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Two 22-year-olds who could hardly be more different: one, NNN%I<;9LCCFormula One AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE/AUGUSTMAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 2009 2009 World Championship. Step forward Jamie Roberts, our cover star, and Sebastian Vettel. Each has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success: Roberts with his Cardiff Blues club, then his national team, Wales, before a starring role on this year’s British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa. Vettel, meanwhile, has powered through from junior racing categories to emerge as a leading contender for victory at every Grand Prix (although things don’t always go to plan, as you can read in our exclusive reportage on page 68). So much, so young? Or too much, too soon? Roberts admits the experience of achieving at such a young age the career-high @]c`]\_X[nfib\[flkXc`kkc\ that a Lions tour represents, was a little humbling: “It brings [`]]\i\ekcp]fik_`jdfek_Ëj a huge responsibility, but you take it in your stride,” he says. Zfm\ig_fkf^iXg_\i#;Xm`[ Vettel, too, has the priceless ability to retain grace and good :c\i`_\n#_\d`^_k_Xm\Y\\e fek_\fk_\ij`[\f]k_\c\ej% humour, despite intense media scrutiny: “He puts on his grin 8b\\eil^YpgcXp\ij`eZ\k_\ and gets on with it,” says one of those close to him. X^\f]Ôm\#_\nXjk`gg\[]fi Perhaps, then, we should view these two prodigies through k_\JZfkcXe[le[\i$(/jhlX[ the filter of another popular sporting maxim: “If you’re lek`cXZXi\\i`eg_fkf^iXg_p good enough, you’re old enough” – and ‘good enough’ these Y\Zbfe\[%?\_Xjefi\^i\kj1 two most certainly are. ÈIl^YpgcXp\ijXi\`eZi\[`Ycp ^\e\ifljn`k_k_\`ik`d\Xe[ Away from the sound and fury of race tracks and playing AXd`\nXj^i\Xkkfnfibn`k_%É fields, we turn our attention this month to the more delicate tones of musical inspiration. Tom Oberheim, our featured Pioneer, is one of the fathers of the synthesiser, and the products of his electronic wizardry are almost certainly laced throughout your MP3 library. And if that gives you pause for thought as to the content of your digitial sound vault, consider sparing a few megabytes for the work of Twin Atlantic (page 40). Yet more talented youth destined for the very top.

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Bullevard 10 GALLERY Amazing feats to feast your eyes on 14 NOW AND NEXT What’s hot and who’s cool – news from the worlds of culture and sport 17 ME AND MY BODY Mountain bike mentalist Andreu 62 Lacondeguy talks tattoos and tumbles 19 LUCKY NUMBERS As LFW ’09 approaches, we bring you the real figures behind the fashion 20 KIT EVOLUTION Ever heard of a Theremin or a Tenori- On? No? Well you may be shocked to learn where electronic music has come from and where it’s heading 23 WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? Thought you knew everything about the poutiest half of media machine Brangelina? Think again… 24 WINNING FORMULA When is an F1 car not an F1 car? When a pool of water transforms it into a glorified boogie board. Former- race-ace David Coulthard introduces us to the science of aquaplaning Heroes 46 28 DYNAMO Move over Paul Daniels: there’s a new guy on the scene, and he’s more hoodie than top hat. Meet the magic man who’s swapped a Bradford estate for the Hollywood hills 30 TOM OBERHEIM This 73-year-old held the keys to a new sound and gave them to a generation of stars including Madonna and Stevie Wonder 34 HERO’S HERO Freestyle football World Champ Arnaud ‘Séan’ Garnier on why he’s loved controversial player Maradona 40 since that match in 1986 36 STEVE FISHER There’s nothing wet about this kayaker, who treats battling through wild waters like taking a turn on a lake. Watch out for that waterfall… 34

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28 Action 40 TWIN ATLANTIC We brave the Glaswegian weather to discover what’s behind the beards and Ray-Bans of these Scottish rockers 46 JAMIE ROBERTS The Welsh rugby star faces the daunting prospect of a Red Bulletin interview, but says nothing can scare him more than the crunch of a warm testicle 52 TOKYO BMX We grab a backie with two peddling pros as they give a two-wheeled tour through the neon buzz of Japan’s coolest city 62 X-ALPS It’s the epitome of no-frills flying; racing from Austria to Monaco using only a paraglider and a pair of running shoes. But teams take on the challenge every year. Sleep? That’s for wimps 68 SEBASTIAN VETTEL The life of an F1 driver isn’t all beautiful cars and fast women. We follow the young driver and man-of-the-moment during a scorching Grand Prix weekend to see what drives him to break a sweat More Body A (1) & Mind 78 THE HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW Shaggy has been sadly absent from the Top 40 of late, but Mr Boombastic is alive, well and in… Salzburg 80 SLACKLINING IN METEORA 68 A visit to these stunning rock pillars in Greece for those with a head for heights 23 84 LISTINGS Our worldwide guide to the best action-packed days and nights 88 NIGHTLIFE It all kicks off after dark: Black Box Revelation rock Bruges; superstar DJ A-TRAK talks Brooklyn; London graffiti artist INSA shares paint and a pint; and Hamburg goes all New York on us 94 BULL’S EYE We scale new comedic heights 96 SHORT STORY Some philosophical debate down the pub can lead to anything, even a call from Barack Obama himself 98 STEPHEN BAYLEY Our design expert ponders the paradoxical nature of that supersonic speedster, Concorde 36 FOR MORE LIKE THIS, VISIT: PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES-PEARSON-HOWES (1), DAVID CLERIHEW (1), REX FEATURES (1), RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1), CORBIS (1), GIAN PAUL LOZZ (1), RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1), CORBIS GIAN PAUL CLERIHEW (1), REX FEATURES (1), DAVID JAMES-PEARSON-HOWES PHOTOGRAPHY: WWW.REDBULL.COM

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DYNAMO The street magician who really is from the streets has the skills to make your head spin and your eyes doubt themselves – and his shoelaces tie themselves unaided. How on earth does he do it? Words: Tom Hall Portrait: Marius W Hansen

“Paul Daniels was a gangsta!” laughs the scrawny Raekwon. He’s also worked parties in the Hollywood EXd\ figure clad in chunky Adidas trainers, baggy jeans Hills with Paris Hilton and made a cameo appearance Jk\m\eÊ;peXdfË=iXpe\ and a trackie top. It’s not really the attire you’d on Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood on MTV. 9fie expect of one of the world’s great practitioners of the “I call them my uncles,” he says of the hip-hop ;\Z\dY\i(.#(0/) dark arts, and nor is the joke part of his usual style. elite who queue up to offer him advice on the fame C`m\j Dynamo, aka Steven Frayne, or ‘D’, as close friends game. Perhaps they see similarities to their own ?`^_^Xk\#Cfe[fe# refer to him, rarely shifts an indifferent steely gaze. stories of coming from hard-fought beginnings, but lk]\\c`e^ he’s due to perform there. “He just didn’t know when extra quid. I’ve got ‘Grandpa’ tattooed on my neck. ;peXdf_Xj:if_eËj to retire, that was the problem. He could’ve left on He’s always looking over my shoulder. [`j\Xj\#d\Xe`e^k_Xk top, but you get stuck into this and you don’t ever “I’m inspired by pickpockets,” he continues. “People [\jg`k\Xcck_\gXik`\j# want to lose it. People like Paul Daniels showed me who genuinely rob you. There’s a guy, Apollo Robbins, _\e\`k_\i[i`ebj what you can achieve by following magic. He was who stole guns from the holsters of the Secret Service XcZf_fcefijdfb\j a national celebrity. So if he can do it, why can’t I?” agents guarding ex-President Jimmy Carter. He does :iXq`\jkki`Zb Dynamo is being modest. This 26-year-old has it for entertainment now, but he’s the real deal.” KXb\pflig`Zb#Ylk ;peXdf_Xj[\m\cfg\[ achieved in five years what most magicians struggle During tonight’s show Dynamo traps an audience nXpf]c\Xe`e^YXZbnXi[j# to do their whole careers. Raised on Bradford’s member’s mobile phone in a glass bottle, turns `d`kXk`e^k_\jcfn$df notorious Delph Hill Estate, he has spent more than lottery tickets into bank notes with the flick of a Ylcc\k$[f[^`e^jZ\e\j`e a decade and a half working at his skills, and while wrist, and works the Dynamo-shuffle, a card cut k_\DXki`oki`cf^p#Xki`Zb David Blaine seems trapped in a disappearing trick that’s half breakdance and half mind-mangling feat `ejg`i\[YpD`Z_X\c up his own backside, Dynamo has brought the of physics. His new takes on old standards means AXZbjfeËj^iXm`kp$[\]p`e^ ]finXi[c\Xe`ek_\ spectacular back to street level. he’s pushing magic away from its traditional roots. Jdffk_:i`d`eXcm`[\f After moving to London and buying a camera and Does he fear leaving behind some of the mystique? laptop with a Prince’s Trust loan in 2005, Dynamo “I love learning from the old masters, but I have began gatecrashing celebrity parties and wowing the to be up to date! It’s not like I particularly want likes of Chris Martin, Snoop Dogg and Ian Brown to ruin a classic. My main aim is to make it better. with his close-up magic. All expressed the now When I used to read about magicians, I used to commonplace reaction on seeing his tricks: one that’s think they were guys who would just create miracles somewhere between “Amazing!” and “SH******”!!!”. totally unplanned, you know? Just pick up a phone The resulting DVD of his efforts, Underground and put it inside a bottle because they felt like it. Magic, led to a Channel 4 TV special, Dynamo’s So that’s how I think magic should be presented. Estate of Mind, and now his internet show, DynamoTV, “If you were really magic, then that’s what you’d takes the no-frills thrills even further, hanging out do. And I am really magic, so that’s what I do.” with De La Soul in Miami, wowing musicians at JkXp^cl\[ k_\i\`jeffk_\ifgk`fe kf;peXdfKMXk Glastonbury and freaking out Wu-Tang Clan rapper nnn%dpjgXZ\%Zfd&[peXdf[peXdf

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A dozen seconds into Run DMC’s Rock Box after musicians, played for free. That was enough for EXd\ the introductory vocals and skittering snares me. Of course, I didn’t understand the words K_fdXjLos Angeles Alcp.#(0+* hopelessly rudimentary. Matched by a roughly with $10, Tom worked for Lockheed Aircraft DXe_XkkXe#BXejXj#LJ8 sampled overdriven guitar riff, it might even feel before cycling through a variety of engineering GXjkXe[gi\j\ek slightly cheesy. But with this and a handful of jobs that trained him not only in electronics, but @em\ek\[gfcpg_fe`Z revolutionary singles, the Hollis group defined in the formative years of digital technology. jpek_\j`jÆk_\XY`c`kpkf a new music, hip-hop, for a generation. He kept in touch with music, though, eventually gcXpdfi\k_Xefe\efk\ Rewind just a few years and spool up Canadian becoming involved with a second iteration of XkXk`d\n`k__`j]fli$ mf`Z\jpek_\j`j\i%8cjf trio Rush’s FM radio staple Tom Sawyer, the first seminal proto-prog-rock outfit The United States of cXleZ_\[fe\f]k_\Ôijk crunching power chord wrapped in a swooping America, whose sole self-titled album for Columbia [`^`kXc[ilddXZ_`e\j% synthesised pulse, a single liquid note providing is now regarded as a classic psych-era recording. ?\Ëjefn_\cg`e^Xe\n the soundtrack to a thousand spring-break parties. “I met (bandleader) Joseph Byrd when ^\e\iXk`fef]\c\Zkife`Z On the face of it, the two records have little in I was studying at UCLA,” recalls Tom. “He was dlj`Z`Xej1i\cXleZ_`e^_`j common, one at the cutting edge of a genre that a teaching assistant in the music department, but ÔijkXeXcf^jpek_\j`j\i Xe[c\Zkli`e^XkI\[ would radically make over modern pop music, the he was also putting on artistic events, happenings, 9lccËjDlj`Z8ZX[\dp other a techno-rock workout signalling the last days as the New Music Workshop. When I left I lost G_`cfjfg_p of a 1970s obsession with prog-rock virtuosity. But touch with him, but later found out he was part È@kËjk_\j`dgc\gifZ\jj behind the two songs lies a technological link that of The United States of America. f]j`kk`e^`eXk_\Xki\ crosses genres, bridging jazz and fusion, electronica, “That band broke up, but in 1968 I started c`jk\e`e^kfX^i\Xk rock, hip-hop and modern DJ culture. In short, both going to rehearsals for a new version of the band dlj`Z`XegcXp`e^Xe records have a lot to thank Tom Oberheim for. led by the singer Dorothy Moskowitz. They asked `ejkild\ek@Yl`ck% Inventor of the polyphonic synthesiser, pioneer me to build them a device called a ring modulator N_XkZflc[Y\Y\kk\iÉ of the digital drum machine, Tom helped shape because the original band had used one.” the sound of modern music, though the now It was to be the genesis of Oberheim as 73-year-old engineer baulks at the suggestion. a company. Forging an alliance with a large “If you’re talking about the first synthesisers, distributor, Tom began to sell the modulators I don’t think I was a pioneer,” he insists. “That was steadily, showing products at the vast annual done by Robert Moog and a guy called Don Buchla. NAMM musical instruments show, where in a bid For myself, I think I developed some things that to grow the business, he also became a dealer for now might be called pioneering. Back then, though, a new brand of synthesiser called ARP. I wasn’t thinking like that. I was just trying to make The machines, though, had limitations. “I’d things that would keep my business alive.” been building sequencers (a machine that triggers The business was Oberheim Electronics, the the synthesiser to play a pattern of notes), but it left company the young engineer founded after quitting you with a predicament. If you used it to play the his Kansas home for Los Angeles, a move based on synth, you couldn’t then play the keyboard.” nothing more than a desire to see live jazz. Tom’s response was the Synthesiser Expander “I read in Down Beat magazine an advertisement Module, a machine that gave the musician an for a place called the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa extra voice so he could play the keyboard while the

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That’s great!” And Tom would shape the next era of electronic music with a machine that he admits wasn’t initially his idea. “It was mentioned to me that a guy called Roger Linn was building a digital drum machine and, since I’d been involved in digital when I worked with computers, it seemed like a natural fit,” he it gave birth to Tom’s great breakthrough and says. “We invited him down and talked about the one he rightly regards as pioneering – the licensing his technology, but he wanted his own polyphonic synthesiser. But it was conceived company, which he did very successfully, so we in a moment of desperation. went ahead anyway, with the DMX.” “In 1975 I got a call from the distributors who’d The DMX became a must-have weapon in the been selling the ring modulators to say that because arsenal of every nascent dance and hip-hop star. You of the economy being bad, they were cancelling can hear its drums on Madonna’s Holiday, on early their orders. It was a massive blow,” he says. Run DMC singles, on the mid-’80s work of Janet “It was clear that we were in trouble and we’d Jackson and Alexander O’Neal producers Jimmy have to try something else. I remembered an Jam and Terry Lewis, and on key albums by Prince. experiment I’d done a couple of years before with Thirty years on, Oberheim remains slightly a musician friend, where we’d taken two ARP 2600 mystified by the attention he now receives, being synthesisers, connected two SEMs to them and invited to consult for major electronics companies managed to play two notes on each keyboard, which and to lecture as an industry ‘pioneer’ at globe- was pretty impressive. You have to remember that spanning events such as Red Bull Music Academy. up to this point, synthesisers were monophonic – “I get invited to speak as a pioneer, but when you could only play one note at a time.” I was doing these things it wasn’t with the view of The result was polyphonic synthesis and the being an explorer,” he says. “It was a case of thinking: ability to play chords, a development which would ‘This is... fun.’ When you build a machine and go to arguably lead the synthesiser out of the realms of a concert and hear Joe Zawinul playing a machine jazz and progressive rock esoterica and into the I designed and built... it’s a ‘wow’ moment. It’s not mainstream. The first went to Stevie Wonder. ‘aren’t I great, I’m a pioneer’. It’s the simple process “We took the first one to Crystal Sound studio in of sitting in a theatre listening to a great musician Hollywood, where Stevie was recording. I think he playing my instrument. What could be better.” was working on the Songs in the Key of Life album. And it is a continuing passion. Asked to speak He was using this monstrous Yamaha keyboard, at the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona in the GX1, which weighed about 800lb and cost about October last year, Tom began to revisit his past. $60,000. Although the prototype I sold to Stevie was “I took along some examples of music made with only four voices, it was expandable to eight, weighed my machines, a little demo of those records. It was only 80lb and cost under $6000 for eight voices.” amazing to hear all that in one shot. Quite emotional. Joe Zawinul of legendary jazz-fusion experts “Because of that trip I decided to revive the SEM Weather Report was another enthusiastic buyer. module, a modern manufactured version of a 1974 “In 1976 I got a call from Joe. He had purchased Oberheim synth. It’s going back to the source. I still a four-voice or eight-voice and asked me to help him, love it. 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Everyone remembers Argentina’s match point, but that’s life and it’s his choice. against England in the 1986 World Cup Some of my friends smoke and drink. for the ‘Hand of God’ incident [when I choose not to, but it’s their choice and Diego Maradona scored with a ‘header’ they are good guys all the same. I like that actually came off his hand]. I was Maradona for football and for tricks. too young to remember it at the time, If I met him, I wouldn’t really be although I got to see it on video when satisfied with just that. I’d actually want I was about 10 years old. But it was his to play against him, one-on-one! I’d like second goal in that match that caught to try and knock it through his legs. my eye – where he takes the ball in the We call it pana in France, or petit pont, middle of the pitch and dribbles through which means ‘small bridge’. I believe all the England players. Afterwards, I it’s known as a ‘nutmeg’ in the UK and was always trying to score like Maradona. Ireland. I’ve managed it against a few I played normal football when I was professional players in France like young, training with professional teams Karim Benzema and Ben Arfa. AJ Auxerre and Troyes AC in France. 8ieXl[ÊJ„XeË>Xie`\inflc[eËkaljknXekkf I still follow certain footballing trends, But I was injury-prone and had to sit d\\k_`j_\if#_\Ë[c`b\kfY\Xk_`d#kff¿ but like to keep it free. I play and coach out a couple of seasons, and by the time beach soccer, and hope to make it into I was 19, I’d been let go and couldn’t find station and share space with followers the French national side for that soon. another club. That’s how my interest in of other disciplines like breakdancers. I think Maradona being a coach now is freestyle began. In my free time, I began Hip-hop dancing is very fluid and good for the image of Argentina, because to mix football with basketball and dance. rhythmic. From La Défense, I’ve learned Maradona is Argentina, you know? Maradona always looked like he had to breakdance and I use the ball with my But I think it won’t be good if he loses a clear head. Before games began, he’d feet while I spin and turn on my hands. games. People will say, “Oh, he can’t never run about – he’d just take the ball I’ve not taken any specific moves do it because he’s not a properly-trained and play with it like he was having fun. from Maradona because he does just coach.” But I think he has the most I like that kind of football. I’ve learned the basics. But I’ve learned style from beautiful skills in football. So although to do the same in my life. him – that easy style. He can juggle with it’s going to be difficult for him, I think When you ask a normal footballer a football or a tennis ball, and I want he has the natural ability to succeed. to do a trick, he takes the ball and starts to have the same kind of control and I’m always trying to get more from the ground. But a freestyler will freedom. He’s also left-footed like me, freestyle tricks into whatever game just as likely start from the air. When I so that was always an inspiration. I play. When I first started doing it, all understood this, I thought: “OK, freestyle When you talk about Maradona, of my friends from my normal football is not really football at all. You can do you’ve always got to mention the Hand days said to me, “No, it’s not football! anything you want.” So, when I first of God. For me, you can’t win that way. Stop that – play on the field!” But now came to Paris, I’d see all the basketball It was wrong, but it’s his character that they find me on Facebook and know that players on the public courts and I tried came through. At that moment, it was I’m the world champion for freestyle, to learn their tricks with my hands. cheating. But afterwards, it became they say “Oh, wow, that’s great!” In Paris, we don’t have a lot of space a part of why we know him. :XkZ_lgn`k_k_\cXk\jk]ifdI\[9lcc for training, so a lot of the freestyle His later years with the drugs and Jki\\kjkpc\X_\X[f]e\okp\XiËj)'(']`eXcj`e

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SCOTLAND THE RAVE Glasgow band Twin Atlantic played a triumphant homecoming show at T in the Park this summer. Bear witness to the blood, sweat and copious facial hair of a band making the jump from respected underdogs to conquering heroes Words: Tom Hall Photography: James Pearson-Howes

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he rounded bricks and eroded sandstone found all over leafy Queen’s Park in Glasgow’s Southside tell a tale the clouds already promise to finish. In Glasgow, it rains. A lot. Four skinny figures in their early 20s dart across wide streets T under awnings and into doorways. Hoods and leather jackets go up around dishevelled hair and full beards that cover two of their number. Combined with Ray-Bans just cruelly cheated of useful purpose, Twin Atlantic resemble some kind of indie secret agent squad under heavy disguise, dodging bullets. Albeit a comically inept one. It’s not the start to our whistle-stop tour of Glasgow that we’d planned. But probably the one we should have expected. “It’s not a style thing. Having a beard keeps you warm in the Glasgow weather,” says guitarist Barry McKenna half-jokingly. Surly and bear-like, he’s a foil to languid, stick-thin lead singer Sam McTrusty – all coiffured hair and thoughtful stares. Ducking out of the rain and into the local greasy spoon café, the two are joined by bass player Ross McNae and drummer Craig Kneale. McNae is quietly spoken, peering out from straggly locks and that aforementioned beard. Kneale has a self-deprecating humour that’s at odds with the ferocious beats he pummelled out of a drum kit at T in the Park. Rewind 48 hours to that performance. No wait, maybe 57 hours to just before it, and the band are sprawled out on uncharacteristically dry meadows in Balado, near Kinross. Framed by looming hills that anyone who spends most of their time in a city would describe as mountainous (we didn’t bring a tape measure), the beautiful landscape under fine weather is a breathtaking setting in which to party ’til you puke. “T in the Park kind of resembles a refugee camp, but all the refugees are pissed and spending loads of money,” says a sleepy McNae. The band have just driven 450 miles from Guildford in a cramped mini-van in one night. Needless to say not everyone’s quite awake. But then not everyone’s Craig Kneale. “They’re giving free haircuts and massages in the artists’ area. Let’s do it!” he says with enthusiasm. Trappings of rock stardom are available in teasing glimpses to a band like Twin Atlantic, four guys on the cusp of mainstream notoriety. They’re not quite there yet, but on days like today it’s close enough to snatch and run. Their hardcore-infused, thinking-man’s punk pop achieves that crucial element for a widespread following, balancing big choruses with lyrical content that takes a few listens to crack. Inventive yet familiar, the accessible sound delivered in a defiantly Scottish drawl means that, as they stroll around the festival, they’re greeted more like homecoming heroes. McTrusty is the poster boy that the small groups of fans get all giggly over. Teenagers in Twin Atlantic T-shirts come and high-five him over the crowd barriers while he watches fellow Scots Sucioperro from the side of the stage. Boys want to know who his all-time favourite Scottish act is. “Somewhere between Mogwai and Biffy…” he answers. Girls sing back his own lyrics and make requests for the show. “Give a shout out to Aberdeen,” they beg back over the fence. McTrusty humours them politely, but you can tell the adulation ritual is as depressingly bizarre to him as it is ticklishly novel. “I hope this never gets normal. I hope I’m always…” “Shitting yourself?” offers McNae. “No! I hope I’m always this excited,” he says, in reference to the band’s 7.45pm slot on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Futures Stage this evening. So is tonight a more special gig than most? “Well, when you’re surrounded by so many Scottish people at T in the Park, that kind of national gathering rarely happens. That’s

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Jkl[`ffg\e\[`eCfj8e^\c\j Xe`Kle\jj`e^c\f]k_\n\\b “Why not eh?” quips McNae. `e)''.%9Xe[jc`b\DJKIBI=K# Xe[k_\`iXcYld#Ilj_#nXj “We’ll soon see why not,” deadpans McTrusty, the whole 9Xpj`[\Xe[K_\?ldXe8YjkiXZk X_`kn`k_Zi`k`Zj`ek_\LJ% band now resembling a psychedelic crew of nerve-shredded _Xm\Xcci\Zfi[\[XcYldj`ek_\ Kn`e8kcXek`ZXi\k_\j\Zfe[ Braveheart extras. By the time they reach the Red Bull stage, kfg$f]$k_\$c`e\[`^j`eJXekX YXe[j`^e\[kfk_\cXY\c% fears of a deserted tent are quickly replaced by the sheer terror of 3000 raging fans who’ve turned up especially. It’s packed out. why it’s such a party atmosphere and everybody’s so wrecked. “T in the Park… SCOTLAND!... This is pretty f***ing terrifying,” It’s like the one time of year where everyone comes to our turf.” bellows McTrusty and they launch into Lightspeed. What follows The artists’ area couldn’t be further away from a home crowd. is a gloriously messy and triumphant victory lap, with the crowd Filing into the catering tent is a Who’s Who of pop’s high table. seemingly singing along to every word. The band play hard, Veterans The Specials sit circled like an impenetrable gang, with blood splattered from busted fingernails over McTrusty’s the impression heightened by matching ‘Specials’ embroidered white guitar and jeans, and sweat-dissolved facepaint running tracksuit tops. The Killers’ Brandon Flowers shuffles in like into bloodshot eyes. During the acoustic Crash Land, McKenna a kid wary of having his lunch money stolen. Katy Perry takes switches to cello, showing they can do more than big, dumb time out from an alleged onsite ego war with Lady Gaga to grab thrills. The gig ends in chaos as McNae jumps into the crowd some food. Everybody has to eat. Catfights can resume later. and is mistaken by security for a fan. A scuffle ensues. It’s not It’s exciting and a novelty, but Twin Atlantic are used to the ending the band would have preferred, but the fans get stepping up a level when the situation requires it. Formed a kick out of seeing their heroes standing up to security. in March 2007, the band quickly became favourites on the The vibe afterwards is edgy. Different members are self- Glasgow live music scene and released a debut single by critical to extremes. But it’s a debate that five ‘Ts’ out of five Christmas that year. Tour support slots followed with the in a national tabloid the next day does a lot to calm down. Subways and Biffy Clyro, On the Monday evening, resulting in the band being Vivid Vivarium back in Glasgow, the band hand-picked by Smashing huddle in a booth at local Pumpkins to support them at f]LJglebifZbn`k_X[`jk`eZkcp musicians’ Mecca Nicensleazy. JZfkk`j_kfe\%K_fj\kn`e`[\ek`k`\j Glasgow SECC. 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Not much fazes Welsh rugby’s wünderkind, Jamie Roberts, be it ferocious South African back divisions or fierce medical exams. Nothing, however, could have prepared him to eat raw testicle…

Words: Anthony Rowlinson Photography: David Clerihew

There’s something big in the basement; something studying part-time around his rugby commitments. that fills a room with its presence, takes light from He’s also quietly spoken – with a marked South the windows and makes you wonder why everything Wales rasp – and has a disarmingly soft handshake else in the vicinity suddenly looks a bit puny. (no cheap-machismo bone-crunchers here). That something – correction, someone – is All in all, he’s an intriguing character: a bright- Jamie Roberts, a thumping great lump of a man, who, as-paint rugby prodigy, whose passing skills are as although being only 22 and in only his third pro rugby delicate as his running lines are direct. A worthy season, returned from the British and Irish Lions’ subject, then, for a Red Bulletin grilling. summer tour to South Africa as ‘man of the series’. He has arrived at the The Red Bulletin’s London You’ve had quite a year, from breaking into offices for the interview you’re reading here, and, the Wales squad, to Lions man of the series. despite his modest years and equally modest Yeah, it’s been meteoric and pretty crazy, really. As manner, his star quality is immediately apparent. a young player you just hope to establish yourself Tanned and in something like top shape, having for a club and take it from there. But all this has come recently jetted home from as hard a tour as he’s ever so soon. It’s nuts to think there are guys in their late likely to encounter (scarcely healed nicks and cuts 20s and 30s who are reaching the pinnacle of their across his face speak eloquently of the Springboks’ career, which is the Lions Test shirt, and I had it at brutal ‘welcome to South Africa’), he radiates the 22. It brings a huge responsibility, but you take it kind of easy-smiling, charismatic confidence gifted in your stride, and prepare to be a marked man! only to those who have absolutely nothing to prove. A bit of a change from being a secret weapon Since his international debut for Wales against for Wales and Cardiff last year? Scotland in 2008, Roberts has bludgeoned his way Definitely. I’ll see how I cope with that, but I’m sure into his national squad’s first 15, making such an there will be a few tricks up my sleeve. We’ll see… impact – in every way – he has instantly become What was the season’s highlight: winning the a marked man. England paid him the ultimate EDF Cup, top games for Wales, or the Lions? compliment earlier this year by briefing flanker Beating [Heineken Cup tournament favourites] Joe Worsley to do nothing but attempt to tackle Toulouse in the quarter-finals was pretty special. Roberts to a standstill. That game, let it be noted, And winning the EDF at Twickenham with 50-odd was only Jamie’s third Six Nations start. points was great, too. But it was tough, as well. We So, he’s big – 6ft 4in (193cm) and 16st 10lb lost the Heineken semis with a heartbreaking kick (106kg) to be precise – and a hard-hitting midfield [Cardiff lost to Leicester on penalties with the sides runner with the rare knack of making 70,000 people drawn at 26-26 after extra time], then we gave simultaneously go, ‘Oooh’, whenever he blasts into Ireland the Six Nations Grand Slam the same way an opponent, either in attack or defence. Should you [courtesy of a Ronan O’Gara drop goal, with the ever wish to understand the meaning of the rugby score at 15-14 to Wales], and lost the second Lions vernacular ‘making the hard yards’, spend 10 test with a last-minute penalty [from Morne Steyn, minutes watching young Roberts in a close-quarter with the score at 25-25]. But that’s how close the exchange and you’ll never need ask again. big games are now. It’s all about the inches. But imposing as he is, Jamie’s no thug. Indeed, Can you describe the thrill of pulling on a Lions he’s very far from it: he’s about to start his fourth jersey for the first time? year at medical school in his home town of Cardiff, You never forget it. I was picked for the first match,

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In one against the Royal 15, and I remember the plaque in beyond a joke. There was so much peer pressure word please the changing room, listing Lions who’d played in my I couldn’t say no, out of respect for the guys who position before – Jeremy Guscott, Will Greenwood – took us shooting. But it was disgusting. I was describe: real legends. And that’s when it hit home how big it almost sick as I was eating it. Really pretty horrific. Warren is, and how much of an honour and a privilege it is. How did it taste? Gatland The first match was strange because the crowd was The testicle was crunchy, a bit like calamari… and tiny, so there was no atmosphere, which was odd warm. It must have been funny for everyone else. (coach of Wales after the intensity of the dressing room. It was What about a rugby moment? and the British different for the first Test, though. I ran on with Doing a lap after the final Test win, even though and Irish Lions) a huge grin on my face. It was pretty crazy. I didn’t play in it. That was pretty special, seeing all Crafty. As first-choice inside centre for the Lions, the fans. The third Test really felt like a home game. Shaun does that make you the best in that position? Congratulating the boys who had won the match Edwards No. You need luck to get on tour in the first place, really brought a tear to my eye. The Lions needed and then there’s form. For example, Riki Flutey that one. It had been eight years since the last win. (assistant to was injured early on and maybe didn’t get as good Who was the biggest tour joker? Gatland) a chance as he wanted. The big stars make their Besides myself?! Well, put it this way… there’s Crazy. name by taking a chance when they get it. another version of the famous Living With Lions Gavin Hopefully I’m one step closer to that. DVD being put out from this tour, and I think it will Henson Are you and [first-choice Lions centre partner] all be about Andy Powell, who plays number eight Brian O’Driscoll best buddies now? for Wales. He’s ridiculously stupid and everybody (troubled ex-poster [Laughs] I must say he’s a top bloke – a real gent. loves him to bits for his comedy value. boy of Welsh rugby) He’s great to play alongside, and I was outside “What did you think of South Africa’s third-Test Tanned. Stephen Jones as well, who’s hugely experienced. protest in support of Bakkies Botha [Botha was Jonny To be sandwiched between those two was pretty banned after the second Test; his team-mates special. Brian’s telepathic. One of the best ever. wore defiant ‘Justice 4 Bakkies’ armbands]? Wilkinson So will you smash him when Wales play Ireland? It was funny. We thought about playing the second (England Oh, yes. That’s one of the beauties of the Lions tour. half with headbands saying: “R U having a laugh?” outside half) Everyone looks forward to the Six Nations following What was the dressing-room atmosphere Skilled. it, and playing against guys you made good friends like after the series-losing second Test? Bakkies with. It will add a bit of spice to each match. I’ve never experienced anything like it. For 20 What was your most memorable tour moment? minutes, there was complete silence. Players were Botha [Roberts grimaces, for reasons which soon become just sitting there, speechless. To come out on the (South Africa apparent.] Well… we were invited to go shooting losing side after playing all the rugby and with four second-row) on a farm owned by Ollie Le Roux, who used to be of us going to hospital… that was tough. Brian Beast. a South Africa prop. It’s a tradition that, after your O’Driscoll had knocked himself senseless, Gethin Brian first springbok kill, you have to cut its throat and Jenkins had a fractured cheekbone… That was quite rub warm blood on your face. Then, if it’s male, you funny in hospital, actually. I saw Gethin on a bed, O’Driscoll eat a testicle, and if it’s female, you take a chunk of about to have an operation on his face, and he called (Ireland and its liver. Unfortunately, I shot a male and… well… me over. “Smell the doctor’s breath,” he said. I didn’t Lions centre) [Roberts is turning pale] it was the most disgusting know what he meant, and he said again: “Just smell Legend. thing I have ever done. I ate raw testicle. It was his breath.” So I did, and the guy reeked of alcohol. He’d obviously been on call for the match, but had been at home on an absolute bender. At that point, What’s our team doctor stepped in and got the op put on the most hold. Poor old Geth had to wait another four hours. valuable Do you get mobbed in Cardiff these days? rugby lesson I haven’t spent much time back in Cardiff since the Lions tour, but I got more recognition after the Six you’ve Nations. It was pretty manic, but not embarrassing. learned? I don’t mind chatting to fans. It comes with the job. Just to have Do you speak Welsh? a laugh Yes, I’m fluent. playing the Go on then… Rwy’n caru Red Bull. [‘I love Red Bull,’ he chortles game. You and takes a glug.] only get So the national anthem – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau 10 years at [Land of My Fathers] – means something to you? the top if Of course. I was brought up as a Welsh-speaker! What goes through your mind when you sing the you’re lucky, national anthem in the Millennium Stadium? so you’d It’s very emotional. You look up at the stands and it’s best make like nothing you can compare to in life, but it’s what the most of it. makes playing for Wales so special. Whether you have 10 caps or 100, it’s always the same.

48 “ MY MOST MEMORABLE RUGBY MOMENT WAS DOING A LAP AFTER THE FINAL TEST WIN – EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T PLAY IN IT” “ I SWEAR QUITE A LOT. NOT REALLY OFF IT, BUT ON THE PITCH” ACTION

What have you got that some of the young talents Would you you came through against didn’t have? ever grow Um… that’s a tough one. I think, a bit of intellect. Yep. Gets you a long way in rugby because it’s a beard? a thinking man’s game – top two inches. No, I don’t Talking of brains, you sat your A-levels on tour… think so. Yeah, that was weird. I sat them at 6am in a hotel in I’ve got quite Argentina during the Under-21 World Cup. Luckily, a big jaw, our coach was an invigilator at Cardiff University, so I was allowed to do them out there. so, if I grew And you did well enough to get into medical a beard, school. Do you still want to be a doctor? it would look I’ve done three years and I’ll do the last two part-time even bigger. over four years in hospital. It’s a balancing act, but another challenge. Hopefully I’ll be a qualified doc It’s Desperate in four years’ time. It makes a change from training to Dan, mate. put on a shirt and tie and stroll around the wards. I’ve been When did you know you were good enough called that for first-class rugby? numerous When I had my first Wales cap against Scotland in 2008 on the wing. I’d been playing on the wing times. all season for the Blues, but your first cap is a huge occasion and you realise you’re there for a reason. I spent the first half running round like an idiot, …and what Who sings it better, Charlotte Church [girlfriend then eventually realised I was good enough. That’s about? of Gavin Henson] or Katherine Jenkins? the key, and that’s what experience is all about. Katherine… [He pauses, then bursts out laughing.] Who were your role models? Schalk Berger How do the old guard view today’s game? Jonah Lomu. He was a big man. And Percy (Springbok cited for In two ways: the old players have huge respect Montgomery, who was a Springbok, but who also eye-gouging after for the modern game, but in another way, I reckon played for Newport – even though he once punched second Lions Test) they’re quite disappointed. There’s a much bigger the ref. [He actually shoved a touch judge, earning Gouger. emphasis on strength and power, whereas in the a six-month ban.] Scott Gibbs, too. ’70s, it was a totally different, flash style of play. Have you ever been scared on a rugby pitch? Scott Gibbs Rugby quiz: how many international points Yes. When we played Australia last autumn, I had (former Wales centre) did former Wales fly-half Neil Jenkins score? a big clash of heads with Stirling Mortlock. That Wrecking Oh God. One thousand and thirty-two? [Correct was pretty scary: I thought I might never play again. ball. answer: 1090 for Wales and the Lions.] It was a pretty big injury: I fractured my skull. Would you change anything about rugby? Do you think more about injuries because Jonah Lomu It’s important that skill isn’t lost. Too much bish- of your medical training? (All Black icon) bash-bosh stuff would put the fans off. Yeah, most definitely. I’m always interested in the Bigger Do you remember being caught by Mathieu other boys’ injuries. The doctors and physios can’t wrecking Bastareaud in the Wales-France game this year? short-change me. I want the full explanation. ball! [Roberts pauses to recollect the two-worlds-collide How many of your five-a-day do you get? Cardiff impact between the two centres during this year’s I eat a lot of fruit and veg. Diet is a huge part of Six Nations encounter.] Yeah, the whistle had gone the game now. I usually get my five-a-day, mate. Great place. and he smashed me! [Laughs] So, God, yeah… He’s Do you swear much on the pitch? Twickenham a big lump. I was disappointed by that – never really Yes! 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the best abilities out of a huge number of applications. They’re in it body and soul. Truly passionate sport stars.” “You’ve been an extreme-sports star for years yourself. What impresses you about these athletes?” “Their spirit. They’re in a positive frame of mind even when they’re doing something incredibly strenuous and dangerous.” “How big are the risks?” “Big. Any day will see at least five critical situations.” “When can you relax?” “When the race is over and the final participant is on the ground.” THE KIT Race rules state that participants must always carry their equipment with them. An efficient wing becomes dead weight SOLITUDE upon landing, so must be as light as possible. After numerous The sky over Salzburg’s Mozartplatz is grey. Music pours out development cycles by the manufacturer, the winner’s wing of the escort vehicles’ speakers as the 30 participants set off. weighed no more than 4kg and the pod harness with speed-bag There’s already a carnival atmosphere by the time they reach and a simple protector, just 2kg. the first turning point on the Gaisberg an hour later. Fans On top of that, there’s clothing, GPS, a mobile, detailed and onlookers have made their way to Salzburg’s landmark terrain maps, accessories such as sunglasses, sun cream and mountain by bus to see the participants on their first flight a pocket torch, and the most essential foods. The supporter, south. It’s raining. Helicopters circle overhead. The tourists get the second man in the team, is responsible for keeping the their cameras out as the sportsmen tackle the ascent in their participant supplied at the start and end of the day, and for identikit turquoise shirts. They calmly open their wings. There’s looking after him mentally and physically. the in-run, waving, a joke or two. Then the wind directs them southwards, towards their goal. But it isn’t where the next turning point is. The Watzmann is to the west of Salzburg, which from above looks like a dollhouse town with a fortress growing out of the middle of it like an optical illusion. The first flight is short and some of the participants are soon back on the road in a small throng. There’s banter, but everyone knows the real challenges are yet to begin. By the time the next ascent comes round on a favourable wind, the better flyers separate from the better runners and the different strategies that will accompany the sportsmen on their way become clear. This is where they will spend the days ahead until the finish line looms into view. Alone. In intense dialogue with their own fears and weaknesses. Ahead lie experiences that will be frustrating and arduous, but incredibly beautiful. Chrigel Maurer remembers a moment in the Swiss Alps, when the sun was setting behind the clouds and a perfect peace reigned over the landscape, that he forgot about the race and just stayed put, until 8Yfm\1=flik_$gcXZ\[8`[XeKfXj\%I`^_k1KfdGXpe\^`m\jk_\kffcj half an hour later he remembered there was no time to spare. Xe[_`jgXiXZ_lk\gXZbXZcfj\i\oXd`eXk`feY\]fi\X]c`^_k i`^_k

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THE WINNER Chrigel Maurer is sitting barefoot in a chair while Monegasque waiters clatter around behind him. He shows off his feet. “No blisters,” he says with some satisfaction. That’s no mean feat after 380km by foot in nine days – a marathon-equalling 42km a day. But he never went too far, following his supporter’s advice of stopping before he got too tired in order to recover quickly. He was in the lead early on, and that sense of being up-front motivated him to try daring moves such as his start at the Weisstor Pass, the Matterhorn already in view. Thomas Theurillat dragged a rope along behind him, which Chrigel Maurer hung onto like a dragon. Then he climbed, lifted off THE SUPPORTERS and flew. Up and away. Towards the south. They drive the camper vans as the shattered sportsmen get His face is looking weather-beaten and his eyes are deep- a couple of hours’ sleep before the crack-of-dawn alarm call set. But the effects of the last nine days aren’t what dominate (as long as the participants find the camper vans or the camper the victor’s face. That’s his smile, which isn’t yet completely vans can get to where the participants want to spend the night). relaxed, but will be tomorrow morning once he’s had a good They cook spaghetti over an open flame so their partner gets night’s sleep. Chrigel orders pasta – what else? He looks out some warm food inside him; they tend to the blisters on his feet; over the blue sea, gently shakes his head and says, “Such they wash his sweat-soaked clothes and make sure there are dry a shame it was all over so quickly.” clothes waiting for him the next morning; and get the coffee =`e[flkdfi\XYflkk_\k_i`cc`e^XZk`fefek_\g\XbjXknnn%i\[YlccoXcgj%Zfd ready on time. They are drivers, cooks, pastors, shrinks and whipping boys. German participant Michael Gebert, for instance, :_i`^\c`ji\X[pkf explains how, “...when I’m overwrought I can get weirdly Z\c\YiXk\`eDfeXZf worked up about the fact that the van isn’t waiting where we X]k\i_`jn`e arranged for it to be waiting, just 100m away. I can go berserk.” Thomas Theurillat worked out how to get rid of Chrigel Maurer’s negative energy by drawing a pretty picture of the perfect race: a wooden tub made of 14, 15 planks – equipment, strategy, communication, etc. According to Theurillat, the tub’s content would be determined by the shortest of them. He focused on how to act when stressed and tired, and how to manage aggression. In the van there was a checklist of what had to be done every evening (“Are all appliances charging?”), and what mustn’t be forgotten in the morning rush (“maps? DEAN TREML/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1) PHOTOGRAPHY: VITEK LUDVIK /RED BULL PHOTOFILES (3), OLIVIER LAUGERO/RED /RED BULL PHOTOFILES (3),BULL PHOTFILES (1), OLIVIER LAUGERO/RED VITEK LUDVIK PHOTOGRAPHY: cagoule?”), so snafus just didn’t happen.

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Superstardom has its price – just ask Sebastian Vettel, a 22-year-old so in demand he scarcely has time to breathe. This is his Hungarian GP weekend Words: Anthony Rowlinson Photography: Thomas Butler e’s in there somewhere. That much we that, yes, right now, Sebastian Vettel know. Behind a phalanx of cameramen, is earning his money. “Sebastian, each attached umbilically to a pseudo- Sebastian. Over here, Sebastian…” celeb presenter, Sebastian Vettel is Reality check: less than 12 hours holding court, fielding questions (so earlier, Swiss-domiciled Seb had many questions) about tyres, fuel levels, smacked his 5am-chirping alarm, rolled Htrack temperatures, the drivers’ world to the shower, then clothes, juice and out championship, this, that, the other. to the waiting car that would swoosh It’s the kind of media moment about him the 50-minute ride to Zurich airport. which 21st-century Earth dwellers have These were his last moments of peace become blasé through familiarity, but until late Sunday evening. still the intensity of the spotlight on It’s 07.09 when he arrives at the certain individuals retains the power airport’s General Aviation Centre. No to dazzle. Vettel, the winner of three entourage, but he is accompanied by his Formula One Grands Prix, as he speaks trainer, Tommi Parmakoski, who helps at 16.08 on the opening Thursday Seb with his bags, but who’s by no means afternoon of the 2009 Hungarian GP his ‘bag man’. Vettel has a pre-arranged weekend, is a choice morsel for an filming slot for The Red Bulletin and trots entertainment-hungry world. So much so into our makeshift studio looking fresh that to those at the rear of this scrum, he as a pill from a blister pack. In a trainers- has become invisible. He literally cannot shorts-T-shirt-cap combo that’s more be seen by anyone more than 5ft away. ‘hanger-on’ than ‘hero’, it’s hard to equate “Is he in there?” asks a bemused, this slight, bright figure with the track onlooking Giorgio Ascanelli, Vettel’s tiger who’s fighting for the F1 World former engineering boss at Italian team Championship. There’s no trace of grand Scuderia Toro Rosso. He shakes his superstar swagger – yet – but there is head, smiles. “He really has become intensity. We have him for 45 minutes a superstar. Good luck to him. He’s a and he wants to go, now. great driver and a good human being.” “Where do I sit?” But such is the demand for this “Here. Anything to drink?” young man’s thoughts, opinions and “No, we can just do it.” remarkably easy humour, he’s at risk Like any racing driver, he’s in a hurry, of being devoured by that which most but unlike most, he’s smart and unjaded desires him. His gift, dare it be suggested, enough still to be engaged with what’s is also his curse. So young (22) and so before him. This time he has a 20-word talented (the youngest ever winner of script to learn, in German and English, a Formula One Grand Prix – the 2008 before it can be read to camera. He does Italian edition – aged 21 years and 74 so – fast – and we’re able to wrap up our days) he is also possessed of a native slot 10 minutes ahead of time. wit that makes him camera candy. And so, with minimum fuss and Faced by a hundred lenses and – count maximum effectiveness, he’s gone. In ’em – an equal number of microphones, his wake, he leaves the impression of and in cruel afternoon heat of more a young man still as humorous as when than 40ºC, he nevertheless remains he turned up in the F1 paddock three calm, gracious and almost sweat-free. years ago, but who’s not really boyish The faintest trace of moisture beads anymore. There’s a warrior edge now; beneath his cap peak are the only hint this is an ambitious sportsman who

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understands his mission and who wants Today it’s reserved for the man from nothing to break his stride. Our Zurich Rauch, whose products are to be snapshot is a hint of what’s to come. endorsed by a grip ’n’ grin from Seb. Vettel’s sharp and bright, shaking hands quickly with all whose hands need e next see Seb around seven shaking, but passing by The Bulletin with hours later. During this time, a grin, noting, “I did you this morning.” he, and we, have flown to It’s these giveaway moments that reveal Budapest’s Ferihegy airport, his superior mental capacity. Whired cars (or in Seb’s case, been picked Half an hour, then, with Rauch – up by a Red Bull Racing driver) and a spell which prompts the inevitable: found our way across melting motorway “This is why you wanted to become a tarmac to the Hungaroring race circuit. Formula One driver, isn’t it, Sebastian?” It’s 40km from town, and the neighbouring He responds with a smile-cum-frown. waterslide aquapark sits in cool, blue Within moments of wrapping up, view of the track, taunting all those Vettel’s ever-present media hand and who toil under the furious sun. schedule dominatrix, Britta Roeske, has For most of the past three hours, whisked him to the next engagement: Vettel has been getting maximum the ‘face the press’ open media session ‘brain time’ with his engineers and mentioned earlier. team management, Jonathan Wheatley If Vettel is busy, Britta’s busier. She and Christian Horner. At 11.30 he constantly manages his time, whirling walked the track with trainer Tommi, Seb between engineers, TV, sponsors, his race engineer, Guillaume Rocquelin print media, fans, and sundry other (‘Rocky’), and a technician from engine commitments, such as appearances supplier Renault, before heading into for F1’s governing body, the FIA. a detailed debrief session. This is the Last year, before Vettel’s arrival from ‘real stuff’ – the talk of engine mapping, sister team Toro Rosso, Britta’s days throttle settings, flap angles, balance, were, shall we say, a little less pressured. grip and speed – that hones a mechanical “I can’t eat anymore,” she says, on the run device built from carbon and exotic between Energy Station and Media Centre, metals into a race-winning car. Some breathlessly checking her BlackBerry as drivers – greats such as Michael we scurry. “I can’t even drink anymore. Schumacher and Ayrton Senna – love If I leave the media centre with Sebastian, this time, as does Seb. Others, even we’re mobbed.” This is true. Her job recent world champions, see their job has become gatekeeper as much as as simply to drive the hell out of the car timekeeper, and while she handles without so much as a nod or shake of the attention with good-natured the head to indicate its effectiveness. indefatigability, there’s little doubt Wheatley, team manager of Red Bull that working with Seb is a wild ride. Racing, spotted early Vettel’s affinity “The amount of media attention he for technical natter, and, 10 races since gets has gone crazy this year,” she says. Seb’s first for RBR, he’s still amazed “We have so many interview requests by this near-addiction: “He likes the we have to conduct a lot of them by environment at the circuit and I’m not email, so that I can ask Sebastian the used to seeing that in a driver. Not many questions and send back the replies. of them want to stay until 11pm. It makes It’s one way of saving time.” him pretty challenging to work with, like Time: there just ain’t enough. For all good drivers, as he won’t just accept the rest of the day, Seb’s schedule runs what’s black and what’s white – he wants something like this: 16.24, mass print to know why. He’s a pro who wants to media call in Red Bull Energy Station learn from his own lessons.” (approximately 20 journalists); 16.38, But there are many demands on mini-media session, with three English- a Formula One driver’s time and one of speaking journalists; 16.43, mini media them – an engagement with one of RBR’s session with four German-speaking partners the Rauch drinks company – journalists, during which Roeske leaves draws Vettel from the debrief. He pops Vettel’s side for the first time that out from the back of the team garage and afternoon, confident that he’s ‘among strides 10m of concrete to the Red Bull friends’; 17.04, Seb takes 90 seconds Energy Station, the all-purpose mobile to catch a glimpse of stage 18 of the home that serves as diner, hospitality Tour de France, before being handed unit, media hub, management office and a microphone and asked to speak (in chill-out zone. It also has a secret top Italian) to TV channel Mediaset, which floor where partners can be entertained. is broadcasting live F1 coverage; 17.17,

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he leaves the Energy Station to walk the length of the paddock (five minutes) to the track’s main straight, where several thousand fans are awaiting the chance to have a ‘fan card’ autographed. For the first time in his recent sequence of perpetual movement, Vettel is still, as he sits on a chair alongside team-mate Mark Webber and drivers from the Force India and Williams teams, all of them behind a desk and beneath an awning. The brave sextet face a horde of humanity surely transported from the front row of a stadium gig, complete with barriers, heavies and armed police to keep order. Maybe 100 get an autographed card; thousands will leave disappointed, robbed by lack of time. By 17.38 Seb’s done, and he returns to the Energy Station, unmobbed for the first “HOW SEB’S SO FOCUSED WITH ALL time that day (most journalists have retreated to their desks to file reports THE ATTENTION HE GETS IS NOTHING for TV bulletins or tomorrow’s papers). At 17.43 he has another interview – a SHORT OF INCREDIBLE” one-to-one – and for the first time looks a little hot and bothered, and actually has to lift his cap to wipe his brow. He isn’t finished, though, no way. Next up is a massage and download with Tommi before dinner at the track, sharing food, time and information with his engineers. By now it’s around 7pm, paddock witching hour, when most journalists, photographers, senior team personnel, drivers and sundry entourages have left for a flagon of wine and a gossip. Mr Vettel, however, stays on and doesn’t, in fact, return to his hotel, Budapest’s elegant waterfront Four Seasons, until after 10.30pm. Note: Sebastian Vettel, Formula One driver, has yet to sit in his car.

he ferocious hammering of an air gun is a reminder, as if it were needed, that the weekend’s first practice session is about to start.T Car number 15 is up on jacks as last-second tech checks are made by meaty-forearmed mechanics. Its driver, S Vettel, is becalmed, strapped into its carbon-fibre cockpit. “It’s his office – he knows where everything is and it’s just as he wants it. Like your desk or mine,” says Jonathan Wheatley. “It’s why he’s so calm in there. This is what he does.” Some office: it’ll do more than 200mph, corner and brake at more than 4G, and it’ll self-ignite if left stationary for too long. Frantic, even violent, though a ‘live’ F1 car may seem to an outsider, it is tended by perfectly

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choreographed garage crews and driven But three laps later it’s over; Seb’s car with the deft but brutal hand of an is skewered and unraceable. expert whose skills are beyond ordinary For the first time since his 5am comprehension. For the 20 or so elite Thursday alarm call, Sebastian Vettel individuals deemed fit for the task each has been forced to take a backward step. year, piloting a Formula One car at Shoulders slumped in the cockpit, this ludicrous speeds is a day job – a uniquely fierce-burning individual has been demanding one, of course – but a day job briefly doused by circumstance. The nonetheless. It’s outside the cockpit that incalculable amount of personal and things get complicated. team energy that has gone into making “He’s very calm during races,” says him a potential race winner has been Wheatley. “He doesn’t say too much sapped, if only briefly. to us over the radio unless something After a minute, maybe two, Vettel goes wrong. He’s very focused and pops his belts, wriggles, stands up in very mature. He has the qualities and the cockpit and steps out to the left (one motivating ability that you need to be of his quirks – he never enters or leaves a world champion. He brings people up.” from the right). He unclips his helmet, Over four, timed, on-track sessions grabs his fireproof balaclava at the top across Friday and Saturday, Vettel of his head, tears it off, and – there – and his crew are in constant dialogue, he shows what all this sound and fury constant motion, in and out of the car. means. Seb’s face is crimson and wet A machine that on Friday is unbalanced with effort. The seams of the padding and not able to fulfil its ultimate inside his helmet have pressed deep performance potential has become, by creases into his cotton-soft face. His the end of Saturday’s qualifying session short hair is sodden; his eyes burning; to determine race-start positions, second his breath hard; and the back of his fastest. “It was clear that we had very, neck steaming. Formula One drivers, very good grip on Friday, but we couldn’t so hidden from view, fight as hard as find the balance,” says Wheatley. “As any bare-knuckle boxer. a driver, he focused on that with the His race weekend is almost over and engineers very hard overnight, and unsatisfactorily so. He has slipped to by Saturday he had a car that was on third place in the drivers’ championship, fuel-corrected pole position. How he and behind Webber, for the first time manages that with the amount of media since April. Still, he must face the attention he gets is nothing short of voracious media corps camped just the incredible. But he’s here to race. He other side of the garage exit, awaiting does the other stuff, but he tolerates it. an explanation of the obvious. It’s a He puts on his grin and gets on with it.” brutal, draining coda for a guy who’s Grinning… Winning. Come Sunday already been kicked, but he faces the morning, after another late night at the demands with equanimity. track, live media chats for German TV “He won’t be down for long,” notes station RTL, FIA media time, hours team principal Christian Horner. more debriefing, there’s only one thing “Sebastian is a very resilient individual. left to do: win. On paper, Vettel’s RB5 is I’m sure he’ll take this disappointment the car to have. It’s second on the grid and come back even more strongly with a heavy fuel load, meaning that by motivated for the next race.” one-third distance it should, if all goes to plan, be in the lead. No more smiles now, it’s visor-down time. here’s time, of course, for another But… An imperfect getaway slows debrief, one more motorhome Seb on the run to the first corner; he is meal, a shower, a massage and clipped by eventual second-place man, a cool down. By 18.10 Sebastian Kimi Räikkönen of Ferrari. The RB5’s isT finally ready to leave the track. Backpack delicately perfected handling balance slung low over his shoulders, fingers has been destroyed and Seb cannot tapping furiously into his iPhone as he match the front-running pace. walks to the team car that will take him On lap 27, car 15 returns to the Red and family (carpenter father Norbert and Bull Racing garage for a safety check. It younger brother Fabian) to the airport, has been handling so badly – dragging its Seb is once again the uncomplicated belly on the track surface and wanting to youngster who just happens to be one of turn only left – that Vettel is convinced the fastest, most in-demand racing drivers something is broken. The inspection says on the planet. Belted in to the front seat of no and he’s sent out again, with new an Audi Q7, he could be your kid brother. tyres, more fuel and a new front wing. =fccfnM\kk\cËjj\XjfeXknnn%i\[YlcciXZ`e^%Zfd

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The Hangar-7 Interview Shaggy Dancehall popstar Shaggy has been bringing Jamaican sunshine to European charts for more than 15 years. Florian Obkircher caught up with the gravel-voiced legend as the European tour rolled into Salzburg’s Hangar-7 for the night

wasn’t a long trip, but it really freaks you out when you see those oxygen masks drop. You suddenly realise this is serious. You seem to be pretty much constantly on tour. What’s the thing you wouldn’t want missing in your tour bus? I’m a simple guy on the bus. As long as there’s food and a good movie I’m great. And I haven’t even watched a movie since being on the bus this time. So, what do you do? You can sit around the table in the lounge area and chill to some music So what brings you to Salzburg? and laugh. The dancehall fraternity is We came from Prague. It was a great a very colourful one. There’s always a concert with maybe 5000 people. lot happening. You become entangled in Everyone just wants to hear classics it. It’s not just the music but the drama. like Boombastic. Songs that people Who’s battling who? Who dissed who? just can’t get enough of. It becomes this thing that you buy into. And this is your first time here? Like watching a soap or something? I think so. I’ve always gone to Vienna Yeah. There’s always these trans-global in the past, when I’ve visited Austria. conversations going on. But I listen to So definitely your first time in other styles too. I listen to everything. Hangar-7? It depends what mood I’m in. Although It’s my first time in the hangar. Quite reggae’s my heart and soul. impressive. Let’s see how it works live. Do you feel you can build that authentic As a musician, you must be on planes Jamaican dancehall vibe when you’re all the time. Have you ever thought not at home in the Caribbean? about getting your own pilot’s licence? It’s pretty universal. Tonight this venue It would be very cool to do that. I know will be more like a pop show. But we John Travolta does it. But he’s got one could go to Vienna and get a hardcore of the big DC-10s or an incredibly huge dancehall crowd easily. They come 747 or some crap like that. out of the woodwork. I love playing in But you don’t own any planes yourself? Jamaica, but I prefer to take it outside I only have passions for things that I can of there because everybody in Jamaica afford! They’re nice to look at, but it’s already knows Shaggy. Taking it outside a bit like old cars. If you buy an old car, – to the world – that’s incredible. you’ve got to buy the mechanic too. You Do you change the set list for each have to keep fixing them. I prefer newer setting and crowd? vehicles. I have a convertible Bentley, so If I come on to a very urban dancehall although I don’t collect them, it’s certainly crowd, I’ll just switch it right there. not the worst car you could own. I don’t even have to tell the band. When Every rock star seems to have had a the show starts I just walk on, no rituals horror story in the sky. What’s yours? beforehand really. I might try to rest my I have a few actually! OK, the best one… vocals because they’re gold. But every We had to land with one engine on band I’ve toured with, I see them go into a flight from Australia to New Zealand. a circle and do a nice prayer. With our We looked out of the window and could band, we’re such heathens, we just take

see smoke coming from the engines. It this thing for granted. I actually feel bad (1) REGINE HENDRICH(2), HELGE KIRCHBERGER PHOTOGRAPHY:

78 Di9ffdYXjk`Z1J_X^^p`e]lcc ÕfnXk?Xe^Xi$.#[\c`^_k`e^ k_\Zifn[n`k_Xilef] _`kj`eZcl[`e^F_:Xifc`eX seeing those bands saying their prayers. Damn, we just go onstage and play… that sucks. We need to do something! You just mentioned that voice of yours. I remember hearing it for the first time on Oh Carolina in 1993 and thinking, damn, I’ve never heard a voice like that. How did you get that style? Well the vocal style is certainly unique. I can sing normally, but then you just sound like everybody else. When you sing with… [cuts into the trademark Shaggy snarl] then you get a signature. On Oh Carolina I changed the sound and it was out there. Do you have a rough idea of how often you’ve played it? Oh, thousands of times. I can’t count them. And do you still like playing it? Absolutely! It amazes me how you can sit and write a song and it affects people’s lives. People know where they were when they first heard it, and it could be 10 or 15 years ago, but they still know the line. You come up with a catchphrase like “It wasn’t me”, and somehow it becomes a part of pop culture. I must ask this. It’s too obvious not to ask. You’re known as Mr Lover Lover… what do you think of Austrian women? They’re very beautiful. This is a very beautiful country. I’ve been here so many times and it’s one of the few places in Europe that I could live. I like the mountains. I think it has it all. Ever been skiing? No. I’m black! Skiing is not for me. Will you be out in Salzburg later. Are you still a party guy? Truth be told, I just wanna sleep. I’m a big party guy, but I like doing it when I’m rested! I’ve been having a sleep problem, my eyes are burning right now. How much longer is the tour? I have 25 to 30 shows. Some days off in between? A few… very few. ?Xe^flkn`k_J_X^^pXj_\g\i]fidjc`m\ Xk?Xe^Xi$.#Xknnn%_Xe^Xi$.%Zfd&\e&jg\Z`Xcj& n\[e\j[Xp$e`^_k&j_X^^p&

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Walking in the Air Famed as the refuge of monks and 007 villains, the stunning Meteora rocks in Greece now draw ardent slackliners. Join them – or watch from a safe distance

80 Few landscapes in Greece are as dramatic as the monastery-crowned rock pillars of Meteora – home to a dwindling number of ecclesiastics but an increasing quantity of highline daredevils. These sandstone cliff faces once deterred invading Ottoman Turks, but, in a different age, were a mere walk in the park for one James Bond. Her Majesty’s favourite secret agent scaled one of Meteora’s sheer faces in For Your Eyes Only, stopping at the top to lower a massive basket to his accomplices – the same used by the real-life monks of the Agia Triada monastery from the 14th century until the 1920s. Sets of interconnected stairways have since replaced the rope baskets and ladders that hoisted the faithful up and down the cliff faces – which will come as a relief for modern-day travellers, because the monks believed it was up

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A story by Mark P Hughes Barack Phones a Friend If your life is a journey of many stops on a windblown freeway, what happens when you suddenly reach your fate, for so long hidden beyond the distant horizon?

e sits looking around him Two women, available for hire, beautiful same corner of the room – a young kid, in the bar, a place full of the embodiments of ‘the trap’, that part of slimmer, hairier, more optimistic, strangest people. A man with the brain that recognises pleasing form excited, wanting to taste everything on a glass eye is telling anyone and translates it into desire, are just his travels, with no idea yet what was Hwho will listen about how he writes all catching up with each other for now, going to become of him, future limitless. Ry Cooder’s music and how Ry steals it sitting at one of the rickety tables, What was going to become of him? off him in his dreams: “F***in’ walks in drinking and gossiping. He still didn’t know. How come he was at night, bold as brass, uninvited, like A woman, whose beautiful days are back here? A flair for melancholy had some biblical character, looks me in the behind her, glides a serene practised developed, then enveloped him, over eye from across the room for a while, path between the tables: Madame Rosso. the years. Why hadn’t he amounted intense, then smirks and walks off into It’s her bar. It used to be on the fringes to anything, for all his brilliance? He the hills that are hidden behind the wall. of a jungle, at the end of a mud path, thought fondly of his college friend, There goes another f***er. I try to get a few locals and downtime oil workers. Barack, who always had a plan, was the song down as soon as I wake, but it’s Now, it’s exactly the same bar, same always on his way somewhere. Robert too late. F***er’s CD is out the next day furnishings, same dark Moroccan feel and there it is, exactly as I heard it.” inside; but outside, it’s surrounded by “Oysters!” shouts another man, glitzy reflecting glass skyscrapers and He thought of randomly, to no one in particular. four lanes of traffic. Three decades Earlier, he’s explained how he’s cut off between the two scenes, and Robert has his college friend, the ear of a jealous love rival, showed been in both of them, but in none of the Barack, who Robert the knife he’s done it with, “to intervening ones. He can almost see stop him taking calls from my woman”. himself as he was then, sitting in the always had a plan

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One Formula ateach scenes the behind team commentary BBC TV of editor Prix theGrand is PHughes Mark About author the The President on the line.” onthe President The Ihave down. alotoftracking took you Yes. “Wow, Robert?” that is “Hello, rings. justanswers, better questions. no –still journey the into Well jaunt. onthis off toset hedecided when it was now, as just him troubling it’s do. 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Seems on‘the again bar, heponders the in toworkwith. air dense nice it gets as gutsier feeling engine slight chill now as we reach the foothills, A different. very instrument, alead as drum the place, the over all about fly drummer the –lets rhythm as used being organ Hammond the by anchored is dynamic band’s howthat hear thoughts, the with chiming whole time, the scam. abetting arrange and them with touch get in wecould maybe then ornot– possible that’s whether arguing still physicists with oflight, speed the of regardless ofinformation transfer instant –the transference as athing such is really there ago: if years point-three now, four- right only ofearth seeing be MORE BODY & MIND Autosport Walking into the sunlight, his mobile mobile his sunlight, the into Walking by, “Hey, interrupted Thoughts ladies two the hewatches So, as headphones the into playing Music magazine, and assists the the assists and magazine, 97 ILLUSTRATION: ADAM POINTER than a Mach 1 Mustang on the desert desert onthe 1Mustang aMach than horizon, they sped down them faster onthe arrow an forming straight, so were paths –their doctors architects, lawyers, ambitious –the others The way. onthe scenery the seeing him stop didn’t passage journey’s his that in them among unique was but Barack then, that like people many known had to continue his real pursuits – literature, –literature, pursuits real his to continue him allowed in, coming money kept the that software invented computers, into plan. the following between in ofit himself able todoalittle even was and roadside, the by dawdle to propensity Robert’s by intrigued been always had Barack were. they as were whythings tocontemplate came really never and riddles, oflife’s or any doubts reflection, by slowed never were gottoponder, never highway. they So But Robert had no plan. 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wing-tank being destructively penetrated. This would not have happened with the fleshy wings of a Boeing 747, a robust design with its origins in a secular military contract. The large, ungainly 747 first flew on February 9, 1969. This was quite a year for aviation. It was not fuel prices, environmentalism, nor even the Paris crash that ruined Concorde – it was what American literary critic Paul Fussell called the ‘proletarianisation of culture’. In the 1980s, someone asked Charles Saatchi if he used public transport. He replied: “Yes. I go on Concorde to New York.” The Anglo-French plane was a masterpiece but also a sociological calamity. While much of mankind’s evolutionary journey has been defined by speed, by the late 20th century, it was defined by volume. As they used to say Mind’s Eye in the US car industry, at the time when cast-iron, pushrod V8s displacing 7 litres Plight of the Concordes of God’s good air were commonplace: “There ain’t no substitute for cubic inches.” Stephen Bayley discusses a brilliant concept too The 747 ‘jumbo jet’ was that equivalent. far ahead of its time – yet also behind it It is an airborne obesity class of Ronald McDonald’s culture, but it is what The poetry of the moon landing and de Construction de Moteurs d’Aviation. the world wanted. America invented Concorde is this: they were not the Say that aloud to sense the seriousness. movies and mass media. Then, it beginning of heroic new adventures in Concorde 001 flew on March 2, 1969, invented mass subsonic travel. transport, but the elegiac end. The infinity four months before Neil Armstrong’s Never mind that the doleful effects of of space turned out to be a conceptual small step along his lunar dead-end. shipping hundreds of planeloads of 400 cul-de-sac, while supersonic passenger The magic and romance of Concorde incurious dorks around the planet in a travel for a well-dressed, well-heeled elite is this: while the confusions, self-interest, continuous loop of brainless consumption turned out to be an idea rooted in tweedy, recriminations and positively Napoleonic has done more damage to culture and rigid baby-boom era futurism, along with bi-partisan political bickering should the environment than Concorde’s thirsty the traffic-free motorways, Telstar, Dr Who have produced an ugly camel of an engines – Concorde was an aristocrat in and the excitements of multi-channel TV. aircraft, they produced one of the most a republican era. So, it was doomed. Supersonic flight was one of the great beautiful machines of all time. One You sensed this when travelling on it. collective fascinations of the post-war reason was that extreme performance Not that the pencil-thin cabin resembled recovery. Originally the province of required extreme design solutions. Taste anything ancien régime, but there was research and the military, by the late had very little to do with the appearance a feeling of being between the crisis and ’50s, when fathers still bought boys The of a craft designed to operate not just at the catastrophe. Of course, the New York Eagle, its civil applications were being the edge of space, but also at the edge of flights were always busy: one London studied by airframe manufacturers. knowledge. For example, the delta wings journey took under three hours. But These included The Bristol Aeroplane contained an exceptional amount of fuel there was an underlying absurdity. Company and Sud Aviation of Toulouse. because the avgas acted like a heatsink, Concorde was so thrilling, you did not A collaboration document – a reducing the scary surface temperatures want to get off. You could see the earth’s ‘concorde’ – was signed by the two generated in supersonic flight. And with curvature from FL55 – 55,000ft on the companies on November 29, 1962. In tragic determinism, this feature caused altimeter – and the sky was purple. Kindly a bizarre agreement, the French were the sole Concorde accident, which led stewardesses poured good champagne responsible for the wings, rear cabin, to its removal from service: on July 25, and fine claret into crystal-clear glasses. air-con and avionics. The British took 2000, a Concorde leaving Paris picked “Damn. Are we there already?” I found on the forward and rearmost fuselage, up debris on take-off, which led to a full myself thinking. Meanwhile, on the flight tail-fin, engine nacelles (with ingenious deck, the captain checked his clockwork computer-controlled variable ducts) instruments and adjusted his stiff upper and installation. The engines were Concorde was an lip. It really was that old-fashioned… Olympus 593 Mark 610 turbojets aristocrat in Stephen Bayley is a former director jointly manufactured by Rolls-Royce of the Design Museum in London and and the Société Nationale d’Étude et a republican era an award-winning freelance writer VON ILLUSTRATION:

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