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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.
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Mars Attacks!
Five years pass when God wanted a son
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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;
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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
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own axis determines the
length of a day. But
these ace the
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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
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clocks
ortiaanng
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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? ' '
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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.
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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....
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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 £ '
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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
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•They save'
"for the end
dictably the
place goes
They soon
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instead pic
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Brian and the bassist swap
for a final instrumental thra«
noise with the bassist's eye;
eyeballs) epitomising the ve
of evil.
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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,
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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
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from his guitar on this occasion. The
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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are coming to invade Earth who should
Mars Attacks!
he listen to? General Decker (Rod
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nuclpnr war or General Casey iPaui
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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
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bad films, and this is no exceptible, even against nuclear
on.
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his most accessible film for
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better than ID4, the film it will obviously
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The Crucible
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£7, £4 concession
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Ridicule
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Mlnema
£6.50/ £4 Matinee
Mon-Fri
Shine
3.30 8.50
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£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
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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....
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(5min from
Beaufort St.)
until Sth March
Tickets
£7,50/5.50 cone
Box Office:
0171 352 1967
Buses 345, 49
from South Ken.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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