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Editor’s Letter

It feels like I’m saying this almost every month, but it does seem like the pandemic’s end is in sight. If we have leant anything, it’s that living through momentous historical events isn’t as exciting as books make it look. But… Finally, we are close to the point where all over-40s have had their first vaccine dose, and expectations are that mid-April will see us allowed back into pub gardens. Even that innocuous, simple pleasure now offers something exciting to look forward to (along with some ‘nice’ weather, we hope). The promised return of Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe, events we could be guilty of taking for granted, are now accompanied by a heady air of Christmas-like anticipation. It’s clearly been a rough ride for the arts and entertainment sector,…

Editor’s Letter

SUSSEX DOMESTIC ABUSE CHARITY RISE LOSES CRUCIAL FUNDING

Sussex based charity RISE, which provides critical support to those affected by domestic abuse and violence in the area, has lost a significant portion of its council funding. The contract, worth £5 million over seven years, has been awarded elsewhere, and has been lost at a crucial time in which many victims of abuse find themselves at heightened risk due to lockdown. RISE, standing for Refuge, Information, Support and Education, offers help to victims across the spectrum of need, from advice to refuge accommodation for women and children escaping abuse. RISE provides the only local domestic abuse helpline, available Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm, as well as face to face weekly drop-ins, support with criminal and civil proceedings and counselling. RISE also provides one of the only dedicated LGBTQ+ support services.…

WIN! TICKETS TO ELDERFLOWER FIELDS 23-27 JULY 2021

Become a little wilder! Get back to nature this summer. Small, safe and spacious, Elderflower Fields is the ideal first festival for families and the perfect chance to reunite and celebrate with friends. Start summer with an adventure-packed wild escape in the idyllic Sussex countryside. Designed especially for families with younger children, Elderflower Fields offers plenty of space to camp under the stars for four nights of fun. The perfect chance to reconnect with nature in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Packed full of music, sports, nature and the arts, this award-winning family festival also showcases some of the finest food and drink from across Sussex. To be in with a chance of winning a family ticket for 2 adults and 2 kids worth over £400 all you have…

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FAMILY DAYS OUT

DENNIS & GNASHER’S BIG BONANZA AT WAKEHURST Wakehurst Place, which is joined with Kew Gardens, is 40 minutes outside Brighton in Ardingly. Its world class botanical gardens, woods, paths and lake make it a great day out all year round, but for the kids this Easter, Wakehurst is holding a Beano-themed Festival in the grounds. The event celebrates Dennis the Menace’s birthday with a brand-new comic-strip and an interactive story trail around the gardens. You can book online at www.kew.org/wakehurst MICHELHAM PRIORY Michelham Priory, run by Sussex Past, is 35 minutes outside Brighton along the A27. Visitors can explore 800 years of history at the picturesque manor set inside the country’s largest medieval water-filled moat. Though the house itself is closed, the 15 acres of grounds, with its gatehouse, replica…

FAMILY DAYS OUT

Across an extraordinary career, David Yarrow has pushed the boundaries of what a simple image can represent. As such, his photography has become instantly recognisable with its ability to astound and captivate. An awe-inspiring shot from the FIFA World Cup Final in Mexico brought him to the world’s attention in 1986. Featuring the jubilant Argentinian captain, Diego Maradona, carried upon the shoulders of an ecstatic crowd stretching across Estadio Azteca’s cavernous interior, this iconic image was the product of good fortune and a keen eye. “I was totally unprepared,” Yarrow tells me, with considerable modesty. “I didn’t really know what I was doing. But over time, you earn your luck.” He describes his craft as being a “numbers game”. To be in the right place at the right time, you’re…

Arlo Parks’ rise and rise began in late 2018, dropping her first single Cola and then signing to Transgressive Records. There followed a string of singles like 2020’s ultra-cool Hurt and the kind of accolades long-established artists only dream of. Yet the 20-year-old musician and poet has experienced almost all of this under the cloud of Covid - performing Glastonbury alone in front of a campfire, duetting with Phoebe Bridgers in an empty church and admitting herself more accustomed to interviews on Zoom than in person. Except the peculiar charm of her music is anything but isolated and anxious. Her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams has its roots firmly in the free, fluid time of adolescent inner-city wanderings, breakups and blossoming romances; her striking lyrical landscape characterised by hyperreal vignettes…

ARLO PARKS’ POETRY MIXTAPE

FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN - GARY SNYDER ‘A reflection on a romance he had…remembering all the little details, the rhododendron bushes and walks on the beach…those flashes of memory are so inspiring to me.’ PEANUT BUTTER - EILEEN MYLES ‘This one is really emotional and has this sense of tenderness as you imagine this person spending a summer with somebody and getting to know them. And it’s peppered with these weird surreal lines.’ RECREATION - AUDRE LORDE ‘This is really gorgeous. I gravitate to really interesting portrayals of love. There’s this beautiful line “Touching you I catch midnight as moon fires set in my throat I love you flesh into blossom.”…

ARLO PARKS’ POETRY MIXTAPE

Born during some uncertain times, Mogwai’s tenth album, As The Love Continues, has debuted at No.1 on the UK Official Album Chart, showing that this iconic rock band still have plenty to offer. The band are approaching 25 years in the game; you’d assume navigating a complex industry is getting easier and music-making becoming more instinctive. “The Covid elephant in the room would like a word with you!” band member and multi-instrumentalist, Barry Burns, points out. “Last year has been, and certainly this coming year will be, really challenging for us. Both as individuals and as the group.” He concedes the process of music writing has generally stayed the same. But during the last year, the logistics of getting around, rehearsing, recording and planning anything has offered a constant source…

Sometimes you don’t realise what you have until it slips away. Since Arab Strap stopped making music, so many other bands sounded just a little anodyne. Not bad as such, just occasionally a little bland. Vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton formed Arab Strap in 1995. Growing up together in Falkirk, the pair started out musically by sharing their home-recorded tapes with friends. These reflected their environment, bawdy anecdotes and in-jokes, but the tales of sex, death and crushing comedowns attracted attention from legendary Glasgow label, Chemikal Underground. Soon, their debut album, The Week Never Starts Round Here, was delighting listeners everywhere with its startling post-rock dynamics and bittersweet accounts of weekend misadventure. After little more than a decade of reclaiming British rock from a legion of chart-friendly haircut…

CRYPTIC Across 5 What 6 across is to 2 down / Hanging out more often initially before call up (9) 6 Caution / Taking back uncooked tail of prawn (4) 7 Block / Beginning to chop piece of wood (4) 8 Commotion / Guts to steer it slowly in reverse (4) 10 Mount / If returning, join regularly (4) 11 Pact / Limb is cold in piece of clothing (9) Down 1 Religious community / My senator is confused (9) 2 Shabby / Right to infiltrate the present uprising (4) 3 Band / Baby bird with wing clipped (4) 4 Flag / Wedding card (5,4) 9 Cats and dogs? / Practice with top of (4) 10 Lot / Unwind after finishing early (4) SUDOKU MODERATE HARD…

Across 1 Song that holds the record for most streams in a single week on Spotify 1 Song 10 Take a punt at (2,3) 11 Tell a lie to (9) 12 Peanuts, for example (7) 13 Splits (7) 14 Phenomenon found at the disco or on the streets of London? (5) 16 If not (9) 19 Flowers / sugary vegetables? (5,4) 20 Vehicle / went about listlessly (5) 22 Someone who does something for the love of it, not the money (7) 25 Maintenance break (3,4) 27 Possession (9) 28 Baggy (5) 29 Sister company? (6,8) Down 2 Allusion (9) 3 Star sign (5) 4 Aquiline facial feature (5,4) 5 Leans to one side / groups of words (5) 6 Brain twister (9) 7 Not a soul (2,3) 8 In…

For those of you who haven’t listened to Creeping Jean’s music, from the band name alone you could be forgiven for imagining a sound that is quietly tiptoeing out of the shadows. You’d be wrong. With soaring melodies counterbalancing guitar riffs like chainsaws, this band isn’t creeping from the darkness, it’s sprinting towards the light. With the group’s songs being played on stations such as Radio One, 6 Music and Radio X, the band are gaining both momentum and acclaim. Having just finished their first record, Desert Sauce, BN1 spoke to the group’s founding member, Oliver Tooze, about their musical influences, how lockdown affected the recording process, and what fans can look forward to from their debut album. How would you describe the band’s sound? We like to think of…

FEMI & MADE KUTI

In the seventies, Fela Kuti rose to international stardom as the pioneer of afrobeat, a new politically-charged genre of music which brought together the Ghanian highlife popular in his home country of Nigeria and the James Brownian funk and Blue Note jazz he encountered on his travels in Europe and America. As afrobeat grew in popularity and his antiestablishment messages reached wider audiences across the world, Fela’s home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos became the target of violent police raids. Despite the fear he faced throughout his life, his fervour for positive change remained undiminished and the power of his brand of protest music has rarely been equalled. Fela died in 1997, but afrobeat remains a strong presence in today’s musical landscape. From the drawn-out polyrhythmic instrumentals of Talking…

FEMI & MADE KUTI

Bourgeois & Maurice

TO describe Bourgeois & Maurice as a musical comedy duo would be something of an injustice – or at least an understatement. This territory is way more strange, hilarious and thought-provoking than this narrow description allows. Mind you, they are very musical, very funny, and undoubtedly a duo. This outlandish pairing and their art are also constantly evolving. One year saw them staged as a bittersweet performance duo, deploying a glorious melange of synthpop and showtunes to deal with topics as varied as pregnancy, weird British values and the crushing indignity of not being invited to chem-parties (ask your uncle). But now they’ve revealed themselves to be time traveling aliens with a sharply observed song and dance extravaganza looking at human society’s myriad troubles. For want of a better label,…

Bourgeois & Maurice

Amassing more than 170k Instagram followers, the majority of whom have discovered his words of comfort and inspiration during lockdown, Blake Auden has become one of the UK’s most popular ‘social poets’. By sharing his short, yet powerful, ‘micro poetry’ every day, he’s increasing the form’s popularity, and helping others realise the wellbeing value of expression. That we’ve all been living in isolation during the digital age presents a blessing of sorts. “Social media has been somewhat vilified in recent years for the negative impact it can have on our mental health, and often, rightly so,” Auden tells me. “But I feel like the ease of communication afforded by these platforms has really helped many of us cope during the pandemic. Social media has played an important role in keeping…

Andrew Comben-Brighton Dome & Festival

I manage to elicit a belly laugh from Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Chief Executive, Andrew Comben, when I ask if he ever wishes his career choices had involved something less complex. This last year has been difficult for every arts organisation. The coronavirus hasn’t cared how historically, or culturally, important work might be. “It’s hugely challenging. But I’m aware how tough other people have had it during the pandemic. How friends and colleagues in the medical profession have managed over this last year, I just don’t know. All in all, I’m pretty lucky.” It’s been just under a year since social-distancing restrictions saw Brighton Dome close its doors to the public and abandon plans for its annual worldfamous festival. Similar issues have been faced by almost every single corner…

Andrew Comben-Brighton Dome & Festival

“Last Christmas,” said George Michael, “I gave you my heart.” But that’s nothing, at the beginning of February I pretty much froze my balls off. So, you know, I win that round. But now, as I gaze out the window at the dreary grey drabness that seems to define our nation’s weather it is, at least, a balmy 17 degrees. Yes, Spring is getting ready to be sprung, our heating bills ready to go down (despite the bastards putting the prices up), our windows ready to open. And with the whiff of Spring in the air, comes an intrinsically linked sense of optimism and positivity: we’ll get out more, we’ll feel the sun on our skin again, we’ll get vaccinated! Things are going to be okay. It’s also this time…

Everyone knows spring is the best season - the world is turning green and flowery, the birds are starting to sing, it’s warming up, and we still have a whole summer ahead of us to look forward to. It’s a time of hope, and no more so than this year with the loosening of Covid restrictions tentatively round the corner. This time last year, we were all coming up with our own versions of the Quarantini; this year, our spring cocktail sessions can hopefully be a bit less…apocalyptic. Here are some recipes offering something a little bit different to swap your mulled wine for as we enter a new season. Fresh fruit, flowers and fizz feature in these spring twists on some beloved classics. Honey and Rose Margarita • 30ml…

For many Brits who have attempted and failed to be a vegan, it was a craving for the classics that broke their resolve: the fry-up, the Sunday roast, bangers and mash, fish and chips - not to mention the temptation of a teatime biscuit or slice of Victoria sponge. And though the idea of experimenting with new cuisines that lend themselves more willingly to plant-based ingredients can be exciting at first, life can quickly get in the way, and the imagination can falter when faced with an empty supermarket trolley and an equally empty stomach. Aimee Ryan, author of the Wallflower Kitchen food blog has come up with a book of plant-based versions of the classics to help out dabbling vegans. It’s called Great British Vegan and assures us in…

PLASTIC FREE SHOPPING

Plastic is… interesting. It can be moulded into almost any shape, it’s cheap to produce and, alarmingly, durable. It lasts for a very, very long time and current estimates suggest 8 million pieces of plastic are entering the oceans every single day. Not only does that cause devastating environmental damage, it’s also entering the human food chain. While public and major supermarkets have been quite slow in reacting to the mountain of plastic waste society creates every day, there are many local stores making it easier to reduce the impact of your grocery shopping. We all should be reducing the amount of plastic travelling through our lives, beyond using that bag-for-life and a decent water bottle. There’s a new breed of wholefood and zero-waste stores springing up, all eager to…

PLASTIC FREE SHOPPING

IN BLOCK WE TRUST

Either our Prime Minister was expertly trolling the UK as he won his Brexit General Election in 2019, or he can’t quite get the lie of the £350m a week Brexit Bus out of his head. In January 2017, Dominic Cummings, Director of Vote Leave, admitted in his article, How the Brexit referendum was won, written for the Spectator, that they played the NHS card with a lie to tilt the EU Referendum result. "Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests No.” “WOULD WE HAVE WON WITHOUT £350M/NHS? ALL OUR RESEARCH AND THE CLOSE RESULT STRONGLY SUGGESTS NO.” “I like to paint. Or I make things. I have a thing where I make models of buses. What I make is, I get…

IN BLOCK WE TRUST

HOLIDAY LIKE A TRUE BRIT

After the events of 2020 and their substantial impact on our ability to travel, it’s possible that some of us have forgotten the various broad and noble stereotypes around British holidaymakers. To avoid this existential threat to our national identity, we’ve prepared a short guide on how the British should rinse their summer getaway. So, pop your hanky on your head, grab those Union Flag shorts and blue passport, and let’s get going! ATTIRE Obviously, with Britain’s haphazard summers and often constant rain, the sunshine provides the most delightful of novelties. So, when the locals are wearing jumpers and turning off the air conditioning, any self-respecting tourist will be skipping around in the briefest of clothing. To get that true Anglo feel, you should always ensure no two items of…

HOLIDAY LIKE A TRUE BRIT

FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

The results of the Friends of the South Downs 2019/20 photography competition have been announced, and it has again offered up a selection of stunning images. The organisation’s core aim is to encourage people to get out into the South Downs National Park. This 1,627km2 area is packed with beauty and tranquillity amongst the huge variety of its landscapes. Judged by Society Trustees, Richard Reed, Andrew Lovett and Caroline Douglas, along with Angela Waters from Midhurst Camera Club, the competition drew a large number of high-quality entries – once again making final decisions very difficult. The competition’s brief was to celebrate the beauty of the SDNP – its landscape, wildlife, buildings and other man-made structures contributing to the area’s cultural heritage. The Friends was founded in 1923 as the Society…

FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

SPRING INTO THE GARDEN

Winston Churchill once said “every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.” In my experience, chief among those problems (and less fascinating, more bewildering) is how not to immediately kill everything within it. Of course, Churchill also called Gandhi “a bad man and an enemy of the Empire,” so not all his musings were home-runs. My point being, albeit arriving circuitously and with the main goal of showing off that I’ve done some research, that gardening isn’t easy. I am the opposite of green fingered – which I have just learned is known as “brown thumbed,” but as that sounds like a specialist, altogether more post-watershed article, I’ll just say I kill plants. So, who better to write an article giving simple tips on how to bring your garden to life this…

SPRING INTO THE GARDEN

DOC’N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL

With many film festivals across the globe still unfortunately on hiatus, event organisers, film makers, and audiences alike, are fervently chomping at the bit for the opportunity to connect with the music they love. Stepping up to the plate is the Doc’n Roll Film Festival. Providing a unique and accessible platform, the Brighton-based event supports compelling leftfield music documentaries and celebrates the performers, labels, scenes and stories that make this genre of filmmaking so captivating to an ever-expanding audience. BN1 chatted to Brighton Festival Producer Sam Chandler about how fans can still enjoy Doc’n Roll music documentaries in lockdown and what the festival has planned for 2021. For those that don’t know, can you tell us what is Doc’n Roll Brighton all about? Doc’n Roll is an annual music documentary…

DOC’N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL

From an early age Luke Bradford has had a burning desire to create films which are evocative and thought-provoking. Over the past 20 years, he’s worked on hundreds of productions in over 30 countries, witnessing some of life’s greatest extremes – while seeing 24 award wins and a further 44 nominations. Now the Brighton-born director/writer’s latest work, White Gold, a dramatic examination of the everyday issues faced by one of Africa’s most vulnerable communities, is enjoying similar widespread acclaim. “The titles of films are always intriguing and have layers of meaning,” he tells me. “What this reflects is how the body parts of people with albinism have become a commodity.” The short centres on an African woman who has had her arm hacked off in the name of witchcraft. Now…

SECRET MAGIC CONTROL AGENCY Thurs 25 March // Netflix Brightly coloured fun for all the family comes in the form of a much-loved fairy tale being adapted for the streaming age. Gretel is an agent with the top-secret Department of Magical Security, assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the King. While the case is already beset by problems, she gets lumbered with her brother, Hansel, as a partner - a notorious fraudster who risks casting shame on her impeccable reputation. Yet there’s a strong chance his trickery and insight will hold the key to locating the missing monarch. So, they venture forth, uncovering the eerie secrets of the magical world, fighting the forces of evil and challenging a powerful Witch, in this humorous animated film. THE FALCON AND THE…

THAT’S A BIG ONE The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, is roughly 318 times as massive as Earth. While it has a mean radius of 69,911 km, its rapid rotation causes it to bulge. Its equator’s diameter is 142,984 km, while only 133,708 km at the poles. Composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, Jupiter weighs 1.9 x 1027 kilograms, but possesses only 1/5 the density of Earth. The surface area of Jupiter is 6.1419x1010 km2, 120 times that of our planet, while its volume is 1,431,281,810,739,360 cubic km3 - 1,321 times that of Earth. This gas giant’s structure resembles our Sun but would need 75x its present mass to see fusion of hydrogen which fuels a star. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS Sharks have been around for longer than trees.…

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