Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

Category: culture vulture


I fail to remember exactly what happened to this magazine — I think it was swallowed up by one of it\’s rivals — The NME if memory serves correctly. I know with these articles I should sit there on wiki Read more…


Buried in the schedule somewhere on BBC 2, I don\’t know anyone who remembers this weird little piece of animation. I seem to remember seeing two series (I should wiki that maybe). Anyway — it was one of those cartoons Read more…


When it came out there was nothing out there quite like it — it was edgy, humourous, sexy and intelligent; it was a prime example of MTV hitting the nail squarely on the head. It meshed Western ideas of sci-fi Read more…


It led the way in a lot of respects — taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, Read more…


How the hell can you not be drawn to a character called Lung Leg? I like many people I suppose came to know her through this picture which was used on the cover of Sonic Youth\’s Evol album. As well Read more…


OK, so it\’s not dead yet, but God, considering what it\’s become it should be. I used to love this magazine then we had a run where they had Cliff Richard, Ronan Keating and the Spice Girls on the front Read more…


I think, as with a lot of things, the Young British Artists, as they were known, are easy to look at and assess from a perspective that is not barraged by so much hype. I think at the time so Read more…


God, how I miss this magazine. I had to hunt for it — weirdly Suffolk was strangely backwards when it came to stocking anything thought of as vaguely dodgy. How do I know that they thought of it this way? Read more…


Jimi, Jim, Janice, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain — all members of the 27 club. At one point it was an idiotic belief that I\’d be joining them: thank god that didn\’t work out. I can sing but I don\’t Read more…