January 2011
3 posts
INTERVIEW WITH "I SAW YOU STANDING" CREATOR
Street style documenting has come a long way from the trendy backstreets of major cities. Now a lucrative industry, amateur blogs pit against national newspapers, magazines and big hitter websites. But like most things, anything that becomes big news also drips in over-saturated fat.
I Saw You Standing appears to be the next level in street style photography. Shot on video and...
INTERVIEW WITH DEVLIN
As the start of the summer sun melts everything around us, Devlin perches on a wall outside his management’s offices and smiles, and with good reason. 2010 began with an appearance on the BBC’s yearly hit music-maker longlist (“Sound of…”) and by March he was signed to a major label (Island).
’It’s weird,’ he says. ”Cos it’s every...
INTERVIEW WITH SLEIGH BELLS
So, Alexis’s mum. Now the band has taken off is she the biggest fan of Sleigh Bells? Derek: She is a huge fan, for sure…very cool woman. I mentioned in a different interview how honest she is, which is true. She came into the studio, heard a rough mix of “Tell ‘Em” was kinda unimpressed and not shy about it. The truth hurts, we just wanna be lied to.
Inside your...
December 2010
2 posts
BEST EVER INBETWEENERS EPISODES
The Inbetweeners final series ended last week and joined the big TV heaven in the sky (a feature length movie is penciled for next year though). To celebrate, we’ve spent the past 7 days (seriously, i’m exhausted) putting together the best ever episodes -
Series 1, Episode 2 - Already described as the best ever episode, this is also probably the most talked about episode of The...
WAGNER HAS THE X FACTOR
“Has your hair lost its mojo?” Cheryl coos in her latest shampoo advert and then in walks Wagner, apparently the epitome of too much hair mojo and everybody gasps.
Yep, The X Factor is definitely With a wooden choker sticking to his throat and the not-too-distant call of pan pipes, the former P.E teacher could have been the next Jedward – but without the annoyance of bad songs and a lard of...
November 2010
1 post
IN DEFENSE OF "SEVEN DAYS"
R.I.P Seven Days, four months and eight episodes old. The television programme wrongly billed by the press as the heir to Big Brother aired for the last time Tuesday night taking with it some of the best TV moments this year. Yes, really.
The first episode featured Malcolm, above, the dreadlocked property manager, trying to get a mortgage. So far, so what. But then as the episode rolled on...
September 2010
1 post
LFW S/S '11: NICOLE FARHI
Like that Incubus song (sorry) where he sings, the ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket, the clothes at Nicole Farhi resembled that of diamonds as sequins twinkled under the afternoon sun of the Royal Opera House’s glass roof.
Watched by a heady mix of fashion celebs on the front row (Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld and Bill Nighy – I’m serious), Farhi’s summer...
August 2010
1 post
SPENCER PRATT: TV HERO
Spencer Pratt: reality TV star; crazy healing crystal bad guy. Anyone with half a brain cell will know that perfectly named Pratt and his wife’s plastic face are the single best thing on TV. After every episode I like to sit and contemplate what I have just watched because it takes a few minutes for my brain to compute such levels of TV genius.
The most recent episodes of season 6, sadly the...
May 2010
1 post
2 NEW MOVIES REVIEWED
4 LIONS: From the opening monologue recording a suicide messages to the final act of blowing themselves up, Chris Morris’ film 4 Lions is relentless in creating characters in scenarios that are hilarious, heartwarming and, dare I say it, inoffensive. Because if heaven is like skipping the queues to fast track the big rides, then 4 Lions is surely the Disneyland’s Teacup...
April 2010
3 posts
THE ALTERNATIVE DEBATE REVIEW
My brain always struggles to compute debates. It’s like it can sense boredom approaching and does the honourable thing and switches off. Tonight’s debate I somehow made it to the end, my brain only half aching. I felt as bored as the audience looked and realised I could only be certain of two things. One was the size of David Cameron’s head. It’s huge. Every time the...
I, I, I, I REALLY LOVE DIE ANTWOORD
Who are Die Antwoord? Or, more to the point, is Die Antwoord? “The answer,” MC Ninja, the band’s front guy with the WW2 razor sharp crop, answers here. The answer to what? Silence, then, “Whatever, man. Fuck.”
Their video, ‘Enter The Ninja’, went viral and before long it became a blogger’s quest to uncover the truth. Were Die Antwoord serious? Was it considered ironic to like them because you...
WELCOME TO JERSEY SHORE
Jersey Shore burst onto US TV screens last year like a hairspray explosion in a holiday suitcase with a concept so ridiculous and boring-sounding that it does a 360 and comes back to you as Jersey Shore. The premise: eight self-proclaimed Guido’s and Guidettes (the younger generations term for a good looking Italian, the older generations term for a lower working class chav, essentially an...
February 2010
3 posts
YOUNG AND LOST
Luckily Sara Jade had the desk in front of Nadia Dahlawi otherwise Young and Lost Club might never have happened. “We were 12 and Sara kept turning round to talk to me,” Dahlawi recalls of their boarding school days. “We were really good friends straight away.” The music industry is synonymous with hard-nosed men signing the next fame school kid just to rake in the money. Refreshingly, Young and...
NEW VIDEOS SORT OF REVIEWED
The internet is great for finding new music, huh? Since this magazine launched we’ve been getting emailed daily with (mostly) awful dance music that their PRs say we should be “telling the world” about. Except that no one in the world wants to hear it because no one in the world actually cares. But hopefully you’ll care about these handpicked gems we found around the...
INTERVIEW WITH BLOGGER WHITE LIGHTNING
For a blog that started on a whim, White Lightning is pretty damn good. Elizabeth Spiridakis’s daily musings attracts a readership in its thousands and counts Kanye West as a fan. And it’s easy to see why. With fashion bloggers now in their millions (it feels that way), rarely are they ever this good. Or funny. Maybe it’s owing to a career spent in print media that has helped or just the fact...