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• Senior official claims Government loans scheme is "misconceived" 's ~· oans

entitlement to social security by Katka Krosnar Education and Science's assump· tion of a I 0 per cent default means benefits, pointing out that the 'FHE Government are facing that non-repayment of loans projected £65 million savings in 1990/91 are "paltry" in compari­ their most serious setback to would be condoned. A further fault lies in the initial increase in son to the social security budget of date in their attempts to public expenditure necessitated £48 billion. introduce a student loans by the scheme. Mr Johnson's The Government's declared scheme. underlying criticism of the Gov­ aim - "to reduce the students' A senior bank official has this ernment's proposals is that "the dependency" - is, according to week attacked the Governmen(<; administration of the scheme has Mr Johnson, "misconceived, proposals. Mr Christopher not been fully worked out"_ since most students are bound to Johnson, Chief Economics The bulletin mentions defects depend on someone other than Adviser with Lloyd's Bank, pub­ which have come to light in the themselves for finance, and there lished his criticisms in the bank's· administration of loan schemes should be no disgrace in getting Economic Bulletin on Monday_ introduced elsewhere. In West modest sums from social security. He told Student that his major Germany, for instance, students Housing benefit is particularly objection to the scheme was that it have taken to working their way well targeted to cope with the had not been properly worked through college, hence taking wide variations across the country out longer to complete their degrees. in student lodging costs." Commenting on Mr Johnson's Above: Ludovic Kennedy at the debate. Photo: Hugh Pinney The bulletin states that the "T_his is exactly what the UK White Paper comes at a time when should seek to avoid, at a time proposals, a spokesperson for the GLASGOW'S Dialectics beat Edinburgh Diagnostics in the "the average gross grant has fallen · when a shortage in the supply of Department of Education and Science said: "Education Minis­ first-ever meeting of the two ancient debating societies. by 20 per cent in real terms" since graduates is developing." 1978/9. "It is time to recognise ters will look at the comments Mr The teams debated the motion "This House would block the Mr Johnson proposes an alter· that students have had a poor Channel Tunnel" and the occasion was organised in memory of native scheme whereby parental Johnson has made and_ what h_e deaL" The grants cuts have "in Michael Lockwood, the previous President of the Diagnostics who contributions would be "re- has to say and these will contn· many cases adversely affected the died tragically last year. ' placed" by commercial bank loans bute to the debate." He added, quality of their education and to parents, backed up by a "last however, that "th~ amount of t~e Lord Cameron of Loch broom, who chaired the distinguished panel their lives"_ of judges, said that he had enjoyed the speakers "most witty resort facility" allowing a number loans and the ~?stc structure wtll The White Paper's aim, Mr presentation" and that the decision as to which team deserved the of Goveni'ment loans to students not be changed - Johnson states, "appears to be to Michael Lockwood Challenge Quaich had been debated almost as who need additional finance. He . The Government is currently restore the student grant to its real fiercely as the motion. advocates an 18 per cent increase ·· involved in ne~otiati_on~ ~ith level in 1978/9". He criticises, Sources close to the panel reported that it was split evenly between in the statutory award, and the tax· ~anks and other fman~m_Imstttu- however, the manner in which the the teams and that Lord Cameron, as chair, had used his casting vote. - relief for parents on loans to cover twns on how to admtms_ter the Government have attempted to Speaking to Student later at the champagne reception, he agreed their stipulated contributions. scheme. The co-operatton of promote this aim. The top-up loans to students these organisations is vital to the that he had been very conscious of being a former President of the Access to higher education, the would cover those whose parents succes~ of the proposals, an? one ~iagnostics. He said: "There's nothing worse than having to pass bulletin points out, might be dis­ were unable or unwilling to tssues for dtscus· Judgement when your impartiality is questioned even bet·ore you ~f th~ 1mpo~tant couraged by the Government's finance them. This scheme, he SIOn ts the stze of the fee the Gov­ speak." proposed scheme of student . states would cost the taxpayer ernment are prepared to pay the George Sitwell, current President of the Diagnostics, who loans. This would be true particu· · less than the Government's prop- banks for administration. Mr organised the event, said that he hoped it would become an annual larly in the case of the economi­ osals. Johnson, however, is criticaL meeting. He said that money raised through sponsorship and cally disadvantaged. Students "Even if the Government pay donations would be used to subsidise wine at future Diagnostics' would also be encouraged to get He also criticises strongly the the banks a fee," he told Student, events and might go towards the cost of next year's debate. Full report proposed withdrawal -of students' "I still think it is a bad scheme .. , inside. into debt, and the Department of 2 Thursday, February 9, 1989 NEWS STUDENT Alternative Sermon on Careers Sex Maany people try to use sex to fill by Martin Crowther "God made us by choice sexual beings," Mrs Rankin continued. the emptiness in their lives, but "sex cannot stand the strain of giv­ However, it is only right in God's ing meaning to life," she con­ LAST Friday lunchtime Mrs eyes when carried out within mar­ cluded. There must be a spiritual Stella Rankin, Christian riage. dimension. preacher, schoolteacher and There were, she argued, six Fifthly, she identified a need for mother of four children told a steps to "maximum sex"; not getting back into a proper wide eyed Teviot audience, tially, we must recognise that sex relationship with God, and, lastly is indeed a great and a good gift. for getting into a "right" relation­ from personal experience, Secondly, we should understand how best to enjoy the delights ship with your partner. Above all, that such a relationship is vulnera­ the presence of a forgiving of "maximum sex". ble and needs protection. Thirdly, attitude in a relationship was high­ "Maximum Sex" was, she said that "harmful" sexual activities lighted as an essential component "the ability to achieve maximum such as pre-marital sex and in its long term success, without satisfaction through sex." Not, homosexuality are to be avoided. which many relationships found­ she added, "to have sex Mrs Rankin acknowledged that erect. the maximum number of times." · this is difficult due to the existence Anone wishing to do that of what she called "pleasant phys­ Stella Ran kin's address was one ical temptations." of a series given last week as part shouldn't be here, but be THI6 year's Alternative Building Society, Friends of the of the Christian Union organised Earth, the International Volun­ Next, she urged those present Careers Fair will take olace in engaged elsewhere. to "get sex into proportion." "Big Question" event. the Chaplaincy Centre, on ary Service and Tradecraft. The Wednesday 15th February. It event is to be opened by Richard Crane, author of Running the runs from midday until5 pm, and is designed as an alterna­ Himalayas and Bicycles up tive to the Careers Service's Kilimanjaro. Talks will be given Principal issues glossy by some of the organisations tak­ Milk Round. Last year it was ing part, and a "bumper package" very well attended. Amongst those taking part in of alternative careers will be the Fair this year are the Ecology suggested to all those attending. University review

THE latest initiative from the tainties in higher education. widely recognised -for example Principal's office is a glossy But he warns of the difficulties in a recent review the Earth Sci­ company-report style annual ahead, as the University works to ences were described as among reduce its deficit through the plan­ the best in the country. review of the University. ned loss of around 170 staff. He is Writes Sir David: "This is the also critical of suggestions for full Elsewhere in the annual report, first annual report which I present cost tuition fees, a system which which has a completely new for­ as Principal of the University. It he says "would abandon the con­ mat this year, the University "sets appears in a changed format as cept of free higher education" and the record straight on student part of our continuing initiative to which comes at a time when there admissions", a guide to the princi­ develop the style and substance of is a demand for a higher propor­ ples and practice of under­ FOLLOWING the success ot will be on sale at desks at Potter­ our communications, both with its first club at Coasters in row (Thursday and Friday) and tion of the workforce to be edu­ graduate entry; there is a review the public at large and, particu­ cated to graduate level. of some of the work going on in October, Student's "Trash" Teviot (Monday and Tuesday) larly through this publication, again looks set to be the between I pm and 2 pm, and at Sir David is confident that the University departments, from with our worldwide graduate Edinburgh University will come diagnoses of heart disease to the event not-to-be-missed. Tic­ Pollock Refectory between 5.15 body." and 6.30 pm (Thursday and Fri­ through this difficult time and restoration of beautiful artwork in kets (priced £1.50) for the day). Any tickets remaining after The Principal continues the ·remain one of the top centres in a local church; the spread of Edin­ club, to be held at Wilkie this will be available at the door introduction of the full-colour the UK for the quality and variety burgh University graduates House in the Cowg~e on on the night for £2. brochure with a plea for financial of its teaching and research. He throughout the world is mapped Valentine's Day, are almost In recognition of National support from the 52,000 graduates points to Edinburgh's success in out on the centre pages. There is sold out. AIDS Awareness week, a Mates he is in touch with. attracting research income - a also a facts and figures section , But for those unlucky few still condom will be given to each club­ Sir David descr-i bes the past record £20 million last year. giving details of student numbers, without tickets a limited number goer at "Trash". academic year as one of "achieve­ Also, the excellence of Edin­ awards and honours, and the Unt­ ment" despite the current uncer- burgh University continued to be versity's finances.

at Hillel House, in Manchester, The issue has imEortant impli­ year. by local Palestinian students. cations for the area and has been Mr Ettinger is presently touring highlighted in the local press. A ST ANDREWS: Young Tories in other universities in Britain at the spokesperson for Bacus stated Scotland are also embroiled in Campus to Campus request of the Union of Jewish that the two sabbaticals con­ controversy at St Andrews where Societies. cerned obviously had "delusions the "left-wing" Tory Reform by Ewen Ferguson of grandeur". Group are battling against the CAMBRIDGE: A frustrated male coming second last year, when he BRISTOL: Today, at their AGM, increasing predominence of CAMBRIDGE: Two ex-prisoners student at Cambridge University. did a "Shag for Rag" for charity, a contentious proposal will be for­ Thatcherites. from the Soviet Union addressed A magazine called 'progressus', has recently been fined £150 by a Mr Freemantle is continuing with warded by the President and Vice­ a packed lunchtime meeting in magistrate for the error of his "Drag for Rag" for a charity President of the Bristol University resurrected from the 1970s when Cambridge University last Mon­ ways. scholarship, which would enable a Students' Union. passed, the . Michael Forsyth, now an MP and ·u day. The student in question, on dis­ student to study in SouWJ Africa. proposal could jeopardise the Scotland's Minister for Health Organised by the Cambridge covering the university library Sam has already dressed in future of Bacus, the Bristol stu­ and Education, used to contribute closed, resorted to stealing £52 female garb for an entire week, dent newspaper. Campaign for Soviet Jewry, Dima to it, has been launched. and Ann a Schwartzmann spoke of The contents propound the worth of books from a local book­ and rumour has it that several hot­ Bacus, a free newspaper with a seller. He successfully escaped blooded males have been smitten circulation of 5,000 to 7,000 at their time as a Jewish married virtue of free market education couple interred in an atheist Com­ from the shop with· the items by the former hippy's activities. Bristol University alone, is a well as other issues including the munist state. under his jacket, although he was wide-ranging paper that also cov­ notion of a free-market currency eventually apprehended some MANCHESTER: On Sunday ers polytechnics and colleges in Messages of thanks were given · of dollars, pounds, and way down the road. night at Manchester University the Bristol area. to those who had helped in deutschmarks which could be orchestrating their release last used interchangeably. the principal press officer for the At present the newspaper BRISTOL: Student association Israeli government, Hakim receives a total grant of £7,000, elections continue to provide mer­ Ettinger, spoke to the university's with £3,200 coming from the uni­ riment at Bristol University where .Jewish Society. versity. The President of the stu­ an eccentric individual called Sa m Manchester University Jewish dents' Union hopes to abolish Freemantle is standing for the Society is one of the largest in Bri­ their part of the grant and estab­ post of President. tain and has 800 to 900 members, lish their own newspaper with the Spurred on by the success of and so the occasion was picketed small sum of £3,300. STUDENT NEWS Thursday. February 9.1989 3 Teviot loses bar 'licence

by Den McGrudden license extension on the Potter­ row Bar meanwhile missing the date for the application for BARS in Teviot Row House Teviot's license extension. will no longer be able to serve Teviot only serves alcohol bet­ alcohol in the afternoon after ween 2 pm and 5 pm on Saturdays Odd ball EUSA's lawyers let them so the debacle is not on the same down again over the license scale as that of the Old Bill. Competition Until a license extension can be application. sought in March , occasional, one­ This follows the forced closure day licenses will be obtained for COMPLETE in less than four last week of the EUSA's Old Bill pages "I would like to go to the events like the forthcoming pub because Association lawyers Rugby International. Odd ball because .. . " and you failed to renew its license. could win two free tickets to Paul Ryan, EUSA Deputy this year's lOth anniversary The legal firm handling Teviot's President, who has responsibility licence did manage to remind celebrations. The prize will go for all the Unions said that the to the wittiest entry. staff in the Mandela Centre that Association will continue to it was up for renewal, but The Oddball, traditionally employ their lawyers. Mr Ryan the "smart set" alternative to the reminder was so misleading declined to name the legal firms the Presidents' Ball, will take that it appeared to refer to the bar concerned but confirmed that the in Potterrow. two unfortunate incidents were put it: "There have been few occa­ place on Saturday 25th in the by Cathy Milton 369 Gallery and this year the Accordingly staff applied for a the work of two separate firms. sions when my head has been organisers say they want to tighter." a broader section of the DESPITE Gerry Corrish's He did suggest that the Diagos­ t body. opening contention that the tics' principal objection to the Tickets (price £24.50) will Chunnel was that it would "intro­ available on Monday, eight best reasons for block­ duce French trains into their February 13th, from 6 pm to 10 EUSAioans ing the Channel Tunnel are nether regions" and concluded pm from Christopher Brooke, France, Germany and the that the link would have no great 42 Dublin Street (top floor rest of our closest European effect either way. flat). neighbours, Edinburgh's John L:Ioyd, speaking against support for the motion, "This the motion, confessed that he had march once helped found a "wholly GM tonight House would block the obscure group called Socialists for Channel Tunnel", was not Europe" which he compared to by Cathy Milton banks which, the sabbaticals based on xenophobia. THE General Meeting will "Haemophiliacs for Vampires" hope, will refuse to administer the The Edinburgh team of Gerry and had no wish to be perceived as take place tonight at 7 pm in loans scheme. Corrish, John Lloyd (a leading EUSA's annual week of action­ an insular xenophobe "standing ·McEwan Hall. Amongst the writer for The Financial Times a programme of protests against On· Wednesday, sabbaticals on the white cliffs of Dover shout­ motions will be one calling for and graduate of Edinburgh) and loans - is set to start next Mon­ and others will hand out leaflets to ing 'Hop-off, Froggy!'". Nelson Mandela's nomination Charles McGregor set themselves day and includes a march through members of the public and Charles McGregor, who spoke as Honorary president of the an impossible task. Edinburgh on Thursday after­ .attempt to get them to show sup­ last for the Diagnostics, seemed Students' Association. In their attempt to focus on the noon which has been organised in port for the student campaign the least confident speaker of the Also on the agenda willbe "intelligent" arguments of conjunction with the NUS. against loans by signing a petition. evening. motions protesting against economics and ecology, they The march is likely to attract Thursday is the climax of the He won an easy laugh for his experimentation on, and the struggled to keep the interest of large numbers of students from week's events. At 11 am students show of deterrence to Professor :tual slaughter of, animals. their apparently low-brow audi­ the rest of Scotland. The Edin­ will be invited to "Cram-in" (that McCormick who is his tutor but fhe Nestle debate will be ence who responded best to the burgh contingent will assemble at is, pack out) DHT Lecture Hall A perhaps really did suffer from his continued, as will the stance to less restrained floor debate which the Mandela Centre in Bristo and one of the lecture theatres in presence. be taken by Edinburgh Stu­ took place during the judges' Square at 12.30-pm. the JCMB. Angus Peterson then con­ dents against the loans scheme. deliberation. "Operation Thunderbird Tree" After the cram-ins "Operation cluded for the Dialectics. He con­ The issues of rape and sexism Glasgow's opposition to the kicks off with a statement from Thunderbird" will take place. The centrated on an effective hatchet will, too, come under discus­ motion made up with confidence the University Court on loans that precise nature of this event job on the arguments of his oppo­ sion. what it lacked in content. that will be released on Monday. remains veiled in secrecy. The nents which he compared to the Professor Neil McCormick, of At the same time several students, march takes place in the afte~­ "cross-eyed javelin thrower who NUS seeks the University's Law Department dressed as the week's theme noon. never wins but always excites the· (who has also been connected character - Captain Action - On Friday students can wind up crowd" and Mr Lloyd's speech advice with Glasgow University), deli­ will open new bank accounts for the week's events at "Beatbox was singled out as a "nice little vered a completely impenetrable themselves, especially at branches Baker" in Teviot Row House, herbalist 1960s speech". THE NUS is seeking legal contribution which added less to of Lloyds. where they can "come a1ong and Mr Peterson's speech was by far advice over the position of the argument than to the history The accounts will be opened as· groove for a grant", raved EUSA the most impressive of the formal students affected by the AUT of the two societies. a gesture of good faith with the Secretary Mark Wheatley. debate and undoubtedly won pay dispute. Perhaps this was because, as he Glasgow the Quaich.

NI GEL GRIFFITHS, MP Applications are invited Applications are invited for the post of for the post of EDITOR EDITOR of the for the HELP AND ADVICE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION Every Friday & Every Monday DIARY 1989/90 HANDBOOK 1989/90 from 9am-l Oam at 93 Causewayside And Third Saturday of Every Month The post carries one week's vacation The post carries five weeks' vacation 9 am Burdiehouse/Southhouse Community Centre, Burdiehouse Street maintenance, preferably to be taken over · maintenance, one at Easter and four JO.IS .am Liberton High School, at Easter. during the Summer vacation. Gilmerton Road 11.30 am James Gillespie's High School, Lauderdale Street Please submit applications in writing to Please submit applications in writing to Or contact the Labour Party HQ The Convener, EUSPB, The Convener, EUSPB, 93 Causewayside (Tel: 662 4520). 48 Pleasance, by 24th February. Labour- Seii'ing Our Community 48 Pleasance, by 24th February. 4 Thursday. February 9, 1989 FOCUS STUDENT

T first sight it may seem ironic that the latest A Government spokesman said that Johnson's points criticisms of the Government's "Top-Up Loans" would be debated, but the Treasury will stand firm. It is A scheme should come from the private sector. glaringly obvious, however, that the banks have got the The attack was launched in the latest issue of Lloyds Government in a stranglehold on ·this issue. Without Bank Bulletin, and it castigates those in authority for them, the scheme cannot be effectively administered. STUDENT To the present Government this might come as giving inadequate consideration to the administration of the scheme. Established in 1887 something of a surprise. If Johnson does, as he claims, Lloyds, however, are not issuing an ideological convey the general attitude of the financial institutions challenge to the government. Their criticisms focus on towards the loans, then they could justifiably be accused the fact that the scheme is cumbersome, and as costly to 4/S Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ. Tel. 558 111718 of having bitten the hand that feeds them. the banks themselves as it will be to the tax-payers. They Present students may well be among the last to benefit are not based on the unfashionable notion that people in from the dieal, if not reality, of education for all at a cost countries as wealthy as Britain should be enabled to This economic argument would at first appear to which they can afford. The recent loans proposals herald pursue their educatin to the extent of their ability. undermine the Government's stated aim of reducing the the beginning of free market education. Choice for all is Increasing consideration has been given to the burden on tax-payers. It becomes increasingly clear, 'the slogan of this Government, but that choice will be interests and demands of the private sector since the however, that this is not the true purpose underpinning rigidly curtailed by social background and by dawning of the Thatcher era. The importance of this the DES proposals. prospective debt. attack is due to t'he resulting position of the four big This became particularly apparent in a recent In another age the proposals might have been clearing banks who are to administer the scheme. comment from Dr Nicholas Barr, an economist from defeated by the opposition, by public opinion or by the Mr Christopher Johnson, Lloyd's Chief Economic LSE. He stated that he had been informed by the protests of those directly affected by them. The first has Adviser, stated that the DES calculations had not Treasury, in response to his criticisms of the scheme, been emasculated, the second desensitized by 10 years allowed for administrative costs. He infers, then, their that the loans were to be introduced not in order to save ofThatcherism, and the third si lenced or ignored. Today assumption that "banks were so keen to gain student money, but to coerce students into courses considered the only voice the Government hears is that of the free customers that they would subsidise the operating costs" vocational or " useful" by the present administration. market. of the scheme. This, he hastens to point out, is not the Students facing debt would be more likely to choose The private sector has come out, to an extent, on the case. And if administrative costs are taken into account courses which would lead to relatively secure jobs, side of the students in this instance. It is wise to realise, the scheme will actually cost more than the present rather than those which would merely increase their however, that they have done so on purely economic grants system. academic or social skills. rather than on ic;leological grounds.

Dear Student, out the support of EUSA, how­ date EUSA to give administrative NONE of the sabbaticals We further contend that rather In view of EUSA President ever, this will be impossible. and political support to the new attended the lobby. The publicity than mobilising students against Malcolm Macleod's comments For those who are interested association" (namely EUCAPT). given to the lobby in Midweek was the poll tax, they ave acquiesced last week that the EUCAPT here are the facts: Neither in spirit nor practice minimal. This was depsite to the prevailing electoral cre­ motion was "counter-productive" Last year's General Meetings have the sabbaticals lived up to repeated requests to the Secret­ tinism of our so-called political and that he had proven his com­ passed two motions on the poll the ideals expresed in these ary, who is in charge of Midweek, leaders. mitment to non-payment by vir­ tax. The motions were passed motions. for some adequate publicity to be As it is obvious that this tue of the fact that he had publicly quorately, they are therefore Here are some examples: given to the poll tax issue. behaviour is against both b' signed up for non-payme__nt, we binding on the Students' Associa­ (1) At the occupation of the Reg­ It is our view that far from the EUSA policy and the sabbatica feel we deserve the right to reply. tion. ional Council only the Secretary sabbaticals giving political and own electoral pledges, we urge Whether the sabbaticals pay The key phrases in those bothered to attend. Absolutely no administrative support to the you to support the motion of cen­ their poll tax or not is, technically motions are as follows: "EUSA pre-publicity was given to the campaign against the poll tax, sure from EUCAPT. speaking at least, an irrelevance. pledges its support when neces­ action in Midweek, despite a they have in fact acted as a block D. Donahue, The charge against them is that sary for a mass campaign or motion being overwhelmingly against the campaign. · Chair, EUCAPT. they have ignored binding EUSA demonstration to stop the passed in favour of the action at We contend that the vaccilitat­ PS: Clearly, Mr Macleod's con­ policy. Ideally the University implementation of the poll tax the previous GM. ing and collaborational stance tention that all we have to do is campaign against the poll tax against the express will of the (2) At the lobby of the Regional taken by the sabbaticals on the ask the sabbaticals for their politi­ would be able to build a mass cam­ people and students in Scotland." Council on the day they were set­ poll tax has only served to confuse cal and administrative support paign against the poll tax. With- At the following GM: "To man- ting the poll tax (24th Jan 1989), students on the.issue. and it will be granted is laughable.

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Barney clash of the capitalists rather than glamorous fights between big Eastwood, Terry Duff and Frank anticipating the June con­ the fight of the decade with each names regardless of their present Lawless are all unscrupulous man­ frontation between Thomas man collecting an estimated $5 ability. ipulators and, of course, who can Hearns and Ray Leonard (oh million, win or lose. Hit-man Money dominates the boxing blame ageing boxers from wanting yes, and there's a time filler Hearns has changed his weight world to such an extent that the to make lots of money when they involving Mike Tyson and a division four times, ostensibly to boxers themselves no longer try to realise that their broken physique. British guy sometime before find better opposition but with the hide their real motivation for and battered minds are unsuitable With boxing set to then). Of these forthcoming result that he fights more big entering the ring. The farcical . for a working life outside the ring. dominate the sporting names and receives more money. Tyson-Spinks match illustrates attractions, only Tyson is Both Hearns and Leonard were this as well as the Bruno-Bugner A fight with plenty of hype is headlines over the truly qualified to command a great fighters and , Leonard fight where the two losers openly what: ' the punters. want, it is coming months, Tom world audience. The others showed remarkable ability in admitted that money alone had glamorous and sltck, not too are, in short, money grub­ defeating Marvin Hagler three lured them back into the ring. seedy ~nd we all know,th~ chara~- Hartley looks at a sport hers. years ago to win the World Our own hero . Frank Bruno ters ltke Good 01 where s which is increasingly Honeyghan picked up £400,000 Middleweight title. However, hasn't fought for ~ell over a year Harry" Bru1o and Evil Mike with for fear that should he be the yroblems and the in defeat while Bruno will collect they are no longer the best boxers do~estic dominated by the If more like £1 million for his one or in their division. They are over the defeated, he will lose his number speech I_mpedim;nt. you want money makers. two round stand with Terrible hill. In the business dominated one contenders spot and so miss r~al b?xi~g, don t bu~ a s~y satel­ Mike Tyson. These two British boxing world, the best most prom­ out on his million pound confron- hte dish, buy a tram ticket t9 tation in Las Vegas. South London. boxers are not in the same league ising fighters do not get a look in, .,. Runners take the bronze The A race was, however, a HARE AND HOUNDS trifle more serious, seven miles IT WAS wet and very cross country is never particularly a funny. Former English Junior windy St. Andrews which Champion Chris Sweeny of Bir­ played host to the British Stu­ mingham ran out eventual winner dents Cross Country Cham­ after SUSF champion Ian Hunter pionships on Saturday. The of Heriot-Watt unsuccessfully usual three races were "on tried to close the gap using the the card", the Ladies race unusual tactic of removing his shoes. and the Mens A and Mens B Meanwhile further down the which were 3, 6.9 miles and field the Haries were having a 4.6 miles respectively. field day, spurred on by rabid sup­ The first race was the Ladies port. Peter Dymoke continued his race which was dominated by tremendous progress to come Oxford but the Edinburgh contin­ 19th followed by solid runs from gent ran well with Cathy Kitchen, Ian Harkness (33) , Neil Thin (39), despite the additional pressures of Dave Arnott (50) and Russell her new found media exposure, Boyd (53) and the team was leading the team home. She was closed out by a blinder from Will followed by Charlotte and Rachel Ramsbotham at 77th, out of a McFadden Katie Fisher and field of more than 350. Lorna Boyd in encouragingly This superb team performance close formation. clinched the bronze medals Hugh Pinney's photo shows the in the first half however proved to be the University's undoing. With In the subsequent Mens B race behind Loughborough and Bir­ University Ist XI's Kenny RUGBY the elements in their favour, Holy there was a large Edinburgh con­ mingham and won the unofficial McNally moving in to challenge IN A GAME played in Cross forced their way back into tingent throughout the field with title of first "proper" university. Norman McLeod of the old boys appalling conditions the Uni­ the match after the interval. Andrew Gartside home first. There are three things "that made side, the Youthanasians, at·Peffer::. Shoddy tackling in the centre_pro­ Meanwhile at the back ofthe field this achievement possible; indi­ mill on Saturday. _The I~ I draw versity 2nd XV really should a titanic struggle for last place vidual talent, collective pain at (the Uni's goal was scored by have buried a poor Holy duced a try for the visitors and the developed. Jon Wright finally got Meadowbank and on the Andrew Wyatt) provided the Cross side in the first half. conversion and an earlier penalty the decision over Robbie Meadows and the ability of our Men's Hockey Ist XI with more completed the Holy Cross · Whitehouse because although supporters to shout louder than practice as they prepare to resume EURFC 2nd XV 9 comeback. In the end the final Jon's stomach cross the line first, anyone else. their National League campaign, whistle came as a relief to all con­ the rest of his body was still sev­ following the winter break. Holy Cross cerned as the game degenerated eral feet behind Robbie's. Ian Darkness into a mudbath. · 1st XV9 • The result was completely over­ shadowed by the performance at UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH MOUNTAIN The University's only try was Richmond ofthe Scottish Univer­ scored early after a fine move sities who defeated their English BIKES initiated by the sensationally counterparts for the first time POLL TAX (COMMUNITY CHARGE) turned out Nick Bennett and since the fixture was brought into FOR HIRE AND SALE rounded off with a try under the . existence, 4-3 being the winning STUDENT CERTIFICATES posts by Ted Linehan returning margin. Edinburgh University TRY after injury. This was converted were well represented by nine Students attending a FULL·TIME course are entitled to pay only 20 per cent · by Garth McAipine, a late call up players, but the try scorer was of the Personal Community Charge (to be introduced on 1 April1989). The BEFORE from the unfashionable ranks of. right wing Andy Coates of St. University is required to issue a certificate to every such student. This YOU BUY the 1st XV, who also added a pen­ Andrews. - certificate will then have to be produced to the Registration Officer by the alty before half-time. Th~ failure to score m? re points Neil Thaden student to prove entitlement to the reduced charge. BIKES FROM £125-£500 UNDERGRADUATES by British Eagle · Diamond You should collect your certificate at any time between Monday 13 and Black· Emmelle · Falcon Friday 24 February as follows: Focus · Muddy Fox · Orbit Science Undergraduates: On Monday 13 and Thursday 14 only- from Raleigh · Ridgeback the Leve~3 Concourse, JCMB; otherwise from the Regi_:;try, Old College. CENTRAL CYCLE HIRE All Other Undergraduates: From the Registry, Old College 13 Lochrin Place between the hours of 9.30 am to 1pm and 2 pm to 4 pm, Mondays to Fridays. 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The championship will consist . LADIES RUGBY of a Table Top Navigational FOOTBALL Rally, an Autotest and a Naviga­ tional Road Rally. The Naviga­ ABERDEEN University IN SPITE of the valiant tional Road Rally, is also a round efforts of our forwards in must be becoming increas­ in the eastern Scottish Associa­ ingly sick of the sight of their Wednesday's match, Edin­ tion of Car Clubs (ESACC) cham­ burgh Ladies Rugby team pionship, hence there will be Edinburgh opponents. After lost 14-0 to St. Andrews due crews from the local Scottish Car a sound thrashing at Netball to their series of cunning run Clubs competing for honours. the previous week, they suf­ away tries. ' If anY.one wishes to help the fered a further humiliation at club marshall the Rally please However there were some very ·the hands of the footballers could they contact: tense moments at the end of the last Wednesday. Ian Barclay 667 1971 ext. 17 second half as Edinburgh moved Suffering no ill effects from the towards the try line, with some three hour journey the 1st XI TRAMPOLINE CLUB notable bulldozing techniques swept in to an early lead through performed by the back row nar­ Scott Fraser, who has proved to rowly failing to put the ball down be full of confidence s~nce his over the line. EDINBURGH University Trampoline Club is hosting return to university football this The morale of the ream remams term. unshaken, despite the score and the Scottish Student Tram­ these frolicking females looked poline Open Championships set for a better result against Aber this weekend, the 11th and deen at Peffermill yesterday. 12th of February in the Plea­ EUAFC 1st XI 4 sance Sports Centre. BADMINTON CLUB The two days of competitions will involve Individual and Team . Aberdeen Uni. 0 competitions from 12 pm onwards THE Scottish Universities on the Saturday and a Syn­ Badminton Championships chronised competition on the The perfect conditions helped last weekend in Glasgow Sunday from 11 am onwards. Edinburgh to play some of their best football of the year, and they were evidence of the very It is the biggest student tram­ Nose intact, Liam McArthur in action for Photo: Hugh Pinney. ·poline competition in Britain, and must now be regretting some of high standard the Edinburgh the 1st XI. ,the dropped points earlier on in there will be over 200 competitors team has been maintaining the season. . this season. from Scottish, Irish, English and some European University clubs. The second half saw Edinburgh In the Ladies singles, Kerry turn their territorial domination McKay lost in the final to Gillian If you've never seen trampolin­ ing before then this weekend is Results. • .Results. • • in to goals. The elegant skipper Martin (Glasgow), but was com­ Bill Downie strode forward to pensated when she and Wendy your big chance to find out what Men's Hockey: it's all about. power in a bullet header from a Nicholson, were then victorious in 1st XI v. Newcastle University (a) 4-1 corner and Milan Govan and the Ladies doubles event. Wendy, 1st XI v. Youthana.sians (h) 1 -1 Dave Keilley completed the scor­ partnered by Grant Nairn, went BOAT CLUB 2nd XI v. Penicuik 0-0 ing with two scorching 25 yard on to win the Mixed Doubles, and 3rd XI v. Reivers 01 drives. · she and Kerry were subsequently selected for the Scottish Univer­ ANOTHER busy week for Women's Hockey: Meanwhile the 2nd Xi were sities team. the Boat Club following the 1st XI v. Boroughmuir (a) 1-2 rubbing even more salt in to After a very tense and exciting . excellent success of the Ball. 2nd XI v. Trinity (h) 4-0 'Aberdeen's wounds. Mark Gur­ Mens singles final, Grant Nairn . ney led the way scoring a hat trick The top men's crews were on Rugby: on his debut, and further goals took the title over Duncan Lyle the water for several hours at the (Heriot-Watt) and was chosen, 2nd XV v. Holycross (a) 9-9 from Rogerson, Sewell and Park, training for the Head of the 3rd XV v. Biggar 3 (a) 9-14 Montgomery ( a chip from 30 not only for the Scottish Univer­ RiverRace in London at the end sities team, but as its captain. In Freshers XV v. Dalkeith 2 (a) 27-0 yards) completed the rout .. Even of term. Atrocious weather Vandals v. Boroughmuir (a) 12-0 the loss of Forshaw early m the addition, David Hunter, of Edin­ made a dramatic day in Stirling second half did not disrupt the I burgh was selected as the team's for the 2 pairs of mens and womens reserve. Volleyball: . team's rhythm. novice fours representing Edinburgh Women's1st v. Falkirk II (a) 3-0 University Strong winds, rain Women's 1st v. 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He admires the bravery of Strathclyde R~gion in commissioning these works: "There was one Tory MP saying how dreadful it was that Sir Peter Maxwell a council was wasting its money on this kind of thing .... The music is being brought to the public, and a real public, not just a specialist Davies has been public." The next Strathclyde Concerto will appear in about a year's commissioned to time, and will be a brass concerto. Maxwell Davies always decides on the soloist in conjunction with the members of the orchestra: "I compose ten concertos wouldn't write it for somebody who was perhaps a bit shy, or was going for the Scottish to move to another orchestra." He also thinks it is important to collaborate on details of the solo part: "They might find certain things Chamber Orchestra~· ·don't suit their style, or I've written something which is awkward on the funding is from instrument. ... You have to take into consideration the style of that Strathclyde Region. particular person." He also works on other pieces, both commissions and other work, although he says, "there's really not -very much The second of these distinction any more". He agrees that working to specifications Strathclyde Concertos, introduces restrictions, but this does not seem to hamper his creativity; for the principal cellist he rather sees it as a necessary evil. of the SCO, William nother thing which might not be seen as traditonally creative is A writing a long string of the same type of work. "People have said, .Conway, was 'How can you write so many concertos, doesn't it get boring?' and I premiered on think, well, there was Mozart writing piano. concerto after piano Wednesday 1st -concerto ... I'm sure he wasn't bored with them .... Other composers · ·have written lots and lots of pieces in the same form, all those string February. Katie quartets by Haydn, for example ... I don't find this restricting or A/cock spoke to boring, I'm just happy to have the opporutnity to do it. Each new concerto is a completely different world." · Maxwell Davies about Ka~ie Alcock his music and work with the sea, and reviews this grand SCO-SIR PETER MAXWELL DA VIES Queen's Hall performance. 2 February THE second Strathclyde Concerto is Maxwell Davies in a very dark axwell Davies knew that he wanted to be involved in music mood- it evokes a windswept and sea-battered headland, but always when he grew up before he knew what either "music" or on a moonless night. The moods are very powerful and pervasive, the "growing up" meant, in fact, from the age of four, when he atmosphere thick and heavy. Maxwell Davies has obviously M saw a local production of The Gondoliers. It is a far cry constructed the piece with intricate care and rehearsed the orchestra indeed from the music of Gilbert and Sullivan to that of Maxwell with equal attention to detail. The concerto, however, is very solitary in Davies; but as soon as he began to play the piano, whi~h he took to "like nature, the cellist (William Conway) wrapped up in his music a duck to water", he knew he wanted to be a composer; he says, "As completely, apart from a few points where he emerges to have a calm soon as I found my way around the keyboard, that was what I wanted - and interesting dialogue with the orchestra, such as that with the strings to be." in the second movement. The cadenza in this movement is very carefully placed and deliberate, and the orchestra are deliberate, to the is position with the SCO has the title of Associate Composer/ point of being tense and quivering. The third movement is intense, and H Conductor. The conducting, however, is a much more recent - seems to be a battle between orchestra and soloist, but the quiet, innovation. His first link with the orchestra was in composing a pie~e smooth and melodic ending resolves the conflict. for them on the 400th anniversary of Edinburgh University. it was with In contrast with the heavy drama of Maxwell Davies, the other two trepidation that he first conducted a piece of his own with the SCO: pieces, though not intrinsically light, seem positively featherweight. "We came to the recording of it, and I was all set to go along to these Beethoven's Prometheus overture has a delciate air of expectancy, sessions, and then James Conlon (who had been going to conduct) giving the impression that the orchestra are holding back a little of their amnnounced that he couldn't do the recording, so they said, 'Well, will · efforts for somehthing else; indeed, this was followed by the concerto. you do it?'. So, very nervously, I said, 'Well, urn, urn, urn.' But I did it." The wind solos were notable, with the SCO as usual allowing them full Conducting his own works in a concert followed, and then prominence. Schubert's Symphony No. 6 in C major was also graceful conducting someone else's music, which "was a completely new and delicate, a completely different orchestra after the concerto; they concept in life". Of his future in conducting, he says: "I don't intend to have been domesticated. The minuet was reminiscent of a musical make a career of it, but it's nice to have a small number of concerts to clock , the finale delightful and understated. A most calming end to a deal with. It keeps a composer in touch with musicians and audiences. concert of startling variety.

the face of forces beyond human .· ThemoodofYes, Peut-Etrewas vivid childhood imagination and ACTES SANS PAROLES control. His spontaneous actions much less comic than tragic. Two ERNIES INCREDIBLE provided · a vast opportunity for I & 11 - Samuel Beckett in striving to reach the tantalising women, played by Tara De Lin­ i HALLUCINATIONS laughs, which the enthusiastic YES, PEUT-ETRE­ props, such as a suspended water . der and Olivia Dawson, con­ Bedlam cast used to their advan­ Marguerite Duras jug, emphasised the unattainabil- · versed over the moribund body of Bedlam Lunchtime tage. Each member of the cast played ity of his goals, including death an unknown war soldier. Despite 1 February Les Escogriffes and, ultimately, his required their clear French diction and a role but special mention must be Adam House Theatre . refusal of m_flterial satisfaction. - compellingly expressive acting, THIS short play by Alan · given to Simon Startin as Ernie and Mitchell Benn (just a mitur­ 2-4 February what the play suggested was our Ayckbourn provided much inability to give adequate expres- · lunchtime entertainment for ally funny person) as Ernie's THE eloquence of silence in The eloquence of silence in stodgy dad. The cast had obvi­ sion to deeper feelings. - the full Bedlam theatre. Beckett's plays is not a con- Beckett plays is not a con­ ously been given great encoruage­ It followed the story. of a young : ment by their director, Lucy Mor­ tradiction in terms, for the tradiction in terms. schoolboy's wild imaginative _ tragi-comedy of mime sur- In general, these daring but gan, and appeared to be enjoying nevertheless captivating and dreams which, to the growing con­ the production as much as the mounts the inadequacy of In ttie second Acte, two diffe- - humorous performances of the' sternation of his parents, become audience. language to convey the' rent approaches to life were con- Theatre of The Absurd chal­ reality. In an attempt to cure Everyone became engrossed in helplessness of the human mically portrayed in the awaken- -lenged our natural complacency Ernie of this unfortunate ailment, the heroic mountain scenes on a situation. ing routines of two men, where and reminded us that just as much his parents drag him off to the stepladder and gang murders in a Dave Hopper's supposedly -the fastidious, well-prepared one interpretation is required of the doctor., who of course dismisses library and the hilarious and unrehearsed performance ·m seemed to achieve no more of audience as of the actors. them- the case until he too becomes part imaginative play enthralled not Actes San Paroles I was an expres- i"mportance than he who gave up, - selves. of the dreams. T.he whole tale was only'-the Bedl;lm faithful but the sion of restlessness and futility in dishevelled and disorganised. Melanie Hanbury very reminiscent of the days of . audience at large. · 8 Thursday. February 9, 1989 FEATURES REVIEW

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AST Monday saw the start of Chinese claims to be a year old and a mass birthday is celebrated. New Year. A bit late, but then again (Unlike us, individual birthdays are not really relevant to the Chinese.) On the fifteenth day (otherwise there are other merits to having a New described as "the Henley of Chinese New Year" L Year to celebrate which is determined people assemble along streets to watch the parades and by the lunar calendar, the aspects of the moon. fireworks of the Lantern Festival. As a child I always For a start ifs longer and lasts a full two weeks until a enjoyed carrying my Chinese duck, dragonfly, or action­ full moon marks the end of the festivities. I've often For most of us, the holiday man lantern through the streets late at night, with all my thought the West had dipped out on a number of celebrations are a drunken haze friends, armed with "mooncakes" whose red-beaned ~occasions, in terms of the kind of "epic splashes" which filling splayed well on a bare surface. Don't for God's our Eastern friends turn out. At no time in the past 22 fading rapidly into oblivion. But sake try to eat the things! years do I remember taking part in a celebration lasting for one group of people the New two weeks, in fact lasting more than a day. I don't think the run up to Christmas has quite the Year festivities are only just Chinese in Britain same volumous appeal and I would hardly count Lent as beginning. This week Sarah inspiring the inclination to gluttony, debauchery and .ell, these are some of the traditional ideas revelry. Knight takes a look at the of New Year understood very basically by a Not that Chinese New Year advocates such vices Western mind. In an attempt to find out either, no, it is in origin a religious, family and pastoral Chinese celebrations in Wabout Chinese New Year as it is to lots of holiday. The myths surrounding Chinese New Year are people in Britain, I went down to Soho on Saturday and such that no cautious individual would want to ignore Edinburgh and Soho, and also talked to various shop owners and restauranteurs in them. A little offering to the right god here and there investigates a more sinister side Gerrard Street. My first encounter was with Wa Ta Fu, 6; might just produce the kind of mass good fortune that from the Honk Kong Cultural Services, who was a • ' everyone dreams of now and again. Fortune, like the to Chinese life - the shadow of charming man with a near perfect English accent. When pools, is cheap, can be hugely rewarding and doesn't asked about Chinese New Year, he replied he had demand an awful lot of sacrifice. the Triads .. . thought it was next Saturday, the 12th, but apparently it So why not make offerings to the gods? Why not was the 4th and I shouldn't make the same mistake. I present a "guang dong" (sticky sweet) to "Tsao Wang" asked him what was going to happen this year and in (the Kitchen God) at New Year to sweeten his mouth or between serving his customers their Chinese porn mags glue his lips together, before he submits his annual (I hadn't realised what cultural services stood for) he report on you to the ruler of the heavenly court of gods, gave me a quick briefing on events. "Well , basically, it's the "Jade Emperor". That "green" god (nothing to do a time when all the shops close and work stops for two with ITV's female equivalent) alone determines the rise days." (I instantly understood the novelty of New Year!) or fall of one's fortune for the next year. Why not seal "Then all the children get given 'lucky money' in those your doors with red paper to keep out the evil spirits red packets which you see behind you on the shelf before the dawning of the New Year, and cover your marked Lai Jee. It keeps them quiet and 'sweet' for a few house in peach blossom to bring good luck. days." Were the community committee laying on any A few pictures of a boy holding a fish wouldn't come •Street parties? "Well, I don't know," he said, "normally amiss, especially if you're banking on a successful by this time they've put up street decorations, but they harvest of some sort in the near future. seem to have forgotten this year." I thought I'd ask the Buy a new dress, spring clean, settle your debts, feed committee myself what was going on but found the office the gods, eat pressed duck, water chestnuts and red closed until Monday. So I returned to the' "cultural melon seeds, and you could be well on your way to services", having forgotten to ask about the dragon. Wa & winning a million dollar life for two in paradise, plus Ta Fu seemed not in the least surprised that the • bonus (sky?) if you're really lucky. committee weren't in , and mentioned that they hardly "Luck" is not to be ignored as something ever met there, but in various restaurants in the street, quintessentially arbitrary, but nurtured and wooed and whenever the moment suited them. I probably wouldn't fostered like a sleeping baby, so that when it wakes it ever find or indeed recognise them so I shouldn't bother. doesn't scream and howl but smiles brightly, coos'and What about the dragon, I asked? Oh yes, there was a brings happiness, hope and pride to all who look on. dragon dance on the 12th which was bound to attract lots It's a wonderful understanding of the world in which of people, so he wasn't planning on going to it as he we live in, that seems to give the Chinese this respect for wouldn't see a thing anyway. The ferocious noise from forces beyond their control. cymbals and gongs is designed to scare evil spirits away, not that Wa Ta Fu was anything but pleasant. It was originally a dance of the Dragon King to bring down the Religion precious rain. The dragon is a sign of emperors and with that power, success a_nd we_!llth. The worshippers of Tao will tell you that peace and happiness can be gained from understanding and following the true pattern and plan of life. The power of The Triads nature is such that one should strive to maintain a natural balance between opposites and not try to upset The thought of Gerrard Street flooded with noise and or control them (i.e. don't split the atom- what about crowds instantly conjures up the mystery behind this the Teesters?). street, which anyone reading the Evening Standard last Believers in confusiasm will stress the importance of Friday would understand. There was a long article on the power of human beings to influence life on earth. the situation of the Triads among the Chinese That a happy and peaceful world rests on the division community. It quoted figures of one in six Chinese into groups of society, and that the top echelons must belonging to the Triads, which is an extortionate number treat inferio(S well. Buddhists will likewise encourage ·by any standards. The inability to see justice done struck the development of inner stability and understanding to me as the worst predicament of the Chinese heal the misery and sorrows of life and transcend conglomerates and their recourse to silence chilled the selfishness which arises from the unsatisfied passion of marrow of my democratic bones. It appears that pirating greed. of videos is as profitable as dealing in drugs-such is the Above all, Chinese New Year is a time of family Asian love of Hong Kong Chinese soap operas, that one reunion. Children stay awake to see the New Year in, as master tape can produce 5,000 copies. With a rental missing the first moments means you might not live to be charge of £2 per night, the gross annual profit is a very old. Grandfather and sprog are the first to greet potential £3,630,000. each other. the latter, "kowtowing" (bowing) as a mark "You can't get on unless you 're a member." Triad of respect. Then it's time for tea, celebrated with a bit ·crime takes the form of threats backed by the promise of more eclat than we normally would, followed by prayers extreme violence if there is any failing to comply with ·for the dead and offerings to the gods. This family party demands. Main Triad groups consist of the Wo On Lok, goes on for two days until you've had enough of each in Queensway, W. London, the Wo Sing Wo, based in other, and the third day, appropriately known as Manchester, 14K dominant in Soho, the San Yue On, "Squabble Day", effectively gets rid of the relatives. The the main organisation behind gambling in Hong Kong, fourth day is suitably allocated for the "calling birds'' and the Tai Huen Chai Wo are a particularly brutal gang and it is then that the wives have a chance to go home in Holland and Belgium. and see their own family. 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The Edinburgh Encounter con­ be a new restaurant every dence, Sheridan Nicol, can now an enthusiastic response that a Cavallo ... This list is endless. tinues its crusade to involve stu- minute at the moment, and Gal­ be contacted at the King's second series is planned for mid­ . dents in the Scottish cultural lery openings included the Theatre. Dance Attic continue March. Places are limited, so community. How successfully Dutch art at the Fruitmarket and their popular evening classes of book now to avoid disappoint­ The Department of Recreation at we don't know since we receive a new exhibition at the 369. The Contemporary Dance and Jazz at . ment. DON'T MISS their new Edinburgh District Council very little feedback. Is there Photography Workshop is the King's along with Saturday dance performances this spring shamefully confessed to me last something you want to write showing photographed collages Workshops. which are a continuation ofthe week that they increasingly con­ about, something you are by Callum Colvin and the Uni­ Lindsay John continues his trend launched last year under sider the student population as involved with that you think versity's own photography com­ exciting experimental perfor­ the title, New work, No definition. isilated and separate from the might interest other students? petition, Man and His Environ­ mance workshop for another These performances move Edinburgh community. The role May 29th sees the closing date ment, is looking for more four weeks. Later this month away from traditional text-based of this supplement is to provide a of the Shelter HOMEVIDEO entries. Good idea but a pity brings IRIE! to Edinburgh to take theatre towards the innovative forum for the arts events outside competition which wants young about the gender-based title and a jazz and reggae workshop on and the experimental. the immediate sphere of the Uni­ people to put their views on the the slightly (?) sexist poster! February 17th. Scottish Opera's alternative versity societies. The variety and meaning of the word "home". Keep your eyes open and pick and irreverent production Das increasing number of such arts Winners will have their work up on classes as varied as Rheingold arrives at the Edin­ events should turn this supple­ shown on prime time television The rriost constructi.ve·use of this Flamenco (Theatre Workshop) burgh Playhouse at the end of ment into a vociferous Speakers' as well as the dubious honour of space is to allude to all that is and Latin American as well as February. University Opera pre­ Corner. Investigate and Speak a "memorable" day out at Brook­ happening in the Edinburgh the more traditional Ballet clas­ sents Leonard Bernstein's Mass, UP! side and lunch with the cast. community that we have not had ses. and the Edinburgh Grand Opera Interested? Contact Shelter at 88 room for in this edition of the The Traverse Theatre's series Company present Cavalleria Rus­ ·old Street, London EC1 V 9HU. Edinburgh Encounter. of Workshops, as advertised in ticana gy Pietro Mascagni and I Tel 01-253 0202. There seems to The new dance artist-in-resi- our previous issue, found such Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leon-

LITTLE ITALY

he main theme of the 1988 tance of capturing the "Spirit" of March there will be a lecture their current exhibition which ses and more specialised cultural T International Edinburgh Fes- Italy, and he emphasises the given by Mr Mezzacappa on "Il opened Tuesday 7 February. It is classes. New courses begin at the . tival was ~ntitled "The Kingdom social function of the Institute. Cinemia Italiano deglo Anni 80", a collection of works by 72 con­ end of this month. of the two Sicilies". This proved StUdents are actively encour­ which should appeal to all lovers temporary artists exploring their In this quick resume of the the ideal opportunity for the aged to become involved (they of the absurdist tradition in Ita­ varied interpretations of Rome, type of events that the Italian celebratory opening of the Italian are offered membership at the lian cinema. and is entitled; "Roma Punto Institute offers, I hope that its Institute's new premises on the reduced rate of £3.50). Promotion of Italian culture Uno". The Queen's Hall regu­ cultural wealth has not been 1st September 1988 at 82 Nicol­ The library, although still within the Edinburgh commun­ larly houses the concerts which emphasised at the expense of its son Street. For two years previ­ small in size, specialises in fic­ ity is channelled through collab­ are a central concern of the Insti­ friendly services and welcoming • ously the Institute had been hid­ tion in order to provide a service oration over arts projects with tute's programme, and in mid­ atmosphere. The Institute pro­ den away in the basement of the which is not currently com­ local museums, galleries, March the Edinburgh Grand vides a meeting point for those Consulate, and thus the prehensively catered for in the theatres, and music halls, espe­ Opera Company presents who have an interest in Italy, Institue' s director, Alberto di Italian Department at the UNi­ cially the Queen's Hall. " Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I whether in its language, or cul­ Mauso, is delighted by this "re­ versity, with whom the Institute Recently, there was a conference Pagliacci"at the King's Theatre. ture, or both. It is a new, small surrection". He particularly are in constant consultation. The at the Talbot Rice Gallery, which The Italian Institute is taking an establishment, and needs you wanted to site the Institute near library who stocks the news­ analysed the artistic relationship active part in the production of support. . to the University so that relations paper ll C Corriere della Sera and of Scotland with Italy from the "La Fanniglia dell' Antiquario" For any further information with the Intalian Department the monthly magazine; eighteenth century to the pre-;,. written by Carlo Goldoni, and in concerning the Institute or any of could be improved. However, Panorama. sent day. Thursday February 9 which Dr. Mezzacappa, the the events listed here please con­ how many of the students read­ An important addition to the heralds another conference on Assistant Director, is taking a tact the Institute at: ing this article are aware of its services offered by the Institute the refined writing and controv­ leading role - he hopes his per­ 82 Nicolson Street, existence? is the r·ecent installation of a ~rsial personality of the formance will meet with support Edinburgh. The aim of the Institute is satellite dish enabling it to trans­ renowned Sicilian novelist, from the students. Tel: 668 2232. primarily to promote Italian cul­ mit live Italian television- both Tomasi di Lamrcohea. ture and to proffer to the Scottish Rai 1 and 2. In addition evening Exhibitions are held fre­ The language courses at the populace a vision of ltaly·today. videos are shown fortnightly, quently at the Institute and at Institute are taught at three Nicola Adams However, at the same time the and are open to all members of other Edinburgh galleries. The levels by native Italian speakers. director is aware of the impor- the public. Towards the ~no of Richard Demarco Gallery houses It also offers conversation clas-

~ 1 rj:>. L'INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ECOSSE ~M~ presents STAFF 3~ POUR UN OUI OU POUR • UN NON LIST by '\ r t GORGEOUS GATEAUX, TASTY SCONES, SATISFYING SOUP, HEARTY MEALS, NATHALIE SAURRAUTE AFFORDABLE PRICES, PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE with Editors JEAN-JACQUES DULON and RAYMOND ACQUAVIVA Amanda Mears Helios Fountain is situated at the west end of the Grassmarket, five Lucinda Jarrett minutes from Princes Street. SatUrday 11 February At the back of an unusual shop full of unique gifts, alternative books and at Deputy Editor an extensive range of crat materials is a wholefood vegetarian 7.30p.m. Bertie Newbury coffeehouse. Moray House Theatre You can have hot or cold meals, snacks, or just a cup of coffee. Design St John's Street Lucy Rogers Even if you're not a vegetarian we are confident that you will enjoy our (off Holyrood Road) food. Advertising Tickets (£2.50 & £3.50) available at the door or at the Open Mon-Sat 10 am~6 pm Lucy Parker Institut Fran~ais I · 7 GRASSMARKET · EDINBURGH EH12HY · 031-229 7884 (031) 225 5366 ..

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\ THEATRE ."BIRDS IN PASSAGE" NATURALS

"Start with an outrageous plot. Pack in as many jokes, ideas, and images as possible. Add some eccentric and hysterical characters, song, dance and music plus plenty of energy- then light the blue touch paper and see what happens. The result is a frantic kaileidoscope of entertainment -in this production conbining farce, psychodrama, B-movie horror. romance, and vauderville. All pre­ sented by a cast of four." Thus begins one recent review of the Natural Theatre Company's latest production entitled "The Jekyll and Hyde Follies" or "Double Trouble at Rum­ sore Sands". The Bath-based Naturals are noted ·throughout Europe for the quality of their authentic and clever shows, and their latest production will mark their fourth visit to Edinburgh. Since 1986 the Queen's Hall has provided a venue to house the Natural Theatre Company annually, and their previ­ ous show "Spy Society", was nominated for the "Best Fringe Performance" by Manchester Evening News Awards, 1988. "The Jekyll and Hyde Follies" is promoted as 'an atmospheric 1920's End-of-the-Pier Musical Murder arise: firstly co-ordination abrogates responsibility Mystery'. Does that make things any clearer? It is a and makes difficult the process of decision making, show where even the audience are asked to lose their PERFORMANCE and secondly, how is the performance project to sus­ identity, are invited to attend in 'beach wear and holi­ tain its dual function of providing an arena for involve­ day garb', and on Monday 6 March there will even be ment and apprenticeship into the theatrical process prizes for the 'best holidaywear'. It is a show where AS PROCESS without marring the quality of the final performance?" plot disappears and reappears in a parody of the "'Birds of Passage', have you heard anything about The Theatre Workshop, have sensibly delegated the schizophrenia which titles the production ... In the that?" responsibility of direction to one person, Caroline innocent world of Seaside Pianist Concert Party Feldie "It's a play about six characters who are separated Baker. In her they find a talented woman of remarka­ fellowes and Blossom Fitzroy are left stranded by the by history." ble patience and wide experience of working with the rest of their company i.n a theatrical boarding house "What do they have in common?" community. All well, so far. In order to involve the run by the eccentric Mrs Heckle and long-term resi­ "They are linked thematically and structurally oy a maximum number of people as possible there are dent lodger, 'Hubby'. What happens when all four seventh protagonist, who acts as a narrator." inevitably large crowd scenes. In order for the final join forces to present 'Uncle Sunshine's Pierhead Fol­ "No, what to they have in common?" performance to be successful every actor must be lies ofl928' ... 'a concoction of mixed-up portions and "All seven protagonists are female." made to feel significant, every rehearsal efficiently polymorphous pervenities'. And this is all that "What? Central characters in a play- female? Go planned so that time is used as economically as possi­ advance publicity can tell me about the show, a pro­ on." ble, and so that the actors are able to maintain the ini­ duction which clearly takes place on stage and not in . "I will. The performance project uses forced emigra­ tial enthusiasm which encouraged them to audition print, in performance and not in the textural debate of tion as a compelling metaphor for the problems facing earlier this month. critical reviews. women who attempt to find fulfillment in a masculine Rehearsals began 16th January and the opening For further inforamtion contact Arts Outreach (031) world. Sound exciting?" night of the performance was 8th February. The chal­ 225 2424 ext 6623. "Goon." lenge to all involved is remarkably daunting, but from that challenge is generated the enthusiasm which is "What is exciting is the organic form of the creative the prerequisite of a community project, and the Lucinda Jarrett process at work which is implicit in the performance potential for the fulfillment of its ambitious aims. 1 project. Last summer I participated in a Women's believe that the project sounds exciting, and hope it r------.-"'!""l.-..... ~~~:------1 Theatre Week where I read a playtext by :Mary MCar- will find support from the students. I attend the press The Queen's Hall thy. The text dramatised the problem facing old night tonight and review the performance project in Cierk Street people who long to retain their independence, w~o next week's Student. Edinburgh tnove into "Retirement Homes" in order to remam

I independent of family and community, and who are Natural Theatr~ Company then forced into a position of complete dependence Lucinda jarrett ------within the institutional structures. Six months later the sprightly, alert, and independent lady of Mary McCarthy's script resurfaces still undefeated in the ------~---~~------":--r­ text of this performance project and Mary McCarthy numbers among the eight playwrights. Indeed, "Birds MARY in Passage" has its roots in that Week of 'Women's Theatre. The level of feedback which the Theatre ROSE Workshop received from it encouraged the central co­ BISTR ordinators to channel that energy into this project. The or director of this project is Caroline Baker, and one of the 112 co-ordinators of the performance teams in Mona Bur­ don-both of these women were central figures in the Double Trouble at Rumcove Sands workshops for Women's Theatre, and both were in STREET Natural Theatre Company's latest musical charge at the Theatre Workshop when I recently ~~~~~~~~~~g~~:.~~ extravaganza-a mixture of Brinn Rix and attended a rehearsal there of "Birds in Passage". ~ The Phantom of the Opera The vast scale of the performance project, which involves 167 people and is the largest theatrical event t--:~IJ!-o-~-.;~~~~~...._~:.lo'" Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th March 1989 :wt 7.30pm planned in Edinburgh so far this year,_ de~ands full- Bar & Restaurant open 6.00prrt time commitment and complex orgamsahonal struc­ ture. It is a project whose emphasis is upon "_co~ordi­ One of Edinburgh Students' Monday Night Special-Prizes for best holiday wear nation" and "collaboration", and where the mission of favourite meeting places (knotted hanky. beachwear, sunglasses, sunhat, "taking arts to the people" has led to t~e involvem~nt Hawaiian shirt) of the community at all levels of theatrical production All of your favourite draught Tickets: £2.50 (£1.50 con~esions) (Music, Technical, Stage Design, Wardrobe and Stage beers and lagers . Management). The collaboration of eight different Adyance tickets from: The Queen's Hall Box Office, Clerk writers in the production of the script, and of several Also a large selection of foreign, Street (031 668 2019); Usher Hall Box Office, different · "teams" managed by separate "co­ ~ bottled and canned beer ' ·· Lothian Road (031 2281155) ordinators" begs the question, "Can such a project .. _ • ..;.....:;__ Mo~ 10am-5pm have any unity?" Two further problems forseeably Food and Bar Snacks always available· Wf!WJ!Rif!J -g~-~111!!!--~- Edinburgh Encounter page4

THE STATE OF THE ART

INDEPENDENT. , VIDEO PRODUCTION IN SCOTLAND

ast week I spoke to Christeen Winford about fighter for black people's rights, his active support of L her work as an independent producer of documen­ other people's deportation cases against the Home taries ~or Channel 4. Six documentaries ago Ms Win­ Office and left wing sympathies, may be the reason for ford, then employed on a housing scheme in Edin­ the government's determination to expell him after 13 burgh, wrote to Channel 4 to suggest they make a years residence in Britain. If you want to make up your documentary to publicise the problem of homeless­ own mind then you can hire this and other tapes on a ness. Despite having had no previous media experi­ bewildering variety of "causes" for as little as £5. ence she was given the go-ahead to produce a Channel 4's programmes Eleventh Hour and People to documentary in co-operation with the Edinburgh Film People were set up specifially to screen politically and Workship Trust. aesthetically adventurous work from community Ms Winford has subsequently made three more workshops and other independent film-makers. documentaries about the homeless and two films, Nevertheless, it seems doubtful whether the term "ad­ which will be shown as a pair on Channel 4 in Feb-. venturous" could be stretched to contain tapes like the ruary, about the difficulties of life in present day one on Viraj Mendes . However, People to People has· Nicaragua. Her next project takes her to Kampuchea recently been discontinued with the result that it is where social order is still being rebuilt after Pol Pot's now more difficult for people in the position that Ms brutal purges. His ideological massacres left the coun­ Winford was to air their views on national television. try with only 45 doctors to face the daunting task of Eleventh Hour ostensibly has the same function as organising some level of health care. They were People to People but it tends to favour experimental film­ further hampered by the West who, with the excep­ making rather than documentaries on social issues. ti?n of the USSR, France and Ireland, refused to recog­ Ms Win ford feels that the loss of the People to People slot mse the presence of the Vietnamese in Kampuchea as has deprived disadvantaged and minority social a legitimate government. This left the World Health groups of an effective voice. Organisation powerless to intervene because Pol Pot, Workshops like VIP do provide a voice for issues of though officially no longer a political force, has a rep­ minority interest but their distribution set-up means resentative in the United Nations who refused them that very often their tapes are merely preaching to the entry into the country. Ms Winford aims to document converted. The effects of this are interesting however, what will surely be the monumental difficulties of the because, with an audience whose political sympathies reconciliation process between the many rival fac­ are guaranteed, the emphasis in the video can be on tions. free expression rather than persuasion. Organisations The Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust, at 27 Albany like the London based Despite TV, or Trade Union Street, is one of national network of organisations video groups, tend to celebrate their point of view in whose primary function is to make innovative and an explosion of collage editing to produce a kind of community-linked progremmes for Channel 4. Their audio-visual body-popping. Another favourite is to last documentary, Doonray Plutonium Dream, was rework mainstream advertising so that the "men just broadcast on Eleventh Hour last December 15th. It was can't help acting on impulse" formula is superim­ thanks to the workshop's technical skills and facilities posed over footage of napalm explosions and mus­ The increased availability of cheap ~deo equipment hroom clouds. Generally the whole approach of these that Ms Windord was able first to translate her ideas and training has made the independent production into an arrsting documentary. organsiations is one of multi-cultural accessibility, sector into a hotbed of new techniques and ideas. Day humour and energy, with an emphasis on what is events and video competitions provide a forum for politically and aesthetically challenging rather than the normative criteria of "quality". discussion and consolidation of these developments. The Lothian Video Users Group, at 36 North West Thistle Street Lane, will hold its first ever festival of anything and everything produced by members and other video enthusiasts. Ideas evolved in the indepen­ ~e such Edinburgh based group is the Edirlburgh VUnemployed Worker's Centre who provide dent sector, most notably the combiriation of drama facilities for video production, photography, and and documentary, are beginning to filter through to training courses in desk-top publishing. They do mainstream broadcasting. The BBC's Tumbledown is a case in poirlt where the drama-doe technique had its much more than produce experimental "campaign" tapes however, and are actively involved in helping controversial mainstream debut. Channel4's funding iridividuals caught up in the always confusing, and of workshops and the movie industry is certainly a sometimes intimidating, bureaucratic maze that is the positive step towards harnessing the plethora of new Welfare State. George Wilson, from the centre, talent which is presently cutting its teeth on low explained to me how the DHSS investigative squad budget video productions all over the country. It will actively hound certain one-parent families, usu­ remains to be seen whether the government's televi­ ally single women, to discover whether or not they are sion diversification policy will help or hinder the inde­ involved in a relationship. pendent sector. Last year's Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival, in which Anot~er Channel 4 affiliated workshop in Ms Winford played an active part, contributed to the Amanda Mears I\.Edmburgh is Video in Pilton. VIP, one of the ongoing debate on what it means to be an "indepen­ founder members of the Scottish Association of Work­ dent" in the media. ForMs Winford it means present­ shops (S~ W~, has a history of programme making ing the policy's of a central government based in the ADDRESSES about social Issues - rangmg from Council tenants south, which is predominantly male, white and mid­ demanding a voice to a tape for Trade Unionists about The Lothian Video Users Group, dle class, from a different moral perspective. She is 36 North West Thistle St Lane t~e evils of Apartheid. The majority of VIP's produc­ motivated by her anger as a woman and a Scot that she tions are "campaign tapes" whose provocative treat­ Free training on a U-Matic editing suite. has been dispossed and deprived of a representative The Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust, ment of controversial issues means that they are distri­ voice. For instance, although Scotland represents 10% buted to interested parties rather than the mass media. 27 Albany St. Tel: 557 5242 of Channel 4' s audience, and provides 10% of its fund­ Courses in video technique, equipment for hire, and a Their most recent project was a twenty minute video- . ing, indpendent Scottish producers only receive 3% of tape on Viraj Mendes, produced by the Virai Mendes Women's Unit. All applicants are vetted as to keeness the programme commissions. The effect of this low etc. Defence C?mmittee, whi~ contains unique footage of funding is to lower the quality of programmes made The Fringe Film Festival, the man hilmself holed up m a church in Hulme, Man­ north of the border which in turn gives Scottish view­ chester. The video suggests that Mendes's role as 4 Duncan Place, EH6 SHW. ers a poor self-image. Organises practical video and film workshops. Edinburgh Encounter pageS

YO! ARTS OUTREACH

Someone suggested the headline for this article should be Yo- Arts Outreach! Get Down! It's been that sort of day, really. Arts Outreach is sort of "all the arts for D.I. Y. all the people". Working with community groups and people who have, or would like to have, an interest in the arts. We've organised workshops on everything from WITH candle-making to theatre lighting- a course of light­ ing workshops is running currently-and we co-ordi­ nate groups as varied as the Edinburgh Writers Association (who organise poetry readings under the E.S.V.P. informal title "Poems and Pints", which are held on the first Friday of every month in the bar of the west End Hotel in Palmerston Place) and the Well-Woman Group at St. Brides Community Centre. What more can you cay in 600 words? It's difficult to say what we do, because what we do is answer your "Get your ideas off the pad and questions. "What do you want?" We provide advice and the hire of the facilities we have here. What we do onto celluloid." not have we can also provide for you by putting you in toch with those trained to meet your requirements. (Sound's like a tailor, doesn't it?) Well, that's what we are, -ish. Oufitters for those who don't want to buy arts of the rack of High Street ESVP offers you the opportunity to get ideas off the Fashion and who want to make art to measure, or art pad and onto celluloid. Our primary function is to pro­ made to measure). vide a service, not to have any artistic control. We have AOT is presently working on the co-ordination of fully updated filming and editing facilities. Last month Spring Fling '89, Edinburgh's 5th annual community we acquired the latest in one of Panasonic' s video cam­ arts and sports festival. Spring Fling provides a form era models. Technical instruction is always available. for Edinburgh's true spirit of community and its At ESVP, as well as using the equipmnent, you can flourishing creative talents. Last year's Fling included find your cast and crew. Public showings of videos can an exhibition of broken violins (?), an incredibly silly be arranged at both the University and at nationwide man called Big Stu, whose performance with large amateur competitions. There are three competitions cardboard alphabet letters is the funniest, and proba­ open to members this year. The Scottish Students bly the daftest thing I've seen in years. We had chil­ Television Association, SNAST A, organises an annual dren's theatre companies going round local galas, a event which as well as the competition includes work­ poetry competition, a painting competition, dance, shops and lectures. Material can be presented in any drama, poetry live, choirs, exhibitions, kite-making, form; be it comedy, drama, documentary. The nation­ mime, and various other items of an artistic nature, wide equivalent association, NASTA, are holding including football. their competition in Birmingham this year. The third If you have an idea (or even 2 ideas- go wild!) for one is sponsored by the producers of "Brookside" for a Spring Fling project, get in touch with us soon. Sp»ing the promotion of the National Campaign for the Fling dates are 27 May-11 June. Do you need a venue? Homeless. There are only two demands; that the video Do you need a grant? Limited financial assistance is is based on the theme of 'HOME', and that its length available - but grant applications must be in by 1st does not exceed eight minutes. Energy and originality March. Street Theatre included - and all ideas wel­ carry more weight than technical expertise. The clos­ comed. Get thinking! One almost despite Goody in ing entry date is May 29th 1989. this year's Fling will be the Funny Farm- a branch of If you have a strong idea for a video but little know­ stand up comedians who recently took Glasgow by ledge of script-writing you are invited to work through storm (well, a bit of Glasgow). your ideas with Rob Lemkin, a professional script-wri­ Talking of weird. People are able to ask us for the ter of wadham Film Productions London. He will be most outrageous items (and if we haven't got one, we visiting us in mid-February. .know who has). For example, a large sheep, please. In addition, Muriel Gray has agreW to talk to us this (Not a living one). It should be a sheep ofthe pink var­ term on careers in television. iety. Oh, yes, it must have two heads-"One at either Meetings are held almost every Wednesday at the end?" That'll do nicely. One more thing, it must be Pleasance. Otherwise you can find us knocking 'em inflatable (easily transported/capable of floating in the back at the City Cafe. air). I probably shouldn't tell you what this sheep was Membership is £5 per annum. supposed to do, but I .will. They wanted it to fly over For more information contact Toby Hayman (Presi­ Portobello Town Hall. Billy Cornwall dent) on 229 6447 or Kirsty Semple (PA) on 667 8213.

Fringe Film Festival screenings;

March 2nd at 7.30 pm, Video 28, a celebration and a record of fightback events at "Clause 28". ·

April 6th at 7.30 pm, Leithers the changes within the Leith community from 1920, through industrial collapse, to its present state of nas­ cent yuppydom. Shown by Channel4 on J.uly 10th 1988.

All screenings £1150p concessions, a{The Collective Gallery, 166 The High Street.

Aquarhythms 11, remember last year's cinema pool party? Well another is on its way. Details in the pipeline.

The First Lothian Video User's Group Mini-Festival;

7-11 pm on a weekday evening between 17th-24th March. Ring 225 6518 for details. Why not enter a Video of your own? Who y'gonna call? -Arts Outreach! Contact: Blly/Linda/Shaun. Tel: 031-225 2424 Ext. 6625/6623. Edinburgh Encounter page 6

EDINBURGH PUBLISHING HOUSE MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF

ft fn /fl! tfllll<' tXfrdiJrdi;un; tb.It the THE -SCOTTISH :rrtt/11~ of Krmu·tl• I/ 'bitt' n1•ul' h.H zrmt •urb .1 f ttNsu~tG»} Lm preoccupation with social justice and its realistic por­ 1 AL&ANY Sn£ET, EDINBURGH eHJ JUG, trayal of the working class in Glasgow won the 1975 Ttt»HONE 031-557 2959 Whitbread Prize. This spirit of new writing has con­ tinued over the last 15 years introducing more recently ,.... - ·. Liz Lochhead and Brian MacCabe. These authors would never have been able to make this essential transition into a broader market had it not been for the extraordinary growth within the publishing industry Campbell hopes to rectify that by introducing him at he case of Kenneth White however is an alarming , ~A over the last 13 years. last to the English-speaking public. · Tone, since it underlines a lack of cultural tolerance "Y From a handful of independent companies the more mainstream companies, 'of which Mainstream and awareness here in Britain which is forcing writers industry has expanded to some 60 odd publishing Publishing is one. the company was set up ten years to seek recognition elsehwere or more tragically to dis­ houses ranging from small cottage-industries to bigger ago by two former editors of the Student newspaper, appear unnoticed. Publishers like Mainstream will Peter MacKenzie and Bill Campbell, having worked thankfully continue to pay tribute to the wealth of for the University Student Publications Board for a creative writing that is being produced most particu- lA ]hen the company first began Mainstream had couple of years the pair took out a £2,000 loan and larly in the west coast of Scotland, and which is con­ V V to go out and look for at least 95% of their work created what is now the largest independent publish­ tinuing to contribute to a Renaissance that began 20 and due to financial as well as practical reasons have ing house in Scotland. The growth of publishing over years ago. remained true to their name. Now however Campbell these last 15 years can be attributed to much the same will enter his office to find stacks of unsolicited manus­ sentiments that inspired Thaw's outburst, an urgency, cripts piled up in a corner and will always be on the that is, for greater national consciousness and inde­ Charlotte Bevan lookout for new and exciting work, knowing that free­ pendence; feelings which characterise the devolution dom from financial constraints means that he can fol­ climate of the 70's. low more experimental projects. Amongst a pile of manuscripts, Campbell discovered two chapters of David Milsted' s The Chronicles of Craigfieth and within half an hour was on the telephone to the author, sign­ ing him up. Since its publication the book has been acclaimed as the most exciting comic discovery of 1988. Other discoveries have included Edinburgh INTERESTED based Eugenie Fraser whoce The House by the Divina is a realistic and sensitive account of her extraordinary childhood in Russia during the onset of the Revolution IN THE and the falling of Tzar. By exploring the "artistic and pub" circiles of Scotland, going to readings and con­ SUPPLEMENT? sulting literary journals he has discovered what he DIFFERENT believes to be some of the most exciting writing in Bri­ tain today. Streets of Gold is a collection of short stories NEW· STAFF Indo-Chinese food (it covers a wide area) • A massive range of beers to be published late this year featuring work from including Belgian, Dutch, German, French and our famous fruit mainly young authors of the 1980's whose common beers • Live music every night • An extensive range of shooters denominator is Glasgow, and includes the work of NEEDED and cocktails • A range of speciality coffees • And teas, pain au James Kelman, Agnes Owens, Douglas Dunn and chocolat and croissants • A wine list of over sixty from three Alasdair Gray, at least half of the authors featured are continents women. Mainstream will also be concentrating this CALLAMANDA year on the work of Glasgow born Kenneth White who disappeared to France in the late 60's where has stead­ . ORLUCINDA LIKE WE SAID- ily received European acclaim for his poetry and novels. He has been described by the French as being DIFFERENT "the most original and the most attractive figure on the British scene" ·and his work has been translated into 225 3996 45-47 Lothian Street, Dutch, German, Greek, Bulgarian .. and yet paradox­ Edinburgh EHllHB ically he has remai•d relativ~ly unknown in Britain. Tel: 031-225 6313 Edinburgh Encounter page7

MOVIE STARS AND MEGALOMANIACS LATE NIGHTS

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ALTERNATIVES new ideas have been utilised, but very few people out­ However last September, a meeting was organised side each club's membership know what is going on. by Friends of the Earth to discuss the lin~ng up of For instance, how many people know that The those groups and societies concerned w1th green, The 1980s have seen a rise in the respectability of an alterna­ Schumacher Society raised over £9,000 last in a fun­ social and moral issues. Over sixty people turned up tive culture in Britain, ecology, community business, alter­ draising day for Intermediate Technology, an event and" Alternatives" was created. The idea was a to pro­ native medicine and appropriate technology are now fashion­ which involved 100 schools across Scotland. How duce a non-profit making journal which would act as a a/Jle and fast becoming acceptable to the mainstream. A new many people, for that matter, know what Schu-Soc is link between different groups and organisations, to student publication called "Alternatives" has been set up to or who Schumacher was? So the problem is one of publicise their meetings and events, as well as provide a forum for these and related ideas and issues. In the communciation, there is no official linking up of uni­ encouraging their members to write longer features on article below Carol Grove Smith, a member of the editorial versity groups, no way of exchanging information current issues and ideas. This would be put together committee, writes about some of the thinking behind the about events and issues and no forum for new ideas or with international, national and local news, inter­ magazine. "alternatives" to the cultural mainstream. views, cartoons, revie·.vs, a diary, and contacts page. We were especially keen to cover local news about · As Britain and the developed world become more organisations and individuals in the city who are affluent, certain sections of the population both at active in cooperatives, community businesses, educa­ home and abroad have become poorer. The New Right tion, energy and arts, an area often ignored by other political culture with its emphasis on individualism student publications. One exciting initiative is a feasi­ and independence from the State does not provide for bility study, being undertaken by The Lothian Energy the underclass, nor for the victims of economic Group, into the viability of setting up a number of development such as the environment and underde­ community-owned recycling businesses within the veloped nations, so who does? Should be be con­ Wester Hailes area, providing full-time employment cerned with deforestation in Amazon, hunger in for people in Wester Hailes, as well as making good Africa, and human rights in Africa? Increasingly the use of otherwise wasted paper, glass, tin cans, textiles, answer is yes, if the rising membership figures of plastic and possibly furniture. Friends of the Earth, CND, Amnesty International and An editorial committee of seven produced the first other pressure groups is anything to go by. issue on recycled paper and the first run was sold out. The increase in public concern for a wide range of the second issue is out on Feb 1st and includes features environmental, moral and social issues is reflected in on The Hinckley Point Inquiry, free range eggs, Man Edinburgh by the number of university groups set up against Sexism and an interview with George Mac­ as local branches of national movements. There is a Robie, on sustainable development. wealth of meetings, talks, workshops and fundraising events being organised by societies as diverse as Survi­ val International, SCAG, Animal Rights and Friends CAROLINE GROVE of the Earth and a tremendous amount of energy and '- SMITH MARGIN new form of writing, collaborations between writers, While we're on the subject of criminal neglect, let's journalists, photographers et ~1, show-casing ~nd talk about attempts to redress it, case in point being a promoting the non-mainstream m Scotland as a thmg certain publication bubbling under the cap of Edin­ in itself. burgh's dormant arts volcano- The Margin. . We (own-up time: I'm the editor); are putting it This is, much as we apprecwte the Edmburgh together because it's the kind of thing we want so see Review's crusade to bring us retrospectives by men on the magazine racks. No apologies. Grants-willing it who once spoke to Garcia Lorca, marvel as we may at will show face late February and thereafter bi­ the nuggets of arts socialism served up by Cencrastus, monthly. Buy it and thrill to the exploits of Mayo; it still doesn't sound to us like independant popular Poland's real-life clown political conscience. Or if not arts. contribute; artist, journo, photographer, writer, it's Enter The Margin. by the backdoor. The idea is a you we're talking about. simplle one; don't take the arts scene at face value, don't impose a narrow critique on things best left to speak for themselves and under no circumst~nc~s Bill Ross publish vacuous romantic poems because they re m Contact: Bill Ross, 4 Warrender Park Crescent, Edin­ gaelic and wouldn't it be a shame if ... burgh EH91DX. Tel: 228 3437. It's about putting the emphasis back on the new-

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. every Chinese restaurant ha; at least qne Triad member CHINESE ASTROLoGY: "riseable", completely unbearable, I've heard better iri· on its staff and that gambling dens, obscured from view, THE YEARS OF THE LUNAR SIGNS "Lassie". exist in the most unlikely or likely premises. The police Nevertheless, from the film it is easy to see that central, know of these illegal dens, but can do little to help to Chinese beliefs is the concept of the earth as a living, victims. The invulnerability of Triad groups stems from Rat 1936 1948 1972 1984 breathing organism with a golden chain of spiritual life fear; victims of extortion invariably refuse to tell the Great charm, quick tempered, shrewd, sharp-witted, littje binding the earth and its components together. This is police. I thought of Wa Ta Fu, his porn shop and fake rodent the essence of Chinese New Year, to maintain the "prune" flowers which he was going to display at New 0~ 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 harmony and natural balance of life, to settle all debts,. Year for good luck, and wondered if he too was part of Calm, quiet but stubborn, rather Aristotelian with an appease the gods, pray for the dead, and strengthen the this racketeering. Probably not, he didn't look inclination to a Van Gogh. family unit, celebrate the coming of spring and all the ambitious, the shop was modest and legality might well Tiger 1938 1950 1962 1974 1986 hope it offers, so that by not neglecting the forces of have staved within his grasp. Brave, thoughtful and touchy, Kart Marx and Beethoven nature, one is not adversely affected by them. "Fung shui" (literally meaning mind and water in Cantonese) is are fellow highly principles, anti-authoritarian champions. still studied by Chinese practitioners to determine good sites for buildings, burial sites, businesses and all aspects Recent Films Rabbit 1939 1951 1963 1975 1987 which will bring luck and avoid bad fortune for the Lucky, successful and moody - see Confucius and individuaL Einstein. Usually only the successful find the brotherhood on their doorsteps. This situation is portrayed in the new Dragon 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 · The Year of the Snake 1989 film of Timothy Mo's novel, Sour Sweet, which opens in Emotional, eccentric, a born leader-a Ringo Starr? London this month. Snake 1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 February 6th heralds the Year of the Snake. It is Wise, attractive, sometimes conceited - Jacqueline forecast to be a good year for politics, commerce and here se_erns to be renewed int~rest in Britain of Onassis, Mao Tse-tung (attractiveness open to interpretation). industry. Solutions will be reached, not always · the Chmese culture. The NatiOnal Museum in peacefully, and this we owe to the strong, negative force Chambers Street is currently holding a series Horse 1942 1954 1966 1978 1990 which follows the most positive force, namely the Year T of lectures on China. The lectures range from Intelligent, cheerful, impatient-odeto Paul McCartney. of the Dragon. Apparently the dragon has a tendency the Xian and Bejing Dynasties to aspects of Chinese art Goat 1943 1955 1967 1979 1991 for excess, but all the calamities resulting therefrom will and architecture, Chinese lacquer, teapots, gunpowder, Artistic, timid and indecisive - does Liberace mean culminate under the role of the snake. Legend has it that compass and silk, Chinese women and Chinese cinema. anything? Buddha on his deathbed called all the animals to him and The start of the programme was marked by the showing only 12 turned up, so he gave them each a year, hence of the film made in 1984 and is a reflection on the life of Monkey 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 this cycle of twelve years. The snake himself is wise, cool the poor hill people of the north in the 1930s. It was a Curious, inteUigent, troublesome- Elizabeth Taylor. and unpredictable, but when he strikes the changes are .tender portrayal of the solitude, backwardness, poverty Rooster 1945 1957 1969 1981 1993 devastating and immediate. • ·and superstition of peasants stranded next to their petty Arrogant, hardworking, dreaming - Peter Ustinov, It looks a pretty "punchy" year, but for those snakes plots, ploughing a meagre life, engulfed and benumbed Yves St Laurent in Paris. among you-your natural snake drive and ambition will as they are by the magnitudes and force of rising peaks, Dog 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 put you in control in times of crises, you will not allow gales, erosion and the "yellow" earth, in whose vale rtA Loyal, honest and selfzsh - Berthold Brecht, with Lisa others to intimidate you, holding sway at all times, yet • echoes grow like darkening shadows. It was touching to Minelli to compensate. never letting ambition take you beyond your capacity. see the plight of a young girl, condemned to marriage by The Chinese really believe we take on the chatacteristics the dogma of tradition, and the bare, awkward strength Pig 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 of the animals jn whose year we are born. At any rate of the folksongs had an intriguing freshness adding . Laid back, polite and spendthrift-anything from Oliver they seem to have more sensitivity to hidden knowledge, depth to the film, but the sentimentality of the music was Cromwell to Elton John. the amoral force of life, than we ever will.

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THESHAMEN confidence goes beyond a mere In Gorbachev We Trust admission of drug-taking to Moksha LP promotion with Synergy's chrous POP WILL EAT ITSELF of "NDAmazing" and the U beautiful A dam Strange. ("Adam Can Dig It? SO, what happened to The RCA 7" Shamen since their startling debut Strange is in my brain and I'm so glad to know him .") There is LP, Drop? Well, the rhythm has CAN U Dig It? is the bastard son become even more prevalent and justifkation for this, however, as they reflect a confused world in of Julie Andrews' Favourite experimental, the psychedelia Things and Tribe of Toffs' John and talented tune writing are still their offset of sampling and heavily cynical lyrics. Kettley is a Weatherman, and just there, but more has been brought why this pointless, tuneless piece in: hip-hop, sampling and acid! There are imperfections, of crap was allowed to be released This creates a collage of musical however, such as the tedious is beyond me. ' styles which fuse together background music of In The Poppies rant inexplicably producing a fantastic new sound, Gorbachev We Trust and the about all the things they "dig", NEW ORDER or at least that's the theory. slightly overstretched Raptyouare including guitar riffs, AC-DC, Certainly the opener, Synergy, is which tries to go that little bit too Technique the Twilight Zone and Marvel Factory LP an absolute stormer which far ("leave your body behind") comics. This is all rather self­ perhaps even surpasses the classic and sounds like they were on indulgent and set alongside the product that it is. NEW Order are men (and Fine Time is the opener, and Something About You which drugs when it was recorded. The absurd hiphop/disco beat, I can't women) travelling with a purpose. pounds out a beat as demolishing commenced Drop. album, however, bears these imagine anyone being remotely That the direction then changes well, and overall in a startling and interested in such inane drivel. For eight years they have striven as a JCB on acid. But this is not completely for stomping, almost triumphant one. It is a shame that Even the "riffs" were stolen from to create a sound which is really the style, and one is Public Enemy style Sweet Young The Shamen (completely Faith No More's We Care A Lot. danceable, yet intelligent, a music subsequently drawn into a tangle which embraces both subtlety and of delicate relationships, a lush Thing, sets the tense mood for unintended- honest!) must take Keiron Mellotte the whole album. The last thing . drugs when they can produce vigour. Technique, an album world that drips with beauty, a one can say about any track here sounds which in themselves created in Ibiza and influenced world that is Technique . Each is that it was expected; it is confront the strange world we live THE SUNDAYS largely by the all-night'bar, is the song pulls the listener a little definitely NOT an easy-listening in, and ultimately provide an Can't Be Sure most recent landmarlc on their further into the network of sound, journey. until, almost finaUy , Vanishing trip. The brash, confident sounds escape from it. Rough Trade 7" strikf out at, challenge, and even Neil Finnie New Order's strength lies in Point is reached. This is New their ability to mesh together so Order at their finest; an threaten (War Prayer, In WITH a style reminiscent of Gorbachev We Trust) the listener. wondrously a number of unrelenting dance beat wrapped Icelandic obscurists' Bert Holler, seemingly contrasting elements, with scrumptuous keyboards and Immediatley one realises that Can't Be Sure is a work of pure accusations of drugs thrown at somehow resolving them into a that voice. Bernard may be short (pop) visionary genius. This first perfectly unified form. A song on technical ability but when he The Shamen were completely offering is served with an intensity TRUE! This new-found may rest upon a solid, · sings you know he means it. and vigour (and I do not use these unshakeable, near-aggressive Guilty Partner and Dream words lightly) that would melt - rhythm, but weaved throughout Attack, however, bring guitar and even the coldest heart. is a pattern of beauty ~nd bass back to the fore, and show The musical backdrop has a harmony. Or a sorrowful and another side of the New Order beautifully restrained sound, like melancholy moment may be world, reminding us that this is the intro to some U2 song, but enhanced with a stroke of · not solely created via a computer rather than soaring there is an humour. keyboard. New Order have learnt incredible sense of delay. This Technique is classic New Order, to exploit technology, not to be gives an expectant uncertain feel and sees elements of their style ruled by it. that matches the mood of the honed to the finest degree. For These may not be the most song perfectly. New Order have not sidestepped exciting songs that they have ever "And if I can't be sure what I or diverged from their path, but produced, nor is it their most want anymore, it will come to me have followed a logical and memorable album. Yet its level of later," sings a melancholy satisfying progression. The ·craftsmanship is exceptional. Harriet. Her voice goes from an devotion to the sound layed down Every song is perfectly angelic whisper to enfant-terrible originally in Movement has constructed, the sound is in a single, effortless breath. A allowed this development and awesome, and it works well as a debut of startling importance and refinement to take place, and has unit. These are songs written out rare potential. now facilitated the creation of of necessity. That's Technique. Keiron Mellotte Technique as the finely crafted Alun Graves

(?) "pop" genre of Acid-Jazz - JAMES TA YLOR another peculiar hybrid thown up NITZEREBB QUARTET by the musically confused (and The Venue Venue bemused) late eighties. LIKE all memorable sexual Tyepcasting aside, their artisitc aplomb is beyond dispute. Swerv­ experiences this one starts NEVER can a band have slowly-and builds to a fren­ · been afflicted with such a ing and sliding up and down scale with an obvious relish, James T zied climax. For Nitzer Ebb misnomer. Even without led the way, and the faithful were exude sexuality, as they their brass section (a youthful soon persuading the initiates to unashamedly flaunt their trio) they numbered at least cut the heavy organ groove on the masculinity, and all the lust­ six; their loud luminary Jim dancefloor. hungry boys and girls get a (formerly of mod combo The chance to indulge their fan­ Prisoners and owner of the The watchword was profes­ tasies and pent-up desires. third-last authentic Ham­ sionalism, incorporating an exuberance which was at the same So, as I try to get a grip on mond ever made) seeming to time aloof, and a spontaneity that myself, we can turn to the music. provide the only strand of was somehow prearranged (if that But here nothing changes, for this continuity. is not a contradiction in terms). has all the aggressive power "Modishness" in word and deed, implicit in those who produce it. It As purveyors of organ-oriented in other words. Classic and con­ starts with that perfect heavy beat instrumentals, with a penchant for trolled. Recent single The Theme and ends with vocals that rip, compelling sound. . cism that is both the essence of the During this Douglas rubs hts music and the thing that sets sixties film themes, they initially from Starsky and Hutch was the shred and devour. Nothing more nipples and, by implication, man­ appealed to a rather exclusive · inevitable finale. A gimmick? is necessary. Nitzer Ebb take the Nitzer Ebb apart from the flaccid ages to stimulate scooter-driving select. The cur­ Perhaps, but stylishly executed, aggression of punk and cont~ol it our suppressed titillation of other so-called sex rent surge in their popularity -is for all that. until it can be barely contamed cravings. And so we're back t? symbols. sex. But then it is this base erott- Vicky Senior due to an associaiton with the new Paul Rogerson and must find its expression in this

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HE :SHAMEN probably came to aesthetic complement in the case of the computer world politician. Over the last three years he's brought a most people's attention with their graphics or the montages for the political songs." different kind of awareness to the West. That's not to non-involvement with McEwan's. Will: "It was the same with the so-called pornography. say we don't have the suspicion that he's selling the The band were picked to provide the We certainly didn't use it to draw a crowd along. With golds of the 1917 Revolution to reintroduce market T the film for Knature of a Girl (which consisted of a very policies." soundtrack for a commercial (following in the tame black and white film of lesbians from the 1930s) it Will the current tour take in Russia then? footsteps of Hipsway and Win), however, when was always presented with a set of slides of Colin: "Well, the album title should do us no harm. the brewers discovered that the song, Happy establishment figures meant to be watching. We're more interested in playing Russia than we are the Days, dealt with the Falklands War, things soon "We were working abroad for a long time previous to States. Hopefully, we're going to Eastern Europe and turned nasty. that tour and in no other country did we get any response maybe Russia itself in April or May." Will is keen to explain how it came about: like that. The thing that caused the most outrage was the Are you in a position where you are more popular abroad than you are here in Britain? "The point that is often lost is that it was down to set of photo-montages which were a combination of hard-core pornography and establishment figu~. They Col in: "We don't sell more abroad. This LP is the first . a political fuck-up. They picked the song, then to weren't erotic and weren't used for that purpose. that's had simultaneous release. Up until now most of get out of it, the whole drugs thing was thrown "Another film we used was of a girl swimming about in· the sales have been on import. We do, however, attract up. We admit to using drugs and no matter how a bubble gradually taking off her clothes. We used that more attention. from the press who seem to be more far we go in trying to explain our views some for Sweet Young Thing and that was being presented as turned into what we're doing." people see any drug as dangerous." erotic and as a nice image to complement a song about Why do you think that is? Is it because the foreign The hysteria continued with the release of Jesus Loves falling madly in love with a girl. The aesthetics weren't music press is less snobbish about music styles? Amerika. The single dealt with what The Shamen saw as even allowed to come into it. To our critics naked female Will: "In certain European countries there's always the increasing dangers of fundamentalism and the TV flesh equals sexist pornography." been a crossover between rock and dance-some of the evangelism that was currently sweeping America: With a reaction like that and the fact that the Eurobeat, Kraftwerk type of bands. So the idea of using "We were doing Jesus Loves Amerika and our mail peripheral aspects of The Shamen's music were being drum machines and samples in the rock framework is was being franked with 'Jesus Is Alive'. We decided noticed more than the music itself, didn't you think you something they take to. Hopefully with the when we were sending out the mail for the single we'd had failed in some way? breakthrough of Acid and New Beat things will open up stamp 'Jesus Is A Lie' on them. We got a lot of outrage Colin: "We use the visuals to create an atmosphere here and we can find our own niche."

Last week saw the release ofln Gorbachev We Trust, the latest LP from The Shamen. Now down t~ a two-piece, they've come a long way since 1987's Drop. Since that debut there's been a handful ofsingles- Christopher May hew Says, Knature of a Girl, Jesus Loves Amerika and Transcendental. Hand in hand with the music has been the controversy, with the Bishop of Aberdeen and MP Geoffrey Dickens not exactly agreeing with their views on religion and drug-taking. James Haliburton talked to Colin and Will ofthe band to find out if they really are satanists, sexists or simply out to ruffle a few feathers.

for that so we called the tour by the same name. We saw alongside the music, trying to break down the idea of the Is being lumped in, to a certain extent, with those it as a means of getting up the noses of the people we audience watching the band." • movements beneficial to you? wanted to." Will: "By the end of the tour we realised that we Colin: "It is useful to be seen as part of a movement Will denies such controversy was a promotional seam: weren't getting the message across, so we decided to but people listening to the band realise we don't really "We produce counter-propaganda and if they hit the change it. Col in got a set of slides of drawings by Derek fit into that category." mark, there's going to be a response. For example, if Stanton which had heavy bondage scenes. Women Will enlarges on this feeling: "In the album reviews something's written about us in The Sun, it probably trussed up in all sorts of ways and on various weird bands like Cabaret Voltaire get mentioned but I'd say means we have hit the mark." contraptions by other women. We got no response. there's very little connection. But it is much better to be "I think, in a lot of cases, people who are interested in essentially it came down to the fact that there was no seen in that way than lumped in with the so-called our music and our ideas know enough about the band's actual nudity in it." psychedelic bands, like we were the first album. We've absolutely nothing in common with Primal Scream and viewpoint to be able to interpret those ideas. It's better he in Gorbachev We Trust album features the to make people look at issues than simply writing down !~e Thanes. So al!hough the category doesn't exactly fit Russian leader wearing a rather fetching crown It s more appropnate." what we see as the answers." of thorns, so no doubt will generate just a he apparent sexism and pornography of the little bit more controversy. I asked Will just With In Gorbachev We Trust, The Shamen do seem to slide shows accompanying The Shamen on the T have fulfilled their promises. The album stands up very how serious the title was: "It's a bit tongue in cheek, Jesus Is A Lie tour also caused a furore, obviously, because he's a politician. It's parodying 'In much on its own, without the need for media T to the extent that there was a police raid at one God We Trust', which fits in with our anti-religious controversy, combining hard dance tracks with of their gigs. Not surprisingly, Col in defends their themes. The idea was to replace 'God' with 'man' but ultimately singable lyrics. An album just as listenable in stance: instead of 'In Man We Trust' we took a political figure the home as in a club, but without the superficial "Anything we used in the slide show had been qsed for for it. hedonism of the likes of S-Express and Yazz. Musical a reason. complementing the songs, either as an· , "We both do feel he is a progressive and dynamic Glasnost has arrived.

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never accept the malaise and RHINOCEROS whose belief in the Absurd is - Eugene Ionesco upheld throughout. Berenger is Bedlam Theatre played with sensitivity; and he controls and holds the final scene 7-11 February skilfully.

A STREET cafe scene is Jean (Philip Robertson), Daisy rudely interrupted by a ram­ (Justine Prestwick) and Dudard paging rhinoceros. One of (Jonathan Trigg) gave admirable the inhabitants undergoes performances: Jean's transforma­ uon was brought in rather subtly, metamorphosis: becoming a · and there was the touching rhinoceros himself. Soon the friendship of Dudard which turns entire town is plunged into bitter as he too falls .... bizarre chaos as rhinoceritis · claims more respectable citi­ The production was managed zens. Surely the town council · well at all levels and it was a relief will take action? to see the political meaning emerge from the haze of the com­ Out of farcical, chaotic begin­ edy. The exchange on logic in the nings, this piece · of Absurd first scene deserves special men­ Theatre grows in stature to tion: for the conversations become more than a mere lesson intertwine and synchronise per­ on the evils of conformity. It fectly. demonstrates the power . of reason to justify the unjustifi­ able, as the whole town becomes There were numerous other subverted. fine points in this production (not to mention Berenger's odi' . socks!) and it certainly will pnl ' Against bold, expressionist . vide an enjoyable evening: scenery, the action swirls around humorous but with a thought-pro­ the ever-outsider, Berenger voking messa)!e to take home with (Rowan Somerville), who can you. Susanne Osbourn

WHATE:VER '(OU WA~T 1V • 1 SAY ON VALENTINES ~AY AND HOWEVER YOV WANT Phil Swanson as Leonardo and Miranda France as Novia.

To S~Y IT of the Madre (Virginia Yeoward) · GARCIA LORCA: is afforded the most prominence, BODASDESANGRE but in this production far more ------· emphasis is placed upon the cent- Adam House Theatre raJ relationship between February 15-17, 7.30 pm Leonardo and the Novia, and its S·W·A·L·K implications for the other major characters. Department of His- This method of exposing the panic Studies at Edinburgh, players' interaction culminates in If TEVIOT PLACE.. Unviersity has been. putting the wedding itself in Act 2 Scene on a play every year since 2 .. In a physical process layer~d 1972 with greater or lesser ~Ith symr_netry the _Padre (B_Ig- . gm) and his daughter, the Novia, success. This_ year, howeve~, face the Madre, and her son, the .the productiOn of Ga_rcia Novia (Julian Garel-Jones). Lorca's Bodas de Sangre IS of Alternately jovial then deathly, particular note, not least due music cascades around the set as WHATCVER YOV WANT TO to the ambitiousness of the the ceremony rapidly reflects the work but also the inspired overt happienss of the newly-weds 1 performances by the cast. and t_hen ~he underlying fatality of "Th k t d d the Situation. . , e . ey 0 a goo P!O uc- Bodas de Sangre is a work laced Do ON ST VALENTINES DAY tJOn, said producer and director "th · · d S · h .l b · d WI pessimism an pams Ph1 swanson, ".Is emg a ven- bl dl tf R r . . turist and imaginative but not t 0~ e dmg. ea I~m IS Impor- unnecessarily risky." As in previ- · an ' ~n many oft ~ characters, AND HOWEVER YOV WANT . S t k especially the Novw and the ous p Iays, Ph11 wanson a 1so a es M d d' · one of the lead rol~s, that of the a re ~anage to Ispl~y eenly o bsessiVe · an d dooms t rue k authentic. accents, whilst, also . · f . assummg the repressiOn and To DO fT- Leonardo, who IS m atuated With · f , A d · the soon-to-be-married Novia paranoia 0 1930 s n a 1ucJa. (Miranda France). Th~ performances are all corn- To recount the plot would be mandi~g, ~he atmosl?here tense. tedious, but basically it is one of a Most VI~w It as potentially t~e be~t Gto SE.E A PSYCHIATRIST! f t r f 1 t · · · h · h productiOn that the H1spamc a a IS IC ove nang1 e m w 1c. Studies Department has attemp- Leonardo cannot accept that his t d f Th · · . former Novia is marrying some- e or yea~s. _ ey may we 11 !ust one else. Traditionally the part _be proved nght. Ben Carver REVIEW FILM Thursday, February 9, 1989 13 happy, Arthur's ex-fiancee, ARTHURII: hatches a devious, devilish and FOR QUEEN AND ON THE ROCKS determined plan to wreak his COUNTRY Cannon unutterable revenge on Arthur. Cannon Unfortunately this is the Dir: Bud Yorkin .moment the script takes a bad Dir: Martin Stellman turn, having started off with an IT'S not easy being black. It's AS the press release says, the easy banter and an old-fashioned world's richest and most humour with hit and miss jokes, even harder being black in endearing, tipsy playboy is (some miss but a lot hit) . the army, at least until you've alive, well and living in grand The writer, Andy Breckman, proven yout toughness to style! tries to mix humour with a touch your (white) mates. Yes, you guessed it, Arthur of seriousness, a difficult task at But hardest of all must be to Bach is back! Dudley Moore the best of times, which does not learn that, after eight years in Her returns to play the title role in the work very well. Majesty's Armed Forces, includ­ follow-up to his 1981 success A fact that is highlighted by the ing seeing action in Northern Ire­ Arthur, a film which led to an treatment of Hobson. It was obvi­ land and the Falklands, you are no Oscar nomination for Moore and ously thought that to have a suc­ longer British because you were an Oscar for John Gielgud. cessful sequel the same central born in St Lucia and only came to The critics have billed the film characters must be in attendance these shores when you were four as Moore's last chance to prove although Hobson died in the pre~ years old. Denzel Washington fights against adversity in For Queen and Country. himself as a Hollywood legend vious film. So Hobson is back and The questions of being black, of friends are on the wrong side of possible, the police show us dis­ particularly because of the less I am sure Gielgud did his best but being British and the points where the law and Reuben is forced to gusting racism and Denzel than considerable success of Best he was not given much of a chance these collide were central to this choose between joining them and Washington's South London Defence and Santa Claus, the as he and Moore wallow through film and to its main character, the police. accent as variable as the weather, Movie. the worst ten minutes of the film . Reuben, played by the American actor Denzel Washington. Relations between the com­ the overall feeling is of a film Reuben grew up on a bleak munity and the police start to slide designed to make statements London estate, and joined the towards breaking point and from rather than to entertain. Paras to avoid sinking into the life here on thriller genre conventions However, neither director of petty crime that he saw his take over and the final shoot-out Stellman nor his co-scriptwriter friends falling into. is as inevitable as the appearance Trix Worrell are quite up to the Eight years later he returns to of the guns used is implausible. task and the result is powerful yet unsatisfactory cinema. try and lead a normal civilian life With life on the state painted as but finds this impossible. All of his grimly (and maybe truthfully) as Toby Scott

SOMEONE TO LOVE Filmhouse Dir: Henry Jaglom "THIS is self-indulgent. America gives that to you," says a reticent European amongst a gathering of direc­ tor Jaglom's artist friends. It's Valentine's Day and, lacking anyone to spend it .with, they've all come to a soon to be demolished theatre for a party - they think. To the assembled Jag­ Director Jaylom and friend looking for Someone to Love. lom announces that he wants intellectual composer who writes Dud 'n Liza, down in their luck in Arthur II: On the Rocks. what he in fact also produces is a to discover why none of them the sort of songs you get on Char­ disturbing insight into the essen­ want to be alone yet are all Four years have passed since The rest of the cast tried; Liza lie Brown cartoons and a woman tially exploitative relationship Arthur left his fiancee at the altar Minelli was quite sweet and Dud­ lonely. who just shouts "I want babies!". between camera and subject. for the· charms of Linda Marolla ley Moore was not bad when he A camera crew amble out and And then of course there's Watching the film one often (Liza Minelli). It is Christmas was entertaining, and he did have start filming as Jaglom pokes and Orson Welles, in his last screen feels you shouldn't be, it's an time and Arthur is merry, spread­ a quick spin on the ivories -he probes his friends for their appearance. Sitting huge at the intrusion into these people's lives . ing his philosophy to other users struggled though in the less amus­ deepest feelings. His pragmatic back of the theatre watching, Such is the impression you get that of the New York highways, on his ing parts. and lecherous brother, cutting a beard and cigar, commenting these people are really as they way to a dinner with his wife. The best performance was distinctly Woody Alien-ish figure, intermittently on the legacy of the appear - confused and harassed The pair are thinking of starting given by Paul Benedict, the objects, calling the exercise "self­ liberation of women. Somewhere at what is supposed to be a Valen­ a family, but Linda's humourless and deadpan butler indulgent, silly, pretentious non­ between Socrates and Captain tine party. The film drags a little gynaecologist has not joined in Fairchild, and the best scene was sense" and somehow you know Birdseye, he wistfully regrets the towards the end with Jaglom won­ the happiness of the family by Martin Bach's workout (particu­ just what he means. emancipation of our last slave dering what he has achieved in all bringing bad tidings to the pros­ larly one for you Kylie fans!) This film could be so awful, but class. this and how it is to end. "What pective mother, but this does not So what was the bottom line? I miraculously isn 't. The poten­ What is fascinating about this nowT he asks and Orson Welles deter our couple, who start on the laughed at a lot of it, but glanced tially dreary dialogue is transformed film is the extent to which what can only advise either death or "long" road of finding/starting a at the clock at the others. Good some very clever editing, creating you see is documentary and the marriage, depending on whether family. for a group perhaps - or even as extremely funny and poignant extent to which it is staged. Osten­ his film is tragedy or comedy. In the meantime, the ruthless a Valentine film, as one certainly juxtapositions. A rock singer who sibly Jaglom is exploring the In the end Jaglom plumps and unforgetting Bert Johnson, will not miss much by the odd invites women for "major sex" yearnings and shiftlessness of his largely for the latter, and Orson grey-haired and thick-set, deter­ lapse of concentration. and claims the ultimate truths of sixties generation, peculiarly Welles laughs long and loud. mined to make his daughter Susan life lie in shows like "Leave it to American in their endless self­ William Selby-Lowndes Beaver" and "Lassie". A balding analysis and egocentricity, but Blaise Drummond.

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SOMEONE TO LOVE (15) WILLOW (PG) 8.30 pm Thu 9; 6.15 pm Fri 10; 6.15 pm, 8.30 pm Sat 11 1.40 pm Fn 1~ . sat 11 . . Orson Welles final performance giving someone with I thmk there IS a GLM m th1s. emotional difficulties lots of advice. FILMSOC ALICE (15) 557 0436 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, 9 pm. Thu 9 £/I membership available all showings. Tickets for non­ Alice's "trip" through Wonderland. members on sale at Union shops.

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA NEAR DARK (18) & OUTSIDE OF THE BLUE (18) SIMON OF THE DESERT & HAMLET Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019 11 pm Fri 10 6.45 pm and 8.05 pm Fri 10 . Janacek, Beethoven, Suk. Haydn The second feature is about •·sex. drugs and rock 'n roll Pleasance Theatre 7.4Spm Concessions available for studellls and 'Young Scot' SACRIFICED YOUTH (PG) GREASE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS cardlwlders from Queen's Hall. Box Office, Monday­ 3 pm, 6.30 pm. 8.45 pm Fri 10, Sat 11 6.45 pm and 8.50 pm Sun 12 Saturday /0 am-5 pm. Pleasance Theatre. CARE BEARS 11 THE BROTHERS 2 pm Sat 11 FLASH GORDON CONTUERS THE UNIVERSE and Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816 This'll be fab! CRY FREEDOM Resident band. Free. 7 pm and 7.30 pm Wed 15 THE LODGER (PG) Pleasance Theatre. DAN BLOCKER EXPERIENCE 3 pm Sun 12, doors open 2.30 pm. Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313 Every Thursday night. Downstairs. Free BETTY BLUE (18) DOMINION 3 pm Mon 13 ; 6.00 pm, Mon 13, Tues 14 ,8.30 pm Sun 447 2660 POLITICAL ASYLUM, THATCHER ON ACID, 12-Tues 14. Student concessions£/. 70 all perfs except evening perfs in DANBERT NO BACON Pretty strong stuff judging by the first 15 minutes. cinema 3, £2.60. Venue. Calton Road, 557 3073 Anti Poll Tax Benefit. 9 till late. Phone for details. OH, MR PORTER (U) and ITS IN THE AIR (U) I. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (PG) 7 pm Sun 12 2.15 pm , 5.15 pm, 8.15 pm Thurs 9-Thurs 16 FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY Bob Hoskins stars as a private eye hired by a cartoon character. THE HEATERS THE WARGAME (18) 2.30. 6.30. 8.45 Mon 13 Preservation Hall , Victoria Street. 226 3816 2. A FISH CALLED WANDA (15) Hot stuff. 2.30 pm, 5.20 pm, 8.20 pm Thurs 9-Thu 16 £/after 9 pm. PRINCE-SIGN O 'THE TIMES (15) 3 pm Tues 14 , Thurs 16 John Cleese. Kevin Kline, Kamie Lee Curtis, Michael Pal in. PULSE BEATS The great god of funk reigns again. Ncgociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313 BLEAK MOMENTS (PG) 3. THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE Downstairs. Free. If I knew a good doctor doctor joke 5.45 pm. 8.15 pm Tues 14 ( 15) I could put it in here, but I don'tl · 2 pm, 5 P.m. 8 pm Thur 9-Thu 16 SATURDAYIIFEBRUARY LAST OF ENGLAND (18) Bob Hoskins again, this time in a more sedate role. 3 pm, 6.30 pm, 8.30 pm Wed 15 LORNA ANDERSON and MALCOLM MARTINGU Not to be missed apparently. Queen's Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019 ODEON 667 7331 The Pleasure of Music Trust present a recital of songs by TEX A VERY (U) Student concession £1. 75 all perfs until6pm then £2 but Gounod, Poulenc. Debussy. 2.30 pm, 6.00 pm, 8 .1 25 pm Wed 15 £2.60 on Fri and sat nights. 7.45 pm. Concessions (£3) available from Box Office .. BAGHDAD CAFE (PG) I. DIE HARD (18) 6.30 pm. 8.30 p Thu 16 Fri-Sun 2 pm, 5.30 pm. 8.2S pm TOTO AND THE JAZZ BOSTONS Mon-Thu 2 pm, S.IO pm. 8.0S pm Presservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816 YEELEN(PG) 2-4 pm. Free. 2.30 pm, 6.00 pm. 8.15 pm Thu 16 2. COCKTAIL (15) Fri-Sun 1.40 pm , 3.55 pm, ().15 pm. 8.45 pm MAKOSSA Mon-Thu 1.30 pm , 3.45 pm, 6 pm, 8.30 pm Preservation Hall, Victoria Street, 226 3816 CAMEO Full of Eastern promise. 2284141 3. SHORT CIRCUIT 11 (PG) £/ after 9 pm. £1.20 1st pe1f, £2 2nd per[ and 3rd perf, £. 90 last per[. 1.25 pm, 3.45 pm , 6.05 pm,_8.30 pm Thu 9-Thu 16.

TEXAS BREAKFAST HEAT (18) & FLESH (18) Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313 3 pm, 7 pm Fri 10 Free. Country-style. U2: RATTLE & HUM (IS) & NEIL YOUNG: RUST SU DAY 12 FEBRUARY NEVER SLEEPY (PG) Jl.ISpmFri 10 theatre THESHAMEN Venue, Calton Road. 557 3073 KINGS THEATRE NEIL YOUNG: RUST NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Late bar and disco. 2 Leven St, 2291201 ' In Gorbachev We Trust' is the new Lp. Acid crossed 2 pm Sat 11 Box office Mon-Sat 10 am-8 pm with pop is the oew sound?! U2: RATTLE & HUM (IS) MOTHER GOOSE 4.30 pm, 6.45 pm, 9 pm Sat 11 JOHNNY SUNBEAM Until Sat 18 Feb. 7 pm. Starring Larry Mullen and three other people. Preservation Hall , Victoria Street, 226 3816 Matinees 2.15 pm Wed & Sat. Becoming a regular spot, I hink. Free £4.7S-£7.75 (£2.75-£3.75) MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (15) & LITTLE SHOP OF A comical Glasgow-granny style Goose, played b} MONDAYI3FEBRUARY HORRORS (LP) WalterCarr. lll.IS pm Sat 11 LOVE AND THE GUN 3teve Martin double bill. LYCEUM Preservation Hall, Victoria Street, 226 3816 Grindlay St, 229 9697 Free. Local. UNBEATABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (15) Box office Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm. 12 pm Sun 12 A VIEW FRM THE BRIDGE JOHNNY SUNBEAM Very trendy. Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313 Fri 10 Feb-Sat 4 Mar Downstairs Free. This man gets around. GIANT (15) - 7.45 pm. £2.50-£7 . FREE preview Thurs 9 Feb. . TUESDAY 3.15 pm, 7.00 pm Sun 12 Arthur Miller's classic, with Kenny Ireland as Edd1e Jimmy Dean himself. carbone, and directed by Jan Wooldridge. A weepie. ELECTRO-ACCOUSTIC CONCERT Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019 AT CLOSE RANGE (15) ·THEATRE WORKSHOP A celebration of France's contribution to Electronic and 2.15 pm, 6.45 pm Mon 13 34 Hamilton PI , 226 5425 Computer Music. Given in conjunction with the French Box office Mon-Sat 9.30 am-5.30 pm. Institute. COLOURS (18) Student concessions £3 from box office. 4.30 pm, 8.30 pm Mon 13, Tues 14 AYE MARIE and MY ARMY Buddy cop movie set amongst the drug-related gang Tuesd 14-Sat 18 Feb ROOTSIDE TOOTSIE BLUES BAND warfare of LA's ethnic street gangs. 7.30 pm. £4 (£2.50). Preservation Hall, Victoria Street, 226 3816 RUMBLEFISH (18) Double bill. Sounds like something you'd say to a baby! Free. 2.45 pm, 6.45 pm Tues 14 In black and white mostly. DEATH TEX FILLET FIVE Wed IS Feb. 1.30 pm Negociants, Lothian Street. 225 6313. DOGS IN SPACE (18) & WITHNAIL & I (IS) £11£1.50. Downstairs bar. Free. 2.30 pm, 6.50 pm and 4.40 pm, 9 pm Wed 15 EUTC presents Woody Alien's play. WEDNESDAY First features the very lovely Michael Hutchence the second is about dropping out- man. WOODROW WILSON Negociants. Lothian Street, 225 6313 MY BOYFRIEND'S GIRLFRIEND (PG) & FULL Recently played The Venue. MOON IN PARIS (IS) 3.00 pm, 7.00 pm and 5.00 pm, 9.00 pm Thu 16 exhibs Strange combination if I may say so. CITY ART CENTRE CANNON 2 Market St, 22S 2424 ext 66SO 229 3030 · Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm. £2.80 student reduction on Mondays. film THE CITY'S PICTURES I. GORILLAS IN THE MIST (15) 4 Feb-11 Mar. I. SO pm , 4.50 pm, 7.SO pm Fri 10-Thu 16 Views of Edinburgh from Scottish artists. FILMHOUSE A must for all gorilla lovers. FRUITMARKET GALLERY 228 2688 29 Market St, 22S 2383 "Early evening £1.50 concession otherwise £2.50. No 2. ARTHUR ON THE ROCKS (PG) Tues-Sat 10 am-S.30 pm; Sun 1.30-5 .30 pm. concession on Saturdays. 2.00 pm , S.OO pm, 8.00 pm Fri 10-Thu 16 SIX DUTCH ARTISTS NEAR DARK (18) PRESIDIO (15) 28Jan-12Mar. 2.30 pm. 6.15 pm Thu 9, Fri 10 2.20 pm (Sun only) S.20 pm, 8.20 pm Fri 10-Thu 16 Rob Scholte, Marlene Dumas, Peer Veneman, Henk Everyone loves a good vampire-biker western. Visch. Hans Schuill and Alexander Schabraq. Thursday, February 9, 1989 15

THE TRASH 9 pm-2 am; Wilkie House. Cowgate. £1.50 in advance/£2 on door. - Find a new lover! clubs WEDNESDAY prevze"H/ . .. THE DEEP 10.30pm-3 am; The Mission and Shady Ladies, Cowgat DREAM £2 GIG GUIDE 10 pm-3 am; The Music Box, Victoria Street Hah! They're trying to disguise the fact that it's more MUCH as I iike going tu gigs, I must con­ now before they get so big they forget 220 1708; £I. SO ACID! Be warned! where Scotland is. And watch out for a Look out for free tickets. fess that writing a "gig guide" holds little THE WHIRLPOOL attraction for me. But somebody has (relatively) exclusive interview with Texas SHAG 10 pm-3 am; Shady Ladies, Cowgate to do it, so here goes (and look out for soon in your always-on-the-ball Student. 11 pm-3 am; The Mission, Victoria Street £1 those classic "gig guide" phrases like Come Sunday, and THE SHAM EN hit 22S 6S69; £1.SO Psychedelia/punk. Bet they play some acid just to spite "Down at the Venue ..." and "As for Fri­ town. Promising none of their past wank­ Over-busy at the best of times, full of plebs at the worst. the "acid is shite" advocates. day ..."). Tonight (Thursday) at the ing-on in-between songs, their gig at the Venue THATCHER ON ACID, POLITI- Venue will undoubtedly go down in the THE PUMP ROOM POTTERROW 10 pm-2.30 am; Cafe Royal, West Register Street 8 pm-1 am; Potterrow Union CAL ASYLUM and DANBERT annals of Edinburgh lore as a manic mus­ 5S6 1884; £2 Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm NOBACON offer us another chance to ical mega-event. And their new LP is won­ New club with funk and dance music. SOp break the barriers, smash the system and derful too ... Cheap drinks (well, cheapish) and some decent vibes­ bring down the government in an anti-poll Turning to Tuesday (I like Tuesdays) a ROCK NIGHT all at your v~rv o;vn studen t~ ' nninnl tax benefit. Tickets are only £2 for stu­ perfect night is there to be had. First, go 8 pm-1 am; Chambers Street Union dents (a piece of piss compared to the £78 and see young MARTIN STEPHENSON SOp we'll soon have to pay) so lend your sup­ in our very own George Square Theatre. Happy Hour 8-9 pm Young Martin is nothing short of a lyrical ·A sad tale of fringed leather jackets and long hair, with. port. Next week, the Tories force Scots to a bit of AC/DC thrown in. sign away their souls .... genius (and a wonderfully nice guy to events . As for Friday (you spotted it!) Glaswe­ boot), caressing hearts, soothing passions CINDERELLAS ROCKERFELLAS gian hotshots TEXAS, supported by the and tickling buttocks with beautiful words 9.30 pm-3 am; 99 St Stephen Street; SS6 0266 THURSDAY9FEBRUARY equally fab ACOUSTIC RIVER DETEC­ set to beautiful music. Then, trip on down £!.SO before 11 pm; £2 after SCOTTISH COUNTRY & FOLK DANCE CLASS TIVES, hit the Venue. As their exemplary to Wilkie House, Cowgate, to Student's Grab a Rick Astley/Sam Fox lookalike at this "disco 7.00-8.30 pm: PE Dept, 46 Pleasance . mega-disco-bash, TRASH. £1.50 in inferno". All welcome. I Don't Need a Lover single boots iis way up the national charts, discerning listen­ advance, £2 on the door. Hot sounds. FRIDAY EU ANIMAL RIGHTS ers everywhere squeal with delight and Groovy people. A great time will be had McEwan Hall rush on down to Calton Road. A sell-out by all. Miss this and suffer horribly. THE RENAISSANCE EUSA General Meeting. (and knock-out) gig to be sure. See them Craig McLean 10 pm-3 am; Bermuda Triangle, Coasters 3 West Tollcross; 228 32S2; £l.SO EU CHAPLAINCY week, with Sweeney Todd: The Demon lndie/alternative sounds strike back at this popular, 1.10 pm; 6th Level Common Room , JCMB. Barber of Fleet Street (Friday, C4), Dr up-and-coming club. 'Stress and the Learner: A Brainwave Perspective.' TV GUIDE Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Saturday, BBC 2) WELL! What a surprise! Who would and Terror on the 40th Floor (Saturday, ROAD RUNNER EU HOMEBREW SOC. believe it? Astounding as it may at first ITV) all brightening the weekend. Better am; Music Box, Victoria Street Meet at Bow Bar, 8 pm. Outing to Chambers St Rock Night! appear, television producers have, for stuff is in store in the coming weeks, house/funk venue. the second week running no less, come however, with Mona Lisa, Good FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY up with the odd programme or three Morning, Baby/on and A Room With a THE ADVENTURES OF TIN-TIN which we actually might like to watch. View all being premiered. 10 pm-4 am; The Mission, Victoria Street EU DEBATE (Cue gasps of shock and amazement!) In There are of course various offerings £2 l pm ; Teviot Debating Hall stead of the usual offerings of which are worthy only of relegation to Heineiken debate. SPANISH HARLEM ·Czechoslovakian soap operas and films the avoid-at-all-costs list. One of these 10 pm-3 am; Wilkie House, Cowgate SHINTY CLUB CEILIDH on their 17th repeat, this week sees an must be BBC 2's Tracy VI/man Show. £2 House, funk, acid, funk, house, acid, etc., etc. Evening; £2. abundance of innovation. Utterly devoid of talent at the best of Phone 22S 5883 for details .. Perhaps the best of the new is Channel times (and this is not one of them), this THE AMPHITHEATRE Four's Out On Tuesday, a lesbian and woman should be removed quickly and 10 pm-4 am; 31 Lothian Road CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION gay weekly offering an alternative angle painlessly from our screens now. Also 12.30-2 pm; 23 George Sq. £3 .SO on current affairs and the arts. Less best forgotten about are the British Deeeesco spectacular. Bread & Cheese Lunch. 70p . controversial (maybe), but equally Record Industry A wards (BBC 1, interesting, should be Rhythms of the Monday)-the least said about them the REGGAE CLUB 10.30 pm-3 am; Shady Ladies, Cowgate EU DEMOCRATS World: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto better. l2.1S pm; Chaplaincy Centre, SRI. £2 ·(Saturday, BBC 2, 8.05 pm), presenting The final word in compulsive viewing Good selection of reggae tracks. Robert MacLennan , MP , on 'Civil Liberties'. three of South Africa's top bands. this week, however, must be ITV"s late SATURDAY'IIFEBRUARY If your social life isn't up to much film tonight- Revenge, starring BUSTER BROWN'S and severe boredom is setting in, then it Dynasty's super bitch herself; good ol' 11 pm-3.30 am; 2S-27 Market Street £2.7S . Half-price entry and drinks before midnight. RAG RACE also might just be worth remembering Joan C. Billed as a suspense-filled New ESCA event. Contact ESCA at Gurhtie St for that Crufts '89 is being televised on . murder story, this programme seems to y details. Sunday evening. (Probably better than a have everything going for it; sex, drugs night out at the City Cafe anyway!) and Joan Collins~ what more could you BIG CON 11 )0 pm-4 am; Wilkie House, Cowgate 10 am-8 pm; Chaplaincy Centre. Films·are quite a good prospect this . want? Avril Mair .... £2.SO £1 Trendy atmosphere with matching non-original sounds. Competitions, Games. Wheee! FAST· FORWARD VIDEO METRO EU HIGHLAND ANNUAL DANCE 10 pm-3 am; Music Box , Victoria Street 9 pm-3 am; Teviot Row Union £2 £3.SO (£2.SO for EUHS members) from committee members and on the door. ~ THEHOOCH Ceilidh, with Ben Wyris and the Last Resort. Plus a CLASS FILMS ALWAYS IN STOCK- 10.30 pm-4 am; Coasters, West Tollcross disco downstairs. £2.SO CHECK US OUTf Acid House, soul and jazz, with a DJ called "Yogi''­ SUNDAY12FEBRUARY "mad" or what? Don't you just wish you were a DJ?­ Branches at: No. CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION- MASS 36 West Preston Street 136 Marchmont Road 19 Henderson Row 7.1S pm ; followed by AGM. KANGAROO CLUB 10.30 pm-3 am; The Mission, Victoria Street METHSOC- EVENING SERVICE £2 6. 1S pm; Nicolson Sq Methodist Church. Surprisingly enough, there's alot of house and acid at the Mission tonight. Pphrooar! MONDAYI3FEBRUARY

THE AMPHITHEATRE EU POLITICS SOCIETY 11. 30 pm-4 am; 31 Lothian Road l pm; Room 17, WRB. £4. Half-price before 11.30 pm. Yvonne Strachan speaking on "The Role of Women in Boogie-woogie. Trade Unionism".

SUNDAY CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION-MEAL. 6 pm; Cafe of 23 George Sq. HANGOVER REPAIR CLUB £1. Evening; The Kasbar, Cowgate Not really a club, but worth a mention cos the wallpaper TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY has to be the worst even by 70s standards. BEER FESTIVAL BUSTER BROWN'S Teviot Union 10 pm-4 am; 2S-27 Market Street SOp a pint- organised by ESCA. £2 .2S . Half-price entry and drinks before ll pm. EU SCOTTISH NATIONALIST ASSOCIATION 7.30 pm; Executive Room. Pl easance. TUESDAY WEDNESDAYISFEBRUARY EU SPANISH DEPT- 'BODAS DE SANG RE' REVOLUTION Adam House Theatre • 10 pm-3 am; Shady ladies, Cowgate £2. £1.SO Unless you're completely sick to death of acid, house, CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION funk etc., you'll probably really enjoy dancing to it on a 4.45 pm; Common Room Tuesday night as well. Then it's only 24 hours away from Prayer group. Wednesday ... EU DEMOCRATS 7 pm; Braid Room. Pleasance . Discuss the AUT Exam boycott. 16 Thursd~y, February 9, 1989 INTERNATIONAL

POLAND Solidarity is not the only thorn in the side of t?e Polish authorities. 'Alternative' demonstrations are very much in vogue, Dorota Wojtas reports. Black .Comedy GENERAL Jaruzelski 's provocative, making a mockery of Western. eyes, this event clearly d 1 the government and its law coup de 'et at affecte a most enforcing representatives. The underlines the desperate situation every aspect of Polish life. reaction of the authorities is pre­ for Poles, in a manner which high­ lights with humour the broader Although he was setting up a die able: the demonstrators are issue. rigid political regime, "pro- imprisoned on petty charges. test groups" were also chang- Yet, since 1981, the occurr­ Another typical 'happening' ing their methods to fit the ences have become part of Polish occurred in December last year, times. street life, now often initiated by in an attempt to re-establish a One of these, the "New Culture students who VICtimise and figure that is part of the institution Movement", was initially set up ridicule bewildered policemen in of Christmas in Britain: Father just before the imposition of mar- front of passers-by in busy shop­ Christmas. During the Stalinist tial law in 1981. Originally con- ping streets. Aspects of daily life era, the imposition of Russian cul­ ture wiped out Polish traditions. ceived as a way of promoting radi- which have become so taken· for cal new art forms, the group soon granted in the West, that to men­ The authorities introduced "Father Frost" as a replacement became more politicised. tion tbem is distasteful, are mat­ for Father Christmas, which was They were led by Waldemar ters of serious frustration or Maria Fydrych, popularly known inconvenience to the Poles. and still is seen as a provative sym­ Enjoy as the "Major". As avant-garde This is illustrated by the focus bol of the resistant force of the artists, the group had provoked of a major demonstration which Christian Church in Poland. diet little response from the the OA organised on Interna- The OA demonstrators authorities. But using the medium tional Wo"men's Day in 1987: employed characteristically sim- ~ Jetd 1- "' taae o1 a I of their newspaper, the Orange sanitary towels. Almos.t taboo pie but effecti-ve tactJ·cs · They Alternative _ a name they came in Britain. they are scarcely avail- dre~sed up as Father Christmases, to be known by- they soon drew proclaiming themselves represen- greater responses. tatives of the illegal "Independent 1 )) They dressed up as Father Christ- Father Christmas Trade Union", Condom-consciousness appeared to be rife around the world's Their strategy was simple-· to masses . representmg· t h e 1-11 ega1 dedicated to the overthrowing of ridicule the grotesque dimensions h · t.he rule of "Father Frost". campuses. This outrageous advert from Down Under, and f "Independent Father C nstmas written in that inimitable Australian style, arrived with the and the mundane aspects o a Trade Union." The subsequent attempts by Pole's daily existence. Their tac- police to arrest the 12 Father following warning: DRINKING FROM CAN tics were "happenings", or stunts Christmases, who had had them- UNPROTECTED BY A CONDOM IS HAZARDOUS TO similar to radical cultural events in selves chained together, and to YOUR HEALTH. The Surgeon General. the 1960's in the West. In Poland able in Poland. Yet the Major's shove them into a 6-person van, these events became an ·effective demonstration turned the only caused hilarity among the and legal weapon against the gov-. unthinkable into a political event. huge crowds which had gathered ernment. With banners proclaiming "Persh- to watch the alternative nativity The first major event involved a ings - No! Press-on-towels -:- scene. Simple but ironic gesture of y s'" p otestors gave away the NUS down under e . , r The Orange Alternative, indeed gratitude. The "OA" gave flowers much-valued items to the queue brings lively amusement onto the to t he much-maligned policemen f b Typ·cally1 they o passers- Y· ' streets of today's Polish towns. There are no members at all who unintentionally contributed . were later bundle~ into ~ ~olic_e But the Major does not merely by Almuth Ernsting from Western Australia, home of to unorthodox "art" by covering van, along with the offendmg art1- _lead a group of comedians trying the Murdoch Unviersity. Cam­ anti-government slogans and graf- des. . to create havoc. His talent is to puses join the NUS by passing a fiti with paint. The Major's sentence combine art and fun with subtle referendum. The actions of the "Major" and demonstrates the farcical nature political criticism. The concentra­ his "troops" created embarrass- of the authorities' reaction; he tion on mundane or fundamental AFTER only two years of Many campuses choosing not \'j ment and confusion for the police was sentenced to two months elements of Polish life mock the existence, the National take part. The previous natio. t and the courts. Their dilemma lies imprisonment for selling goods government in the eyes of the in the fact that what OA achieves illegally, and obstructing the traf- public. Meanwhile, as long as the Union of Students in student union, the AUS, rep- is perfectly legal, but completely fie. Offensive or ridiculous to authorities over-react to these Australia is currently facing a resented about 75% of ~ustralian similar amount of suspicion stud~nts. But accordmg tothe highly original and seemingly . . . B .. h . President, Tracey Ellery, the harmless protests, the message of an d . h osh1 Ity as Its nhs . campuses who are not joining .the Orange Alternative is further eqmvalent. "don't appear to be hurting our emphasised. The NUS in Australia repre- support." sents about 55% of students in higher education. But its mem- . bership is fairly well restricted to Next Week: First reports from certain areas of Australia - the She adds that "if you're not in the national union you don't have Yugoslavia plus an analysis of major campuses in areas like a voice. The government and the African student crisis in Queensland and New South media listen to us ." China. Wales are not affiliated. TIME TO GET DOWN TO Crossword SOME Answers SERIOUS

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