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by Mark Campanile, Kirsty Clark As NUS-Scotland President and Susan Stephen Donna McKinnon appealed for calm, clashes occurred between students and police, and the TWO students were charged arrests followed. and ten others detained after The speakers from the Labour scuffles broke out at the anti­ Party, the SNP and the EIS were loans' rally outside the Scot­ drowned out by the shouts of the tish Office in Edinburgh last demonstrators, while NUS rep­ Thursday. resentatives handed over a peti­ tion to Scottish Office officials One of the demonstrators was charged with vandalism, the other containing "thousands" of signa­ tures. with breach of the peace, and reports are being sent- to the Pro­ These scenes provided the curator Fiscal. climax to a four-thousand strong Amidst angry scenes, around march by students from all over one hundred protestors scaled the Scotland - including 700 from fence surrounding the Scottish Edinburgh University- protest­ Office, dashed across the ing about the introduction of top­ forecourt, and sat down on the up loans. steps. The centre of Edinburgh was The jubilant demonstrators, briefly paralysed as students chanting "Students united will staged a five-minute sit-down pro­ never be divided", remained test stretching the length of there for about five minutes Hanover Street and blocking the before police took action. traffic on Princes Street. This pro­ Meanwhile, other students test was focused upon the TSB, surged forward to the entrance to which is one of the banks cur­ the Scottish Office car park, find­ rently negotiating with the gov­ Photo: Toby Scou ing their path blocked by a cordon ernment on the implementation A third year Law student who Peter Vandome, told Student: "It of the loans scheme. Donna McKinnon did not wish of police. · to comment on whether the sit­ does not himself receive a grant, is a strong AUT policy to support down had been planned, but she said: "I oppose· the student loans student grants and oppose the conceded that "we knew there scheme on principle. It is totally loans system. We've investigated would be a lot of student anger the unjust and it will make it difficult the way loans systems work in minute we arrived at one of the for people to go to university." other countries and are convinced banks involved with student A number of mature students they are quite unsatisfactory." loans". were also on the march: "Parents Another AUT representative, Similarly, as the march progres­ who are students won't be able... to politics lecturer Paul Smart, sed down towards Queen Street, afford to give their children a added: "I don't think demonstra­ demonstrators jeered as they pas­ proper education and they tions like this will play a major sed a branch of the Midland Bank. wouldn't be students themselves role in stopping the loans scheme. But the Clydesdale Bank, one of without the help of grants - it's The Tories are more likely to lis­ the financial institutions not yet difficult enough being a student ten to the banks than committed to the system of top-up and a parent already," one of demonstrators because they tend loans, wa.s met with loud support. them commented. to listen more to the vested Condemnation of all aspects of · Donna M<:Kinnon urged stu­ interests that they rely on for their the government's proposals was dents to register their protest to own authority." universal amongst the marchers. student loans by closing bank NALGO also expressed sol­ accounts in those banks that are idarity with the students' cause: Edinburgh University second proposing to implement the gov­ "We attack any governmentprop­ year Arts st_!ldent Jennifer Colgan ernment plans. In response, a osaJs which attack free access to expressed concern about the loss number of students destroyed education: Loans will affect stu­ of housing benefit involved in the their cash cards. dents of all ages, and they will scheme: "I'm opposed to loans The student demonstrators have a knock-on effect for our because I live in a flat and when were joined by representatives of members working at the Univer­ they take away my .housing the Edinburgh Association of sity. Students will be forced to benefit and they eventually get my University Teachers and poll tax, I'll have to camp out NALGO. TheheadoftheAUTat under the Potterrow dome!" Edinburgh University, Professor continued on page 2 Photo: Tiddy Mait/and- nuerton student 2 thursday, november 23, 1989 news Euc-APT call for ~NUS urges bank boycott I student support £7.5 million this year and when· by Mark Campanile the , plan is fully operational in and Susan Stephen 1995 it is estimated that the final running cost will be between £10.5 by News Reporter EUCAPT representative Dave first poll tax letter was received". d £14 .11. · H "I · · · bl h AS the Government an nu •on. Donohoe told Student: "The pur- e went on: t IS mev1ta e t at pose of our attendance will be to there will be hundreds of people announced details of bank The student loans company will NEXT Monday, members of exposethebarbaricnatureofboth there, but we need student sup- partiCipatiOn· · · m· t h e settmg· up result,be based thein GlasgowNUS and,national as a Edinburgh University's warrant sales and the poll tax.lt is· port." of a student loans company, demonstration on 28th November Campaign Against the Poll important that as many people Other proposed warrant sales NUS Scotland urged students is being held there. Tax will meet under Potter- · -who are against. this medieval tax in Scotland, like in Aberdeen, to boycott the banks The Royal Bank of Scotland is row dome in a bid to capture turn up to par.tlcipate. " Gl asgow an d D un d ee, h ave involved. t h e onI y Scott1s · h b ank that has so st.udent support against L?~- The warrant sale, a system already been prevented taking Education Secretary John Mac- far associated.it~elf wit_h the_loans h1an RegiOnal Council s 1 where Sheriff Officers from the place by such mass action, he said. Gregor released details of how the company ~nd 1t IS on this bas1s !hat latest poll tax initiative. council come in to take away per- The only article in the house of student loans company will work . the NUS m Scotland h_as adv1sed -The group, who are meeting at sonal goods already priced by the person concerned which has and the names of the co-operating students to t~a?sfer their accounts 10.30 am, hope to go down to an them, has been initiated for non- been priced is a stereo-cassette banks, in a written reply in the to non-participatory banks. In :area of Edinburgh called registration. recorder, worth £42. However, House of Commons last week. Scotland these are the Bank of Muirhouse to disrupt what might This particular case, Donohoe Lothian Regional Council have The banks that intend to form Scotland and the Clydesdale be the first poll tax warrant sale in told Student, "has been going on slapped on the additional £50 fine the student loans company are Bank. . Scotland. for the past 11 months since the for non-registration. Barclays Midland NatWest the The NUS themselves have the1r ===------~~----~-~--~~------~-~-~R~~~nk~~~~.~B, ~oo~w~~R~~&~~ OXFORD given by Mr Robert Jackson. 120 Girobank Allied Irish Banks Scotland and they are seekmg a Following the huge pro-democ- I students and lecturers attended Bank of I~eland Northern Bank meeting with the bank to clarify racy demonstrations held in the talk given by the Junior Minis- and Ulster Bank': the situation. . Oxford last summer concerning ter for E~ucation, but after ten If the top-up loans proposals A spokesman for t~e Royal events in Tianamen Square, the _minutes almost everyone walked reach the statute book the Gov- Bank of Scotland told Student: Chinese Embassy has been keep- out in protest against the govern- emment will sign a co~tract with "_The bank is neutral on the ques- ing a close eye on Oxford's 200 or ment's student loans proposals. the company for the administra- tiOn ~f loans -:-we don't ~ant to so Chinese students. Poor minister. tion of the scheme. The Govern- get mvolved m what might be Embassy officials organised ment will cover administrative termed a political question. official Chinese government video NORWICH costs and pay the banks a £12 "Of course_ we're_worried about . ~~h~~~ d s howmgs last term. This term, stu- Redevelopment plans are also transaction fee for each student stu ents closmg their accounts but dents were present at a meeting SUSSEX underway at the University of East loan application. we hope they will realise that all with the new government Minister Anglia. A proposal has been put The banks' agreement at this we a_ re doing_ is providing ".or Educa t•Ion at wh" IC h ' to quote Saatchi and Saatchi are io move forward for a new'• hall of resi- stages does not commit them to. tee h me1 a expertise for the govern- one student, officials said: "We in soon to promote Sussex as a uni- deuce, to be built on a large area of involvement in the scheme when ment. If the scheme does go ahead want to show you we're here, that versity ofthe '90s. The Vice-Chan- land which is at present a world- it becomes operational. there will be students who want to we watch you." cellor of Sussex met with the leading rabbit observation centre. The preparation for the loans take out lo_ans and we want to Indl.v•·dual talks Wl"th st u d en ts infamous brothers of the advert•·s- ,..~'he Independent reported · this scheme is costing the Government ensure th at 1t wor k s proper1 y," he have also been taking place, with ing world at the start of this term. shock to rabbit research last week ' added. the intent•"on , say st ude n ts , ''t o Apparently the Vice-Chancellor ··s which may help the campaigning remind us that we're here to study, keen to promote Sussex as ''the that is about to begin. However, . not to become involved in the polit- Green University" for the green the number of en-suite bathrooms Univers~ty coup ical turmo,.l"' churned up by 11"e s m· . content in its courses and •"ts loca- mcluded· in the plans suggest to the western media". developments.tion in the South Downs. We await many a large-scale conference centre rather than a hall of resi­ other going to Cambridge Univer­ LEEDS dence. IN Paris on Tuesday, Edin­ As was reported a few weeks ·BIRMINGHAM burgh University lecturers sity, from a European-wide shortlist of 35. ago, Caspar Weinberger, ex-US The Vice-Chancellor has exten­ DUBLIN were provided with another Defense Secretary, has been sive plans for a £1/4 million lake on Trinity College's sabbaticals are coup in the form of a The contract, worth £425 ,000 awarded an honorary law degree campus, as part of what one stu­ to be in court again this week in the £425,000 three-year contract over the next three years, will go for his work to promote world to Dr Robert Fisher and Dr John dent describes as "the ongoing continuing case concerning the concerning industrial robots. peace. Last Monday 500 people process of cosmetic refurbishment illegal distribution of abortion Hallam, lecturers in Edinburgh The ceremony, taking. place in turned out to protest - students, at Birmingham". Student feeling information in this year's student University's Department of Arti­ members of staff, representatives is running high and demonstra­ handbook. The case had been the headquarters of the European ficial Intelligence. Their project from CND and local Labour coun­ tions and petitions are planned. referred to the European Court of Institute of Technology, is the cul­ involves the research and cillors. It is suspected by some that Human Rights but is now to enter mination of a successful lobbying development of "more intelli­ Leeds, a major university for STIRLING the Supreme Court. The students' by Edinburgh's industrial/com­ gent" vision for industrial robots, military research, is hoping 'to Last Monday the Socialist union is meeting to make a mercial interface company, Uni- with the particular challenge of "butter up" the Americans for big­ Workers organised a "mass" referendum on policy later this . vEd Technologies. Only two bids developing the robots' flexibility ger research contracts. walk-out demonstfation on a talk week. from the UK were accepted, the of control. NI GEL GRIFFITHS, MP LOTHIAN REGION COUNCIL continued from J!Bge 1 Department of Social Work look for other sources of income NUS officials claimed that th~ and will perhaps compete for our demonstration had been a major members' jobs," a NALGO success because, for the first time BREAKS & OPPORTUNITIES spokesman c~mmented. Scottish Education Minister la~ . SNP MP Margaret Ewing high­ Lang had agreed to meet NUS lighted the plight of disabled stu­ .representatives to discuss top-up SCHEME dents if the loans scheme is· loans. implemented: "Disabled people Coul~ you care Tor someone with learning difficulties (mental are faced with many additional However, a spokesman for the handt~ap) for 2/3 weeks at a time to give them a break and new costs when they enter higher edu­ HELP AND ADVICE cation and this means that the Scottish Office told Student that expenences?_ Or c?uld you become a Befriender to help the. Min!ster had not been pres­ Every Friday & Every Monday some~ody wtth ordmary activities ;n the community? Expenses people who deserve help most in our society will be the most hurt." sunsed mto the meeting by the from 9am-10am at 93 Causewayside are patd to both Carers and Befrienders. To find out more please demonstration. The letter offer­ And Third Saturday of Every Month contact: ing talks had been sent to the NUS 9 am Burdiebouse/Southhouse Edinburgh Central MP Alistair the previous day. Community Centre, Burdiehouse Street D~rling attacked the basic pre­ ROSEMARY LAXTON, Co-ordinator, . 10.15 am Liberton High School, m~se . behind the government's EUSA President Jimmy Quinn Gilmerton Road thmkmg: "The adoption of such a Breaks and Opportunities Scheme, wa.s pleased with the turnout of 11.30 am James GiUespie's High School, polic~ shows the utter bankruptcy Edinburgh University students at Lauderdale Street 20-22 Alban.y Street, of this government - in every the march. He called · the Or contact the Labour Party HQ Edinburgh. other country. in Europe which 93 Causewayside (Tel: 662 4520). have tried student loans they have de'!lonstration a "great success" Labour- Serving Our Community Tel: 031-556 9140. been discredited." wh1ch "had some effect in drawing attention to the students' cause". student news thursday, november 23, 1989 3 NEWS · IN 0 oc .· BRIEF forced Edinburgh University to • EUSA's Annual General by Steve Martin the cleaning staff could be. poses. The money is needed nut. effected without "serious loss of just to pay the rates demand and withdraw a letter aksing two tele­ Meeting is to be held on Monday, service" to students. to uphold the fabric of the build­ phonists to take voluntary redun­ 27th November, and the Students' . Association is encouraging as LARGE-SCALE cuts in ser­ Should this go ahead, rooms ings, but to fund an amb~tious dancy and proposing only single vices and personnel seem would be cleaned just once a week refurbishment programme that is person switchboard working in many students to attend as possi­ ble. as opposed to daily. It is envisaged already under way. the evenings. likely at Pollock Halls of However, the Association has Residence next year, accord­ that any necessary staff cuts would Other measures mooted by Mr Mr David Finlay, NALGO's vice-chair, accused the authorities been inundated with far too many ing to a report written by the be achieved thorugh natural was­ Cole to achieve these financial tage and voluntary severance. goals include the possible replace­ of "bungling with the livelihoods motions to debate in one night. . T.his is because EUSA's budget halls' Senior Warden, Mr Student reaction to the possibil­ ment of assistant wardens by of its employees" and claimed that for the forthcoming year is always. Terry Cole. . ity of cuts has been hostile, with senior student residents, freeing the Pollock telephonists are discussed at the meeting. · The report, originally circu­ many residents claiming that the an extra 50 rooms for rent and already "stretched to the limit" Motions forwarded already lated on 31st October, but only housekeeping staff perform a vital bringing in £50,000 pa in addi­ and that "the existing service is include subjects from racism, now receiving wider attention, welfare role. Cleaners, they say, tional revenue. lacking in many ways, through no suggests that considerab'e finan­ fault of the staff'. abortion and studenfloans to the are often the first to spot illness or The report, titled "Pollock Northern Ireland problem, les­ cial savings will be requirqd to pay personal problems. Meanwhile, NUPE, whose Halls: Problems and Prospects", bian and gay rights and a motion the site's 1990-91 commercial Rosa Shek, vice-president of members comprise the majority 'rates bill of some £lOO ,oqo. emphasises the need to "maximise of the Pollock cleaning staff, are on a fair deal for King's Buildings Fraser House, told Student that profit" in all areas, leading to students. The figure is based( on the residents there would be "utterly staying tight-lipped, · but the amount of accommodatipn availa­ wipespread student fears of a sell­ branch secretary, Mr Douglas opposed" to any cuts and pointed off or a development of the Pol­ • EDINBURGH'S Christmas ble for commercial letting in vaca­ to the much higher than usual Brown, described his initial reac­ tion periods, which next year will lock complex into a conference tion to the plans as "a bit horrified lights will be officially switched on attendance at house meetings as centre. number just 850 rooms, compared really", and the mood at a union tonight at 6 pm by a local nine­ evidence of this. She claimed that A University spokesman, how­ to last summer's figure of about meeting held last week is thought year-old. Hot chestnuts will be it was unfair that rents will con­ ever, rejected these rumours, 1,500. The area most destined for to have been angry. served to all at the main ceremony tinue to rise regardless of any stating that: "there are no propos­ spending cuts is cleaning. NUPE will, though, co-operate on the Mound (that probably · reductions in services. als for privatisation." At present, 120 cleaners are with'! "time and motion" study to includes poor students), but Santa If staff ~uts take place, income Claus will have gifts for only the employed at Pollock; the number The Pollock authorities could · be launched into cleaning routines from student fees will be sufficient under-eights. Arbor illuminatio that was necessary to cope when be in for a rough ride from the at the halls, and until the study's to cover the provision of all _ancil­ mea! the halls were full with visitors to lary ~ ervices. This means that vac- · unions concerned if they decide to findings are made known-prob­ the Edinburgh Festival this year. go ahead with personnel cuts. ably not until the new year- no ation revenues, which are cur­ • THE Presidents' Ball, one of Hence, Mr Cole believes that a Already NALGO, which repre­ definite decision will be made by rently used to subsidise rents by £9 the most sumptuous occasions in reduction of up to 50 per cent'of sents the halls' reception staff, has either side. per week, can be put to other pur- the Students' Association's calen­ dar, was held in Teviot Union on Friday night. It is reckoned by Martin Morri­ son, n~wly elected Vice-President of EUSA, that the evening was a great success. "About 770 tickets were sold," he said, ·"and I was University image promoted ·very pleased not only with the attendance, but with the effort the house committees put into the on industry and university public versities to keep the media lectuaf "regen{!ration of univer­ event. The building did look won­ by Ewen Ferguson esteem. Sir Donald, who chaired informed-and-under control. sities in the further development derful."!' and the committee that made provi­ Professor David Daiches fol­ of the concept of general . Sir David Smith, the Principal, Andrew Heavens · degrees." sion for the closure of Edin­ lowed, speaking on "The Educa­ Sir A lex Currie, tjle secretary, The final talk was given by pro­ burgh's Dental School, warned of tional Perspective". He began by and Ms Muriel Gray, the Rector "WHY are we worried about a perceived .hostile atmosphere recalling the "exciting and heady · fessor Edwin Morgan on "the ofEdinburgh University, were all the public's perception of between universities and indus­ days" of his involvement in the Perspective of National Con­ in attendance. EUSA's four sab­ sciousness. " baticals turned up too, as did the universities in Britain?" try. Indeed, he indicated that founding of Sussex University: even polytechnics might be consi­ "Universities then," he said, "had Morgan described a "confused Presidents of Glasgow Un'iversity This was the question for- and unhappy picture of Scottish dered of "more practical and the image of innovative and excit­ and Dundee University Students' . warded by Sir David Smith Prin­ universities not being able to Association. cipal of Edinburgh Univer;ity, to immediate" use. He highlighted ing places." . this by cit_ing that tbe transistor, . . agree on what they want" in ~ela­ ~very special one-day symposium Daiches went on to outline his laser and high temperature super­ tion to their Scottish identityt He • LAST Thursday, at 10.30 am, m Old College building on Satur- ideal for university education: conduc!or were all developed out­ cited "the patchy teaching of Scot­ the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, day past. . "The basis of a university is side university's dreaming spires. tish literature in universities" with Mrs Eleanor McLaughlin, visited Inaugurating the conference curiosity ... the fulfillment of the Perhaps more contentiously, quality teaching depending Potterrow to be specially pre- · Sir David was addressing a one: unstoppable human impulse to Sir Donald intimated that wholly on "local enthusiasm."n sented with a cheque for £1,400. hundred strong, mainly academic ask the primal question, why?" whereas industry needs a thought­ Speaking to Student afterwards The money was given by EUSA audience who had gathered for However, he described a very ful, decisive and active graduate, O!Je of the conference's organis­ President Jimmy Quinn to the. the duration of the morning and different situation in the present universities only provide stimufus ers, the Reverend Robert Ander­ Provost on behalf of the Guthrie ~fternoo n to react and participate ;day university which he saw as for the thoughtful person. son, said it had been a very good Street Disaster.Fund, set up in the m discussion of "Universities and having an · image of "a breeding Before the session broke up for discussive affair, and that all the wake of the disaster on 4 Sep­ Public Esteem: into the future. " ground for wealth-creators." He· lunch, Professor John Dale ofEU speakers and their ideas had been tember. Chaired in the morning by the saw a possibl.e hope for the intel- Botany Department, concluded "top notch." Secretary to the University, Mr that universities' image in Britain Alex Currie, the proceedings took did suffer from a perceived hostil­ the form of three speakers deliv­ BICYCLEs · ity between them and the present STUDENT SPECIAL ering a short talk, with a discus­ . government, and it provided for sion punctuating each talk. REPAIRED public ambivalence. Nigel Griffiths, Labour MP for "We must tell the public we are I· Edinburgh South, since 1987; and at HIRED excited about our work," Profes­ a _gra~uate of this University, gave sor dale said. "There can be no his news on universities from a retreat in my field to a scientific SOLD . ~estminster perspective. Stres- bunker: science should be, and is, THE f RESH P:\STA RESTAt;RANT smg it was vital for universities to fun!" BEST SELECTION OF . get MPs briefed, Mr Griffiths After lunch, Edinburgh Uni­ poured. passion into urging versity Rector, Ms. Muriel Gray, MOUNTAIN BIKES unviersities to take the offensive took over the chair and OFFER As muCh as you can eat for IN EDINBURGH and start blowing their own trum- · immediately introduced another pets in public. £3.9 5 Scottish rector - Mr Willis Pic­ with Bolognese/Salsa Rosa or . But perhaps Mr Griffith's most kard of Aberdeen, who spoke on· Important contribution was his Neapolitan Sauce. Mon. to Wed. inc. "The Media Perspective." Offer ends 6Dec. 1989. SALE NOW call for a new Robbins report Mr Pickard concentrated on the Which would map out a strateg; power of the media to provoke the .ON for the 1990s, looking at the Euro­ government and general public. pean experience of the past three towards "esteem and disdain" of decades, but still ·remaining true the university system. He insisted ' Voucher or Student Matriculation Card to be presented. .._ CENTRAL CYCLE HIRE to the original Robbins report it was "worthwhile universities 13 LOCHRIN PLACE PASTIFICIO • - ~;,- maxim of "free higher education parading their wares in public" for all." 23 North Bridge (Tel: 031 556 6467) ~-- . ' TOLLCROSS 228 6333 and pointed to the need of a good Sir Donald McCallum, another press-relations service in all uni- former EU graduate, spoke next -~~~~~~~~~---~~ student ,4 thursday, I).Qvember 23, 1989

THERE I was, minding my own to something altogether more The hard ten contingents were in business, strolling down the primeval, i.e. "'Ere we go, 'ere we such ecstasy at understating this Grassmarket, peaceful as a new­ go". Well, pop pickers, it's no sur-_ revolutionary activity in such close born lamb, when suddenly this prise that this proved to be the fave proximit_y to.wha! they ~uspec!e~ massive, ugly horde came down rave for the day. were realproletariat workers, that upon me like a wolf on the fold. they felt the need, once again, to sit The great banner-ridden, law­ down for their rights. (Aside: Do "No ifs, no buts, stop the educa­ abiding, seething mass showed SWSS organise so many sit-downs tion cuts," they cried, or rather that they were true revolutionaries to disguise the fact thl!t they are all they tried to cry, as most of them at heart by shouting "Fascist" at really short?) Luckily for everyone couldn't quite get their teeth all policemen more than 100 yards else, the NUS. stewards soon had round a word as complicated as away. them up again and before long the "education"-; although some where · front end was semi-successfully defeated by "stop". With this in Up and over the Mound stum­ executing the tricky right-hand - - -- mind they soon reverted to "(Solo) bled the vast caterpillar of intellec­ Stuff Your Poll Tax (Ensemble) turn into Queen Street, although tual rage, having modified its war Up Your Arse", which proved to the tail end was still dejectedly cry (or possibly mating cry) to . tramping down the Mound and be manageable by almost "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out! everyone. finding that nobody wanted one of Out! Out!", but Maggie must have their leaflets. They solved this decided to stay in and listen to problem by tossing them up into They were, however, exception­ Woman's Hour as she was the air, where the wind was blow- nowhere to be seen. The SWSS ally polite to all the coppers they ing strongly enough to scatter ·came into closer contact with, not contingent struck another great them all over Princes Street Gar­ because they were at all afraid but blow into the heart of the capitalist · dens, although not strong enough rather because they are workers beast by sitting down outside the to mask the piteous cries of the · too, aren't they? By now the TSB in Hanover Street, but the (workingdass) gardeners who had chanting had progressed on to foundations held up and, fearing to clear them all up afterwards. "The students, united, will never piles, they got up and moved on, be divided" which, despite repre­ leaving behind only a few of their senting a rather interesting varia­ number-who were later to be seen Finally the masses reached their tion on Marxist theory, suffered asking about careers. final destination: the Scottish the twin disadvantage of having Office. "Let's occupy it!" cried a lots of polysyllabic words and not By this stage however the "' sizeable chunk, but the majority rhyming very well. Thus it came as march (not reall; a march ~t all, decided that it would be bett~r to no surprise that as the crowd but "ramble against loans" doesn't go ~d occup~ a pub. Those who struggled up out of the Grassmar­ quite have the ring to it) had remamed behind, however, even­ ket and on the George IV Bridge entered a new phase, namely that. tually got their greatest wish ("Oh, look, what a lovely shop!" . granted, and they brought forth a . they were now shuiDmg past mem- n· ew chant· ''W , · t b ''Yes, it's remarkable what you . . e re gomg o e on bers of t h e publ Ic, some of whom telly , · t b Police estimate three bikes on demo. ea~ buy these days'.') they reverted . . . . , we re gomg o e on actually prud attention to them. telly .••" VACANCIES FOR POSTS AT PUBLICATIONS BOARD STOP WASTING ~ YOUR TIME! GET A JOB AT STUDENT OR THEFT

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·Carried away by the excitement of it all. - student 6 thursday, november 23, 1989 focus Bad out Boys • Charlie Me Veigh listens to hit rappers Niggers With_ ID Attitude and finds out about art, violence and the decay of Afro American Society. · ins~ran~e help, or even the sort of .AS STUDENTS in East- discounts provided by Edin­ FOR those not in the·know, Nig-, ern. Europe smash the burgh's Student Pages. gers With Attitude are a five-man organisations that have Policy is decided at NUS con­ rap combo hailing from the Com­ imposed pol~cy on them, mis­ ferencj!s, often after violence and pton ghetto of Los A~geles. managed their economies intjrnidation of opposition speak­ Their criminally profane world­ and failed to address their ers. NUS figures point out that up view has caused much con­ to 64% of delegates will not be _troversy. The FBI have tapped basic needs, I find it painfully ironic that Edinburgh stu­ elected. in thos institutions that their · Vodaphones and· do hoild elections, turnouts of less Washington housewives break out dents .a.re even considering than 1% are not unknown. This is into a sweat when their names are affiliation to the National the sort of structure that, in mentioned. Union of Students. Europe, only Albania still Even the British music press- an Wherever there is an opposi­ adheres to. industry that thrives on outrage - tion to the National Union of Stu­ 'has found it impossible to cope dents, the NUS attempts to blow And the policies passed at this ·with drug-crazed, sexist lyrics like the whole affair into a purely conference (which costs £60-£70 these: political slagging match, banking per minute to hold) are hardly "If you fuck up I'll go and get on the traditionally high Labour representative of, or helpful to, my twelve gauge I And unload the support amongst students, and, the average student. In 1987, the barrel and laugh I Cos I'm putting ultimately, covering up the blat­ National Executive thought it lead in your motherfucking ass I antly embarrassing and expensive more important for students to Yeah I'm psychopathic, but the failures of the NUS . discuss the current situation in whores are attracted ... " At the end of October, Tim Israel rather than Student Finan­ As the situation stands NW A Clark, a senior Labour student, cial Support and the Education could probably be ignored - as resigned from his sabbatical post they, themselves, suggest - as a Reform Bill. on the NUS National Executive in NUS has passed policy in sup­ 'tumour' on the soft underbelly of protest at its "absurd" policies. In society, which would be best cut port of the IRA, and, currently his ow'n words, "It (NUS) is corn- ~ the NUS President is on the edito­ out of the ~potlight. But as the fas­ pletely unrepresentative of stu­ rial board of a journal that openly · test selling rap group ever this is dents in the country. Most would both impossible and unwise. supports the political wing of the not give a damn if the government IRA. But there is a more important shut it down." reason. The rappers in NW A are On equally emotive topics, the It would be ridiculous for the NUS funded, on be,half of all its portraying life on the streets of Los government to shut NUS down, Angeles in the most effective way members, the National Abortion but of this union they can. By using the word 'I' in memb~rship The EUSA AGM this Monday will decide whether or not Committee which demands the sh~uld _ be_like that of a~y. other·.•. t h 1l d m to test support ofthe NUS. Edward their lyrics like a poet or novelist, ·umon Ie If you want to JOm you o ave a re eren u right of the woman to obtain an they are playing the roles of street may, but there would be no corn-. Brooks of the Conservative Association says that abortion up until the time of birth, hoods high on crack, toting and that anyone, even someone pulsion to be a member just membership would be a big mistake. not medically trained, should be machine guns. It is inconceivable because of your student's union is that such intelligent and articulate affiliated. pri.ces and receive no NUS aid for As a member of the Labour stu­ work could come from the people sport, music or art etc. dents Executive said recently, · As for the campaigning voice they pretend to be, but the songs Policy is decided at NUS - And even the welfare and legal okay, it doesn't succeed, but at of NUS, no government,'" are given their power by this pre­ conferences, often after vio­ help the students receive has least it tries. Labour of Conservative, has tence. lence and intimidation of alwayts been questionalbe as These failures are expensive. ever listened to this National What makes this artist role­ opposition speakers. every student who calls NUS Edinburgh University, two and a Union. playing both scary and relevant is headquarters will discover. Just half times the size of Heriot-Watt, that the personalities and situa­ Voluntary membership did ask what Strathclyde, aberdeen could expect to pa two and a,half allowed to perform the abortion. tions they re-enact on stage do exist for those at non-NUS estab­ , and Stirling get that Edinburgh times the £18,000 Heriot-Watt · It worries me that, across Bri- · exist. They are grotesque, lishments until 1984, when this doesn't already have? would pay. AI lin all , NUS takes tain, students are forced to join frightening and disturbing, but to was stopped because so few indi­ As for the campaigning voice of £2 million from the students of the one organisation that has attempt to censor the group or to viduals took up this offer. NUS, no government, Lasbour or britain, despite its disturbing his­ proven to be more out of tou~h put them down (as Andy Kershaw · For NUS doesn't help the stu­ Conservative, has ever listened to tory of financial mismanagement with its enforced membership does in the Independent) is to try to .dent who plays sport, or is this National Union. What other of the students' money. · 'than the Chinese leaders, last shut the door on vivid and exciting interested in music or art, or who unions has failed in every issue it NUS Travel, NUS Insurance 1t;me, could ever have been. view of a frightening section of just likes a bood bevvy. Of tbe has taken a stand on, like the Poll and NUS Marketing have all been So, keep the NUS Army tanks, America's disenfranchised poor. eight Scottish unviersities, the Tax, Student Loans and-presided . sold or closed due to excessive out of Bristo Square and let the NW A are not attempting to three NUS affiliated universities over a 40% decrease in income for debts, meaning that NUS pro~ students of Edinburgh have a free change the world, they are just have the three highest booze its members? vides students with no trayel or· voice. reporting a different kind of news in a different langauge. People who like NW A thrive on their energy and are attracted by their sick sense of humour. Within the laughter, though, I find a dis­ turbing aspect of a white superior­ ity, one which can find humour in• Two Berlin bricks . the horiffic decay of Afro-Ameri­ can society. STORY about two the cliffs aren't white Bert and we "All the better for you Joe, you others for too long. What about Is it entertaining to listen to sail pass." English bricks who went don't want to go back to the you Joe." someone boasting about his crack A "Stop fretting Joe, home's Wimpy estate." "Back to the white cliffs mate, i habit, the people he's murdered on holiday and accidentally home. I just hope they don't blow "True, very true perhaps I just hope they're still white; better and the women he's abused? ended up in the Berlin Wall. us up with dynamite or if dyna­ won't have to, perhaps we might pack up you're rubble Bert, it Unfortunately the answer is "I just can't believe it. I can't mite's not quick enough, I don't sell our story to the press and get looks as if it's our turn next." . probably yes - the same side of the believe it. Bert, we're no longer fancy the chisels, perhaps if we ourselves up forever, build a new "About time too." brain that is amused by tabloid dirt, it's all over, we're going put out our little white flags." . life."• "See you friend, I hope it goes sensationalism will find a belly home. "Yeh, but we all look the same "I'm·off to the States. I want to well in the states." · laugh in NWA. But while you're "Oh, I can already smell the salt now. I fear they're not very sym­ be part of something new, some­ "Yeh." laughing, remember that the Los air, see the white cliffs of Dover, pathetic to anyone who's part of thing big, I want to smoke Savan­ Angeles Poiice Force has an inter­ hear the.seagulls dipping and div­ the wall." nah cigars and wear a ten gallon nal division to deal with drug ing swish, swish ... but .. . "Stiff upper lip then." hat, I want to go geewhizz and abuse among its own officers. perh.aps ... they don't go swish, "After twenty-eight years it's bend on my board, spin rou~, It's not funny in the ghetto, it's swish anymore Bert, perhaps the pretty stiff, look at me worn and stand up and walk off, walk away. · Peter Baily fucking terrifying. cliffs aren't even white , ~hjat if grey, I used to be red and young." I've put up with the orders of student focus thursday, november 23, 1989 7 S.TUDENT Established in 1887

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HE TELEVISING of Parliament, and the sub­ a continuing reticence among the banks and building effort to prevent the introduction of loans. Tsequent reporting of this "great step for democracy", societies to become involved in such a potentially prob­ Beyond basic policy new campaign tactics could also be have followed a fairly predictable pattern. Much time has lematic scheme. In Scotland only the Royal Bank of Scot­ organised, with an obvious approach being a stud~nt been spent on Margaret Thatcher's change in stance, so land has made any moves towards becoming involved in boycott of banks who have expressed an interest in that she looked more directly at the cameras, and Ian the loans process, with the other major banks remaining administering the scheme. The fear of losing popularity Gow's hairstyle, or lack of it. Among this plethora of act­ sceptical at this stage. with students has been the main reason for Lloyd's Bank ing and fashion tips the matter of real concern, the Gov­ The loans scheme is obviously one step closer to becom­ distancing itself from loans, and similar pressure on ernment's legislative agenda, has managed to slip by rela­ ing a reality, yet this should not mean that students now Barclays led to their withdrawal from investment in tively unnoticed. admit defeat. Marches and demonstrations are an impor­ South Africa. Nestling a~ong the-policies on health, energy and so on tant way to express opposition to the Government's plans Students must refute the popular image that we are are the plans for the loans scheme which have been at the and ensure publicity for the anti-loans campaign, as the self-interested and short-sighted careerists. We must forefront of student politics for the last couple of years. march last Thursday showed. However there is a need for continue to oppose a scheme which may not necessarily The scheme's implementation, probably with some the NUS and other student bodies to reassess their alter­ affect those currently at university and college, but is set minor adjustments, now seems to be inevitable. To reach natives to the legislative plans. To an extent the stalwart to pose serious financial problems both for the students this stage the Government has had to weather the most refusal to accept anything but an increased grant has let and education system of the future. If students do not vociferous and sustained NUS campaign of action for students be represented as backward looking and continue to express opposition, no-one else will do it for years, which included the violent scenes at Westminsiter unrealistic. Perhaps more attention should have been us. We cannot admit defeat: loans can be defeated. in November last year. In addition to this there has been pai~ to other approaches such as a graduate tax in an Indeed, they must be.

~ 0 mean to say, where was the review ing the Film Society in particular it Yours sincerely, of Eric Clapton's lastest offering? failed to cover the wider implica­ Adam Clark He's the sort of act that the true tions. We feel that the loss of the Film Society President .i~ LETTERS students in the University really University's only large-scale want to hear about, as he undoub­ academic and cultural venue Dear Student, well entrenched tendency to con­ tedly has again pushed back the · would be an extreme·ly short­ When, oh when, will the music tinually cover the gigs and albums boundaries of quality music. sighted move, failing to recognise, STAFF LIST pages on the paper end their of bands who are about as well Come on,Student, get the finger the University's cultural role and 'Indie-elitism? For too long truly known as an anonymous thing out! achievement in general. """"'"1.11 popular music like Dire Straits, that isn't very well known at all. Yours cincerely, MANAGER:- Michael Campbell Wet Wet Wet and Black Flag have Last week, for isntance, we T.T. D'Arby ADVERTISING: JaneSowerby not received the coverage that were treated to 'vinyl' from------­ Please look out for the petition Simon Horrocks they deserve. While I appreciate Heehaw (remember them?) and to "Save George Sqaure Fiona Calder . Dear Student, Theatre", and attend the Annual GiiiHalliday that the music pages can play an the old favourite the Fini Tribe. · StephenBax .important role in highlighting les­ I'm sure there was much more While your recent front page General Meeting on Monday 27th STUDENT NEWS ser known acts, particularly those acceptable and popular recordS' article, "The C Falls on GST", to mandate EUSA to support the SERVICE: Michael Barron from scotland, there has been a which could have been chosen. I publicised the proposals threaten- campaign. Sophy Higgins PROMOTIONS: GaleTaylor HOary Lyttoo lslaDavie DISTRIBUTION: Robert Lambden TimChen IIDIDJQDI

EDITOR: Craig McLean groundling DEPUTY EDITOR: Graeme Wilson NEWS : Ewan Ferguson Mark Campanile Zoe Pagnamenta FOCUS: James Bethell INTERNATIONAL: LaraBurns fan Younger Elin Piorkowski Dirk Singer SPORT: Mike SeweD Hamish Smith • • •• at pop ~nobility MUSIC: JameS Haliburton DessieFaby ARTS: Alison Brown SungKhang FEATURES: AvriiMair FILM: TobyScott Andrew Mitchell predominantly female audience. down, elbows jabbed into the air with sweaty head-bands. Another WHAT'S ON: MoyaWilkie IT WAS a stirring sight. Hundreds Susan Gillanders of clean-limbed youth lounged He fiddled with the huge speakers as the incessant, hypnotic beat wore a Suzanne Vega t-shirt AND drove on. This was voodoo, Euro­ Richard Amold around the cavernous hall, dres­ through which his mind-control had no sense of timing at all, treat­ FASHION: AvriiMair sed in the mandatory uniform of rhetoric would flow. He sported a pean-style, and an effective train­ log a rather rocky number like a SCIENCE: Maxton Walker sweat-pants, Iycra pants, under head-piece through which he could ing for hand-to-hand combat with spastic having an epileptic fit. She Stephen Foulger pants, free-flowing singlets, baggy bark his instructions for global rival ideologies like Aerobics or had no grasp of rhythm what­ PHOTOGRAPHY: Tiddy.Maitland· t-shirts. At the centre of the hall domination. He strode towards the Circuits or Conservatism. soever, and Groundling sincerely Titterton was a raised platform, otherwise centre and as if obeying some Popmobility is rigorous, a test to hoped she wasn't a Catholic. known as a pedestal. Everyone's unspoken command, the assem­ sort the supreme wheat from the rather pitiful chaff. Most of the Three-quarters of an hour pas­ attention was focussed upon this. bled ranks sprang to their feet, sed, in which time the mind-alter­ EDITORIAL: "''''""AD Welcome Except Groundling's. In line with keen anticipation showing on their rather pitiful chaff are male in ori­ Friday, 1 pm, gin. They are easy to spot: white ing, fascist strains of Midnight Oil, . Student Offices his "non-conformity" attitude to fresh, youthful faces. Groundling, Michael Jackson and John Cougar meanwhile, tried to look anticipat­ legs, shorts that went out of fash­ NEWS: Thursday, 1 pm, everyday life, Groundling clung Mellencamp had been used to . Student on to his supportive raincoat and ory but succeeded in looking only ion in pre-War cup finals, and no talent whatsoev,er for Popmobil­ sway the masses. Sweat poured INTERNATIONAL: Wednesday, 1.1Spm picked his nails, refusing to be constipatory. Student ity. Males are also distinguishable from the faces and armpits of the brainwashed like these poor souls kids, but each had obviously seen SPORT: Monday, 1.4Spm, into looking like some pathetic "Right!" yelled the Fuhrer and, from their repeated and desperate Student efforts to catch glimpses of the the light. After a weekend of jack­ MUSIC: Wednesday,l.15pm extra from "Fame". This, after all, as if by magic, the Popmob booting their way across· Edin­ Anthem blared across the hall female anatomy that are normally Student Was Popmobility. burgh they'd be back for more on FEATURES: Wednesday, I pm, Groundling had come to investi­ from every direction, an off-limits. In an attempt to get inside the male psyche Groundling Monday. Student gate this sinister youth cult after unequivocal call-to-arms for these FASHION: Wednesday, I pm, tip-offs from worried parents who poor, brainwashed specimens. tried to look down one girl's t-shirt Groundling, meanwhile, lay in a Student feared their children were being "How can we sleep while our beds and got an elbow in the chops for motionless heap in the corner. The ARTS: Wednesday, 1 pm, indoctrinated at Nuremberg-style are burning?" it began, and the his troubles. Protests to the effect pains in my left arm and the chest Student full horror of Popmobility as a "but I'm an investigative jour­ contractions had began in the mid­ FILM: Wednesday, 1.30pm Youth rallies. So here I w;1s, incog­ Student nito and incontinent, investigating guiding ideology struck Groundl­ nalist" cut little ice. dle of something about a ''kid" . But there are deviations from who was apparently "real gone". SCIENCE: Friday, 1.30 pm this 1989 variation on the Hitler ing. Scores of arms reached fo the Student Youth- the Popmob Youth. sky, mimicking the glorious the Popmob master race within the Groundling had collapsed in a A muscular adonis strode into leader, one movement under one female ranks too. One girl wore a jerking heap, yet another sad vic­ Published by EUSPB, printed by the room. A sharp intake of breath rule. The arms fell, then rose Suzanne Vega t-shirt, and was tim of the cruel youth sect they're Johnstone's of Falkirk. sounded round the hall from the again, knees pumped up and later seen being cruelly beaten calling Pop mobility. student 8 thursday' november 23, 1989 international GERMANY Last one 9ut, Everyone in both East and West has greeted the torrent of changes in Eastern Europe with enthusiasm and amaze~ent. plane and went to see what was happening. They found that not everyone is happy to herald the collapse of communism · the country to see events for IT had been a long day by the • themselves. The overflowing air­ time we tasted our first beer port bus stopped short of its city on the night of Saturday 11 centre destination. The reason November 1989. We had became obvious. West Berlin's been on the move for 17 wide, tree-lined · strasses were hours with only one hour's jammed full of people. The Kur­ furstendamm was a massive sea of sleep the previous night. It slow moving humanity. It had was just over 24 hours since been invaded from the east in a news of the destruction of the way which most Berlinners had Berlin Wall. given up hoping for. Queues formed outside banks In a crowded bar on the Kur­ as East Germans patiently waited furstendamm, West Berlin's main for their 100 D .M. 'welcome street, we encountered two East money'. Off licences enjoyed Germans. They were being booming trade as people fought to treated by several West Berliners join the party. East Germans who they had just met. One of filled their bags with cheap 'luxury them, Freidrick, a munitions items', especially fresh fruit and worker from East Berlin, wept as vegetables. They could only stare he proclaimed emotively: "Yes­ in disbelief at the real luxury con­ terday I hated the world, today I sumer gobds which were promi­ love it". His friend Horst r:ently displayed in shop windows. repeatedly shook his head from side to side in disbelief. He was dumbstruck by the latest We joined the mass of people as encounter in a wholly unbelieva­ we headed towards the Branden­ ble passage of events. His Jobless: East German soldiers deprived of their duties guarding the wall after 18 years. burg gate. Police vans pulled up repeated attempts to speak were graphs portraying events ·in his unforgettabl_e weekend. - the-ideologically and apparently and distributed free maps of the country. The treasured momento incompatible systems of govern­ · city centre and its temporarily free "Yesterday I hated the world was tucked safely under his jacket This was the culmination of our ment which had been at each transport system. For 3 hours we today I love it." as he tried to show his gratitude. first day of two in West Berlin. others throats for 40 years. followed a constant procession He had never met a foreigner Inspired by the dramatic change eastwards. The crowd's mood was before, let alone a Scotsman, in temper of reform in the East, We had arrived in West Berlin on~ of happiness and joy. Yet swallowed up by his emotions. home of the famous Glasgow we had decided to go to see events at 2pm on Saturday. The airport despite their emotion and elation We presented him with a copy Rangers, he proudly told us. at first hand. The inconceivable was crowded not with foreigners at events, there was still an under­ of that day's Scotsman. He Melodramatic as this passage of removal of 'Die Mauer' was not but with other West Germans. lying current of bewilderment. became very emotional as he events may sound, they were very: _only the symbol of a divided Ger­ This was Germany's moment and The pace of change and drama of looked at the front page photo- real and very touching in an . m,any, but of a far greater division they had flown in from all parts of the past few days had clearly left a

guilty of imprisoning dissen­ It is also government policy to calling for the release of all politi- does one notice the difference - • Detention ters. covict Albanians attempting to cal prisoners. and what a difference it is. leave the country without permis- . si on. Sentences can be as severe as ' AI obviously has a direct inftu- In place of articles lauding the • ALBANIA ence on the outcome of prisoners hardline leadership there are arti­ • File 10 . years or more. Res~mbling IN 1967 Albania was of conscience and politic:!! cles written by Chinese exiles. by Cathy Byrne many of its neighbouring states in declared the first atheist state the eastern bloc, Albania detainees. In the new climate of The articles are about the June DAILY reports from the so­ . in the world. Therefore its punishes civilians for refusing to change and radical reform in massacre and the hopes for demo­ called 'Eastern bloc' coun­ statutory laws are ones used perform military service, there EasternEuropcan countries, the cracy in China. tries continue to excite those to imprison people for having are rriany such cases of this in initiative for protecting basic The only way to send these who believe that change will attempted to exercise the 1988. During the year AI worked human rights and political free- newspapers to -China without for tbe release and fair trial of dom will perhaps come increas- their being intercepted by the involve radical reconstruc­ rights to freedom of expres­ than 200 -people but there has -ingly from the governments them- Chinese security services is to tion of the method of govern­ sion and of movement. Under been no response from the gov­ selves! r~ther than solely from send them by Fax _ and this is ·ment in these countries. Article 55 of the criminal government to its appeals. orgamsa_twns such as Amnesty ' t;xactly what the sixteen However, Amnesty Interna­ code individuals involved in InternatJo~al. . magazines want their four million tional' is perhaps one organi­ organised or public forms of If are mterested m Amnesty readers to do International's work, and would · . sation which is particularly religious worship are liable to • CZECHOSLOVAKIA like to get involved in the EU A thousandofChina's5500Fax -optimistic. It holds many files be imprisoned. AI learned of ALTHOUGH AI's pressure group, come along to their meet- numbers have been selected. on the large numbers of polit­ several members of the has managed to secure the ings: every Wednesday 7pm in the These numbes connect one ical detainees being held in clergy being interned for up release of some prisoners, Chaplaincy Centre. thousand government offices, Eastern Europe. Albania, · to 25 years as a result of opos- the situation still seems universities and Chinese com­ . Czechoslovakia and Hungary ition to state anti-religious · bleak. At least 17 people are by Dirk Singer panies to the outside world and are amongst many countries poljc~es. known to be prisoners of con­ a dfferent selection has been pub­ science and many others lis~ed in every magazine. whose identity is unknown AFfER the killing stopped, the propaganda machine One participating magazine, JUNCTION are believed to be in prison Tempo of West Germny did a for · their non-violent and went into action. Following the June massacre in Peking, similar campaign in East Ger­ BAR . religious activities. Under an many in April1988. Tempo smug­ amnesty announced by Presi­ the ageing Chinese leader­ gled 6000 copies of a fake version - dent Husak to mark the 70th ship sought to justify their of the East German daily Neues 24 WEST PRESTON STREET actions to the populace by Deutschland into several major Stuck for that Christmas Gift for anniversarY. of the Czech Telephone: 667 3010 republic in September, sev­ turning the facts on their East German cities. At the time Mum and Dad? Why not make heads. Now sixteen Western East Germany was considered eral prisoners of conscience one of the most repressive it a slipper Christma~? We magazines have organised were released. regimes in Europe. have lined and urllined Daniel - Mraz, a woodcutter the action For A New China Traditional Sunday Roast Beef Campaign so that the slippers for ladies and from Prague was arrested for Lunch: Two Courses and attempting to leave the country Chinese people can discover This unleashed a strom of pro­ men at prices from Coffee £4.25. 12.30-2.15 pm under Article 109 of the Penal what really happened. test by the East German leader­ Code. On his release he was £9.95 Sixteen magazines, from The ship and the Chinese authorities allowed to join his wife and family will prbbably not take the present in Austria. A young christian Via­ Face here in Britain to 0 Inde­ pendte in Portugal and from campaign lightly either. However We also have a seiection den Koa was also released , after one man in Shanghai who his original imprisonment for Tempo in West Germany to Spy in of ladies lined the US are carrying a fake version received •l.)ne of several dozen refusing to perform military ser­ copies of the False Peoiple's Daily boots. vice on religious and moral of ~he Chinese People's Daily in their current edition. smuggled into China by French grounds. The incredulity of cen­ and German reporters said, "We 151 LOTHIAN ROAD sorship was highlighted when At first glance, the fake thought the world had forgotten Frantsek Lizne, a Catholic priest People's Daily resembles the orig­ · the fate of one fifth of humanity . · T~l: 229 6618 --·---- was imprisoned for 2 years after inal exactly. Only when one . . .This has freed us of our wor­ leaving a l~aflet in a bus station examines the copy more closely ries."

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student 10 thursday, november 23, 1989 sport Reason amid euphoria tight, formation football. most exciting players all seem tCY By the age of 16, I played six be foreign. Talented Scots such as · years in Aberdeen Youth Leagues COMMENT Charlie Nicholas have wilted .. - doing negative 'mark~ng jobs,­ rather than .flowered and indeed . as early as 13 was being told to Nicholas is so disillusioned with operate in a tight, 30 yard square the scottish game, he has · that was 'my position'. Coaching announced he is depserate to was unimaginative, games deadly seri­ move to Europe this season. ous, and by 15 we had been taught Nicholas claims the Premier about shirt-pulling, time-wasting· Division is "freezing our skills"­ and influencing the referee. Some· an opinion apparently held by an of the best players I played with Scotland have made increasing amount of managers got bored and are now lost to the and directors, who have called for game. I gave up for a year. it to the World Cup -a change in the league's structure Now you cannot expect small finals for the fifth yet agaiD. A current proposal youth teams to have any great suggests a shortened 26 game standard of coaching but I do feel consecutive time, but programme-modelled on conti­ that club managers should com­ Jonathan Northcroft nental leagues and hopes to stop p_I~t~ _an elementary coaches­ the dour tacticaLencounters which- course which emphasises ball argues that this is no -inevitably occur when teams play skills before they can run a team. I each other four times a season. cause for celabration. I . would also like to see organised However, the problems of our football until the age of 12 left to game lie deeper than just with the 1 the primary schools: it is both structure of our top division. depressing and ridiculous to see. More to the point, Scotland sim­ the emergence of under-9 and plyc does not have enough big even under-~ leagues in Scotland. teams to sustain such a league and The 'grass roots' approach, WHEN SCOTLAND qual- from a financial angle, the Pre- · rather than cosmetic changes to ified for Italy last week it was mier League has seen attendances our league is, I feel , the answer. not met with the customary boom in recent years. There is lit­ The frantic Premier League still Scottish euphoria- but with tie wrong with a competitive, bee­ has room for skill and the hectic subdued caution. For what tic set-up and the resurgence of Scottish style can be a successful we saw against Norway con- Hearts, Motherwell and D!ln­ weapon against plodding conti­ firmed Scottish fears_ Scot- fermline this decade is due to this nental teams. structure and good for the game. Who knows? Maybe in 2002 land are a workmanlike outfit · So how can the standard of when we qualify for the. World who may well achieve limited Scottish football be enhanced? Living in Stein's shadow ..• but bringing back Cooper doesn't solve Cup an eighth successive time, we success, but no longer have might see a Scotland side- play­ My view is that the lack of qual- gras~-roots problems. · the flair or imagination to see ity players stems from youngsters ing with skill as well as pace, vis-· off a part-time national side, having flair and skill squeezed out ion as well as pride, actually get­ let alone compete at the high- of them by playing too much seri­ ting to the second round. In the est level. · ous football too soon. It is almost "Scotland are a workmanlike outfit who may well meantime we must accept the This deficiency in our game can impossible to judge a player's best achieve limited success but no longer have the flair judgement of the Scot who '-be-seen in our club's feeble perfor- position-even up to their late teens . to (:Ompete at the highest level. " lamented last week "We can no mances in Europe this year and -yet nowadays kids are taken at' longer call upon great players. His: · the fact that the Premier League's as young as 8, and made to play name? Andy Rox~urgh. - Dave must end antics his mood), managed rather unex- game until the Sunday and he went SQUASH pectedly to beat his Snooker and down · 3~1 to a superb opponent.' Belt p THE University lst team this Squash opponent. His consistency But in the end our gladiators pul- during the match was a rare sight led off a 16-7 victory. . week failed their toughest but a good one. The 2nd men's team was away to compete against each other at challenge of the season, or so The two Daves (Giadwin and this week at Hewlett Packard. JUDO some stage in the grading. they thought. The match, Burgess) both won 3-1 although Afterthefirstwinoftheseasonlast ON Sunday, 12th November, However, Maria Armstrong ·rescheduled to Thursday due Burgess was having some unnces- week, spirits were high. By the end the , Edinburgh University . and Sarah Dean proved that being eo-members didn't diminish any - to the opponents' insistence sary disagreements with the of the night, however, only new Judo Club took part in a feelings of aggression and gave on watching Scotland trying marker, who had to put up with a boy Martin Jack and captain John grading at the Royal Corn- each other a hard fight with Sarah to kick a ball round Hamp- few insults. No more, please Dave! Dickson had managed to win. monwealth Pool. Nine winning on this particular occa- No. 5 Julie Nicol was on next. The only thing our 2nd team can produced an excellent She was not quite at her colourful seem to do well now is run up mas­ . players attended and it si on. Maria graded to 4th Kyu and de~, performance to send Snooker best but ·she battled from the start · sive drinks bills on our unassum­ proved to be a very successful Sarah to 3rd (blue). and Squash home with tlieir and won 3-1 after dropping the ing hosts. Our 12-9 defeat has occasion, with every player Louyse McConnell and Judy tails between their legs. .. third game from match ball up. pushed us ever nearer to the bot- ·being graded. Grimshaw both graded up from Kevin Hart, now playing No. 2 ' We'll forgive her! Our absent No. tom of the league. The male contingent consisted their orange belts, Judy obtaining for the team (or 3, depending on 1 Watson had to reschedule his Mark Creedon of four players, with particularly her green belt (6th Kyu) and good performances by novices Louyse her blue (4th Kyu). Ken Skinner and Richard Smith, Gradings are held regularly in Edinburgh and the club hopes to THIS WEEK'S RESULTS who both attained their green have another successful one in the Rugby Intra-Mural Football belts (6th Kyu) . new year. For anyone interested 1st XV v. St Boswells (a) 0-43 L Premier League Charlie Macleod proved that in taking part, training takes place 2nd XV v. Forrester 11 (a) 3-45 L Strollers YB v. GFC 2-0 W not only did he look intimidating, in the Trust Upper Hall every Vikings v. Edin Accies IV (a) 10-17 L Fudge v. Lawsoc 3-5 L but that indeed he was intimidat- Vandals v. Ross High Ill ing, with a combination of some Tuesday and Thursday from 7.30 CIA v. Talent BA 6-3 W good left-handed techniques to 9·30 pm. Women's Rugby Aardvarks v. Sutcliffe.s Ladies 2-2 D 1si xv v ·.' Glasgow 1Jni ( ~) _ w which helped him on his way to his The Edinburgh University Judo 30 0 Division One brown belt (2nd Kyu) . Club Captain, Winston Sweatman, Squash Mad Dogs v. Turner Boot Boys 1-6 L Bruce Maclean had a successful travelled as a member of the Scot­ Men's 1st v. Snooker and Squash (h) 16-7 W Baird House v. Gotham City 6-1 W grading against somewhat bulkier tish national squad to the Norwe­ v. Aberdeen (a) 18-5 W Comsoc A. v. Strathmore 6-2 W opponents·, attaining his blue belt gian Open competition in Oslo this v. Dundee (a) 6-16 L (4th Kyu). · weekend. Men's 2nd v. Hewlett Packard 9-12 L Lacrosse The club also had a good turn- Winston, a 3rd Dan black belt, Women 's 1st v. Watsonians (h) 12-7 W out from the female side of the who is also on the British squad 1st v. St Margaret's (h) 5-4 W club , with five women competing and current British bronze medal­ Intra-Mural Hockey 2nd v. St 'Margaret's (h) 10-4 W on Sunday. Julie Kilchrist put up a list, fought in the under-86kg Dirty Beasts v. Geology Society 2-0 W Shinty good performance desp_ite being weight category and managed to HollandHouse v. History Society 5-2 W v. Kintyre (a) 3-3 D outweighed by the other oppo- win a silver medal against top­ Tracie's Team v. RDVC 2-1 W nents by at least two stone, and class opposition. This excellent Ecosoc v. Geosoc 2-3 L Volleyball graded to 5th Kyu (green). result sho~ld boost his confidence Agols v. Electrc Sheep 0-1 L With such a large turnout from ·for the Commonwealth Games in Triffids v. Permit Holders 1-1 D Men's 1st v. Aberdeen (a) 1-3 L the University club it was inevita- • Auckland next year, where he will Cross Country Dancers v. Brodrick Bashers 1-3 L Women's 1st v. Glenrothes '84 (h) 2-3 L ble that club members would have be representing Scotland. Comsoc v. Baird House , _Women's 1st v. Glenrothes YWCA (h) 3-0 W studen~ sport thursday; nove.mber 23, 1989. 11 Hero pays with teeth Girls thrash Glasgow FOOTBALL FOR THE third time already LADIES RUGBY this season, Heriot-Watt were the first team's opponents on THE first half was a slow­ Saturday. Having defeated ; moving one, Edinburgh tak­ Watt boys handsomely on the , ing their time to get into the previous two occasions th_e game, but they were soon Burgh men had a lot to lose. making their mark on the However, they were keen to Glasgow turf! put on another running display A runaway try for captain Kim play in order to make amends Littlejohn opened the scoring, for a shameful 4-3 midweek quiCkly followed by a try from No. defeat at the hands of burly 8 Becky Mason. Then the captain scored again by running round the Strathclyde. scrum, landing the try near the posts which was then easily con­ Edin Uni 1st XI 6 verted by Becky Mason. H-Watt Uni 1st XI p I Edin. Univ. 1st XV 30; The first half was tight a~d goal­ Glasgow Univ. 0 less with the Uni defence compe­ tently absorbing any threatening the second half began with movement by the Watt front men. wing Kristen dodging the Glas- , The second half, however, was Phil Findlay arrives just too late on this occasion against Heriot-Watt. Photo: Hugh Pinney gow defence to score the fourth full of football made in heaven. ' try of the match. Back to the half-· Playing like men inspired they way and the captain charged suddenly came to life and the goals through the Glasgow defence to soon came flooding in. The heroes BRIAN'S boys are now settl- offence. alty as he was sent into the air by a score under the posts, again easily of the day were Chambers, ing into a regular pattern of Quick thinking by the midfield Strath defender. Murphy just converted by Becky Mason. The Devereux and Findlay who each play. The new faces are sent a sharp cross whipping across scraped the ball past a prostrate last try was a tribute to the efforts got two with Devereux paying the established with each player the· goal face to be met viciously 'keeper to give a final score of2-0. of the fdrward.s who drove for­ ward from a five-yard scrum to price for his brilliance when- in confident in the knowledge by Dave !'the nose" Elliot giving On Saturday the mighty Spar­ scoring his second he collided with land a try over the line near the that his team-mates will give -::---;--;o;·J"F"'",...... - tans were held to a ~ 2-2 draw by a the keeper and lost part of his two ...... ,B,u..,rg,.,.h_a--=1-=-=0,...Ie,.,.~_d_. posts which Becky converted. 100 per cent. And so with Edin. Univ. 2nd XI 2; strengthened side. Cumiskey and front teeth. Meanwhile th~ Govan were drafted in from the It's a win which is much more hopes high, pulses racing, talented centre forward whos Strathclyde 0 higher echelons of Scottish foot­ representative of what the Edin­ and . adrenalin pumping, the 1------=:....:.::..:.:...:.:....~~---- instinct for goals appears to have ball. Highlight of the game was burgh Ladies are capable of, so team confronted a strong The second half saw Big lain left him, made his usual telling long-range shot from almost half- . come and see for yourselves on · Strathclyde outfit. come alive witb the opposition's contribution with heavy involve­ way by Govan, which positively Sunday 26th November at 2 pm ment in the game and was instru­ midfield cowering in fear as the when we're playing the Dick Vet Good defensive understanding amiable · donkey battled ever zoomed past a flailing Jim mental in the build up to all the Leighton. Ladies. between the back four quelled any onward. Persistent running by ~oals- apparently! Mark Morris Elegant Violence KeY Cumiskey dangers that" arose from the Strath Garrett finally resulted in a pen- ow Edinburgh Still top play from both sides. The 5th set VOLLEYBALL was really a battle of nerves du(! to mull over draw the USA system of scoriOg arid the the second half with Dan Racie . everyone forward. Continual THE NATIONAL League girlsneverreallyhad.achanceand SHINTY now causing considerable trouble pressure brfought reward but it Women had their first defeat · Glenrothes enjoyed a well for his marker in attack. Dave looked as though we would hold of the season last weekend. deserved win. out. In the end, it was certainly . NOW ON a winning run, Mills relished the move infield to The team went down in style Ho~ever, it was a disappointing more a case of a point lost rather centre forward, meriting close after a very shaky beginning at disappointing display by the Uni­ Edin Uni had their spirits than one won. further lifted with our first attention from the Kintyre centr~ Gienrothes' 84 romped ahead to versity who had defeated the same half. Our hosts were now having away trip of the sea~on. At Despite the draw, morale in the win the first two sets and le~d ~-1_ team two weeks before 3-0 sets. their best period but two missed Shinty camp is still high, and now points in the 3rd! The Urn with . Fortunately though the team still last, a chance to see Scotland penalties suggested it might be the lads will try and convert theiur defeat in sight, woke up (about two · remain top of the third division and see what the Shinty Club '>ur day. Tempers flared as a solid spirit into points. hours too late);, and pulled with hopes of promotion still very is all about. Uni defence coped with a swarm­ together to wi~ the 3rd and 4th sets much alive. mg attack, Kintre throwing Victor Clements but still looked shaky with eratic Vivien Barclay On the pitch, the opening -.•,. ~ exchanges suggested a .hard A warm welcome awaits you at the fought battle would develop. The , TIPSTERS CORNER state of the pitch clearly favoured the hosts, Uni's normal passing game getting entangled in long grass in which an elephant would ARGYLE The Hennessy Cognac Gold ·cup at Newbury on Saturday have hidden. is one of the major races of the jumping season. Well-hand­ SUM_MERJOBSABROAD icapped 7 year-old 'chaser Brown Windsor looks to have a Edin Uni 3 BAR · great chance. . Are you a self-reliant, hardworking, fit Kintyre 3 Also at newbury, former Champion Hurdler, person looking for a job in which you can Celtic Shot tackles fences for the first time and should make Atlze selection of real ~les fully utilise your passing knowledge of Kintyre showed early promise French/German!ltalian!Spanish? but gradually our midfield took a winning debut. r Do you like children and have a good control. Neil MacLennan's huge Meanwhile, The Insider goes for consistent OPENAUDAY clearances were helped towards sense of humour? the host's goal and their defence !Roll-a-joint in the Hennessy, and Kribensis in the Fighti~g ' began to look shaky. A typically !Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle. The Arab owned grey can be bnl­ A selection of home-cooked lunches If you are aged·lB-25, available from April poached effort from Randy iant on his day and looks to have little to do to "land the prize. served between 12 noon and 2 pm to mid-July, or mid-July to late September Korach gave us the lead which he 1990, come and join us as a CAMPSITE COURIER, CHILDREN'S COURIER or a then extended by bull-dozing the Foinavon Newbury Sat. Brown windsor and Celtic shot. ball, two defenders and the goal­ You '11 find us at WATERSPORTS COURIER. keeper over the line. Kintyre pul­ ' The Insider Newbury Sat. Roll-a-joint. led one back but yours-truly com­ 15 Argyle Place Write now for details and an application form to: Sarah Home, Courier pleted a first half hat-tick with a Department, Canv~s Holidays Ltd., Bull little help from a deceived keep~r. ~, ...... --t·~---E-d_m_bu_r_gh----~ Plain, Hertford, SG141DY. This good form continued into student 12 thursday, november 23, 1989 sport Challenge Fours first to .change for members of the University to SPORTS UNION SEMINAR participate in top competitions and tournaments will be reduced_. SCOTIISH UNIVERSITY - However, there are positive sport faces a winter of po!~n­ aspects to the ~ro~osals , the most tial discontent, as the Bntish obvious of wh1ch 1s that the best Universities Sports. Federa­ Scottish students will be mote reg­ ularly able to take on their coun­ tion (BUSF) prepares for terparts from south of the border. what now seems an inevitable amalgamation with the Among other topics for discus­ British Student Sports Feder­ sion will be tbe question of whether the stipulations should be ation (BSSF). tightened concerning students The likely consequences of this who are only enrolled in to night happening are to be discussed at ·courses at Edinburgh, should be the Sports Union Seminar which allowed to represent the Univer- will be held this Friday at 7 pm in sity in sporting events. At the last the Peffermill Pavilion. Not only Sports Union AGM the proposal will the extremely efficient SUSF along these lines was rejected. close down, but the opportunities Mike Sewell The Edinburgh Crew during their win on the_Thames. their section with a couple of sub- . NETBALL stantial victories, then lost to some seniors "first race of the sea- crew, will be.hoping that without ------. Glasgow (the overall winners), ROWING son" nerves and the hassle of get­ the injury problems they will be TWO teams travelled to but beat Aberdeen to make it into ting organised to race alongside improving on this very respecta­ the semi-finals. Nails were - more than sixteen hundred other ble performance. Dundee for the Scottish Uni­ chewed down to knuckles during a ON SATURDAY 11th competitors. The performances The other mens crew came first versities Tournament on · fiercely close contest against Stirl­ November the annual Fours were as follows. · in Senior· 2 coxed fours. They Saturday, the second team ing. The teams were level all the Head of the River race was The womens crew finished were Tom Duke, Tony hoping at last to get a decent way, but of course the clock held in London. Edinburgh fourth in Senior 3 Coxed Fours. McDowell, Tim Lees, Sam Patton game. . judges everything during two The crew consist~d . of . Kathy and Mary Joyce. After the initial The pressure was on right from short seven-minute halves, and University sent. three crews Page, Astric Huelin, Dorothy results put Sheffield University as the start as the first team narrowly Stirling clinched tl'fe winning goal down to join the five hundred Blackie, Catriona Meehan and the winners of this event it was beat St Andrews by one goal, and in the last 30 seconds to take them other entries willingly tortur- Dawn Moody. Their time was only on arrival back in Edig. that the second team narrowly lost to through to the final on a 9-8 vic­ ing themselves over the considerably faster than last year the crew discovered that this was the hostess team, Dundee. tory. twenty minute Boat Race and so as they become more an 'organisational mistake and The second team must have had However, refusing to be course. polished throughout the season they had in fact become the first one of the most frustrating days demoralised, the Edinburgh These crews were the womens some serious medal winning could ever scottish crew to win at the ever, as out of six matches they Firsts went straight into the play" first four, and the two halves of be done. When asked how many Fours Head. drew two, lost three by a mere one off against Strathclyde to decide the mens squad. Unfortunately boats they had overtaken, during These results were very or two goals, then relieved their third and fourth places. After a one of the mens crews had to the race, one of the crew replied encouraging and give back the frustrations by crushing Heriot­ very close first half, Edinburgh make a change only days before that she had lost count. womens four and the mens light a Watt's second team by 12 goals to decided enough was enough and the reace, due to one of its mem- The mens crew, starting in the sure pointer that the fearsome 5. Our second team canie 11th suddenly pushed the game up a bers carelessly throwing himself second !x>at position came ninth in training schedule supplied by overall, which unfortunately did level that Strathclyde could not down some stairs. Senior-2 Coxed Fours. They were coach Hamish Burrell is going to not reflect their high standard of compete with, and we went on to Simon Lund, Bill Roberts, Will give them what they want; and . win 8-3 and take overall third On the day of the race all crews Welch, Adam Pearson and Alison play. that is to win. place in -the tournament. acquitted themselves well despite , Sefcick. They, like the . womens The first team went on to win

overcame a shaky start to pull CURLING back in the middle of the game but things tailed off in the last couple ON Saturday, the Scottish of games. Three's the-number Universities League con­ In contrast, Hamish's team tinued and Edinburgh played · started reasonably confident but had a disastrous fifth end. By the Glasgow at Murrayfield. end of the match Hamish, enough shots had been amassed to make MEN'S HOCKEY The teams were now back to full up for Struan's loss, ensuring that strength, one skipped by Struan the match was won. THE 'Men's 1st· XI ·have Macnee, tile other by Hamish Lor­ Once the season gets well under proved that for them three rain-Smith. way, we should see further really is "the'magic number". Unfortunately things didn't improvement in the club's perfor­ On Saturday a 1-0 win at Mor­ quite gel as the teams hadn't m;mce. gan was their third league victory played together before. Struan Hamish Lorrain-Smith in a row and a week previously the University were crowned Scottish Universities Cup winners for a record third year in succession. There was never any doubt as to who would win the Universities Cup; Edinburgh themselves believed they would triumph yet again, as did the other univer­ sities. Goals were never hard to come , by as Andy Blaikie scored a Victorious hockey players after they took the Sc-ottish memorable hat-trick in the open­ Universities Championship. · ing S-0 disposal of the hosts Strathclyde, and more goals fol­ lowed in comfortable victories sities Cup to the less predictable desperately, -and were fortunate The Coach House, Merchiston over Heriot-Watt (5-l), Dundee league, the 1st XI have now edged to hold on to their one-goal lead. (4-0) and St Andrews in the final even nearer to the promotion The cup provided a respite from Group bookings taken for Dinner Parties, Receptions, Buffets. (5-0). places and on Saturday they the petty arguments and niggling A Private Venue. The only disappointment of the finished off the first half of the professionalism of league matches season with a 1-0 victory against whilst allowing some new players We also offer a personal service when catering for all tournament was the 1-1 draw with Aberdeen which marked the end M organ. to step into the squad, of whom student events . · of a three-year run of victories The only goal of the game came Gra:eme Hunter has made a against university sides. _ after ten minutes when Wyatt ran strong impression. ANYWHERE · ANYTIME · ANY NUMBER The final made up for this; it on to P leisurely lofted flick from This could be crucial when the was a one-sided affair and Edin­ Hanley and pushed the ball past season resumes next term as BALLS· HOUSE PARTIES ·FUNCTIONS burgh · ran out S-0 winners with the oncoming 'keeper. strength and experience in depth goals from Wyatt, Hanley (2), From then on, however, the will be a deciding factor come late Reid and Hay. University defended in numbers, April and the promotion run-ins. Tel: 333 1501 sometimes defiantly, sometimes · Sniffer Clarke Moving on from the Univer- • - .. . thu_rsday, november 23, 1989 13

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Green On Red: Chuck Prophet (left) and Dan Stuart.

·for them in Berkeley. There were-about 30 people there HUCK Prophet, I am informed, is dis­ A few years back, Green On Red were at the traught. Having lost his home and and I thought they were really great. We ended up hang- many of his guitars in the San Francisco forefront of the American guitar band . ing out. One thing led to another. I was in LA visiting · and I saw their name in the paper so I called them up and earthquake that's hardly surprising. invasion. While bands like REMhave made C the breakthrough into the mainstream said 'Hey, can you put me on the guest list?' and they But I'm wrong it's not some sort of post-catas­ said 'Sure, if you come down and wanna be a guest why trophe trauma that's causing distress: "I just spilt Green On Red have remained very much an . don't you bring a guitar'. That was basically it." Has Ribena over my nice shirt. I've just got off a enigma, unfussed by the idea of commercial music always been your first love? "It wasn't a big part of plane and I've barely got my marbres together." gain and independent in their outlook. my life as a kid. I didn't even have a record player until 1989 has seen the release of no less than three Green James Haliburton chews the fat with I was 20. There was always an interest. I grew up in Southern California and pretty much everybody I knew On Red albums. First up, after months of delay due to guitarist, Chuck Prophet. the collapse of Red Rhino, was Here Come The Snakes, played guitar. I never thought I was any good, any better an album that earned them considerable critical acclaim. obviously. "I like working in the studio but a lot of the than the kid next door. Around the late Seventies it This was quickly followed by the album Live At The mystery's been taken out of it because I do a lot of studio became something more feasible but I never would have Town And Country Club and now their eighth album work. It's not as fascinating as it used to be. I'd like to get chosen it as a career." This Time Around has just seen the light of day. After that naive innocence again. It used to be kinda like Dis­ Can you imagine y.ourself doing anything else? working on the previous two albums with Jim Dickin­ neyland. "As far as the road ·goes I like playing the gigs "Well, this is something I've been asking myself a lot son, the new album features the production talents of but sometimes I feel like a mental hostage - I think a lot recently. Until I can find something better ... Away Glyn Johns who has previously worked with The Rolling of pop bands like to be looked after but I'd rather drive from the band we do .what other people do ecept we Stones, The Who and The Eagles. How did you find it myself. I don't dig the road that much, I dig it but not don't have to et up at eight o'clock. I like to make a living working with someone like Glyn? "He's very English. that much." and although I barely scrape by I have managed to avoid It's probably the first time we've been produced by any­ a day job." hroughout the interview Chuck comes over as Is the idea of being hugely successful at all appealing one so self-assured and confident. Sometimes Jim Dic­ very laid back, very dry and very cynical. Con­ kinson was like member of the group, kind of elder to you? versation is punctuated with laughter to "No, too much trouble. I just want a kind of moderate statesman. Glyn's pace was pretty quick and sharp and emphasise the less serious points he's just maid. no-nonsense. "Upon meeting him I thought I'd be able T career." Are Green On .Red really a pair of miserable sods? So it would be more rewarding to be widely and criti­ to get some good stories out of him. Nothing more than "Pretty much." But what makes you laugh? "Anything. cally acclaimed? that." And did you? "Not as many as I'd have liked. Not We're very funny people, very sick. Dan and I together as many as I think T should've gotten for the amount of "No. i think we get 1)10re acclaim than we deserve." are crazy." Thank goodness for that. So what about Dan Realising for me to sum up on Green On Red would money he got paid." There are, however, no plans to Stuart, the other half of Green On Red. Do you have a produce themselves, a stage most bands reach at some probably be a major problem how would you do it close relationship? "It's more like a mutual disrespect. Chuck? point in their career. "I like to produce other people. It's got better over the last few years. For a while we Also in order for Danny and I to work together as a unit "Two guys' names on a contract who refuse to die, wouldn't even room with each other. It just got to the y'know." · we've gotta have somebody to work against. If we were point where we fired the rest of the band and we realised producing it ourselves it would pretty much be Danny Green on Red bring their guitars and cynicism to the we were the ones doing it." How did you get involved in calton Studios on Friday. • and I against each other and that wouldn't be very good the band in the first place? "I was in a group that opened student 14 thursday, november 23, 1989 · features •

The world stood stunned last Thursday as history was made with the opening of the border between East and West Germany. Whilst the infamous Berlin Wall · crumbled piece by piece; thousands flooded across for their first taste offreedom in 28 years. Berliner Camilla Geddes recalls the scenes. Photographs by Steve McTaggart.

·' HAT a feeling for an East German · tion; making unknown guests feel at ease, clearing away to be dropped off at a West Berlin plates, making polite conversation, and of looking at underground station in the middle each other as specimens in a zoo. We only just managed to avoid being rendered speechless and stunned by this ·W of the night. How could they try to extraordinary meeting, of East and West gathered look calm and collected, take in all that was together under the same roof. Forty eight hours before around them, master their own reaction to a new it would have been impossible. . world and also try to deal with our brash Western And even at that stage it was unconceivable that in a way of doing things? Everything was new for matter of minutes the East German Government would them, every poster and advertisement in the order the dismantling of the wall. Everyone had talked train, the names of the tube stops, the clothes about it, knew it would have to come down sometime, but so soon? Never in the wildest of imaginings. and possessions of the people they saw, the neon The jubilant scenes of dancing revelers on top of the lights, the vending machines, the smoothness of wall at the Brandenburg Gate had vanished by Saturday. the system. To them, even the hiccoughing little What we in Britain had seen on our t. v screens the night car which I drove was not just an indulgence for cold nights but their first experience of a much dreamed of, much discussed, much idealised Western necessity. These were East Germans in their late twen­ Even at that stage it was incon­ ties who had decided to come and have a look at ceivable that in a matter of ·the West. They had approached my mother wanting to find a bank at which to colle<_:t their minutes the East German Gov­ prized lOODM, and she had brought them home ernment would order the dis­ when they said how much they would like to see mantling of the wall. Everyone inside a real Western household. The most sur­ prising thing about them was their apparent lack knew it would have to come down of amazement and their open-ness to what they sometime, but so soon? saw. They were not over-awed by the situation and rather than finding out about us, they wished to tell us about their way of life. Above all, they wanted to discuss the political questions which before had been a spontaneous response, and a reaction the sudden reforms had brought up. But they so unexpected that the security forces had not had a were completely honest in their reaction to their chance to forestall it. However by the cold light of day it first exposure to family life Western-style. One was clear that this kind of action was too extreme and too girl had tears in her eyes when she looked at the much for the authorities on both sides to handle. selection of cheeses on a plate. Even the laden West German police vans were lined up nose-to-tail fruit bowl was a new thing for them - until now and border guards from the East had been placed on top of the wall to protect it by the time I arrived. Neverthe­ grapes had been an object of wishful thinking less the huge bank of television platforms and arc-lights · and no more. . ·. . were still there, with much frantic on-the-spot reporting Quite often, as the evening wore on, these young going on. Between the wall and the masses of t. v people would look up and talk to each other as though technology were a relatively small crowd of smiling, we were not there at all. "Just look where we are and laughing, jubilant people. They talked to you, took your what we are doing! We never thought we would see this photo, patted your back, offered you some of their day!" I do not know what they really thought of us- they drink. ·were not inquisitive, didn't seem surprised that I had just The population of West Berlin was doubled over that flown in when I learned of the happenings, didn't marvel weekend of free passage, and it seemed that everyone ~tour lifestyle. It was a strange mixture of normal situa- was out on the streets. The place was full of cars, endless • student features thursday, november 23, 1989 15

swung like a pendulum in front of us. And for the first We stood in a crowd of students who were funny, ~~·people walking purposelessly in every direction, time, a true silence felL I_ling an~ smiling, talking and waving, winding down friendly and alternatively full of hope and happiness and e1r car wmdows to yell at each other. There were trab­ scepticism and worry. We played memory games, .here were so many thoughts and mixed feelings s all over the place, puffing out clouds of foul fumes· counted the stars and gauged the time by the progression . about that moment. For the last five and a half real novelty in Western Germany where catalysers and of the huge full moon, always trying to engineer enough hours we had been staniling there in the cold, d free petrol are nearly universal. In one street some­ space for our feet in preparation for the euphoric effect T talking, joking, excited, yet all the time watch­ e had put a rose under the windscreen wiper of every of the drill appearing through the concrete. The time ing and waiting. All our concentration had been on that ast German car, there were balloons attached to areial passed very quickly, and because of the constant expec­ little piece of the long, long, dreadful wall which had elcome banners strung across bridges. ' tation of something happening soon, there was no bore­ split this pr:oud, self-conscious city for nearly thirty dom or flagging spirits of worries about freezing hands . years. To see it going, swinging in the air, carefully low­ t midnight it was announced that due to the and feet. As the night wore on, we became transfixed by ered to the ground, leaving a baby-tooth gap with the weight of traffic crossing into West Berlin, it the noise of the drill and the lights, and the occasional highly lit wasteland beyond, was a sobering experience. would be necessary to open some more popping up of a head over the wall. During the frenzy and excitement of the night it had crossing points by early on Sunday morning. ­ As it got later, we got quieter, doggedly watching and been easy to get carried away with the spirit of adven­ A waiting, passively witnessing and determined to stick it ture, but now it was the lives that had been lost, the lives he first was to be the Potsdamer Platz, a place that had nee been the .site of a large and elegant shopping mall. which had been so changed and ruined, and the fear, sus­ was bombed during the war~ and for the last twenty picion imd resentment which had given the wall its mor­ years two pieces of wasteland have been left empty bid fascination that came to mind. I had expected a feel­ the wall standing between them. As in many places, ing of freedom, of release and of satisfied completion, oad ran up to the wall on the Western side and con­ All our concentration had been but all that was really in my head was the futility of the u~d, undamaged, through no-mans land and into East whole thing. rhn. on that little piece of the long, That first weekend after the opening of Eastern Ger­ When I got there, about twenty minutes after the long, dreadful wall which had many was what Berliners had been waiting almost three nouncement, work had started on the Eastern side. decades for. It was on everyones lips and on everyones e Wall is made of prefabricated slabs of concrete, each split this proud, self-conscious minds as they stood with tears in their eyes, watching the out three feet wide and fifteen tall, surmounted by a ·city for nearly thirty years. To see dirty little cars stream across the border. It was the first ~und section designed to make climbing over impossi­ thing an East German would shout as he leaned out of e. The workers had already begun to drill between two it going was a sobering experi­ his car window to ask the way. The town had a feeling of ~bs as I sidled my way to the front of the still quite small birthday, Christmas and New Year rolled into one. Wd . On our side of the wall there was complete dark­ ence. There was knee deep rubbish on the Kurfurstendam out­ ~~s~ broken occasionally by the harsh glare of television side Macdonalds, cars abandoned in every available ~ bng. From the other side there was the glow of a space, and police just la,ughing along with everyone else. ~0~ Whity a dark green crane moved slowly towards The West German Government gave away billions of '· e slow approach and gradual appearance of the out. By now the chanting had died down. Everyone Deutsch Marks, and concerts and opera were put on especially so that Easterners could have a taste of West­ ;~g ~rtn wound the throng to fever pitch. Down came -stood quiet, just waiting. ern culture. The city was "en fete" and everything was fte~l~cer and closed its jaws on the cylinder at the top, Finally all the holes had been drilled and they were Drd lt gently off, and moved slowly backwards. Elation ready to pull the slabs down. Back came the crane loom­ "Tol! Einfach Tol!" Whatever the coming problems and implications of all ered on hysteria then, ith flares being let off, sing­ ing in the light over the wall, and screams of elation this for both the East and the West, and there will be ~crearning and camera flashes everywhere. turned into a booming countdown. Four! Three! Two! many, Berlin has had a chance to celebrate for it has at a at Was a very quick beginning to what turned out to One! And as they tugged the crane arched itself under last been united in spirit once more. The eighty year old t very long night. About ten sections of wall were to the tremendous effort, the crowd began the anticipating woman who has lived in Berlin all her life, and who has y:~mov_ed, and this process amounted to a slow swell to lead up to the final roar, and ...... snap! The never seen the wall because "It is just too sad", will now len t~logtcal breakdown of the crowd. It took the work­ chains went slack and darkness was upon us once more. go and walk through the opening. "At last" she told me, Die r~e and a half hours to drill the necessary twenty This happened twice more before a ·young man in a "It is worth taking an interest again." ~cas With a hand drilL During this time the crowd white helmet, too young to remember the erection of Just before I left Berlin, I went back down to the wall lau me restless and impatient, calling frequently, "Die this monster, appeared ori a wooden ladder and began !ouer rnuss weg" (the wall must go). Chants rippled at the Brandenburg Gate for what will hopefully be a last chain-sawing the top free. He sawed grimly amidst look. There were a few people standing around, the t.v pt ~ a~d faded out, clapping and whistling in rhythm showers of sparks, and eventually the first slab began to crews still waited expectantly, and a banner saying "Lass ns egtnning and ebbing away. All strained to see move slowly backwards. Cries of triumph broke out, and e of rnovement and further action from the other uns raus" (Let us out) rippled gently in the breeze. emotions ran high, as the grafitti-scarred section rose Perhaps by the next time I go back it will all be gone. t' au prayed for further signs of development. into the ·air and the large red letter reading "FREE" student 16 thursday, november 23, 198~ music

THE TELES(:OPES The Venue

BETTE Davis lives again. She has returned as the wicked grandmother to lock little Steven in her cold, dark, The eclectic genius of earlier scary attic, where he screams JAMES recordings like "Johnny Yen" and . and screams and screams ... "White Colour Crook" has been · Calton Studios replaced with a more direct, flo:w- The Telescopes are the ing and, dare I say, popp1er extreme. "The Perfect Needle" is THE Australians, last­ sound. From the jaunty sway of the extreme. Tonight . is .the minute stand-ins for the "Sit Down" to the rock of brilliant extreme. Feedback enshnned m a Band of Holy Joy, were quite new single "Come Home" James ! wall of guitar noise, that's no sur­ disappointing. I've hear.d are bigger and better. "God Only prise (this band have their "influ­ many good things about thts Knows", a pretty searing attack at ences" , remember: Stoo g~ s, lot and on the strength of this the hypocrisy of America's TV JAMC et al) ; but Steven's vmce evangelists, was positively ... I am reminded of p~e~isely performance, none of it was apocalyptic, while acoustic song nothing, just those ternfymgly justified. The songs were "Promised Land" was awesome in potent child's feelings : the fear, mediocre, formula, indie­ a quieter sort of way. the jealousy, the hatred, the pop numbers and though The sound may be a bit diffe- destruction; all articulated in that inoffensive I couldn't help rent but the intensity, both lyri- ! one, possessed scream. Words are wishing I was somewher~ cally and musically, is still as unintelligible, but the incitement strong as ever. "What For" stands to hysteria is unmistakable. The else. The new, improved seven-piece testament to this- it wasn't just stage is a Pandora's box, . the J ames took to the stage complete the incredible song it usually is- sound entrancing. For a short with trumpet, violin and tam­ . it was better! Tim Booth was defi- time, the Venue is witness to, part bourine and played a blinder. nitely man of the match, looking of, the intense quest for the artis­ They destroyed all preconcep­ even more like Mats Wilander in try in abberance. tions we might have had from the his tracksuit trousers and grinn!ng The Telescopes are destined to previous "Stutter" and "Strip­ broadly at ,ev_ery op~ortumty. remain hopelessly perfectly mine" LPs , show-casing brilliant James we~en · t JUSt J:>nlhant, they obscure· a locked bedroom door. new material and generally send­ were fuckmg stormmg- game, Maybe ;ou should smash it 0pen. ing the assembled throng into set and match. - Stuart Walker bouts of frenzied dancing. Keiron Mellotte

.have a lot of good tunes and play The band don't seem to have years of child abuse by the GOODBYE with a full and professional sound, any pre-meditated image but no wicked stepmother that pas­ but lacked the kick that MacKen­ one could say they weren't colour­ ses for that nasty pop music MR MACKENZIE zies gave tonight. Judging by their ful with wild shirts and giraffes in thingy. Edinburgh Network performance however, it may not abundance. Her"apeaking voice is too girly­ be too long before they become a A rhythmic framework of bass and drums provided a vehicle for girly to affected twee-ness, and household name. similarly her music too emotion­ GOODBYE Mr MacKenzie Simon Kellas spiralling guitar riffs, a:nd offset made an overlong and dreamy vocals. This concept is packed to be sickening. The songs eagerly awaited return to the twisted and warped into various are fairytales of reality, telling of escaping from Mormon-tight Salt capital city tonight, to offi­ permutations throughout the set building up to a surprisingly pow­ Lake City (Ford Econoline), of cially open the new Network the troubles of the world and their Christmas is coming and ageing, Club. They proceeded to erful finale. past-it pop stars like Lloyd Cole THE SCISSORMEN All in all an action packed even­ effect on the "little ones" (It's A blow the audience away (or Hard Life Wherever You Go), of are getting fat. This, of course, The Pelican ing with cyiilbal stands frequently isn't going to be any ordinary at least the front few rows) crashing .to the ground, guitar and sleazy couples in a pre-war hotel Christmas or New Year because it and turned the sanitised, bass continually the promise of (Love Wore A Halo). signals the advent of the Nervous plastic disco haU into a heav­ IN THE 'hip' surroundings of better things to come. The . audience were held and Naci was held, each drwoning in Nineties. Anticipating the rush of ing; sweating throng by the Sharon Rowland the The Pelican The Scissor­ the other.: Griffith is both worldly horrible nostalgia for the 1980s end of t)le first number. The men hammered out their wise and naive, aware ofthe prob­ and all those terrible ~entre-part­ MacKenzies are a hard rock­ spastic jive groove to an lems and issues but still, at heart, a ing hair cuts you used to have, we ing band 'Yith a large bag of enthusiastic crowd. backwoods Texan girl with great at the music pages would like to great tunes, many played Although The Scissormen are an NANCI GRIFFITH faith in true love and childhood hear your choice of the five most tonight. · Ed~nburgh University band the · Glasgow Pavilion best friends. When she tells us fabby bands of the decade. And The biggest cheer is for The Manchester influence penetrates "that Eric Taylor is the only just so we don't get accused of Rattler at which point the crowd with echoes of early Mondays and · BLACK polo-neck, bl~ck songwriter she's •known "bibli­ being retrogressive hippies you goes mental. Those just standing Roses, the dancer being an obvi­ jeans, black sneakers, severe cally", none of us can quite can also let us know what your watching (boring!) were treated ous Manchester clone. For a '70s haircut. Despite the believe our ears. favourite five singles of this rme to the rock 'n' roll antics of young band the potential is there obvious drawback of looking The music, though, is sweet on and dandy year are. Send every­ guitarist big John. Clutching his for their own brand of melodic like a member of the Baader­ the ears, crystal-clear and custom­ thing to the usual Student address, guitar next to his hulking torso he dancibility. However, on Tuesday · Meinhof gang, Nanci Griffith built for the Griffith golden we'll compile a chart and give the performance could have been larynx. This was comfortable some prizes for the most original, leapt about like a man possessed. still manages to be the nicest Big John is simply magic. Support tighter but wasn't, probably due country with a pop-chart bent, most eccentric, most useless etc, tonight came from another local to their seemingly chemically person in the world, the real and jeepers was its intoxicating. etc. Or alternatively you can band The Ruby Suit, who too induced state. mother who returns after Craig McLean ignore us as usual. ·

"ONE are three and one of ONE's was not your usual indie single months later, here is Upstream, an number is seven," it begins, and produced from a bedroom in Man­ album that Steve describes as we are talking flowery. This is a chester or Liverpool or Glasgow. "back to basics" and others press release and I don't know Rather, One recorded and describe as "quintessentially uppy what the hell is going on; very released their single in Valencia English pop". probably ONE flew over the cuc­ (that's Spain) ... "It seemed like a But this is pop with a consci­ koo's nest as well. "Oh no," he good idea," says Steve, "and we ence. The single Son Of The Sun groans, "I'm gonna have to do had some friends there who said deals with the dangers of fun­ something about that, it's quite they'd do it for us. And it let us damentalism while the album embarrassing." "He" is Steve have lots of holidays. cover, a gruesome surrealist car­ Hovington and this is his band, toon, depicts the folly ofthe yuppy One, who this week visit these mentality. "I just think these partS as guests of Deborah Harry Climatic considerations put to ,eople should get more of a grip on at the Network. the side, One ·came back to Lon­ reality,". says Steve. As for One, don. By now a trio, One gigged the reality is there: Upstream is and demoed new songs, with an reaching for the stars, but keeping One began in earnest in early off-the-cuff, unrehearsed gig at its feet on the ground. Their 1987 with their ftrst release, the the Mean Fiddler finally attracting mothers would approve. single Ancient Fires. This, though, the attention of Chrysalis. ~ow, 18 Craig McLean student music thursday, november 23, 1989 17 vinyl HAPPY MONDAYS Rave On- Manchester THE STONE ROSES FactoryEP What The World Is Waiting For/Fool's Gold HALLELUJAH, the first track Silvertone 12" on the Happies' 4-track EP has a WHAT The World Is Waiting For ter groove, a bass lme that would is an awkward little goblin of a have any self-respecting Rave thing. Initially it appears clumsy packed to the gunnels and all set and difficult, but having danced to the strains of Shaun Ryders around you several times in a Mane bravado drawl. What more sprightly though slightly grimy_ could a body ask for? Perhaps sort of way you fall urider its spell that the three remaining tracks and begin to bop around your could live up to the arrogant bedroom like a retarded womble. opener. Unfortunately Holy Yet if the rhythms of What The Ghost is just a poor rehash of a World are inescapable then those style used to full effect on the of Fool's Gold are doubly so. "Bummed" LP. Clap Your Hands Starsky and Hutch go on a ten­ is a dance track that lacks direc­ minute ecstasy trip and find tion and Rave On is a trippy themselves in the wrong decade. shuffle. Perhaps mixer Paul Eclectic is the word, but at least Oakenfild should have been John Squire proves that he can do called in again to give it the same more than rip off Jackson Pollock. treatment as WFL. However A sturdy release. Everybody Hallelujah is a better. Disco with • really must get stoned. attitude. Rave on 1990. Alun Graves Scott McFarlane The Stone Roses

GENERATE MORRISSEY Bound And Unbearably Lonely". RUNRIG but that's just the problem, Play It Again Ouija Board, Ouija Board "Infamy! Infamy! They've all they're still in their Loch Lomond got it in for me!" He chokes on his Every River Sampler LP HMVSingle Chrysalis Single days. Like fellow cliches Big last fittingly borrowed words, and Country they've stagnated so IT says here that this is a WIT AND beauty merge; lust, so ascends to celestial celibacy, long that no one can rem~m?er "I PLEADED the headaches," "sonorous anthem-type ballad passion, strength and filth collide. where he stumbles upon an old which is the parody or whtch ts the croaks Steven on his deathbed, with powerful reflective" lyrics. Is Created, an album of remarkable friend who has wise, if nasal, original (answers on a postcard to clutching his Rambling Syd it bollocks! Instead we have a breadth and bizarre appeal. Evi­ counsel ... Student etc ... ) It may be Rumpo EP and recalling the less­ slow, plodding fairly pleasant dence a Numan and Bunnymen "Oooh! Stop messin' about .. :" aesthetically pleasing and than-adulatory reaction to his last nicety of a song in the "no fuse with misplaced strivings to hopefully it will get them the pop single, "S.top The No. 49 to Stuart Walker mountain high enough" mode, resurrect the memory of Blan­ Salford, Dora, I'm Pimlico- airplay they've been denied ~or so cmange. with Cliff Richard-type vocal long but it leaves me cold. Sttll, at delivery and a choir stuck in at the As expected, this compilation, least they're trying. chorus. I used to quite like them boasting its status as "Belgian- Keiron Mellotte in their "Loch Lomond" days~ . style libidinal derangement", creates vistas of rhythmic 21st century decaying urban torture. The Young Gods contribution L' Amourir is forceful and punish­ ing, and yet so close glistens the jangly guitar. humour of The Weathermen's THE HOUSE OF LOVE I Don't Know Why I Love The similarity doesn't end Bang! childishly giggling at there. John Major is a disciple of officedom with "telephone You the Steve Davis school of nnging, telex singing, and the Fontana Single charisma, and the HOL too tend hips of the secretary pass by to stray towards the dull side of swinging." THE HOUSE Of Love are truly things. To be fair, they've had The strange marriage is com­ the John Major of British music. their moments, but I Don't Why I plete as Adrian Borland's Rogue As Mrs Thatch picked up the Love You just isn't one of them. Beauty and Bill Pritchard's Invisi­ tightrope walker's son, and ele­ Mind you, Echo And The Bunny­ ble State cleanses and refreshes; vated him to giddy political men are a somewhat more dif­ · pure and simple, poppy and heights, so too did the pop-press ficult act to follow than Nigel accessible. latch on to Guy Chadwick's merry Lawson ever was. Generate is oddly attractive. band and proclaim that they had John Tuson It's unoriginality compensated discovered the new gods of the marvellously by its high energy and vigorous intensity. Magnus Willis

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..,...... --~~th,~~~~~~~~~tb~~~~~~~~~~~~~;ll;J~~~~~~~~~;- And then again, it might not. they have pushed the parameters really fine counterpoint writing. searching.This breakdown of communica- 29TH STREET But the recent history of the of .the medium to the extent that In this respect 29th Street .give tion in relationships is enforced by SAXOPHONE QUARTET saxophone quartet does seem to it's often difficult to believe you're weight to the old Ellingtoq adage the presence of Mary's brother illustrate this division. On the one listening to only four saxophones . . that the best bands are written Henry - half pimp, half John Queen's Hall hand there is the effervescent They have obliterated textural around the strengths of their Travolta, and his girlfriend Giger 17 November World Saxophone Quartet, the limitations by extending the pos- musicians. Though not as iconoc- - "the tart", who played their OVER the last 100 years, ensemble who first legitimised the sibilit\es of four-part harmony to lastic as the World Quartet mem- "roles" accordingly, until chal­ jazz history might be viewed medium with a format whiCh self- logarithmic degrees. Their musi- bers, 29th Street are all unmistak- lenged by Dibbs, it is, in fact, as a continual oscillation bet- consciously proclaimed its avant cal language is never repetitive, ably individual. In his thirties, Giger who shows the one flicker garde status: Conversely, there is because the group (asNewAgers) Watson is still producing more. of light in response to Dibbs and ween its functional origins as the 29th Street Quartet, a group have borrowed a lot of fresh stylis- unheard-of colours, a sharper wit, some level of "understanding" a folk music,_a medium for who evolved on the other side of tic tricks from the copious library and faster bop line than anyone. grows between them. entertainment and shared the tracks, and a long way from of World Music, as well as down- His circular breatting trick is fam- The play ends signigicantly, in cultural expression, and the the conservatoire, as buskers on home soul and funk inflections ous, but it masks the musical con- the same way as it begun with kind of aesthetic distance, the streets of New York. The from the neighbourhood. Simi- tribution his technicality has led Dibbs alone on stage staring at the individualism and celebrality 29t~ Street Quartet's m_usi~ has_ a larly their rnythmic impetus is sus- to. Nothing less than man in sym- only "light" he will ever find con- which marked its acceptance ~oticeabl~ .stronger contmmty ~th tained by the donkey-work of biotic relationship with his horn. tained within a "machine" _the , Jazz tradition. At the same time baritoQist Jim Hartog, and some ,-Gordon Drummond television. as Art. Sophie Ormsby

Co.'s production has a very effec­ ANIMAL FARM tive morality play quality. The set Brunton Theatre is sparse; song and dance and mine are used; the audience is IT is almost trite to say that awed by demonic lighting. Orwell was a better journalist effects; a narrator helps the play than a novelist. It is, how­ along. All these different ele­ ever, also true. ments are handled very well by Animal Farm is a near-perfect the company .. book because it is so unnovelish. The animals are depicted by It's more like a political pamphlet masks (with big eye-holes through than anything else. 1984 on the which one can hear, and see, the other hand reveals Orwell's true ac~ors). Representing the animals novelistic style, warts and all, and was always going to be difficult­ what it shows is his rather people acting as horses will always amateurish handling of the tools look depressingly pantomimic. of the novelist's trade. However, many of the animals are As theatre, Animal Farm has very lifelike, especially the hens more in common with medieval and pigeons, and Napoleon (Paul morality plays (two dimensional Morrow) was suitably brutal (with characters, emphasis on the moral a strong North of England accent of the story) than the "standard" like a Lancashire colliery owner's) novel (and interestingly Orwell whilst Norman M<)cCallum , as subtitles the book "A Fairy Squealer, was suitably ingratiat­ Story"). The book's strengths are io.g and sly. the play's weaknesses. The usual One final word. The Brunton novelistic and dramatic emphasis Theatre might seem hellishly inac­ on language and character are laid cessible. For those, however, of down so that the plot becomes all. my gentle readers who wish to get As a result I found the whole thing out there, there is an excellent bus slightly tedious - like serious service from St Andrew Square I pantomime. bus station. . In fact, the Bninion Theatre Norman Bissett .. student arts thursday' november 23 1989 19 ' '·

PAINTINGS BY ROBERT MACLAURIN 369 Gallery Ch~s!s~!!h;,soup • • • • Until25 November THE BRONX JEW . ruthless but ultimately dejected IF YOU have yet to sample Netherbow Arts Centre wife with an urgency and a UntilZS November warmth without losing grip of an the delights of the 369 Gal­ earthly sense of reality. Praise lery now is definitely the time DUNCAN is the Bronx Jew mustalsogotoJoeMailahey, who to do so as their current he lives him, he breathe~ gave a pathetically moving perfor­ exhibition by Robert Mac­ him! Frustrated by life in the mance as · father-in-law Billy Iaurin inspired by his travels whose very genuineness ensures in Turkey should not be mis­ poverty trap of Bellshill, that he is destined to be one of D~ncan creates an alter-ego, life's losers. sed. ghtzy stand-up comedian It is certainly a disturbing sla~t Madaurin first visited Tu;key Abraham, the Bronx Jew. which John McColl's play gives to in 1982 while still a student at The chain of events is pre- modern life. Even the bizarre Edinburgh College of art and this dictable, the two become comedy is tempered by the very was the beginning of what he insepara_ble until the image negativity which it emanates from describes as "a love/hate relation­ k I but it is a piece of drama of which ship with the country and its crac s eaving a shattered the immediacy and relevance can- people." He has subsequently wreck of at;t individual desp- not be denied. McColl's writing is returned seve r a l 1~times and work­ erately trymg to run away well structured containing a preci­ ing on an in~r ea_ ingly large scale from himself. sion of language which was both he captur~ m -01 &-the pr-ecarious - The acclaim this play acquired - exploit~d and· enhanced -by- the life of the people. for the Mandela Theatre Corn- cast to maximise the impact. pany in this year's Fringe is fully What was heartening to see was justified and the play is a marvell- that even though the production "Remote, primitive and ous evocation of the grim, dqwn- had been managed on a shoestring trodden world Duncan inhabits. budget (the set and props were sometimes hostile · Abraham is a "testimony to minimalist to say the least) the environment." urban decay" , springing directly . company had still managed to out of the emotional austerity of a overcome these limitaaons to pro­ Although depicting a" remote, nihilistic environment. It's a duce a gripping piece of drama primitive and sometimes hostile world where buzz-cards prog- more than worthy to ·pe ranked environment" the paintings are ramme artificial -egos and truth alongside their more affluent con­ certainly not barren or cold. and integrity are non-existent. tempo{aries. Unlike their charac- Working on surfaces as diverse as . Michael Ventisi played Duncan ter Abraham, their creative talents . plastic and chipboard Maclauren with a subtlety and sensitivity, ·. and initiative have obviously with­ uses his brush "sponge-like to dab managing the switches to the · stood social and economic ore.w paint" in vibrant shades of green brash , larger-than-life Abraham sures, makin_g them one of Scat­ and orange on to his surfaces. with utmost competence. Corn- land's most vibrant and promising often featuring a single figure mendable support was given by theatre groups. Gillian S~ith barely visible against the land­ scape - for example "Her Coun­ try" - M acl~ uren emphasises the dominance of the land and its importance to the people who • • • • ()._~d the goose-step depend upon it for their livelihood were prepared to die for him, died under such inhumane cir­ without becoming harsh or at the HITLER'S WOMEN Eva Braun and Unity Mit- cumstances. But even with _this expense of their dignity. In "Cay ford. knowledge Mitford and Braun Peyzaji" (Tea-Landscape) there Traverse Theatre refuse to acknowledge the tre- are no figures at all yet the paint­ 14-19 November The company researched and mendous evil that was Hitler. ing is saved from being dull or FIFTY years since the Sec­ wrote the play using such sources · They are not solely to blame, the plain by Maclaurin's wonderful as letters, journals and at one majority of Germany are also por~ use of colour and brushstrokes ond World War' started and point an actual recording of trayed as ignoring the true horrors which create a rich , densely Hitler is still one of the most t£itler's speeches. This brings to of the holocaust. foliated view. enigm-atic and fascinating the play an eerie but very forceful The play is ingeniously devised men of the 20th century. quality of reality. Combine this using music, lights and props to At the risk of sounding with the superb performances of full effect. Not asecond is wasted sycophantic, this has to be one of Films, books, television documentaries; reams of both Jill Dowse (Eva Braun) and as the pace moves along furiously, the best exhibitions so far this year Kate Joseph (Unity Mitford) and accosting the audience with the and with only three days to run , information are available on it is not hard to recreate in ymrr grotesque and tragic vision of a there isn't a lot of time left if you this subject but the Foursight mind the chaotic and turbulent . world gone mad. It is therefore all have not already seen it. Me, I'm Theatre Company have cho­ era of the thirties and forties. the more frightening to discover going to spend the time begging sen a very different and _j At times the plot is harrowing. that Hitler loved something so my bank manager for a second There is a continual reminder of banal and ordin~ry as chocolate overdraft to buy one - failing intriguing way of looking at look behind the man to the . the leader and creator of women who adored him the hundreds of thousands of eclairs . that, there's always Santa Claus. nameless and unknown Jewish Claire Mackinson Eleanor Wood ·Nazism. They have chosen to obsessively. The women who men, women and children who

YERMA boisterous . mother of nine, and the fear of her friend, too guilty to . Bedlam hold Yerma her new-born child. Until25 Nov At the river, a scene pulsing with energy as the women sing, gossip and move as one rhythmic group, A DOMESTIC argument. Yerma is absent. It is as if her lack White shroud-like drapes of children denies her entry to the hem in the warring couple female community ~ she is a an d shadowy figures crawl wife, and bound in her own code the walls , looking like of honour to her husband, but embryos crying out for a without a family is caught in a mis­ erable hinterland of impotence mother. The wife, Yerma, is and l;ick of female identity. imprisoned in her own desire The lynch-pin of the Bedlam for a· child, stirred to obses­ prod~ctiotl is Yerma herself, sion by the mental and physi­ played by Rebecca Saunders, as a cal impotence of her hus­ pent-up knot of anguish and hurt. band. It is not just wanting a That and the poetry of the speech and songs, taking over from the baby: it is the protective and words to express the fundamental ~ll-powerful feeling of hold­ .emotions in the gut-language of Ing a small bird in your dance and rhythm. Even when the hands, the "fresh pain" and works became obscured the hyp­ the vindication of her sterile notic melodies sustained the life. atmosphere. All that Yerma Often isolated, Yerma grows. in lacked on Monday night was a power thorughout the play as she good audience to bounce back the IS tormented by normal life going powerful emotions coming off the on around her. The worldly involvement of the cast. Photo: Tiddy Maitland-Titterton humour of Charlotte Jenkins as a Harriet Wilson student 20 thursday, november 23 , 1989 arts Vuillard's sketches of domestic BONNARD & VUILLARD: and street scenes and stilllifes are DRAWINGS full of dense movement and shape that one ·can see in the later Chessel Gallery, abstractions of artists such as Moray House College Arshile Gorty. Most intriguing is . Until29 November his semi-abstract "Des Chaises -out Jaunes" . Flat colour and vigorous as ·In the rather spartan sur­ movement combine to lift this roundings of Moray House beyond simple and cosy observa­ Aesthetics Department it's tion of life. NEW WORKS FROM Bonnards work goes a step EDINBURGH . worth hunting out this little exhibition. The organisers, in further. In a more linear style PRINTMAKERS a change from their usual illustrated in the colour piece as well as the drawings, there is a Edinburgh Printmakers' post-war presentations, have Workshop depth of perception and an eerie selected representative draw­ quality. Line and colour are Run Over ings and sketches by two beginning new, indep e~dent artists working in France in lives. The landscapes, especially, THE venue for this the first half of the 20th cen­ go beyond representation and exhibition appears at first to tury. into feeling and response to form. be almost more interesting These works give lie to the pre­ Exhibited together, these two than the works themselves. ponderant view that these artists artists form a nice juxtaposition; The Workshop exhibition is belonged to the tail end of the looking at one , you find a revela­ Impressionism movement. Any­ tion in the motivation and method housed in what used to be a of the other. Worth seeing, and public washhouse or thing but. They-look forward very much to later experimental and once seen, definitley worth think­ "steamie"- in Union Street abstract artists while being deeply ing about. in the heart of Edinburgh. rooted in their own period. Rachael War ren From the second· floor of the exhibition, you can look out the primary not secondary through a small glass window lfOW PRINTS ARE MADE medium. Perhaps the most onto a huge light and airy interesting exhibits are two prints National Gallery of Scotland studio and watch the artists at by Rembrandt, both from the work. The quality of the Until17 December same plate. He works and reworks the plate, losing much of works themselves is diverse, THE title of this exhibition is the original detail but gaining in ranging from the "new and somewhat of a misnomer. It depth, tone and atmosphere. This innovative" to the quite should really be called foreshadows later expressionistic frankly amateurish. "Prints in various techniques works such as Toulouse Lautrec's by diverse artists". Not as posters. Colour, light, sensuality , The coloured lithographs, such catchy though, is it? _ vibrancy and a slight seediness are as Roberto G. Fernandez's "Chaedon.ea", pictured here, are What 1 expected from (and all caught in simple shapes. impressive, as are some of the hoped for) from this exhibition In the modern pieces the etchings. These appear as late was to see the tools of the traoe: medium seems less inspiring. The etching plates, needles, prints don't look like prints: oil "Picassoesque" pencil and charcoal line drawings - simple woodblocks, acid baths even. painting, watercolours, inks Works such as those of Alastair Gear. This "new" work is but very effective. Despite these While actual demonstrations maybe, but not prints. Even the strangely reminiscent of seventies works, there are a large number of Mack, on the other hand, seem to would have been too much to example by Picasso was "nonentities" which are only of be no more than playing coloured kitsch. It most often consists of hope for, some step-by-step illust- unmemorable. any interest when you look at the shapes· to form pleasing patterns vulgar geometric brushmark rations of the different techniques Being arranged by technique prices people are obviously (his work "Into the Light" could' patterns of purple and red on a w6uld have been very useful. the . effect is jumbled an~ disc;>r- yellow ;background - quite willing to pay for them - on well be mistaken for a textile What you do get is a series of g_amsed. !he p~rely techn!cal _hes average around £100 a time. design from Habitat). Susan distasteful. Yet, half the fun of the prints by famous (and not so fam- · Side by s1d_e with the expressive, Norrie's work "Two by Two" exhibition (apart from the view ous) artists, arranged by _ ~he 18th wtth the 20th century . It Among the screen prints there is raises similar objections - her from the second floor into the technique and introduced by a IS hard to see how one develops a preference for large, solid very basic shapes of animals could enormous workshop) is that these ·brief description of the processes from : or compleme~t s, _the other. shapes and bright colours. This quite possibly be potato prints - lesser works hang beside trully involved. The early prints concen- Gnpes. apart, It IS . always works well in the prints by Sam rather than a "work of art" it innovative ones. When one see trate on reproducing works in · ~ncouragmg to ~ee gallene ~ mak­ Ainslie, for example, who most would do better as an ilustration what can be aci:Jieved in other media, mainly for a mass mg a~ effort to mvolv~ their pat­ often ·uses dominant scarlet red in a children's picture book. printmaking - such as the audience. With an original pen ~ons m an understand~ng _ of how figures with. blue and black to immaculate studies of shells and and fnk drawing and its reproduc- ~mportan~ t_he method IS , m s~ap ­ create startling images. The result Above and beyond this type of feathers in Eileen Lawrence's tion side by side, it is possible to mg the fim s h~d produc~. It IS a is both original and modern - "folk art", which reinforces the "Temple Sticks" - the exhibitiot;~ see both the limitations and shame that this attempt IS poorly using screen printing to its . full view of printmaking as a craft becomes at once both sitmulating appeal of the mediocre. organised and greatly limited in its advantage in strong, localised rather than an art form, there are and comprehensive. · Prints come into their own as scope. works such as. those of William blocks of colour. Victoria O'Brien art works _w~ere they are used as Rachael Warren Aithough a lot of his punchlines JUDY PASCOE AND were obvious, you warmed to his ROBERT LLEWELLYN happy and cuddly persona and found yourself chuckling merrily Gilded Balloon Theatre during his frequent pregnant Half Cut 17 November pauses. Stuart McDonald presented a NEIL STEWART: "communion", figures join hands . DESPiTE an endless thump­ and dance around nimbused surreal form of "Sesame Street RECENT WORKS ing bass-line emanating from style" alphabets. Pulling letters Christ and Eucharist motifs. A Wilkie House, the latesl: in a Netherbow Arts Centre virgin and child scene reflects the out of box and pronouncing them, series of cabarets at the agitatily, was so bizarre and silly, Until25 November same pure joy. Though appa­ rently simple and straightforward, Gild~d Balloon was a suc­ it had to be funny. He gradually NEIL Stewart's work, these gorgeous little pictures have cess. progressed into normal stand-up though often heavily influ­ a powerful emotional punch. Gordon Robertson, a polite, and almost lost the microphone in a bout of sexual rally-driving. - ~;;;._._... ___ By sharp contrast, Stewart's softly spoken Glaswegian, took a enced by spirituality, is Cars seemed' to be a theme. As · paintings left me ~old. So diffe- . philosophical look at life, break­ rooted firmly to reality by a fast cereals and Santa Claus. Robert Llewellyn tried to impress . Then the real star of the night . strong sense of place. The rent are they I at first thought they took the stage. Australian Judy were by a different artist. In the ·-.... -~--,...... ,,.._ us with his Dodge Challenger. Pascoe pouted and strutted her majority of these works are lino cuts he had to create a reada­ Fancying himself as English mid- stuff, sending out punchlines that familiar places in Edin­ ble image from blackness. With­ die class Gerard Depardieu, he hit you square behind the eyes. burgh's Old Town, making out the discipline this medium compared New York and Los Always assured, _ sharp and on them instantly accessible to imposes, his work becomes chao­ Angeles life. to life in London. and target sh e never f m·1 e d t o get ·a anyone living here. tic, with colour and pattern the Enghsh home . counties. He la h ' spoiled an otherwise good set by ~ · r · t · His lino cuts I found delightful. dominating. Nothing wrong with 1 1 that, except that, on a few occa­ being too self-indulgent with the · appr~m re Ig~on ° e t~tnca · The medium is eminently suited masturbation jokes. 1 n~es; s _e pr~sen e an to depicting the busy, tight con­ sions he did not demonstrate the F d M A 1 11 d h" If . Australians VIewpomt on the necessary feeling for colour. r_e b ac du ay cda e Imdsed a world and Britain in particular. struction of the Old Town. Vigor­ b ld ous use of line, both hatched and Blotchy and streaked paint, and a mg ear y, an procee e to Sh d d . h h . heck} e th eaud 1ence.. H e t alk e d on b · e en e Wit er routme about sweeping, makes places identifi­ scribbled detail in crayon degen-­ B b d · · k K th emg controlled by the head able with just a few details. In a erated the images into childlike raks,0 odyb-mik~IC erst,h eHnnelth heart and the third party (let's just B er an uc mg up e ea · ' · h h · view of St Gijes' Cathedral, one daubs. Only when he reintroduces S . Th h. hi' ht f h. say It s m t e net er regiOns of the white space do we get the feeling erv1ce. e 1g 1g o IS set b d ') M h fin d d can immediately pick out the LRT (and perhaps the night) wa; his 0 y. · uc more ~e e an · . bus! With edges cropped close in, as we do with the prints, that we . . d assured than her at times erratic are looking at something very Abb o t an d C os t e11 o msp1re these are like little windows on the horse race, which had Over ma1 e count~rparts: she was t~e ordinary that has been trans­ world. Safely' Neck and Neck competing of an evemng of quahty formed by the artist's own vision. crea~ A few of the prints reflect religi­ with Just Ahead and Bringing Up ' come Y· ous themes. In a play.on the words Rachael Warren the Rear. 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denly all manner of nasty ghosts. With remarkable haste, and the GHOSTBUSTERS 11 start pooping up at the art gallery paternity of her baby is dealt with and our heroes discover a river of in under a sentence of dialogue. Odeon psychic slime under the city, and -The much heralded battle bet­ l)ir. Ivan Reitman in the end only_the Statue of Lib­ ween good and evil ' at the end erty can save the city from the hor­ breaks down into ,a series of rors created by its own bad feel­ remarkably easy victories for the SEQUELS are, as everybody ings. Through the middle of all team which appear to quash the knows, never as good as the this wanders Sigourney Weaver ambitions of the restless dead far original. Given this, and that and a nauseatingly cute baby. more than it satisfies the desire of the original had very little both of whom function as little the audience for a truly climactic going for it other than a more than cardboard walls for Bill struggle. couple of lines from Bill Mur­ Murray to bounce jokes off. It is probably niggardly to com­ The problem with the film lies plain about plot structure and ray, it should come as no sur­ in that neither director I van Reit­ characterisation in what is , after prise that Ghostbusters 11 man nor writers Dan Ackroyd and all, a children's movie, but given scores high ~nd mighty on the Harold Ramis know what the film the vast amount of money spent Christmas qukey scale. is supposed to be other than a veh­ on this film, and the presence of The story lis really much the icle for Industrial Light and some reasonably 'talented people same as last time. The Ghostbus­ Magic's finest effects. The both on the screen and behind the ters are dawn on their luck, humour is constrained to the point camera you could be forgiven for reduced to entertaining at chil­ of futility by the need to get a PG hoping for something better. dren's parties (where they find rating, and the weakness ,of the , Who're you gonna . call? Well, that He-Man is much more popu­ plot prevents it from working as anybody you like, but don't call lar) and banned from any future thriller. Despite her initial loath­ us: we'll call you. - paranormal activities. by a nasty ing for him, Sigourney Weaver Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis read the review of Ghostbusters. Ed Koch-type mayor. But lo! Sud- fall_s back into Bill Murray's arms •

the one with Ed who is very wordy. Arnold's occasional TORCH SONG TRILOGY ' ·ashamed of his homosexuality and monologues to camera reinforce Video Review one with · Alan, played by this mood. Video Review Matthew Broderick, who is not. That writer and star Harvey Dir: Harvey Fierstein Into all this late in the film, comes Fierstein is gay does save this film Ann Banmcroft as Arnold's from the criticism directed at Mis­ cracks, her want to join you" . "I TORCIJ Song Trilogy may mother, bringing in the conflict of sippi Burning or Cry Freedom as seems so incongruous and bewil­ .PATTI HURST stand as an assertion of gay generations. She refuses to accept Hollywood's outsider's views of a dering that it is laughable. rights. That it stands as more Arnold's homosexuality as nor­ repressed group. Moreover, as a Video review Too many questions go untack­ mal or his love for Alan as real film , it has enough pathos and led. What; for instance, is theal­ than that is due to the method Dir: Paul Schrader love to be compared to that ofthat humour to make the gay message lure of vulgar misfits fatuously used and the message itself. for her late husband. if not incidental then unforced. SOMEWHER~ between shrieking "The revolution is here" The message, simply stated, The film moves from stressing Alan Cooper· . scooping up_: Patti Hurst's; and "Kill the pigs"? Who do dap­ is that homosexuality is in Arnold's cabaret life to stressing extraordinary story and put­ per Black Muslims enter the sav­ non sense. abnormal. his ordinary domestic life with an ting it to film, Director Paul age world of the SLA with impun­ · OfNote... The story is that of Arnold, who adopted son. Particularly in the ity? Why? Why? Why? we are left .To put it mildly, the Scorcese~De Schrader falls flat on his face. works as a drag queen under the latter,' it is very theatrical in its asking ourselves. Niro double bill tonight at the Kidnapped by · the "Sym­ name of Virginia Ham. The film style, reflecting the play from balese Liberation Army", What's more, the script is a glib moves from the early seventies Filmsoc represent two of the best catalogue of 6 o'clock News byte­ which it derives. Many scenes films of the 1970's and have to be this pampered American through to the eighties. It centres move across Arnold's large sitting size chunks. Nobody and nothing around Arnold's two. love affairs ranked a pretty-damn-well unmis­ · heiress turns gun-totting is real, believable or understanda-. room as across a stage. The film is sable. After that,. A World Apart guerilla. Clearly, there is ble. Even the actors seem uncon­ ------at the Filmsoc on Sunday and Au boundless potential for a sub­ vinced. Revoir Les Enfants at the Fil­ tle and thoughtful explora­ In ' the final scene, Hurst mhouse should claim your atten­ . I Video Top Twenty tion of free will, loyalty, and assaults us with a new and equally tion, but not an awful lot else, I'm human love. What a shame baffling about-face. Again, her I. The Accused 12:Baron Munchausan afraid. Perhaps you could take up lines, now hard-bitten and cynical, 2. Dead Ringers knitting or something. that so little comes of it in this 13. A Fish Called Wanda seem frustratingly out of place 3. The Bi~ Blue 14. Jean De Florette video. place. 4. The Accident Tourist 15. The Tall Guv The handling of Hurst's "con­ WANT to learn how to live This vid_eo has little to offer but 5. The La~t Temptation of Christ 16. Unbearable Lightness Of version" is superficial and clumsy. the biographical capsules that roll 6. Twins Being the fabulous life of a film all the ambivalence and confusion mercifully up just before the cre­ 7. Bagdad Care 17. The Fruit Machine critic? If so, all well and is lost in a tiresome, 25-minute dits. lf there is a saving grace,m It 8. Cocktail 18. 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Tonight the Filmsoc start a season ofthe films ofRobert De Niro and Martin Scorcese. Here- A vijit Chatterjee and Toby Scott discuss "the most dynamic and exCiting ac-tor-director partnership of the last twenty years".

ROBERT De Niro and Mar­ apparently refusing to- speak to Mean . Streets, "You know what tin Scorcese have made five outsiders in Scorcese's presence the Queen said: If I had balls I'd films together, all but one of for fear of wrecking the relation­ be king." Especially in the early ship. Their films are characterised films, which were mostly shot on which, the disappointing by a vibrant energy and a sense of New York, New York are to location, this gives a thrilling feel­ spontaneity that is rarely seen in ing of living danger~usly. be shown by the Film Soci­ films. Typically, Scorcese's cam­ When asked about his influ­ ety. They form one of the era prowls among his actors, con­ ences, Scorcese always mentions greatest actor-director stantly, restlessly moving, so that Michael Powell, Orson Welles partnerships of cinema, rank­ even the static scenes are made and, ih his youth, Frederico Fel­ ing alongside Wayne and visually exciting. lini. Yet even though he has The empathy of his actors for Ford, Eastwood and Leone, ~bsorbed ideas from these great the characters allows Scorcese to film-makers, Scorcese is one of and Welles and Welles. let them improvise, leading to the few directors working today As with all great partnerships, marvelous moments such as the who has created his own unique there is a great deal of symbiosis toast given by Harvey Keitel in style in terms of what subject mat­ between the pair, with De Niro ters he deals with and how he films - them. His protagonists, whether they be of his own creation or that ~.artin Scorcese during the filming of Raging Bull. of screenwriters such as Paul Schrader, tend to be at the bottom credibility to the people he por­ frightening brilliance. De Nuo's of the economic heap and yet trays. Only in Mean Streets is he attention to preparation is well strugglin~ vainly to improve not the main character, the hon­ known, but what is more impres­ themselves. All of the films to be ours in that film going to Harvey sive is his ability to show the nerv- · shown are set in New York, and Keitel, but in Taxi Driver the ous, wiry energy of people such as Scorcese sees his home town as lit­ camera is rarely off him. We Johnny Boy or Jake La Motta that tle· better than one of the upper observe the introverted, inarticu~ can only find an outlet in violence .. layers of hell. Devilish reds late Travis Bickle in minute detail Then, to confound us all, his also abound in his colour scheme, even for over ninety minutes, during displays his talents as a comic in the opening sequence of tbe which time he brings himself actor in King of Comedy. black and white Raging Bull and under more 'contr~l arid therefore All of the four films to be the world. we are shown is full of gives less in the way of facial shown are superb in every way, sudden, random violence and expressions. To have portrayed ·and anyone who thinks their is too hatred. simply this would have been much or too little violence in Through all this walks Robert impressive, but to also show us movies should go to see them, foe De Niro, easily the greatest screen this man going mad and preparing what they convincingly show is actor of our time and certainly the himself for an assassination just how much violence there is in .Robert De Niro ~ J~e La Motta in Raging Bull. only person capable of bringing attempt is a display of quite the world. It's your move .

Even though hostilities ended more than 40 years ago, World War 11 films remain remarkably pop~J-lar with the British public. Video Review Kirsten Lass wonders why. wards· as, aside from being the traditionally lonely spinster, Miss THE LONELY PASSIONS Hearne's friends, landlady and for Hitler and his actions. Re-evo­ her religion let her down and CAN someone explain to me was a controversy, highlighted in OF JUDITH HEARNE 1 the avid intet:est in German the papers, within the editorial cation of this anti-German feeling eventual release lies only in the walls of the magazine. A comic. means that the Germans are still Dir: Jack Clayton return to the whisky bottle. war films? Yes, alright, it was strip was designed (writer Grant .the baddies; which they are not. THE Lonely_ Passions of As the film progresses one feels the 50th anniversary of the Morrison) about the young Hitler There are other films which . more and more desolate at the Second World War last and his "lost" year (one for which look at the war but they look at • Judith Hearne is as bleak a never-ending degeneration of this month; such a concession I historians cannot account). The as a bygone. Wim Wenders' film as the title suggests. one woman. However, her deter­ can make. But is there really story follows the thoughts and Wings of Desire (1987) is such a There is, however, a small mination at the end of the film to a public hunger to see these actions of the young Hitler in film. Somewhat lacking in action, (very small) ray of sunshine survive and her positfve rejection films? 1912-13 (who is spending this year . it is, however, delightful. Set in at the end which gives the of both Bob Hoskins and the You know the type I'm talking in Liverpool with his half­ the divided city of Berlin it is the film a defiant note. Church provides an optimistic of: propaganda films which one brother). The seeds of his later tale of two angels (Bruno Ganz It is post-war Dublin and Judith touch. Yet the repetitive, cyclical power-crazy and megalomaniac . and Otto Sander) who weave can switch over to on a lazy after- · Hearne, a middle-aged spinster, is nature of events suggests perhaps noon on BBC/C4, with swastikas ideas are given particular atten- among the public, hearing indi­ trapped by the stem and rigid that it will not be long before she 'running rife, plenty of goosestep tion. However, Steve Yeowell, viduals' thoughts and soothing principles of morality and once again is cheated by life. one of Cut's regular columnists, troubled minds. Clips of the war Ultimately, then, it is a rather and Nazis viciously hailing Hitler. Catholicism. Having had a tough, "Donner and Blitzen" will be said resigned after the proposed publi- abound but they are through the joyless life, her only escape is in a depressing film where the action is cation of the feature. Why? Well, eyes of the old and thus have a somewhat slow but the empathy at some point and the British are husband whom she thinks she has inevitably a good-looking bunch it seems he objected primarily to philosophical strain. They are 1 found in the suave, street-wise with which her story is portrayed of chaps. Quintessentially speak- Morrison writing about Hitler at treated purely as memories. · Bob Hoskins, who represents is heart-warming. Look out for all; secondly to the fact that the The film ends happily and one Ian NcNeice's convincing por­ ing these are (definitely) out-of- -strip would draw the attention of adventure and the big wide world. leaves feeling peaceful. The war In him we see finally a glimmer of trayal of Bernard, the fat slob. date propaganda films. many to Hitler (for whom he was pieces are integral to the film as a Bob Hoskins is wonderful but is In September there was a pro- ( ) ) . hope for the lady of the lonely pas­ fusion of such films (with a spat- simply ? a fanatic of the past whole and do not act as a stark sions but it is not to be. As the overshadowed by Maggie Smith, and make him alive/real again; contrast to the rest of the action. whose performance is absolutely tering of documentaries, not to story unfolds we see the hypoc­ .and thirdly it serves as a pointer to One has no anti-germanic feeling brilliant in every respect and the mention the daily 1939 news head- an obsession with Hitler (and risy, self-delusion and the pathetic or' stimulated resentment or nature of the two characters also film is well worth watching just for lines with Sue Lawley). Since it Nazism) which he feels reveals an hatred for the Germans. Being a her. was the 50th anniversary of the unfold. Not satisfied with this, the Second World War this was to be · underlying attraction to extreme German film, this in part explains film plunges still further down- Kirsten Lass expected but it is the hype sur-· Iascism. Why, he asks, can we not this but the war is treated objec­ just let the subject drop? It is sim­ tively, as it should be, especially rounding the films and the fact ply unhealthy to continally harp now as we enter the 1990s. that they are so frequently other- back to it. Not only is there a Let us then turn our attention. ·Wise shown which is objectiona- potential danger of interest in the to German movies of the present, t------ble. re-emergence of fascism but it like Wings of Desire, and leave Think you can write better than this? Film page meetings are on Yet opinion is divided in this also re-evokes anti-German feel­ biased propaganda films and ideas Wednesdays at 1.30 pm in the Student Offices. Anyone interested in matter. Let us take, for example, ings (which have subsided). There behind. a~y aspect of the page is welcome to attend. the Cut magazine which is based are new generations of Germans in Scotland. Not long ago there who cannot be held repsonsible • information technology

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Standard Life We don't follow standards.We set theltl. student Utterly EUSAless As John MacFarlane confirms your worst fears about life in that centre of urbane soci­ ety, Kings Buildings, Maxton Walker draws attention to the forthcoming. AGM and its relevance to science stud~nts. The King's Buildings. about anything. Students are committees concerned with the tions that in fact it was was going to into account thefact that a EUSA IN next Monday's EUSA notoriously cynical about the elec­ long term welfare of the University be more difficult to achieve than presence in KB is far from a AGM, one of the motions tion promises of sabbaticals any­ that a scheme has to get through they had happened to mention at merger, I doubt that many KB stu­ raised for debate will concern way. Paul Ryan's big band policy before it can reach any sort of frui­ the hustings came as no surprise to dents would shed tears over having the perennial question of last year is a classic example of tion, and that takes time. many. The current story seems to their union taken over by EUSA. whether KB should have a why. The general consensus seems The question of the EUSA/KB be that all four sabbaticals are Despite what you may think EUSA office of it's own. The to be that nothing will change who­ rift was made especially interest­ eager to establish an office on the about KB, the AGM on Monday topic invariably arises every ever seems to be holding the steer­ ing by the election of two KB stu­ KB campus, but that their hands provides you with an opportunity ing wheel. This is, I feel a little dents as sabbaticals. The point is are tied by the estates and build­ to help KB, currently hopelessly I year - an inevitable result of·· ings committee. According to adrift from .the rest of the student an annual change of leader­ Martin Morrison, the EUSA community, affiliate itself a little ship within the association as deputy president, £3000 have been more with the union of which it _ each prospective sabbatical set aside to set up an office, possi­ should be a part. Even if the sab­ tries to find a policy which will bly iQ a Portacabin, there being baticals are committed to an office carry him or her into office COMMENT some difficulty over "finding space at KB, a quorately passed motion anywhere else in KB, and that at the AGM would compel them to with the minimum risk of fai­ unfair to the people who run more salient when one considers some provision has been made for make a proper concerted effort to lure. What could be easier EUSA. There is a limit to what that both of them made the setting part time staffing in the first year. turn the beaurocratic wheels than setting up a room at KB? somebody can achieve in a year, up of a permanent EUSA office at Some people argue that KBU necessary to establish an office at and even behind the simplest plan KB a priority. The admittance should be allowed to keep it's own KB, Go along and make your voice The answer seems to be, just there are a plethora of courts and that came quickly after the elec- identity. However, even taking heard. that have spmuted cancerous THREE pence a pint of beer! ·has built up for itself; so pushing The disco started to ·heat up and remaining an empty vote winner extension wings. Lacking a clear A hard act to follow but ·stories of deserted discos to the feeling just a little bit pissed I in · the sabbatical's - election trusty KBU came up with the centre the unwary · have been back of my mind I pulled on the decided to strut my stuff. I danced speeches instead of a reality. known to wander between build- - glad rags and set out. in a circle of other guys. I danced At this point the Rootsie Toot­ amazing idea of charging ings for hours without encounter­ people a quid to come to their to Madonna. I stuffed free bur­ sie Blues band appe;ued. Ry ing another human being. This On enteri~g I was struck by the gers down my face. I played tricks Coder and Chuck Berry classics birthday party. Wow what a adds up to an atmosphere which is strong feeling that I had been with a vaguely phallic balloon. I , disappeared under a . thumping crowd-puller? Oh, sorry, I depressing and intellectually stale there before- and so I had. The almost forgot; included in and leads students to see study at scene of people firmly stuck to The disco started to heat up, and feeling just a admission a free burger. Give KB as a sentence to be served t~eir seats, hugging the walls credit where credit is due. rather than an enjoyable chapter around an empty dance floor was little bit pissed, I decided to strut my stuff I of life. a carbon copy of my second year Kings Buildings, the outpost of Situated in a purely residential school disco. Feeling a little dis­ danced in a circle of other guys. Edinburgh University, is where area KB is dedoid of any facilities concerted I headed to the bar and am ashamed to admit it I started around 3000 students study sub· other than those provided by the uttered the magic words guaran­ bass line. the crowd danced but t9 enjoy myself. jects as diverse as Astrophysics Refectory and .the Union. KBU is teed to make any night a classic then they'd proved long ago that Staggering over to a committee and Zoology. Architecturally the mobbed during the lunch hour event: ·they'd dance to anything. We left place is a nightmare. A jul!lble of with long queues which act as "Ten pints of heavy please." member I commented on the low turnout (about 50 people). He Just as the alcohol was starting As the cries of "Don er Kebabs" muttered something about KB to take effect the room filled with that would normally put us on The scene ofpeople firmly stick to their seats, being a bit out of the way. A huge · smoke and the hypnotist, a pic­ auto-pilot for Nicolson Square crowd could hardly be expected, hugging the walls around an empty dance floor ture of repressed homosexuality echoed worthlessly off the dark however, when the publicity had - took the floor. After 45 curtained semis of Mayfield was a carbon copy of my second year disco. minutes and just a hint of a racist been so low key. During tny .I Road, I turned to the Big Man travels through the Microbiology, -remark he left; having failed mis­ who has an uncanny knack of styles thrown together without pretty effective deterrents the rest chemsitry, and Zoology Depart­ erably lo hypnotise anybody. This summing things up perfectly and r ·d ignore the reputation that it of the time it is ghostly quiet. I'd time the smoke was needed to ments I had seen a single lonely asked him what he'd thought. any attempt at integration. hide- promised myself, however, that A4 poster. Apathy abounds at hide him from the barage of four "For KB it was different," he ous modern chimneys and towers I would ignore the ·reputation KB. Symptoms include the prop­ letter words hurled in his direc­ remarked. "Different but still crowd over sandstone buildings that the Union tion.Nowthat's tragic. osed EUSA office, thus far, shite!"

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The course involves CAREERS undertaking a research project in rtdvent would like to acknow­ a particular establishment and, ~ open seven days during this time they will also be : ledge the use of photographs food served all day fri & sat · given a number of short-term restaurant placements to broaden their from the Cadbury Schweppes DAY knowledge of management and tuesday- saturday 1900-2200 graduate brochure in last week's policy issues. In addition they will 24th NOVEMBER, 11 a.m.-4.00 p.m. have a chance to make contacts issue. TEVIOT DEBATING HALL & ~i~(Y~ within the DTI itself. ··················~········ After training is .completed, CHAPLAINCY CENTRE ' student 28 thursday, nuvember 23, 1989 what's on. . Work by MargaretNelson in the Fine Art SATURDAY Library. Untill Dec CONCERT 8 pm; Sculpture Hall, Art College · HILLSIDE GALLERY Music by Iannis Xenakis, presented by the Hillsid~ Street (556 6440) Music faculty and others. Tues-Sat 10.30 am-6 pm THEATRE £2.50 concessions. Young Scottish Illustrators "'"''"'arket (226 2633)' Exhibition including works by Douglas "Beverley's Butcher" ACE CABARET Watson, John McNaught and lngeborg Smith. A first play from young writer Mary Cassidy. It 8.30 p_m; Pleasance . Untii27Nov lrnnrP·rn< the disappearance of the local dance A vanety of entertamment to keep you clutch­ ing your sides. For tickets and info contact 26 Nov; 7.30 pm Mark Baker 667 4258. MORAY HOP-,E COLLEGE Chessel Galle1_ , High St £2.50 HEAVEN Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm Evening: Chambers Street Drawings by Pierre Bannard and Eduard Villard STRANGEWAY Also' includes works from the famous Alfred perform the second in Lorca's trilogy of 9-12 pm; Park Room Teviot. Ayrton collection . . Until29 Nov MONDAY- ... NAPIER POLYTECHNIC POLITICS SOCIETY LUNCH Craiglockhart Campus, 219 Colinton Rd ( 444 2266) STHEATRE 1 pm; Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Politics Dept. Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm Street (229 1201) 80p/£1 All you can eat. 1989 Scout and Guide Show "Bailey Now" , we're riding along on the crest of a EU CON.SERVATIVE ASSOCIATION Exhibition of over 100 black and white photographs. " 1 pm; Middle Reading Room, Teviot Guest speaker is Bill Walker, MP for North Until28 Nov Tayside. NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND ARTS CENTRE "This House Believes That Labour Would The Mound (556 8921) · 1 Street (556 9579) offer No Real Alternative" Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm "The Bronx Je:w" 7.30 pm; Teviot Debating Hall "How Prints Are Made" wants to be a stand-up comedian. Guest speakers are Donald Dewar and Jim Until 17 Dec 25 Nov; 7.30 pm Sillars. (£2) TUESDAY THEATRE SPORTS Bedlam Theatre, 2 Forrest Road 225 9873 COMSOC CHRISTMAS BALL Improvisation 12-2 pm; Teviot entrance 1.30 pm on Friday 24th Nov. Tickets for sale. £1, or free with Yerma's Friday ticket. THURSDAY FRENCH SOCIETY LUNCH 1 pm; Dept Basement, 60 George Square DEBBIEHARRY All welcome. Network 8 pm 557 6578 ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY The blonde bombshell brings her solo tour to 1.5 pm; JCMB Room 315 the newest ven~e in Edinburgh. Eucharist, Bible study and lunch., THEUKSUBS EU RENAISSANCE SINGERS Venue 557 3073 THURSDAY 1.'10 pm; Reid Concert Hall Pogo on down, punks not dead honestly. Music from the 16th century. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE RUTHELLIS 7 pm; Teviot Debating Hall "How We Read the Bible" Oddfellows 220 1816 . Indie pop. Socialist Government Bill "Renationalsia­ 7.30 pm; Chaplaincy Centre tion". Guest Speaker is rev. Andrew Sinclair. - FJAERE NILSSEN COMSOC CHRISTMAS BALL WEDNESDAY Negociants 9.45 12-2 pm; Teviot Entrance 225 6313 Tickets for sale. SELF-DEFENCE CLASSES . Swedish American folk singer. 7 pm; Women in St Leonards Hall, Men in the EU ANIMAL RIGHTS Pleasance. . THE BRbTHERS 7 pm; Balcony Room, Teviot Row £1.50 a session. Preservation Hall9.30 Cha_nge of venue from the Pleasance, to attend 226 3816 a_Scrence St_udent Council Meeting, with a .AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Resident Rockers. vrdeo and discussion on Vivisection. 7 pm; Chaplaincy Centre All welcome. THE ROOTSIDE DUO FRIDAY Ryries9pm PLEASAN_CE 337 7582 'This House Would Vote Green" 8 pm;'Pieasance Bar · Blues. 1 pm; Teviot Debating Hall Jazz/Blues band. NITZEREBB . Webswter Debate with free beer. ' STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT The Venue LUNCHTIME CONCERT 7-9 pm; Chaplaincy Centre 557 3073 1.10 pm; Reid Concert Hall Bible study. · Teutonic pretenders from Basil don, now appa­ Classics over lunch. . rently vanguards of British new bat. Support from Bomb Disneyland., EUBIGBAND 7.30 pm; Reid Concert Hall SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA .(\ wide !ange of Big band pieces, plus some Usher Hall 7.30 pm · mnovatrve small groups numbers- watch out exhibs 2281155 for those saxophonists ... Martinu, Mendessohn, Coinka and £1 admission. Rachmaninov. Conducted by Briden Thorn­ STILLS GALLERY son . . 105 High Street (557 1140) SHINTY CLUB CEILIDH Tues-Sat 11 am-5.30 pm BERODA SWING 8 pm-1 am; Chambers Street Union "Picturing Women: Part 2" Maxies Bistro 9 pm It's that ti?'le of the year again- party games Photography exhibition featuring the work of Jazz Soul. raffles, pnzes galore. Willive band. ' Lorna Bates and Della Matheson. £2 admission. 25 Nov-23 Dec. KEVINTAIT Candiemaker Arms 9.30 pm GREEN BANANA CLUB . PORTRAIT GALLERY · Folksinger. Evening; Potterrow Queen Street (556 8921) In?!e and Alternative Disco (well, it sure isn't a Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm DAVE BUICK TRIO ce1hdh). "A Vision of India" Oasis Rock Cafe, 7 Victoria St. 226 5260 SOp admission with matric card. Photographs by Fred Bremner. Shown are Blues, jazz and rbck. modern platinum photographs made from TEVIOT ROW UNION Bremner's original glass negatives. FRIDAY HappyHour 8.30-9:3 pm; Union open till2 am. Until31 Jan BEATBOX: Bop till you drop in the debating GREEN ON RED Hall. CENTRAL LIBRARY Carlton Studios 9 pm INDIE DISCO: Downstairs in the Park Room. George IV Bridge (225 5584) 556 7066 MTV: Burgers, Chips and Bud in the 51st Mon-Fri 9 am-8.30 pm; Sat 9 am-1 pm Great American guitar band in REM style. •••••• State. · "Embroidered Pictures" Support slot from Summerhill. student what's on thursday, november 23, 1989 27 sTEFANGROSSMAN AND JOHN DOMINION RENBOURN Newbattle Terrace (447 2660) Moray House Union 8.30 pm from Friday: 556 5184 . 1. SHIRLEY VALENTINE Combination of American ragtime and Blues, 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 TVGUli>E and English folk guitarists, highlight of last A fine film from the makers of Educating Rita. The wolf in the woods, that old animal predator still padding ·year's folk Festival. around within the male sexual psyche of even the most 'modem' 2. THE BEAR of men comes under scrutiny in two of this week's tele-high- HOLIDAYMAKERS supported by the Sci­ 1.45, 6.20 lights. ~ rssormen DEAD POETS' SOCIETY From the stable of award-winning serial "The Singing Detec­ Potterrow Union. 3.45, 8.15 tive", Dennis Potter's latest series starts this Wednesday on Two at 9.25 pm. Described as "a compelling kaleidescope of SATURDAY 3. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST frantasy and reality," "Blackeyes" is the tragic story of~ b~aut­ CRUSADE iful fashion model who, not surprisingly, becomes the v1ct1m of MUD HONEY 2,5,8 male exploitation. Janet Leigh has a similar, if slightly.more Carlton Studios £1 . 75 student concessions on all performances pressing problem this Sunday on Four at 10 pm a~ the H1tchcock 556 7066 . except 8 pm in cinema 3. season continues with the infamous "Psyho" thnller. If too Sub Pops dirtiest proteges and their wonderful familiar with this tale of a glamorous embezzler finding unex­ guitar grunges are not to ?e missed. Touch Me CANNON pected dividends in the isolated motel run by Anthony Perkins, I'm Sick is already a class1c. Support from The Lothian Road (229 3030) try "Footloose" on Two, also Sunday, at 10.20 pm. This semi­ Cateran. from Friday: trashy dance epic has all the elements common to more recent 1. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II celluloid amalgamations of music and romance, where the THUNDER 2,5,8 soundtrack a smash hit in 1984, takes greater precedent over The Venue plot. But with the film pivoted on a tractor chicken run, it never 557 3073 2. SHIRLEY VALENTINE pretends to be anything else:. 2.10, 5.10, 8.10 "From the ashes ofTerraplane arose a loud and Richard Arnold unexpected toreent of noise, thus Thunder Not Wednesday, instead a 20th anniversary became." showing of GONE WITH THE WIND: 1.40 and 6.40. SUNDAY 3. FIELD OF DREAMS demonstrating their Super­ 2.10, 5.10, 8.10 EDINBURGH1h-isweek is . fuzz and possibily even their ICE AGE : host to lots of swinging com­ •The Venue £2.80, £1.40 student concessions Mondays. Bigmuff, depending on bos who are bound to go whether or not children are 557 3073 down well with the The world's only, oops, leading all-female ODEON present. The Venue plays youngsters in the str~t. On thrash band on their "Oo er we're nearly a Clerk Street (667 7332) host to Thunder who unfor­ Thursday at the Network : tuantely used to be Terrap- proper band now" tour. Waheh, go for it girls. from Friday: there's a proper bona fide . lane, and the following night Support from Lawnmower Death. 1. WILT 6.25, 8.45 (also 2.15, 4.20 Sat & Sun) star, Debbie Harry no less, it boasts all-female thrashers· English comedy, worth a viewing. · hot on the heels of het Ice Age supported by the Half HUE AND CRY cement dryingly dull hit · Glasgow SECC Man Half Biscuit of Britcore, 2. ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS singleiWantThatMan.Also · Lawnmore Deth. The Venue Those Scottish soulsters labour it lovely to a on Thursdy there should be a home crowd. 1.45, 4 could be worth a visit on ROADHOUSE night of rollicking good fun at . Monday night when 24-7 the Venue, where you can MONDAY 6, 8.40 Spyz are playing. They're 3. GREAT BALLS OF FIRE redicsover the spirit of '76 or meant to be rather excellent, HENRY V • even snigger at the spirit of : in the style of Bad Brains, 24-7 Spyz '80 with the good old UK The venue • Times to be confirmed. Living Colour and Fishbone. Subs. Much vaunted Neil However, I won't be there; 557 3073 Young devotees Green On I'm off to the Mayfiar in Glas­ Only Scottish date for the unpredictable band CAMEO Red play Calton Studios on gow that night to see the also who blend thrash, hardcore, hip hop, reggae, Home Street (228 4141) from Friday: Friday, while those prime rather excellent Fugazi, even funk and metal. They go under the heading - slices of Aryan Basildon NEW YORK STORIES if Ian Mackaye, the God­ "Ever-wondered what it would be like if Kool manhood Nitzer Ebb will be 1.30 (not Sun), 4, 6.30, 9 father of straight edge him­ and the Gang met Van Halen in the South denying all knowledge of self, isn't going to let me buy Bronx?" DAF at the Venue. Saturday Friday and Saturday Late Night Double Bill any alcohol and quietly fall , at Calton Studios is a must BAD TASTE and THE TOXIC AVENGER over at the back of the hall. It 11.15 with depraved Sea.t!le garage must be the generation gap. , monsters Mudhoney Stephen Barnaby Sunday Matinee HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING rclubS 2.00 No student concessions. Prices vary from £1.20 THURSDAY to £2.90 depending on performance times.

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