Archives for Arts - Page 16
Fusion – Sounds, Cultures, Worlds
Deepak Ram defies limits at Kino-Teatr and Jazz Hastings VICTORIA KINGHAM Deepak Ram One of the earliest highlights of my auditory education was a 1966 album called Indo-Jazz Suite, an…
Rye Jazz and Blues Festival
The organisers are pleased to announce: Laura Mvula Mike Farris The brand new heavies by deans chalkleys Since 2012, this festival has been a Bank Holiday mainstay for East Sussex.…
Muzak WhileYou Work
In the last issue we carried an article decrying background music, arguing that it was an auditory oddity, an insult to the composer and players who created it. Here KENT…
ARTS DIARY
CENERENTOLA 2023 The Barefoot Opera Production of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) is on tour this year. The initial date is 27 July at St John The Evangelist Church, Pevensey Road, St…
Rain, Cascades, Swirls, and Rivers, Outside and In
TOM BLASS is moved by the sounds of summer, Schumann, and Scarlatti Raindrops, speckling the canvas of the great umbrellas intended to shield the precious audience from the elements, made…
Hastings Beer and Music Festival extends into comedy
SARAH MILNE Omid Djalili Hastings Beer and Music Festival is known for its long weekend of cracking nights out, and this year’s opening night of comedy was no exception. It…
Play On! Give Me Excess of it
VICTORIA KINGHAM begins an occasional series of musings on the power and effects of musical creation. Recently I heard Dame Sheila Hancock talking about music on Stephen Mangan’s radio programme…
The Eclecticism of Afrit Nebula
KEITH RODWAY, festival organiser, musician, and documentary filmmaker, explores the diverse influences of local band Afrit Nebula. Keith Rodway Ken and Elaine Edwards have been active on the Hastings alternative…
Structure, Swing, and Spirit at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys the expert accomplishments of Nikki Yeoh’s Infinitum Nick White Photographer However you want to classify or define jazz, an important feature of the genre is its endless…
Ploughing the Salt Sea
PATRICK KEALEY on Bev Lee Harling’s powerful performance at The Stables Peter Mould “It takes a whole community to make a show”, says performer Bev Lee Harling to the audience,…
Gates to Heaven
GARETH STEVENS reviews the stunning work of Yun Hyong-keun, currently on show at Hastings Contemporary. The ambivalence I have towards abstract art has always baffled me. The fact that I…
Hastings Proves Itself to be A Curious Town
RUBY RUSSELL Curious Agenda CIC had a mission this summer to put Hastings on the map as the ‘world’s most curious town’! The people and community of Hastings made this…
Pyrotechnics at The Pig
BEN THOMPSON on Sloth Metropolis and the debut UK gig of Tabernacle Demelza Kingston (Oculus Sinistra)Sloth Metropolis Looking back on amazing gigs that have happened out of the blue, there’s…
The Power of Radio: St Leonards, Hastings, the Shetlands, the World
STEVE LONG on featuring Hastings and St Leonards music on ‘The Collective’ via Shetland Islands-based radio station 60 North Radio. In 2004, 60 North FM was launched. It was a…
ARTS DIARY
Summer Picnic Concert at Fairlight Hall Hastings International PianoThomas Kelly Thomas Kelly, 2022 prize winner of the Hastings International Piano Competition, returns for a summer picnic recital at beautiful Fairlight…
Feeling Connected
TOM FORDE (of Hastings Radio Podcast) is emotionally fortified by the Colours Festival debut all-women day in De La Warr Pavilion As the train zooms past beach huts looking out…
Little Richard is Everything at the Kino
VICTORIA KINGHAM In the words of musicologist Fredara Hadley: “Black music is the wellspring of American popular music, but at the same time there are industries and societies that often…
If You Had £400k to Spend on the Arts…
Following recent revelations, HIP asked three Hastings creatives what they would do if let loose with a chunk of taxpayer’s ; A poverty of ideals JOHN KNOWLES, writer, producer…
Artist Spotlight: Jake Bowers
Kizzy – 2022 Forged Steel Dave Young The artwork depicts Kizzy Lovell, the central character in Rumer Godden’s 1972 novel, The Diddakoi – described by sculptor Jake Bowers, “as defiant…
Playing Alice and Pink Suits at The Piper
ANDY T On a Thursday evening, in a corner of St Leonards, music was challenged, the patriarchy smashed and gender stereotypes twisted into new ; Unfortunately I missed Joanna and…
V is for…?
TOM BLASS feels the influences and the influence of the Unknown Mortal Orchestra Fighting the headwinds of both a head cold, and the singular breed of despondency induced by Bexhill…
Live, Alive and Kicking
BEN THOMPSON looks at the achievements of Anthony Moore, songwriter instrumentalist, and general underground lyricist, recently returned to the local area Slapp Happy If Anthony Moore’s CV was a river,…
Frolicking in the Abyss
AMANDA BROOKS takes in the Hastings Rock Radio 30th Anniversary Party at The Sussex Rooms, White Rock Theatre Lee LondonMartyn ‘Gripper’ Lee Hastings Rock Radio started as the provision of…
Lines Laid Bare by Nathalie Frost
SARAH MILNE Last month, I went along to Hastings Art Forum, on St Leonards Marine Court, to the 336 Paint Thread Sound exhibition opening night. The ‘paint’ came in the…
Turps Banana: An Off-Site Art School Comes To Hastings
JUDE MONTAGUE Turps Banana, the alternative art school, is opening a new off-site programme in the Hastings area. Many of my friends have taken an interest in the London school…
Artist Spotlight
Disappearance of The Humble Sparrow (Red/Mustard/Violet) Rachel Williams 2022 50 x 70 cm Monotype and ink on paper Rachel Williams is a mixed media artist. Her bold, quirky, and apparently…
Make a Joyful Noise
JOHN RYCROFT looks at Robertson Street Congregational Church, its musical heritage, and its revival as an important music venue. Courtesy of Hastings Philharmonic ChoirHastings Choral Union His Place Community Church…
Atoms and Societies – all Tearable
MERLIN BETTS Yokel GrahamSo Help Me Dog Last Saturday, a new exhibition opened at Stella Dore on Norman Road, showing work by David Oates and Yokel Graham. The gallery had…
The Town that Keeps on Playing and Singing
VICTORIA KINGHAM delights in the summer programme at Holy Trinity Church in central Hastings. Marc AldridgeHannah Shilvock Lunchtime concerts are always a good idea, especially if they are free. They…
Sonic Collisions in The Nest
BEN THOMPSON, long-time journalist, music critic, music writer, comedy historian and ghost (writer), relishes the first Hastings festival of spontaneous improvised music. Bob MazzerTrevor Watts An enthusiastic full house at…
The Bach Band
KATE SHAW meets guitarist Steve Gordon, and is unexpectedly charmed by Baroque informality Kate ShawSteve Gordon Ensemble: “a group of players learning their craft”. This is how Steve Gordon defines…
Art For Health
GARETH STEVENS gives an update on recent news from Arts On Prescription. Arts on Prescription has gone from strength to strength since it was initially founded in 2019. AOP delivers…
Why I Long to be a Sex Symbol – Thom Kofoed
CAF FEAN This week is the chance to see local painter Thom Kofoed’s portraits of celebrities, with more than a little bit of himself thrown into the mix. CAF FEAN…
Column258 Meets This Elegant Gull
MARK WALTER It was a chilly night in Hastings, and I had just done my now familiar walk from St Leonards along the rugged coastline of the English Channel to…
ARTS DIARY
Frontline Assignments Brian ArisDustman’s Strike Paddington 1960s The Lucy Bell Gallery presents Two Worlds, an exhibition’ exploring five decades of renowned British Photographer Brian Aris. Aris, who now lives on…
Hastings, Are You Curious?
KATE WATTS There’s a new festival in town on a mission to put Hastings on the map as the world’s first ‘Curious Town’. New local social enterprise Curious Agenda CIC…
World Blues
VERA BELL meditates on Eric Bibb’s performance at the De La Warr Pavilion on 9 May. The blues is a universal phenomenon. The relatively simple chord progression of many blues…
No Comparison
In early May, two leading singers performed locally on the same evening – Katie Melua at the De La Warr Pavilion, and British jazz diva Norma Winstone at the EHSAA.…
Baroque and Roll
VICTORIA KINGHAM discovers the geniality of the Hastings Maestro. Watching Cate Blanchett in the film Tár recently and subsequently reading a work which is said to inspire it, The Maestro…
Ploughing the Salt Sea – a Must-See!
CAF FEAN Ploughing the Salt Sea is a unique home-grown solo show, crafted by singer-songwriter and composer Bev Lee ; Hastings born-and-bred, Bev never knew her maternal grandparents: her mother,…