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UPFRONT James Poulter's Mighty Column, The Duff Almanac, AI Temo cartoon by George Parkin (from Issue 44, Sept '88), Carnival '93, Alias Ron Kavana. 5-6 THE PUNTER June 1993 Issue 100 Front cover shows The Levellers TINSELTOWN COMES TO TOWN Planet Hollywood brought

The Punter a galaxy of stars to London last month, Robert Shelton talked to Lower Ground Floor Sylvester Stallone and Demi Moore. 7 Devonshire Mansions Devonshire Place Brighton BN2 10H ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING Prolific is an understatement Telephone 0273 692960 Fax 0273 692982 for Robert De Niro's film output. The star of Mad Dog and Glory Ustings are a free service Please address all information to the asks Robert Shelton, ·You talkin' to me?" 9 relevant section CHICHESTER FESTIVITIES Trevor Gorin looks ahead to the COPY DATES Best in Britain festival in Chichester this JUly. 10·11 The Punter is published on the last Friday of every month. Ustings: July tssue- 15 June ON THE LEVEL The Levellers are back with a free concert at Display Advertisements: 14 days prior to the Heineken Music Festival and a new single. Tish Ferry meets publication fOt' colour advertisements. 7 Sherllyn Fenn. See days prior to publication for mono Jeremy Leveller. 12 Film lists . advertisements camera ready. 10 days prior to publication for mono advertisements requiring lypeselling. CONSUMER CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT Including the Classified advertisements: 10 days prior to publication. hundred issues review, guide to Brighton's North Laines, and the Publisher: Peter Hopkinson Food and Drink guide. Consumer 1·8 A Canon Publishing magazine. Next issue Wednesday 30 June 1993 REVIEW Video: Nikita, Detective, Blade Runner: The Director's EDITORIAL STAFF Cut, Twelve Angry Men, Witness for the Prosecution, Schtonk, Managing Editor Bill Smith What Have I Done to Deserve This, Mon Pere ce Heros, The Body­ Editor Sally O'Shaughnessy Assistant Editor Adrian Hennigan guard, Grand Canyon, Stay Tuned; Books: Pierre et Gilles, The Poi­ Art Frazer Streames Books Usa Clarke soned Embrace, The Last Word, Emerald City, Infinite Riches, Film Trevor Gorin Classical Gordon Urquhart Jazz, All Stories Are True; Albums: Blur, New Order, Debbie Gib­ Folk Jim Marshall son, Luscious Jackson, Madder Rose, Thousand Yard Stare, Red Jazz John Styles Kids and Events Adrian Hennigan House Painters, Irakere, Charlie Parker. 45-48 Rock Jem Stone Nightlife Bill Murray Corneoy Lewis Tucker TRAVEL For some strange reason, Miami has a bit of an image Dance and Theatre Lewis Tucker problem. Nick Polanski explores the Florida city. 49 Out Ian Lavis Body & Soul Gerry Thompson Food & Drink Andrew Kay COMPETITIONS Win Holsten Pils goodies, Kulla beer, Barber Contributors: Graham Duff, Tish Ferry, of Seville videos, Mates Condoms and KY Jelly, Virgin Videos and Adrian Hennigan, Beth Jones, James Pouller, Gary Couzens, Sarah Morgan, Mean Streets box set videos. 50 Robert Shellon, Mark Sutherland, Jem Stone. Trevor Gorin. Gerry Thompson, FESTIVALS Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Southampton Richard Williams, Valmae Young, Andrew STOP PRESS: Van TIdmarsh, Alan Hatcher. Simon Taylor, Film Festival plus all the major festival news from around the coun- Morrison at The Jason Best, Ellie Ling, Nick Polanski, Sally Dome on. 19 "une Oakenfold. ~ U~ CLASSIFIED 56-58 PRODUCTION STAFF General Manager Fiona McTernan Production Manager Graham Cunningham Editorial Layout Sarah Burrell LISTINGS Lesley Taylor Systems Operator Caroline Berry Art 15 Cover Design Andrew Kay Books 17 ADVERTISING STAFF Sales Director Paul Fenton Film 18 Advertising Manaller Bill Murray Display and Classified Sales Sarah Morgan Kids 25

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THE DUFF MIGHTY COLUMN ALMANAC left In your favourite true? Has anyone got a A Monthly Collection of Cultural Birthday Pizza (who had photo of It? Milestones and Millstones. Compiled the starter?) photograph. My home town of by Graham Duff This year I shall visit my Shellsuton (name Dad who has retired to a changed) would be a small Spanish town and major league seaside mustn't do no hard work. resort If cars were JUNE 4TH 1939 The last time I was there banned, at least from the MGM believe they have perfected a he Introduced me In a bar beach. When are our method of cloning the child star as 'my son, the famous four-wheeled masters Shirley Temple. A special cloning heavyweight boxer'. He going to carry health warnings? "Do Not Drive cubicle is constructed. However. was already pretending to When Irritated", "Wamlng: unbeknownst to Temple - at the be a notorious film If this hits you, It will crucial moment in the procedure. a Let's get fit for summer! director and he didn't Only kidding! Where was want me to feel left out. smart", "Avoid when In housefly also gains entrance to the I? Oh yes, holidays. It's The evening went motion" and "Caution, cubicle. The result of the experiment the vacation season and strangely but well, until I most Doctors hate getting is a horrific mutant - part insect, part people are vanishing was Introduced to a run over." cute kid - who later find fame as faster than the Sunday genuine local pugilist, Speaking of transplants, Bonnie Langford. roast· tattles from the bar Pedro EI Bombero, The did you hear about the of the Bottle of Trouble. language barrier lucky person who has Just Everyone used to talk protected me for a while, had a liver and bowel JUNE 6TH 1992 about bumming off to but when Pedro took off swap-op? I'm confident Barcelona or Crete, now I\ls shirt and started that by 2001, If I'm The Cure's entire back catalogue is It's all Ball and Tibet••• fllngll,g" playful jabs, I Involved In an accident, put into jeopardy when a court ''Yah, we're going with became uneasy In my role. I'll wake up In hospital injunction outlaws the rhyming of 'cry' Poor World Cheap Luckily my Dad stepped In replaced by a completely with 'die'. Oma~entsand Tours with a touch of realism ­ different geezer. This Is Inc... lt's great, Impossible and offered to film the fine, especially If I Can to spend any money, fight for a fee, at a future use his Visa­ beggars' bit of an eyesore, date. pleaser-supa-bupa card JUNE 5TH 1980 we just want to get away I've just heard on Sky and adopt his IIfe·tlme Motown star Diana Ross commences from It all, you can fax us News that English roads collection of holiday a series of sincerity implants. on Ball 3421." •• etc. are the safest In Europe (!) snaps. I'm all for Of course, I've never and that statistically preserving human life officially been on holiday Portugal Is the place to go (Hey! who Isn't?), but because I've never owned If you want to be wouldn't the organs be JUNE 16TH 1944 a camera, Kodak's "If It Introdu~ed to a pile - up more useful baked Into was never snapped, It on your hols. Medals are pies and distributed Igor Stravinsky is informed that it is never happened" awarded to Portuguese amongst the world's likely to rain over the weekend. The campaign effected me as drivers who manage six starving? I envisage a day composer panics and buys eighteen much as you so; If you months on the road when the earth's goods umbrellas which he is later forced to have any photos with Me without benefiting the are shared on an holistic sell at a loss. ''accidentally lurking" transplant Industry. I am basis. This will mean, In the background send told that a sign outside sadly, that companies 'em to The Puntcr. I am Lisbon says "Welcome to such as POOR WORLD, JUNE 17TH 1966 that blurred red- eyed Portugal's Capital - Please ETC., will have to take a thing looming In from the crash carefully". Is this hike. Andy Warhol released 'Food Movie No T. Although the film clocks in at six hours, it consists of only one scene in which a chef repeatedly threatens to serve a Danis~ pastry with a little gravy. It is denied a certificate by the British Censors who claim that it degrades sticky buns.

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PUNTER 5 the lyrics and just have a good time, that's fine by me." A sometime Pogues collaborator, UPFRONT Kavana spent a large chunk of his musical career playing guitar with R&B outfit, juice on the Loose, before . putting the Alias band together in the • ALIAS RON KAVANA mid- eighties. It was a hard slog: "We for those of you that haven't had the spent months playing to confused pleasure, Alias Ron Kavana play audiences of ten to fifteen people irresistibly eclectic folk-rock with an who had no idea about what we were edge. They pinch and mix tunes and trying to do. They were just used to musical styles from all round the bands that played one kind of music world and do it with tremendous zest. or another. Then the whole music Raps spin into reels as the traditional started to happen and the scene merges with the contemporary and began to change." Kavana's thought-provoking lyrics Kavana has been criticised for his blend wit with political comment. mix and match approach to Kavana's words are irnportant. His songwriting and accused of songs tackle injustice and appropriating other cultures to meet' materialism in general, and the his own musical ends. Initially. he situation in Ireland in particular. But was sensitive to these charges, but although he's exploring seams that extensive contact with musicians have already been thoroughly mined. from all round the world has he still manages'to dig up stuff that's reassured him that his aims and free from both cliche and Back To The Planet methods are both morally and sermonising. He avoids these by combining a musically acceptable. • CARNIVAL '93 "All musics are connected.The massive dose of humour with a Three years In, the 'Indle' night for the successful down-to-earth scepticism about the categories that exist are artificial June carnivals staged by the University student union power of music: ones which are there for the benefit of Is at last worthy of Interest. It's not massively current the music industry, for the record "Music can'lchange anything. The this year with virtually all the bands In the late companies and the DJs and so on. best you can do is throw a few ideas autumn of their careers and bllmeyl where are They don't really apply to the about and try and provoke people Spitfire?? into thinking a bit. It's great when musicians. When it comes down to it, 25th of May open with their aglt·prop rap which once someone comes up at the end of a the only real distinction is between played to a resounding audience of 19 In Brighton 2 gig and walks to talk about one of the good music and bad music." songs or something. But we're Alias Ron Kavana play good music. years ago. A few more attentive faces for the primarily a dance band, so if the Listen - and dance - at the Heineken Liverpool boys this time round. If the bar's not open audience wants to turn a deaf ear to Music Festival on Sunday 13th June. that Is. Back To the Planet are appearing at every bloody festival In 1993 and here they are at Stanmer Park, hopefully forgetting to play what Is surely the most annoying single since 99 Red 8alloons In Teenage Turtle. Mind you, their dubby, octane.fllled cockney toasting is actually well suited to a large filled marquee. Hopefully someone will heckle them for being signed to corporate big wigs; London records. And 'they're definitely not Crusty.' OK. Highlight for me are third billers; Blur. Modern Lite Is Rubbish says smart suited Damon Albam. The Kinks, beefeaters, vaudeville trumpets, Sunday papers and pre·Space Odyssey Bowie obviously aren't as Blur's new album Is a quaint English affair as far removed from There's no other Way as Kingmaker usually are from the charts. And here come Loz and his pals surprisingly resurrected from the pop dumper. 10 Vears Asleep was a catchy shock of a hit and the anglo fixated guitar pop of their new LP, SleepwalkIng will probably send It Into the top 10. Headlining are veteran shakers and movers; Pop Will Eat Itself. Like The Fall, they've had the pleasure of chart success after being dropped by an, as ever, happening major record company. The appeal of the Poppies has always eluded me though. Trying to be Public Enemy one second and Sonic Youth the next Is a difficult tightrope for Clint Popple to tiptoe across. And he usually falls off anyway. Certainly not cutting edge then, but five bands for £8 Is .reasonable In a town where one usually sets you back a fiver. But one week before the free Helneken Music Festival and three before GlastonbUry, I fear some people are gonna be sitting at home watching Top of the Pops and saving their cash. Jem Stone.

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Glorified Burger-bar Planet Hollywood was providing 'actors to go'recently, and ROBERT SHELTON relished the opportunity to step over the hype and meet Sylvester Stallone and Demi Moore. D'you want Pries with that?

ly Stallone and Demi Moore whizzed that again. I wanted to use elements never done people about their positions on personal morality, through London the other week, to pro­ visually on this magnitude before." sex and money. S mote themselves, their new films and the The chase sequence as Sly pursues some "It's a fantasy that could have been reality. glorified Soho hamburger joint called Planet Hol­ baddies who have stolen $100 million amid the The script provoked strong opinions, and I felt the lywood: Stallone is co-owner of "the biggest crags and precipices is breathtaking and will movie would do the same. The love story in it is restaurant in Europe", along with Demi's hus­ make you dizzy. one you can identify with. I think people go to the band, Bruce Willis, and that walking beefburger, Cliffhanger has its fair share of gun-play and movies to go off on a journey; I know I do." Arnold Schwarzenegger. violence. "My films in the Eighties are walks in the Demi, along with Andie MacDowell and Jes­ The Punter's star-gazer didn't make it into the park compared to the violent films they've done sica Lange, is in the forefront of the New Woman costly launch party. A film publicist told him it in the Nineties. I don't want to cast aspersions, stars, proud of being a mum as well as choosing would help to get a ticket if he had a film that had but some of the films these days are beyond intelligent scripts that will help her build up a grossed $50 million or was a vice president of a violence. They're a lot worse than Rambo," he body of work. Does she want it all? Wardour Street distributor. said. "I want to remove all limitations that have ever Glumly he joined the thousands who waited at As to the future trends, Sly disputed his res­ existed," she replied. "I want the opportunity to the corner of Rupert and Coventry Streetto watch taurant partner, Arnold Schwarzenegger. try everything there is in my life. That's what I the arrival of such gourmets as Melanie Griffith, "Violence will be diluted with humour to stress mean when I say I want it all. It's really nothing Don Johnson, Andrew lloyd Webber and Patrick entertainment values. I have to laugh at the different than what everybody else would want.

Swayze at hype heaven in their over-stretched family-film myth," he explained with a dry cackle. Is that clear? What excites me is being chal­ limo's. What about the next much-rumoured Rambo lenged and doing things I haven't done before." Your correspondent's morale rose, however, sequel? "Rambo is scrambo," the bulky actor Demi says she feels she's been lucky, "be­ when he heard that Bruce Willis and his band replied. "This Rambo project has always made cause I've been offered roles that gave me were supplying the music. He was happy to be me nervous. If it's not done in a year, it won't be chances to do things I hadn't done before, or outside looking in. . made ever," he explained. "Therehave been too wasn't even sure I could do." Earlierin the day, however, he attended Press many arrows over the bridge," said Stallone in his "Ghost offered me a greater depth of emotion conferences by Sly and Demi that were consid­ own colourful street imagery. than I had ever been presented with." erably tastier. Sly has just finished shooting Demolition Man. Demi describes herself as "a driven person Sly Stallone scales new heights in his latest He says his dream of glory is to play "an ambigu­ whose priorities often shift. Having a family blockbuster, Cliffhanger. It is the most exciting ous villain. Not Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, keeps all that very clear. I have the luxury of action film ever made in the mountains. Stallone which is too close to home for me. No, lwould taking my children with me. Having the opportu­ says it is his fear of heights that led him to make like to play someone dastardly, like one of our nity to take two or three months off after a film the film. ex-presidents!" is something most women don't have. I need "When I'm afraid of something, that usually Pale-complexioned, raven-haired Demi that time to spend with my children. It balances means a good omen. When I hate something, it Moore came to the UK as Indecent Proposal has out". means I'm afraid of it. So I turned that fear and passed the $70 million mark in the US and had Demi has been mentioned for a cryonics time­ hatred into an unusual challenge." the biggest box-office opening gross in British warp film, but says it's not set yet. She would love Sly needed a high-profile hit. A naturally. cinema history. to do a Broadway musical if it presents itself, she amusing man, he admits, "I did a couple of Demi said: "Obviously the film has struck a added. "The only way I can .do all the things I comedies that didn't ring my bell and God knows, chord with people that seems to be bigger than want to do is to remove my self-imposed limita­ I've played enough cops, so I didn't want to do the movie. The story has posed questions to tions or those imposed on me from outside.".

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I Symphony Orchestra of Latvia • Dillie Keane • Great British Musicals - Aspects of Love, Phantom of the Opera, Me and My Girl, the Boyfriend, Salad Days Central Singers • John Simpson • Central .Band of The Royal British Legion • St Box OFFICE Richard Singers • Alan Bennett 0243 ·780192 Mendelssohn Octet • Kenneth Alwyn Derek Simpson • Jonathan Plowright , Talks on Wilfred Owen; Pallant House; The Old Theatre, 43 South Street, Cardinal Manning; Eric Gill; Lewis Chichester, West Sussex P019 lDX . Carroll; Edward Lear; Kew Gardens; Mon - Sat 9.30am - 5.l5pm Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant • Arts Mobile Box Office Open from 21 May Celebration by Primary and Secondary Opposite Cathedral Bell Tower I Schools • BT Young Musicians' Series Mon - Sat lO.OOam - 5.00pm !' .Masterclasses • Painting and Sculpture 1'.Exhibitions • Real Ale and Jazz Ltaxi driver on mean streets who's had rude awakenings, but now Robert De Niro goes from raging bull to mad dog in John McNaughton's Mad Dog and Glory. ROBERT SHELTON met the reclusive star and reflects on this boy's life.

oon after its Cannes debut, Mad Dog and in a low voice, has a tentative smile that shows coming a star was a big part of it, at first. When Glorywill have its British Premiere on June few teeth, and recedes within himself, half hidden I got into it, it became more complicated. To S 3 at the Southampton Film Festival. The in his brown suede jacket. A sharp contrast with submerge totally into another character and ex­ film stars Robert De Niro as a timid forensics cop, the driven, intense up-front figure he often plays perience life through him, without having to risk Bill Murray as a crook and Uma Thurman as the on screen. the real-life consequences is a cheap way to do Glory, the woman between them. The festival will What drives him? Is his life totally dominated things you would never dare to do yourself." It close on June 17 with the influential 1973 Martin by movies? "Yes," he replied slowly. "To do as was probably flippant, but the star once said "If I Scorsese film that stars De Niro and Harvey many films as I'm doing is a conscious decision hadn't been an actor, I would have been a psy­ Keitel, Mean Streets. on my part, at this stage of my life. Later on, I chotic or murderer." De Niro, the man most people regard as the won't be that way, I hope. Now, I want to work a De Niro's involvement with the three-year old pre-eminent screen actor of our day.is busier lot. I'm young and strong and can make the films studio complex Tribeca Productions he estab­ than ever, as producer, director (he's working on I want to make. In a few years, I'll slow down and lished in Lower Manhattan has changed his life. his first film, A Bronx Tale) and actor, but critics focus on other things, like directing." For De Niro, this venture has been creatively wonder if he is spreading his talents too thinly. He conceded that his flood of work in the '90s fulfilling even if some fans feel Tribeca has diluted Since 1989, De Niro has appeared in Midnight springs from any actor's state of insecurity. his acting impact. Run, Stanley and Iris, We're No Angels, Jacknife, "That's part of it," he said. "But I'm also doing the He's been executive producer (We're No An­ Backdraft, Awakenings Goodfellas, Guilty by films I want to do. I don't make movies that gross gels) for Paramount. Trlbeca's first three

Suspicion, Cape Fear, Night and the City and $200 million, movies that leave you worried if you productions were the excellent Thunderheart, Mistress. can do it again. I'm not coming from anything like starring Val Kilmer as an FBI man of Indian desc­ After Mad Dog and Glory, written by Richard that. I'm not sacrificing anything, except time for ent, Mistress, a low-budget satire of Hollywood, Price (Sea of Love and The Colour of Money) and myself." and Night and the City, a remake of the 1950 co-produced by Martin Scorsese and his wife, What turns him on about a role, he said, "is a Jules Dassin film Noir, Of Tribeca, De Niro told Barbara de Fina, and directed by John McNau­ character who is totally driven by what he does." me, "It's a place where contact makes things ghton, De Niro will be seen in This Boy's Life. His immersion in a role, going to great pains to happen, where ideas catch fire, even in the cor­ At the launch of Night and the City, which De research a part, was a hallmark of the De Niro ridors." Niro also produced, a Time Out reporter com­ Method. Was he comfortable being regarded as Does he watch his old films? That half-smile plained that De Niro was inarticulate in a 20 the finest actor of his generation? "It's nice to was less tentative now. "No, I fall asleep watching minute group interview. I had the good fortune hear that," he said diffidently, "But who can say?" them. I only like to look at my movies to see to hear the Oscar-winning actor (Raging Bull and De Niro revealed that his only full escape patterns that I can improve. I have to wait 10 or Godfather II) being articulate and generous with occurs on some tropical island. where he reads 15 years later to get a better perspective. I've his time. It was his last London interview, inwhich or relaxes. He has two children, Raphael, 16, never watched King of Comedy or Once Upon a he was happy to help old associate Irwin Winkler from his marriage to actress Diahnne Abbott, and Time in America again," he added. launch Guilty by Suspicion. Nina, 11 by the black singer Helena Springs, What would he most like to be remembered Seeing De Niro up close is a surprise, he's the once a back-up singer for Bob Dylan. for? "I told Marty Scorsese that in 50 years time, superstar many don't recognise off-screen. He's De Niro was the only child of two painters, I'd like to be remembered for making movies that walked through crowds of autograph-hunters in who divorced when he was 21. Like Marty were good, not just box-office successes. At the Manhattan without being recognised. His long­ Scorsese, he grew up in Manhattan, Lower East moment, I make what I feel are good movies. If time friend, actress Shelley Winters, calls him .Side. Of his early days struggling to' break into you're lucky enough to get paid well for it, and "the invisible man". The 49 year old actor speaks Off-Broadway theatre. De Niro has recalled: "Be- can experiment ... what more can you ask?" •

PUNTER 9 CHICHESTER With·Chichester festivities coming up in July with the theme 'The Best in Britain', we sent Trevor Gorin for a day out. He guides you through the streets of Chichester and previews what the County Town of West Sussex has to offer.

The point to start at is the Market treasures including a huge John July, Cathedral, 7.30pm) Cross which dates dates from 1501 Piper tapestry, a painting by Graham The festivities will also include not marking the site of the original Sutherland and an exquisite stained just the best but also some 'firsts'. market (the current market is near glass window by Marc Chagall. Perhaps the most notable of these Eastgate Square on Wednesdays Pallant House - Georgian are the European premiere of John and Saturdays) Market Cross is slap architecture that Prince Charles Tavener's new work 'Eternal bang in the middle of town, right on would be proud of - is the art gallery Memory' performed by virtuoso cellist the crossroads of the handily named just off East St. and houses works by Steven Isserlis (14th July, Cathedral, North, South, West and East Streets. Nash and Moore whilst across the 8.30pm) and the British debut of the Thus, all roads lead to the Cross. street the Chichester District hundred strong National Symphony The principal tourist attraction is Museum covers all the local history. Orchestra of Latvia, which is the magnificent Cathedral, mere Nearby is the Guildhall (the old court performing a towering tribute to mark spitting distance from the Cross. It house where William Blake was the centenary of their great was actually founded in1091 by tried) now another museum. compatriot Tchaikovsky's death (18th Bishop Luffa and was added to here Chichesterenjoys a flourishing arts July, Cathedral, 6.30pm). Also the and there over most of the next 400 scene which focuses on the distinqu'shed Academy of St.Martin years. In 1861 the spire collapsed Chichester Festival Theatre, now in the Fields returns under the and had to be rebuilt by Sir George regarded as one of the leading direction of Kenneth Sillito (12 July, Gilbert Scott, who also designed St. British theatres. In July the town Cathedral, 7.30pm) and Steven Pancras Station. The Cathedral hosts one of the principal arts Isserlis will also be performing contains important 12th century festivals in the country. Elgar's Cello Concerto with the City panels illustrating scenes from the CLASSICAL BLISS of London Sinfonia in a candlelit life of Christ and the 14th century Launching the festival is the award ­ Cathedral concert (14 July, Arundel tomb with its figures of winning Grimethorpe Colliery Band in Cathedral, 8.30pm). Richard Fitzalan and his Countess The Best of British Brass with a Finally, there is a rare recital by one holding hands, the Philip Larkin programme that obviously will of the world's most dynamic operatic poem it inspired is reproduced includethe 'Rule Brittannia'Overture divas, Rita Hunter in a programme of nearby. There are also more modern and works by Elgar and Bliss (4th Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Coates 10 PUNTER FESTIVITIES (15th JUly, Cathedral, 7.30). Racing driver and now BBC Grand Moving from the Cathedra I the Prix commentator, James Hunt magnificent ballroom of Goodwood speaks about the state off the sport House is the setting for The Britten following Nigel Mansell's Quartet who will play works by Ravel controversial departure to the Indy and Dvorak as well as Schubert's racing circuit (15 JUly, Marquee, haunting 'Death and the Maiden'. Bishop's Palace Garden, 8pm). During an extended interval you can From one BBC man to another enjoy a candlelit-dinner served in the BBC man, John Simpson CBE

State Appartments or simply relaxon discusses whether reporting for once apprentice to Eric Gill talks the lawns with a picnic.Whatever, .television is an art or a science, no about the famous sculptor and this is an opportunity to hear this doubt illustrating his point with stories engraver and extraordinary private internationally renowned quartet, the of his experiences in Bosnia, life. Dominic Hibberd will be talking leading string quartet of their Baghdad, the Gulf, Berlin and about Wilfred Owen the famous first generation, in one of the most Tiananmen Square (19 July, world war poet in the centenary of his beautiful houses in the South of Marquee, Bishop's Palace Garden, birth. For full details of these and England (6th July, Goodwood House, 8pm). many more see the full festival 6.30pm) Murder and mystery are the trade brochure. HAPPY TALK of top novelist P.D. James who will On a lighter note,British Away from the classics there are a discuss plotting detective novels and comedians performing in Chichester number of celebrity talks. Jazz man the history of crime fiction (13 ·July, will include Mark Steel, Dillie Keane and modern art expert George Melly Marquee, Bishop's Palace Garden, and Harry Hill, a Perrier Award will entertain with a talk about his 8pm). winner at Edinburgh, Punter readers book 'Swans Reflecting Elephants' a Perhaps Britain's best loved writer, will recognise them all from our biography of his late friend, the Alan Bennett, whose own work wittily comedy pages. eccentric art collector Edward James probes the underbelly of British The Film Festival, like the recent (15th July, Bishop's Palace, 8pm). society; A Private Function, Forty Brighton Film Festival, features Germaine Greer who by day is a Years On, The Old Country and the recent British Oscar winning lecturer at Cambridge University and screenplay for Prick Up Your Ears, productions. And finally a firework by reputation is the most contoversial will be reading his own selection of spectacular, high on the Sussex feminist of the post war period. In poetry from the twentieth century Downs, synchronised pyrotechnics to 1969 she published the best selling (20th July, The Old Kitchen, Bishop's Handel's 'Music for the Royal book 'The Female Eunuch' and more Palace, 8pm). Fireworks' whilst members of the recently a collection of her writings Other interesting talks include Royal Artillery parachute back down under the title 'The Madwoman's Richard Shone on the Bloomsbury to earth (9 July, Goodwood Underclothes' (7th July, Assembly Group, Peter Levi on Lewis Carroll Racecourse,7.30pm, fireworks at Rooms, 8pm). and Edward Lear, David Kindersley, 9pm)

PUNTER 11 Vans feature heavily in the life ofJeremy Leveller. He still lives in one whilst his band, The Levellers, are in the vanguardof the British music scene. TISH FERRY chronicles thefurther adventures ofthe 'dogs on string'kings.

In Which Jeremy Leveller Expounds On to try and get us to headline Saturday night, that And Steve gave it this sound which was BIG and Life, Music And Everything. was their first offer and they came back with STADIUM and sounded like Steve Lilleywhite ­ "I haven't got anything to say, I'm a bit too fucking loads more, but we keep turning them bollocks - so we rang up the record company and wrapped up in what I'm doing really." What down because we don't like Reading. Glaston­ said, 'we're not having it, save your money.' Jeremy is doing is being in the studio with his bury we wouldn't do again because of all the Depression Descends Although HappI­ fellow Levellers; Mark, Simon, Charlie and John, malarkey with the travellers." ness Smiles Upon Them while they write and record the long anticipated Jeremy Has A Moment Of Pop-Starrish Torydom Still Rules, OK? But it's not OK, it's follow up to 1991's Levelling the Land LP. Five Anger seriously disturbing, and this, it seems, is what is years of near constant touring, from every dog­ "Last year (at Glastonbury) was good fun, but it showing up in the new Levellers songs. "All flea armpit backwater dive in Britain to world wasn't the same for us without having all our we've ever been is a product of our environment, domination, well almost, has culminated this year mates there. I came down with a whole, so­ and things are getting more intense so we're in the search for the perfect studio. At last en­ called convoy of people from around Hackney. obviously going to reflect that. I don't want to sconced in Peter Gabriel's "well good" Real We ended up, like, six miles away from the festi­ think about it too much, and I think that probably World studio in Bath, the new material takes val site at this old sheep-skin factory which was most of the population feel like that as well, shape. But what shape? "Dark. It's a lot darker where they were herding all the travellers. And 'cause, like, what can they do? They can't do than the last album, a lot more heavy, intense. then they started to move everybody to this place anything." This sense of helplessness is, he The songs are quite fast. and they're stilluplifting like twenty miles away, and I had to hitch six miles thinks, part of what shaped the new single out at

but not as cheerful, jingly-jangly as the last re­ into the festival, cursing and swearing about be­ the end of June, a "cheerful lillie ditty" named cord. I think that it's a lot more like the first LP, ing Inone of the headline acts and having to hitch Bella Ruse after the Russian state where the really garagey, all real sounds. " to get there: One of the few times that a bit of a Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place. "The sin­ .Jeremy Described rock-star ego has crept in, that long walk. gle is heavy, it sounds like Ministry in parts. Young Jeremy hails from Crawley. The multi-tal­ The Levellers Lose Their Confidence Loads of heavy metal chugging guitars and east­ ented red-head wears big 'boots and plays a And Find A Sound Engineer ern violins. It still sounds like The Levellers but mean bass and mandolin, as we!1 as sharing the The rumours were that The Levellers were work­ the ambience is darker. Though maybe people song-writing duties in the band. Jeremy is also ing with famous, big, sound producer Steve won't even notice the difference." responsible for The Levellers' outstandingly per­ Lilleywhite in a record company plot to turn them The Mood Descends Even Lower verse artwork. Despite his success, Jeremy into Guns'n'Roses. Stranger things have hap­ It's worrying when The Levellers are down­ chooses to live in his van. He sports an Einsten­ pened. The truth must out.. "We sacked him. hearted. Although they've always been realists, den Neubaten tattoo en one arm, a dry and What happened was that we hadn't written any they are the anti-political pro-people band. And cynical sense of humour, and a liking for The songs since the 15 Years EP - which came out in now they're frustrated. "That's another part of Clash and The Smiths. May 1992 - "and we had lost our confidence in why the mood of the songs is darker. We've been They Play The Heineken Big Top But our songwriting. So we agreed, 'Yeah, get him in together now for like five years, and have spent Turn Down Reading Festival and he can give us a hand with the songwriting.· that time shooting our mouths off about the things The only outdoor show in England that The Lev­ But then they started writing new songs and he we think are wrong. We play now to like seven ellers intend to play this summer is in Brighton, didn't show up to give us a hand and they came thousand people at a throw and we still haven't and it's free! Jeremy says that they may pop up out all right anyway. When we came to mix our changed anything that I'm aware of. at other 'free festivals' on the spur of the moment new single, Steve Lilleywhite suddenly turns up In Which The Levellers All Get Their Hair if they get the time, but they've turned down the to mix it. when we thought our engineer Marcus Cut And Give Up The Fight big ones this year. "Reading threw us £100,000 was going to - since he's been producing with us. "Bollocks." •

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the house collection. He plans to present Ethnographic art Sponsored by The Royal Pavilion Shop so people will 'appreciate it for its fine Brighton's most unusual art and sculptural properties' and not shop. Adjacent to the Royal just dismiss it as of anthropological in­ Pavilion. terest only. Open seven days a week "Most museums that display Non­ including Bank Holidays 10.00am - 5.30pm. Western Art don't show anything cre­ ated after 1920 or 1930. We want to bring the exhibitions up to date and look at Modern ethnic art rooted in the traditions of of Africa and Asia. We want to show how these traditions have changed, and that they are still rich and creative cultures today. We want to analyse the trends in contem­ porary popular culture looking in par­ ticular at the inter-relationship between West and Non-West. No­ one else in Britain has a programme to do that. In a few months time there will be a major exhibition on fetishism where the displays will exhibit fetishistic practices across the world and mod­ ern concepts of fetish "everything from adverf.stnq to sexual". . ','~. There are also plans to hold concerts "-'- ...... ~ of ethnic music and eventually the museum wants to sponsor multi-me­ look, too, at the Riviera Gallery ("Life • BRIGHTON dia events at 'clubs and theatres. An­ UNIVERSITY ART AND • FEET OF CLAY Force" 1 to 26 June). thony plans to keep one small corner DEGREE SHOW, 1993 Hastings festival does not exist but it A new generation may be found at for local ethnic minorities to exhibit. Brighton University, progressing from would, if nothing else, serve to draw The Pig in Paradise ("Hastings Arts The first section of the Ethonographic the College of Art in 1859 to the Poly­ attention to the vigorous artistic com­ Open Exhibition" 27 May to 9 June Gallery opens in June 1993 and the technic, now in its present form en­ munity of a town that is as economi­ pub hours) and at the Hastings Col­ other will open in September 1993. compasses a wide range of arts cally and socially deprived as lege of Art & Technology (Diploma Valmae Young related courses. Within the disci­ Merseyside though less frequently in show 26, 28 and 29 June). plines, variety is indeed the key in the public eye. And - perhaps as an antidote to the this year's shows.The Fine Art BA For the moment, the town - once the students' shows - visit "The Quest for • DR MIKE CHAIKIN Hons course at Brighton is unique in second home to Turner, Rossetti, Hol­ the Miraculous: paintings and Within a minute of meeting Mike that it is made up of four elements or man Hunt, Whistler - lacks a cultural gouaches by Alan Davie" (Hastings Chaikin I was carrying large sheets of areas; Painting, Sculpture, Printmak­ centre - a focal point - of any size. Museum & Art Gallery 5 June to 4 steel into his working area at the Blue ing and Alternative Practise. But, since 1987, the groups JUly). Davie (b. Grangemouth 1920) Cat Studios in Howard Road. Mike is Although it is futile to attempt to Hastings Arts and the Friends of St is - according to the curator, Michael a sculptor who comes across as a cleanly define each area here with Mary's have been seeking to estab­ Tucker of the University of Brighton ­ genuinely modest artist, having a many individuals' work operating lish the suitability of St Mary-in-the­ one of the few British painters of the complete empathy with his work. The across disciplines, there are connect­ Castle. This church was built by the last fifty years to have attained an in­ metallic sheets I was carrying were to ing threads. architect Joseph Kay between 1825 ternational reputation on the scale of be used as part of his latest sculp­ Within Painting and Printmaking and 1828 and has been described such American Abstract Expression­ ture, a striking raven to be exhibited many are engaged in redefinitions of by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the ists as Jackson Pollock and Mark at the Harvest Forestry. Like all of his the subject; either by valuing the finest buildings of the 1820's". It is Rothko (though his later works bring recent work, the Raven is reminiscent more traditional or orthodox practices presently owned by Hastings Bor­ to mind Miro, Paul Klee and the of gothic architecture at it's most pow­ and subject matter in a contemporary ough Council: they have ensured that "magical landscapes" of the Hopi). erful. context, or by abandoning this alto­ the building is weather tight and have See for yourself. The gothic feel he creates is due to gether, turning to new mediums; for provided funds for the restoration of Leaflets for these events are avail­ the sense of awe, space and light. exampleby using computer gener­ its ceilings to a very high standard able from Hastings Arts (0424 Coupled with his use of moving parts ated images and appropriating found but prefer to direct their artistic activi­ 0424848) and from Touristlnforma­ he has created quite literally moving images. ties (and monies received from South­ tion Centres throughout Sussex. pieces of artwork. These magnificent Both Sculpture, as it is at Brighton, East Arts) toward the White Rock Andrew Tldmarsh sculptures are forged from metal, and Alternative Practise are based on Theatre. The church has, however, hammered and welded to create rip­ a more contemporary 'history' and been made available for a number of pling colours that spread over their strategies of art making. Differences events and can be seen either on • ETHNOGRAPHIC surface. Having given up a success­ in the individuals' work comes out of Mid- Summer's Day 21 June from GALLERY ful career in medicine Mike returned the issues that are being examined; 7.30 pm or on National Music Day 27 Brighton Museum's new ethno­ to education to study art and design there isn't an issue make out of being June for a performance by four fe­ graphic section opens this month. It at Worthing followed by a BA in Corn­ different, the work just gets on with it. male cellists, "Bow Belles". Mean­ will house 12,000 objects, the largest wall, partly spent living on a boat. This maturity links the diverse art while to savour the artistic flavour of municipal collection of Non-Western His work has been directly influenced forms on show which range from in­ the town, follow the "Art Trail of Hast­ artefacts in the country. The curator, from images that struck him whilst stallations to mixed media, images, ings" throughout June. Highlights in­ Anthony Shelton, plans to take a new rowing to college such as a cormo­ objects and text; relating to both life clude "The Clay People of Hastings" and radical approach to ethno­ rant, perched upon a bouy with experience and political (with a little (Hastings Exhibitions, The Bourne: 29 graphic exhibltions. "Every British Mu­ wings fully outstretched. 'p') concerns. May to 6 June) the first of what is in­ seum looks at Ethnographic art as Mike's work can currently. be viewed With over 50 students exhibitinq at tended to be an annual series show­ though it were completely divorced at the Brighton Marina (see above the two sites there should be some­ ing the wide variety of ceramic works from the Wesi..'We want to critically right) where he isexhibitlnq his (wind thing for everyone; humour, irony, col­ created in the town. and "Tide Mark: examine the relationship between powered) Big Bird·Mobile above a our and form - and above all, Riparian and Seaboard Scapes" by Western and Ethnic Art and place Eth­ fountain in the village square. originality that is just on your door­ David Wood (The Gallery, White Rock nic art in its historic and cultural con­ Alan Hatcher step. Theatre: 21 May to 12 June). Take a texts." There will be 12,000 objects in Beth .lones

PUNTER 15 • CIVIC CENTRE Nick Martin, Mark Nelson, Grace constructed from notebook sketches, Shoreham-by-Sea. Robertson and Thurston Hopkins. photos and memory. She aims to 4to 18 Jun Celligrephic Arts Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm. create work evoking visual surprise and the particular atmosphere of Exhibition An exhibition of 24 May to 24 Jun Assocl.tlon of ART calligraphy, water colours and Photogrephers1Oth Aw.rds places. gilding, encompassing humorous Exhibition The Awards have stories, songs, poems and quotations become a major showcase for the • HOVE MUSEUM & ART relating to Sussex. best in advertising and editorial GAUERY New Church Road, Hove. 0273 779410. 14 Jun Sussex Movl.. From 1897 photography, and reflect the best to the early 1920s a film-making work of the last eighteen months. 12 Jun to 4 Jul Sussex Sculptors community developed on the Sussex Sculptures of life, nature, imagination coast. Through slides and rare films • GARDNER ARTS CENTRE and memory in bronze, wood, Frank Gray, curator of the South East Sussex University, Lewes Road, concrete and paper by a group of 20 Falmer. 0273685861. local artists. Tue to Fri 10am-5pm Sat • BOOTH MUSEUM OF Film and Video Archive, explores its 10am-4.30pm & Sun 2-5pm, free NATURAL HISTORY Dyke Road, history and shows that before 7 to 26 Jun Artists In Educetion admission. Brighton. Hollywood, Sussex was one of the An insight into the interests and most important centres for 25 Jun to 22 Aug Len Shelley: passions of 'artist teachers' in Sussex. film-making in the world. Phone 0273 • THE LEVEL Brighton. Story Boxes First solo exhibition 7 to 26 Jun Arts Federetion 455566 xt 3302 for details. 8pm, £3. 15 May to 4 Jul Keren Knorr has from a sculptor of unconventional Photgraphs and drawings from the been commissioned to produce style - would you call the use of sun University of Sussex Arts Federation. dried fish and sea birds found on • DAVID LAND ARTS CENTRE photographs on the theme of Upper Gardner Street, Brighton. Britannia. She explores - through Sussex beaches conventional? The ,. HASTINGS MUSEUM AND images and text- the old and new figures he has created from this 10 May to 11 Jun c.ousal VI_I Johns Place, ART GAUERY myths of national identity. She will flotsam and jetsam relate to Art Exhibition The results of a Cambridge Road, Hastings. 0424 give a talk on her work at 3pm on characters from children's literature. week long residency in the 721202. Sunday, 4th July. Tue-Sat10am-5pm, Men-Wed, Fri & Sat10am-5pm; Sun community by Carousel, and by 5Jun to 4 Jul Alen Devle Paintings 2-5pm. young people with learning' Sun & Bank Holidays 2-5pm, free and Gouaches 1950-1991. One of the difficulties interested in the arts. admission. few British painters in recent years to 10am-4pm. 22 May to 11 Jul Auocletion • BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART have attained an international The Church Street, Brighton. of Eestbourne Artists Members GAUERY reputation on the scale of Americans 0273571305. • DITCHLING MUSEUM Church meet fortnightly at the Towner for art such as Pollock or Rothko. This Lane, Ditchling. 0273 844744. demonstrations, lectures and 1 Apr to 30 Sep One View To selection of paintings was chosen by critiques. Much of their year's work Another A display of 20th century 5 Jun to 25 Jul Lace Meking and Davie himself. oil paintings, watercolours and allied crafts. will be on show. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Sun & Bank Holidays 2-5pm, free drawings from the Museum's The • HASTINGS EXHIBITIONS admission. collection, depicting views of • EASTBOURNE CENTRAL Bourne, Old Town, Hastings. 0424 Brighton and its surroundings. The LIBRARY Grove Road, Eastbourne. 424848. pictures will be shown alongside 032322834. • LORD NELSON EATERIE The 29 May to 6 Jun The Cley People Bourne, Old Town, Hastings. 0424 photographs of the same scenes as 1 Jun to 1 Jul Cynthie Brevln of Hestings An exhibition of 423280. they appear today. Mon-Sat (exc. Exhibition of paintings in oils. Mon-Fri ceramics on twoJloors by twenty-four Wed) 10am-5.45pm; Sun 2-5pm, free 24 Apr to 5 Jun Mixed Medl. 9.30am-7pm, closed Wed, Sat students from Hastings College of Art admission. Exhibition Tuesrwed 12-2.30, 9.30am-5pm, free admission. and Technology. Demonstrations, ThrIFri 12-3pm, Sat 12-3/7-9pm, Sun 1 Apr to 30 Sep V.riadions on • workshops and videos daily. 12-4pm, free admission. Theme A show of ceramics from the • EASTON ROOMS 107 High Museum's collections illustrating the Street, Rye. 0797811626. • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, • THE MARLlPINS MUSEUM very varied origins of figures and 24 Apr to 1 Jun Birds of • F_ther Crawley. 0293553636. Shoreham-by-Sea. subjects chosen by the Staffordshire Stephen Duffy: ceramics and prints; 24 May to 18 Jun Creftwork The potters. Mon-Tue, Thrs-Sat 5 to 19 Jun Art In Adur An open Robert Greenhalf: etchings and ' gallery has organised an exhibition of 10am-5.30pm; Sun 2-5.30pm, free exhibition celebrating the work of watercolours; Annie Soudain: high quality craftwork including admission. artists resident in the Adur district. watercolours and wax resist; Isobel hand-painted cushions, 4 Jun A Celebretion 01 Ethnic Art Burgess: oil painting; Mary Colis: papier-mache bowls, unique ceramics. Mon-Sat10.30am-1pm, • PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY One of the finest collections of jewellery and elegant ceramics. All 9 North Pallant, Chichester. 0243 non-Western art and ethnography 2-5pm, Sun 2.30-5pm, free admission. items for sale. 774557. goes on showat the new Cultures 8 May to 13 Jun Touch Me, F_I 25 May to 18 Jun The Kilvert 20 Apr to 12 Jun Gallery. Mon-Tue, Thrs-Sat lYon Hitchens's Me Textiles as art. The best of G.11ery A chance to see an 1993 is the centenary of 10am-5.30pm; Sun 2-5.30pm, free Nudes textiles work from the South East exhibition of work from the Hitchens's birth. This exhibition of admission. including work by Heather Belcher, prestigious contemporary art gallery drawings, paintings and studies 10 Jun to 6 Jul Anensi Compeny Tadek Beutlich, Jenny Cowern and situated on 'the Welsh borders. Artists explores his figure subjects and their Artist's Book An exhibition others. Mon-Sat 10.30am-1pm, include: Alfred Stockham, Michael preparation, the first ever exhibition including unusual artist's books on 2-5pm, Sun 2.30-5pm, free admission. Lewisohn, David lnshaw, Peter to focus on his nudes. Free themes ranging from Bluebeard, 19 Jun to 25 Jul J.ne Lewis Arscotl, Eugene Fisk, Charles admission. Punch and Judy, and the Alphabet to Shearer and Francis St Clair Miller. Drawings by the ex-artist in 29 Jun to 18 Sep Henry Moore the main character, Anansi the spider Residence for Kent Opera show 22 Jun to 4Jul J.ne W.lker A rarely seen aspect man. All are collaborations between end the Se. recent pastel drawings from her Crawley Festival Exhibition. Paintings of Moore's work, including drawings, the artist Ronald King and the poet 1991-92 Henry Moore Drawings depicting life at the ports of sculpture, models and graphics. Roy Fisher. Mon-Tue, Thrs-Sat Fellowship. Mon-Sat 10.30am-1 pm, Newhaven and Dieppe, and on boats 10am-5pm: Sun 2-5pm, free 2-5pm, Sun 2.30-5pm. free admission. between the two. admission. • THE PIG IN PARADISE (Back Bar), Palace Bars, the seafront, • FAB AND GROOVY Victor"y • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE Hastings. • CHARLESTON FARMHOUSE Gallery, 78 High Street, Old Town, North Street, Horsham. 0403 268689. nr Firle. 0323811265. Hastings. 0424 722368. 27 May to 9 Jun Hestlngs Arts 23 May to 19 Jun Group Exhibition Open Exhibition Work by local 9 May to 6 Jun Laetitie Yhap 22 May to 12 Jun Sunvner Cemp by the staff from The Art and Design artists. 11am-11 pm, Sun Noon-3pm, Exhibition of recent paintings. Yhap's Exhibition Painting and 'Objets' with Department at Crawley College. Work 7-10.30pm, free admission. work concerns images of the human fun, exotic and hedonistic theines, by by John Thompson (drawings and figure, as found everyday in the life of Linda King, Amy Page, Steve Wright, paintings), Ruth Blackford (one-off • RIVIERA GAUERY 6 Pelham the traditional Sussex fishing and Darlington Lead. Mon-Tue, pieces for the wall, furnishing and Arcade, Hastings. 0424 427088. industry. Weds to Sun 2-6pm, Thrs-Sat, 10.30am-5pm, closed Wed upholstery fabrics, tufted floor admission to Gallery free, House 1 to 27 Jun Work From the &Sun. coverings), Kim Homer' £3.75/2.75 cones, Human Figure Drawings, (papier-mache sculptural pieces and sculpture, paintings, ceramics, all • FEATURES GAUERY 33 vessels), Pat Smith (ceramics), based on work from the human • CHICHESTER DISTRICT Kensington Gardens, Brighton. Bernard G. Mills (graphic design, MUSEUM 29 Little London, figure. 10am-5pm, Free. 1 May to 30 Jun Meri Gillespie & photography, 3D design). Chichester. 0243 784683. Mery Wicks 'Fantasies On The 20 Jun to 17 Jul Sell)' Booth & • THE SANCTUARY 51-55 1 to 5 Jun Arts of Ruins Mexican. Female Form'. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Judy White Paintings. Booth's work Brunswick Street East, Hove. 0273 architecture explored. Tue-Sat concentrates on urban imagery and 770002. 10am-5.30pm, free admission. • FIRST LIGHT GALLERY 3 Nile surroundings, overlooking people 5 May to 27 Jun Relph Herschell Street, The Lanes, Brighton. 0273 19 Jun to 21 Aug Hoor.y for engaged in everyday city life. More Levy 'Cartography of the Heart'. This 327344. Shippamsl A celebration of recent work concentrates on night show is another chapter of the Shippams' Paste's advertising 1 May to 1 Jun Echoes _d scenes, and the strange 'Travels of a Journeyman', the through the ages. Spread the news. Ecology Work by some of Brighton's colour -effects created by artificial working title of all his exhibitions. Tue-Sat 10am-5.30pm, free top photographers, artists and light. White's paintings were done Tues-Sun 10am-11.30pm, free admission. scul~tors, including Nicholas Sinclair, during and after holidays, admission. Tues-Sun,

16 PUNTER ART U.tlng. .,. compll.d by LISA 10.30am-11.30pm, free admission. CLARKE. Entrl•••r. FREE. Pl •••• m.k••ur. th.t full • STABLES THEATRE AND Infonnlltlon .rrlv•• by Tu.ad.y ART GAUERY High Street, Old Town, Hastings. 0424 423221. 15 June for the July I••ue. 22 May to 23 Jun Art bhlbltlon Work by Joseph Spark (watercolours • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE North Street, Horsham. 0403 268689. and etchings), Solura Spark (Chinese brush and silk painting), and Stephen 19 Jun HorsIwm Music Circl. Goodwin (drawings and paintings). presents Garcia-Conway Duo with Open box office hours and during Norbert Blume and Jack May, 'Words performances, free admission. and Music'. Music ranging from 26 Jun to 28 Jul ~h1--. Crozl.. Beethoven to Cole Porter. and Etchings and prints, mainly of local readings from Shelley to Noel scenes. Coward. 8pm, £6/£5 cones.

• THE STAR GALLERY Castle • LA CUCINA VERDE Ditch Lane, Lewes. 0273 480218. RESTAURANT SO, George Street, 24 May to 5 Jun Portrait PlIIC.. Hastings. 0424 460888. Peopl. Doug Coupe: colourful 13 Jun F_go Collective Poetry images of human figures and readings by Viv Acious, one of evocative locations; Graham Loder: London's leading poets, and Max painted figure compositions in Elvey, a member of the Farrago landscape. 9.30am-5.30pm. Collective, who are organising the event. People should bring their own CYNTHIA HEIMEL • MAD BAG LADY • STORMONT STUDIOS poetry to the event for a subsequent The photo on the back of Cynthia Heimet's latest collection of scribblings, Get Ockman Lane, Rye. 0797 223218. workshop. 6pm. Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-ByeI is pure LA woman. 8 May to 13 Jun Touch Me, F_I 27 Jun F.r...go CoIlectlv. A lots of what look like dark blond tresses tumbling in permed waves around a M. Mon-Sat10.30am-1pm, 2-5pm, recital by Tom the Poet, an face that looks like it belongs in Fleetwood Mac. Sun 2.30-5pm, free admission. Australian, er, poet, and Alex Miller In the lobby of her hotel I walk right past her. If ever someone looked like where who runs the Bradford Writer's • TERRACE GAUERY 7 Association. Interested people they come from, Cynthia Heimel is it. LA was a mirage, this woman is nothing but Liverpool Terrace, Worthing. 0903 should bring their own poems to the New York. In her books she has a sassy. smart-assed wit that makes your mouth 212926. event for a subsequent workshop. turn down at the corners, rather than up as she diagnoses the troubles of the 29 Jun to 17 Jul Summer 6pm. times and disses the indigenous population. In the flesh she is the same. Exhibition Recent watercolours by Bill Toop, batik by Mary Potter, Slightly the worse for wear the morning after the night before, she smokes over • THE PIG IN PARADISE (Back paintings on silk by Jane Merfield, Bar), Palace Bars, the seafront, tea and biscuits and drips witty crumbs from the corner of her mouth. But she's burnished pots by Michael Allen, Hastings. still in LA (having moved there from New York) despite the people. "Yeah, they're large decorated vessels by Linda friendly, but they're liars," she says of her neighbours. "They're really horrible. Roberts, outdoor pots by Peter 8 Jun Scaffold Poetry Night 8pm. Stoedley, amusing shapes in wood When I first got there I thought, 'God, everyone's so nice', but now I've been there by Jeff Soan, individual glass by • STABLES THEATRE AND ART two years and I realise they're just horrible. They don't mean it. In New York eve­ William Walker, jewellery by Alison GALLERY High Street, Old Town, rybody's rude to everybody else but in a sort of funny way. I don't know how to Evans. Tue to Fri 10.30am-4.30pm & Hastings. 0424 423221. Sat 11am-2pm, free admission. describe New York. I'm like New York. That's how I am." She still misses the Big 5 Jun Tudor Titbit. Music, poetry, Apple. And how. "Yeah, I miss it desperately. Physically it couldn't be a worse drama, dance and cookery from the • TOWNER ART GAUERY place to live. It's dirty, there's no trees, or you can't go to Central Park where Tudor period. Presented by Peter Borough Lane, Eastbourne. 0323 there are trees. The sun's always hidden behind the TWA building, but there's 411688. Medhurst, nationally well-known for his lecture recitals, aided by four something about the pace, something about ihe style..." She is jolted from her rev­ 15 May to 4 Jul K8ren Knorr On the local teacher/performers. The erie by the phone (it rings constantly during our conversation) and jumps from theme of Britannia: Britain Your culinary Tudor titbits will be served new York to Britain. "I've noticed that this time everybody hates Americans... Britain. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Sun & after the performance. 7.30pm, Bank Holidays 2-5pm, free admission. £5/4.50. Why? I don't know. Why haven't they always. or why just now? I mean English 12 Jun to 3 Oct Ninety Yes,. on movies are getting every award possible and we've got a very decent govern­ the B.... To mark the 90th • TWENTIETH CENTURY ment in for a moment." In her book she mentions the fact that despite our general anniversary of Eastbourne's bus WALKS Brighton. 0273 607910. scepticism towards new fangled cures we seem to be hooked on aromatherapy. service (the world's oldest) this exhibition traces its history, using 19 Jun Cold Comfort Fum In I suggest that perhaps we've been sniffing the wrong smells. "You're fucking photographs. documents, artifacts search of Stella Gibbon's comedy mad on aromatherapy. I don't believe in anything. I don't think anything's that classic of the South Downs. and 'hands on' items. Tue-Sat simple that you can just get all airy fairy about it and it'll all go away and that's 10am-5pm Sun & Bank Holidays 3.30-5.30pm. Meet at Devit's Dyke 2-5pm, free admission. car park near memorial, £3/£2.50 New York, or that's just the way I think." Once she's going there's no stopping cones. her, flitting from one topic to another like a chat-show host without a guest. This • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White 20 Jun The Kin A walk with Dante, is very much the style of her work - whether writing for Playboy or Vogue she Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. Francesca Da Bimini, Auguste Rodin swings her attention to all sorts, never really targeting her books at a particular 21 May to 12 Jun David Wood 'Tide and Charles Perry Warren. 7-8.30pm, audience. "I write for my own pleasure really. I mean I could've written about my Mark'. Sixty oil paintings, £3/£2.50 cones. son and me, me and the dog ladies, but there are certain things that no-one but expressionistic seascapes and local scenes, by Hastings-based artist. me is interested in - in that way I have to target to some extent or else it's just real • WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP 55-56 North Street, Brighton. 0273 self-indulgent rambling. It's more like, 'Oh luck, what am I gonna write about this • WORTHING MUSEUM & ART 327867. week?' It's never like a big master plan." I knew she'd mention the dog ladies GAUERY Chapel Road, Worthing. 0903 239999. 8 Jun T.rry Pr..chett sooner or later. I ask if she is slowly becoming one herself. "Yeah, probably. My 11am-12.30pm. friends keep telling me they're gonna hold an intervention if I keep it up. Some­ 15 May to 19 Jun South lEII.t Art. An exhibition of work bought by 17 Jun Edmund Whit. Tickets on how, almost before I knew it I had four and that's what keeps me in LA. I just South East Arts of local artists. Mon sale for event at Friends Meeting don't wanna go back to Manhattan with four dogs." It's like some sort of terrible to Sat 10am-5pm, free admission. House, Ship Street. Edmund White confession. Dogs are what's keeping this native New Yorker trapped in moron will be talking about his latest book, 19 Jun to 24 Jul ChrI.tlne Scott An Genet. Profits to an AIDS charity. city. She sits, brown hair a little unkempt, mauve jogging bottoms and sweatshirt exhibition of paintings. Mon to Sat 7.30pm, £3... a little baggy, another cigarette adding a little edge to her laughter, Sipping the 10am-5pm, free admission. last of her tea and admits, "Yes, I'm mad,dog woman." 26 Jun to 14 Aug Out of the F....". A comparison of costumes and works • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White Trevor Gorin Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. Get Your Tongue Out of my Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye I is published in of art which feature them. Mon to Sat 10am-5pm, free admission. 8 Jun &c.ffold Poetry Night 8pm. paperback by Pan/Macmillan at £7.99

PUNTER 17 The film preview pages Joln·the·dots fashion: .re reviews .nd articles after leaving Diane In a .bout the major films road tunnel When he coming up. For short goes off In search of review. of every film petrol he swears he'll showing, running times never leave her .Ione .nd where films are on again· .nd then she consult A·Z. disappears, hence hi. guilt. Nancy Travis I•• resourceful heroine who (for once) Isn't asked to • THE YANISHING (15) Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) do stupid thing. for the .nd hi. girlfriend Diane sake of the plot, even If (Sandra Bullock) .re on the ending relle. on • • driving holld.y. At. display of deductive service station, DI.ne reasoning worthy of goes Into ••hop to buy a Sherlock Holme•• Gary Couzens couple of Ic.cream.....nd doesn't retum. She I. never found. Three years pass, • CLIFFHANGER (15) .nd • new girlfriend Rita Hang onl says the posters for (Nancy Travis) helps him Sylvester Stallone's new mountaineer­ get over Diane's loss. ing epic; but has it been worth hang­ But he hasn't. Bamey ing on for? The answer. on belance, (Jeff Bridges) contacts is yes. The opening is a stunning. him. He will tell Jeff vertiginous. breathcatching delight: in an extraordinary landscape where what happened to Diane. human figures are dwarfed by the But first Jeff has to FALLING DOWN (18) sheer scale of the rock formations, experience what she mountain rescue man Sylvester Stal­ Falling Down begins in silence, with a large Scope closeup of Michael Douglas's did..• lone is lowered from a helicopter on face. It's a blazing hot day and he's stuck in a L.A. gridlock. Horns blare. A fly The Vanishing Is, like to a finger-like peak, where his in­ buzzes around his windscreen. Finally he can't take any more and he gets out of too any American films jured friend Michael (Henry: Portrait his car... this year, a remake of a Of A Serial Killer) Rooker and nerv­ The opening scene sets the tone for what follows. There is no dialogue. just natu­ ous girlfriend, Bonnie Bedelia, are ral sound and James Newton Howard's ominous music. The tension is almost' foreign film· this time by stranded. It would be giving it away palpable. Douglas's white-collar character (for most of the film known only by his the same director, to say what happens next. but suffice numberplate, D-FENS) only wants to get home. to his estranged wife Beth (Bar­ George Slulzer. (The to say that the film as a whole never bara Hershey) and his young child, whose birthday is today. But a run-in with excellent Franco·Dutch quite lives up to this incredible open­ some gang- members and a Korean shopkeeper makes this even more difficult... original Is available on ing. This is what cinema is all about: D-FENS's trek is counterpointed by that of Prendergast (Robert Duvall). a desk­ video, .nd this remake spectacle, tension, human situations bound cop on his last day before retirement. As reports come in of violent inci­ will be especially and emotional involvement. dents only he sees the connection... disappointing for those Things take a different turn when a Ebbe Roe Smith, the film's scriptwriter. sees D-FENS as "Joe Normal - this is a familiar with It.) The Treasury aircraft carrying $3 million guy who bought the American Dream and it's blown up in his face". Well, maybe. Vanishing Is not a worth of financial bonds is hi-jacked. The values D-FENS holds seem to be the kind of populist conservatism regarded whodunnlt • Bamey Is the thieves then accidentally jettison­ by its adherents as "common sense": beggars are lazy liars. immigrants (who established as the villain ing the money cases before crashing can't even speak English) and other minority groups are featherbedded by tax­ from the beginning. but on to the mountainside. This leaves payers' money, prices are far too high. the rich exploit the middle-classes, and so a howdunnlt. Until near crazed genius John Lithgow,an in­ on. However, the filmmakers are careful to distance themselves from D-FENS. side partner and the usual motley He has a propensity to violence, to the extent that Beth has a restraining order on the end we, and Jeff, don't know precisely crew of psychopaths stranded and him. He has been laid off by the defence plant where he works. When he says to cash-less. However. each of the what happened to Diane the Korean shopowner: "Do you know how much money my country has spent cases is fitted with a tracking device, on your country?" the shopowner counters "I don't know - how much?" and 0­ • and Indeed, It Is so having tricked Rooker and Stal­ FENSis nonplussed. his question revealed as empty bluster. Finally, D-FENS frightening (the original lone into rescuing them, Lithgow and meets a surplus store owner (an unrecognisable Frederic Forrest), who spouts ended at this point). But his gang use them as disposable the same views, only more virulently, and is revealed as a nee-Nazi; D-FENS Its Impact Is diluted by a guides. making their way to each of calls him a "sick asshole". Increasingly ludicrous the three scattereo cases in turn. On the other hand, the film takes pains to link D-FENS and Prendergast. Both finale In t,he,manner of The remainder of the film is a blend have difficult relationships with their wives (Prendergast is widely perceived as several recent of breathtaking scenery, cliff-edge henpecked by his neurotic wife, played by Tuesday Weld). A Hispanic gang­ Hollywood thrillers (cf. thrills, violent action and cat-and­ member describes D-FENS to Prendergast as "like you, only taller - and with The Hand That Rocks mouse games. Only Lillhgow retains hair". Most obviously: at one point, Duvall sings "London Bridge is falling down" the Cradle, Unlawful his cool as the greedy gang mem­ to his wife and holds a paperweight; a little later, D-FENS buys a similar paper­ bers squabble and fight amongst Entry, Single Whlfe weight and the soundtrack picks out the tune. D-FENS, it seems, is what Prender­ themselves. But by this time, Stal­ Female). This film gast could have been, given less restraint. (To counter any accusation of racism, lone has escaped from his captors. Prendergast's closest colleague is latina Sandra, played by Rachel Ticotin). features the nearly and together .with his fearless girl­ As a director Joel Schumacher is only ever as good as his material. Given a Impossible· • weak friend, Jessie Deighan (from TV's good, or at least decent, script, he will make a good. or decent film, such as performance from Jeff Northern Exposure), he uses his spe­ Flatliners or Cousins. Given a bad script. he makes the awful Dying Young. Fail­ Bridges. He's played cialised knowledge and brute ing Down, despite some lapses of tone ( some scenes seem to be played as charming killers before strength to out-manoeuvre and over­ black comedy, such as a scene on a golfcourse which isn't at all funny). is in I to good effect, but he come their ruthless opponents. many ways his best film. A state-of-the-nation polemic (or state-of- the-nation-for­ doesn't manage It here. Stallone needs a big hit to put him middle-<:lass-male-WASPs polemic. to be more precise) in the guise of a thriller, Kiefer Sutherland's back up there with the first Action Falling Down holds your attention from start to finish. character Is motivated In Her~. Arnold Schwarzenegger. and Gary Couzens also to fend off young pretenders like

18 PUNTER • MATINEE (12) Joe (Gremlins) Dante's Matinee Is an FILM affectionate homage to the larger-than-Iife antics of schlock film-maker and master showman William Castle, who gave us Jean-Claude Van Damme. This nail­ such lOW-budget gems biting adventure should do it. It as House on Haunted should also establish Renny (Die Hard If) Harlin as a top-notch action Hili (during which director, although his ability to stage skeletons appeared to amazing set-piece action scenes is fly out of the screen) and not matched by his uncertain han­ The Tingler (with it's dling of the slightly wooden dramatic specially wired 'shock' scenes. A little more involvement seats). Recalling the with the characters, and a little less Innocent dreams and obvious faking' of the cliff-edge ac-' nuclear nightmares of tion, would have increased the palm­ the early '60s, It Is set sweating tension still further. That during the build-up to said, as a spectacular, stunt-filled, straight-down-the-line action adven­ the Cuban missile crisis, ture, this delivers enough diZzy thrills during which America to keep one hanging on to the end. and Russia were on the brink of all-out nuclear Nigel Floyd war. At heart, though, it Is essentially a lighthearted coming-of-age story • ARMY OF DARKNESS (15) about Florida youngsters Taking a calculated tilt at the cross­ growing up, discovering over mainstream audienc, Army of girls, leamlng about life, Darkness: The Medieval Dead is in and realising that the SAVAGE NIGHTS (les Nults Fauves) (18) fact Sam Raimi's Evil Dead III, a sec­ nuclear apocalypse they The recent French Cesar awards (their equivalent of the Oscars) were sur­ ond sequel which eschews the hard­ have seen represented rounded by an air of tragedy and sense of loss. Celebrations for Savage Nights, core horror of original and the splatter in dozens of 'B' grade which won four awards including Best Film, were muted by the death of first time director Cyril Collard who had died of AIDS, just three days before the ceremony, comedy of Evil Dead 1/: Dead by sci-fi pictures is also a aged 35. Dawn in favour of swashbuckling terrifying reality. comedy. Catapulted back in time, Savage Nights, which is concerned with a man who knows he is HIV positive and John Goodman Is our chainsaw-wielding, shotgun- tot­ dying, is an autobiographical tale. Yet it is not specifically a film about AIDS, but ing hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) nar­ excellent as the bluff, about life and joie de vivre. Jean (played by the director) is a good-looking and at rowly escapes being fed to a likable showman who times reckless young man who lives life in the fastest of lanes. He is openly bi­ pit-dwelling monster. woos medieval comes to tOWI'l with his sexual, but doesn't tell Laura, an 18 year old he's having an affair with, that he's maiden Sheila (Embeth Davidtz), and new picture, Mant (Half HIV positive until after they've made love. The film neither judges nor comments in return for a promised safe passage Man. Half Ant. All on this, but has prompted a dialogue about AIDS and unprotected sex in France, back to the twentieth century. joins Terror!), and the which will hopefully be repeated over here. forces with the wise men. lords and underrated Cathy The film has been seen by over one million people in France, becoming a cult serfs of a besieged castle in their bat­ Morlaty plays the classic after just five months. As the only major British film which has covered tle against st their demon foes and an glamorous but cynical AIDS so far was the excruciating Peter's Friends, this may kick-start our (ahem) army of skeletal Deadities. star of his outrageously Film Industry to follow suit. Savage Nights is a worthy follow up to the independ­ The knockabout, Gulliver's Travels se­ bad monster pics. ent American picture, Longtime Companion. quence inside a windmill is pure Director Dante takes a Adrian Hennigan Three Stooges slapstick. and in the absence of any scares or chills, the little too long to get us four month mission is to guard the is­ clowning brothers, a brute and a mis­ jokey tone soon wears thin. Not even Into the auditorium, but land in the name of Mussolini and ery amongst others, then realise that Ash's battle againsi his evil dopple­ once Mant starts, and Fascism. Believing the island to be they must strike up some sort of en­ ganger. Good Ash and Bad Ash then the escalating occupied by the enemy, their nerves tente cordiale with the locals to get taunting each other and slapping crisis outside starts to are not exactly 'soothed when they by. This they gradually manage to each other around •.rises above the impinge upon this spot graffiti declaring that "Greece is do with the lieutenant painting the level of an Abbott and Costello rou­ fantasy world, the film the tomb of Italians". Thus unsettled, walls of the chapel and the others tine. A law of diminishing returns gradually becomes they prepare to camp for the night finding their niches in the community sets in with a vengeance during the darker and more serious. only to be disturbed by the sound of which has been robbed of its young interminable climactic battle, during men by the Germans. It isn't long be­ With Its sharp humour footsteps in the darkness. Panic­ which we are treated to the traditional fore they've forgotten about the war and clever cinematic struck, they fire indiscriminately into storming of the drawbridge. scaling altogether. Even the theft of their ri­ the surrounding countryside hitting of the walls. and swordplay on the references, this Is a fles and valuables by a passing Turk nothing except one of the soldiers' parapets. With its stop-motion ef­ must for all science who plies them with hashish fails to beloved pet donkey. Grief-stricken fects and knockabout humour. this fiction and horror fans, disturb their feelings of well-being. It and o~ercome by a fit of pique, the plays more like a Ray Harryhausen but It also deserves to is only when they are spotted three donkey's owner hurls the group's ra­ version of EICidthan a horror movie. find a wider audience. years later that they find out about dio at the nearest rock, rendering it Also, since it was screened at last Nigel Floyd what has happened in the meantime. useless. As luck would have it, the year's London Film Festival, Raimi's A wry, charming, bittersweet comedy ironic, downbeat coda has been re­ same evening a series of explosions dedicated to all those who ever placed by a conventional, upbeat • MEDITERRANEO (15) destroys their ship and they are effec­ wanted to run away to Paradise, 'happy ending'. It is 1941 and eight misfit Italian sol­ tively marooned and forgotten. The abandon their responsibilities and diers (and a donkey) arrive on a re­ disparate bunch: a philosophical lieu­ get lost in time. Nigel Floyd mote Greek isle in the Aegean. Their tenant, a hapless orphan, a couple of Trevor Gorin

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Sa-turday N igh"ts -. 0 - la"te lowlife with a brilliant performance from Keitel as a drug-addicted, venal cop searching for redemption. New Park FILM BEDAZZLED (PG) (Sidney Donen, UK 1967) Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, 107 mins. Devil Cook gives Moore seven wishes in return The Film AoZ complied for his soul. Dated but still funny com­ edy with a cult following; most fa­ by Gary Couzens has as mous for a scene involving brief verdict on every trampolining nuns. Duke of York's

film playing and where BELLE DE JOUR (18) It's on. For times, (Luis Bunuel, France 1967) Catherine tickets, telephone Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, numbers and addresses 101 mins. A society wife whiles away her afternoons by working in a consult venue listings. brothel. Surrealist comedy, put to­ gether with great wit and style, and a wonderful lead performance. Curzon ACCIDENTAL HERO (15) ­ Eastbourne (Stepb~n Frears, USA 1992) Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, THE BEST INTENTIONS (12) 118 mins. Lowlife Hoffman acciden­ (Billie August, Sweden 1992) Samuel tally saves people's lives after an air­ Froler, Pernilla August, Max Von Sy­ crash, and the search is on the "The dow, 181 mins. The stormy relation­ Angel of Flight 104·. Satire on 1V ship of a young couple in News and its trivialisations: some turn-of-the-century Sweden. Written flaws, but it mostly works. Horsham by lnqrnar Bergman, based on the Arts lives of his parents. A solid, well made and very well acted film, LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (18) though long and heavy-going. Cur­ '(Leos Carax, France 1992) Denis zon Eastbourne Lavant, Juliette Binoche, 127 mins. In Paris, two down-and-outs find love. BORN YESTERDAY (PG) Romantic drama that starts with gritty (Luis Mandoki, USA 1993) Melanie realism then moves swiftly into the Griffith, John Goodman, Don surreal, with several bravura se­ Johnson, 101 mins. Polished up­ quences. Impressive though uneven dated remake of 1950 comedy based film where style is (almost) every­ on Garson Kanin play about real-es­ thing, very well directed and acted tate tycoon and his socially awkward but overlong and over-indulgent. girlfriend. Odeon Brighton France's most expensive film, and you can see why. Curzon Eastbourne CANDYMAN (18) Matinee AN AMERICAN TAIL (U) (Bernard Rose, USA 1992) Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, 98 mins. PhD (Don Bluth, USA 1986) Voices of student Madsen uncovers the legend slightly sentimental nostalgic comedy­ Dom Deluise, Christopher Plummer, tacle; the subtitles (in English verse) of supernatural killer Candyman. drama. Hawth are by Anthony Burgess. Hawth 80 mins. A young Russian mouse is Above-average horror movie, smartly separated from his family as they ar­ made and acted, with a welcome CLAIRE OF THE MOON (No Cert) DAMAGE (18) rive in America a the end of the last lack of jokiness. New Park (Nicole Conn, USA 1992) Trisha century. Produced by Steven Spiel­ (Louis Malle, UK/France 1992) Todd, Karen Tumbo, Faith McDevitt, Jeremy Irons, Juliette binoche, Mi­ berg with an overdose of sentimental­ THE CEMENT GARDEN (18) 107 mins. Novelist is drawn towards ity. Connaught randa Richardson, Rupert Graves, (Andrew Birkin, GermanY!F;rance/UK a psychiatrist. Talky lesbian ro­ 110 mins. Tory MP Irons has torrid, ARABIAN ADVENTURE (U) 1993) Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew mance. Duke of York's destructive affair with his son's girl­ Robertson Sinead Cusack, 105 mins. (Kevin Connor, UK 1979) Christopher friend. Well made and acted but See preview. Duke of York's CLIFFHANGER (15) Lee, Milo O'Shea, 98 mins. Good old­ cold and tedious film. Duke of York's (Renny Harlin, USA 1993) Sylvester fashioned children's movie, the kind CHAPLIN (12) Stallone, Michael Rooker, Michelle DEAD OF NIGHT (PG) they do make they used to some­ (Richard Attenborough, USA 1992) Joyner, 115 mins. Action thriller with times. Connaught (Cavalcanti/Basil Dearden/Robert Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Ger­ a mountaineering background, with Hamer/Charles Crichton, UK 1945) ARMY OF DARKNESS (15) aldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony reputedly vertiginously realistic climb­ Mervyn Johns, Frederick Valk, Mi­ (Sam Raimi, USA 1992) Bruce Camp­ Hopkins, Milia Jovovich, Moira Kelly, ing sequences. Cannons Bognor, chael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, bell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, Penelope Crawley, Curzon Eastbourne, MGMs 102 mins. Johns is summoned to a 85 mins. Or Evil Dead 3, which be­ Ann Miller, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Brighton Marina, Crumbles, Odeon villa where the inhabitants each have gins where 2 left off, with our chain­ Marisa Tomei, Nancy Travis, James Brighton, Robins Burgess Hill a strange story to tell. Excellent com­ saw-equipped hero in King Arthur's Woods, 144 mins. Well-made skim pilation of ghost stores, the last being COP AND A HALF (PG) court fighting an army of marauding through the highlights of a long and the best: Redgrave gives a brilliant skeletons. Almost nonstop splatstick eventful life. Consistently interesting, (Henry Winkler, USA 1993) Burt performance as a ventriloquist pos­ violence, with tongue firmly in (or but only on the surface. Downey is Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, sessed by his dummy. Stay through even through) cheek. MGMs outstanding. Duke of York's Ruby Dee, 93 mins. Seen-it-all cop the closing credits for the chilling Brighton Marina, Crumbles finds a new partner - an eight-year­ twist ending. Duke of York's CHARIOTS OF FIRE (PG) old boy. Sounds dire - it reputedly is, THE ASSASSIN (18) (Hugh Hudson, UK 1981) Ben Cross, too. Cannons Brighton, Crawley. DELICATESSEN (15) (John Badham, USA 1993) Bridget Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, 123 MGMs Brighton Marina, Crumbles (Jean-Pierre JeuneUMarc Care, Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Bancroft, mins. The true story of Eric Liddell France 1990) Dominique Pinon, THE CRYING GAME (18) Harvey Keitel, Dermot Mulroney, 108 and Harold Abrahams, who won gold Marie-Laure Dougnac, 98 mins. ins. Sociopathic killer Fonda is sen­ medals in the 1924 Olympics. Won (Neil Jordan, UK 1992) Stephen Rea, Overrated futuristic black comedy in­ tenced to death but is recruited as a the Oscar for Best Picture (undeserv­ Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, volving among other things a butcher secret service hitwoman. Also known edly beating Reds), but hasn't held Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson, 112 who sells some very unusual meat. as Point of No Return, this is a faithful up with the years. In retrospect the mins. British soldier Whitaker is kid­ Shows talent, but doesn't hang to­ remake of Luc Besson's Nikita. Re­ first (rather than A Room with a View) napped by the IRA - but the film has gether as a whole. Duke of York's view next month. Soton FF of the "heritage movies" that domi­ several major twists you'll have to see nated 1980s British cinema. Van­ for yourself. Jordan's best film since THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLE· BAD BEHAVIOUR (15) gelis's score is the best of it. Duke of Mona Lisa, a challenging, surprising MAN (15) (Les Blair, UK 1992) Stephen Rea, Si­ York's, film carried off brilliantly. Connaught (Jonathan Lynn, USA 1992) Eddie nead Cusack, 103 rnins, ,Sight-un­ Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee CINEMA PARADISO (PG) seen new British film, a political ' CYRANO DE BERGERAC (U) Ralph, Joe don Baker, 113 mins. thriller. Odeon Brighton (Guiseppe Tornatore, Italy!France (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France 1990) Conman Murphy is voted into office 1988) Philippe Noiret, Jacques Per­ Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, as a senator. Overlong, sluggishly BAD LIEUTENANT (18) rin, Salvatore Cascio, 123 mins. A 137 mins. probably the definitive ver­ paced, unfunny and tedious. Murphy (Abel Ferrara, USA 1992) Harvey man remembers his friendship as a sion of Rostan's rnuch-tilrned tale, fans may like it better. New Park Keitel, Frankie Thorn, 97 ins. Genu­ boy with the crusty projectionist of boasting the performance of a life­ inely disturbing character study of a the local cinema. Warmhearted if time from Depardieu. Plenty of spec- FALLING DOWN(18)

PUNTER 21 color. Reissued ina new 35mm print. (Harold Ramis. USA 1993) Bill Mur­ and is given Thurman for a week as Duke of York's ray. Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott. thanks, Appealing offbeat comedy­ 103 mins, Murray is a weatherman drama with both male leads cast FRAUDS (15) who finds himself living the same day against type, Very different from (Stephen Elliott. Australia 1993) Phil over and over again, Funny and so­ McNaughton's earlier film, Henry: FILM phisticated comedy. Murray's best Portrait of a Serial Killer, MGM Crum­ Collins, Hugo Weaving. Josephine Byrne. 94 rnins, New vehicle for Col­ for quite a while, Cannon Bognor, bles Curzon Eastbourne, Horsham Arts, lins, In competition at this year's Can­ MALCOLM X (15) nes festival (not that that means Robins Burgess Hill (Spike Lee, USA 1992) Denzel Wash­ (Joel Schumacher, USA 1992) Mi­ much - so is Splitting Heirs), MGM A HEART IN WINTER (12) ington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall. AI chael Douglas. Robert Duvall. Bar­ Brighton Maria, Odeon Brighton (Claude Sautet, France 1992) Daniel Freeman Jr, 201 is, Lee's magnum bara Hershey. Rachel Ticotin. Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre opus is weighty and certainly over­ Frederic Forrest. Tuesday Weld, 112 FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT Dussollier, 104 rnins. Classical-style long but is an important film in any rnins. See preview, Cannons Bog­ THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE (12) drama of a romantic triangle. set in ways, not least in its considerable nar, Brighton. Crawley. MGMs (Jon Avnet, USA 1992) Kathy Bates. the music world, A film of many little cinematic interest. New Park Brighton Marina, Crumbles Jessica Tandy. Mary Stuart Master­ nuances. where most of the action son. May Louise parker, 130 rnins. takes place beneath the surface, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH FIRE IN THE SKY (15) An old lady in a home tells stories of beautifully made and acted, New (PG) (Robert Lieberman. USA 1993) a tomboyish girl in a small Southern Park (Alfred Hitchcock, UK 1934) Leslie D,B,Sweeney. Robert Patrick. Craig town in 1918, Superior "woman's pic­ Bands, Edna West. Peter Lorre, Nova Sheffer, James Garner, 107 rnins. ture", warm and well acted, if tending HIGH SOCIETY (PG) Pilbea, 75 rnins. Banks and West Five Arizona loggers are accused of to gloss over aspects of its subject (Charles Waters. USA 1956) Bing learn details of an assassination at­ hoax or murder when they report one matter, Involves feminism. the Ku Crosby, Grace Kelly. Frank Sinatra, tempt; Lorre kidnaps their daughter of their number abducted by a UFO, Klux Klan and implicitlesbiarusm. but 107 mins, Kelly has second thoughts (Pilbeam) to prevent them talking, Ex­ A true story. but a routine film, Can­ all in the best possible taste, Con­ the day before her wedding, Film of citing thriller, remade by Hitchcock in nons Crawley, Brighton, MGMs naught, New Park the stage musical of the film (The Hollywood in 1956; opinion differs as Brighton Marina, Crumbles Philadelphia Story) of the play - some­ to which version is the better. Duke THE GO-BETWEEN (15) how the ensemble of Crosby. Kelly of York's FLIGHT OF THE DOVES (U) (Joseph Losey. UK 1971) Julie Chris­ (her swanssong) and Sinatra can't MATINEE (PG) (Ralph Nelson, UK 1971) Ron Moody. tie. Alan Bates, Dominic Guard. Mi­ match up to Katharine Hepburn, Cary chael Regrave. 116 rnins, An old (Joe Dante, USA 1993) John Good­ Jack Wild, Dorothy McGuire. 105 Grant and James Stewart in the origi­ man (Redgrave) remembers the hot man. Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, rnins. Two Liverpool children flee to nal. Horsham Arts summer when he acted as messen­ 99 rnins. In the 1950s showbiz impre­ Ireland to visit their grandmother. ger for love notes between aristo­ HOFFA (15) sario Goodman brings his new mon­ Cuteness-infested, from the title on­ wards, Connaught cratic Christie and farmer Bates, The (Danny DeVito. USA 1992) Jack ster movie to town - Mant! (half man, last. and best. of Losey's collabora­ Nicholson. Danny DeVito, Armand As­ half ant), Part nostalgic, part spoofy, tions with scriptwriter Harold Pinter: sante, J,T, Walsh, Heavy-duty biopic this is best recommended to film THE FOUR FEATHERS (U) beautifully filmed with a sense of old of the famous (to Americans) union buffs who will get all the injokes, (Zoltan Korda, UK 1939) John Cle­ pain and lost innocence, A master­ leader, Well made with a good per­ MGM Brighton Marina ments, June Duprez, Ralph Richard­ piece, though some may find it slow, formance from Nicholson, but mud­ son. 130 rnins. When Clements ' (Received a AA certificate on its re­ died, May be incomprehensible in MEDITERRANEO (15) refuses to fight he receives four white lease. hence the above: now a video parts to non-Americans, New Park (Gabriele Salvatores, Italy 1991) Di­ feathers (symbol of cowardice) and PG), Duke of York's ego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, 90 determines to prove himself. Riproar­ INNOCENT BLOOD (15) mins. At the outbreak of World War ing adventure story, filmed in Techni- GROUNDHOG DAY (PG) (John Landis. USA 1992) Anne Paril­ II, eight Italian soldiers are posted to laud. Anthony Lapaglia. Robert Log­ an island in the Aegean sea, As all gia. 113 rnins. Spoofy horror movie Greek males are posted abroad, they starring Parillaud as a beautiful vam­ make hay while the sun shines, pire who only dines on bad guys, Amusing but slight tale which won Less successful than Landis's An last year's Oscar for Best Foreign American Werewolf in London but Film, Duke of York's watchable enough, MGMs Brighton Marina. Crumbles MORGAN -A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT (PG) JACK THE BEAR (12) (Karel Reisz, Uk 1966) Vanessa (Marshall Herskovitz, USA 1992) Redgrave, David Warner, 97 ins, Art­ Danny DeVito, Robert J Steinmiller Jr. ist Warner goes off the deep end Miko Hughes, 98 rnins, See preview, when Redgrage divorces him; his es­ Odeon Brighton capades include dressing in a gorilla suit. Dated comedy very much of its THE JUNGLE BOOK (U) era in its flashy carnerawork, Duke of (Wolfgang Reitherman, USA 1967) York's Voices of Phil Harris. Sebastian Cabot. George Sanders, 78 rnins. NIGHT ON EARTH (15) Hardy perennial Disney movie. with a (Jim Jarmusch, USA 1991) Gena one-of-a-kind voice cast. The last Rowlands. Winona Ryder, Armin production supervised by the man Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, himself before he died, Connaught, Rosie Perez, Beatrice Daile, lsaach Horsham Arts, New Park de Bankole, Roberto Benigni, Atti Pel­ lonpaa, 128 rnms, Five short stories LORENZO'S OIL (12) taking place simultaneously in five (George Miller, USA 1992) Nick taxicabs in L.A" New York, Paris. Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Usti­ Rome and Helsinki, Strikingly con­ nov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Zack O'Malley ceived. emotionally rich film, running Greenburg. 135 rnins. Harrowing the gamut from hilarity to pathos, Jar­ true story of how two parents fund a musch's most accessible and prob­ cure for their son's fatal disease. lu­ ably best film, Hawth cidly written, very well directed and acted, Connaught, New Park NOWHERE TO RUN (15) (Robert Harmon. USA 1993) Jean LOVERS (18) Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Ar­ (Vicente Aranda. Spain 1991) Victoria quette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine, 94 Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu, 104 rnins. The Muscles from Brussels mins, When his fiancee won't give plays a bank robber who hides out in herself to him before the wedding a farm run by beautiful widow Ar­ day. a young soldier has a torrid af­ quette, Guess what happens, Do fair with a beautiful young widow, not adjust your set: the sound you Lots of graphic sex but lumbered hear is that of talent (Arquette; Har­ with a halfhearted thriller dubplot - pe­ mon. who directed The Hitcher) gone ters out halfway through, Curzon seriously awry, Brighton Marina, Eastbourne Crumbles. Odeon Brighton MAD DOG AND GLORY (15) NOW, VOYAGER (PG) (John McNaughton. USA 1993) (Irving Rapper, USA 1942) Bette Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman. Bill .Davis. Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Murray. 96 rnins. Middle-aged nerd 117 ins, Mousy Davis is brought out Army of Darkness De Niro saves gangster Murray's life of her shell by psychiatrist Rains and

22 PUNTER rather than belly laughs, it's ham­ pered by a unsympathetic hero and a weak narrative. Excellent music by FILM Chris Rea. Curzon Eastbourne SPOTSWOOD (PG) (Mark Joffe, Australia 1991) Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelssohn, 97 mins. Pleasant 50s-set light comedy re­ falls in love with Henreid. Grade-A leased here in the wake of Hopkins's Hollywood kitsch, with a Max Steiner Oscar for the very different Silence of music score laid on with a trowel. Fa­ the Lambs. Curzon Eastbourne mous scenes include Henreid light­ ing two cigarettes and passing one to Davis, and the final scene ("Don't ask THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN (No for the moon - we have the stars"). Cert) Pure high camp, from the best-selling (Laurie ColberVDominque Cardona, novel by Olive Higgins Prouty (who Canada 1993) 60 mins. Series of in­ she?). Stables terviews with lesbians from all walks of life, discussing various topics. OLIVIER OLIVIER (15) Duke of York's (Agnieszka Holland, France 1992) Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Jean­ THE 39 STEPS (PG) Francois Stevein, 106 mins, Nine­ year-old Olivier goes missing one (Alfred Hitchcock, UK 1935) Robert day, never to return. Five years later Donat, Madeleine Carroll, 86 mins. in Paris a policeman finds a young First-rate romantic thriller, fast, funny rent boy who could be the missing and knowingly perverse (Donat and child ... Fascinating drama/mystery, The Vanishing Carroll spend half the film handcuffed impeccably made and strongly together). Bears little relation to John acted. Curzon Eastbourne A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (PG) Buchan's original novel, but who (Robert Redford, USA 1992) Craig cares? Duke of York's ORLANDO (PG) Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, (Sally Potter, UK 1992) Tilda Swinton, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, 123 3 NINJA KIDS (PG) Charlotte Valandrey, Billy Zane, mins. Two brothers are bound to­ (Jon Turteltaub, USA 1992) Victor Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp, 93 gether by a shared love of fly-fishing Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott mins. Film of Virginia Woolf's novel while the world goes its turbulent Slade, Chad Power, Rand Kingsley, about the title character (Swinton) way, A handcrafted film (based on 85 mins. Three brothers, trained in who lives for 400 years from Elizabe­ Norman Maclean's novella), Philippe martial arts by their uncle, see off the than times to the present, changing Rousselot's photography own an Os­ nasty villans. Probably wonderful if sex at half time. Witty and visually car. New Park sumptuous, but if anything too short you're a prepubescent boy, and prob­ and skimped, New Park THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE ably required viewing if you're the SHOW (12) parent of one. Otherwise forget it. PASSENGER 57 (15) (Jim Sharman, UK 1975) Tim Curry, MGMs Brighton Marina, Crumbles, Odeon Brighton (Kevin Hooks, USA 1992) Wesley Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Snipes, Bruce Payne, 83 mins. Richard O'Brien, 101 mins. In itself Payne hijacks a plane and only an undistinguished film of the stage TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (15) Snipes can stop him... Competent musical, it has become the ultimate Die Hard knock-off. Cannons Bog­ (George Cukor, USA 1972) Maggie audience-participation cult movie. so Smith, Alec McCowen, 109 mins. nor, Brighton, Crawley, MGMs criticism is useless. Duke of York's Brighton Marina, Crumbles Straitlaced McCowen is dragged SAVAGE NIGHTS (18) round Europe by his eccentric aunt PINK NARCISSUS (No Cert) Smith. Somewhat ponderous film of (Cyril Collard, France 1992) Cyril Col­ Graham Greene novel, with a scen­ (Anonymous (Jim Bidgood), USA lard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos ery-chewing part for Smith. Duke of 1971) Bobby Kendall, 65 mins. Al­ Lopez. 126 mins. See preview. Duke York's most legendary, once-lost 16mm gay of York's movie, its making shrouded in se­ crecy, consisting of much abstract im­ SCENT OF A WOMAN (-15) UNFORGIVEN (15) agery (no plot or dialogue) and (Martin Brest, USA 1992) AI Pacino, (Clint Eastwood, USA 1992) Clint homoeroticism centering on hand­ Chris O'Donnell, 156 mins. Or, Rain Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan some Kendall and his sex life. Of in­ Man (Slight Return). Take a distin­ Freeman, Richard Harris, 128 mins. terest to gay men more than anyone guished older actor and give him a Retired killer Eastwood is hired to else: your straight critic found it tedi­ disability to act; partner him with an strap on the guns one more time to ous. Sexually explicit. Duke of York's up- and-coming youngster. Have a avenge the murder of a prostitute. subplot which bookends a long cen­ THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII Dark, violent western, riveting and tral section wherein our leads get to (PG) beautifully made. As predicted, an know each other. Make it self-impor­ (Alexander Korda, UK 1933) Charles Oscar for Clint (and one for Hack­ tantly long, too. Despite a good scen­ man). Duke of York's Laughton, Merle Oberon, Elsa ery-Chewing performance from Lanchester, 96 mins. Laughton in Pacino, it's as phony as they come. top form (he won an Oscar) as Henry; New Park UNTAMED HEART (15) the film is a little ragged, but good­ (Tony Bill, USA 1993) Christian Slater, humoured enough to hold up today. SHADOWS AND FOG (15) Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, 102 mins. Duke of York's (Woody Allen, USA 1991) Woody Al­ Cannon Brighton, MGM Crumbles Ien, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia THE QUINCE TREE SUN (U) Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, (Victor Erice, Spain 1992) Antonio Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malk­ USED PEOPLE (12) Lopez, 138 mins. Lopez, a distin­ ovich, Kenneth Mars, Kate Nelligan, (Beeban Kidron, USA 1992) Shirley guished Spanish painter, struggles Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin, 85 MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica against the odds to paint a quince mins. A strangler terrorises an un­ Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marcia tree in his courtyard. Semi-documen­ named city - and Woody is caught up Gay Harden, Sylvia Sidney, 115 mins. tary from the director of The Spirit of in conspiratorial strife. Allen's latest Mastroianni asks Maclaine out at her the Beehive and The South. Long but one film (Husbands and Wives husband's funeral. Appealing Jewish and heavy, but often interesting, was released first over here) is a b/w comedy; the American debut of its New Park tribute to 1920s German Expression­ talented director (she made Oranges ism, BrechtNJeili and Kafka. Some Are Not the Only Fruit, amongst oth­ RAN (15) funny lines, and of interest especially ers). New Park (Akira Kurosawa, Japan/France 1985) to fans, but airtess, oppressive and Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Mieko unsatisfying. New Park Harada, 161 mins. Epic retelling of THE VANISHING (15) King Lear in a samurai context; slow SOFT TOP HARD SHOULDER (15) (George Sluizer,USA 1993) Jeff in places and alternating between (Stefan Schwartz, UK 1992) Peter Ca­ Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Noh-like interior scenes and spec­ paldi, Elaine Collins, Frances Barber, Travis, Sandra Bullock, 109 mins. tacular (and bloody) battles. Will Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan, 95 See preview. Curzon Eastbourne, probably be Kurosawa's last film of mins. Slight and derivative Scots MGM Crumbles, Odeon Brighton. any consequence. Hawth road movie. A film of gentle smiles Robins Burgess Hill

PUNTER 23 2 Jun Claire of the Moon 6.15pm. 2 Jun Chaplin (12) 8pm. 3 Jun Morgen -A SuitBble c'se FILM for Treatment (PG) 6pm. 4 Jun Feed Them to the CannibBls 6.15pm. 4 to 5 Jun Melcolm X (15) 11.30pm. 5 Jun Travels With My Aunt (15) 3pm. 6 Jun The Four Feathers (U) 3pm. 6 to 12 Jun Unforgiven (15) 9.15pm; Sun 61Sat12 5.30pm; no • CANNON High St, Crawley. 0293 perf Wed. 527497. 7 Jun The Man Who Knew Too 4 Jun Falling Down (18) Much (PO) 6pm. 18 Jun Fire in the Sky (15) 8 Jun Deed of Night (PO) 6pm. 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) 9 Jun The Private Life of Henry • CANNON East St, Brighton. 0273 VIII (PO) 3pm. 202095. 9 Jun Thenk God I'm a Lesbian 4 Jun Falling Down (18) 6.15pm. 11 Jun Untamed Heart (15) 9 Jun The Cement Garden (18) 8pm. 18 Jun Fire In the Sky (15) 10 Jun The 39 Steps (PO) 6pm. • CANNON Bognor. 0243823138. 11 Jun Beclazzled (PO) 6pm. 4 Jun Groundhog Day (PO) 11 Jun Pink Narcis_ 11.30pm. 18 Jun Failing Down (18) 12 Jun The Rocky Horror Show 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) (12) 11.30pm. • CONNAUGHT THEATRE 13 to 20 Jun Leolo To be announced. Union Place, Worthing. 0903231799. 18 Jun to 1 Jul Sevege Nights 31 May to 5 Jun Jungle Book (U) (Les Nuits Fauve) (18) To be 1.45pm daily. Sat 10.15am, £3 announced. adults. £2.50 children. • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, 1 to 3 Jun Lorenzo's Oil (12) Crawley. 0293 553636. 7.45pm. £3, 50p off cones. 21 Jun Ran (15) 8pm, £3.50/£3 4 to 5 Jun The Crying Game (18) cones. 7.45pm. £3, 50p off cones. 22 Jun Cyrano De Bergerac (U) 5 Jun The Jungle Book (U) Bprn, £3.50/£3 cones. 10.15am. £1.50. 23 Jun Night On Eerth (15) 8pm, 10 Jun Fried Green Tomat_s at £3.50/£3 cones. the Whistle Stop Cafe (12) FallingDown 24 Jun Cinema Peradiso (PO) 2.15pm. £2. 8pm, £3.50/£3 cones. 12 Jun Arabian Adventure (U) Mon 1.45/6.30pm; Tue 1/3/5pm; Wed 4.15pm; Thur/Fri 6.30pm; Sat 10.15am. £1.50. • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE Wed 2/4/6.30pm; varies after, £3.50 2pm/7pm; Sun 8.30pm, £3.50 North Street, Horsham. 0403 268689. 19 Jun Flight ofthe Dove (U) adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones 10.15am, £1.50. 28 May to 3 Jun The Jungle Book stud/UB40. stud/UB40. (U) 1.30/3.30/5.30/7.30pm daily. 26 Jun An American Tale (U) 2 to 3 Jun The Silent Touch (15) 25 to 27 Jun A River Runs 10.15am. £1.50. 28 May to 3 Jun Accidental Hero Wed 8.45pm; Thur 6.15pm, £3.50 Through It (PO) Fri 8.45pm; Sat (15) 5.30/8.30pm & 2.30pm Sat 29th. adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones 4.15pm; Sun 5.45pm, £3.50 adulV£2 • CURZON Langley Road. 4 to 10 Jun Groundhog Day (PO) stud/UB40: child U15/£2.50 cones slud/UB40. Eastbourne. 0323 731441. 5.30/8pm, & 2.30pm Sat 5th. 3 to 6 Jun Hoffa (18) Thur 8.30pm; 25 to 26 Jun Cendyman (18) Fri 4 Jun Falling Down (18) £3; cone 9 Jun High Society (PO) 2/7.30pm. Sun 7.45pm; no perf Fri/Sat. £3.50 11pm; Sat 9.30pm. £3.50 adulV£2 £1.50. £2.20. adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones . child U15/£2.50 cones stud/UB40. 4 to 5 Jun stud/UB40. Spotswood (PO) PLUS 27 Jun Fried Green Tomat_s at Soft Top Hard Shoulder (15) • MGM CRUMBLES MULTIPLEX Crumbles Harbour Village, Pevensey 4 to 5 Jun Melcolm X (15) Fri the Whistle Stop Cafe (12) 3pm, 7.10pm/8.50pm, £3; cone £1.50. Bay Road. Eastbourne. 0323 470070. 7.30pm; Sat 7.30pm. £3.50 adulV£2 £3.50 adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones 6 Jun Les Amants (Lovers) (18) child U15/£2.50 cones stud/UB40. stud/UB40. 4 Jun Falling Down (18) 6.15/8.40pm. £3; cone £1.50. 10 to 13 Jun Distinguished 11 Jun Army of Darkness (15) 30 Jun to 4 Jul Used People (12) 7 Jun Les Amants du Pont Neuf Gentlemen (15) Thur 6pm; Fri/Sat Wed 6.30pm; Thur 3.30pm; Fri /Sat (18) 2.'35/5.50/8.35pm, £3; cone 11 Jun The Vanishing (15) 9.15pm; Sun 8.30pm, £3.50 adulV£2 5.45pm; Sun sorn, £3.50 adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones slud/UB40. £1.50. 11 Jun Untamed Heart (15) child U15/£2.50 cones slud/UB40. 101013 Jun Lorenzo's Oil (12) 8 Jun The Best Intentions (12) 18 Jun Fire in the Sky (15) 30 Jun to 1 Jul Bad Ueutenent Thur 8.30pm; Fri 3.15pm; Sat 2.30/7.25pm, £3; cone £1.50. (18) Wed 9pm; Thur 9.15pm, £3.50 25 Jun Ciffhanger (15) 6.15pm; Sun 5.30pm, £3.50 adulV£2 9 Jun Olivier, Olivier (15) adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones 25 Jun Mad Dog and Glory (15) child U15/£2.50 cones slud/UB40. 2.35/5.50/8.35pm, £3; cone £1.50. stud/UB40. 25 Jun InnOcent·Blood (15) 11 to 13 Jun The Quince Tree 10 Jun Belle du Jour (18) Sun (U) Fri 6.15pm. Sat 3.15pn; Sun • ODEON West SI. 0273 207977. 2.35/6.05/8.40pm, £3; cone £1.50. • MGM MULTIPLEX Marina 2.30pm, £3.50 adulV£2 child 4 Jun Freuds (15) 11 Jun The Vanishing (15) £3; Village, Brighton. 0273 818180. U15/£2.50 cones stud/UB40. 4 Jun Bad Behaviour (15) cone £1.50. 4 Jun Failing Down (18) 16 to 17 Jun Shadows and Fog 11 Jun (15) 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) £3; cone 4 Jun Frauds (15) (15) Wed 6.15pm; Thur 9.30pm. The Vanishing £3.50 adulV£2 child U15/£2.50 cones £1.50. 11 Jun Army of Darkness 18 Jun Born Yesterdey (PO) stud/UB40. • DUKE OF YORK'S Preston 18 Jun Fire In the Sky (15) 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) Circus, Brighton. 0273 602503. 16 to 20 Jun Scent of a Woman 18 Jun Matinee (PO) (15) Wed/Fri/Sat 8.15pm; Thur • ROBINS CINEMA Burgess Hill. 30 May to 12 Jun Mediterraneo 6.15pm; Sat Mat 2.45pm; Sun (0444) 248972. (15) 7.45pm; Sat Mat 3pm; no perf 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) 5.15pm, £3.50 adulV£2 child 18 Jun The Vanishing (15) Weds. 25 Jun Mad Dog and Glory (15) U15/£2.50 cones stud/UB40. 25 Jun Cliffhanger (15) 30 May to 5 Jun Damage (18) with 25Jun Innocent Blood (15) 18 to 24 Jun Orlando (PG) Fri/Sat Safe Sex & Celluloid. 9.15pm; Sat 6pm; Sun 3pm/8.30pm; no perf • STABLES THEATRE AND ART Mat5.30pm. • NEW PARK FILM CENTRE New Park Road. Chichester. 0243 Mon-wed; Thur 9pm, £3.50 adulV£2 GALLERY High Street, Old Town. . 1 JUI) The Go-Between (15) 786650. child U15/£2.50 cones stud/UB40. Hastings. 0424 423221. 5.45pm. 31 May to 6 Jun The Jungle Book 23 to 27 Jun Un C~r En Hiver 19 Jun Now Voyager (PO) A 2 Jun Chariots of Fire (PG) 3pm. (U) (A Heart in Winter) (12) Tribute to Bette Davis. 7.30pm. £3.

24 PUNTER • DEVONSHIRE PARK Buckingham Park where onlookers Eastbourne. will find an outdoor spectacular show 12 to 19 Jun The Volkswagen C~ - 'Blackwater Dreams' by Same Sky. International ladies' tennis Using the energies of local championship. Annual warm-up for performers and school children, the strawberries and champagne show includes elements of carnival jamboree at Wimbledon. and surrealism, with music, giant lanterns and fireworks. 7pm. • EASTBOURNE STADIUM Eastbourne. 0420 561191. • SOTHEBY'S SUSSEX 2 to 30 Jun Stock C. Racing Summers Place, Billingshurst. 0403 783933. Fixtures - June June 2nd: Hot Rods BP Oil UK Series, Ministox, 1 to 30 Jun June Aucti_ Jun 1st: Banger Racing: 9th: Stock Rods Garden Statuary & Antique Southern Championship, Banger Horticultural Implements: 2nd: Fine Racing; 16th: Superstox, Ministox, Paintings and Prints (many of flower Banger Racing; 23rd: Stock Car, and garden scenes); 8th: Furniture & £4.50, children £4. Ministox, Banger Racing; 30th: Works of Art; 9th: Ceramics, Glass & Superstox, Ministox, Banger Racing. Oriental Ceramics; 15th: Paintings & • HOVE MUSEUM & ART 8pm, adulls £5.50, £2.50 children. Prints; 161h:Silver, Jewellery, Portrait GALLERY New Church Road, Miniatures & Vertu: 22nd: Oak and Hove. 0273 779410. • EASTBOURNE SEAFRONT Country Furniture, Textiles, Treen, 2 to 6 Jun Odyssey Puppet Eastbourne. Pewter, Metalwork & Provincial Pictures; 23rd: British Pottery & • BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART Theatre Double bill for children and 1 Jun The Milk Race Start of the GALLERY Church Street, Brighton. Porcelain: 29th: Oriental Carpets and adults: Ondine, the mysterious second stage of Britain's premier 0273571305. Rugs + 2pm: Oriental Snuff Bottles; mermaid; and Dr Faustus, the cycle event. 5 Jun Culture. Extravaganu A downfall of the wicked magician. 30th: Dolls, Teddy Bears and Toys. 10.30pm. day of events and activities 2.30pm; no perf Thur-Sat, free • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, throughout the Museum for all the admission. Crawley. 0293 553636. family to celebrate the re-opening of • THE SHOWGROUND, 5 Jun Puppet Making Phillip Barrett 10 Jun PIIul McKenna's ARDINGLY, HAYWARDS HEATH ils popular and exciting collection of teaches children to make puppets Hypnotic Show A hysterically 0444 892700. objects from around the world. out of paper and plastic. funny evening, combining the intrigue 10.30am-12.30pm and 2-4pm. 101012 Jun South of England 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm, £2 of the scientific with the glamour of Show Acres of action for livestock in advance. the mysterious. 8pm, £9. • CHRIST'S HOSPITAL ARTS lovers. gam, £6.50-£8; conc £3/£4. Horsham. 0403 252709. 15 Jun International Medium • MARTLETS HALL The Martlels, Marion Dampier Jeans. Don't • TOWNER ART GALLERY 13 Jun Children's n-tre Burgess Hill. 0444 242888. mediums have silly names? 7.30pm, Borough Lane, Eastbourne. 0323 Workshop with Duncan Noel-Paton 20 Jun Carnival Games Family Fun £4.50. 411688. and his students. A morning of present entertainment for 5 - 11 year play-making and theatrical fun on the 23 Jun Lactwe on Ceramics by olds. 3pm, £2.50 (acconpanying huge stage of the Christs Hospital • HOVE MUSEUM & ART Peter Morrell. 7.30pm, free admission. adults free). Theatre. Very popular with large GALLERY NewChurch Road, Hove. 0273 779410. numbers of children from 4-14yrs, • WEALDEN DOWNLAND allhough there is a bias towards the • PAVILION THEATRE Marine 3 to 4 Jun Latterlng for GUIDED WALKS 0273747998. Parade, Worthing. 0903 820500. younger end of the age group. Performance Ewan Clayton 6 to 27 Jun June Walk. Jun 6th: Parents and friends admitted to the 3 Jun Mr Men In Nurseryland demonstrates the craft of lettering Rottingdean in Bloom (meet Saltdean audience for free. 11.15am, £1.50 on 1/3.30pm, £4. and encourages participants to try Lido, t tarn, £3/2); 20th: Romney the door. out a variety of tools and materials. Marsh and the Royal Military Canal • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm. £1. (meellden Lock nr. Rye, 11am, £2): • CONNAUGHT THEATRE Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. 27th: Many a Merchant Prince, Hove Union Place, Worthing. 0903 231799. 1 Jun cere Bears To The Rescue • MARTLETS HALL The Martlets, (meet Hove Station, 2.15pm, £3/2). . Burgess Hill. 0444 242888. 15to 19 Jun ErIk the Viking Terry Based on the TV series, and suitable Jones's award winning children's for children from 3 - 12 years old. 4 to 5 Jun Model Railway • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. book and feature film, adpated for 2.30pm, £3.75. Exhibition lOam. the stage. Tues-Weds 1.30pm, Thrs 31 May to 30 Aug Hastings and 29 Jun to 3 Jul The New 19 Jun Willows Craft Fayre 1.30 & 7.30pm, Fri 1O.30am & the 1066 Country A series of talks. Adventwoes of Plnocchlo This is 10am-3pm, Free. 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £6 t tarn every Mon, Free. the funniest event you will ever see. 26 Jun cet Show 10.30am, £1; adults, £1 off cones, 16 Jun Wrestling An evening for Oops, what's happening 10my conc SOp. grapple fans to salivate over. 7.45pm. • DE LA WARR PAVILION Bexhill on Sea. 0424 212022. • MEET TOP WEST HILL Cliff 26 Jun Craft Fayre 10am-4pm, 20p. Railway West Hill Hastings. 2 Jun Barry and Alison'. Magic • THE WILDFOWL & WETLAND 13 Apr to 28 Sep Walks Party Childrens entertainment with CENTRE Arundel. 0903 883355. magic games, prizes, competitions, conducted around Old Hastings music and balloons. 3pm, £3.50. Guides from the Hastings Old Town 19to 20 Jun Frog Frolics Meet Preservation Society. 3pm Tuesdays, Freddie the Frog, take part in our Spot the Frog competition, and try • EASTBOURNE ARTS CENTRE • BRIGHTON CENTRE Kings Free. oulthe froggy craft activities. The Library, Grove Road, Road, Brighton. 0273202881. Eastbourne. 0323461489. • SHOREHAM-BY·SEA 25 Jun Midsummer Family 1 Jun Antique & Collectors Fair Evening Browse around the gift 3 Jun The AIl-Electric Puppet 10am-4pm, £1. 19 Jun Adur Festival Finale The Theatre presents 'Dragon Island'. finale will begin with the Festival shop, drink at the bar, dine in the Captain Crab and his crew in a Carnival Procession around the restuarant, and watch the evening's desperate search for the Mermaid • THE BRIGHTHELM CENTRE streets of the town, finishing at activities unfold. 7pm, free admission. North Road, Brighton. 0273821512. Queen's treasure, thwarted by the horrendous Sea Hag. 2.30pm, £3 2 Jun Killing For Empire A speech adults, £2 children. organised by the Troops Out Movement. Geoff Bell is the speaker. • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, 8pm. Crawley. 0293553636. 1 to 2 Jun Hawth Happy Daze Two • BURGESS HILL LIBRARY days of holiday fun - games and 15 Jun A Talk by Fred Avery The activities for kids aged 5-10 yrs. Happiest Days of our Lives? ­ llam-lpm, £1.50 per day. Schooldays in Burgess Hill: 20 Jun Children's Dr8mII 1850-1950.7.30pm. Adventure Informal performance on the theme of travel by 150 middle • CLAIR HALL Perrymount Road, school children. 7.15pm, £1.50, 75p Haywards Heath. 0444 455440. child. 12 Jun IPM Farre tnarn, Free. • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE North Street, Horsham. 0403 268689. • CORN EXCHANGE Church Street, Brighton. 5 Jun The Rod, Jane and Freddy Show 1.30pm & 4.30pm, adults 5 Jun Kick Boxing The All Electric Puppet Theatre

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I'm 8 Wrath of the Blackman not sure about this at all. FUN DA MENTAL (Na. but with rave veterans; Orbital, The Drum Club (on a tion) peak after 2 recent Ice cool singles; 'I Really Feel, ContactJo (0273)208042 9 Hole In the Head Alchemy), wall to wall decoration courtesy of Club CYPRESS HILL (Sony) Dog, the usual light show/sound systemJDJ gubblns • Star Whores STAR 10 You Suck fleshing out the evening, It makes this perfect pre. WHORES CONSOLIDATED (Play It Wish they were the Again Sam) Glastonbury fare. Except Club Dog aren't going to the fest now because they've had !II row. Just perfect Manic Street Preachers. Compiled by Dave, Apathy?, last then. DemoDungeonretums next Fridayof the month, MadeiraHo­ TheEvent, 9 June. month. Sendyour demos10 tel. "em Stone Jem Stone, C/O The Punter. 26 PUNTER healthy appetite for experimentation. Next In line are The MUSIC Preachermen whose songs have the pop accessibility of the Buzzcocks, the tension and atmosphere of • TSUNAMI Magazine, the power of Jenny Toomey must be the hardest Midnight 011 and the working woman in show business. Apart from running one of the coolest eccentricity of XTC. American indies (along with Teenbeat, Second stage headliners Kill Rock Stars and, of course, Dis­ on Friday are Celtic chord) in Simple Machines which, get rockers Altogether this, is running a single of the month Elsewhere. The band's club called Working Holidays, which strong dance rhythms culminates in the recipient getting a combine with a powerful special present on their birthday, she ~n..tage presence to also provides ihe vocals for the Out create an electric There Dinky Torch Song Project: atmosphere, which has Grenadine, whose album was released established them as a late last year on Shimmy Disc. She's popular festival band. also released a tape by a band called Saturday's Melody Maker Super Saw containing herself and Altematlve Night begins members of Bikini Kill and Seaweed. Finally, she's the guitarist and chief with the Wild TUrkey crooner for Tsunami. And they're no Brothers featuring slouches either. Returning to Brighton ex-members of the after a packed gig last winter, Tsunami McDermotts. They are have put out more 7"singles than PWL, best described as a and their debut LP, Deep End has 13 bluegrass, old-timey tunes that are like the Throwing Muses rock band with an up­ clutching a reddened kitchen knife. tempo, foot-tapping Sassy, beat and incredibly cool basi­ style. Next up are cally. The best gig this month (with Brained (ex Vivid) a people playing guitars, that is). heavy guitar, Indle June znd, The Concorde. Brighton. 3-plece, currently "em Stone recording their first EP. They are followed by • HEINEKEN FESTIVAL Uru, a funk/metal PUTS GREATER THAN S-plece with Influences EVER EMPHASIS ON LO­ as diverse as Elvis, Stiff CAL BANDS Little Fingers and the The retum of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Heineken Music Festival Sunday Is a 'Roots to Brighton on .June all-dayer'• This opens 10th-13th sees a strong with a special DANNY THOMPSON'S WHATEVER line-up of local talent on appearance from Nick the new, larger second Danny Thompson's Whatever are one of those all too few acts who are impossible Harper, son of cult to categorise. Jazz, I suppose, is the easiest division in which to lump them into due stage. singer-songwriter Roy to the fact that improvisation plays an important part in the music, but it's really not Thursday'S dance night (on the main stage that as simple as that. Thompson himself was an original member of Pentangle (a band kicks off with day). He has an that also contained the talents of John Renbourn and Bert Jansch), who, in the late Wildflower. Fresh from aggressive guitar style sixties, dumbfounded the world with their ability to fuse jazz, blues, folk and classical the release of their new and his songs range music into a coherent sound. Something I am reliably informed is no mean task. EP, they are a groovy, from breathy, subdued After the break up of Pentangle, Thompson continued with session work and also psychedelic dance outfit ballads to storming, worked very closely with singer,guitarist and Glastonbury regular (more regular than who are fast becoming uptempo numbers. The the rain, even) John Martyn. The first eponymously titled Whatever album appeared one of Brighton's most Long Tall Texans bring in '88 on the mighty Hannibal label and many hardened musicians still become weak entertaining live bands. their psycho/rockabllly at the thought of it. With just double bass, guitar and various reed instruments, Also appearing are Pan. mayhem to the festival. Thompson seemed to create a record and a whole musical genre at the same time. Their music has no strict Heaven Factory were It draws on many elements of jazz, folk and eastern musics, but never sounds like format but has a dancey formed In 1989 by Ian a floundering whale of disparate influence; instead it sounds entirely focused. The backdrop supported by Kearey (ex- Oyster only comparable recording I can think of is John McLaughlins Extrapolation album, pillars of house with a Band) and Naomi Russell but that maybe because (to these ears at least) there seems to be a certain comparison between Thompson's bass playing and that of Dave Holland's. Since host of grooves. (ex-Chequered Roots) to the first record, Whatever have recorded with the same line up on a follow up album Friday's IIne-up starts play contemporary (Whatever Next) and in an expanded format for their third, Elemental, John Etherdige with Mandragora. music on acoustic I replaced Bernie Holland on guitar and it featured guests such as the ever young Currently touring In Instruments. Their Stan Tracey on piano and the driving tenor of Alan Skidmore. Danny Thompson is Europe on the back of Influences are diverse always an inventive bass player and even though there are many of them, not many their new album they and they also feature can nail down a tune the way Thompson can. From traditional folk songs onwards blend Influences from accordion player Bing he instils a sense of joy and purpose in all he does. It should be good, whatever. Jazz, reggae, ethnic, Lyle and Herbie Flowers Ha! electronic and on bass. Danny Thompson's Whatever play Brighton Jazz Club on Friday 25th spacerock with a Simon Taylor Richard Williams PUNTER 27

Marine Parade, Brighton. spm, £5. Road (A27) Brighton. Thur/Fri Chumbawamba, Levitation, Friends • FULL HOUSE Racehill Inn, 6-11pm; Sat 5-11pm; Sun 1-10.30pm, of Harry. Wild Turkey Brothers, URU, Lewes Road. Brighton. 0273 603819. Free. Brained and Arthur; Sun - Roy 12-3pm. • SKIPPY THE FRIDGE The Harper, Alias Ron Kavana, The • PC GREEN The Wick Inn. 63 Concorde, Madeira Drive, Brighton. Barely Works, King Masco, The MUSIC Western Road. Hove. 0273 736436. 0273606460. Flatville Aces, Long Tall Texans, Evening, free admission. Heaven Factory and Nick Harper • THE RICHMOND BIG 5 Ex SATURDAY 12TH (Roy Harper is on stage Belle Stars. Selector, Bad Manners) • A SWING AFFAIR Freddie Staff mid-afternoon). Stanmer Park, Lewes and Too Many Crooks. The and Jeff Hooper. White Rock Theatre, Road (A27) Brighton. Thur/Fri Richmond, Richmond Place, White Rock. Hastings. 0424 722755. 6-11pm; Sat5-11pm; Sun 1-10.30pm, Brighton. 0273680611. £4. 7.45pm, £8.50-£6.50. Free. • INCANTATION Martlets Hall, MONDAY 7TH • BIG SPANNER Golden Martlet, Hellingly.9pm. The Martlets, Burgess Hill. 0444 • HOUSE DOCTORS The Wick • FLAIRZ Hustlers Live Music 242888. som, £8. Inn. 63 Western Road, Hove. 0273 Club, Marine Parade, Worthing. 0903 • RAY MCWAY The Greys, Listings are compiled by JEM 736436. Evening. free admission. 2.14636.10pm-2am. Southover Street, Brighton. 0273 STONE. Entries are FREE. • MIKE MANN The Greys, • HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL 680734. Please make sure that full Southover Street, Brighton. 0273 Four days of free music. courtesy of MONDAY 14TH information arrives by Tuesday 680734. Heineken, with a licensed bar, food stalls and free parking. The full line 15 June for the July issue. TUESDAY 8TH • HOUSE DOCTORS The Wick up of bands is: Thur - Jamiroquai. Inn. 63 Western Road, Hove. 0273 TUESDAY 1 ST • DEADBEATS The Wick Inn, 63 Bhundu Boys. McKoy. Pan and 736436. Evening, free admission. Western Road. Hove. 0273 736436, Wildflower; Fri - Stiff Little Fingers, • UTAH SAINTS & ANDY • COP SHOOT COP & DEITY Evening, free admission. . Kirsty MacColI, Dodgy, Altogether GUNS Jakki Brambles likes them WEATHERALL OJ The Zap Club. • WILDFLOWER The Concorde, Elsewhere, Preachermen and (honest). Probably thought they wre Kings Road Arches, Brighton. 0273 Madeira Drive. Brighton. 0273 Mandragora; Sat - The Levellers, RATM. The Zap Club. Kings Road 821588. 10.30pm-2.30am, £6.50 adv. 606460. Chumbawamba, Levitation. Friends Arches, Brighton. 0273 821588. spm, of Harry, Wild Turkey Brothers, URU, TUESDAY 15TH £4.50. WEDNESDAY 9TH Brained and Arthur; Sun - Roy • DEADBEATS The Wick Inn, 63 • DEADBEATS The Wick Inn, 63 • BATTLE OF THE BANDS Clair Harper, Alias Ron Kavana, The Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. Barely Works, King Masco, The Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. Evening, free admission. Hall, Perrymount Road, Haywards Evening, free admission. Heath. 0444 455440. 7.30/10.30pm, Flatville Aces. Long Tall Texans, • MAD COW DISEASE The Heaven Factory and Nick Harper • ELECTRIC LIGHT Concorde. Madeira Drive, Brighton. £3.50. (Roy Harper is on stage ORCHESTRA PART 2 White Rock 0273 606460. • DIRTY SHOES The Concorde, mid-afternoon). Stanmer Park, Lewes Theatre, White Rock, Hastings. 0424 • STEVE HACKETT Ex Genesis Madeira Drive. Brighton. 0273 Road (A27) Brighton. Thur/Fri 722755. 7.45pm, £12. guitarist returns. Assembly Hall, 606460. 6-11pm; Sat5-11pm; Sun 1-10.30pm, • THE SELECTOR & TOO Pavilion Theatre. Marine Parade, • PC GREEN The Wick Inn. 63 MANY CROOKS The Gloucester, Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. Free. Worthing. 0903 820500. 8pm. Gloucester Place, Brighton. 0273 Evening. free admission. • RAGE PA. Eastbourne Pier. • VERVE & MR RAY'S Grand Parade. Eastbourne. (0323) 699068. 9pm. WIGWORLD Madeira Hotel, Marine • SMASH Helsinki, 27 Ship Street, 410466. Parade, Brighton. 8pm, £4.50 adv. Brighton. 0273 731535. 9pm, Free. WEDNESDAY 16TH • THE APHEX TWIN The Event. • SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL WEDNESDAY 2ND West Street, Brighton. 0273 732627. Racehill Inn, Lewes Road, Brighton. • BEVERLY.CRAVEN The Dome. £8. 0273603819. New Road, Brighton. 0273 674357. it BJORN AGAIN The Event. West • THE BLUES BAND R 'n' B. The • EUGENE CHADBOURNE Street. Brighton. 0273 732627. THURSDAY 10TH Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 Featuring Jimmy Karl Black. The Zap • GOD Rock/JazZ/Noise. In 553636. 8pm, £8.50. Club, Kings Road Arches, Brighton. abundance. The Zap Club. Kings • GUNS'N'NOSES Racehill Inn. • THE CHAMPIONS The 0273821588. 9pm-1am, £4.50/£3.50. Road Arches, Brighton. 0273821588. Lewes Road, Brighton. 0273603819. Concords, Madeira Drive. Brighton. • KINKY MACHINE Madeira 9pm-1 am, £4.50/£3.50. • HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL Four days of free music, courtesy of 0273 606460. Hotel. Marine Parade, Brighton. • NAUTICAL WILLIAM & • THE DESPERATE DAN BAND • Mo.JO FILTER Plus The EARTHSTONE Acid jazz. Helsinki. Heineken, with a licensed bar, food stalls and free parking. The full line + THE FRUITBATS plus special Amorphous Cage. Helsinki, 27 Ship 27 Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 guests. Tkts: 0273 454439/463277. Street. Brighton. 0273 731535. 9pm, 731535. 9pm, Free. up of bands is: Thur - Jamiroquai, Bhundu Boys. McKoy, Pan and An Adur Festival evenl. Shoreham Free. • PC GREEN The Wick Inn, 63 Community Centre, Pond Road, .OSIBISA The Concorde. Madeira Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. Wildflower; Fri - Stiff Little Fingers, Kirsty MacColI, Dodgy. Altogether Shoreham-by-Sea. 0903 243392. Drive, Brighton. 0273 606460. Evening. free admission. Doors open 8pm, £4 adv, £5 on door. • PC GREEN The Wick Inn, 63 • TSUNAMI See preview. The Elsewhere, Preachermen and Mandragora; Sat - The Levellers, Western Road. Hove. 0273 736436. Concorde, Madeira Drive. Brighton. SUNDAY 13TH Evening, free admission. 0273606460. 8pm. Chumbawamba, Levitation, Friends of Harry, Wild Turkey Brothers. URU. • BATUCADA The Wick Inn, 63 THURSDAY 17TH THURSDAY 3RD Brained and Arthur; Sun - Roy Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. Harper, Alias Ron Kavana, The Lunchtime, free admission. • PONTIACS The Wick Inn, 63 • JOHN OTWAY AND BLYTH Western Road. Hove. 0273 736436. Barely Works. King Masco. The • DEADBEATS The Wick Inn, 63 POWER Eccentric rocker with hits Evening. free admission. Flatville Aces, Long Tall Texans, Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. such as Cor Baby That's Really Free Heaven Factory and Nick Harper Evening. free admission. and Head BUlls. Supported by the (Roy Harper is on stage • HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL •PWEI/BLUA/KINGMAKEA/BACK world's only anarcho-medieval mid-afternoon). Stanmer Park, Lewes Four days of free music, courtesy of TO THE PLANET/25TH OF MAY punk/folk balladeering iralnspotters. Road (A27) Brighton. Thur/Fri Heineken, with a licensed bar, food The Barn Theatre, Southwick. 0273 Carnival '93. See preview. Stanmer 6-11pm; Sat5-11pm; Sun 1-10.30pm, stalls and free parking. The full line 597094. 8pm, £5/£4. Park. Lewes Road (A27) Brighton. Free. up of bands is: Thur - Jamiroquai, • MORE MUSHROOMS VICAR FRIDAY 4TH • MICKEY HART & THE Bhundu Boys, McKoy, Pan and Racehill Inn, Lewes Road, Brighton. HARTBREAKERS The King & Wildflower; Fri - Stiff Little Fingers, 0273603819. • SOUL REVUE Lords II, Western Queen, 13 Malborough Place, Kirsty MacColI, Dodgy, Altogether • PONTlACS The Wick Inn, 63 Road, Brighton. 0273 204995. Brighton. 0273607207. Elsewhere, Preachermen and Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. • THE HAMSTERS The • PONTIACS The Wick Inn. 63 Mandragora; Sat- The Levellers. Evening, free admission. Concorde, Madeira Drive. Brighton. Western Road, Hove. 0273 736436. 0273606460. Evening. free admission. • TICKLED PINK The Stable. o· • Albion Street, Brighton. FRIDAY 11 TH SATURDAY 5TH • BEDROCK The Stable, Albion Street, Brighton. • ACiD JAZZ NIGHT The • HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL Concorde, Madeira Drive, Brighton. Four days of free music, courtesy of ARM YOURSELF WITH ALASER GUN 0273606460. 9pm-2am. Heineken, with a licensed bar, food • THE LAMBRETTAS/ TOO stalls and free parking. The full line I. STEP INTO AMULTI·LEVELLED MANY CROOKS Mod's not dead. up of bands is: Thur - Jamiroquai, FUTURISTIC ARENA Ask The Lambrellas. They remember Bhundu Boys, McKoy, Pan and fa'" lIN twlll,hl zo,. Secret Affair. East Wing, The Brighton Wildflower; Fri - Stiff Little Fingers. Centre, Kings Road, Brighton. 0273 Kirsty MacColI, Dodgy, Altogether • LAST GAME EVERY NIGHT 202881. £6/£5.50. Elsewhere. Preacher men and PLAYED INTOTAL DARKNESS • • WAIL NATION Hustlers Live Mandragora; Sat- The Levellers, Music Club. Marine Parade, Chumbawamba, Levitation. Friends Worthing. 0903 214636. 10pm-2am. of Harry. 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cultural explosion occurred in Brighton mind you, so will most places. are covered in garbage". in October 1984. Whilst a Grander explo­ The '80s saw the proliferation of new flats and In fact, perhaps the only thing not covered in A sion happened elsewhere, The Punter 'yuppiedom' in the area (ah, where ale they shit was the town's sewer system, which Philip was unleashed on an unsuspecting public. In the now?). George Walker decided that, boats Neville explored in 1991: "I want a little peek at halcyon days (excuse me while I slip on the weren't the exclusive preserve of a marina (al­ this sewage stuff - just a fraction of the 20 million rose-tinted specs), the magazine was a humble though the Marie Celeste wouldn't be out of place gallons a day flowing from Brighton and Hove". pamphlet, photocopied, type-written and distrib­ there at times), so he built flats and a leisure Neville successfully avoided the rats and ef­ uted free on the streets of Brighton. complex as well. The streets of Brighton provide fluent of the sewers, but would he have been as Soon though, it' became established in a not­ a stark contrast nowadays, with homelessness lucky in the corridors of East Sussex County so-glossy black and white format. Harper's and being one of the town's major problems. Council? Councillors dubbed The Punter 'por­ Queen it wasn't (thankfully). An early story The Palace Pier still flourishes, but the West nographic and obscene' (some mistake, surely?) warned of the imminent closure of the Gardner Pier remains seriously detached and a refuge.for after an article on the pustulate Zit. 'We do not Arts Centre. This was in March 1985, but as The extras from The Birds. Grandiose schemes, in­ regard this magazine as art' Geoffrey Theobald. Gardner's been threatened with closure more cluding one to erect a 300 foot tower to look a Tory councillor said, as he withdrew The times than a brothel, nothing came of it. However, across to France (doubtless to warn of invasion Punter's grant and put his head back in the sand. it does highlight the precarious nature of the Arts, by marauding farmers and fishermen) have been A bid to revive interest in the European version II even in a cultural oasis like Brighton. unveiled, but as of yet. one of Britain's finest piers of It's A Knockout was attempted when friendly Some venues like the Sallis Benney Theatre remains a rotting shell. locals extended a warm welcome to foreign stu­ have expanded and others like the Duke of York's The Punter has remained loyal to its local dents: a flame thrower. Student-bashing may cinema keep marching on. The town did lose a artistes: Pete McCarthy, Louise Rennison, Simon become an Olympic event if Brightonians and great venue in the mid-80's though when the Fanshawe et al - we'll support you ever more. Just Paul Calf get their way. Continentale closed down. The Continentale. in remember guys and gals. over the years we've. The Levellers have established themselves in Kemp Town, used to show the sort of Swedish accrued lots of interesting photos. Now, black­ the forefront of the music scene. In 1984, the films that Ingmar Bergman didn't make, but you mail's an ugly word, but used notes...third term 'crustie' was thought more relevant to East­ had to admire the logic of having a sex cinema cubicle...etc, should ensure the negatives in your bourne than Brighton, but the late '80s saw the so close to the eye hospital. Although the art­ possession. birth of unkempt. flea-ridden creatures attached deco exterior of the cinema remains, the interior Local celebrities (when I hear the words 'local to string - and the dogs weren't that much better, has been renovated into flats. celebrities', I reach for my revolver) have always Primal Scream maintained Brighton's rock tradi­ The Punter, especially in the formative days, figured highly in The Punter. When Chris Eubank tion, but long-standing hopefuls like The Jerseys' wore its political heart on its sleeve. and was as was featured for the first time, he was called and The Popguns never really became house­ surprised and delighted as anyone when, after a Ewbank - wishful thinking for sub-writers, alas: hold names, even in their own houses. mere 130 years of waiting, Brighton voted for a 'Ewbank sweeps all before him', etc. In the course of its hundred issues, The Punter Labour council. Anyone suggesting a red flag Roger Dean (Yes, him) wasn't too enamoured has aimed to be more expansive than a Femidom flying over the Town Hall may as well have said by Brighton when The Punter met him in 1989. "I and as comprehensive as Grange Hill. Who that a failed bus conductor would become Prime can't think why I live in Brighton. The architecture knows, during the course of the next hundred Minister. Remarkably. Labour are still in power in that's being built here is so depressingly ugly. issues, it may even explain one of life's great Brighton, although the town may have to wait an and it's such a filthy town. The beach is covered mysteries - where do Brightonians go for a dirty equally long time before electing a socialist MP - in shit. the park is covered in shit and the streets weekend? •

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• FROM BOND STREET Trafalgar Street and you will find Vinyl TO TRAFALGAR STREET AND BACK AGAIN Demand, Wax Factor, Disc-Locator, Across the Tracks and Recordland. The North Laines encapsulates the All offer blasts from the past. If it's true essence of what Brighton stands blasts from the present you're after for. It offers a huge variety of shops, then try Inner Rhythm or Joy for Life, INI cafes, pubs and above all atmos­ follow your ears and feel the paving phere to cater for the pleasures and stones vibrate, then you're definitely pastimes of us all. It has escaped the on the right track. Finally for those tourist trap gif! shop aura that sur­ who wish to dent the indie charts with rounds the other Lanes and is devoid of chain stores, leaving plenty of their musical tastes a trip to Border­ The North Laines are renownedfor theirdiverse room for the specialist, quirky and in­ line Records on Gardener Street is a dependent retailers to open their must. and cosmopolitan shops. SALLY OAKENFOLD doors. Gardener Street is definitely the place explores them and emerges with herbank balance Whatever your bag you are bound to for all style freaks to strut their funky find something to suit if you poke stuff. Visit the Classic Clothing Com­ intact(just). around enough. Early birds could try pany, Salute or Mau Mau to stay one checking out the Saturday morning step ahead of the rest. R Soles offers street market which takes place on the chance for all Rhinestone cow­ • ALWAYS ONE STEP Upper Gardener Street. A haven for boys and cowgirls to come out of the Street for 8 years. Its AHEAD cheap records, general bric a brae closet and saddle-up. Vegetarian unmistakable shoplront and lots of fruit and veg at knock Shoes offers meat free alternatives for Shops come and go alone has been an down prices nearer midday. Doc-Marten die bards with a con­ quite frequently In the Kensington Gardens, the pedestrian­ Influence to many. It science. Veggie Jacks newly North Laines. The ised street currently undergoing a bit stocks both mens and opened continues the vegetarian recent rise In rent has of a facelift is home to many local womens garments as theme and is certainly a favourite ot made It much harder for buskers, jugglers and street traders well as shoes, mine with its colourful range of hand­ many to survive and the who bring an eclectic mix of sights accessories and made jackets, waistcoats and acces­ and sounds to the area. If you are in­ recession has Jewellery. sories. It's situated on Gloucester spired and fancy learning to juggle undoubtedly taken Its Good sales are then visit the Juggling Shop where Road. Gloucester Road is also home toll. Amongst the attributed to constantly you can get sorted out with tips and to Colourbox Kites. Colourbox sell constant tumover of keeping In touch with equipment. If pampering is what you beautiful kites made entirely from businesses opening and what people want. need then nip across the road and natural materials. Not only do they closing are some well When buying new get yourself a fabulous wash cut and look stunning but they fly too. Further established outlets that collections Chris often blow dry in Kensingtons Haircutters, up Gloucester Road is Luckpenny An­ have survived goes for what his definitely a favourite of mine. Other tiques which specialises in blue and throughout all the ups customers have asked shops include Magnetic North which white striped china and unusual little and downs. Ananda, for. He draws on his stocks postcards and cards, many by nik naks. Definitely worth a browse. Uncle Sams and The experience and absolute local artists and designers. Next As is Snoopers Paradise on door Appendage, which as its name Classic Clothing Kensington Gardens which is full of love for clothes to try suggests sells many unusual append­ Company have become all things camp and kitsch, all reason­ and think ahead and ages from hats to hankies. Most nota­ ably priced. Good for hunting out staple landmarks of the establish a new and ble are Craig Morrison's rubber bargains. Talking of camp, Camp area. I asked Chris at exciting look that he moulded bags and local designer Classic in Sydney Street has a span­ Classic Clothing what feels his customers will Connie Stevenson's colourful metal gly and sparkly array of furniture, mir­ exactly his secret of appreciate. jewellery. rors and all sorts of outrageousness. success Is: Over the years Classic For those with a discerning palette All hand made by new designers. the Cheese Shop has a tasty selec­ The Classic Clothing has moved through The Ethnic internationality of the Company has been casual to smart, body tion of wines, Italian breads, special­ ity pastas and funnily enough North Laines has always been quite established In Gardener conscious to cheese. Invest in a truckle of the fin­ prominent. For those with a passion unstructured, labelmania est cheddar and impress your friends for Peru, Toucan in Bond Street de­ to subtle style. Chris at dinner parties. Foodies may also serves a visit. It specialises in Latin Insists on high standards wish to check out Yum Yumon Syd­ American crafts and culture. So if which means quality ney Street which has herbs and ex­ you've an urge to master the Zarn­ merchandise at the right otic spices by the bucket load for pana pipe or are in need ot an erotic price and a friendly and considerably less than you would pay icon (who isn't) then get on down unpretentious attitude to at the supermarket. You could buy . there. Along the road is Ananda his customers. anything, unidentifiable products in ir­ which too has that ethnic slant. Currently In stock are resistibly intriguing packaging. Also Ananda has textiles and jewellery of on offer are sliced mangoes in heavy Nick Coleman, John African and Eastern origins. So there syrup, dried peanut satay sauce mix you have it - the whole world and Richmond, shoes by Red or whatever you may need if dabbling more in Brighton's North Laines. or Dead and Jean Paul in Eastern culinary delights. Finally if it's all been a bit much then Gaultier sunglasses. It's Whilst hanging out in Sydney Street your final stop should definitely be whispered that hire yourself a pair of hefty platforms the Brighton Malthouse on North cheesecloth Is the hot from Revamp and see if you can re­ Road where they stock over 100 sin­ tip for summer wear. So ally deal with the current revival. Bet­ gle malts and superior blend get on down and check ter to be safe than sorry. Revamp also does a very nice line in second whiskys, as well as their very own It out for yourself and Brighton Superior Blend. So with your remember If you see hand 70's garb for sale and hire. Un­ cte Sams, same street, also stocks bags full you can return home satis­ Chris out and about he's retro gear but has more of a 50's fied and indulge in a glass of not Just having a good slant to its ambience. You are also in Glenkinchie or perhaps Glendronach, time, he's researching the area where second hand record with a trace of sweetness and a firm for what his customers enthusiasts start going weak at the aftertaste. Well I know where I'm off really want. knees. Move along Sydney Street to to. Shop till you drop.

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EXOTIC LUNCIiE8 Andreu/ Kay announces his engagement to a DIM SUM DISHES DELICIOUS SET MEALS Marks & Spencer employee at The Black from £1.60 from £13.50 Chapati andpops into the Volunteer and Great Eastern Pubs this month, whilstLucy Barry Warm and friendly atmosphere reveals herfavourite drinking holes in The Disabled seatin&JIdeal for parties LocalsLocal. • THE BLACK CHAPATI you have ordered a May being Festival couple of main courses TAKE AWAY AVAILABLE month, I tended to eat and the rice and side out even more than dishes nearly £20 has usual, and often In larger gone and that's without OPEN 7 DAYS . groups than I would starters, puddings, 12 NOON -12 MIDNIGHT 'normally agree to. I'm drinks and poppadoms. not keen on large parties Incidentally, what Is the In restaurants, either justifiable price of a being In one or sitting poppadom? I buy them (0273) 777880n30940 near one. Bills can turn from Zhora's Indian Into traumas, Inevitably grocers In the Lewes Rd. someone eats half an 66p buys about 25, a 38-40 Preston 8treet avocado and an unit cost of less than 3p. omelette whilst Poppadoms are not on I)ri8hton I)Nl 2tIP someone else wolfs the menu at The Black down a side of beef and Chapatl, they come with brace of lobsters. And the main course as do Why Is It that whenever the pickles, chatneys someone from Marks & and side dishes. The Spencer gets engaged, menu changes It's In a restaurant that I frequently as the happen to be dining In. chef/owner Steve buys All In all I don't consider what looks good at the It to be a month for great market and his butchers, gastronomy but it Is so although a few dishes certainly a a month for have become regulars entertaining nights out. there are lots of Despite all of this I did surprises. On the night I manage to slope off for a went I started with few quiet meals and kidneys with a cornmeal pretend that the town rotl, wonderfully tender was not awash with lamb's kidneys In a TEL: 0273 - 321343 rampaging thespians. I deep, spicy sauce 60, WESTERN ROAD, HOVE have recommended The served with triangles of Black Chapatl briefly something which tasted before but felt that it like grilled polenta. As was time to say exactly Indian food Is reputedly why It Is so good. Indian very hot I took the €'~1mlDmm food In this country Is so precaution of taking popular that It is along a famous fireman sometimes hard to and he started with the believe that we have a' onion bhajl, 'brilliant' he cuisine of our own, but declared, and they are. much of It Is so drab and Big crispy spidery ~4t;;OUN.? monotonous with ve." things, sweet and served little difference In with a yogurt sauce and flavour from one dish to as unlike the huge the next that I wonder sodden blobs you find In (0273) 600402 why we eat so much of many restaurants and 80 SOUTHOVER ST. BRIGHTON It. And let's face It, the certainly supermarkets. SWITCH, VISA, ACCESS••••••••CASHI days of a cheap curry For his main course OPEN TIL IIPM are gone, by the time Steve chose the Thursday with two THE LOCAL'S courses for £8.50 and on LOCAL Sundays a buffet lunch FOOD which Is a great Lucy can eat all the snacks ,Introduction to their food Barry Is on the bar. I especially and Incredible value and director like THE OLD SHIP £8.95 and £7.95 for of the whlc'h Is sedate and vegetarian Thall and vegetarians. Laughing spent the entire meal cosy and I also like the The Black Chapati is open Tuesday to Gas, talking about how bar of THE ROYAL Saturday evening and Sunday lunch, the wonderful It was. Three ALBION HOTEL, 12 Circus Parade, which is just off Pre­ comedy different curries, dall, overlooking the Palace ston Circus, Brighton 0273 699011, It is festival, rice, potato, bread and Pier. wise to book for the weekends, espe­ and runs the Crocodile chutneys all served on a cially Sunday lunch, "I enjoy visiting small Comedy Club'every traditional Thall and old fashioned pubs but Thursday at the each dish tasting of tend to visit the ones completely different Concorde. Originally that my friends use. If I • ANY VOLUNTEERS? combinations of spices, from the West Midlands, lived on the continent I the style of the dishes Having spent an she has lived In would probably spend swinging from southem exhausting morning at Brighton for the last far too much time to northem Indian dishes the Laughing Gas office, seven years. sitting In cafe bars but with the changing of the I slipped quietly Into The there are very few here Volunteer for a pint of • THE CONCORDE seasons. I chose a rack "I quite often pop Into that have got It right. I of lamb which clearly shandy and a snack. the Concorde In the day do enjoy Visiting friends proved the skill of the After eating rich food In or entertaining at home the cause of research I for a cup of tea, and In chef In combining Indian where I drink those craved sausage egg and the evening for a Roiling culinary Ideas with little bottles of Imported chips and I was not Rock. I know everyone traditional Western beer from Salnsburys disappointed. Decent so It's a relaXing place foods. The large rack of and I have a selection chips, nice herby to be." chops was perfectly of strange European sausages and a couple cooked, crisp In Its coat • HOTELS spirits, Schnapps, of runny eggs with a pile of Eastern he'rbs whilst "I love drinking In hotel Acquavit, Geneva and of bread and butter for the meat remained pink bars, they are always some very odd plum and tender, and It sat just over £3 and plenty comfortable and you brandy." atop a mound of the of other choices. The most amazing creamy Volunteer Is on the potato, mashed with red comer of Church street chillies and coriander. by the Corn Exchange. A The dish was flanked on few days later I Visited either side by a perfect The Great Eastern In dall with tomato. Whilst Trafalgar Street where I undeniably Indian In Its saw the most delicious flavouring I would not meals being served, a have been surprised to fine asparagus tart with be served the dish In the new potatoes and a most expensive of handsome salad, and a modem European good bows of pasta restaurants. I'm not a served with salad, bread fan of Indian sweets but a dish of cheese. How chose a mango kulfl sad that only twenty which was very good minutes earlier I had and the presence of a sent back the worst bread and butter hamburger I had ever pudding on the menu seen. This I later was too much for my discovered was due to guest to resist. Their the absence earlier of wine list Is short but the regular cook well designed and very because of a hospital well priced and there Is appointment, so I will try a good selection of again, but how sad that Interesting beers and standards had slipped cider, some of which are even for half an hour. very strong. We chose a The pub Is however a Czech beer with a name wonderfully friendly. If so unpronounceable that you feel that we are not later when I discreetly reaching the parts of UPSTAIRS DINING FOR THAT PRIVATE CELEBRATION cleared my throat two Sussex other food arrived. columns reach then Before or after theatre by reservation In response to people's write to me, at:the NEW MENU MONTHLY diminished spending Punter and I will try to power there Is a get to you, whether you (0273) 328939 recession beating menu are a restaurant, cafe or 31 UPPER NORTH STREET. BRIGHTON available Tuesday to a specialist food shop.

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PUNTER 31 FRIDAY 11TH SATURDAY 26TH • LA CUCINA George Street Hall, • ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE George Street, Hastings. 0424 Hustlers Live Music Club, Marine 429837.8pm. Parade. Worthing. 0903 214636. • MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS 10pm-2am. Hustlers Live Music Club, Marine • FOLK DAY A celebration of the Parade, Worthing. 0903 214636. diversity of the folk scene, from 1Opm-2am. tender ballads to pounding dance. from traditional styles to blends of SUNDAY 13TH folk with African and reggae music. • INCANTATION Traditional Includes some free performances in South American Indian folk music. the Hawth grounds and foyers. Martlets Hall, The Martlets, Burgess Performers include: La Lugh. The Hili. 0444 242888. 8pm, £8. Keith Hancock Band with Lee • TOM MCCONVILLE + TITUS Collinson & Clive Gregson. The 1066, 12 High Street. Battle. nr Barely Works, Band of Two, The Hastings. 0424 773224. 8pm. Dharmas, Fair Trade. Tickled Pink. Plus ceilidh and dance stage (see SATURDAY 19TH Dance). The Hawth, Hawth Avenue. • GOLDEN SPUR COUNTRY Crawley. 0293553636. From tprn, MUSIC CLUB The Falaise Hall, £5/£4.50 cones. FalaiseRoad. Hastings. 0424 SUNDAY 27TH Incantation 722766,;8pm. £3; memb £2.50. q .• folk dances taught in a friendly • PERFORMER'S NIGHT • TOUCHSTONE plus support. atmosphere. No partners needed. All Hanbury Folk, The Hanbury Arms, SUNDAY 20TH 1066. 12 High Street, Battle. nr welcome. The Friends Meeting Paston Place, Kemptown, Brighton. Hastings: 0424 773224. 8pm. • JULIE FELIX + House, Worthing Road. Horsham. 0273605789. 8.30pm, free FRATERNIZING WITH THE MONDAYS 0403784322. 7.30-9.30pm, £3/£1.50 admission. with collection. ENEMY 1066.12 High Street. cones. • ROSBIF will play an informal Battle. nr Hastings. 0424 773224. • MUSIC FROM THE WOOD The • EASTBOURNE FOLK CLUB dance, first Wed of each month. The 8pm. Stable, Albion Street. Brighton. Details 0323 504002. Alternate Royal Oak, Barcombe. nr Lewes. • SHOREHAM FOLK DANCE From Bpm. MONDAY 21ST weeks. with guest singers. CLUB Details 0273 464788. St Eastbourne Folk Club, The Crown, • ENSEMBLE BASH Percussion Julian's Hall, Rectory Road, Kingston Crown Street. THURSDAYS Buci, Shoreham-by-Sea. B-l0pm. ensemble. A Midsummer's Day • EASTBOURNE FOLK CLUB • BRIDGE BLUEGRASS CLUB celebration. Programme to include TUESDAYS Meets every other Wednesday. Floor meets every second Thursday of the Senegalese drumming. St Mary in the singers welcome. but come before month. Bluegrass, Country, Cajun, Castle, Pelham Crescent, Hastings. • GUITARS AND CADILLACS 9pm. If you perform your entrance fee Blues and Roots. The Bridge, High 0424426222. 7.30pm. £6. COUNTRY ROCK Barties, 41 will be refunded. Enquiries: 0323 Street, Uckfield. 0825 767206. From Providence Place, Brighton. 0273 8pm. TUESDAY 22ND 638811/34506. The Crown. Crown 620630. Free admission. Street, Eastbourne. 8.30pm. • IRISH FOLK The Cobden Arms, • THE FERRETS The Alexandra • WEEKLY BLUEGRASS • FRAYED KNOT On the 1st and Cobden Road, Brighton. Free Hotel. Brunswick Terrace. Hove. SESSION The Cobden Arms, 3rd Weds of every month. For details admission. Brighton. (0273) 202722. 8.30-11 prn, Cobden Road, Brighton. ring 0825840745. The Ram, Firle. (free). From 9pm. FRIDAYS WEDNESDAYS WEDNESDAY 23RD • LIVE MUSIC Folk Evening. with • CEILlDH / FOLK EVENING • BRIGHTON SINGERS CLUB local musicians and singers. The With The Catsfield Steamers. • DOLORES KEANE The Details 0273 692849. The Stable. Duke of Wellington, High St, Old Licensed Bar. George Street Hall, Concorde, Madeira Drive. Brighton. Albion Street, Brighton. Town, Hastinqs. 0424 431996. George Street. Hastings. 0424 0273 606460. • CIRCLE DANCING European B.30pm. free admission. 429837. Bprn, £2. We've got Europe Covered PARIS, ROUEN £54 Youth Return Daily Service from Bournemouth & Southampton

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Free. • FOLK MUSIC SINGAROUNDS 0424718406. 8pm, £2 rnernb, £3 SUNDAY 20TH TheRed Lion.TurnersHill, nr • THE FRUITBATS Racehilllnn, non-memb. Lewes Road. Brighton. 0273 603819. Crawley. 0293 528058. • KEN MORGAN TRIO The 12-3pm. • GOLDEN SPUR COUNTRY WEDNESDAY 9TH Georgeand Dragon.NorthStreet, MUSIC CWB Details0424 Chichester.0243 785660. 12.30-3pm, MONDAY 28TH • RAY WORDSWORTH The Free. 218039. Monthlywith guest artist. Bridge House,Copsale, Horsham. TheGolden Spur CountryMusic • GORILLA RECORDS The Zap (0403) 730383. TUESDAY 22ND Club, Kings Road Arches, Brighton. Club, FalaiseHall.WhiteRock 0273821588. Gardens. sprn. £2.50. THURSDAY 10TH • MARINA JAZZ CLUB The Mark EdwardsTrio & guest. The Marina • DESPERATE DAN BAND TUESDAY 29TH SUNDAYS 'Pavilion,LowerPromenade, St HustlersLive Music Club, Marine Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. • MARINA JAZZ CLUB The • CEILlDH MUSIC Lion & Lobster, Parade, Worthing. 0903 214636. 8pm, £2 mem, £3 non-memo Hastings YouthJazz Orchestra.The SillwoodStreet, Brighton.0273 10pm-2am. Marina Pavilion.Lower Promenade. 776961. Lunchtimes. free admission. WEDNESDAY 23RD St Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. FRIDAY 11TH 8pm, £2.50 mem, £3.50 non-mems. • COUNTRY AND WESTERN • ANNE DERRIDA The Bridge EVENING The King's Head. Rye • JOHN CRITCHINSON TRIO House,Copsals, Horsham. (0403) MONDAYS Road.Hastings.8.3Q-10.30pm, free Primespot for the piano player from 730383. admission. RonnieScott'sQuintet,with Dave • LIVE JAZZ White Hart, High • LIVE ARTISTS Acoustic music. Barry behind the drums and Simon THURSDAY 24TH Street.Henfield, W. Sussex.0903 1066,12 High Street,Battle,nr Woolf,double bass. BrightonJazz 492006.8pm. • DESPERATE DAN BAND Hastings.0424 773224.8pm. Club, The Beachcomber,214 Kings • SOUTH COAST STOMPING RoadArches, Brighton.9pm-late, HustlersLive Music Club, Marine FOUR Shepherd & Dog. The Street. £4/£3. Parade, Worthing. 0903 214636. Fulking,W. Sussex,nr Brighton.0791 1Opm-2am. 56382. SATURDAY 12TH FRIDAY 25TH • THE JAZZ CAVERNERS The • BOBBY WELLINS QUARTET StarInn, NormansBay. Bexhillon A long awaited appearance by one of .. DANNY THOMPSON'S Sea:0424 762648.8.30pm. the UK's most enduring tenorsax WHATEVER seephoto caption. • YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Listings are complied by JOHN voices. Jazz Umbrella.Club Piers, BrightonJazz Club, The StanfordArms, PrestonCircus. STYLES. Entries are FREE. downstairs, WestBeach Hotel, Beachcomber,214 Kings Road Brighton.0273 604542.8pm. Please make sure that full Preston Street. 0273 323161. Arches. Brighton.9pm-late, £6.50. TUESDAYS intonnatlon arrives by Tuesday 9.30pm-2am, £3/£2. SATURDAY 26TH 15 June for the July Issue. • BRIGHTON MUSICIANS JAZZ SUNDAY 13TH • DAVE JONES QUARTET With CO-OP Jazz Improvisation TUESDAY 1 ST • ANTHILL MOB Racehilllnn, DaveJones, piano, joined by Frank Workshop.Furtherinformation: 0273 • MARINA JAZZ CLUB presents LewesRoad, Brighton.0273 603819. Tayloron guitar. Jazz Umbrella. Club 506589/0444413878. Stanford TheMarinaBig Band with Chris 12-3pm. Piers,downstairs,West Beach Hotel, Arms, PrestonCircus. Brighton.0273 Hutchinson. The Marina Pavilion, • BRIAN WHITE QUARTET The LowerPromenade, St Georgeand Dragon. North Street, Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. Chichester. 0243 785660. 12.30-3pm, 8pm, £2.50memb. £3.50 non-memb. Free. • CLIMAX BLUES BAND The THURSDAY 3RD Concorde, MadeiraDrive, Brighton. • JOHNNY KING JAZZ BAND 0273 606460. The King & Queen. 13 Malborough Place, Brighton. 0273607207.. MONDAY 14TH • THIN ICE HustlersLive Music • JOLAGE TheGreys,Southover Club, MarineParade,Worthing.0903 Street.Brighton.0273680734. 214636.1Opm-2am. • UTAH SAINTS AND ANDY WEATHERALL TheZap Club, FRIDAY 4TH Kings RoadArches, Brighton.0273 • BISTRO JAZZ with Gypsy Jazz. 821588.8pm-12am. a trio covering a wide variety of jazz styles.including Latin American, TUESDAY 15TH As seen on BBC 7V during the London Marathon blues, EastEuropeanand Russian • MARINA JAZZ CLUB The Dave JUNE 10th gypsy music, with 'Hot Club' swing Holt Little Big Band & guest. The and Parisian waltzesa speciality. The MarinaPavilion, Lower Promenade, tIJSllEIlS LIVE MUSIC BAR WOIl1HNi - 0903 214636 Hawth,HawthAvenue,Crawley.0293 St Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. JUHE12Ih 553636.7.30pm,free with full bistro 8pm, £2 memb, £3 non-memb. and bar service. SHOREHAM COMMUffTY CENTRE - om 463277 • DAVE HOLDSWORTH BAND THURSDAY 17TH JUHE19Ih A new outing for the fiery trumpet of FOR THE BORDER - WILONXlN - 0714378595 Holdsworth, memberof the seminal • JOHNNY KING JAZZ BAND BREAK The King & Queen, 13 Malborough Westbrook Orchestrain the '60s, of Place,Brighton.0273607207. . • JUNE 24th the Brotherhood of Breath,and KJSllERS WE MUSIC BAR co-founderof Spirit level; now FRIDAY 18TH premieringhis new octet JUNE 26th arrangements with a band featuring • HERBIE FLOWERS, RICHARD CONCORDE· BRIGHTON· om 606460 GeorgeRicci. of the Improverts. DURRANT AND FRIENDS BrightonJazz Club, The Shoreham Airport, Restaurant. JUNE21Ih Beachcomber, 214 Kings Road 7.45pm,£4. SAFfRONS - EASTBOURNE - 0323 723734 Arches, Brighton.9pm-late,£4/£3. • ROY AYERS Jazz funk legend. • DOGHOUSE HILL HustlersLive Supportfrom The New Emperors TIclcets CMIIablIIt'f cal MusicClub, MarineParade, Clothes.EastWing, The Brighton Worthing. 0903 214636. 10pm-2am. Centre,Kings Road,Brighton.0273 (0273) 677698 202881.9pm-2am. SATURDAY 5TH • THE BLUES CORPORATION NEW ALBUM NOW ON SALE: £6.00 • SIMON ROBINSON QUARTET TheConcorde, Madeira Drive, Brighton.0273606460. 'DESPERATE DAN LIVE AT THE EVENT' Local keyboardwizard with his own (ALSOT-SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS, BASEBALL CAPS) band featuringJoe Robinson, tenor. • THEO TRAVIS QUARTET Jazz Umbrella.Club Piers, Anotherhighly-ratedyoung tenor sax available from the promoter downstairs, West Beach Hotel, player. one of the new wave who already has severalbroadcasts and BANDS INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Preston Street. 0273323161. UNIT 8, 98 GOLDSTONE VILLAS, HOVE, SUSSEX 9.30pm-2am. £3/£2. a CD '2am' to his credit; also E. featuringthe keyboard talentsof PHONE (0273) 324870 / FAX (0273) 779845 SUNDAY 6TH DaveGordon. BrightonJazz Club, The Beachcomber, 214 Kings Road • BOB JENKINS TRIO The Arches, Brighton.9pm-late. £5/£4.

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The Hawth, recorder and guitar music. including Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 604542. 7.30-9.30pm, £3,50/£2 per SUNDAYS a premier performance of an original 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat piece by local composer Chris session + £1 membership per term. • BLUE LAGOON The Adur Pub. 2.30pm. £15/17.50 eves, £12.50/15 • IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP Kingsway, Hove. 0273 413402. Gander, plus works from Europe, mats, £10 cones Sat mat. Asia and the Americas spanning Hastings & Rother Music Centre, 1-3pm. • HORSHAM MUSIC CIRCLE seven centuries. The' Barn Theatre, 0424 714483, • CLIVE PEERLESS QUINTET / presents Garcia-Conway Duo with Southwick. 0273 597094. 7.30pm, • JAZZ CAVERNERS The Star Jazz music quartet. Gatwick Sterling, Norbert Blume and Jack May, 'Words Inn,Norman's Bay, Pevensey. (0323) £5/£2.50. North Terminal, Gatwick Airport. and Music'. Presenting music 762648. (0293) 567070. ranging from Beethoven to Cole The Street Cafe, SATURDAY 12TH • LIVE JAZZ • JUMPIN' JACK GILBERT & Porter, and readings from Shelley to Cambridge Road, Hastings, 9-11 pm. The Scat Cats. The King & Queen, 13 • CELLO SOUNDS EAST An Noel Coward. Horsham Arts Centre, • LIVE JAZZ 1st June John and Malborough Place, Brighton. 0273 evening of Indian Classical music, Kathy Dyson, Sax/Guitar duo: 8th North Street, Horsham, 0403 268689. 607207. featuring Anup Biswas (cello), Kumar Johnny Miller, ex Van Morrison 8pm, £6/£5 cones. Jazz duo. Bose (tabla) and Kiranpal Singh pianist. Also featuring Rick Finlay and • JUST MISBEHAVIN' • THE BEST OF BRITISH The Borsalinos, Church Rd, Hove. (santoor), three of the most talented Liane Carroll; 15th Steve Ruby, Latin Spa Palm Court Orchestra play music 8.30pm, free admission. players in South Asian music. The American Jazz featuring Hugo by Elgar, Williams, Walton, Coates, • NICOLA MITCHELL plays a Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 Delmirani; 22nd Terry Seabrook 553636. 7.45pm, £6/£4.50 cones. Lloyd Webber and more. De La Warr andFrank Taylor in a be-bop night; light collection of jazz and blues. Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea. 0424 Blues Brothers Restaurant, 6 Little • REX LAWSON & DENIS HALL and on the 29th Robin Jones and Ian with friends from The Pianola 212022. 8pm, £7-£5. East Street, Brighton. 0273 671408. Hatt. The Street Life Bar, Upstairs at Institute. A varied programme of • SOUTH COAST STOMPING The Crypt, Hastings, 0424 424458, classical, jazz and light music, SUNDAY 20TH FOUR Albion Inn, Church Rd, Hove, • SOUTH COAST STOMPING explained and presented by the Brighton. 0273 202031. 12.30-3pm, • THE GUITAR IN BRITAIN with FOUR Alternate Tuesdays, Albion performers. Boundstone Community free admission. Neil Smith, performing music by Inn, Church Rd, Hove, Brighton. 0273 College, Lancing. 7.30pm, • STANE STREET JAZZ Royal leading British Composers. The 202031. £2.50/£1.50. • WEEKLY JAZZ For members Oak, Lagness, Pagham. 0243 Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Crawley.0293 and non-members. with a celebrity 262216. MONDAY 14TH 553636. 7.45pm, £5/£4 cones. musician each month. The Marina • THE CHRIS HARVEY TRIO featuring Steve Kelly. The Richard • D'OYLY CARTE OPERA MONDAY 21 ST Pavilion, Lower Promenade, St COMPANY presents G & S's Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. Cobden, Clifton Rd, Worthing. 8.30-10.30pm. sparkling 'Pirates of Penzance' • ENSEMBLE BASH Percussion 8.30-11pm, £5 annual membership, (Mon-Wed), and Offenbach's ensemble. A Midsummer's Day £7.50 dual membership, • THE RAYGUNS The Ranelagh. Cavendish Road, Eastbourne. 0323 offengood 'Orpheus in the . celebration. Programme to include a WEDNESDAYS 681634.8.30pm. Underworld' (Thrs-Sat). The Hawth, selection from the works of Lukas Hawth Avenue, CraWley. 0293 Foss, Robert Kelly, Steve Wright and • FREDDY WOODS BIG BAND • VIC RICHARDS AND FRIENDS featuring Dave Holdsworth. trumpet & 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat John Cage. St Mary in the Castle, tst Wednesday of month, Hornbrook trombone, and Norman Evans, tenor 2.30pm, £15/17.50 eves. £12.50/15 Pelham Crescent, Hastings. 0424 Inn, Horsham, 0403 52638. mats. £10 cones Sat mat. • LIVE BLUES The Royal Oak, St. sax. The King & Queen. 13 426222. 7.30pm, £6. James St, Brighton. Free admission. Malborough Place. Brighton. 0273 TUESDAY 15TH • PANAMA JAZZ BAND The 607207. 12.30-3pm. free admission. FRIDAY 25TH • D'OYLY CARTE OPERA King & Queen, 13 Malborough Place, • THE GUITAR IN BRITAIN with Brighton. 0273607207. 8.30pm. COMPANY presents G & S'S sparkling 'Pirates of Penzance' Jacqueline Fox & Raymond Burley. THURSDAYS (Mon-Wed), and Offenbach's performing excerpts from 'West Side offengood 'Orpheus in the Story' and original settings of songs • LIVE MUSIC, JAZZ I MOR Underworld' (Thrs-Sat). The Hawth, by Schubert. The Hawth, Haw1h LOCAL ARTISTS Also on every Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 Avenue, Crawley. 0293553636. other Friday. Corks Wine Bar, 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat 7.45pm, £5/£4 cones. . Claremont St, Hastings. 0424 Listings are complied by 2.30pm, £15/17.50 eves. £12.50/15 • THE LYNCHBURG CITY 429910.8.30-11 pm, free admission. GORDON URQUHART. Entries mats, £10 cones Sat mat. STRINGS ORCHESTRA A 75 • MIKE COLLIER BAND are FREE. Please make sure • ORGAN RECITAL with Adrian piece orchestra from Virginia, Anderida Jazz Band. The King & that full information arrives by Lucas, organist of Portsmouth Queen, 13 Malborough Place. directed by Bruce Habitzruther. De Tuesday 15 June for the July Cathedral. The two organs of the La Warr Pavilion. Bexhill on Sea. Brighton. 0273 607207. issue. Chapel are amongst the finest in the • SOUTH COAST STOMPING 0424212022. 7.30pm. £5: cone South of England. Lancing College £2.50. FOUR Alternate weeks. Albion Inn, WEDNESDAY 2ND Chapel, Lancing. 8pm, £2.50. Church Rd, Hove. Brighton. 0273 • LUNCH HOUR MUSIC A 202031. SATURDAY 26TH season of music with a different WEDNESDAY 16TH • THE ANTHILL MOB Slim Tim & programme each· week. Holy Trinity • PAVILION OPERA To raise The Quarter Pounders. Vats, The Star • D'OYLY CARTE OPERA Church, Robertson Street Trinity St funds for the Royal Pavilian, Art of Brunswick, Hove. Brighton. (0273) COMPANY presents G & S's Entrance Hastings. 1.lOpm, Free. Gallery and Museums, a 771353. sparkling 'Pirates of Penzance' (Man-Wed), and Offenbach's performance of Mozart's The • THE JAZZ CAVERNERS The FRIDAY 4TH Marina Pavilion, Lower Promenade, offengood 'Orpheus in the Marriage of Figaro. Royal Pavilion St Leonards-On-Sea. 0424 718406. • LONDON FESTIVAL CHORUS Underworld' (Thrs-Sat). The Hawth, Music Room, Brighton. 7pm, £55 8.30pm, free admission. Purcell (Chacony), Grieg (Holberg Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 includes wine and canapes. • THE VERSATILES Jazz blues Suite), Bruch (Kol Nidrei). Paganini 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat and soul. Barties, 41 Providence (Moses Fantasy), Tchaikovsky 2.30pm, £15/17.50 eves, £12.50/15 SUNDAY 27TH (Souvenir de Florence). Tkts: 0903 mats, £10 cones Sat mat. Place, Brighton. 0273620630. • 'BOW BELLES' four cellists 8.30pm. 882268. Arundel Cathedral. 7.30pm, £6/9/12. THURSDAY 17TH programme, inclUding arrangements FRIDAYS • D'OYLY CARTE OPERA of Bach (D minor Chaconne) and SATURDAY 5TH COMPANY presents G & S's Mozart (Sonata in D major). All Saints • LIVE JAZZ Last Friday of month. Church, All Saints Street, Old Town, Royal Oak, Lagness, Pagham, 0243 • CAMBRIDGE CONSORT OF sparkling 'Pirates of Penzance' Hastings. 0424 426222. 262216. VOICES The Cambridge Consort of (Mon-Wed), and Offenbach's Voices aims to promote enjoyment of offengood 'Orpheus in the • LIVE JAZZ Richard's Brasserie, MONDAY 28TH 102/103 Western Road. Hove. (0273) the long tradition of choral music Underworld' (Thrs-Sat). The Hawth, 720058, from Oxbridge Chapels. Programme Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 • THE OPERA COMPANY • MARINA JAZZ CLUB A Jazz includes William Mathias (Rex 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat Mozart's Opera Buffa for buffs and club for members and non-members Gtoriae), Zoltan Kodaly (Jesus es A 2.30pm, £15/17.50 eves, £12.50/15 non-buffs alike, The Marriage of with a celebrity musician each month. Kufarok), J.S. Bach (Lobet den Herrn, mats, £10 cones Sat mat. Figaro, with a translation by Jeremy Summerfield Sports Centre, Bohemia Aile Heiden), Jonathon Harvey (Thou Sams. The Hawth, Haw1hAvenue, Mastering Me God). The programme FRIDAY 18TH Rd, Hastings. 0424 722227. Crawley. 0293553636. 7.30pm, will also include new pieces by local 8.30-11pm, Annual membership £5, • D'OYLY CARTE OPERA £10/11, £1 off cones. dual membership £7.50. composers Neil Cox, Mark Richey, COMPANY presents G & S's • THE ROY BOWER BAND John Alexander and Piers Maxim. St sparkling 'Pirates of Penzance' TUESDAY 29TH Requests welcome (especially 'Flyin' Mary de Haura Church, (Mon-Wed), and Offenbach's Home'). Shoreham Airport, Shoreham-by-Sea.7.45pm. offengood'Orpheusinthe • THE OPERA COMPANY Restaurant. Underworld' (Thrs-Sat). The Hawth, perform Mozart's The Magic Flute, SUNDAY 6TH Hawth Avenue, Crawley. 0293 with another translation by Jeremy SATURDAYS • JOHN BIGG A Master Class and 553636. 7.30pm, mats Wed & Sat Sams. The Hawth, Haw1h Avenue, • GETTING INTO JAZZ Recital. Bigg plays Beethoven's 2.30pm, £15/17.50 eves. £12.50/15 Crawley. 0293 553636. 7.30pm. workshops for experienced players, 'Moonlight' Sonata and Schubert's mats, £10 cones Sat mat. £10/£11: £1 off cone. PUNTER 35 Centre on the 5th June. Hits like 'Poi­ Jack Flash Still knocking out the 60s Road, Brighton. 0273 621400. son Ivy' will abound, and Too Many hits no-one will ever forget. Packed 8.45pm. full of students and a few golden • SHELLEY ARMS DJ Jock and Crooks form the support. Acid Jazzers oldies as well. Gloucester Place, guests DJs and MCs welcome, book get another delight on the 5th with the Brighton. 0273699068. £2.50/1.50. in advance. Nutley, nr MUSIC Humble Souls live, and Eddie Pillar • THE JAZZ PLACE Testify 93 Maresfield/Uckfield. 0825 713121. spinning the discs. Shake yer wig's Alternate Mondays. Ship Street. 8.30pm-12midnight, £1. Brighton. 0273328439. £1.50/2. • SKID ROW BAR Tequila Robert Luis will also be presenting • LORDS II Live Music Western Tuesdays DJ Demos playing Garage Wack Wack at the Concorde on the Road, Brighton. 0273 204995. and Deep House. Free Tequila with BILL MURRAY'S 25th June along with Blues & Soul bod 9pm-1am, £1 after 10.30pm. every Sol, Rolling Rock or Tag. • MONROES CLUB Rhythm Preston Street, Brighton. 0273 Kevin Beadle on the 16th at the Jazz MONTHLY Kitchen House sounds from DJ 326408. 7pm. ACCOUNT Rooms. Dodge will also play at Shake CrashMatt and guest. 37 West Street, • UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX yer wig on the 9th - music to be all Brighton. 0273 321692. 1Opm-2am, Subsonic Dance. In The Hothouse. £2/£ 1.50 cones, Fa!mer, Brighton. Family Funk and Jazzy Vibes. Use Your • PIG IN PARADISE Pub Quiz Big • WAREHOUSE 99 99p entry fee Loaf have their 1st birthday on the 3rd cash prizes!. Queen's Road, and 99p selected drinks. Best of the Summer is looming and clubs all over June with Carl Cox, Judge Jules, Dina Brighton. 0273 326865. £1. latest dance and poppy tunes. 54-55 the South Coast heat up for another Live 60s DJ Plus and Crock playing at Oriana's. Take • THE POND Meeting House Lane, Brighton. 0273 season's entertainment. The Heineken tickets for free admission to The 208856. 99p. your meat-head repellent and expect to Gloucester nightclub. 49 Gloucester Cop Shoot Cop Music Festival gets here on the 10th • THE ZAP CLUB sweat! 73 The Utah Saints (of 'What Road, Brighton. 0273 621400. on 1st June. Super Chunk on 22nd June running through to the 13th, Acts Can You Do For Me?' fame) along with • SKID ROW BAR DJ Fluffy House and spoken word from Lyddia Lunch include The Levellers making their only and techno. Preston Street, Brighton. on 29th. Kings Road Arches, Andy Weatherall do a turn at the Zap on UK Festival appearance this summer, 0273326408. Brighton. 0273 821588. 8pm-12am, the 14th, and the 25th is Candy - a new • THE STREET LIFE BAR The £4.50. Jamiroquai, the "boy Stevie Wonder", production from Josh and Martin with Monday Club Upstairs at The Crypt, • ZAZOO Funk Foundation present Stiff Little Fingers, and a plethora of Hastings. 0424 424458. 7pm, free DJ's Danny Rampling and Weatherall JU's FUNK with special guest DJs. local talent. The brand new Big Top, admission. Ship St, Brighton. 0273 328439. again. Shaft is still going strong on Killa Ridim now completely weather-proofed, is • VOLKS TAVERN 9pm-2am, £3. Thursdays and Eric's never been better The only real ragga and reggae night the largest FREEfestival in Europe and WEDNESDAYS at the Zap's Protechtion - Fridays 'til in town. Check it out. The Collonade, can accommodate up to 15,000 revel­ Madeira Drive, Brighton. 0273 late. Trevor Heath's back room antics • CHYMES Reggae Extravaganza lers in the sunshine. Dance night is on 682828. Black Lion Street. Brighton. seem to be going down very well on • WAREHOUSE 90210 Gay the 10th and, as well as 'the lad with the 10pm-2am, £2 before 11.15pm, Saturdays at the Reform, whilst venue. Hosted by Naked Drag, with £2.50 after. funny hat', McKoy, the Bhundu Boys, Guest DJs. This month it's all Chymes night spot has an amalgum of • CLUB REVENGE Cabaret and Pan and locals Wildflower trip the light happening on 14th & 28th. 54-55 Drinks Promotion Night Free entry new nights for the month. Listen out for fantastic. S.T.L and Kirsty MacCoil Meeting House Lane, Brighton. 0273 before 11.30pm members. 32-34 Old Ransom's 'My Dance' and Pizza Man's 208856. £2.50 before 11.15pm, £3 headline on the 11th with the alterna­ Steine, Brighton. 0273 606064. after. 10.30pm-2am. tive/indie 12th preceeding the Roots 'Baby Loop' - both out in June. Take • ZANZIBAR Blues and Jazz Night Private Hire but live care kids! • THE CRYPT Music Sunday with Roy Harper and St James Street, Brighton. 0273 music on 16 June. Hastings. 0424 Alias Ron Kavana. Another huge festi­ Billy M. 622100. £1 after 11pm. 444675. val for June is Carnival- Sussex Univer­ TUESDAYS • THE ESCAPE CLUB Fling STOP PRESS Over the next two Down Fortnightly, upstairs in the bar. sity's music feast from the 2nd - 5th' • CLUB REVENGE Free for A solid night of jazz, funk, rap, months, the Midi Circus - a totally June. Bjorn Again and Odyssey kick members and guests before 11pm reggae and soul from Marco Nelson off at the Event on the 2nd. Pop Will Eat unique series of events - pulls together 32-34 Old Steine, Brighton. 0273 (Young Disciples) and Marco 606064. £1 after 11pm. Itself, Blur and Back To The Planet do legendary names in dance and music Santucci (Higher Ground). 10 Marine for a massive Lollapolloza-slyle tour • THE CRYPT Private Hire but live Parade, Brighton. 0273606906. day 2 at Stanmer Park, day 3 being band on 22 June - Wicked Ways. 10pm-2am, £3. Rave night and on day 4, Misty in Roots, across the UK and Europe. Featuring Hastings. 0424 444675. • THE ESCAPE CLUB Carwash Jah Shaka, African Headcharge and Orbital, Aphex Twin, The Drum Club • THE ESCAPE CLUB Dynamite Alternate weeks the bar will play host Boogaloo AND Village Youth to Carwash (from 2nd) and Bim Sherma plus guests do their bit. and Megadog, this techno/house ver­ Alternate weeks. Dynamite Boogaloo Flingdown - rare jazz funk, with Jazz sion of the Big Top rolls into Brighton on Clubwise, this month has oodles to of­ (from 8th) DJ is Anthea Blowjob. Your Nelson from Kiss FM on 9th. Carwash fer. Bingo Bongo has yet another juicy June 9 with a troupe of circus acts in host and hostess are Stu and Sal. features Paul Clarke and Perv on 30 menu for June, kicking off with a mix­ to\Y. Stop clowning around and get Wild mixed night of drag queens, June. 10 Marine Parade, Brighton. 'disco dancing and mayhem. Village 0273 606906. 1Opm-2am. ture of local talent on the 5th. Craig down there - tickets are £8. Youth (from tst). 10 Marine Parade, • THE EVENT Bjorn Again on 2 Woodrow, Sarah Chapman, Andy Mac Brighton. 0273 606906. £2 before 11, June, Aphex Twin on 9 June, then and Darius all get a chance to play - the £3 after. all-age disco from 16 June, with the benevolent Bingo's utilising the wealth • THE ESCAPE CLUB Village entry being £2.50, 8pm-12am. West Youth down from London. Alternates Street, Brighton. 0273 732627. of new stars in the town to great effect. with Dynamite Boogaloo from 1st • FROCK & JACKET Cheap Jack The 12th Billy Nasty (no relation) goes June. 10 Marine Parade, Brighton. £1 a go. 24 Prince Albert St, on. Girlie fave Fabi Paras plays the 19th 0273606906. £1. Brighton. 0273 323807. Free • THE EVENT The Zone One for and Justin Robertson puts the head­ Ustings are compiled b, BILL admission. MURRAY. Entries are FREE. the casual in you. Very dancey, with • THE GLOUCESTER 70s'Tack phones on to round off a fine four weeks lots of stilettos. West Street, Brighton. Please make sure that full DJ Mark brings us all that was 0273732627.9.30pm-2am. on the 25th. AI Mackenzie graces the infonnation arrives by Tuesday wonderful from that beautiful decade. • FAGANS Party Night DJ Nik Gloucester Place, Brighton. 0273 Escape Club on the 5th. Upstairs, a 15 .June for the .Jul, issue. Price. 77 East Street, Brighton. 699068. 1Opm, £2.50/£1.50. lighter groove is stilf available. Pete • FROCK & JACKET Tequila • THE JAZZ PLACE Shake Your FRIDAY 25TH <' Heller of 'Boy's Own' notoriety does the Frenzy 24 Prince Albert St, Brighton. Wig DJs Robert-Luis and guests play 12th, Greg Fenton returning for the • THE CONCORDE Wack! Wack! 0273323807. soul, rap, rare jazz and funk. Ship With DJs Norman Jay and Robert Party Night 19th. May 26th sees the launch of a • THE GLOUCESTER Street, Brighton. 0273328439. Luis playing soul, funk and rap. £1.30 per pint draught beer. 10pm-2am, £3/£2 cones. brand new once monthly event. 'Bollox' Madeira Drive, Brighton. 0273 Gloucester Place, Brighton. 0273 • LORDS II Andy Lane 60s-70s. at the Escape. Paul Clarke and Pervy 606460. 10pm-2am, £5/£4. 699068. Free with flyers. Western Road, Brighton. 0273 are to put on a star studded extrava­ • THE JAZZ PLACE Jump Up 204995. £1 after 10.30pm. MONDAYS and Get Down DJs Mark, Flymo and ganza on the last Wednesday of every • THE PRINCE ALBERT Reggae • CLUB REVENGE Cabaret 32-34 Robert-Luis play rap, breakbeats, Roots and dub. Trafalgar St, month with DJ Maestro Ricardo da Old Steine, Brighton. 0273 606064. swing and ragga. Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 207285. 8·11 prn, free Force to kick it all off. Taft's Meek and 10.30pm-2am, £1/£2. Brighton. 0273 328439. 10pm-2am, admission. Mighty on Fridays upstairs is a great • THE CRYPT Brainstorm 14 June £3. • THE REFORM Hong Kong • LORDS II DJ Dance Music Phooey's Jazzfunky tunes, 4k Hip Hop, Rap, Jazz and Soul option to The Revs and support. Hastings. 0424444675. 9pm-2am, £1 before/£2 Western Road, Brighton. 0273 sounds, films and projections, giant warm the weekend up - often crowded after 11pm. 204995. 9pm-1am, £1 after 10.30pm. twister & party games, dancing so get there early. The Selecter play live • THE ESCAPE CLUB UN Club • MONROES CLUB Reggae competitions. Ship Street, Brighton. at The Gloucester this month. The (downstairs). 10 Marine Parade, Roots and culture. 37 West Street, 0273775030. £1.50 between Brighton. 0273 606906. Brighton. 0273 321692. 10pm-2am, 10-11pm, and £31£2cones after. band that brought us 'On My Radio' in • THE EVENT All Age disco West £2/£1.50 cones, • RUTHERFORDS Euro Night For the late seventies return with yet more Street, Brighton. 0273 732627. • THE NELLIE PECK Student 14 year aids and up. Worthing Pier, Ska. Still popular, the band are sure to 8pm-12am, £2.50. meeting place Offers on selected Worthing. 0903216677. 7-11pm, drinks. West St, Brighton. 0273 fill the club early, so call up for tickets • FROCK & JACKET Glasnost £1.50. Vodka 80p a shot. 24 Prince Albert 326369. • SKID ROW BAR DJ Jay on 0273 688011. Lambrettas follow suit St, Brighton. 0273323807. • THE POND Pub Quiz (music). Jazz/funk and garage. Preston Street, with a comeback gig at the Brighton • THE GLOUCESTER Jumpin' Free food and raffle. 49 Gloucester Brighton. 0273 326408. 36 PUNTER • RUTHERFORDS Party Night • PIG IN PARADISE Friday all night long. Poole Valley, Brighton. Worthing Pier, Worthing. 0903 Schmiday Reggae, rap and Hip Hop 0273207192. 216677. Free entry tickets before with Rounder Mark and Flymo. • LORDS II Dance 93 Western 10.30pm, £1.50 alter. Upstairs. Queen's Road, Brighton. Road, Brighton. 0273 204995. • SHARK BAR Slack May 6th. 0273326865. 9-11pm, free 9pm-lam, £2 alter 10. MUSIC Brighton. admission. • THE NELLIE PECK All Night • SKID ROW BAR DJ White Cat • THE REFORM Bubblegum Sounds West St, Brighton. 0273 Preston Street, Brighton. 0273 Factory Chillin' and hunny drippin'. 326369.8-11pm. 326408. Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 775030. • PARADOX Experience The 10pm-2am, £2.50 belore/£3.50 after Magic Current and classic dance • THE STREET LIFE BAR DJ • THE STREET LIFE BAR DJ llpm. Danny Howells Garage and house Lee Venton Upstairs at The Crypt, trax. West Street, Brighton. 0273 music. Upstairs at The Crypt, Hastings. 0424 424458. 7pm, Iree • RUTHERFORDS Style Night 321628. 9pm-2am, £4 before Dance music. Worthing Pier, Hastings. 0424 424458. 7pm, free admission. £10.30pm, over 20s, smart dress. Worthing. 0903 216677. £4. admission. • THE UNDERGROUND • PIG IN PARADISE Marko, Metropolis Indie, punk, goth, new • SHARK BAR Thank Funk It's Jonesy & Trevor Mac House night. • UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Friday Acid jazz, funk and soul. Nostalgia Variations on a theme. In wave and ska. Occasional live Upstairs. Queen's Road, Brighton. Cheap drinks £1.50, plus guest DJs. the Hothouse. Falmer, Brighton. bands. West Street, Brighton. 0273 0273326865. Free admission. Brighton. £4/£2 concs. • VOLKS TAVERN Bongo Ripple 327701. toprn, £2/£1 cones. • THE REFORM Brighton The Collonade, Madeira Drive, • WAREHOUSE Babe Watch • SKID ROW BAR DJ Dino Clubscene with Spud Irom Inner Uplront dance. Preston Street, Brighton. 0273682828. Alternate Chart sounds. 54-55 Meeting House Rhythm. Guest spots include Simon Brighton. 0273 326408. Wednesdays, £1.50/2. Lane, Brighton. 0273 208856. Free Atkinson, Sarah Chapman, Damian • THE STREET LIFE BAR DJ Party Night admission. Harris, Pete H, Trevor Heath. Ship • WAREHOUSE Mark Dance music and lunk. Upstairs Classy 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s! Free • ZANZIBAR Reggae Night guest Street, Brighton. 0273 775030. at The Crypt, Hastings. 0424 424458. tickets available from Old Orleans, OJ's. St James Street, Brighton. 0273 topm-zarn, £4/3. 7pm,Iree admission. Browns, Clarenves and Allan J. 622100. • THE RICHMOND Northern Soul • sWlns Club Atmosphere Mix Love's. 54-55 Meeting House Lane, • THE ZAP CLUB Shaft Classic Night Last Saturday of the month. white label dance. Metropole Hotel, Brighton. 0273 208856. disco hits with the National Revue Richmond Place, Brighton. 0273 Brighton. Until lam, free admission. • ZANZIBAR House Night St . Perlormance Platform on 17 June. 680611. James Street, Brighton. 0273622100. Kings Road Arches, Brighton. 0273 • THE UNDERGROUND • RUTHERFORDS Main Night at Backlash DJ's Robin and Sparky. • THE ZAP CLUB Rocker Heavy 821588.10.30pm-2am, £1 before 11, the Main Event Worthing Pier, Alternative. West Street, Brighton. metal, rock and roll on June 9th & £3/2 after. Worthing. 0903 216677. £5. 0273327.701. £3. 23rd, alternating with the jazz night • THE SANCTUARY The Loft on 2nd and 16th. Kings Road Arches, FRIDAYS • UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Club DJs, live bands, readings, Monster Mix/club charts. In The Brighton. 0273 821588. happenings. Ring for details. 51-55 • BASEMENT Friday Night Club Hothouse. Falmer, Brighton. 10.30pm-2am, £1 before 11, £3/£2 Brunswick Street East, Hove. 0273 The now infamous Friday Night Club, • VOLKS TAVERN Catfish Club cones after. still going strong with cheery prices OJ Rumble Chillin' Moses with the 770002. 8.30pm, £3/4. at the bar and some varied toons to greatest R&B and Gospel in Brighton. • SHARK BAR Bingo Bongo THURSDAYS make you smile. Brighton Art College, The Collonade, Madeira Drive, Brighton. Grand Parade, Brighton. 0273 Brighton. 0273682828. Fridays and • SKID ROW BAR DJ Deeptone • CLUB PIERS Fresh soul, swing, House and Techno. Preston Street, 683585. 9.30pm, £2.50/£1.50. Saturdays, £3/£3.50. hip hop and ragga DJ Mic and Stuart Brighton. 0273 326408 . .• CASABLANCA The Family Rage and Dance Swing. downstairs, West Beach • WAREHOUSE Construction Live jazz/funk Irom DJ 54-55 Meeting House Lane, Brighton. • THE STREET LIFE BAR Hotel, Preston Street. 0273 323161. Brother Jake Jazz on vinyl with guest AJ. Churchill Palace Hotel, Middle St, 0273 208856. £2, free belore 11pm. 9.30pm-2am, £3. DJs. Upstairs at The Crypt, Hastings. Brighton. 0273321817. 10pm-2am. • ZANZIBAR Uplront dance with Cabaret 32-34 • CLUB REVENGE • CLUB PIERS The Salsa Party resident DJ. St James Street, 0424 424458. 7pm, free admission. Old Steine, Brighton. 0273606064. downstairs, West Beach Hotel, Brighton. 0273 622100. £1 guests • SWlns Club Atmosphere As on 10.30pm-2am, £1/£2. Preston Street. 0273 323161. after 11. Friday!. Metropole Hotel, Brighton. • THE CRYPT Live Band Night 1O.30pm-2am, £3. Until lam, free admission. Rock'n'Roll Babylon. DJs Mark Rolto • THE ZAP CWB The Billy Silver • CLUB REVENGE 2 Dance Show Followed by Protechtion. Kings • THE UNDERGROUND Sister and Danny Howells. Hastings. 0424 Floors, 2 DJs 32-34 Old Steine, Road Arches, Brighton. 0273821588. Rays DJ Gremlin and Dr Mental. 444675. Brighton. 0273606064. 10pm-2am, 9-11pm, £4/£2.50. Indie guitar and indie dance. West • THE ESCAPE CLUB Party Night £2/£3. • THE ZAP CLUB Protechtion with Street, Brighton. 0273 327701. £4/£3 On 3 and 10 June, Good Foot DJs • THE CRYPT DFM Funk rap and Eric Powell and Paul Newnan. The cones, £2 before 10.30 with flyer. Simon & Sarah C are raising the roof, house with guest DJs. 4 O'clock maddest dancerama of the week, • VOLKS TAVERN Catfish Club joined on the 17th and 24th by Dave Special on 25 June. Hastings. 0424 with Eric churning out music to DJ Rumble Chillin Moses with the Henry. 10 Marine Parade, Brighton. 444675. mystify and energize. On 'til 4am, it greatest R&B and Gospel in Brighton. 0273 606906. • THE ESCAPE CLUB Upstairs­ just keeps coming. Kings Road Fridays and Saturdays. The • THE EVENT All age disco from Collonade, Madeira Drive, Brighton. 17 June. West Street, Brighton. 0273 Meek and Mighty with Bob Smith, Arches, Brighton. 0273 821588. Matt Rice, Simon C and Trevor Heath llpm-4am, £5. 0273 682828. £3/£3.50. 732627. 8pm-12am, £2.50. all on decks. Downstairs - Chance • WAREHOUSE Dance daze • FROCK & JACKET Jager Sale 54-55 Meeting House Lane, Brighton. Jagermeister £1 a shot. 24 Prince with Craig Woodrow and Jason H. 10 SATURDAYS Marine Parade, Brighton. 0273 0273 208856. £2, free belore 11pm. Albert St, Brighton. 0273323807. • BASEMENT Freakout You will, 606906. • ZANZIBAR DJ Chris Upfront Free admission. 'cos the booze is dirt cheap. Brighton Disco Fever 70s dance resident DJ. St James Street, • THE GLOUCESTER 80s Music • THE EVENT Art College, Grand Parade, Brighton. night with cheap drinks. West Street, Brighton. 0273622100. Gloucester Place, Brighton.'0273 0273 683585. 9.30pm, £2/£2.50. Brighton. 0273 732627. 10pm-2am, • THE ZAP CLUB Coco Club 699068. £2.50/£1.50. • CLUB REVENGE 2 Separate Deeply embedded in club folklore, Student Party Night £1, 70p with flyer. • HORATIO'S Dance Floors, 2 DJs 32-34 Old Mr Mellor mixes past with present. And what a party. Half-priced drinks • FROCK & JACKET DJ Jason H Steine, Brighton. 0273606064. 24 Prince Albert St, Brighton. 0273 Kings Road Arches, Brighton. 0273 7-8.30pm. Free karaoke. DJ Martin C 10pm-2am, £2.50/£3.50. 323807. Free admission. 821588. 9.30pm-2am, £6/7. spins the discs. on The Palace Pier, • THE CRYPT The Jesus Prestey Brighton. Free admission. • THE GLOUCESTER Dance • ZIPPADEEDOODAH BAR Groove Hastings. 0424 444675. Zippadeedoodah Bar Cheap drinks Not For Spectrum Selected drinks offers. • THE JAZZ PLACE • THE ESCAPE CLUB Saturday and guest DJs. Hove. Cubes Progressive jazzy grooves, Gloucester Place, Brighton. 0273 5th AI McKenzie (Love Ranch) with hip hop, fat funk, natural percussion 699068. £4/£3. Paul Clarke and Marcus; 12th Pete SUNDAYS and global vibes. Ship Street, • HELSINKI College Night Dance Heller (Boys Own) with Paul Clarke Brighton. 0273 328439. 10pm-2am, music. Cheap beer. Pevensey Road, and Marcus; 19th Mighty Return and • THE ESCAPE CLUB Roastin £2.50, £3.50 after 11. Eastbourne. Greg Fenton with Paul Clarke and Sunday Into its second year, and still • LORDS II MC Trooper Reggae. • THE JAZZ PLACE The Jazz Marcus; and 26th Jeremy Healey with the best Sunday night in town. With Western Road, Brighton. 0273 Rooms Russ Dewbury and guest Paul Clarke and Marcus. 10 Marine DJs Dave Henry, Emma Cooter and 204995. 9pm-lam, £1 after 10.30pm. DJs. Ship Street.Briqhton. 0273 Parade, Brighton. 0273606906. Tim Coulson. A selection of club • MONROES CLUB Fresh DJs AJ 328439. £3/4. 10pm-2am. classics, garage and house. 10 and Stuart A give a funk, latin and • THE JUNCTION Smile From • THE EVENT Saturday Night Live Marine Parade, Brighton. 0273 jazz mixture.alternative, with live PAs The States 60s. Poole Valley, Allsorts. West Street, Brighton. 0273 606906. 7-11pm, Iree admission all and soulful vibes. 37 West Street, Brighton. 0273 207192. 732627. night. Brighton. 0273 321692. • LORDS II Guest DJs, check for • FROCK & JACKET DJ Dino 24 • FROCK & JACKET Cheap Jack • THE NELLIE PECK Live Bands details. Western Road, Brighton. Prince Albert St, Brighton. 0273 24 Prince Albert St, Brighton. 0273 West St, Brighton. 0273 326369. 0273204995. 9pm-lam, £2 alter 323807. Free admission. 323807. free admission. 8-11pm. room. • THE GLOUCESTER Party Mix • HORATIO'S Spencer & Chris on • ORIANA'S Use Your Loaf Frankie • MONROES CLUB Grannies 70's music to the present. Gloucester The Palace Pier, Brighton. 8pm, free Foncett and Judge Jools, plus PA. House DJ Dino and Nik Vinyll. 37 Place, Brighton. 0273 699068. £5/£4. admission. West Street, Brighton. 10pm-2am, £7. West Street, Brighton. 0273321692. • HELSINKI Brainstorm DJs Stuart • THE POND Live Music 49 • PARADOX Dance Party All 10pm-2am, £4. Simpson and Scott Le Roc. Pevensey Gloucester Road, Brighton. 0273 drinks £1 belore 11pm, lrom 17 June. • THE NELLIE PECK All Night Road, Eastbourne. 621400. Untill0.30pm. Free admission belore 10pm under Sounds West St. Brighton. 0273 • HORATIO'S In Yer Face on The • QUEENS HOTEL BASEMENT 18s night. West Street, Brighton. 326369. 8-11pm. Palace Pier, Brighton. 8pm, free Papillon 2 Keeps Sundays smiling. 0273321628. 8.30pm-2am, Iree • PARADOX Early bird 2 All drinks admission. Guests include the Perv and Clarkie. admission before 10.30pm, over 18, £1.50 before 11.30pm, essential • THE JAZZ PLACE The Jazz Brighton. 0273321222. casual dress. dance experience. Worlds Apart Rooms Russ Dewbury and guest • THE STREET LIFE BAR DJ • THE REFORM Dr Atomic On 4th Malibu promotion on 4 June. West DJs. Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 Wayne Old soul music. Upstairs at June. Check for details. Ship Street, Street, Brighton. 0273 321628. 328439. The Crypt. Hastings. 0424 424458. Brighton. 0273 775030. 9pm-2am, over 20s, smart dress. • THE JUNCTION Club Live Jazz 7pm, free admission.

PUNTER 37 ported racism to America, but you're • THEA VIDALE not as easily offended." Behind every great man, there's a Like the character in her ABC TV se­ great woman - masturbating. Wel­ ries, Thea Vidale "don't take no shit". come to the truly larger than life world She makes riot grrris (yawnl) look like of Thea Vidale, for whom fat is not a Sindy whilst unreconstructed, unre­ feminist issue. She established her­ pentant men had better watch out ­ self as one of America's leading co­ Thea is the key. medians over here last year, and now GardnerArts Centre6 & 13thJune she's back, like a radical from the Adrian Hennigan World Wrestling Federation. Ms Vidale is a social worker's dream! Big, black, female and (possibly, I didn't bother to ask) lesbian. Brent • TOPPE Counceneed look no further for a Bare Bone Arts, now much pared benefit gig compere. Chatting to her down from previous incarnations on the phone, her in LA, me not in LA, have never shied from a challenge. amid an onomatopedia of coughing Most of their work has held much (it's the smog, you know), she was promise, but perhaps failed to deliver pleasantness personified and on that promise. Ideas have never seemed willing to invent a new catch­ been a problem, more what to do phrase whenever she said anything with them. "I've got rid of the idea slightly anti-male: "No, I'm teasing." that my first idea is brilliant", author of Thea-is vehement about what her act their latest effort Doug Devaney com­ is about. "I am rejoicing in my wom­ ments, "and I've dropped gags for anhood. Every woman has the right the sake of gags". Toppeis another to say all men are stupid. lf men can with humour but. "I don't play it as talk about sex, then women certainly • comedy, I play it very straight" he in­ .~ can, because we are the receiving sists. It's about the marketing of party. More women fake orgasms mass murder Toppe(Fergus Dick, GETTING MARRIED than have a good time. For some Bare Bone regular) is the all-time When George Bernerd Shaw subtitled GettingMarrieda "Disquisitory Play", he strange reason, I've remained silent great mass murderer. 28 bodies un­ had good reason. Set in an episcopal palace on the wedding day of the Bishop's through Thea's thesis, offering tacit discovered until he decides to con­ youngest daughter, the play's action consists of a group of characters debating agreement (always a good way of fess. But it's not really about him. He and dissecting the pros and cons of marriage, divorce and seemingly every other communicating on the phone, I find) sits by while Detective Sergeant Mal­ possible alliance of men and women in between. at some points, reaching for the salt colm focuses on a book deal and a "Maybe the play lacks plot," concedes Dorothy Tutin, who plays the enigmatic pot at others, but what's great about straight-to-video movie. Nothing if Mrs George in Frank Hauser's highly polished Chichester Festival Theatre produc­ this Texan woman (well, they do say not topical and, hopefully, something tion, "but it has the most extraordinary amount of insight into relationships." everything's bigger down there), is a little more besides. "Maybe people The figures assembled in the 12th-cen!ury Norman kitchen of the Bishop's palace that she is genuinely funny. Bernard will come out with a smile on their (the play's single set) comprise a gallery of quintessentially Shavian comic types ­ Manning's worst nightmare is that he faces. Maybe they'll come out just realised in all their droll absurdity by the splendid Chichester cast. Each of them will turn into this woman. She doesn't simply shocked by it. I hope to move illustrates a different aspect of marriage. There is Christopher Benjamin's have to tell jokes about her thin father­ them and I hope that basically it isn't dogged General 'Boxer' Bridgenorth, hopelessly proposing for the 'tenth time to in-law. She has struck a resounding crap". You can't say fairer than that. Jane How's brisk spinster, Lesbia, who would love to have childrenbut isn't keen chord (Fats Dominatrix?) with women Marlborough Theatre 26th May - 5th on acquiring a husband; Bubble-headed Leo (Serena Gordon) is in the process (and men to a lesser extent), and is June. of divorcing stolid Reggie (Moray Watso~) to marry the scintillating St John now recording her own television Trevor Gorin Hotchkiss (Robert Bathurst) but doesn't see why she shouldn't be allowed to show. Imaginatively tit.led Thea, the marry "a lot more men". The bride and bridegroom, meanwhile, are locked in format is roughly similar to Roseanne • MOON ON DEVIL'S DYKE their rooms reading anti-marriage tracts. The only 'normal' marriage on display is (strong woman, 4 kids, madcap tales Former residents at the now-defunct that of the Bishop (Tony Britton) and his wife (Barbara Murray). Nevertheless, ensuing), although she will not thank Nightingale Theatre, the Brighton Ac­ even the Bishop has a platonic admirer - in the shape of Dorothy Tutin's remark­ you for a 'black Roseanne' compari­ tors Theatre work off the excesses of son, as some have tried to pigeon­ the Festival to present Moon On able Mrs George, who manages to be vulgar coal merchant's wife, proud mayor­ hole her. "We have nothing in Devil's Dykewritten and directed by ess and rhapsodic clairvoyant, all rolled into one. common - I have compassion and a Geoffrey Swanri. Six professional Shaw teasingly suggested that these characters were simply "a row of Shaws" sense of good." Sussex actors take the stage in an in­ spouting nothing but "Shaw talk". lf this were true and thecharacters simply the Compare her to Richard Pryor and triguing true story of 8' Sussex woman author's mouthpieces, the play would be a very dull affair. Fortunately, as this she'll be more amenable. "He is the who gave birth to a very peculiar Chichester production proves, Shaw has created something quite different. most brilliant comic in my life, there's brood and became nothing less than "Shaw doesn't have the characters coming out of character to say something that no other brother that deep." Ask her one of the most notorious women in he wants said," avers Tutin. about women who make her laugh the whole of what was then the still "I think you do really get the feeling that within the limits of their intelligence ~nd and she struggles to find anyone. I glowing British E~p'ire. Against the experience, they are all saying things that only they would say." don't suggest Roseanne Barr. backdrop of shepherds on the down­ GettingMarriedis admittedly stuffed full of the playwright's polemical views on She has a soft spot for London, affect­ lands and set just before the out­ marriage - some of which are now hopelessly outdated while others are up to the ing a cockney accent that would break of the First World War, this minute stuff - but its comic energy comes from the farcical make Dick van Dyke blush, although painstakingly researched play - interaction of the characters. These figures may toss typically Shavian verbal when I said I was phoning from the which includes, for all you morris paradoxes back and forth, but it is the emotional ironies which ensnare them that provinces, her knowledqe was reas­ dance fans and inflated bladder shak­ create the biggest laughs. suringly American. "Oh, I played in ers everywhere, folk song and dance This Chichester production has a piquant irony not usually found in the play, but Brighton last year. It's got a bit of - might prove to be something a little one which Dorothy Turin finds particularly pleasing: her daughter, Amanda War­ beach hasn't it?" The disdain in her out of the ordinary. It promises to be ing, plays Edith, the bride. voice highlighted the fact that . both gripping and comic - if past pro­ "Unfortunately, I hardly meet her except to insult her," says Tutin, whose charac­ Brighton's beach was probably the ductions are anything to go by. ter's first words on encountering Edith in her dressing gown are "You're notqoinq equivalent of a sand castle on LA's Queen'sHall Cuckfield 4th June: to get married like that, are you?" glistening dunes. She retains an af­ Clair Hall Hayward'sHeath 10th "That is such a line that all mothers say, 'You're not going out wearing that.' I al­ fection for old Blighty though. "I like June; Eastbourne Library Theatre ways used to laugh at that and now I say it properly." England. You can take the truth bet­ 11th- 12thJune;All SaintsCentre Festival Theatre, ChichesteruntilJune24. ter than in America, I don't like your Lewes 16thJune; HorshamArts Cen­ Jason Best class system or the fact you trans- tre: 17thJune.

38 PUNTER exploring people and the way they really behave. 7.45pm, £61£4.50 cones.

26 Jun Folk Day Dancers include STAGE Magog Ladies Clog Dancers, Hijinx • THE BARN THEATRE (Appalachian cloggers), Patricia Southwick. 0273 597094. Bradley's School of Irish Dance, plus a ceilidh to round off the day. (See 18 Jun Altematlve ComecIr At Folk listings for details.). From lpm, with Terry Garoghan, The ..... £51£4.50 cones. Linda Smith and Pat Condell. Not for the easily offended. 8pm, £51£4. 30 Jun Bellet Centrel A varied programme of classical ballet, • THE CONCORDE Madeira contemporary and jazz dance. Drive, Brighton. 0273606460. Includes excerpts from Bournoville's 3 Jun CI'ococIIIe ComecIr Club Flower Festival in Genzano, from Le with Keith Dover, Brenda Gilhooly, Corsaire and from Northern Ballet's A Selve Best and an open spot and Christmas Carol. 7.30pm, £7/£5.50 compere. 8.30pm, £51£4. cones. 10 Jun Crocodile Comedy Club Chris Lynam, Lee Hurst, Mark Mayer, • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE an open spot and Terry Garoghan North Street, Horsham. 0403 268689. MCing. 8.30pm, £51£4. 18 Jun Cwmnl Bellet Gw.nt 17 Jun Crocodile Comedy Club presents 'Beauty and the Beast', an Woody Bop Muddy, Ian McPhearson, original two act ballet. 8pm, £8.501£7 Sean Connery Brotherhood, an open cones, spot and Terry Garoghan MCing. 8.30pm, £51£4. 24 Jun Crocodile Comedy Club Owen O'Neill, two guests, an open spot and Terry Garoqhan MCing. 8.30pm, £5/£4. LI.tlng••re comp...d by LEWIS • GARDNER ARTS CENTRE TUCKER. Entrl.. .r. FREE. Sussex University, Lewes Road, Pl •••• make .ur. th.t full Falmer. 0273 685861. Inform.tlon .rrlv•• by Tue.dBy e Jun Th.. Vidal. Big find funny 15 .Iune for th • .Iuly I••ue. American comedienne who makes Jo Brand look like a shrinking violet. • CHICHESTER FESTIVAL Taboo you. 8pm, £7. Additional THEATRE Oaklands Park, performance on 13th June. Chichester. 0243 781312. 30 Apr to 24 Jun G.ttlng Married • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, by Bernard Shaw and directed by Crawley. 0293553636. Frank Hauser. Chichester regulars 7 Jun Trevor & Simon The 'Blimey Tony Britton and Dorothy Tutin (last That's Good' Tour. 8pm, £9.50/£8 sean here together in 'Hanry VIII'), cones. RSC principal Christopher Benjamin and Barbara Murray star in the • THE RICHMOND Richmond bearded one's dissection of Place, Brighton. 0273 680611. marriage. 7.30pm, mats Sat & Thrs 5 Jun Mark St... Acerbic comic, 2.30pm, Mon-Fri & mats £8/10, • BLiMEY THAT'S GOOD! supported by Huggy and the Bears Fri-5at eve £10/12. Trev and Simon are of the same sort of school of comedy as Vic Reeves and Bob and Jan the Poet. Extended license. 19 May to 29 Jun R....I_ Values 8pm-1 am, £5.50; cone £3.50. by Noel Coward and directed by Tim Mortimer; it's a particular sort of laddish absurdity, which anybody who went to Luscombe. The ancestral home of college north of Watford probably recognises immediately. In a way it has some­ • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White the Countess of Marshwood (Susan thing to do with taking the piss out of an older generation of uncles, teachers, foot­ Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. Hampshire - last seen in Chichester ball managers, barbers - in fact anybody who ever said things like "Perms? We 6 Jun .I.tlvo The return of the West in 'A Little Night Music') is thrown into chaos when her son, the Earl (the don't do perms here" or ~He wouldn't let it lie". This kind of humour seems to be­ Country comedian - oh dear. 7.45pm, £8; £7. appropraitely named Edward Duke) long to a generation of people who are now thirty or so; it's vaguely regional, al­ returns with his new fiancee, Miranda though it might spring from Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle - any big University - a Hollywood actress. Sarah town. Such natty nuttiness has travelled a bit, matured over beechwood, and be­ Brightman (who went rapidly downhill after losing her heart to a starship come part of our national identity. Trev and Simon, ex-Manchester University trooper, if you ask me) makes her kitchen sink surrealists, were part of GoingLive! for most of it's life - the kingpin of Chichester debut. 7.30pm, mats Thrs children's television. When I asked Simon (of Trev and Simon) about his sense of & Sat 2.30pm, Mon-Thrs & mats, humour he said, "I have no sense of humour! I don't know ... what makes me Li.ting. are compil.d by LEWIS £8/10, Fri-Sat eves £10/12. TUCKER, Entrl•••r. FREE. laugh? Not Beadle's About or anything. But I like lots of comedy - French and PI.a.1t make .ur. that full • CHRIST'S HOSPITAL ARTS Saunders, Vic Reeves and Bob Mo'rti,mer,that sort of thing." He wouldn't own up Inform.tion arrlv•• by Tu ••d.y Horsham. 0403 252709. to what kind of stuff he liked as a kid, because "most of it you wouldn't admit to 15 .Iun. for the .Iuly i••u•. 11 Jun Bet,.,al Millstream Touring now. Comedy was Light Entertainment then, like Dick Emery - he was good, but Company present Harold Pinter's too the material was pretty dubious. Comedy's changed a lot since then". True • DE LA WARR PAVILION clever by half conceit of telling the Bexhill on Sea. 0424 212022. enough. These days Trev and Simon and their peculiar characters are a huge hit story from end to beginning. More 26 Jun L.wi. London Be...t tales of adultery amongst the Volvo with children and grown-ups alike. "There's really no difference between comedy Programme is Les Sylphides set. 8pm, £5/7. for adults and comedy for children. They laugh at the same things." Naturally, I Variations; Zodiaque; The Missing 18 Jun Oormengha.t The David Page; Rhapsody in Blue. 3pm & 8pm, asked him where the phrase "Blimey, that's good," came from. "The recesses of Glass ensemble, in an adaptation of £7/£6.50/£6. our minds ... The idea came from watching a late-night thing on Sky TVlast year, the novels by Mervyn Peake. 8pm, in hotel rooms on tour. There's a show, I think it's called It's Amazing. It's Ameri­ £6/8. • EASTBOURNE ARTS CENTRE can, but for some reason there were bluff northern English people showing you all The Library, Grove Road, Perrymount Road, Eastbourne. 0323 461489. • CLAIR HALL these completely useless products, like a thing for painting the corners on ceil­ Haywards Heath. 0444 455440. ings from a sitting position, or ironing a shirt while it's still on the hanger. And 19 Jun Lo. Ritmo. Flamenco. 10 Jun Moon on Devil'. Dyk. BAT 'An Evening of Flamenco'. 7.45pm, then they'd go "It's Amazing!' That's where we got the idea, but when we did it Productions present a harrowing, yet £5. on Going Live! they had people complaining because it's supposed to be. blas­ entertaining new play, premiered in phemous ... I think anybody who goes to the trouble of complaining about some­ this years' Brighton Festival. £5; cone • THE HAWTH Hawth Avenue, £4. thing like that must be a bit mad: Crawley, 0293553636. Trev and Simonplay TheHawth, Crawleyon June 7 22 Jun Diver.ion. presents 'Highly • CONGRESS THEATRE Carlisle Ellie Ling Strung'. Three original dance pieces Road, Eastbourne. 0323 412000.

PUNTER 39 LONGDAYSJOURNEY INTONIGHT Presented by Cambridge Theatre Company. Eugene O'Neill's classic 20th century story portrays a family, haunted by Its past. THE VIKING THE HAWTH THEATRE Presented byGale Productions. Ex-Python Terry Jones' award-winning children's book Is brought SATURDAY %6 JUNE from Ipm to the stage by Peter Duncan. leaturIJIgJ La Lugh, The Keith Hancock Band with Lee Collinson a CUve Gregson, The Barely Works, Band 01 Two, Dharmas, Fair Trade , ...... 0Dd..ad••orluhopl IDdudlD& eattar _ .... CoIllDloa, cbIJdreD', entertalJulleat, mill THE PROVINCIAL LADY ADMISSION FREE GOES TO TOWN

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THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON I BOXOFFICE: BRIGHTON 328488 FROM 10a.m. TO 8 p.rn.. C~III Media Studies Monday 31st "May for one week TOM CONTI Drama Gabrielle Jenny Judy Drake Seagrove Loe In Cultural Studies PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward Life History Work Pnor to West End Landscape Studies Monday 7th June for one week PETER BOWLES PATRICIA HODGE Practical Archaeology in SEPARATE TABLES Gerontology . by Terence Rattigan with Studying the Arts: MIRIAM KARLIN, RACHEL GURNEY, CHARLOTTE CORNWELL ERNEST CLARK and ROSEMARY LEACH Modernism Prior to West End Monday 14th June for one week Biblical Studies Theatre of Comedy Company & Hull Truck Productions BRYAN MARCIA JUDITH ANDREW PRINGLE WARREN BARKER LIVINGSTON One meeting a week during term time in John Godbcr's We also run day schools, summer schools, HAPPY FAMILIES weekly classes, study tours. Monday 21st June for one week Centre for Continuing eA'1t'D,}'DE Education Musical by Leonard Bernstein University of Sussex ( Monday 28th June for one week TREVOR CHRISTOPHER GEOFFREY DOUGLAS Brighton BNl 9RG BANNISTER BEENY DAVIES FIELDING CAROLYN LYSTER AIMI MACDONALD SUSSEX 0273678025,0273678040 in AT BRIGHTON 0273 678537, 0273 678465 RUN FOR YOUR WIFE by Ray Cooney Directed by Jimmy Thompson Like It'. 7.45pm, £7/5.50, £1 off cones, 9 to 12 Jun UnlveNlty of Su...x Mu"'c F8CU1typresents 'King Arthur'. New, compact version of STAGE John Dryden's scenario, set to Henry Purcell's music. 7.45pm, £6/5, £1.50 off cones, 16 to 19 Jun The Wandering Minstrel. presents 'Cavalleria 31 May to 12 Jun Barnum Circus Rusticana' by Mascagni, and 'I muscial by Cy Coleman and Michael Pagliacci' by Leoncavallo. 7.30pm, Stewart directed by Buddy Schwab. £6.50/5.50, £1 off cones (Weds{fhrs Paul Nicholas swaps his pirate gear only). for that of the ring-master. 8pm Wed & Sat mats 2.30pm, £7.50-18.50, £2 23 to 26 Jun Regency Opera off cones. presents 'The Mikado', starring Dame Hilda Bracket. 7.45pm, £9/12/15, £2 • CONNAUGHT THEATRE off cones(Wed & Thrs only). Union Place, Worthing. 0903 231799. 8 to 12 Jun Long Dar. Jowney • THE HAWTH Haw1h Avenue, Into Night Eugene O'Neill's 20th Crawley. 0293 553636. century classic, presented by the 10 Jun P8n Project. presents Cambridge Theatre Company. 'Kaliyug - The Circles of Paradise'. A 7.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Weds & Sat piece drawing on the performance 2.30pm, £5.50-10.50, £1 off cones. styles of many cultures with strong physical, musical and rhythmic • DE LA WARR PAVILION elements. A jazz-singing narrator Bexhill on Sea. 0424 212022. guides us through the story of two 3 to 5 Jun Blithe Spirit presented characters, E &0, through the seven by the BATS. 7.45pm; Sat Mat circles of a very unusual hell. 2.45pm, £3/£2; child £1.50. 7.45pm, £6/£4.50 concs. 9 to 12 Jun Carousel June is bustin' 16 Jun Cymbellne One of the out all over in the Bexhill Light oddities in Shakespeare's canon is Operatic and Dramatic Society's performed by the Compass Theatre presentation of the Rodgers and Company. 8pm, £6/£4.50 concs. Hammerstein classic. 7.30pm; Sat 17 Jun Hedda G8bler Ibsen's bleak Mat 2.30pm, £6-£3.50. world view, presented by Compass 15 Jun Summer Serenllde A Theatre Company. 813m, £6; cone weekly series of concerts featuring £4.50.. " ihe marketing otmass murder. Very a presentation by Millstream Touring Scilla Stewart at the piano with John topical considering the recent Company. 7.30pm, £7/6.50. • HORSHAM ARTS CENTRE screening of the selling of the story of Murphy and Joan Manning together 25 Jun to 3 Jul Dear Bnitus Stables North Street, Horsham. 0403268689. Arlene Wuornos. No performance on with guest artistes in a programme of Theatre Guild present J.M. Barrie's 31/5 & 1/6. 8.30pm, £4, £3 cones, your favourite songs and melodies. 17 Jun Moon On Devll's Dyke affectionate play. 7.30pm, Jun 25th & tickets on door. Change of programme each week. 8pm, £5/£4 concs. 26th only, then Jun 29th-Jul3rd, Tues 8pm, £3.50. 17 Jun hstern Angles Themre £5/4.50. • MINERVA THEATRE Oaklands Comp8ny presents 'Inheritance' by Park, Chichester. 0243 781312. • DEVONSHIRE PARK Ivan Cutting. Bprn, £6/£5.50 cones. THEATRE Compton Street, 2 to 26 Jun Carrington by Jane • THEATRE ROYAL New Road, 20 to 25 Jun Godspell An amateur Brighton. 0273 328488. Eastbourne. 0323 415511. Beeson. Starring Toyah Wilcox and production presented by HAODS. 2 to 5 Jun The Dr8cula Robert Pickavance. 7.45pm, mats 31 May to 5 Jun Present Laughter 7.30pm, mat Sat 2.30pm, £4-6/£3.50 Spect8Cula The EODS Young Thrs & Sal 2.45pm. £5-£20. No Tom Conti stars in Noel Coward's cones (Mon-Thrs). Stagers present a variation on the performance Jun 3, 10, 17, 24th. affectionate exposure of the reality vampire legend. Fangs can only get behind the glamour and pretence of better. • KINGS MANOR SCHOOL the acting world, lowies. 7.45pm; Shoreham-by-Sea. • NEW VENTURE THEATRE 7 to 12 Jun Hou.e Qu_t Francis Bedford Place, Brighton. 0293 Thur Mat 2,30pm; Sat Mat 7.45pm, 18 Jun Age Exchenge TheIItre 652231. . Durbridge's thriller is sure to keep £18.50-£8; Thur Mat £12.50-£5. Trust presents 'What Did You Do in people on the edge of their seats, if 19 to 26 Jun Duet for One by Tom the War, Mum?'. See under Lancing 7 to 12 Jun $epIIrate Tabl_ Peter only because they may want to leave Kempinski. 7.45pm; Sun 7pm; no Parish Hall for details. 2pm, £1. Bowles and Patricia Hodge lead the early. 8.15pm; Wed Mat 2.30pm; Sat perf Mon, £3. cast in Terence Rattigan's sad tale of Mat 5pm, £8.25-£5. • LANCING PARISH HALL little lifes in a south coast hotel. 14 to 19 Jun House by the Lake Lancing. • PAVILION THEATRE Marine Directed by Sir Peter Hall. 7.45pm; Parade, Worthing. 0903 820500. Thur Mat 2.30pm; Sat Mat 4pm, by Hugh Mills. 8.15pm; Wed Mat 15 Jun Age Exchenge TheIIt,. 1 Jun 'Europe's hottest £18.50-£8; Thur Mat £13,50-£6. 2.30pm; Sat Mat 5pm, £8.25-£5. Trust presents 'What Did You Do in Xposure male review danc~show' it says 'ere, 21 to 25 Jun A Murder I. the War, Mum?', a musical show 14 to 19 Jun Happy Families Hull get their kit off for the girls. Oil not Announced Usual fun and games based on women's memories of their Truck present John Godber's provided. 7.30pm, £11.50; £10. from the quill of Agatha Christie, wartime work, scripted through comedy about love, jealousy, families adapted for the stage by Leslie interviews between pensioners and 4 Jun Bryan .Iobson presents 'Elvis and growing up in the '70s. Bryan Darbon. Those not interested in the the cast, and recreated through - The Legend Lives On!'. 8pm, £5, £1 Pringle, he of the face like a play can earn vast sums of money by stories and 'sonqs of the period.. off cones. miserable kipper, stars. 7.45pm; Thur standing outside the theatre with Phone 027.3870803 for details. 2pm, Mat 2.30pm; Sat Mat 4pm, a., 8 to 12 Jun Nel!" Southem loud hailer, threatening to divulge the £1. '. £14.50-£5; Thur Mat £11-£4.50. Musical Productl_s presents murderer's name unless monies are 'South Pacific', by Richard Rodgers 21 to 26 Jun c..clde Leonard given. 8.15pm; Wed Mat 2.30pm; Sat • MALTHOUSE THEATRE and Oscar Hammerstein. 7.45pm, Bernstein's musical is adapted from Mat 5pm, £8.25-£5. Malthouse Lane, Hassocks. 0444 mat Sat 3pm, £3.50-6. 241047. Voltaire's play. It tells the story of 28 Jun to 3 Jul AppoIntment With Candide, the illegitimate cousin of Death Another appointment with 5 Jun ChrIs Lynam presents Beast • ST MARY'S HOUSE Bramber. Baron Thunder. Bursting with life, Eastbourne's favourite author. of the Theatre. For adults only. 8pm, 11 to 12 Jun The Comedy of beautiful music and wonderful songs. 8.15pm; Wed Mat 2.30pm; Sat Mat £8.50. 7.45pm; Thur Mat 2.30pm; Sat Mat Errors The Festival Shakespeare 5pm, £8.25-£5. 11 to 12 Jun Chese Me Up Company presents the Bard's 4pm, £14.50-£5; Thur Mat £12.50-£5, FarnclalleAvenue - S'II vous comedy. Outdoor performance. 8pm, • EASTBOURNE ARTS CENTRE plaitl The Farndale Ladies Housing £4/6. The Library, Grove Road, • WHITE ROCK THEATRE White Estate Town's Women's Guild Rock, Hastings. 0424 722755. Eastbourne. 0323 461489. Dramatic Society in farcical vein. 18 Jun.lm Balcon in 'The Young 11 to 12 Jun Brighton Actor. 8pm, Fri £7.50, Sat £8.50. Visiters! or Mr. Salteena's Plan', 29 May to 5 Jun Mame The Theetre presents 'Moon on Devil's written by Daisy Ashford (at the age Hastleons belt a few well known Dyke'. 7.45pm, £5. • MARLBOROUGH THEATRE 4 of 9). Balcon is joined by Terence numbers in orphan story. 7.30pm, Princes Street, Brighton. 0273 Allbright. 7.30pm, £16.50. Wed & Sat mats 2.30pm, £4.50/£6,00. 570628. • GARDNER ARTS CENTRE 11 Jun Dishonorable Ladl_ After Sussex University, Lewes Road, 26 May to 5 Jun Toppe The always • STABLES THEATRE AND ART GALLERY High Street, Old Town, Cathy Gale and Pussy Galore, Honor Falmer. 0273 685861. entertaining, but now somewhat Hastings. 0424 423221. Blackman presents her new 2 to 5 Jun .....x UnIveNIty pared down Bare Bone Arts present one-woman show. 7.45pm, Drama Society presents 'As You Doug Devaney's savage comedy on 12 Jun Betreyal by Harold Pinter, in £8.50-£6.50.

PUNTER 41 Arzner double-bill. Arzner became TUESDAY 8TH the most prominent woman director in Hollywood in the '3Osand was • BASEMENT Tack lesbian, gay and bisexual night for NUS students rediscovered by feminist film critics in and their guests. Moves onto the '70s who recognised the Zanzibar after midnight for Tack 2. subversive strength of her heroines. Brighton Art College, Grand Parade, L1.tlng. .r. compll.d b, IAN 22 Jun Chllnglng ow Minds Brighton. 0273683585. Alternate LAVIS. Entrl•••re FREE. PI.... Documentary about Dr Evelyn Tuesdays. mek. sure thllt full Informetlon Hooker who first established that • THE ESCAPE CLUB Dynamite .rrlv•• b, Tue.de, 15 .Iune for homosexuality is not a mental Boogaloo Mixed night on alternate the .lui, I••u•• disorder. Oscar nominated. Tuesdays with trash disco, extravagant costumes and oodles of • ALLAN .I. LOVE'S 7 Marine glamour. 10 Marine Parade, Brighton. Parade, Brighton. 0273608133. • THE MARLBOROUGH 4-5 0273606906. 10pm-2am, £2 before PREVIEW Princes Street, Brighton. 0273 llpm: £3 after. Brighton Lesbian and Gay Festival may Resteur_t _d Cocktllil .. 570028. Mixed. be over but the Out On Screen film Frlendl, Pub with two bars, one THURSDAY 10TH quiet and traditional, one more season continues this month at the 6 Steine • CHYMES Bump'n'Grind New • THE AQUARIUM cruisey. Small theatre upstairs. Street, Brighton. 0273 605525. mixed night with DJs Steve and Duke of York's Cinema. A varied pro­ Normal pub hours, except Mon-Fri Saffron. Alternate Thursdays. Black gramme provides something for every­ Bus, Pub with disco Sunday night opens 6pm, Sat opens 7pm. Lion Street, Brighton. 10pm-2am, (70s and 80s retro). £2.50 before 11; £3 after. one from a celeb!aii~n of lesbian life in .'THE ORIENTAL 5 Montpelier • THE REFORM Shameless Thank God I'rt:/ A ~f1sbian, to the glitz • BARTlES 41 Providence Place, ROad, Brighton. 0273 728808. Hussies Latex, love and Iipz safe sex and glamour of Sydney Mardi Gras in Brighton. 0273 620630: special at women only night on .... close to Beacon Royal. Cabaret second Thursday of the month. DJs Feed Them To The Cannibals (see e.t...on two levels. Mon-Sat. Weds evening and Sun lunchtime. 12-midnight, admission free before Katie B and Kate. Videos and visuals. events). Normal pub hours. Normal pub hours. Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 775030. l1pm,£2after. G-Spot, Brighton's first lesbian and gay 10pm-2am, £3 before 11; £3.50 after. • THE QUEEN'S ARMS 7 George radio show, has ended its Wednesday • BEACON ROYAL Oriental Street, Brighton. 0273 696873. THURSDAY 24TH Place, Brighton. 0273 325680. night run on Festival Radio but it will Pub popular with lesbians and gay • ORIANA'S Departure Lounge definitely be back. Festival Radio co­ Besement Club at Brighton'S men. Cabaret Fri night. Mon-Sat Trolley dolly theme night for the jet largest gay hotel. Mainly men. See set. Look out for flyers. Mixed. West founder Daniel-Nathan said they were noon-llpm, Sun normal pub hours. Out Club listings for details. (There's Street, Brighton. "very pleased" with the response to the also a bar on the ground floor and a • THE QUEEN'S HEAD 10 Steine SATURDAY 28TH show, and that it would definitely be beer garden, open normal pub Street, Brighton. hours). Mon-Satl0pm-2am, Sun Shout Lesbian part of the Festival once the station gets • THE CONCORDE 9.30pm-midnight, Mon-Tues free 0., Pub with Sing-a-long-a-Sophie and gay disco, very popular with a licence to broadcast all year (it cur­ admission, Wed £1, Fri £2, Sat £3. on Mon and Weds nights. Mon-Sat women. Madeira Drive, Brighton. noon-ll pm, Sun normal pub hours. rently only broadcasts in May). "It is 0273 606460. 9.30pm-2am, £2.50 • THE BLACK HORSE 112 before 10.45pm; £3 after. something we should have done a long Church Street, Brighton. 0273606864. • SECRETS 25 Steine Street, time ago", he said. Brighton. 0273609672. MONDAYS Bus, pub popular with both Interesting, varied and informative, G­ lesbians and gay men. Pool table. Smell Club for gay men. Mon-Thrs • CLUB REVENGE Cabaret Men only. 32-34 Old Steine, Brighton. Spotfilled a gaping hole in the airwaves Mon-Sat 11am-11pm, Sun normal 10pm-2am, Fri & Sat 9.30pm-2am, 0273606064. 10.30pm-2am, pub hours, with cabaret lunchtime Mon-Thrs £1, Fri-Sat £2. £1/2. and proved that there are easily • PARADOX Wild Fruit On May 3rd and karaoke evening. and 31st. Dress to thrill at Brighton's enough things going on in the Brighton • TRIANGLE Brunswick Street most extravagant night. Cheap lager, East, Hove. area to merit a lesbian and gay pro­ • BRIGHTON BELLE 2 St George cider and bitter. Men and women. gramme at least once a week. Place, London Road, Brighton. 0273 Smell Ber with occasional cabaret. West Street, Brighton. 0273 321628. 609713. On the nightlife front, Mix has a live PA Mon-Fri 7pm-11pm, Sat noon-llpm, 10pm-2am, £3.50 before 11.15pm, Piano ber small bar on Sun, noon-3pm and £4 after. from soul and reggae band One Big 7-10.30pm. • WAREHOUSE 90210 Monthly Party on June 5th. The Village Youth • THI! BULLDOG 31 St James club, on May 24th. New mixed night team hope to emulate the success of Street, Brighton. 0273684097. • ZANZIBAR St James Street. at 'one of Brighton's best new clubs'. Brighton. 0273 622100. Hosted by Naked Drag with guest their award-winning London club with F.mou. Brighton Pub Small DJs. 54-55 Meeting House Lane, upstairs bar on Fri and Sat. Mon-Sat Modern ..,club with young, their new night at The Escape - a mix of Brighton. 0273 208856. 10pm-2am, 11am-llpm, Sun normal pub hours. trendy crowd. See Out Club listings £2.50 before 11.15pm. £3 after. hardcore and funk/soul with DJ's Tony for details. Mon-Thrs 2pm-l am, Fri & • WAREHOUSE Rush Some A, Ariel and Jason. The first night at­ • CORN EXCHANGE Church Sat 2pm-2am, free before llpm, £1 Mondays only. Rave night for a mixed Street, Brighton. after. tracted a young, trendy crowd; many crowd. 54-55 Meeting House Lane, Brighton. 0273 208856. 8pm-2am. from London. Shameless Hussies will 1 to 3 Jun The Nem•• Project AIDS Memori81 Quilt A massive • ZANZIBAR Blue Oyster Bar Mellow blues, soul and jazz. St be full of lips and latex on June 10th for patch-work quilt in tribute to those James Street, Brighton. 0273622100. a safe sex night for women. who have died with Aids, is on The mixed scene is still vibrant al­ display.10am-9pm. TUESDAYS though it may have reached saturation • BASEMENT Tack Alternate • DUKE OF YORK'S Preston point. Rush has been put on temporary Tuesdays from May 25th. Moves on Circus. Brighton. 0273 602503. from the Basement, at about 11 pm, hold after only one night at The Ware- 2 Jun Clelre of the Moon Listings .re .complled b, IAN to the Zanzlbar, St James Street. For house because promoter Frankie can't Described by :rime Out as fab, . LAVIS. Entri•••re FREE. Pl•••• NUS students and their guests. meke s..r.' thet full Informetion Brighton Art College, Grand Parade, find a sponsor. However. there's a new despite the soapy cliched one-liners, , outrageous stereotypes and errives bt Tu.sde, 15 .Iune for Brighton. 0273683585. tongue-in-cheek night at Oriana's burgeoning lust. 6.15pm. the .Iuly I••u•• ' • THE ESCAPE CLUB Dynamite called Departure Lounge. It's hosted Boogaloo Alternate Tuesdays from 4 Jun Feed Them to the TUESDAY 1ST May 11th. Mixed night with trash by 'air hostess' Tina Fish and her Trolley e-nlbel. Lively and colourful disco, extravagant costumes and Village Dollies will be there to make sure eve­ documentary celebrating the people • THE ESCAPE CLUB oodles of glamour. 10 Marine Parade, Youth Alternate Tuesdays. London's and the spectacle of the Sydney Brighton. 0273 606906. 10pm-2am, ryone has a safe and pleasant journey. Village Youth come to Brighton for an Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras - the £1.50 before 11pm, £3/2 after. upfront, hardcore night. 10 Marine There's more safe sex at 90210 with biggest all-night party in the Southern • THE ESCAPE CLUB Village Parade. Brighton. 0273606906. loads of condoms given away each hemisphere.6.15pm. Youth Alternate weeks from May 4th. 10pm-2am, £51£4. London's Village Youth Team come 9 Jun ThIInk God I'm e La.bien month. No Wild Fruit this month but to Brighton for an upfront night. 10 Lively documentary revealing the SATURDAY 5TH Yvette and her muscle boys return on Marine Parade, Brighton. 0273 diversity of the community. Lesbians July 5th for a jungle theme night with • THE BEACHCOMBER Shout 606906. 10pm-2am, £5/4. from different backgrounds talk about Lesbian and gay disco very popular • ZANZIBAR Superstar Debbie prizes for the best dressed Tarzans, coming out, love, sex, fidelity, S&M with women. Also on 12 and 19 June. Dog and Dog Chat. Alternates with Janes or whatever! and bisexuality. 6.15pm. 214 Kings Road Arches. Brighton. Tack student night. St James Street, Brighton. 0273622100. If all that clubbing makes you fancy a 11 Jun Pink N.rci._ Major cult 9.30pm-2am, £2.50 before 10.45pm; film devoted to prick worship and the £3 after. nibble, a new gay and lesbian cafe/bar WEDNESDAYS hermetic myth of an all-male fantasy • MADEIRA HOTEL Mix Friendly is being run by Pauline of Mix at Rum­ world. 11.30pm. reggae and soul night for lesbians • CLUB REVENGE Cabaret and and gay men. Regular live music. bling Tum, Queens Road, Brighton on Drink Promotions Men only. 32-34 16 Jun Dence Girl Dence PLUS Marine Parade, Brighton. Old Steine, Brighton. 0273606064. Thursdays from 8 pm - 11 pm. Christopher Strong Dorothy 10.30pm-2am, £3.50; cone £2.50. 10.30pm-2am, £1/2.

42 PUNTER Hussies Women only night with Xi-Xi, OJVicki Edwards, videos and visuals. Madeira Drive, Brighton. 0273606460. 10pm-2am, £3 before OUT llpm, £3.50 after. ~@ • ZANZIBAR Psyko-Logical OJ Alan plays underground/club sounds to psychoactive visuals. St James RAINBOW Street, Brighton. 0273 622100. • ZANZIBAR OJ Alan Club sounds. St James Street, Brighton. SATURDAYS 0273622100. • THE BEACHCOMBER Shout A '" Z OF BUSINESSES THURSDAYS Lesbian and gay disco, very popular with women. On Jun 5th, 12th and Cabaret • BEACON ROYAL 19th. 214 Kings Road Arches, LIVE OPERATORS Mainly men. Oriental Place, Brighton. 0273325680. 10pm-2am, £2. Brighton. 9.30pm-2am, £2.50 before • CHYMES Bump 'N' Grind 10.45pm, £3 after. Alternate Thursdays from May 13th. • BEACON ROYAL Alien New mixed night with DJs Steve and hardcore house. Mainly men. Oriental NATIONAL INFORMATION Saffron. Black Lion Street, Brighton. Place, Brighton. 0273 325680. 10pm-2am, £312.50 before 11.30pm. 10pm-2am, £3. Builder in Brighton Car Hire in Cardiff • CLUB REVENGE Cabaret Men • CLUB REVENGE Two only. 32-34 Old Steine, Brighton. -Dancefloors The largest gay club on 0273606064. 10.30pm-2am, £1/2. the South coast. Very busy In fact anything anywhere! • ORIANA'S Departure Lounge Saturdays. Downstairs: garage, May 27th only. A one-off theme party, with trolley dollies for the jet set. West house and techno. Upstairs: 70s, 80s call us FREE of charge on Street, Brighton. Look out for flyers. and hi-energy. Men only. 32-34 Old • THE REFORM Shameless Steine, Brighton. 0273 606064. Hussies Women only night with Xi-Xi, 10pm-2am, £314. 0800616109 OJ Vicki Edwards, videos and • THE CONCORDE Shout Lesbian visuals. Ship Street, Brighton. 0273 and gay disco especially popular our live operators will try to help you 775030. 10pm-2am, £3 before 11pm, with women. On May 26th. Madeira £3.50 after. Drive, Brighton. 0273 606460. • ZANZIBAR DJ Robbie Reggae, FOR BUSINESS ENQUIRIES AND REGISTRATIONS rhythm and rap. St James Street, 9.30pm-2am, £2.50 before 10.45pm, Brighton. 0273 622100. £3 after. • MADEIRA HOTEL Mix On May CALL 0273 670 500 FRIDAYS tst and 29th. Friendly reggae and soul night for lesbians and gay men. • CLUB REVENGE Two ~ Dancefloors The largest gay club on Regular live music. Phone Steve or' RAINBOW Serving the Gay & Lesbian Community. the South coast. Downstairs: garage, Pauline on 0273 770503. Marine Charity donation forevery FREE callreceived. house and techno. Upstairs: 70s, 80s Parade, Brighton. 10.30pm-2am. and hi-energy. Men only. 32-34 Old £3.50/£2.50 cones. Steine, Brighton. 0273 606064. • ZANZIBAR OJ Chris plays 10pm-2am, £2/3. definitive progressive sounds. St • THE CONCORDE Shameless James Street, Brighton. 0273622100.

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Joseph Sweeney, 92 she falls in love for the first time, but RETAIL tween back and white. Well-inten­ mins. In a seemingly open- and-shut in doing so has spun a rather tall tioned liberal drama lacks depth (too murder trial the jurors are ready to re­ story about his past and their relation­ • NIKITA (18) much Thirtysomething histrionics) but Artilicial Eye £15.99 turn a verdict of guilty; one juror has ship. Position compromised he is is entertaining. Filmed in Scope; this (Luc Besson France 1990) Anne Pari1­ his doubts... One of the finest court­ forced to play along until he re-dis­ room dramas of all time, though we video is in widescreen format. laud, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Tcheky covers what his daughter'S really like. Gary Couzens Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, 113 mins. S0­ see the courtroom for only a minute Trevor Gorin ciopathic killer Parillaud, sentenced or so at the beginning. 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• THE LAST WORD ensure that it is by no means the last Paul Micou BantamHIB£14.99 work I will read by this author. In all, Matthew Richmond is summoned a compelling read. home from his travels abroad by his Sarah Morgan sister. He arrives in the wealthy New England seaside town of Gawpassat REVIEWI to find the residents in a state of fe­ • ALL STORIES ARE TRUE vered excitement, for upon them has The Collected Stories of John Edgar come 'The Date'. This is the day Wideman Picador P/B£8.99 when local religious leader - Mat­ Any reader who fails to be moved by thew's uncle Ian - has pencilled in his these tales must be suffering from ter­ expiration date. Followers of the minal hard-heartedness. Wideman's Word (Uncle's self-penned bible) ­ subject matter is gut-wrenchingly who seem to include amongst their emotive: death, mental and physical number practically the whole of the disability, plague, poverty and impris­ town - eagerly await his successor. onment are all catalogued, the stories Matthew's arrival seems all too timely. told straight in the language of the A distinctly odd, but compelling poke people who were there. at the religious cults in America, their This big volume provides a snapshot charismatic, wacky leaders and the chronicle of Homewood, a black sec­ sheep-like people who follow them. tion of Pittsburgh, and several genera­ Micou barely misses a trick as every­ tions of it's residents. one from family to money-maker get Occasionally, the writing misses it's put through the mangle. m~rk. 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Like in Lizbeth: TheCaterpillar and sure character establishment, lit­ tle lives caught and preserved to be Story, in Daddy Garbage, And in the looked at forever like perspex paper­ title piece: All Storiesare True, where the narrator's brother, whose request weights. From a story about a lillie ' girl who emulates a friend by culling for parole has again been refused, re­ a tattoo into her arm with a razor counts the story of a leaf blown away over the prison wall as prisoners and blade, but too deeply; to tales of di­ vorcees lost in time and place, wait­ visitors cheered: ing for something to happen - the "People shouting. Some even dozen or so pages that make up clapped. But you know something. Le Mystere de I'amour each episode get rapidly turned and I'm gonna tell you something I don't Marie France &Marc Almond 1992 the action on them lingers long tell nobody when I tell about the leaf. PIERRE ET GILLES enough to make you wonder. What The dumb thing blew back in here again." 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It predates the Catholic mism of the Catholic Church is re­ dium for reference it is a refreshing man, kills his young lover, and at her Church, and is a Gnostic doctrine to placed today with the equally pointer. The more I read anthologies, funeral his wife, Violet, tries to disfig­ deplore the carnal and elevate the obsessive optimism of psychoanaly­ the better I appreciate the form as ac­ ure the corpse in an act of supreme chaste. sis. Withelm Reich is revealed as par­ cessible and varied enough to guar­ jealousy and rage. Morrison's poetic Osborne explores the artistic origins ticularly odd and in a propoganda antee pleasure. 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PUNTER 47 expression of female alienation. possible. Fab. Magnificent. Or something. Mark Sutherland • RED HOUSE PAINTERS Red House Painters 4AD REVIEWI • LUSCIOUS JACKSON Impossibly moving. The songwriting In Search Of Manny Big Cat of Mark Kozolek is given full rein theis 1993 is turning into another cool year time after last year's neglected debut, for rap albums. After the Digable Down ColourfulHill. The sepia tinted Planets, Goatsand Blade here sleeve of a rollercoaster languishing \ comes Luscious Jackson. Jill and in a neglected Coney Island funfair is Gabrielle surf over the pimp funkpop ROCK AND pop a good enough signpost as any to soundtracks with laidback raps and nearly 80 minutes of nostalgia, sick­ dreamy pleas. Like their new York ness and a 1000 new ways to ex­ chums, the Beastie Boys (whose press regret. Because he has to, cheesy fine 'Check your Head' Lp "Without you, what does my life was sadly ignored), this is so sum­ amount to?" sings Mark on Katy mery and boss, the clouds disperse Song and your heart's dropped to the as soon as the CD starts to spin. pavement and it doesn't even matter. Red House Painters make it feel empty anyhow, The opener Grace • MADDER ROSE Cathedral Hill is suffice enough to Bring It Down Seed fling the word Genius in all directions, The debut, eponyous single (retitled but by the time you read this Swim here) came from nowhere. Kozalek's gonna be used to it. Only Catchy chorus, daytime plays on 1FM the most unfeeling of cold snits are (courtesy of Peel but not out of place going to hate this. The rest of us will on Jakki B's show either) and annnoy­ be converted two minutes in. For life, ing for my friends because I used to Jem Stone sing it (badly) everywhere. Cowboy Junkies on speed if I was being ri­ diculous, Opal on a glossy budget if I JAZZ was being obscure, pedal steel gui­ tars, Nancy/Patsy vocals from singer Mary Larson and solid countrypop if I .IRAKERE was being sensible. Whilst we wait Live At Ronnie Scotts WorldPacific for the next (imminent) Mazzy Star al­ Cuba's finest, Irakere, certainly know bum, Bring It Down is a useful if too how to bring it up and then take it polished substitute. back down again. An 11 piece mon­ ster led by Chucho Valdes on the pi­ ano who groove through this 60 minute set with heart, soul and irre­ pressible drive. At times the band sound to be at least 30 strong and everywhere you look (listen?) there's something going on, whether it be the scorching percussion or the joyful • BLUR solo spots such as Orlando Ralles' on fections and their long- time record Flute Notes. If Havana really does Modern Life is Rubbish Food company Factory has gone spectacu­ sound this good then no wonder Hem­ Blur are not happy. Demon Albarn is larly bust. And has any of this made ingway liked it so much. Put your convinced that everythinq Suede are a dent in New Order's imperious elec­ speakers in the garden, crack open doing now, Blur did ages ago. But lropop? No. it blinkin' well.hasn't; Re­ the Cruzcampo and dance! without the plaudits and the success. public is an almost impossibly So with Modern Life is RUbbish, they assured indie dance album, bursting have set about crafting an album en­ with polished disco numbers like Re­ trenched in Englishness, replete with gret and YoungOffender,that sound • CHARLIE PARKER '60s glam guitars and hilariously over­ equally at home whether you're on Bird At The Hi-Hat Blue Note enunciated Cockernee VOC?ls. the floor of a nightclub or a bedsit. Recorded over two days a week Trouble is, they seem to have either New Order couldn't make a bad re­ apart in late '53, early '54, Parker's thought of. or abandoned, the idea cord if they tried. genius is certainly evident on this CD. halfway through recording the album. It contains some of his best-loved So while side one is fab: Advert a fer­ tunes, Groovin' High, Now's the Time, • THOUSAND YARD and no less than three versions of Or­ vent slice of punky zeal. ColinZeal is • DEBBIE GIBSON STARE nithology. The backing is supplied David Bowie singing the Jam and the Body, Mind, Soul Atlantic Mappamundi StifledAardvark by what can best be described as a "la la la la la" bit of For Tomorrow just Debs was the teen queen of Ameri­ A decidedly patchy first album sug­ pick-up band who, though playing ad­ will not leave your head, side two is a can f1uffpop,giggling and gossipping gested these Slough boys would al­ mirably and with purpose, never bit on the drab side, a mish-mash of her way through the girlish likes of ways be a much more vital come near to stealing Parker's thun­ half realised ideas. But on the whole, Shake Your Love, Electric Youth and experience live than on vinyl, but der, Nor do they hold him back, he this album improves the quality of FoolishBeat. Oh how we wished she Mappamundi('Eh?' - everyone) seems to be really pushing the boat modern life. really did live next door. But now avoids the traditional Difficult Second out the majority of the time. Quality is Deborah is all grown up; she's not Album syndrome with consummate not so hot unfortunatley, some per­ only discovered sex (Shock Your ease. Songs like Half-sizeand Ver­ fomances are clipped and there's • NEW ORDER Mama),but also date rape (When I sion of Me bolster their scampering some minor drop outs, but consider­ Republic London Say No). Even when the synthpop jangle sound with some gritty guitars, ing the source tape is 40 years old, It's three years since the last New Or­ arrangements return to the bouncy j while elsewhere trumpets, cellos, hell, what can we expect? Worth gelling der album. During that time, their ollity of yesteryear, there's a crack in even some ballads, crop up left, right because you can never have too hometown Manchester has had a dra­ Debbie's voice that screams "Life is and centre, giving them a wider much Charlie Parker. matic rise and fall in the public's af- bleak!" in an almost riot girlish range than most would have thought Ricardo Dos Passos 48 PUNTER MIAMI NICE

t's more or less as far south as Coral Gables and artsy Coconut you can get, it's on the coast, Grove all have strong identities. I cosmopolitan with a thriving While there's out-and-out hedon­ arts scene and legendary clubs. Al­ ism if you want it, the cultural mix though it's well-known as a holiday has led to this at times stunningly destination, it's also home to uni­ beautiful city being called the 'Capi­ versities, pop stars, and a load of tal of South America'. Brazilians and eccentric locals: all this spiced with Haitians, although nowhere near as a distinctly dodgy, not to say crimi­ numerous as Cubans, are signifi­ nal, undercurrent. Welcome to cant minorities and the fact that it Miami, a city in the news for all the looks as much to the Caribbean as Some people think that Miami isjust Moss wrong reasons recently, but which to Capitol Hill makes Miami very has much more to offer than tabloid different to the other parts of the Side with sunshine and beaches. But as scare-stories and dim memories of States. Even the Hilton Hotel has a Miami Vice might suggest; and killer Latin Disco. Oops, did I really NICKPOLANS[(I discovered, it's worth given that several companies have say killer? Freudian slip!! So, finally, scheduled flights to Miami lnterna­ we're there. Yes,of course you want tional from Gatwick, it's well worth a to know if it's actually as dangerous taking a walk on the wild side. look. as they say it is in the papers. Un­ Mega-fashionable right now is fortunately, it can be. A local police the reborn Miami Beach, justly fa­ chief put it succinctly: Miami is as mous for one of the world's greatest near as you can get to an urban concentrations of Art Deco archi­ paradise, considering that it's in­ tecture. and an untypically habited by gun-wielding walkable area dedicated to the vari­ crackneads. ous pleasures of the flesh. After a Most hotels have an airport pick­ day on the white sands, there's up service. and only a rental plenty of time for working out in one company that isn't interested in of the gyms. shopping around the business won't send a car to collect designer clothes stores on li'{ai~­ you at a far more civilised hour. Car ington Avenue, posing up' and hire gives you freedom to 'explore down Ocean Drive, or just watching areas like the Everglades and the it all from the many beachfront bars Keys, and make the most of outlying and restaurant terraces. This is be­ shopping areas, but bicycle hire is cause none of the clubs worthy of also a strong option. They sell a lot the name open before midnight, al­ of mountain bikes despite the fact though weekend block parties that there's nothing we might de­ thrown by club runners are not un­ scribe as a hill within a hundred common. Van Dome and Warsaw miles! are two locations worth checking You could easily eat out in a dif­ out, and the free magazine, New ferent place every night of the year, Times, will keep you up to date with such is the variety of the local cui­ extensive listings and reviews. sine, with. seafood and fruit However, while SoBe (South understandably popular. By the Beach) may well be star-spotter way, if you see Dolphin on the heaven right now - even I managed menu, don't fret - it isn't the friendly to get a glimpse of Prince, Mark mammal, but a type of local fish - is King(!) and Mick Hucknall in just it hostile?-Ed. one week - new Miami resident Ma­ The winter months are the best STUDENT & YOUTH TRAVEL IS HERE donna chose to buy her winter time to visit, but are also the busiest quarters over the bay in Miami and most expensive. August brings 61 Ditchling Rd, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4SD proper, and those who head humidity and hurricanes. Only Brits straight for the beaches or, worse are dumb enough to go then! • BRIGHTON 570226 still, follow the shell-suited hordes to Worldwide Discount Travel Disneyworld, may be missing out. Virgin Atlantic flies daily to Miami Downtown is like Tottenham Court International from around £299. Va­ for Students and Young People Road, all audio shops and sports cationing British passport holders Open 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday - 10am to 1pm Saturdays outlets, but other areas like Little can sign a 90 day visa waiver on the Havana, Mediterranean-styled plane.

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The the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Jazz bands are only a tiny Day with Humphrey Lyttleton and his part of the Glastonbury band, plus music from John Lill, Robert Tear, the London Mozart Players and experience and there the City of London Sintonia. lire plenty of other distractions to keep you • BERKSHIRE LITERATURE FESTIVAL Reading, Berkshire. 0734 busy while Hothouse 233204. Flowers are on stage. 4 to 19 Jun Berkahl... Uterat... Five different stages, F.stlval Workshops, performances, plus a circus and cinema readings in poetry, children's creative writing, radio scriptwriting and other and the kind of forms of literature, with many guest spontaneously bonkers authors. Admission varies for each entertainment only event. brought Into being by a • BOURNEMOUTH combination of hippies, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 0202 sunshine and scrumpy 297327. make fGr a mind.blowing 5 to 20 Jun Bournemouth Internatlonel Festival The three days. renowned Bournemouth Orchestras The main stage sticks to celebrate their centenary with a series a steady diet of of classical concerts, Other festival respectable rock, with guests include International Classical Music Awards' Personality of the Year Red Hot Chilli Peppers Evelyn Glennie, writer Fay Weldon, and PM Dawn looking Helen Shapiro, Kiev's Boyan Choir plus slightly out of place drama, jazz, literature and science lectures, children's activities and more, amidst The Black all running under the theme The Seven Crowes, Robert Plant, Ages Of Man. GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED Lenny Kravitz, Van Goodwood is nowadays well known for its horse racing, but for many years its name • BRACKNELL FESTIVAL 0344 Morrison and even The was synonymous with British motor racing, The opening of the famous racing circuit 427272. in 1948 ushered in a golden age of motor sport and the memories will come flooding Kinks. Your ever 2 to 4 Jul Bracknell Festival Acts include Tom Robinson, Jools Holland back on the 19th and 20th of June as Goodwood Park, near Chichester, West Sussex, discerning NME has got & together with 'Glasto' to His Big Band, Danny Thompson's and home to the Earl of March, plays host to a Festival Of Speed. The Earl himself Whatever, Ron Kavana Acoustic Band, played a major part in the organisation of the festival, the highlight of which will be a provide a sparkling array DHSS featuring Dick Heckstall-Smith, recreation of the first motoring event held in the park. In 1936, Freddie March (later of Indie and dance talent, TV Smith and many more. Weekend the Duke of Richmond) staged a private' speed event on Britain's longest and fastest on stage two. Suede! ticket £22.50. hill track. The track has not been used since, but this year's speed trial will again Stereo MCs! The Orb! • BUDE FOLK ARTS & CIDER put cars and bikes through their paces on the 1.16 mile long course, which takes The Lemonheads! Belly! FESTIVAL Bude, North Cornwall. competitors right past the Goodwood House front entrance and consists of some Several dozen more 0288 355366. spectacular hairpin bends and turns on the flint wall and woodland-bordered trail. happening combos! and, 4 to 6 Jun Bud. Folk Arts & Cider Many famous names from the Goodwood glory days will be returning for the weekend, F.stival Folk music from the likes of er, Ozrlc Tentacles! several to be reunited with their former vehicles. There will also be demonstration The Poozies, Cosmotheka, Cock & Cropping up on various Bull, Show Of Hands, The Bluebird runs by modern supercars, Ferrari and Aston Martin owners, club concours and a other stages during the Cajun Band, Dave Burland, Geckoes, display by a wartime Spitfire fighter plane, plus the widest possible collection of Nachdey Hasdey Bhangra Group, classic cars and motorbikes from that bygone era. three day affair (.June Karpaly Polish Song & Dance, Ros The weekend also provides a dramatic backdrop for the traditional Brooks' Surnrner 25th· 27th) are the likes Keltek, Cam Kernewek, indigenous Sale, which this year will chiefly comprise racing cars from the Goodwood golden of bonkers folkles The Cornish dance teams plus the largest ever selection of farmhouse ciders. £20 years (racing stopped there in 1966) as well as several classic pre-war motor vehicles Ukrainians, even more adult season ticket. and historic airplanes, Robert Brooks said, "I am delighted that we are involved in bonkers '60s tunesmlth such an exciting and nostalgic event - one that deserves to become a highlight of Donovan, punk poets • CAMPBELL PARK Milton Keynes. the historic motorsport calendar." . Joolz and Attlla The 0908 230611. After the speedtrial there will be a traditional champagne prizegiving in the Goodwood Stockbroker, comedians 11 Jul One Earth F••tlvel The House ballroom, which will recreate the swinging atmosphere of those halycon days. Milton Keynes Festival For Peace: Mark Thomas and Alan bands include Labi Siffre, The Lost The current Earl, President of the British Automobile Racing Club and grandson of Parker, Asian rappers T-Shirts Of Atlantis, King Masco and course creator Freddie March, hopes the event will become a fixture on the social many more, Plus many craft and caiendar and that Goodwood will reclaim its place at the heart of British motor racing. Fun-Da-Mental and quite campaigning stalls. 12-6pm, Free. The organizers promise that the grounds will be awash with nostalgia as all the sights, literally hundreds more. smells and sounds of a good old-fashioned British motor rally roar back into the park, Prices are fixed at an • CAMPUS 93 Crealy Farm, near Exeter, East Devon, 054882 388, home of the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon since 1697, "Glorious Goodwood" will astronomical, Peace 30 Jul to 9 Aug Campus 93 Theatre, doubtless be the battle cry they reclaim from those interested in a very different kind Convoy unfriendly £58 dance, mime, music from rock to of horse power. but you'll not find a more classical, films, storytelling, workshops Entry to the race is by private invitation only, but tickets and booking information is eye.openlng three days plus loads of children's activities. Full available to racing enthusiasts from Mione Thorpe or Margaret Winn at Goodwood on the planet. programme to be announced, Plot fee: on 0243 774107. Accommodation is available at TheGoodwoodPark Hotel; enquiries 10 days £250,5 days £150. More information on 0839 668899, on 0243533802. bookings on 0272 767868. • CHICHESTER FESTIVITIES Mark Sutherland Mal'k Sutherland 0243785718. 52 PUNTER Kavana and more. The Heineken Music Festival returns to Brighton for its third annual event, and it's FESTIVALS established itself as one of the major freebies. With a licensed bar and entertainment for the kids. Free.

• HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL Castle Field, Southsea, Portsmouth, 4 to 20 Jul Chichester Festivities Hants. The 19th Festival's theme is The Best 19 to 22 Aug Heineken Music Of British, including The Best of Festival The Big Top is erected for British Brass, The Best of British Jazz, its final summer shin-dig. Bands Great British Musicals and British confirmed so far include Kirsty Youth at its best. Guests include the MacColI, Stiff Little Fingers, Captain Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sensible and Tom Robinson. Free. (fresh from receiving the Queen's v:~ Award for Industry), Rita Hunter, • ITCHEN VALLEY COUNTRY George Melly, PD James, Germaine PARK Allington Lane, West End, ' i"~ ' Greer and Alan Bennett. Phone the Southampton. (0703) 466091. Box Office for ticket prices. . ._.11:;.:.,.llm.: 17 to 18 Jul Eastielgh Youth Arts Senseless Things appearing at the Phoenix Festival • FINSBURY PARK North London. Festival Exhibitions, music, dance and drama performances' by young 12 Jun Fleadh A celebration of people and a host of workshops led dance workshops and a rare • SOUTH BANK CENTRE Gaelic music with Bob Dylan, Van by professional artists in the Youth Morrison, Hothouse Flowers, Rumig, opportunity to visit Farnborough Hill, London, 0296394411. Arts Marquee at Eastleigh Town & the vast Gothic mansion which was Mary Black, The Pogues, Stiff Little 20 to 27 Aug South Bank Folk Country Show. The theme is 'The once home to the Empress Eugenie, Fingers, That Petrol Emotion, Goats Weak Acts during the week include Round The World Yacht Race" and and is now a girls' school. Admission Don't Shave, Marxman, Big Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Liam anyone interested in taking part varies for each event. Geraniums, Energy Orchard, John should contact Cheryl Butler on 0703 O'Flynn, Sileas, Mairtin O'Connor & Martyn, Kirtsy MacColI, The Four Of 622187. Garry O'Briain, Isaac Guillory & John Us, The Men They Couldn't Hang, • SIDMOUTH FOLK ARTS Renbourn, Simon Mayor'S Mandolin The Pale, Engine Alley and loads • NEW PARK FILM CENTRE FESTIVAL Sidmouth, Devon. 0395 Band, Alianza and Guo Yue. One more. Information available on 081 New Park Rd, Chichester. (0243) 515134. major concert every night at 8pm, All 9630797. llam-late, £22.50. seats £7.50. 373532. 30 Jut to 6 Aug Sicimouth Folk 13 Jun Oreat ](peetetlons The 20 Aug to 5 Sep Chichester Film Arts Festival Musicians, dancers, Cure, Carter USM, Sugar, Belly, The Festival Films, previews, admission singers and entertainers including • SOUTHAMPTON FILM Frank & Walters, Senseless Things, etc to be announced. Kathryn Tickell Band, The Barely FESTIVAL 0703223855. Catherine Wheel and Levitation show Works, John Delafose & The Eunice their support for London's pioneering Playboys, R Cajun & The Zydeco 3 to 17 Jun Southampton Film • NEWBURY FRINGE FESTIVAL Festlvel see festivat preview, film XFM indie radio station. Gates open Newbury, Berkshire. 0635 41269. Brothers, Roy Bailey, Dave Swarbrick, lpm, £18.50. Alianza!, Les Barker, Tarika Sammy, listings and A-Z for full details. 4 to 6 Jun Newbury Fringe Token Women, Bill Litchman, Hooke's 10 Jul A Day In The Park Featuring Festival Music from "folk terrorists" Law, Colin Hume and many many US rawk legend Neil Young, backed Pressgang and others, plus drama, • SWANAGE JAZZ & BLUES more. Season Tickets:Adults £82, by Booker T & The MGs, plus full dance, cabaret, circus, exhibitions, FESTIVAL Swanage, Dorset. 0929 Youths £34, Children £20. 422885. supporting cast including a rare live workshops and more. Acts to be show by Manc popsters James. announced. Admission varies for £:22.50. each event. P.D. James· Steven Isserlis • Richard Hickox • Grimeehoepe Colliery Band Sky· Rica Hunter w London Mozart • GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL • PAVILION THEATRE Marine CHICHESTER Players • NicolaLoud • Thomas Carroll Pilton, near Shepton Mallet. 0839 Parade, Worthing. 0903 820500. Leon McCawley • Britten Quartet 668899. Julius Drake w Chichester Cathedral 27 to 29 Aug British & Irish FESTIVITIES Choir • Peter Levi • Germaine Greer 25 to 27 Jun Glastonbury Festival Country Music Festival Acts See preview The SydLawrence Orchesrre » Fireworks include Roly Daniels, Charlie 4 - 20 JULY 1993 Spectacular • Tchaikovsky Celebration Landsborough, Amanda Normansell, PRINCIPAL SPONSOR The Royal Artillery Band • The Royal • GOODWOOD HOUSE The ACME Bluegrass Band, Tony ArtilleryParachuteTeam • Southampton Goodwood, Chichester, West Sussex. Best, Cross Country, The Duffy P&OM. Gymnastics Display Team • London All European Ferries Stars Steel Orchestra • Senators Drum 0243774107. Brothers, Tracy Elsdon, Grass Roots, Corps > Dancers from the London Studio 19 to 20 Jun Qooclwood Festival Kris Kelly, Lemon Grass and loads Dance Centre • Viva Espana! • Haydn's Of Speed See preview more. Season Ticket £23.50, Creation • ChichesterSingers • Jonarhan Individual Tickets From £4. Willcocks • Bournemouth Sinfonierra • GOSPORT FESTIVAL 93 Benvenuto Cellini • The Chelsea Opera Gosport, Hampshire. 0705 545294. Group > Teresa Cahill • Harry Hill • READINO FESTIVAL Reading, Justin Lavendet v Academy of St Martin 23 Jul to 1 Aug Gosport Festival Berkshire. in The Fields • Emanuel Hurwitz 93 Free entertainment every day, free 27 to 29 Aug Reading Festival The Christine Dix • National Pops Orchestra world music every lunchtime, a free . British Yauch at in Best· Simon year's premier rock festival. Still no Mulligan· Terry Barfoot Richard Festival for children plus a special acts confirmed, as rival promoters Shone • Beethoven's "Triple" • George Tchaikovsky Centenary Concert and haggle over the right to run the Melly v James Hunr w City of London performances from The Cross festival. It now looks as.thouqh Vince Sinfonia • Mike Earle· L'Elisir d'Amore (featuring Roger Taylor of Queen), Power's Mean Fiddler operation will The Bernini Ensemble· Parry 'dth The Drifters, The Blues Band, Roger be in charge, though quite frankly Symphony' • Elgar Cello Conceno » The Best of BritishJazz· Kenny Baker v Don Chapman, Richard Thompson, Hank exactly what is going on remains Lusher • Roy Willox • Angela Christian Wangford, The Retreat, Skin The anyone's guess. Rumoured Jack Parnell· Brian Lemon > Dave Peeler and many more. Admission headliners now include New Order, Green • Dave Shepherd • Christie's varies for each event. The Cult, The Orb and Pearl Jam. Seminar Day > John Tavener 'Eternal Admission TBC. Memory' • ElgarSea Picrures « 'Iolanthe' from Scrarch > Mark Steel v Richard • HAT FAIR Baker v Stephen Hill· The National 2 to 3 Jul Hat Fair Numerous street • RIVERSIDE CENTRE Newport, Symphony Orchestra of Larvia v Dillie theatre events in the centre of Isle Of Wight. 0983 298319. Keane e Great British Musicals- Aspects of Love, Phantom of the Opera, Me and Winchester plus evening cabaret. 25 to 27 Jun Folk On Wight My Girl, The Boyfriend, Salad Days Free. - Festival CentralSiugers > John Simpson e Central Band of The Royal British Legion • St • HEINEKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL • RUSHMOOR ARTS FESTIVAL Box OFFICE Richard Singers • Alan Bennett Stanmer Park, Brighton, Sussex. 0252 330040. Mendelssohn Octet • Kenneth Alwyn 0243 . 780192 Derek Simpson v Jonathan Plow right 10 to 13 Jun Melneken Big Top 6 to 13 Jun Rushmoor Arts Talks on Wilfred Owen; Pallant House; Festival Acts will include Festival '93 A host of concerts, The Old Theatre, 43 South Street, Cardinal Manning; Eric Gill; Lewis Chichester, West Sussex P019 IDX Jamiroquai, fresh from chart success plays, exhibitions and special Carroll; Edward Lear; Kew Gardens; Mon , Sat 9.30arn· 5.15prn with 'Too Young To Die', headlining performances in and around the Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant· Arts Mobile Box Office Open from 21 May Celebration by Primary and Secondary the dance night on the Thursday The towns of Farnborough and Aldershot. Opposite Cathedral Bell Tower Schools· BT Young Musicians' Series Bhundu Boys, Ulster's finest Stiff Little The Festival opens and closes with Mon - Sat 10.OOarn - 5.00prn Masterclasses • Painting and Sculpture Fingers, Kirsty MacColI, classical concerts in Farnborough's Exhibitions· Real Ale and Jan Chumbawamba, Levitation, Roy SI Michael's Abbey, there are theatre Buskers Films· Theatre • Fringe v And Harper, Barely Works, Alias Ron productions, street entertainment. much, much more besides...

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The festival runs for another 14 days and Information Lineon 0819630797. adultsI £3.50children. encompasses a more than usually varied mix of premieres and previews, cult favourites, kitsch classicsand the sort of filmsthatwould ordinarilyby-passthe city entirely. Thereare big HollywOod moviesand offbeat European ones,a handfulof British films, several from Africa and the Far East, as well as community events, THE 20th VILLAGE PUMP hands-on workshops and themedmini-seasons. "The Festival enables Southampton cinema-goers to experience differentforms of film culturewhich would otherwisebe largely unavailable to the c6mmunity," says' TROWBRIDGE WynJeffrey, who chairsSouthampton City Council'sFilmFestival Committee. FESTIVAL Fantasy is the mainthemerunning throughthe festival. It crops up in a fair number 23-25 JULY 1993 of the premieres on offer,from the knockabouthorrorcomedyof Army of Darkness, STOWFORD MANOR FARM. 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Another system which seems very respectable is the • FLINT HOUSE 41 High Street, ignor~ Findhorn Flower Essences, from the Lewes. 0273 473388. Bach Flower Remedies, area surrounding the influential New 12 to 13 Jun en.I.: Meklng the Age community of the same name, 90s Work for You with Soozi and with an emphasis on uniquely Holbeche. The 1990s are a time of as GERRY THOMPSON change, crisis, ecological and Scottish plants. You may be attracted geographical upheaval, epidemics, to the potential healing energies wars and economic collapse. This reveals deriving from one or other of these workshop explores the significance of these experiences, asking Whywe various sources. are being hit by crisis after crisis, and References proposes how we can emerge wiser Some shops in Brighton that sell and stronger, with a new awareness BACH FLOWER REMEDIES personality traits, which will have Bach Flower Remedies: Infinity of what we can contribute and What I like about Bach Flower great bearing on how we live life. achieve. 9.30am-6pm, 11.30am-6pm, Foods. Neal's Yard Remedies, Bay £55. Remedies is that you can you can Probably this explanation can also be House Aromatics. use them yourself, without being a applied to homeopathy and other The Flower and Gem Remedy 18 to 20 Jun Introduction to practitioner or anything like that - and types of remedy which seem to act in Splrit..1H.allng Course with Assoc., Anubis House, Creswell Jack Angelo. A thorough introduction that they work on mental states and an almost 'magical' way. Drive, Ravenstone. Leics. LE6 2AG. to a gentle but powerful feelings rather than physical How To Take Bach Flower / Tel: 0869 37349 complementary therapy which aims problems. Anyone can go into a good to provide participants with a good Remedies: First of all, you will need Findhorn Flower Essences: Marion herbal or health food shop and buy grounding in healing. Jun 18th: the reference sheet which can be Stoker. The Park, Findhorn Forres whichever of the set of remedies is Introductory talk, 7-9pm (£3 on the obtained wherever the remedies are IV360TZ door); Jun 19-2Oth: Workshops, needed. A simple leaflet supplied sold, if not one of the more in-depth 10am-5pm. £100. Course repeated with them explains how to choose the News books or guides that are available. on July 17-18. right one. In this article I will mention I strongly recommend an upcoming Here are listed the whole gamut of workshop and concert by Chloe 19 Jun Freeing Your Meglcel a few examples. and also give a few 'negative emotional states', with a ChIld with Gill Edwards. Everyone Goodchild (I mention these now so reflections of my own. particular plant essence matched to has a wounded Child within, which that you can note dates in your diary longs for love and approval. This How The Remedies Work: When I each. Several can be used at once, if and book up if you want). Chloe is a workshop offers a method of loving first heard about Bach Flower appropriate. They are bought in lillie well established figure on the your inner Child so that you are free Remedies, I have to say I thought it 10ml 'stock bottles'; for immediate to be a joyful adult. Using a sacred all a bit too good to be true. To get rid use you put 2 drops in a glass of personal growth scene; she works on Pueblo Indian ceremony, the of despondency. discouragement or water, and Sip it frcim time to lime. For one level with voice training, and on workshop aims to help you release the past. 10am-5.30pm, £27.50. dejection, for instance, they tell you to a more organised approach, put the another with what she refers to as just take the 'Gentian' flower essence. drops in a 30ml dropper bottle of responding to one's personal 'inner 26 Jun Eating for Health with Dr. To avoid nostalgia and 'living in the spring water, and then lake 4 drops call'. Marilyn Glennville. What foods are good for you? Can food be used as a past', go for Honeysuckle. For lack of on the tongue at least 4 times a day. The workshop is on 30th May at St preventative medicine? What are self confidence, it's Larch. And so on. You may be surprised at how Thomas Church Hall, Lewes, and the vitamins and minerals, and are you Well, as a proper holistically-minded effective it can be. concert is on 6th June at the Pavilion getting enough of them? Dr person, I couldn't expect that some There is also a pre-formulated Theatre, Brighton. Glennville, a psychologist and mere plant extract was going to mixture called Rescue Remedy which Further information and bookings: nutritional counsellor, will help you find out. 10am-5pm, £30. change my condition if I didn't can be given to anyone suffering Aliki on 0273 626111. actually deal with its underlying from shock. anguish, major upset or 26 to 27 Jun He.llng Energies with Listing••r. compll.d br GERRY causes. injury. It is especially effective if taken Renate & Roxi. Renate claims the THOMPSON. Entrl.s .re FREE. ability to 'see' energy blocks and However, I have to admitlhey DO immediately, and can be given to Pl.... m.k. .ur. that full sickness in the body, and the power seem to work. The late Dr. Bach, who animals. In case of injury. I use a Information arrlv•• br Tu.sd.r to heal and then awaken the healing spent much of his life working out couple of drops on the tongue as well 15 .Iune for the .Iu1r Issue. energies of others. During the . which plants have which effects, said as on the affected part. Rescue weekend she will discuss her abilities • BASEMENT FLAT lA and work with people with sickness in that these kind of negative emotional Remedy can be kept around the Atlingworth Street, Kemptown, their bodies. helping them to get in slates are manifestations of particular home. or about one's person. Brighton. 0273 602966. touch with their own healing internal imbalances in our natural especially when travelling. It's also 5 Jun Introduction to Herb. A energies. 10am-6.30pm, 10am-5pm, state of being; if these imbalances available as ointment. You may be one day course to teach the basic £60. are corrected, then our own natural amazed at how well it can work. Mind principles of herbal medicine and the ways in which these can be applied healing processes can continue you. one does come across 'Rescue • THE LORD NELSON Trafalgar to specific illnesses. A number of Remedy Junkies', who constantly Street, Brighton. unimpeded. What I would add is that locally growing plants will be studied. the remedies do not at all affect the seem to take the stuff like some kind 10am-4pm. £15. 6 Jun Brighton and Hov. Cleen complex causes and patterns of our of magic potion each time they feel Campaign Meets every 19 to 20 Jun Healing With H.rbs Sea. month on a Thursday. An umbrella feelings, but they do seem to be able slightly upset. Naturally, this A two day course on the use of group, encompassing members of to alter our immediate state so that produces the opposite of the desired medicinal herbs for a wide range of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, health problems. such as stress, we are then more positively effect. which meets to discuss ways of infections, digestive disorders, skin orientated to deal with the realities of Other Flower Remedies: Recently. a improving the local marine bathing problems, arthritis and allergies. environment. Current aims include our situation. If we continue to number of other systems of plant 10arri-4pm. £35. the installation of Ultra-Violet encourage positive attitudes, then we essence remedies for emotional and 25 Jun H.rbs end Women'. Treatment equipment at Portabelfo. will probably be able to change mental states have appeared. 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