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Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
The Frackers: the Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution – by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio Press, 2013. Available at Bookbuster £ Review by Tim Barton For those of you that remember the 'Jett Rink' in the movie Giant, or the TV soaps Dallas and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…
Revised Observer Building planning consultation ending soon
OB planning consultation The consultation for the revised plans post University of Brighton plan to withdraw from Hastings, closes in the next week or so (one source says this Thursday…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
THE KIDS’ TAPESTRY UNVEILED
THE KIDS' TAPESTRY UNVEILED TO MARK 950TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS Photo credits: David Parry/PA Wire Children help to create sequel to the Bayeux Tapestry featuring Shakespeare, Queen…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
The Great Survey
THE GREAT SURVEY As part of the ROOT1066 International Arts Festival, Hastings Council has commissioned WildWorks Theatre Company to come to Hastings to make a show about us… and they…
Marcus Harvey – HipCast
Marcus Harvey INSELAFFE Kate Renwick, the Arts Editor of Hastings Independent gets an exclusive interview with Marcus Harvey at Jerwood Gallery a day before the launch of INSELAFFE, his largest UK public…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 3: Madness is creeping up the Hill By Pete Donohue When I moved to Hastings thirty years ago – yep, not a native but a BICCLIDFL – someone told…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Sublimation of the Tattoo
Kate Renwick Twenty-two years ago whilst completing my Foundation course, I was embarking on an introductory project set by the University I was to attend that September on the subject…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
Young artist impresses HIP
By Pete Donohue The HIP editorial team were so impressed with Izzy Henson’s artwork that we gave her the prestigious full back page local artist’s showcase in Issue 54. Describing…
The Revival of Labour – a Bookbuster book review
The Revival of Labour: Comrade Corbyn by Rosa Prince & Being Red: A Politics for the Future by Ken Livingstone Review by Tim Barton Rosa Prince's timely biography of Jeremy…
Hospice benefits from Mooney Madness
By Pete Donohue Good News Hastings comes together again this week in yet another high-profile community spirited collaboration. The People’s Pier was officially opened by our new mayor, Judy Rogers,…
How to be a loser – a short story by Pete Donohue
Tom Bowler was a gambler. He took his chances wherever and whenever he could. Every day was an adventure, a matter of subsistence or increased debt. He twisted responsibilities into…
ROOT 1066 Visual Documentation Brief
ROOT 1066 International Festival - Visual Documentation Brief Content: To mark the 950th Anniversary of the most famous date in English history, Hastings Borough Council has commissioned the ROOT 1066…
RIP John Merriman
HIP remembers John Merriman By Pete Donohue Age 54 is far too young to shed this mortal coil for other realms that may lie beyond, especially for such a talented…
RUFF
RUFF Performance artist Peggy Shaw brings her solo show RUFF to Hastings, in the build-up to her three-night run at the Barbican Centre this April. Ruminating on life before and…
What do you call people who live in Hastings?
Last issue, we had a few people get in touch to object to our use of the word 'Hastonians' on the front cover. The correct word, they said, was 'Hastingers',…
To whom it may concern,
I am writing in response to the article titled 'Julian Assange is a political prisoner, not a fugitive from Justice' in the latest edition of The Hastings Independent. In my…
Dear Metro,
I'd like to briefly pen this response to your article on the 23rd January All Hastings – Shoreditch on Sea is on the up and up says Alison Taylor. It…
Swan Lake and slug men: the Lord Nelson’s Calendar
The first calendar, for 2015, was inspired by a regular coming into the Lord Nelson and letting his hair down out of its usual ponytail, writes Paddy Boyle. Immediately, the wisecracks started…
Are you a Norman?
Are you a Daigle or a FitzRolf? Do you know a Devereaux, a Morton or a Duffey? If so, two local photographers want to hear from you. Photographers Nigel Green…
A taste of Honeysett (Review)
Celebrating Hastings’s most loved cartoonist By Pete Donohue (resident HIP cartoonist) The Hastings area has attracted quality artists for decades, if not centuries. Amongst them number a string of legendary…
HRAEN ‘Root 1066’ artist project brief
Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network is looking to commission an artist to create a school based Root 1066 project. On 14 October 1066 the path of English and European history…
The Further Adventures of Holmes & Watson
The Golden Earwig of Rangapanga With a respectful nod to the great Myles NaGopaleen (The Da) Patrick Carabine Watson sulked moodily as he flicked through the 1875 edition of Simpson's…
A taste of Honeysett
Hastings and its surrounds has become a creative base for a string of legendary cartoonists over the years. How many can you name? I’m not going to tell you here.…