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04. Gadget Show Live Urbane gets exclusive access to the Gadget Show Live and has an editorial insight into the latest audio and video equipt-ment set to revolutionise the world of technology.

06. Future Tech We’ve pulled out the pick of the latest Future Tech to hit the market.

10. Ap store must haves Our top rated ipod touch/iphone applications.

Technology

08. Peter Dickson His voice may be synonymous with the X-factor but he’s responsible for much much more including a best selling ipod application.

12. Kutski Exclusive Radio One’s Kutski talks exclusivley to Urbane about life at the BBC, travelling the world and Creamfields.

18. The Art of the Flashmob An insight into the craze that is sweeping the nation.

20. The Stoy of Michelin Has the coverted food critic Michelin become a glamorised accollade given to ponsy food.

Lifestyle

22. World Cup memories As the world prepares for South Africa 2010, We look back at the past world cups and reflect on what the iconic tournament means to fans of the beautiful game. Urbane explores your world cup memories, what makes the world cup so special and looks back at some of your favourite world cup moments.

Sport Entertainment

06. Gaming Fancy becoming a virtual fighter? That dream can become true, we review the brand new UFC Undisputed.

29. Example Ahead of his UK tour and second album. Ex-

ample takes time out of his busy schedule to talk to Urbane.

30. From rich to Poor Robin Hood is this summers block-buster starring Russell Crowe.

24. Style What ever you’ll be getting up to this summer, weather it be chilling in the sun, we’ve got the latest summer fashion trends for you to check out to get that desired look.

25. Business Post Budget; Martin Lewis shares his money saving tips.

26. Fitness Get in shape for the summer season with some fantastic exersises and fitness tips.

28. Humour An irrelevant and quirky outlook on world affairs, from funny news, to instances of whitty banter and even an old school comic strip.

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Editor’s letter Welcome

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ommission, or changes to information printed, however caused. Views

expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of Urbane magaine.

May’s set to be a crazy month ahead, the General Election will reach its climax, the football season will once again fin-

ish in emphatic style and the official start of the summer begins. Well, at least crazy for some of you, none more so than here at Urbane I hasten to add.

May sparks the launch of Urbane magazine. a brand new lifestyle magazine that’s a classy, intelligent combination of gadgets, music, sport and fashion.

It brings me great pleasure to officially launch a maga-zine that has seen a huge number of painstaking hours go into producing, but we’re finally here, and here is style.

From cover to cover we’ve packed this edition with features and interviews, with some interest-ing celebrities and high profile people, working hard to give you the sort of high quality content you can come to expect from such a sophisticated maga-zine. Urbane is very much in its infant stage as a successful magazine publication, but watch this space, and continue to look out for our high qual-ity, classy mix of content in future months to come.

Enjoy the issue!

May 2010/Issue 1

Dan Morris EditorEmail: [email protected]: @iamdanmorris

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Technology The Gadget Show Live

Every year Channel Five’s Gadget Show takes over Bir-mingham NEC to bring you

an insiders guide to all the latest gad-gets set to hit the shelves in 2010.

If you’ve got a thirst for technol-ogy and a must have need for the latest gadgets this is the place to be.

It’s the Gadget Show Live, 200 hundred of the biggest names in computing, gaming, music, home entertainment and more all consolidate under one roof, giv-ing you the chance to get your hands on some of the most sought after products of the decade.

Gadget Show hosts are at the event, on hand to present ex-clusive shows in the Gadget Show super theatre and record the show throughout the du-ration of the four-day event.

The main features at this year’s event include the infamous Super Theatre. 4,000 tech savvy people watch presenters Suzi, Jon, Or-tis and Jason host a special hour long show packed full of chal-lenges, high octane stunts, mass participation activities, stunning entertainment segments and the chance for you to win some amaz-ing new tech. This is just a sample of the kind of stuff that’s there.

From attempting to overclock computer hardware using liquid nitrogen cooling to flying remote control helicopters, to test driv-ing the new segdway, it’s all go-ing on at the Gadget Show Live. Walking around the NEC it’s the stuff dreams are made of for

Future ga dgets set to revolutionise the world of new te chnology

Dan Morris gets exclusive access to this years Gadget Show Live and has all the latest on future tech.

any gadget hungry individual – you name it, it’s probably here.

Three-dimensional, remem-ber the name, this could be the future of modern day television if the latest sets at the Gadget Show live are anything to go by.

Set to hit the shops in Japan later this summer the impres-sive new televisions are paving the way for a completely new entertainment experience that far surpasses high definition.

At the Gadget Show Live, the furor was surrounding all the big companies and their third dimension sets; very much the next generation of technology.

It’s an exciting time for the world of tech and 2010 is set to be a promising, awe inspiring year as we move into a new decade of gadgets.

Hav-i n g b e e n helped in no s m a l l part by the growing number of thee-dimensional movies to hit the cinema and the unprec-edented success of James Cam-eron’s sci-fi epic Avatar, three di-mension television has been teed up to take over in spectacular fashion as the industry standard for entertainment viewing, it’s been billed as the industry savior.

Sony, Panasonic and LG all un-veiled their new television sets, but with few broadcasters yet to come on board will it ever hit off.

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and novelty value is it realistic. Well, The Discovery Channel has already revealed that it is form-ing a joint venture company with Sony and IMAX to deliver three dimensional T.V. channels. While UK satellite operator BSkyB said it is also planning to launch a three dimension service later this year and ESPN said it will show at least 85 sports events this year on its new ESPN 3D channel. Third dimension could be the future.

But televisions aside, quite pos-sibly the coolest product at this year’s event has to be the new gaming chairs. Bringing a new dimension to gaming these chairs are fully mechanical and move in accordance with the games you are playing. Best accompanied with a driving game, seat belts on, crash into a wall and you may as well have crashed in real life, the chair vibrates and shudders as you shake with it. A brilliant experi-ence but not for the feint hearted.

Visitors got a glimpse of the Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC) and were treated to the gadget hall of fame, having joined forces with the centre for Computing history, a collection of some of the landmark gadgets that have shaped the devel-opment of consumer electronics over the last six years were on dis-play, remember the Atari 2600, the ZX81 or the Sinclair C5? Probably not, but without these there would be no Playstation’s or Iphones.

One of the picks of the event has to be the new A2BTM elec-

tric bike. This state-of-the-art bike makes getting around easier, cheaper and more economical “The A2B is unparalleled in per-formance, comfort and style,” said Chris Deyo, CEO of Ultra Motor USA. “Whether it is a commuter who wants their journey to be fast and hassle-free, a college student looking to get across campus or an active senior looking to combine exercise with convenience, this is the ideal transportation method.”

A cross between an electric bike and a scooter it can reach speeds in excess of 20mph and all it needs is a battery.

While we weren’t racing around the test track on motorised bikes or playing 3D games, we could be found flying remote control heli-copters the Vertical take off-V22 Osprey is something like you’ve

never seen, and the heli mission combo comprises a remote con-trolled swat truck with a three channel chopper secretly hidden away, and if it wasn’t the new era of kids toys that was taking our fancy is was the new tough camera range, PEN small system latest model and world beating Ultrazoom camera and pocket recorders from Olym-pus. Perfect for those who need something a bit more durable without loosing out on the style of sleekness of the the other models.

There was literally something for everyone, and the future is cer-tainly bright, the only disappoint-ing feature was that there wasn’t a single Apple iPad insight and therefore we didn’t manage to get our hands on that much sought after piece of kit, to bring you a review but there’s always next year.

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Sony Bravia XBR-LX900 aaaa

In this, the future of television Sony has revealed the latest model in their Bravia range, the Sony Bravia XBR-LX900 to be 3D compatible. Complete with Sony’s new Monolithic Design and Motionflow PRO 240Hz the new XBR-LX900 model has motion com-pensation technology for smoother images in fast moving content like sports and action movies. For 3D viewing you’ll need a pair of Sony’s glasses, un-like traditional red and blue plastic these use an ac-tive LC shutter system. The XBR-LX900 also comes complete with built-in Wi-Fi allowing wireless ac-cess to your home network and the Internet. The TV comes with an automatic sensor to switch it off when you leave the room and a Distance Alert functionality.

Sanos ZonePlayer S5 aaaa

This is the all in one wireless music player that allows you to stream music all over your house . Wirelessly control all your music across all the rooms in your house with the touch of one button and with five dedi-cated speakers and five dedicated pre amps this smart audio device produces crystal-clear sound and high preformance audio. The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is much more than just a speaker and play content from more than one device. You’re not limited to what’s on your ipod, the ZonePlayer can play from itunes on a PC or Mac, internet radio and can even connect to online services such as Napster and Last.fm. The smart, so-phistacted model allows you to take music whereever you like, simply plug it in whereever you want to listen.

Toshiba Portégé M780 aaaa

The Toshiba Portégé M780 is just one of Toshiba’s brand new products set to hit the market in 2010, but for us this 12” tablet is by far there best. Sleak and stylish this small tablet PC sports a unique swivel screen, that is fully rotational. The Portégé will come packing a 2.66GHz Core i7-620M processor, 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive – it’s clearly aimed at a slightly more business-focused market than the iPad as is the only real product on the market in the near future that could rival Apples new tablet PC. The Por-tégé has a fully functioning touch screen but unlike the IPad comes with the added feature of a qwert keyboard and mouse pad, and unlike the ipad can be used as a laptop or tablet PC dependent on the users needs Wor

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While this is a product the everyday consumer will not be interested in, the standard of the Pionneer CDJ 2000 cannot go unnoticed, sister to Pionneers, indus-try standard, CDJ MRK 1000 this is the latest model in the faultless product range. This model has for the first time encorporated a full colour screen dispaly complete with an easy to use and easy to navigate on screen menu. The CDJ 2000 allows you to play music direct from any portable device meaninng there is no need to carry around huge record boxes or CD collections, all can be stored on a USB or laptop. It also has Lan connection which allows you to use one music collection across two CD decks. The platter is as good as ever and all these features combine to make an overal falutless product.

Idapt innovative adapter aaaa

Billed as the only charger you will ever need, this styl-ish piece of equipment allows you to consolidate all of your chargers into one. With the need for only one power cable, gone are the days of endless streams of wires about the place, extension cables and a lack of plug sockets. The Idapt Innovative adapter allows you to charge up to four devices at the same time using its simple interchangeable system. Compat-ible with phones, gaming players, AA/AAA batteries, and more your charging problems have been solved. It has a built in ecological system which shuts off the power to devices once they are fully charged and its commitment to constantly update its product range means it will be future proof for quite some time.

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The lastest in mobile technology The Swap Watch com-bines a writst watch with a mobile phone, meaning the the power of communication is always at hand. Its fea-tures include bluetooth, camera, audio compatability and can be used in almost any county with any sim card. It has text, call and time functions and can be used with its innovtive touch screen interface or with a stylus. The Swap Watch is more than just an elobaorate gadget and its sylish design, and stainless steel fin-ish make it a good fashion accessory. While this is an excellent gadget that works superbly well, our only concern is the nature of how its used, many people will feel unconfortable using this product for the simple fact it makes them look like Dick Tracy. W

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“It’s all I ever wanted to do, work with my voice.”

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Peter Dickson Technology

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He has the best known TV and radio promotion voice, he’s the man behind the X-Factor and from Radio two, Britain’s Got Talent; he’s now the face of E4 and even has his own iphone application. Peter

Dickson is voiceover man; while he doesn’t do public appearances we man-aged to talk to the man of the moment about a few of his latest ventures.

“I fell in love with radio from a very early age, It’s all I ever wanted to do, work with my voice,” said Peter and now that very ambition has made him a household name. His voice is synonymous with some of the biggest televi-sion shows to date and his list of accolades far surpasses anyone’s expectations.

Researching Peter it didn’t take long to realies he is more than just the man behind the infamous X-Factor introductions, he’s been around for over 35 years and worked on award winning television programmes, multi platform games, commercials and game shows.

Peter explained how he got into voice acting, and it all started with news reading.“I went for an audition I was about 17 and to my amazement I got the job.

I currently hold the record as being the youngest newsreader in BBC history.”Since then his career has excelled and he’s worked on things you wouldn’t even

recognise him in such as Playstation games and when we met up he told me he’s constantly being asked to put his voice to almost anything and everything.

Having done so much already, the one thing Peter still relish-es is the challenge of doing a feature length animation, he told me.

His voice is a much sought after product, if you like, and he can’t walk down the street without receiving requests for him to record peo-ples answer phone messages or ring friends with special greetings – and it is this where the inspiration for an iphone application came from.

Peter explained: “I’m constantly being asked to record messages for people wherever I go, it can get a bit tedious but also I can’t always do it for everybody. I was approached about making an iphone application, whereby I could record, in the studio, a whole host of different mes-sages which by downloading my application people can then piece to-gether their own personal messages and use them for whatever they want.”

As well as entering into the world of Apples appstore Peter has also re-cently launched his own website, he said this is for those without iphone or ipods who still want access to a huge range of pre-recorded and per-sonal messages available – these can be used as voicemails, alarms, ringtones and more. Visit Peter’s website: www.myruddyvoice.com

Peter Dickson is voiceover man and he’s spoken exclusively to Urbane (albeit behind a screen).

“It’s all I ever wanted to do, work with my voice.”

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Technology Apps to desire

Apps to desire

The iPhone has taken the gadget world by storm. It’s success and continued monopoly on the smart-phone market is paramount to Apples AppStore

The AppStore provides over 5,000 different applications with all needs and tastes catered for. Over half of all the applications on offer are free and we have been through the extensive range of applications to bring our guide to the best iphone/ipod touch applications availble.

This application gets number one in our list of apps to desire, of-fering endless fun, its wide range of origional content and its many uses make this a bargain pur-chase at just £1.19 and a top app.

Beware this game is insanly ad-dictive. Endless hours of pure sat-isfaction, jumping aimless up and up and up and up. We’ve given it second spot and it’s availal-able for the small price of £0.59

From the BAFTA award winning Fonejacker comes all your fa-vourite voices now at your dis-posal, call your friends and use your iphone to Fonejack them. All for a small cost of £1.19

Bring founder of comapre the meerkat Aleksandr Orlov to your iphone/ipod with this application that allows you playback witty di-aolguoe Available for Free and therefore a must have app. Simples.

This application brings the worlds most respected news chan-nel to you iphone/ipod. Be the first for breaking news anytime any place with this free appli-cation courtesy of Sky News.

Words by Dan Morris Photography courtesy of Apple Appstore Wor

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Gaming Technology

The presentation of this game is second to none and for me the only thing that lets it down is its lack of variety, that’s not to say that even the smallest of UFC fans out there couldn’t spend many an hour taking on the legends of the sport.

Possibly the most exciting thing for UFC 2010 is THQs press re-lease that make a serious play for one of the best online fighting games. This year you’ll be able to venture into the relms of the playstation network, unlike be-fore you’ll be able to form “fight camps and leagues, train like real-life UFC fighters and go online to compete against other camps.” There will be online co-op spar-ring sessions that dictate your cred-ibility, popularity and the types of sponsorships you get. On top of that, this year’s career mode will include the “Game Is Watching You” system, which will “track every action and use this infor-mation to dictate in-game com-mentary, opponent intelligence and overall career progression.”

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The first thing that’s going to grip you when you first sit down to play this game

are the graphics. Revolutionary at-tention to detail makes this game as realistic as ever before. The next thing for you to try and get your head around is the control system, more advanced and more techni-cal than any game you’ll probably have ever played. I wouldn’t say it is perfect and THQ have done there level best to improve it from last year, but there is still work to be done, although complicated it does offer a vast array of move-ments and make the game a chal-

lenge, even for the avid gamer.In fight, it’s as encapsulating as

ever you really feel a part of the ac-tion, see your arm struggle against a hold as you try and break it and battle to counteract takedowns.

2010 sees the introduction of more moves, use these to your advantage as you try to become the last man standing in a ring that holds no mercy.

Just like UFC itself the game has gone from strength to strength, probably due in no small part to the success of the sport but because of this, THQ have increased the number of fighters on the roster with over 100 for you to choose from, what’s more every player is now licensed with every UFC athlete in the game having been given the photo-realistic treatment.

In HD see sweat drip from your chest, see your fighter gasp for breath as he battles a sleeper hold and see blood spurt from your op-ponent as you land that killer blow.

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“It’s my favourite gig. A lot of the festivals I do are really big but it’s like home turf for me.”

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Back in his home town of Chester life’s changed drastically over the last 18 months. From a paper round to an of-

fice job to superstar DJ and its all happened so fast.Kutski, real name John Walker started DJing in his

bedroom when he was 15, then, it was very much just a hobby and while he had aspirations of one day playing to thousands of party goers across the globe, he never thought it would ever become reality.

For John it all started with a couple of Technics 1210’s. He saved up to buy them at the tender age of 15 and from that moment real life went out the window. For him it was the notion of practice makes perfect and he emerged from his room some years later with the passion, desire and dedication to take on the world.

After teaching himself to mix and a lot of self promo-tion he won his first DJ competition at Elevate in Bangor, North Wales - it resulted in residency there and since his success has snowballed beyond his wildest imagination.

Sitting in a local coffee shop meeting the new am-bassador of hard dance on the BBC Radio One air-waves John began by telling me where it all started.

He began his career under the DJ name Kut mas-ter J, as in John he told me, the inspiration for the name came from a passion for hip-hop and turnta-balism, that name soon changed to Kutski when it wouldn’t fit into his promoter’s phone. The name

stuck, and it’s now a name blasted around the world.“The first gig I ever had was at a DJ competition

in Chester, then we had a few gigs at the bars around town, when that dried up out of the blue one of my mates had seen in global grooves, the record shop, an ad for a DJ competition so he took down the ad-dress, I sent in a tape, it got to the final. Whoever won in the final, won at set at Time in Bagnor,” he said.

“I won the competition and got the set and then be-cause that went so well I got a residency off the back of it.”

Over the years he’s had a number of residences Bangor, Bristol and London to name but a few, today the sto-ries very different and Kutski’s often booked for gigs in places such as America, Canada, Australia and Holland.

Last year Kutski headlined the hardtent arena at the most prestigious dance music festival in the country – Creamfields and he’s exclusively re-vealed his to return there for a third successive year.

Creamfield’s is held in the small rural vil-lage of Daresbury just outside of Warrington and come August will play home to some of the world’s most famous DJs and some 60,000 ravers.

For Kutski “it’s my favourite gig”, he said. “A lot of the festivals I do are really big but it’s like home turf for me.

“When you go to these festivals it takes a little bit of time for them to warm up, but when you’re playing in a hard arena you can be playing sec-

Radio One’s Kutski talks to Urbane about his recent success, Cream-fields, travelling the world and life at the BBC.

“It’s my favourite gig. A lot of the festivals I do are really big but it’s like home turf for me.”

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ond set and you’re playing to a full tent of people; it’s great.”

The last 18 months have been a little surreal for the 27-year old, he’s taken the DJ world by storm, released tracks alongside some of the biggest names in the industry and landed his own prime time slot on national radio.

John Peel was the man that masterminded Kutski’s Ra-dio One career, but there was a lot more to it than that.

“John peel back in the day used to play a lot of hardcore and stuff on his radio show. Some guy made a track called John Peels not enough, it was basically a hard-core track and in the breakdown it had a big speech saying about how all the other DJs on Radio One don’t play hard dance music

because it’s not cool anymore, and that the only person that supports underground dance music is John Peel – John Peels not enough.

“They did this big campaign where he’d put petitions into radio one saying well, you’re a public service so you have to give me the music I want and if not you have to give me a rebate.

“He got this petition out there, then I think it was probably in-spired off the back of that they did a show called the residency where they wanted to get six new DJs in to play new exciting music on rotation once a week.

“They got him in and said you know you’ve caused up so much bother for us about this new dance and hardcore. They said if we got a DJ in on this

new project who would you like, who’s a good person to do it.

“They looked at it and the only person that was playing right across the board neutrally and wasn’t signed to any record la-bel, wasn’t producing any tracks themselves, so they’d be bias, the only person that was really neu-tral across the scene was really me.

“They got me in for a pilot and I knew nothing about radio before, literally I’d done one interview before on Galaxy and hated it.

“I was worried and nervous about doing it, but it only ever crossed my mind that the idea of doing it would be to have a pilot that I could turn round and play to people in 10 years time going once I recorded a pilot for Radio One.

It turned out they were pleased

with the pilot and they wanted John on the show. In recent years the residency has become the more familiar In new DJs we trust and three years down the line they of-fered John his own show – taking over from the legendary Judge Jules.

Kutski said: “I’m just at the perfect slot at the moment it just can’t get any better than it is at the moment.”

Of late John’s featured alot on Radio One, building a reputation for himself among the daytime pre-senters and often featuring on shows with Greg James and Zane Lowe.

I asked John if he’d ever consider a day time show, he replied: “I’m really happy with how things are at the moment, you don’t want to never say never, its good fun when I get involved with the day time stuff but at the moment I’m

seen as a specialist DJ on the sta-tion that represents that music.”

For Kutksi it’s all about get-ting the music out there, and getting people interested in it.

“Who knows 10, 15, 20 years down the line I might get more into the presenting side of it, but at the moment Chris Moyles can relax I’ve no aspirations to take over the breakfast show,” he added.

Life at Radio One’s a far cry from his previous office job, John said: “It’s crazy really, I’m familiar with the office environment but it’s weird to be in that environ-ment with all these people you’d regard as celebrities around you.

“I can just be on the phone when someone taps me on the shoulder and it’s Zane Lowe.

“One of the most bizarre things

that I’ve ever had is when I went out for a meal and I was sat between Scott Mills and Tim Westwood.

“I’m sitting there and Westwood’s getting right in my face going ‘do you feel comfortable here Kutksi’, I was like it’s a bit mad to be hon-est Tim, it’s a bit of a surreal thing.

“And he was like ‘na man your representing your sound, you’ve got as much right to be here as any one so you need to hold your head high and represent. – getting a pep talk from Westwood, Then he sort of leans over and I was expecting some sort of big passionate thing and he just goes I think that guys left his cheese cake do you wanna split it.

“It’s just the weird place I seem to have landed my-self in but it’s really good.”

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He said: “I’m devastated to not be there I already had dates booked in Canada.

“I can’t believe it, it was the gig of the year, last year in Swin-don, It was absolutely amazing.

“If I was anywhere else in the UK I could probably have dou-bled up with it, or moved the date or cancelled it, but they’d already booked the flights, ho-tels and done the events and it’s just too far down the line.”

John’s main priority this year, is his radio show, but he does have the minor task of playing pretty much all the festivals this year, all around the UK and internationally as well.

He’s playing another tour in America come the second half of the year and travels to Europe to play two of the biggest festi-

vals out there – Dance Valley and Deathcom – 40,000 ravers on the almere strand just outside of Am-sterdam John said: “It’s the cream of the hard scene from all over the world to be invited to play there is a big deal for us; a big check box”

For Kutksi music is everything, whether it’s DJing or produc-ing and he’s recently launched his own record label and team-ing up with Pionneer and the makers of DJ software Serato to help develop the next genera-tion of music technology and he looks set continue this work.

“I always try not to plan too far ahead. When I got the radio show on Radio One if you’d asked me six months before what I wanted to do I’d never have thought in a million years about the radio show,

I think you’ve got to be pretty fast and loose with your plans.

“You can always think I’d like to do this and id like to do that and if I get some time I’ll get in-volved in that but I never have a fix vision of what I’m going to do because you never know what’s going to present itself.”

Given his success one thing that I really took to heart was what a down to earth guy he is, behind the superstar DJ and the shield of Radio One Kutski is just a nor-mal guy that loves his PS3 and has a guilty pleasure for Curling.

Still living at home with his fam-ily John spends most of his time on the road, travelling the globe and spending much of his working week in London at Radio One but for him Chester is where his heart is.

Despite being friends with the likes of Tim Westwood, Lisa Lash-es and Eddie Halliwell Kutski has no plans to forget his roots and believes it’s important to keep your feet firmly on the ground.

“All my mates are still from Chester, all my mates that are personal friends aren’t interested in the DJing and it’s nice to have that still going on outside of it all.

“The last thing you want to do is get too heavily involved with the music industry when you’re living and breathing it.

I’m really tight with my fam-ily and I’ve lived in Chester all my life, I’m quite rooted now.”

2010s set to be another big year for the Chester born star, certainly watch this space. Check out Kutksi’s website at >>> www.djkutksi.com

energy performances he brings a new lease of life to the niche of hard dance music and over the years has developed a huge fan base from all over the globe.

Kutski has DJ skills to scream about, his scratching skills rival any DMC cham-pion and his beat matching outshines any ordinary DJ.

He brings his talents to hard-edged house music and his de-votion to the industry is testa-ment to his success, take on the world he did and he has evolved into one of the world’s top DJs.

Kutski’s no novice when it comes to playing huge venues and has travelled the world playing to club-bers in Ibiza, Holland, America and Canada to name but a few, he’s played alongside music legends

such as Judge Jules and Billy Bunter.He’s played some mas-

sive gigs in his eventful career. Last year he followed Dizzee

Rascal on the set list for Radio One’s big Weekend in Swindon. Describing it as the best gig of his life he told me about the moment.

“I thought to myself this is go-ing to be so bad everybody’s go-ing to scatter, but it just got busier and buiser, one of those gigs that you can just as far as you can see there’s people.

“I was either gonna go really well or I was gonna absolutely kill it, but it was the gig of my life.”

Unfortuantly for John he’s not playing this year, not be-cause he’s not wanted, far from it – he’s double booked with gigs across the Atlantic.

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1. PC or Mac?

That’s not going to be a quick question if we get into that; Mac, absolutely hands down.

2. Iphone or Blackberry?

Iphone.

3. Tea or Coffee?

Tea usually (he says drinking a coffee).

4. Corrie or Eastenders?

Neither, but I’ll back Corrie, it’s northern.

5. Football team?

Leeds United.

6. Dream date?

I’ll go with... what’s her name out of transformers? Megan fox.

7. First single you bought?

That’s a good one; I can’t remember if it was the turtle power one or the Bart Simpson one, it was one of those two.

8. Guilty pleasure?

I’m really into Curling at the moment, since the winter Olympic I stay up till 3am watching Curling on the television.

9. Pet hate?

I’m quite an easy going guy, but when people say DJ’ing on CD’s is cheating.

10. Car?

Some people think cause you’re on Radio One you must be a millionaire, but its like no, I live with my mum and dad and drive a Diesel Astra.


Lifestyle The story of Michelin

It’s the most prestigious award for any chef, a title any de-voted and talented professional

cook strives to achieve, comb-ing much more than just qual-ity food, cooked to the highest standard it’s awarded for a ‘com-plete dining experience’, a dining experience of the utmost prestige.

The award in question is the coveted Michelin star, but unfor-tunately the infamous title has recently been marred in contro-versy with many of its biggest critics raising questions over its integrity. Questioning whether it is simply an award given to ponsy food, that overlooks the true qual-ity, traditional talent of being a chef - critics say too many stars are given to too many young chefs, yet to prove their true credentials.

Given the nature of Michelin and its recent issue of the latest edition of the infamous ‘red book’ Dan Morris met up with 20 time Michelin star chef Simon Radley – Head Chef of the five-star Gros-venor Spa restaurant – to find out more about the story of Michelin.

Simon recently retained his Michelin star for a 20th con-secutive year, although it is the

The Story of Michelin: Is traditional, quality cooking overlookedMichelin star chef Simon Radley gives Urbane the low down on Michelin.

restaurant that gets the star and not the chef, he described it as a fantastic achievement and tak-ing time out of his immensely busy Easter service, Simon be-gan by telling me how he became a Chef and where it all started.

Like most young chefs Simon started in catering college work-ing at various different restau-rants before moving to the Gros-venor in 1986 as a junior chef.

“I was 21-years-old. I didn’t stay long on that occasion but it was the start of a connection to The Chester Grosvenor and Spa that has spanned three decades.

“On several occasions I’ve left to

work somewhere else, learn, de-velop but I’ve always come back.

“I think that tells you a lot about the kind of hotel and restaurant The Chester Grosvenor and Spa is.

“I returned in 1988 at the request of the Managing Director, to head up the opening of the new gourmet restaurant Arkle. Two years later the Arkle was awarded a much cov-eted Michelin star for the first time.

“The restaurant has retained its Michelin star since 1990, is tipped as a rising two star in 2010 and has been award-ed four rosettes by the AA.

“Michelin is the benchmark for all chefs and that’s why it is held in such high regard.

“I think the fact that we’ve had a Michelin star for 20 years is the real success story though. Consistency over two decades is remarkable and something to be really proud of.”

I asked him what it takes to be successful and how tough it was, his reply: “It’s not tough!

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The Story of Michelin: Is traditional, quality cooking overlookedand hitting targets and running a successful restaurant. The other challenge is to make sure that all the food that we provide, which includes supplying La Brasserie and our meetings, events and con-ferences, is prepared with the same ethos and to the same standard. Not many Michelin-starred kitch-ens have that to strive for as well.”

Michelin was first established in 1990 and was founded by André Michelin. It was originally a book found in car garages to help people to find lodgings or restaurants to experience while they waited for work to be completed on their cars.

Today referred to as the Mi-chelin Guide, it is a series of annual guide books that rate restaurants based on very high standards, is-suing stars for extreme quality.

In 1926 Michelin changed, and resembles what we know today as the star rating system, qual-ity restaurants are issued with stars awarded by an anonymous set of Michelin star food crit-ics, who will visit a restaurant sometimes up to ten times to ensure it meets the strict crite-ria and high standards Michelin has long since strived to achieve.

Being issued with a Michelin star is the pinnacle of any chef ’s career but the importance of high standards is emphasised every year, with new inspections and a new book, Chefs up and down the country wait in anticipation to see if their restaurant has been named among some of the world’s best.

Michelin has come under in-creased scrutiny of late, as true foodies question its standards. Back in 2003 it was blasted for hav-ing lax standards and more recently

I asked Simon whether he thought Michelin favour French

cuisine and whether he agreed with critics that say Michelin only award stars to ponsy food, for him: “French food is some of the simplest food in the world. I think our food is classical but with a modern twist.

“There are lots of Michelin starred restaurants that are modern and they are dotted all over the world so represent the cuisine of that coun-try. Michelin is the stable guide for food and restaurants and it’s still very relevant. Michelin has to stay up to date with food trends to keep its credibility and it’s doing that.”

Chefs are kept in the dark about what it takes to gain a Michelin star – that is perhaps one of the most guarded secrets but one thing’s for sure. It’s about three things:; the best quality ingredients, the skill of the cookery and restraint. Re-straint meaning less is more and

letting each ingredient speak for itself. Those are the three things that Michelin are looking for.

The pressures of a Michelin star chef are like no other, their ridiculously high standards, and make or break reviews can often spell the end of an era for even the best chefs. Many have committed suicide in the past through fear of losing a star and a poor repu-tation. Today’s chef ’s are under immense pressure, none more so than those already credited with a Michelin star, losing it could prove catastrophic to any restaurant with a high reputation to uphold.

Simon added: “There is always the fear of losing a star but pro-viding we follow the three simple steps: the best quality ingredients, the skill of the cookery and re-straint we won’t go far wrong.”

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Feature The art of the flashmob

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It’s been a hard day a work, your boss has been at you and you’re trying to get your train before every-one around you starts dancing – they call it a flashmob.

They are possibly the story of the 21st cen-tury, a large group of

people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an un-usual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, but where does it all come from?

Bill Wasik is the inventor, if you like, of the modern day flashmob having orchestrated the first in-stance of any such thing back in 2006. He said: “Basically, it started with an email. I created an email [email protected] forwarded an email to myself, and then I for-warded it to about forty or fifty friends on the premise that they

would think, Oh, Bill’s heard about this interesting thing.

“The original idea was to create an email that would get forwarded around in some funny way, or that would get people to come to a show that would turn out to be something different or surpris-ing. I eventually came up with a lazy idea, which was that the thing would just have one simple, in-your-face aspect to it--there wouldn’t be any show, and that the email would be upfront about the fact that it was inviting people to do basically nothing at all.

“The origional thinking and the idea was that the people them-selves would become the show,

and that just by responding to this random email, they would, in a sense, create something.”

It’s a phenomenon that is fast surpassing any other and has taken shape in the form of a number of influential occasions of late.

Big in America they happen al-most weekly; it only takes you a couple of minutes looking through various news websites to find a hat-ful of up and coming, unique flash mobs taking place across the world.

Charlie Todd, a comedian and founder of the New York group Improve Everywhere, which orga-nizes flashmobs, says the point of the group’s “missions” is simple.

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ing up with an awesome idea and making it come to life,” he writes on the group’s web site.

“In the process we bring excite-ment to otherwise unexciting loca-tions and give strangers a story they can tell for the rest of their lives. We’re out to prove that a prank doesn’t have to involve humili-

“A flashmob is about creating a really unusual experience in a realy un-usual place and shocking

everyone.”

ation or embarrassment; it can simply be about making some-one laugh, smile, or stop to no-tice the world around them.”

Jamie Oliver has become the latest celebrity to fashion a suc-cessful flashmob as part of his latest TV series. Instead of show-ing Oliver teaching the towns-folk about nutrition, it became a competition and stunt show.

To drum up some of his thou-sand people, Oliver went to Marshall University and orga-nized a flash mob scene of stu-dents cooking stir fry to music, while the likes of David Blaine have made careers out of them.

For Jamie Oliver: “A flashmob is about creating a really unusual experience in a realy unusual place and shocking everyone.”

He added: “It felt brilliant to do it, but I didn’t want to do it, I wanted to watch it. It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever done.”

Susan Logoreci has a passion for flash mobbing and told me about the big pillow fight held in San Francisco, for her it was great, and it’s now her go-to video on the internet when she’s feeling down.

While Fred Perry spoke of the biggest Flashmob ever held at Liv-erpool train station, by T-Mobile. “It’s just liberating to come to a public place and engage in some-thing I’ve never engaged before.”

With the help of the internet flash mobs can attract thousands of peo-

ple, and if word spreads far enough can congregate a huge number of people into one small space. Many are often marred with secu-rity concerns and issues over pub-lic safety. Those that go smoothly, are well performed and uniquely,acting and great to be a part of – they

“It felt brilliant to do it, but I didn’t want to do it, I wanted to watch it. It’s

the coolest thing I’ve ever done.”

take boring places inject excitement and captivate an audience, create scenes of chaos and joy, in a unique modern method of performance art.

The power of the flashmob is fast becoming recognised and it might not be all too far away that we see them being used in demonstrations and political campaigns. It may be a case of, and be sure to, watch this space.W

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Sport World Cup memories

The World Cup is argu-ably the most iconic tournament of its kind, but it is not just about

what goes on, on the pitch and something that makes this sporting occasion stand out above any other is its ability to unite 32 nations for four weeks of a year as they come together to battle it out and attempt to win the prestigous tournament. Spirits are high and emotions run deep as countries across the globe join together in support of their team, in the hope it will be their home nation that reigns supreme and is declared world champions. World Cup stadiums erupt with the joy of a nation, as we witness deeds that defy all common sense, logic and physics. One of the best things about the World Cup is that

regardless of how good or bad your country performs there are always moments of brilliance, moments of magic, games and memories that stick in your mind for years.

It’s been around for eight decades and as fans of the game we’ve been blessed with football of the high-est calibre and treated to some unforgettable instances; Urbane magazine went out onto the streets of the UK to here some of your favourite World Cup moments.

Sue Lang remembers the day England were crowned cham-pions of the world, but while many will remember where they were on the day and what they were doing, Sue remembers the event for a very special reason.

She said: “It was a fantastic day, made even better by wedding my

late husband in the most perfect day of our lives; a day I’ll never forget.

“We got through the ceremony and we got thorough the recep-tion and then to my mother and fathers frustration we got changed and made our hur-ried exit, so we could get back to my in-laws house to watch the game on television. Winning was such a fantastic end to my day.”

Forty four years ago Eng-land lifted the iconic trophy and it is a memory that lives long in the hearts of those that are old enough to remember it.

For Julie Forrest she remembers leaving the house on the day of the final in 1966, because her father was getting hysterical. She said: “My mother and I went up west and did some window shopping, came

After fours years in waiting, South Africa 2010 is nearly upon us. Urbane went onto the streets of the United Kingdom to hear what makes the World Cup so speical for you

and to hear some of your favourite World Cup moments...

World Cup: Memorable momentsThe Countdown to South Africa

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home and found it was extra time! “Straight afterwards we went

down to Kensington, fairly near the hotel where England were going to be celebrating.

“We waved madly as they went past in their coach. I got a wave from Jackie

Charlton!”

“We waved madly as they went past in their coach. I got a wave from Jackie Charlton!”

While her husband Jon Forrest described the day’s events from his perspective: “It seemed all over, and then the Germans scored near the end of 90 minutes, taking it to extra time. When we finally won my wife’s father and I were jump-ing up and down. My father-in law died 20 years ago, but the mem-ory of that day stays with me.”

England winning the world cup is by far the proudest mo-

ment for any England fan, con-versely having to wait so long for success of a similar caliber in the years since, England fans have had to take salvation from some of the majestic talent on show.

For American Travis Ayers, when the World Cup came to the U.S. in 1994 he attended 10 of the 14 matches played in California by driving solo up and down the state in a beat-up 1974 AMC Hornet that had no radio nor air conditioner. He said he put 3,500 miles on the clock by the time the tournament ended.

His favourite moment was: “The mass of Colombian sup-porters prior to the Romania match. Everyone’s hopes were sky high at the thought of doing well in the tournament and the number of fans wearing Carlos Valderrama wigs was amazing.

“I also remember driving six hours to watch the brilliant Ro-mania Argentina contest, then making the return trip and driving another two hours the following day for the big Brazil USA game. I Loved every sleepy minute of it.”

While many will remem-ber the positive aspects of the World Cup, no one can forget some of the less tackless events that often make public enemies out of those involved in them.

“It was the World Cup Final we all wanted to see the stylish Bra-zilians versus the tactically astute Italians,” describes Tim Lancaster.

“It was a bore fest from the kick-off to the final whistle. Then we had the penalties and even they were a disaster but when Roberto Baggio strolled up to take his penalty the world waited in anticipation and waited for the talented Italian to stroke the ball home and give Ar-rigo Sacchi’s men a faint chance of capturing the 1994 World Cup.

“Unfortunately Baggio decided to attempt to put away the per-fect penalty only to see his ef-

fort go sailing over the bar and finally we could all switch off the tv after the worst World Cup Fi-nal in the history of the world.”

“When this incident occurred many were fooled into think-ing that Rivaldo was made of twigs,” said Jack Andrews.

“When this incident oc-curred many were fooled

into thinking that Rivaldo was made of twigs.”

“How else could it be explained that a barely hit football kicked by Turkish international Hakan Unsal which made contact with the Bra-zilian’s legs led to the Barcelona leg-end clenching his head as though he was having an aneurysm.

It was no surprise to see Gas-coigne’s infamous tears top of the list, a list that could go on for-ever, one thing is for sure, is that South Africa 2010 is set to pro-vide us football fans with a whole load more magical moments.W

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Business Lifestlye

1. Call your broadband pro-vider and speak to them about your broadband speed.

2. If you use a wireless router, make sure it’s not close to any appliances that could interfere with the signal .

3. Make sure your wireless network is password protected .

4. Do you really need to use a wireless router? If you do, upgrad-ing to a better model might help to improve your broadband speed.

5. It sounds obvious, but when you’re online, only run the applications you actu-ally need to use at the time.

6. Switch your internet browser - Mozilla Firefox is safe, free to down-load, and can be much faster too.

7. Have a look at the cables you are using between your phone line, modem, router and computer - using poor qual-ity cables and/or extension cables

can slow down your broadband.8. Make sure your anti-virus soft-

ware is up to date. Viruses, adware, trojans and worms can all slow down both your broadband speed and your computer in general.

9. Plug your modem or router directly into your BT Master Socket, which is where the BT tele-phone line comes into the house, rather than using a secondary socket. Another option is to fit an I-Plate, which costs around £10. An I-Plate connects to your BT Master Socket and prevents inter-ference from your internal wiring from affecting your broadband.

10. Switch your broadband - compare broadband and find a deal that will give you the broad-band speed you’re after. Speak to people in your area and find out what sort of speed they get before you sign up. ask the SP as well.

Look after the pennies and the pounds will lookafter themselves

Money saving expert Martin Lewis onhow to get the most out of your broadband.

Business advice from Martin Lewis

You may be paying for eight megabyte broadband, but is that what you are actu-

ally receiving. You’d be forgiven for thinking that if that was what was sold to you, that would be the least your internet service provider could do, to actually supply you with it.

Things are not quite as plain as they seem. A recent survey conducted by Ofcom found that almost one in five custom-ers paying for eight mega-byte broadband speeds actually re-ceive less than two mega-bytes.

Broadband speeds concern how fast your internet connec-tion can transfer data, essen-tially how fast pages load and how long downloads take – the faster your broadband connec-tion, the faster these will happen.

Speeds vary and service provid-ers often charge different rates for different speeds. For those of you paying premium rates for a pre-mium service it may be news to you to here that just because you have signed up for these speeds you will not necessarily receive them.

Providers advertise packages as delivering ‘up to’ a certain speed, because broadband speed can be affected by many different factors, including how far away you live from the telephone exchange, how many other people in your area use the same service, what time of day you use your broadband, your in-ternal wiring and even the weather.

Martin Lewis has ten top tips on how to get the most out of your broadband connection and ways in which you can im-prove your current connection.

Martin Lewis’ tips: How to get the most from your broadband

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certainly spends plenty of time there during the week, for him success is everything, but to be suc-cessful you have to train hard. Phil trains everyday to improve every

aspect of his game from strength to power, fit-ness to skill and obvi-ously his s h o o t i n g .

“Key to a good fitness

plan is sticking to it and mak-ing goals you want to achieve.

“You also have to allow your-self a lot of time to rest and al-

1. BENCH PRESSThis is a great exersise for working out your bicepts and shoulders and can be adapted to suit the training level of the individual. It’s best used with the aid of a trainer or friend to help balance the weight.

2. LEG PRESSThis is great for working out your quads and glutes. It’s really simple and straight forward to use and the range of weights make it great for beginners. You can use this on your own and in your own time.

3. SHOULDER PRESSThis is a great exersise for working out your bicepts and shoulders a lot of people don’t use this machine because it’s different to the rest, but it’s great, you shoudln’t be scared, give it a go.

Age: 24Born: July 22nd 1985From: Ellesmere Port

Height: 6 ft 3Weight: 16stone

Phil Brandreth

Does Britain’s rising young basketball star owe it all to press ups and slam dunks?

No pain no gain

Chicken, steak, rice, po-tatoes, two bowls of porridge, three protein

drinks and plenty of water: that’s the daily diet of a professional basketball player in England.

Surrounded by top American athletes Phil Brendreth is a young man in the ascendency of his career, playing basketball at the highest level in the UK and loving every minute of it. Phil’s devotion is testament to his commitment to work out and train religiously.

Desire met up with Phil amongst his busy training re-gime to find out more about the man himself and what it takes to become so successful.

Phil possibly has his childhood neighbours to thank for where he is now; if it wasn’t for them he’d pos-sibly have never even set hands on a basketball. Thankfully he did and at then tender age of 13 Phil began playing the sport thanks to their influence. He began with Saturday morning sessions at his local club just like any 13-year old boy, but from that day basketball has been

The workout: Three great excersises to create that desired body

everything to him. Ever since he picked up a bas-ketball 11 years ago it’s been his life, he told me. “I always wanted to keep playing ever since I start-ed and to be successful in the sport was my aim.”

Having played na-tional league basket-ball since the age of 14 for his local club Ellesmere Port, he signed for the Cheshire Jets at 18 before moving across the Atlantic to further his career.

Under the guidance of Mount Aloysius College he played under a schol-arship there, but later returned to the Jets – where he’s re-mained ever since.

Phil’s career has seen him play for England’s University team and he told me: “It’s a crazy feeling to have England written across your kit. It is definitely one of my greatest achievements.” Phil may not be a gym addict but he

Fitness tips from the professionals

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1. BREAKFASTSomething with a lot of slow release energy. Porridge fol-lowed by a bacon buttie.

2. SNACK ONEI take protein shakes for that added boost, they’re a great source of protein and aid the

recovery process.

3. LUNCHLunch for me usually consists of rice with a meat, something with a high protien content.

4. SNACK TWOI’m usually in the gym around this time so i’ll have a protein shake.

5. DINNERDinner will be similar to lunch, but usually i’ll have potatoes, a source of Carbahydrates and energy accomapanied with chicken, again another good source of protein.

6. SUPPERAnother bowl of porridge, that usually keeps me going.

7. SNACK THREEThis will be another protein shake.

8. DRINKSContiunously throughout the day, Plenty off water. Things in moderation are fine, so the odd cup of tea or glass of squash isn’t going to be the end of the world.

1. DONT OVER TRAINTraining reguarly is good, but in moderation, rest muscle groups and don’t over do it.

2. REST AFTERRecovery is just as important as training, if you don’t give your muscles time to recover they’ll never get stronger.

3. EAT WELLA heathly diet is a must, ev-erybody knows that, but what you eat is key, low levels of carbs and hi levels of protein are good.

4. DRINK PLENTYWater, drink plenty of fluid, I drink it all the time, as much as i possibly can.

5. GET A TRAINERThey will provide you with the help and guidance you need.

6. ALWAYS WARM UPYour muscles are like blue tack cold and they tear, always warm them up.

7. WORK WITH A PARTNERI have a trainer but workiing with a partner will motivate

you.

8. DON’T LIFT TOO MUCHWork within your ability don’t ever try and over do it.

9. TRAIN TO A PROGRAMMEI have a strict training regime i

stick by, it helps focus me.

10. MONITOR YOURThis will help you see your improvements .

3. SHOULDER PRESSThis is a great exersise for working out your bicepts and shoulders a lot of people don’t use this machine because it’s different to the rest, but it’s great, you shoudln’t be scared, give it a go.

Phil’s workout tips Phil’s daily dietlow your body and muscles to recover; hence why I don’t lift the same muscle groups every day.”

Meeting up with Phil it was evi-dent he’s a really down to earth guy, who appreciates what he’s achieved in life, I asked him how he moti-vates himself to train. His response:

“When I really can’t be bothered I just think to myself that’s a bad men-tality and while I’m not

working to improve there are people out there who would like to be in the

position I am right now.”

“When I really can’t be bothered I just think to myself that’s a bad mentality and while I’m not work-ing to improve there are people out there who would like to be in the position I am right now.”

His aspirations are to carry on being successful and be a good role model for the club.

Finally, Phil had some do’s and don’ts when it comes to fit-ness and training, he said: “Do Stick to it, work hard, read up.

He added: “Don’t do too much at once, gradually build up what you do over the course of time.” W

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Lifestyle Humour

A quirky and irrelevnat outlook on the world

Police in Connecticut had ample warn-ing of a bank robbery after the two sus-pects called beforehand and told an employee to get a bag ready.Police arrested 27-year-old Albert Bai-

ley and an unidentified 16-year-old boy on robbery and threatening charges at a People’s United Bank branch in Fairfield.Police said the pair showed up

about 10 minutes after making the call and were arrested in the car park.

Darren Bent has become so enthralled in the Twitter craze that he’s had to call it a day. He revealed he has quit the social networking site to con-centrate on his football. Glad to here you got your priorities right, Darren.The Sunderland striker had fought hard to get more than 15,000 follow-

ers who have been left bitterly disappointed that they can no longer keep up to date with the former Spurs man’s latest video game achievements.He said: “I had a good chat with the manager recently and I just thought that,

with the run we’re on at the moment, I needed to get rid of the distractions.

Thieves call bank ahead of robbery

At one point a boy was five times as old as his sister. Later he was four times her age and then three times her age. Now he is double her age. How old are the boy and girl now?

1. I’ve been wearing a bra around the house for the last few weeks, my missus is starting to think I’m strange. I’ve been trying to convince her it’s mine ever since she found it in the car.

2. Next time you’re on an air-plane and the fella next to you falls asleep: Ask the stewardess to borrow her demonstration mask, put it on and shake him awake with an alarmed look on your face.

3. Pollen is essentially ‘plant sperm’. This makes hay fever an STD. Since no one voluntarily takes in pollen, I’ve deduced: We are all being raped by trees.Deforestation is the way forward.

Just for jokes: Three instances of whitty banter

Monthly Brainteaser

Tottenham Hotspurs star Darren Bent is a ‘qwitter’

Words by Dan Morris Photography courtesy of Google

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Entertainment Lifestyle

With his UK tour fully under way and his second album out in the next few weeks. Dan Morris caught up with the British rapper ahead of a busy month.

Elliot Gleave (E.G) aka Ex-ample is on the rise. He’s a young British rapper who’s

shot to fame over the course of the last four years. With a success-ful album and a number of chart successes already under his belt, he’s set to embark on the latest chapter in his, eventful life; as he begins his UK tour, travelling the length and bredth of the country to perform to a fan base growing by the second, in places such as Bristol, Manchester and London.

His first album What we made received good support and has propelled the young star from Hammersmith in London into the spotlight. A few singles followed and most notably his latest release won’t go quietly which reached number six in the official UK chart.

Kickstarts will be Example’s next single, played for the first time on Zane Lowes Radio One show, he described it as a mix of Snow Pa-trol, MGMT and Dizzee Rascal.

The 27-year-olds long awaited

Jack Johnson - To The Sea £8.95 play.comDue for release: 31/05/2010

Foals - Total Life Forever£11.99 play.comDue for release: 10/05/2010

Pendulum - Immersion£8.95 play.comDue for release: 24/05/2010

Music Album watch

album has been in the pipe line for a while now, Elliott said: “It’s out in May, it was originally January but we’ve put it back. There will be a third single out in May aswell.”

In this album listeners can ex-pect to hear a lot of different sounds, he added: “On the new album there are now electro songs, dance songs, hip hop songs, pop songs. A bit of everything really.

“I don’t want to make the same album twice. I did an experimental song on my last mix called “Dirty face” which was me rapping over a rave beat and from that I got a real itch for it and started using differ-ent tempo and different sounds.”

Example left his old record label Beats to work on his new album, talking about joining his new label he said: “I got a vibe for dance music and Ministry picked that up. They just want me to make good music. People like Dizzie (Rascal), Calvin (Harris), Tinchy (Stryder) have all played with different genres.

Try this for ExampleAll the latest Music and film releases reviewed

Slash - Slash£8.95 play.comDue for release: 10/05/2010

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Lifestyle Entertainment

A bowman in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion, virtuous rogue Robin

Hood rises from an unlikely background to become a hero to the impoverished people of Not-tingham and lover to the beauti-ful Lady Marian (Cate Blanchett).

Crowe helps depict the legend-ary, classic film in a modern way, charting the life of an expert archer; Robin Hood is the unlikeliest of heroes, who embarks on an adven-ture across a country stricken with war and under the power of a King heavily involved in corruption.

Staring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins and Max von Sydow they begin prey-ing on the indulgent upper class to

correct injustices under the sher-iff. The film is set to hit the big screen this month on the 14th May

Talking about his latest film Os-car winner Crowe said: “This thing has been a myth a legend a parlour game a political tool long before it ever came a Kevin Costner film, I think there’s something wonder-ful in a story that’s lasted so long.

“The thing that attracts me and has done ever since I was a little kid is that there’s some guy out there who will go and work on behalf of the people who can’t do some-thing themselves. There’s a guy out there who will go out and rob from the rich to give to the poor.

“And even though you don’t necessarily want to call it steeling at the same time the metaphor is fantastic.”

From rich to poor Cinema watch

Ridley Scott and actor Russell Crowe reunite for their fifth big-screen outing, a retelling of the Robin Hood legend featuring the Gladiator star in the titular role.

Cop Out Starring: Bruce WillisDue for release: 21/05/2010

Iron Man 2Starring: Robert Downey JrDue for release: 07/05/2010

Prince of PersiaStarring: Mike MyersDue for release: 21/05/2010

Hot Tube Time MachineStarring: John CusackDue for release: 07/05/2010

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