AlternaTwenty(Intro 1)I think we all know the lows & more lows of our TwoThousandAndTwenty. So for this look at a selection ofthe cultural high & lowlights of this year let’s take a trip over to one of the many parallel/alternative Earthsdoing the rounds out...
In the course of various experiments on the processes of mental fermentation, one particular question obsessed the governor-humanist Sergei Furgal – can something living really come from the spontaneous fermentation that occurs in a solution composed of bureaucrats?...
It was early 2003, I was 21, and I was working, in the loosest sense of the word, for a small online music magazine. We covered the more extreme and esoteric end of the electronic, industrial and metal scenes. You probably know what I mean, an unlistenable mix of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV0BuOSl8l8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=shunsukeohno Whisky & Cigars is a collaboration between writer Dmitry Sokolenko and photographer Shunsuke Ohno. For 2 or 3 weeks of the year they each travel independently to their...
There’s something going on, I’m not sure it’s what people have paid their hard earned for, but the rising tension is impossible to ignore. The singer in the support act had been playing on the crowd’s impatience. Taunting and winding them up mercilessly. Now all of a...
Pinocchio and the future Pope John Paul I are sitting at a table in the café. The future Pope John Paul II is standing at the bar. Since there is no security camera in the café in 1978, everything we’ll write about here is based on the notes and sketches of Pinocchio....
Many thanks to Den Browne for an amazing chapter of his book Padlocks recounting going to an X Ray Spex gig with Sid & Nancy. Thanks to various fan sites, Den thinks this was probably on 26.10.77. but who was counting then ? When Sid and Nancy moved into our...