortless precious few since), and one of those works ease and the laughter provoked when she guaranteed to send audiences to the cinema raises her great, abundant skirt and points out -next door - a new commission. I hope and her dainty foot for Agenor to kiss, which he believe that Our audiences now expect this does, provides great relief from some of the kind of cheekiness from Opera North.' So darker moments of the opera. One of these comments Paul Daniel in his introduction to darker moments follows, infact, her impetuous this season's programme. slap of Agenor's cheek. The noble's aria is in a You certainly can't accuse Opera minor key and of brisk tempo with Philip Amyntas (Joan Rodgers) and Elise (Mary Hagerty) from 11 Re Pastore' North of being boring. You can't accuse them Salmon convincingly portraying Agenor's of lacking originality and vision either, with torment and anguish, his diverse tonal range such an unorthodox choice of programme as Lisa Jefferson attends one of Opera North's "cheeky" Gala and impressive technique making the The Shepherd King' by Mozart and 'Baa Baa performance memorable. By contrast, Black Sheep', a modern opera by Michael Birthday Week productions with some surprising results however, Alexander gives an unconvincing Berkley to celebrate their fifteenth birthday. performance. He appears not just here, but You can, however, accuse them of having a Sidon which has been ravaged by war and is taken aback by his character and eloquence throughout, to lack the authority and charisma certain obsession with featuring fluffy farm conquered by Alexander the Great. and realises that the royal personage has been needed to play this important role, his tone too creatures! All joking apart, I would agree that However, the scene suddenly found. At this point Agenor, a noble of Sidon weightless and weak. Opera North's decision to stage these works changes as two joyous lovers enter and a appears on stage and confirms this very fact, It is not just the singers though, that was brave, but the risk evidently paid off, if pastoral idyll is evoked. Even though Elisa the revealing that his father hid Amyntas from the deserve great praise, but also the Orchestra. the vast and appreciative audience of 'll Re shepherdess runs to her lover with news of the tyrant, Straton, and gave him the responsibility They were on top form, with neat articulation Pastore' on Saturday night is anything to go kingdom, stately affairs are soon forgotten as of restoring the rightful King to his throne at in the strings and mellifluous wind solos. by. the lovers weave their own world of bliss and some time in the future. Their presence certainly added an essential I must admit I approached Leeds stay obliviously encapsulated in its embrace- It is evident that this opera has, as one dimension to the proceedings, adding Grand Theatre with severe trepidation, not Both sing arias - Mary Hegarty as Elisa of its primary concerns, the difficulties and dramatic support in the form of full brass being a seasoned opera buff, and wondered displaying vocal gymnastics executed. with limitations faced by couples in love. These when necessary and a traditional harpsichord how I would respond to this early Mozart impressive ease and breathtaking high notes, concerns are immortalized in the aria 'L'amero, continuo, which was employed in the opera, written when the composer was just Joan Rodgers as Amyntas the shepherd having saro costantea (I shall love her, I shall be recitative. Every person who contributed to nineteen years old. a more mellow, refined, though equally faithful), which must equal, if not surpass this performance, be it through singing, The opening was intriguing and impressive tone. Elisa leaves and Amyntas some of the greatest moments in any of playing, conducting, directing, designing, demanded attention, as the audience was dreams about how happy he is but the cadence Mozart's other, more well known operas. translating or administrating should be entertained by a Punch and Judy type suddenly changes from major to minor as two loan Rodgers, an artist of praised. pantomime of puppet soldiers fighting, a cloth foreboding figures approach - King Alexander international reputation, projected her voice in I realised on Saturday how lucky we backdrop of a burning castle completing the and Agenor. such a way that it filled every corner of the are in Leeds to have a professional opera picture. This gave way to a visually striking Alexander has conquered the tyrant auditorium, displaying breathtaking control. company, many members of whom are of stage set - a grandiose courtyard which of the land, Straton, and is seeking the rightful The anguish of Amyntas's tragic dilemma was professional reputation, who perform such a encased a sloping hill and tree, its red leaves heir to the throne, who is believed to have heightened by the incorporation of a plaintive, variety of works. splayed around it. Women dressed in black been hidden as a baby and raised in a rural transcendent violin solo, and this intense duet, I would recommend anyone who's walked mournfully forward with dead puppet setting, unaware of his identity, When he supported by muted violin, flutes and cur- even vaguely interested in the arts to give it a soldiers in their arms. This is the kingdom of meets Anivntas, the humble shepherd boy. lie anglais was something quite special. What try.

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The Guide 17 Previews Blown Away! In Brief Andrew Newton, City Varieties, Monday Stage 29th to Saturday 4th, 8.00pm. Beck, back, BACK! You are feeling very sleepy The Wiz ... again. as Andrew Newton, the world's Riley Smith Hall, LUU number one hypnotist' rooms le, the City Varieties and rho le Brie! ;.olunto for the es hold on t'va pants my good people, and :iecrind time this term the king of Jget yo' funk out, 'cos you is gonna he humiliatioe, who :start:. by saving "it's shaken 'n' set quakin' by the grooviest thing to impossible Io make pout 1. do a ov thing hit the Riley Smith pad for ages. Bow down against thee' vaiLtt --i. no what l'in looking for and be moved and grooved by The Wiz', from tonight d (107A71 or so people with nit value.; the Music Theatre posse, a hip-swinging, bull- tl all- will be playing ro the usual paeleed wiggling 70's version of The Wizard Of Or houses next week, so if you ve not seen him which shakes its flared velvet loons from yet. now's as good a Mite ,ss am Look. into My Tuesday 30th November to Saturday 4th you will go and see Andrew Newton.. December, at 730pm each evening. Kitsch. Cool. Funky. Funny. Take Children In Need, West Yorkshire PlayhouSe, my words for it, this is a production worthy Friday 26th, 7pm. of your most gracious attendance. The Lend a paw to Pudsev this year at the West Scarecrow's a dude, the Wicked Witch Of Yorkshire Plavhoo,e, tonight'c- event will The West is an evil sexy temptress, and the mclude live coverage by BBC North from the munchkins ... boy, they got soul! The award- Courtyard Theatre, with the usual assortment winning score was penned by Motown of fund-raieere and vrlebnhes pre--Afnt to part legends Charlie Smalls and Luther Vandross, people from their cash. Everything kicks off at 7pri, and continues until very late - ring the and is a bodacious mix of jazz, funk, rock, boxoffice for any late ticket avadabilities, it you and soul - numbers like 'Ease On Down The Dorothy searches In vein for her Jaffa cakes want to make up part of the haiTy crowd, and Road', 'Slide Some Oil To Me', and 'Don't take your sleeping hag. Nobody Bring Me No Bad News' should set version starring Michael Jackson, Diana at, move your good selves to the Riley Smith you twitching in the stalls, in a show which Ross, and Richard Pryor, but due to the next week and enjoy the sheer energy and The Electric Lemon Cabaret, The Drum ranks right up there with 'The Rocky Horror latter's lack of vocal ability, all of the Wiz's vibrancy of this perfectly funky production. Thursday 2nd, Rpm. even livelier or Show' and 'Little Shop Of Horror?. numbers were cut, so expect an Tickets for the show east £5, £3, The fortnightly leazeled fruit cabaret return7. to Originally performed on Broadway version on stage. 1.2, and are available even; lunch time from a the Fenton with Kevin seesay headlining. ''a in 1975, 'The Wiz' won 7 Tony awards and With 9 principles, a chorus of 25, stall in 1.1JU foyer from I2-2pm. They can man, a guitar, a hail cut and a permanent featured an all black cast to highlight the and a production crew which could fill a bus, also be obtained on the door for each encore'. Supporting him will be Ron A black theatrical talent of the era. However, it 'The Wiz' is certainly one of the largest performance, but my advice is to book in Dewhurst, Northern Star Come\b, Champion. was never intended to he restricted by colour, shows ever staged in Leeds University advance so you're not disappointed. and Elliot Falk. Your compere for the evening and after finishing its five year professional Union, and simply demands to he watched. This production is dedicated to the is Chris Wright. Admission, only f.2.50 for run the show was eagerly seized upon by For an all-singing, all-dancing, all-cycling- memory of Lawrie Kipps, an irreplaceable etudente amateur groups as something a little out of shorts-wearing evening with Dorothy, influence and inspiration to everyone who the ordinary. You may have seen the movie Tinmen, Lion, the Munchkins, the Winkles et met him. He will be greatly missed by all. Ralph McTell, City Varieties, Sunday 28th, 730pm. Ever hummed alone to 'Stroets ►1 London -7 Yeee Well, whip out Your tweed suit and get Yourself down to the City Varieties, 'cc's Mr Ralph etc fell himself is visiting Leeds on Wandrin' Star Stmday 28th as part of his Autumn tour You probably won't know any of the other numbers, but hold your pipe lighter aloft and lyrics of Stephen Sondhetm promises many a sway along nonetheless. "show-stopping'. number. Hopefully this Stage guarantee isn't entirely literal, as such classics Joe Longthorne, Grand Theatre, Sunday 28th, as "Everything's Coming Lip Roses" and 7.30pne Gypsy "Together Wherever We Go" should jolly the Joe is apparently one of the most dynamic West Yorkshire Playhouse whole thing along rather than cause it to grind entertainers in British show business; ie, he's to a complete halt. Take your Gran if you can not old enough to need a wig yet. To hear the It's Christmas time at the ‘Vest 1 orkshire stand the reminiscing. and you should both be "man of a hundred voices" do his George Playhouse, but. lust to he different. they're humming Al the bus journey home. Michael, Shirley Bass& and even Pavarotti, be decking the halls not with boughs of holly but The cast are obviously an experienced at the Grand this Sunday. It's all for a good with rather revealing red and black corset type bunch. They mostly seem to have appeared in cause - the LGI leukemia unit - if the show thangs. For these - accompanied by large stage shows of "Annie" at some point - but doesn't grab you in the necessary regions, then quantities of feathers - and prominent everyone makes mistakes. Sheila Hancock make a donation anyway. everywhere on posters heralding this year's could name drop involvement with many a Seasonal Musical, 'Gypsy'. Set in 1920's famous company, as could her co-star Michael Sooty's World Cruise, Alhambra, Mon 29th to America the the story of Gypsy production tells Cashman. Not actually admitting to an "Annie' Sat 4th, 5pm. Rose Lee, the greatest showgirl of all time. Not connection, he began his career busking for beer Matthew Corbett continues to make a living by to mention that of her showbiz mama Rose money with his one-legged grandfather in the sticking his hand up a yellow puppet's bum. (hopefully it won't gel too confusing), played Kentish hopfields. However, he's probably In this exciting installment, Sooty. Soo, and by Sheila Hancock. more widely recognised for his portrayal of long-suffering gooseberry, Sweep set off on a Rose is single-minded and impossible world cruise in search of great adventure. Oh - so your typical mother really However, she Cohn in 'Eastenders'. The musical also offer, the local-girl-made-good attraction, featuring yes. is also an eternal optimist, and driven by a Marsha Ward. She grew up in Pudsey, but burning ambition for stardom - perhaps not Ark, Leeds University, Sat 4th, 8pm. such a common complaint. Determined not to despite this has accumulated numerous Next weekend secs the welcome return of this abandon her two daughters while she hits the prestigious theatre credits. atter a debut playing, you guessed it, a well known orphan... most resplendent night, bigger and better than Vaudeville circuit, she solves the dilemma by ever. There'll be two rooms of music, two full simply forcing them to tread the boards with 'Gypsy' is a two month extravaganza - colour lasers, a massive light show, and even a her. From one backstage to another, Rose also running from November 27th to January 29th - room to deposit your coat and thermals having drags a collection of all-singing, all-dancing so there's no excuse for not going to see it the wind and snow to get boys across the country, which sounds like an Tickets range from £4 to £15.50. Go on, enter trekked through there. DJs Rocky & Diesel, Parks & Wilson, intriguing phenomenon in itself... into the spirit and ask Santa for one; after all, it As you might have guessed, this is not should make a pleasant alternative to vet more and Rob Tissera, to name a few, should warm you up though. Tickets are ER and doors your average Lloyd Webber ego trip. Instead a socks, open at Rpm, with a 2am shut down. combination of music by Jule Styne and the Natalie Highwood

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THE COOKER at ARCADIA - Jai/ 1 sail I funk, featuring C~~ Stage IC 111 S dubs .11 ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL le-170274 53200( PHUX at MISTER CRAIG'S - Student night, £1.50 / UP Y ER RONSON at MUSIC FACTORY - Dunce ac garage. dubs 'Oratipadi dunce ,' drama - 4.(X]pm. from £3 THE WORLD al RiTZY'S - Student night, £1 a pint a. NUS. 9 to Sam LIP THE JUNCTION at THE GAI I FRY - Shalent night, 50p DOWNBEAT at the MUSIC FACTORY - Hip-hop & acid Di EL and CT IRIS GOSS a pint double spirits, £2 50 NUS. 9pm to tam £3.30 NUS. 9 10piu to 3am. El a pint . CLUB CRACKERJACK at THE. MUSIC FACTORY TRIBE at RICKY'S And Jam, Funk & Dance BACK TO BASICS it THE MUSIC FACTORY - Dance g Music His & 90's House. £230 / £1.00 LOVE TRAIN at TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB - 70s. t.-1 51. THE LIZARD CLUB at RICKY'S - Brst of Rock_ £3 / L3.50. r: lOpol to tam. THE SUB CLUB an ARCADIA - f 1 a pint, El Akan doors ANYTHING GOES at THE WAREHOUSE - Dance _art. £6 Student night - it with flyer, cheap drinks. THE POWER HOUSE at THE GALLERY - 9pni to ' THE DUCHESS V2 at 1TIE GALLERY - Dance, with (Vicky Holloway t5 / C7 , cagial dress Rainer THE ARCADIA at THE GALLERY - Opm nt 2am, r3 so ALTERNATIVE / INOIE at SCRUMPIES - 112.6pm, all THE GROVE INN afternoon. ck, Stage £4, raid Li a bottle Jim Mormy & Martin Fletcher - lunchtime V AGUE at ri-rn wkRETIOUSE • £5, cross-dressing. TWA. STOMP at LEEDS METROIINI - £250 ede. iodic, grunge Kenna Hatpin - evening SATURDAY BOP al LEEDS METRO UNI - £2 J £4-guest PARTY ON at LEEDS (JNI - E2 50 adv ALHAMBRA STUDIO WEST YORK-SHIRE PLAYHOUSE - tel 442111 INCARCERATED at SCRUMPIES Indic night - £2 501 £3 Family Fun Day concert with Sandra Kerr POpm QUARRY THEATRE TIME. TUNNEL at RIFFS - 60's night. £230 d 3 GRAND THEATRE 'Gypsy' - 7_30pm, from £5. Int Langthorne in concert. in aid of 101 - 7 30pm, Imm f I 0_ COURTY 4 R17 THEATRE CITY VARIETIES 'Burning Everest' - 700pm Ralph MeTell - 7.30pm. front £830, GRAND THEATRE leL 459351 I 440971 R:b St ge CYCLONE set LEEDS UN1 - £2 50, indite/alternative The Cippendales - 8.00pm, El 3.50 SERIOUS PLEASURE at stircrs - Dance. CITY VARIETIES WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE Id 442 I l I WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE tel 442111 Andrew Newton. hypnotist - 8.00piti, from £4 50 Children In Need Appeal live from the theatre QUARRY THEATRE F-411. ALHAMBRA tn6 0274 752000 011. GRAND THEATRE tel. 459351 / 440971 'Gypsy' - 8.000o. from £4- 'So...ay's World Cruise' - 5 Wpm, [min £5. English National Ballet present The Sleeping BeAlltti' - COURTYARD THEATRE SHOWCASE SHEFFIELD LYCEUM 7 30pra, from £10 'Burning Everest' - 3.00fmt & 7.45pm - from £4,00. 27 Gelderd Road, SiMill. Tel 0924420071. Royal National Theatre present 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppaal - 1440971 CIVIC THEATRE tel! 476 9621455 505 GRAND THEATRE tel 459351 Tickets £4 £3 0014U5 7.45prit The Sleeping Beauty' • 2.30prn & 7.30pin - from £10. 'Peter Pan' - 6.30pm. £3 J £1.50. GUILTY AS SIN THE SECRET GARDEN CITY VARIETIES tel 430808 CIVIC THEATRE - tcl. 476962 / 455505 POSSE I MARRIED AN AXE MURDER £3 £1_50 'Waarti Of Os' 7 00pm, £630. 'Peter Pan' • 2pm & 6.30pen - HOCUS POCUS THE FUGITIVE RAVEN THEATRE LUU CITY VARIETIES tel: 430808 JURASSIC PARK DEMOLITION MAN The Wizard 0101 - 2.00prn. & 7.00pni - £730 Theatre Grump present Tis Pity She's A. Whore' - 6.30pm. BENEFTT OF DOUBT MAN WITYOUT A FACE £2.50 r f.200 members. RAVEN THIFATRL LUU - as Friday' THE PIANO C114 THE DUCHESS Friday ALHAMBRA del- 0274 752 000 ALHAMBRA - as. THE CONCIERCiE. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Private Party 'Kismet' - 7.30pm, front L5.50 ALHAMBRA STUDIO tel : 0274 752000 HARD TARGET TINA LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY HARROGATE THEATRE tel: DIM 50.2116 -TOL Dame Company - 8 Oflpm, £3 50. DAVE Frank Striehonom - £4. a rugs - 7 45mo. from £550 HARROGATE THEATRE - a.s Friday THE DRUM SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE: rel. 9742 766 662 SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE COTTAGE ROAD CINEMA Lilac Wine 'ansfield Park' - 7.30pm, from £6.50 'Mansfield Park' • 2 tO & 7 30. from £6 50 Collage Road. Far Hetehoglev Tel 751606 BELUSIIFS SHEFFIELD LYCEUM Sleepless in Seattle - 5.45. 8.15, Sun 5.15 7 45 West Martini 'Ames Of Penzanee' • 7,30pm. The Cure - l 1 pm pp & s24 THE DUCHESS LOUNGE CINEMA US lighten Up' Comedy Tout Musi c North Lane, Headingley. Tel. 751061 iunissin Park - 5 50. 8.20_, & at 2pm Sal. Sun 3, 5.20, 750 Film

SHEFFIELD LYCEUM HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE For full programme details for The Odeon. MGM Movie 'Orpheus fat The Underworld' - 2.30 & 7 4.5 Brudeneli Road. Leeds 6. Tel. 752045 Home, Showcase Cinema, Lounge Cinema, Cottage Road THE DUCHESS El Matacht - 6.30pro. except MUM 241k Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House. are Sunday. THE DRUM ITHE FENTON] Ice Tee Fly ptus Protap.se Naked - 8.30prn PICTUREVILLE CINEMA The Tertnitc Cluli THE DRUM Late show Fri & Sat at l 1pm • Naked The Piano - 5.45 Se 8.15 THE GROVE INN The Termite Club HETI Real Time - Folk Club THE GROVE INN PICTUREVILLE CINEMA Naked - 6,00pm ROYAL PARK How Lou' Can YOU - I pm House of Angels - 13115pro PrOCVMSlart The Piano - 5 45 & 8 IS RFT 2 • IMAX The Kiss Of Death - 5.45 & R IlOpm TdalUed - 8.00pm HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE Brri Everything i Like - 6.45pin. pan of Slovak Season Legs Elisio Andy Medhurst, plus Bleak Moments - 7.30pm LUU FILM SOCIETY ST GEORGE'S CONCERT HALL 'Ran' - Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, 7pm. El 80 / 80p For full programme deur115 for The Odeon. MGM. Movie Bradford G

410 1■10'111YS E TH SISTERS MUSICAITOUR Qs_USD 5100 OF MERCY GOATS DON'T SHAVE NEC ARENA BIRMINGHAM + the F.O.S. Brothers WEDNESDAY 22nd DECEMBER THURS 2nd DECEMBER 1993 Tickets: £1230 Personal application to Cavendish Travel Leeds. Also Telephone applications to NEC f1/0 Tel: 02 1 180 4133 LEEDS MET UNI (THE POLY) (Subject to E1.25 per ticket booking fee) DOORS 7.30pm CORPHYS-1. .1 pint .111 11q2111 PLUS Postal applications to Sisters Of Mercy B/0. NEC, Birmingham MO 1NT £1.00 Myr £1.50 door SPECIAL CUBIS with SAE and allowing 11.25 per ticket booking fee. tickets from LMUSU. WU, JUNIRO,CRASH,CAVENDISH e,PriN For details of coach travel from Leeds Bradford & Yorkshire Tel: 053144440/441919

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Friday 26th November :-- dubs dubs 'All The Vermeer;; In New York' (Channel 4, 12.20am) - Love in the Big Apple, with Art BEAT Si IRRENDER er. rtn.... MUSIC FACTOR - SD's DIG at THE CiALLERY ARCADIA - nee Music LOADED & JUICE ui TOE MUSIC FACTOR N • lath. galleries thrown in for good measure, and 50 on do,n, LI a runt CIRCUS CIRCUS at TIlE MUSIC FACTORY - 7 floors of Dance t Dub: Rip-hop Fir/stet/Om r i2 50 some s4>cial comment about the 80's mono' THE LOVE Btrrr(rti at ARCADIA Dame, guests TWA ivies. tar. to 9t0s. LI a pun ROCK NIGHT at THEW AREHOtrsE 12 84 grabbing morals. T3 ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS at LEEDS METRO UNI. C THE MILE MGH CLUB ar TILE GALLERY Saturday 27th November :- GORGEOUS m LET:DS E.TNI Acid Jan/ r Funk, El 1E1 adv on door. £1 a pint rI1E '1'IIL-RSDAY BOP at LEEDS UNI - Mad meat for mad BUG at THE (MUM I RICKY'S - £2. LI a pint 10pm to MENAGERIE at RICKY'S - 12.00 entry. El a pint top- • I 50. 9pin 'till I 2ani 'Gold Diggers Of 1933' (BBC2, 11,35pm) • n hopping rocking grunge-core I Oprn to gum. Vintage musical, but don't- let that put you 7I1'S NIGHT al YEL off. Ginger Rogers sings 'We're In The NEW ROIMANTICS et THE EXCHANGE • Pine_ ends I 2,1111. Money' dressed in a costume of coins, POGO-A-GO-CO at SCR L'AIPII•S Punk / [2 f j Stage Stage there's excellent dancing throughout, and wisr 5 LIRKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE tel 44: Dick Powell & Joan Blonde"l to look at Hot WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE at hionday QILIARRY THEATRE - Nforainy patootie. GRAND THEATRE - an Monday Stage Cia*RTYAR.1) THEATRE CIVIC THEATRE Burninr E•erest - 00[m_ from £4 -Tidy Endings' (ITV, 1.00am) - Harvey Pioneer Players present'Quaker the - 7 l5pru, 15.50 1L5 WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE tel. 44:1 I STUDIO THEATRE EMI an Tuesday Fierstein, he of Torch Song Trilogy fame, STUDIO THEATRE LMU tel 833134 QUARRY THEATRE an Monday CIVIC THEA ERE - as Tnecdny stars with Stockard (Manning in a sensitive Revolver Theatre Company present Three (Int Act Plays COURTYARD THEATRE CITY V ARTLTI}:S its Monday and witty look at the lives of a wife and a 7 311pm. 14:30/ a. 'Burning Everest' - I30 & 7.00pm - from £4 RAVEN THEATRE. LUG - as Wednesday RILEY SMITH HALL, LUU CRAM) THEATRE - as Monday THEATRE IN TILE MILL - tel -0274 183 IRA gay lover of a man who has just died of Mum,: Theatre present The Win' 7 34pm, 1:5 / / CIVIC THEATRE - as Tuesday Litti Rot' by RI riG 730pm, £3 112 AIDS. ern. VARIETIES • as Monday STUDIO THEATRE EMU • as Tuesday HARROGATE THEATRE • RS Pnday Sunday 25th November :- AlHAMBRA - as Monday RILEY SMITH HALL, LUU er Tuesday RILEY SMITH HALL as Tuesday Ivanhoe' (MCI. 3.00pm) - Robert Taylor, HARROGATE THEATRE as Friday CITY VARIETIES • .11. Monday RAVEN THEATRE LIR' SHE EFIELDLYCEUM • as Monday A•HAMBRA - Monday Pelicans New Writers present Had A Nice Day by Owennetn loan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, excellent SHEFFIELD LYCEUM tel 4042 704 462 HARROGATE THEATRE as Enday Holder. and 'A Secret Cabaret • Tptn, Cl! Slip jousting, and schlocky romantic bits. Perfect - manta' comedy based on Billy - 7 I 5prn from SHEFFIELD LYCEUM - a, Monday ALHAMBRA - ay Monday to wake up to. t Gtl SHEFFIELD LYCEUM - an Mintduy THE_ DR( At (THE FENTONI 'A Child From The South (Channel 4, Lemon Cabaret present Kenin Sersay. Ron A 12.15am) - Drama in which a journalist Music Music Dcwhiirst Elliot Falk. & Crnin Wright • Simi, 12 50 returns to Mozambique after 211 years in exile following her father's assassination. THE HI CHESS Monday 29th November :- UHL Di CIIESS The Reouvo,lion Or The Ilss ,r. Music ALHAAIBR.A STUDIO 'While The City Sleeps' (BBC2, I HE CROVE Lunchtime recital by tenon:Iwo of Iteadtoni L'ins.erory 12.00midnight) - Vincent Price is on the trail THE GROVE INN THE DUCHESS of -The Lipstick Killer" to gain himself a Murk binges', plu, LEEDS TOWN* COUNTRY Cl.t B The P.0.5 Brothels promotion. Cynical look at popular Teenage Fanclub • 8 OOpm, Linde. LEEDS (.ITV ART GAELER1' LEEDS METROPOLITAN IFNI% ERSTIA LEEDS TOWN HALL. Lam:burnt- Chamber Myra.: i oipm, tree Goats Iltre0 Shave - Hurried. Promomm journalism, heartily endorsed by all in this I .unrhtime Oman Made. I .CL5pni. tree DIG A M THE. GALLERY ME GROVE INN office. Directed by Fritz Lang the Nati 'r.er • Tuesday 30th November :- 'The Miracle Of Nlorgan's Creek' (BBC I, Film Film 2.15prri) - Betty Hutton is pregnant after a binge on the town with six soldiers ... but Fur lull programme details fur Ott Oste-on. MUM Monk Fur full programme details for the Odeon. AIGAI Mot k doesn't know who's responsible. Daring House. Showcase llama, I,onnge Cinema, Cottage Road House, Showcase Cinema, Lounge Cinema. Cottage Road Fur full programme delutila for The Odeon, MGM Monte Cinema and Hyde Park Picture House. see Sunday. Chsenur and Hyde Park Picture House, nee Sunday, Muse, Showcase Cinema., Lounge Cinema. and Cottage and cheeky.... in 1944, and still a good laugh PICTURE VII.LE t:INEALA PILTIREVILLE CINEMA Road Cinema, -ore Sunday. today. Trio Plano • 5.45 & 15 The Piano 5 45 &Ii 15 HYDE PARK Pit ruRE HOUSE A Matter Of Life And Death' (BBC', HET] PICTUREVILLE CINEMA MAX 11.20prifi • David Niven (swoon) is an RAF Home of Angels - h Ofigni Titamea Anprn The P atvo - 5 45 tic it 15 Sitting On A Brandt And I Am Fine X ISpra HETI I MA pilot saved from death by a Heavenly BET 2 Ilium Of Angela - nng for times Grand Canyon Sharks - 8,00prn mistake, whose fate must then be decided The Klm• Of Death - 5.45 & &DO Naked - ring for tunes BFT1 by a celestial trial. Brilliant effects, excellent BET 2 Howe Of Angels & Naked Meantime - ring tie tones Ring ter tones performances, and despite being made as 13 Telly BFT2 long ago as 1946, it still looks inspired, Meanume Wednesday ]at December :- LUG FILM SOCIETY oi Telly Theatre. f I stip. "pm Almost An Angel' (BBC1, 7.00pm) - Paul Omnibus' (BBC1. 11.30pmt • A profile of Boy George, tonra', Rupert BeLken Lecture hence the laic showing time no there's no impressionable Hogan proves he's almost no use as a kiddie:. watching . 'Winter Gala' iBBC2,, 7...10pm) • Storming 3 hour gig to mark scriptwriter. Only for chronic couch 'Autumn Budget 4E3' 2.1Spmi - In which Kenneth the centenary of Tchatkovsky's death with Ktri Te Kanawa and Telly potatoes with no remote control handset. Clarke delnoilMMICS how the 'Lemming Syndrome' works in PI acid., Domingo. and o. vista to the Birmingham Rnyal Ballet financial metes; meanwhile the economy has a fling on the 'Sean's Show' iChaunel 4, 10.30pmi - Now set in his new Thursday 2nd December :- side with the EMS and the pound 15 feeling a Little depressed. Chelsea flat. thy. week, Seen meets Lizzie, and Cupid goes 'Life In The Erecter' iBBC I. 8pm I Continuing from last 'Diary Of A Madman' (BBC2, 12.10am) - weeks extraordinary experience, this week sees two Million Repeated every nix months heserl. It'll all end in tear. . More Vincent Price, enough ham to re- 'Food And Drink' alBC2, &Mph%) - Vegetarian alternative 01 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' (Channel 4, 5.00pon1 - This week Need pups being burn on the beaches of South Georgia and my create the pig from whence it came, and turkey, plus the worlds most annoying two people. fitly & sues a discussion on the bleedm' obvious - why relationships fish fingers going all soggy because someone left the lid open. i.orninue on their cross,Europe piss-up with a blind wine taming are neva the same the second time around Good goef I can't Elsewhere. chinctrep penguins decide to climb scoical cliffs , French magistrate going honkers. challenge. Thrill% and spills reader. Oh, and chocolate even gel to the Punt time around stage and sinneont mentions the word 'detrosting'. which could well Wonderful. truffles. it says here, so hire a video and get the recipe. tie construed at an environmentally concious commem ALPHABET ST EVERY FRIDAY 111101.011118111111December 1st - Edzy (ex Unique 3) December 15th Xmas Special Two rooms of music - IL E.A.S.E (Nightmares on Wax - Guest DJ)

Gangsta Bitchz (Hip Hop, Soul & Swing) OM, 9gwn-2•11 LI.S4 rem.= Appearing In the Cafe Bar •••• IBM NUN Sit mu pnal a LE EON Kum ••alat LMUSU City Site, Music 9pm til 2am, Bitter, rm. RM. 1141 Ina ••■• NETROPOUTAII INIVERSITY A GAVNGE • GEETAR Lager & Cider £1. £2 Admission. NUS Guests & EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY IMOIE SEPT 29 OCT 13. 27 NOV 10, 24 DEC a Ssh.koh union. Cry Rte. Look MOramor Tidens evolhb14 LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNWOUND"( gym, Vac Mak, do/ Croat Ar era IA woksmw 1 Guests Only. Free Coaches back to halls sa.iwwwma •11. ire. 14•0•11).

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Stag e Arcadia Sheffield Lyceum Ever wondered what it all means, what's the connection, where's it leading to? No? Oh. Well Tom Stoppard seems to have been doing it rather a lot recently. His new play, Arcadia, which enjoyed huge success at London's South Bank Centre, and is now on tour at the Lyceum in Sheffield, is a masterful and heart-warming attempt to make sense of IT all. IT being, for the purposes of the play and the entertainment of the I audience, the multitude of clues and oily Chippa on the menu components which compose this historical preview? I cried. Wha-da-ya mean rippling, near naked, well oiled hunks of romance cum modern detective story: Lord I preview? I want to do a review. I mean, prime beef - they're not your average giblets I Byron, Chaos Theory, a seventeenth century big boobs, shapely legs, curvet' bums, there's can tell vou. Scandal, landscape gardening, an ambitious just no mistaking real men.Yipee!! They're Think of it as a meal. This preview academic and a turtle. heading our way girls. The Chippendales are is the starter. A mere morsel of things to There are two parallel plots, the coming to town. And in the true words of the come.The main course is the show. The full detective story and the romance, linked by British Scout Movement - Be Prepared, for works with all the trimmings. And the desert space - the elegant garden room of a stately these are not your average Legs and Co. is the review. Mouthwatering but not filling home - but separated by time - about 200 years. They bound onto the stage dressed enough, leaving you wishing you (the more One is about a garden historian's like raunchy penguins, girating, pouting, stupid ones among you) hadn't given your investigation into 17th century quantum teasing the screaming audience with their main course meal ticket to your little sister. physics, and an academic's quest into the dickies. Dance routines flow, music pumps So don't miss out!!! Order your meal now amorous activities of Lord Byron which were Has anyone seen Byron? and the place gets incredibly steamy.Ooh, from the Leeds Grand Theatre box office or said to have taken place in this country home. but just think girls, you could be lucky the Bond Street Centre kiosk. At #13.50 a go, The other turns on the events in question, as who plays the academic. this meal ain't cheap, but what do you expect enough for a 'Chipp' to come up your aisle. well as the relationship between a friend of Arcadia is directed by Trevor Nunn, for prime beef? Then out it comes, the Sib tub of oil just Byron's, tutor to the household and his brilliant former artisitic director of the Royal The Chipps are serving up their waiting for you to smother it over his bits pupil. Shakespeare Company, and director of many meat and two veg on Monday 29th / Tuesday and bobs. You won't know whether to laugh, With snappy dialogue and rapier wit West End productions including Cats and Les 30th November and Wednesday 1st cry or just die. in the best Oscar Wilde tradition, Stoppard Miserables. This, as you can understand, is not a December. So grab the girls, a pack of throat weaves his intricate web of connections until Arcadia will be at the Sheffield 'go it alone' concert. Grab the girls and make lozenges and get along there. the actors from both plots join on the stage in Lyceum Theatre from November 29th to I know one thing, washing machines a damn good night out of it. Scream, shout, space and time in a bewildering dance. December 24th. Tickets from E3. jump about, just go for it! I've seen women will be whirring all over Leeds that week In the Sheffield production, Cherie The play is an attractive, entertaining revert back to prehistoric times, banging after what promises to be an incredibly Lunghi replaces Felicity Kendall as the garden and refreshingly positive statement about our their chests, pulling their hair, screaming 'till steamy show. Gill Newton historian in a dynamic in a dynamic duo with times_ A medicinal dose for any midterm they're hoarse, and all because the lady loves Bill Night' (from BBC TVs The Men's Room), madness sufferers,

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The Shave a highly original style which is a treat to watch live. Especially if you're drinking Musk Murphy's. The press release is jam-packed with Goats Don't Shave rave reviews of their spectacular Murphy's Music Tour performances, which have included sell-out gigs in London, Manchester and Glasgow, as Leeds Metropolitan University well as appearances at Glastonbury '93. the ed up with the hitter cold of Leeds' If Cambridge Folk Festival, and in the Dream Fyou're in need of a real heart-warming Tent at the Edinburgh Festival. They're hugely evening, get yourself down to Leeds popular in their native Ireland, approaching omedy Metropolitan University next Thursday, U2 in the God-like status stakes, and attracted because the Murphy's Music Tour comes to over 40,000 people to their last tour. Add to town. Fans of all things Irish may now wish to that the fact that their debut EP stayed in the tour dance around the room, because not only will Irish top 20 for over 3 months and their first the eponymous beautiful brew be available at album shipped gold on release, and you can the grant-saving price of C] a pint, but you get see why they are an essential experience not to 111 a night's brilliant entertainment from top Irish be missed. coming to you at band Goats Don't Shave. So far, Goats Don't Shave have gone

The band, pictured above sans goat- down a treat on the University circuit (much e. with-long-beard in an "oh-you'velust-caught- like the cheap Murphy's), and look set to ic t us-all-having-a-can-of-Murphy's' type pose, emulate the success of last years event head- The Duchess are led by Pat Gallagher, their main lined by Energy Orchard Tickets for no Thursday night are just Li. with doors opening songwriter. His influences cover just about the ance at 7.30pm. so jig along, otherwise you'll just whole spectrum. from traditional Irish folk to dv of York a heavy rock, and combine to give Goats Don't get bitter. t hou t 71 Vicar Lane, Leeds Cobain nearly ended up being named Brendan in honour of the Fannies' sticksman. This came ll wi bi Box Office: 0532 453929 about only because these four level-headed he t

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This month, the Teenage Fannies head out on Less appetisingly, the third LP was ny See four of America's finest comedians live on the road for what is bound to be a triumphant a eagerly awaited, and for the band that refused to e trashing of the island's medium-sized venues, play Rock Stars it was almost too much. lac their round Britain mission to amuse. You're and it's a measure of the boys' character that this Whether planned or not, the boys went back into

rep guaranteed an outrageous evening of stand up time the tour was meant to be a formality. the studio and well, stayed there for bloody Except to them its anything but. Thing is, in the ages, and despite unleashing a worthy release, to ht comedy. So come along and Lighten Up. eyes of those who equate record sales. U.S. the idea "bags of cash plus an eternity equals a airplay and MTV exposure with success, the classic LP" didn't suit them as it did other rig he

Teenage Fannies should be shunting their denim- groups. t Tickets £5 or £3 with Student Union Card. clad posteriors around the island wearing frowns However, whether the next one is to be down to their boots. rves Admission is on a first come, first served basis.

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by Sam Greenhill the \orth East and Tonv Walker (V2i." appeared in Life, The Sunday Times, The Clubs What kind of people come to Independent and Vanity Fair amongst others, Absolutely Fabulous' exhibition "it's acceptable to everybody - the hardened as well as some new unseen work. Absolutely Fabulous Felix H Man , Mary Ellen Mark The Network Photographers club goer or the people who want a 'El a pint This is Absolutely Fabulous, this is not a bop!' Positive Lives exhibition, entitled Positive Lives, challenges LMUSU the media's perception of HIV, and explores Are there any special events coming Museum of Film & Photography The Guide talks to TASC student Cathy the issues of sexual freedom, homosexuality Valente, Absolutely Fabulous promoter and LT? 'The Xmas special is going out be big! Three new exhibitions at Bradford's National and drug abuse within the family, the prison DJ. about the unusual goings on every other We plan to cordon off the bar (making a two Museum of Film and Photography are system and the church. Wednesday at LMU. room venue) and with the services of the challenging the 150 year old belief that 'the Felix H Man was one of the earliest "we came up with the idea of a good Gangsta Bitches (Corn Exchange) have a camera never lies'. They present the work of photoessayists, who emigrated to Britain in fun house night, to break the monotony of the Funk/Acid Jazz Hip Hop room, Also guesting photojournalists Felix H Man, Mary Ellen 1934, where he worked for the pioneering typical bops, like Alphabet Street and Friday in the main room we've got E.A S F. Mark and members of the Network Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post. This Night Perol, We're trying to bring good house (Nightmares On Wax) and live percussion etc. Photographers agency The exhibitions will be exhibition of his work runs until 13th February music, with a bingo of jazzy garage, etc (not (Thomas Sabot)." highlighting the fact that the most powerful The second ±3000 Felix H Man Memorial Prize rave) to the masses. The weekend clubs want Anything else you'd like to say about reporting is always biased, never impartial, will be launched on November 30th, and is to make it exclusive by charging anything up open to photographers of 30 yrs and under to and that we, the viewers, are often taken in. to £15 - which is ridiculous - music is for the night' We just want to get across the fact enable them to carry out a photo-essay of their The Mary Ellen Mark exhibition, everyone! Their argument for such high prices that every two weeks on a Wednesday at the which runs until 3rd January l994, is a tribute choice. Entrants are asked to submit an is the fact that the guest D/5 they put on cost LMU there's a serious music night ith top DJs a work by one of the world's great existing photo essay accompanied by a written to 25 years of big money, which sometimes is valid. But our at fraction of the price, and I want second and contemporary journalists. On show will be essay or captions. Write to Greg Hobson at the previous three nights have all had guest DJs third years out come back, support it and see some of her best know stories, which have Museum of film and photography for further including Mark Dawson (Kinky Disco), from details. the difference for themselves."

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24 Science Sleeping Like A Electric Tuna Fish Powered By The Sun Warmer Days ...

An electric car based on the stream-lined as a non-polluting power source, and some Chipmunk design of a tuna fish has recently smashed commercial products are expected by 1998. And Hotter Nights The impetus comes from California, where the record for the World Solar Challenge, a Climatologists investigating global warming It's official. Getting out of bed early on these state law has decreed that 2 per cent of all race across the Australian outback for solar- are currently baffled by the latest set of data cold winter mornings is not good for your new cars, which is roughly 30,000 vehicles, powered cars. to emerge of average global temperatures. system. You're much better to stay in bed all must be completely non-polluting in 5 years The 'Honda Dream' completed the Surely enough, warming has been taking the hours of darkness if you want decent time. 3000 kilometre trek from Darwin to Adelaide place over the past 40 years, but the odd thing mental health. However, there is still a long way to in just under 36 hours, knocking a day off the is, it's happening a lot faster at night. That's the conclusion of researchers go to convert the technology used in 'Honda previous record set in 1987 and giving a boost Since the 1950's, the minimum daily at the National Institute of Mental Health, to the concept of solar powered cars in Dream' to a mass market machine. The car temperature (which is the night time Maryland, who have been looking at the itself cost about £4.5 million to build, carries general. temperature) has risen three times as fast as effects of artificial lighting during the winter During the trip, the car averaged a only one person, is potentially unstable, has the maximum daily temperature, the months, and how it affects people's sleeping very respectable 85 kilometres per hour, and a cramped interior, and can reach increases being 0.84 degrees centigrade and had a top speed of 125 kph. This was mainly temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade in the habits. 0.28 degrees centigrade repsectively. This 16 volunteers were kept in a due to the efficiency of the photovoltaic cells cockpit. result is just about identical wherever you windowless laboraton for several weeks, and mounted on the car's roof, which managed to By the way, the British entries in the look on the globe - over 2000 monitoring subjected to various amounts of light, to convert 20'7 of the sun's energy into race didn't fare too well. One failed to start, stations positioned in China, Soviet Union, simulate the difference between winter and electricity. one was 2000 km from home at the end, and North America, Europe, Australia and South summer. During the 'summer', the lights Solar power is something car the third just made it to Adelaide as everyone Africa have produced data showing exactly turned out for only 8 hours each 'night', manufacturers are looking at very seriously was thinking about leaving. were the same trend. and the volunteers slept for a full eight hours, The cause of the unexpected results and woke up promptly at the 'break of day'. Last Gasp At Jurassic Park may be clouds, which are particularly good However, during the 'winter', when insulators, keeping the heat in the ground at the lights were turned out for 14 hours, they night when it might otherwise escape. Cloud again slept right through, and experienced a The debate still rages - how did the dinosaurs disappeared, and helps explain why the die out? Was it rising sea levels? Were they extinction was a gradual process. If a massive cover may have increased over the past few period of quiet wakefulness, which lasted up decades due to a rise in general temperature, to 5 hours in come cases, during the course of all flattened by a giant asteroid impact? Were asteroid impact had caused the animals to die thee all simultaneously constipated by a out, the change would have been much more or it may be due to other causes, such as the night, The brain waves in this state were oscillations in ocean circulations, or man- change in diet as the ferns they fed on died sudden; as it is, the combination of a cooling similar to those seen during meditation. The made problems including pollution. back? climate and a drop in oxygen levels probably volunteers reported feeling refreshed and Whatever the cause of the changes, The latest suggestion is a tad more created such extreme respiratory stress in the much more energetic upon waking then they global warming is definitely occuring, plausible than many of the others; Gary Landis giant beasts that their numbers slowly would normally after a good eight hours kip. although the models used to predict climate of the US Geological Survey has concluded declined. This sleep pattern is very similar to changes may not be as accurate as previously that the giant creatures simply ran out of that of the chipmunk, which is also very Nowadays, oxygen makes up just 21 hoped. For example, models predict that reluctant to leave its duvet on cold winter breath. His idea is based on findings from his per cent of the atmosphere. but fortunately, warming should be most pronounced in the mornings. studies of the composition of air trapped in, today's animals (including ourselves) are Arctic region and least pronounced in the Researchers are worried that any you've guessed it, amber, which seem to designed to breathe this composition. The tropics, whereas data from the past 50 years alterations to 'natural' sleeping patterns may suggest that during the two million years larger creatures only had nostrils the same size has shown it to be the other way round. Not affect a person's health, but that's probably around the end of the Cretaceous period, the as those on a horse, and lacked a diaphragm to only that, but temperatures actually declined little consolation to anyone struggling across oxygen content of the atmosphere fell from 35 push air in and out, which was a fine in the northern hemisphere just as Hyde Park for a 9 o'clock with the per cent to 28 per cent. arrangement in the oxygen-rich atmosphere, greenhouse gas emissions were rising fastest. temperature in little blue circles and their This drop coincides almost exactly but could have ultimately proved to be their The best message must surely be; don't upset breath freezing on their fingerless gloves with the period when the dinosaurs all but downfall. the delicate natural balance any further. Leeds University Union (,1 IA) Si 13 BY ORDER II. M. GOVERNMENT

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Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 Sport 27

Celtics do it in style The first netball Team is continuing its run of victories in the UAU League. a record marred only by defeat to an exeptional Durham side in the very first game of the season. Last American Football week's opposition Newcastle University surprised a rather careless Leeds team and quickly took control of the match, leading by P Hull Sharks eight goals at half time. Leeds Celtics 20 This was when the team sprit at Leeds really By Karl Bourne paid off though and the fact that there was a birthday in the team seemed to spur everyone m snow on in the second half. By the end of the 3rd O hurries the Leeds Celtics quarter there was one goal in it and at the mourned in a breathtaking final whistle Leeds had secured another win: second half performance to sulk 38-35. By Claire Hartley Hull University Quarterback Bran Mosbacher completed eight R consecutive passen on his was to Following months cit preparation the athletic final figures of 15 attempta, s) elite of 1..I.TUCC travelled to Llangollen in Non!, completions tot 146 yards and 2 wales to compete in the prestigious British touchdowns. one of the finest University White Water Race Canoeing performances in Levi-la lustory - Chumionships T However. there would have A shortage of paddlers with the necessary been no need for Moshacher's enthusiasm and technical expertise lett three second hull henries had the Celtics young athletes with the burden or hearing the built on an early advantage nighty reputation of Leeds University. provided by rookie running hack Saturday dawned and the arctic conditions did Steve Barlow', brilliant 82 punt not reduce the enthusiasm of the Leeds paddlers. score. However. time expired with keyed by guards Mike Flood and resistance weakened and it return for a much down For the who against all the odds paddled to a bronze the Sharks stnutded at the Celtica 3 Ben Follows allowed the Celtics El.) fumbled punt triggered a rest of the first quarter the defence medal in the men's kayak Learn event. yard line and Leeds returned to the control the clocks_ Running hacks remarkable series of plays. Wale Sunday proved even more truitful with the Leeds held firm whilst the offense drove dressing room 641 up. receiver Nick Howatal turned in a I Sam Stanley and Dave Waine trio proving that even the River Aire is a suitable impressively. Unfortunately the Following the interval. the Herculean effort in recovering the provided the perfect compliment spawning ground for future champions. The first conditions hampered Leeds and a game became a story of offensive fumble, hauling in a Mosbacher to Mosbachers passing attack. paddler was James Cordon who was denied the string of unnecessary penalties domination as Leeds controlled the passes of 48 and 16 yards. the A 711 yard. 15 play drive bronze medal by a mere 5 seconds, prevented the Celtics from hall for 26 of the halls 30 minutes. latter for a touchdown. featuring important 3rd and 4th Ex-British team members, Dave Knight and building a commanding lead. Such overwhelming time down catches by receivers Nick He then pulled off an N Andy Hall, had no problem in retaining their In the second quarter Hull possession restricted Hull to just astonishing diving reception for Howard and Andy Roeser Canadian doubles title for the third successive should have made Leeds pay for six second half plays. Superb the .2 point conversion and a final culminated in Shane Martins 6 year their mistakes and levelled the blocking from their offensive line yard touchdown grab. Hull's score of 20 - 0 in Leeds' favour In the overall competition Leeds placed third the likes of Birmingham and shake them out of their now Tomlin(4) and Hynes t 11 When were reduced to ten players alai heating Loughborough who had substantially larger Women's Football characteristic lacklustre first half half-time came Leeds were Tomlin leaving the field with an teams. the depth of experience in the Leeds team performances. It worked and looking comfortable and ankle injury. In the latter stages resulted in the paddlers obtaining more points Leeds found themselves 8-0 up confident. of the game. after mounting Newcastle per person than any other institution competing at half-time and the game In the second half Newcastle pressure. Newcastle pulled one B Cluh Reporter in the event. By Andy Hall effectively won, while Newcastle attempted to get back in the back from a tap-In following a themselves slept and dreamt of game. but despite some early fierce free-kick which Swale:: (rrhink to yourselves we want loans is a ridiculous time to start anything on the second half to come. pressure it was Leeds who scored failed to hold and the Leeds to he 5-0 up at half time: a Saturday morning. LUU Ski team set off for The game started with Leeds first through a fine passing move defence failed to follow in on that's one goal every nine Sheffield ski slope at approx 9arn. Exeter set pushing hard for an early finished off by ever-present Overall this was a fine R minutes.' Exactly the strike-rate off at 4.30am. That's just one of the reasons breakthrough the Newcastle Tomlin. Not content with single performance from the 1 reds facing England in the second half why I'm glad to he at Leeds! defence for Steel to take figures Leeds soon netted a team. and with only one i %t of their World Cup qualifier Course inspection for the British Universities' advantage of and slot the hall tenth A fine through from game to go Leeds must a In in against San Marino. However, Ski Championships (dry slope) was well under home from close range. This Bailey saw Tranter clear to York to make sure of their place this quote a as served to the way when we arrived. To inspect a course served to whet Leeds' appetite calmly stoke the hall past the in the final stages of the I Leeds team before their IIAU competitors must wait uphill(!) in a pair of tot goals and more soon advancing Newcastle keeper competition qualifier by their coach to try and skis (!!) and try to work out which way round followed from Hornet; 12.1. With ien minutes to go Leeds the poles to ski. Typically, Leeds' team tactics arc: inspect the course .from the lift (far less Round up + Round up + Round up + Round up + Round taxingi. ask Ian Mcllardy (top-banana skier) E where he thinks the tricky hits are. then the team talk "turn early. hit the poles, just go on Last Wednesday. the Uni home by Jenny Harrison in almost entirely different squad. thin% amongst a strong, field. He as fast as you can". Cross Country Club travelled 16th and Ellie Chadwick in and another packed minibus. was closely,' followed by Jim Two good individual runs from Ian (cheered With to Manchester for the 24th. The brave debut rum of that travelled up to Edinburgh McCarren in 35th posation on loudly by the Leeds crowd I should add) Northern and Midland UAL' Alice Williams ensured that for the Braids Hill Cross Todd Stewart and Andrew secured him 15th place tout of about 200). The F Champs. This would also have Leeds counted in the team Country Race Davies making it a solid A-team dual slalom races proved less successful incorporated the Christie C'up race. performance In the women's though. They were on a sudden death basis event - had Liverpool bothered in the men's event there was a event Michelle Birdsall flea and both teams suffered death, suddenly. Sport reports to turn up. This will now have return to form for Danny On the weekend of 211th round the three miles in 211.24 You have to be dedicated in this game. Nine should be to wait until the BUSF Champs Gibbons who was bronze November Leeds University finishing I Nth with other team and a half hours spent in driving rain on a submitted. next term. medallist in the Northern Cross-Country Club travelled to members Ellie Chadwick and cold hillside takes dedication ("so if you to either our Anyway, those who did make it section (6th overall). in a race snowy Scotland to compete in Jane Bushy in 26th and 42nd wanna he the best, if you wanna beat the LUU or to Manchester were treated to won by the Metro's Julian the Braid Hills cross-country position respectively. rest..."). LMUSU a relativley flat, but very buggy Moorhouse. Other good runs race hosted by Edinburgh An integral part of the weekend But the one thing that is evident today (apart office, by 3 mile course which proved by Chris atilawell 21st). Paul University. Team members was the stop near Newcastle on from the fact that not all clothing claimed to 5pm the surprisingly demanding. There SudInw (29th) and John braved the frosty. undulating the homeward journey to visit a be weather proof actually is) is that L.U.S.T. Monday were several dnf's (did nut Greenwall 141st) gave Leeds course in the hope of clinching Bothy set up in memory of Will are improving with particularly noteworthy proceeding finishes). especially in the 2-lap 3rd place in the team scores. the major pnces. Ramsboiltam, Men's cross- performances from Pip Roberts. Hester publication. men's event, but obviously yet again ahead of Manchester. Past members of Leeds country captain last year, who Nladdock and Robin Johns. If you have none from Leeds. Strength in numbers has University: Greg Hull and Lucy died tragically in a climbing So we now look Forward to BUSC in Tignes at any queries The one-lap women's race saw become one of the Cross Wright strode home in front to accident in June. This gave new Xmas and with hope in our hearts and a pint please a fine run from the much- Country's main assets this year claim men's and women's titles members a chatter not only to in our hands we think ''it'd better not be contact improved Michelle Birdsall. - Duncan Wallaby and Paddy for Leeds In the six mile men's see the Bothy but to realise how bloody raining there". By Helen Cochrane Richard She worked her way steadily Hough were good examples of race first present member home essential and inspirational a Here her on through the field to come in a solid B-team in Manchester. was Paul Sidlow w ha ran member of the dub Wall had 434727 or 13th overall. She was followed Only two days later, it was an superbly to find a place in the top been.By Chada ick 31-1251.

I Leeds Student Independent Newspaper 26th November 1993 26th November 1993

Uni thrash Chester

Rugby League

I I t 25 Chester 0 FINAL WHISTLE By Rob Lowe e ail know the score. In the current match Ij reds University put W behind them their between the old-guard - Peter Swales. dissapointing start to 'Barmy' Bert the season, emerging Millichip and the rest - and comfortable victors 25-0 new-wave advocates of a against Chester College. The complete overhaul of English win was based on a vastly football from top to bottom. mproved defensive display. Keegan et al have taken an superbly marshalled by man early lead. at the match And Wilson. Everyone seems to Leeds put 4111 all the early he jumping on the 'Two-man pressure but missed several Soh and groom-the-successor• attempts at goal and it was bandwagon. but that's not well into the second half when necessarily a bad thine; it Calvin Down. who ran happens to be a good idea in strongly all afternoon. went itself. and not only because it over from close range. works fur the mighty Unfortunately Scott Ainge Germans. could not effect the Taylor's tragedy conversion. could he football's long-term The game continued to be eain But its self-analysis played almost exclusively in should not go too far - the Chester half as Leeds paralysis by analysis is in adapted better to the nobody's interests. It would he compact, sloping pitch no. 5. Taylorism revisited. But LUU however. still couldn't nevertheless. the national Leeds University Union in action earlier this year manage to score as a mistake sport is at a watershed: a would be niade or penalty immediate effect as good An amazing fifty yard Hollyman. Oldbury finished it off under wasted opportunity will only given away when the attack passing put Mark Cain over in break by Simon Webster set Then came the try of the the posts. - Lowe converted. accelerate English football's got into a scoring position. the corner within minutes of up the position for Rob Lowe match. Proctor made a break The game finished with inexorable decline into The half time whistle blew the restart. This was soon to increase the margin by a from his own 25. the move was Chester in the ascendency but international oblivion. with LUU leading 4-0. followed by another try as crucial point ss ith a drop goal. carried on with some sizzling the leeds defence holding A new way forward Stand-in captain tan Bell's Ands. Wilson sneaked over Danny Doughty crossed for a support play from William, strong as it had done right is never easy: we don't want interval team talk had an from acting half. good try after good work by Hill and Lowe before Chris throughout the match. Major-style 'Back to Basks'. but revolution - which scares the old-guard even more. The grooming Win warms up rowers Hard fought match proposal throws up various round of individual Kumite. potential problems. If Kevin Keegan is anything to go hy. ,. York Small Boats Head. Karate Other sterling performances Nortlwin Uro no one wants the job in its 1 Regatta at Durh.tin ..;si The Mens' Senior coxed four were given in the individual Rowing present form anyway. Salary. weekend brought sucsess to strocked by M. Terry. R.Tozer. Chesterfield Kumite by Gilbert Mackay status and autonomy must be Leeds University Boat Club in P.Carroll. A.Bowden. cox who reached the fifth round Durham Regatta By Andrew Whitrnarshs adjusted so as to maximise the first of the seasons events. K.Gershon fought off numbing and by Mark Metcalf who was By Helen Walsh the temptation to leave the Convincing wins an earlier cold to overtake Durham n the 20th of November eliminated in the second money pit that is the Premier rounds led two Leeds rowers. 800 metres. leaving Amateur Rowing Club within IAIU Karate club round only after a hard- O League. Vaughan Denney and Mark Loughborough in difficulties as the first few lengths off the start. travelled to Chesterfield for fought match which went into So the conservative Laing. to the final of the Mens' their boat collided with a bridge. Striking a steady rate Leeds the Karate Union of Great extra time. old-guard must be made to Novice Sculls, The final victory of the day steered a light course, pushing Britain's annual National In the kata (set forms), the lose. The 49-year old turnip The pair were swift off the was clinched by the woolens' York City most of the way., to Student Championships. Leeds team came fifth in the was well past its sell-by date: start until Laing made a break at senior eight in a closely fought win Senior One category in a The club enjoyed a good first round thus missing out in its place on the shelf should 400 metres, maintaining a steady battle with Loughborough time of I I minutes 34A second. days 'pillaging in the town of on a place in the finals by only go something fresh. healthy drive which won him the race. University The womens' fine The Wornens' Senior coxed the crooked spire. one position. and invigorating. A triangular The mens' senior coxed four had oarsmanship ensured a twenty- four gave a powerful and In Kumite (free fighting) Angela Lee and Tsutomu partnership. between manager. a comfortable row against St. one points draw with polished performance which the leeds 'A' team beat Kotayashi reached the third eventual successor and Hild and St. Bedes' College. Loughborough for the Victor placed them top of their division London but lost to Exter, one and fourth rounds Director of Coaching. is the Durham. before- meeting Ludorum Trophy. and only twenty seconds behind of its members having retired respectively in the individual way forward. The time is Loughborough in the A temperature of -2 degrees the North of England squad due to injury. Liverpool JMA Kota. now. Championship Fours Final. C and snow blizzards were winners Runcorn R.C. proved too much for Leeds Other members of the A quater of a length down off Leeds University Boat Clubs A race by mens' novice 'B'. the team's honour being Leeds squad also turned in Martyn Beauchamp the start Leeds showed stamina main opposition this weekend as squad promises success at saved by Kevin Jillings, who good performances in both in overtaking their opposition at three hundred crews competed at Rutherford next week. also won through to the third Kota and Kumite.

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