Viva Brighton Issue #77 July 2019

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COLUMN ........................................... John Helmer Fallen Illustration by Chris Riddell Chaining my bike to railings, I spot a silent disco across the Pavilion Gardens. A group of people in headphones, from that dangerous age group best described as late-youth-meets-early-middleage, are gyrating wildly to a beat only they can hear while singing along enthusiastically to hits from Grease: “Summer loving had me a blast...” With their blissed-out expressions and jerky movements they recall the wandering bands of religious fanatics that plagued Medieval towns, but there is something typically Brighton about them. The whole scene is typically Brighton in fact: the young families at the tables of the Café—“So it’s a Nobbly Bobbly for you, River … and what does Storm want?”—being played Joni Mitchell songs by a straggle-bearded busker with an oud (we are stardust, we are golden); the foreign students sitting on the patch of grass opposite the Pavilion where they always sit, which has now been replaced by astroturf because their sitting has worn the grass away; the hen parties, the stag packs; the well-heeled and the well-hung, the fabulous and the destitute. Brighton lives in the now, but also at an intersection of many different times. Looking at the Pavilion, you imagine the coaches trundling down from London in Regency times. A brass band summons up the era of Jimmy Edwards and Gilbert Harding. And if I look across towards the Corn Exchange I see a grassy incline where I sat with a friend from school on my first visit in 1974, when I was weighing up the offer of a place from the university (there was only one in those days). We had already chucked pebbles in the sea, visited both piers and done a clutch of pubs. “I think you should come here,” he belched, “definitely”. I visit the toilet and find my way partially blocked by two men in heated conversation. They both have that suntan—not the unseasonal skiing tan, or the two-weeks-in-Marbella-withthe-kids-tan, but the one that goes with the neck tattoos and spending too much time in the open not by your own choice. “I’m f***ing buzzing, man,” says one. They follow me in and take a cubicle together. Loud snorting noises ensue. “Do you believe in ghosts?,” my friend Hugh the poet asked me the other day. “Only the ones I see when I walk around Brighton,” I answered, meaning old acquaintances from the punk days who didn’t stop taking the drugs when the rest of us did. Now they live on the other side of an invisible mental border like the ones in China Miéville’s The City & the City, which prevents us acknowledging or even registering one another’s presence, our sole point of connection a guilty coin-drop. It’s always there, this rough underside to the smooth. This place, with its naked bike rides, can look so Edenic—until you spot the pervs in the crowd with their telephoto lenses. The truth is we’re fallen, and unreasonably proud of it. ....37....
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Page 4 and 5: Kew’s wild botanic garden Wakehur
Page 6 and 7: CONTENTS ..........................
Page 8 and 9: THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST .......
Page 10 and 11: CLARITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Time to
Page 12 and 13: NOW IN OUR 6 th GLORIOUS YEAR! IN P
Page 14 and 15: CURATOR’S CITY ..................
Page 17: BITS AND PUBS .....................
Page 20 and 21: CAT FLETCHER MELANIE REES CLAIRE PO
Page 22 and 23: SUMMER PATIO STYLE Transform your g
Page 24 and 25: BITS AND BOOKS THE KING FROM OVER T
Page 26 and 27: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 28 and 29: BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY You won’t fi
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Page 45 and 46: PRIDE .............................
Page 47 and 48: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 49 and 50: THEATRE ...........................
Page 51 and 52: GRAPHIC NOVEL .....................
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Page 67 and 68: THE WAY WE WORK This month Adam Bro
Page 69 and 70: THE WAY WE WORK Keith Manger, Healt
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Page 76 and 77: RECIPE ............................
Page 78 and 79: A-news bouche The Community Kitchen
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FEATURE ...........................
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MY SPACE ..........................
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BUILT BRIGHTON ....................
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WE TRY... .........................
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WILDLIFE ..........................
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