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Zara Baker looks at Laser Lipo as a way to lose inches before the Christmas excess

As the temperature drops, many of us instantly crave comfort food. Home-made stews, pies and crumbles fill the sun-sized hole November left behind. Then there’s the inevitable food excess over Christmas. The shape we worked hard for over the summer months deteriorates. It’s a cycle many of us are familiar with. We know that what we ate to get slim is what’s needed to stay slim. In other words, a low-fat, high-fibre diet. If your body is need of some help with winter weight loss, here’s a new method taking off in the UK that will help you achieve a toned, svelte figure.

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Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt know how to put on a show. With a plethora of familiar characters, without the jokes being so familiar as to appear either repeats of TV work or inaccessibly ‘in’ gags, the Boosh show lifted spirits and the heart. Mixing juvenile humour with regards to a defecation song, with more long game laughs, like Barratt’s alter-ego Howard Moon’s overly angsty and worthy play of the second half. The Boosh boys – including Michael Fielding aka Naboo, Dave Brown aka Bollo and Rich Fulcher aka Bob Fossil – provided a bit of glitz and well being to a wet Wednesday night.
Brighton Centre, 12 November
4/5
Victoria Nangle

As the pop-rock version of drum and bass, Pendulum (pictured) are a bit like an annoying teenager shouting ‘nyar nyar naaaaah’ in your ear, so it’s to their credit that their DJ set avoided that irritation factor. Still, however much Pendulum try, local hero JFB and The Qemists both put them to shame. Embracing a less simplistic, more atmospheric (and as such more accomplished) sound than the headliners, the moody build up was let down by an inferior climax leaving a potentially great night as just another good one.
Digital, 13 November
3/5
Nick Aldwinckle

In the rather confined surrounds of St George’s Church, Nitin Sawnhey and his six piece ensemble’s music – a melange of Indian raga, jazz, bosa nova and drum‘n’bass – proved so wildly popular we were lucky not to have a balcony death on our hands. Sawnhey, who grew up as the lone Asian kid in his racist Rochester school, made his name with the seminal Beyond Skin (1999). Where one stand-out track from there, ‘Letting Go,’ with vocals by Tina Grace, had haunting beauty, Nadia lost out to an unfathomable addition of back beat. However, with over 40 film scores and a new album, London Undersound, Sawnhey continues to “break down barriers and dissipate stereotypes.”
St George’s Church, 6 November
3/5
Jan Goodey