Viva Lewes Issue #137 February 2018

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
CONTENTS
Bits and bobs.
The story behind Marion McConaghie’s
elegant cover (8-9); Peter Owen-Jones on
the magic of Firle (11); Steve Ramsey on the
Brighton Bombing (17); a double dose of
Rookettes (19, 23) and the usual mix of pics
and clocks and plaques and pubs.
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Columns.
Colin Chapman meets Gary Oldman
(25), David Jarman questions the need for
change (27) and Mark Bridge loves his
neighbours… or at least their cats (29).
On this month.
The Rookettes again – this time trying to
double their record attendance at the Pan
(31); Brighton-based crime novelist William
Shaw recalls the swinging sixties (33); Viva
Morrissey’s Paul Blake strikes again (37);
and a couple of 20s classics at the Depot:
Napoleon and Battleship Potemkin (39).
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Art.
Tamsin Spargo’s weathered artwork (41),
and what’s on the gallery walls in and around
Lewes including two shows featuring book
covers, one in the Crypt in Seaford, one – of
Penguin classics revisited – at Ditchling
Museum of Art + Craft (43-45).
Listings & Free Time.
Dates for the diary including a welcome
return for the Lewes Film Club at the All
Saints (47-49); classical music round-up
(51); Gig Guide, with the great Geno
Washington topping the bill (52-55);
and a round-up of rad rumblings for the
under 16s, including the Brighton Science
Festival (57-61).