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Catching up with Preston,after the beginning of The Ordinary Boys’ UK tour, we quizzed him on fame, music and that Huffington Post blog…

Are The Ordinary Boys working on new material?

“Because this tour is very much extracurricular we are recording whenever we can. Through my writing I have started producing records and I have my own studio now so I like to imagine that we can exhume the band into a
kind of emeritus state and put MP3s out for free whenever we make them! We have a new song, ‘Run This Town’ that we will be playing on our tour.”
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Steve Coogan is a very busy man, what with the return of Alan Partridge, his charity work with Amaze, and new film projects. Victoria Nangle grabs a chat with the star

Steve Coogan is a movie star, a writer, a comedian, a producer and the reason a generation giggle themselves silly at two seemingly meaningless syllables: “Ah-ha!” He may be a son of Manchester but he’s got strong ties to Brighton, not least to local charity Amaze, which works with parents of children with special needs and is the cause for next week’s special screening of The Trip, which includes Q&As with its stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. As he says politely when we thank him for the interview: “Well thank you, Amaze is something that I very much support.” Steve Coogan may be working on new eagerly-awaited Alan Partridge material, having just finished filming with True Blood hottie Alexander Skarsgård and four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore, but he’s got time for his second home town. “I do like Brighton. I’ve lived there for 12 years and I’ve adopted it you know.” And we’re very grateful for it. Victoria Nangle talks to the man behind Alan Partridge and so much more.

Are you looking forward to the screening of The Trip for Amaze?
“Yes, I am I suppose. I mean, when you’re in my line of work, once you’ve finished a film you see it a couple of times, sometimes it’s nice to revisit it and you read a few reviews and you might have a few screenings but then you don’t really get much of an audience response…unless you’re in one of these events.” Read the rest of this article »

Tom Scrace introduces Latest Extreme

Hello Latest readers. My name is Tom Scrace, I am an action sports nut so you will have to forgive me if I am a little over excited…

Brighton has become a hub for action sports in the UK, producing an avalanche of companies, athletes, services and events that play a big role in the nation’s action sports arena. On our very own doorstep we have kite surfing, climbing, abseiling, mountain biking, paragliding, zorbing, kayaking, BMX-ing, skateboarding and even skiing and snowboarding. For the latter we do need snow, but the last two years has certainly produced the goods with Stanmer Park offering a variety of runs if you are prepared to hike! Read the rest of this article »

The Saturdays new album is out this week & a Brighton show is on the horizon. Jeff Hemmings chats to Vanessa to find out what it’s like to be part of the girl band that’s on everyone’s radar

For those who don’t know, and I freely admit I was one of those, The Saturdays are Una, Mollie, Frankie, Vanessa and Rochelle. We can’t talk about Frankie though – the whole issue of ‘where is Frankie?’ has been kept well under wraps, although it looks like after a two month lay-off (through illness/stress?) she is back on board, taking part in the band rehearsals for the upcoming tour…

Anyway, Vanessa (White) gamely offers me a few minutes of her time, as it’s in the midst of a very hectic pre-tour schedule that involves all day sessions, every day of the week. The new album, the tour, the training, the endorsements – it’s a young girls dream, is it not?

“I always knew it was something I wanted to do from a really early age: from the age of 13 I started doing lots of auditions, and then started seeing labels at 15. But it just didn’t happen then. And then when The Saturdays happened it was really unexpected…” Read the rest of this article »