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rhythm and booze Passionate About Proper Pubs - Issue 19 - May/June 2013 Performance poet Attila the Stockbroker visited Castor Ales (castorales.co.uk) during a trip to Peterborough. The poet was in the area to watch his team, Brighton & Hove Albion, play at London Road. Due to preparations for a late booking in Durham the following day, Attila was unable to visit as many of Peterborough’s pubs as he hoped. Following the match, in which Posh drew 0-0, Attila recorded a guest spot for the Standing on the Glebe podcast at the Swiss Cottage, before turning in for a 6am start. nAttila returns to the area on 23 August for the Blythe Power Ashes (blythpower.co.uk/ashes) music festival at The Plough, Farcet Fen. No Time To Be Hun-over Attila the Stockbroker with Castor Ales’ Duncan Vessey during the poet’s visit to the brewery. Photograph courtesy of the Castor & Ailsworth Community Page.

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Page 1: Rhythm & Booze - Issue 19

rhythm and boozePassionate About Proper Pubs - Issue 19 - May/June 2013

Performance poet Attila the

Stockbroker visited Castor

Ales (castorales.co.uk) during

a trip to Peterborough. The

poet was in the area to watch

his team, Brighton & Hove

Albion, play at London Road.

Due to preparations for a

late booking in Durham the

following day, Attila was

unable to visit as many of

Peterborough’s pubs as he

hoped. Following the match,

in which Posh drew 0-0, Attila

recorded a guest spot for the

Standing on the Glebe podcast

at the Swiss Cottage, before

turning in for a 6am start.

nAttila returns to the area on 23 August for the

Blythe Power Ashes

(blythpower.co.uk/ashes)

music festival at The Plough,

Farcet Fen.

N o Tim e To Be Hun-over

Attila the Stockbroker with Castor Ales’ Duncan Vessey during the poet’s visit to the brewery.

Photograph courtesy of the Castor & Ailsworth Community Page.

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Out Now

PMT / The DestructorsSous Les Paves La Plage

The ‘Noisy punk birdsfrom Norwich’ join forceswith The Destructors forthis eight-track split EP.Alongside a reworking ofPMT’s Drama Queen isThe Destructor’s long-lostPenguin War Blues.

“The insanely prolific Destructors

punk-as-fuck Crass meets Stiff

Little Fingers meets Motorhead

inspired efforts here will cause you

to fling yourselves across the room!

A great record!”

- Big Takeover Magazine

Battle of the Sexes

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There can’t be many of

us who didn’t as a child

empty the barrel of a ball-

point pen and then proceed

to blow some ammunition

or other through it. Now’s

the time to restart practicing

those skills as the Pea

Shooting Championship is

coming up at Witcham,

between Chatteris and Ely on

the A142.

The Championships started

in 1971 and over the years

have attracted international

entrants (thanks to the

American service personnel

at nearby RAF bases). The

event is held on the second

Saturday in July, so this year

it is on 13 July.

The target (12 feet

away for adults,

closer in the junior

categories)

consists of three rings of

putty or some similar

material, hitting the outer

ring with your pea scores

one point, the middle ring

three points and the inner

most circle scores five points.

The top 16 scoring

competitors (eight in the

ladies and junior categories,

top four in the team

competition) then move on to

the knockout rounds. You can

use your own peashooter as

long as it is no more than 12

inches in length (sights are

allowed, but no laser pointers

in the junior categories).

However, you can only use

the five peas

supplied by

the

organisers. Entry to the

competition costs £2 for

adults, £6 for teams of

four participants.

Registration starts at 12

noon on the village green

and the competition starts

about 1pm, so perhaps some

of you might like to think

about entering. Full details

can be found on the village

website at witcham.org.uk or

by sending an email to

[email protected]

Last year I mentioned a

Gaming Weekend (focusing

on the Pathfinder RPG) at

The Plough in Farcet Fen,

well, it’s back again and

this year to be held over the

weekend of 7-9 June. For

full details go to

www.crispycon.co.uk

Also last summer I mentioned

the annual kite-flying day at

Ferry Meadows organised by

the Ouse Valley Kite Flyers.

This year’s is also on

Sunday 9 June and for

details go to

www.gokf.co.uk

The Surrealist Sportsman’s Club

In this issue, David ‘Dai’Roll takes the peas.

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749 Lincoln Rd, New England PE1 3HD

www.thecrownonline.co.uk

Tel: 0843 523 5181

4 Real Ales and Cider~

Log Fire Every Evening~

Great Music Every Day~

Pool Table & Dart Board~

Whisky Rack~

Lagers - Bitters - Ciders~

Bottled Real Ales~

Choice of 9 Wines~

Covered Heated Smoking Patio~

Free Parking~

Hot Drinks – Costa Coffee& Twinings Tea

~Big Screens - Live Sports

~Bar Food & Snacks

~Free Function Room

OPENING TIMESMonday - Thursday 12 - 3pm & 5 - 11pm

Friday - Sunday 12 - 11pm

FA CUP FINALJoin us on 11 May forFootball, Food and

Fosters for £1

WeeklyMondays – Free Pool

Tuesdays – Food NightThursdays – Twisted Tunes

Fridays – LIVE NIGHTSaturdays – Party Night

Sundays – Free Pub Games8pm Free Pub Quiz

Check page 10 for live music

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Pub ScrawlCongratulations to Leanne

Moden who won the post of

Fenland Poet Laureate at the

final held in Wisbech on 1

March. The standard of the

finalists was all very high,

making it the best one of

these events I’ve seen in a

long time. I’m glad I hadn’t

been asked to be a judge. You

might have seen Leanne at

the Verbal Remedies gig at

the We Love Words festival

last September.

The subject of this year’s

John Clare Cottage poetry

competition is ‘Landscape’.

Poems can be up to 20 lines

long, the deadline is

Wednesday 31 July and the

entry fee (for the adult

competition, younger age

groups are free) is £4.

For full details go to

www.clarecottage.org

On Saturday 11 May

Peterborough Central Library

is hosting afternoon tea with

three top authors from

publisher Faber. Marcel

Theroux, Susie Steiner and

Nadeem Aslam will be

presenting this panel event, so

come along and hear a group

of writers talking about their

novels, and be inspired to try

something different. The talk

is from 2pm in the John Clare

Theatre at Peterborough

Central Library and tickets

are only £3 (£2 concessions)

available from any

Peterborough Library

or Waterstones.

It’s not often in this column

that I get to mention a talk at

the Peterborough Theological

Society but on Wednesday 29

May their guest speaker will

be the Rev Dr Malcolm Guite,

Chaplain of Girton College in

Cambridge and a darn fine

poet in his own right. He will

be speaking on Poetry and

Incarnation at The Friends’

Meeting House, Thorpe Road

(just over the Crescent

Bridge) and the talk starts at

7.30pm. Admission is £3

and for further details either

ring (01733) 355300 or email

jonathan.baker@peterborough-

cathedral.org.uk

Welney Wetland Trust at

Hundred Foot Bank, Welney

near Wisbech PE14 9TN

will be hosting a launch for

a poetry collection of work

inspired by the fens in June.

For full details go to the

Trust’s website at wwt.org.uk

I was recently in the

Palmerston Arms on Oundle

Road and I saw that they had

a reading group meet there.

For details I advise you pop

in and see what’s on the

blackboard (and have a drink).

If people want to let me know

about other book groups that

meet in pubs, I think the

Coalheaver’s Arms, the

Fenman and the Ostrich host

such evenings, email me at

[email protected]

This column marks three

years of writing for Rhythm

and Booze and I wondered if

there were anything you folks

wanted me to change about it.

Email your suggestions to

[email protected]

A track by Cardinal Cox’s

band from the late-80s/

early-90s, the Sonic Energy

Authority, is included on This

is Peterborough Goes Forth

from Rowdy Farrago records.

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The Cardinal’s Calendar 8 May/12 June – Pint of Poetry, Dash of Drama @ Charter’s

The evening now starts at 8pm, be early if you want to read.

7 May/4 June – Poets United meet at the PCVS building on

Lincoln Road (roughly opposite Geneva Bar) For full details

ring Viv on 01733 340560.

29 May/26 June – Stamford’s Pint of Poetry takes place from

8pm at the cellar bar at the Arts Centre on St Mary’s Street.

6-7 July – The 8th T.S. Eliot Festival at Little Gidding. For

details go to eliotsociety.org.uk

12-14 July – John Clare Festival, Helpston, Peterborough.

For full details go to the website of the John Clare Society at

johnclaresociety.blogspot.co.uk

Leanne Moden, the new

Fenland Poet Laureate.

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The extended weekend that

accompanies the May Day

bank holiday sees two small

but perfectly formed beer

festivals in the east of the

City. ‘Fortress Fengate’,

home of Peterborough

RUFC (www.prufc.com),

hosts its 8th Annual Beer

Festival from 3-5 May.

Billed as three days of

food, fun and games,

there’s live music on

Friday and Saturday night

and a veterans’ rugby match

on Saturday.

Over the river in

Stanground, The Woolpack

enjoys its Spring Beer

Festival between 3 and 6

May. Following on from

last year, when the pub

celebrated beers from

breweries in the south-west,

this year’s event features a

distinctly Yorkshire flavour.

On top of the pub’s home

cooked menu, there will be

a barbecue with live music –

provided by Ian Graham

and Kat Moore at 9pm on

Saturday 4 May, and Joe

Solo from 4pm on Sunday

5 May.

Knobworth – in aid of

Prostate Cancer UK –

returns to the Angel Inn

(angelinnyarwell.com),

Yarwell on 4 and 5 May.

Located on the border

between Cambridgeshire

and Northamptonshire, the

village even has it’s own

railway station. Operated by

the Nene Valley Railway

(www.nvr.org.uk), it’s

perfect for visitors during

the daytime (the last train

back is at 16.05) and will be

one of the last times Thomas

is in steam before his ten-

year overhaul.

The following Wednesday

(8 May) is the 7th Annual

Castor & Ailsworth Beer

Festival. Held at the

Prince of Wales Feathers

(princeofwalesfeathers.co.uk),

it runs until 13 May and on

top of the 30 Real Ales

(some of which come from

the village’s own brewery),

ciders and perries, is a

Rhythm, Booze and Barbecues

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programme of live music

from New Generation Crash

and Burn (9 May), the

Definitely Maybes (10 May)

and Dead Rabbits (11 May).

The Crown, Lincoln Road

(thecrownonline.co.uk) is

running two events with a

difference on both Bank

Holiday weekends. Its Super

Cider Weekend takes place

between 4 and 6 May,

offering at least 12 different

ciders, while 25 to 27 May

is the Bonkers Bottled Beer

Weekend, which offers at

least 40 different bottled

beers. Both weekends will

feature live music (check

the listings page for more),

food and Beat The Landlord,

your chance to win a drink.

The Dragon at Werrington

is holding a Charity Beer

Festival – raising funds for

the Respiratory Sleep Study

Unit at Papworth Hospital –

during the late May Bank

Holiday Weekend. Running

from Friday 24 until

Monday 27 May, 18 real

ales will be on offer,

along with hot food and

live music.

The Welland Valley

Beer Festival, which runs

between 7 and 9 June, is a

celebration of pubs as much

as it is beer. Taking place at

10 of the region’s pubs, an

estimated 250 beers will be

available over the weekend,

along with food and live

entertainment. On Saturday

8 June vintage buses will be

operating a shuttle service

between the pubs. A two-

way route runs from

Market Harborough to

Rockingham Crossroads,

while a circular route goes

between Gretton Seaton

and Lyddington. For further

information, including

bands, menus and bus

timetables, visit

wellandvalleybeerfestival.co.uk

nIf you’ve got a beer festival at your pub in

July and August, send

all details by email to

[email protected]

by Friday 7 June.

Rhythm, Booze and Barbecues

From left to right: At last year’s festival, drinkers at The Woolpack

in Stanground were able to enjoy beers from the southwest. Pogues’

tribute band The Dead Rabbits are appearing at The Prince of Wales

Feathers, Castor. More than £1,600 was raised at last year’s Knobworth

at The Angel Inn, Yarwell.

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Hand & Heart12 Highbury Street. Peterborough PE1 3BE

01733 564653

A traditional back-street pub withup to six real ales at any time

nBeer garden and stage for live music

nTraditional pub games

nTraditional cider and perry available

nCAMRA Cambridgeshire Pub of the Year 2010

nCAMRA Gold Award Winner 2010

nLocAle Accredited

nListed in the CAMRA 2012 Good Beer Guide

nCheck our Facebook page ‘Friends of the Hand & Heart’for updates on beer festivals and live music

Prince of Wales FeathersPeterborough Road, Castor

Peterborough PE5 7ALwww.princeofwalesfeathers.co.uk

01733 380222

7th ANNUALCASTOR &

AILSWORTHBEER FESTIVAL

8th-13th May

The Brewery Tap for Castor Ales

30 Real AlesCiders and Perries

'Live Music with Pogues& Oasis Tribute Bands'

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New England

By Chris Porsz

* Available locally and from

www.chrisporsz.com

In the late-70s and early-80s,

when the most ambitious

plans to turn Peterborough

into a new town were taking

shape, amateur photographer

Chris Porsz would tramp the

city’s streets. Armed with –

at first – a Kodak Instamatic,

he used his film sparingly to

capture all aspects of human

life at work, rest and play.

As fatherhood took hold, his

hobby was sidelined until

almost 30 years later when

he decided to send a couple of

photos to the editor of the ET.

These visual time capsules

gathered so much interest that

he was given a weekly column

– The Paramedic Paparazzo,

a nod to his day job – and

now the owner of a digital

camera, and no longer

encumbered by the expense

of roll film, returned to the

streets both at home and

abroad. This book collects

almost 150 of those early

photographs capturing a city

in transition, not to mention

an assortment of hairstyles

and fashion choices.

Pennyless

Tales From the Tulgey Wood

www.pennyless-music.co.uk

Opening with a cover of

Donovan’s Jabberwocky,

the Lewis Carroll poem that

gives the CD its name, this

ten-track album of new

material and rearrangements

of traditional pieces offers a

new slant on folk music.

Despite the jigs and reels

(Matterhornpipe), occasional

tweeness (Tell It To The Bees)

and a plethora of instruments

such as a melodica, cajon and

djembe, the Neil Young-esque

Way Over Yonder and the

electric guitar threaded

Winter Is Gone and The

Caretaker make this an album

far removed from big beards

and knitting your own cider

as possible.

Much of this is down to the

varied origins of the three

band members; guitarist

Les Woods has form in a

collection of blues bands,

violinist Penny Stevens is

classically trained and,

despite a synthpop past,

Graham Dale is responsible

for many of the more unusual

instruments. Wood’s

world-weary voice contrasts

nicely with Stevens’ ethereal

vocals and given the variety

of influences, this is one of

the few times that an album

can be described as ‘a mixed

bag’ in a nice way.

Chas & Dave

@ Stamford Corn Exchange,

7 March 2013

When Dave Peacock

announced his retirement in

2009, many thought that it

was game over for Chas &

Dave. But like many retirees,

Dave decided to do something

to stave off the boredom.

Instead of going part-time at

B&Q, he reunited with Chas

Hodges for some – if the gig

schedule’s anything to go by –

almost full-time R&B.

Sadly poor-visibility on the

A1 meant that I missed the

first half, their old pub set

which closed with 1979’s

Gertcha but was in time for

hour-long second half. All

the favourites were there

including Margate, Rabbit,

The Sideboard Song and

Snooker Loopy, which was

followed by last year’s Got

My Tickets for the Darts.

Written, like Snooker

Loopy, was written at the

behest of sports promoter

Barry Hearn, its easy to pick

up chorus, this new track

fitted in nicely with the rest

of the set, which closed with

Ain’t No Pleasing You. A

reprise of The Sideboard

Song for the encore

persuaded much of the

crowd to prise themselves

from their seats and regain

their circulation with a bit of

a dance at the front.

R E V I E W S

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LISTINGSThe Crown

749 Lincoln Road

Peterborough

PE1 3HD

0843 523 5181

May

03 - Psych O Bombs (9pm)

04 - Party Night (7pm)

05 - Willow Festival Acoustic

Showcase (3pm)

10 - The Blues Volcano (9pm)

11 - FA Cup Final Party

17 - Zeb Rootz (9pm)

19 - Willow Festival Acoustic

Showcase (3pm)

24 - Uncertain Midnight (9pm)

25 - Uncertain Midnight (9pm)

26 - Crown Comedy Club (8pm)

27 - Quick Pub Quiz (8pm)

31 - Biggsy (9pm)

June

02 - Willow Festival Acoustic

Showcase (3pm)

07 - Open Mic Night (3pm)

14 - Tom Wright (9pm)

16 - Willow Festival Acoustic

Showcase (3pm)

21 - James Edmonds (9pm)

28 - Rockers (9pm)

30 - Willow Festival Acoustic

Showcase (3pm)

The Hand & Heart

12 Highbury Street

Peterborough

PE1 3BE

01733 564653

May

02 - Open Mic Night

16 - Captain Backwash &

the Barley Boys and

Girl Rafter Raisers

30 - Cheese Club

June

06 - Open Mic Night

20 - Captain Backwash &

the Barley Boys and

Girl Rafter Raisers

27 - Cheese Club

The Ostrich Inn

17 North Street

Peterborough

PE1 2RA

01733 746370

May

03 - Little Dave

04 - The Wash

10 - Al Chapman

11 - The Limit

18 - Grumpy Old Men

24 - Faster Mutley

25 - Pennyless

26 - Charity Day (Bands TBC)

June

01 - The Vintage Stuff

08 - The Influence

14 - Psych O bombs

15 - The Mistreated

22 - Frankly My Dear

28 - The Kurmújun

29 - Skulduggery

The Palmerston Arms

82 Oundle Road

Peterborough

PE2 9PA

01733 565865

June

09 – Joe Solo (3pm)

15 – Be Bop A Lulas

20 – The Ash Mandrake Act

The Prince of Wales Feathers

38 Peterborough Road

Castor

Peterborough

PE5 7AL

01733 380222

May

04 - The Overdubs

09 - New Generation Crash

and Burn

10 - Definitely Maybes

11 - The Dead Rabbits

The Woolpack

29 North Street

Stanground

Peterborough

PE2 8HR

01733 753544

May

04 - Ian Graham & Kat Moore

05 - Joe Solo (4pm)

All listings given in good faith,

Rhythm & Booze cannot be held

responsible for any discrepancy.

All events are listed free of

charge, to ensure inclusion in

the July/August issue, or have

any other news included in the

magazine, please email

[email protected] before

7 June 2013.

Entry cannot be

guaranteed for late submissions.

Rhythm & Booze, Issue 19 - May/June 2013. All written material, unless otherwise stated, © Simon Stabler

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The Palmerston Arms82 Oundle Road, Peterborough

PE2 9PA Tel: 01733 565865

Vinyl Night(24th May, 21st June)

Bring your favourite record along.

Philosophy Night(Date TBC via Facebook)

Share ideas about life's big questions ina friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

Lazy SundaysEnjoy Peterborough’s finest acoustic

acts, every Sunday from 3pm.

Every Sunday QuizFree Buffet. Cash Prizes. Win a

weekend in Norfolk. Starts at 7.30pm.

For more live music and events,please see our Facebook page

O p e n i n g T i m e s : Monday - Thursday 15.00 - 23.00

Friday and Saturday 12.00 - 00.00 Sunday 12.00 - 23.30

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n Open all day, every day

n Up to four real ales available

n Food served Tuesday to Sunday lunchtimesand Monday to Saturday evenings

n Quiz on Sunday evenings with cash prizes

The WoolpackNorth Street, Stanground,

Peterborough PE2 8JF (01733) 753544

Stanground's Best Kept Secret- A 15 minute walk from the centre of town

Spring Beer Festival3-6 May

Real ales from Yorkshire,

barbecue and live music from:

Saturday 4 May - Ian Graham &

Kat Moore (9pm)

Sunday 5 May - Joe Solo (4pm)