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MEET THE TEAM George McMillan Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Remembrance day this year marks 100 years since the end of World War One, it is a time when we remember those who have given their lives fighting in the armed forces. Our features section in this edition has a great piece on everything you need to know about the day and how to pay your respects. Elsewhere in the magazine you can find interviews with The Undateables star Daniel Wakeford, noughties legend Basshunter and local boxer Chris Billam Smith who is now prepping for his Commonwealth title fight. Have a spooky Halloween and we’ll see you at Christmas for the next edition of Nerve Magazine! Ryan Evans Aakash Bhatia Zlatna Nedev Design & Deputy Editor Features Editor Fashion & Lifestyle Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Silva Chege Claire Boad Jonathan Nagioff Debates Editor Entertainment Editor Sports Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 3 ISSUE 2 | OCTOBER 2018 | HALLOWEEN EDITION FEATURES 6 @nervemagazinebu Remembrance Day: 100 years 7 A whitewashed Hollywood 10 CONTENTS /Nerve Now My personal experience as an art model 13 CONTRIBUTORS FEATURES FASHION & LIFESTYLE 18 Danielle Werner Top tips for stress-free skin 19 Aakash Bhatia Paris Fashion Week 20 World’s most boring Halloween costumes 22 FASHION & LIFESTYLE Best fake tanning products 24 Clare Stephenson Gracie Leader DEBATES 26 Stephanie Lambert Zlatna Nedev Black culture in UK music 27 DESIGN Do we need a second Brexit vote? 30 DEBATES Ryan Evans Latin America refugee crisis 34 Ella Smith George McMillan Hannah Craven Jake Carter TWEETS FROM THE STREETS 36 Silva Chege James Harris ENTERTAINMENT 40 ENTERTAINMENT 7 Emma Reynolds The Daniel Wakeford Experience 41 George McMillan REMEMBERING 100 YEARS Basshunter: No. 1 to no-one 44 Harry Mottram We Broke Free & The Magic Gang 46 Molly Lloyd Album reviews 51 George Burton Coffee House Sessions review 54 Claire Boad Wolf Alice win the Mercury Prize 56 Maya Derrick Best Horror Books this Halloween 59 Danielle Werner Top 5 Halloween films this year 62 Ivo Rashkov TV & Movie reviews 65 George Heal Arts by the Sea 70 Daniel Harden BU’s award-winning Nerve Radio 73 Oliver Walton-Harrod Hannah Gibbins SPORTS 74 Chuck Adolphy Reflecting on the World Cup 75 Formula 1 review 78 SPORTS 54 Akshay Kulkarni Conor McGregor 81 Ryan Evans Ryder Cup review 82 COFFEE HOUSE Luke Hewitt 98 England cricket preview 86 Chuck Adolphy SESSIONS Dorset football update 88 Calum Goddard Chris Billam-Smith interview 95 AFC BOURNEMOUTH Jonathan Nagioff AFC Bournemouth review 98 Dan Davis SEASON UPDATE Joel Griffiths Nerve magazine is produced by BU students at Nerve Media HQ, 4th Floor, SUBU, The Student Powered by Photo credit: AFC Bournemouth Centre, Talbot Campus. BH12 5BB. Anybody can contribute to Nerve magazine, just contact the team or come and visit us. 4 5 MARKING 100 YEARS FEATURES SINCE WWI By Danielle Werner ovember 11th, 2018, will mark 100 A two minutes silence is years of remembrance traditionally observed at Nand 100 years since 11am on Remembrance the end of WWI. Sunday, and if the 11th of Remembrance Sunday November falls on a always falls on the different day, many second Sunday of people will also observe November, with services an additional silence. People held across the country to are encouraged to fall silent commemorate the day. It for these two minutes as a is a time for the nation to mark of respect, and to allow honour those who have time for personal reflection sacrificed their lives in wars on the suffering and past and present in the name loss of war. of freedom and security. At 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918 the Armistice took affect and on the Western front the guns fell silent as four years of hostilities finally came to an end. People In Flanders fields the poppies blow celebrated with heavy Between the crosses, row on row... hearts at the news of peace as it came with such an immense loss of life. An estimated 16 million soldiers and military Nerve Features has a range of different topics for you to indulge personnel died during the in this issue! Learn about the experiences one young art model First World War, with a further hoping to break the stigma. You can also learn about the estimated 15-19 million importance of Remembrance Day and it’s values as well! Get a wounded, making it one of the deadliest warm cuppa and dive in!- Aakash Bhatia, Features Editor conflicts in human history. 6 7 FEATURES In addition to the two minutes silence, The Royal British Legion went on to set up Wearing a Poppy is a personal choice, in such a devastating way. He marches as another tradition of Remembrance is the Poppy Appeal in 1921 to raise money but there are other ways to help if this a mark of respect to those he lost and to wearing a poppy. The origins of wearing for those who had been wounded in battle doesn’t feel right for you. You can donate acknowledge their sacrifices so that we a poppy on Remembrance Day come and for the families of fallen soldiers. directly to the Poppy Appeal, you can help may all be here today. from a poem written by Lieutenant Colonel On their website they state what the fundraise for charities like Help for Heroes John McCrae, a year after the war, called, Poppy represents: or you can get involved with The Salvation In Flanders Fields. Inspired by the sight Army, a Christian organisation/charity This year of poppies growing on what once were working to fight social injustice, help If you wish to attend the service in battlefields: those affected by war, and so much more. Bournemouth this year, it is held at the Whatever your personal beliefs you can Bournemouth War Memorial in the Central The poppy is: find a way to help that feels comfortable Gardens. The service itself begins at • A symbol of for you. 10:57am, with the two minutes silence held at 11am. The service lasts for 40 minutes In Flanders fields the poppies blow remembrance and hope and programmes are available to the Between the crosses, row on row, The Remembrance Day service in public should they wish to participate in That mark our place; and in the sky • Worn by millions of Bournemouth is very close to my heart. I the hymns and prayers. Once the service is The larks, still bravely singing, fly people have taken part in the parade and wreath finished there is a wreath laying ceremony Scarce heard amid the guns below. • Red because of the laying for over 10 years, with my great- grandparents. It is a solemn occasion, in which the Mayor, military personal, natural colour of field religious figures and those from the parade We are the Dead. Short days ago but one that I believe it is important take it in turns to approach the memorial We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, poppies to participate in. Having many family and lay their respective wreaths. Before Loved and were loved, and now we lie, members who have served and who are the service begins there is a formal parade In Flanders fields. The poppy is not: currently serving in all different areas of the • A symbol of death or a armed forces I feel compelled to honour made up of ex-service men and women and youth organisation, whom march Take up our quarrel with the foe: not only their commitment and sacrifices, sign of support for war through the town square and through the To you from failing hands we throw but those of all who have served and are • A reflection of politics or gardens to the War Memorial. This begins The torch; be yours to hold it high. serving. Every year I see them same familiar at 10:35am and anyone who wishes to If ye break faith with us who die religion faces of the ex-service men and women I join the march is welcome. Additionally, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow have come to know over the past decade • Red to reflect the colour if you wish to lay your own wreath but do In Flanders fields. of blood and it always humbles me to be in their presence and listen to their stories. It is not wish or are unable to participate in the very humbling. parade, the War Memorial is open to the public after the service. I recently asked my great-grandad why he chose to march every year instead of just attending the service, and for him the reasons are very personal. He calls himself ‘one of the lucky ones’ because as a child he survived the Second World War and as a young adult in the army he was stationed here in the UK while his friends, many of whom died, were sent out to fight in Korea. I could see the guilt he felt as he told me this. It’s difficult to imagine what it feels like to be one of the only survivors of your childhood friends, and to have lost them 8 9 FEATURES “Gender, Race, and LGBT Status” in the top mixed practice, it can be problematic at 100 films from 2014, stated 30.6 percent of times because boycotting completely A WHITEWASHED Latinas and 29 percent of Black women in removes PoCs from the conversation and films were overly sexualized.