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Thrillers, Killers, Cats and all That
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All That is Lost
By Nick Pelling It is a sad fact of life that today’s heartbreaking news is all too rapidly supplanted by tomorrow’s heartbreaking news. A combination perhaps of compassion fatigue and…
Trypl Whammy at Jazz Hastings
By Victoria Kingham The East Sussex and Hastings Angling Association clubroom may not be the obvious place for Jazz lovers to look, if you are not in the know. But…
Ten Years on and Rye is still Jazzing the Blues
By Susan Desrosiers Just over ten years ago, Ian Bowden, musician, musical director and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, had an idea. His career as a musician was…
Revenge of the Whirligig
John Knowles adopts King Lear’s view that ‘when we are born, we cry that we have come to this stage of fools’. The fool has long had a place in…
Bavarding with HIP
A rather special Barvard Bar event took place at St Leonards’ Regency Rooms - aka Crown House - earlier this month. Tim ‘Bavard’ Crook generously loaned his concept and his…
Hastings Space Odyssey
By Jevron Ash What do these have in common: the designs behind Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey, Star Trek, the pod-like prefab ‘Futuros’ houses of Matti Suuronen, Eero Aarnio’s ball chair,…
Mine’s a Double
By Gareth Stevens Whiskey and Soda, a new play by Ben Randall who currently lives in Peasmarsh, is set in December of 1979 at the British Embassy in Washington DC.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Future is Degrowth By M Schmelzer, A Vetter & A Vansintjan Published by Verso at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton In the last Bookbuster review, we…
HIP LIT REVIEW
In Love With Hell Hastings Book Launch for Respected Local Writer Long established writer William Palmer has a string of novels, poetry collections and critical reviews for literary journals under…
Something New
Russell Cruse listens to a controversial new album from Roger Hubbard Legendary on the music circuit, Roger Hubbard has dazzled audiences for decades with the inimitable sound of his home-made…
ARTS DIARY
Studio Space Two of the units in Rother District Council’s Beeching Road Studios in Bexhill have been turned into 27 individual studios, which sit alongside commercial units and a gallery…
Bob in Bexhill
As the De La Warr Pavilion celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bob Marley’s appearance there, Kent Barker looks at the events in 1972 that led up to the ; Bob…
Pottering about in Rye
John Bostock takes a critical look at the history and development of the famous Rye Pottery. Many years ago – in the early 90s before my collecting addiction got out…
All at Sea
By Gareth Stevens It is perhaps apt that, in the year in which Hastings Contemporary celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the building it inhabits, it chose to host an exhibition…
Dream On
Victoria Kingham is captivated by a fairytale production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the abstractly beautiful, slightly other-worldly, Victorian-Gothic setting of Fairlight Hall, we saw what must be one…
ARTS DIARY
Knockout Suckerpunch Productions are seeking short plays or excerpts from local writers of up to 10 minutes in length forBRIEFS! A Night of New Plays taking place in Autumn 2022.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society By Yavor Tarinski Published by Zero Books at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton We live in a culture defined by…
HIP POETRY NEWS
From the heart of the revolution: Rojava poet to perform in Hastings By Lee Humphries Next Thursday 21 July, award-winning partisan poet Matt Broomfield will visit Hastings’ St Mary in…
Mildly Annoyed Barbarians
Profile by Mark Walter The Barbarian Horde are coming. The name could evoke a tribe with Germanic roots who want to destroy Rome, then and run screaming into the Teutoburg…
Stars in the Gloom
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling In the sepia depths of ‘The Horse and Groom,’ in Mercatoria, one can often find two of the brightest stars in the St Leonards’ art…
Off On An Arts Barge
SARAH MILNE mourns the impending closure of a Hastings Art institution but wishes its creators bon voyage as they embark for waters new on the Zuzushii Art Barge – a …
Godot – Still Waiting
Beckett’s enigmatic characters, Vladimir and Estragon, have been waiting for almost 70 years for their titular protagonist to appear. To celebrate a landmark Hastings production of the play we offer…
Yoolysees’ Erotic Energy
Review by Helen Drake There was a flurry of activity at the Electro Studios Gallery in Seaside Road over the last couple of weekends of June which was featuring a…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet By George Monbiot Published by Penguin Books at £20; £18 at Bookbuster Review Patrick Nother According to the King James Authorised Version…
Arts Diary
Jazzing Up the Stade On Tuesday 5 July, award-winning saxophonist, Gilad Atzmon, will be headlining at the Jazz Hastings July monthly session at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on…
Jeremy Birch celebrated
By Rachel Holtom On Saturday 11 June 2022 an enthusiastic crowd of people gathered in The Stade Hall to remember former Hastings Council leader Jeremy Birch. The event welcomed the…
Five Glorious Years of the Bavard Bar!
It’s a fairly unique format. Every month, on the third Wednesday at the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards, three people take to the stage and share their passions for around 15…
Riding the Zig-Zag Horse into Town
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling What is it that attracts so many creative people to Hastings? Is it the long arc of white sandy beach, the soft impressionist light…
BOOK REVIEW
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World By Mark Vanhoenacker Published by Chatto & Windus, 2022 Non-fiction, Hardback £ Review by Dave Young Part travelogue, part memoir, Mark Vanhoenacker’s…
Twitching the Veils of Normality
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling It is an odd thing but sometimes a familiar scene can suddenly seem strange. The banal momentarily flips itself and appears quite disturbing. The artist…
BOOK REVIEW
Rhode Island Red By Charlotte Carter Republished by Baskerville, 2022Crime fiction, Paperback £ Review by Dave Young If ever there was an underrated literary heroine it is Nanette Hayes, the…
The Moon, the Sea and all the Queens
By Sarah Milne Something wonderful has been happening through June at the The Dirty Old Gallery on West Street. Every Summer, since opening her gallery in 2018, Megan Donfrancesco has…
A Giant Leap to Addiction
Gareth Stevens talks to the filmmaker Ben Cole whose feature length documentary Talking Addiction is being screened at the Electric Cinema on Friday 8 July. Despite starting his professional life…
Rules for Radicals
It is fifty years this June since the American leftish activist Saul Alinsky died. Gareth Stevens revisits his classic handbook of pragmatic advice for those organising positive social ; I…
Creativity on sea for all
By Sarah Milne There have been two nights in my life where I have sat up watching news break from a distant country and experienced a real deep, physical ‘knowing’…
The Serious Business of Falling Over
By Nick Pelling Arguably, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, has come to be, in thelast few decades, somewhat overgrown with intellectual weeds, shrivelling it into some sort of…
Arts diary
RETURN OF THE KNOTTY FESTIVAL! On 11 and 12 June Hastings and St Leonards will see the return of this free, fun festival. Highlights include cabaret and performance artists, St Leonards…
A Conspiracy of Jesters
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling As we all know, the Covid 19 virus lacked a sense of humour. Instead, it came with an instruction to stay at home and…
REVIEW: Slum of Legs and Codex Serafini rock The Brass
By Ben Thompson The third and last of this spring’s run of Hastings Sonics events brought two of Brighton’s leading bands to The Brass: Slum of Legs and Codex Serafini.…