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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF>HANNAH LIVINGSTON| [email protected] EVENT EDITOR>GRACE SIMPSON| [email protected]
DEPUTY EVENT EDITOR>DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN
[email protected]|FASHION EDITOR>KAT JONES
FASHION WRITERS>KAT JONES, GRACE SIMPSON
[email protected]|ARTS EDITORS>FIONA HOWARD & KIRSTEN PETER
ARTS WRITERS>GREG MANN, CARMINA MASOLINER-MARLOW, KIRSTEN PETER, LAURA RIGGS, SUZE WOOD
[email protected]|CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR>STEPHANIE CROSS
CREATIVE WRITERS>SIMON COX, CARL SILVERSTONE, ASHRAF ZIDAN
[email protected]|TELEVISION EDITOR>JOSH BUTLER
TELEVISION WRITERS>MICHA BUTLER, ELLA FAIRHURST, REBECCA HARRINGTON, LINDSAY HARRIS, NATALIE STEPHENSON, DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN, CAROLINE WALKER
[email protected]|WIRED EDITOR>WILLIAM MORAN
WIRED WRITERS>LOCHLAINN COYNE, KATHRYN HEUSTON, VAUGHN HIGHFIELD, RICHARD JOSLIN, WILLIAM MORAN, GRACE SIMPSON
concrete.fi [email protected]|FILM EDITORS>ELIZABETH POOLE & ADAM SCALES
FILM WRITERS>MICHAEL BLUNT, GEMMA BOYLE, PAUL COOK, RACHEL COXON, SARAH HEMSTED, JOSEPHINE LISTER, MICHAEL LOVELOCK, STEPH MCKENNA, LUKE NASH, DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN, BERT
WARDLOW, CATHERINE WATTS
[email protected]|MUSIC EDITORS>PAUL COOK & STEPH MCKENNA
MUSIC WRITERS>MICHAEL BOND, MICHAEL BLUNT, KIERAN CORDERY, HAZY HALE, KATE HINKSMAN, JACK LOUGHRAN, TOM MCINNESCHRISTOPHER MILLS, HELEN THOMAS, ALEX THROSSELL,
DUNCAN VICAT-BROWN
[email protected]|CANVAS EDITOR>HAZEL COMPTON
[email protected]|VENUE EDITOR>HELEN THOMAS
[email protected]|COMPETITIONS EDITOR>WILL DONOVAN
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THIS IS THE NEWSTelevision never fails to excite reaction and discussion, this week The Events writers express some of their more controversial views about whats been on the box of late...
Friends has been - without a doubt - one of the most dominant family TV shows of the last two decades, which explains why the announcement of its disappearance from our screens was met with a near-riotous response earlier this week. & of every other popular TV show, with many being deemed as the new Friends: How I Met Your Mother, Will & Grace, among others. Yet one cannot help but compare these shows to Friends, and come to the conclusion that they lack the sparkle and popularity that it had at its peak.
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six characters, who had become like family members. Many watch the repeats, even if they be popularly screened. However, since Channel to free up space for new shows, were sure we wont be the only ones to think of this as the end of an era.
So, while daily catch-ups with Friends can be those six familiar faces will make a return to our screens... Friends: The Movie anyone?
Rebecca Harrington
FRIENDS>ILL BE THERE FOR YOU?
dFive Days proves as entertaining comes screeching to an agonising halt, leaving the passengers dwelling on their unfortunate
Happily this also leads to light-hearted moments of banter, such as the police-womans mother constantly complaining, Clerks-style, Updates on the baby also provide some much have to be confronted by the protagonist. It is the performance of David Morrissey, who leads
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W there are bouts of verbal frenzy as the anxiety hands despite protests of, where do you think youre going? The hammering on the drivers door causes further alarm (as if his stress levels werent high enough already) but luckily there recalls the terrible moment he saw a body on the tracks to PC Franklin.
Five Days is a clever intertwining of the intensity that will leave you gripped - at least for the rest of the week.
Ella Fairhurst
FIVE DAYS>RUNNING LIKE CLOCKWORK Who says cartoons are for kids? On American
E the Adult Swim channel raises its ugly, sweary, violent head. Its depraved, its twisted, its E^&t,are some of the best shows:
ROBOT CHICKENYou may well have heard of this one, thanks to ^'successful Star Wars parodies. Its basically a lightning fast, pop-culture based sketch reel, with all sketches animated in charmingly few seconds.
Although fairly hit and miss, there are more than enough classic sketches, such as the Gummy Bear Trap, Mortal Kombat Zand Mr T and the Foo Fighters &s.
TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB!Lets get one thing straight: either youll love this more than breathing, or youll have literally no idea whats going on.
KSwim, Awesome Show is made up of sketches, , : Z dubious health advice, inappropriate childrens dance workouts, and Tim sporadically turning
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AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCEFollowing the adventures of a Machiavellian chip box, a sociopathic drink cup and a meatwad, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is Adult Swims second most widely known show. Although a great ensemble piece, this shows secret weapon is neighbour Carl - the episode in which he is repeatedly raped by a dog cloned from a banana is hysterical.
SUPERJAIL!Seemingly the brainchild of a crazed bulldog straining on a leash which has been fed nothing but hallucinogenics for several days, Superjail! is a sensory overload. Each episode follows The Warden - a cross between Willy Wonka D^ madcap humour, psychedelic imagery and ^ each episode ends with a surreal blood-bath that makes South Park look like Disney.
Duncan Vicat Brown
ADULT SWIM
Heroes has used up a lot of story lines: the past, the future, family reunions, family unity, families at war, and the simultaneous loss of t Perhaps its not Earth that they should be on. K dimension perhaps?
world to be explained and explored, the heroes circumstances would be fresh and new, and they would have new friends to make, and new enemies, too.
The show normally works best if theyre outnumbered - freaks and underdogs - so they work as a team. The new dimension could be a
place where powers are natural and the norm, and much more advanced than our heroes already have. As the natural world has not featured highly so far, super-powers could be so commonplace that animals have them too. Our E have humans that phase into animals, but that might be a bit too Twilight/True Blood.
ddimension would be available to the heroes. tectonic plates opening a portal could be acceptable. This new chapter could add some new faces and new life to the show. We might even lose some dull characters who want to stay in the alternate dimension.
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Diaries Being Human are all regulars
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You lurk in the shadows, watching your prey whilst they are blissfully unaware of your presence in the room. You move from wall to wall, scrambling from surface to surface to stalk you are directly above them. Then you pounce, grab them from behind and turn them round so they can see what you are, a look of pure suddenly your tail whips around and stabs them through the eye with a bloodcurdling scream you can choose to either run away or feast upon their brain. This is the life of H.R. Geigers Alien, and Aliens vs. Predator recreates the experience faithfully.
Kuniverse under the guise of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Rebellion (the developer), quickly changed its mind and produced an update of its classic Aliens Versus Predator franchise. Split into three separate campaigns, one for each species, a survival mode and an online play mode, where the longevity and life of this game ^mode is a riot and great fun if you want to see your friends squirm with fear. The premise is a simple one; survive waves of Aliens and then eventually Predators. Dropped into an arena D the arena) and a couple of weapons, only your of the single player campaign can match the genuine tension and fear on display whilst playing.
As the single player campaigns go the Dof the three, as it has had the most work focused
on it and it contains the core storyline for what has taken place on the research colony. That does not mean to say the other two campaigns are sub-par, however.
Dgood job of making players feel helpless against the onslaught of Aliens and Predators that you come across, as all players have to defend themselves with is a handful of weapons, W Z enemies in the dark. Story-wise, its the usual on the planet that lead to xenomorph aliens being let loose in the colony. The campaign plays out much like a survival horror shooter, almost like F.E.A.R., due to the fact that there is a persistent threat of encountering an Alien at any point. To raise that psychological tension,
becomes increasingly high pitched and faster as an enemy approaches.
The Alien and Predator campaigns, however, feel like they have been stapled onto the side of the game, both of them bringing a much more stealthy approach to the game. Playing as an Alien, players can climb walls and traverse crosshair indicates whether the Alien is in the cover of darkness and which way the ground is , likely that players will become disorientated. The Predator is much more bulky than both the Dare key when playing with him. Luring enemies away from each other and then striking with Both species have the use of a heavy and dpredator also has its signature weapons at its disposal, such as the spear, cloaking, proximity mines and the shoulder mounted cannon. No
for the Aliens and Predator may be, they do recreate the experience faithfully.
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h experience the online mode as on the PS3 it is , Wy/buying and playing this excellent game, its worth considering what you want from it. The WW^version, with improved visuals and a decent online mode. Having said that, the PS3 does run / on it is bloody good fun. Remember, youre not in space, so everybody can hear you scream.
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LIVING IN HARMONYI am the same as you. I eat, I sleep, I smile, I cry. And we both love. We both can feel the crispy silk of the grass underneath and between our t mugs. You know the voice of your best friend as well as I know mine. You can visualise the image of your home clearly, as can I.
z z Ive seen you all together, in the park on the / billowing and milk-tooth smile aglow. Its easy your central-heated, plush kitchen. Your loving, benevolent mother will place a plate of hot, home-baked pride before you, and you will eat become so accustomed to. They are like the background music of the radiator.
I dont have a family. I did, but we declared ourselves before things got too bad, we thought / / my own life, so I was given independence. I they had forced this upon me. My parents had swallowed it hard and I understand why now, because with this independence, Ive lost my unity; Im one of many forced to learn to make our own dinner, when I can manage to gather enough tokens to trade for basic ingredients. ^ / t gruel granules named so in a cleverly marketed ploy.
t /^ dishes all arcing like rainbows into the recycled /rainbow. Its supposed to calm all doubt that its nothing but healthy. Its ironically telling us that /name suggests a trust in its contents to provide us with such fundamental sustenance to keep us living. Its a pity it tastes of bile.
Would you trade it for the love-spread feast , /they connect into the wall. A conveyer-belt
for our restricted choice of supplements. All beginning of the supermarket, divided from the rest of the cornucopia of food you can amble through. You got to choose what you fancied you could also choose from the grey porridge t /
I had sat looking out of my bird pooh and upon the lush emerald of grass, and I saw you, D into your mouth. You knew you didnt have to eat such a delight. I used to love chocolate, but ^I looked down at you with self-pity and jealousy as I spooned the granules into my mouth. I was /dribble down my chin back into my woeful , to override my archaic ideas of pride and self-
^ government got tougher. As people fell to seeking allowance, we were told to work on public projects, including building tower blocks of prison-like cubicles. One bed, a cracked sink, toilet that would be apt to clog with anything more than two-ply paper. We ignorantly built these space-conserving shelters with no and solar power, which meant those blocks only
got enough electricity to keep a low-energy for a few hours, and that is on a good day.
Then, those who had declared themselves unemployed were forced to sell their homes,
My mother and father walked through the same one, hand in hand. They were reassuring one another and I tried to follow them, but one haircut jiggling, called me back. She directed and pushed me to walk through the doorframe /^/for my mother, and she came back for me.
When I lay my head down on my stoic bed at night, my nightmares are of the way my back to tenderly imprint her lips to my cheek / felt her lips kiss me, but I have nightmares that ,voice had made it sound like she knew what was happening as she smiled at me, before walking to her, without my father, leaving me to step
through the chipped frame of that second door. I split mother from father and they never were reunited.
/ , government funded help for struggling parents for so long, he was used to strangers picking him up and carrying him away from mothers really did think he was going to go play.
Families were split up, as it was cheaper to
feed children en mass, rearing each individual Ironic that we have lowered ourselves to /keeps the peace; no revolts can happen with one man alone if he has no following.
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tdwas you. You were clever enough to capitalise on our capitals downfall. Illegal immigrants became the nouveau rich as the pound fell against every other currency. You brought our homes that wed built so lusciously, brought country to your tastes and brought us out of pocket.
With fences erected and parameters divided, we became the illegal aliens in our own land, unable to enjoy the lavishness of our countryside for the cost of travelling around. Whilst you freely pollute our air with cars and the land, we can only walk the paths we are assigned to be on.
Again, the government eased us into this used to be all for it; taking my brother, her every weekend, talking themselves of the way they were going to join yoga classes and pilates, aerobics and dancing.
They never did, but the walks are now a memory I relish for their social and unneeded E slog miles to get what we need to survive. We cannot walk anywhere; youve generously given us our own space, but you constrict us in case You dont want us destroying the landscape we
I watch you from my window in envy all day, but you dont care for the rough-edged, over the fence. You would back away in fear / / dgovernment has eliminated obesity in us, purely because we cant get enough to binge upon
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I wrote this when thinking of the recession, yet I do not believe in its views nor its portrayal of Britain. This is fiction, intended to make you read, not make you riot. Thank you, and enjoy.
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