The filth and the fury
The premiere of The filth and the Fury has just ended at the Phoenix to a reception of mass nostalgia. Forty year-olds in 'fuck the millennium' T-shirts are creaming for more, most of them intoxicated by more than just the atmosphere. A group of students in front of me are earnestly discussing music's potential for social amelioration. Everyone in the crowd either thinks, or wishes, they'd been at the 100 club back in '78. I retain considerable doubts about whether this is 'for real', but I'll keep them to myself for fear of being lynched by middle-aged advertising executives wearing dog collars. They still seem a bit too volatile after the excitement of watching the 'contextual' riot scenes....
Features: Link: a passage to Africa
Are you doing anything Easter 2000? Fancy hitching to Morocco for charity? That's what the Link Africa advert in the Oxford Student said, and why not, I thought... Most people reacted with "you've got to be joking" and as for the parents - "you've GOT to be joking." But, thinking it would be an adventure, and almost convinced, along with the 300 odd other hitchers from universities around the country, I raised my £250, bought my Arabic phrase book and decided it had to better than sitting around at home revising for collections....
Features: Having a really Lumley time
"The world's an absolutely squeaking place. Go out and see it," demands Joanna Lumley. The BAFTA-winning Avengers superstar and AbFab ratings-winner has already seen quite a bit of it: we watched her get marooned on a desert island in 1994, then trekked through the Himalayas with her in 1997.