When I meet new people, and the question ‘where are you from?’ crops up – most people say, ‘Oh, you’re from Brighton? That’s a cool place’. My common response to this is usually a slightly disgusted smirk or some quip that yeah, it’s better than Bognor but it ain’t THAT great. Brighton used to be...
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I’ve been looking at a lot of photographs by the young Eleni Mettyear over the last year, and she has been getting better and better everytime I check out her flickr page. I decided it was about time she shared some of her work on Smack That! I had a little chat with her...
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Holy fucking shit – New semi-interesting band for us all to talk about for a bit! Yuck are a stupidly new project, only setting up their myspace a few months ago, and already have a shitload of hype surrounding them, including a whole NME wankfest thing recently. Yuck comprise of two members from Cajun...
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Alright, Smack That minions. We have something very exciting to tell you all. Lutworth, Hulk Rogan and Murley Bassey have been organising a new and exciting monthly club night soon to hit the streets of Brighton. TEEN CREEPS is to be held at a secret location in Brighton each month, with live music from some...
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I recently got fired from my job at HMP Lewes, teaching art and design to the inmates, for being photographed by the local newspaper mucking about at a party. I’m not sure whether I am actually allowed to talk about what happened behind the gates of the prison without breaching security, so decided to...
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Dogs For those of you who may not know why I have actually come to south east Asia, it is actually for an animal psychology based inquisition, studying the different characteristics from dogs around the globe. Vietnam has been an extremely fascinating part of my research, because there are a lot of dogs here!!! Here dogs are...
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Photo series of the Smack That! Millenium Disco. Documented through the eye of a fish.
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As a lot of you probably already know, I collect passport photographs of people. I have over 200 individual passport photographs now, my ultimate goal is to get 1 million, though that is quite unlikely. I decided on my 21st birthday that i would document the whole of my adult life through passport photographs,...
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Got Bitten By A Girl Been pretty flippin’ shit at the bloggin’ shit, but nether the less gather round children, because I have a story for you!!! In the mountains in the north of Vietnam there is a small tourist ridden town that goes by the name of Sapa. Surrounding this town are many tribes villages,...
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So 2010 eh? A new year and that. So what better way to celebrate than to get depressed about getting a year older and still pissing around like a drunk spastic. With this in mind I’ve got all morbid on yo’ ass and have come up with ten songs I want played at my...
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Well it’s a new year boys and girls. After the indulgence of Christmas and NYE, January seems quite depressing. It’s time to go back to work / job seeking, go on the diet and lose that Christmas chub and try not to kill ourselves until it’s warm and sunny again. This month we’ve made...
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Photo series of the Smack That! Xmas Karaoke Party. Documented through the eye of a fish.
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I love Christmas. It’s such a fun time of year. Sitting around the fire, drinking from 11am an not feeling guilty and eating loads of good food are all part of the celebration. But the real reason for Christmas is of course Jesus’ birth presents, and loads of them. Below is a list of...
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I hate the end of the year. Every magazine, website, newspaper and blog seems to do a ‘best of’ or ‘top 10′ of the last year. They’re just so annoying arn’t they. Here is a list of albums that came out during the noughties (what a terrible name, apparently the next decade will be known...
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Amelia Gregory has been producing her own magazine, Amelia Magazine, for the past few years. She focuses mostly on illustration and saving the planet. She has just released her first Anthology of illustration which features renewable technologies to prevent catastrophic climate change, a few interviews and some really cool pictures by really cool artists....
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Boy do we have a treat for you. A spotify playlist to rival all the other ones out there. The Smack That! playlist is compiled by Hulk Rogan, Lutworth and Murley Bassey and includes tunes played at the various Smack That! nights and others that you may not have heard before. So why don’t you...
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Last Night was the premiere of Ed Hubert’s latest release LA*. The Sallis Benney on Grand Parade was packed full with level skaters and familiar Brighton faces, and man was everyone hyped for that shit. The rumour going round town yesterday was that Ed had sold double the amount of tickets as there were...
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I have been collecting passport photos for about five years. I’ve found hundreds and friends have given me loads. The ultimate goal is to have one million. Wouldn’t that look cool? I’ve put a few up from the collection and will put more up soon, but it does seem to take forever, scanning etc. If you...
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So the ugliest band that have ever lived (Magic Numbers aside..) came to our fair shores last week to play a sold out gig at Audio, put on by our dear friends at Lout Promotions. It sold out so easily that another gig in March is already booked in at the Komedia and if...
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Get the hell outta Bangkok!!! After 5 days Too Long in Bangkok I left!! It was Too smelly! Too polluted! Too many pissed people! Too much shouting! It was Too Long with Too much filth! Words: Alan Share/Save
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Ping Pong Ping Pong (table tennis) is a relevantly popular sport all over the world, not so much in a professional sense but in a recreational sense. Dotted around the streets of Bangkok are many entrepreneurs shouting the words ping pong show. I would like to say that I followed one of these gentlemen out of...
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Oh no, I’ve gone and got it all wrong again. Last week when me and the lads went to that music video shoot and were told to ‘act’ as if we were gatecrashers. Well, I just read the local paper, and… apparently we weren’t acting, oh no. I remember vividly a guy with a...
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