Calling all Art Hounds
As everyone knows, the art and popular culture market is a fickle one. Often seeming irrational. Why, for example, is George Formby’s banjo-ukelele worth more than Noel Gallagher’s hand-written lyric book? Is ‘Wonderwall’ a lesser achievement than ‘I’m leaning on…
Fat Tuesday Team get the Ball rolling for 2022
By Ben Cornwell Bringing the colour, costumes and carnival spirit of New Orleans, Hastings Fat Tuesday, the UK’s largest Mardi Gras celebration, is returning in 2022. The festival is made up of several key events including the family favourite Umbrella…
Capturing Lives Up Close
By Ben Cornwell Documentaries are by no means a new form of film. But their popularity appears to have grown in recent years, particularly with streaming giants such as Netflix venturing into the genre. But what is it about this…
Beastly Dark Heart
Kent Barker reviews the latest work from Hastings playwright and director John Knowles. I’ll tell you something for nothing: the three people I would least like to be stuck in a small boat with, were all assembled on the stage…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
COP26 Part 3 Who Owns The Wind? By David McDermott HughesPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here we are post-COP26, hopefully angry at the usual greenwash and fig-leafing on display. It is not as if the…
Big Sparks at The Electro
Nick Pelling looks forward to a special exhibition. The current exhibition at the Electro Studios looks set to be quite something. It carries the title A Sense of Place, but it is emphatically not limited to conventional landscape. This is…
Travel writing begins at Home
A Youthful and Fearless Sonny Levitt begins a personal adventure. Nothing quite went right the morning of my first hike. I’d realised the night before I had the wrong type of gas for my portable stove. So a phone call…
Will You Stay in a Lovers Story?
By Nick Pelling I have to admit that I tend to regard The Crown Pub in Old Town as somewhere to get a pint of stout. Forgetting that it is also an Art gallery. Like most drinkers, I am usually…
Just What is a Poetry Brothel?
An intrepid HIP reporter went to investigate I should admit to being rather a virgin when it comes to Poetry Brothels. To be honest, I had no idea what to expect. The event, at The Beacon Arts Centre high up…
Now give me money
How can a professional musician survive on the £10 per gig that some venues in Hastings pay? Now the company behind Coastal Currents and Audiotrope has produced a Charter to demand better pay and conditions for artists. But can pubs…