2011-2012 Editorial

Concrete

Chris King, Editor-In-Chief - concrete.editor@uea.ac.uk

Editor-in-chief Chris King has a really rather grandiose job title for someone who sits in an office all day. His main role is ensuring that Concrete doesn't turn into Heat magazine, and playing Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 at least once a day, as it has become his unofficial official anthem. Chris supports a mediocre local football team in QPR, and loves to complain about their perpetual failure, amongst other pursuits.

Hannah Britt, Deputy Editor & Fashion Editor - concrete.deputyeditor@uea.ac.uk, concrete.fashion@uea.ac

Branded a “fucking tabloid journalist” by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Deputy Editor Hannah Britt is currently on a crusade to turn Concrete into Heat magazine. She also happens to be Fashion Editor, although you may find that hard to believe during publication weekends. Hannah loves a tracksuit, but then she is from Manchester. When she grows up she wants to be Beyonce.

Susanna Wood, News Editor - concrete.news@uea.ac.uk

Since starting to write for Concrete back in the heady days of 2009, Susanna Wood’s exploits have ranged from the dangerous (being scarily close to the infamous falling fire extinguisher at the Millbank riots) to the bizarre (being told she looked like a caramel hobnob by a D-list celebrity). Suze is in the third year of her English Literature degree and can usually be found in the Concrete office, swearing loudly at Adobe Indesign C4. She really enjoys a dark chocolate Bounty.

James Dixon, News Editor - concrete.news@uea.ac.uk

James Dixon has been a brick in Concrete’s humble home for all three of his year at UEA.  They say 'home is where the hearth is', and so Concrete has fuelled his journalistic fire to write and commission articles.  He was "born with a love for the wrote and the writ" and has a certain fascination with metaphors. This however, means he is a purveyor of bad jokes and wanting witticisms.

Josh Resoun, Comment Editor - concrete.comment@uea.ac.uk

Joshua is a gentleman and a scholar, but can occassionally go on tour. He has an air of arrogance which inspires his writing team to be as controversial as OfCom (and Chris), will allow, while maintaining ignorance in the face of his politically conservative tendencies.

Greg Lewry, Travel Editor - concrete.travel@uea.ac.uk

Third year English and American Literature student Greg joined Concrete this year as Travel Editor, succumbing finally to Concrete's lures after two years of "doing something else," following his college days which were dominated by football reports and music reviews. Although he quickly discovered that being Travel Editor doesn't mean you get free holidays or all-expenses-paid trips to exotic destinations, the warmth of the Concrete Office on deadline day goes a small way to comforting him as he edits stories about other people going on holiday to exotic destinations. However the position does mean that he gets to interview truly inspirational public figures such as Orlando from the "Gap Yah" Youtube sketch (A.K.A. The Archbishop of Banterbury) as well as the chance to come up with cringe-worthy headlines that even The Sun wouldn't publish. Or Heat magazine for that matter ...

Billy Sexton, Features Editor - concrete.features@uea.ac.uk 

Originating from the distant lands of Nottingham, Billy, like his mentor and friend Chris Teale, always has the potential to be a liability on nights out. A passionate Nottingham Forest fan, he’ll frequently remind you that the team he supports are two-time European Champions, despite not being born until 14 years after the event; and you thought Liverpool fans were living in the past. Famous for his love of hash tags and the generosity of the Student Loan Company, Billy has proved to be a vital addition to Concrete FC. There are whispers and rumours that Zinedine Zidane requested to be No. 5, after he discovered that Billy also wears this magical jersey.

Hasina Allen, Lifestyle Editor - concrete.lifestyle@uea.ac.uk

BIO

Rianne Ison, Lifestyle Editor - concrete.lifestyle@uea.ac.uk

Lifestyle co-editor Rianne is still living down the shame of publically humiliating herself on "Love Lounge" during BBC Radio One’s Student Tour in which she announced that "like a Cheeky Girl you can touch my bum anytime!" She falls over at least once a day and famously put her knee through a wall in her student home. Her overriding ambition in life is to turn her celebrity obsession into a career. (She wholeheartedly supports Hannah in her quest to transform Concrete into Heat!)

Rachael Lum, International Editor - concrete.international@uea.ac.uk 

Cars run on gas and petrol; Rachael Lum runs on sugar in desserts and words of poetry. Hailing from Malaysia, she enjoys discovering the myriad of different cultures, which explains her natural inclination to this field.

Rebecca Hazlewood, Turf Editor - concrete.turf@uea.ac.uk

BIO

Sam Tomkinson, Competitions Editor - concrete.competitions@uea.ac.uk

Chris Teale, Sport Editor - concrete.sport@hotmail.co.uk

Earning himself a reputation as a liability on socials and for his unintentionally hilarious outbursts, Chris Teale has made an enormous impact on Concrete since his arrival. He is keen to forge a career for himself as a serious journalist, but might find his inability to engage his brain before opening his mouth may prevent this.

Matt Scrafton, Sport Editor - concrete.sport@hotmail.co.uk

Matt is one half of our stupendous Sport Editor’s pairing, along with the all-singing enigma that is Chris Teale. Currently in his final year of studying History, he has high hopes of becoming a fully fledged sports journalist once he finishes his course. Despite the derisive and frankly prejudicial claims that he is a “dirty northerner,” Matt in fact originates from the Midlands – Lincoln to be precise. Just because he speaks properly doesn’t mean he instantly has a fetish for wife-beating and gravy... although he does. Like all true football fans, he supports his local side/non-league tin pot outfit: Lincoln City. He also apparently prides himself on insulting ex-managers of said club; one not-so private quarrel on Twitter certainly springs to mind! Amongst his heroes are Alan Shearer (the player, not the pundit), Keith Alexander, Bob Dylan, and last but not least...Fabricio Coloccini.

Venue

Alex Throssell, Venue Editor - concrete.event@uea.ac.uk

Alex Throssell, although ostensibly employed as Venue Editor with the intention of ensuring that high-quality content gets featured in Concrete’s culture pullout, often finds himself leaving all the hard graft to his sub-editors and just swoops in on deadline day to take all the credit. Along with his partner-in-crime Alex Ross, Alex (self-confessedly “alternative”) injects some much needed pretention into the Concrete dynamic.

Jordan Bright, Music Editor - concrete.music@uea.ac.uk

BIO

Alex Ross, Music Editor - concrete.music@uea.ac.uk

Ella Chappell, Creative Writing Editor - concrete.creativewriting@uea.ac.uk

Milly Sampson, Deputy Fashion Editor - concrete.fashion@uea.ac.uk

Josh Mott, Wired Editor - concrete.wired@uea.ac.uk

James Burrough, Film Editor - concrete.film@uea.ac.uk

Anna Eastick, Film Editor - concrete.film@uea.ac.uk

Matt Tidby, Television Editor - concrete.tv@uea.ac.uk

Ever since he first realised that the focus of Deal or No Deal was guessing the content of boxes, Matt Tidby has been regularly flying into a rage about Television for little or no good reason. He got even angrier when he realised that everyone watching it was aware of the limits of its format, but were simply waiting for death and couldn’t be bothered to change the channel.

Emma Webb, Arts Editor - concrete.arts@uea.ac.uk 

Blonde West Ham fan from Essex, Emma, has abandoned previous years of cultural and artistic pursuit, in favour of drinking pubs out of Corona on a Saturday when there is football on. Special skills include waltzing with a hangover, social impropriety and becoming dangerously demoralised by Adobe InDesign C4. Harbours inherent suspicion of Tottenham Hotspur, the "izzle" suffix and people who make a mess with toothpaste. Is forever blowing bubbles. 

Sam Tomkinson, Listings Editor - concrete.listings@uea.ac.uk 

Amy Adams, Chief Copy Editor - concretecopyeditors@gmail.com

Taking great pleasure in correcting people since the tender age of three, co-chief copy editor Amy Adams makes one half of the mission to keep Concrete as free as possible from spelling errors and, more importantly, misuse of commas. By supplying the office with baked goods every production weekend, she hopes that people won't notice all the red pen. Runs exclusively on coffee and cupcakes.

Harry Slater, Chief Copy Editor - concretecopyeditors@gmail.com

Overly fond of deploying a red pen, co-chief copy editor Harry Slater should probably spend less time reading stylebooks. Although a severe hyphen allergy provokes extensive swearing and a ghastly rash, he maintains appropriately, but probably annoyingly, pedantic. When not studying for his history and politics degree he is in the library … studying for his history and politics degree. Duh. Likes: bagels, Twitter, radio comedy and Groove Armada. Dislikes: clubbing, pork, rogue semicolons and small talk.

Laura Smith, Chief Photographer - concrete.photographers@uea.ac.uk

Harriet Jones, Deputy Chief Photographer - concrete.photographers@uea.ac.uk