RLBOTRICE CiRllERY *"""..-i.,,..rn-. NaumGabo ...l&'OCAUASOl111 1 SOIA.~ct!ISl.'iE _,_ -2oClt!Oct. Colin Bexter's S.-CIRJ'.0..M... -S-19nd"' N.,ll<9 NIW...ltrl'lpllrim ~:~ 16'HJGHSTRUT Mclft.SM10~po·i F.DINBUICH Mmluion,,. .... Td: IJl-22Sl.J61 EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' NEWSPAPER 20p CONTENTS THURS 22OCT1987 Last Sunday Student Aid NEVVS organised an Another story about the University going assault bankrupt course LETTERS extravaganza Hit us with your views on abso lutely anything at all. Keep your let· ters short and .snappy! MUSIC Lots and lots of album e Roughly 200 students suff~ for the sake of charity as they reviews attack the anny assault course at Glencorse Anny Barracks. Feature on REM THf. l E\ IRf . FOLD
Merry Mac interview Two students and review brave the Last Days of Nosferatu barbed wire review for Charities FEATURES Week Adrian Edmonson interview courtesy of British Teleconi Feature on a publishing company FILIVI Scrap It! SCRAP - the Scottish Cam hardest hit w h ile the weal· strength as being a grass·roocs paign for Resistance Against by Ian RobertsOn thy will gain. non-party body able to unite all Poll-tax - has been formed to • It will cost more to collect opposition against the Poll-tax 1---.....!i"'"""'"""""'-f co-ordinate widespread Scot amount of rebate depending on into a strong and effective (the Government's own Madonna attempts tish protest against the pro how much the local authority nationwide voice of protest. estimates suggest between posed Rates changes with spends. Jane Rogerson gave her full another acting role in ·f:l to £22 million more per Edinburgh University Stu Assuming a 100 per cent col support for the group and said Who 's That Girl year). dents ~ Association President lection rate, the extra charge she would recommend that • It is a threat to civil liberties Jane Rogerson stating her full would be £55 per student per EUSA affilate. She felt that Review of Wrtches of support. Vea r, making £100 in total. At a with the authorities being Hthere is a limited although kept informed of your Eastwick The existance of SCRAP was more realistic 90 per cent col· substantial amount EUSA can justified by member Eleanor lection rate students would pay moves. do itself" and · results will only Competiton results • Poll-tax inspectors are enti Houston who said "I believe the £140 extra. be got through a broad united issue which donfronts us here Those on full grants will be tled to use the electoral campaign.H is fundamentally a moral one given extra grants to the register to find addresses so Reacting to criticism that SPORT many will opt out of voting on which there can never be national average, however they EUSA has done nothing to Soccer, Cycling, Shinty compromise, and therefore it will have to pay the su rcharge. rather than pay. mobilise student protest she must transcend any narrow Those without grants will be • An attempt to improve local pointed to t he letters that were and anything else that's political boundaries." charged the full £110. services (busses, local given to every student on mat "sporty" health care, libraries etc.) The SCRAP points out that SCRAP also sets out various riculation - and the poll taken. students will have to pay at the other arguments against the will cause increased Poll She disclosed that EUSA · is BACK PAGE very least (55 to £110 extra. Poll tax which will affect stu tax bills for the very people mounting a joint campaign the local authority a retrying Students will have to pay dents either directly or ihdi: with the Narional Union of Stu· Auntie Doris to help. This will effectively twenty per cent of the national rectly: average-that is (51. On top of • It is not related to the ability castrate local demoncracy. ~~;:::r~dglr~:g:~a~~~ ~~~~~¥ lr.!ll':lllr.!'ll:~l:t9lr. this there will be an extra to pay. The poorest will be The campaign sees its PAY-WON'T PAY". NEVVS THURS 22 OCT 1987 • Briffsh Universities hit by grant cuts face £200 million dt1ficit Deficits loom large by Forbes McKay NEWS some of these would be very difficult to reach. He hoped that Universities across Britain the quality of teaching would . could be in deficit by up to £200 not decline, but said that there IN BRIEF million within three years may have to be changes in the unless severe cost-cutting number of contact hours and in measures are successful or the sizes of classes. more money is invested by the Edinburgh is not alone - Student government and industry. many other universities face conscious l Although reserves are still worse problems, due to the available at Edinburgh Univer UGC grant not allowing for the supermarkets sity, it may face a £3.5m deficit academics' pay increase, and if the savings target is not underestimations in the nuber Well known supermarket reached. of overseas students. The UGC stores Safeway and Prsto Edinburgh University Princi has also said that it will pay. are predicting students this .pal, Sir David Smith said that only half the bill for compensat year will become more the reason for this situation ing staff retiring early or depart health conscious where was that we have "a govern ments closing or merging. their diet is concerned. To ment committed to reducing The Vice-Chancellor of Sal aid this vast alleged public expenditure in all sec ford University questioned change in attitude the tors,~ and although he would increasing income from indus· stores are issUing hand-out like industry to invest more, he try for research, saying "At packs with handy hints on said that "there comes a point which point do we become con wholesome cooking. where an industrial concern su ltancy unit with a bit of edu Simon Pottinger, Welvare says that it pays so much cor cation and training tagged on?" Officer at the National poration tax" that it cannot The London U niversity col Union of Students though afford to invest more. He did letes may face a £25m deficit, conceding the supermar point out that Edinburgh has Aberdeen University may have ket recipes sounded attrac already been very successful in to lay off up to 25 per cent of its tive, pointed out students amracting more investment academic staff, Oxford Univer skimped on food bills to from industry. sity has had to leave posts vac pay for housing, books and Although he did not highlight ant and Cambridge University clothing. any particular departments, he has had to appoint a full-time Spirit of enlightenment fails to prevent the University's financial said that savings targets had fundraiser. worries. been set in all areas, and that Isle of Man University Merged Alliance The Government of the Isle of Man is drawing up Polyjobs plans for a university for the island. Club launched by Neil Rafferty These facts seem to support the The island, with a current by Forbes McKay chairperson, will be elected claim of the polytechnics that population of 64,000, has no soon. When this has been Recent statistics show that their courses are more relevant higher education and On Wednesday the 14th of done, a new constitution will be polytechnic graduates are more to the working environment. almost 600 Manx students October, the merged Edin presented to the members for likely to enter permanent However, surveys have shown are studying at mainland burgh University Alliance Club their approval. employment six months after that for jobs requiring no universities, polytechnics was launched, with messages The feeling at the launch leaving college than university specific degree, a university and colleges this year. of support from Robert Mac helped no doubt by the wine, graduates. graduate is preferred to his/her l ennan and David Steel, an . was one of confidence and This information is taken from polytechnic equivalent. impressive new banner, and cheerfulness. The club plans to an analysis of the recently pub· The statistics also revealed the gallons of wine and beer. be very active at the University lished Universities Statistical growing significance of class of The club is the combination and in the local elections. Record on Employment. How· degree. Those with first class MAC of the EU Liberal Club, and SDP In the next few months, they ever, university graduates need honours stand an increasingly Club, which decided to merge will launch their campaign· not worry as the record also better chance of gaining Jobspot last month. Shortly afterwards, against the poll tax. This will shows that poly graduates are employment than those with a the national parties decided to probably coincide with cam also more likely to find them· second class. However, once Edinburgh University's toe the line, and announced paigns by the SNP, Labour, the selves unemployed or in short· again we see a paradox among Money Advice Centre has similar plans. The national stu Trade Unions, and the NUS. term employment. those with second class rather dent organisations have not yet They feel that an alternative A number of reasons can be than first class honours. This fact introduced a new service called Jobspot. merged. should be offered, and like the found for the appearance of tends to suggest that those with The club has about 80 mem SNP and the Greens, propose a these figures. better degrees seem to be Since October 12th, MAC is offering its services to bers, and hopes to break the local income tax. Firstly, large numbers of uni· choosier when job-hunting. 100 barrier in the next year, They hope too to be visited versity graduates are likely to Employers continue to stress employers seeking to fill having al ready gained almost by Robert Maclennan, and sa.,. enter vocational training or post· their need for graduates, thus part-time or summer vac 50 new members this term, they are looking forward posi graduate work, whereas easing growing fears of long· ancdies by advertising jobs contrary to expectations. tively to the future of their polytechnic students prefer to term unemployment after uni· at all their desks. A new committee, with one oartv. start work as soon as possible. versity. This, say MAC, is part of an attempt to broaden MAC's horizons and attract interest from smaller local business who would not normally inform the Uni Bauermeister versity of vacancies they Booksellers might have. BOOK IN to our new expanded Magazine ACADEMIC BOOKS DEPARTMENT starting up TYPING What ever your course of study we can supply all )'our Upstart, a new magazine texts and are pleased to SHORTHAND for students, will hit the order books which are Union and shops and out of stock. around the University on WORD PROCESSING Friday. Open Mon-Sat 9 am-5.30 pm The magazine, produced dBASE AND SUPERCALC by a group of Edinburgh University students, will FULL AND PART-TIME COUllSES GEORGE IV BRIDGE include articles on the DURING TERM OR VACATIONS .EDINBURGH EH11EHr---.-i:::::::J accommodation situation 031-226 5561 '----J for freshers, why MEasten WETHERBY OFFICE TRAINING dersw is going downhill, and 6 CASTLE STREET a" frank analysis on the ugly bastard in Scottish foot 031- ball". TWO NEVVS THURS 22 OCT 1987 e Government will not pay for its proposed extra students Visiting MP supports loans, More students for less Sciences and sponsorship by J ane Kelly Minister met with all four of the by Tom Bradby cation maintain that this is sadly A loans scheme financed Union Sabbaticals. EUSA Presi inadequate. perhaps by the building dent Jane Rogerson gave her The Government's pre-elec· societies, business sponsorship first impressions recalling Mr tion promise to create another The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher for studies and the employment Jackson's formal education 50,000 places in higher educa Education stated that taking into of students in staffing university which had given him no experi tion over the next four years account a likely pay award for unions and libraries are just ence of Scottish education seems to have been thrown teachers and an increase in fully some of the cost-cutting ideas institutions nor indeed of grants. under a shadow of doubt. funded students, the 9 per cent Robert Jackson, MP, deputy to She found this very much in evi Sixty institutions planned to increase would not be enough to Kenneth Baker, would like to see dence, singling out his " remark create almost 5,000 extra stu preserve the amount presently in his vision of British univeh able ignorance of Scottish dent places next year at a frac spent on each student. sities in the future. people in higher education" and tion of the usual cost. The col Mr Jackson takes special in his disbelief that parents leges had offered to take extra In terms of overall funding the charge of higher education. would not always be '(iilling to students ata quarter or a third of announcement might ultimately l ast week he embarked on a make a parental contribution. the normal cost. result in a reduction of 11,000 four-year fact-finding mission Although a former Arts places next year. of higher education institu ·graduate, Mr Jackson avowed But the bid is set to fall tions, beginning with Stirling outside funding which necessar· through because the Govern The chairman of the NAB, Mr and including Edinburgh and ily benefits the Sciences to the ment will not provide any Christopher Ball, said that the Heriot-Watt Universities. detriment of the Arts. In so doing money for them. ) loss of these marginal places Speaking to Student on he indicated strongly the great Mr Kenneth Baker has was a sadly wasted opportunity. behalf of a holidaying Mr friction which exists between announced an increase in over '"I think it will cause people to Jackson, his PPS Peter' Wardle the Treasury and the Depart all spending of 9 per cent but question the Government's pol described the visit to ment of Education whose main officials on the National Advis icy of expanded access: he Edinburgh as a '"getting aim appears in meeting basic ory Board for public sector edu- added. to know you trip'" where the educational requirements. e.w:ri11t1;1 Charity Pubs Board bitter over cuts assault by Emma Simpson sary by students to commission that they had ieceived the maybe recognise that what we last Sunday bus loads of ques books, take control over proof '" rough end of the stick" on three are trying to do is for the good of tionably fit students stormed The Edinburgh University reading and provide better train points: the Association -we decided to Glencorse Army Barracks to Student Publications Board ing for the student members of • Too large a proportion of postpone the appointment till raise money. EUSA is in a better state." Almost 200 students attemp are still waiting for the the Board. the cuts had been ~rried by But following the first deficit of Polygon in comparison to However, according to stu ted a real army assault course. promised full-time staff the Association in its entire his other organisations. dents involved, such a post their aim - to raise money for member after a heated and tory this year of £2 1,000, • The forthcoming merger ponement would be damaging the "Save the Children'" char at times bitter meeting of announced at the end of was undermined by a delay to Polygon since it is strongly felt ity. the EUSPB's Board of direc Freshers' Week, EUSA had in the appointment of an that training is needed for stu lots of people took part, with tors on Monday night. decided to postpone an editorial editorial consultant. dents to edit publications to the teams ranging from '" The' Nip consultant in an attempt to save • StuOent involvement at required standard. ple Turisters" (4 min 09) and A merger between the Publi money - without supposedly Polygon had been under- A motion was finally passed the "Famous Five" {4 min 43) to cations Board and the printing informing the students involved mined due to the lack of con by. the Board of Directors allow "The Optimists" (7 min 40) and room had been heavily debated of their decision at the time. sultation over the staff post ing the Publications Board to EUSA's " Executive Relief" (8 last year between the Board of At the meeting, Publications ponement. make an application for a special min 14). Among the horrors Directors - which includes the Board Convener Loretta Bres Treasurer Cheow lay-Wee dispersement award (a separate encountered were sadistic PT EUSA President, Secretary and ciani said: NI am disappointed stressed that the final figures resources fund able to be used instructors, barbed wire crawls Treasurer. and saddened at the whole way were only available to him a few in urgent cases). This will have and piranha pits. The Board finally agreed to go this decision has been underta days before he notified the to be Passed by a meeting ofthe Student Aid, the organisers ahead with the merger, only on ken. We were not consulted and Board and pointed out the dif Association's Finance Commit· of this event, managed to.taise certain conditions, one of which I object to this because it affects ficulties in finding money for the tee, otherwise the EUSPB's £4000 J~st year for Save the was the appointment of an the Board badly." deficit. " EverypartoftheAssoci editorial consultant will defi Children. They hope to do just editorial consultant. Such an Students at the Publications ation has suffered. I think that nitely be pos1poned. as well this year with similar employee was seen as neces- Board expressed annoyance the Publications Board should sponsored madness. CAMPUS TO CAMPUS Compiled by Tom Bradby year students with free Durex at This didn't stop the fight bet the annual Freshers Fair. Uni Anti-student ween Big Daddy and Rashin SA government versity College Cardiff. Leading Rasputin making front page threatens radicals clergymen argued against stu violence news in the student newspaper. SOUTH AFRICA: New regula dent union leaders, who MANCHESTER: Three students tions designed to crack down on defended their decision as a in Manchester were baricaded the activities of student radicals worthy attempt to counter the into their house whilst youths Bomb were brought into force in South threat of A IDS. Amongst showered them with bricks as Africa last week. attacks on union leaders for anti-student violence esclated scare University authorities who fail condoning promiscuity one in levenshume. to curb such radicalism amongst observer noted "Well at least As many as a dozen other BIRMINGHAM: Freshers at Bir their students, not only on but everyone is starting to realise students have been assaulted mingham University were not off campus, may face having what they are for - and by roving gangs of up to 60 concerned by a bomb sca re their State subsidies cut off - perhaps next year we won't get youths in the area. hoax at a disco. Union officials which account for 80 per cent of people trying to blow up like Police have advised students weren't chuffed either with the their revenue. balloons." to stay clear of the area and police took "forever" to come Afrikaans-language univer- stressed that there is no safety and sort out the scare. sities seem willing to compty in numbers. with the regulations but the two Differing versions have been largest English-speaking univer aired as to how the rift between Rent Strike sities, Cape Town and the Wit students and local youth watersrand, say they will fight Mourning for developed. The youths claim to OXFORD : Students at Batliol the move vigorously. men be angered by a student who and Mansfield Colelges are pre The move appears td be pulled a knife on although stu sently on rent strike after tem aimed at radicals, mostly black, CAMBRIDGE: There are some dents claim that it was in self pers were frayed -0ver claims who have broken up meetings unhappy faces at Magdalene defence. that rent rises are unjustified and lectures addressed by men College at the moment over the CAMBRIDGE: Violence seems without a similar increase in they declare to be "enemies of prospect of women being admit- to have been the order of the day student grants. the people". ted in the near future. , this week as three freshers at An insider told Student that Some even took to wearing Sidney Sussex, were beaten the whole affair seemed to be at Blown out of black armbands when the deci up in their own college by local a deadlock as there didn't sion to adopt women was youths. appear to be any way the proportion announced. The same militant One fresher had a bar stool authorities could wangle the few have now taken to sporting broken over his head which left money out of students, short of CARDIFF: A heated con I Graphic:' Alison an alternative college tie to dis him with a gash that needed 35 cutting down on food and ser troversy flared up over the play their displeasure. stitches. vices. recent decision to equip first THREE THURS 22 OCT 1987 Turn tho!Jght 111to• .action•
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WE WlLL BE GIVING A PRESENTATION ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26TH IN THE CALEDONIAN HOTEL, PRINCES STREET AT 7.15 PM. JPMorgan LETTERS THURS 22 OCT 1987 VIDEO BOX • • • Dear Editor, While there have been cuts on Dear Editor, May I just comment on your grant-aided activities, our enter- lwishtosettherec6rdstraight article on the deficit in the first tainments budget has been with regard to EUSA's Cam draft of the Association's Grant- increased substantially, each paigns Foru m (page 2, last STUDENT Aided Budget. Firstly, the grant house has seen an increase of issue). that we receive should meet all about 27 per cent in their free The Freshers' Week meeting administrative costs that are entertainments programme. was cancelled as I could not find ~ accrued. Secondly, the· deficit the time to organise an event caused was also a result of last which would be genuinely par- year's bad performance at the ticipatory and not merely a long Publications Board, especially speech followed by questions. Unhealthy wealth its drawings, as budgeting is As the meeting was aimed done on what happened last primarily at freshers, it would year. However, the Finance have been unfair to expect the The dramatic fall in the wor1d's stock markets has Committee approved its prop- same kind of discussions which caused consternation throughout the world but seems osal to rectify the situation. Con- we had last year -you have to a long way from the lives of students ekeing a living on ~~~~~~tl~u~~c:~~~s se~o~:3e:~ Thus the entertainment prog- inform students before asking a grant. Who cares, we may say, if a few fat achieve and I feel confident that ramme we offer, as a service, to for their hel~p. businessmen lose their ill-gotten gains? But of course, those targets will be reached. students is not contracting but Thirdly, Jane's statement expanding. These can expand if the fall continues it will affect us all. Many graduates about cuts ;n welfa•e seNkes because they a•e Uad;ng -_: in recent years have found lucrative jobs in the City. was that she expressed frustra- accounts as we are not allowed tion that we could not expand to subsidise entertainments ..,,,;-, This year such openings are likely to be few and far between. Indeed many of the City whiz kids could be ~~:yw::::eb:~n~i~~~. ~ ~~~ t~~ ~7~et~;~a~~fr:~:i~~~=~~~~ i~~ a~~~ti~t~enre~~~~~:::n~~ facing redundancy, swapping filofax and Gucci for P45s are undergoing one ofthe major g~~a~!S:Sut it has not all been were likely to be able to attend. and the dole queue. Nor would the effects necessarily reviews of our welfare provi- Yours sincerely, As to the confusion between stop there. !inns may recruit less staff and, if sion. Having stood on the wel- Cheow-Lay Wee, Mike and Sally, that was entirety Other fare platform, I have no desire to Treasurer, for and behalf of predictable as 1 was wholly things got really bad, we could be facing a severe economic depression in the near future. Even the liiselltel.any- _c_ut_s_;n_o_u_' w_e_r1.,_ _e _p,_ov_; ______;;•h::•.::Sa:;bb::::,•'::ica=t s'1. :~~dn~b~el~f~lt~nefu~:etii~~t~~ University could lose money as its invesbnents k>se versity and I am surprised that dent could deal with the person value and there is less money available from private A FRIEND IN NEED yoU allow such personal attacks responsible not just phone a sabDatical in the offices - enterprise. Dear Editor, to be published. I hope Student I was appalled by Judith will have the de<::ency to publish hardly investigative journalism. Starting Campaigns Forum in It all goes to show that as students we are directly Magowan's letter of 15th an apology. October entitled "Dictionary For the re<::ord, the friend we week three does not signify a affected by events in "the real wor1d". Unfortunately Definition" which sought to all know as Yossi has done a lack of commitment to the there is nothing we can do about the stock market defame a member of the Edin great decil of good for the Uni- · cause. It allowed time for slide except keep our fingers aossed. bu rgh University community. It versity, particularly for its adequate publicity, proper prep is a blatant misuse of your theatre. He is liked and admired aration · and maximum atten dance by students as the first What price Mrs Thatcher's Free Market now: when paper's right to freedom of by everyone I know, though expression and is libellous. It obviously not by Judith Mago- two weeks are always very hec fortunes and lives can be lost by blind panic on the part also taints the reputation of Stu tic. There is still plenty of time to of the supposed experts in the City? dent as a valid and worthy Yours faithfully, organise campaigning during firstterrn. mouthpiece of Edinburgh Uni- James Baxendale. Yours etc., ing on extremely shaky ground Don MacCorquodale, The price is right? criticising the level of students External Conyaner GLASGOW HERALD WINNER 1985, 1986 Dear Editor, grants while their major event which most psychologist5' A letter of criticism. Firstly, of takes this form. H owabo~toffer would say is ultimately you. I do not know Martin Ross ing something that is not merely unfathomable. l don't believe MANAGER Loretta Bresciani {" Yossi" ) personally, and as available to the richer students hypnotism is a thing about which to joke GRAPHICS Grant such cannot criticise the validity from the south of England. of the "dictionary definition" Yours, I would have very much liked STAFF LIST Julian Thomas 0 . M . Ellingworth. to come to this year's Presi you printed in last week's issue. EDITOR Loma Henderson PHOTOGRAPHY Tony Roberts However, this is a blatant per dents' Ball; just because I am a · Patrick Leask sonal attack, and not an attack Look into my eyes Christian doesn't mean I don't ASSISTANT ED Sandrac.tto like fun; I am aware I do not have Miranda Chitty on anything he wrote, and has Dear Editor, NEWS EDITORIAL MEETINGS no place in a serious newspaper. to watch the "flooi-" show, but it Emma Simpson Having at last raised sufficient is the principle that counts and FRIDAYS 1.10PMINSTUDENT You should not allow your let funds and persuaded a gullible Forbes McKay ters page to degenerate into a paying even a minimal contribu OFFICES. partner, this year I awaited with tion (from the ticket price) Lucy Hooker INDIVIDUAL SECTION forum for a bitter slanging enthusiasm the usual publicity match. towards this act would go Neil Rafferty accompanying the announce against my principles. I do not MEETINGS: Secondly, I am writing to criti ment of the Presidents' Ball, to MUSIC Caroline Ednie News: Thurs 1.15 pm Student cise the attitude of EUSA. Last think it is reasonable, if this bait which 1 planned to drag the is supposed to be open to all stu Jane Bowie Offices. year, commendable effort was aforesaid victim! put in to the campaigns dents of the University, that the THE CENTRE FOLD Linda Kerr Arts: Thurs 1.15pm However, I must express dis "floor" show be something Jane Moir The student income is appointment, for having Bannerman 's pub. clearly too low and further effort which many holding religious Fran Hughes perused Midweek I find the beliefs or others aware of the Features : Wed 1.10 pm must be put in to improve it. entertainment is not to be as Lucy Batty However, EUSA appear to be psychological damage of non Bannerman's. congenial as I had hoped. scientific hypnosis, find goes RUM KamalMurari Music: Wed 1.10 pm Student spending most of their time pub Hypnotism should not be licisinq the Presidents' Ball, against their faith and their con- BrionySergeant Offices. regarded as an entertaining science. which will include 90 oer cent of game, nor a fascinating puzzle; Scott Styles the student population by its Yours, AJITS rather it is a dangerous pursuit Rosie Cowan price tag of £17. EUSA are stand- Pauline Radcliffe. FEATURES Prue Jeffreys STUDENT, Emma Simpson 48 PLEASANCE; Gillian Drummond .. SPORT Carl Marston EDINBURGH EH8 9J J. BACK PAGE Loretta Bresciani Tel 5581117/8 or ·''····-··. Loma Henderson Rosie Cowan 667 1011 ext 4496.
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TliE CHESTERAELDS The Venue First off, how could anyone fail to like a band who called their debut LP Kettle NoisyCats because they said they would get a free plug twice .-.An exp&anatiOn of the workings of Rapid Eye Movement ba~~t ~~ i ~h~i~1~~!!?~:~J:~!~~t~ ~~~:~ ~!~~t ~~~~·~tuc~:~ weekly when M avis Riley asked, "Shall I put the kettle American music, dontcha just love it? This year, in dear, ~~s~~~a~i~~la~~~ !t:~g:i~~~~v=~~a::t~~ ~~~~~!t~~~~:; on?" in "Coronation deprived, talentless old Britain, we've been especially disturbing, but the music, ah the music was lush, loud, but above all, Street"! fortunate, what with the release of mega·albums by Prince, proud. Although accessible enough to sell over600,000 copies in the Springsteen and that bloke Jackson. But amidst all the . States, REM remained true to their ideals, making music they The Chesterfields built on this ballyhoo surrounding the musical equivalent of three wanted to make- r'!o selling out for this band. ioound fou ndation and gave a 15· Royal Weddings in one year, out popped the bastard ·song set that was proof that non offspring of Charles and Fergie: REM's fifth album mainstream (please not "indie") Document. pop has weathered the terrible "'cutie anorak" phase of Tallulah It wasn't their first album in three years, nor the most expensive Gosh et al and is alive and kick ever, nor tastelessly w rapped in a psychedelic cover, not even ing. Bands like The Chester· m ercilessly hyped in the tabloids; but still Document managed to rear its beautifully ugly head in the album chart (No. 25), while the fields, Close Lobsters, McCarthy band dominated the week's music press. and Mighty Mighty are consis tently turning out good honest to-God pop that cries, nay yells out for daytime play and a wider audience.
Tonight's set was culled "largely from Kettle with Kiss Me ~lflLJlJ::Jll. Stupid (what an admirable senti 1987 saw a new facet to REM -they went public, in the best share ment!) and Ask Johnny Dee (a offer yet. Dead letter Office was a curious mixture of the good, the tribute to the fanzine editor who bad and the downright repulsive. By releasing a batch of left-overs, first brought the increasingly ' ouMakes, B·sides and other such scraps, with suitably offbeat embarrassing Housemartins to sleeve notes from guitarist Peter Buck, REM brought all their musical our attention) standing out. skeletons out of the cupboard. What an honest bunch of guys. What surprised m e was the reat This was followed by the release of Succumbs, a video collection power the twin guitars can of material culled from the first four albums. True to form, the hand create live, as opposed to the held camera shots and jerky filming is bizarre, but don't think REM occasionally twee sound of the are pretentious, po-faced gits - the video for Can't Get There From records, and new guitarist Mark Here is positively wacky - honest! Succumbs went on to top must take a lot of credit for this. Billboard's video chart. The new songs, particularly So we come to Document. The production, as on ... Pageant, is Goodbye Goodbye (the next rich and crisp, giving weight to Stipe's vocals - still can't single) and last Train To understand a bloody word though. The addition of horns, piano and Yeovil(!) stood head and shoul The secret, perhaps, lies in their identity. Or lack of it-REM are a bit an altogether neater guitar sound blend to make a demanding ders above the old stuff and of a mystery. From their debut album Murmu4 through 1984's album that challenges you not to sit up and take note. Witness, for bode well for the future. Reckoning to Fables Of The Reconstruction in 1985, REM played example, Stipe's vocals on W ire's Strange, all twisted up and spat All in all therefore, a night their own particular brand of country/folk/rock, call it what you will, out; or the breakneck, furious ranting of It's The End Of The World As which exemplified all that is topped off with Michael Stipe's nasal, grating, mostly We Know It (And I Feel Fine), the apocalyptic, geninely funny single. fresh and vibrant in the "real" incomprehensible vocals. These albums were u nfashionably bereft REM are indeed a thinking man/woman's band. In these days of British pop world. I only wish of flashy covers, nice bend shots and, heaven forbid, lyric sheets. throwaway lock. stock and barrel·produced crap, REM are more more of you poor old souls had Hardly surprising really that the mass-market record·buying public :>ertinent now than they ever were. Without them we certainly can't been there to see it. didn't go for it in a big way. Which, as far as REM were concerned, Jet there from here. Dessie Fahy seemed fair enough. Craig Mclean
.B. KING skinny frame and thrusting mike 'J:'HE. RAMONES/SEX GODS stand; Dee-Dee's low stung bass THE SWANS ayhouse Glasgow Barrowland and Lou Reed looks; Marky's The Venue or fans of blues music (in- I must admit, before seeing MEN Da brudders are back in ~:~~l:~~~~~h~~Y~ s~~;:~h ~= Scotland and leather jackets traditional bowl cut and white The Swans last Saturday, I '1" :S: :E-r ~~d :~~a1~~:a7'1~~~c~~~~~~ were out in force. M any of Mosrite, speeding through the had severe doubts about OOU£»1'r hen B.B. King took the the large crowd fooked old chords and missing out his lead them. Having only heard stage at the Playhouse. enough to have rushed out parts. them on record, I thought . On stage, "the fattest man in and bought the first album Opening with lobotomy they they were an excellent idea the blues" is a character, a real ______BA • G,_ .. , flamboyant, the pink-jacketed following the Evening ran through a greatest hit set, but absolutely unlistenable. Times' call to ban it due to !~~i~ g c~r~~s~;~~~~~r~~~:uo9u~ The basic Swans format is to Following a year which has ~~:=~~~· ;;'~ h hbaosth~~:tu~~ ~~~ Now I Want To Sniff Some Psychotherapy, Blitzkreig Bop ceaselessly and excruciatingly seen them change record most powerful and emotive voi Glue back in punks ' heady and on to Cretin Hop and Rock companies and ba ces to be heard today whilst his days. 'n ' Roll High School before the ~~.w{ti:~~~~:5fu';1~~~?b~~ players, The Men The guitar playing is exemplary of Support band The Sex Gods arrival of The Pinhead and His frustrating and difficult listening, Couldn't Hang are back the style which so influenced were musically proficient but Sign. frequently causing the listener with a new EP and British Clapton, Page, etc. any inspiration other than the - Two encores, which an to scream and propel highly desire to be rock stars was lack- exhausted crowd hardly breakable objects around the tour. . ta~~:~v~~/ :~c:~~~~a~~~~~ ing - a new Simple Minds but clamoured for, finished with an room, long for tbe song to The M en, now with Magnet instrumentals which gave each duller. The Ramones by com- unret.;ognisable Happy Family. explode into a few seconds of R~ rd s, release Island In The member of the seven·piece parison are back on top form. Really the only thing stopping cacaphonic thrash. However, f!am next week, an~ can _be seen backing band considerable solo Even faster and louder than last this gig from completing a great live they are a totally different live at the Venue m Edinburgh time. But the punters had paid year's model, although it was weekend for me (Hibs 2 Hearts 1 experience: intense, deafening. on October 28th. their money to see one man and really a timeless gig - many of at Easter Road on Saturday) was Michael Gira cuts .a Messianic Although often CC!.~par~ to showed this in their response to the31 songswerefrom theearly the sound, especially Dee-Dee's figure on stage, sometimes The Pog~ es, the woup s sub_Ject the few classic songs he played, years but the stage show, par- mike during Warthog. statuesque, sometimes manic. matt~r is co.ns1derably .wider such as The Thrill Is Gone and ticu1arly the lights, elevated It was all more of the same, He stripped to his waist early on; rang1~g, their la.test , smg!es Outside Help. them to almost godlike status . . but this same is · brilliant. so compelling was his 'Perfor feat~.mng the mme~ st~tke The long instrumentals They revelled in the freedom of ' Greatest rock 'n' roll band in the mance I doubt anyone would (Shirt of Blue) and anti-fascism showed the limitations of the · the large stage-four very diffe· world? have blinked if he'd taken his (The Ghosts ofCaf?le ~tr~t). great man's guitar playing as he rent, tangible presences: Joey's Michael Jade.son trousers off. The awesome, As well as their six singles tendedtousethesame riffsover majestic barrage of sound, TMTCH have rel ea~ ~o andoveragain,yetheredeemed ( ~ )' which frequently drowned even excellent albums, 1985 s Night himself by the sheer quality of Gira's booming vocals, left me of a Thousand Candles and last his w ork. At age 62 the B.B. King feeling drained and almost year's How G~een Is The Valley, note-bending and vibrato completely deaf. Okay, so they both of 1wh1ch demonstrate techniques remain sublim e have a complete Jack of a sense " folk/funk .. at its best. . W hat few faults there ~ere ot humour, but on stage this If you thought that folk_ music detracted little from an overall only adds to the power of the was played only by .the likes of impressive and enjoyable per performance. If you're feeling in Suzan~e Vega, ? r simply wa~t ormance. If you get another a real bugger of a mood, catch a~ enjoyable night out, don,t hanee to see " The King of the The Swans before they depart miss The Men They Co'!ldn t lues" live, then take it. He these shores at the start of Hang. You could regret it for emains the world's greatest November. years. Rob lues singer. Stephen Barnaby John Watson SIX A..RTS THURS 22 OCT 1987
colour fade as she exhausts her prime. At the other extreme, Nowosielski uses "'shadow DRAMA characters "' - permanent reminders of the narrative structure of the play. The figure THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN .Prime Time of Sister Helena enables him to BRODIE convey an impression of the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh conservative spiritual and Until 31st October moral norm. Moreover, it's to · his credit that he makes her The Brunton Theatre in Mussel more than just a passive stan burgh probablY wouldn't be dard. To criticise the device, your first choice for theatre however, it does shatter the going. To those few people illusion of the play - the who've been through Mussel figures are constant recalls to burgh, the theatre will be the artificiality of the stage. immediately recognisable as Also, Sister Helena comes " the big building with the gold dangerously close to being thing on the front." vaguely emblematic. She inter Whatever your knowledge of rupts the action when not the town and theatre, you strictly ca lled for, taking the should take the opportunity to edge off her role. see The Prime Of Miss Jean The physical movement rein Brodie. forces the mental action of the Based on Muriel Spark's play imaginatively. As Miss novel, the play centres upon Brodie walks towards the back the "dangerous" Miss Brodie of the classroom, falling ever - her triumphs, passions, and deeper into her romantic world, her " assassination". From the her '"set " dissolves behind her. first, she stands out as a bright, So far, the play may appear colourful butterfly on the grey ponderous and serious but background of the school. She there's plenty of humour in it thrives on romantic ideals-all 100. Lucinda Baillie is excellent things Italian: II Duce; the Fas as Mary MacGregor, stuttering cisti; Cellini; Michelangelo's 3nd awkward. Hilary Maclean David. But like a butterfly, she's too; as - Sandy develops her fragile and insubstantial. When character convincingly in this . reality ultimately breaks in play of change. upon illusion, she is crushed After all is said and done, it's underfoot. well worth catching the bus out Charles Nowosielski's direc to Musselburgh - Nos. 43, 44, tion varies from the plain to the as. ambitious. At the simplest Now girls, about condoms . level, Miss Brodie's beauty and existed. His mono prints further this idea; but instead of using three-dimensional planes to express the volume; he uses CLASSICAL ARTS the two-dimensional line - be it angular or curved - engraved into and printed from LUISA MILLER - VERDI NAUMGABO a block of wood. Churchhill Theatre MONOPRINTS The images he produces con sist of enigmatic, beautiful lines The Sinfonia Opera have . Talbot Rice which converge, rotate and demonstrated their collective Until October 24th diverge in a rhythm of direc artistic courage in staging Luisa Miller, one of Verdi's least Monoprinting - as the word tions. Their interweaving movements create a three known operas, particularly suggests - resists the repro after last year's successful pro ductive and repetitive elements dimensionality and therefore duction of the more popular found in other print-making form a close link with his The Marriage of Figaro. processes; be it etching, sculptural work. It is interesting The opera was first produced lithography or screen printing to note that of the Opus One - Twelve series on display only in 1849 in Naples, and is loosely Each print becomes a separate based on Schiller's tragedy entity in itself; as Naum Gaba Opus Six was transferred into a Kabale and Lieve. There are found when he eventually bas-relief for the lobby of the definite undercurrents of different purposes. The stark turned to the process in 1950. US Rubber Building in Radio Verdi's political preoccupation THE LAST DAYS OF THE outlines of the backdrop also "There are no limited editions City New York. in the action that takes place, but NOSFERATU were equally effective when because each print of mine is Each Opus print was firstly it would be probably more signifying the ruined castle and unique. In print them by hand, drawn freehand, then transfer Theatre Workshop accurate to describe it as pre the clifftops where much of the each one and it takes me just as red onto grid paper and finally 15-17 October dominantly a humanist rather action takes place. The cos much time to make a print as to to the wood block. This shows a than a political piece. It is very difficult to be original tumes too were adaptable, sim make a drawing - sometimes measured aspect to images with the story of Dracula·as the ple but symbolic, the gasmasks longer. No two prints are ever that seem to be free and spon taneous. Take the numerous However, the main focus of Bedlam Theatre discovered last especially having a terrifyingly the same."' year. The Shadow Syndicate's chilling effect. This play Gaba was first and foremost prints for Opus Ten in some we attention should not be the The Last Days of Nosferatu seemed far more terrifying a sculptor, and his work relied see the emergence of faint ~reaking plot but Verdi's. sc~>re however, although based on than any other version of the upon the concept of mass and white lines through the dense- itself. All three. solo sm91ng the Bram Stoker novel, is an Dracula story, and this is partly the space in which the mass ness of the ink. On others the parts were skilfully handled print is faint - from little es?8?ially Rachael. Cowan in amazingly original and striking due to the music which is a theatrical experience. The play ~------applied pressure - making the t1tl~ role, who mv~sted the background to most of the lines seemingly shine as they part with the dramattc beauty involves all the usuat charac action. The strong cast contri ters: the animal-eating Students Welcome to blend with the background. At which the music demanded. bute to the eerie and haunting Renfield, the Doctor, Harker soundtrack, which involves vio times Gaba m~unts the. print The Scottish Sinfonia, under and his fiancee, as well as the lin, percussion and chanting b~ck-to-f~o~t, since the tissue- the taut control of Neil Mantle, Dracula figure, Nosferatu, but Above all, this play is an exer thin medium of ~apanese provided an excellent accom the play itself is given greater cise in rhythm. Dance and ' EUROPA paper allows a softer 1mag~ to paniment, generally maintain significance than the original movement, almost tribal, con be seen fr~m the rev~rse side. ing the balance between the horror, being an allegory about tributed to the strength of the Or alternatively he wnnkles the vocal and the instrumental. fascism. paper before printin~, brin_ging Unfortunately, the chorus performance as a whole and WINE BAR The many elements which lent real group power to the an unsual ~hree - d1m.ens1onal added nothing to this produc make up the performance all players. No one actor stood out Infirmary Street tex~ural q~al1ty to the 1mag~ - ti on, principally because they add to its immensely super as 1f the Imes are etched into failed to sing out and con as this company is clearly a natural effect. Most of the team and gains strength Where else can you enjoy fabulous stone. sequentlywere drowned out by rou~h action t akes place on a very through unity. The perfor hotandcoldmealsfrom His later works become not the orchestra. Their entries and dimly lit stage, which makes mance is a definite experience, 12noon-9p.m. only ~n experiment with line exists were clumsy, although the setting very shadowy and an extreme experiment in Also try our Saturday Lunches from b~t with colour. Hues become this was partly attributable to eerie. The set itself is simple, sound and movement, which 12.J0..2p.m. brighter, and are used to the size of the stage which was each piece being used for many avoids being over-the-top, sim emphasize certain segments further reduced for some ply because it hangs together look out for our-Golden Oldies and obliterate others. In Unti- scenes. The net resu lt was to ....______... so well and moves so slickly Night every Tuesday and our tied .(Oval Fon:n) he uses colo~r leave up to twelve people performance on the musica l 8 and quickly that the atmos Sunday Night Disco· ~~r~~e v~7u~!eci~ e~t~~li!~~~ standing in a row at a time. side, the production spoiled the phere is never diminished. This absolutely free overall effectiveness of the is definitely a very different and within an embryonic structure. The producer, Isobel Ewen, is work. We feel that as a concert The print becomes an essay in to be commended for her original piece of theatre which OPEN 11 am to 1 am performance it would certainty works both to compel and ter colour combination and in the choice of Luisa Miller as this have held its own. freeing aspect of monoprint- year's production. However, rify the audience. S556-6165S David Campbell Jennifer Trudland ing. Alison Brown despite the high standard of ChrisShffd EµVEN CHAMBERS STREET -THECEN1THURS 22 OCT Chambers St now boast a late liiltfD•rli f- cabaret from 10-12.30. Whether EU CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIA Eu MODERN DANCE SOCIE - they've got anybody ornot TION Chambers St Union Ballroom THE WEEKLV GUI you'll have to check out, but Balcony Room, Teviot Contemporary 6-7 pm stay for the Happy Half Hour 1 pm Modern/Jau 7.30·8.30 pm (9.30-10 pm), discos and vid Committee Meeting. eos. Or don't. Do what you UNIVERSITY CHAPLAINCY want. We don't care. WED280CT Sixth Level common Room, KB, 1.20pm UNIVERSITY CHAPLAINCY I- SAT240CT I Lunchtime talk - The Caring CENTRE Society? With Mr Ted matth· NEW SCOTLAND COUNTRY 1.10pm ews, Director of Edinburgh DANCE SOCIETY Midweek Service __, The Trea Council of Social Service. Debating Hall, Teviot sure. Father James Quinn, DEBATES WORKSHOP 7.30pm Church of Sacred Heart. FILM HOUSE FILM SOC Terviot Middle Reading Room Ceilidh. £1 for members, £1.50 EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY 88 LOTHIAN ROAD 228 2688 60 PLEASANCE 557 0436 7.30 pm or non-members. With ALLIANCE CLUB JEAN DE FLORETTE EXTERMINATING .A!NGEL NEW SCOTLAND COUNTRY Hopscotch. Any enquiries to Meet Chaplaincy Centre 2 pm Till sat 31; 5.45 (ex. Sun), 8.15, CITIZEN KANE DANCE SOCIETY Gwendy 447 4376. Who says the Alliance are dull Wed2.15 Fri Oct 23; Pleasance; 6.45, 8.30 Refectory, Bristo Square EU ORKNEY AND and doomed to stay in local Beautiful film illustrating the First up a black-hearted satire on 7.30 pm SHETLAND SOCIETY politics? Visit Lothian Region struggle of a French farming the life of the bourgeoisie from Overawed by the nimble foot· Da Hairst Foy(?) and Edinburgh Di strict Council family against their avaricious the setting of a middle-class din work of the American ceilidh Grindlay Street Students Union Chambers. All Welcome. neighbours. ner party, then the classic Orson dancers? Want to learn more Doors close 10.30 pm. Bar open SAC WE LFARE COMMITTEE PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Welles movie about the rise and about your own (pseudo) herit· until 1.30 am. Members 50p. Committee Room, Till Sat 24 Oct; 3.00, 6.00, (Thur fall of a rich newspaper tycoon. age, or just have a laugh? Others £1 . EUSAOffices Fri), 6.30 (Sat), 8.30 (ex. Fri & HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN Ceilidh and simple country TEVIOT ROW UNION 4pm Sat) TRUE STORIES dances taught, as well as news With jazz, and happy hour 8-9 All students welcome. and American cult comedy of the Sun Oct 25; GST; 6.45, 8.40 of the freshers weekend. pm in Park Room. every second Wednesday after family sort that,sounds rather A French thriller about an obses .e~:i-?~~~S HOLIDAY CHAMBERS ST UNION this. like a real life cartoon. sive love affair that leads to Disco, pop videos and happy tragedy, followed by the excel WOMENS SELF-DEFENCE VERTIGO ESCA Offices, Guthrie Street hour 8.30-9.30 pm. Main Library Conference Room Thur 22-Fri 23 act; 2.15 lent Talking Heads movie depict 1pm ing the more bizarre events that George Square James Stewart as the cop Lunchtime meetings to SUN 250CT who's afraid ofheights and occur in a small American town. organise swimming trips for 7-9 pm THE LACEMAKER Learn how to feel better about whose girlfriend's suicide underprivileged children on METH SOC CACTUS yourself and gain in confi ·incessantly haunts him. Monday, Tuesday and Wed· Nicolson Square Methodist WQed Oct 28; GST; 6.45, 8.45 Church dence. TES nesday nights, day trips and Sat Oct 24; 11 pm (£2.50) Romantic tale of a dreamy weekend . trips. If you are 6.30 pm " Fishers of Men" EU LESBIAN AND young girl {sounds like myself) 8 pm "Aborti on and the Sa nc Polanski's adaptation of interested in any of these, go GAY SOCIETY Thomas Hardy's novel starring who finds difficulty in realising along on Thursday. tity of Life ~. talk by Nigel de Cheviot Room, Pleasance her hopes for her future, then the Cam eron. the sickeningly beautiful CHAMBERS ST UNION Spm Nasstassja Kinski as the relationship of a woman whose Lesbian and Gay Rights in Scot Rock Disco. doomed heroine. sight is threatened, and a bl1 nd MON260CT land, with Howard Dickson of BATTLE OF ALGIERS the Scottish Homosexual EU CONSERVATIVE Sun 25; 6.15, 8.30 FRI 23 OCT Rights Group. ASSOCIATION Mainstream political cinema CANNON STUDENT COMMUNITY Teviot Middle Reading Room TEVIOT ROW UNION depicting the unrest between LOTHIAN ROAD 229 3030 ACTION GROUP 1 pm France and Algeria in the 50's. 8.30-10.45 pm BEVERLY HILLS COP 11 Chambers St Ballroom Lunch. The union plan to have a pianist DUNE . 8 pm-1 am 2.45, 5.45, 8.45 RE VOLUTIONARY playing on week nights in the Mon 26-Tues 27 Oct; 2.15 CEILIDH - For only £1 you can Fans of Eddie Murphy, full of COMMUNIST SOCIETY Teviot Bar. Classy stuff. St ing (gasp, orgasmt) and bring the roof down while still euphoria after the BHC I epic, Seminar Room l, assorted others in Frank Her doing your bit for charity. POTTERROW will be running off in hoards to Chaplaincy Centre bert's sci-fi classic. Not wildly the Cannon, [2.50 in their hot, EU CHRISTIAN UNION 1pm GREEN BANANA CLUB - exciting apparently but then Chaplaincy Centre bring your own records. Spe sweaty little hands. Many, how .. The late abortion debate - our poor old Stingy has always ever, will have read the reviews 7pm Arguments against Alton". All cial theme nights and happy been landed some duff roles. Priority for the Year - " A Liv· hour 8.30-9.30 pm. and not bother. w elcome. ROUND M IDNIGHT THE UNTUUCHABLt:!;; ing Sacrifice". With David Mon 26-Tue 27 Oct; 5.30, 8.00 Wright. AIESEC 2, 5.8 Ochil Room, Pleasance. RAG RAIDS Tribute to veteran jau musician Yes folks, it's 'choose your TEVIOT ROW UNION 6.30 pm For every £400 raised, by a Dale Turner, sta rring Dexter venue' time. The Cannon or the 2 discos p lus bands in the wine Go along and find out how to house, group or individual, will Gordon. Dominion? (A helpful hint; the bar. This week it's Three dan get a job abroad through their benefit the raiser to the tune of VERA one beginning with D is £1 cers - a Smith's-like band. International Exchange Prog- £35 booze/union voucher. Wed 28; 6.15, 8.30 cheaper). Should be a laugh. Bands start Mini-Rag Week - Week 3 - Brazalian film concerning the FULL METAL JACKET Sell Rag Mags as far away as dilemma of a woman who 2.10,5.20,8.10 EU MODERN DANCE SOCIETY ~i;~~~~6~mlJNION York. To find out about times becomes increasingly aware of Sometimes I wonder when all and transport, contact 1719 Gut ~t":: The Fiubombs - a ~~dn;;~~~sa~: ~~i~~ Ballroom a masculine personality within the Falklands films will start hrie Street (behind Chambers herself and the hostility of the springing up. Though nothing groovy band with independent Ballet 7·8 pm Street Union). Tel. 225 4061 . outside world to her predica extraordinary, this is still a chart success. Happy Hour ~~i~~ ~c~a:::e~1e~~·~::~~~~ ment. good war film.
EXHIBITIONS CA..NN<>N With matric card students get in for £1.30 on Mondays only. All other TALBOT RICE "1iM•iM:lff'1113;ii performances are £2.50 OLOCOUEGE 6671011 =29=MAR="'KET"--'S~T___ 22S~2383~ 94 GEORGE ST 225 5955 l:>OIVllNl<>N NAUMGABO MARGERY CLINTON ENZOCUCCH1 Students pay £1.50 for every performance in Cinemas 1 and 2. The Until 24th October 5-280ctober 3 Oct-21 Nov only exception is the late evening shows Monday to Friday in Monoprints. Transferred from Testa - prizes to all those who Despite the fact that this artist Cinema 3 and the two evening shows on Saturday. The Dominion is the Tate - geometric art exe can pronounce the artist's name. sounds like someone out of HDal cuted with chair legs. Uninspir las ff, this is really an exhib of her closed on Sundays. ing nevertheless. ceramic works. COLIN BAXTER CITY ART CENTRE <>DEON 21-31 October JAMES MILLER. RSA, RSW Performances up to 6 pm cost £1.50 and after6 pm cost £2 with card. 2MARKETST 2252424 3-280ctober The natu[e Qf the land All seats may be booked in advance. A veritable orgy of exhibs .:it the ACROSS T.HE BOUNDARIES - GALLERY OF mo. no, not a mass migration of arts students to KB but an exhib of con Fl LIVI HOUSE 20th CENTURY DRAWINGS temporary applied arts. Student prices are 75p for matinees, early evening shows £1.50 MODERN ART ANO WATERCOLOURS (except Sat) and £2.30 for main evening shows which are bookable BELFORD ROAD 5568921 Until 240ct in advance. Hopefully the collection is a THE VIGOROUS IMAGINATION : FINE ART SOCIETY NEW SCOTilSH ART touch more imaginative than the 12 GREAT KING ST 5560305 FILIVIS<>C Until 25 Oc;tober title. Membership, costing £10 to students, gives free entra'!ce to ~II A LOOK AT THE LANDSCAPE THE SUBLIME AND THE performances. Non.members may purchase guest tickets m Welt worth the trek down to the FANTASTIC West End to see this, even such an Until 240ct advance from any Union Shop or at the Postgrad Students' Union at uncultured person as myself Rural views again, but this time (The Vivid Imagination in Art) the weekend. found such a visit well worth spanning the past three cen Sounds like some wild shenani while. turies. gans going on here.
EIGHT RE FOLD 11mmmom11SNO CHAIS REA THURS220CT Usher Hall, Lothian Road Playhouse, Greenside Place THE DAN WALKER 2281155 557 2590 ~E TO WHAT'S ON EXPERIENCE 7.30 pm £2.30-£9.50 7.30 pm Negociants, Lothian Street Dvorak's Requiem and Biblical THE CHRISTIANS 225 6313 Repertoire, conducted by Queen's Hall, Clerk Street 9 pm Free NeemeJarvi. 668 3456 Jan/Blues 7.30_pm £5 BIG BLUE WORLD SAT240CT #We're mean, moody and Music Box, Victoria Street .FELT and HOUSE OF LOVE from Liverpool, and we hate 220 1708 The Venue, Calton Road Mai::ii::iie Thatcher# band. 10 pm Free 557 3073 Bopmobility rock 'n pop. 7.30 pm MON260CT 1•• G-SPOT TORNADO CAMEO DOMINION Sounds reminiscent of the 'Ar BON TON AOULEZ Fresh, Waterloo Place chies'. Music Box, Victoria Street j38HOMESlREET 2284141 NEWBATILE TER 447 2660 556 2839 ROY HARPER 220 1708 AN AMERICAN TALE 9 pm Free ~E WITCHES OF EASTWICK George Square Theatre 10pm Free 2.15, 4.15, 6.15 (Till Sat) Sultry twangy guitars. Worth a £5. from Fri ; 4.25, 6.40, 9.00 peek. riree sex-starved women in a Half term holiday stuff for the AFTER EIGHT MINCE TUES27 OCT kiddies that's probably not Music Box, Victoria Street sleepy New England town sum HUE AND CAY up their inner powers to fan based on US intervention in FRl230CT 220 1708 Queen's Hall, Clerk Street tasise a dream man for them Central America. £3 aher9 pm THE BODINES 668 3456 Selves. The next day arriveth Mr THE SECRET OF MY Si.JCCESS The Venue, Calton Road BAD NEWS The Coat bridge sensations, will Til Sat 8.30 pm Playhouse, Greenside Pl. Right but the pleasure is to be 557 3073 surely thrill all trendies out of Short lived and the price for Starring Michael " I look very 7.30 pm 557 2590 their turnups, brogues and (fabbling with the devil is paid. young my age but all the teeny "We're just signed with a major 7.30 pm £6, £5, £4 boppers love me" J. Fox. 'Curiosity' caps. Surely your recond label" group- sounds Following the release of their jackets will slide all the way off 91f.2WEEKS THE UNTOUCHABLES. original. debut album, the lads take their your shoulders? ~IDEODROME From Mon ERRONEOUS ZONES . next step - leaping on to the Fri Oct23; 11 .15pm 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 Negociants, Lothian Street stage with skin tight leopard WED280CT rwo fi lms about sexual obses Excellent cinematography and 225 6313 lurex trousers screamming sion; first the famous baked stlisation make what could 9pm Free their enchanting repertoires, HOLD THE FRAME beans, baby oil and bondage have been a run of the mlll hero MA RHYTHM including a loud cover-version Music Box, Victoria Street ~ssion with Mickey Rooney and story a movie epic. Blues Basement, Broughton St. of #Bohemian Rhapsody". OK 220 1708 Kim Basinger, then Debbie HOPE ANO GLO'RY 556 7147 for a laugh for the first five 10 pm Free. ~arry and the effects of too 2.30, 5.30, 8.30 8 pm Free minutes, but why don't Rick, FREDDIE McGREGOR uch late-night telly. Vivien, Neil & Co spend their Depicts a family's struggle to DON CHERRY'S NU Queen's Hall Clerk Street make do during the hard days One t ime trumpeter with 668 3456 STRAIGHT TO HELL of the war. Ornette Coleman, Cherry has ·!~r:;:y";,~~~~~;~~~;ru~:~~:f~: 9 pm £5. £6 yYHOOPSI APOCALYPSE 10 year old intellectuals. RADIO DAYS played a huge number of THE MEN THEY COULDN'T Sat0ct24; 11 .15pm 2, 5, 8 instruments and musical HANG and Comedy double bill. A piss-take Woody Allen takes time styles. NU draws together jazz SUN250CT THE CAOPDUSTERS of all the classic spaghetti west reminisce over the radio days · and ethnic music, with excel- THE GREY WOLVES The Venue, Ca lton Road erns is followed by a Rik Mayall/ of the early forties in American lent musicians from as far apart Music Box, Victoria Street 557 3073 reter Cook feature-length edi family life. as Brazil and New York. 220 1708 7.30 pm (4 on night. £3.50 in tion of the popular TV serial. advance. ODEON ~L UE VELVET from Mon; 2.15 pm 7 CLERK STREET 6677331 ifhe story of a would-be detec THE RESCUERS ~ve who sets upon the quest for 2.00, 4.30, 6.40 iustice after the discovery of a Disney animation. THEATRE severed ea r. The hearing piece is OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE now on display in the Van Gogh 9pm museum . One of those wild, cringeable BEDLAM ASSEMBLY ROOMS KING'S farce things that, by all counts, 2 FORREST ROAD 225 9873 54 GEORGE ST 226 2428 2 LEVEN STREET 2291201 is to be missed. ~~~~~~~~~ SALVATION THE BIG STRAMASH SCOTLAND THE WHATI ANGEL HEART PAATY7 - WHAT OOYOU Thur 22-Fri 23 Oct; 2.45 pm Fri0ct23;8pm Oct6-24;7.30pm 2.15, 5.30, 8. 15 EXPECT AITTR A WEEK OF Different people showing Tickets from £1.50 Tickets from £3.00 remarkably different ways on Rather si nister and violent film, REHEARSAL? starring Mickey Rourke as a A night of pure Scottish acts led cone Mon-Thurs the path to salvation. Glory hal Wed 1.30; CO members or £1.50 by Wray Gunn and the Rockets, Now in its final week with lelujal downbeat detective who is An improvised comedy act pu1 slowly being pulled down into rockabilly buskers from Glas- George Donald and Buff Hardie together by a number of aspir gow, and Edinburgh's newest starring in a number of comical the seedy underworld of New ing freshers. ™E LEOPARD ·orleans on the pursuit of a mis comedy act. Susan lnstrusion .sketches and songs under the Su n Oct 25; 1 pm sing singer. and Stanley Naive. :i~:~nBo~d~:~~ogan: Burt Lancester in the epic story RICHARD Ill AND THE of an Italian nobleman at the LA BAMBA PSYCHO CHICKEN Mon 26-Sat 31 Oct: 7.30 pm 1.45, 5.45, 8.25 GARY STEVENS IF THE time of Garibaldi. Wed-Sat Oct 20-24; From£:3 Perfectly predictable but per 11 pm-midnight CAP FITS Sat Oct 24; 8 pm Popular musical comedy star fectly enjoyable A ridiculous farce featuring ring Kiki Dee. Richard Ill cavorting in space Tickets from £1.50 with the crew of Star Trek. Fallen An original comic tragedy Angels Theatre Productions are which, as the publicity says, is TRAVERSE responsible. ~~~pt~:~l~~:~~~;:~biz~~~:!~ical · GRASSMARKET 2262633 POLITICS IN THE PARK C:A.IVIE<> VtNGIS JOE BRUNTON THEATRE Mon Oct pm Afternoon shows are (1 .20, evenings £2 and last show £2.90. 6; 8 Till Sun 25 Oct: 7.30 pm NTH HIGH ST, MUSS 665 2240 Tickets from £1.50 Students get into the matinees (Sat and Sun) for £1.20. Two short plavs from Glasi::iow. First visit to Scotland by this 18- KILLING .ME SOFTLY BEDLA.IVI THE PRIME OF MISS member Lithuanian song and Fri 23-Sun 25 Oct: 7 .45 pm dance group who have toured Bedlam members may purchase tickets at discount rates. All JEAN BRODIE Clyde Unity Theatre present a extensively the Eastern Bloc. lunchtime performances include free lunch of soup and bread. Oct14-31 ; 7.45pm play on the most topically bor Tickets £2.20 cone Features a wide variety of ing sutiject to date: AIDS LVC:EUIVI An adaptation of the famous• Lithuanian and Russian songs CABARET ' The Lyceu m Card costs (1 and allows you to daim £1 off each ticket novel in which a young Edin and dances played on a variety Fri-Sat Oct 23-24; 10 pm purchased (maximum 2 per show) for the year of validity. burgh school teacher, using of exotic instruments. The third in a series of new acts unorthodox methods, leads her to be performed at this venue. SN<> pupils in the pursuit of a life of NETHERBOW ARTS This week it's the turn of Liz Loc Scottish National Orchestra concerts at the Usher Hall on Friday .. Art and Culture". h head. evenings may be purchased at £2 on presentation of matric card. CENTRE HIGH STREET 5569579 LYCEUM TRA.VERSE ANJASKA GRINDLAY ST 229 9697 Student membership is (4 for four years, which enables members to Oct 22-24; 10.30 pm I WOKE UP ONE MORNING buy tickets at £2 for au performances. Fri 23-Sat 24 oct: 8 pm A DOLL'S HOUSE Tickets £1.00 Until Oct 24; 7.45 pm New series of late-night shows (1.50 consc. ESC:A. Everyday rituals are presented Tickets from £2. 70 beginning with this short com Ibsen's unprecedented assault Edinburgh Students Charities Appeal are at 17/19 Guthrie Street (225 through the medium of mime edy by George Bernard Shaw. on society's hypocrisy in enforc 4061 ). Anyone is welcome to pop down and meetings are from 1 till to display the less than every ing that a woman's place is in 2 on Tuesdays. day truths behind our actions in a comical yet meaningful way. the home which is still relevant to today's attitudes. NINE A..RTS THURS 22 OCT 1987
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR .,The Merry Mac Fun Co. 15th· 17th October Medical Mayhem! The Assembly Rooms A couple of hours before the Fun Co.'s Saturday "A . r~itory for lost Edinb11rglr perfor_mance of their new play. The Country Doctor, Umvrn;ity graduates" is how intrepid Student reporter, Rosie Cowan, maneged to · someone once described the M erry Mac Fun Co. Surely track down director Ben Twist, and two of the cast, Ross every Edinburgh 'ban viveur' Parsons and Elfreda Harrison, backstage at the Assembly knows at least one tit the Macs. Rooms. Fortunately, this does not in Nobody could decide if most of the Fun Co. were ex-Bedlamites any way detract from their or not, but it seemed that a sizeable number must be, since the appeal. Indeed, their constantly controversy got going in the first place. They all agreed, however changing personnel helps to t~at there had been no major Fun Co. plan but that the whole thing ensure a subtle change of "1ust happened" with The Renden and The Merry Mac fun Show emphasis in their productions in the 1985 Fringe. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Several and The Country Doctor was no extremely successful plays and Fun Shows followed; the last ever exception. Duncan Maclean's Fun Show was performed in the 1987 Fringe, along with the Fun script seems to consciously to Co. play I Love You Biiby But I Gotta Run, which was that rare avoid much ofthe political lam· thing in Fringe, a complete sell·out. pooning in early Merry Mac Since many of the Fun Show sketches make va lid social and productions, choosing instead political stat_ements, I asked if they thought serious issues could to deal with the less weighty be ~ommun1cated better through comedy and music. matteroftheyuppiegeneration Director, Ben ~wist , agr~ed that humour was certainly 8 good versus Highland scepticism. wa'r'. of readership an audience not necessarily interested in the The plot, whiist clever, was :~1~:rt~~~e~-0~:~~~r:~:~i~~=~0t:~~~~~r~ the dole was no joke, unduly complex. In typical ke:r; ;,~~:ha bout The Country Doctor? Isn't it an entirely different · ~f:~n~~~n~a:h~~~~·n:~~g~\~: "We admit7 that farce is an old fashioned form, but we think ~~e~~ b~f:g ~~s~~~J~r~s~ni/t~e6 ;":~r~ea~~C::he;'~T~Yi7s k~~~~~~ro~~!~~~~o~~~=~~'.s!~;~ri:'::n~~~ without the opportunity of continue our tradition of touring Scotland with it. We're especially Sing-a-long-a-Macs appreciating B and C en route. keen to take it to the smaller, m ore out of the way places." ·. so how does it feel to be fairly well known around scotland, and The interval, rather than being The.play returns to Edinburgh for one night, next Wednesday, at especially in Edinburgh? ~~~~i~a;~oc';,~e~~r;:.~';i~l=t~a~: the Triangle Centre, West Pilton Bank. The Fun Co. have formed a ap~~=~ia~~~- ~~l~~~r~!~~~~~~ s~~~u~u~!e ~~~~~ b~ii~eg ~eg~~ chance to give one's mind a ~~o:~~~~i~~~:~:eT:~~g~ea ~~~ ~r: ~~d c~~~~t~ndde~ne!~\s ';r°:: of a famous. when she's older of course. well·deserved rest. ne~~~~!~~:; members see the Fun Co. itself developing in the Thi:~b~~eu:i/~~;:s ~~:i~n1t~~~~~~iseh ~~~ ~~~~~:~e;~t~~~ ar~~~~nti~~~· t~~g~~t r ~~ol~~= " I think the company will stay about the same size at they ever made any mistakes because of youthful inexperience? Dangleberry family who 116 present)." said Etfreda Harrison " but already there's been a Ben answers " I didn't think we've ever done the w rong play or inhabit the tiny village of Tor· stea~y stream of change in membership and that will probably show, but we've sometimes booked into the wrong venue in a puttle, "deep in the heart of contmue as peopti; move on to do other things. And that's good, town we weren't familiar with, and ended up with a very staid lonely Glen Weird." The elders be~ause people w 11 then never become bored with what they're middle·class, middle-aged audience. " of the family, two twin brothers doing and turn the1 company stale. We've plans for a variety show So, what would they all be doing now if they w eren't involved in Jock and Doc are mervellously and a soap op~~a next sprinq, but further than that we can'ttell... the company. Learning to play the guitar, they suggest, or portrayed by Keith MacPher· They felt wntmg would probably continue to come from within .Perhaps, swimming. They're getting a bit vague now, less than an son and John M cKay. These the Fun Co. The Fun Show's were all joint·written, and Duncan hour to go and they're noticeably nervous. But back with the brothers live in the shadow of Mclean, tal_ented writer of The Country Doctor, also wrote The audience I forget thei r nerves as the show goes on, fast, slick, their long gone mother, randan, which the cast changed and added to. They admit The furious and hilarious. Madeira, an incurable Country Country Doctor is the first of his plays they haven't "tampered And everyone seems to think so, even, I daresay the very staid and Western fan. At this stage with" as " he's getti.ng quite good now." middle-class, midd1e·aged continQent, of the plot goes off like a head- ----...::.======------.....:=- •FR•A-N•C•IS•B•O-Y•LE•---- · ~:i~g c~~c~~~'.xt:i~:bl~u~s ~~;~ ~~a:!~ ~ -g CARTOONS ~~=i~,~x.,"~;~~~l:;b~~~~~=d~;~~; (TcriusCllle
colour fade as she exhausts her prime. At the other extreme, DRAMA Nowosielski uses ~shadow characters" - permanent reminders of the narrative structure of the play. The figure THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN _Prime Time of Sister Helena enables him to BRODIE convey an impression of the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh conservative spiritual and Until 31st October moral norm. Moreover, it's to his credit that he makes her The Brunton Theatre in M ussel more than just a passive stan burgh probablY wouldn't be dard. To criticise the device, your first choice for t heatre however, it does shatter the going. To those few people illusion of the play - the w ho've been through Musse1- figures are constant recalls to burgh, the theatre will be the artificiality of the stage. immediately recognisable as Also, Sister Helena comes "the big building with t he gold dangerously close to being t hing on the front." vaguely emblematic. She inter Whatever your knowledge of rupts the action when not the town and theatre, you strictly called for. taking the should take the opportunity to edge off her role. see The Prime Of Miss Jean The physical movement rein Brodie. forces the mental action of the Based on Muriel Spark's play imaginatively. As Miss novel, the play centres upon Brodie walks towards the back the " dangerous" Miss Brodie of the classroom, falling ever - her triumphs, passions, and deeper into her romantic world, her " assassination". From the her "set" dissolves behind her. first, she stands out as a bright, So far, the play may appear colourful butterfly on the grey ponderous and serious but background of the school. She there's plenty of humour in it thrives on romantic ideals-all too. Lucinda Baillie is excellent things Italian: II Duce; the Fas as Mary MacG regor, stuttering cisti; Cellini; Michelangelo's !md awkward. Hilary Maclean David. But like a butterfly, she's too; as - Sandy develops her fragile and insubstantial. When character convincingly in this . reality ultimately breaks in play of change. upon illusion, she is crushed After all is said and done, it's underfoot. well worth catching t he bus out Charles Nowosielski's direc to Musselburgh - Nos. 43, 44, tion varies from the plain to the B6. ambitious. At the simplest Now girls, about condoms . level, Miss Brodie's beauty and existed. His monoprints further this idea; but instead of using three-dimensional planes to express the volume; he uses CLASSICAL ARTS the two-dimensional line - be it angular or curved - engraved into and printed from LUISA MILLER - VERDI NAUMGABO a block of wood. Churchhill Theatre MONOPRINTS The images he produces con sist of enigmatic, beautiful lines The Sinfonia Opera have . Talbot Rice which converge, rotate and demonstrated their collective Until October 24th diverge in a rhythm of direc artistic courage in staging Luisa M iller, one of Verdi's least Monoprinting - as the word tions. Their interweaving known operas, particularly suggests - resists the repro movements create a three after last year's successful pro ductive and repetitive elements dimensionality and therefore duction of the more popular found in other print-making form a close link with his The Marriage of Figaro. processes; be it etch ing, sculptural work. It is interesting to note that of the Opus One - The opera was first produced lithography or screen printing in 1849 in Naples, and is loosely Each print becomes a separate Twelve series on display only Opus Six. was transferred into a based on Schiller's tragedy entity in itself; as Naum Gaba Kabala and lieve. There are found w hen he eventually bas-relief for the lobby of the U S Rubber Building in Radio definite undercurrents of different pu rposes. The stark turned to the process in 1950. Verdi's political preoccupation THE LAST DAYS OF THE NTh ere are no limited editions City New York. outlines of the backdrop also in the action that takes place, but NOSFERATU were equally effective when because each print of mine is Each Opus print was firstly it would be probably more signifying the ruined castle and unique. In print them by hand, drawn freehand, then transfer Theatre Workshop accurate to describe it as pre the clifftops where much of the each one and it takes me just as red onto grid paper and f inally 15·17 October dominantly a humanist rather action takes place. The cos much time to make a print as to to the wood block. This shows a than a political piece. lt is very difficult to be original tumes too were adaptable, sim make a drawing - sometimes m easu red aspect to images with the story of Dracula· as the ple but symbolic, the gasmasks longer. No two prints are ever that seem to be free and spon- taneous. Take the numerous However, the main focus of Bedlam Theatre discovered last especially having a terrifyingly the same."' p rints for Opus Ten in som e we should not ., be the year. The Shadow Syndicate's chilling effect. This play Gabo was first and foremost atten~io n The Last Days of Nosferatu see the emergence of faint creaking plot but Verdi s_ sc?re seemed far more terrifying a sculptor, and his work relied however, although based on than any other version of the upon the concept of mass and white lines through the dense- itself. All three solo sm~mg the Bram Stoker novel, is an Dracula story, and this is partly the space in which the mass ness of the ink. On others the parts were skilfully handled print is faint - from little especially Rachael Cowan in amazingly original and striking due to the music which is a theatrical experience. The play ~------applied pressure - making the till? role, who inv~sted the background to most of the lines seemingly shine as they par:' with the dr~mat1c beauty involves all the usual charac· action. The strong cast contri blend with the background. At wh1ch the mus1c demanded. ters: the animal-eating bute to the eerie and haunting Students Welcome to Renfiefd, the Doctor, Harker times Gabo m?unts the. print The Scottish Sinfonia, under soundtrack, which involvesvio and his fiancee, as well as the Hn, percussion and chanting b~ck-to-f1 o_nt , smce the tissue- the taut control of Neil Mantle, Dracula figure, Nosferatu, but Above all, this play is an exer thm medium of ~apanese provided an excellent accom the play itself is given greater ' EUROPA paper allows a softer 1mag? to paniment, generally maintain cise in rhythm. Dance and significance than the original be seen frc;im the rev?rse side. ing the balance between the movement, almost tribal, con horror, being an allegory about tributed to the strength of the Or alternatrvely.he. wnnk~es !he vocal and the instrumental. fascism. performance as a whole and paper before pnntm~ , bn~gmg Unfortunately, the chorus WINE BAR The many elements which lent real group power to t he an unsual !hree-d1m_e ns1ona l added nothing to this p roduc make up the performance all players. No one actor stood out Infirmary Street tex~ural q~ahty to the 1mag ~ - lion, p rincipally because they add to its im mensely super as this com pany is clea rly a as 1f the hnes are etched mto failed to sing out and con natural effect. M ost of the Where else can you enjoy fabulous team and gains strength rou~h stone. sequentlyweredrownedout by action takes p lace on a very hot and cold meals from through unity. The perfor Hts later wo~ks beco~e ~ot the orchestra. Their entries and dimly lit stage, which makes 12noon-9p.m. mance is a definite experience, only ~n ex.penment with ltne exists were clumsy, although the setting very shadowy and Also try our Saturday Lunches from bu.t with colour. Hues become this was partly attributable to an extreme experiment in eerie. The set itself is simple, sound and movement, which 12.30-2p.m. bnghter, and are used to the size of the stage which was each piece being used for many emphasize certain segments further reduced for some avoids being over-the-top, si m ply because it hangs together Look out for our-Golden Oldies and obliterate others. In Unti- scenes. The net result was to ..______. so well and moves so slickly Night every Tuesd•y and our t ied .!Oval Fori:nl he uses colo';lr leave up to twelve people performance on the musical and quickly that the atmos Sunday Night Disco' ~~r~~e v~7u°!!e~s a e';'t~r~i:~~~ standing in a row at a time. side, the production spoiled the phere is never diminished. This 1bsolutely frH overall effectiveness of the is definitely a very different and within an embryonic structure. The producer, Isobel Ewen, is work. We feel that as a concert The print becomes an essay in to be commended for her original piece of theatre which OPEN 11 am to 1 am performance it would certainly works both to compel and ter colour combination and in the choice of Luisa Miller as this have held its own. freeing aspect of monoprint- year's production. However, rify the audience. 'll: 556-6165 'll: David C.mpbeU Jennifer Trudland ing. Alison Brown despite the high standard of Chris Shead E_LEVEN FE~TURES THURS220CT1987 Big, Qad and Ugly ture of "the band" pretending Proe Jeffreys spoke to Adrian Edmondson, ex Young One Di.. d you have to do any act So apart from music what to play, trying to play and trying and now member of Bad News, the ugliest and least ing else are you into? talented rock band ever. to be funny, all within the con- My part was based on me text of a live band. It runs for when I'm completely drunk. I'm "Well obviously I've got an Adrian Edmonson has made a spot? And can he really take three weeks solidly, without a not really a naturally loud per ihterest in comedy. like Billy career out of being an idiot. Bad news seriously? night off. I asked Ade if they son. I'm certainly no Vivien but Connolly a lot, although my From instant stardom as Vivien 1 0 I have got quite a loud voice real comedy heroes are quite in The Young Ones to a series se;i~~! ~~\t~=~~~~ i';:c:~~~ wouldn't all be thoroughly pis old, like Tommy Cooper, Buster of films by The Comic Strip and 1 and J do tend to make an exhib· a bit pf a pisser.~ :~~ ~~ ;~ht~~~.h ~ ;he:r~ya~~~ ition of myself when I've had a keaton, Laurel and Hardy. I sup· now to Bad News, the mock 1 1 couple." pose I like all the slap stick stuff. rock band, Edmonson, it ~~~?it's fucking horrible, it , :~~~t ~!~e~~a~~~h!"~ao:~? him His part must also be based I'm really into those Roadrun· seems, has made a hell of a lot 1 ner cartoons as well." money out of a somewhat limited acting area. What else? He found his niche in life at "l really like Evelyn Waugh, Manchester University where alt the social comment stuff. I he met Rik Mayall and Ben like his prose. Wwhen I'm in a Elton, and started getting reflective mood J pick up a bit of involved in alternative comedy. Evelyn." From there they went to Lon· don and starred playing in the It has to be said that it is hard Comedy Store, where they met to imagine Edmonson in a Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson reflective mood, especially and Alexei Sayle. I asked him if when you see him in Bad News. his comedy had changed at all, But, to be fair, he and his group in other words, if he had been do use their status to good pub· an idiot right from the start: lie use. As a group, The Young "Well, it was a bit more Ones have done many benefits esoteric then, it has to be said. for the La bour Party, as well as In fact it was crap to be honest. helping out individually now A lot of people think it is now." and then. I asked him what he Are you proud of what you do thought o f Neil Kinnock. now? "I think we have to try and "Yes, it's immodest but I like Neil. He's pleasant but inef· am.n fective." And are you proud of your "singingn career? What about Glenys? "Absolutely, it's what I've " I don't think anyone really always wanted to do. Bad news knows what Glenys' is. They the group came from Bad News say she's wonderful but I've the film, which we did for the never really heard her speak Comic strip and which I wrote much. My political heroes are as an excuse so that l could pre· people like Tony Benn and Ken tend to be a popstar." Livingstone and I thought Isn't Bad News just another Michael Foot was the greatest money spinner? Labour leader we'd had for "No. I'm doing bad News years. Not in terms of what he because I seriously like playing did, because he didn't do very guitars. It's my one way into the ___.-.,.__ much, but I just t hink he speaks music bizz, which I've always sense." triedtogetinto.n ----- It is hard to tell whether Ade ------ What do you think of Mrs is being serious. On the one Thatcher? hand he certainly sounds it. His "There isn't enough green voice is surprisingly dull, mid· vitriol in the world to express dle·class with a hint of Man· just really is. It's just all the shit "Yeah, I hatethem all really." on the fact that Ade is in fact a my emotions. She's obviously that record companies have." chester, far removed from the Have you got any annoying closet metal freak. So does he a rather selfish woman politi maniac tones of Vivien. He Having got in the statutory .habits? really enjoy standing, up on cally and has not felings for a makes little effort to impress, three swear words expected of stage, thrusting his pelvis and lot of people in a so·callec "Yeah, I'm rather overbear· car· and in fact when I first arrived an alternative comedian, Ade shouting incomprehensible ing society. ing. I whinge too much." for the interview at ten in the elucidated: obscenities? morning, he told me to come " I could sit down and tell you You're a moaner? "Well ... I am a bit of a metal Edmonson is basically an back in a couple of hours, in a for a day or two about the freak, which isn't very trendy ordinary middle-class guy who voice which sounded as if it had record companies. It's just t hey "We're all moaners really. these days. I don't like thrash has made thebest of what he's just crawled o ut of bed. One the niggle all the time and nothing Nigel (a lias Neil) is the worst. metal though, which is what got. Given the fact that he can't other hand, can you imagine ever happens. It's like working That's why we gave him that Bad news try and do. I grew up sing ~nd he acts a part that Ade as a singer.vying with the with social security services." part in The Young Ones. He on all Rat sixties, rock 'n roll, comes naturally to him, he's Bee Gees for the number one The Bad News show is a mix· didn't have to do any acting." Bad Company stuff. not done badly.
Somebody has to ask it, and I were popped at the audience, that order). all I'll say on the subject, except buildings at any one time, and know I'm dying to find out- so and. dear God, did you see It has to be said that a lot of thatthemostinterestingpeople so many venues were required will someone please explain Banana Bob and Mr Stallion do fun was had and if many people I m et were the ones who didn't because of the sheer numbers of what the purpose of that arrow their floorshow? were being miserable, then they need to meet anyone - espe. people involved. So the way to in the Freshers' Week logo was? Innuendo and boorishness were doing so in their own cially the masses of bopping achieve greater variety in next Oh, I'm sure that if questioned seemed somehow far more rooms (Cowan House appa· salubrious dickheads who year's Freshers' Week may lie in the people responsible will teU important than the charity fund· rently having the highest rate of wanted to meet them. I thought reducing the attendance num· us it's all about pointing confi raising advertised, and £280 suicide for this sort of thing, so about sticking a label on my hers then, and, I suggest, dentty into the future, or know· doesn't seem that much given forehead saying " I am . .. I'm Freshers' Week should start ing in which direction we're the number of people that from . - . I'm studying . . Yes, l around midweek. This way heading, or something, but . attended. Furthermore, where am a Fresher, now please fuck boredom won't have set in until don't you think it's perhaps a lit· were the Archie MacPherson off and leave me alone!" I didn't, at least Friday or Saturday, and tie bit phallic? Examine it. I did, and Sabbatical-type celebs who because people would only we'll all be spared the polite and I think that either someone at FWHO {one of the few ;:c;_~ds:::~:~i:1gis:::~~ L,.m_t_o--ow-ev-.,..-. -w....:::a:.,..'=::IY ha;:ea::: :~::to~;,::~:~ ~:~~~;::t:sn~No~:~ ol~e~I~! acronyms we HAVEN'T seen) feigningsurpriseathavingbeen Wheedledits.wayupmynostrils seemed to spend a large you, honestly, and can I go to suffers from penis envy, or that captured), and she was bought was the intensity of these new· amount of their time poncing bed with you tonight?" sexuality is intended to be a by Cheow·LayWee, anyhow. found relationships. They'll all around all over the dancefloor But overall it was a good major motivator throughout the Ofcourse,themainculpritsof detest each other by the New and watching them from the· week f~r_gettin~ into the stu entire week's events. libidiousness in FW 87 were the Year (I predict), but keep meet- Park Room balcony, Teviot:was dent sptrit of things, I suppose lmrtionalty assuming the sec· Freshers themselves, and hav· ing because they're in the same always good for a laugh. In fact (though Wednesday was com· ond, nowhere was this then ing finally escaped from social circles. Well, tough luck there were rather an awful lot 0 f pletely different) and if you can't more evident than at the ESCA Mummy and Daddy's protective suckers, is all I can say. d iscos t~ go to, weren't there, act like an ~ss·hole in y?ur first Slave Auction on Friday night. clasps on Saturday evening/ Something else I grew to hatll with tt\..--..f!'lega Disco being the term at Uni, then I don t know Here Jane Rogerson's .. assis Sunday morning, most of us were all those mindlessly repeti· final irdt!J (watch out for the when you can._ So, I suppose, tant'", Sooty the gk>ve puppet, aPPffred to quickly overcome tive and politely boring iniro· Hyper-suPer·uttra·mega·amaz· peoples behaviour w~s gen~· was willing to demonstrate our lonesome helplessness by ductions. You know: • HeUo, ·ing-disco·to--end-all-discos ally excusable, but I ~1d !1ot1ce exactty why one slave in the spending the rest of the week where are you from? Wh~isco to follow). that on closer exammat1on of stocks was billed as •a B--1-G bar gamalousty performing drink. coune are you doing?" Eve{!' · This dire repetition was I sup- th~ FW logo, .that that a.rrow I gain'". Two girts also auctioned song, dance and sexual partner- ridiculing them has become . · due to the need to find pointed ?ut did look deadedly, their bras, several moonies shtp (though not necessarily in repetitive and boring, so that's events in at least four separate well · · · limp. :.:•TWEl.VE .... FEA.TURES · THURS220CT1987 Dreaming of Success Student TV have just completed the most ambitious notable members of the answer this query firstly by each other from scripts. Eacn English literature and History film ever made by a university club. Matthew Catting_ agreeing, but go on to say that interplay is followed by a sinAle Departments, including Owen it is precisely this element slide that acts as an icon for investigates. Dudley Edwards as wthe Scun which helps to inspire the more what has gone before ... Three Edinburgh University relation to the world. Con· ner,"' Randal Stevenson as a experimental visual techniques Yet despite the literary students have recently com Sequently the interplay bet priest, and Collin Nicholson as used in the film. The book has framework and some location pleted what they describe as ween the main characters in the an enigmatic beer-drinker. of course not been followed in a st}ooting at Newington cemet "an enormous journey of life book and their attitudes to the Surely though, the difficult styp by step way, and has been ery, we are not to see Oream through the gates of death. n interplay between marriage, style and narrative strucutre of vastly reduced. To do this ." the toWn as a deadly serious and Even more impressive is the death, violence and politics are Ulysses poses some serious chronology has be~n played intellectually exclusive film. fact that this was achieved The creators 1ike to call it a"''joc using standard VHS video koserious film", another term equipment, and little more than conveniently borrowed from three hundred pounds. Joyce, but with a strategically On the way though, they added "k". admit more than a little help ln student film terms, Oream from that seminal and notrious town is quite an achievement. piece of literature, James Taking almost a year to com Joyce's Ulysses. The result is a plete, and done so completely one hour film entitled Oream independently using only Edin town, and based loosely burgh University Student TV around a Scottish Leopold funds, the three Producers/ Bloom, now known as Josef Directors have made a fairly Goodman, who wonders the long dramatic feature with streets of a decaying Edinburgh creative cinematography and in search of life. m ature themes. This is a fa r Scriptwriter John Cook uses more ambitious venture than the word wdecaying" because, most of those attempted by as he explains, " Rather than the other University clubs, and it Irish Nationalism explored in seems to be a Scottish trend : at Ulysses, our film explores last April's NASTA Student film dying Scotland in the grip of meeting in York, Aberdeen was Thatcher. n This political ele placed first, followed by Edin ment, though not blatantly burgh and Strathclyde in joint stated, is certainly an important second. part of Dreamtown: " Edin· The premier of Dreamtown burgh becomes a symbol for was on Wednesday night, and Scotland, and Goodman, a rep· it will be showing on Tuesday resentat ive of Scotsmen. His the 27th at 1 pm in Teviot's Mid with, and we use flashbacks, die Reading Room, on Wednes quest to save himself and his all p resented through Josef problems to the film maker? particularly to the graveyard day the 28th at 3 pm in Faculty marriage therefore questions Goodman, Mary Goodman, Mithilesh Rowchowdhury and and James Hunter respresent scenes. We tackled the .well Room North of the david Hume the future of the nation. n Lorin McDougal, largely ing Steven Oedalus. A careful known question and answer Tower, and the Like the book though, the responsible for the visual and ~n Thurs~ay themes ultimately examine the observer might also notice var sequence by reducing every- 29th at 1 pm m the Tev1ot Bal position of the individual in ious cameo appearances by technical side of DreamtOw n thing to two people reading to cony Room. Breaking Away ied backgrounds. One has a Gillian Drummond and Rosie Cowan visited IDEAS, a The team at IDEAS would like ing experience but what about the paper to become the rest of the IDEAS team? Maths degree from Edinburgh company which proves that small independent publishing fortnightly, and eventually " I couldn't have afforded to University. Another worked is flourishing. weekly. A year after its first edi· hire professional journalists part-time in a bookshop and Ever considered a career in lation. Many companies now tion, CUT has already when I started IDEAS. on ly one wanted to break into photo publishing? Three years ago, distribute their own publica expanded south of the border. member has had previous pro graphy. He is now Cut's picture former Fleet Street journalist, tions, which means that circula And Bill wouldn't rule out a fessional journalistic experi editor. Another was an English Bill Sinclair, started IDEAS (In· tion can be on a wider scale. Northernlri sh edition in the ence. But experience is not teacher "immersed in popular dependent Design and Editorial Why should a man with six near future. important to me, talent is." music." The list is endless, but Associates Limited). This is just teen years experience, working Bill himself has vast publish The rest of the team have var- Bill is at pains to point out the
one of several independent on papers ranging from The --~~~~~~....,..~ recurring factors. All his publishing companies which Express to The Sun, return to employees have shown initia have recently sprung up his native Edinburgh? tive in bringing themselves to throughout the country. Bill admitted it had been a Bill's notice, and adaptibility What does being member of long-cherished ambition of his within the company. this "independent" group to start up his own magazine The skills needed can be entail? Bill explains: " There for young people. Production learned on the job, says Bill. But was a time when all journalists and distribution obstacles have people often forget to mention were completely at the mercy been removed, and now twenty very basic practical assets in of the printers. But technologi years on, with his family grown CVs or at interviews. He points cal advances such as photo up, he is able to see his his pipe out that two fundamental typesetting and process dream fulfilled. advantages are being able to cameras now allow creative " Although the opportunity type and drive. people to control their own for editorship has passed me As far as financial rewards images on the page." by, as head of IDEAS, I ca n now are concerned, Bill admits the Such <. hanges have resulted publish Cut, Scotland's first gulf between major publishing in "d esktop publicationsn like music monthly, of which Neil companies and themselves. The Independent, News on Dalgleish (a former editor of However, sub-editorial skills Sunday and Today, and Bill Student) is editor. " are a very marketable asset in hopes that t hey will perhaps Cut is filling a gap in the Scot any company, whatever its lead to the gradual breakdown tish market, but does Bi ll see size. And a smaller company of the Fleet Street monopoly. his Stockbridge office as a real also gives its employees the He is anxious to see many more rival to the major British music opportunity to move around of these independent publica press in London? and become involved in mar tions flood the market and sees Bill believes that size is keting and distribution as well the publishing scene today as deceptive: as writing. being much healthier than it " Much of Cut's appeal is in its Bill and others like him are was ten years ago. 'grass-roots' level - it was always on the lookout for initia So how do you go about designed that way. But it is tive and new ideas (as his starting up an independent impossible to expand a publi company's name suggets). So, publishing company? cation by expanding its number if you're prepared to be ver " The most important thing of contributors while keeping satile, the world of independent right now is not financial back the same small core editorial. .. publishing could provide you ing but access to means of pro How does Bill envisage the with a scope not available in duction: all you really need is a expansion of Cut, which more narrowly channelled, system of photo-typesetting, al ready has a circulation of mass-produced newspapers. and the means to control ci rcu- around 34,000? 11111 :; ~EN FILIVI THURS 22 OCT 1987 Mad on arJ Angel
ANGEL HEART Competition Results Odeon Director: Alan Parker That caption below was sent in Angel Heart has all the preten very late and very aptly by Scott sions of a continental "art thril· M. Angelo, which means that he ler" but none of the style wins the first prize I The runners· Although AJan Parker's lates1 up in the competition are as fol· offering is exciting and atmos. lows: pheric, it remains tacky and insincere at the crucial 2nd Prize: Dickson Ross moments. British-born Parker has come up with a film as visually appeal ing as his best to date, Birdy. However, although he uses a potentially ambitious plot and has the best possible talent in Mickey Rourke and Robert de Niro, Parker still manages to fail where he has previously suc ceeded. The action takes place in 1955. Rourke plays Harry Angel, a seedy Brooklyn detective hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre {Robert de Niro). His quest is a missing wartime crooner called Johnny Favorite who has failed to keep a contract with M1 Cyphre. To complicate matters daughter on the Cosby show, is crude special effects break the taining film. It maintains pace, Favorite has undergone exten a IE!SS than innocent voodoo continuity of the film. tension, and interest throughout sive plastic surgery and Harry's priestess. and the climax is genuinely sur· witnesses keep on dying bizarre. Mickey Rourke as Harry Angel prising. However, the clumsi ritualistic deaths. Although Parker seems to is unremarkable for the first half ness apparent at key points bet· Just as in Birdy, Angel Heart have a box office winner consid· of the film but gradually begins rays Parker's half-heartedness in shows Parker's talent for over ering his actors, plot, visual to carve out a vivid character following through the film's whelming cinematography. As stimulation and especially the from the script. By the end of the general themes. He decides to Harry Angel makes his progress unexpected climax. he still man· film he has transformed the part apply safe box·office formulas from the sleazy back streets of ages somehow to miss the so that it is comparable with his to the direction when most inap· New York to the humidity of the mark. While highly original classic performance in Rumble propriate. As a result. the ambiti deep south, the camera work is methods are used in the major· Fish. De Niro plays a similar roll'! ous nature of Angel Heart loses exhilarating. Angel meets sev ity of the film which make it very to his recent cameo as Al impact, detracting from what entertaining, the director fails to eral characters who seem to Capone in The Untouchables. could have been a memorable know more than they make out. carry these methods home at An otherwise faultless perfor· film. Charlotte Aampling is a society the closing stages of the story. mance is marred by bad direc drop--out fortune·teller, while Visuals take over at the expense tion in the last scene. Lisa Bonet, the sweet teenage of coherent story·telling and Angel Heart is still an enter·
WHO'S THAT GIRL? 'La Bamba' Competition Cannon Dir: James Foley Yes, more incredible prizes to b6 kets to see "la Bamba". All you won, this time courtesy of those have to do is answer this simple I expected this film to be generous Odeon people. There question: Who sang the title pointless, trite, devoid of any are sweatshirts, hats, sound· track from La Bamba. The first artistic merit and painfully track albums and even free tic· few entries will win the prizes. embarrassing to sit through. I was right. At the same time I did not think Madonna's acting career would sink any lower after her titanic experience in C>DEC>N Shanghai Surprise. I was wrong. CLERK STREET 031-667 7331/2 The plot (for want of a better word) centres around the ODEON1 WALT DISNEY'S relationship between a truly hor THE RESCUERS (U) Separate programmes at 2.00, 4.30. 6.40. rendous Barbie·Doll·Ex·Convict called Nikki Finn (played by BETTE MIDl..E.R SHELLEY LONG either Minnie Mouse or OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE (151 Madonna, I'm not sure which) At9.00. and Loudon Trott. a responsible OOEON 2 A mystery thriller that'll scare you 10 your "flfY soull young lawyer (and a lamentable MICKEY ROURKE R08ERTOE NIRO waste of Griffin Dunne's talents). ANGEL HEART (18) Separateprogrammesat2.15.5.30,8.15. These two very different charac· ters meet, fall in love and run off 00£0N 3 The Rock 'n' Roll Movie Sensation I LA BAMBA (15) together hand in hand into the Separateprogrammesatl.45.5.45,8.25. sunset. And that's it. Oh, there are a SEATS 800KABLE FOR AU PERFORMAHCES. BOX OfACE OPEN 12-7 pm. SUNDAY 2-7 pm. NO SMOKlHG AuorTORIA. LICENSED BAR FOR PATRONS. few bits and pieces thrown in for good measure, such as a rare Hij 4i'ii!Uf1 Sf il§l!ilii!ijlii wildcat called Murray, a multi· R08ERT HALPERN coloured Rolts·Aoyce Corniche, Who's That Girl? . . The girl who should stic:k to singing. The World's Sensational-Outrageous Hypnotist All seats 0.50. Uotinsed Bar Open. two of the most ludicrous vii· lains ever to appear on screen, "Queen of Pop" and her music, fleeting flashes of humour are FRK>A Y 30TH OCTOBER AT MIDNIGHT Pr11111i- ol A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET- PART 3 and a penthouse·cum·tropical but Who's That Girl remains a swamped by the horrific flip- rain forest inhabited by a scan· mish-mash of unsolved puzzles. pancy of the film's juvenile R'IOM 30T1-I OCTOBER tily clad Amazonian wench and a Did Sir John Mills turn up at the attitude towards armed RichardOreyfus OannyDeVitointhehilc:ornedy TINMEN(15I rather better dressed Sir John wrong studios at the wrong weapons and by the alHoo·blat· Mills. However, such features time? Why does Madonna walk ant waste of a big budget and FMM 6l1i NOVEMBEfl bear little relevance to each and talk in such a way that you exploitation of a large band of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET- PART 3 other or to the film as a whole; suspect her batteries have been devoted young pop fans. Unless STUDENT CONCESSIONS presumably director James overcharged? Why does Griffin you're one of Madonna's com P£RFORMA~CESUPT06p> fl~O Foley is an advocate of throwing Dunne fall for Madonna when mitted disciples, stay at home PFRFORMANCtS AFTfR 6 pm fl ~•c h•tl 1y SJ1u«l ty < •~rnng everyth!ng together and hoping his fianc0e in the film is far more and stare at the wallpaper-you 2 FREE QN£MA 11CKETS some of it sticks. attractive and far less irritating? will have a better time. When you spend (10 or more in our Home Leisure Shop on Compact Oise.. Music Tapes. Madonna fans will probably With the money and talent New VHS Vldeoe. Paperbecb. "Scoteh" Blank TepM. Join ourVodeo Libtaryloronly Ct enjoy the film for the simple involved a reasonable movie Shop open 12·10pm. Sunday4-10pm. reason . that it fe~~~r~s- the coul,d have b~~ . m~?e, - ~ut any William oa\a ·.,f'il.~RTEEN SPORT THURS 22OCT1987
~Oh • • Umpire! Dear Joseph~ • EOWHc 1st XI 2: Lenzie o Edin 1st XI 2: Perthshire 2 The game of hockey is not noted for its biblical The 1st XI showed this week that they have the potential ball round the Perthshire keeper connections, but on Saturday, as the 1st XI took the field - unfortunately he was very to become once more a side to be feared in the National in their new technicoloured dream-strip of green, blue and League. Unfortunately the game was marred by pathetic tired and needed to sit down for a rest - and the visitors had a yellow, even Joseph's brothers would have realised that umpiring which led to post-match discussions over goal disallowed for offside, the victory was already theirs. However, the Natioanl League whether any of the four goals should have been allowed to umpire's only good d ecision for rules state that 70 minutes of hockey must be played, Old count. 35 minutes in my unbiased Testament prophecies or not. It only took ten minutes for the Maclennan that lett his "do-1t opinion I In the first half, with captain, coach and cripple making constructive University to take the lead from a yourself dislocated shoulder Earlier in the day the 2nd XI comments from the sideline, Ut. Edreisa found the back of the net by controversial short corner. repair kit ~ in tatters. had destroyed Waverley by four way of an excellent ball from Z.nussi MacDonald. Later in the evening Williams played a delicate one she was heard recounting this tale to a floor-tile in the Arches' ladies' two off Hanley's left foot and lavatoriesl Zanussi, smelling sweetly of Persil, was also recounting - in drove the ba ll home for the her case the number of bars she had visited en route. opening goal. Minutes after this first goal, Kathy Dunlop capitalised upon bad marking and raised the tally to two, our highest score so far this season. Williams', and the The only potentially cataclysmic moment of this half was when Joyce University's, second cam e only McKamasutra, laterally languishing after some extra coaching, thrilled minutes tater, from another the crowds with her impersonation of Margo Fonteyn. Lenzie, obviously disputed short corner - this not great students of the Arts, were momentarily distracted and the ball time he decided to attempt a flick was fumbled out of danger. The second half was barren of goals but not from the edge of the circle. of excitement, nay violence. Internal conflict bubbled in the l enzie camp Fortunately the goalkeeper fell and the University set their sights, not on scoring any more goals but over laughing and a lucky rather on leaving the pitch with both legs intact. bounce, along with a slight downhill lie, saw the ball bobble into the back of the net. The second half saw a weakening in the team's resolve, undoubtedly caused by a lack of fitness - a fact that coach Mike Yellowlees resolutely resolved tp resolve (if you see what 1 mean?). Once more the umpire took control and awarded a series of Going for goal ... the crowd looks on. ridiculous short corners that The dying minutes saw clear goats. MOrgan Hay got his gave Perthshire thei r two goals, Andrew Wyatt alm ost walk the name on the scoresheet twice despite a brave sa".'e ~y J~m_i e Paddy 1 ...-s , .., = • ==: - !l;::;; ·- Saturday 24th October Shinty: Edin v. Littlejohn Vase; 2.00 pm, at Peffermill Hockey: Edin 2nd XI v. Grange; 2.00 pm, at Peffermill Rugby: Freshers v. Lenzie; 2.45 pm, at Peffermill Rifle: Edin v. Heriot-Watt & St Andrews; at Sports Centre Hockey (Women): EUWHC 1st XI v. Greenock; 25th Oct, at Peffermill Ey:'aJn~
4. Plastic belts and accessories. vents needless wear and tear, chunks. Auntie Doris and her Remove those nasty but fre readers, but try and do this with· 2 place vegetables with sea quent biro stains with the aid of some discretion and style. soning and vegetable oil into hous~hold hints methylated spirits. Auntie D's Gookery a large pan. Cover and sweat over a very tow heat for Hello again, readers! · Well, put them in a warm place for a 5. The value of p ressing. Once, Spot roughly 10 minutes; stir what a week it's been what with few mins. The warmth makes readers, I had some French This week readers, I've also occasionally. half of England being blown the leather more stretchy so people staying with me and decided to build you all up with away by one of those hurri- that it fits over the hend without they maintained that Nch ickN one of nourishing soups. 3 add water and stockcube. cane whatsits. Unfortunately, I placing t he stitching under any look by ironing their clothes BROCCOLI AND ORANGE Bring to boil then simmer don't have many tips concern· undue stress, my grandfather daily. I must admit though SOUP gently for 30-45 minutes. ing coping with such strog wasacraftyoldgeezerreaders! readers, that I found this to be a bunch of broccoli winds (unless, of course, extremely exasperating when I 1 onion 4 blend soup by either pres they're of the human variety!). 3. Making clothes last. All types was trying to make the break 1 carrot sing vegetables through a This week I've decided to relate of cleaning can draw the last fast. 1 potato sieve or pureeing in an elec some hints upon keeping your lingering breath of life from 1 stock cube tric liquidiser. wardrobes spruce, because I clothes as if there was no 6. Patches. It's easier to put 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil have been sadly informed that tomorrow. (What an impres elbow patches on a heavy 1-1 j)intsofwater 5 return soup to pan. Add a 'few of you no longer have sively poetic line that was, ju mper when its new other than 112 mug fresh orange juice-or ora nge juice and season to maids to do this for you? (Just wasn't it readers? My night when it becomes stretched. juice of. 2 oranges. taste. one of my little jokes readers, school tecicher, Mr S. lmilie has Hitching up you r garments seasoning. - SERVES FOUR FAMISHED you must forgive the witterings often been known to comment before you sit down also pre- 1 chop vegetables into large STUDENTS. of an old lady like myself). upon my handling of figurative language). You can brush a SOME SECRETS CONCERN quality garment and hang it ING CARING FOR CLOTHES carefully after wearing, so leav STUDENT INFORMATION SERVICE AND SOME SOLUTIONS TO ing it to air and rest for a few SATORIAL CRISES. days. This helps to hinder (I just couldn't resist that alliterative FOr Edinburgh University stu 1 femalefor1 single room at 1250al MISCELLANEOUS 1. Belts. I find in my travels, that opportunity, readers), the dirt dents onlr. Listings with keith Road. Call between 3&7 pm. many people tend to loose the £100 pm (excluding housing benefit). Top up your grant: earn some extra from seeping into the garment. reference numbers can be fol 1 male/female for 1 large single room little band thingy which holds This is a good hint for men's lowed up br going to the Stu income with minimal effort. For details at 7 Sciennes House Place. Phone668 contact Andy 556 8154. the end of the belt down. The suits, and do like a man in a 1 dent Accommodation Ser 3602 between 6-7 pm. Second and DRUMMER required for not very seri belt is therefore left to flap in nice, tweed suit readers. vice at 30 Bu_ccleuch Place. subsequent years only. £120 pm. ous band. Ph one Anthony on 229 the wind (obviously, this is the Vacant until 15112187. 1178. word of week readers) like a ACCOMMODATION URGENTLY REQUIRED female to lost leaf stranded in an autum share large room in friendly Mar FOR SALE: Dusky pink moire taffeta nal breeze. You 'll have to for- · large single room in Newington base chmont flat (100 pm. Phone 229 dress with overlay of black spotted give me readers, but I've just ment flat. Breakfast included, £23 pw, 7584. net, finished with blacll_ velvet ribbon. no bills. 667 7597. Sii:e 14116, completely original started nightclasses in creative Double room, very spacious. 62 Mar WANTED Two females to share a design, £85. Tel. Alison on 447 2093, writing, and I som etimes find it chmont Road. Available now. £90 pm. large room in a modern, well equip 9.30-11 pm, difficult to cont rol my awaken Call round after 5.30 pm. ped flat in Blackett for the next ing poetic urges. You could use academic year. Please phone JUDITH 'Student's' classified section Males/females for central flat. £84 pm, 4473186. is a free service to readers. some of that blue-tac stuff to bills incl. Tel6677629. SAS Ref no: 665 stick the belt down, or even a We welcome accommoda Vacancy for males/females for 1 4 PERSON central area flat to let from tion, "for sale" and other piece of chewing gum would July 1st. Phone 667 8301. single and 2 shared rooms at Flat 6, small ads. Ads should be kept do the rtick. Don't do this to 64 Marchmont Road. Phone 229 I MALE/FEMALE for single room at suede or fabric belts though. 1055.£110pm. 97 Bucdeuch St. Phone 667 2290. to a maximum of 30 words 1 female for 1 single room at 47 Com-. Mature student preferred. £80pm. and may be handed into the 2. Gloves. My grandfather told ely Bank Place. phone 447 6396. £117 'Student' offices, 48 Plea pm. me that before wearing a new One of Auntie Doris' cuisine I MALE for single room at 3 Saville sance, or put into the red , 1 single for 1 female at Geddes Entry, Terace, Newington. Phone 667 7597. 'Student' boxes in the Teviot pair of leather gloves, I should guinea-pigs. £92 pm and breakfast. 233 High Street. Phone 226 5203. First foyer, Mandela Centre Union years should not apply. £120 pm. 1 MALE/FEMALE for a single room at Shop and in A&M Reid groc 1 single female preferred at 5 Redford 31 Fox Spring Rise. Phone 445 4001 . Drive. Ph one 441 2302. £95 pm. £116.66 pm. ers in the KB Centre. A Room Of One's Own As soon as I saw it in the windo w I thought it was the darlingest little thing, and I know I had to have it for my favourite room (well, my only room , actually, since you come to mention it). I knew BAIN & there might be problems with my landlady but I didn't quite anticipate the shopkeeper's reaction. He offered his sympathies and asked if he could measure the occupant. I told him not to be COMPANY ridiculous, being a student isn't that bad, and anyway, it was much to small to sleep in -1 wanted to use it as a coffee table! So when my housing benefit came through (ha\ ha!), I boug~t I NTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC it and took it back to my room. Of course, when my landlady saw it she was sick in my charming dog skull ashtray, and fainted MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS clean away. But I'm not over-fussy about tidiness and I like to think of my room as an oasis of calm that others seek out amidst seas of turmoil so I lat her lie there. \Ve are recru\ling ourstanding g raduates for the position of Associate Consultant to join in September 1988. \Ye offer ~ a broad business grounding and considerable opportunities for early responsibili1y.
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I've had quite a few (other!) sticky patches with my landlady The Carlton Highland Hotel, since I arrived. I thought she would soon sense from my karma North Bridge, Edinburgh that I was not a pastel person, but she went a little overboard when I painted the walls of my room midnight velvet, that boring Fun her details car;i be obtained from old antique chest passionate grape and the chairs magenta blood. I also thought I'd managed to arrange the dry rot rather Edinburgh Uni\'ersi1y Careers Ser\'ice attractively. She just threw another fainting fit. But as I say my ·room is an oasis of calm ... BAIN & COMPANY My friends too sense a very powerful feeling in the room - it could be the rat-scented candles, or then again, it could be the m ajestic mound of dirty laundry which dominates the central walkway. BOSTOr.: LO~nor.: S:\I\ FRA!\:CISCO ~ll - ~ I CH TOKYO rA RI S As I curl up in bed with my lovely picture of Satan's Delith, Rape, Pillage and Destruction, Slave Cult, over my toad-shaped bed I realise that my taste m ay not suit everyone. But I like to thinkConran of of myseff post-Dracula as just astyle touch. innovative perhaps the Terrence ..______. ____ .... ______.
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