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Who Is Peter Pan?

Who Is Peter Pan?

Right. This is Randy Constan. He’s a fifty something year old musician and Peter Pan fanatic from Florida. I first discovered him about five years ago when a link to his site arrived in my inbox. Since then I have checked his site regularly and shown a lot of other people. He’s this guy...
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Offset Festival 2009

Offset Festival 2009

So on Saturday morning I headed to Brighton station to begin making my way to Hainault. I got a bit worried when I was sitting around waiting for the late Lutworth to arrive as I saw a lot of proper youngsters with camping gear who I suspected were heading to the same destination. Anyway,...
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Future Islands

Future Islands

Future Islands, a group residing in the D.I.Y music capital of the world, Baltimore, play epic, emotional and often tongue in cheek “synth punk”. They’re playing at the Free Butt, Brighton on September 15th 2009. We saw them play at ULU in London last June with a lot of other bands from Dan Deacon’s...
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Louie Banks

Louie Banks

Louie Banks is one of Brighton’s coolest and trendiest photographers. He has photographed the likes of La Roux and the Maccabees and had his work featured on the front page of the Source magazine. All of that before he had even turned eighteen. We expect to see big things from him in the future....
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Great Escape

Ah the Great Escape, everyones favourite attempt at drinking as much and sleeping as little as possible over a weekend. This year I was stuck working for the festival at Audio so unfortunately pretty much all of this review will be bands that played there… but piss off… Kicking things off on Thursday we...
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  • What colour is a mirror?
    January 14, 2010 | 13:55

    What colour is a mirror? Is it the colour of whatever it is reflecting? Is it clear/invisible? No. The correct answer is silver. Silver seems to be the new black at the moment. Starting the new decade in the most futuristic way possible, the youth in the south-east are covering themselves from top to toe in shiny, metalic, reflecting silver. As you can see in the image below, model Worcester Aprons is sporting an all in one silver jumpsuit, a mask in post Renaissance style and sneakers to match. In six months time we’ll all be dressing like Mr. Aprons.

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Smack the back of their legs!

2000 and niner: A climate of mistrust and cynicism prevail. Successive governments massage statistics to suit dick-dastardly plans; bankers are wankers, big-business sell souls for profit; idiot mothers feed their allergy-riddled babes hydrogenated fat, sugar and salt and swindle them of their innocence – creating mini-me chubster-consumers.

More of our neighbours than you could ever imagine are ready to lynch you for muttering a swear word; for smoking in public; for not recycling properly; for saying it as it is. The PC brigade inform our liberal, compassionate selves that we're the fascists!

It's like 1984. Or four-legs-good nonsense. Civil liberties are being eroded and our fellow men blink slowly and tell us: "if you don’t do anything wrong, then there’s nothing to worry about".

Well, SMACK THAT. We’re gonna swear because we can and it’s not fucking illegal