Fri 30 Jul 2021 04.00 EDT
If you wanted to date the moment one of the biggest youth subcultures of 80s Britain arrived, you could pick 40 years ago this month, on 4 July 1981. That night, at the Marquee club in Soho, a few hundred kids gathered to watch a band who were almost singlehandedly kickstarting a new wave of alternative music. Waiting for them to come on, those fans launched into the song that served as their heroes’ unofficial theme, from David Lynch’s Eraserhead. “In heaven, everything is fine,” they sang. “You’ve got your good things, and I’ve got mine.” A few months later, that chorus opened, and gave its name to, the first LP by the Meteors. And as their frontman would later claim, “Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly.”
14 July 2021 • 12:02am
A masked man in central London, as Boris Johnson warns that coronavirus infections will rise as restrictions lift
Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA
SIR – All we ever hear are “scientists” warning about what might happen in the near future, and how many thousand hospitalisations and deaths we can expect. This is not science.
We the public are tired of this incessant stream of prognostications which, in the recent past, have often been wide of the mark. We have wised up to a deliberate government policy of creating fear so as to generate compliance with endless diktats.
We are still none the wiser as to the proportion of Covid-positive people who are actually ill, and I’m sure we are not going to be told.
The Castle Cafe (arrowed) is on the slipway leading down to the Castle Beach. Picture: Gareth Davies Photography The granting of a new alcohol licence means a popular, long-standing Tenby premises can develop a “cosy restaurant” in the evenings despite concerns from police and residents about anti-social behaviour in the area. The Dennis Cafe on Castle Beach has been run by the Lindsay family for 32 years, members of Pembrokeshire County Council licensing sub-committee heard yesterday (Tuesday, May 25), and it wanted to extend its business into the Castle Cafe across the slipway. Ebony Lindsay told the committee that there was talk of it being a bar, public house or nightclub, which was “very frustrating to us. Castle Cafe will be not be any of those.”
Picture: Pixabay Dyfed-Powys Police has concerns about plans for a licensed cafe on the slipway to Castle Beach, Tenby following increasing anti-social behaviour in the area. Members of Pembrokeshire County Council’s licensing committee will discuss an application for a premises licence for the Castle Cafe, made by the owner of the nearby Dennis Cafe, this week. Representations from Dyfed-Powys Police licensing officer Nigel Lewis highlight a “gradual increase in the failure to comply with social distancing; anti-social behaviour, bonfires; discarded broken glass and general waste thereby minimising the public confidence, for their safety, at this location” in the immediate vicinity recently.