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B U M FA U B S U M A G A Z I N E

no. 4

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EMILIA COCKING

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This is the fourth issue of Bumf,

here to entertain through the coming

months. As you can see, like an ugly

celebrity, we have had a facelift and

a boob job to make sure that we

still stimulate your eyes but more

importantly your brain.

This issue will provide you with

some heart-felt imagery, intellectually

challenging articles and a bloody good

read. As winter is rolling in BUMF has

rolled out. Forget your warm coats and

stupid scarves; warm your cockles on

the pure fiery genius printed onto this

paper. Or burn the paper to keep warm

EDITOR’S NOTEif you’re strapped for cash, which we

know you are.

And because we know you are

students or be it misguided adults

picking up trendy magazines from

independent coffee shops looking for

‘those college days’ get in touch with

us if you think your work would look

great on one of these pages.

Submit to bumfmagazine@gmail.com

And remember; winter is coming.

Bah, Humbug.

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RASHI RAJ-GURU

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C O N T E N T S

Daniel Crow Armstrong

South Coast Roast

Guilty In Paradise

Jimmy’s Iced Coffee Interview

Josh Ogden Interview

Veterans

Secret Garden Party

Flat 13 Records’ Review

A New Sound

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DANIEL CROW ARMSTRONG

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These pieces are from my exhibition ‘The Week’ as a part of the group show put on with the collective I belong to, Fifth Degree, in abandoned shop spaces in Boscombe’s Royal Arcade. Our collective is a tight knit group, we eat, drink and smoke together, constantly enquiring about one another’s ideas and plans, going on impromptu international explorations and living out of one another’s pockets. It’s been extremely helpful working along side these guys as well as putting on shows together, I feel we’ve developed as a whole, learning from our mistakes as we go along. This show was all about each of us considering our practice and each creating an exhibition in a shop space to attempt to allow the audience to delve into each of our own artistic practices.

Over the last year and a bit I have been developing a systematic process of removal and refinement of my paintings, a process which involves the application of different paint thinning or stripping chemicals once paint has been applied to the canvas. Within each piece I essentially conduct an experiment, looking into paint’s materiality through the variation of different control variables. Whilst working on this process, I began a search for a ‘perfect black’, the first colour to be put through a process in order to become a paint when cavemen first started painting walls, the colour considered to be a ‘non-colour’. In the exhibition ‘The Week’ the control variable is the dying time of each

“SPENDING A TERM STUDYING IN THE

NETHERLANDS ALLOWED ME TO EXPERIENCE

A NEW WAY OF STUDYING ART”

painting, all seven pieces were painted on the same day and the process of removal was carried out one piece each day for seven days whilst the show was open. The aim was to bring my process to the forefront of the exhibition and allow the audience to have an insight into the focus of my practice.

I’m in my final year of study at AUB and it’s been a pretty exciting journey,

during which I feel I have really found my practice and my aims for the future. Fortunately for me I have been lucky enough to work along side some really inspiring students in the studios as well as being given a number of opportunities to exhibit in an exciting range of spaces. Spending a term studying in the Netherlands

allowed me to experience a new way of studying art and a whole to approach to my Fine Art degree, not considering deadlines as something intimidating (except my dissertation) and more continuing to work at a consistent level. This has allowed me to make time for myself to really explore my work, it’s practice, the materiality of paint and perhaps to me

currently most importantly search for black. I am currently exploring the formation of different black pigments, the process in which they are created and their historical links to theories of black. As well as this I am creating a series of paintings that consider Olbers’ Paradox, in relation to the black of the night sky.

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“AT BOSCANOVA WE DO

HAVE A COFFEE CALLED

A ‘RED EYE’, WHICH IS A

DOUBLE RISTRETTO SHOT

POURED OVER BREWED

COFFEE, AND THAT HAS

A REAL KICK TO IT. WE

DIDN’T MAKE IT UP, IT’S

A THING, BUT I’VE NEVER

SEEN IT OVER HERE, ONLY

IN AMERICA.”

SOUTH COAST ROAST

Reminiscent of a Californian coffee shack The South Coast Roast sits just up from Bournemouth square in the Town Centre. Unlike some of the coffee shops around Bournemouth they specialise in making decent coffee, we know this because they recently won an award for ‘The Best Coffee Experience’. From exquisite Flat White’s with notable hand drawn steamed milk flowers designs to unadulterated filter coffee with a splash of coconut water to create an exotic, hydrating and intense sour fruit explosion in your mouth. We’ve also heard rumors of collaboration with Jimmy Cregan from Jimmy’s Iced Coffee to make a cold brewed black coffee, which we’re very excited about. 

The SCR are lucky enough to work with Has Bean as their roasters, so are able to get some really creative and

BY BENJAMIN MUSITANO

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tasty blends in and some amazing single origins to play around with.

For those of you that don’t know, The South Coast Roast is the baby sister of Boscombe’s Boscanova; leader in chilled atmosphere, great coffee and good times. Coffee isn’t all that they love though, for the more peckish of you out there SCR have a great selection of cakes, brownies and specials to sink your teeth into. Boscanova makes all the salads and sandwiches for SCR and they change daily, so there’s always something new and tasty to try at either cafe!

If you’re not full after all that and need something a little more robust they have a weekly bakery pop-up with fresh breads and sourdoughs. Choosing from the selection of toppings from the centre table you can gorge on Nutella, jam and other partners of warm bread. As a quick lunchtime snack if

you’re in the town centre South Coast Roast do some killer bagels too, like smoked salmon and scrambled egg so go try them out. “At SCR the hot beef sandwich we serve on Fridays

and Saturdays is a definite favourite, we always have some amazing and interesting salads in as well. And no one will ever say no to a friand; especially the honey and sea salt flavour.”

If you want to continue your SCR experience at home they have Chemex, Clever Dripper and Aeropresses available,

all of which make some amazing coffees and have their own qualities, both in function and flavour.

So if you like coffee, and love food we have a surprise or you. There’s a 10% discount off all South Coast Roast stuff courtesy of the staff so head down everyday between 8am and 4pm in the week or 10am to 5pm on Saturdays and 11am to 3pm Sundays. That’s a lot of coffee.

“WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL

A COCO LATTE, WHICH IS

AN ICED COFFEE MADE

WITH COCONUT WATER

AND A SHOT OF ESPRESSO,

WHICH IS INCREDIBLY

REFRESHING!”

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The whole photojournalism world has descended on the southern French city of Perpignan. However, the professional ranks of photojournalists, these days, consist of around thirty people. The rest of the attendants are journalists, amateur photographers and the adoring public who swill around the sun soaked cobbled streets discussing loudly their holiday to Israel or staring poignantly in the vast exhibition halls at places and faces to whom they can never even begin to relate.

Over the next three weeks the photographers are treated like an endangered species, who may vanish at any second. Crooning students and important looking suits collect around them every time they stop in front of a particular photograph or outside a significant building, hoping to hear some snippet of secret insight that might propel their knowledge and inform their wine fuelled debates later. I know this, because for seven days, I was one of them. As a collective group we needed someone to make up our indecisive minds for us. For it was a week of utter confusion and conflicting opinion.

The chemical attacks in Syria had dominated the news and no one knew where to look for their information. The US was claiming over 1400 deaths by the Assad regime, the British backed out entirely and the French were debating whether to step in to assist the newly widowed US. But the numbers didn’t add up, with only 250 deaths attributed to the attacks. We looked to the Captains of our industry for clarity at a festival where the walls were bathed in the images of rebel and regime blood.

However, the photojournalists were true to their profession and remained stoic. They reminded us that they are but voyeurs, unbiased and untainted by the will of either side. Many images illustrated this perfectly, in particular the work of Goran Tomasevic whose comparison of Aleppo to Stalingrad, Beirut and Sarajevo as a snipers’ war is evident and powerful. Young rebels lie dying or dead through blasted holes in living room walls or caught in sniping mirrors while the enemy hides behind bedsheets less than thirty meters away. The photographers are there to inform and document not to intervene or persuade. This was one of the favourite debates of the devotees that I heard, discussed on many occasions by passionate youths who had come as nomadic looking travellers to the festival to fly the flag for the particular issue they supported.

Unfortunately, there is not enough time to describe every exhibition and every issue that arose from the festival. I leave it to the reader to discover the vastness of this festival’s reach and the complexity of every story documented. But, for the purposes of this magazine, I gravitated towards the photographers themselves and their story of becoming internationally renowned and coupled this with my own experience of spontaneously covering this bustling institution of journalism.

I came to Perpignan as the last stop of my southern French tour. I was meant to be picking grapes in a vineyard just to the southwest of the city but, instead, got caught up in the atmosphere of the festival. I fed on it for days, playing at being an

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international correspondent on location solely for the festival. I was in an unique position to indoctrinate myself in the world of photojournalism without any preformed ideas or how or what it meant to be a journalist abroad. The most noticeable advantage this gave me was that I was unafraid. Maybe it was a reaction to my age, my lack of a press pass, my unintimidating getups or simply the nature of the festival, but these god like figures seemed unafraid of me in return. I passed freely from illustrious event to illustrious event undisturbed and quickly found myself rubbing shoulders with the elite of photojournalism.

The only fellow Brit I found among the professionals was a young photographer called Phil Moore who was introducing his work on the rebel militant group, the M23, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His journey to this exhibition has been a humble one; graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in computer science, he has always been interested in how information is obtained and displayed. Photojournalism was an unexpected but relevant step. Working with shoestring budgets but with fine photography tutors, he has gained access to conflict zones all over the world in pursuit of knowledge and a way of making it available for everyone. Moore is a classic example of how, if you put your life on the line for what you love, it will reflect in the work you produce.

It is hard to describe here the energy that has been felt throughout the streets of Perpignan during the last few days. The first morning I arrived, I found myself in a tiny cafe on the outskirts of the

old town having a cup of tea amongst scores of photographers and journalists all swigging wine, smoking and discussing loudly the merits of the exhibitions they had already viewed. It was a surreal experience that had been pulled out of my images of Bohemian revolution. I had an interesting conversation with the renowned photojournalist Muhammed Muheisen only because he thought me to be the actor from the US TV show ‘Breaking Bad’. However, these photographers will only enjoy this comfort and freedom for a few more weeks before they are plunged straight back into hell. Most of the photographers I spoke to tried to accentuate their modesty. They began with nothing. Travelling around the world with nothing but a camera and a keen eye. It is only later, when they reflect on their work, that they realise that these were the best times of their life and they produced some of the most revealing work of their career.

This is a week I will never forget. The cost of delving deeper into my overdraft to accommodate it is a small price to pay for this life changing time which I can only attribute to being in the right place at the right time. The debt I now carry with me is a marker of this time and a reminder of the guilt that I feel in being able to enjoy this paradise.

Henry Heffer at Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan,France: 27/7- 16/8/2013

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Alex & Ben interviewed Jimmy Cregan from the awesome Jimmy’s Iced Coffee over some delectable snacks of Hummus, breadsticks and Moroccan dip.

JIMMY’S ICED

COFFEE

You’re here because you studied at AUB (and we like you); what course did you study and what brought you here in the first place?

It was AIB back in the day; it was like a terracotta-tiled palace. I lived in Dubai for eighteen years then I came here. After A levels in Dubai, as you cant do Uni over there, I thought why not try something creative. I was really into graphics and art at school, so I did foundation here for a year really enjoyed it then I decided to do graphics for three years at Farnham part of the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Hated it. It was completely landlocked. Was it a degree?

No it was a Batchelor of Arts. Well, to be honest it was shit. I didn’t like Farnham as it was next to Guildford and nowhere near the beach. I basically just missed the beach and the lifestyle [in Bournemouth] was so much better. I came back to Bournemouth, managed a nightclub and ran events for a while. I realised I just liked organising stuff so I found out AUB had the Arts and Events

course. I got really excited, applied, got in. I was on Arts and Events for the three years. I then got a job with Red Bull as a Student Brand Ambassador in my first year. So that was cool; it was off the back of a friend of ours.

When did you graduate?

2004. I did the course in ‘99. The foundation course, then I was away for 2 years after that and I came back 2001 – 2004.

It’s funny that you were a Student Brand Ambassador for a drinks company, now you’re doing Jimmy’s Iced Coffee… and they are both caffeine related…

They are both energy related.

Do you think that planted a seed?

It may have done, the ease of marketing at Red Bull helped because it was pretty fun. They got it dialled. After coming out of Uni and doing other jobs and stuff, I worked for Red Bull full time for a little

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while. It was crap I never got to meet the owner, and I didn’t like the taste of the drink, it made me wanna shit myself essentially, as apposed to giving me proper energy.

Tell us what happened after graduation?

Yeah so after I graduated I went on the road with Red Bull as part of the small extreme events team. They had this Austrian infantry/artillery carrier that they converted into a DJ booth, which cost £90,000.

So I used to drive that around and DJ all these different events that were super fun and that all just amalgamated into one filthy summer in 2004, which was just after graduating. That actually started before my degree ended so I was kind of already on the road with Red Bull as I finished. So after that summer I was still in Bournemouth doing crap work in the winter. Nothing great really, I was labouring.

I moved to Bristol and was sleeping on a trampoline in a warehouse for Red Bull; we looked after their whole event kit over summer. Then back another winter, it was bullshit and then in 2005, because I was acting like such a turd at festivals just being stupid, they were like ‘You need to be stupid on a stage’ so I started introducing acts and bands and stuff. The first gig they gave me was the Lovebox main stage. It was massive – in Victoria Park. I had ten different costumes – outfits and characters, and I just came on stage introduced all these bands and acts.

I saw one of those photos on Facebook and I wondered what the hell you were doing so that explains it.

Yeah, that’s what that would have been….

So you were a showbiz presenter?

Basically, yeah. It got to 2008 when I was labouring for this old boy who was a real dude who let me go surfing which was nice but I just basically had a break down in Waitrose and I just started crying and I was just like what the fuck am I doing with my life this is terrible. I was a complete mess and I decided I was never going to get to this position ever again. So about three weeks later I booked surprise flights to Oz with Soph. From the day I booked the tickets we got double jobs. Labouring and working in a bar so we just didn’t go out so we just paid off our tickets and saved up enough to actually piss around while we were traveling. So we flew to Oz,

hung out, were there for five months just fannying around. And that’s when we found iced coffee.

After Oz I started working for my mate at an events company but my iced coffee addiction was getting really, really bad. No one was doing decent iced coffee here at all and I was genuinely getting fucked off with it. So I just had to try and make my own.

Do I remember you saying you tried to franchise something you found in oz? What happened with that?

So basically I found the company that owns this one brand and basically just emailed them saying “Hi I’m Jim. I’m from the UK. I really like your iced coffee and I think I should take your ingredients and your brand

name and take it to England and we can make money. Lots of love Jim”. We probably got through to someone in customer services who thought who the hell is this punk. They might be kicking themselves a

little bit now… but cést la vie.

We wouldn’t have Jims Iced Coffee today would we?

No we wouldn’t we’d have Farmers Union… which quite a lot of people would want So that’s how Jimmy’s came about.

People can go and buy coffee anywhere, what’s different about yours apart from it being iced? What’s your ethos? What is Jimmy’s Iced Coffee all about?

The main thing about our iced coffee, or our whole ethos is “keep your chin up”. So optimism lies at the heart of everything we do, we never have a shit day, it’s always got to be a good day or you’ve got to try and make it a good day. There are so many people in worse off situations than yourself, so you should never bother moaning it’s just a complete waste of time.

I guess its all relative…

Totally! Absolutely. So, two reasons to keep your chin up – one you have to physically do it when you drink our product unless you’re using a straw but that doesn’t count as you have to buy one. And secondly you have to keep your chin up when you’re just bowling about in life. I guess what pisses me off about new food and drink brands these days is if you look at the ABOUT US section on their websites, they say ‘we at thingy

“No one was doing decent iced

coffee here at all and I was genuinely

getting fucked off with it. So I just

had to try and make my own..”

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foods source only the finest ingredients that go yummy in your tummy’, it’s a copy and paste job. Its 2013 you should just be making good food, period. I think what we try and do is we’re not selling five ingredients in a vessel. We’re selling optimism in a carton; we sell bits of happiness to people. We have a perfect example of that – a friend of ours said to us the other day… ‘Jim every time I go to London I swing by Fleet Services from Bournemouth to pick up my last bit of beach on my way into London’. For me, that IS the pinnacle of what we’re trying to achieve. What advice would you give to any aspiring entrepreneurs and creatives at this Uni, especially in these kind of economic times?

I think these economic times are a load of rubbish. I saw a great quote the other day from one of the heads of Walmart who a few decades ago said “There is a recession, but we’re not taking part”. Also the weather is a fuck up. We’ve had two years of relentlessly shitty weather and this summer has been the first summer where we’ve had really good weather, and if you have a look, the sales have just been boosted! People are optimistic about spending, and I seriously think weather has a great deal to do with it.

So you’ve got to be proactive and we both agree there’s quite an apathetic mood in the young generation at the moment. Whether it’s to do with all these recessions or whatever, young people don’t have a great out look on the future.

No, if you think like that you’re already on the wrong foot, then if you’re thinking that. It’s like you said about happiness being relative, you make your own luck in this business game and in your whole life. Look at places like India; these people are working 22-hour days for literally nothing trying to support a family of six and their still smiling. They live in absolute squalor and you got people over here moaning and going “urgh I can’t do it”. It’s such a load of shit. People just need to get up and get on with it and stop being such a pussy. If you start there you’ve already lost. You got be ready to seize the day.

Does it feel good to be at the heart of your business?

That’s a really interesting question. We are just talking to investor’s at the moment, we don’t know whether we need it or not but its always good to go down that route and explore it. One set of

investors wants to have a controlling share and the other set doesn’t. One set have recognised that we are doing a good job and don’t want to spoil it so they could give us money, let us get on with and take some reward

later on. The other company has a fixed way of doing things; they buy in with a certain amount of money, they spend 5 years turning it around and they exit and everyone gets their cash. But if I can pick up one of my iced coffees anywhere in the world then that’s my job done.

You’re still involved with AUB and you commonly use students or employ their services for some of your marketing campaigns. You ran a project with Marketing; tell us a little bit about that?

So we did AUB 24, which was a 24-hour brief to deliver us a super budget marketing campaign. This

was to basically explain what our company was about, how we operate, what we do. There were five or six groups of sometimes five or six people coming up with something in 24 hours and they presented it back. There were so many

good ideas we amalgamated most of them into one campaign. We filled our Jimmy’s truck up with ice and took four students to London to sample the shit out of our product. All dressed up in Jimmy’s Iced Coffee suits, made by two artists Pascale Wilson and Leanne Merson. Craig Atkinson who’s on Graphics knocked up our entire brand wrapping stuff that we have for the truck, which still exists. Everyone’s done so much work.

What’s the No1 lesson you’ve taken from your experience?

Positivity and politeness I think. If your polite to people and you smile at people, and you’re generally optimistic and friendly with people you will go ten times further.

“I think these economic times are a

load of rubbish. I saw a great quote

the other day... ‘There is a recession,

but we’re not taking part’”

“It’s like you said about happiness

being relative, you make your own

luck in this business game and in

your whole life.”

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So, you were on the Vis Com course. Tell us how you found it, and what main things you’ve taken from it.

My time at AUB was quite interesting as I started my first year on illustration, so for the first term or two I was doing illustrative work, which I really enjoyed but it wasn’t for me. I was struggling with what the course was offering, so I swapped to Visual Communications.

I found Vis Com really good because it was more about thinking through problems. In my third year for the D&AD [a highly respected design award based in London] we entered in a team that did really well and won. Now I have the Yellow Pencil Award and a magazine.

WE INTERVIEWED AUB ALUMNI JOSH OGDEN IN SOUTH LONDON, FROM A SPOT OVERLOOKING THE TATE MODERN.

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This is Bob Roberts, 90 years old. He travelled over to the UK at the age of 19 from New York where he received training. On the 6th of June Bob was woken up at 4.30am, no one had been told but they all knew it was D-Day. Bob was in the first wave of troops to hit the beach. Of his entire squad only 4 lived to see the end of that day.

Newly assigned to lead a party of seven Bob pushed on. Not long later Bob found himself engaged in a 4 day standoff. Eventually the enemy surrendered. Bob being the leading officer began searching them. During his initial search of a particular officer the man lunged to his pocket to take out a pistol, Bob immediately reacted, shot him with his cocked gun slung over his shoulder. Spirits were soon lifted as 5’3 Bob frisked the tallest man in the German army standing 7’6.

Bobs war continued as he passed on to Germany. The border was approaching and all that lay between him and Germany was a vast empty field. Halfway through this field battle broke out. Machine gunners were hidden in the bushes and German troops over looking the field started firing mortars. Defenceless Bob slithered into a blast hole for shelter where he laid for 6 hours. Reinforcement tanks came in with flame throwers and Bob made a run for it. As soon as he stood up and ran a bombshell landed in the very hold that he had be lying in for 6 hours. It exploded at point blank, no more than a few feet away from him; the shrapnel tore through his leg. He made a bandage out of his shirt and slowly retreated using a dead soldier’s gun with a shoe on the bayonet as a crutch. His foot had snapped it was turned 180 degrees around putting his heel where his toes usually were. 4 hours later bob was rescued in a stretcher.

MARK LEAVER

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VETERANS

This is Victor Tarry, 90 years old. His story begins at the age of 14 when he lost both of his parents and was put into a residential school in London where he was educated until the age of 16. At this point he was advised to join the army where he was enlisted as one of His Majesty’s Service guards, which involved a 5-week ‘harsh and vicious’ training course. Before long WW2 broke out and Victor found himself in a landing craft heading for the beach on the 6th of June 1944. It was D-day.

“As our craft came to the beach German gunners opened fire, I could hear and see shells whizzing overhead. Before we could get anywhere near the beach a shell hit the side of our landing craft flipping the whole thing with 60 of us inside. I plunged down, my lungs filling up with water and my equipment weighing me down. I hit the bottom and propelled myself upwards gasping for air before I was weighed back down. I bobbed up and down like this until I could find my feet still in the process of dodging bombshells”

“It was chaos, hell. I could see men around me falling down to machine gun fire. Over 10,000 people died on that beach. I fought my way inland to a rendezvous point. Out of 240 men in my company half were killed that day”.

“We were pushing further north through Belgium in an armoured vehicle when we hit a land mine. The next thing I remember was waking up in a medical tent with Queen Alexander nurses seeing to my injuries. I had been drifting in and out of consciousness for over 19 days. I still to this day wake up in the night in panic. I was left seriously injured and completely deaf in my right ear”.

He is in the process now of writing up his entire service history, which at the moment is over 200 pages long and he hopes to get published on completion to keep his story alive.

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This is Jim Leaver, aged 90. He tried to join the army at the age of 17and was refused. Jim got into the army shortly after using his cousins identity.

Jim was one of the many who came in on a landing craft on D-Day. Upon making it to the beach an armoured car waiting for him and his squadron. His squadrons job was to scout the area around and report back via radio stating where was and wasn’t safe to allow other to push on safely.

During one mission he was forced to change course to avoid conflict and had to carry on by foot through a forest. Crossing a bridge he realised the enemy had retreated from the battle zone and pushed back to right beyond where he and his squad were. Retreating as fast as possible wasn’t enough; a shell hit him. In pain and shock Jim waited for a stretcher to collect him in the live battle zone. After being picked up, Jim remembers being dropped multiple times as the medics had to jump out of the way of constant shell blasts. He eventually made it back to safety, where he and others were flown to the nearest hospital (this was his first ever time on a plane).

Recovery took one month, as soon as Jim was able to walk again he was eager to get back to the war. Jim was concerned though that his squadron was in Germany and that he would get stuck with a random squad. So against orders he hitch hiked back to Germany where he knew his regiment would be. Returning back to the surprise of his sergeant he was back with his regiment where he carried on with his regular scouting duties until the end of the war.

JIM LEAV

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MARK LEAVER

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HERMAN KIM AT SECRET GARDEN PARTY

Initially the flashes on the far horizon were barely noticeable, deceivingly distant to be of any cause for concern. As the night progressed the lightning became more frequent, the thunderous claps increasingly audible as each hour passed. By midnight the raindrops would arrive, and soon followed the storm. The relentless pummelling of water, light and the deafening roars lasted as long as the darkness of the night. It appeared not even our beloved Mother Nature could hold back her excitement of what was to transpire here in the coming days.

Come Thursday morning, the chorus of excited punters begin entering the gates; the once empty walkways now filled with wondering explorers. The site has now been surrendered to the partiers. Mystical creatures eye you up from the wooded canopies; the giant fox safeguards the haunt from its hilltop throne. At the core of The Secret Garden Party site lies the gorgeous lake in which sits the beautifully crafted pirate ship entwined with the monstrous Kraken. But we can’t admire it for long: the centrepiece receives its fiery coup de grace following on an elaborate fireworks display, exploding to a burst of flames and burnt until its skeletal frame exposed. To whom this sacrifice is offered to remains a curiosity. Rather

fittingly, ‘Superstition’, is this year’s theme.The twenty-nine thousand or so ‘Gardeners’ that

congregate here collectively embark on a mission in the aim of discovering the simply extraordinary and the wonderfully absurd. This colourful playground tailored before you is an opportunity to open out in search of your own intimate moments to savour. There are many secluded and creviced worlds that await the relentless adventurers, each as mad and as whimsical as the next. Hedonism mustn’t

always be a harmful pastime, and many here adhere to that notion with carefree enthusiasm. The atmosphere here exhales the vintage spirit of Glastonbury that once was – a reconstitution of humanity and a sense of communal bliss. It is little secret understanding why so many make their regular pilgrimages back to

this spiritual farmland, year upon year. And all of a sudden it is Monday, and the

end has come. The scorching sun too takes its leave, the roaring storm clouds making an abrupt return. For the once exalted (and now just exhausted) punters, they must arduously make their journey back home in the relentless downpour. But perhaps for the superstitious, the rain serves as a fittingly poetic finale: the sky sheds its tears knowing it is all over now.

“There are many secluded and creviced worlds that await the relentless adventurers, each as mad and as whimsical as the next.”

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F L AT 1 3 R E C O R D S

Arcade Fire Reflektor

Any band with the level of acclaim that can attract a collaboration with the Diamond Dog of enigmatic rock are worth a listen, right? Right!!! ‘Reflektor’ arrived at the shop today, and with it came an odd sense of potential disappointment. Following ‘Neon Bible’ and ‘The Suburbs’, two of the fundamental albums from the last decade, is a ridiculous thing to comprehend – hence, perhaps, my scepticism. The first point of interest is the instrumentation which, while remaining as full and festival friendly as you expect, comes across a little more modern than in previous albums. The songs are as complex and forthright as ever, with all the lyrically driven, throbbing choruses and sing-a-long sections you could want... One listen isn’t enough to go any further.

Explosions In The Sky The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

There is no more reliable source of instrumental debauchery than Explosions In The Sky. They’ve littered soundtracks for the better part of 12 years, and consistently provide the perfect foil for skate/bmx/surf videographers. ‘The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place’ is the perfect introduction to an instrumental world you might not have previously known. These Texans are technically sound, and on a par with Christopher Columbus’ levels of exploration. With no song ducking under the 8 minute mark, full submersion is guaranteed and you can expect to be a little less impressed by everyone else you’ve heard before.

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Two Gallants The Bloom And The Blight

San Francisco duo Two Gallants released their most recent work late last year, via ATO Records. I would liken this album to being kicked in the face by the girl you like. She would intermittently hold you close and run her fingers through your hair, only to back up and continue rearranging your features with her size 6 brogues. Self deprecating, lyrically provocative folk-punk, that borders on Cobain-fuelled grunge riffs, ‘The Bloom And The Blight’ is a far cry from the sprawling, 10 minute ballads that peppered previous albums. Short, sharp, tight and sickeningly heavy for a two-piece, this one comes highly recommended for the angry individual out there.

TelevisionMarquee Moon

Released in 1977, ‘Marquee Moon’ just doesn’t fit or sound like any of their peers. Television were neither thrashing out power chords and pop lyrics like The Ramones, nor matching the obscure new wave punk of Talking Heads. The sleeve notes on the back of the record indicate just what this band were about, each song crediting which guitar solo is played by what guitarist. Two duelling guitarists amongst a rhythm section tighter than a virgin on prom night, with songwriting that can only be described as jazz punk, inter-winding with each members ability and raw talent.

REVIEWS BY

ROSS BOARDMAN & BEN WAUGH

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JOANNA GRUESOME

Their name may come from harp-playing singer Joanna Newsome, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this Welsh 5-piece are even remotely angelic. Apparently the members met in anger management, which I guess would be a pretty suitable back-story for a gang of people who create such mayhem and beauty in a single song. Joanna Gruesome create the sort of noise that every party should be filled with and every moment of pure energy should be sound tracked with. Having just released their debut LP ‘Weird Sister’ with Slumberland/Fortuna Pop! last month, Jo Gro have been causing a storm here in the UK, and also over in the US. This isn’t surprising when you hear singles such as ‘Secret Surprise’, with Alanna McArdle’s piercing-but-sweet vocals mixed with screeching guitars. Other tracks such as ‘Sugarcrush’ showcase the band’s most accomplished skill of mixing the pretty with the ugly, with the vocal melodies creating something beautiful, whilst again the guitars grind on giving your ears an extended noise workout. Joanna Gruesome will grow to be one of the bands you have to see live over the next year and with the sounds found on ‘Weird Sister’, you won’t want to miss out.

THE DEATH OF POP

The UK is full to the brim with bands trying to recapture the magic found in bands such as My Bloody Valentine. Shoegaze has definitely made a comeback on our shores, but The Death of Pop are not just another band you can easily pigeonhole. Sure, there are definite influences from bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Ride, but what The Death of Pop create is something a lot better. There is easily some irony in the band’s name, but The Death of Pop have actually created shoegaze pop. There are a number of different influences that can be found in the band’s music, with The Smiths, The Byrds and The Cure being some of the most obvious, but what makes these songs interesting is that they never result in a poor imitation. Songs like ‘Don’t Hang Around’ and ‘I’m Really Into Sally’ would have easily been huge singles if they had appeared 30 years ago, and they possess a timeless sound that would still keep them on rotation at indie discos today. It’s vintage indie rock done to perfection, and whilst the Bournemouth 4-piece are pretty prolific, it doesn’t seem like they will lose this knack of writing anytime soon.

TRAVIS BRETZER

Travis Bretzer is a funny guy. Not only does he write some of the catchiest pop songs you’ll hear this year, but it’s also his dayjob. He works for a local radio station in Edmonton, Canada where his role is to write jingles. This could mean two things about the songs he writes: 1. He writes really lame songs about products you don’t wanna buy, or 2. He uses this skill to take his music to the next level. Luckily for us, it’s the second one. Tracks such as ‘Find Another Guy’ showcase his unique talent for pulling hooks out of thin air, whilst more recent tracks such as ‘Trying To Learn’ have shown his skill in a more experimental mind set. Having released his debut EP ‘Making Love’ earlier this year, Bretzer possesses a quirky sound that is rare in guitar music these days, but also has a knack for writing a truly interesting pop single.

A New SoundUP AND COMING BANDS TO LOOK OUT FOR BY MICHAEL JAMES DENT

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< TRAAMS

TRAAMS are a rare type of guitar band. Whilst we have seen a big resurgence in guitar groups trying to be as noisy as possible, it’s quite often for these bands to be missing something interesting behind the volume. This is where TRAAMS differ. Having just released their debut album ‘Grin’ on Fat Cat earlier this year, the Chichester trio have been tearing up the UK with their consistently brilliant live show, including a stop in Bournemouth back in September. What TRAAMS do is they create exciting and non-stop energetic grooves. There are notable references to German groups such as Neu! and Can found in their songwriting, but TRAAMS take these influences and turn them into something new and relevant. Songs progress through a series of catchy bass lines mixed with addictive rhythms, whilst thrash guitar completes the sound; giving the overall result an interesting and euphoric feel. Songs like ‘Flowers’ and ‘Demons’ also show that this band have a decent ear for writing great post-punk anthems, too. There’s something completely different to TRAAMS that you might not have heard before, and this makes them something truly exciting to behold.

THE BLACK TAMBOURINES >

Falmouth isn’t a place you would usually associate with punk bands, but The Black Tambourines look set to change this. With a sound that falls somewhere in-between grunge and 60s garage-rock, The Black Tambourines have found a unique way of rocking out. Where bands such as Splashh and Wolf Alice have made names for themselves by channelling their 90s influences into a punk-rock sound, The Black Tambourines reflect a more natural period of influence, with tracks such as ‘27/25 Blues’ emulating classic vibes found hidden away in the 1960s. It’s simple, it’s catchy and it’s really loud. The Black Tambourines have just released their self-titled debut on the always-interesting Art Is Hard Records, and the LP is the perfect example of what the band can do. At times it’s bratty punk, but then it turns into something Nirvana would’ve been proud of. Whilst the album contains a variety of different influences, at no point does it feel strange that they have been put together in this order. This can only be attributed to the band’s own unique take on their influences, which shine through in the punky ethos found on their debut.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TEAMBenjamin Musitano - Editor in Chief/ WriterAlexander Johnston - Editor/ WriterRobert Squires - DesignerLewis Allen - DesignerHarriet Campbell-Taylor - Proof ReaderHelena Spleiss - Proof Reader

AVERTORIALSA special thank you to Luke and Heather, and to Ben.

South Coast RoastFlat 13 Records

FRONT & BACK COVER/ CENTRE SPREADGreg Jackson - Photographer

CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Crow Armstrong - WriterHenry Heffer - Writer Michael James Dent - WriterHerman Kim - WriterMark Leaver - Writer / PhotographerMarianna Madriz - IllustratorEmilia Cocking - Photographer Connor Annal - IllustartorRashi Raj-Guru - Photographer

INTERVIEWSJoshua Ogden - Justified MagazineJim Cregan - Jimmy’s Iced Coffee

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