Belinda Carlisle will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of her hit record ‘Heaven is a Place on Earth’ by performing it in its entirety at the Brighton Dome on Monday, October 2 from 7pm.
The American pop star, who shot to fame as a member of one of the world’s best-selling girl bands, The Go-Go’s, will be performing tracks from the classic multi-platinum album, including the seminal Heaven is a Place on Earth (which reached the top spot on both sides of the Atlantic), the stirring Circle in the Sand and the perky I Get Weak.
Belinda, whose other hits include Mad About You, In Too Deep, We Want The Same Thing and Live Your Life Be Free, will be padding the show out with other songs from her career.
Event: Belinda Carlisle: Heaven is a Place on Earth 30th Anniversary
Where: Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton BN1 1UE.
Performance artist Tim Youd retypes Joe Orton’s complete plays on Orton’s typewriters.
Tim Youd performing at the University of Leicester in 2015
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton, performance artist Tim Youd will retype his Collected Plays on a single sheet of paper. He started on January 20 and will finish on February 5, 2017.
Youd will perform at the South Library in Islington and the Queen’s Theatre in the West End – both locations significant to Orton’s life and work and the Museum of Contemporary Art in London.
With his partner Kenneth Halliwell, Orton redesigned books stolen from Islington Library – a crime that led to 6 months in jail – and his final play What the Butler Saw premiered at the Queen’s Theatre.
Youd will finish his performance at the opening of an exhibition of art inspired by Orton’s life and work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in London on, February 5, between 2:00 – 4:00pm.
The exhibition, titled What the Artist Saw, is curated by Dr Emma Parker of the University of Leicester School of Arts and Michael Petry, Director of MOCA, London.
Joe Orton’s, typewriter, (Courtesy Leicester City Council/The Orton Estate)
Youd is using the same typewriter as Joe Orton: an Adler Tippa (for the first six plays) and then – because Orton bought a new typewriter in April of 1967, shortly before his death – an Adler Universal 40, for What The Butler Saw.
Dr Emma Parker
Dr Parker, who worked with Tim to organise the event, said:“The typewriter played a central role in Orton’s life: he typed his plays, letters and diaries and his typewriter was responsible for his arrest for the defaced library book covers (police matched the type on a letter to that on the altered dustjackets).
“Given this, Tim Youd’s imaginative, thought-provoking performance is an apt homage to Orton and a wonderful way to bring new audiences to his work 50 years after his death.”
Tim Youd added:“I met Orton scholar Dr Emma Parker in Leicester two years ago, when I was retyping Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim at the University. Emma introduced me to Joe’s sister, Leonie (and Victoria sponge!).
“When Emma invited me to participate in the exhibition, I eagerly agreed to type all the plays in one extended performance. Emma then arranged the South Library venue and Michael set up the Queen’s Theatre. And now it’s happening.”
Portrait of Joe Orton by Lewis Morley, 1965
Tim Youd is engaged in the retyping of 100 novels over a ten-year period. He retypes each novel on the same make/model typewriter in a location charged with literary significance specific to the subject novel.
Each performance is a multi-day, often multi-week event and each novel is retyped on a single sheet of paper, backed by a second sheet, run repeatedly through the typewriter.
To date Youd has retyped 48 novels at various locations in the United States and Europe.
Performance date and times:
♦ January 20 – Islington South Library, London (12 noon – 4:00pm, with a lunch break between 1:00pm – 2:00pm)
♦ January 21, 23 & 25 – Islington South Library, London (10:00am – 4:00pm, with a lunch break between 1:00pm – 2:00pm)
♦ January 26, 27 & 31 and February 2-3 – Queen’s Theatre, London (1:00pm – 5:00pm, with a lunch break between 1:00pm – 2pm)
♦ Museum of Contemporary Art, London, February 5, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
For further information about the exhibition What the Butler Saw: Art Inspired by the Life and Work of Joe Orton, click here:
To read more about Tim Youd’s performance at the University of Leicester in 2015, click here:
Greens question Labour leadership proposals to raise council tax by 5%.
Cllr Dick Page
At a full meeting of Brighton & Hove City Council on Thursday, January 26, questions were raised by the Green Group as to why the Labour Council leadership were seeking to introduce council tax rises they had previously opposed during the Green administration.
Responding to a question from Councillor Dick Page, Brighton & Hove Labour’s finance lead Cllr Les Hamilton could not explain why plans to ask residents for a 5% increase in their Council tax for the next financial year were being put forward, when the Labour Group had opposed a 3.5% rise proposed by the then Green administration during 2012/13.
Green Councillor Dick Page, said:“Labour’s budget includes a proposed 5% Council tax increase. If Labour had supported our smaller increase of 3.5% five years ago, the Council would now have £5m extra of funds annually to protect services to the City’s poor and vulnerable. We know Council funds are shrinking year on year, while the Government spends our money elsewhere, expecting local people to shoulder more and more of the burden. It’s no good Labour councillors saying one thing when not running the Council, then the opposite now they are in charge. If we are to stand up together and halt the destruction of local services, we need more honesty and trust.”
Cllr Warren Morgan
Cllr Warren Morgan, the Labour Leader of the Council responded, saying:“The Greens have always seemed enthusiastic to pass on the costs of Tory cuts to those who can least afford it. Council tax is not a progressive tax; it hits high and low earners equally. Greens in Surrey recognise that and are opposing the 15% increase there. We have no option but to put up council tax on low-income households as directed by the Government to pay for rising social care costs, apparently with keen Green support.”
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