8 - Felix Online
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8 - Felix Online
SUN: STANDING ROOM ONLY VILLA V LIVERPOOL / C U - serving y o u SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Published as part of Felix, the Student Newspaper of Imperial College Never enough hours in the day?t Ifs coming home, ifs coming home, ifs coming.... Placebo and Subcircus play live, plus Eels and The Orb. <8) Mars Attacks! Five years pass when God wanted a son w Don't forget the Sabbatical Elections f editorial space credits True enlightenment is here! No longer must we struggle with the ineffable question of life; "Which £1 curry am I eating?". Inspired by the iconoclastic master piece The Diceman' by Luke Rhienhart, We have created: The Answer. Simply take two right regular cubes, inscribe "Balti, Madras, Satay, Tandoori, Rogan Josh, Korma" on one, and "Lamb, Turkey, Veg, Beef, Chicken, Pork" on the other. Cast them freely; only then will true internal tranquillity and satisfaction be achieved. Many thanks to all those people who helped out on this issue of Something for the Weekend. More specifically: Internet Junkie:Chris; The Golem: Sarah; Art & Theatre: Emma; Music: Jason; Rim: Adrian; Layup and design: Mark B & David Curry Dice Concept© Robin Riley 1997; Felix II: Something for the Weekend 280297 ' CD Margeurite Lazell asks should GMT become Global Metric Time ? Can you spot the odd one out: 1000 millimetres in a metre, 1000 grammes in a kilo, 60 minutes in a hour? Have our units of lime been rendered obsolete in the digital age? Is 11 time to synchronise watches world-wide, and opt for a global, metric, time scheme? In an increasingly binary world, imperial weiqhts and measures have Given see pounds, shillings and pence as an antiquated relic of the older generation. One of the few things we do not calculate The Decimal Time Society (DTS) proposes a radical change They have j % A * own axis determines the length of a day. But these ace the 9 j! ; IP w %m « § mm only two units based on any external logic. Why not have ten days in a week? The DTS suggest that a working week could operate on a five-day-on, five-day-off basis, with lobs being shared, so eliminating huge amounts of unemployment. There is a slight hitch in this ambitious pian to change the worid's time, because 365 divides up into ten even less well than it does inlo seven. Instead of having an extra day every four years, there would be five or six spare days set aside annually for democratic purposes and elections But totally changing the length of hours and weeks would have much wider ranging effects than simply altering our work patterns With a new chronology established, the DTS wants it to always be the same time, wherever you are on the planet. Time 2ones were created over one hunargue that working to different 4 clocks ortiaanng . l i l i l t " leads to social with your watch and political divides. In every time you travel China, although they"' y abroad/So the system should have five different time does have some advantages zones, the whole republic operbut is it more hassle* than ifs ; , ates within one zone, to avoid worth? ' ' ,1 internal divisions. The DTS would like % What is the speed limit on a , to see this happen on a world scale, motorway? What is your resting heart f They are not suggesting that if you live rate? What frequency do you listen to on the oppositei side of the world you Radio One on? The length of an hour, a would have to get up and go to work In minute, or a second determines all the dark: it would just be that different*. these things. It is difficult to imagine how countries would consider different hours we would learn to drive at 250 kilometres as the normal working day. I' you get up > per "new" hour without causing'traffic an hour after sunrise and go to bed four chaos. It is not a simple matter of converhours after sunset, it is fairly academic % sion as it was from yard fo metres. Our what you call the actual time. Whenever system of time is so integrated into our you communicated with someone from psyche that it is hard to comprehend another country, you would have to fhe-implications of changing it It simply add cf line underneath your seems unlikely that there will ever be address stating your office hours, the temporal revolution the DTS is so that they wouldn't 'phone you demanding. When they come up while you were sleeping. There with an alternative to the "five would be no more worrying minute tea break" perhaps about changing the i then we will be able to clocks for summer take them seriously. and winter ' * j : > «•'<• »» 1 2. 7 'mm* a i' the golem and other stones i what time is it? • This week the Internet Junkie untucks its shirt and eats all the pies as it takes a look at the Internet's football sites. Searching under "Football" is a complete non-starter as you'll be inundated with the American variant of the Beautiful Game, so first off we go to the official Premiership pages on http://www.fa-prernier.com/home.html. Along with league tables and top scorers this site has links to all the top flight's clubs. Predictably full of advertising is Manchester United's on http://www.sky.co.uk/sports/manu/meta.htm. Along with dozens of merchandising links for everything from pyjamas to tea-pots these pages give fixture lists, reviews of the last couple of games and the latest news from the team. Often, however, the official sites aren't as good as independent ones, the best of which is The Mighty Reds at http://anfieId.merseyworid.com. This Liverpool site has a great bulletin board where fans can try and settle arguments over the team. For those of you more interested in the lower divisions the official place OOto check out is http://www.football.nationwide.co.uk/le/le.html There are generally less independent websites for smaller clubs although some, such as Swindon Town at http://www.swindon-fc.demon.co.uk seem to have a ridiculous amount, detailng their results in league games for the last sixty years. Those of us who miss Statto can find some comfort at http://www.islandnet.com/~agcur/soccer.html If you want to know exactly how many assists each of your team's players has made this is the place to do it. You can also see a table of average points per game for every manager who's ever had a team in the Premiership. Unsurprisingly Bryan Robson is right down the bottom. He must go.... IMPERIAL C O L L E G E ARABIC SOCIETY PRESENTS THE ARABIAN NIGHT/ PABiy l,0NI»ON-UK UVH - DJ MAIN DINING H A L L , SHERFIELD BUILDING, IMPERIAL C O L L E G E 8.30 pm - 3.00 am, Sat 8th March I 997 Dinner Served At 9.30 pm £ I 3 non-members £ I 0 members For tickets o r more Info, contact S A M A N : 0850-259093 [email protected] Astoria phi»h-billy breathes their particular ing to a sold out Astoria for two nights in a row. What is their secret? How did thev rocket up to this position in the music world from being mere obscurities floating around in the musical ether? I remember first hearing about Placebo in the summer of '95 (I'm not a tttrpidity They seem to be putting as little into it as we get out of it: SftW 10BI/I 28Q2S? pizzicato fivesister freedom tapes High grade kitsch from be voicing his concerns about people dehydrating in the heat of the atmosphere but as soon as he says, "...normal body temperature is at 37.5 degrees', you suddenly click, it's time for '36 degrees', and the whole place screams along as everyone susses at the same time. They hurtles through 'Bruise Pristine' and 'Hang On To Your IQ', with Brian's self inflicting anti -rock line, "With a tool this small, it seems like I have no tool at all". ;, At one point an object is thrown onto the stage narrowly missing Brian, and he lashes back at the culprit chastising him as 'small minded' with supportive cheers from the crowd. You get the feeling the hardct for a v 'alternative' indie ,7 '< At the Astoria the lights dim and the venue is swathed in purple light that circles the arena in great arcs. An oppressive apocofyptic rhythm shudders and continues for fe £ ' ,eerr>< '-• " an eternity. The spring heel jack-crowd's resllessness is reaching its bank ofamerica breaking point, when Placebo finally Inveterate stac- arrive to a rapturous welcome, somecato beats and a thing that has been missing from many headrush of of the band's I've seen recently. The lead tunes prove that singer, 'Brian Molko' (you'll be hearing a these junglists lot about him from now on|, is dressed are an easy in his cuslomary black and is wearing match for the his obligatory eyeliner though this in no overrated way associates their music to gothic in Goldie, any way They kick off with the chopping grating guitar Infused pogoing frenzy of 'Come Home' and the jumping aoes not relent as 'Bionic' follows. Brian seems to 1 Music ; are dedicated : band (unusual -music out 1 l a n d attitud •They save' "for the end dictably the place goes They soon £ior the enc iignore all t! l a t e shouts 1'Slockerbitc Moneypen instead pic H P ) ^ ^ B H H | s o n g abou ' man in Lux Brian and the bassist swap for a final instrumental thra« noise with the bassist's eye; eyeballs) epitomising the ve of evil. ; : The crowd surfing is more than expected but I reckon i wanted to have to end up a the hall. Placebo leave and ness, as though bereft of so need like oxygen, seeps in < begging for just one more s one more. Jason ard working fellas, they played pushSuDDorted Ihe likes of Suede and which is Demo met, ever so slowly, with more than ttsfaif shQra of recognition. Carouse! i ' • a tangled mes: yandombigu* ous sexuality, telling of neon capitals, l with a clue ('For I'll be the girl and you the boy/We'll blend'). Subcircus The Garage acteristically cheesy quitar hook, but ; Valentine's gift- are masked with an envelope of underwater noises. Nikolaj : -. from his guitar on this occasion. The <> waltz/of'Las Zoot Suit' follows, push for their first single 86'd', a conver- SINGLES poppyheadswake up america Typically derivative Britpop. Guitars drums laddish vocals, that kind of thing. Analogue', 'U love U' and 'Stormfly'. Cue fcs is an album by on lich people ha' [>t actually hearu.-ntiwevKi. i m ' ill id with file jazzy soj Passive Attdi beat intensive mc? occasionally throwing In a bit of tranci or techno beat for good measure. The" num is a 77 minute monster of changI style, which always tries to return to quality of the first track, but never ; making it, which causes me rtf 3, as the first track is qulSTsupW), iers just very good, album starts with 'Prairie Dog*, a aat track, similar to i a ' by Massive fi f to the band tha y, moving swift I sWnsfrurnentals and beaf ieces onto 'Poor Gal', which ,p Portishead track. The bum e n d ! on the trance teaser, with the obligatory secret ALBUM Sounds Of The Satellites real Laika's experiences in space, including the reception of morse coded BOW BOW messages Unfortunately, I think Laika have missed there time, as the heat has seemed to have gone off bands like Massive Attack and Portishead, and Tricky seems to have dropped into producing mode, but this should not detract rom the fact that if you like this sort of usic, then they are good for a listen, if not a buy.(6) 8# savory-did you mean what you said A credible slab aoove trie average RnB that litters the charts. MICHAEL You know the feeling. You've been clubbing oil night, your head feels like it's going to explode and ALBUM all you want to do is sleep, But you can't. Your head's still buzzing and all you need is something to relax to. But what are your options? Watch some telly? Fine, if you like watching the room 101 rubbish ITV supplies us with at night. Listen to some music? Great. Just need to find some mellow relaxing music. Or, more importantly, some mellow relaxing sounds. single, h sounds Orblivion and Radlohead smut 1081/11 dweebscooby doo Poppy guitar overkill. This song just drips And this is where The Orb come into play. They have led the way In ambient music for many years now, consistently creating new sounds and moods to make other such bands seem drab. The new album from Battersea's finest (yep, they swim In the same river as you) is again a new step forward, although it is not as epic as previous albums. They, like many, have succumbed to the drum 'n' bass/jungle formula, which isn't as bad as it seems. You may think that jungle is the last thing you'd want to chill out to, but The Orb are masters of changing the conventions and merging the boundaries of different genres. The first track kicks off with aquatic music continuously panning from left to right. long way since promoting silly things like clouds and ox-bow lakes. 'Ubiquity' is the next track, filled to overflowing with oriental madness but like many heather nova-the first recording Four of Miss Nova's first recordings, where she sounds more like a folk singer than in her more current stuff, BILLY thet quitt mod. Music they can seem to same ideas repei twelve minutes, h said about the mi harmonic sound * you come to the < excellent "SALT." among other thin work of the devil i tion, Ihis track is s eight minutes. Thi gle Toxygene', cc brakes and Idios^ minuter. But you is these two facto K> wiin u ruuio |ingie irom ine ig, "America on LSD", (well n't go a whole album without ie drug reference). Now suited, the ensuing silence lets leep, but after five minutes Idenly woken up by the alarmof musical anarchy which will heebeegeebees out of you for 3me. All in all, an hours worth ther girls, camp fire songs, w tunes and water droplets a freaky but highly enjoyable Ed is-Atlantic offering, and due i amount of airplay their current single, 'Novocaine For The Soul', we're all curious to see what the Americans are going to send us next. They sing of a narcotic underworld. dark days and darker nights over light, breezy, quiet m slodies. No matter how high you turn th 3 volume, the Eels just don't come acre)ss as loud. They're simpie tunes,, they \/vork. Their complexity their anils ly to sound so contrived but yet original To categorise them is difficult. Try Bed ^.crossed with The Cardigans?! An d more than a dash of Radiohead. Willt a lead sinqer called "E" they chose to tn market at an er with the whole arms over recei of our biggest s wanted to give ning with "e" so Talvin Singh Presents... is not simply any old compilation album. He both writes, plays and produces on several of the tracks, and the album's diversity stems from the fact that this has been compiled only under the heading Asian Underground. Anokha is the club night that has become synonymous with its originator, Talvin Singh, at the controls. Held monthly at the Blue Note in Hoxton Square (north east London, for those who have somehow foregone visiting this top-class establishment) it has become a night integrating all the very best of the so-called 'Asian Underground' sounds with his own crew the Future Soundz of India. From cuttingedge Asian flavoured drum'n'bass (or should that be tabla'n'bass?) to drawn out Hindi soundtrack-style soul, both the club and the album are setting the audio-backdrop for late nineties Londoners and Asians nationwide. The album itself is generally a laidback affair chopped up with a few same section as his solo material. He just forgot The Eagles. The album is diverse, yet consistent. An album of contradictions and irony, freaks and yet beautiful. The title track 'Beautiful Freak' is amazingly simple t... and gentle, but it inspires no ifeeling yet is still a captivating song. It feels like you're watching a simulated car crash, orinaviit. :1 You feel no ALBUM Beautiful Freak involvement but you can't help thinking you're supposed to feel something, after fall, those dummies could be you. Other tracks take you on a helferskelter ride. •'NoJlfedcjy Yef with grinding, Radlohead-esque guitars followed by 'My Beloved Monster' sounding like on old music box and 'Flower' with operatic backing singers. tracks featuring some seriously heavy breakbeat technology. The opening track itself, 'Jaan' by Mr Singh and featuring Amar, is Asian Soul of the highest order; this is most definitely not _ _ . SIHfiUS monaco-wha t do you want from me? Classic Peter Hook bassline and a very Sumrner-esque chorus, combine to create a lost New Order masterpiece Pop perfection. ALBUM Talvin Singh Presents Anokha swing but real soulfulness for the 21st century. The second track 'Flight IC408' by State of Bengal, is an introduction to your tour around the musical influences of the Asian continent, taking on board the attitudes of Asian youth in London today. The scenes then change almost as rapidly as the tabla beats are mixed up, bringing the likes of Osmani Sounds and Lelonek into play. The Lelonek track 'Kizmet' really makes this album for me tuff Asian drum'n'bass burned up with real venom like no other. If you really want new soundz for your poundz, let the new Asian Underground take you down with it.(7) James SINGLES de la soul-4 They rap their way through the track in their uniqu, style while Zhane's velvety smooth vocals sing their way through 'Never Give You Up'. Highly rec/(//omiriended. SID Cinemo Guide signal they obliterate the ..entire assembled crowd of " TV reporters, officials, hippies Virgin Fulham Rd £6.20, £4 students Mon-Fri Ransom Natalie Lake (Sarah Jessica ^ Parker) are taken on board 12.40(Not Sat-Sun] 3.25 6.15 9.20 Fierce Creatures 1.40 4.00 6.30 8.50 .-to '' • 707 Dalmatians dismembered in some weird experiments yet kept alive by Sat-Sun 1.00 When U.S. President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) learns that aliens from Mars 1.30 4.10 6.40 9.10 are coming to invade Earth who should Mars Attacks! he listen to? General Decker (Rod 1.50 4.20 7.00 9.30 The Portrait of a Steiger) who's just itching to start a nuclpnr war or General Casey iPaui Lady Winiieldl who Is keen to 12.00 3.00 6.00 9.10 to .Zw<"ii(j::" Trees Lounge . . ' v . nicate with the aliens again ' ••••• ..- ' t o , •.'••to' W0;C - - - • known faces: Jack Nicholson Odeon Kensington £6.30, £3.70 before 5pm Monday-Friday Ransom Close Annette Beninq. Pierce Brosnan Michael J Fox the appearance from Tom Jones who saves the day for one group of survivors. The plot is pretty much 'Independence D a / but with more laughs. The aliens are ail animated in a style to Jack Skeleton in Burton's 'A Nightmare Before Christmas' despite being CGI creations. They were based on a series of trading cards from the 60's which were at the time withdrawn due to the nature of some of the pictures (this is coming from a nation that • *WWjw >•:••:•; 12.50 (Not Fri-Sun) 3.40 6.30 9.20 LNS Fri/Sat 12.10 The Long Kiss Goodnight The film is filled with his truly inventive and deliciously dark sense of LNS Fri/Sat 12.00 101 Dalmations Fri-Sun 2.05 -vto'.:;'..••<'WW- Fly Away Home Sat-Sun 1.05 In Love and War 1.35 4.15 SrrW ••:':y- • 3* Ks£.-;;- : ..V.;tX.X7; f wji'r-ss.to'so; Virgin Chelsea £6.20, £4 students Mon-Fri Ransom 9.20 - : ;: :k^MM -IgffifiSBS.S^Sffi ,atr" America and the rest of the world &,-:y:ze-. to-.. ;> --e; to>T,, toib :: Fly Away Home :inzv-y.<:' ':,y~\~ sequences. When Sat-Sunl2.30 the aliens finally arrive following their Michael She's The One 12.20 2.35 4.50 7.05 Michael Kw . w : as a learning Unfortunately for : toto.-- ' -ft"';" equipment, asking '•ihs-.-;0. y,:x-::<y-\d<x-'-->^c<?.-d .' ::-HCK&,toc-v.tow-o'- 'f:-li-:j.:: fern Worlds' was real ). Ttie" :,<rto to >?',f'- - ' t o <.tov;> •'•T-"-to -cqv: animated spaceships wreak havoc by literally dissolving all of Conjr?;".:-''.- the to'sso™ cr;C c t o ^ n e ; •• low budget B-movie feel to them Wha; eis? totoe vtov:to*'& ::tof;s- c v . s:v; ::.;t . W 1;to r. underhanded and play toew. dirty, one of them disguising to q:, ;.• Z-.-:-.'S 'rf-;l '.rus c ;;iig... woman in an attempt to KT infiltrate White House secuTirr' • •' — v.V ?:":va£ toe few directors working in Presidi nt More t-i the point, Hollywood who doesn't make tow ;»'9m toww j'tow-,: w bad films, and this is no exceptible, even against nuclear on. weapons. That is until his most accessible film for they're faced with the sound •ne to i w- w . • ."d.'to p on. tor. Wtowto ito:s;S : J : his profile cast. Although not his best work. Mars Attacks! is a brilliant and hilarious work even if it is ultimately unsatisfying. Given the recent popularity ' 1 ;, ; 2.05(Not Sat-Sun] 4.35 7.05 9.40 LNS Fri/Sat 12.10 She's The One 6.50 9.15 LNS Fri/Sat 11.40 iindnuhlnblv the best yet and is acres better than ID4, the film it will obviously be con--;: Shine 1.40 4.15 6.50 9.25 Bound : 1.30 4.10 6.45 9.15 The Crucible 1.10 3.45 6.25 9.10 Bound 1.00 (Not Sat-Sun)3.25 6.40 9.25 : 1.55 4.30 7.05 9.40 LNS Fri/Sat12.20 The Crucible 1.00 3.50 6.40 9.30 LNS r. i / S C 12.20 : Chelsea Cinema £7, £4 concession (1st perf. only) Ridicule 1.55 4.10 6.30 8.50 Mlnema £6.50/ £4 Matinee Mon-Fri Shine 3.30 8.50 UCI Whiteleys £6.25/ £4 before 5pm Mon-Fri/ £3 before 3pm SatSun Ransom 12.40 320 6.15 8.50 Fly Away Home 12.00 Matilda 12.15 Fierce Creatures SrrW 1081/11 28029? 2.50 5.10 7,25 9.45 Harriet die Spy 11.00 1,20 3.45 She's the One I. 30 4 . 1 0 6.40 9.20 Mars Attacks! II. 15 1.45 4.30 7.05 9,40 MICHAEL Andie MacDowell sings, John Travolta dances, Bob Hoskins cockney accent gets progressively more suspicious what more could you possibly want? Hopefully not a plausible plot, as that's certainly one thing that Michael doesn't supply. Michael (Travolta) is an angel on his last visit to Earth, who communicates his presence to tabloid hack Frank (William Hurt). Thus Frank, with sidekick Huey (Robert Pastorelli) and new recruit Dorothy (MacDowell) in tow, rushes out to Iowa to buy-up Michael's story. Despite a distinct lack of anything impressive on the miracle front, manThe Portrait of a ners that would make Jabba the Hutt cringe, and an amazing set of comedy Lady wings, they decide to accept Michael's 2.30 5.45 9.00 story (even down to his claim to have Michael invented queueing) and bring him back 11.30 1.55 4.20 6.50 to their sceptical editor (Bob Hoskins) in 9.30 Grace of my HeartChicago From here, the film basically degenerates into a second-rate road 6.00 8.45 movie, as Michael belches his way from motel to motel, pulling every girl he meets, and blatantly matchmaking Frank and Dorothy. The Crucible 12.30 3.25 6.20 9.15 Despite fine attempts from the cast to Film do their best with what script their is (particularly from Travolta, whose charisma shines through, even in the lamest of movies), this still remains a one-joke film, entirely based around Travolta. MacDowell and Pastorelli do their best to wring out as many laughs as possible from the thin plot (and admittedly, with around a dozen funny points Michael smashes through the Hollywood romantic-comedy average), but any film in which the funniest moments come courtesy of a small, yapping dog hardly aims for classic status, and certainly can't make up for the pain caused by being forced to sit through Andie MacDowell singing Country & Western. All that said, howeve& ifs yet another fine example ojffungjronal" film-making. It aims for inoffensive fun, a family audience and a healthy box-office take - and nothing more, and thanks to it's stars, it achieves all three. Unlikely as it may be, if you happen to have a couple of prepubescent kids desperately in need of calming at any point during the next few weeks, than Michael is the place to go. Otherwise.... python ASS • IAL0RCA •-•...V.n.^:!.:,^---. Chelsea Centre Theatre Kings Road (5min from Beaufort St.) until Sth March Tickets £7,50/5.50 cone Box Office: 0171 352 1967 Buses 345, 49 from South Ken. Encouraged by his mentor * and ra? fide away. The i eventually ; Jeflook to his typist tove and his child, ally, she turns the bblefon him and it is i e that is forced to wait for her. Confused, he retreats under the attack of threatening strangers who replace his friends. HFTT 11i i as indeed thieved, with ing, a lot of vigot rive. The actors < ansported by and admirable I Bizarre! 'When Five Years Pass" is Lorca's most surrealist play, fulfil ing the author's project to create a new theatre, inno vative in both style and content. Despite some touches of humour, the play is a 1I!5 280231 However, the strangeness of (the play might not be to every[one's taste. Despite the quality f the acting, it is not easy to follow. The play is at times disjrbing and confusing and one Joes not always know what to make of it. Danuta Tony Cragg Sculpture Tony Cragg is probably the most significant British sculptor of his generation. The core of the exhibition consists of large scale sculptures. In Spirogyra, the freshwater algae is transformed into an impressive spiral from which protrude dozens of bottles of different shapes Whitechapel Gallery and colours. Secretions turns out to be a mass of round shapes completely covered in dice. Upstairs, one finds a collection of drawings and more sculptures, such as theatre and exhibition Whltechapel Subcommittee, a large assortment of Gallery inking pads and Iwo rather surprising Whitechapel and unexpected works. As its name High St suggests, Angel and Other Antibodies until 9th March consists of a rough chunk of wood with Admission: free sculpted angels. The second piece, untiEnquiries; tied, represents a living room. Both are 0171 522 7888 covered with hundreds of hooks. opening hours: The artist's range of media is striking. Tues-Sun 11am- He works with found objects in wood, 5p glass, ceramic, plastic and metal, but has also explored casting and carving, even on monumental works. Although the material is the vital catalyst, his creations are also inspired by instinct and various fields of knowledge, particularly v m science, architecture, technology and history. His early training as a technician in a rubber laboratory has certainly been of influence to him. Cragg's most recent work has been motivated by the question : 'Why am I this shape ?'. He further asks: 'What if ideas about making sculpture are not about making some sort of adornment for the world, but about investigating medium in a direct sense? Sculpture can bring about changes of all sorts in all areas of human life'. Whatever the answer, this exhibition will not leave you cold. Danuta When God Wanted a Son New End Theatre When God Wanted a Son, part of the New Jewish Plays Season at the New End Theatre was one of the strangest 28020? plays I have ever seen. Not least New Bad because the theatre was originally con Theatre structed in 27 New End 1890 as the Hampstead mortuary for until 2nd March the now Tickets: £11/6 defunct New cone. End Hospital, Box Office: but also 0171 794 0022 because there was very little point to the entire play. The play depicts an evening in the life of Joshua, professor of Semantics, who is a Jew. His estranged wife Martha, a gentile, is desperately trying to control her antiSemitic feelings. Their daughter Connie, product of both, has failed miserably to become a successful stand-up comic using her perceptions of her inherited Jewish humour and she is forcibly examining her feelings towards both the Jewish and the gentile culture. Jacqueline Pearce as Martha and Lawrence Werber as Joshua convincingly portrayed a neurotic mother and an egotistical father. The theatre itself was exceptional with only about sixty seats and a particularly cosy atmosphere unusual for a mortuary! The real problem was the fact that the play lacked depth or for that matter a story-line. It is just not accessible to a wider audience in search of an evening's light entertainment. It is specifically aimed at the Jewish community and those with a particular interest in their culture. The highlight of my evening happened during the interval when we nipped next door to the pub where a bell was sounded three minutes before the start of the second act. J.D.L. theatre and exhibition London GOidc effects bonanza. The perfect answer to an overdose of Independence Day. Plus, The Crucible Cinema - New Releases Mars Attacks - Tim Burton's star and Friday28thFebruary Diary Dafes lpm Hamsoc (Regular) Top Floor, Union Building lpm Photo Soc (Regular) Southside Lounge 1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular) Friday Prayer, Southside Gym. 1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular) Southside upper Lounge 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym 9pm Bust-A-Gut comedy An evening of mystery and magic - Bust-AGuf Comedy Club diversifies for a week with Hugh Lennon, Hypnotist & the amazing Oscar - Hypno-Dog. A show not to be missed !! £2.50 / £2 . 8pm doors. dBs. Then indulge in a disco inferno SHAFT ! 70's & 80's |& 90's !!) disco & pop. Free before 9 / £1 after. Free Women's Minibus Service First run at 12.00 midnight Last run at Union closing time Sunday 2ml March Diary Dafes 1pm Wargames (Regular) 2 pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (intermediate!, Southside Gym 4pm Standing Room Only - VillavLiverpool. The biggest matches on the biggest screen. DaVinci's. 6pm ICU Cinema Imperial College Science Fiction Society present computer-whizz flick Hackers, starring Trainspotting's Johnny Lee Miller. 28029? Monday3rdMarch Diary Dafes 12.30pm Artsoc (Regular) SCR, Union Building 12.30pm Ski Club Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Circuit Training, Southside Gym 2 pm Deadline for Diary, Soc. Pages The last chance to get your Diary dates or Clubs and Socs entries in this week 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics Ibeginners), Southside Gym 6pm Felix News and Features Meeting Want to write and never had the chance? Well, nows the time to discover the buddingjournalist that's been hiding away for so long. Felix Office, nw corner of Beit Quad. 6 pm IC Methsoc (Regular) All faiths welcome, Basement 10 Princes' Gardens. 6.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics fintermediatel, Southside Gym 7pm IC Sinfonia (Regular) Great Hall, All players welcome Eight Day Guide Tuesday4thMarclt 8pm Special Budweiser DaVinci's Bar Trivia... not only can you win the usual £50, or lager, but there's also a pool cue, baseball jacket and t-shirts to be won !! And it's all FREE! DaVinci's. Plus sabbatical election results. SFTW Diary Dafes 12pm Cathsoc (Regular) Mass and lunch, Leon Bagrit Centre, Lvl 1 Mech Eng 12pm-2pm 'Fair Trade' Stall (Regular) Union Building Foyer. Fairly traded goods for sale. Stationary, Coffee, Tea & Chocolate 12.15 Yoga Soc (Regular) Yoga Classes, Southside Gym 12.30pm African-Caribbean Soc (Regular) Weekly meeting, Rm G02, Materials dept. RSM 12.30pm Parachute Club(Reguktr) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Audio Soc (Regular) Brown Committee Room, Union Building 1pm Sailing Club Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 3pm Pakistan Soc (Regular) 5pm Circus Skills Soc (Regular) Table Tennis Room, Union Building 5.30pm Radio Modellers Club MechEng Main Workshop (Rm 109), e-mail [email protected] 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym 6pm Bridge Club (Regular) Clubs Committee Room, Union Building 7pm Canoe Club (Regular) Canoe Club Store in Beit Quad, or at the swimming pool at 7 30pm 7.30pm IQ (Regular) Brown Committee Room, Union Building 8pm ICCAG (Regular) Soup Run for the hornless Meet Weeks Hall Basement 8pm Son of Abandon With Fold, Anasazi and much, much more. From 8pm in dB's. Free entry. Basketball in the Union Gym, anyone wel- Wednesday5thMarch Diary Dafes 12.30pm Islamic Society (Regular) Sister's Circle, Prayer Room, Southside 12.45pm Sporting Motorcycle Club Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Wargames (Regular) Table Tennis Room, Union Building lpm IC Rifle and Pistol Club (Regular) Join up and shoot. Check on range door for deatils about safety induction, Sports Centre 1pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (beginner/intermediate), Southside Gym lpm ConSoc The Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP speaks at IC, 542 Mech.Eng. 2pm Photo Soc Lessons, Darkroom 5pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym 6pm Orienteering Club (Regular) Training in Union Gym. All welcome 6.30pm Chess Club (Regular) Club and Brown Committee Room, Union 3rd Floor 7pm Shaolin Kung Fu Nam Pai Chuan Beginners Welcome, Souhside Gym 7pm IC Symphony Orchestra(Regular) Great Hall 9pm Frolix. Hang onto your hats ... until lam Midnight bar. Free entry. Free Women's Minibus Service First run at 12.00 midnight Last run at Union closing time Eight Day Guide Thursday6thMarch Diary Dafes 12.30 pm Amnesty International (Regular) dB's, e-mail s.trivedi or [email protected] 12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Body Toning (beginners), Southside Gym 1pm Consoc Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Fell Wanderers (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Gliding dub Room 266 Aero. Eng (Follow signs from aero foyer) 1.10pm RAG Meeting (Regular) dB's 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym 6pm Christian Union (Regular) Biology W2/W3, left at Beit Quad Arch. All welcome to find out more about Jesus 6.15pm IC Choir Rehearsals (Regular) New Members Welcome, Mech Eng 342 8pm ICCAG (Regular) Soup Run for the homeless Meet Weeks Hall Basement 5 pm Da Vinci's Cocktail Night Everything from sex on the beach to screwing bananas.. the ultra lounge extravaganza that is DaVinci's Cocktail NightHappy hour prices all night. FridaylthMarch Southside upper Lounge 1.30pm Felix Reviews and Science meeting 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym 9pm Hedonizm The coolest club cuts.... plus cocktails & chill out room. Free before 9/£l after. Free Women's Minibus Service First run at 12.00 midnight Last run at Union closing time Diary Dafes lpm Hamsoc (Regular) Top Floor, Union Building lpm Photo Soc (Regular) Southside Lounge 1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular) Friday Prayer, Southside Gym. (Brothers and Sisters) 1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular) Third World First Throughout the 1980's many of Britain's foremost charities and aid agencies focused on the enormous drain on the resources and environment of people in the Developing World. This drain was the result of enormous transfers of wealth from the South to banks in the North. Between 1983 and 1989, commercial banks received 91% of the transfer of $111 bn from Latin America and the Caribbean to the developed world. For years, campaigners collected petitions, however, despite this activity and hugely high profile campaigns, the banks continue to refuse to write off a penny of debt. Out of this situation the Lloyds and Midland Boycott Campaign was born. LAMB is a student organisation that believes that only direct financial pressure can alleviate the situation. Students, as the wage earners of tomorrow, represent one of the most lucrative markets for the banking system and consequently have leverage on banking policy, as was seen in the AntiApartheid Campaign of the 1970's when the boycott of Barclays persuaded all UK banks to cut off finance to the South-African Government. The success of LAMB itself has not been inconsiderable. At a recent Midland AGM it was stated that the fall in student accounts at Bradford alone represented a loss in profits in excess of £200,000. Eight Day Guide and clubs & socs A representative of LAMB will be speaking in the Senior Common Room (SCR) of Beit Quad at 12JOpm on Wednesday 5th March, icsf presents: PICOCON SFTW mnm 20 Fiction has run, with varying success, a one day convention. This Sunday coming, March 2nd, we are running number 14. The flavour of our convention changes, as il ineviiably must given the fact that it is run each time by a different group of people It is easier to say what it is not, or at (east has not been during the last 3 years, ft is not a Star Trek / Babylon 5 / X-flles / Darkskies fest. Neither is it anything to do with roleplaying. In an attempt to describe what it is, it is a literature / irrelevant-discussion / beer drinking / book dealing fun day. And as per normal, this year we have two authors of the highest qualify, Simon Ings and Nicholas Royle, both of 28029? For more detailed Born in Sale in south Manchester in 1963, Nicholas Royle's first novel, 'Counterparts', is information, a disturbing account of two men in various including a timetable of events, European locations with different but strangely linked stories. His second novel, see the ksfvseb 'Saxophone Dreams' (1996), is as good an page on http://www.su .ic.ac, attempt as any to describe the fall of the Soviet hold on Eastern Europe, with 1he uk/clubsocs/scc/tcsf undead victims of the various regimes descending on Albania with a diverse group of jazz musicians also experiencing a similar Nicholas Royle Simon Ings pull. He has also sold 100 short stories to magazines and anthologies and his reviews have appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, Time Out and other magazines. He edited the award-winning 'Darklands' and 'Darklands 2', 'A Book of Two Halves' (original football shorts). He works as an editor on the Time Out City Guides series. whom hall from London Although you may not have heard of them yet, take note that previous guests include lain banks and Terry Pratcheft, both of which are now very well known indeed. As well as our guest authors doing their thing, we are holding an sf quiz entitled "Asferiods", a balloon debate between various fictional characters, showing the film H a c k e r s ' , and throughout the day their will be book dealers, computer games and videos. And not to forget, the bar is open all afternoon, and their is food available at lunch time. The whole day is a snip at 3 quid - for any student at all or any IC staff (8 quid otherwise), and if you are already a member of icsf it is free! So come along this Sunday rather than sleeping the day away. Simon has written 3 novels to date, and numerous short stories. His latest book, 'Hotwire', is an amalgam of cyberpunk, nanotech and bioengineered organisms. He has visited icsf twice before, speaking to small but enthralled audiences, with topics ranging from what the divide is between natural and manufactured to radical male feminists. Current pro|eds include a new novel, 'Headlong', trying to get an article he wrote for Wired UK into Wired USA now that the UK version has folded, and ensuring that his flat, which overlooks Nunhead Cemetery, does not burn down (the downstairs neighbours allegedly being pyromaniacs). He collaborated with Nicholas Royle on a performance piece in the Bath Literature Festival in 1996, and has worked with the director Simon Pummell on two short films, one of which ,'Rose Red', has been shown on Channel 4. He was born in a tasteless piece of ribbon development in 1965, which explains a lot. Eight Day Guide