Issue 4 27Th November 2008 Southampton University's Finest Entertainment Publication
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Southampton University’s Finest Entertainment Publication Issue 4 27th November 2008 Editorial face it, are much better, have announced That’s Entertainment..... that they are not breaking up, despite Assorted nonsense from the world of film and music rumours to the contrary. Hooray! Head Editorial honcho James Murphy told the NME that Good news Beatles fetishists! Popular di- hit a few notes, just wander around. So Hello there, you lovely readers.... a new album is on the way, stating that he vorcee and musician Paul McCartney, has that’s what we did and then put a bit of an already had demoed some songs “in my confirmed that an experimental echo on it. It’s very free.” Tis the season to be jolly and so we have head”. Beatles track thought to be some rather good Christmas features to myth does, in fact, exist. The Chris Martin has announced that Coldplay get you in the mood. There’s a picture of Pretentiously named bigshot director fourteen minute long are likely to split up at the end of next Father Christmas and everything! On the McG has promised that the new termina- ‘Carnival of Light’, year. Speaking, to the Daily Express, Interviews front, we’ve a knockout trio of tor movie will ‘reinvigorate the franchise’. which was re- corded he stated that “I’m 31 now and I Frank Turner, Mystery Jets and crazy Danes Speaking at a conference in London, he for an electronic music don’t think that bands should keep Alphabeat. We also have an assortment promised that ‘Terminator Salvation’ will festival back in 1967, going past 33”. Eagle eyed readers from the world of cheese, with record ‘push the envelope’ with ground-breaking but was never re- will remember this very column reviews of Girls Aloud, The Saturdays, and special effects. A five minute trailer leased because the covered the four piece’s plans Tom Jones (don’t worry, there are some shown to assorted media types in London other three of the fab to record a track with Jay-Z conventional reviews in there too). Our yesterday reportedly featured the usual four thought it was ‘too only a few short months live section is an amazing recollection of action packed array of gunfights, car chas- adventurous’. Cowards. back – maybe a desper- outstanding performances from Oasis, The es, stunts and explosions. Batman hunk McCartney described ate stab at reinvention? Killers, and many more. Film offers you the Christian Bale takes the lead role as John the recording pro- The singer added that in likes of Bond right through to a superhero Connor, leader of the resistance against cess like so: “I said their remaining time left turned attorney at law, and, of course, if the Cyborg army, with unconfirmed all I want you to the band were “trying to after all that you still want to see local live reports circling claiming that Arnold do is just wander pack in as much as possible. music, you can find out what’s on in the Schwarzenegger would make a cameo around all the stuff, Until the end of next year, Gig Guide on the back page. appearance. Whether or not this will lead bang it, shout, play it, we’re just going to go for into a second trilogy is unclear, but the it doesn’t need to make it in every sense. In other We also have a brand new TV section, most telling (and depressing) feature of any sense. Hit a drum then splitting-up related news, over there in the TV (clever, huh?), and a the story is that the series is referred to as wander on to the piano, LCD Soundsystem, who, let’s comedy section which caught up with a ‘franchise’… the Mighty Boosh on tour. If you’ve ever needed an excuse to not do any work today, then The Edge is it. So sit back, put on some Christmas tunes and enjoy what TV Peanuts is definately ‘Southampton University’s Episode 1: An Auspicious Beginning Finest Entertainment Publication’. How unfortunate that I begin this column just a few weeks after one of the biggest news stories in history. An event that few would have predicted possible, with global implications Until next time, for the next four years or more, the people made their choice and the establishment listened. That’s right, Jonathan Ross has been suspended. The crown prince of light entertainment The Edge Team (that makes Graham Norton the Queen I think) has been unceremoniously tipped out of his Editors: Pete Benwell and Hannah throne for 12 weeks, placed on the BBC’s naughty step and told to think about what he’s done. Calcutt Record Editor: Tom Shepherd While Russell Brand will no doubt flourish from his resignation, Ross may find it Live Editor: Rik Sharma hard to regain his stature. His Friday Night show has been replaced with new episodes Features Editor: Holly Hooper of Live at the Apollo, a show which is actually deliberately funny. Ross has been one Film Editor: Dean Read of faces of the BBC for a few years now and seems to be starting to fill the gap Terry Wogan will eventually leave, however his jobs (apart from Film 2008) rely on him being a trusted household name, remove the popularity and his career seems far more unstable. With: Tim Lemon, Amy Cazneaux, Nick Brown, Morgan Taylor, Jack Harding, Will Virgin Media and Sky end their dispute out of court. Expect Sky 1 back on Virgin soon. Yay! Roszyzck, Gemma Price, Martin Foot, Simpsons repeats! Bad news for Virgin Media employees however as 2200 jobs are to be cut Danielle Richardson, Marianne Ward, Sam by 2012. Hampsher-Monk, Richard Thynne, Rachel Millar, Chris Hooton, Hayley Taulbut, Viveka Heroes creator Tim Kring is reported to be bringing back Series 1 Producer Bryan Owen, Alexander Payne, Rachel Gregory, Fuller in an aim to reverse the frankly startling damage the two subsequent series have Emmeline Curtis, Kate Fletcher, Ella Smith, caused. Fuller was responsible for much of Claire’s story so expect more cheerleading! Sophie Etheridge, Kate Golding, Jemma Davies, James Miller, Dan Morgan, Conor 24: Redemption, a TV Movie bridging the sixth and seventh seasons will be shown on Sky McGlone, Jazmin Sherman, Alex Smith, 1 soon. Jack Bauer goes to Africa and has an entirely uneventful time there. Or does he?? Abby Thomas, Will Hayes, Kat Bawmwang and Cedric Letsch. Britannia High is crap and no-one is watching. By Nick Brown Contact us at [email protected] We’d love to hear from you. No, really. Comedy The Mighty Boosh Portsmouth Guidhall, 10th November Come with me now on a journey through futuristic ship, stage right, enter Howard guest appearances and songs from some half Howard introduces his new play, time and space... and the Portsmouth Moon, wearing a village people style sailors of the other characters-the highlight of a post apocalyptic look at Earth in the Guildhall. It seems an odd setting to suit, with a crappy blow up dingy around his which for me is the crack fox’s appearance- future, which is ruined by Vince, who has witness the Mighty Boosh’s latest foray into waist and both break immediately into song, and an interactive dance lesson from his own ideas of the future, a prog rock theatre; it’s perhaps more suited to holding ‘Future sailors’. You can tell the characters Bob Fossil, as we all learn to ‘lick the lips, apocalypse with an especially stylish James Morrison (or some other run of the haven’t changed a bit, after their grand then rub the nips’. The first half ends with mutant race inhabiting the world. For mill act), rather than have a full frontal entrance Vince and Howard go into their a bang as the hitcher returns, with a the encore the whole crew take to the attack of psychedelic comedy streamed characteristic start of show conversation particularly massive performance of ‘eels’. stage as zombie grannies, like a night straight from another dimension, although in front of the curtains, their comedic out in a Blackpool Mecca bingo hall and I doubt anywhere in the world is suitably sharpness obviously hasn’t diminished As the Boosh returns for the second prove their niche as the only real rock equipped to really handle the ‘n’ roll stars of comedy, by rocketing vastness and immensity of the through some of their most loved songs, Mighty Boosh. For those not culminating in ‘Charlie’. Stand back in the know, the Mighty Boosh Gallagher brothers, these lads really are consists of electro fop Vince Noir rock ’n’ roll stars. At two and a half hours and jazz nerd Howard Moon, the show isn’t short either, and provides two best friends, who-in the TV for the best night out I’ve had in ages. series- currently live in a vintage store in Shoreditch along with Seeing the Mighty Boosh is an Naboo the shaman and Bollo, experience that everyone should have, Naboos gorilla helper. All the a surreal trip through time and space. characters are here tonight, Buying a ticket not only entitles you to including Tony Harrison, who is an evening of immense entertainment basically a pair of breasts with a but it’s also a first class ticket to another face and tentacles, the hitcher, dimension, via the psychedelic electro a green cockney with a polo for nebular, and around the Camden an eye (who’s partial to sexually galaxy. Like Monty Python in the 60’s assaulting marine mammals), and the Young Ones in the 80’s, these the crack fox and, of course, the guys are breaking the parameters of frankly brilliant Bob Fossil.