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VIVA 

B R I G H T O N 

#60. FEB 2018 

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Chemistry was my favourite subject at school. 

Not just for the Bunsen burners and explosives 

(I went to school before health & safety was a 

thing), nor for the transformational wizardry of 

combining this gas with that metal, but because I 

had a series of inspirational teachers who infused 

the subject with equal parts awe and wonder. It 

was a blast. 

With the Science Festival back in town this 

month, we’ve taken chemistry as our theme, and 

there’ll be plenty of the laboratory-certified stuff 

as well some more mad-cap experiments besides: 

rocketry in a theatre, bike rides to the edges of 

the solar system, and slime making workshops, 

for starters. And, given it’s the most romantic 

month of all, we’ve gone in search of the more 

elusive, highly magnetic chemistry, too. The starcrossed 

kind that has had us mooning over one 

another since Adam was a boy. 

So, in the name of Science we’ve gone behind the 

laboratory doors at Sussex University and spoken 

to chemists up to their elbows in ytterbium and 

ruthenium, and neuroscientists experimenting 

with our (slippery) grasp of reality. We examine 

the chemistry between mother and child, sisters, 

spouses and lovers. We’ve a matchmaker for the 

lonely hearted, a love potion for the amorous 

and a Valentine’s day heart dissection for the 

curious (what could be more romantic?) We go 

ghost hunting at Preston Manor, uncover the lost 

women of science and if none of that appeals, 

we’ve got some heavy metal cellists. 

Put your safety goggles on and we’ll get started.

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B R I G H T O N 

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CONTENTS 

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Bits & bobs. 

12-29. Animator-turned-artist Mark Charlton’s 

50s-style cover design; Viva’s Asian 

winter; Joe Decie’s clever chemistry; Prinny’s 

state-of-the-art paint formulae; Hove’s 

pioneering chemist-cum-moviemaker; a 

tasty concoction at The Plotting Parlour; 

Lizzie Enfield’s time-travelling book; a forensic 

examination of the Brighton bomb, 

and much more, besides… 

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Photo by Brinkhoff & Mögenburg 

My Brighton. 

30-31. Counsellor Sheila Auguste helps 

couples couple. 

Photography. 

33-37. Brighton mum (and renowned 

photographer) Lisa Creagh recontextualises 

motherhood and breastfeeding. 

Photo by Christian Ripkens 

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Columns. 

39-43. Lizzie Enfield studies physics; Amy 

Holtz gets the needle, and John Helmer 

ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. But don’t we all, as 

the years go by. And, yes, it is four ‘ch’s. We 

counted. 

Photo by Lisa Creagh 

On this month. 

45-55. Ben Bailey’s Brighton-band round-up; 

Robin Ince’s flibbertigibbety mind; Samantha 

Baines uncovers the lost women of science; 

Apocalyptica’s stringed take on Metallica; 

Brighton as seen by early photographers; 

Hastings’ very Hastings answer to Mardi 

Gras; Ed Byrne’s spoiler alert; orchestral video 

game music, and an open-heart Valentine. 

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CONTENTS 

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Art, design & making. 

56-65. Emigrée designer Elizabeth 

Friedlander at Ditchling Museum 

of Art + Craft; William Blake at 

Petworth House; what’s on where 

art-wise, and where to print stuff, 

really big. 

The way we work. 

67-73. Getting up close and personal 

with the very stuff of the universe, we 

ask six chemists at Sussex Uni ‘what’s 

your favourite element?’ (with complicated 

results). 

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A Vision of the Last Judgment, William Blake, 1808, National Trust Images. John Hammond 

Food. 

75-79. Refined excellence at 1909; 

a love potion (for goats?) at The 

Cocktail Shack; we warm our cockles at 

Pharmacie, and other edible updates. 

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Features. 

81-89. Match making; stand-up scepticism; 

backing Equality FC; Brighton’s 

most haunted house (no ectoplasm); the 

grandfather of all botanists, and enough 

with the plastic already. 

Photo by Adam Bronkhorst 

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Inside left. 

90. Brighton’s earliest seafront cinema 

and its next-door chemist’s role in a 

murder case. 

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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST 

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“I get asked a lot if my work’s science-fiction 

based,” says this month’s cover artist Mark 

Charlton. “It is and it isn’t. I love science fiction, 

2001: A Space Odyssey, things like that, but that’s 

not necessarily what inspires my work. It’s more 

to do with man’s enthusiasm to go out into the 

galaxy. I absolutely adore mid-century design and 

that whole era of science and mankind coming 

together. There was a famous comic in the 50s and 

60s called The Eagle, which was very much aimed at 

getting young boys into engineering, and they had 

articles in there about mankind living on the moon 

in, like, 50 years’ time. It was just an idea, but I get 

excited about that idea, about a 50s perspective 

on man jetting off into space, so my work sort of 

stems from that feeling.” 

Mark’s background is actually in animation, 

rather than print design. For years he worked as 

a freelance animator, creating music videos and 

projections, before taking a change of direction. 

“I’d always wanted to try screen printing, so I 

bought some bits off eBay and learnt from videos 

on YouTube. I then started experimenting with 

screen printing onto different materials – onto 

wood and mixed media pieces – and that was the 

really early beginnings of trying to find my style. 

Now I have stacks of different paper sources in my 

studio and over time they age and discolour, so I 

have a whole bank of this material, which produces 

these really lovely textures. 

“When you see my pieces up close, you can see 

that they’re quite decayed and weathered. I like to 

destroy what I’ve made, and I find the inner beauty 

within the destruction of it. I build the composition 

up over several weeks. In order to see the previous 

layers I have to really weather the piece, so I might 

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MARK CHARLTON 

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sand it through and use heat guns and all sorts 

of things. This might actually destroy a piece of 

work, but I find there’s a spontaneity in that. I 

make my pieces over several months, so they’re 

constantly changing composition and tone and 

colour, but I get a real kick out of having lived 

with a piece of work and taken it as far as I can. 

I can’t make something within half an hour. 

“The future of my work has slowly moved from 

exploring Space to an examination of brutalist 

architecture. The nuclear age, as it were, the 

Cold War. I’m looking at concrete structures 

and bunkers and buildings that all came 

through the 1950s and 60s. So it’s the same sort 

of period, I’m just taking it from Space back 

down to Earth.” Rebecca Cunningham 

markcharltonart.com 

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SPREAD THE WORD 

Here’s Brighton resident, Steve Collins, enjoying 

some zzzzz’s on his last day in Tangalle, Sri Lanka. 

He and partner Louise Gasparelli recently spent 

ten days touring the country before relaxing on the 

beach (a tour put together for them by Brightonbased 

travel company Selective Asia, and one they 

highly recommend). 

Elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, Patnem Beach 

lifeguards Manor and Arvind momentarily take their 

eyes off the Goan surf to check out what’s what back 

on Brighton beach. 

Keep taking us with you on your adventures and keep 

spreading the word. Send your pictures and a few 

details about your trip to hello@vivamagazines.com 

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ON THE BUSES #34: JAMES WILLIAMSON (Routes 1, 1A) 

Born in 1855 in Pathead, near Fife, and raised in Edinburgh, James Williamson was 

a prolific pioneer of early film-making. A member of the ‘Brighton School’, he is 

known for his experimental short films, which were ahead of their time, with their 

extreme close-ups and use of multiple shots. 

After training as a master chemist in Scotland, Williamson settled in Hove in 1886, 

where he set up a pharmacy. The shop soon became a developing agency for Kodak, 

prompting Williamson’s relationship with film. He befriended the likes of George 

Albert Smith, Esmé Collings and William Friese-Greene, who were spearheading 

the local film movement, and with Smith’s encouragement, Williamson made his first 

foray into film-making with his short piece on the Devil’s Dyke Fun Fair. 

Upon moving his family and work to Western Road, Williamson set about expanding his film business and made 

the transition from pharmacist to full-time film-maker in 1898, a year that saw the creation of 39 films. Every 

Saturday night, the shop hosted Williamson’s Popular Entertainments, a weekly showcase of his work. 

In 1902 Williamson moved the business, renamed The Williamson Kinematograph Company, to Cambridge 

Grove and opened studios in both London and New York, making an average of 50 films a year until 1912. Whilst 

his own film-making tapered off, he patented several film-making devices, including projectors that enabled the 

insertion of title slides into projected films. Williamson died in Richmond of a heart attack in 1933, aged 78. 

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SECRETS OF THE PAVILION 

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A WORLD FULL OF NEW COLOUR: 

HOW PRINNY TOOK A SHINE TO SYNTHETIC PIGMENTS 

In a recent BBC documentary 

HM the Queen discussed 

George IV’s tastes, commenting: 

‘He loved jewellery and… 

COLOUR!’ Her Majesty has a 

point. The interior of Brighton’s 

Royal Pavilion, George’s 

playground away from London, 

boasts one of the most vibrant 

colour schemes of any building 

in this country. 

These were partly informed by 

objects, fabrics, wallpaper and 

images that were imported from 

the Far East by the East India 

Company. George admired 

and collected colourful ‘export 

ware’. Another influence 

was the recent invention of 

several so-called ‘synthetic’ or 

‘modern’ pigments, produced 

through chemical processes 

or interventions, often on a 

commercial scale. George 

embraced the use of new 

pigments and used them 

extensively in Brighton, in 

order to emulate the richness of 

oriental interiors. 

He wasn’t alone with his passion 

for colour: there was a great 

interest in all aspects of colour 

in the early 19th century, from 

colour theory to research into 

the durability of pigments. The 

fashion for colourful palettes 

distinguished the Regency 

period from the previous 

(neoclassical) generation’s 

penchant for pale decorations. 

The chemist George Field 

became the most prolific and 

influential colour researcher 

in 19th century Britain. He 

supplied ‘colourmen’ or retailers 

with pigments, tools and recipes 

for making paints. It is likely 

that his pigments and books 

strongly influenced the interiors 

of the Pavilion. 

Here are a few of the synthetic 

pigments that have been 

identified in the building. 

Prussian blue, also known as 

Berlin blue, is an intense, deep 

colour, and often considered 

the first ‘modern’ pigment. An 

iron compound, it was invented 

by the chemist Heinrich 

Diesbach in Berlin in c1706. 

At the time he was working 

with the alchemist Johann 

Konrad Dippel. It was a good 

alternative to the expensive 

mineral pigment ultramarine, 

created from lapis lazuli, that 

Images courtesy of Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museums 

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SECRETS OF THE PAVILION 

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Prussian blue Chome yellow Blue verditer 

had be sourced from remote 

caves in Afghanistan. In 1826 a 

synthetic form of ultramarine 

was invented in France - too 

late for George’s Pavilion! 

Prussian blue was used for 

both opaque and transparent 

blue finishes all over the 

Pavilion; one good example 

is on the wallpaper for the 

Banqueting Room. 

Another 18th century blue 

found in the Pavilion in large 

quantities is blue verditer, also 

known as mountain or copper 

blue. This luminous sky blue 

is based on copper and can be 

seen in the North and South 

Galleries on the upper floor. 

It was particularly suitable for 

distemper and therefore often 

used for wallpaper designs. It 

was produced as a by-product 

during silver refining and is 

not very common today, but 

has recently been used on the 

replacement dragons on the 

Great Pagoda at Kew. 

Chrome yellow, a lead 

chromate, was a new pigment 

discovered in 1797 by the 

French chemist LN Vauquelin. 

This brilliant, warm yellow was 

used extensively in the Pavilion 

almost as soon as it had 

become available commercially 

in Britain. The wallpaper in the 

Yellow Bow Rooms was printed 

on a chrome yellow ground, 

and it was probably also used 

to create greens by mixing it 

with blues. Chrome yellow is a 

good example of how George 

IV embraced new technologies 

and fashions, with little 

concern for the costs involved. 

Alexandra Loske, Curator, Royal 

Pavilion Archives 

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MAGAZINE OF THE MONTH: WORKS THAT WORK 

Literally one minute before 

writing this month’s review, I 

saw a headline on the Guardian’s 

new tabloid-shaped website, 

about the EU saying that by 

2030 all packaging must be 

reusable or recyclable. It’s been 

driven, of course, by the curse of 

plastic, that chemically created 

material once seen as the saviour 

of the world and now seen as a 

villain. 

But fifteen minutes before that, 

I brought home from the shop 

a copy of Works that Work. In a loose sense, it’s a 

magazine about design that contributes to a good 

life. So, pretty obviously, there’s not going to be 

much about plastic in there. 

Except that a number of articles are about designing 

things to last: obviously, in our throwaway 

culture, a good thing. And guess what? There’s a 

piece about a ‘chair that is everywhere… a design 

that has become part of everyday life all over the 

world’. Cheap, comfortable and long lasting, you 

might have sat on one on the 

seafront here in Brighton, in 

a food court in Singapore or 

in someone’s back garden. It’s 

made of plastic. That villainous 

material turns out, like most 

things, to be both bad and good. 

Well I never. 

Works that Work is full of stuff 

like this. In the current issue, 

you can find out about hospital 

clothing that is good for 

patients as well as quick-drying, 

about how reintroducing 

returnable deposits on glass bottles is dramatically 

reducing the use of - yes, you guessed it - plastic 

bottles, and the rise in vertical farming which is 

increasing food production in urban places. And, 

of course, much, much more. 

All of which makes it a shame that this is Works 

that Work’s last issue. We should have given it a 

shout-out before. Our apologies to them but it 

richly deserves its moment in the Viva spotlight. 

Martin Skelton, MagazineBrighton 

TOILET GRAFFITO #37 

Our graffiti correspondent spotted this one 

on the way to post their Valentine’s. When 

the chemistry is right, it’s right; so lay one 

on her (or him). 

Just check you’re reading the signals right 

before you do. 

But where is it? 

Last month’s answer: New England Road 

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SOMETHING HAS 

GONE WRONG 

‘That’s definitely 

not thunder’. 

Steve Ramsey - who 

worked for many years 

for both Viva Brighton 

(as founding Deputy 

Editor) and Viva Lewes 

- has written a book 

about the aftermath of 

the IRA bombing of the 

Grand Hotel in 1984, Something Has Gone Wrong, 

published by Biteback (£12.99). 

My opening quote is from a policeman after the 

bomb went off, and it definitely wasn’t thunder: 

it was the noise of an assassination attempt on 

Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, which put 

Brighton in the world news spotlight. 

It’s a highly unusual book, with the narrative 

driven by the voices of over 60 people involved 

in the disaster, interviewed by the author. These 

include policemen, hospital workers, firemen, 

journalists, MPs and civil servants. The writer’s 

voice seems almost non-existent, which is cleverly 

achieved: he deftly provides the conjoining 

sentences between quoted memories. 

I’m glad to say that it works, and extremely well, 

too. In fact it moves along at a cracking pace, 

especially towards the end, as the police draw 

their net around the perpetrator of the crime. It’s 

222 pages long - knowing how much research 

Steve did it must have taken some editing - and I 

read it in a sitting. 

One of the most prominent voices is that of 

Norman Tebbit, who of course was badly injured 

in the bombing. He writes the foreword of the 

book, whose title is a masterwork of Blitz-spirit 

British understatement, culled from the Argus 

report on the disaster the next day. AL

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THE ROADS NOT TAKEN 

IVY & ABE BY ELIZABETH ENFIELD 

In an alternative reality you 

are writing this review and I 

am reading it. You’re Susan, 

the girl who gave me my first 

kiss, in the playground of St 

Joseph’s Primary School round 

the corner from where we 

lived in De Beauvoir Road, 

Hackney. In this reality we 

never moved away, so you 

and I went through school 

together, my parents never 

died when I was a teenager, 

it was you who got into 

difficulties as a young woman, 

and when you’d come through 

we went travelling, came back 

to go to university, graduated 

together, lost touch, met five 

years later at a mutual friend’s 

party, and got married. You wrote a couple of 

books, I worked in local government. Strange how 

it all turned out, as if it was meant to happen, you 

writing this review, me reading it. 

Elizabeth Enfield’s new novel plays with this idea 

of the lives we could have lived if only our walk 

through the garden of forking paths had gone a 

little differently. In a series of chapters dated from 

2032 back to 1965, Ivy Trent and Abe McFadden 

trace a series of roads not taken, meeting 

when fate is either working in their favour, or 

sometimes against them. Enfield cleverly sets up 

expectations in the reader over the course of the 

first few chapters, leading us to believe Ivy and 

Abe will always be together, which is what love 

stories promise, but she is adept and sometimes 

not a little cruel in subverting these expectations. 

Novels, of course, are about more than stories. It’s 

their architecture which 

can also impress and bring 

the reader pleasure, and Ivy 

& Abe is as much about its 

architecture as Peter Ackroyd’s 

Hawksmoor, or David 

Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, or 

the Daddy of Them All, 

James Joyce’s Ulysses. Her 

backward flowing narrative 

has certain features we 

meet again and again, so 

that Ivy’s love of swimming, 

Abe’s career as a fountain 

designer, a lorry carrying 

hay bales, all get worked 

through as if they were aspects 

worn and weathered 

by time. It’s part of the fun 

of the book, seeing where 

the story will shift to when the central characters 

are elderly empty nesters, middle-aged adulterous 

lovers, youthful sweethearts, teenagers on holiday, 

childhood best friends. Enfield handles this backward 

narrative very adroitly, so that we are curious 

not just about where the story is going, but where 

it’s been. 

With this novel, Enfield has herself taken a new 

road. Regular readers of Viva Brighton will know 

her as Lizzie, doyenne of the North Village, 

chronicler of family life in that odd invention of 

hers, somewhere between the villas of Fiveways 

and the terraced houses of Preston Circus. Her 

elevation to Elizabeth signals a change in direction. 

Her writing is still as funny, still as wry. But 

this novel marks a new ambition and depth in her 

work. John O’Donoghue 

Ivy & Abe, Michael Joseph, £12.99 

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A sign at an open Kemptown church door offering conversation plus free tea and cake was 

an invitation that JJ Waller couldn’t pass up. “The conversation didn’t disappoint” he reports, 

“nor did the stunning church interior. And the cakes and pastries were worthy of afternoon 

tea at the Grand Hotel. Whilst there, I was more than fortunate to photograph twin sisters 

Elizabeth and Pauline. The chemistry between them was a delight. I will be back.” 

Tea & Company, Mondays 3.30-5pm. St Mary’s Kemptown. All welcome. 

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PUB: THE PLOTTING PARLOUR 

The earliest listing we can find 

for the establishment currently 

known as ‘The Plotting Parlour’ 

is back in 1822, when the place 

was known as ‘The Brighton 

Packet’, referring to the ‘packet’ 

ships which would take passengers 

to Dieppe from the nearby 

beach: in 1823 the Chain Pier 

was built to facilitate this trade. 

Another famous local landmark 

built in the vicinity was the 

Brighton Aquarium, which was 

opened with much fanfare in 

1871. The pub’s proximity to 

such a popular tourist destination 

prompted a change of name by 

proprietor George Phillips, who 

attempted to cash in by renaming 

the place ‘The Aquarium Inn’ 

in 1873. 

And so it remained until winter 

2012, though in the years 

preceding that it was known – 

with tongue slipping into cheek 

– as the ‘Aquarium Theatre Bar’. 

In these latter years it was very 

much a gay bar, with a rainbow 

flag attached above the doorway. 

It was famous for the musical 

entertainment on offer, including 

regular karaoke nights led by 

landlord Michael Conran, quite 

the crooner. It was nicknamed 

‘the fish tank’. Michael sadly 

passed away shortly before The 

Aquarium closed down. 

The establishment remained 

empty until October 2014, when 

it reopened in a very different 

guise, as a shabby-chic cocktail 

bar, with its current alliterative 

moniker. I pop in one midweek 

early evening, and perch on a 

table in the front section of the 

place, facing the bar. The fittings 

are upmarket quirky in this room 

and the adjacent one: flip-up 

theatre seats, red velvet furniture, 

burnished copper walls, ceiling 

murals, you get the picture. 

After scrutinising the menu 

for some time – it needs it – I 

choose a ‘Santini Sour’ (£9.50) 

which is formed, I’m told, of 

Martell VS, yuzu, blood orange 

and rosemary, and is described 

as ‘A short and fresh reminder 

of the summertime. A rosemary 

sugar rim counteracts the dry 

and sharp flavours of orange and 

yuzu’. I have to consult Google 

to understand what the latter 

ingredient is. I also get given a 

jug of water, and some wasabi 

peas I’ve ordered. These are so 

powerful, they make me hiccup. 

I sip my drink between gulps of 

water to make it last. Truth be 

told, I could have ordered anything 

on the menu. In choosing 

this one, I ignore cocktails such 

as ‘Sage against the Machine’, 

‘Flight of the Buffalo’ and 

‘Mange Tout, Rodney, Mange 

Tout’. Judging from the smashing 

combination of tastes I get 

from my drink, it’s not going to 

be all about the names, though. 

I’ll be back, perhaps for a pickme-up 

before going to a gig in 

town. Alex Leith 

6 Steine Street 

Painting by Jay Collins 

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Photo by Adam Bronkhorst, adambronkhorst.com 

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INTERVIEW 

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MYbrighton: Sheila Auguste 

Relationship counsellor 

Are you local? I consider myself to be local 

now because I’ve lived here for 20 years, but 

I was born and brought up in East London. 

I managed bookshops for ten years, then I 

moved here in 1997. I’d been thinking that 

I wanted to get out of London and one day, 

when I was on my way to work, I had this 

vision. I saw myself walking along the seafront, 

really, really happy. Two weeks later I said to 

my friend, ‘I’m moving to Brighton’. 

What does your job involve? I’m a psychosexual 

therapist as well as a relationship 

counsellor. I have a private practice and I also 

work at Relate, near Preston Park. I’ve worked 

there for over ten years now. I work with a 

cross-section of Brighton’s diverse population, 

so all sexualities, different ethnicities, all ages, 

couples and single people. Helping people 

work through their relationship difficulties 

is a privilege and very satisfying. Every day is 

different, which makes it such a great job. 

What led you into that line of work? I’ve 

always been really interested in doing therapy. 

When I first moved here I kept sending off for 

the University prospectus, then Relate had an 

open day and that’s what got me started. As a 

young person all my friends always told me 

their ‘stuff’ and in any job that I’ve done, I’ve 

always preferred the one-to-one aspects and 

listening. I think it’s always been my thing. 

What do you like most about Brighton? 

It’s the perfect size for me. You can get around 

easily and I’ve found that my friendship 

group spans lots of ages and people who do 

different things. In London you tend to hang 

out with people who do similar things to you. 

In Brighton it feels more rounded and it’s 

easier to follow your interests. I used to do 

horticulture at Stanmer Park (that’s still one 

of my favourite places) and I used to sing in 

a community choir – Brighton Goes Gospel. 

That was a wonderful thing to be a part of. 

What would you like to change about the 

place? I find it really shocking that we don’t 

have the accommodation for homeless people 

that we used to have. It seems that the people 

who are already suffering the most end up 

suffering even more. 

What do you do with your time off? I’m a 

big reader, I walk a lot and I like to eat. One 

of my favourite places at the moment is a pub 

across the road from me called The Independent. 

On Sundays I like to go to the boot sale 

at the Racecourse or the Marina. There used 

to be so many second-hand bookshops - there 

are far fewer now - but I’m always in and out 

of the charity shops. I like public transport, 

so I’ll come out of work and think ‘you know 

what, I’ll get the 12 and go to Eastbourne’. I’m 

always on a bus, listening to an audio book, 

watching great scenery go past the window. I 

love it. 

When did you last swim in the sea? I’m not 

a confident swimmer but I am by the sea a lot. 

One of my weird habits is that anywhere I go 

in Brighton, I have to go via the seafront. I’ll 

go out of my way and then cut back in. Why 

live in Brighton and not see the sea every day? 

I spend a lot of time walking up and down, 

listening to waves hit the beach. That’s my 

therapy. Interview by Lizzie Lower 

07796 161707 / sheilaauguste6@gmail.com 

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Lisa Creagh 

Holding Time 

Essentially I see myself as a 

feminist practitioner. I’m trying 

to answer the question ‘where 

is women’s experience in art?’ 

Art has always been funded for 

public spaces, and breastfeeding 

and childbirth are very private, 

intimate acts and therefore we 

don’t see them because they’re 

behind closed doors. 

My own experience of 

breastfeeding in public, even 

breastfeeding in front of 

friends and close family, was 

that I was very embarrassed. 

Women are convinced by the 

medical arguments for breastfeeding but there 

is very little to help them overcome the cultural 

barriers, and the cultural barriers are enormous. 

The one that’s most talked about is the visibility 

and the fact that you might have to show a part of 

your breast in public. Another less spoken about 

aspect is the amount of time it takes to breastfeed 

and the type of connection that you have with 

your child when you do. 

Culturally we have this idea that having a baby 

should fit into the workplace, a busy life, a 

social life. The fact is it doesn’t, but there isn’t 

any other cultural place marked out for it. All you 

need to breastfeed is a comfortable chair and you 

don’t even really need that. You can do it standing 

up. But where do women situate themselves in 

order to find that space? It’s a mental space, it’s 

a cultural space, it’s a geographical space that’s 

missing from our cities and even sometimes from 

our own living rooms. 

I photographed each mother every five 

seconds whilst feeding and the images are 

animated together. Although it’s in real time it 

actually feels slower. I was trying 

to create this feeling of a sleepy 

slowness, of what breastfeeding 

felt like to me. The idea of time 

being different because you’re 

not doing something in a hurry. 

Rather than talking about losing 

time, or making time, this is 

about growing a baby. 

Alongside the portraits 

there are interviews with 

the mothers which I put up 

on The Parlour website. The 

Parlour is a social enterprise 

about breastfeeding [set up with 

sociologist Lucila Newell] which 

enabled me to reach a much wider audience. I 

really wanted to show women talking intelligently 

while breastfeeding. This is what women do. They 

are using their hands and their bodies and they 

are using their minds. Breastfeeding is a creative 

space, it’s an intellectual space. Motherhood is a 

great intellectual opportunity. 

I hope that it inspires women to breastfeed 

and I hope that women who already 

breastfeed feel represented by it. It’s an 

environmental issue, it’s a mental health issue, 

it’s a health issue, it’s a big cultural issue in terms 

of how we see our lives. Is there time to sit and 

hold a child or isn’t there? What does it say about 

society if we are made to feel we don’t have time 

to mother and that parenting is something that 

has to be rushed through? 

As told to Lizzie Lower 

ONCA Gallery, 22nd Feb – 4th Mar. Lisa will 

be in conversation with writer and sociologist 

Lucila Newell on Sat 24th, 2-5pm. Together 

they hold a workshop on Wed 28th, 2-5pm. 

See the-parlour.org 

Photo © Toby Aimes 2016 

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PHOTOGRAPHY 

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Imogen and Lyra 

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PHOTOGRAPHY 

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Bethania and Luna 

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Sarah and Joachim 

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Liz and Hunter and Wren 

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Lizzie Enfield 

Notes from North Village 

“If you think you 

understand quantum 

physics then you 

probably don’t,” says 

quantum physics 

advisor. 

He is a doctor of 

gravitational lens fields 

– or something like 

that. It’s a complicated field. I’ve been reading the 

Dummies Guide to Quantum Physics and, frankly, the 

bar for dummies has been set too high! It’s more 

like rocket science, and trying to get to grips with 

it has been making furrows in my forehead that I 

think have become permanent. 

But I’m taking the gravitational lens doctor’s 

pronouncement as a good sign. Because I 

definitely don’t understand it. So perhaps that 

means I do? 

Why the attempt? And why is this relevant? This 

month’s theme is chemistry after all. Did she get 

the wrong email from the editor? 

No. Nor has it passed me by that it’s Valentine’s 

month: love is in the air and the Tinder test tubes 

will be overflowing with sexual chemistry. 

And I know that sexual chemistry is driven by 

pheromones, the chemical signals that trigger 

sexual interest. Some bright spark has even 

invented a dating app that involves a mouth swab 

to match you with someone with compatible 

pheromones. Maybe the police could run it? 

They have the DNA database and maybe helping 

people find love is the way forward in crime 

prevention? 

So, theoretically, chemistry is the perfect theme 

for me this month. I have a new book coming 

out. It’s a love story, 

told over a lifetime, in 

reverse. But it’s inspired 

not by sexual chemistry 

but quantum physics. 

In reality, my reality, 

rather than a quantum 

one, this was initially 

just multiverse theory: 

the one that says our universe may be one of 

many parallel universes peopled by many versions 

of ourselves, leading multiple possible lives. 

The novel’s called Ivy and Abe. They meet at 

different times of their lives, in different parallel 

universes. Each time they are drawn to each other 

but in each universe things play out differently. 

It’s a potentially endless book but I’ve restricted 

it to ten or eleven different scenarios played out 

across 75 years. 

Once I’d started with the concept, I got reading 

a little bit about quantum physics and watching 

a lot of Brian Cox. I found that there are other 

aspects of quantum physics, which can be applied 

to love. Quantum entanglement is one: a theory 

that two particles which have once interacted 

will continued to be affected by the other, even if 

separated by great distances. 

That’s Ivy and Abe too. So I’ve spent the past couple 

of years trying to understand a little of quantum 

physics and then apply it to these two gravitationallens-field-crossed 

lovers. With some success. 

“You know an awful lot about quantum physics,” 

my editor said, having read the first draft. 

Which may, as my friend pointed out, mean I 

know nothing at all. Just a bit more than I do 

about chemistry. 

Illustration by Joda (@joda_art) 

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Amy Holtz 

The truth is, I’m a Minnesotan 

So, it’s taken 35 years, but 

I’ve gotten a tattoo. 

Rebellion claims many a 

young soul, of course. In my 

bulk-buying, responsible 

recycling, gardening years, 

though, I don’t have that 

excuse. But there’s something 

I feel strongly enough 

about to leave a mark. Now, 

this very ‘Brighton’ club’s 

membership eludes me no 

longer. 

Over the Pond before 

the reckoning, I’m in sweatpants with my best 

friend since braces and New Kids on the Block 

posters, recalling for our partners the first time we 

went into a tattoo parlour to enact the ultimate 

millennium ritual: belly button piercing. Our storytelling 

relationship is as old as rain, a well-worn 

rhythm of call and response. It’s a comfort to know 

the telepathy hasn’t worn off. 

“So they make you lay down and get this big ass 

needle –” 

“Needle?” I chip in. “I thought it was a clamp 

thingie.” 

“No,” my bestie continues, as assured in her 

memory as I am in mine. “It was a needle.” 

“But they do it so quick you don’t even know it’s 

happening. Maybe to get you out of the shop or 

maybe they knew we were going to... you know.” I 

mime fainting with a roll of the eyes. 

“Anyway, they stab us and then we stood up to go 

and then whooosh –” her hands fly up – “Totally 

gone.” 

“All the blood left my head and I saw stars.” I say, 

like it was yesterday. “A bigger adrenaline spike 

than anything else we’d experienced in Willmar, 

Minnesota up to that point. 

This big dude wearing a biker 

vest gave us a cup of orange 

juice and made us sit on a 

couch till we drank it.” 

“And a chocolate bar,” 

she finishes. I nod. I don’t 

remember that part. But if 

she says it happened… “Then 

we laid in bed all day because 

it hurt and we had to tell my 

mom we were sick.” 

Ah, youth. We laugh at the 

melodrama that flavoured 

our teenage years, but the morning’s inked finale 

is looming large. Poking a couple of holes in your 

body when your brain hasn’t fully formed is one 

thing. But, tattoos have always been next level in 

my mind. 

When I get to the parlour, which is bright and full 

of women who have been in the club a long, long 

time, time condenses into a dot. My limbs feel like 

they’re someone else’s. The stencil goes on my 

wrist and I freeze. My heart’s racing, but I don’t 

know why. 

“Not there,” I say, apologetically, panicking. Can I 

really do this? If I don’t, I’ll have to tell everyone 

back in Brighton that I bottled it. Nope. It’s time to 

woman up. “Maybe just up here? By my elbow?” 

“Closer to your heart,” the tattoo artist affirms. “A 

good choice.” Which is what I needed all along. 

Endorsement of adult life choices. 

I lay down and I hear the needle, meet the sharp 

heat. When I stand again, I don’t get dizzy or lose 

time, but I feel somewhat alarmed as the tears fall 

wildly down my cheeks. Because now it’s done and 

it’s there. And even though my grandma isn’t, I’ve 

got another little bit of her somewhere close. 

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John Helmer 

Old-school 

“You haven’t changed a bit, Susie!” says Nick. 

“Thank you, but I have.” She runs a hand briefly 

over her still-lustrous dark hair as if brushing off any 

particles of insincere praise that might have adhered 

there. “But John looks like David Bowie.” 

“David Bowie with cancer,” I retort. 

Some laughter round the table, but also a couple of 

shocked faces. Do we joke about cancer? 

(Chez Helmer, we certainly do. It’s what got us 

through the last two years while my wife Kate was 

being treated – successfully, and doing fine now, 

thank you very much – as regular readers of this 

column will know.) 

“So what about this Indian restaurant then? Where 

is it?” 

I’m in a Marylebone pub, meeting school friends. 

The old chemistry is there, but its constituent 

elements have seen ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Life has 

knocked us about. In the course of all our illnesses, 

marriage breakups, bereavements, it’s taken the 

piss and vinegar out of us. We’re in the cross-hairs 

now; no more big plans to boast of, just stories. We 

face each other uncertainly without the protective 

carapace of potential. What we are is what has 

already happened. 

We adjourn to eat curry and fill in the years. And 

where are we now? All disturbingly respectable: 

Art Historian, Classics Professor, TV Producer, 

Architect, columnist for a local lifestyle magazine... 

We certainly would have made jokes about cancer 

back in the day. We made jokes about everything: 

iron lungs, leprosy, Aberfan, Ibrox… We were school 

kids: everything was a joke. The sicker, the better. 

In the sixth-form art room where I had an easel 

alongside two of these people, we performed regular 

re-enactments of samurai movies using the medicalschool 

skeleton provided for our life study, with red 

paint pumping out of squeegee bottles... 

Now we’re more sensitive to others, more 

circumspect. Though conversely, less guarded. 

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Later that night, as Nick the TV producer and I 

are having that last one before bedtime, he tells me 

exactly how difficult things were for him back then, 

with his parents going through a break-up. I never 

knew. In return I tell him about the meltdown in the 

Helmer household that made me glad to leave home 

when I did to come to Brighton. 

He looks astonished. “But those parties at your house 

I went to: you were all laughing and singing the 

whole time. It was like something out of Dickens.” 

“Smiling through the tears.” 

We talk about the others. I tell him about my 

shocked reaction when Susie – my best friend Nev’s 

girlfriend in those days – turned up on the Top of the 

Pops one evening without warning, dancing to Thin 

Lizzy in her Biba top and maxi-skirt. “Somehow 

I couldn’t quite believe it was her. She looked 

too grown-up and cool to be anyone I knew – no 

offence.” 

“And now she writes art books.” 

People change. And the past, too, changes. 

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MUSIC 

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Ben Bailey rounds up the local music scene 

Photo by Annick Wolfers 

TOM 

Tue 6, Bom-Bane’s, 8pm, £15/5 

A band that’s impossible to Google comprises two 

guys, neither of whom is called Tom. Whatever the 

reason for the misleading name, at least the music 

made by this acoustic duo is accessible and upfront. 

Sussex songwriters Colin and Lance mix comedy 

ditties about politics and vegetables with rambling 

banter and the odd melancholic folk ballad. There 

are echoes of Dylan in the stripped-back guitar style, 

but it’s the gentle humour of the doubled-up vocals 

that make Tom’s tunes worth a listen. After playing 

in far-flung places like Peacehaven and Piddinghoe 

the guys are celebrating their first anniversary in a 

Kemptown restaurant. The £15 ticket includes a meal 

prepared by everyone’s favourite chef, singer and 

novelty hat-maker Jane Bom-Bane. 

THE GO! TEAM 

Sun 11, Concorde 

2, 7pm, £16 

The Go! Team are 

back in the ring. 

Last month saw the 

release of their fifth 

album, Semicircle, and it’s their most compelling for 

a while. The result of a wildly inventive collision of 

sounds and styles, the album sees original vocalist 

Ninja return to the fold to lay down some urgent 

and old-school rap over the top of songwriter Ian 

Parton’s meticulously layered samples. The band 

are currently touring as an eight-piece, which 

suggests the shows will be as energetic and diverse 

as ever. Parton enlisted a Detroit youth choir for the 

album, alongside what sounds like a wayward and 

hyperactive marching band. How they’ll pull that 

off on stage is anyone’s guess, but that’s possibly part 

of the appeal. 

Photo by Mayumi Hirata 

BRITISH SEA POWER 

Tue 20, Concorde 2, 7.30pm, £16 

Like many bands 

that put out records 

last year, British Sea 

Power’s latest material 

was informed by a definite 

sense of political 

unease. While the lyrics on Let the Dancers Inherit 

the Party may have been inspired by the era of dread 

inaugurated by the ‘bare-faced liar in the White 

House’, the musical tone of their crowd-funded 

album took a strangely upbeat turn. After a four-year 

hiatus and a slew of sombre film soundtracks, the 

band returned in rude health, issuing a positive 

affirmation in the face of uncertainty and fear. 

This Brighton date, which ends a month-long UK 

tour, will be a glorious get-together for those lucky 

enough to bag a ticket. 

SQUID 

Fri 23, Green Door Store, 7pm, £3 

Atmospheric post-rock jams don’t usually get much 

traction on the radio, but Squid’s single Liquid Light 

nevertheless found its way onto BBC Introducing and 

Tom Robinson’s 6 Music show last year. The song 

has a motorik pulse compelling enough to carry the 

swirling krautrock soundscape; it’s also about half 

the length of the band’s other tracks, which surely 

helped. The Brighton five-piece, who met and 

started playing while at university here, channel the 

hypnotic sounds of My Bloody Valentine and Stereolab, 

but probably owe more to modern torchbearers 

like Flamingods and Floating Points. If you get 

there early you’ll also hear the lo-fi saxophone songs 

of Leatherhead, some shoegazing post-punk from 

Red Deer People and a set of ‘sadcore alt-country’ 

courtesy of M Butterfly. 

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COMEDY 

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Samantha Baines 

Renaissance woman 

Comedian, writer, actress, pun-builder; it’s safe 

to say Samantha Baines is a Renaissance woman 

for our times. She brings the critically acclaimed 

1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom to the 

Brighton Science Festival. 

The show explores the lost women of science 

– interwoven with silly stories from my life. 

Margaret E Knight, an inventor, Lilian Bland, an 

aviation engineer, and Sally Ride, an astronaut, 

championed the way for women of the future. 

Sally’s the most famous in the sense that there 

are books about her. But in the British Library, 

which houses 20 million books, Margaret E 

Knight and Lilian Bland don’t come up when you 

search for them. No books. You have to laugh at 

the ridiculousness of the injustices 

they faced. 

Before Sally became 

the first American 

woman to go 

into space, the 

engineers at 

NASA asked her 

if 100 tampons 

would be 

enough. For seven 

days. Obviously, 

I have a whole 

section on tampons 

in the show! It’s also 

incredibly sad that 

Sally couldn’t be 

open about her 

LGBT status; 

it only came 

out after she 

died that 

she’d been in 

a relationship with a woman for the past 20 years. 

#MeToo is an amazing movement; society is 

just becoming conscious of how many of us have 

been made to feel uncomfortable at some point 

in our lives for being who we are. But now we’re 

realising how common it is, and are gaining the 

confidence to say ‘No, I’m not going to put up 

with that’. Once, I won a stand-up competition 

against all men, but at the end of the gig, the promoter 

in charge said to all the men (who I’d just 

beaten), ‘I always remember the ones with the 

big tits’. Everyone just laughed. But, the comedy 

industry has been very supportive of people who 

are brave enough to tell their stories - which is a 

good thing. 

When I first trained as an actor I had clear 

goals - I wanted to be onstage at The National. 

But life’s just taken a different turn and I 

like being a ‘yes’ woman. I’ve gotten to do really 

amazing acting projects like The Crown and Call 

the Midwife, Silent Witness. I’m constantly told 

I have a period face (not the Sally Ride-tampons-menstruation 

one) – I definitely have 50s 

hair! Wonderful women like Victoria Wood 

showed us that you can be a comedian and a 

dramatic actress and write comedy sitcoms and 

do lots of things. 

I was the first woman ever to be in the Pun 

Championship finals, run by the Leicester 

Comedy Festival. You’re asked to produce 100 

puns and on the day you perform them, in a 

boxing ring, in rounds. One of my favourites, on 

dogs: ‘I’m trying to convince my husband that we 

should get a dog and I’m doing it subliminally 

through the wallpaper. I’m not going to lie, I’ve 

got an all-terrier motif.’ 

As told to Amy Holtz 

Komedia, Tues 13th Feb, 8pm 

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MUSIC 

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Apocalyptica 

Heavy metal string quartet 

A classical training and a love of thrash metal 

prompted arranger and cellist Eicca Toppinen 

to throw his two passions together to see what 

would happen. The result was a hit crossover 

album - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos - and a 

career in music that’s lasted two decades. The 

popularity of Apocalyptica’s debut release has 

proved to be so enduring that the band are still 

on tour two years after they set out to celebrate 

the record’s anniversary. 

“I’ve been listening to heavy metal since I was 

a teenager,” Eicca explains. “We started playing 

metal on cellos at parties and people were loving 

it, but it was just for fun. Then someone from 

an independent record label asked us to record 

some songs and we laughed at him. That first 

record has now sold over a million copies.” When 

Apocalyptica visit Brighton Dome this month 

they’ll be playing the album from start to finish, 

as it was recorded, beginning with Enter Sandman 

and finishing with Welcome Home (Sanitarium). 

Then, after an interval, audiences will hear another 

set of Metallica songs, arranged for drums and cello, 

some of which they’ve never recorded before. 

“We’ve been playing lots of concert halls, with 

seated audiences, and it attracts more classical fans. 

They tend to be allergic to heavy metal vocals, 

but when they hear us do an instrumental they 

can appreciate it and hear the beauty. I think their 

respect for metal is on the rise. But we also have 

fans trying to headbang in the seats. You can see 

people sometimes looking around, thinking ‘what 

the hell is this?’” 

There’s a certain appeal to picking out familiar 

tunes played in a different style, and it’s interesting 

to hear how the quartet handles the heavier 

sections of songs, yet Apocalyptica’s music 

manages to transcend these novelties by being 

sensitive and bombastic all at once. 

“Classical music is not as complicated as 

people think,” says Eicca. “If you look at the 

themes and the chords they’re sometimes quite 

straightforward, but it’s the variations on those 

themes that brings in the complexity. Personally 

I like early 20th century classical music. 

Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev. I prefer 

melodic and melancholic music, the dark Russian 

stuff. There are often rhythmic melodies that 

repeat throughout a piece, like a riff in a metal 

song. And they are both going for the dramatic 

moments, the big powerful emotions.” 

Though they make it look easy, it can’t be a simple 

matter capturing the power of a heavy metal band 

on four-string acoustic orchestral instruments. 

“The technique was difficult at first. It’s not really 

how the cello is meant to be played and we have 

broken many cellos over the years. I have a nice 

expensive cello which I use in the studio, but I don’t 

take it on tour! You can’t be worrying about that. It 

can’t be a heavy metal show without letting rip.” 

As told to Ben Bailey 

Brighton Dome, Tues 27th Feb, 8pm, £31.50/24.50 

Photo © Ville Juurikkala 

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MUSIC 

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Photos by Mark Richards 

Fat Tuesday 

Hastings’ Mardi Gras 

Fat Tuesday is an annual five-day music festival, 

now in its ninth year. The name is an English 

translation of ‘Mardi Gras’, the huge New Orleans 

street party, involving a wild night of excess, the 

night before the traditional fasting period of Lent. 

We talk to co-organiser Bob Tipler. 

How did it start up? I met organiser Adam at 

our kids’ school gate and we decided to create a 

musical event for the town to cheer up a gloomy 

month. It’s been getting larger and more successful 

every year. 

How come the New Orleans feel? I’m a musician 

with the Cajun Dawgs, and have always been 

interested in the culture of Louisiana. 

What can we expect? More than 154 acts (all 

kinds of music, folk, funk, jazz, rock) in multiple 

venues. There’s a Grand Masked Ball and a parade. 

It ends with the Fat Tuesday Tour, when 24 emerging 

and established bands play in Old Town pubs 

and venues. 

What’s the highlight for you? I love Unplugged 

Saturday, on which 18 venues each have ten acts 

appearing throughout the day. 

Who comes? It used to be mostly locals, but we’re 

getting lots more people and families from further 

afield now. 

How much is indoors? Most of it, other than the 

Sunday Umbrella Parade. 

What’s that? Anyone can bring a decorated 

umbrella and march behind bands playing from 

The Stade to St Mary in the Castle. This idea of 

parading with fancy umbrellas comes from the 

New Orleans jazz funeral tradition, when smartly 

dressed mourners (some with matching umbrellas) 

would follow the coffin and a jazz band playing 

melancholic tunes. When the body is laid to rest, 

the music goes up-tempo and everyone dances. 

But you don’t have a coffin? No, just the umbrellas! 

It’s very colourful and joyful. 

What’s special about Hastings? It’s a place where 

there’s been a lot of disadvantage, so it has remained 

hidden away and been left alone. We’ve grown our 

own scene in our own way. The low rents and cheap 

housing have led to a place stuffed with people who 

don’t earn much money but are very creative, plus 

lots of specialists – musicians, photographers, sound 

engineers, roadies, graphic designers, film and PR 

people. We’ve got recording studios here. There’s 

a strong community of musicians in Hastings and 

St Leonards, and that makes it the perfect place to 

organise a music festival. 

Do you have to pay? Some events, such as the 

Grand Masked Ball, are ticketed (see the website) 

but most events are free. 

How is it funded? The pubs taking part chip in, 

we’ve got sponsorship, some Arts Council funding 

and some other little bits. It’s not a problem persuading 

people to help or take part. The hard part 

is organising it all, as well as having businesses and 

full-time jobs! We love it though. Emma Chaplin 

Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival, Fri 9th - Tues 

13th Feb. hastingsfattuesday.co.uk 

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COMEDY 

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Robin Ince 

Pragmatically insane 

Sometimes the 

correct reaction to 

reality is to go totally 

insane. This is something 

that both Philip 

K Dick and psychiatrist 

RD Laing said, and it 

inspired the title of my 

show: Pragmatic Insanity. 

I took a two-year 

break from stand-up 

because I thought I was 

going insane, and when 

I came back I thought the world does seem to 

have gone insane. 

We’re in this arena where evidence is dismissed 

and people are perpetually angry. So I 

thought I would do a happy show, a joyous show 

about art and physics and human potential. And 

it’s also about a stuffed goat I saw at a Robert 

Rauschenberg exhibition. One of the things he 

said when he first started as an artist was: “A lot 

of people say that their art comes from their pain, 

why can’t art come from our joy?” 

It’s very easy to be continually confused, at the 

moment. That’s partly because there are so many 

voices. On our screens, in our newspapers, on our 

televisions, all these people with opinions. Sometimes 

we get dragged into fury that we don’t need. 

That’s pragmatic insanity. What do you actually 

need to be insane over? Are you being pulled into 

arguments you don’t need to be pulled into, when 

you can be looking at the rings of Saturn through 

a telescope instead, or a stuffed goat, or the flowers 

and pelvic bone pictures of Georgia O’Keeffe? 

People say you have to live in the real world, but 

there are lots of different 

versions of the 

real world. And you 

can choose to try and 

live in a better one. It 

is a struggle though, 

I’m not saying it’s not 

a struggle. 

In some ways I don’t 

even know what I do 

anymore. I just go on 

stage and start talking, 

I just chuck out all 

the things that are in my head. I’ve got such a 

flibbertigibbet mind. It’s not that the audience is 

necessarily going to learn a huge amount, but with 

luck I’m going to throw out enough ideas that it 

will inspire people to go on a bit of an adventure 

themselves. Hopefully they’ll go off and find 

out more about the behaviour of ravens, or what 

bonobo apes get up to in their spare time. 

Working on The Infinite Monkey Cage with 

Brian Cox means that every week I get access 

to these incredible minds. Most of the time 

we end up recording much more than we need, 

because once you have people in that room, you 

just want to keep asking them questions. It gives 

me an excuse to keep on learning. And because 

I’ve been doing arenas with Brian, it gives me 

a chance to lure people who don’t really know 

what I do. And, more often than not, they kind of 

like it. Some of them think it’s really weird. They 

might find it a little bit insane, but they might 

enjoy the ride. 

As told to Ben Bailey 

The Old Market, Wed 28th Feb, 8pm, £15/12 

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ANATOMY 

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Matters of the heart 

And the head, and the neck, and the feet... 

Dr Claire Smith, Head of Anatomy 

at Brighton and Sussex Medical 

School, and fellow anatomist 

Catherine Hennessy, are putting the 

(animal) heart into Valentine’s Day. 

Catherine and I are really looking 

forward to our live dissection on 

Valentine’s this year. I don’t think 

I’ve ever dissected anything 

when I’ve had a pint in my 

hand or people have been 

sat there with their crisps. 

I’m looking forward to the 

reactions on people’s faces, 

their questions. 

When we teach medical 

students anatomy, we do so thanks to 

the amazing gift of people donating their 

body to medical science, but we can’t use 

human hearts in this situation. There are some real 

similarities between, say, pig or sheep hearts, and 

ours. So we’ve ordered some animal hearts, which 

may contain some blood; we’ll do our best to make 

it only a little more than you’d see when you pick 

up a fresh steak from the butchers. And if people 

want to put gloves on and feel the hearts, hold 

them – they’re welcome. 

Gray’s Anatomy is on my desk (it’s about as tall 

as my coffee mug); I think I do know most of it, 

but if you don’t use it you lose it. I always loved 

biology at school and did loads of dancing – so I 

was always interested in how muscles work. 

As an anatomist you have to get your hands on 

those physical specimens, get your hands inside 

an abdomen and feel for structures, to hold a 

heart or brain and show it. But I’ve also done a lot 

of research into spatial ability and how we learn 

in three dimensions – how our 

brain interprets 3D images, how 

we rotate them, how we understand 

depth; so, for example, if 

you’re a doctor, when you 

take blood from someone 

how do you know when 

that needle is actually in 

there? The truth is, the 

more you train your brain 

through repetition or simulation, 

the more it’ll learn. 

Personally, I don’t like feet 

at all; but I enjoy the head, 

the neck – and a good bit of 

abdomen or thorax. Inside, the 

abdomen has lots to explore; the 

head and neck are very complex. I’d 

like for people start to think of their 

heart as a muscle that needs exercise; 

my goal is to help people understand a 

bit more about their body, to think about their own 

health or help a relative who might be suffering 

with a heart condition. 

The intestines would be fascinating to dissect 

next. I’ve worked with ITV on a segment about 

diabetes, understanding where fat is in the body 

and that everything you put in to your body goes 

through your intestines. So it’d be great to get 

some intestines and understand different components 

of diet; to show how fats and sugars are 

absorbed. The intestines would probably smell a lot 

more like being in a butchers than the heart though 

– so we’ll see how that goes first. Amy Holtz 

Anatomy Night: Matters of the Heart gets visceral 

at The Walrus on Valentine’s Day, Wed 14th Feb, 

6.30pm 

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COMEDY 

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Ed Byrne 

‘I’m now complaining about people complaining’ 

Photo by Roslyn Gaunt 

What’s the new show about? The show is 

called Spoiler Alert and it’s about how spoilt 

we are as people, as consumers. And how I’m 

contributing to that by the fact I have two small 

boys who I am currently in the process of spoiling 

the shit out of. 

In what ways are we spoilt? I’ve owned four 

cars in the last ten years. Not fancy cars, not 

Ferraris, yet every single one you started not by 

turning a key, but by pressing a button. Who 

decided that was a drudgery we needed to be released 

from? Who decided we’re too important 

to turn keys now? I have to turn a key? Like a 

f**king savage? 

Does your kids’ upbringing differ much 

from your own? Fairly, yes. There’s a marked 

difference between being a parent in the 70s and 

being a parent today. One of the reminiscences 

I pull out is about sitting in the car drinking 

lemonade and eating crisps while my parents are 

in the pub, which seems utterly 

alien now. And my dad was not a 

bad dad, by any stretch of the 

imagination. But when I look at 

the amount of parenting I’m expected 

to do, I feel a little short 

changed if I’m honest. 

So is it a good or 

bad thing? It’s a 

little of both. If I 

wanted to bounce on 

a trampoline when 

I was a kid I had to 

go to an amusement 

park and queue up. 

My kids have their 

own trampoline, in 

their back garden. 

And it’s bigger than 

my first flat. And even 

then they’ll lie on it and go: “Daddy, bounce us!” 

That’s the level of spoilt I’m talking about. 

Is there a flipside to all this? As consumers we 

demand quite a lot. I want my semi-skimmed 

milk! I want my push-button start! But when it 

comes to politics, we aren’t quite spoilt enough. 

People have a tendency to shrug and just accept 

the way things are when it comes to big stuff, 

and then complain and whine about little stuff. 

I say this as a man who has basically made his 

living out of complaining and whining about 

little stuff for 24 years. 

Do you plan to continue in that vein? Haha, 

it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it! Having 

spent my life complaining about the little things, 

about losing my luggage, about not 

understanding my wife’s point 

in an argument, whatever it 

may be, I’m now complaining 

about people complaining. 

Let’s talk chainsaws... 

Every time I do another 

show my manager says we 

need to get some more 

photographs done. Yep, 

yep, very important 

that people know 

much I’ve aged in 

the last two years. 

We definitely need 

to remind everyone 

that I still have a face! 

They told me to bring 

clothes, and I thought you know 

what? Just for the fun of it I brought my 

chainsaw along. It’s not relevant to the 

show, I just thought it was an eye-catching 

image. A tuxedo and a chainsaw. A 

strong look. Interview by Ben Bailey 

Theatre Royal, Thur 15th Feb, £28.15

GAME MUSIC 

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Dear Esther 

Jessica Curry, computer game composer 

You’re putting on a live performance of 

a video game, Dear Esther, with classical 

orchestra, conductor, narrator and player. 

Gaming and classical music sounds like a 

Venn diagram with very little shaded area… 

It’s been a really interesting crossover! It’s like 

two worlds colliding in a really new way. We’ve 

had a lot of diehard fans coming to the show 

who’re absolutely obsessed with the game but 

have never been to a classical concert hall, and 

we’ve got classical fans who’ve never played a 

game before. That really interests me, that collision 

of such disparate worlds. I present a show 

on Classic FM about game music, and that’s 

been the same thing, these two different worlds 

actually finding a lot in common. 

Dear Esther sounds like a name inspired 

by That’s Life, and the letters complaining 

about shoddy goods sent to Esther 

Rantzen… What? No! It’s from a song by 

Faith No More. My husband, Dan Pinchbeck, 

who wrote the game, loved the cadence and 

the sound. He was doing a PhD on first person 

shooter games, and rather than write about it, 

he decided to actually make a game. I wrote 

the music, and we put it up for sale in 2012, 

and then just watched the sales figures rising 

and rising and rising. Last year we put out a 

5th-anniversary edition for consoles, because 

until then it had only been out for PC and Mac, 

and we had a really strong emotional response to 

it. I was then in London talking about live film 

events, and I met a chap from the Barbican who 

programmes music events, and we’ve ended up 

with it live onstage! 

It’s not a typical game – exploring a Hebridean 

Island, hearing a narrator’s letters to 

his dead wife. No one gets their car nicked 

or their genitals shot off… Before I started 

working on Dear Esther, I didn’t think there was 

anything for me: there was FIFA, Call Of Duty, 

sporty or very aggressive, none of which much 

interests me. But then I discovered the work of a 

Belgian couple called Tale Of Tales. They make 

very beautiful, ruminative, expressive games, 

and I thought, hang on, there’s this whole world 

of people doing something more experimental, 

deeper, more profound. There’s some snobbery 

in the classical world about game soundtracks, 

but that tide’s turning, and I’m a really vocal 

advocate for it. I’m involved in a Royal Albert 

Hall concert later in the year that Sony Playstation 

are putting on. The best orchestras and the 

best concert halls are now getting involved, and 

that’s great. I heard this beautiful classical music 

coming out of my 14-year-old son’s bedroom 

the other day, and I asked him what it was. I 

knocked first! He said ‘I’m playing Destiny 2.’ 

That’s insane, that’s so beautiful! Andy Darling 

Brighton Dome, Fri 2nd Feb, 8pm 

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TALK 

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Christopher Horlock 

Early Brighton photographs 

The West Pier, 1868 

In 1972, James Gray brought out a book 

called Victorian and Edwardian Brighton 

from Old Photographs and I thought ‘wow!’ 

My interest in the history of Brighton was just 

starting and I’d been taking photographs myself 

of the changes I’d been noticing in the town. I 

had to meet him. He worked in insurance and 

lived with his wife in a little bungalow in Shirley 

Avenue. They had no children and I think, in 

some respects, I was the inheritor of his knowledge. 

I went to see him every couple of months 

for 20 years. He was the historian of the period. 

He lived to be over 90 and his earliest memory 

was of a horse bus outside Brighton station. A 

horse bus! 

I’ve managed to collect well over 20,000 

items related to Brighton’s history – mostly 

photographs – over the last 45 years. The talk 

I’m giving is about the earliest photographs in 

my collection. The first photographs of buildings 

were seen in the 1830s but as soon as you get 

into the 1850s and 60s you see people. I have 

a picture from the early 1860s with all these 

fashionable people on the seafront in crinolines 

and top hats. The Grand Hotel is being built, the 

West Pier doesn’t exist yet and the Chain Pier is 

in the distance. The whole place comes to life. 

As soon as portraiture became fashionable, in 

around 1860, everyone wanted it. There were 

lots of photographers in Brighton. Some of them 

had studios on the seafront to take portraits of 

the wealthy but occasionally they turned their 

camera out of a window and captured the building 

of the Grand Hotel, the piers being built… 

These are rare views. There were some bath 

buildings on the seafront - one called ‘Brill’s 

Baths’ was a great round bathhouse that stuck 

out into the road. It was known as ‘the bunion’. 

I have a photo of it from 1871, just before it was 

demolished. Another photograph shows all three 

piers. The West Pier, the Palace Pier being built, 

and the Chain Pier in the foreground. It just 

shows how progressive Brighton was. 

As told to Lizzie Lower 

The Keep, Sat 24th Feb, 2pm, £3 per person. Visit 

thekeep.info or call 01273 482349 to book your 

place. Christopher’s book ‘Brighton from Old 

Photographs’ is published by Amberley 

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ART 

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The Sea of Time and Space, 1821. Arlington Court, National Trust 

William Blake in Sussex 

Visions of Albion 

The three years, from 1800 until 1803, during 

which William Blake lived in the village of Felpham 

on the West Sussex coast, was the only time 

in his life that he spent outside London. He came 

to Sussex with his wife, Catherine, at the invitation 

of his fellow poet, William Hayley, whom Blake 

had visited at Felpham in July, 1800. Hayley was a 

great patron of the arts – John Flaxman, George 

Romney and William Cowper all benefitted 

from his largesse – and the arrangement that 

he and Blake seem to have ironed out was that 

Blake would take up residence in Felpham and 

Hayley would engage him on various design and 

engraving projects. And so the Blakes left London 

on 18th September, 1800. At first, all went well. 

In turning his back on ‘London’s Dungeon Dark’, 

Blake was delighted to be ‘Away to sweet Felpham 

for Heaven is there’. It was ‘the sweetest spot on 

Earth’. In May 1801 he wrote in a letter: ‘Hayley 

acts like a Prince’. But the relationship between 

patron and ‘patronised’ is always a tricky one. By 

January 1803 Hayley had become the ‘source’ of 

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ART 

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all Blake’s difficulties. Blake felt 

increasingly that all the engraving 

and other commissions had 

encroached upon his creative 

independence. By April 1803 

Hayley was being stigmatised 

by Blake as ‘the Enemy of my 

Spiritual Life while he pretends 

to be the Friend of my Corporeal’. 

Soon Blake had resolved 

‘not to remain another winter’ 

in Felpham, and by July 1803 

he had determined to return to 

London to ‘carry on my visionary 

studies… unannoy’d’. 

Alas, on 12th August, 1803 

everything got a whole lot 

worse. A private soldier in the 

1st Regiment of Dragoons, one 

John Scolfield, entered Blake’s 

garden. Unaware that he was 

there at the invitation of the 

gardener, Blake ordered Scolfield 

to leave. Scolfield refused, 

angry words were exchanged, 

and Blake manhandled the 

soldier out of the garden ‘by 

the elbows… and pushed him 

forward down the road’. Three 

days later, Scolfield went before 

the Chichester Justice of the 

Peace and accused Blake of 

seditious expressions favouring 

the French and damning the 

King of England, not to mention 

assault. Having gone back 

to London, Blake returned to 

Chichester to stand trial. Fortunately, 

several witnesses testified 

on Blake’s behalf and he was 

acquitted on all charges. Hayley’s 

moral and financial support 

at this time did much to repair 

their fractured relationship. 

The story of Blake’s time in 

Sussex is told in an absolutely 

splendid exhibition at Petworth 

House that runs until 25th 

March. Petworth is proud of 

being the only major country 

house to hold original works 

by William Blake which were 

collected in the artist’s lifetime 

or, in one case, acquired from his 

widow. 

Petworth’s own holdings are 

supplemented by extensive 

loans from, among others, the 

Victoria and Albert Museum, 

the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, 

the British Museum, Tate and 

Manchester City Galleries. All 

the court documents relating to 

Blake’s trial are also on display. 

David Jarman 

William Blake in Sussex: Vision 

of Albion is at Petworth House 

until the 25th of March. Entry 

by advance booking only: 0344 

2491895 / nationaltrust.org.uk 

William Blake, William, plate 29 from Milton a Poem, 1804-1811 © The Trustees of the British Museum 

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DESIGN 

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Elizabeth Friedlander 

From black propaganda to Penguin covers 

Successful designer Elizabeth Friedlander 

arrived in Britain in the thirties as a refugee 

from Nazi Germany, but she could initially 

only get work as a maid. During the war the 

Political Intelligence Department became 

aware of her, and recruited her as head of 

design in the ‘black propaganda’ unit, forging 

or inventing Wehrmacht and Nazi rubber 

stamps and ration books. Befriended by poet 

and printer Francis Meynell, who helped her 

get freelance commissions, she remained in 

Britain, becoming responsible for many of 

Penguin’s post-war designs. 

Katharine Meynell, granddaughter of Francis, 

has curated an exhibition of her work at the 

Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. “Francis 

had a fierce sense of social justice and antifascist 

conviction,” she says. “He had been a 

firebrand in his youth and he never quite lost 

that. I remember him taking me in his car 

to rip down posters supporting Ian Smith’s 

apartheid regime, in what was then Rhodesia. 

He kept the engine going and sent me out to 

remove them. I was about eleven. 

“He took us to The Mikado and Annie Get Your 

Gun, sang along to Harry Belafonte records, 

taught us ping-pong, how to prune roses and 

mix cocktails. 

“The name Friedlander was familiar to me, 

but it was only a few years ago that I discovered 

two calligraphic anthologies she had 

done for Francis in the back of his bookcase. 

They startled me, even amongst all the beautiful 

volumes he had, so I wanted to know more. 

“Friedlander has been more or less ignored. It 

was by chance I came across the biography of 

Millls & Boon 25th anniversary card. Pen and paint on paper. 1957-8. 

Collection of University College Cork. Photography by Sam Moore 

Elizabeth Friedlander. ‘Precious’ patterns for The Curwen Press. Paint on paper, 1950. 

Collection of University College Cork. Photography by Sam Moore 

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DESIGN 

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her by Pauline Paucker. Her 

story resonated with me. We 

face a terrible displacement 

of people today. Alongside 

this, right-wing ideologies 

are resurfacing, so I see her 

story as relevant to us, not 

only to reassess the contribution 

of women in design, 

but also because we face 

many of the same issues. 

“Friedlander is the only 

woman of her generation to 

have produced a Western 

typeface. Elizabeth type 

was a terrific success and 

it became her calling card 

when she fled Germany. It 

has an enduring elegance 

and has been digitised by 

Bauer Type, so is available 

for modern use. 

“Looking at the laws introduced 

by Nazi Germany, 

Fascist Italy and the immigration 

processes that made 

it so difficult for Friedlander 

to come to the UK or 

emigrate to the US, we see 

that she was one of the lucky 

ones, she had exceptional 

skill and good friends. But 

it could so easily have been 

different for her. 

“I have made a short ‘essay’ 

film about Friedlander, 

describing what is known of 

her life, using archive footage 

interspersed with landscape, 

speculative images and 

text, probing the practical 

and political life of women 

surviving on wit and skill in 

mid-twentieth century Europe. 

The film forms part of 

the exhibition. Much of the 

rest is being loaned from the 

Friedlander Archive at Cork. 

There is a wonderful range 

of book-covers, commercial 

work, elegant 

patterned 

papers 

and fine 

calligraphy. 

The work 

is simply 

lovely.” 

Emma Chaplin 

Ditchling 

Museum of Art 

+ Craft, Elizabeth Friedlander 

exhibition continues 

until 29th April. Tues - Sat, 

10.30am-5pm. £6.50/5.50. 

ditchlingmuseumartcraft. 

org.uk 

Elizabeth Friedlander. Page from Friedlander’s design book. Collection of University College Cork. Photography by Sam Moore 

Cover paper designs by Elizabeth Friedlander. Collection of Katharine Meynell 

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Give Art 

Give Love

ART 

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ART & ABOUT 

In town this month... 

Adventuring printmaker Beatrice von 

Preussen spent eight weeks in the High 

Arctic last summer, sailing on a tall ship with 

30 scientists and artists from all over the 

world. See her photographs, sketch books, 

prints and diaries from Svalbard and hear 

audio recordings of bearded seals singing 

beneath the ice, at ONCA Gallery from 

the 10th until the 15th. There are three 

accompanying workshops for children: 

geology in association with the Natural 

History Museum; science in the Arctic 

in association with the British Ecological 

Society, and an Arctic animals printmaking 

workshop. [onca.org.uk] 

Ian Boutell 

H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G continues at Phoenix Brighton 

until the 11th. Seven contemporary abstract painters, Ian Boutell, 

John Bunker, Philip Cole, Stig Evans, Tess Jaray, Johanna 

Melvin and Patrick O’Donnell ‘explore the possibilities inherent 

in space, colour, line and edge’ in a collection of paintings that 

have been developed through premeditated and choreographed 

processes, favouring intention over accident. 

The Museum of Ordinary People is a new project 

described by its founders Lucy and Jolie as ‘celebrating 

the ripples that ordinary people leave behind. Forging 

connections between generations and gathering stories 

of everyday objects, exploring and documenting the 

magic and mundanities of everyday life.’ They are 

looking for people who have a collection of objects and 

documents that are important to them, and that tell a 

story, to take part in their series of free workshops over 

six Tuesday evenings, culminating in an exhibition at 

Brighton Fringe. To find out more, contact them at 

museumofordinarypeople@gmail.com. 

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The steps of Brighton Unitarian Church in New Road are one of the city’s most 

lively impromptu stages, but the building is approaching its 200th birthday and the 

iconic portico frontage is in need of urgent repair. A programme of essential works 

begins this spring and the building will host a range of events to celebrate its place 

as a cultural, as well as spiritual, centre for the city. Photographer Tony Tree has 

been capturing a year in the life of the church and his project Snaps on the Steps will 

cover the hoardings whilst the conservation work takes place behind. An original 

piece of theatre about the building and its history - The Prince and the Pillars - takes 

place on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March, and there’s also a series of lectures by 

prominent local historians and Friday lunchtime concerts. Tickets for are free but pre-booking is advised. 

Contact 01273 696022 or buc@brightonunitarian.org.uk 

You won’t have missed the giant Snowdogs 

last year, each decorated by a local artist 

contributing to the hugely popular public 

art trail and subsequent auction that 

raised more than £300,000 for Martlets. 

This autumn the city will be besieged by 

50 giant snails for Snailspace and the 

organisers are asking local artists to submit 

designs for these unusual 3D canvases. 

Those chosen will be paid a commission to 

bring their design to life. To find out more 

visit snailspacebrighton.co.uk and submit 

your design by the end of March. 

Aliens, Zombies 

and Monsters! The 

Weird World of 

Aaron Blecha is at 

Hove Museum 

and Art Gallery 

from the 10th. 

The exhibition of 

work by the Hovebased 

children’s 

writer, bestknown 

for books 

like Goodnight, 

Grizzle Grump! and the Shark School series, will 

give museum visitors an insight into the process 

behind his work, starting from initial ideas and 

doodles to creating characters and finished 

books. This interactive display has plenty of 

opportunities for getting hands-on and a series 

of events, some with Aaron himself, continues 

throughout the exhibition. Until September. 

Out of town... 

Passion & Waves, an exhibition of abstract paintings by Zed Zdravko Talijan, is 

at The Cube Gallery in Hassocks from the 10th. Raised in former Yugoslavia, 

Zed worked as a journalist before moving to France and has spent the last 20 

years living, working and painting in West Sussex. ‘Painting, I feel, is a way of 

replacing concepts usually lost in translation, a way of talking. My art is a blend 

of cultural backgrounds that create a new visual language.’ 

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Out of town... 

Mary Poppins illustrated by Karl James Mountford 

In celebration of World Book Day on the 1st of March, Seaford 

Contemporary Illustrators & Printmakers present The Book 

Show, an exhibition of illustration and printmaking inspired by 

children’s literature. This five-day show is at Arts@theCrypt 

in Church Road, Seaford from the 28th of February until 

the 4th of March and features work by upwards of 20 

professional artists including award-winning author/ 

illustrator Benji Davies, Karl James Mountford, Lesley 

Barnes, Graham Carter, Helen Musselwhite, 

John Bond and Bjorn Rune Lie. For the duration 

of the exhibition, the medieval Undercroft will be 

transformed into a reading room, filled with hundreds 

of books for families to enjoy, with readings by 

local authors and creative workshops for 

kids. Visit wearescip.co.uk to find 

out more. 

Bambi Goodman 

On a Night Like This is at the Studio Gallery in 

Worthing Museum & Art Gallery from the 

10th. Father and daughter Gary and Bambi 

Goodman exhibit paintings, printmaking and 

poetry inspired by a trip to Japan. Expect hanging 

scrolls with ink drawings of animals and girls, a 

cardboard sculpture menagerie and large-scale 

figurative paintings. The themes are, Bambi 

explains, ‘possibly eerie with a hint of sexy’. 

Gary Goodman 

2017 winner: Deception © Katie Ponder 

Glyndebourne are once again 

inviting emerging artists (aged 16+) 

to design a cover for their 2018 

Tour Programme, with the theme 

of (essential operatic ingredients) 

‘Love and Money’. The winning 

artwork will grace the cover of 

10,000 copies of the programme and 

appear in an exhibition at the opera 

house this autumn. The closing date 

for entries is the 6th of July. Visit 

glyndebourne.com for details. 

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Spectrum 

25 years of Brighton printing 

Spectrum Photographic first opened its doors in 

1993 in Hove. “We were a purely photographic 

lab,” explains Klair Bird, who now co-owns 

the business with colleagues Hazel Watts and 

Paul Lowe, “so we were a primarily film-based 

processing and printing studio.” 

“We did E6 [slide] processing, C-41 processing, 

black-and-white processing,” Paul says, 

“and then suddenly film disappeared. Almost 

overnight; one Friday we had 50 people in the 

lab processing film, and the following Monday it 

was like… tumbleweed. We were very fortunate 

that the chap who used to own Spectrum liked 

to keep ahead of the trends, so at the same 

time that we were processing film and doing 

analogue, he bought himself a digital light jet 

printer, which meant we were already set up to 

do digital.” 

“It was a pretty scary time, because lots of services 

disappeared, so a lot of staff disappeared, 

and we went quite small,” continues Klair. But in 

the time since, the lab has undergone a number 

of changes, moving to new premises in North 

Laine and expanding their services to cater to a 

broader range of clients. As well as C-type printing, 

Spectrum offers Giclée printing for artists 

and illustrators. “We have an online service for 

both C-type and Giclée orders. It started with 

a few local illustrators and photographers using 

us and now we’re getting more and more – it’s 

fantastic! It’s nice to see such a variety of work.” 

On the photography side of things Spectrum 

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specialise in large-format printing for exhibitions. 

“We’re the print sponsors for FOCUS 

Festival Mumbai, Fotopub in Slovenia – and 

Brighton Photo Biennial, which is coming up 

in October,” Hazel says. “We get to see some 

fascinating work.” 

“And we print the touring exhibition for the 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year,” adds Paul. 

“We produce multiple sets of the images and 

send them off to different countries around 

the world.” But the team are keen not to 

limit their clients to professionals and large 

institutions. “We work with independent 

photographers, artists, illustrators and hobby 

photographers - students as well. People 

sometimes get intimidated because we don’t 

have a shopfront, and coming in and seeing all 

the equipment maybe does seem overwhelming 

– but we’re extremely friendly!” RC 

spectrumphoto.co.uk / 01273 708222 


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THE WAY WE WORK 

This month, Adam Bronkhorst has visited the labs of six chemists at the University of 

Sussex. We asked each of them: ‘which is your favourite element, and why?’ 

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Raysa Khan 

“Ruthenium. It’s a photocatalyst; photochemistry is when you work with the 

effect of light in chemistry – that’s what I’m working on at the moment.”


Professor Wendy Brown 

“Carbon. It’s our model dust grain; we use carbon to simulate the dust grains 

which make the molecules that you find in space.”


Dr Shane Lo Fan Hin 

“Ytterbium. During my PhD I started working with samarium, another lanthanide, and 

for two years nothing worked. Then ytterbium appeared… and light shone.”


Aidan Fisher 

“Cadmium is my favourite element because you can use it to make fluorescent 

nano-crystals. These are important in applications such as biological imaging agents, 

solar technology and new generation displays.”


Dr Samantha Furfari 

“Thallium. It was actually used as a poison, but the reason I like it is when you 

put it into a flame it goes green – that’s where it gets its name from, it’s origin is the 

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1909 at Pressleys 

The finer things... 

When George Harry Pressley 

opened his first watchmaker’s 

and jewellery shop, in Worthing, 

in 1909, he instilled in his family 

a taste for the finer things in life. 

A predilection still in evidence 

five generations later in Jonathan 

Pressley, who not only has the 

family eye for very fine jewellery 

but a taste for fine dining too. So 

much that, late last summer, he 

combined his passions, enlisted 

head chef Jake Northcote-Green, 

and opened 1909 in Pressleys 

elegant East Street store. The 

casual fine-dining-meets-fine-jewellery-meets- 

(newly added)-aperitivo bar continues to dazzle. 

There’s the feel of a private member’s club when 

we ring the bell. We’re greeted and guided past 

gleaming display cases and upstairs to a dining 

room set around an open kitchen. With room for 

around twenty diners it’s intimate without being 

awkward and, as you’d expect from the proprietor, 

every surface is carefully considered and honed 

to perfection. From the marble-topped tables, to 

the bottle-green banquette and the hand-made 

ceramics, to the brushed golden bar where you’ll 

soon be able to linger amongst the jewellery, the 

finish is beguilingly luxe. The menu is every bit as 

carefully considered, a monthly curation of sixteen 

small plates and meticulously sourced organic 

wines. It’s suggested to us that we might like to 

start with three or four dishes but we select six 

then seven then eight. I’ve eaten here before and 

recall how each plate was a delight. A few well 

chosen ingredients, skilfully prepared and allowed 

to shine is a beautiful thing. 

First to the table is pan carasau and labneh: shards 

of the thinnest flat bread with a 

coolest, creamiest cheese. Also 

wafer-thin pickles in tart ponzu. 

Next is maltagliati pasta with 

raw milk Beaufort cheese and 

truffle. ‘Maltagliati’, I learn, 

translates as ‘poorly cut’ and the 

torn edges of the pasta are the 

only rough edges in the place. 

There’s nutty purple broccoli, 

al dente and dressed in a deep, 

umami miso butter; slivers of 

sharp Cox’s apple and crunchy, 

vivid carrots, flecked with black 

sesame; a translucent filet of 

gurnard atop the lightest creamed celeriac and 

skordalia. Each dish is delicious but none more 

so than the ‘baked mids’: cracked potatoes, baked 

soft but with slightly caught, crispy edges, salted 

and infused with tarragon. Simple but sublime. 

We have both the (excellent) cheese dishes: 

Jurançon Bleu with warm, poached quince and 

walnuts, and a delightfully creamy Burwash Rose, 

drizzled with golden, truffle-infused honey. And - 

sated but driven by curiosity - we order desserts; a 

pomegranate doughnut with J Cocoa (like refined 

churros dipped in voodoo-grade chocolate), and a 

baked apple sorbet (an intensely apply frozen fluff 

studded with crisp, popped corn). 

All told, we’ve eaten our way through twelve of 

the sixteen plates on offer, and each is a gem. Such 

an accomplished meal in so refined a setting is a 

rare and delightful thing. Our bill for two (with 

wine for one) is £83.50, which seems a fair price 

for such exceptional craftsmanship. 

Lizzie Lower 

26 East Street, 01273 778674. 

1909brighton.co.uk 

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Photo by Rebecca Cunningham 

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RECIPE 

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‘I goat you babe’ 

The Cocktail Shack’s head mixologist Sergio Jimenez has 

concocted this ‘love potion’ specially for Valentine’s Day… 

This is a milk punch, a classic cocktail 

dating back to the 1600s. Milk punches 

are made using milk that’s clarified, so 

they have the flavour of the milk but not 

the colour. They’re slowly coming back 

into fashion; I’ve been trying out a couple 

of different recipes recently. They’re 

usually made with cows milk but I much 

prefer this version using goats milk. It’s 

much creamier, and it gave me the idea 

for the name. 

To make a punch you use five ingredients: 

alcohol, fruit, tea, citrus and spices. I 

wanted to make something special for 

Valentine’s Day so I researched to see 

which aphrodisiac ingredients I could 

use: the ginseng, the chocolate and the 

pumpkin in the liqueur, the almonds in 

the amaretto - even the goats milk itself is 

aphrodisiac. It’s a strong cocktail, but the 

flavour is very mellow. 

There are a few different methods when 

it comes to milk punches. With some 

recipes you use agar or gelatine to clarify 

the milk; in this recipe it’s the citrus 

which curdles the milk. The cocktail is 

then strained to remove the curds, which 

also takes away the cloudiness, but leaves 

the creamy flavour. 

This recipe makes a big batch. It takes 

quite a long time to make, but the idea is 

that the cocktail can then last for months 

without refrigeration. 

Ingredients: 450ml dark rum, 25g lime 

zest, 3 green cardamom seeds, 450ml 

green ginseng tea, 80ml Mozart Pumpkin 

Spice Chocolate Cream liqueur, 20ml 

amaretto, 20ml crème de figue, 30ml 

orange juice, 215ml whole goats milk. 

Method: Combine the rum, lime zest 

and cardamom seeds in a lidded container 

and leave to rest at room temperature for 

at least 12 hours. Then strain and remove 

the zest and the seeds. 

Pour into a different container the 

ginseng tea, Pumpkin Spice Cream, 

amaretto, crème de figue, orange juice 

and goats milk, and gently whisk. 

Mix the rum mixture and the milk 

mixture together and stir with a spoon. 

Let it sit for at least 30 minutes; if you 

have enough time, refrigerate the mixture 

for 24 hours. 

Pour the punch through a cheesecloth 

or coffee filter to remove any impurities. 

Filter again a second time for best results. 

As a finishing touch, I added a sprinkle of 

edible glitter. Serve in a chilled glass. 

We’ll have this on the menu for 

Valentine’s; the idea is that a bottle will 

contain a sharing serving - enough for 

two. We’re also planning a singles event 

in our second bar – the details will be on 

our website. As told to Rebecca Cunningham 

The Cocktail Shack, 34 Regency Square. 

cocktailshackbrighton.co.uk 

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Pharmacie Coffee Roasters 

Coffee in a cabin (sort of) 

“I’m not sure it’s open…” I say, approaching the 

turquoise-painted garage door tucked away on Cambridge 

Grove. I’ve asked Lizzie (editor) and Gracie (canine 

assistant) to try out Pharmacie Coffee Roasters with me. 

We set off early on a crisp winter morning for the walk 

across town, and we’re all hoping it’s about to end with 

something warming and delicious. But the doors appear 

to be shut. 

I try one of the handles and, thankfully, the door opens. 

The space inside has the feel of a cosy, dimly lit cabin. 

There’s a counter with pastries and cakes and a smiling 

woman stood behind it, who is particularly pleased to 

meet Gracie. We ask for two vegan sausage rolls and 

two flat whites. “We’ve got the fire going in the other 

room,” she says, so we go through and take a seat around 

a makeshift palette table in 

front of the wood burner. 

A few minutes later she 

brings the food through. The coffee is lovely, of course. 

The rolls are delicious: puff pastry filled with vegan 

‘sausage meat’, chestnuts and cranberries. They’re a 

two-handed affair, with extra limbs required to fend off 

Gracie’s attempts to join in. Luckily she’s distracted with 

plenty of attention from her new human friend until we’ve 

finished, and she’s allowed to gobble up the leftovers. 

Feeling warmed up and full up, it seems like it’s time to 

embark on the journey home. The barista puts another 

log on the fire. Maybe we have space for some cake as 

well… RC 

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you with their house blend coffee, but also with 

their deliciously handcrafted cakes, pastries and 

breads that melt in your mouth. They produce a 

lunch menu to tickle your tastebuds with smashed 

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Look out for their charming marketing campaigns 

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a look at our veg box subscriptions or buy all 

local produce as you need online. Fin and Farm is 

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West Hill Tavern 

An independent, familyrun, 

family-friendly local 

pub, perched on the hill just 

two minutes from Brighton 

station. ‘The Westie’ is a 

super cosy pub serving home-cooked traditional 

pub food, a superb Sunday roast, local ales, a gin 

list as long as your arm, gluggable wines, craft 

beers, and a bloody-good-Bloody-Mary. Plus, 

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Terre à Terre 

The local go-to for the most 

creative vegetarian food in 

Brighton, always delivered 

with a cheeky little pun! 

Offering lunch and dinner options from small 

plates and sharing tapas to three-course set 

meals, not forgetting the afternoon-tea menu, 

multi-tiered savoury, sweet and traditional 

delights available from 3-5pm daily. Enjoy one of 

the unique cocktails, or a glass from the organic 

wine list, with a little nibble off the à la carte. 

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The centre of town has seen a wave of new 

openings over the past few weeks, including 

family-run café Dexters on Kensington 

Gardens, serving brunch, lunch and cake daily, 

from 10am till 6pm. Just round the corner (sort 

of) there’s Dough Lover, on Trafalgar Street, 

which has a surprising number of vegan and 

gluten-free choices on the menu, given its name. 

There’s plenty more to come in the not-toodistant 

future, including our 

own branches of burger 

chain Patty & Bun 

(opening on the 13th) 

and The Ivy Brasserie 

(coming this Spring), 

both on Ship Street. 

Be Chocolat on Duke Street are getting in 

the mood for Valentine’s Day with a weekend 

of balloon installations, chocolate tempering 

demonstrations and the chance to pick up a gift 

for that special someone (even if that special 

someone is yourself...) on the 10th and 11th. 

Our pick of the foodie events this month starts 

with a wine tasting at Hove’s Hixon Green, 

hosted by organic and biodynamic winemakers 

Paxton. [Tues 6th, 7pm] On the 15th, there’s 

an anti-Valentine African Supper Club by chef 

Lerato Umah-Shaylor. [leratolovesfood.com] 

The menu is made up of sharing plates and 

canapés. Couples and singles welcome, tickets 

start at £35. Finally on the 23rd, 

the No Kill Grill pitches 

up at The Richmond Bar, 

serving three courses 

of vegetarian/vegan 

street food. Tickets from 

£14.95, via Eventbrite.

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Photo by Adam Bronkhorst, adambronkhorst.com 

Haunted house 

The ghosts of Preston Manor 

Who might I meet at Preston Manor? The White 

Lady, the unhappy spirit of an excommunicated 

nun, a ghostly child on a toy tractor? This house 

comes with a reputation. First built in the 17th 

century, the original manor house has been demolished, 

rebuilt, and undergone major renovations 

over the centuries. The last was in 1905 by Charles 

Stanley Peach, who had previously designed electrical 

sub stations. 

“Somewhat utilitarian,” comments venue officer 

Paula Wrightson, about the exterior, as she greets 

me at the entrance. She’s taking me on a tour of 

the entirely more remarkable interior. We start in 

her splendid office, overlooking the park (originally 

the main guest bedroom, where Princess Beatrice, 

Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter, once slept; the 

Stanford family were highly regarded hosts). 

Paula has worked for the Brighton Royal Pavilion 

and Museums for 27 years. Her association with 

Preston Manor began in 2006, when a decision was 

taken to run ghost tours. This followed interest 

raised by an episode of Living TV’s Most Haunted. 

She’s currently writing a book on the history of the 

Manor’s ghost stories, and tells me she loves finding 

interesting stories about people who lived and 

worked here, as well as meeting their descendants. 

She is an excellent storyteller and tour guide, and 

Preston Manor certainly has atmosphere. The 

lighting is dim, there’s a slightly peculiar aroma, 

and odd noises. All explicable, no doubt. Echoes 

down chimneys, old furniture and floors, damp. But 

even a sceptic like myself wouldn’t want to be here 

at night on my own. As we walk round, she shows 

me the Blue Room, once a bedroom, now a library, 

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where the White Lady is said to have appeared at 

the deathbed of the lady of the house, and the head 

maid’s bedroom, where a guide dog became agitated, 

and a staff member saw a ghost of a woman 

making the bed. She points out the corridor where 

a phantom child has been seen playing. Paula then 

shows me the room where, in November 1896, 

celebrity ‘psychic’ Ada Goodrich Freer ran a séance. 

It was Ada who started the story about a ghost nun 

who had been excommunicated. “If you pay a medium, 

they’ll come up with a good story.” 

That Christmas, the Stanford family were troubled 

by a smell from the drains. After investigation, the 

skeleton of a woman was discovered. But, Paula tells 

me, the son John Benett-Stanford was a notorious 

prankster who liked mucking about with skeletons. 

“I think he might have planted it.” I like Paula’s 

way of weaving sinister tales with pragmatism and 

historical context. My favourite story is about the 

holes in the leather wallpaper. “The twin daughters 

used to throw darts at the monkeys embossed 

in the pattern”. 

Lots of school children go to Preston Manor on 

Victorian-themed trips. It’s well worth a visit, even 

if you don’t believe in ghosts. 

Emma Chaplin 

House opens April. Open all year for group bookings. 

brightonmuseums.org.uk/prestonmanor. Ghost Hunt 

by Psychic Gold Events/Ghost Hunter Tours, Sat 

17th Feb, 8pm, from £21 

Photos by Adam Bronkhorst, adambronkhorst.com 

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Photo by Ed Robinson 

Tara McDonnell 

Your Matchmaker 

Tell us about your job… I’m the founder of the 

dating agency Your Matchmaker. The job involves 

guiding clients through the matchmaking process, 

assessing what exactly they want from a relationship 

and providing potential matches. Each case is 

different, which makes it so interesting. 

How did you get into matchmaking? I spent 

twelve years in Sussex Police, followed by several 

years of studying law and working as a paralegal. I 

was always looking for a way out to start my own 

business, so when I was made redundant from my 

legal job I saw it as an opportunity to do what I 

had always dreamed and create my own dating service. 

The company went live in December 2014. 

What does your job require? It’s a tightly run 

operation. Sheer determination, hard work and 

good communication skills are required to keep 

everything in order. My experience as a police 

officer has given me a gut instinct for people. I 

interview all my clients before taking them on, to 

make sure they are worth my while. If they say 

something during the call that makes me think 

they’re not serious, or that they’re fresh out of a 

long-term relationship, I won’t work with them. 

They need to be ready and willing to find love, 

otherwise it will be a waste of everyone’s time. One 

of our newly married clients told me the reason he 

chose Your Matchmaker was because he knew that 

I wouldn’t put up with any nonsense. 

Who are your clients? Young professionals, in 

their late twenties to early thirties, and people who 

have been previously married or had a partner for 

a considerable amount of time. Our oldest client 

to date was 68 years old. 

How does Your Matchmaker differ to online 

dating? The clients are not in charge of selection, 

we are. We give our clients one potential match at 

a time, and encourage them to go on at least one 

date with them. Feedback is conducted over the 

phone with me and is completely confidential. 

What tips/advice do you give your clients? 

High standards can prevent people from finding a 

match. Sometimes people have an inflated image 

of themselves. It is not about lowering standards, 

but being more open to meeting someone you 

would never have considered before. After all, if 

you really do have a ‘type’, then why aren’t you 

with them? 

What makes a good date? The trick is to go with 

the flow. Looking at phones on dates is a complete 

no-no. Meeting for a drink is always a good option, 

but we’ve also had people go on walks along 

the seafront and attend daytime events. Eating 

out can often be too formal for a first encounter, 

although when it goes particularly well, ‘going for 

drinks’ sometimes turns into dinner… We always 

recommend a second date, since people are generally 

less anxious and more themselves after the first 

meeting. Interview by Saskia Solomon 

yourmatchmaker.co.uk 

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INTERVIEW 

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Photo by James Boyes 

Equality FC 

‘Unlock the Gate’ 

Carole Richmond, marketing manager of Brighton & 

Hove Bus and Coach Co, talks to us about their sponsorship 

of the Lewes FC women’s team, and the Unlock the 

Gate campaign, encouraging more people to come along 

on match days. 

‘I met Viva Lewes editor Alex Leith at the Lewes 

Business and Enterprise Awards, who introduced 

me to Kevin Miller of Lewes FC, with the idea 

that we might like to sponsor the women’s team. 

He was spot on. We’re pleased that we’ve already 

got a great presence in the Lewes community, but 

we’re keen to increase it even more. Lewes FC 

became ‘Equality FC’ by paying their women’s and 

men’s team the same, and that fits so well with the 

Brighton & Hove Bus Company ethos. 

Lewes women play on the same pitch, on the same 

terms, and our company believes in recruiting 

from all walks of life. We have a signature ‘Diversity’ 

bus which we use for Pride and to promote all 

kinds of equality. The wrapping tells people what 

we believe: #moreincommon #diversity #equality. 

It will be going along to the Lewes ‘Unlock the 

Gate’ match on the 25th of February, driven by a 

woman and full of supporters. 

I like Lewes FC, its ability to do things differently 

and make things happen. You can watch a match at 

the Dripping Pan and see the surrounding beauty 

of the Downs. Supporters can take their dogs. It 

feels authentic, open and family friendly. 

I am sporty. I firmly believe if I’d been allowed 

to play football, I’d have been bloody good at it. 

I played competitive hockey in my teens for the 

school and county. My father took my brother to 

football practice and supported him at matches, 

but never came to watch me. 

In terms of getting more support for women in 

football - how many men’s clubs run at a loss? So 

why does the women’s game have to make a profit 

immediately? Why does anything to do with women 

have to be 100% successful? It’s an easy way of 

saying ‘get back in your corner – come back when 

you’ve got it all figured out’, when they don’t have 

it figured out either. 

One barrier has been childcare. A lot of men who 

take part in sport and regularly watch it don’t think 

twice about taking that time. Women are more 

likely to feel guilty. I didn’t re-engage with sport till 

I was in my forties. If we want women regularly taking 

part and watching sport, we need it to be more 

family friendly, perhaps offering a crèche. 

The national women’s cricket team are very good 

and regularly sell out. The rugby team are great 

too. Watching women’s sports means opening 

up your eyes to a good experience and enjoying 

yourself. It isn’t just about superior knowledge and 

analysis. I love watching women’s rugby, and I’ve 

learnt more about the game the more I’ve seen.’ 

Emma Chaplin 

Lewes FC Women v Gillingham, the Dripping Pan, 

Sun 25th Feb, 2pm, £5. lewesfc.com 

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Illustration by Mark Greco (@markgreco) 

WILDLIFE 

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Nicholas Culpeper 

Better living through botany 

Just over 400 years ago, in 1616, a legend was born: a 

rebel who partnered up with Mother Nature to revolutionise 

British medicine. The herbal hero, the botanical 

bad boy, the father of alternative medicine, ladies and 

gentlemen, I give you... Nicholas Culpeper. 

Culpeper did his growing up in Isfield, near Lewes, 

where the country lanes and the starry Sussex skies 

were his classroom and the hedges and the heavens 

taught him botany, astronomy and astrology. And he 

learnt about love, too. In 1634, Culpeper and his secret 

Sussex sweetheart planned a clandestine Lewes wedding 

followed by a hasty elopement to the Netherlands. 

But tragedy struck when his love-struck lady’s carriage 

was struck by a lightning bolt en route to Lewes. She 

died instantly. 

There’s no cure, herbal or otherwise, for a broken 

heart and Culpeper left Sussex and started a new 

life in London. He threw himself into his work as a 

lowly apothecary’s assistant, cataloguing medicinal 

herbs on Threadneedle Street. At this time medicine 

was only practiced by elite physicians. They would 

charge exorbitant prices for their secret remedies and 

would not even demean themselves to talk to patients, 

instead requesting a sample of urine to make their 

diagnosis. Culpeper agreed with them on one thing: 

they were certainly extracting the urine. He believed 

medical treatment should be available to all - not just 

the privileged. 

Setting up his own practice in a poorer part of London, 

Culpeper started treating 40 patients a day with herbal 

cures derived from English plants. Then he dropped 

his botanical bombshell. He published an incredible 

book which instructed people how to pick their own 

remedies, free of charge, from the hedges and meadows. 

The book was The English Physitian (1652, later enlarged 

as The Complete Herbal). His book promoted and 

preserved folk remedies at a time when physicians and 

priests were discrediting village healers and preventing 

them from passing along their traditional knowledge. 

The medical establishment was enraged, they even 

accused Culpeper of practising witchcraft. But his book 

endured. It’s been in continuous print longer than any 

other non-religious English language book, running 

rings round the tales of Tolkien and Rowling. 

Perhaps some of Culpeper’s herbal remedies could 

come in useful for you: wild privet (for headaches), 

blackthorn (for indigestion), rosemary (for flatulence) 

and the juice of ivy berries ‘snuffed up into the nose’ 

(for hangovers). Culpeper also had cures for sore 

breasts, worms, itches in the ‘privy parts’ and bruises. 

Hey – I don’t know what you lot get up to over the 

weekend. So keep your copy of The Complete Herbal to 

hand and raise your Nutribullets and ginseng teas to 

the healing properties of Mother Nature and to four 

centuries of Nicholas Culpeper. 

Michael Blencowe, Sussex Wildlife Trust 

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INTERVIEW 

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Reality check 

The ‘Hallucination Machine’ 

Ever had a hallucination? 

Did you know that you’re 

having one right now? 

Our grip on reality is, 

according to neuroscientists, 

much less tangible than we 

believe. It seems our brain is 

largely guessing what’s going 

on around us, which it does 

by combining input from our 

senses with our expectations 

developed from previous experiences. 

In fact, as University of Sussex neuroscientist 

Professor Anil Seth points out in his 2017 TED 

talk: “It’s only when we agree about our hallucinations 

that we call it reality.” 

Such fascinating mysteries of the mind-brain are 

the focus of research at the university’s Sackler 

Centre for Consciousness Science, of which Seth 

is a director. 

As part of the Brighton Science Festival this 

month, two of the centre’s researchers, Dr David 

Schwartzman and Dr Keisuke Suzuki, will be 

demonstrating research straight out of the lab 

that both confirms and confounds our notions of 

what is – and isn’t – real. 

Being Somebody will showcase interactive virtual 

reality (VR) that explores how our experiences 

of the world are shaped by our bodies and how 

bodily experience itself is actively constructed, 

moment-to-moment, by the brain. For example, 

they will show how easy it is for us to be momentarily 

fooled into believing that a fake limb, or 

even a fake body, could be part of ourselves. 

They will also give visitors a simulated taste of 

the trippy world of visual hallucinations. 

While in normal life the balance between the 

brain’s expectations and sensory input works 

just fine, in some altered states – for example 

brought on through 

psychoactive drugs, or by 

mental disorders such as 

schizophrenia – perceptual 

hallucinations 

can become strange and 

disturbing. 

To explore how and why 

these unusual hallucinations 

occur, Suzuki and 

Schwartzman have combined 

Google’s Deep Dream algorithm, which 

is an artificial neural network that finds and enhances 

patterns in images, together with a virtual 

reality headset with 360-degree panoramic video 

of pre-recorded natural scenes, to create what 

they are calling the ‘Hallucination Machine’. 

The setup simulates the visual hallucinatory 

aspects of a psychedelic trip. Anyone who puts on 

the headset is soon experiencing a weird world in 

which vivid hallucinations of dogs, cars and peacocks 

appear in the sky, on buildings, on humans 

– in fact, all over the panoramic view. 

This is because the system was trained to categorise 

a thousand different types of images. The 

network looks for patterns that might resemble 

a dog within the image – in the same way that 

humans see faces and other images in meaningless 

patterns, such as clouds. 

Suzuki points out: “This is purely an engineering 

system. It’s not really modelling the brain, but 

there are a lot of similarities between the human 

visual system and this neural network.” 

Importantly, the research may help clinicians to 

understand what’s happening in a neurophysiological 

sense during hallucinatory episodes. 

Jacqui Bealing 

Sallis Benney Theatre, 17th February, part of the 

Brighton Science Festival. brightonscience.com 

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ENVIRONMENT 

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Plastic Free Pledge 

The final straw? 

Brighton & Hove is synonymous 

with the sea and the beach. It’s 

our largest area of public realm 

and is integral to our wellbeing 

and economy, and something we 

should be proud of. Every day 

though, five van loads of litter 

are removed from the beach by 

the Council, and much of this is 

plastic. Alongside the Council, 

there is a two-person team in the 

city that is determined to wipe out this blight at 

source: through the Plastic Free Pledge. 

Plastic Free Pledge, started here and now going 

national and international, was conceived by Hovebased 

designer Claire Potter and founded with her 

studio partner, Jake Arney. It has a simple ask of 

businesses and individuals – to stop using single-use 

plastic, and in particular, plastic straws. Across the 

city 68 venues have signed their anti-plastic-straw 

pledge, from independents, to local chains like 

Small Batch Coffee, to nationwide franchises, like 

Jamie’s Italian and Wahaca. Claire and Jake also 

influenced Brighton & Hove City Council to 

unanimously approve motions last year to tackle 

single-use plastics. 

2018 sees the duo broaden the scope of Plastic Free 

Pledge, to include alternatives to the plastic lined 

takeaway coffee cup – those that hit the news in 

January as the ‘Latte Levy’ – and plastic pint glasses, 

and they have some of the larger city events in their 

pledge sights. 

Whilst there is nothing wrong with plastic per se, 

it’s the overuse of plastic and the damage it does to 

our environment that is an issue. Its low production 

cost means that a good deal of plastic – a plastic 

straw for example – is only in use 

for around twenty minutes. 

Claire explains: “one of the 

issues with marine plastic is the 

accumulation of toxins from the 

water that attach themselves to 

plastic over time, which, when 

eaten, ‘bioaccumulate’ up the 

food chain. This is why larger 

fish and cetaceans are dying from 

toxic accumulation, or as seen on 

Blue Planet, whale calves are dying from drinking 

toxic milk from the mother.” 

Council research shows that 8 out of 10 residents 

are fed up with the amount of litter in Brighton 

& Hove and there are numerous ways that we 

can tackle our beach litter problem. Individuals 

and businesses can sign the Plastic Free Pledge 

at plasticfreepledge.com/take-the-pledge and use 

paper, metal or bamboo straws instead. 

The Council’s #StreetsAhead campaign is calling 

on Brighton & Hove residents and visitors alike to 

help stem the flow of litter onto the beach and into 

the sea. It has organised silent disco beach cleans, 

exhibited a giant fish made from the beach litter, 

and has a ‘trash converter’ scheme, where litter is 

traded for treats. The Seafront Team has joined the 

#2minutebeachclean campaign, alongside several 

local businesses, encouraging everyone to spend two 

minutes when they leave the beach to pick up litter. 

Cara Courage 

#StreetsAhead is funded through litter fines, and 

details of upcoming beach cleans can be found by 

following @RecyclingRefuse on Twitter as well as 

#2minutebeachclean, visit beachclean.net and the 

local Surfers Against Sewage, sas.org.uk 

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INSIDE LEFT: KINGS ROAD, 1956 

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Your eye might be immediately attracted in this 

1956 picture to the minimalist Art Deco façade of 

the Palladium Cinema, but the main reason we’ve 

chosen it is because of the unassuming-looking 

chemist’s next door, which played a small part in an 

infamous Brighton murder case. 

This elegant building was on Kings Road; the 

cinema was abandoned in 1956, and the whole block 

demolished in 1963 in order to enable a seafront 

development that didn’t see fruition until 1977. In its 

place today sits the Brutalist-style Brighton Centre. 

First up the cinema, originally opened as a theatre 

in October 1888, with a more ornate Victorian 

frontage, and called the Alhambra. It changed its 

name to the Palladium in 1912, becoming a cinema 

in 1914. After a brief spell as the Odeon from 1935- 

7 (and a second façade designed by Andrew Mather) 

it became the Palladium again in 1939, with yet 

another facelift. The last film shown there was a rerun 

of the comedy, Genevieve, featuring the London- 

Brighton classic car rally. Now that’s entertainment. 

The chemist stayed open for a bit, and as James 

Gray mentions in his notes (this picture is from his 

archives and comes courtesy of the Regency Society) 

by 1956 the space had housed a chemist continuously 

for nearly 100 years. The first listed in the directories, 

in 1859, is a Mr Julius V Schweitzer. Schweitzer 

was an orthodox physician from Germany who 

converted to homeopathy and moved to Brighton 

– then as now a centre for non-traditional medicine 

– to set up a clinic and dispensing chemist. 

It was Schweitzer who got caught up in one of 

Brighton’s most famous crime cases, the so-called 

‘Chocolate Cream Murder’ in which Christina 

Edmunds poisoned a number of people in 1871 by 

lacing chocolates bought at Maynards Confectioner’s 

in East Street with strychnine, and returning 

them to the shop’s shelves. A child of four – Sydney 

Albert Barker – died as a result of her nefarious 

actions. Edmunds went to Schweitzer’s with a batch 

of chocolates she had poisoned, for analysis, in order 

to try to blame John Maynard for the poisonings. 

Edmunds was found guilty at a well documented 

trial which started in Lewes then got moved to the 

Old Bailey: she died in 1907 in Broadmoor Criminal 

Lunatic Asylum. 

Quite a historic space, then: the Brighton Centre 

has itself hosted countless big-name bands: it will 

go down in posterity as the venue for Bing Crosby’s 

final concert in 1977, and The Jam’s last hurrah in 

1982 (see end of para 3). Alex Leith 

Many thanks to the Regency Society for the use of 

this picture: you can see the whole of the James Gray 

Archive at regencysociety-jamesgray.com 

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