issue 23

The Book Swap Interview – Jonathan Pinnock

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I love the fact that you can play with stuff without feeling you’re committed to a long-term relationship. So you can try out new things, like writing a piece in the second person, or the future tense or whatever.

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The Book Swap Interview – John Harding

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I’ve always talked to myself inside my head and it came as a surprise a few years ago when I discovered that some other people didn’t. I have my own private language and catchphrases, and I assumed everyone did.

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Heraldry as Art… in The Park

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If art has often been an expression of the personal power of a monarch, it can also be felt, personally, as powerful to all people. So, even art which was created in undemocratic times can be fundamentally democratic, having a universal appeal.

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Thoughts Released – Interview with DJ/Label Owner Rob Luis

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“I have so many favourite guests, starting with Basement Jaxx, Norman Jay, James Lavelle, Rodney P & Skitz, 4 Hero, Ross Allen, Gilles Peterson, Matthew Herbert, The Nextman and Eddie Pillar. I wish I had taken more photos when I think back to it!”

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Tallulah Rendall – The Lioness Is Ready To Roar

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9 o’clock on the dot and Tallulah steps on stage, bare foot and almost primeval, she picks up and plugs in her amazing antique Gretch, an axe heavy and warrior like, a Boadicea for modern times. She readies and steadys herself in front of the classic retro microphone. Feet firmly planted.

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Lucy Driscoll – Present

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Present – A picture article by Lucy Driscoll.

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Odin’s Police Force

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Or… What life might be like today if the Vikings had won? The problem, I think, is that we are suckers for novelty. It gives us a frisson of cosmopolitanism to use words like frisson. We are suckers for words like suckers. It gives us an air of imagined sophistication to walk boldly into the [...]

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You Don’t Have To Run To Be DMC

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Don’t ever judge a book by its cover. There’s more to this man than merely playing the tourist and he certainly deserves the title of ‘big gun’. For all you budding disk jockeys out there take note, if it wasn’t for the man in the picture above, your wheels of steel may not be turning [...]

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