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DeFries Leaps In
VICTORIA KINGHAM As jazz musicians get older, it is perhaps understandable that they might settle into a comfortable groove, doing what they are confident in, playing through familiar changes in…
‘One in a Million’ Ellen Prebble at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
SARAH MILNE As a working artist and arts writer, going to art shows and events is a central part of life, something I am incredibly grateful for. I can honestly…
Learn and Participate
The organisation behind the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, firmly believes in its responsibility to reach beyond the competition to engage locally through its Learning and Participation programme. Courtesy of…
Writing about Writing
VICTORIA KINGHAM The Palace Workspace is a well-considered refurbishment of an ex-department store in Robertson Street. It’s five floors of glorious open space, warm, redecorated and lined with nicely-selected paintings…
The Stamp of Innocence
by Aled Gwyn JôbPublished by Troubadorrrp £ at Bookbusterreview by Tim Barton The 'Post Office scandal' has dominated the news for a few weeks now, yet it goes back a…
Poetry Corner: Haiku Sequence
JOHN R PARSONS riding networks of winter trees gibbous moon heads for the open after the tree surgeon I stack his sawn off limbs freak weather a bare cherry in…
FOOTBALL: Home Comfort for United
20 January:Carshalton Athletic 2, Hastings Utd 1 27 January:Hastings Utd 2, Hashtag Utd 0 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end on 20 January when they…
Fat Tuesday 2024
HARRY HAWKINS speaks to some of the organisers, venues and musicians that are involved in the event. BOB TIPLER FROM ALBION FORMER ORGANISER OF HFT AND AT ALBION For Bob,…
Jess Steele, Community Entrepreneur
HUGH SULLIVAN In an era of squeezed public finances, soaring construction costs and wasting infrastructure, the renovation of buildings around Cambridge Road by the Hastings Commons (HC) group of trusts…
HIP List #244
MUSIC Friday 2 February Saturday Seafront Session – Earl Grey The Albion, George St, Stormy-T and Bluesman’s Lane Tin Tins, 21 Robertson St, Martin Blackman Band The Jenny Lind, 69…
What to do with Dorothy
PAUL McLAUGHLIN A campaign to save the historic fishing boat which greets visitors to Hastings as they exit the railway station has divided local opinion. The RX53 Dorothy Melinda is…
A Forgotten Hastings Hoaxer
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate a curious case Have you ever heard of Charles Dawson? I suspect not. He was a well respected Victorian gent who was brought up…
Pedalling a Good Cause
Are you looking for a new fitness challenge for 2024? And one that would actually help other people? How about a 4-day cycle ride from Eastbourne to Amsterdam? Obviously that…
Keeping HIP on the Road
ROD WEBB Hastings Independent is a print newspaper that attempts to be both for the community and by the community – but given that our town is a particularly diverse…
MIXED RECEPTION FOR TOWN CENTRE RE-DESIGN
HUGH SULLIVAN A preliminary re-design of Hastings Town Centre was unveiled at a Town Deal Board meeting last week, then presented in the central hub of Priory Meadow shopping centre…
What’s to be Done About Housing?
HUGH SULLIVAN The economics of the housing crisis in Hastings are easy to summarise: too much demand, not enough supply. The result: a rise in house prices, currently curtailed by…
A Pearl for the People?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING ask what the Hastings Contemporary is doing for the people of Hastings. The shiny black box of the Hastings Contemporary that graces The Stade in…
Housing Rebellion in Hastings
Writer Grace Lally is a member of Housing Rebellion, a direct action group of housing and climate activists We are told – across the nation but particularly in Hastings -…
Staying in the Borough
Town sports clubs’ move to Claremont School “won’t proceed” Hugh Sullivan The plan to relocate the town’s prime cricket and hockey clubs from Horntye Park to Claremont School appears to…
Facing the Financial Facts
PETER FINCH, Chairman of Horntye Park Management Company which acts as sole Trustee of Hastings and Rother Sports Trust, explains how sale of the cricket arena at Horntye will benefit…
Holocaust Memorial: My Mother’s Story
DAVID TASKER Saturday 27 January is International Holocaust Memorial Day. I am putting together a commemoration service at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. The centrepiece of the service will…
Long Waits For NHS Patients in East Sussex
The proportion of patients having to wait more than four hours in A&E departments in both the Conquest Hospital in Hastings and Eastbourne District General Hospital before being treated has…
A Renter’s Rant
JANE METCALFE gives us one renter’s tale. My rental story is all too common, particularly in this current climate. It’s a story with a happy ending, preceded by one of…
Clean Water Watch
A regular column to update readers on the damaging effects of the current management of water in Hastings, surrounding areas (and nationally) and what people are doing about it. If…
Suppressing Dissent
As a Labour Press Officer under Neil Kinnock, ROSIE BROCKLEHURST helped make the party electable in the 1990s. But now she welcomes the resignation of Hastings Councillors from the party…
Shockwaves From Gaza
GUY HARRIS, the Hastings Liberal Democrat spokesman on national affairs, says Keir Starmer and other British politicians must do more to address the Israel-Palestine conflict – as must the wider…
A Generous Dose of Brazilian Sun
CALLUM THOMSON Braziliant is a night of music, dancing and culture inspired by Samba, the Afro-Brazilian art form. Co-organiser, Dan Wiltshire, wants to make Hastings “the sunniest place in the…
Upcoming: Two Unmissable Concerts
VICTORIA KINGHAM In 2024, St Leonards Concerts once again take an innovative approach. The eclecticism of what they present has always been in evidence – what is maybe less apparent…
A Unique Musical and Creative Performance
The House of the Stone that Spoke, an experiential theatre performance, ran to sold out houses throughout the Christmas period. JUDY DEWSBERY has been to many of ExploreTheArch’s performances exploring…
Poetry Corner
Mask 2020 BEN FAIRLIGHT Swimming in a mid-September sea I dipped my head under, daringly, Then shook my chill-mangled mop like a dog To wring out London and its modern…
Eat Write Love: Pears
NICKY AND SONJA of Creative Concoctions – a local social enterprise, boosting creative health. Fancy something light, tangy and crunchy to go with all those crackers you bought over Christmas…
ARTS DIARY
THE SPIRIT IN THE DUST Kino-Teatr, St Leonards, 20 February, Original dance/music performance featuring Japanese Butoh-influenced dancer Yumino Seki, with music from Afrit Nebula and images by Mark French. Seki…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Disconsolate Dreamers: On Pessimism and Utopia
Published by Zer0 Books, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON ‘Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’, said Romain Rolland, sadly remembered primarily for being a Stalinist. He used the…
FOOTBALL: Chalmers Comeback Boosts United Prospects
1 January:Cray Wanderers 0, Hastings Utd 06 January:Cheshunt 2, Hastings Utd 313 January:Hastings Utd 2, Dulwich Hamlet 2HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United have stretched their unbeaten run to ten games since…
CRICKET: Priory Set to Return to Horntye for 2024
Sussex Premier League cricket is set to return to Horntye Park for at least one more season following the withdrawal of plans for the Hastings & St Leonards Priory club…
ATHLETICS: Spring Ahead
CHLOE LEFAY January is cross-country season. At the Sussex county championships at Bexhill earlier this month, athletes and coaches from Hastings Athletics Club (HAC) revelled in a positive exhibition of…
Mike Hatchard’sFacing Up
A new concept for a regularly monthly event on the first Thursday of every month at CROWN HOUSE, St Leonards – music, chat, comedy and more. Some years ago local…
The HIP List #243
Music 19 January 2024 The Lost Boys The Pig, 37 White Rock, 7:00pm Kitten Kaboodle The Dolphin Inn, 11-12 Rock A Nore Rd, 7:30pm Nomad Shakes ep launch party The…
BARNETT’S BLUE MONDAY TURNS GREEN
HUGH SULLIVAN and PAUL McLAUGHLIN The third Monday of January has come to be coined as Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year in the UK measured…
Living the Rental Nightmare
My partner D and I are both 65. He is in poor health. We have lived in our current ground floor flat on St Leonards seafront for five years. We…