The Independent (London, England) back issues from May 2009:
Back on track - for real
May 01, 2009; ... The Manic Street Preachers' new album showcases the lyrics of theunforgettable Richey Edwards, writes Elisa Bray The Manic Street Preachers have long guarded the lyrics writtenby their lost fourth band member, Richey Edwards. Now, 14 yearsafter the 27-year-old disappeared from the ...
FREDDIE HORNIK
May 01, 2009; ... Bespoke tailor to the rock aristocracy of the Seventies In the early Seventies, many rock stars patronised the GrannyTakes a Trip boutiques in New York, Los Angeles and London's Chelsearun by the tailor and clothes designer Freddie Hornik, inpartnership with the New Yorkers Gene ...
Lives Remembered
May 01, 2009; ... The Revd Canon Clive E. Wyngard My father, Clive Wyngard, who died on 24 March after a long andbrave ight against prostate cancer, arrived here from South Africaas a teenager to follow his calling to be a priest. His parents inKimberley sold their piano to pay for his voyage. He ...
GREG SMITH
May 01, 2009; ... Producer of the 'Confessions' films Greg Smith was the producer behind the hugely successfulConfessions movies of the 1970s. The series' mixture of slapstickhumour, big-name stars, double entendres and nudity made X-certificate films almost respectable and sounded the death knell ...
'DOC' BLANCHARD
May 01, 2009; ... American footballer and USAF pilot who saved an Essex village In 1959 Doc Blanchard was inducted to America's college footballHall of Fame, and broke a speed record flying an F-100 Super Sabrejet at 610mph between England and Tripoli. But his greatestachievement came when another ...
Treasure island
May 01, 2009; ... In June, the company that gave us Bob Marley, Grace Jones and U2,celebrates its 50th anniversary. Pierre Perrone joins in thecelebrations. Pictures by Adrian Boot Chris Blackwell didn't exactly have a master-plan when he foundedIsland Records with 1,000 in 1959. Thirty years on, ...
'I'm just a working mother'
May 01, 2009; ... You'd think it would be enough to be one of the best violinistsin the world. You'd think it would be enough to have commanded therapturous respect of the world's music critics for more than 30years, and to have accumulated the kind of wealth from your CDs andperformances that enables you ...
BOB DYLAN TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE
May 01, 2009 ... THE WORD ON ... "It's always nice to hear a musical pioneer just relax ... you cantell the band is playing with a smile, and Bob Dylan is enjoying histroop as well as every nearly-perfect or heartfelt, misshapen notethat they're performing." Mike Ragogna, ...
CAUGHT IN THE NET
May 01, 2009; ... Four into one - Deerhunter Twice before I have written about the prodigious output ofmembers of Deerhunter in their various side projects, but now allfour members of the band are back as one. Following the 'Microcastle/Weird Era Contd', double-album of sorts - one of the best ...
Having a Fifties ball at the Baftas
May 01, 2009; ... PARTY OF THE WEEK *** The theme of the party was the 1950s, in celebration of theheritage of the venue, the sunken ballroom at the Royal FestivalHall. The cocktail lounge was decked out with props, sourced fromcharity shops and vintage stores, including coat-stands, armchairsand ...
BATHER OPENING A CABIN (1928) Pablo Picasso MUSEE PICASSO, PARIS
May 01, 2009; ... GREAT WORKSNothing new. At the start of the 18th century, Alexander Popewrote a bad dream about household objects. "Unnumber'd throngs, onev'ry side are seen/ Of bodies chang'd to various forms by Spleen /Here living Tea-pots stand, one arm held out/ One bent; the handlethis, ...
NEW RELEASES
May 01, 2009; ... YUSUF Roadsinger Island *** Just as he had to get past the songs on Mona Bone Jakon in orderto get to the material for his major breakthrough with Tea For TheTillerman, explains Yusuf, so did he have to work through the songson his comeback album An Other Cup in order to reach the ...
THE DIARY
May 01, 2009; ... Frying tonight for the AudioBoo boys Stephen Fry (right) displayed his obsessive interest with thejoys, or otherwise, of AudioBoo this week when, while recording the51st series of the Radio 4 comedy show 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'(the first episode without dear old Humph), Fry, ...
A brave new world of music
May 01, 2009; ... There was a potential clash of cultures when Womad staged thefirst pop music festival in the Gulf - but the event quickly foundits rhythm and proved a popular hit, reports Ian Birrell from AbuDhabi As she waited to go on, Souad Massi looked nervous for the firsttime that ...
JODI PICOULT AUTHOR
May 01, 2009; ... CULTURAL LIFE Books I just was lucky enough to read Alice Hoffman's upcoming 'TheStory Sisters'. Wow, that's all I can say. Currently I have 'TheStory of Edgar Sawtelle' on my Kindle - which makes the 600-pagebook a little more user-friendly! Television I'm ...
DVD REVIEWS
May 01, 2009; ... CLUBBED (18) Neil Thompson (95 mins) ** This British gangster film, set in Coventry in the 1980s, tellsthe story of Danny (Mel Raido), a divorced father-of-two who findshis life is at a dead end. Hated by his ex-wife (an underused MaxinePeake) and targeted by local thugs, the ...
BEST: HIS MOTHER'S SON
May 01, 2009 ... THE WORD ON ... "Difficult to do well and they didn't do it well. Script andstoryline were full of cliches, and some awful moments like themoonlight chat between George and Busby. And they even managed tonot make his rise to fame convinicing. Poor." Sammy McNally, ...
Truth and reconciliation
May 01, 2009; ... The man who was a key player in bringing South Africa's bitterpolitical rivals together tells Gerard Gilbert how a new TV dramacaptures the tension of the apartheid era The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert at WembleyStadium on the 11th of June 1988 was one of the most ...
THE BAROMETER
May 01, 2009 ... What's hot on our playlist Bob Dylan Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (right) A tasty blend of blues, rumba-rock and Tex-Mex accordion from thenew album: Dylan brings Chicago to New Orleans, then takes them bothacross the Rio Grande. Grizzly Bear While You Wait ...
ORLANDO WEEKS THE MACCABEES
May 01, 2009; ... MY FANTASY BAND Vocals Lou Reed He has the most wonderful, lived-in, voice I've ever heard.There's so much theatrical drama to it but he still sounds reallysincere. Guitar Darrel Hawkins He's the guitarist with a band called Wild Palms, the last ...
A no-nonsense pop star
May 01, 2009; ... thecocknbullkid has already wowed Glastonbury with her sassyelectro. Now she's poised for chart success. It won't change her,she tells Alexia Loundras Hot on the heels of Lady Gaga, La Roux and Florence and theMachine, there's another neon-edged siren poised to make her ...
Enlightening notes on a scandal
May 01, 2009; ... LAST NIGHT'S TELEVISION MY WALL STREET CHANNEL 4 MY LIFE AS ANANIMAL BBC3 Ah, Wall Street: the most notorious road in the world right now.Natural habitat of Evil Bankers, spiritual home of Fred the Shred,the source of all our misery. Of course, as Channel 4's My WallStreet ...
The matter of facts in fiction
May 01, 2009; ... THE WEEK IN CULTURETo the countless dualities with which we attempt to shape thechaos of the world into a more manageable form I would like to addanother. You can divide readers into people who love the whalingbits in Moby Dick and people who find them a tedious ordeal ....
CRITIC'S CHOICE
May 01, 2009; ... English Heritage 9PM BBC2 The decision to list Park Hill Estate in Sheffield, with its LeCorbusier-inspired "streets in the sky", was met with incredulity bylocal residents who viewed the place as an uninhabitable eyesore.The ensuing dispute cost the taxpayer 40m and brought ...
RADIO CHOICE
May 01, 2009 ... Calling Time on the Binge Drinkers 11AM BBC RADIO 4 The French businessman P Y Gerbeau (yup, the one who tried tosave the Millennium Dome) looks at the cultural obsession withdrinking to excess and tries to find solutions to the problem. Afternoon Play: 'On the Field - ...
Still got the magic touch
May 01, 2009 ... FILM OF THE WEEK IS ANYBODY THERE? (12A) John Crowley (95 mins)*** STARRING Michael Caine, Bill Milner The convergence of discomforted old age and disaffected youth isa theme that's given the cinema some fine moments: Cinema Paradiso,Apt Pupil, Harold and Maude, Venus. The films ...
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
May 01, 2009; ... STORY OF THE SCENEIt's been called one of the most revolutionary acts committed tofilm. Forty-two years after the event it still packs a punch. Notethat one of the main characters in this scene is an African-American and the other, an autocratic white plantation owner, ...
FILM CHOICE
May 01, 2009; ... Lenny SKY MOVIES MODERN GREATS (Bob Fosse, 1974) Bob Fosse's film is almost as funny, smart andsad as its subject, the trailblazing comedian Lenny Bruce, who daredsay what 1950s and 1960s US was really thinking, and who washarassed, arrested on obscenity charges and ruined as ...
ORANGE SHORTLIST
May 01, 2009 ... THE WORD ON ... Shortlists and prizes may indeed be good things, if they raiseawareness of books in general (then again, they may not be); buthaving a women-only prize is an anachronism, plain and simple. Youjust have to consider the likely reaction to a new prize for malewriters ...
ALSO SHOWING
May 01, 2009; ... HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE (U) Peter Chelsom (102 mins) *** STARRING Miley Cyrus , actor Surprisingly entertaining, feature-length treatment of the smash-hit TV series, in which Miley Cyrus plays ordinary high-schoolstudent Miley Stewart, transformed by ...
Passions in the clay
May 01, 2009; ... After seven years, AS Byatt returns to large-scale fiction withan epic but intimate novel about bohemian families in love, at workand at war. Boyd Tonkin meets a hands-on artist of the pastFor a writer so often praised, and sometimes scorned, as acerebral conjurer of ideas and ...
Time to gather the daring books of May
May 01, 2009; ... THE WEEK IN BOOKS As night follows day and a juicy book deal follows a crowd-pleasing triumph on a TV talent show, so critics of publishingfollies will always accuse the industry of hype. True, even in theseskinflint days, bargain-basement writing will attract de luxepublicity ...
TASH AW
May 01, 2009; ... ONE MINUTE WITH ... WHERE ARE YOU AND WHAT CAN YOU SEE? I'm in London in the basement of my flat, looking out onto thetiniest of courtyards with bamboo trees. WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? I just finished reading Brothers by Yu Hua, which was a huge bookin ...
It all adds up to paranoia
May 01, 2009; ... BOOKS OF THE WEEK Voodoo Histories By David Aaronovitch JONATHANCAPE Pounds 17.99 (356pp) Pounds 16.29 (free p&p) from theIndependnet bookshop: 0870 079 8897 This is the age of the conspiracy theory. In the interstices ofthe internet, no global event happens by accident any more - ...
HELEN FITZGERALD AUTHOR
May 01, 2009; ... RISING STAR At Barlinnie jail in Glasgow, they don't do art by halves. Itsbest-known graduate, Jimmy Boyle, famously transformed himself intoa prolific sculptor and author. Now, from the other side of thebars, parole and probation officer Helen FitzGerald will publish notone but ...
How the geeks broke the banks
May 01, 2009; ... Fool's Gold By Gillian Tett LITTLE, BROWN Pounds 18.99 (338pp)Pounds 17.09 free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 At some point during Gillian Tett's absorbing 15-year gallopacross the Wild West of the world's financial markets, the readerwill find themselves ...
An evolving portrait of the artist as a show-off
May 01, 2009; ... The Art Instinct By Denis Dutton OXFORD Pounds 16.99 (278pp)Pounds 15.39 from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 The explosively rapid evolution, during the Pleistocene epoch, ofthe first and only all-singing, all-dancing animal, with anendlessly ramifying culture transmitted ...
A ragged family's woven lives - before the flood
May 01, 2009; ... Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips JONATHAN CAPE 16.99 (272pp)Pounds 15.39 from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 In the early Eighties, Jayne Anne Phillips's debut, MachineDreams, became one of the most acclaimed novels of the time. Afractured, elusive and inventive tale ...
Heat and lust in the melting pot
May 01, 2009; ... In the Kitchen By Monica Ali DOUBLEDAY Pounds 17.99 (430pp)Pounds 16.99 from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Just over half way through Monica Ali's third novel, GabrielLightfoot, executive chef of the fictional Imperial Hotel onLondon's Piccadilly, has his first funny ...
PAPERBACKS
May 01, 2009; ... Forgotten Fruit By Christopher Stocks WINDMILL Pounds 8.99(298pp) (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Surveying the cornucopia in our supermarkets, we may think thatthis is a time of unparalleled choice for fruit and vegetables, butthe Victorians would have ...
A round trip through rough seas
May 01, 2009; ... Brooklyn By Colm Toibin VIKING Pounds 17.99 (262pp) Pounds 16.19(free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Enniscorthy in the 1950s. Young Eilis, like many others of hergeneration for whom opportunities at home are severely limited,makes - or accepts - the difficult ...
The Way We Live Now By Anthony Trollope
May 01, 2009; ... BOOK OF A LIFETIME By rights, I ought to loathe The Way We Live Now. It starts witha withering portrait of a woman author writing begging letters tothree different literary editors about her new novel. It'sunremittingly racist about Jews and respectful to posh people. Yet I ...
The stars return to New York
May 01, 2009; ... Robert De Niro's Tribeca film festival finally came of age thisyear, overshadowing Cannes and Sundance. Kaleem Aftab was there In the shadow of King Kong, to the south of the Empire StateBuilding, lies the neighbourhood of Tribeca, where this week RobertDe Niro's film festival ...
Recreated, the Tudor garden where an ambitious earl wooed the Virgin Queen
May 01, 2009; ... IT WAS a setting for one of the most famous love stories inEnglish history. The great scented garden that Robert Dudley, theEarl of Leicester, created at Kenilworth Castle, his home inWarwickshire, especially to woo Elizabeth I has been re-created byEnglish Heritage and opens to the ...
School to start at four with new timetable to 'restore creativity'
May 01, 2009; ... Controversy as basics are downgraded to boost drama, computersand talking PLANS FOR the biggest shake-up of primary school teaching sincethe birth of the national curriculum were unveiled yesterday. A government inquiry, carried out by former Ofsted inspector SirJim Rose, ...
Beta plus: some smart thoughts but what's going to happen to tests?
May 01, 2009; ... Commentary At first glance, there is much about Sir Jim Rose's inquiry intothe primary school curriculum to commend. The major complaint aboutthe present state of affairs is that children have become bored withthe rigid concentration on testing - brought about by, inparticular, ...
A historic day for Iraq - but not in the way the British want to believe
May 01, 2009; ... Comment One hundred and seventy-nine dead soldiers. For what? 179,000dead Iraqis? Or is the real figure closer to a million? We don'tknow. And we don't care. We never cared about the Iraqis. That's whywe don't know the figure. That's why we left Basra yesterday. I remember ...
After six years, one month and 11 days, Britain ends its military mission in Iraq
May 01, 2009; ... Troops mark their withdrawal from Basra with ceremony to rememberfallen comradesThe names were read out one by one as a piper played laments. Thefinal goodbye to Iraq was marked by remembering those who will notmake it home. In London, Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, ...
Life-threatening disease is the price we pay for cheap meat
May 01, 2009; ... A swelling number of scientists believe swine flu has nothappened by accident. No: they argue that this global pandemic - andall the deaths we are about to see - is the direct result of ourdemand for cheap meat. So is the way we produce our food reallymaking us sick as a pig? At ...
Quotes of the day
May 01, 2009 ... I feel we can reassure the public that we know what we are doing,we have a clear plan in place and we will do everything possible tomitigate the impact of this. Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson on swine flu I think when the history is written of this ...
This is not the radical reform primary education needs
May 01, 2009 ... Sir Jim Rose's review gives schools insufficient freedom LEADINGARTICLE When Ed Balls commissioned Sir Jim Rose to look into the state ofBritain's primary schools the Education Secretary suggested theresult would be "the most fundamental review of the primarycurriculum for a ...
An oil shock we cannot ignore
May 01, 2009 ... LEADING ARTICLE THERE IS no shortage of ways to measure the cost of palm oil.First there is the catastrophic impact on the wildlife of Malaysiaand Indonesia, whose rainforests are being cleared to grow the crop.The habitat of endangered species, from orangutans to ...
Warm Britannia
May 01, 2009 ... LEADING ARTICLE SOME HOPEFUL news at last. With admirable understatement, the MetOffice is forecasting a summer that will be "warmer than average",at times over 30C, and rainfall "near or below average". Could itbe, could it really be, that we will enjoy a real summer after ...
As the world sees it...
May 01, 2009 ... Barack Obama GLOBE AND MAIL (CANADA) Don't worry, people. There's no need for panic. Swine flu hasreached the phase 5 alert level, which is bad but not disastrous.Barack Obama is on top of it. He has gone on TV to reassure us wedon't need to close the schools yet, just some ...
NUMBERS OF THE DAY
May 01, 2009 ... 7 Days that activist women's groups in Kenya will boycott sex toprotest against violence in the upcoming ...
The Lib Dems may miss their chance
May 01, 2009; ... The hour of his greatest triumph may seem an eccentric time tosuggest this, but this is the perfect moment for Nick Clegg to handVince Cable his job. However dazzling it is, the afterglow from hisGurkhas victory should blind nobody to the fact that under him theLiberal Democrats are ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
May 01, 2009 ... 'A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fairweather and ask ...
Brown's policy in Afghanistan is never going to work
May 01, 2009; ... ON WEDNESDAY Gordon Brown outlined his latest strategy forAfghanistan, by announcing a temporary increase in troops,additional funding to tackle poverty and promote education, and anincreased emphasis on training the Afghan army and police force. Thegreatest weakness in this new approach ...
University is no guarantee of your future
May 01, 2009; ... AS A first-year medical student, I have the privilege of knowingthat my future employment is both a far-off prospect (only comingafter six years of student life) and fairly secure. In fact,employment levels among graduating medical, dental and veterinarystudents are so high that they are ...
Get your barbie ready - we're in for a sizzler
May 01, 2009; ... The Met Office put its neck on the line and forecasts a hot, drysummer After two summers of sodden misery, Britain can look forward to ahot dry summer this year, the Met Office said yesterday in anunusually confident long-range forecast. Announcing that it was "odds-on for a ...
Death rates and complaint levels at every hospital to be published
May 01, 2009; ... Ministers will use fear of publicity to protect patients fromanother NHS scandalDeath rates for every hospital in England were publishedyesterday by the Government for the first time to tighten standardsof NHS care. NHS trusts will be required to report levels of ...
Barclays rises as bulls reclaim FTSE 100
May 01, 2009; ... Market ReportTHE BANKING sector rally persisted last night, with Barclaysclimbing to its highest level since early October as the FTSE 100moved into bull market territory. The lender rose to 281.5p, up 9.8 per cent or 25p, after analystsat RBS raised their earnings ...
Main movers
May 01, 2009 ... UP DSG International 43p (up 5.5p, 14.7 per cent) Launches a fullyunderwritten 311m cash call. MVedanta Resources 1074p (up 88.5p, 9 per cent) Miners strengthenon hopes of an uptick in Chinese demand. Aviva 315.5p (up 20.5p, 7 per cent) Financials rally on ...
What's the history of Poet Laureates, and does the job still mean anything?
May 01, 2009; ... The big question Why are we asking this now? Carol Ann Duffy is expected to be named today as the new PoetLaureate, the first woman to hold that distinction. Her admirerswill consider it belated justice. She was in line for the title 10years ago, but Andrew Motion was ...
We're switching off our computers in the State Department
May 01, 2009; ... Podium THE STATE Department has more than 250 embassy compounds abroad,more than 100 facilities here at home. In total, that adds up to42.5m square feet of office space. We heat buildings near the ArcticCircle and we cool those near the Equator. We power legions ofcomputers, ...