The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from April 2008:
'I'm ready to fall on my face again'
Apr 06, 2008; ... All the main players of cult 1990s sitcom 'Spaced' went on toHollywood careers - except one. Jessica Hynes reveals how she'splaying catch-up with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Jessica Hynes is in a good mood. Hynes - who was JessicaStevenson until last year, when she decided she'd had ...
Naomi Watts
Apr 06, 2008; ... Close-up The actor explains why her latest horror role made her feel soguilty The British-born, Australia-raised star Naomi Watts has twoscreen careers. In one, she's a muse to blue-chip internationalauteurs: she has agonised memorably for David Cronenberg ...
Blaine Harrison
Apr 06, 2008; ... Close-up The Mystery Jets are back - but this time the lead singer won'tbe rocking with Dad It's the beginning of a new era for Blaine Harrison. A few yearsago, when the music scene was awash with Libertines wannabes, hisband Mystery Jets stood out like a sore thumb - not so ...
Bunny peculiar
Apr 06, 2008; ... A former traveller, Emily Gravett found it hard to get hold ofbooks, let alone create them. Now she's picking up awards for herquirky animal fables Most writers are in flight from the day job. Emily Gravett hasnever had one, but fear of the nine-to-five has long been amotivating ...
Deadly traffic on the new Silk Route
Apr 06, 2008; ... Gangsters, profiteers, poisoners and pimps are ripping throughglobal society. A grim new study concludes that peace brings crimeto nations McMafia: Crime without frontiers By Misha Glenny Bodley HeadPounds 20 In James Morton's enthralling work, Gangland ...
Ricochets and reflections
Apr 06, 2008; ... A poet confesses the urge to liberate his inner rock star Gig: The life and times of a rock star fantasist By SimonArmitage Viking Pounds 16.99 "When you're a musician a job is called a gig," explained onefamous father to his confused son. After all, Bart Simpson had ...
Life in the dolls' house
Apr 06, 2008; ... Another cracking, complex tale from an author who belies herchick-lit packaging The Daughter Game By Kate Long Picador Pounds 12.99 Kate Long burst upon the literary scene with her novel The BadMother's Handbook, a gritty, witty slice of northern family lifeserved up in ...
Punched, drunk and disorderly
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Ossians By Doug Johnstone Viking Pounds 12.99 On the cusp of a successful career, fictional indie guitar bandThe Ossians play barnstorming nationalist anthems to their Edinburghfaithful. Their menacing frontman, Connor Alexander, laps up theadulation while posing as the ...
Things fall apart, but data lasts for ever
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Heritage By Will Ashon Faber Pounds 12.99 Surveillance society is a fascinating subject for contemporarynovelists. As political commentators continue to argue the pros andcons of amassing so much information on individuals, and asdevelopments in science allow for ...
Let us worship at the feet of the mighty Rambo
Apr 06, 2008; ... Culture I first heard about Son of Rambow (pictured) on attending theSundance Film Festival last year. A low-budget, independent filmthat was showing out of competition, it was getting such positiveword of mouth that every screening was sold out. I assumed thereason it was going ...
Rocket men
Apr 06, 2008 ... THE COLLECTIVE Five graduates of the 'Spaced' academy Edgar Wright The director of Spaced went on to make Shaun of the Dead and HotFuzz, which he co-wrote with Simon Pegg. Currently preparing aMarvel superhero film, Ant-Man Simon Pegg Now a bona fide ...
Why I love...
Apr 06, 2008 ... Name Gregg Wallace Occupation Masterchef presenter and veg expertPassion A good ruck I talk about vegetables all the time but my secret passion isrugby. It breeds nice brave boys who can look after themselves butget out all their aggression on the pitch. I was a decent hooker ...
High-brow goes hip hop
Apr 06, 2008; ... Parties Every fairy story deserves a happy ending, none more so than thefolk-tale hip-hop spectacular Into the Hoods. After a well-receivedperformance on its opening night at the Novello Theatre lastThursday week, the cast and star guests headed for the subterraneansurrounds of ...
Get your own supper
Apr 06, 2008; ... Trends Urbanites are rediscovering their hunter-gatherer roots asinterest in food provenance reaches a new level. Pheasant-shooting has become the new hot excursion for youngprofessionals. "There are many more pheasants [pictured] beingreared for shoots now," says Lady ...
The Connaught finds a new lodger
Apr 06, 2008; ... Bites It has been over six months since it was confirmed that AngelaHartnett would not be returning to her Gordon Ramsay-backedrestaurant at The Connaught when the famous Mayfair hotel reopenedafter its 60, facelift. In that time those rumoured to have beentaking over at the ...
Star shades for summer
Apr 06, 2008; ... Fashion The semiotics of sunglasses is a complicated business. Briefly,they are about drawing attention to yourself by pretending that thelast thing you want to do is draw attention to yourself. In the pastthe anonymity offered by a generous pair of shades made themindispensable ...
He's back... and this time it's personal
Apr 06, 2008; ... In his latest film, Daniel Craig plays an arrogant,fortysomething British actor who loses his soul in Hollywood. Is hetrying to tell us something? Liz Hoggard interrogates the Bond starabout his risque pet project Daniel Craig is telling me about the first time he kissed a girlas ...
Brian Paddick
Apr 06, 2008; ... Credo Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, 49 I believe ... Ken Livingstone is completely out of touch. He is surrounded byan impenetrable ring of unelected advisors, whose pet subjects onlyoccasionally coincide with what is good for Londoners. I learn from my ...
The strangest jobs in fashion
Apr 06, 2008; ... Soup fetcher, iPod nanny, pencil escort ... if you want to breakinto the world's most glamorous industry, says Victoria Herbert,you've got to be ready to do anything You are to take this pencil to our offices on Mercer Street. MrLagerfeld will be waiting there to sign the copies ....
The love that made Mugabe a monster
Apr 06, 2008; ... He was a young firebrand locked up in a Rhodesian jail. She wasan exile in London, grieving the death of their only son. Here,nearly 40 years on, letters released under the Freedom ofInformation Act reveal how Robert Mugabe's battle to save hisbeloved wife from deportation sowed the ...
Help your child make her own way in the world
Apr 06, 2008; ... How to be happy 'My 28-year-old is still living at home. Much as I love her, I'mbeginning to think she might never leave. I might be partlyresponsible as we became very close when my husband left, but now Ithink we are holding each other back.' K. Step 1 Being a parent is a ...
Not too shabby
Apr 06, 2008; ... Interior designer Russell Sage's home is a mishmash of grandioseEnglish style Interior design is about atmosphere, not what colour the curtainsare. In the end, it doesn't matter which shade you paint your walls;you probably won't even notice after the first time you see it ....
Tulip, madly, deeply
Apr 06, 2008; ... 'Species' tulips are tiny, jewel-like, wild varieties that youwon't find in your local park. Emma Townshend meets their mostpassionate - and erudite - collector Little species tulips sit in a moment's blast of sun, shaking ina gust of breeze. Once, many of these grew only within ...
Well heeled
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE HOT LIST The height of spring fashion Tan-tastic Calf-leather platforms, 435, by ChristianLouboutinwww.matchesfashion.com Patent applied Peep-toe slingbacks, 215, by Marc Jacobs www.matchesfashion.com Vintage glamour Quirky ...
Joseph Carole
Apr 06, 2008; ... Occupation Actor Age 28 Personal style Rehearsal-room rough My style James Sherwood Joe Carole is a stage name, right? I presumeactors choose these to stand out in the credits. Joseph Carole Sadly not true. My real name and mother's maidenname were taken, so I ...
How the west was won
Apr 06, 2008; ... Princess Diana's favourite lunch-spot has been reborn, thanks toits hot, young, smoke-gun-wielding new chef May I offer you a small pre-review before I serve the mainreview? What with the current trend for pre-desserts and post-appetisers, it seems appropriate, and will cost you no ...
Pod almighty
Apr 06, 2008; ... There's nothing so delicious as a sweet, freshly picked springpea. And Skye Gyngell has the recipes to prove it The best way to eat peas is sitting in a vegetable garden on awarm spring day, picking the pods straight from the plant. There isnothing quite like prising open the pod ...
The Forager
Apr 06, 2008; ... Petersham's food sourcer reveals how to find the perfect pea Garden Organic, www.gardenorganic. org.uk Members of this charitybenefit from its seed-sharing scheme and access to more than 27varieties of pea. Adopt-A-Veg, tel: 02476 303 517 Garden Organic also runs thisscheme ...
DarkmansBy Nicola Barker Harper Perennial Pounds 8.99
Apr 06, 2008; ... ***** The protagonist of Darkmans, Daniel Beede, is one of NicolaBarker's more bizarre characters. He's on a mission to stop Ashfordin Kent from becoming a place with no discernible past or memorablepresent. Developers have erased much of the past in their rush tobuild the rail ...
Looking for the Big B: Bollywood, Bachchan and me By Jessica Hines Bloomsbury Pounds 8.99
Apr 06, 2008; ... **** The Hindi film star Amitabh Bachchan is, according to JessicaHines, "a cross between Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Elvis, but withmore than a hint of John Travolta". Hines is an English woman in herearly thirties with a passion for Bollywood, a chatty writing styleand a quirky ...
Let Me Stand Alone: The journals of Rachel Corrie ed the Corrie family Granta Pounds 7.99
Apr 06, 2008; ... **** In 2003, 24-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed by a bulldozerwhile trying to stop the Israeli demolition of a Palestinian home onthe Gaza Strip. If she'd lived, she would possibly have had asuccessful writing career and, most likely, none of this materialwould have been ...
The AmnesiacBy Sam Taylor Faber Pounds 7.99
Apr 06, 2008; ... ** James Purdew, the protagonist of this awkward novel, isbedevilled by two serious problems: large gaps in his memory and anauthor who can't resist foisting his influences on his readers.Losing yourself in a story is hard work when the main character veryquickly finds a ...
Essentials
Apr 06, 2008; ... People don't recognise me from one year to the next; I'mconstantly experimenting with my look. I think I've tried everyhaircut and colour going, although I stick with the same salon -Lockonego on the King's Road in west London (www.lockonego.com). Strong women with an equally ...
Those who can, teach
Apr 06, 2008; ... How to Write a How to Write Book By Brian Piddock Neil RhodesBooks Pounds 7.99 ***** Who is Brian Piddock and does it matter? When did you last pickup a "How to Write" book and remember seeing the author's name on aposter in Waterstone's (Stephen King excepted)? The thing ...
'Work? Who needs it?'
Apr 06, 2008; ... Tim Ferriss used to be a 12-hour-a-day desk-slave. Then hefigured out how to be just as successful (and 10 times happier)working a four-hour week. So what's his secret? Timothy Ferriss realised his life had reached a critical pointwhen a departing girlfriend presented him with a ...
Barry Humprhies & Jeffrey Archer
Apr 06, 2008; ... How we met 'He survived all the indignities like a cartoon cat that's beenrun over by a steamroller' Barry Humphries 74 is an Australian comedian, and creator of Dame Edna Everage andcultural attache Sir Les Patterson. He lives in west London with hisfourth wife, ...
Seth Lakeman
Apr 06, 2008; ... Music Today Sunday 11am Five For decades, folk music has had an image problem. Since itsSixties heyday, it has carried with it a tired stereotype of facialhair, knitted waistcoasts and warm beer. Until now, that is. A new generation of young, folk-influenced musicians is ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No. 947
Apr 06, 2008 ... SC FOR 19/3Ac By Mass The entries marked "?" have something in common suggested by theunclued answer(s) indicated above the grid, forming the puzzle'stitle Across 1 ? (3) 3 See 19 7 Spanish ranch (8) 8 Nobleman (4) 9 Inward direction of ...
POKER By Nic Szeremeta
Apr 06, 2008; ... To the majority of recent recruits, the name Texas hold 'em issynonymous with poker. A similar situation occurred when the gamewas born. Then, "poker" was taken to mean five-card draw, as thiswas the only form of the game which existed. Now, there are threetypes of hold 'em, each of ...
Tulips, dance ... you can't touch the Dutch
Apr 06, 2008; ... The stage effects raise a gasp from the audience, the dancing ismagnificent, but the choreography induces a sense of deja vu Nederlands Dans Theater Sadler's Wells LONDON Dance No one takes contemporary dance more seriously than the Dutch.They fund it handsomely, ...
He's a rather craggy icon these days, but the eyes still have it
Apr 06, 2008; ... Kris Kristofferson Royal Albert Hall LONDON Be Your Own Pet AudioBRIGHTON Rock Two eyes, blue as swimming pools that made you want to dive intothem. These, as much as anything he ever did behind a microphone,were Kris Kristofferson's selling points. To locate them now, ...
Golden days of gore, and sawn-off ninjas
Apr 06, 2008; ... You don't have to have been a 10-year-old in 1982 - or even aStallone fan - to fall for this bittersweet nostalgic comedy Son of Rambow Garth Jennings 95 mins, 12A Awake Joby Harold 85mins, 15 Film You know you're old when you start seeing films about the periodof ...
Hark! Is that the sound of the nation switching off its sets?
Apr 06, 2008; ... George Lamb RADIO 6 MUSIC Radio In the latest issue of Viz, Terry Fuckwitt, "the unintelligentcartoon character", has his brain removed and replaced by a dogturd. Seeing a job advertisement seeking someone "clueless", he istold that he's "just who we're looking for to ...
If people tut or storm out, that's all part of the show
Apr 06, 2008; ... Funny Games US Michael Haneke 111 mins, 18 Film 2 In 1997, the Austrian director Michael Haneke gave the film worlda nasty turn with Funny Games, a chilly polemic against screenviolence. The less you know about Funny Games, the more susceptibleyou'll be to Haneke's new ...
INDIE
Apr 06, 2008; ... Jim Noir Jim Noir MY DAD RECORDINGS The army of bedsit Brian Wilsons that began to march astechnology revolutionised the recording process merely went to showhow difficult it was to match the maestro in terms of warmth, wonderand, crucially, songwriting. The same can not be said ...
ROCK
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Long Blondes "Couples" ROUGH TRADE If the Long Blondes' debut was written from the perspective of a"Fifties housewife" who wanted out, then '"Couples"' (the quotationmarks are part of the title) is the testament of someone who's gotout, and is making apprehensive steps back ...
POP
Apr 06, 2008; ... The French pop experimentalist's latest won't make new convertsbut if the vocalised rhythm-generating of 'Le Fil' made you smile,it's this trick which gets moved centre-stage here, with traditionalinstruments playing only a minimal role. The bold resultsoccasionally irritate but are ...
Indy's back! This time with a vengeance
Apr 06, 2008; ... Critic Nicholas Barber looks ahead to a season of fast-pacedadventure flicks COMING SOON - FILM There are no Aztec statuettes for guessing what this spring'sbiggest cinema hit is going to be. It's Indiana Jones and theKingdom of the Crystal Skull (pictured), out on 22 May, ...
Sam Sparro strikes electro pop gold
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE WORD ON THE WEB u-down load.co.uk "There's the voice - a big and beautiful scale-defying vocal thatdips from bold and beautiful to low, sultry and slow. This guy hasserious soul. Sam has also more than mastered the art of melody andknows a killer chorus when he ...
A notable voice makes an incredible journey
Apr 06, 2008; ... Schubert's melancholy narrative of broken love was written forthe male voice. Alice Coote makes it her own Winterreise Wigmore Hall London RPO/Daniel Cadogan Hall London Macbeth Queen Elizabeth Hall London Classical When the 30-year-old Franz Schubert wrote his ...
ROCK
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Breeders Mountain Battles 4AD After a succession of female-fronted bands (the Duke Spirit,Howling Bells, etc) borrowing their dry, grainy sound, the Breedersare sounding oddly contemporary. In this climate, all they'd need todo is reprise their arid minimalism and they'd clean ...
JAZZ
Apr 06, 2008; ... Freddie Redd Shades of Redd BLUE NOTE Redd was a jobbing hard-bop pianist and composer blessed with, inbop terms, a heavenly ear for a "chewn". This fabulous sesh from1961 has seven gorgeous ones on it (plus a couple of alternatetakes), a cooking rhythm section in Paul Chambers and ...
CLASSICAL
Apr 06, 2008; ... Mahler Ninth Symphony - BPO/Simon Rattle EMI Mahler never heard his Ninth Symphony; when it was premiered inVienna in June 1912, under his protege Bruno Walter, he had beendead for a year. Given Mahler's knowledge of his own heart disease,it's not surprising that the Ninth is seen ...
Northern Rock ushers its customers to the exit
Apr 06, 2008 ... MORTGAGES Nationalised bank Northern Rock has said that it aims to repayits 24bn debt to the Bank of England by 2010 and no later. The embattled Rock is aiming to raise the funds by "encouraging"its mortgage customers to switch to other lenders. When thishappens, the ...
New onus on banks to help customers escape the debt trap
Apr 06, 2008 ... LENDING A new version of the UK Banking Code came into force last Monday.The revamped set of standards of good practice, which is voluntary,puts a greater onus on banks to act constructively when theircustomers fall into debt. Banks and building societies signing up to the ...
Stuffed down the back of the sofa: a chance of financial security for children
Apr 06, 2008; ... With family finances more and more strained, Kate Hughes findsparents still failing to grasp the benefits of the Government's tax-free savings gift CHILD TRUST FUNDS If 250 was to be given to each pupil on a certain day at school,parents would move heaven and earth to make ...
This Aveo's no speedwagon - but it could go global for GM
Apr 06, 2008; ... ROAD TEST The old Daewoo Kalos has come a long way; it's now a revampedChevy Aveo. But don't even think about the posher 1.4 as the little1.2 version is much more fun Globalisation. Or, as those who invented the idea would have it,globalization. By all means let's share the ...
Call the first witness: Mr Satan, take the stand
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Almeida LONDON Wedding Day at theCro-Magnons Soho LONDON Jingo Finborough LONDON Theatre Douglas Henshall's Satan, called to the witness box in The LastDays of Judas Iscariot, rises up through the floor looking like anightclub-cruising cad, ...
I'd climb a hill and wear a daffodil to avoid this
Apr 06, 2008; ... Serious theatre is ignored on TV these days, but hey, oompah-pah, oompah-pah that's how it goes I'd Do Anything BBC1 Poppy Shakespeare CHANNEL 4 Hughie Green:Most Sincerely BBC4 Television I'd Do Anything sounded like a new low for reality TV (would you?Really? ...
The high-rise and compact answer for the less than flexibly limbed
Apr 06, 2008; ... CAR CHOICE Michael Kaliszer would like to get a car for his ageing parentswho now have a 1995 Toyota Corolla 1600. His father has a bad hipand has difficulty getting in and out of cars, as indeed doesMichael, so the car should have high seats. Mainly for city driving,the car ...
Macho man
Apr 06, 2008; ... ON THE ROAD While the Audi TT brought a sexy element to the car-maker, itsS5 goes a step further and makes you feel like a bit of a rogue Remember the BMW 850? It was low slung, sleek and preening, andnot a little cheesy. A bit of a cad's car. It was a disaster for ...
DVD
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Darjeeling Limited Retail & Rental 20TH CENTURY FOX Wes Anderson's latest film is a dysfunctional family railroadmovie starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzmann asthree brothers who try to get their lives and their relationshipback on track by going on a train ...
JAZZ
Apr 06, 2008; ... Norma Winstone Distances ECM Whether trilling wordlessly, singing her own poetic lyrics orenacting personal interpretations of jazz standards, the voice ofNorma Winstone has created a uniquely sensitive sound-world for fivedecades. This trio with pianist Glauco Venier and reedsman ...
CLASSICAL
Apr 06, 2008; ... Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge - Mark Padmore/Schubert EnsembleCHANDOS Sharp lines and lucid textures etch a clean instrumentalbackground to Mark Padmore's vocals in Vaughan Williams's Housmancycle, whose "blue remembered hills" provide the location for theseconfessions of a ...
ROCK
Apr 06, 2008; ... Was (Not Was) Boo! RYKODISC Drawing equally from Motown and the MC5, Detroit's Was (Not Was)were big in the Eighties, before Don Was's role as a superstarproducer put the band on the backburner. This first new album fornearly 20 years takes up where they left off, full of smooth ...