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SPORT MARCH 2013 THE HULLFIRE 11THE HULLFIRE Sport Freshers’ Edition 2012THE HULLFIREThe newspaper of Hull University Students’ Union - www.thehullfire.com - Fourth Edition - February 2013
2THE HULLFIRENEWS MARCH 2013 NEWSMARCH 2013THE HULLFIRE2 EDITORIALMARCH 2013THE HULLFIRE2
The Hullfire TeamDeputy EditorRosalind Moody
News EditorEleanor Tremeer
Deputy News Editor Rebekah Palmer
Life Editor Beka [email protected]
Music EditorHannah Ackroyd
Arts EditorsGrace Wood & Lorna Goode
Fashion EditorLorna Goode
Sport Editor Samuel Stevens
Photo Editor Emma Barrott
Online EditorClaire Phillips
Promotions EditorsJulia Corcoran
& Mercedes [email protected]
DesignCaitlin McEvoy
Chair MediaHannah Pomfret
Editor-in-ChiefPippa Eveleigh
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So we’ve just about recovered from elections fever and now we’re looking forward to the Easter holidays and, sadly, another onslaught of exams and essays. Will
it never end? In the mean time, student events have been popping up here, there and everywhere, with a report on the annual Student Conference (page 6) and a push for you to choose the apple of your academic eye with the Student-Led Teaching Awards (page 3). March is a month of investigation, as Gabriella Kane grills the University about how green we really are here at Hull, and Eleanor Tremeer looks into whether the NUS should be supporting more relevant LGBT+ campaigns (page 4). Yet this is also an edition of reflection, with Sport examining the details of Hull’s Varsity win (page 22) and a full list of election results, ready to give insight into next year’s set up. This month, we’re all about the interviews. Acclaimed writer, Rae Earl, of ‘My Mad Fat Diary’ fame, talks candidly to The Hullfire about her experiences with mental illness and her time at the University of Hull. Sam Stevens then has interviews with the former Manchester United midfielder and current Hull City manager, Steve Bruce as well as Hull F.C’s Australian head coach, Peter Gentle - a momentous occasion for The Hullfire; local celebrities all over the place. Next up is Fashion’s interview with Poorboy Boutique, a vintage store in which even some affordable Yves Saint-Laurent has been scouted, so make sure you read on to get the best rooting hints and tips. The interviews roll over into music, with exclusive
chats with an array of Hull based bands including Affairs (page 14) and Little Switzerland, alongside your regular reviews. Fashion this month is all about brightening up the spring blues with the return of another DIY special; get your glitter on with some custom-made heels to see you into spring – much more flattering than an Easter bonnet. We’re also bringing the best of vintage (page 19) as well as a guide about how to care for your one-off pieces. The creativity continues into Art, with the opportunity to enter the English Society’s creative writing competition and the return of ‘One Hundred Words’ –Bruce Willis, get ready to be scrutinised. Of course, March can also only mean one more thing; a celebration of all things Irish with St. Patrick’s day – turn to (page 7) to find out how you can immerse yourself in the luck (and look) of the Green Isle and celebrate ‘til your heart’s content – or all of your essay woes have disappeared into a pint of Guinness. Finally, The Hullfire will be holding its editor elections on Wednesday 13th March, so please do come along. You need to have written at least two articles to run for a position, so get in contact with the relevant editor! We always need writers, so please feel free to get in touch, and keep an eye on the website, www.thehullfire.com, for more online content than ever. Happy Easter, one and all – the holidays can’t come soon enough!
WELCOME TO MARCH
Hannah Pomfret - Chair Media
ELECTION RESULTSAU Communication Officer
AU Events Officer
AU Kit and Equipment Representative
Chair BAME
Chair Campaigns and Democracy
Chair HUSSO
Chair ISA
Chair ISA
Chair LGBT+
Chair Media
Chair RAG
Chair Women’s Committee
Councillors of Scrutiny
Faculty Co-ordinator: Business School
Faculty Co-ordinator: FASS
NUS Delegates
President
Scarborough Community Officer
Scarborough Education Officer
Scarborough Sports Officer
Scarborough Welfare Officer
VP Activities
VP Education
VP Scarborough
VP Sport
VP Welfare and Community
David Gamble
Rachel Holloway
Christopher Devine
Clare Cottrell
Barbara Babz Okerenta
Heather Smith
Kiel Oldfield
Chubike ‘Chuby’ Okide
Adil Qureshi
George Mullen
Tory Cliffe
Emily Tarff
Padraig Cullen, Frank Longdon, Elizabeth Palmer, Thom Rawlinson,Modupeoreoluwa Sanwo, Mayu Sriranjan
Gareth Ikin
Elizabeth Smy
Richard Brooks, Dehenna Davison, Pippa Eveleigh, Rachel Wilcocks,Victoria Winterton
Richard Brooks
James Barker
Simon Hernandez
Tom Sidaway
Nicole Carter
Jamie Boote
Victoria Winterton
Thomas Swainson
Roxy Legane
Brittany Tomlinson
A full breakdown of results is available on www.thehullfire.com
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The Apple of Your EyeLast year saw HUU’s first ever Student Led Teaching Awards. This year the Education Zone are hoping to make them bigger and better!
The Student Led Teaching Awards were developed to celebrate the hard working
university staff who help make your time here in Hull that bit easier and more enjoyable. Students can nominate staff for awards and if their nomination is successful, they will be invited to attend the awards evening on the 30th April. Fourth year student, Tom Hall, who was involved in the creation of last year’s Student Led Teaching Awards, says that the awards are important because ‘they provide students with a great opportunity to give some recognition back to
lecturers and staff that go beyond the module feedback forms.’ Everyone deserves to be rewarded for their hard work and our academic and support staff are no different.
There are 9 awards, ranging from the ‘Inspiring Teaching Award’ to the ‘Departmental Admin and Support Staff Award,’ and this variety ensures that all members of staff here at the
university have a chance for their hard work to be recognised. In order for the awards to achieve their full potential, students must put forward nominations. Nomination forms
can be found online at www.hullstudent.com and must be completed by 15th March; there’s really no reason that last year’s total of 580 nominations can’t be smashed.
Beka BattensbyLife Editor
Meeting deadlines is stressful for any student, but it can often be
infuriating when you submit your work and are given a feedback sheet that is vague or in some
cases, illegible. Yet many lecturers complain that some students never bother collecting their feedback. It is understandable why feedback is a hot topic amongst the student community. Luckily, Victoria Winterton, Vice-President Education, has pushed the issue of feedback to the forefront and succeeded in promoting the Feedback Campaign. The Feedback Campaign is based on the Feedback Charter ,which outlines what you as a student can expect. This
includes the delivery of feedback within a timeframe of no more than five weeks after the date of submission, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of your work, providing targets for future improvement, explaining
how this can be achieved, and of course not forgetting that the feedback comments must be legible. As of May 2012, the guidelines regarding feedback were included in the Student Charter; a manifestation of what you, as a student can expect from the University. After a walk around campus talking to different students, it became obvious that there seems to be a varied opinion on feedback. Many students were happy with the quality of feedback they received and explained that they would be comfortable approaching their tutors if they needed further clarification. However, one student showed me
her most recent feedback which was of little help and totally illegible, though she had not asked her lecture to clarify in person. It became clear that feedback differs between departments. Some are brilliant at it; others leave a lot of room for improvement. Victoria explained that ‘the Feedback Charter was an excellent achievement but it did not automatically solve the problem.’ This led to the creation of a letter template that can be accessed via the Education page on www.hullstudent.com. The letter can be used as a gentle reminder to your lecturer or tutor of your expectations and their obligations towards you. We all know how busy academics are and that their time is precious but a positive utilizing of this letter template illustrates that you care about your studies and you are eagerly awaiting and appreciative of the feedback that may have taken forty minutes of their time to complete. So the solution becomes
clear - just ask. Academics are not dragons that will spit fire at you if you ask the wrong question at the wrong time. Lecturing is their chosen vocation,
reached after years upon years of hard study and in theory, based on a love of their chosen subject. They want their students to succeed. The Feedback Charter is a brilliant idea and a win-win for students and teaching staff. However, the only issue that occurs is its lack of use. The concept of the Feedback Charter and the idea behind the letter template is to make it easier for you as a student to voice your concerns in a reasonable manner, and in doing so, allows your lecturers and tutors to address the issues. These are key skills necessary for the world outside University. Nothing ever improves if nobody ever bothers to do something about it. VP Education has pushed the issue of feedback as far as she can; it is now up to the students to ensure its success.
Hollie Devanney
Feed your feedback monster
“It became clear that feedback
differs between departments.”
“Academics are not dragons.”“This includes the
delivery of feedback within the timeframe of no more than five
weeks.”
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Photo byHull Student
Face the facts, and collect your feedback
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135,000 tonnes of waste are generated in Hull alone each year. Now, worrying about
the bins of an entire city is an enormous undertaking, but what about the food waste generated within our own community, inside and around the University? As students and residents of Hull, both you and I contribute to this, and so I was keen to find out about what the University does with food waste and whether it is a problem that is tackled at all. In 2012, the People and Planet Green League assessed the University of Hull and looked at their performance in a number of environmental fields such as ‘Renewable Energy’ and ‘Carbon Reduction’. One of the areas that the University campus scored poorly in, with a grade of 3 out
of a possible 8, was ‘Waste and Recycling.’ Put of all the waste, 51.68% is recycled, whereas it is expected that many institutions should achieve recycling rates of 70%. I decided to investigate whether some of the campus’ busiest food distributers were engaged in the war on food waste.
Sanctuary is a thriving focal point on campus, serving food to scores of students every day. I set out to discover how much of an issue food wastage is, and whether they have any policies put in place regarding it. I spoke to the
Catering Manager of the Union, Matt Steele, to find out about what happens to surplus and leftover food from a kitchen perspective. Matt told me that within the Sanctuary kitchen, “things are run very tightly” to ensure that minimal food ends up going to waste. This begins at the ordering process – “we only order what we need, making sure not to buy too many fresh products. The kitchen staff are good at controlling the food” and as most of the food and ingredients for the menu purchased are frozen, it can be kept then defrosted when needed. Fresh food is, of course, more of a problem, due to its perishable nature. Matt says, however, that “most of the food that ends up in waste is the food that is scraped off the plates”. Food that is approaching the sell by date is sometimes sold off cheap. Mostly though, they run a ‘Sale or Return’ policy, whereby food about to go off is sent back to the supplier and the shop is credited in return. One alternative that Staff House employ to adequately dispose of food waste is to macerate it - the food is ground down to a pulp, which is then easier to handle and can be pumped into the sewage
system. And what of the faraway land of The Lawns, which feeds over eight hundred students? They did used to have a macerator, however it is currently broken down so all food is sent to general waste. There must be a solution to prevent the masses of food scraps leftover on plates from being added to enormous landfill heaps. Chris King, Environmental Manager at the University says that “this is an obvious thing to try and tackle” in order to improve the University’s Carbon Footprint. An idea that is currently being looked into is the purchase of an In-vessel composter, also known as a ‘Rocket composter”. No, it doesn’t launch rubbish into the depths of space (the cost would be astronomical), but as speedily and vigorously as a rocket, it breaks food down into compost in only two weeks. All food waste can be added, including bones, and the process produces no mess, noise or smell. The idea has gained support from the Grounds
Manager and Commercial Services, as compost is a rich and fertile substance that can be used on the fields and flowerbeds around the University. Chris says that if we were to acquire one, it would be used to compost food from across the University- Staff House, University House and the Lawns. However it is a ‘slow-burning process’. To buy one and set it in operation would cost between £30,000 and £40,000, so it would be a large investment. The University ensures that other materials are recycled, so food waste seems to be the next logical step. As well as on campus, we can all acknowledge how much food we waste within our own homes. Retailers and consumers discard 300 million tonnes of food worldwide, half of which is fit for consumption. This amount is sufficient to feed the estimated 900 million hungry people in the world - let’s all be conscious of how much we’re throwing away and what it’s doing to the earth. For more information on
what you can do, go to http://www.thinkeatsave.org/
In the mean time please look out for your new waste and recycling information pack! It will be dropping through letterboxes later this month and includes important information about the move to fortnightly black bin collections in April 2013. Top tips for preparing for fortnightly collections: Stick the calendars on your fridge or a prominent place to help not only yourselves but new students next year to use the scheme, find out what can be recycled at www.hullcc.gov.uk, so you can reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill. Any rubbish left outside the bin, such as on the pavement, will not be collected, but you can order more recycling bins and food liners for your property free of charge. Please help to keep Hull a clean, tidy and environmentally friendly place to live.
Gabriella Kane
Don’t be wasteful!Gabriella Kane investigates food waste at Hull University
“135,000 tonnes of waste are generated in Hull alone each year.”
“Most of the food that ends up in waste is the food that is scraped off
the plates.”
Weird World is back as Rebekah Palmer takes a look at a new
Student Beans take onquantifying the quality of
housing using slugs.
The current graduate buzzwordis employability, with this in
mind, Jeremy Barras looks into plans for curriculum reform.
Weird World- University Slug
League
Viva LaRevolution
Abbie Cavendish looks into the recent discovery of HUSSO
documents dating right back tothe roots of the organisation.
HUSSO History Uncovered
With a debate surroundingunpaid work and the summer approaching, Dalia el Gaddal
looks into the world of internships.
Internships
Evi Tremeer assessesrecent changes in marital law
and how this - and other issues - are at the forefront of student LGBT movements right now.
Hullfireinvestigates
equal marriage
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Welcome to the year of Snake
Over three hundred people including domestic and international students
went to Staff House to enjoy the Chinese New Year event on 10th February. Hosted by Buddy Scheme along with the Chinese Student Scholars Association (CSSA) and the International Students Association (ISA), the event was a great success for the promotion of Chinese culture in the University of Hull.
The afternoon was full of traditional Chinese elements with special shows, food and several interactive activities. With Chinese best wishes such as: ‘May you be prosperous’ on red balloons, every part of the Lindsey Suite was decorated in traditional Chinese
red. Red packets and fortune cookies were given as presents to everyone at entrance. At the
beginning of the show, Ms. Dong Huiming, along with her students who are studying Chinese in the Language Institution, sang ‘Jasmine Flower’, one of the Chinese songs best-known to Western audiences, and another classic Chinese folk song. The show reached its climax when CSSA members played lion dance and beating drum. Fried prawn slices with special Chinese sauces, dim sum and spring rolls were foods not to be missed during Chinese Lunar New Year. All students seemed
to enjoy themselves and the Chinese students were proud to
show off their culture to the University. The interactive
activities from copying a model of calligraphy to playing Mah-jongg, not only demonstrated rich Chinese culture but also
encouraged students to get involved.
“It’s a great opportunity to practice my Chinese and I like the food here,” Andy, a student studying Chinese, said. Richard, a Chinese student who studies business also commented: “I am so happy that lots of people are
interested in Chinese culture. I have had a wonderful day in Staff House.” The event seemed to be more popular than expected as many people queued in line for food but didn’t end up getting any. Perhaps next year the event will be even bigger. With the fast developing Chinese economy, Chinese culture is becoming more attractive than ever. Welcome the year of Snake, may it bring you gracious morality, great wisdom and fi nancial fortune.
Stephanie Lee
“A great success for the promotion of Chinese
culture in the University of Hull.”
Photo bySabastien Bertrand
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Hotly debated chicken goujons, canapés and late afternoon tea and cake, it
could only be this year’s Student Conference. On Wednesday 20th March students gathered for the annual student conference led by Vice-President Education, Victoria Winterton. The theme was What is next for the Hull Graduate? ‘Educate, Empower, Employ’, thus Calie Pistorius (Vice Chancellor) opened the event with a speech about the University’s commitment to producing skilled Hull graduates. Pistorius placed emphasis on the phrase ‘student experience’ and how we can break this down into a number of areas including academia, application of skills and social innovation amongst others, in order to create a confident, independent, perpetual learner. Questions were then aimed briefly at the Vice Chancellor; one example from Fatima-Zahra Ibrahim was “what can students do, and what is the University doing, to give the University of Hull the best reputation?” The conference then split into three groups. The first was hosted by the Union on the topic of what volunteering can do for your career. The second was provided by the enterprise centre, adding a fourth ‘E’ to the topic of the day with enterprise - the rules of engagement and how to beat the system. The third workshop was tailored by the Careers Service which was refreshingly positive concerning the outlook for graduates at Hull. Tea and cake were served by the time the conference returned. May The Hullfire congratulate whoever chose the pieces of cake - biggest pieces of cake ever; you made students very happy that day; lemon drizzle, carrot, chocolate, victoria sponge and various hot drinks. After this civilised break the panel debate begun. VP Education chaired the discussion with Lord Christopher Haskins and Judith Donovan on her left and Pippa Eveleigh, Rachel Wenstone and Glenn Burgess
Rebekah PalmerDeputy News Editor
on the right. Pippa Eveleigh, VP Community, made valuable contributions to the discussion drawing on her background of volunteering and asking questions for the audience to think about such as: “are we volunteering to build our CVs or to actually build our skillbase?” Rachel Wenstone, NUS Vice-President Higher Education, also had clear input with her take on the buzz-phrase ‘student experience’ suggesting that the importance of the plural ‘student experiences’ is more pressing. Glenn Burgess, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of Hull, drew on his experience of education in New Zealand in comparison with the UK and contributed to answering questions on student disability discrimination and international student worries. Judith Donovan, CBE, Hull University Union Trustee, became a charismatic part of the panel as she opened
with: ‘I don’t give a damn about education’; her focus was on the skills that graduates can bring forth, no matter what their degree discipline and where graduates fail at interview. However, the show was stolen by Lord Christopher Haskins, Chair of the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership and member of University Court, who shared some of Donovan’s opinions, particularly ones prompted by a question about students becoming customers. Haskins had the entire room alive with laughter at his wonderful line: ‘there’s not nearly enough of students blowing stuff up as there was 50 years ago.’ Overall, the conference was a great success with a relevant and enthusiastic theme and fantastic speakers. Let’s hope Student Conference 2014 sees the same quality and the return of the chicken goujons.
“May The Hullfire congratulate whoever
chose the pieces of cake, biggest pieces of cake
ever; you made students very happy that day.”
StudentConference 2013
Marking the second year of organising Raising and Giving Week, the
2013 edition run by MedSoc with the aid of RAG was a huge success. Running from February 11th – 17th, our aim of the week was to not only raise as much money for charity as possible, but also to integrate with other University societies and to ensure that students from all disciplines worked together in representing Hull University Union. The MedSoc team of Thomas Robbins, Emma Carroll, Oliver Kemp, Ritika Rampal, Christian Wake, Samuel Pattison, Layth Hendow, Laura Cunliffe, Danielle Reville, and Monika Peltola from RAG worked tirelessly to ensure a week’s worth of events were planned and executed to the highest quality. The support from HUU, especially from Adam Sheridan and VP Community Pippa Eveleigh, was invaluable for guaranteeing all events were publicised, supported and safe. The week kicked off with a 48 Hour CPR ran by MedSoc and LINKS in aid of the British Heart Foundation. 192 volunteers of staff and students offered their time and collected sponsorship in putting together a continuous 48 Hour cycle of CPR. Medical Students Ayse Djhait, Anna Harlinska, Sushma Datla, Fiona Hargreaves and Lili May from LINKS planned all aspects of the event including assigning volunteers in teams, organising prizes for the tombola and helping volunteers to bake an array of cakes and cookies for a two day bake sale. Tuesday saw the return of Catwalk Calling. Put on by Sexpression and headed by medical students Olivia Sjokvist and Susannah Henderson, the team put together a fantastic show featuring lines representing the four seasons. With models scouted, clothing donated from top lines and volunteers armed with stage directions the show was a
huge success. All in aid of Access: Health’s “Project Mwezi”, the hard work put in by the team was noticed and came across in an exquisite night of fashion, beauty and dance. With Valentine’s Day falling on Thursday 14th, MedSoc organised for talented musicians to busk around campus during
the day. The music was well received with a lot of
money donated to the charities of the day – a combination of local hospices.
The Dance society featured for
the second time in RAG week with an exceptional flash mob for which they were able to show off their impressive skills
during the lunch time rush. As it began to turn to night,
Emma, Laura and Monika prepared for the second
event of the day, aimed at the singletons of the University. Take Me Out RAG Week edition headlined. with our very
own VP Community Pippa Eveleigh
hosting. The show had an impressive turn out of spectators to watch the 30 girls and 5 guys find a date. The
tech team, Daniel Sapier, Catherine
McGow and George Mullen, worked non-stop behind the scenes and on the day to put together a superb presentation of
lights, music and videos of the contestants and their
friends. In aid of Prostate Cancer UK, the support from the staff and students was outstanding and meant that we were able to raise a lot of money for such a great cause as well as to find a few
lucky people some dates! Friday saw the societies getting involved and raising awareness for their own causes. Marrow set up a fun fair booth including a coconut shy in support of Anthony Nolan, Language Society had put together a bake sale in the aid of Cancer Research UK, SKIP had pulled their resources to
attempt a continuous skipping competition for their project
in Tanzania and the Japanese Society were teaching how to make origami in support to the orphans in Japan
from the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. Medical
students Layth Hendow and Andrew Ghobrial worked against the clock in ensuring all paper work was completed in time and that the societies had all the resources they required to run the events. The end of the week, Sunday 17th coincided with the White Rose Varsity 2013. As such, members of MedSoc and general volunteers at the University teamed up and took to the fields where, whilst watching some fantastic sport, we collected for AICR (Association for International Cancer Research) by doing a general collection and donating some orange slices to the tired sports man and spectators. Altogether, it was the support and kindness of staff, students and volunteers that determined the success of RAG Week 2013. With far too many to thank, including India Jordan, Alex O’Brien, Michael Garrod and Jonathan Hall, to name a few, none of the week would have been possible without everyone’s support. However, it goes without
saying that it was down to the generosity of everyone who
came to our events and stopped at our stalls that we were able to raise a huge amount of money. A huge
congratulations and thanks goes out to all of
MedSoc, RAG, amd others involved in this fantastic week of events! Also, a special thank you to Timur for running a tight ship and keeping everything under control, even in all of the madness!
Timur D’SouzaMedSoc President
On behalf of Raising and Giving Week Team 2013
“The support from HUU, especially
from Adam Sheridan and VP Community
Pippa Eveleigh, was invaluable
for guaranteeing all events were
publicised, supported and safe.”
Timur D’Souza
RAG Week Round-Up
Photo byEmma Barrott
7THE HULLFIRELIFE MARCH 2013
St. Patrick’s Celebrations
Grow a ginger beard
Raise your chin to the sun with pride by sprouting some bristly red whiskers. Once they’ve grown, you will have a great bushy nest of magnificent ginger power – plait it, curl it, embellish it as meticulously as Queen Elizabeth’s wig. If you’re not ginger, then orange dye will suffice. If you’re a woman, then someone else’s ginger beard stuck to your face will also suffice. Just make sure it’s good quality and fire-resistant.
Green eggs and ham
Your mammy always told you to eat your greens. Well now make
her proud, and make your plate as dazzlingly emerald as the isle itself. Experiment with different shades of green - pasta with pesto, potatoes with parsley, pizza with green peppers, poached pear pie, pistachio pudding parfait - remember, plentiful portions, because St. Patrick’s day only comes once a year! Wash down your feast with a jug of green beer - it looks grand, and will put hairs on yer chest! (And hopefully your face.)
The luck of the Irish
You won’t see any black cats crossing the road today, because it’s lucky. Make the most of the fortune that St. Patrick’s day brings – give a kiss to a pretty gal, wish upon the first evening star, flip a coin into a fountain. Oh, and if you happen to find a four-leafed clover lying about, tuck it into the heel of your left shoe and you’ll
marry the first person that enters the room (better count your lucky stars on this one!).
Raise your glass
A wise oul man once said ‘no one goes thirsty on St Patrick’s day’, and by the grace of God, no truer words were e’er spoken. 13 million pints of Guinness are drunk on St. Patrick’s day, so join the merry folk and have yourself some of the black stuff. Or, if you’re after something a wee bit stronger to elevate your spirits, a naggin of whiskey is guaranteed to warm your cockles and give you a rosy glow. As you raise your glass, call out ‘Sláinte!’ - Gaelic for ‘to your health’!
‘Beannachta na File Pdraig oraibh’ - St. Patrick’s Day blessing upon you!
Gabriella Kane
Lo and behold, the pipes, the pipes are calling. From glen to glen, the day of St Patrick is with us again. This calls for all the gals and fellas of the land to celebrate with a right oul knees up! Here are four ways to join in the craic!
An Irish Hiss-Up
Julia Corcoran
If you asked most students their opinions on St. Patrick’s Day, they would probably declare
it as a day to get drunk, celebrate Irish culture and wear green. Cel-ebrations like this have taken place since at least the 17th Century. This year St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday, the first Sun-day in the Easter holidays, and so many students will be celebrat-ing the day at home. It is likely that many Hull students will at-tend one of the various celebra-tions held across the country, like in Birmingham, where the largest parade in Britain will take place. The real St. Patrick died in 406 AD and is the patron saint of Ireland. When he was 16 he was captured from his home in Brit-ain and taken as a slave to Ire-land, where he lived for six years
before escaping and returning home. Later, after becoming a priest, he returned to Ireland as an Ordained Bishop. St. Patrick’s Day is the 17th March because that was the day St Patrick died While not much is known about St. Patrick’s life, there are many legends surrounding his time in Ireland. The most famous of these legends is the banishing of snakes from Ireland. The story goes that St Patrick was on a hilltop under-taking a 40-day fast when snakes attacked him, and so he chased all the snakes into the sea, and that is why there are no snakes in Ireland. While it is unlikely that there were ever snakes in Ireland, if anyone asks what you know of St. Patrick, you can tell them about the legend of the snake banishing.
Many students don’t know why we celebrate St Patrick’s Day. We at The Hullfire think that’s a real
shame so we thought we’d tell you more.
Cancer itself is a shocking disease and the fact 7000 women are diagnosed with
ovarian cancer is heartbreaking. 42.9% of these women will die within 5 years. So what causes ovarian cancer?It is not exactly known what causes ovarian cancer however many factors can increase your chances. Ovarian cancer occurs when cells rapidly change,
causing a tumour to form in the ovaries. Most people will not have symptoms but in some cases you will feel bloated with pain in your lower abdomen. How can I protect myself against ovarian cancer? 1. The Pill - Stopping ovulation means an egg does not disrupt the cells in your ovary. Being pregnant also has the same effect as an egg is no longer released. 2. Diet – Being overweight or obese is said to increase the risk of ovarian cancer and many other types of cancer. 3. Exercise – Being healthy in
general decreases your chance of contracting cancer. The earlier ovarian cancer is detected, the more likely you are to overcome it. Over the past 30 years survival rates have more than doubled meaning every day more women survive. So take action to prevent ovarian cancer today, it could be life-saving tomorrow.
March is also Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Visit page 6 to find out how RAG have been raising aware-
ness and money.
Amelia DukesonPHOTO BY OVARIAN.ORG.UK
OVARIAN CANCER AWARNESS MONTHMarch is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Amelia Dukeson tells us more
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Photo byZach Dischner
8THE HULLFIRELIFE MARCH 2013 LIFEMARCH 2013THE HULLFIRE8
MAD ABOUT RAE: My Big Fat InterviewMy Big Fat Diary’s hidden star finally reveals all
Rae Earl, the celebrated author behind the book My Mad Fat Diary and the
inspiration behind its subsequent television adaptation, is a proud graduate from the University of Hull. With a personality as flavourful as chip spice – coincidentally a delicacy she was never aware of during her time in Hull – Rae was more than obliging to describe to us how she coped with fighting the intense battle against acute anxiety and OCD. This month, Rae graciously took the time out of her busy schedule to chat to The Hullfire as we find out everything weird, wild and wonderful about the woman behind the words; the woman we have to thank to be the first to literally broadcast her struggles. Although anyone would presume that a full time mother would not have time to accommodate a Skype conversation with a student, my chat with the charming Rae (10am for me, but 9pm later that day for her) lasted more than an hour and a half. Despite being almost 11,000 miles away and her difficult youth 20 years ago, it is obvious that she still has potent memories of how intrusive her mental health was in her adolescent life. “Adolescence is built up to be the best time of your life, but really, it’s just shit,” Rae admits. It’s curious then to understand why mental health problems are barely mentioned in her diaries; instead, overflowing comments of low self-esteem seem to be the main problem of Rae’s unhappy predicament. It sadly reflects how the stigma of mental health in the late 80’s was endorsed even by Rae herself, who says she was just too ashamed to even think about it. Although she still suffers from anxiety, Rae expresses her illness in terms of an invasive problem
akin to alcoholism – “it’s always there. You just have to find what triggers it, and in my case, if I’m stressed, I’d have absolutely no problem going to a counsellor about it. I’m not ashamed at all”. With any incurable but manageable illness, Rae feels that coping with it comes from “getting used to living in my own head”. Anyone over 25, she tells me, should take responsibility for their own support, but Rae would convince anyone under 25 that support is really very necessary for their well-being and development. Whilst at the University of Hull between the years of 1991-1994, Rae had an experience similar to the ones we all seem to have on our beloved campus; she drank Snakebite, enjoyed Tower in her first year whilst living in Ferens Hall, attended the Union’s old-school Saturday night’s ‘The
Stomp’ before moving out to a house in Park Grove, Princes Avenue, in her final years. She was skint, of course, although she later admits that she had it a lot better in terms of finance and opportunities than students do now. Rae also recalls the jealousy she had for a friend’s Marks and Spencer’s beef patty whilst attempting to afford an addiction to Jaffa Cakes and craving any meal that gave variance to “fucking pasta!” Unfortunately Rae’s Park Grove house was frequently burgled, in fact, 4 times in just 10 weeks. Despite police knowing the culprit
of every crime, and remembering how their video would always go missing, Rae looks nostalgic when discussing these more light-hearted topics of her university experience. Although she admits it’s like “a world of its own” – and we can all sympathise with this opinion – it instantly felt like home to her. The city and University “just clicked” with Rae, after a previous enrolment at Essex University and a journey home a week later. She even expresses a moan of homesickness when I twist my laptop around to show her the view of the south end of Newland Avenue out of my bedroom window. Despite being less able to be entirely gregarious, like any student with newfound freedom, Rae just wanted to go out and “get off her tits”. Dance music was the height of club culture; if you remember the warehouse rave in episode five of My Mad Fat Diary, try and imagine a similar one at Hull Docks. Even being able to boast being present at the opening of our John McCarthy Bar in the early nineties, she recalls her greatest night whilst at University was a gig at the Union by comedy legend Bill Hicks. Her gorgeously acerbic sense of humour describes the beauty with which a heckler was assassinated by Hicks’ wit, and she still to this day defines this moment as “the most wonderful thing”. Of course, during studying for her English Literature and English Language degree, she revelled at Welly and Spiders. It’s nice to know some University of Hull rite-of-passage social experiences never change. To counter the weight that her acute anxiety gave her, which she sometimes describes as ‘being in despair’, Rae sought the help she rightly needed. She recommends to any student suffering from a mental health problem to seek help in Student Support Services, who
have a counselling service situated on Cottingham Road. With this highly commendable service a resource to any Hull student, she claims that counselling that good, in the real world, would not be free like it fortunately is here. Like a lot of students, social and academic pressure can be too much to take, especially with the imposition of having to leave behind friends at home and having to “start all over again” at University, empathising with any Fresher who has found their
first year a demanding step up from A-Levels. Rae navigates me through her long therapeutic walks along Cottingham Road and back down via Chanterlands Avenue. However, even with acute panic when preparing for end-of-year exams in her second and final year, she went on to win the Philip
Larkin prize during her time at University. This is
not surprising – Rae expresses the acute times of boredom and unease she felt whilst writing her diaries in short creative poems, perfectly
s h o w c a s i n g her endearing
personality. It seems this “bubbly girl” – as she
described her 17 year old body shape - is now more “smooth and lithe” and still manages to “entertain the crowd” – in fact, the whole nation. What’s more is Rae’s views on the TV series, broadcast in six parts on E4, are nothing but positive. My Mad Fat Diary is, in some people’s eyes, the most unapologetic confrontation of mental illness among young people that popular culture has seen in years, but she originally intended to transform her diaries into a feature for her breakfast show at the local radio station in first Derby and then Leicester. However, My Mad Fat Diary seemed more appropriate to a post-watershed TV series, where one would not be inclined to edit lines such as “watching famine doesn’t stop you wanting sex and fancying George Micheal!’’ to be more family-friendly. The TV series, which she
continues to have to stress is only based on her book, is executively put together by three men in writing, producing and directing roles, a team some would deny could ever do a good job on adapting a teenage girl’s diary. In Rae’s opinion, “gender is erroneous”; Rae happily gave relevant background and would be shown every scriptwriter Tom Bidwell wrote. On many people’s recognition that the TV series is indeed based on a book on her real life experiences, she comically puts her webcam close to her face and responds to their misunderstanding – “I’m real, hello!” she laughs. Rae feels extremely touched by the commendation her work has received. She believes that it got mental health “out there” with a “lightness of touch”, especially with the skill actress Sharon Rooney employs to play the misunderstood 17 year old Rae. Estimating by the amount of people who identify their experiences with Rae’s struggles, it’s not a surprise that the series has been commissioned for a second series, and that Rae has gone on to start her next books for young teens whilst planning to write up the second half of her adolescent diaries. Evaluating her past experiences, Rae admits that we she wouldn’t have changed any part of her experience, however tough, because of the good place she is in now. The question lingers in her mind, however, what a normal adolescence would have been like. She guarantees that
when her son - currently a toddler - reaches adolescence, he will never have to cope with the same pressure without her counsel. Now on the other side of her internal conflict against her anxiety, it is perhaps assuring for any young person in a similarly intractable situation to know that the Rae we have gotten to know so up-close and personally has successfully endured the teenage angst to get to the happy place she is in now. One piece of advice from the woman herself? Never cycle from the University campus to Cottingham after a few pints of Snakebite. If you think you may a mental health problem or need to talk confidentially to someone, you are not alone. Hull University Union offers a counselling service at Student Support Services, located on the 3rd floor of the union. Alternatively call 01482 465166 or email [email protected] for impartial support.
Rosalind MoodyDeputy Editor
“It’s always there. You just have to
find what triggers it, and in my case, if I’m stressed, I’d have absolutely no problem going to a counsellor about it. I’m not ashamed at
all.”
“‘My Mad Fat Diary is, in some people’s eyes, the
most unapologetic confrontation
of mental illness among young people that popular culture has seen in years.”
“[The TV series] got mental health “out there” with a
“lightness of touch.”
Photo bythetelegraph.co.uk
9THE HULLFIRELIFE MARCH 2013
Careers, Jobs, & VolunteeringYour career in computer software is as easy as APD
The typical University of Hull student would walk past this company every time
they take a trip to the gym, sit an exam, or play in a sports match. Adjacent to the sports fi eld proudly stands APD Communications LTD, a 28-year-old business made up of 70% software engineering graduates from our beloved University. And for you software engineering undergraduates, it could be your fi rst step into the industry. The Hullfi re meets with its PMO analyst to explore how unveiling its invisibility to engineering students could mean an easier start to a career than some may think. Claire Clark, a software engineering graduate of nine years, describes just how enjoyable it is to work at APD Comms LTD, a stone’s throw from where she sat her own exams for her degree. But how is this relevant to you, the students of Hull University who undoubtedly are about to graduate with more worries about your career than plans for it? The company boasts a brilliantly friendly atmosphere, and is obviously a place where its employees love to work and its customers - such as the UK Police Force, the Romanian government and the London Underground - are happy to continue using. Claire describes how proud she is to work there when a 999 police call video clip shows the offi cer receiving the phone call using a specially
designed phone call operating system designed by the company. ‘It just goes to show how important quality control is,’ Claire remarks. It certainly is exciting to be around the intricate machines and testing software that could potentially save lives, and all from our campus. The company already puts on mock interviews via the Careers Service and mentors third year students on their projects and products, giving advice and tips about giving presentations. A vital support to students’ degrees, it decorates their CVs with professional accreditation from a well-known company. Any intern would be expected to have full software lifecycle knowledge, and knowledge of modern programming languages. Advantaged students would be interactive, have a confi dent personality and liaise effortlessly with customers; all of which may mean cross-continental relationships forming with their APD Comms LTD customers in Romania and - wait for it - Abu Dhabi. Whoever said software engineering wasn’t glamourous
hasn’t worked here! And undergraduates need not be put off by recession and a poor UK graduate job market – Claire encourages me to know that it’s ‘a good time for this industry’. She continues by telling me that there is a ‘healthy competition in the market for engineers’. Additionally, the more ‘fruitful’ the competition, the higher the competitive salaries climb. The more the industry grows and adapts to customers’ needs, the more job roles are created. Claire boasts that the role of PMO analyst was created only a few years ago, the shoes of which she was happy to step into. You never know what kind of job for you is just round the corner.
For workshops on CVs and Interviews, Women in IT, Agile
Software Development, and Test Driven Development, go to the University Career Services at
www.hull.ac.uk/student/careers.Alternatively, if you are studying
a degree relevant to software engineering and would like to intern or apply for permanent
work, send a CV and covering let-ter to recruitment@apdcomms.
com by 30th March 2013. www.apdcomms.com.
APD Communications LTD has also been nominated and
shortlisted for an award at the National Graduate Re-cruitment Awards in April, as one of only six companies
nationally in the running for the Award for Excellence in
Careers Service Engagement.
Campus-based company looking for innovative internsRosalind Moody
Deputy EditorPHOTO COURTESY OF APD COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Amnesty for BurmaAndrew Whimster
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We are currently looking for a stu-dent to write a blog on some of the following subjects: Th e many uses of (wooden) bollards, How to build a Gazebo, Outdoor bench, picnic table etc, Enhance your fl owering garden
with a pergolaMin Wage/hour. Deadline 31/3/13. Log
onto hullstudent.com/jobshop to apply.
Calling all aspiring Business Students! World of Work Week puts on a host of March employability workshops
Rosalind MoodyDeputy Editor
to ‘Networking for success’ and ‘Using LinkedIn for career advantage’, anyone who says that their University does not support their future employability has not seen what WoW Week can offer. The week kicks off on Monday 4th March and runs until Friday 8th March. Last year, over 400 students attended 15 events, and this year there are 19 various events in every corner of business and careers, so there is no excuse not to attend at least one. Workshops presented by the lined up executives from companies such as IBM and Graduates Yorkshire are all in fact free. Additionally, to fi nish off the Enterprise Centre Business seminars that have run throughout the entire academic year (in this
case open to students studying any degree), there is an Enterprise Showcase Event on Thursday 7th. Entrepreneurs born out of the Enterprise Centre will exhibit their ideas and companies, making it the pinnacle of professional socialising for the aspiring student.
To sign up for events please visit the World of Work office,
Derwent 105. Schedules are n the WoW ebridge site which all HUBS
students have access to.
Here in the UK we’ve become accustomed to a certain de-gree of personal freedom.
We speak our minds freely - and sometimes loudly. Hardly a day goes by without our government being openly criticised on televi-sion or harangued by journalists and the media. Although such prac-tises sometimes overstep the mark, the ability for the public to have a voice and vote in legitimate elec-tions are the defi ning characteristics of Western democracy. As such, it can be hard to imagine a country where questioning the status quo makes you an enemy of the state. This is the reality of life in Burma that Hull University Amnesty Inter-national are campaigning to stop. The country is ruled by one of the most authoritarian and power-ful military juntas on the planet, the culprit of countless hu-man rights violations. Although a general election was held in 2010 - one which was branded fraudulent by the UN - the military still hold sway over the country with little regard for the lifestyle of its citi-zens. Owning 51% of all busi-nesses within Burma, their control spans not only politics but almost every other aspect of Burmese life. The junta rules with an iron fi st and despite - or perhaps because of - its great riches in precious gems and oil, the country remains a Third
World Country for most of the im-poverished citizens. Furthermore, any and all who express their an-ger for the system are hounded mercilessly. Many peaceful dem-onstrators and opposition politi-cians are simply plucked from the streets and detained without trial or explanation for their disappear-ance. As a result, the number of political prisoners in Burma is un-known, although estimates suggest that there are still hundreds being kept in captivity, many subjected to torture and kept in solitary confi nement for 24 hours a day. Ethnic cleansing is carried out as a matter of course. Execution without trial of men, women and children is common. Rape is con-doned as a weapon of war against their own citizenry, and despite having no foreign military threats,
70% of the budget is spent on the military in con-
trast with only 0.04% spent on public health. The list goes on. Although change is coming to Burma,
their victories have been hard fought, and
with each success the West-ern world grants more leniency
to the junta that is condoning these atrocities. We know from expe-rience that governments will be slow to act and respond to these crimes and as such it falls to us to do what we can to aid their fi ght for the freedoms we take for granted.
This March, the Business School is partnering up with the Enterprise Centre to give
Hull Business School students who want the best career prospects possible all the skills and advice they need to make it happen. From providing workshops from ‘Global Careers: How to fi nd and apply for jobs outside the UK’ and ‘Step into your dream Internship’
JOB OF THE MONTH
10THE HULLFIREMUSIC MARCH 2013 MUSICMARCH 2013THE HULLFIRE10
You can’t deny it; when Fall Out Boy released their new single in February,
your 15 year-old self squealed a little. Rumours of a split in 2010 made their recent addition to the line-up for Reading and Leeds 2013 big news. Having already reached number 5 in the music charts, My Songs Know What
Fall Out Boy
Ciara Hanstock
The pairing of an elderly statesman of British music and a one-time seminal
noise rocker may seem like an odd couple. However, both Thurston Moore and Michael Chapman have forever aimed to radicalise the art of guitar playing. Chapman rose to prominence in the thriving 1960’s British folk scene among contemporaries such as John Martyn and Burt Jansch while Moore is renowned for being the figurehead of the infamous Sonic Youth. Chapman has gathered somewhat of a cult following within the American underground,
but Moore and several other high profile musicians profess long standing admiration for the Yorkshire stalwart who opened the proceedings. His set certainly didn’t disappoint and explained the reasons for such plaudits being an exemplary display of raw folk combining intricate guitar playing with dour lyrics. This blend was demonstrated most acutely in the emblematic Just Another Story, which Chapman described as ‘an
ode to the great American icon, the truck stop
waitress,’ the track epitomised a set which diversely drew from his extensive back catalogue of work. M o o r e followed playing
several tracks from his 2011 album
Demolished Thoughts, a heavily orchestrated
record, however, even without these embellishments, each track live remained as haunting and hypnotic as its original carnation.
The set ebbed and flowed with the dynamic intensity associated with Moore seamlessly entwining aggressive breakdowns with calming melody creating a bizarrely sub-synced sound. It is testament to the consistent quality of his song writing that even without the usual wrecking ball of percussion and absorbing distortion backing him up, he still managed to create something that both recalls the dissonance and painstaking intricacy of Sonic Youth recordings whilst employing a new found sense of intimacy. The night culminated in the pair combining in an anarchic jam which clearly aimed to emulate the dissonant and form warping sounds of Moore’s previous work, but this extended interlude appeared somewhat self-indulgent tainting the pair’s earlier efforts. However, the pair had already excelled themselves and the finale was just a minor blip on a night which saw two incredibly forward thinking artists ply their trade in the most intimate of venues.
Rob Ash
Thurston Moore and Michael Chapman The New Adelphi - 4th February 2013
You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up) seems a fitting song to blast them back onto the music scene. It combines FOB’s traditional sound with a new vibe of energy and enthusiasm for whatever the future may hold. With its typically long title and repetitive yet catchy chorus, it’s clear that Fall Out Boy are on fire.
‘My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up)’
Photo byDavid Emery
‘Best Friends and Hospital Beds’ is the latest single from the Welsh post-hardcore band,
Funeral for a Friend, featured on their most recent album, Conduit. Unlike some of their previous tracks, ‘Best Friends and Hospital Beds’ is much heavier and more aggressive. With Matthew Davies-Kreye leading the track
Funeral For a Friend
with his raw emotional vocals, Kris Coombs-Roberts and Gavin Burrough providing the guitar riffs, Richard Boucher on bass and Pat Lundy, who has replaced Ryan Richards as the bands drummer, it must be said that the five-piece band have definitely returned to their roots with this latest single.
‘Best Friends and Hospital Beds’
James Croft
11THE HULLFIREMUSIC MARCH 2013
was dedicated to the discussion of the band. The original members, Fozzy
and Alex, are BBC Introducing veterans, and hope that this exposure will allow them to present their hard work, as a series of events and tours. This seven-month slog is still enduring for this hardworking band, as their music is yet to be recorded. They are confident, however, that their music will be available to the masses by March. The music on show was definitely of a feel-good nature, involving inventive percussive riffs with well-played guitar, and lyrics suitable for a sunny afternoon pub session or a night with friends. For those interested in watching this talented band, they will be performing on April 2nd at The Sesh, hosted at The Linnet and Lark on Princes Avenue, Hull. The band have Twitter (@little_switz) and Facebook ( w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /littleswitzerlandband) accounts and you can listen to the live set via: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014mwtq
Those local to East Riding’s shores will no doubt be familiar with the infamous
haunt of Little Switzerland; a quartet consisting of John, Chris, Alex and Fozzy. The local boys, who hail from Hessle and
the surrounding areas, prove themselves to live alongside us mere mortals, with careers ranging from events management to helping children with special needs. They brought their musical styles and talents to the mixing desk, in order to reincarnate the line-up of a previous band, and presented themselves in the usual jumper and skinny jeans combo, so familiar to the bands they admire and channel within their song writing and performances. It is very easy to realise that their influences are Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees and Two Door Cinema Club amongst others, and our discussion led to the band confessing that they want to perform alongside these demi-gods of Indie music. The songs they chose to perform from their new set were Tracks and The Lights Are On. Interestingly, they played with full instrumentation, rather than follow the predictable route of live acoustic sets. In order to fully acquaint the audience with
Hannah Robinson
their music, Little Switzerland chose to perform it as they would at any gig. As soon as they begin to establish themselves within the industry, they would love nothing more than to advertise their true acoustic talents. Speaking to the band, they felt it was necessary to hone into their musical ability’s whilst creating the utmost accessibility and identity within their songs. The performance of their newly developed set apparently transported the band members back to the original manifesto of the band - to create fun and summer-filled music that would make people happy. Admittedly, the band began to contort towards a darker genre of music, however the ‘jangly’ creations of their abilities evidently shone through, and allowed the tags of reggae, indie and pop to be added to their genre. An earlier split blaming ominous ‘musical differences’ has allowed them to create a sound reminiscent of festivals and summer, and with performances alongside the likes of Reverend and the Makers and Alt-J, these festivals surely aren’t too far from reach. The band were given an afternoon set at Hull’s 2nd Freedom Festival, which ultimately allowed for publicity amongst BBC legends
such as Peter Levy. The band were misquoted as claiming Levy had ‘dumped’ them for an interview, which soon landed on his agitated ears, and consequently a full 15 minutes of radio show and a segment of the Hull Daily Mail
Battle of the Brass Bands
Ian Walshaw
On the 16th February, twenty seven students represented the University of Hull
at UniBrass, the University Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, which took place at Lancaster University. This was the second year the band competed, and they were praised for their improvement since the 2012 competition by the adjudicators, spectators and a flood of Twitter comments. The band were very proud to come 9th out of 14 competing bands, beating established ensembles Birmingham, Bangor, Durham, Oxford and Cambridge. This is a great improvement on last year’s result, which the band and musical director were very pleased with. Playing a program of five pieces, the band gave it their all for the twenty-five minutes in front of the players, audience and the live video feed streamed online. Renowned brass band networking site www.4barsrest.com reviewed the band as follows: “PLC’s ‘When Thunder Calls’ is delivered with choreographed slickness and musical polish. The portrayal of ‘Donegal Bay’
has a soloist displaying lots of lyrical beauty whilst the quirky march ‘1941’ is full of energy and dynamics. Matt Hall’s tribute to his grandfather which includes snippets from well-known hymns is a little tear-jerker. Lovely bit of playing from cornet and euphonium on show here. Sparke’s
‘The Pioneers’ written to celebrate the launch of The National Children’s Band of Great Britain is full of youthful enthusiasm and endeavour. Overall: Lots of enjoyable stuff from the Hull contingent—they didn’t choose music beyond their means and it paid off for them.” The band would like to thank their soloist, MA Music student Sina Boeker, who performed Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s ‘Donegal Bay’. Sina performed to an excellently high standard on the day, receiving praise from adjudicators David Horsefield and David Childs. A wide variety of playing abilities took part in the contest, from accomplished grade 8 musicians to players who had only been playing a year or two, as well as a mix of music students and non-music students. The band has definitely benefited from the number of new members this year, increasing the social aspect as well as the quality of the music. Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable day in Lancaster for everyone involved, with arguably the band’s best performance to date. As musical director and conductor I would like to thank the band for all the hard work and effort they put in. It certainly paid off! I am sure the success will continue to grow, and the band will improve even more, achieving an even higher result at UniBrass 2014 at the University of Warwick. The band is open to anyone at the University, including staff. Rehearsals are Monday nights, 19:15- 21:15 in L201, the music recital room in the Larkin building. The band take part in the Hull University Music Society (HUMS) concerts at the end of every semester, which are well worth attending to see the music making going on at the University.
(Follow the band on twitter - @HullUniBrass).
Little Switzerland
Photo byIan Rook
Proving Peter Wrong
Photo byunibrass.co.uk
“They felt it was necessary to hone into their musical ability’s
whilst creating the utmost accessibility and
identity within their songs.”
“The music on show was definitely of a feel-good nature, involving
inventive percussive riffs with well-played
guitar, and lyrics suitable for a sunny
afternoon pub session or a night with friends.” “They brought their
musical styles and talents to the mixing
desk, in order to reincarnate the line-up
of a previous band.”
“Playing a program of five pieces, the band
gave it their all for the twenty-five minutes
in front of the players, audience and the live video feed streamed
online.”
SPORT MARCH 2013 THE HULLFIRE 12
MARCH4th - 10th
CAREER LECTURE: Volunteer Overseas with ICS, Mon 4th. PUBLIC LECTURE: Founder’s Day Service, Tues 5th, University Chapel, Hull Campus, 6pm.CAREER LECTURE: All Tues 5th: CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounting, FE Teaching, CV Workshop.CAREER LECTURE: All Weds 6th: Work Placements with STEP, School Direct, Agile Development workshop for IT students, CV workshop for Modern Language students.ARTS LECTURE: Museums, knowledge and objects, Weds 6th, 6pm, Middleton Hall. SS LECTURE: Polyamory Activism, Weds 6th, 4.15pm, Centre for Gender Studies, South East Asia MuseumCAREER LECTURE: Top Tips to secure a Training Contract (Law students), Thurs 7th. ENTERPRISE EVENT: Showcase Event, 7th March. 3pm start - contact Enterprise Centre to book. HULL NEW THEATRE: Guinness World Records Officially Amazing Science Live! Fri 8th, 7pm. CAREER LECTURE: Working at PwC, Fri 8th. CAREER LECTURE: Informal drop in with Aviva, Fri 8th.
SUPER LEAGUE: Friday 8th, Hull F.C vs. Castleford Tigers, 8pm, the KC Stadium. After a toughstart to the seventeenth Super League season, Peter Gentle will be hoping for better fortunesagainst the Tigers. For an exclusive interview with the man himself, head over to the sport section.BASKETBALL: Saturday 9th, Hull Wasps vs. Tees Valley Mohawks II, 6:30pm, Ennerdale Centre.The Wasps close their season with a home tie after just missing out on promotion.ICE HOCKEY: Saturday 9th, Hull Stingrays vs. Dundee, 6:30pm, Bonus Arena. Why not trysomething different and give ice hockey ago?
HULL NEW THEATRE: Boogie Nights, Mon 4th. PLAY: Rutherford and Son, Hull Truck, 5th-9th Mar, 7.45pm. Matinee Sat 9th, 2pm. Tickets £12-17..50. ARTLINK: The Knit & Sew’cial, Weds 6th, 7:45pm–8:45pm, Admission Free. PLAY: Benchmarks IV - Pauline’s Gift at Hull Truck, Tues 6th Mar, 8pm. Tickets £7.50. Late local figure owner of Pauline’s Gift Shop, Princes Av, has a play dedicated to her by best friend. DANCE: Anton and Erin Go to Hollywood at Hull New Theatre, Thurs 7th. 3.30pm and 7.30pm. SECRET POLICEMAN’S BALL: Thurs 7th,7pm, Staff House, Tickets £12. Email [email protected] for tickets. CHARITY JAILBREAK: Hull RAG and KidsCan launch Jailbreak 2013 8th at 4pm -9th at 10pm. PLAY: Wasted, 8th-9th March at Hull Truck, 8pm. Tickets £8-10.
MUSIC: Tomb Raider at Fruit, Mon 4th, £7.30. £2 or free with GAME pre-order of Tomb Raider. MUSIC: Lewis Watson, Weds 6th, Friut. 7.30pm. CLUB: Wednesday 6th: TOWER, Asylum, £3.50 adv./£4 otd, 22:00 - 02:30, Hull’s BIGGEST student night, student anthems, chart hits. WELLY: Fri 8th, ‘Eat your words’ starring Rob Tissera, Ali P, Kelly Milton, Levy & Undercurrent. 10pm-3am. MUSIC: Freak Scene - Mono Life Live! at Fruit, Fri 8th. £4-5.CLUB: Bounce, Crystal Clear and Husski present Zed Bias: 8th Mar, Garage, D&B, Dupstep, House music. Johnny Mac, 10.30pm-3.15am, £5/6 OTD. MUSIC: JOHN OTWAY & WILD WILLY BARRETT at Fruit, Sat 9th, 7.30pm, tickets £11. CLUB: Saturday 9th, BRASSICK, Asylum, £1.75 in adv. 22:00 - 03:00, The Ultimate Student Night.CINEMA: Cult Cinema Sunday at Fruit: Enter the Dragon, Sun 10th, 7-11pm, £4.
For more information on Career Lectures, go to: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/careers/events.asp
13THE HULLFIRELIFE MARCH 2013 LIFEMARCH 2013THE HULLFIRE13
MARCH11th - 17th
MARCH18th - 24th
Mon 18th Easter Vacation starts
MARCH25th - 31st
MUSIC: House presents Eton Messy, Endoflevelbaddie, Plaziuk. Fri 15th Mar, Fruit, tickets £5/7 OTD. Starts 7.30pm.MUSIC: Dark Patrick at The Adelphi, Thurs 14th, tickets £5. CLUB: Wednesday 13th TOWER, Asylum, ANYTHING GOES BUT CLOTHES THEME, £3.50 adv./£4 otd, 22:00 - 02:30, with a special Christmas special theme, Hull’s BIGGEST student night, student anthems, chart hits.CLUB: Full Metal Jacket, March Madness, Fri 15th, 10pm-2.30pm. Free before 11pm, £2.50ADV/3.50 OTD. Huge dose of Alternative Music. MUSIC: Velvet Star at The Adelphi, Sat 16th, tickets £5/7. LIVE MUSIC: Rachel Sermmani @ Fruit, Thurs 14th. £7 tickets available online. CLUB: Saturday 16th, BRASSICK, Asylum, £1.75 in adv. 10pm - 3am, The Ultimate Student Night. Get a picture with Pudsey!
COMEDY: Alan Cochrane, 12 Mar, 7.45pm. Tickets £12. HULL NEW THEATRE: Soul Sister, 11th-16th March. 7.30pm, matinees on Thu/Sat. WISE LECTURE: “Hull & East Riding Green Share”, Tues 12th, 9.30am-1pm. Free + lunch. FILM: The Red Shoes, 13 Mar. 2pm. Tickets £5.50-8. DANCE: Verve by the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 14 Mar, 7.45pm. Tickets £12-15. FILM: Cult Cinema Sunday @ Fruit: A Clockwork Orange. Sun 17th. Doors 7pm, quiz 7.45pm, Film 9pm. £4 adv/£5 OTD.COMEDY: Micky Flanagan - Back in the Game - Weds 13th, Hull City Hall,, 8pm - 1am. CHARITY PJ PARTY: Thurs 14th, 7.30pm, Johnny Mac, £3. COMEDY: Jo Caulfield, 14 Mar. Hull Truck 8pm. Tickets £14. MUSIC: Folk in Hull, 15 Mar. Hull Truck 7.45pm. Tickets £12.PLAY: Thrasher, 15th-16th March, Hull Truck, 8pm. £8-10. PLAY: Middlechild 24 hour plays. Tues 12th, 7.30pm, FREE
FOOTBALL: Saturday 16th, Hull City vs. Nottingham Forest, 3pm, the KC Stadium. The Tigersface Billy Davies’ Nottingham Forest as they chase promotion back to the Premier League. For an exclusive interview with Steve Bruce, flick over to the sport section.SUPER LEAGUE: Saturday 16th March: Huddlesfield Giants vs. Hull F.C, 5:45pm, John Smiths Stadium,AWAY.
INAUGURAL LECTURE: ‘Intersections of philosophy, logic and biology in design’, Mon 11th, 6pm, Middleton HallCAREER LECTURE: All Tues 12th: PwC Insight Day, Insight into Internships - Finance intern.MUSIC LECTURE: Issues in nineteenth-century music, Tues 12th, 4.15pm, Larkin Building, L201. CAREER LECTURE: All Weds 13th: Agile Development workshop for IT students, CV Workshop. LECTURE: Sufferer’s Perspective on Eating Disorders, presented by Dr Marie Reid. Weds 13th, 12.30pm. Dearne building, MR1. MODERN LANG LECTURE: ‘The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of del Toro, Iñárritu, and Cuarón’ Weds 13th, Business Language Bureau (Ferens Building) , 4.30pm.CAREER LECTURE: BPP How to secure your Dream Training Contract (Law students), Thurs 14th. CAREER LECTURE: Graduate Skills Workshop, Fri 15th.11-13th EEK Week
CLUB: Wednesday 20th: TOWER, Asylum, £3.50 adv./£4 otd, 22:00 - 02:30, Hull’s BIGGEST student night, student anthems, chart hits.MUSIC: Juicy - Digs. Fruit, Fri 22nd, tickets £5. 9pm-2.30am.MUSIC: The Lancashire Hotpots at The Adelphi, Sat 23rd, £10/12 OTD. CLUB: Saturday 23rd, BRASSICK, Asylum, £1.75 in adv. 22:00 - 03:00, The Ultimate Student Night.
MUSICAL: Guys and Dolls, 19th-23rd March, Hull New Theatre. KASABIAN: Live at Doncaster Dome, Tues 19th. CENTRE FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING LECTURE: ‘The Power of Ekphrasis’ Thursday 21st, 6.30-7.30pm. Speaker Elizabeth Linklater. RIP LECTURE: ‘Empathy in the phenomenological tradition, ‘ Tues 22nd, LA -LTA, 4.30pm. PLAY: The Firework Maker’s Daughter, based on a story by Philip Pullman, Hull Truck, 23 -26 Mar, Sat 7pm, Mon 1pm & 7pm, Tue 1pm. Tickets £8.50-12.50.
ICE HOCKEY: Saturday 23rd March: Sheffield vs. Hull Stingrays, 7pm. Liked your first experience of ice hockey a fortnight ago? Take the next step and follow the Stingrays all the way to Sheffield.SUPER LEAGUE: Sunday 24th March: Hull KR vs. Castleford Tigers, 6:15pm, Craven Park. Craig Sandercock, KR’s head coach, will be speaking exclusively to The Hullfire next month.
CAREERS LECTURE: Networking for Beginners, Mon 18th.CAREERS LECTURE: Business internship, Tues 19th. DRAMA LECTURE: ‘Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare on Film: Questions of Generic and Cultural Exchange’, Tues 19th, Professor Shormishtha Panja (University of Delhi). Venue: Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre, 12:30 pm.ART LECTURE: ‘The birth of a collection: the early years of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts’ Weds 20th, 6pm Middleton Hall. ENGINEERING LECTURE: ‘Engineering the system’, Weds 20th, Robert Blackburn building, 7pm, refreshments 6.30pm. RELIGION LECTURE: ‘RE and spiritual development’, Weds 20th, Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30pm.GEOGRAPHY LECTURE: ‘Mining geology – resources into reserves’, Thurs 21st, Geography Department, Cohen, 7.30pm. CAREERS LECTURE: Both Thurs 21st: CV workshop, Presentation skillsCAREERS LECTURE: Prepare for interviews, Fri 22nd.
MUSIC: Our Ceasing Voice + Kokomo at The Adelphi, Tues 26th, £6MUSIC: SHADOWS CHASING GHOSTS W/ Hildamay + Urma Sellinger at Fruit, Tues 26th Mar, tickets £8. CLUB: Wednesday 27th: TOWER, Asylum, PARTY ANIMAL THEMED WITH FREE FACE PAINTING, £3.50 adv./£4 otd, 22:00 - 02:30, Hull’s BIGGEST student night, student anthems, chart hits.SOUL NIGHT: Hull Soul Club Modern Night, Thurs 28th, £3 OTD, Beverley Road Soial Club. 8pm - 1.30am. Playing 70’s to present day hits. MUSIC: The Musgraves at Fruit, Fri 29th, 7.30pm. £6.50. CLUB: Saturday 30th, BRASSICK, Asylum, £1.75 in adv. 22:00 - 03:00, The Ultimate Student Night.MUSIC: The Travelling Band at The Adelphi, Sat 30th, £7.50, 8.30pm,
STEREOPHONICS: Live in Doncaster, Mon 25thFILM: Chicken Run, Hull Truck, 26 Mar, 2pm. Tickets £5.50. . CIRCUS: Chinese State Circus come to Hull., Tues 26th, 8pm-10pm. Hull New Theatre. UK Premiere of Ying Yang.PLAY: A Play, a Pie and a Pint - Lil, Hull Truck, 27 Mar, 6pm. Tickets £8. FILM: Jesus Christ Superstar, 28 Mar. Hull Truck, 2pm. £5.50-8. COMEDY: Justin Moorhouse, 30 Mar, Hull Truck, 7.45pmTickets £17.50. MUSIC: EASTER SUNDAY ALL DAYER - Sunday 31st, The Ringside. 2pm-11pm. All Day event to showcase local and out of town bamds. MUSIC EVENTS: Slydigs - ‘never to be tamed’ UK Tour. New Adelphi. Sun 31st, 8pm-11pm. Tickets £8.
SUPER LEAGUE: Friday 29th March: Hull F.C vs. Hull KR, 12:15pm, the KC Stadium. The biggest grudge match in Humberside is renewed after KR raided their hosts during pre-season.FOOTBALL: Saturday 3th March: Huddlesfield Town vs. Hull City, 5:20pm, John Smiths Stadium, AWAY. Fancy an away trip within reach? Hull go west in hunt of three more points to add to their bulging tally, the good news is that it’s also on Sky Sports.
CENTRE FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING LECTURE: ‘A Tale of Two Capitals: York and Nanjing,’ Tuesday 26th, 6.30-7.30pm. Speaker Gillian Waters. This lecture explores the connections between York and Nanjing from the Ming Emperors to city walls, and the silks, chinosierie and ceramics that were traded with York’s merchants.RIP LECTURE AND WORKSHOP: ‘On theories of punishment’, Weds 30th, Meaux Room, Staff House.2:15pm - 3:45pm Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Retributivism in the Spirit of Finnis; Professor Matthew H Kramer (University of Cambridge) 4pm - 7pm Workshop on Theories of Punishment; Papers will be presented by Dr Kimberley Browlee (University of Manchester), Prof. Gerry Johnstone (University of Hull) and Dr Mark Reif (University of Manchester)
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Keeping upwith Affairs
There’s a lot going on in the densely layered and distinctive tracks that Hull
band Affairs have created. I met up with two members of the five-piece to discuss their upcoming EP, tour dates and plans for the future. There are elements of Foals and Friendly Fires in Affairs’ indie-electronic blend, with deep vocals reminiscent of Editors - but making too many comparisons with other bands feels a bit reductive for what is a genuinely unique sound. With such polished, technically adept songs, it’s unsurprising that the band contains several music students. Band members Liam and Dan tell me they record e v e r y t h i n g t h e m s e l v e s , sometimes using the University studios, essentially on a student budget; ‘we are inventive with what we’ve got’ Liam explains. In terms of their music, Dan describes the ‘thick texture’ they aim for with their songs, and this atmospheric quality is immediately apparent on first listen. Affairs have been playing together in Hull for over two years, and they’ve used that time wisely to carve out their niche. They explain that ‘after writing
and writing and writing we’ve finally found the actual sound of what Affairs is. What we actually are, we’re all comfortable with it, things are coming out a lot more together now’. The work has seemingly paid off, they’ve been featured on BBC Introducing, played across the country and even opened for Mercury prize winners Alt-J. They excitedly recall the experience of the Alt-J gig at Fruit but tell me there were ‘maybe twenty, twenty-five people there’ which seems to be the prevailing issue with the music scene in Hull. The lack of foot traffic at Fruit and other local venues have a stifling effect
on live music in the area, for both established
and upcoming acts. Despite being regular fixtures at venues like the Adelphi, Dan says that even with the fantastic nights
and locations the area has to offer,
sometimes ‘we can get more people
to come to our gigs in London than the ones in Hull’.
Because of this, they try not to play locally too often, to avoid ‘diluting’ the crowd, saying that ‘no-one’s going to come and see you every week’. They played their first gig shortly after forming at The Sesh, a local mainstay for upcoming acts. They speak highly of the night and its promoter for encouraging the growth of local artists; ‘if
there’s any place you can promote in Hull, it’s The Sesh. Any new bands, anybody that’s interested in
local music should go to there. And it’s free.’ It appears
there’s something of a disconnection between the vibrant live music scene happening in Hull and where students are actually
going, The Sesh being a prime example of this.
Dan describes it as ‘where the University and the city
break down; everybody in the city knows about Sesh, everybody in the University doesn’t have a clue’. To improve the numbers problem facing many of the local live music venues, they tell me that ‘more people need to get excited about it and for that it needs the local area to be putting on bigger and better acts.’ In order to do so, there needs to be interest from the student population; ‘it’s much more likely to be a University crowd that would go to these things’. Affairs are based in Hull for the foreseeable future, but have upcoming gigs around the country. If you want to support local talent before it flies the nest, be sure to buy their upcoming EP and catch them playing live while you have the chance. Affairs play The Sesh at The Linnet & Lark on the 19th of March.
Links: www.facebook.com/affairs-
bandwww.soundcloud.com/af-
fairsbandwww.affairs.bigcartel.com
Annie Robinson
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Young Jack’s First Steps
Clair Brown
Nothing is more local than your own doorstep. Luke Bowe, Danny Higgins,
Jack Rowland and Jack Allbones form Young Jack, the Indie Pop band reigning from Hull. The band has been together now for only a year and have created their own refined sound in such a short time. Having known each other from school and all having a very strong passion to create music, the four became Young Jack in February 2012. Since then they have moved further out from just playing gigs at local venues like Adelphi and Piper, to cities such as Sheffield, Leeds, Cambridge and London. They do however love to perform local gigs and their recent launch of the single Lucio at Adelphi was “absolutely crazy”. Having only been together for a year now, this band is definitely showing promising signs. Lucio proves this with catchy lyrics inlaid against beautifully refined guitars; I have no doubt that this will become the identifying sound of Young Jack in years to come. The video for the single is just as memorable as the track itself. The simplistic black and white video is contrasted against the crazy masks
the four band mates sport, which creates an extremely strange yet very enjoyable video including a very cute West Highland Terrier. Lucio was released on i-Tunes on February 25th. The band had plenty of fun recording Lucio with the help of Stewart Baxter and The Warren. They say the benefits of choosing
to record at The Warren were the ability to record for free and the top quality production they received. The band also had the help of Charlie Hoggs from Astral Media in filming and editing their video for Lucio. They managed to finish the video within a day and since then say that the finished
video has helped them reach new audiences outside of Hull. Young Jack has recently found themselves a new manager and are hoping to join a label soon. They also hope to record a new single in the next few months but are currently trying to refine their song writing and performance skills. They’re planning to take a break from gigs to write some new songs.
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“Having known each other from school and all having a very strong passion to create music, the four became Young Jack in February 2012.”
“The video for the single is just as memorable
as the track itself. The simplistic black and white video is contrasted against
the crazy masks the four band members sport, creating an
extremely strange yet very enjoyable video with a very cute West
Highland Terrier.”
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25 years after the release of the original Die Hard, John McClane is back. Again.
The baddies are Russian, and McClane is doing what he does best: ‘killing bad guys.’ He’s ditched his white vest, for a white polo, and what remains of his hair is greying, but the
film is still packed with the one liners and dad jokes we’ve come to know and love. It can’t hold a candle to its predecessors, but A Good Day to Die Hard has enough mindless, and poorly aimed shooting to make it an enjoyable watch.
A Good Day to Die Hard
Beka Battensby
Nicholas Hoult’s strange new movie Warm Bodies is a zombie rom-
com based on (predictably) Shakespeare’s Romeo and
Juliet. The movie, though longer than needs be, features a post apocalyptic world where society is divided by a concrete wall separating the dead from the living. Hoult plays thoughtful zombie ‘R’ who kidnaps Julie, the daughter of the chief army general, and eats her boyfriend’s
Warm Bodies
brains in order to get to know her. After keeping her captive in a plane (a sure fire way to win your crush’s affections) they begin to heal the dead with love and re-unite the world with the help of his zombie friends. Touching, but very odd.
Grace WoodArts Editor
Amanda Coplin’s protagonist, Talmadge, works in an orchard at
the turn of the 20th century. He lives a life of quiet solitude, until two heavily pregnant teenagers find their way into his life, and he realises this is his chance to protect them as he never could with his sister, who mysteriously disappeared
years ago. As their lives unfold, Talmadge fights for the girls’ safety while confronting his own troubled past. Coplin’s style of writing will catch you off guard and pull you in. It’s abstract, allowing you into her characters’ minds so that you know them more intimately than you know yourself.
The Orchardist
Heather Phelan
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Hitchcock Blonde is an awkward title fit for an unsettling performance,
one that Terry Johnson splits into two before progressively
exposing the past and present as being linked. The biggest selling point is the emphasis on legacy and not Hitchcock himself. Hitchcock’s effects on his surroundings, both contemporarily and presently, are shown from multiple perspectives. It almost seems
like a companion to the recent film. The play is not for the faint-hearted, though it is fantastically performed and produced. It is worth seeing; Hitchcock Blonde is a stylish, solid and sex-driven affair; a mixture of class and malice.
David Gray
Hitchcock BlondePhoto by
Peter Byrne
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anti-real, bright colours. She also uses black and white photographs for inspiration; she chooses the colours as anchor points from which to draw the spectator into the image. Burkill is fascinated by all things mechanical, and this emerges in her incredible attention to the design details of the bicycles in Mystery Shopper and No Parking. “I never want to place myself in a box,” the artist said of her marked shifts in style. Burkill’s work takes a third shift in the pieces Mere Side and The Mere; gone are the heavy black outlines and bright cobalts, replaced with a dry-brush technique and subdued use of colour. Meg Burkill’s stunning exhibit will be available for viewing at the John Street Gallery (11 John Street, Hull, open Monday to Saturday from 10am – 4pm) until 16 March 2013. Both Sophie Hunter and gallery owner, Jon Parker, have a wealth of enthusiasm and knowledge to share about the pieces on display, and provide excellent guidance for seasoned critics and neophytes alike.
Her early work, exemplified by the three pieces Fragility and Strength 1, 2, and 3, is marked by the aforementioned photorealistic figures. On each canvas these images are presented through a single bubble whose properties warp, fragment and blend the figures together, suspending them in an abstract, ethereal space. What struck me most about these pieces is the illusion of movement and tangibility Burkill creates through her dynamic use of colour, contrast, and shape. Inspired by a family member’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s, in these pieces she represents the nature of memory. Burkill’s later work, represented by such pieces as The Comrade, To the Power of Three and No Parking, shows a sharp departure from the painstaking photorealism of the Fragility and Strength pieces. Working from photographs (many of the images in her early work are drawn from her own memory rather than concrete images), in this more recent phase the painter emphasises the artifice of the subjects on her canvas by delineating them with heavy black outlines and presenting them in
Expecting whimsy from Burkill’s work, I was instead met with some of the most
diverse and skilfully produced paintings I’ve ever seen by a living artist. From the colourful fragment of the painting in the background of the promotional photo for the Meg Burkill exhibit at the John Street Gallery, I was expecting paintings derived from light-hearted inspiration. When I arrived I found the paintings did indeed feature vibrant colours and bold contrasts, but I was also astonished that one artist could create such photo-real yet artificial representations of her subjects. Upon entering the gallery I was greeted by Sophie Hunter, the Gallery Manager, who had first encountered Burkill’s work in a café on Princes Street in Hull. Hunter was swift to distinguish Burkill’s early work from her more recent pieces.
Meg Burkhill ExhibitionJemma Gilboy Photo by
meg-burkill-artist.co.uk
Phil and Ant’s Excellent Film Mini-QuestLike a phoenix from the flame, Phil and Ant’s Excellent Film Adventure is reborn in print. This month Phil and Ant went to see Cloud Atlas
Do you think you’re better than Bronte? Greater than Gaskell? Wittier
than Wilde? The Hull University English Society is teaming up with The Hullfire to give you the chance to showcase your creative talent! We’re looking for pieces of approximately 1,000 words that can be either flash fiction or parts of a larger
piece. The winner will be published in the March edition of the paper and receive a further prize from the society. Entries must be submitted to hulluniversi tyengl [email protected] with the subject ‘The Hullfire Competition’ by no later than Thursday 28th of February.
CreativeWriting
Competition Tom Georgiou
I am going to start this review by plugging my film podcast Phil and Ant’s Excellent Film
Adventure that used to air on the University’s own JamRadio and now will thankfully continue in a somewhat condensed form of this article, but on with the review. Cloud Atlas features a pretty darn impressive ensemble cast including up and comer Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry and the Hollywood veterans Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving and an almost unrecognisable Hugh Grant. The grab-bag of stories that constitute Cloud Atlas are expertly weaved together by the Wachowski cinematic trio, responsible for blockbusters such as the Matrix. I went to see this film with my fellow critic Philip Tolmie who despite taking an arty Creative Writing course at university, wasn’t taken with the artistry of Cloud Atlas. Contrastingly, I am doing a real subject Aquatic Zoology (cue laugh track) and I came out of the cinema like Paul after Damascus. I am pretty sure
I saw some colours that have yet to be invented after my eyes readjusted to the bright Sunday morning light I was left with the question why isn’t Hollywood making more films like that! Cloud Atlas whilst being somewhat action packed, and covering almost
every genre, was snubbed by the Oscars. As one door closes
another opens in the form of cult appreciation. I get the impression that Cloud Atlas’ eclectic mix of genres and
flashy visuals will keep the Wachowskis’ in sex
changes for years to come.
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Leanne Haigh@ Magpie’s Den
Photos by Stephanie Bamber
Denim Shorts £15Black Blouse £14
Sequin Waistcoat £20Hair Garland £8.50
Rebekah Palmer@ Poorboy Boutique
Photos by Grace Wood
Patterned Jumper £15Black Levi Cut Offs £16Leather Rucksack £14
Shoes £19
Kayleigh Cardwell@ Violets and Vintage, and Velvet
Photos by Grace WoodFloral Dress £18
Sunglasses £8Clutch £25
Necklace £14Cameo Ring £8.50
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Spotlight on Poorboy Boutique
Originally New Vintage on the harbour deck, the flagship store for the website www.
poor-boy.co.uk is now comfortable on the bottom deck of Princes Quay. Poorboy Boutique is far bigger than its predecessor allowing for more than just rammed rails: ‘A lot of people shop in colour,’ Andy, the owner, tells us. ‘The way we’ve merchandised the store is in colour blocks so it’s just a lot easier to shop.’ And it works well; the shopper isn’t assaulted by a mish-mash of colours and clashing patterns when first walking into Poorboy Boutique. Not only does the store offer a wide variety of vintage wear for
women but also for men. On the day of the interview there was a men’s brown suede Yves Saint Laurent aviator jacket for only £40. But because each vintage item is unique and one-of-a-kind, that particular jacket will probably be in somebody’s wardrobe by now – bad luck readers! The men’s collection of vintage clothing is also separated from the women’s, decorated with a different style of wallpaper makes this side feel like a gentlemen’s club, especially with the hat mounts on the wall and leather cases. ‘We’re not just selling vintage clothing; we’re selling brands as well,’ Andy goes on to tell us. ‘We’ve got our own brand called Poorboy Remade.’
This in-store brand even includes Levi jackets with American flag lining and army jackets with peace signs on the back - ‘not pure vintage but it’s got that twist.’ Poorboy Boutique’s selection of restyled vintage also makes certain items more modern and wearable. Towards the back of the store is a selection of vintage Levi jeans
that have been restyled to suit today’s fashion.
‘We have original 501 Levi, and then we also do our own remade slim Levi’s. They aren’t skinny jeans, but slim jeans that have
been taken in on the inside leg so you
don’t lose any of the pockets.’ The store also
does a selection of studded Levi and denim cut offs in various shades of blue as well as black. As
Lorna GoodeFashion Editor
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was back, unzipping her dress and getting ready for the other with a crowd of three volunteers helping her into the next outfit, checking their tags, hair and finally make-up before directing them back on stage. Soon there was an influx of models transforming their ensembles, and so the chaos began as various models came and went. The dressers, h o w e v e r , seemed to revel in the stress, revealing that they ‘love a quick change’. Between the seasons was an impressive dance from HUDS, who showed off a variance of skills from ballet to hip-hop. During these performances the models and dressers had a well-earned breather backstage and a chat. It was already emerging from conversation to reveal that
them from the confines caused by the social stigma surrounding menstruation. With four minutes to go, Olivia shouted ‘How we feeling?’, with the reply coming from a male model’s excited ‘whoop!’ The front doors to Asylum were opened – albeit a little late - and the guests began to fill in. Those lucky enough to be in the VIP section looked through their goody bags as they waited and marvelled at the collection of designer perfume and make-up samples. Backstage, the models were already in the first outfits of the night; a selection of dresses from Phase Eight. Rails of clothes backstage were labelled carefully with the name of each model and detailing the accessories that were to go with the outfit. The catwalk burst into life with spring collections and showed a collection of light and colourful outfits, mixing vintage styles with modern. Within seconds the first model
Ten minutes before the Asylum doors opened to allow in the guests
of Catwalk Calling 2013 all wanting to secure the best spots, the scarves decorating the stage were still being attached and safety tape applied to the runway. The mood, however, was calm, and chaos had not yet ensued. Described by Olivia Sjokvist as ‘the calm before the storm’, both she and Susannah Henderson, the organisers behind Catwalk Calling 2013, were enjoying a well-deserved glass of red wine and taking their last chance to give the models and dressers a last-minute pep talk. Everyone was here to raise money for the well-deserving cause Project Mwezi, a project that supports women and girls in Kenya that aims to liberate
Backstage at Catwalk Calling 2013
Lorna GoodeFashion Editor
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presentation of their autumnal collections. Autumn came and went, followed by winter; a collection of coats, scarves and then wedding dresses. When the end of the show approached, the entire backstage party took their own strut down the catwalk and bowed for the audience. The Hullfire would like to give massive congratulations to everyone who took part in the show. A full list of the stores and designers who helped with this amazing show:
Phase EightPoorboy Boutique
boloShelley’s VintageBonita Boutique
Beasley’sThe Magpie’s Den
Barbour Greenwoods Menswear
Karen’s Bridal HouseHair & Make-up by
Afrofusion
that this catwalk was indeed more organised than last year’s. It showed. By the end of summer, the chaos backstage had lessened with everyone growing more
and more accustomed the pattern and rhythm of
the show. On stage, the models began to break from the standardised catwalk struts and started to have fun striking poses and sticking their
tongues out at the audience members
they recognised – something the audience
equally loved. After a brief interval the background sound of rain and corresponding images projected onto the stage told the audience that it was then time for autumn on the catwalk. The models came out waving umbrellas for their
The Hullfire goes behind the curtain at RAG Week’s fashion festivities
Boutique isn’t a regular vintage store. It promises to become
bigger and better, and bring a more intense vintage
store experience to Hull. Their stock is
mainly all purse-friendly; items that include a wide range of men’s and women’s vintage clothing as well
as accessories like bags, scarves,
bow ties, hats and jewellery.
The store also puts on different promotions in store and on their Facebook page, offering discounts during the week. The 20% off student discount on Fridays is definitely worth a ‘like’!
for the brands, Poorboy Boutique stocks the designer brand Emba which is also sold on sites like ASOS and more recently Goldie London, a brand that began in London’s Portobello market, and Pamela Mann tights that range in a variety of colours and patterns. It’s not just clothing at Poorboy Boutique. The lamps, chandeliers, tables and paintings that add to the homely feel and add character to the store are also available to buy – all except the chesterfield in the roomy fitting rooms. Like the rest of the store, the fitting rooms give you room to breathe with large wall mounted mirrors and flattering lighting that does not leave you squinting to see your appearance. It’s safe to say that Poorboy
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How to Take Care of Vintage Worried the washing machine might ruin that 1950’s blouse? Holly Tether tells you how to look after those delicate and irreplaceable vintage pieces
Vintage clothing is something we can all enjoy and appreciate, but it’s
easily forgotten that over time these pieces can deteriorate and they need extra care compared to normal clothes. Firstly, making sure a garment is washable is important; silk is best hand-washed and if it’s wool it should be dry-cleaned. Cotton, linen, polyester, nylon and synthetics are safe to be machine washed. Others like velvet, fur, leather will require special care. Anything beaded should be hand-washed.
With machine-washables, letting them hang inside out before washing lets out any odours including smoke, and if they’ve gotten wet during the day it’s best to let them dry before throwing them into the wash basket to avoid mildew. With older clothes, it’s always important to look over them for weak seams or any holes that have formed. This way you can decide whether it does best to hand wash them to avoid more damage. It only takes two minutes to sew up a broken seam or loose bead. Furthermore, with anything that has zippers and hooks, always make sure they’re fastened or zipped so that they won’t catch and tear any of the material. After washing your vintage
items, always lay them out to dry. Hanging them while wet can cause mis-shaping, and if this has happened whilst washing make sure to reshape it while it’s still wet.
In regards to storing your clothes, the key
is to keep your items dust-free. Natural fabrics like wool need to breathe and so storing them separately in a drawer or dress bag is best.
Padded hangers are also good for furs.
Additionally, scented sachets (which are easily
bought) should be stored with your clothes as they act as a natural insect repellent so you can avoid them creating holes in your garments. Lastly and most importantly, enjoy your vintage clothes!
Holly TetherPHOTO BY STEVEN DEPOLO
find anywhere other than Hull’s Vintage Fair. The room was teeming as eager shoppers jostled to get a closer look at what the stalls had to offer which, in all honesty, was slightly intimidating as you first entered the fair. However, once you had
completed your first lap of the displays you found
yourself joining in with the sport in search of one-of-a-kind buys that you didn’t want anyone else to get their hands on.
Amidst the many rails and displays there
were denim shorts and fur coats galore, but it was the truly unique items that really caught the shoppers’ eyes. This dress was one of many amongst a large selection of unique vintage dresses at one stall. The majority were casual but the glamour that this one had to offer made it stand out amongst the crowd.
For anyone else wandering around Hull City Centre it felt like any other Saturday;
streets buzzing with activity, buskers performing and possibly the odd glimpse of a blue sky that may have made the day slightly unique. But for anyone who shuffled up the steps of the Hull City Hall on 2nd February, they found themselves hurled back in time to decades-gone-by. After waiting in the queue of eager bargain hunters, the first thing that greeted those stepping over the threshold was the unmistakable sound of music from the 40s and 50s. Everywhere you turned rails were piled high with genuine vintage clothing and stalls were scattered with bric-a-brac that you weren’t likely to
In With the OldThe Hullfire elbows through the crowd and digs through the
rails to find their best vintage finds of last month’s HullVintage Fair
Hannah Ackroyd
Bored of your drab, scuffed heels? Here’s a way to really liven them up for less than a fiverWhat you need:
-Acrylic paint and glitter paint in matching colours (found in any craft shop)- Paintbrushes
- A pair of high heels- Masking tape
Step One: Put masking tape around the edge of the heel to prevent paint getting anywhere you don’t want it to.
Step Two: Paint the heel using the acrylic paint (two coats should do).
Step Three: Once the acrylic paint is dry, paint the heel with the glitter and keep painting until you’re satisfied with the overall sparkle.
Step Four: Enjoy your renewed heels!
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VP Sport Harsent leaps to Varsity defence
Paul Harsent, VP Sport at University House, has praised the teams who took
part in this year’s White Rose Varsity while also taking the time to answer a few of his critics. After the title made its way to Hull, with the Clay Pigeon Shooting team completing a whitewash victory over their York opponents, the dust has since settled on a first Varsity triumph for the hosts. Having been behind by a single point after the main day’s competition on 17th February, the shooting team held their nerve to bring the trophy home after three years of trying. Harsent’s opposite number at York, Charlotte Winter, had criticised the organisation of the
tournament, telling York Vision “I think following this weekend we need to really look at Varsity as an event. The organisation
was really poor – receiving the timetable on Friday when the event is on Sunday is ridiculous.”However Harsent, soon to hand over the keys to his office in the Union to the newly-elected VP Sport, Roxy Legane, said “there have been comments about the organisation of the event, and while not everything went as smoothly as it could have leading up to the event, I felt the event went really well, and everyone had a great day culminating with
250-300 people watching the MMA.” Considering York’s Rugby Union and Hockey teams had withdrawn from the event less than a week before, due to a clash with BUCS fixtures, some have found York’s critique
difficult to substantiate. With 2013 presenting a shock result after two years of York domination over the White Rose, Harsent reiterated his pleasure at being the first VP Sport to oversee a successful tournament. “I am really happy to have won
White Rose Varsity, it makes all the hard work that my team and members of staff have put into the event worth it.” In a year where attempting to push sport up the university’s agenda has been a key policy, a Varsity win will surely help the cause.
“There have been some comments
but... I felt the event went really well.”
Jack Shoemark
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Samuel StevensSports Editor
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Hull F.C coach Peter Gentle exclusively tells The Hullfire this month that “trophies will come in time” as his charges take on Super League’s elite in the opening weeks...
Gently does it for steadily improving F.C
With his Airlie Birds facing a number of the country’s big hitters in
the early stages of Super League XVII, Peter Gentle would be excused for feeling slightly hard-done by. An opening day defeat at Headingly, to an authoritative Leeds Rhinos side, was complimented by a tricky trip to St. Helens after the win over Bradford Bulls before Warrington raided the KC Stadium. With just three points collected from the first four games, despite some encouragingly powerful displays, the former Wests Tigers number two is still striving to douse the early baptism of fire. Upon speaking to The Hullfire this summer, the chairman made his pre-season expectations
transparently clear. A “massive club”, with the potential to claim silverware “sooner rather than later”, Adam Pearson believes the Black and Whites need to turn their off-field success “onto the pitch.” Gentle however, who impressed Pearson so much last term he earned a one year contract extension, is more methodical in his approach. “Adam has been terrific” he says from the KC Stadium’s Media
Suite after the pre-match press conference ahead of the heavily anticipated arrival of last year’s Grand Final runners-up. “He knows what he wants and I know what I want but we’re all
very ambitious.” “We understand it’s going to take time but we’re heading in the right direction and there’s a real buzz around the place at the moment.” That hive of optimism was dealt a shuddering blow before a ball was even kicked however as Gareth Ellis, described as their ‘biggest ever signing’, trudged off during the warm up before the o p e n i n g day clash at his former ground. With Hull surrendering to a 36-6 reverse to the Super League champions, despite a promising first half, anxiety swept through the Black and White contingent as news broke of the severity of the England and Great Britain star’s injury.
“The type of player he is, he thinks he’s let everyone at the club down and even feels slightly guilty” Gentle revealed, clearly frustrated by the absence of one of his side’s biggest stars. “The mental side is the toughest thing for him to deal with but we’re looking at twelve weeks until he comes back.” With Ellis needing a foot brace just to walk into training, the depth of the squad at the KC Stadium is now more important than ever with the likes of English international Tom Briscoe along with Daniel Holdsworth needed to step up their duties. “Our recruitment plan was to get depth within the squad because we’ve got a good junior base there to build upon” he says after hearing of the University of Hull’s triumph in this year’s White Rose Varsity. “Well that’s very pleasing indeed”, he tells us, “if any of their folks are good enough, I’ll play them!” Without a rugby league side participating in this year’s contest and with Hull City chairman
Assem Allam contributing a four-figure cash sum last
month just to help them stay afloat, Gentle is all too aware of the lack of opportunities young rugby league players like the ones on campus face. “We’ve tried to attack the junior
levels and the scholarship levels in recent years and,
with a first grade staff here, hopefully we’ll find the next stars here in East Yorkshire.” After watching his side complete the not-so-holy trinity of results to open their campaign, with a defeat on the opening day supplemented with a thunderous
“We’re heading in the right direction and there’s a real buzz around the place.”
“You need the moon to allign and to have an injury-free run, but we definitely
have a shout.”
win over Bradford and a spirited draw away at St. Helens, it would be fair to say that they’ve been harshly treated by the fixtures computer. “I only worry about things I can control”, he assures us, “we just have to play them as they come.” “Actually I think it’s a good
thing, it’s been an interesting challenge for our players and we can see where we’re at.” With his chairman’s “high aspirations” still alive after a tough start, Hull can now set their sights on a top-four place and maybe even a first Super League title since the tournament was founded in 1996. “There’s always a chance and I do believe that we can do it this year”, he suggests, “obviously you need the moon to align for you and have a nice injury-free run but we definitely have a shout”. With Gentle’s confidence acting as a driving force, there seems no reason why Hull F.C cannot start the ignition on an assault towards the play-off places and beyond this term. “Trophies will come in time” is his pledge and, whether or not that applies to the seventeenth season of Super League, the wheels are already set in motion.
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It’s the twelfth day of February, just two before Valentine’s Day, and something
unfamiliar is in the air. As Hull City’s supporters trudge through West Park towards the now ten-year-old KC Stadium, a sense of scepticism is outweighing the familiar smells of burger vans and petrol fumes. Defeat at Brighton’s Falmer Stadium, just three days prior to the visit of mid-table Derby County, has left a bad taste in the mouths of KC regulars. Failing to see past the Seagulls had meant that, yet again, the Tigers had failed to capitalise on the defeats of those above them, resulting in the pens of local journalists beginning to quiver with unease.
Two days later however, courtesy of a virtuoso display from the Egyptian loanee Gedo on his debut, the pressure had been eased slightly with three fortunate points keeping the Tigers within touching distance of the top two. I fi nd myself sat in a box room in Cottingham with other reporters and media staff as a bizarre dose of February sunshine beams through the windows. After being led trough the inner nooks of City’s training ground (and having to navigate my way through fl ying darts in
the players canteen) I eventually fi nd my seat in another offi ce, although this one seems to have more of a purpose. A large desk, smothered in tactic sheets, and an Apple Mac, looking slightly out of place, greet me along with an empty leather chair. After a short wait, in walks the man himself, former Birmingham City and Sunderland manager, Steve Bruce. “Come on then, let’s get this over with” he chuckles to himself as he takes his seat behind the table before hording his paperwork into a pile. Realising he’d probably much rather be having the lunch I’m depriving him of, perhaps I should reassure him I won’t be too much bother. Looking back at me with a mischievously straight face, he replies “I think you could be.” Managing to hold this facade for all of three seconds, he soon fi nds himself giggling under his breath again before looking up. “Fire away, son” he says, immediately treating me to one of his trademark mannerisms, his famously soft Geordie accent. One thing comes across straight away however. He seems a lot calmer then he did on Tuesday night. After watching his side stutter past one of the worst away teams in the division, you’d imagine he’d have a lot to ponder. If the nerves of the Humberside faithful were ‘jangling on their very foundations’ as one reporter had delicately put it earlier in the day, then Bruce, chasing promotion for the third time in his career, seemed keen to look at the bigger picture. “I’ve enjoyed the last six-seven months immensely” he says
as he picks up a squad list from the mound on his desk. “Getting that squad together and being involved again in football – it couldn’t have gone any better if we’re being honest.”Even to his most ardent of detractors, it would be hard to disagree with him. Last summer, the KC’s terraces trembled on the foundations the reporter in
question spoke of as dissent reverberated from every corner of the ground. Following a season of mediocrity, with the departures of Nigel Pearson and Nicky Barmby being largely to blame, Bruce’s appointment was met with a damp sense of pessimism as opposed to a shower of support. The sacking
of Barmby, the player-turned-manager who had clung
onto the club through the harsh winds of the third tier before aiding their meteoric rise to the Premier League, was a diffi cult pill for them to swallow.
However Assem Allam, owner of
the club since late 2010, had began
to slowly weather the storm brewing among the locals as well as the one lashing their yearly fi nancial results. With the debts which had encompassed the club since relegation not being eased by parachute payments, tumbling back into the Championship had infected the club to its deepest r o o t s . Bruce
then, was brought in to oversee a period of stabilisation but, with expectations fl oundering, the crisis actually seemed to act as a stimulus for the current renaissance in fortunes. “What the owner has done here is quite remarkable” affi rms Bruce. Unlike other managers, he doesn’t spend the conversation glancing sideways like so many do when speaking to someone they’ve just met. Rather his eyes home in on you, not in an intimidating manner however, but in a fi rm and authoritative one. “I think everybody who is a Hull City fan should be on their hands and knees for what he’s done because where would we be without him? Probably in a situation like Portsmouth.” Despite the occasional transgression from his fi nancially pragmatic philosophy, most notably the £2.6 million he invested in SC Paderborn’s Nick Proschwitz, Bruce has remained fairly loyal to the youth products brought through the very building in which we’re sitting. With Robbie Brady and James Chester being joined by Corry Evens and Tom Cairney in a starting line-up with an average age of twenty four, there’s been something of a small revolution taking place at the KC Stadium this year. “The squad is young, but it has quality”, insists Bruce, “a lot of the players here are ones I inherited and the vast majority have done fantastically well.” Despite Bruce proving once more that fi nancial clout doesn’t necessarily deliver a knock-out blow in the battle for promotion, something continues to trouble him as the season nears its climax. While his side may be perched among the division’s elite, their “achilles heel” as Bruce puts it, is clear for all to see. With
a goal difference far inferior to the likes
of Cardiff and Watford being confounded by Matty Fryatt and Sone Aluko booking p e r m a n e n t spots on the treatment table, their impotency in front of goal could be the log which
d e r a i l s t h e i r
Samuel StevensSports Editor
PHOTOS COURTESY OF HULL CITY A.F.C
“I’ve enjoyed the last six-seven months
immensely... it couldn’t have gone any better if we’re
being honest.”
campaign. Two days after our chat at the training ground, Hull welcomed Chris Powell’s Charlton Athletic, holders of the best away record outside of the top six going into the clash. If anything epitomized their performance that day, it was Bruce’s programme notes beforehand. “From now until the end of the season it’s all about results” he wrote.
With a Gedo-inspired victory over the Londoners being quickly added to by a barnstorming display against Blackburn Rovers, the table made for more satisfying reading as the anxiety of a week ago was slowly being diluted. With Leicester City, Crystal Palace and, more importantly, Cardiff all dropping points against weaker sides, a maximum haul from three home
games had propelled the Tigers into the
C h a m p i o n s h i p ’s top two and left them just fi ve points behind the leaders. If every team needs one, to climb into
English football’s highest platform,
then Hull City had just completed their
very own defi ning week. Nonetheless Bruce,
disappointed by the “completely disrespectful” manner in which QPR’s DJ Campbell had treated the club on deadline day, still admits to being “wary” of his threadbare attacking options. But in Gedo he has a striker who scored the winner for Egypt in the fi nal of the 2010 African
Cup of Nations and can also boast a further sixteen goals for the Pharaohs. “Some people just want to play in the big games and he’s one of them” said Bruce afterwards. “It’s fair to say he’ll be playing more often now!” With George Boyd joining him through the turnstiles at the KC on loan until the end of the season, as one local reporter wrote “gone are the days when Hull’s promotion party needed a DJ.” As their song choice after the victory over Charlton would suggest, they’re dancing like
Egyptians now.
“What the owner has done here is
quite remarkable.”
“You’re only as good as your strikers... that could be our
achillies heel.”
Exclusive: Bruce climbs the pyramid againTh e Hullfi re is granted behind-the-scenes access to Hull City’s mercurial manager Steve Bruce as his Tigers side, aided by an Egyptian revolution, stalk the Premier League...
“It’s fair to say that Gedo will be playing
more often now!”
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York’s Women Lacrosse side show class as Hull crash
Jack Shoemark
A brave effort from Women’s Lacrosse saw them fall to a defeat at
the hands of an impressive and physical York side. With the luxury of having two sides, York prevailed as a combination of slick interplay and devastating finishing saw the visitors run out winners and claim the 3 points on offer. York featured many of their 1st’s and clearly had come to demonstrate why they are riding high in their BUCS division this season. Straight from the first whistle, York showed great power to cut through the Hull
defence and open the scoring through Barrett. Two further quick-fire goals took the game away from Hull but they showed their own attacking prowess with their first venture forward. A burst of pace from the home side saw them go clear to score and reduce the arrears to 3-1. York’s attack was ruthless. Aggressive running from all positions saw space created and Hull’s defence stretched to its limits. By the end of the first quarter, the score had stretched to 8-1 despite despite the efforts of Hull goalkeeper Liz Smy who pulled off some fine stops in an excellent display The second quarter continued as the first had finished with Hull struggling to gain any momentum and finding themselves under constant pressure. However,
where some sides may have buckled under the pressure and gone into their shells, the Hull side continued to put up a fight with the vocal Abigail Shaw leading by example and encouraging her team mates every step of the way. By the end of the quarter, the score had stretched to 14-2. Hull were coming back into the game with some standout performances by Charlotte Hunt, Emily Hobson and Shaw. The hard graft of Piaf Knight, Meg Norris and Jade Sheldon was not going unnoticed and the Hull support raised their voices to encourage the team onwards. By the end of the quarter, the score had increased to 16-3 as Hull’s defence had battled hard with little reward. The final quarter saw Hull
produce some of their best play in the whole match as they slung out some longer passes and looked to stretch their York opponents for the first time. York, however, continued to show their quality and added five more goals before the final whistle. It could have been more than five but an impressive performance from Dehenna
Davison - in the Hull goal for the 3rd and 4th quarters – ensured York didn’t run away with it too much. The heavy scoreline was harsh on the Hull side who gave their all for the cause against an experienced York side. However at this point of the day, the bigger Varsity picture was just beginning to take shape.
The scent in the air on a Friday morning was of great anticipation for the
start of Hull’s battle of the White Roses. HUGC, commencing the charge, were up against tough opponents. In one of the most emphatic performances ever to have been produced by a man in an HUGC shirt, Allinson steadily recorded an 8-7 victory, almost the maximum amount a golfer can win by. Securing, in excellent fashion, his first ever win for the university golf team in the process, our Varsity campaign had got off to the best possible start. The caddies, including the enthusiastic rookie Ollie Mason in particular, deserve a lot of gratitude from the players for their aid and support all throughout what became a gruelling day of action.As the final putt rolled in on the 11th hole, Mason and Allinson celebrated the victory in front of the decent crowd who were treated to a match dominated by the smooth and consistent play of Allinson supported by the style and simplicity of Mason’s play.
Nick Coultish, the captain, was faced with the on a tough task of taking down an opponent who can boast being a 2 handicapper, ranked twenty second nationally this year in his side’s BUCS campaign. Steadily holding a solid two point lead with just four holes to play, the quality of the York man prevailed, enabling a huge momentum swing in the Hull man’s favour. Coultish, standing one point down on this last tee was unaware of the standing of the game, so had to win the hole to be 100% sure of victory. After hitting the par five green in two, a solid two putt birdie secured a half in the game overall; met by elation of his team mates who already knew of the victory. Vice captain, James May,
persisted with his famous ‘never say die’ attitude
which saw him grind out a narrow, but nonetheless vital, victory. Paul Spencely’s hotly anticipated return to HUGC action
resulted in a seven over win meaning
that the hosts were beginning to open an
unassailable lead. This scintillating performance, which followed the Mountaineering side’s points fall just one day previously, put Hull well on track for causing a Varsity upset and set HUGC in good stead for the rest of their BUCS campaign when the season resumes.
Coultish putts Hull into an early lead
William Ballard
Hull WinTeam Golf
Hull 54.5 - 42.5 YorkRemember, for more action from this year’s Varsity, head over to our website. The Hullfire would also like to thank all who helped with their coverage on the day including Rosalind Moody, William Ballard, Jack Shoemark, Jon Campbell, Samuel Jordan-Turner and Berk Gokhan.
AC-inspired women net victory
The University of Hull’s Women’s Netball 1sts recorded a vitally important
victory which proved to be one of the pivotal results of the competition. The Sports Hall, which gradually filled up with anticipation as more and more Hull support filtered in, would prove to be host to a fine display from the hosts in a victory which had huge ramifications for the overall tally. After a late start and the first thirty seconds of the match, Hull had already netted theit first points of the afternoon. Hull were definitely on the ball with good landings, dominant ownership and a characteristically excellent defence. York’s expansive forward lines meant they were normally replying to Hull’s attacks with of their own and, in their defiance their host’s
increasing successes, they found themselves clinging on for the early periods. However by the end of the first quarter Hull had raced ahead with 14-4, leaving York’s girls cowering slightly in the shadow of the end of the day. After a spirited sing-off from the universities’ distinctive chants had died down, York’s comeback resulted in a vigorous assault on Hull’s net. Although a more attack-minded philosophy meant York had more ownership of the ball, Hull’s girls never failed to work together to get the possession to their trusted Goal Shooter AC who very rarely failed to leave the net bulging. York’s Goal Keeper was intercepted all too frequently but despite the tense competition, no animosity beyond a normal competitive edge was formed. The second quarter soon came to a close as York scored twice in quick succession as they seemed to be clawing their deficit back. But Hull had one more up their sleeves for every time York ventured into their half and closed the quarter with an eleven
point gap forming. The third quarter was played out with plenty of drama, most notably a tackle from York’s Goal Attack which resulted in the home side’s Centre crashing to the floor only to get up with a laugh to reassure the nervous crowd. Her York counterpart however proved not to be so lucky as, following an eye watering tumble, she was forced into the leaving to court with two team members needed to help her walk. Despite such a valiant effort from York to retrieve their situation, the match entered its final quarter at 41-18, leaving the previously bullish York trailing far behind with little time to forge a comeback. With York only managing to pull six more goals to Hull’s extra twenty in the final ferocious quarter, the match ended at 61-24 leaving the crowed with the unenviable task of totalling up the overall Varsity score going into the final stages. With the MMA and, a little later than planned, the Shooting still to go. The girls had done their job.
Rosalind MoodyDeputy Editor
PICTURES COURTESY OF SAMUEL STEVENS, NICK COULTISH AND YORK VISION
Hull 61 – 24 YorkWomen’s Netball 1sts
Hull 5 - 21 YorkWomen’s Lacrosse
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White Rose turns red as York fight to seal football victory
Jerome Walcott
In one of the main spectacles of Varsity 2013, the 1sts suffered a 2-5 defeat in a
hotly contested game not short of incident. Hull started lively, being the better of the two teams in an action packed first half which saw 5 goals being scored, one being shrouded in controversy. The home team seemed to be most dangerous in wide position, with some good work being done down both flanks on several occasions. This quick, fluid approach to the game was epitomised in undoubtedly the finest move of the game – a sweeping, tiki-takaesque move from deep in Hull’s own half which cut through York’s defence. “Hot knife” and “butter” immediately
spring to mind. It almost resulted in a goal to remember, with no.11 being denied by a great save from York’s keeper. Barcelona eat your heart out. But despite Hull’s early dominance, York took the lead against the run of play with a snapshot on the edge of the area. After the initial shock of the goal, the home side soon forced their way back into the game cancelling out York’s effort by a sweetly struck shot into the top right-hand corner from no.11 halfway through the half. A great moment followed as the crowd chanted “Shearer!” in unison. It was an effort that the man himself would approve of. Lewis Wombwell tapped in from close range off of a rebound to give Hull the advantage for the first time in the game. However, just as the crowd thought they would go into the break on top, York decided to repay the favour, in controversial fashion. An alleged handball by the skipper
(No.3) led to a penalty which was duly converted, before the away side regained the lead with a goal identical to Shearer’s. Things didn’t get much better for Hull, as York began to assert themselves in a second half didn’t go quite to plan. Apart from a fizzing half-volley which crashed off of the bar, Hull didn’t create as many chances as York grew in confidence. Unfortunately for Hull, the fiery atmosphere on the pitch proved too hot for them to handle on this occasion with two players being sent off for two professional fouls (no.5) and kicking out at a player (no.8). York responded to the numerical advantage by scoring two more to put the game out of sight. Our university can be proud of putting on a great spectacle for everyone, despite the loss. It was an unfortunate defeat, but hopefully the 1sts will come back stronger than ever to win in 2014, all players intact.
Hull recorded a win, a draw and a defeat in a superb afternoon of
sport at the David Lloyd centre against Varsity rivals York. The Men’s 1st and 2nd teams lost and drew respectively, but the Women’s 1st team recorded a hard earned victory thanks to Sophie Sharples winning in the last game of the day. The first round of matches played were the doubles, in which the home team only lost one match out of a possible six. Special mentions go to the pairings of Stoyan Stirakov and Calvin Campbell and Jonny Sharp and Tom McIlroy who fought from a set down to win their matches. Becki McElvoy and Emma Eden were also involved in a gruelling two hour duel which they eventually won, including a nail biting first set tie
David Lloyd ties serve up a treat
Samuel Jordan-Turner
Hull vs. YorkMixed Tennis Matches
break. The superb performance in the doubles proved crucial at the end of the day when the singles matches had not gone Hull’s way. The Men’s 1st team ended up losing overall despite Edward Munson beating his opponent in straight sets and Joe E d w a r d s winning an e x c e l l e n t match in a third set tie break. The Men’s 2nd team also had to call upon their splendid doubles results as only Will Faux managed a victory, a straight sets win. The Women’s 1st team won overall, with three of the four matches ending with wins. Club president Monika Gorska was four games down in her second set but fought back to claim a
priceless victory. The overall win then came down to Sharples. At one set all, the players had to move court because it had been double booked and the waiting set of players were becoming
impatient. The floodlights were turned on and
play was moved outside. The change of surface and conditions didn’t disrupt S h a r p l e ’ s progress as she overcame her opponent and won the points
for the team. Even if results
didn’t quite go their way, all players can
be rightly proud of their performances. They gave
everything for the cause, they didn’t stop fighting and they earned some crucial points in Hull’s quest to be the White Rose Varsity Champions 2013.
Boxing proves the perfect warm-up for
MMA clashes
Jon Campbell
The Asylum dance floor featured a different kind of action as three exhibition
bouts took place in a portable ring. Unfortunately we did not compete against York fighters as none of them are registered to box. Despite the fact that we were paired off against one another we all had a great time and so did the decent numbers in attendance. Firstly we started with a Welterweight exhibition between Cory Draper and Jordan Wallis. “The experience gave me a sense of reality with regards to what is expected of myself and any other fighter, having people cheering you on is really enjoyable” says Wallis, who laced up the gloves in front of a crowd for the very first time, giving an impressive performance. The second fight was a Light -Wel terweight contest between me (Jon. Campbell) and John Deery. I can say first hand that the opportuni ty t o demonstrate my craft in front of an audience c o n t a i n i n g many who have never watched boxing before was extremely fulfilling and I will look forward to next year’s varsity. I just hope that York can provide fighters in order to make the contests more competitive. One face in the crowd, Becky from Liverpool had never watched boxing and was glad to have spent the time in asylum. “I have never watched the sport before and I thought I would watch this one as none of the other appealed to me, the last fight was the one I enjoyed the
most”. The last fight she was referring to was the Light-Heavyweight exhibition between Jamie Shelton and the Boxing Society’s Social Sec Nathaniel ‘Afro’ Benissan. This was a really evenly matched and enthralling demonstration of skill as both not only exhibited their abilities as intended, they brought a good level of action also. Nathaniel stated that “It was a really tough experience but I am glad I did it for the first time, This was a first for H.U.A.B.C at Varsity and I am sure it will place us on the map for years to come”.I personally agree that the event was a complete and utter success, with the only disappointment again being the lack of a York Boxing presence, which was of course out of our control. However, thanks primarily to one man not only did the show go on as it did, but next year arrangements should be made to ensure York are competing. H.U.A.B.C President Liam Alloway praised both the boxers and the fans in attendance, both of
which he claimed made the first Boxing event in Varsity
to be as great as it was.
With regards to York, Liam said that “they (York Boxing) are a young society. We are going to help them get into the position
where they can come and
hopefully we will be able to put together
3-4 fully competitive amateur contests”.
I personally would like to thank everybody involved for putting this together and making it arguably the best day on the University calendar for all who took part. Moreover, on behalf of H.U.A.B.C I would like to thank everyone who came and supported both myself and my fellow boxers. We will be back next year and bigger than ever.
Hull 2 - 5 YorkMen’s Football 1sts
Hull exhibitionBoxing Men’s
White Rose Victory!
After years of striving to no avail, the White Rose Varsity is fi nally coming home to
Humberside. Despite mounting pressure, climbing a steepening gradient as the days went on, the Clay Pigeon Shooting side claimed a momentous victory over their York counterparts last month and so confi rmed Hull’s fi rst Varsity triumph since its creation. As the two universities locked horns on Sunday 17th Feb, which concluded with them being within touching distance of each other at 42.5 - 43.5 in the overall standings, the peculiar news that the fi nal result wouldn’t be known until Wednesday swept across campus. However the fi nal act to a tale - which included the Herculean MMA clashes and the typically competitive football
ties - had a further twist in store as the Shooting side brought all twelve of the points available back to East Yorkshire on a dramatic fi nal day of action. As a packed Asylum roared this year’s hosts to a 3-2 victory in the MMA, events elsewhere were also shortening the scoreline even further. With the Women’s Netball side outclassing their York opponents, courtesy of an impressively effi cient 61-24 victory in the Sports Hall, all eyes soon fell on the following Wednesday’s shooting contest to settle the inter-university grudge match. Added to the total amassed by victories in the Mountaineering and Golf clashes in the days leading up the weekend, Hull ware establishing a satisfying early lead. However, history tells us that York are a formidable opposition, with their comfortable 61.5 – 21.5 win last year as a testament,
and so it proved to be the case as their Lacrosse and Men’s 1st Football successes proved to be the inception for a late recovery. The Netball Squad proceeded to give the growing crowds a performance to savour, brushing aside a decent York outfi t with a spellbinding performance, as the crowd continued to grow and whispers of a possible home win gained volume. Just a stone’s throw away as the Basketball sides warmed up, Asylum was preparing to erupt into a frenzy as the MMA ring was set-up. If you thought Tower was an evening to contend with, Asylum was about to prove that it could host top-class sport also. A crowd surpassing 300 people lifted the home side in what was, to the majority of them, their fi rst experience of this tantalising sport. Testosterone levels were running high, and a dominant Hull performance gave the Hullian spectators an excuse to bask in a magnifi cent triumph after last
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year’s 2-2 draw. Ash Lord, who founded the contest during his tenure as VP Sport two years ago, was overjoyed upon hearing the news. “When me and Sam (Asfahani) sat down a couple of years ago, we wanted to create the kind of sporting rivalry that would give our clubs something to look forward to every year” he said.
“Now that both sides have won the trophy, the event really has the potential to grow and grow. I’d love to see next year’s VP Sport continue the hard work that Paul and Ashley (Armitage, last year’s VP Sport) and all the volunteers have put in to help make this become a great tradition for future students to enjoy.”
Hull 54.5 - 42.5 YorkTh e White Rose Varsity 2013
Photo bySamuel Stevens
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