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You have in your hands a 64-page saddle-stitch magazine, the twentieth issue of Viva Brighton, which has been published in this format since we first hit the city’s streets in May 2012. вЂ�Saddle stitch’ is a lovely term denoting magazines held together by staples; the alternative, more classy but more expensive, is вЂ�perfect bound’, which describes the process whereby pages are glued together under a spine. Issue twenty-one of Viva Brighton will be perfect bound. We are on the move at Viva, having decided on a complete demarcation from our sister publication Viva Lewes, a new office (above Marwood on Ship Street) and the employment of a new acting publisher, and a head of sales (welcome on board Lizzie Lower and Anya Zervudachi, as well as editorial assistant Rebecca Cunningham). The move to a perfect-bound format will include an increase in pagination (trade talk for more pages) and thus more editorial. So we are вЂ�test driving’ several new slots in this issue, including вЂ�Local Hero’ (in this case charity self-starter Zac Lanza), вЂ�Talking Shop’ (a look at EatonNott) and вЂ�How to…’ (take photos of food). A period of change is a good time for reflection, and we would like your thoughts on what you like or dislike about the magazine, which you can send us via Twitter (@VivaВ_Brighton #vivafeedback) or e-mail (feedback@vivabrighton.com). Shoot from the hip: we can’t promise we’ll agree but we do promise we’ll listen. In the meantime, as ever, enjoy the issue… The Team ..................... EDITOR: Alex Leith alex@vivabrighton.com DEPUTY EDITOR: Steve Ramsey steveramsey@vivabrighton.com ART DIRECTOR: Katie Moorman katie@vivabrighton.com PHOTOGRAPHER AT LARGE: Adam Bronkhorst EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Rebecca Cunningham ADVERTISING: Anya Zervudachi anya@vivabrighton.com Nick Metcalf nickmetcalf@vivabrighton.com, Emma Burton emmab@vivabrighton.com CONTRIBUTORS: Joanna Baumann, Black Mustard, Antonia Gabassi, Nione Meakin, ChloГ« King, John Helmer PUBLISHER / ACTING PUBLISHER: Nick Williams / Lizzie Lower lizzie@vivamagazines.com Viva Magazines is based at 52 Ship Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1AF For advertising enquiries call 07596 337 828 Every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our content. We cannot be held responsible for any omissions, errors or alterations. contents ............................... Bits and Bobs. 9-15. Five minutes with Boho Gelato’s Seb Cole, a half in The Jury’s Out, Roger Bamber’s Brighton and a fair bit more, to boot. Brighton in History. 14-15. It’s the 1964 General Election, and it’s a close-run thing in Kemptown between a complacent Tory and a leftist Labourite. In town this month. 19-27. Welcome to the Palace of Fun, comedians Sara Pascoe, Dave Gorman and Romesh Ranganathan, Steve Made in Brighton. Hackett of Genesis, guitar musos The 44-47. Talking shop with EatonNott, Pop Group, and an evening of popery a portable field camera, and a local lad at the Brighton Early Music Festival. working wonders in Africa. Art, design and literature. Food. 31-43. Photographers Anthony Lu- 50-53. We review No. 32 and Mar- vera and Jan von Holleben, Graffitist malade, discuss rationing of вЂ�shit’ Aroe, bespoke furniture designer Ben food, and find out how to photograph Fowler, novelist Hannah Vincent, breakfast. poet/performer Kate Tempest. Oh, and an evening of Spike Milligan, too. Active. 53-57. We witness triathlon training, try out a session in a sГЎsta fitness pod and survive fresh-meat training with the roller-derby girls. Features. 58-62. A coffee with Caroline Lucas, a Copper family refurbisher and the Great Kemptown Pram Race of 1979. .... 5.... this month’s cover art .......................................... You might well recognise the inimitable style of this month’s cover artist, Carlos Garde Martin. He designed the cover of the 2013 Brighton Fringe Brochure, which led to contracts with CitroГ«n and Southern Rail. When we asked him if he was interested in doing our October cover, it didn’t take him long to get enthusiastic about the project. “I immediately thought вЂ�Mexican Day of the Dead’,” he remembers, admitting that he’s been watching a fair bit of Breaking Bad recently. “As it was also the Comedy Festival in October, I thought I’d add some comic elements to the piece. My way of working is to brainstorm, then doodle ideas onto a page, and I came out with a few figures: one skeleton badly juggling eggs, another slipping on a banana skin; one skull being hit in the face with a custard pie, another flying out of a box on a string. The main chap in the foreground is a Mariachi singer; I kind of modelled him on the actor Danny Trejo, who was in From Dusk Till Dawn and loads of other films. Then I looked on Google at some examples of Mexican .... street typography, and came up with the fonts for the lettering.” Having worked out the composition of the piece in his head, and sketched out the elements on a piece of A4 paper, he carefully hand-drew everything again, with a Sharpie marker pen, onto a white piece of A2-ish-sized paper. He scanned this, and the rest was done on his computer. “The colours I had initially thought would look good with pinks and limes then I researched on the internet and found a cool Mexican weaving design,” he says, “then I selected some of them and used the Pantone colour equivalent. I always work with those colours.” “So much illustration takes itself seriously,” he concludes, “which is fine, but that’s not me. I’ve always drawn comic-style characters, ever since I was a kid. I think it’s important to enjoy the work you’re doing, and hopefully that comes through.” In the spring you’ll see a vast large-scale artwork by Carlos at Haywards Heath railway station; in the meantime check out his website at carlosgardemartin.co.uk. 7.... bits and bobs ............................... five minutes: S eb , from Boho G elato It must be hard selling ice creams now winter is on its way… In this country, ice cream is often seen as just a treat when the weather’s hot, which is why people have put up with the likes of Mr Whippy for so long. Other countries see an ice cream cone as a viable dessert throughout the year. I’m not just talking Italy; most of the Northern European countries, too, and the USA. Do you change the flavours you sell, to suit the season? We always have. We’re all about making artisan ice cream in the traditional Italian way, using fresh cream, milk and ingredients. But we like to experiment with our flavours. The summer was all about mojito sorbets, passion fruit bellinis and strawberry, black pepper and basil; after the clocks go back we’ll be serving things like chocolate, cinnamon and Bloody Mary, or gingerbread and white chocolate. Last December one chap ordered 12 litres of ice cream in as many different flavours: he chose them to complement all the courses he was serving over the Christmas period. The Italians are very traditional about their food. How do they react to your experimentation? I went to Sicily recently as part of the Brighton & Hove Food Festival chef-swap project. I demonstrated making strawberry, basil and black pepper ice cream, which isn’t the sort of thing you’ll see in your average gelateria! The young people loved it. The middle-aged people didn’t really approve. The old people were suspicious, until they tried it. “That’s how ice cream tasted in my youth!” they said. I got kissed a lot by old ladies. buried in brighton : william russ pugh Before he read the article in his wife’s copy of the anaesthesia, he was confident enough of success that Illustrated London News, headlined вЂ�The new he invited several people, including the editor of a means for rendering surgical operations painless’, local newspaper, to watch. the Tasmania-based doctor William Russ Pugh “had Born in London in October 1806, the son of a вЂ�rag probably never heard of an anaesthetic”, his biogra- merchant’, Pugh qualified as a doctor before moving pher JD Paull says. to Australia in his late 20s. “He was very well regard- Nonetheless, nine days later, on June 7, 1847, Pugh ed” as a medic, Paull says; he was also “determined, tried it successfully on two patients, using a home- stubborn, with no tolerance of fools or those he made inhalation device. Though he was probably thought were unprofessional. Often impulsive in his the first person in Australia to attempt surgery with response to those seeking to damage his reputation. .... 8.... bits and bobs ............................... JJ Waller “I was out doing my daily parkour session,” says JJ Waller, “when I saw someone who was much better than me. Mostly I have my camera with me. I’m very glad I did that day.” Parkour, for the uninitiated, is the acrobatic urban sport of getting from A to B using urban furniture to aid your propulsion, invented in France, and big in Brighton. That’s a spectacular leap by the kid… and quite a deft bit of framing by the photographer. The subject of sustained professional jealousy.” “However, he was compassionate to those needing In 1842, after a malicious complaint from another his services and very community minded, estab- doctor, he ended up being charged with man- lishing his own private hospital,” Paull says, “as an slaughter over the death of a patient (the case was alternative to the perceived horrors of the Convict dismissed). About six weeks after that, an argument Hospital.” between Pugh and a local banker, initially over an Pugh came back to England around 1874, and died invitation to a ball, escalated to the point where 23 years later. It’s not clear if he ever lived locally, Pugh challenged the banker to a duel, publically but he was buried in the Extra Mural Cemetery. called him a вЂ�liar and a coward’, and was success- With many thanks to Dr JD Paull. A copy of his fully sued for libel. book, Not Just an Anaesthetist, is at Jubilee Library .... 9.... 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These two hour sessions are only ВЈ29 members ВЈ35 non members For more information and to book visit www.businessinbrighton.org.uk/events or call 01273 719097 Bite-sized Learning bits and bobs ............................... pub : the jury’ s out The Jury’s Out was so renamed by pubco Enterprise and paintwork of the exterior and you might see last year, presumably to reflect that it’s bang op- why English Heritage gave it Grade II-listed status posite the Crown Court on Edward Street. A quick in 1971. Their website details вЂ�Tuscan pilasters, con- half in there one late Thursday afternoon suggests tinuous architraves chauffeured with run-out stops that it’s not trying to pull in the barristers and judges and a segmental bay of mathematical tile’. This last for their post-session sessions. Big posters advertise feature, sadly, has some time in the past been daubed John Smith’s on sale for ВЈ2.90; there’s a television on glossy white. in the corner silently showing the racing; one of the “It’s a pub to give you a frisson,” says Jay Collins, three other customers there is, unlike his two scruffy our pub artist who popped in herself for a quick pint friends, wearing a suit. He looks nervous. after painting the place. She was most struck by a It’ll take locals a while to stop calling it the Thurlow photograph of mass murderer Peter Tobin, taken Arms, which it was named in c1815 when the build- and displayed in the pub. “We get all sorts in here,” ing was converted into a pub. It was named after she was told by the landlord. “From well-dressed Baron Edward Thurlow, a long-serving Lord Chan- solicitors, to pickpockets, shoplifters… and mass cellor, an arch-Conservative apologist for slavery murderers.” The landlord’s not there when I visit: who died in Brighton in 1806. Thurlow, incidentally, I glug back a half of San Miguel, taking in enough was also a patron to Samuel Johnson. visual information to ascertain I’m unlikely to be You wouldn’t think it from the scruffy interior (it back, unless I fancy watching a bit of hurling one doesn’t look like the rebranding of the place in- Saturday afternoon. volved a refurbishment) but think through the grime Words: Alex Leith; painting: Jay Collins .... 11.... Covering London & the South East Custom made quality plantation and solid wood Shutters and Blinds for your home or business at very competitive prices. For a free no obligation design, survey or quick quote call us or visit us online 01273 303842 www.bellavistashutters.co.uk column ........................................... John Helmer вЂ�Working’ from home вЂ�What have you got on today?’ (though not other affective Freecell instead. Which takes This is a worrying question. disorders, such as those caused us to coffee time. My wife only asks it when she by being stared at by an alight- I’m religious about the 11am wants to add something to ing seagull in a haughty way, coffee break – fundamental- what I have on. or inadvertently viewing the ist, even. My Bialetti stovetop вЂ�Blog deadline and a Skype next-door cat’s bumhole when coffee maker is my very best conference,’ I say crisply. what you had hoped for was a friend. After a quadruple вЂ�Can you listen out for the glimpse of sky). espresso things at last start to door? I’ve got deliveries.’ Particularly admired by other hum. The blog post gets un- вЂ�Not during the Skype confer- freelancers has been the tight derway. The world expert on ence with the very important working triangle between the semantic content enrichment world expert on semantic вЂ�holy trinity’ of the writerly turns out to be your dream content enrichment whose workplace; desk, toilet and interviewee – I ask him one Dutch accent is quite hard to refrigerator. вЂ�You must never question and he talks for 45 understand, no.’ have to talk to your family at minutes. In all this I am dimly вЂ�But the rest of the time?’ all!’ they gasp. aware of activity in the street, I tend not to mention the but assume it’s another skip Muttering some- tumble dryer though. being delivered, or scaffolding thing indistinct This appliance sits adjacent being torn down. that I take to be a to my study, which means I By the time Kate returns, my comment about have to keep the door closed blog post is mostly done and male absent- to hear myself think. But with I’m feeling pretty pleased mindedness, the door closed, and the white with myself. Until I see the she starts the box groaning and whining and two red fuck-you notes from tumble dryer throbbing, I can’t hear the de- Parcelforce she’s holding. and goes out. livery men – who, it has always вЂ�He did have an extremely My working seemed to me, come and go thick Dutch accent.’ environment with the practised stealth of вЂ�You didn’t put the recycling is in some tooth fairies. out either.’ I shut the door and focus. вЂ�Did you ask me to do that?’ able. For a start, Only, this particular morning вЂ�Yes. Plus, you left the gas on.’ the study has a the thought of entering the For the first time, I notice an skylight, which phrase вЂ�semantic content en- acrid quality to the air. вЂ�You’re prevents Seasonal richment’ into Google’s little going to need a new coffee box fills me with existential maker.’ вЂ�Of course.’ respects envi- Affective Disorder dread, so I play 48 games of .... 13.... .... 14.... Photo by Adam Bronkhorst interview .......................................... mybrighton: Roger Bamber Former Fleet Street photographer Are you local? Brighton is my adopted city. I’m of Adelaide Crescent. I went closer and saw the originally from Leicester. I trained as a graphic jackets had вЂ�Community Payback’ printed on them. designer at Leicester College of Art, but also did They were felons, doing community service. That a photography course and decided to go to Fleet one sells and sells. Anything makes a picture if it’s Street with the idea of working in newspapers. done intelligently. Another time there had been a I got a job at the Daily Mail, and then, after five light covering of snow and I saw a mountain biker years, I moved to the Sun, where I worked for 19 followed by a jogger going on the promenade. I years. One afternoon back in 1973 I saw an advert photographed their tracks. That one sells a lot, too. for a Pullman worker’s cottage near Brighton What’s your favourite Brighton pub? The Bas- railway station. I came down that weekend to look ketmakers is Brighton’s classic pub, in my eyes. My at the place, and I bought the bloody thing. local – I live between Waitrose and the West Pier It’s a very photogenic city… It is, and that’s – is Temple Bar, where I have a couple of glasses of worked well for me. While I was working on the wine at lunchtime. Sun I was also sending pictures to the Observer, Where do you shop?Waitrose. I’ll never shop in mostly quirky Brighton ones, under the name Vic- Tesco again after what they did in their Palmeira tor Wild. When I left the Sun in 1988 as Murdoch Square branch, pulling down the bronze art moved the operation to Wapping, I could work for nouveau window frames and replacing them with them under my own name as a freelance. A bit later plastic ones. If I ever get the chance to sell a photo my friend Eamonn McCabe became picture editor that’s detrimental to Tesco, I take it. I Gigi is a of the Guardian and asked me to come on board wonderful shop, too, which sells coffees upstairs. and do the same for them. I was their Brighton It’s full of idiosyncrasies. and South Coast photographer for 23 years. Now What landmarks do you particularly admire? I I mostly do my own thing via the agencies Rex and always encourage people to visit the Pavilion; it’s Alamy, which showcase my work online. amazing how many people who live here have nev- Do you take your camera everywhere? It’s a er been inside it. I also love the Brunswicks – the fixture. It’s a question of keeping your eyes open. Square and the Terrace, and the other magnificent A few years back I was in Falmer and I saw they’d Georgian squares. You know they were planning to painted 31 inches of double yellow line outside the pull down the Brunswicks in the 60s? John Betje- Swan. Thirty-one inches! The Guardian didn’t like man stepped in and saved the day. it but the Telegraph and the Mail took it and the Finally, what do you think of the local press? next day there were TV crews outside the pub. The Argus used to be a good stepping stone for Do you have a routine? I get up every morning talented journalists. Now it’s much depleted. They and drive to the Promenade at seven, and walk don’t cover half the stories they ought to cover. round Hove Lawns. One day I saw three or four Having said that, I was really pleased they brought guys in hi-vis jackets painting the balustrades back more court coverage recently. Interview by AL .... 15.... brighton in history .......................................... General Election, 1964 Nessie-hunting Tory vs fervently leftist Labour man Fifty years ago, Kemptown’s MP was an Old James a 5,746 majority in the previous election, in Etonian, Loch Ness Monster-hunting Tory called 1959. But since then, the founding of Sussex Uni- David James. His CV included wartime service as versity had caused an influx of left-wing students. a Royal Naval Reserve officer, two escapes from Many of them joined the вЂ�hordes of helpers’ who a German POW camp, and 19 months on an вЂ�worked with fanaticism’ on Labour’s campaign, Antarctic expedition. the Argus reported at the time. Conservative Elected in 1959, James’ first term was disrupted volunteers were вЂ�thin on the ground’, and less the following year when, in his words, he вЂ�very enthusiastic, a Tory official later suggested. nearly died’ from вЂ�a virus of unknown origin’. His Hobden made many personal calls to voters, biographer John Robson writes that he had вЂ�a while James’ strategy involved driving 1,000 miles post-viral depression, accompanied by disturbing around Kemptown in a Land Rover, hailing voters illusions, panic attacks and phobias,’ for which he with a loudspeaker. Both candidates faced heckling had electric-shock treatment. at their meetings. One Labour rally вЂ�almost Around 1961, James became interested in Nessie, became violent’ when вЂ�a group of young hecklers and вЂ�his sense of romantic adventure and explora- produced a Conservative Party poster,’ the Argus tion – coupled with curiosity – persuaded him to reported. take a lead’ in a project to find it, Robson writes. James’ agent, Donald Arthur, accused Hobden of One Tory politician described James as вЂ�the sil- making вЂ�many unjust and unkind personal attacks’ liest Conservative MP that he knew,’ according on his opponent. And, after the Brighton Herald to the Independent. вЂ�His reputation was that he discussed his record in parliament, James wrote in was more concerned with diving in Loch Ness in to вЂ�protest with the utmost vigour… the article is search of the monster than with poverty behind so misleading and malicious that I would be fully lace curtains in genteel Brighton.’ justified in suing for libel, were it not that I disap- For the 1964 general election, there was no prove of electioneering by writ’. Liberal challenger, so James’ only competition There was good weather on election day, was Labour’s Dennis Hobden. Hobden had left Thursday October 15, and a high turnout: 76%. school at 14 and worked for the Post Office ever At the results meeting that night, вЂ�red-scarfed since, except during WWII, when he served in University of Sussex students formed a prominent the RAF. A town councillor since 1956, he was вЂ�a contingent,’ the Gazette reported. When someone fervent left-winger,’ his Times obituary said, who held up a poster of the Tory prime minister, Alec in the early fifties вЂ�spent a year as a member of the Douglas-Home, вЂ�a Labour supporter tore it to Communist Party’. shreds. He was taken out by the police.’ The Tory No Sussex constituency had ever elected a Labour winner of the Brighton Pavilion seat struggled MP, and Kemptown was a fairly safe seat, giving to be heard вЂ�above the din of socialists shouting, .... 16.... Photo from John Robson’s biography of David James, One Man in his Time stamping their feet and yelling “Tories out”.’ The count began at 9.45pm. During the meeting, James’ agent, вЂ�getting progressively drunker and more obnoxious, abused the returning officer in front of 200 constituents, trying to hit David over the head with an empty whisky bottle, while hanging on drunkenly round his neck,’ Robson writes. вЂ�He had to be forcibly evicted and taken home.’ At 2.45am, after five recounts, the mayor postponed the result till the next morning. After a further two recounts, the result was announced: Hobden had 22,308, James had 22,301. One of the recounts showed James ahead by 25, according to his biographer. вЂ�Then, to everyone’s astonishment, Arthur called for a further recount. вЂ�some deeper undisclosed communist affiliation’. This could have been a grave error arising from The more obvious explanations for the defeat are his excessive intake of alcohol; but the whole of demographic changes, Hobden being the stronger Arthur’s behaviour’ – for example, turning down candidate, and poor organisation and complacency offers of cars to help transport voters – вЂ�seems to by the Tories. point to his determination to ensure that David вЂ�Where were David James’ missing supporters?’ lost his seat.’ the Argus asked on the day of the result. вЂ�Enough The local Tories had been somewhat prone to to have swung the result fractionally his way were вЂ�internal bickering’, Robson writes, and before the in the saloon bar of the Bristol Court Hotel, election a party official called Banks had seemingly Paston Place, last night, blissfully unaware of the taken against James. Banks then вЂ�steamrollered the neck-and-neck race at the polling booth only two executive’ into appointing Arthur вЂ�without disclos- minutes’ walk away. These Tories sat at the bar and ing any of his known defects.’ For example, he вЂ�was told licensee John Harris that Mr James “doesn’t found to hold a grudge’ about having been turned need us anyway; it has been a safe seat for years”.’ down as a Conservative candidate, and вЂ�he had a Hobden’s win meant Labour entered parliament record for drinking’. with an absolute majority of four, rather than вЂ�The evidence is strong that Donald Arthur lost two. He told the Parliamentary Labour Party the David his seat, either by incompetence, or, far following year: вЂ�If I was not here there would not more likely, by design,’ Robson writes. His motive be a Labour government, so you had better listen was either вЂ�some collusive bargain with Banks’ or carefully to what I say.’ Joanna Baumann .... 17.... 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Amy Sutton, one of company Bard & Troubadour will host a storytelling the team behind the launch, explains all to Nione workshop. We’re also planning a session on weaving Meakin... and an arts and crafts workshop around the theme of Firstly, what exactly is a вЂ�fun palace’? Fun palaces space travel. The first year is a little on the modest were thought up in the 1960s by playwright Joan side but we’d like this to build and become a major Littlewood [writer of Oh! What A Lovely War} community event. and architect Cedric Price. Joan was frustrated by How have other cities interpreted the idea of the limitations of theatre spaces and institutions, a fun palace? I know London’s Roundhouse is specifically, how off-putting they could be to the running an event where people are invited to build non-initiated. She came up with the idea of a revolu- a giant brain with a set designer then work with neu- tionary venue for culture and science, made for and roscientists to discover more about how the brain with the community. It didn’t happen. There was no works. And at Brockwell Lido people will be able to funding to build such a place and people thought it swim with mermaids, try underwater photography was a crazy idea. and learn sign language. The brief is so broad that Until now… Until now. Joan would have been 100 communities can really put their stamp on what each on October 6 and the first fun palaces will throw one looks like. open their doors just before her centenary, on the Joan Littlewood was once quoted as saying weekend of October 4 & 5. Instead of one big build- вЂ�We never have enough fun in England. On the ing there will be more than 150 temporary venues all continent they have fun, but it has to be a special over the country, including one in Brighton. Some occasion in England.’ Do you think that’s true? I take place for the whole weekend, some just for half think Brighton is fairly good at having fun. It’s pretty an hour. There are fun palaces in swimming pools much a year-round fun palace. But perhaps we’ve got and ones that only exist online. But every one of better generally since the 1960s? I think Joan would them is a free celebration of arts and culture. be impressed at how far we’ve come. What can we expect from Brighton’s? The pro- Brighton Fun Palace, 11am – 5pm, Sat 4th and Sun gramme isn’t set in stone as yet but on the Saturday 5th, Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton. we’ve got Richard Robinson, director of Brighton Suitable for all ages. Free. Science Festival, giving a talk called вЂ�From The www.funpalaces.co.uk/discover/brightons-fun-palace .... 19.... Comedy festival .......................................... Sara Pascoe Sexual anthropology stand-up “I’ve got no idea, but it was something to do with willies,” says Sara Pascoe. The Perrier-nominated comedian is trying to recollect the heckle, at a Leeds student gig, which first provoked her to talk about sexual anthropology on stage. “It was very clear that I was off script. Someone afterwards said вЂ�you really have to write it up, it’s so interesting’”. It’s now a key part of her show, Sara Pascoe vs History. “The point I found very interesting was that all of the first anthropologists, people like Charles Darwin, because they were Victorian, were conditioned to believe that women innately behave in certain ways. Anyone who’s strongly conditioned filters informa- of the men that have gone before him, because the tion through how they already believe the world to be. females would have slept with lots of men, and often in That’s how they were with female sexuality. They were the same evening, or the next couple of days. writing interesting things about how men went about “And there’s вЂ�sperm selection’; sperm fighting inside mating - especially our closest relatives, chimpanzees women. If you mix different men’s sperm together they and bonobos - but they ignored all the things that the fight each other, and if a man thinks his wife is cheat- females did. ing, he releases different hormones, and his sperm live “In terms of our hominid ancestors, women have very for longer and become more aggressive; they can form active sexuality, and it’s been kind of ignored. Women a barrier on the cervix.” have always been seen as kind of passive, and they’re So why isn’t it Sara Pascoe vs Biology? “Basically the most certainly not. show is a three-pronged look at what we take into rela- “The idea of monogamy is cultural… learning the tionships with us. You have your personal relationship science of it, pair bonding is something that exists in history, then the pattern that’s set by your parents, so I nature because a baby is more likely to survive into talk about how my parents met. The history is our evo- adulthood when it has two parents investing, and lutionary history; of course, it encompasses the science sharing resources and protecting it. But it was never of it as well, but it’s really about how human beings are supposed to be that you wouldn’t have sex outside of a battleground, because you have a civilised mind, and that relationship; every single species that they thought animal instincts and drives that have propagated our was monogamous, when they’ve actually DNA-tested species. So in a really dry sense, that’s what the show’s the children, the partner is often not the father, because about, but it’s really some jokes about ex-boyfriends, females in every species often cuckold, and men sleep jokes about how my parents met, and then an explana- around as well. tion of sperm selection.” Joanna Baumann “Apparently, the shape of the human penis is to do with Sara Pascoe vs History, part of Brighton Comedy Festi- being able to act as a plunger to bring out the sperm val, Fri 24, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, 9.15pm, ВЈ13 .... 20.... Comedy festival .......................................... Dave Gorman вЂ�I just think it’s a fun thing to do’ “God, that’s more than half my life ago… there was something - I won’t get the phrasing right… I used to start with a thing about having done a gig the night before in Bury St Edmunds: вЂ�Somebody called me up and said “we’re going to Bury St Edmunds, do you want a gig?”, and I thought they said “we’re going to to go to a workshop for aspiring comedians, which bury Noel Edmonds, do you want to dig?” I’m a fool Frank Skinner was running as part of an Amnesty to myself really, the night before that I was in Bury St International fundraising tour. Tickets cost ВЈ2. “It was Chegwin.’ Something along those lines. All I can tell my friend saying вЂ�you should go to that’; that was the you is that it used to work. I’m not selling it as best I moment it occurred to me I was actually allowed, it can right now.” was possible for me.” This is Dave Gorman, trying to recall one of his early Skinner encouraged him, and later got him a benefit- stand-up jokes, from when he was 19. Though best gig spot, then a paid gig, providing вЂ�the most blessed known for his вЂ�narrative shows’, like Are You Dave start in comedy that you could ever hope for,’ Gor- Gorman and Googlewhack Adventure, he’s since gone man told the Independent. back to more straightforward stand-up, which is how Did he get nervous before his early gigs? “No, I’ve he started out. never been a nervous performer… there are some He’d developed a comedy obsession in his teens, people who have to throw up before they go on stage, which was made somewhat difficult by the fact his and things. If I was one of them I just wouldn’t do it. hometown had no comedy club. He would follow it But the thing is, it’s fun. keenly on radio and TV, and go to Edinburgh every “The language that surrounds it is very dramatic. If year to watch something like 50 shows in a week, you have a great gig you killed, and if you have a bad mostly comedy. “I was in awe of it all, and I don’t gig you died. Actually neither of those things are true. think it occurred to me that [being a comedian] was It’s more collaborative than that: An audience and you even a thing you were allowed to do.” had fun together. You enjoyed it, they enjoyed it. The So he went to Manchester Uni to study maths, which language suggesting victory or triumph, or sometimes was “absolutely the path of least resistance. I’d never they died; none of that makes sense to me. I just think sat down and thought about what career I wanted or it’s a fun thing to do.” Steve Ramsey what these qualifications would lead to; I was just do- Dave Gorman Gets Straight to the Point (The Power- ing the next thing put in front of me by adults.” Point), part of the Brighton Comedy Festival, Sat 11, Aware of his fixation, Gorman’s uni flatmates told him Dome Concert Hall, 8pm, ВЈ21 .... 21.... WIN TICKETS This is the 13th year of the Comedy Festival, and whilst that may be unlucky for some, it is definitely good luck for you! Viva and the Comedy Festival have teamed up to give you the chance to win one of 13 pairs of tickets to comedy festival shows including Chris Martin, Briefs: The Second Coming, Shappi Khorsandi, Best of the Fest and more. Simply email anya@vivabrighton.com with your name, postal address and email for your chance to win! Best of luck. comedy festival .......................................... Romesh Ranganathan Crawley’s finest So Romesh Ranganathan is on the Royal Mile That’s when I decided to try it again. The first gig in Edinburgh with his mum, who’s embarrassing was a one-off aberration, and it was in Brighton that him by filming one of the human statues. This is I actually started doing it properly.” August 2014. Romesh has only been a full time He didn’t really tell his colleagues, or his students. comedian for about two years; before that, he was a But they started coming to some of his early gigs, maths teacher, fitting in gigs after school. He’s been in front of sometimes unappreciative audiences. performing at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, but has “I knew that teachers used to come, and they’d go a policy that he never wants to be told if reviewers, вЂ�Jesus, I think Romesh is having some sort of crisis’.” or journalists, or Perrier Award judges, are in the His students were “very supportive,” though it audience. Which means that when his agent rings “sort of feels a bit humiliating” to struggle in front with the news, that he’s been nominated, it’s a real of them. “You’ve got to maintain an illusion as a shock, a “proper X Factor moment of surprise; you teacher that you’re some sort of authority figure, know when they go вЂ�AAHMAAHGAAD’”. But and you can’t do that when you’ve failed to land a despite his sudden outburst, the living statue doesn’t knob gag in some pub, and they’ve seen it happen.” move, not at all. That wasn’t why he quit teaching, though. “I’d got That’s how Romesh remembers it, anyway. “I think through the difficult phase by the time I left teach- we ended up leaving a tip; if that statue can maintain ing.” The problem was that he was getting too many that level of professionalism in that context, good gigs and not enough sleep. “My marking policy be- for you mate, well done.” came a lot more light touch, put it that way. Lesson Romesh, who grew up in Crawley planning was cursory.” Being merely “functional” as and still lives there, had become a teacher wasn’t fair to his students, he decided. a teacher partly because “I had He doesn’t sound like he misses teaching that much. a terrible maths teacher at He’d been getting disillusioned anyway, “not with school, so I thought it’d be teaching in itself but the moving of the goalposts, nice to try and be a good one. in terms of what teachers are expected to do.” “But I knew I wanted to do And, as he reveals – an exclusive for Viva [stand up] once, give it a go.” Brighton readers – “exam invigila- So he got himself a place tion is dull as shit, mate”. on a new-act night in Joanna Baumann Shoreditch, without telling Romesh Ranganathan: anyone he knew. It was a di- Rom Wasn’t Built in a saster – “not only were they Day. Part of Brighton not laughing, they looked Comedy Festival. Thurs angry” – but “I still enjoyed 23, Brighton Dome it. 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Mark Stewart Pop Group frontman “The reason the Pop ing of dub, funk, Group formed was avant-garde noise the kind of [punk] with paranoid, often anti-hero thing, that politically charged, anybody could do it. lyrics,’ in the Guard- Just a gang of mates ian’s words. Having from two different released two studio schools, suddenly albums, the band we had the same split in 1981, not sort of shoes on, or reforming until something, and said: 2010. вЂ�You go and get a Stewart was quoted drum-kit, you get a bass…’” as saying, in 2005, вЂ�people are offering me stupid This is Mark Stewart, frontman of the Pop Group. money. To do one cabaret-pop-group-thing.’ He says Though musically inexperienced when they formed now, “they were, and still are,” but he continues to in 1977, they were evidently quite successful quite refuse. Instead, the reformed Pop Group are playing quickly. “When we were still at school, we got to tour their early-recordings compilation We Are Time on with Patti Smith.” tour, and working on new material which “doesn’t Those kind of experiences were “like going on a sound anything like the Pop Group. school trip, because we were a gang of mates, and “It’s the first time for ages that I’ve been in a situation we’d be taking the piss out of each other on the where I really don’t know what’s going to happen in plane, on the train, even in the clubs. Then we started the studio. We’re going to bang a lot of stuff down, doing it in meetings, with Seymour Stein and big let it happen, let it grow, breathe, mutate into some- [executives]… It’s like Enid Blyton, Five go Mad at thing else, see what that is, and keep it really kind of the Seaside, you know? People don’t really get that; feral. It’s weird for me; I’m going completely off piste. some people think the Pop Group are this stern, “My mum was a childminder. You know the plastic serious thing. things, where there’s a round brick and a square “Those [political] subjects I’m talking about, it’s life brick? These little kids would spend all day trying to to me, it’s reality to me, it’s not separate to anything put the square brick into the round hole. How long else, but there’s the real humour, the taking the piss have I been doing that? But then, after a while, some out of each other, and breaking down boundaries. sparks happen, it catches on fire, the house burns The humour amongst the band is kind of what makes down, and in the embers maybe you find a ring which us. It’s this thing, that play makes you free; we’re not you take to the shop. Don’t ask me, mate, I’m as too self-conscious to put a backward saxophone on, much interested [as anyone] in seeing what happens or play a children’s toy. When you’re messing about, with this thing.” Steve Ramsey something happens.” The Pop Group, Sat 25, Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, 7pm, In the Pop Group’s case, this was вЂ�a chaotic merg- ВЈ17.50, www.thepopgroup.net .... 25.... Resident Music Dome Box Office Union Records Music’s Not Dead (Bexhill) Pebbles (Eastbourne shows) The Vinyl Frontier (Eastbourne) Venue if applicable seetickets.com ticketweb.co.uk Age restrictions may apply. 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Steve Hackett Ex-Genesis guitarist “Pete phoned me up, because Hackett has said Gabriel вЂ�sold the he could tell that I was obvi- band to me… [as] a songwrit- ously a fellow lunatic,” says the ers’ collective’. He says now: “I guitarist Steve Hackett, of how imagined that we would all bring he was recruited for Genesis in in our own songs, and the band 1971. “I thought it might last a would record songs as designed year, because most bands lasted by everyone democratically, but it about a week in those days, didn’t really work like that. What and a year seemed like a very tended to happen was, I think, long time for me when I was that when Tony [Banks] came 21. Of course, I stayed for six up with ideas, Mike Rutherford or seven.” tended to vote with him, in order Hackett had grown up “listen- to sort of retain a power base ing to the Beatles, Bach and within the band. I think you tend- blues,” and spent his late teens ed to have to get the cooperation doing menial jobs while trying of Tony and Mike in order to get to recruit a band who were “really serious about try- anything through, really, as they voted as a bloc… ing to push the envelope”. Eventually, Peter Gabriel Great music came out of it, there’s no doubt about it, responded to an ad Hackett had placed in Melody but nonetheless, you’re dealing with the dominance Maker, which said: вЂ�Guitarist/writer seeks receptive of two very strong characters, I think.” musicians determined to strive beyond existing, But, when Peter Gabriel started developing a theat- stagnant musical forms’. rical performance style, “he didn’t bother to try and When he joined, Genesis had released two albums, put it through the committee, because if he had, it but weren’t yet a mainstream success; Hackett recalls would have been turned down. a package tour where they were the opening act, “I think the theatrical performance style was the ahead of Van Der Graaf Generator and Lindisfarne. thing that first caught the ear, or the eye, of the “I remember being very nervous [on stage] in the press, and although we were doing the same songs early days,” Hackett says. Before his third gig with live before Pete started to depict the action, without Genesis, at the Lyceum Theatre, “I was practically that the band might have been an also-ran. No mat- throwing up in the wings. I’d rehearsed everything ter what we may have achieved musically, the fact is except leaving the stage, and it was the sound mixer, that we weren’t getting reviews and we weren’t get- Richard, who came up at the end and said: вЂ�Steve, ting front pages of music papers until Pete dressed the gig’s finished, mate, you can leave the stage.’ He up in his wife’s red dress and wore a fox’s head.” took me by the arm and led me away from my guitar Words: Steve Ramsey; Photo: Tina Korhonen stool, like some shell-shock victim – is the battle still Steve Hackett: Genesis Extended, Wed 22, Brighton going on?” Centre, 6pm, ВЈ29.50-ВЈ27.50. .... 27.... classical music .......................................... Rome: Popes, Patronage and Power Machiavellian antics at the Vatican “They were like any other “No, actually, I think the worst monarchs of the time, these pope I’ve come across was popes. They fought to get Innocent XIII,” Roberts says. power, they used corruption “Apart from having possibly and bribery to get elected; they fathered as many as 100 children, bought votes. Once they were all called вЂ�cousins’ and вЂ�nephews’, there, they were concerned he promoted the slave trade, about getting as much money encouraged witch-hunts all over as they could to keep all their Germany, and bribed his way mistresses and children. They into office. He gave power to tended to have an amazing the Spanish inquisition. He was number of вЂ�nephews’, who they so violent; I can’t find anything good about him.” put into top jobs, just as a king or a prince would do.” Those who objected were How about some of the others? “Well, they’re all fairly powerless to do anything; “not if they wanted pretty bad actually… There’s one that looks as to stay alive… there were an awful lot of assassina- though he was going to be a reformer, Marcellus II. tions going on.” But actually he was only pope for 22 days, so didn’t This is Brighton Early Music Festival co-founder have much chance to become the usual nepotist, etc.” Deborah Roberts, sitting in a quiet-ish coffee shop Despite all this, the Renaissance popes were great and discussing Renaissance popes, sometimes need- patrons of the arts, and Rome was “a huge musical ing to check the printed notes she brought along. centre” at the time. “In some cases, I think the popes “There are so many popes we could refer to, particu- genuinely loved the arts,” Roberts says, though also larly in the second half of the programme, and some “it was a kind of currency of power. вЂ�I’ve got this of them only lasted a few days.” composer or artist; you haven’t got one as famous The programme is Rome: Popes, Patronage and as me’. It’s a little bit like trading players in football Power, which Roberts is directing, and singing teams now.” soprano in, for this year’s Festival. As well as Allegri’s “I think some people will be shocked” at the tales of Miserere, and works by other Vatican composers of corruption, Roberts says, “but they’ll have to realise the mid-late 15th and mid-late 16th centuries, the that life was a lot more openly brutal then than it is performance will include a narration on the papal now. Life was often short and violent with a lot of corruption and vice of the time. extremes, but there was great beauty and creativity I tell her I’ve read in a Reuters article that late-15th- there as well, so it’s a fascinating world.” Steve Ramsey century pope Alexander VI, of the notorious Borgia Sat 25, 8pm, St Bart’s Church, ВЈ16/ВЈ14. Promenade family, вЂ�is generally agreed to have been the worst tickets (non-seated) available for ВЈ5. BREMF prom- ever’, and was alleged to have вЂ�presided over more enade passes, giving entry to almost every event, are orgies than Masses.’ ВЈ50. bremf.org.uk/lovemusic .... 29.... art ......................... focus on: Assembly вЂ�Assisted self-portraits’ by Anthony Luvera “I invited Odette, but I’m afraid she couldn’t make it.” commissioned by the Brighton Photo Fringe to create a new body of work to be exhibited at the Phoenix Gallery throughout the festival. The lady in question (see overleaf) is one of the subjects (he calls them вЂ�participants’) of his project, Assembly, featuring portraits of homeless people in Brighton. Or what he calls вЂ�assisted self-portraits’, to be precise, since Odette, having been given some training by Anthony, took the picture herself. Look closely, and you can see the cable shutter release in her hand. Photo by Anthony Luvera, from Assembly I’m in Red Roaster, chatting with Anthony Luvera, Anthony first worked with homeless people back in 2001. the focus, and how to check the composition, and the way He wondered what his images would have looked like had she was represented in the photograph.” She took him to the homeless people been on his side of the camera; he’s the street where she was born, and went to school. The been developing that idea ever since. building was bombed in the war; her father rebuilt it with He’s been working on this particular project in Brighton his own hands. for a couple of years now. For eighteen months he volun- “By representing other people’s point of view I hope to teered on Friday mornings at First Base, a drop-in centre offer a more complex picture than if the work was simply at St Stephen’s Hall in Montpelier Place, inviting the from my own perspective,” he says. “There can’t be a вЂ�clients’ there to get to know how to use a medium-format perfect way to document other people’s experience, but camera, and a digital sound recorder. He’s also been there can be better ways.” working with the residents of the Brighton Housing Trust The exhibition will also feature recordings made while project Phase One in Oriental Place. In order to create Anthony discussed the photographic process with the an assisted self-portrait he asks participants to take him to participants, and while he was rehearsing in St Stephen’s places in the city that are important to them. There, he House with the Cascade Chorus, a community choir for teaches them the modus operandi of portraiture. people in recovery. The photographs will be 60 by 40 “Odette has been coming along to the photography drop- inches, вЂ�more or less life size’, and hung at a level whereby in sessions I run for six months or so and this was the the eyeline of the participants is higher than that of the second time we had met to do an assisted self-portrait,” audience. “Most people are used to looking down on he tells me. “She was very interested in the process and homeless people,” he says, “and it will be interesting for showed an aptitude for it. I taught her to use the flash and the audience to know what it feels like to be looked down the cable shutter release and how to tether it to the laptop, upon.” Alex Leith and how to alter the white balance and the exposure and Assembly, Phoenix Gallery, Sat 4th- Sun 26th .... 31.... .... 32.... Assisted self-portrait of Odette Antoniou by Anthony Luvera 2013-14 .... 33.... Assisted self-portrait of Ben Evans by Anthony Luvera 2013-14 graffiti Photos by Kevin Meredith ................................... Aroe, graffitist Neither vandal, nor street artist I know who I’m expecting to meet as I approach the hoardings surrounding the site of the Brighton i360, but the man I see standing, mug of tea in hand, chatting to a couple of police officers is not exactly who I had in mind. Aroe, one of the most respected graffiti artists in Brighton, is quick to tell me that he’s just вЂ�a 44-year-old man with a mortgage and 5 kids’. But the stories he has to tell are anything but your aver- and other graffiti artists in Brighton have been met age dad anecdotes. with a greater acceptance and appreciation than they He says not to bother with the usual вЂ�boring’ ques- would otherwise. вЂ�My greatest tool in my graffiti tions (how long have you been doing graffiti?) so arsenal is my ability to communicate with people’ he we get straight to talking about the time he almost tells me, unlike the graffiti artists who call them- got trapped in the Madrid subway while trying to selves вЂ�illegal writers’, the ones who вЂ�haven’t got the paint a train with the passengers still inside. вЂ�We get-up-and-go to deal with social situations.’ hooked up with this gang of Madrid graffiti writers Aroe earns a living by doing graffiti. But there is a with our cans and we waited in the station and the very definite line between what he does and street train comes in – this guy gets on the train and pulls art: вЂ�graffiti doesn’t exist in order to be sold, it exists the brakes, and we start painting the train with the to be itself.’ Graffiti, he says, is вЂ�the promotion of an people in it.’ He tells me they had to escape from individual’, it’s вЂ�honest’ and вЂ�real’. Street art, on the the subway by setting off the fire alarms, putting the other hand, is created вЂ�in bedrooms, in universities, whole station into lockdown. вЂ�It was idiotic. But once in studios, and then installed in the street’. Graffiti you’ve had a taste of proper graffiti, everything else artists often find themselves compared to artists like is diet. You need the real sugar.’ Banksy, who use art to put across political or social Aroe is quite upfront in telling me that graffiti has messages. вЂ�What Banksy does is absolutely genius. got him into trouble more than once. вЂ�They tried But it’s not graffiti, it’s art.’ to put me in prison in 2007 for 5 years, but I got The coming together of old and new, the heritage away with it.’ Watching him paint this huge piece in of the West Pier and the futuristic i360 which is to the middle of the afternoon, it’s easy to forget that come, the changing perceptions of graffiti as an art graffiti is still illegal, even in Brighton where famous form are perfectly summed up by a woman wheeling graffiti spots have become major tourist attractions. her elderly grandmother past the scene: вЂ�It’s not van- By being open and upfront about their work, Aroe .... dalism anymore, Nan, it’s art.’ Rebecca Cunningham 34.... art ......................... focus on: Jan von Holleben The Amazing Analogue: How We Play Photography To generate this Brighton Photo Biennial exhibi- made filters for special effects.” For his exhibition, The tion, the curators of Hove Museum and Photoworks Amazing Analogue, Jan reflects the вЂ�abstract character’ co-commissioned German photographer Jan von and вЂ�wild variety of images’ shown on the slides, but Holleben to collaborate on this exhibition inspired in a way that is adapted to today’s viewers. by a box of Kromskop projector slides made by early Jan often involves children in his work, because film-makers in Hove. He was invited to work together of their uninhibited creativity. This playfulness is with a group of children to create this playful explora- something inherent in all his work, but as he explains, tion of where these images really came from, why “most adults have forgotten their skill to learn they were made and what they might actually depict. through play.” His own work ethic is summed up Surprisingly, given their abstract and slightly surreal perfectly by a great Mark Twain quote: “What work I nature, all of the images in the exhibition were cre- have done I have done because it had been play. If it ated entirely in analogue, without the use of digital had been work I shouldn’t have done it.” tools such as Photoshop. “All we applied is traditional Each image in the exhibition begins as a discussion: techniques of collage and manipulation,” Jan explains. “We talk a lot with each other and the kids make “Once you look closely enough and go through the sketches of their ideas.” From these sketches the entire exhibition, one will understand not only how final images begin to take shape, with the children’s the images were made, but also how that process re- opinions and feedback guiding the process. Some lates to all the machines and magic that was used and details of the images come directly from the children’s applied to photography some 100 years ago.” sketches, and some from a culmination of the ideas Each image in the exhibition responds to a single they communicate during the workshop sessions. “I slide from Hove Museum’s archive, and reflects the see myself as editor and director in such workshops.” way that the photographic pioneers playfully invented Through The Amazing Analogue, Jan hopes to re- all sorts of techniques and equipment in order to ignite our playfulness and creativity, and to show his achieve imagery that had never been seen before. “It audience that “life is quite simple once you know the was quite amazing at the time to see moving images, rules and how to play it.” Rebecca Cunningham artistic editing of images and creative use of hand.... Hove Museum, 4 October - 3 March, bpb.org.uk 35.... 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My favourite is Dickensian workshop in Portslade filled with young European sweet chestnut, because it’s golden, beauti- bloods that get off on making things. ful, easy to work, with fantastic grain and light in Where do you look to locally for inspiration? I weight; and elm, вЂ�cos it’s just wild, a mad timber. think Brighton’s sense of freedom and arty bohemian Tell us a secret... Secret mitred dovetails can’t be seen nature is conducive to creativity. It’s the atmosphere so nobody knows if they’re really there. ChloГ« King more than the place. www.fowlerco.co.uk .... 37.... l i t e r at u r e .......................................... W h at e v e r yo u d o d o n ’ t s to p On November 1st, nearly half a write my story, I ask myself, “Why million writers around the world go through it again?” Every year will step into the arena and tangle the same thing happens: life gets with the beast that is NaNoW- in the way. By day twelve, I will be riMo (National Novel Writing so far behind the word count that I Month). At least 3,000 of those will consider copying articles from live in Brighton. NaNoWriMo obscure magazines just to keep up. is a peculiar American inven- I do improve year on year, however, tion established in 1999, which and last year I counted my best tally: encourages would-be wordsmiths 30,000 words. All writers know that to knock off a 50,000-word novel it is easier to revise something, even in a month. You register for free a rambling mess, than to stare at a on a website that logs your word blank page. I might not have a coher- count, you download pep talks from authors, and ent, fully formed novel at the end of November, seek (mental) help from other writers via internet but I will have the start of one. And that’s what forums or in person, locally. If you reach 50,000 keeps me going. words by 11.59pm on November 30th, you receive Let NaNoWriMo foster in you a love of storytell- a badge of honour! How hard can it be? Much ing made real through discipline and, if you do harder than you think. I should know – this will be want to finish that damned book you have been my fourth year. writing in your head for years (even decades), don’t As the time approaches and I accumulate piles of let the discipline wither come December 1st. scribbled notes planning copious twists and turns Barbara Doherty for Black Mustard for a plot that will inevitably change as I start to See the Brighton forum at www.nanowrimo.org. bookends Festival season. You thought it was all autumnal Lantern Fayre on The Level over. But if anywhere knows how to offers up a literature tent for the first remain festive all year round, Brighton time - supported by local publishers does. Highlights at Shoreham WordFest Salt Publishing and Myriad Editions - include Brighton resident Ed Hogan alongside the arts and crafty festival’s regular harvest of short films, mulled (pictured) talking about his best-selling novels for teenagers, and Nigel Pickford, the cider, Circus PaZazz, ska, jazz and blues. world’s foremost authority on the whereabouts of Shoreham Wordfest until Sun 12th, tickets from high value shipwrecks. вЂ�You can almost taste the www.shorehamwordfest.com Lantern Fayre, Fri 3rd salt, feel the heft of the gold bars,’ says one review - Sun 5th, free except for Circus PaZazz. of Pickford’s new book. For land-lubbers, the www.lanternfayre.co.uk .... 38.... l i t e r at u r e .......................................... Girl interrupted Hannah вЂ�Twenty Questions’ Vincent Debut novelist Hannah Vin- an adult in the same situation cent is as peripatetic as a pop- might be. up restaurant, as elusive as the Sounds technical. You don’t Scarlet Pimpernel; shortlisted teach creative writing, do you? for literary prizes from here You guessed it. I teach for the to the northern border, she is Open University and I’m doing much in demand. We caught a PhD in Creative Writing at up with her at home in Bright- Sussex at the same time. My the- on. In her unsettling first book sis title is The Politics of Form: Alarm Girl, she examines grief Female Autobiographic Writing and loss from the viewpoint of and the вЂ�Social Novel’. Pretty an eleven-year-old girl. serious stuff! I plan to write a Your novel is set in South novel as part of my research. But Africa. Have you been there I was a playwright first. I studied yourself? In my mid twenties drama at East Anglia. One of my I travelled through Africa on a plays was put on at the Royal truck with twenty strangers. It Court and Hang was on at the was during Apartheid so we couldn’t go into South National Theatre Studio. I also worked for the Africa. My protagonist, Indigo, loses her mother. I BBC as a television script editor. Now I study part used a foreign country as a metaphor to represent time, I write part time and I teach part time. It all the otherness that a child without a parent would adds up to a full-time occupation. experience. You write plays too! What are you on? I’ve Indigo is a serious girl. What were you like always kept myself busy, even when the kids were as a child? When I was younger, I was known as younger. Creative practice is an inner resource. Hannah Twenty Questions Vincent because of You draw on it and don’t rely on other people to my interrogative bent. As I approach middle-age validate who you are. I feel sustained by my work. though, I’m afraid I ask fewer questions – not a Would you rather jump in a patch of nettles good thing. or queue for five hours in the passport office? What is the hardest thing about writing in a Neither of these experiences sounds too pleasant child’s voice? The challenge is to give a full pic- – oh, I guess that’s the point, right? Ok, much as I ture of what’s going on, without making the child prefer the implied rural setting of the nettle patch sound older than her years. In Alarm Girl, I added to the hideousness of the passport office, I’ll stand details in descriptions that the girl wouldn’t neces- in the queue…with a good book to transport me sary observe in her narrative - like the expressions elsewhere. Black Mustard on her father’s face, or her grandparent’s body Alarm Girl by Hannah Vincent is published by language. So she didn’t have to be all knowing, like Myriad Editions. .... 39.... l i t e r at u r e .......................................... Kate Tempest Next-generation poet 28-year-old poet, songstress and that if you get closer to the way rap-artist Kate Tempest’s new work things were, you can get closer to Hold Your Own is hotly anticipated the way things are. The ancient by the poetry fraternity, for whom stories are inherently dark and Tempest has become an almost deep and about the real things in talismanic representation of modern humanity. These days we shy away talent. She’s been named one of the from all that is bloody and venge- 20 Next Generation Poets by the ful. I want the truth. Poetry Book Society and has just Many of the poems in your new been shortlisted for the Mercury collection are overtly sensual. Prize for her latest album, Every- Are you comfortable explor- thing Down. ing love and sexuality? No. Not Your poems speak to the next comfortable at all. But I thought generation. Do you think children it was time to address that stuff. should be made to read? They have to find it Tiresias has lots of sex. He finds out what he likes on their own terms. If you say вЂ�read a poem, don’t and doesn’t like. What he enjoys. In the media, go on Facebook’, what are they going to say? No, female sexuality is represented in ways that have of course. I don’t think you need to encourage always alienated me. Tiresias changes gender – children or teenagers. They will seek out ways of from a man to a woman. I wanted to face up to the expressing themselves. difficulty of my own sexuality, and I saw a way of Do you write as fluently as you rap? A first draft doing it through Tiresias’s story. I wanted to give an has energy and force but it can also be sloppy. It can honest response. drift and feel immature. I am learning all the time – You’re a bright young thing. How are you going now I go with the drive but then go back and make to avoid becoming cynical? I don’t know, but this it clearer and cleaner. I am more disciplined. Back afternoon I went to a friend’s play. As I was watch- when I started, when I was rapping at strangers on ing, I felt connected again. Great work takes you buses at sixteen, I felt the poems happened to me. back to the core. It’s about staying in contact with Now I feel party to the process. great work, great art, great friends. All these things Hold Your Own is woven around Tiresias, the make you feel. That’s the point of everything, isn’t transgender blind prophet who appears in many it? The book tour, the gigs, the media frenzy – they of the Greek myths. How did you come across separate you from what matters. Black Mustard him? My granddad was into Roman stuff. I grew Kate Tempest is performing Hold Your Own at the up in a big noisy family in South London. There Ropetackle Art Centre, Shoreham, 27th. Tickets from were always books in the house. I went back to the www.citybooks.co.uk. Everything Down tour, The ancients in order to understand myself. I struggled Haunt, Brighton, 13th November with them. Didn’t get it. But later it seemed obvious www.katetempest.co.uk .... 41.... the lowdown on... ..................................... Spike Milligan Goon, says John Henty... but not forgotten The Goon Show was an awakening for young people, in a sense. The days of rock and roll were beginning to move, but in terms of humour, it was all very format. Milligan threw out all the rulebooks, introduced silly noises, silly words, and was surreal in the strict sense of the word. In fact, I would say MilPhoto of John Henty by Hannah Rowsell ligan almost invented surreal. Undeniably a lot of the Goon Show stuff is infantile now, but you’ve got to see it in context: at the time it was revolutionary. I went to a recording of the Goon Show, one dark Sunday night around 1957. It was complete mayhem. Milligan was always demanding the most impossible sound effects, like someone being hit with a sock full of custard. He could be very demanding, if it wasn’t the right sort of custard or the wrong coloured sketches and books, he created his own world. sock. It was absolutely brilliant, inspiring stuff. At one point, during an interview, I suggested to The Goon Show nearly killed Milligan, because him that he wouldn’t like to be called a clown. He he had to write a different script, week after week, he came back quite sharply on that, and said: вЂ�Oh no, that had breakdowns. He was a very troubled man, but would be lovely, I would love to be called a clown.’ whenever I met him he was quite gentle. You never You could never say a straight sentence to Spike knew which Milligan you were going to meet, actually. without him reinterpreting it. I said to him, вЂ�Spike, On more than one occasion, I met more than one welcome to Eastbourne’, and he immediately said Spike Milligan. вЂ�you’re welcome to Eastbourne’. He was a very, very His war service must have had a serious effect on funny man. him. His books about it are unbelievable. What is My favourite Milliganism… this is a Goon Show so remarkable about them, to me, is his recall. Every quote: вЂ�Eccles’, вЂ�Yes’, вЂ�Why are you not wearing any incident, not only on the battlefront, but also in the trousers Eccles?’, вЂ�Ooh, um, it’s lunchtime’, вЂ�What did bedroom… He was obviously quite an attractive you have for lunch Eccles?’, вЂ�My trousers’. That, to bloke, and had lots of girlfriends. me, encapsulates it. As told to Joanna Baumann He wrote numerous books largely aimed at kids, John Henty presents Goon – But Not Forgotten, a because he loved children far more than grown-ups. celebration of Milligan and the Goons, with Sarah Sell- Ideally, I think Spike would have liked to live in ers and Jane Milligan. Including clips of Milligan being Spike’s world, though to describe it would be almost interviewed by Henty, excerpts from a rare Milligan impossible. He probably had an image of what it stand-up performance on the Palace Pier, and a Ying would be like, but it was so far removed from reality. Tong Song sing-along. All profits go to local charities. That’s why, in a sense, with the programmes and Sun 5th, Komedia, 8pm, ВЈ15, 0845 293 8480 .... 43.... .... 44.... Photos by Hannah Rowsell talking shop .......................................... EatonNott A вЂ� ll of our items have a story’ What can shoppers expect to find at Eaton- get requests for clothing, shop displays and pieces Nott? Anything from interior design products to for bars and restaurants. We also get a lot of pets fashion accessories, unusual antiques to general – quite often people don’t know what they want oddities. All of our items have a story or a history, immediately, so we’ll look after the body and work something that our consumer society has lost. Ev- with them to design a piece which preserves the erything in the shop is a conversation piece – each natural qualities and beauty of the animal. item changes the character of the room. The only Is there anything you wouldn’t want to sell? I criterion for it being in the shop is that me and Jon don’t sell vintage furs, because I like to do every- [Nott] like it. thing myself. As a rule, we don’t pay anyone for the What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever animals we use. We don’t want to encourage killing sold? It’s hard to say which is the most unusual, of animals, so everything we sell has to be ethically because what might seem strange to you probably sourced. And generally I won’t use anything exotic, seems perfectly normal to me. We’ve sold human unless it has come from nearby. So at the moment foetuses. We also sell a lot of old prosthetics, mainly we have an emu skeleton and some fashion accesso- Victorian, but Brighton Museum recently bought ries made using its feathers in the shop, but this was some World War I prosthetics to use in an exhibi- brought in to us from a farm where it had died. tion. We also had a fantastic Victorian, Jack the Have you had any negative response to using Ripper-style post-mortem set, with the bone saws dead animals in your products? At first we did – and everything in it. people saw the fur and immediately we were made Where do you source the items you sell? a target. But generally the only negative com- Most of the animals we find ourselves, or they are ments come from people who don’t understand brought in by farmers or gamekeepers. Some come the concept of the shop. Once people understand from butchers or abattoirs, where there are parts of where the animals we use are coming from, they the animal which wouldn’t have been used other- can appreciate that it’s not about celebrating death, wise. The antique and Victorian items often come it’s about saying: вЂ�Isn’t nature amazing?’ from markets or general foraging around. Jess Eaton interviewed by Rebecca Cunningham Do you work on customer commissions? Yes, we 26 Preston Road, www.eatonnott.co.uk .... 45.... local hero #1 .......................................... Zac Lanza Roof raiser It all started, I guess, when I met this girl with frizzy pink hair who’d just been back from volunteering in East Africa, who really inspired me. I’d just finished at Bhasvic, I didn’t want to go to university, and I didn’t have many options. I found this organisation called IVHQ who send volunteers out to different places, and within two months they’d sent me out on a teaching job in Tanzania. A couple of other volunteers were looking for sponsors to fund kids who couldn’t afford the school fees anymore. I decided to get involved, and that’s when I first met Mama Mary. She was living in a tiny one-room wooden house, with the walls at about sixty degrees, with her seven daughters, one of whom was pregnant. There were holes in the roof so in the rainy season they all slept together, and went for it. We built a three-room in the wet. There were rats and cockroaches all over. L-shaped house with an outside toilet. I knocked It wasn’t Mama Mary’s fault – she was as hard as their old shack down and moved them in on De- nails and did what work she could pick up. It was cember 24th 2012: they were very Christian, and circumstances – her husband was a drunkard who it was my Christmas present. I also made sure the desperately wanted a son, and disappeared for years family wouldn’t go hungry by digging a vegetable on end. garden and giving Mama Mary money to set up a I’d never met a woman quite like her, actually, and I business buying vegetables in bulk from the market made a connection with the family and kept visiting and selling them on at a stall. The whole thing cost at weekends and after school, bringing them food about ВЈ7,000, and that includes a fair bit of me being and money for soap and stuff. Before I went back to ripped off, which won’t happen again! England, Mama Mary asked me if I’d fix the roof. Since, with the help of a donation of ВЈ5,000 from I had an idea. I spoke to the director of the school, Rizzle Kicks, I’ve built a second house for another got a few quotes and told Mama Mary: “I’m going to family – Mama Dora and her three children – and build you a house.” a couple of toilets. I’ve also set up a registered When I went back to Brighton I contacted a few charity – The House that Zac Built. At the moment charities, but none of them really worked out, so I I’m looking to get 500-800 people to donate ВЈ5-10 decided to do it myself. I went out to Australia, got a a month so we can build at least a house a month job cleaning out air-conditioning systems, and came out there. You can find out more on our website, home with enough money to fulfil my promise. thehousethatzacbuilt.org, or follow us on Twitter So I went back to Tanzania, got a team of builders @thehousethatZbuilt. As told to Alex Leith .... 46.... brighton maker .......................................... Maxim Grew Intrepid Camera inventor What is The Intrepid Camera? It’s a re-design of Is it easy to carry around? The camera weighs the classic 4x5 field camera. Large-format photogra- about 900g and folds down compactly enough to fit phy is very close to my heart, so I wanted to design in your backpack. This was an important aspect of a camera which would make it more affordable the design; I wanted the user to be able to escape the and accessible. The Intrepid Camera is a compact, working world and enjoy photography, without the lightweight alternative to the traditional bellows burden of carrying a large piece of equipment. camera design. How long do you think this format of photog- Will complete beginners be able to use it? Yes. raphy can last? I think that analogue photography While providing all of the functions you’d expect will always exist. Many photographers are beginning from a large-format camera, The Intrepid Camera to see that the speed of digital photography can is designed for simplicity. It will come with physical make it somewhat clinical, whereas the process of instructions and will also be part of an online com- using analogue photography is very human. It has a munity, where both new and experienced users can certain warmth, in the same way that listening to a share tips and tricks. vinyl record has a richer quality to it than listening Can the camera achieve different qualities of to a CD. The way that analogue photography is used photos? The user can manually focus the camera by continues to change and fluctuate, but the camera varying the distance between the lens and the film. itself will last. The Intrepid Camera can be used with either instant Interview by Rebecca Cunningham film or sheet film, giving the user complete freedom Find The Intrepid Camera on Kickstarter, or find out and control over the photos they produce. more at www.theintrepidcamera.co.uk .... 47.... food column ........................................... ChloГ« King Ration rubbish, not staples When I was a kid, I ate a whole more complex. It’s not just range: microwave curries, chilli nutritional info; we consider con carne, Quorn fillets, fish вЂ�n’ price, origin and ethics. chips and, annually, my body- I read a Cambridge University weight in pasta pesto. You see, study recently, predicting that my mum loved to cook, but as carbon emissions from meat a disabled person, she couldn’t consumption alone will create much. Our meal plans improved climate catastrophe by 2050. when Mum had a carer who en- The authors advise eating no joyed cooking, and when I got more than two portions of old enough to experiment. red meat a week, but it’s not even that simple. On greenra- Fast forward a bit, and I lost both my folks in their mid-fifties. Among many tionbook.com I read tomatoes produce more CO2 things, it led me to wonder whether diet helped emissions than pork; this is all confusing, and I three of my grandparents live between 30 and 40 haven’t even touched on food waste. years longer than their children. Additional EU food-labelling legislation arrives in My grandma Winifred used to cook chicken kiev al- December. Will we soon be checking everything right, but she made it from scratch. A trip to Sains- from sat fats to CO2e? Increasing the amount of bury’s cafe was such a horror she even wrote me a information we must consume doesn’t stop manu- letter: “I think it was scampi (a sort of shrimp, did facturers peddling empty calories or people from you say?).” When Winifred died, she left behind a buying too much; eating is emotional. well-used handwritten journal entitled Ration Recipes The way ahead is surely to make choices straight- with over 300 recipes for everything from economi- forward. Prescribe people a fixed amount of conven- cal hors d’oeuvres to margarine-laden bakes. ience products and make whole foods tax exempt. My paternal grandma wasn’t of the same mould. Ration shit, not staples. When she died, her freezer was stocked with Of course, processed food has a place. Where would monochrome meals; her cupboards with corroded, it have left Mum if pre-made meals were banned? even exploding tins of processed meat. Still, wartime Still, a rationing system could help keep sales of austerity may have had a positive impact on her too; processed food within sensible limits. Harder she lived to 88. restrictions could be imposed on those with poor I don’t need to look very far to consider the impact nutritional value or even those with more than five of poor diet. I lost my father and godmother to ingredients, which author Michael Pollan says we colon cancer and there is diabetes in my partner’s should avoid. family. Something extreme needs to be done to Because, if we ration processed and high-waste help us make healthier food choices, and I wonder foods - including pesto and ВЈ10 Meals for Two whether вЂ�choice’ is partly to blame. - maybe our food choices can revert from being We seem compelled to make our dietary decisions complex, to creative. www.gannetandparrot.com .... 48.... food review ........................................... No. 32 Lobster in Duke Street For an August payday treat The вЂ�raw beef’, as Antonia Antonia and I decide to has imagined, is steak check out No. 32, named tartare and she says it’s after its position on Duke every bit as good as that Street. The last time we she had in Paris earlier in visited, one lunchtime in the summer. My shrimps late June, the place was are good, too: вЂ�torched called Havana; we cel- cucumber’ adds an inter- ebrated her birthday here esting crunchiness to the after we discovered Yum tiny shellfish. Our wine Yum Ninja was shut. arrives as we finish the That early-summer afternoon she told me Havana starters – a Portuguese vino verde we’re delighted had been her favourite restaurant a few years ago: to have found on the list. her visiting mother would take her there for treats. We’ve booked fairly early – we arrived at 7.30 – but We were the only customers, apart from an old the place is heaving. This isn’t the sort of joint that man drinking coffee. It wasn’t a great success. appeals to identikit North Laine hipsters; it’s at- Boy, the place has changed. The minimalist decor tracted a mixed crowd of dressed-for-the-occasion has been replaced with a lot of carefully considered punters. We get chatting to the lads on the next clutter: on the nearest wall there are several framed table, who rave about the place. Fred-Perry-era tennis rackets next to a pop-art The lobster, a dish I very rarely treat myself to, is triptych of a Jumbo Jet. Upstairs has been made perfectly cooked. When I ask for a pointy metal out to look like a Victorian library. They’ve created fork to help me get flesh out of the claws, Antonia a gloriously retro-looking bar at the end of the recognises the bloke who brings it to be the owner main room. “Is that the Blackpool Tower?” I ask of Havana. We put two and two together, and real- one of the black-clad waiters, pointing to a seven- ise why a couple of the waiters have seemed famil- foot-high wooden structure in the corner. “No,” he iar. No. 32 isn’t a new restaurant, it’s a rebranding says, in a French accent. “The Eiffel.” of the old one. We order aperitifs – Antonia a Pignoletto prosecco, I always thought вЂ�Havana’ was a curious name for a me a vodka Martini – and, having consulted the restaurant, anyway. Nobody, after all, goes to Cuba refreshingly adjective-light menu, printed on an for the food. вЂ�No. 32’ has a pleasingly non-specific A3 card, choose our food. I go for вЂ�shrimp, torched ring about it, suited to its eclectic menu. The bill cucumber, cocktail sauce’ for starters, while Anto- comes to ВЈ110, which doesn’t come as a shock. nia opts for the вЂ�raw beef, honey, mustard, rye’. We Unlike our last visit, we leave happy with the both go for half a lobster as the main, with fries. experience. The lobster claw meat, in particular, is We’re brought succulent olives and slices of black, to die for. Alex Leith nutty bread while we wait. www.no32dukestreet.com .... 49.... f e at u r e ..................................... How to... Photograph food, by Lisa Devlin I was a music industry photographer up. In this case I’m photographing a broccoli throughout the nineties, working on every- breakfast – made by Turia in Marwood CafГ© in thing from Smash Hits to Eric Clapton’s tour Ship Street. Every dish has a story, and in this programmes. Going on tour with Steps was case the story is the yolk running down into the such a toxic experience I decided to get out. I broccoli. So… [She slices into the yolk with a went into weddings, and portraits, and food. knife and gently pushes on it until it drips] … Plus I run a school for photographers who want there you go. to improve their technique. I’m using a macro lens here, with the aper- My first food piece was for 19 Magazine in ture set to its widest, 2.5. The ISO’s at 800, the 1995, just as chefs were starting to get rock and shutter speed at 400. This means I can focus on roll. I shot four chefs in grainy black and white, what’s important. and their food in colour, I just shot the food Any top tips? Even if you’re just photo blog- naturally in the available light with a wide open ging, use as good a camera as you can. Your aperture. That style became all the rage. iPhone is all very well, but you’ll lose on the Before then food photography was generally colour temperature. If you want to remain a very glossy. They’d add a sheen of glycerine on bit incognito, they do great low-light compact dishes, and use plastic ice cream, and things like cameras nowadays which are perfect for the job. that. Now that food has become вЂ�sexy’, and you Think carefully about lighting. If necessary see full-page images of dishes in the weekend take the food close to a window to get some supplements, we like it more matt… more natu- natural light. And think about the angle you’re ral. Food photography has become very sensual. taking the shot from. If in doubt, take it from I like putting food in its context. I like to directly above the food. create a narrative in a picture. For example I Finally, the food has to get eaten, but it’s nev- was photographing some chocolate cake for a er a good idea to go into a shoot hungry, or you recipe book by the French pastry cook Murielle might hurry things even more than you have to Valette recently. There was orange zest in it, anyway (in a kitchen environment you’re often so I put the zester in shot. I thought it was the in a rush). Plus things always seem to come out sort of thing you’d offer your mother-in-law in a funny order, so you get something sweet, with a cup of coffee, so I added a coffee cup then savoury, then sweet again… Anyway, if you as well. The reader doesn’t have to get exactly ate everything that was on offer, you’d get really what I mean; it’s just important that there are fat. As told to Antonia Gabassi some clues, so they can make their own story devlinphotos.co.uk .... 50.... Marmalade Worth the walk “This had better be worth it,” I think, having walked past Brighton College, past the hospital, and past St Mary’s Hall to find Marmalade, the cafГ© I’ve been hearing so many good things about. It’s meant to be like early-days Bill’s (the original one, in Lewes), and it’s run by Bill Collison’s long-time collaborator Louise, and his sister-in-law Tanya. As soon as I walk in, I feel welcome. The place used to be a dairy, apparently, several incarnations before becoming a cafГ©, and they’ve scrubbed everything back to its original form. The menu – more often than not advertising different ways of eating eggs – is written in marker pen on rolls of brown wrapping paper; industrial pendant lights hang from the ceiling; there are interesting tile designs on the floor and counter. There’s an вЂ�upstairs’ of sorts: some diners are squidged into a mezzanine section. The word вЂ�loo’ is scrawled on the toilet door. I go for scrambled egg and smoked salmon, and sit, in plenty of space, at one of the square wooden tables. It’s 2pm and while not jammed full, it’s crowded enough: the three aproned staff members (or is it four?) scurry contentedly around. “Do you want Tabasco?” says one of them, as she brings my plate. “Yes I do,” I say. It’s unneeded. The egg tastes like the chicken had a wholesome and fulfilled life, and the salmon (more than I would have dared to serve myself at home) is delicious. But it’s something about the succulent salty tang of butter and the crunchiness of the sourdough toast that is the highlight. Well worth the trudge, I decide, though I do take the No.7 back to town. AL .... 51.... w e t r y. . . .......................................... Roller Derby Nione Meakin is fresh meat Before I have learnt the names of the players in the finessing the fall and no one moves on to the вЂ�Rookie’ Brighton Rockers women’s roller derby team, I have level without demonstrating they can do it safely. learnt about their injuries. It’s a sobering roll-call of Stopping, too. No, you’re not allowed to use that broken ribs, dislocated fingers and metal plates in handy rubber stopper on the front of the roller boots. place of shin bones. When ten women roller-skate at Nor slowly glide into the wall. With all this mastered, high speed around a track, their main aim to physi- learners can then start to get to grips with the 46- cally knock away the competition and gain the lead, it page roller-derby rulebook. seems, accidents will happen. In essence, Danielle explains, the game involves two I imagine myself a day from now, looking back nos- teams of five girls skating around an oval track. Each talgically on a time when I had perfectly functioning team has a point scorer who is helped to get round limbs. But it’s too late to back out; elbow pads are the track by four вЂ�blockers’ who also work to stop being duct-taped to my (apparently rather weedy) the other team’s point scorer getting ahead. The arms and the strap of my helmet tightened around point scorer who gets through all the blockers first my chin. The other newbies, the so-called вЂ�fresh becomes the lead jammer and must skate all the way meat’, are wheeling around the hall at Moulsecoomb round again, passing the hips of opposing team. For Leisure Centre, baring their gum shields. It’s fair to every hip she passes, she scores. There are strict rules say I’ve felt more relaxed. about contact. Players can’t elbow someone, nor I’m a long way from going hip-to-hip with the play- punch, kick or trip them. Seven referees preside over ers on the track however. Before any beginner can each game to ensure fair play. live out her fantasy of being Ellen Page in Whip It, Nonetheless, the violence is a large part of the game’s she must first learn to fall over. Now this I can do. appeal. “It’s controlled aggression,” grins coach Kris But learning to fall well is a different thing entirely. Worlidge. “Society doesn’t let women be aggres- “Whatever you do, fall forwards,” advises Brighton sive – it’s not вЂ�okay’. Here you can put on skates and Rockers’ director Danielle Leggatt, as I wobble if you’ve had a bad day, knock a few people over. But around like a pissed Bambi. “You don’t want to hit it’s a game. In the pub afterwards, we’re all hugs.” your tail-bone or the back of your head. But don’t fall too far forwards on you’ll get a chin-jury. And don’t Brighton Rockers play Ghent GoGo Girls on No- put your hands out – they’ll get run over.” vember 1. For details, or to enquire about joining Much of the 12-week Fresh Meat course is spent the team, visit www.brightonrockers.co.uk. .... 53.... fitness .......................................... Triathlon Free, friendly... but not for the faint hearted “We are not a club…” says Kurt Charnock, perched Oscar, is 75 years old. The youngest has been a on the barrier dividing the road from a parcel of 14-year-old girl, not here tonight: вЂ�you should have land that has been converted, as it is during every seen her go’. People come from as far as London to Wednesday night in the summer вЂ�season’, into a participate. triathlon transition zone. There’s an atmosphere of buzzy camaraderie in the “We are a…. ONE LAP TONIGHT, FABRICE, air. I watch everybody walk into the sea and set off THERE’S NOT MUCH LIGHT, BE SAFE! … towards the buoys, then I head back up to the transi- we are a family. Everybody is welcome to join in. Ev- tion zone to capture the excitement of the change- erybody.” Fabrice has just completed the swimming over as, back on dry land, they discard their wetsuits, section of the race – 800 metres out to a buoy and don their cycling gear, and ride off East. Kurt, back – and is setting off on the cycling leg, a 10k ride clipboard in hand, clocks all their interim times. to and from Ovingdean Roundabout. On normal About twenty minutes after the now-cyclists (riding Wednesdays it’s two laps, but we’re nearing the end an array of bikes from racers to MBs) have set off, of the season; as Kurt puts it: вЂ�The English winter they return, and it’s all change again, for the final doesn’t like Triathlon’. run, 5k tonight, to Black Rock and back. Tonight’s Four years ago Kurt, a well-travelled triathlete race is the shortest possible, a вЂ�Sprint’, which’ll take whose career has been in the pharmaceutical the best of them little more than an hour. As I see industry, set up the Brighton Triathlon Race Series the first man come in, an unfeasibly short time later, (BTRS), having realised that it was hugely expensive through the deepening gloom, I think… “Could I… for people to compete in official events, and that it next year… maybe… just?” was perfectly possible, with the right level of organ- “Of course you could!” booms Kurt, as I voice my isation, to hold a weekly event for free. “It doesn’t thoughts. Throughout the autumn and winter, matter your age, it doesn’t matter your fitness level, almost every day of the week, there are training it doesn’t matter your experience. From April to the sessions, from off-road Duathlon events, to a winter end of September we’re here, 6.30pm on a Wednes- trail-running series. There are even weekly вЂ�cycling day.” There are various fundraising events, including for softies’ training sessions, from October onwards, a black-tie Gala Awards dinner (on October 4th), to help people who aren’t confident riding in traffic. and donations are welcome, but otherwise it doesn’t “Look on the web page,” says Kurt. “It’s all there.” cost participants a penny. brightontriathlonraceseries.co.uk. Thanks to Stephen There are 26 participants tonight; this number can Roche from Prestige Cycles in Hove, our cycling rise to 50 and above. The oldest racer this year, consultant, who set up this piece. .... 55.... 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Having closed the door he stretches the hem of the вЂ�suit’ around the rim at to a half-hour programme at вЂ�saunter speed’ (around the top of the pod, so I can no longer see my legs. 5mph): a graph on a screen in front of me, with three I’m about to have a half-hour session in a vacuum- horizontal lines and one vertical line, shows me why, assisted lime-green treadmill-based machine. sometimes, the going gets tough. Manni has previously, in his office, measured my I really enjoy the process, though I must say that height and stood me on a machine which is much trying to drink a cup of water while sauntering in a more than just a weighing scales. Thanks to some vacuum pod is no easy feat, especially as this is the clever electrode technology it also measures my fat moment I’m introduced to Fiona, the woman who percentage, muscle mass, visceral fat rating and my has modified and marketed the machine I’m on, metabolic age, plus a lot more besides. Without go- and made it a big success in her native Ireland, with ing into too much detail, I’m far fatter than I should centres opening all around the country. Fiona tells be, and my body thinks I’m six years older than I me she lost four stone using the sГЎsta programme really am. she is promoting. It seems that getting in the pod on a regular basis, Afterwards, Manni takes me through a no-muscle- alongside a вЂ�body-sculpting programme’ and a left-out weights routine, and hands me a вЂ�Low healthy meal plan (both provided in the sГЎsta service) GL Meal Plan’ booklet, telling me that he offers a is a damn good way to lose weight, get fit and build money-back guarantee for anyone who follows the up useful muscle tone. Apparently exercising your programme and doesn’t feel the benefits: a pretty lower body in a vacuum gives gravity more pulling safe bet, from where I’m standing. 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Caroline Lucas вЂ�I have an enormous sense of urgency’ “I hate these questions!” Caroline Lucas says, sibly be thinking about something else while you laughing, after one of my many personal queries. were trying to decipher these notes and so forth. “I’m much happier talking about politics, or about It was a wonderful thing to take your mind off any what I believe and what I’m working on and so other worries.” So it’s “probably true” that she has on, than feeling that I want to bare my soul in any difficulty switching off. greater detail.” Lucas sees herself as “a very impatient campaigner, If you ask Lucas about politics, you’ll get a long, I suppose, but also still with that sense of horror at eloquent, impassioned response. But if you ask her injustice. I see this government as a government about her, you generally won’t, unless her answer that is absolutely meting out injustice, particularly veers off into political territory. So I’m still not sure to many of the constituents that I see in my weekly what kind of person Caroline Lucas is. But I’m surgeries who are really struggling with things developing a theory. like the bedroom tax, or with changes to disability She’s a well-respected MP, but also still the kind benefit or housing benefit. It feels as if we’ve got a of activist who could forget how many times she’s government that is absolutely punishing the poor. been arrested while peacefully protesting. Balcombe That sense of injustice is still very alive in me.” was “the second time, I think. Or the third.” But why is she so bothered? Lots of people accept She’s “terrified” about the possibility of serious that bad injustice exists, and then get on with their climate change, but is “definitely” an optimist. She’s lives. “I don’t know if there are lots of people that someone with huge “ambitions for the Party and accept that. I think perhaps I have a stronger - not ambitions for green politics”, but so little personal necessarily better grounded but still a stronger - ambition that she gave up the role of party leader optimistic belief that we can change things, that so it could вЂ�be used as a vehicle to boost the profile injustice is not accidental, it’s human-made and of other potential Green MPs,’ in the Independent’s therefore it can be changed. I think once you’ve words. recognised that there’s nothing inevitable about She’s an “assertive” – she corrects me when I say poverty, for example, that it’s the result of a set “strident” – campaigner on global and national of human decisions, then it becomes much more issues, who still finds the time and energy to be possible and inspiring to think about how you can “fighting for my constituents”. And when she’s off actually change those decisions.” duty, “one of the things I like to watch is The West Born in 1960, Lucas had “a perfectly happy child- Wing. So perhaps that does confirm your theory hood” in “a very non-political household”. She that I am an obsessive.” went to an independent school, and took a diploma She likes taking her rescue dog for long walks, in journalism and a PhD in English Literature. “I and is, or was, a “very bad” hobbyist piano player. came to [politics] through pressure groups really. “What I loved about it was that you couldn’t pos- I was very involved with the CND, I was very .... 58.... involved in some of the environment groups and women’s groups, and I felt that I was being pulled in lots of different directions. “In 1986 I read a book by Jonathon Porritt called Seeing Green. It kind of put all the different things that I was concerned about into one rigorous package … I joined the Green Party on the same day that I finished the book.” Lucas evidently never wanted to be famous – she even denies that she is famous – and, when asked if she’s at all personally ambitious, says: “No. I’m ambitious for green ideas. I want green ideas to come into practice and being as soon as possible. “I have an enormous sense of like fracking and more subsidies that’s hell bent in an opposite urgency. More than anything to North Sea oil extraction and direction. Those are the things else I’m terrified that the sci- so forth, at exactly the time we’ve that really concern me.” ence around climate change is got these two big UN reports It’s premature to ask, but how essentially saying that we need to talking about how important would Lucas like to be remem- get off the collision course we’re it is to replace fossil fuels with bered? “Well, my kids are deeply currently on within the next 8-10 renewables, at exactly the time important to me, so I hope I’ll years. In that time we need to experts are saying we need to be remembered partly as a mum stabilise our emissions, and start leave 80% of known fossil fuel who tried hard. And as a cam- to get them to come down. reserves in the ground if we’re paigner who didn’t give up.” “Yet we are not going in that to have any hope of avoiding вЂ�Are you happy?’ I ask at the end direction at all. We have a gov- two-degrees warming. At exactly of our scheduled 35 minutes. ernment that’s pursuing things that time we have a government “Yes. Are you finished?” SR .... 59.... THE ARCHITECT SAYS WE NEED LIGHTING. THE CLIENT SAYS AT FLOOR LEVEL. We say, how bright? Middle Yard Barn, Lambleys Lane, Sompting,West Sussex, BN14 9JX Telephone: 01903 217 900 Telephone: 01273 622 191 email: info@nutshellconstruction.com Nutshell Construction CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION. trade secrets .......................................... Ben Copper Nutshell Construction Describe your business. We are a family-run con- oak timber framed house in Cowfold. Everything struction company working on both newbuilds, and from the Horsham stone roof down. It was a huge the refurbishment and restoration of old buildings. We project but we managed to maintain all of the integrity have 20 full-time employees and a team of up to 30 of the building whilst making it a comfortable home. day-workers on site. We’ve expanded over the past 18 We set out project charters based on historical months, and take on projects of all sizes across Sussex, research – 1,000 years in the case of Cowfold - which Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. help to enthuse the team on site. How did the company start up? We built a green- And the most challenging? Everything’s a challenge! oak, timber-framed house for the family and enjoyed But the recent refurbishment of the Tasting Room at working together so much that we set up the business. Ridgeview has been incredible. Completing a total How long ago was that? Almost seven years, but the refurbishment on a busy working wine estate in just three directors - myself, my brother Tom and cousin eight weeks kept us busy. Sean - each have 15-20 years experience in various Do you still work on site? I’m not involved in hands- trades, so we had all the bases covered. on construction myself anymore, but I’m regularly on What’s the best thing about working with family? site checking everything is going to plan and that the As members of The Copper Family, we have a tradi- client is happy. We have nine projects under way at the tion of singing together which leads rather naturally moment. to a tight, harmonious working relationship. We have Did you build your own house? No, but I’d like to. owned many pubs and businesses in the family over It would be a modern green-oak frame but, as I plan the years and bring a customer-services focus to our to stay in the centre of Brighton, it might be difficult construction business. to find a plot. What sets Nutshell apart from other builders? Do you have any tips for our readers? If you are Our family ethic and attention to detail. We are care- planning a building project, set out to enjoy the expe- ful to look after everyone involved; clients, staff and rience. Getting a good architect on board early to help suppliers. We all loved working in construction but you think out your design will save problems later on. didn’t always love the culture on site, so we set up our Then develop a relationship with your builder – if you business to be tidy and respectful. That way everyone create a team that you will enjoy working with the has a pleasant experience. process will be a lot less painful. What has been your favourite project to date? Our Interview by Lizzie Lower recent total refurbishment of a 17th-century, listed, nutshellconstruction.com/01903 217 900 .... 61.... i n s i d e l e f t : K e m pt o w n , 1 9 7 9 ................................................................................... It’s August Bank Holiday Monday, 1979, and the streets of Kemptown are lined with spectators witnessing the first Great Kemptown Pram Race - a charity event organised by the publicans of Kemptown. The race вЂ�course’ was a circuit that started at the car park then opposite the Royal Sussex, down Great College Street, Clarendon Place and Somerset Street, back eastwards along Upper St James St and St Georges Road, and ultimately back to the hospital car park. Every pram featured a вЂ�nanny’ pushing the vehicle, and a вЂ�baby’ passenger; both were expected to drink half a pint at each of the pubs on the circuit. The photo was taken by Barry Pitman, outside the Barley Mow. At the time he was running a photography project at the Brighton Community Arts Workshop in Kemptown and working as a barman in the pub. “I don’t recognise the passenger, but the guy pushing the Wellington pram, in full Welsh national costume, was called Taffy,” he recalls. Barry ran the circuit himself photographing the event, and has an archive of pictures from this and the two (or was it three? Memories are hazy) subsequent races. “A number of the pubs on the circuit have now closed down, but I’m exhibiting pictures in seven of those that participated during the Brighton Photo Fringe,” he says. There will be four pictures in each pub with eight in the Barley Mow; anyone following the trail might consider capturing the spirit of the race by downing a drink in each of the pubs. The organisers of the Pram Race produced a number of wonderful posters and t-shirts promoting the event. If anyone has kept hold of any of these, or has any memories they want to share about the race, please contact Barry via his website, www.pixelsonapage.com. From that site you can download a trail map of the participating pubs. The photos will be on display throughout the Photo Fringe from October 4th – 2nd November. .... 62.... Your Smile Says It All ... 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