This is Dave and Chris with a few little updates for you all. Sorry we haven’t been blogging that much very all been asleep resting for the joyful summer.

Planning is coming along nicely – there’s going to be lots more going on this year, including theatre performances which we haven’t had before. Anyone with ideas get on the blog and shout about it! We’re talking to a few bands and we’ll blog about them when we have more confirmations.

Remember to get all your submissions in by 14th of April for the Magazine -

thejoymagazine@gmail.com

We have a Private Viewing for the Clare Goodman exhibition on Sunday 19th April (2 – 4) – after this we’re all going to Priory Park to wear masks and do a photo shoot in front of the Guildhall – so find a mask, get dressed up if you like, generally look silly and come down…….

The next Joy gig will be 25th April at The Hope. Free entry as usual. We’ve got eaststrikewest, Footsteps and Voices, and A Genuine Freakshow.  Here is a video by the might A Genuine Freakshow :

Cheers

Dave & Chris

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bring on more…….

See you all on the 14th! -
Ambient / Experimental night @ The Hope.
Sleepingdog / Vagrant Sea (Jon Walbrin) / The SK5 / Richard Poll

From Sarah over in peta2 UK
http://blog.peta2.com/2009/02/vegan_pancake_day.html?c=923f

What you will need:

1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of “No Egg” (or equivalent) mixed with water, as directed on the packet
1 cup soya milk (or try rice or oat milk)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Set out your ingredients and combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, and then add the soya milk (or rice milk in my case!) and vegetable oil to the mixture. Warm a pan up with a little bit of cooking oil whilst whisking up the mixture. Spoon one pancake’s worth of mixture into the pan. Once there are bubbles in the middle of the pancake, or the edges have stiffened—flip it over to cook the other side

Truth about Milk and Eggs
http://www.goveg.com/whatsWrong.asp
Milk Facts

* Like all female mammals, cows produce milk for one reason—to feed their own babies.
* Veal is a “byproduct” of the dairy industry. Male calves are taken from their mothers within a day of birth; all calves raised to become veal are the children of dairy cows
* “Organic” dairy farms are often even worse than conventional dairy farms: Mother cows are still forcibly impregnated and forced to live mired in dirt and feces, and their babies are still taken from them. Also, organic farms don’t always treat sick animals because medications would prevent them from being able to sell the milk as organic. Instead, they often simply keep sick and physically compromised animals around so that their milk can be sold to conventional dairies.
* Researchers have shown that dairy-product consumption can lead to ailments including asthma, acne, diabetes, and even osteoporosis. Learn more about cow’s milk consumption and human illness.

Egg Facts

* Chickens’ eggs are the byproduct of a chicken’s “menstrual” cycle. If fertilized, they would produce baby chicks.
* Male chicks are worthless to the egg industry, so every year millions of them are tossed into trash bags to suffocate or are thrown alive into high-speed grinders called “macerators.”1
* Egg-laying hens are all eventually slaughtered for their flesh. Their weak and emaciated bodies are made into soup or dog and cat food, or they are fed back to other chickens.
* “Free-range” eggs are a marketing ploy—the free-range label is not subject to any USDA regulations, so “free-range” chickens endure miserable conditions, just as all animals used for food do.2

Dave Charming

And So I Watch You From Afar – Live in Belfast – Coming to Chichester on Friday 20th – Be there……..

Also playing are LaFaro and Monsters Build Mean Robots. Free entry as usual. @ The Hope, Spitalfield Lane.