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Publication: The Guardian Weekend supplement, Dec 3-4, 1988. I have collected and kept magazines, newspapers, fanzines and all sorts of publications for decades. From the launch edition of The Weekend Guardian, this was the first in a series of think pieces by prominent people on aspects of design. Paul Smith could tell what was coming; […]
NAME: Nicholas Abrahams RESIDES: London OCCUPATION: Film-maker Nick Abrahams’ work includes promos for Stereolab, Add (N) To X and sigur rós. More recently he collaborated with Jeremy Deller on the fascinating exposition of fan’s desires, The Posters Came From The Walls. Among Abrahams’ current projects is Jayne County biopic Man Enough To Be A Woman. […]
Incredible footage here from 1977 doc Roots Rock Reggae of producer “Prince” Tony Robinson (working at either Joe Gibbs or Harry J, reggaenuts will tell me) as well as scenes shot at a JA pressing plant and the legendary Randy’s Records (“You Name It We Have It”). Highlight for me: The Gladiators laying down the […]
Sleevenotes make a vinyl record package complete. When they appear with CDs they’re just too diddy; on a 12-inch sleeve they’re writ large. Like good sleeve design, the best text – whether scrawled or neatly arranged – enhances and delights. This is Joe Strummer’s contribution to Charly Records’ rock-solid 1980 Lee Dorsey collection Gonh Be […]
This portrait of David Bowie was taken by Kate Simon at Olympic recording studios in Barnes, west London, on January 14, 1974. Simon’s photograph captures a man on the cusp; furiously occupied in the studio, Bowie was tying up loose ends ahead of his departure for America 10 weeks later. He hasn’t lived in Britain […]
Woody Guthrie set out these resolutions for 1943. I don’t see one that doesn’t apply today. Visit the fine Guthrie website here.
This feature on five owners of interesting automobiles comes from a time long before the banalities of Top Gear.
Ian Dury sent this letter to Roberta Bayley in May 1977. As the late songsmith’s biographer Will Birch explains here, Dury was just a few months away from achieving nationwide fame.
This is Gore Vidal’s Olivetti Lettera, one of a series of photographs of the great man of American letters, as well as some of the artefacts in his study, by Hedi Slimane.
The piece underscoring this trailer for the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey 1972 production Heat is John Cale’s Days Of Steam, from his album The Academy In Peril.