Viva Brighton Issue #67 September 2018

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Lancing College Preparatory Schools, Senior School & Sixth Form Open Mornings Saturday 6 October 2018 10.30am – 1pm Lancing College Lancing West Sussex BN15 0RW T 01273 465 805 E admissions@lancing.org.uk Saturday 13 October 2018 10am – 12 noon Lancing Prep Hove The Droveway, Hove East Sussex BN3 6LU T 01273 503 452 E hove@lancing.org.uk Saturday 13 October 2018 10am – 12 noon Lancing Prep Worthing Broadwater Road, Worthing West Sussex BN14 8HU T 01903 201 123 E worthing@lancing.org.uk Registered Charities Lancing College & Lancing Prep Hove 1076483. Lancing Prep Worthing 1155150
COLUMN ........................................... John Helmer Good times Illustration by Chris Riddell “When was the last time you went to something like this?” asks our son Freddy. “A festival?” My wife has to think about it. “Knebworth, 1979.” “Wow.” For me it’s a bit more recent; Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park 2012, featuring Iggy and the Stooges, which I went to with Freddy. Like Kate I tend to avoid outdoor gigs. The music I like best comes out of dark, dingy clubs, and in my view should stay there. Gigs outdoors just feel wrong. I have a vivid memory from my own gigging days of being chased around the stage by a wasp when supporting the Gang of Four at a festival in Amsterdam. Outdoor gigs, besides, heap countless indignities and discomforts on their punters. Not that we can complain right now: we’re cool and chilled under a tree eating tacos and drinking mojitos. Meanwhile, from a birdcage on top of the cocktail van, a shaven-headed glitter-goth fights gamely to pitch his counter-tenor voice above some inexpert hard rock from the BIMM-stage on one flank, and Jess Glynn’s whingey pop on the other. Freddy’s younger sister Poppy appears with her posse and demands cash for ice-cream. I pass a note and the teenagers instantly dematerialise. Finally, cocktails drained, we amble down to the main stage. Perhaps the reason I don’t like big gigs in general is because I’ve always been wary of pop’s mainstream (even when I was part of that mainstream). Chic, however, tonight’s headliners, were always the acceptable face of disco for whingey indie types like me. And I’ll forgive Nile Rodgers anything - including detailing his commercial successes on the house-high video screens like it was some corporate CEO’s end-ofyear results deck. For he has given us some of the best dance music known to humanity, and here he is now playing it live for me - here, in Preston Park, where on normal days I would be walking a dog, or riding a bicycle. After an hour of disco fun I take a break to visit the portaloos and on returning can’t find the others. I wander, mildly panic-stricken, among crowds of strangers as Nile Rodgers tells the story of his recent brush with The Big C: “…And now I’m here with you today, completely cancer-free!” Huge cheers. Then Freddy spots me and I am shepherded back to the fold. “I thought I’d lost you,” I say to Kate. She gives me a look. Two years ago we were just over the road from this spot in the NHS Park Centre, learning a game of rock, paper, scissors, whose new labels were surgery, chemo, and radiotherapy. But now we’re here together, and also cancer-free. Then Nile scrubs out the familiar riff of a song played at pretty much every wedding disco ever, and we are all for the moment (quite literally in the case of Kate, Freddy and me) family. ....41....
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Page 4 and 5: HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE
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Page 10 and 11: THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST .......
Page 12 and 13: BITS AND BUSES ....................
Page 14 and 15: CURATOR’S CITY ..................
Page 16 and 17: FAMILY TICKETS AVAILABLE THE MIDNIG
Page 19 and 20: BITS AND PUBS .....................
Page 21 and 22: BITS AND BOX ......................
Page 23 and 24: JJ WALLER .........................
Page 25 and 26: BITS AND BOGS .....................
Page 27 and 28: BITS AND BOOKS ....................
Page 29 and 30: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 31 and 32: PHOTOGRAPHY .......................
Page 39: COLUMN ...........................
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Page 47 and 48: LITERATURE ........................
Page 49 and 50: FILM .............................
Page 51: MUSIC .............................
Page 54 and 55: Sparkling arts events in the heart
Page 56 and 57: LAURIE ANDERSON & HSIN-CHIEN HUANG
Page 59 and 60: FAMILY ............................
Page 61: PHOTOGRAHY ........................
Page 64 and 65: ILLUSTRATION + PRINT FAIR INK PAPER
Page 67 and 68: ART ...............................
Page 69 and 70: LOCAL MAKER .......................
Page 71 and 72: DESIGN ............................
Page 73 and 74: THE WAY WE WORK This month we sent
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BRICKS AND MORTAR .................
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SPECIMEN PLANTS, TREE FERNS, OLIVES
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WILDLIFE ..........................
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