From the category archives:
I am not obsessed with fish.
I started not being obsessed in 2000, when I read that a tuna had sold in Tokyo for $50,000. My friends enjoyed the anecdote even though they secretly didn’t believe me. A few months later, another Japanese bluefin broke the $100,000 barrier. They believed me then.
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There’s a great joy in creation, it’s a great self-esteem booster and there’s all those things that build good people you know? And hopefully we’re just building good people, and if they put that on my headstone ‘Joe Atkins blah blah blah. Father, grew some good people’ enough said.
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For the real genius of Three Men… lies not with the action but within Jerome’s ever witty mind. This can only be brought across effectively on the printed page. His riffs about the difficulties of putting a framed picture up on a wall, the construction of an Irish stew, or the challenges of learning the Scottish bagpipe are hilarious and charming.
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I first saw Hodgkin’s work two years ago in the stark, cathedral-like spaces of the Gagosian gallery in London. And in that first encounter with Hodgkin’s art at the Gagosian, I was stunned to discover that, up until then, I had had no idea what art was really for.
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As the stage is set and the violins tuned for this year’s Windsor Festival, Beat Magazine talks to last year’s winner of the string competition, Diana Galvydyte, about her musical loves, the future and what makes the Windsor Festival International String Competition so special.
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Eleven years ago Justin Miles was in a near fatal car accident. Overnight he went from being a healthy, carefree 26-year-old fitness trainer to not being able to walk or talk. It would be a long road to wellness. Today, at 37 and fully recovered, Justin prepares for an Antarctic journey.
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The Green Line is a UN patrolled area splitting the independent island of Cyprus into two. In the North are the occupying Turkish forces which invaded in 1974 and created the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, a state recognised in the world only by Turkey. The Green Line is fascinating and was a place I had to see.
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I feel like there’s a slim possibility that I may be a natural storyteller, but I’m definitely not a natural writer, screenwriter, or director. I always feel like the story exists on its own, and then I clumsily cram it inside the format. So for me it’s a bit like asking, which feels more natural? flip-flops, loafers, or work-boots? None of them feel like bare-feet.
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There will be 14 authors and a 4 course meal
At 14 tables, with eleven seats each.
That one seat is for an author.
Every table will have an author to host.
But, not just one author – oh no!
Between courses the authors will change tables. Therefore every table will host 4 different authors throughout dinner. And, the fun won’t stop there.
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WARWICK CAIRNS IS AWAY
but we have managed to get hold of a sneak preview of the front cover for his new book.
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Ever read one of those “How To Write A Bestseller” books? No? Me neither. Nor do I intend to. I’m after bigger game, you see. I want to write a phenomenon. A freak. A bestseller that pulls down the shorts of other bestsellers and gives their chubby paper bottoms a palm-stinging spank.
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In the early Eighties though, for teenagers like me the name evoked a paradoxical naughtiness; simply because of the imagery which it conjured up and the personality who had laid claim to it. Madonna stormed through the charts as unexpectedly as her persona exploded through my consciousness.
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Taking International String Under The Wire
Tuning up for Windsor Festival
Cypress, a holiday on The Green Line
If You Ever Get To Heaven Film Poster
In Praise of Savagery, by Warwick Cairns, jacket cover
Joe and Amanda Atkins at the pre-release screening of "If You Ever Get To Heaven", at the Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture, Windsor, UK
Three Men In A Boat, To Say Nothing Of The Dog
White Waltham Primary School art workshop
Cynthia Barlow Marrs ASGFA
Ana Silvera
Warwick Cairns, author and Beat columnist
Julian H Cope - reviewed on Beat
A Moments Notice, by Dan Prescott
What, by illustrator Jenny Robins
Julian H Cope, by Richmond Harding
The New Goodbye, by Neil Ayres
Marie Phillips, by Alexandra Scannell
14/4 Literary Dinner
Robert Hudson
Shelter From The Storm, by Sid Griffin