This year the UK has witnessed a Christmas miracle. A miracle in the form of an organic, grass-roots movement to topple the multi-million-pound star-making machine that is the X Factor with an anti-establishment anthem that declares ‘Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’. For four consecutive years Simon Cowell’s progeny have taken...
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Nice guys don’t always finish last. A case in point is Frank Turner – probably one of the nicest and most genuine guys in the UK music industry, who has finally, in 2009, found the critical and commercial success he’s long deserved. And while we’re bandying clichés around, here’s another one – this time...
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The Gossip are the three-piece punk rock electro band from Olympia, Washington’s underground scene who broke through in the UK in spectacular style in 2006 with the single and album ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’. Lead by the unlikely rock star, lesbian, feminist, fashion icon and ‘cool’ person Beth Ditto, the infectious trio...
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East Los Angeles punk band The Bronx, are, in a word, incendiary; one of the most exciting live bands around, with the kind of passion and energy that can incite a riot. So when I heard that the riotousness was being swapped for serious reverence onstage, in the form of a new side-project for...
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For a person with the musical history – and some might even say genius – of Mick Jones, he is one unassuming and unaffected man. I meet him on a humid afternoon in West London as he and a team of helpers are madly trying to finish putting together Mick Jones’ Rock n Roll...
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Tonight the UK’s smoking ban has been over-turned; it doesn’t exist – in one certain Greenwich venue, at least. That is, so long as it’s cannabis that you’re smoking. While the audience is more than open to the possibility from the outset, it is in fact the compare who starts things off, lighting up...
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Britain’s drugs classifications and penalties are arbitrary and unlawful, according to a forthcoming High Court challenge. A London man has been granted leave to appeal to the High Court for permission to judicially review the decision to try him for the production of cannabis. Medical-marijuana user Edwin Stratton claims the Government’s criminalisation of cannabis...
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I went to Austin, Texas in March, for South By South West. SXSW is a musical extravaganza of hundreds of gigs staged behind almost every second or third door along the main strip, 6th Street, and surrounding roads, where you can see music performed from lunch time till the early hours for four days...
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A series of pictures of The Bronx. Texas – SXSW; 23 March 2009. http://www.thebronxxx.com Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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A series of pictures of Rolo Tomassi. Texas – SXSW; 23 March 2009. Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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