//The first vitrine contains original copies of Blast 2 (1915), Crash! 1 (1997) and gal-dem 2 (2017). Photo: @hellenelleliang//

//Enjoying browsing the magazines on the PRINT! newsstand. Photo: @jasonthien//

//Contributor Alpa Depani talking about her zine Romp with members of the New Architecture Writers group. Photo: @paul_g0rm4n//

PRINT! Tearing It Up, the exhibition about the resurgence and history of independent progressive British magazines, has entered its final week at central London’s Somerset House.
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Tags: Alpa Depani, Black Dwarf, Black Echoes, Blitz, Claire Catterall, Crash!, Cyclops, Freakbeat, Gal-dem, i-D, Iain R. Webb, John May, Liv Siddall, Oz, P.i.X, Rhona Ezuma, Romp, Rough Trade, Sandie Shaw, Somerset House, Terry Jones, THIIIRD, Trench

//Jah Wobble, 2009.//

NAME: Jah Wobble (real name: John Wardle)

RESIDES: Cheshire

OCCUPATION: Musician

It’s well documented that, in his teenage years, Jah Wobble was a member of the Four Johns, the gang of youths who gravitated to each other while at Kingsway College Of Further Education on the fringes of the City Of London in the mid-70s.

The other members included John Beverley, aka Sid Vicious, John Lydon – later Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols – and Lydon’s friend, John Gray.  Knocking around east and north London, the quartet followed football and voraciously consumed music from Bowie to Can to Hawkwind to Big Youth and beyond.

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Tags: Acme Attractions, Daniel hechter, Dennis Morris, Don Letts, Jah Wobble, Jeanette lee, John Lydon, John Wardle, Kenny macDonald, Marx, Missoni, Public Image Ltd, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Terry Jones, versace