Latest 7 magazine

Pam Glew is a contemporary British artist who manipulates images of female icons in horror films as can be seen at a couple of exhibitions as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe.

With the Fear series, she plays with our notion of paranoia, attraction and the ‘American Dream’. The portraits often portray vacuous beauty, within a compellingly seductive image. Her addiction to obscure horror films, dissecting images of women and her attraction to being scared has fuelled this extensive series of work. She frequently uses materials that have inherent history; vintage American flags, aged metal and antiqued books are used as a canvas and treated with ink, bleach, stitch, ammonia and spray-paint to achieve an aesthetic which pays homage to both street art and confessional art.

I Fell In Love With A Video Nasty, Fair Trade Gallery, 26 Montague Place, Brighton, until 25 May/12 Montpelier Crescent, 24 & 25 May (part of the Seven Dials art trail)

Map

Can someone please explain why Girls Aloud are treated by the serious music press as the manufactured group it’s ok to like? From tonight’s display, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Though admittedly some of their tunes are decent enough pop (recent single ‘Call The Shots’ most notably), too much is just dull, low-rent dross. The girls can’t really sing and they can’t really dance. They’re paid to pout a bit and sell underwear, which they do kind of well. There’s little fun for anyone who genuinely likes music here. As one Latest 7 reader recently wrote, it’s like burlesque for kids, though they forgot to add ‘minus any talent’.
**
Nick Aldwinckle

Brighton Centre, Tuesday 13 May

We have 10 pairs of tickets to give away to for ‘All Dolled Up’, the sellout show from international-irish gender-illusionist, Panti for Tuesday 20th May & Wednesday 21st May at the Udder Belly’s pasture.

Simply email mattlyndon@googlemail.com with your name & contact details, the first ten to apply get the tickets for free, simple as that!

A local fight club is trying to bring a controversial cage fighting match to Brighton. Rachel Pegg reports.

If some of Hove’s more genteel residents knew about it, they’d probably have nightmares. Every couple of months Hove Town Hall is loaned out to a local fight club to stage an exciting, fast-paced night of hybrid boxing and kickboxing, with members of the club taking on amateur and professional fighters from the local area and further afield.

“The male race are being neutered more and more. This allows us to behave like men”

Now the organisers – ZT Fight Skool of Fonthill Road, Hove, are planning to stage Brighton’s first cage fighting night, where competitors can draw on a range of mixed martial arts to beat their opponents in a ‘cage‘ made of rope netting.

Last time ZT – which stands for Zero Tolerance – tried to stage an ‘ultimate fighting‘ night such as this at Hove Town Hall in 2006, the event was cancelled by Brighton and Hove City Council after a campaign from the local Green Party. At the time, Green convener Keith Taylor complained that violent events such as cage fighting should not be held in public buildings. Instead the event had to be transferred at the last minute to the Copthorne Hotel in Crawley. This summer’s cage fighting night will take place at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in Kings Road, but ZT is hopeful that one day they might get permission to stage the controversial sport at a bigger venue such as Hove Town Hall or the Brighton Centre. Read the rest of this article »