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Electric Blue Velvet
EBM HUMPHREYS Last weekend I was excited as hell to be seeing David Lynch’s as-yet-unseen-by-me Blue Velvet, on the big screen at Electric Palace in the High Street. Despite impulse-buying…
Cut Out to be a Hero: Prince Achmedat The Kino
EBM HUMPHREYS The oldest surviving feature-length animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, was recently shown at Kino-Teatr – and you will want to watch it and watch again. (For the…
Spun Glass Theatre
EBM HUMPHREYS Since January last year, the Stade Hall has been managed by local theatre company Spun Glass Theatre, who have been working hard to improve it with a new…
Messy: A Theme for Unravelling Times
EBM HUMPHREYS Although the name ‘Poetry Brothel’ is pretty edgy, I’ve always rather liked the boldness of it. We headed down to the White Rock Hotel on 5 July for…
Womanhood at The Stables Theatre
EBM HUMPHREYS Kicking off the upcoming Scene & Heard festival at the Stables theatre, which this year is led by women, two short but important plays go back-to-back for four…
An Improvised Exchange
EBM HUMPHREYS & CHARLIE HAWLEY “Could be chaotic or sublime, but guaranteed to massage the synapses” said the call-out on Hastings Creatives for a new mix-up night of visual art…
New Queers on the Block
EBM HUMPHREYS As a big fan of local performance-art powerhouse, Home Live Art, I was delighted to learn that their latest venture Giddy Up is being curated by independent producer…
The Two Faces of Mickey
EBM HUMPHREYS In Bong Joon Ho’s latest screwball sci-fi adventure, the eponymous Mickey has unwittingly signed up to be an ‘expendable’ – an employee on a space mission whose job…
Life, Rhymes, and a Lot of Hats
EBM HUMPHREYS Billed as ‘like Kafka, but funnier’, I had high hopes for The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel, after days of abysmal technology failures and endless loops…
All About the Music: Becoming Led Zeppelin
EBM HUMPHREYS When Becoming Led Zeppelin was released recently, it took little persuasion to get me to take a trip out of town. I was however armed with earplugs to…
The Soundtrack and the Fury
EBM HUMPHREYS and VICTORIA KINGHAM From its description, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a feature documentary by Johan Grimonprez, which showed at Kino last Wednesday, sounds as though it might…
A Film of Substance
EBM HUMPHREYS If you don’t like gory horror movies you won’t enjoy this film – unless you’re anything like me. I’m not normally drawn to the genre, but I knew…
The Art That Will Not Fit
EBM HUMPHREYS Home Live Art are celebrating their twenty-fifth birthday this year, so there was cake all round at an auspiciously thirteenth Salty cabaret last Thursday at the White Rock…
Kneecap Packs a Kick
EBM HUMPHREYS Rave reviews led me to expect polished and perfect mayhem from Kneecap. Actually it’s imperfect, but full-blooded, solid entertainment, made brilliant by its context, message and moment. It…
The LastFive Years
EBM HUMPHREYS on the intricacies of a new play Romance, especially failed romance, is a universal story, but the form of The Last Five Years is unusual and interesting. These…
Smouldering Minimalism at Kino-Teatr
EBM HUMPHREYS on Delon’s Le Samourai (1967) An unexpected humour was injected into my first knowing foray into French New Wave when one of my companions innocently protested at the…
Palmerama’s Comedyrama
EBM HUMPHREYS explores a new regular stand-up comedy event On the last Friday of June, we headed down to Tin Tins – by now the longest-running bar in the Robertson…