Issue 46 / July 2014

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Editorial
I love the World Cup.
With its riot of colour, carnival atmosphere, pantomime theatrics and stench of corruption, it is,
in many ways, the ultimate male soap opera. I have to admit that I’m completely hooked, and I’ve
regressed to my eight-year-old self watching this tournament, clutching my Panini sticker album
and berating the telly as another innocuous challenge results in a gymnastic series of tumbles and
yelps. With all the strutting and preening and dramatic plot twists, this year’s World Cup makes for
compulsive viewing, regardless of the actual football on show. There was a time when my footballing
thirst could only be quenched by lollipops, Cruyff turns, scissor kicks and the glorious flow of tiki-taka
(RIP); now, I need the full razzmatazz, the Big Show brought on by all the extracurricular factors. Give
me MORE selfies with Angela Merkel!; MORE political protests and crowd invasions!; MORE vanishing
spray!; LESS of those awful football boots (Adi and Rudi Dassler would not be impressed)!; MORE
Super Eagles and Indomitable Lions!; EXTRA TIME on Blatter v Beckenbauer’s power tussle! Given
that the whole spectacle is a million miles away from Tranmere v Newport County on a Tuesday
night, it’s no wonder that I’m losing myself in
it all. Not even the WWE can match up to the
World Cup’s full-on sensory overload.
The national anthems have had a blinder
of a World Cup so far as well, with chests
puffing out all over the place. There’s nothing
quite like a good battle song, or a hymn about
your country’s greatness and beautiful white
mountains, to get the blood pumping. Singing
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the anthem is the closest that our pampered
and over-protected footballers come to a haka, and this year the anthem has become a pre-match
battle in itself. Mexico tried their hardest to outdo Brazil, but not much can compete with 60,000
voices bellowing out one of the world’s most uplifting anthems. Not even little old Neymar (all
£71.5m of him) could cope with the outpouring of emotion that it brought forth, as a nation seemed
to come together as one behind the team, and just for a moment put aside their political differences.
It’s hard to see God Save The Queen having the same effect on Wayne Rooney.
Back in the real world, it’s been a pretty hectic month for us. At the beginning of June we hopped
over to the Netherlands for the first edition of Eindhoven Psych Lab, a scorching two-day festival of
mind-bending psychedelic music. We had an utter blast, and on behalf of fellow psychonauts Paul
Sullivan, Sam and Venya, Bernie Connor, Mugstar, Les Longhead, and the dozens of Liverpool natives
who made the journey, we’d like to say a massive thanks to the team at De Effenaar for the show
and their fantastic hospitality – I can’t wait for next year already!
It was as I was dealing with my massive Psych Lab hangover – and also trembling at the imminence
of another one, with the looming presence of Paddy’s stag do in Galway – that I wandered in to the
Bombed Out Church. Stepping in to the peaceful grounds, it was like all the other noise in my head
had been switched off, which allowed me to relax completely as the building’s custodian Ambrose
Reynolds told me about his plans for the new St. Luke’s Conservation Trust. Later that same day, I
walked past the Church and I could hear music and a clatter of sounds coming from the shell. This is
the type of building that I want at the heart of a city: an oasis from the maddeningly hectic to-and-fro
of daily life, and also a noisy hub that is proud to be heard, indicating to anyone who’ll listen that this
is a place where stuff is made, not just a place where stuff happens. It’s one of the many reasons why
I’ll be pledging to their Crowdfunder campaign to make sure that it stays open. I hope you do too.
Christopher Torpey / @BidoLito
Editor
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