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Tag: PiL

1970s

‘Absolutely London’: Marx, Kenny MacDonald + PiL style

In the histories of London street style, Kenny MacDonald’s King’s Road outlet Marx receives rare mention, yet from the mid-70s this unusual and tucked-away boutique was important in the development of the type of English tailoring-with-a-twist which has subsequently dominated a strand of menswear around the world.

October 18, 2015
1940s

The Old Man: Philip “Staff” Gorman (April 25, 1903 – June 8, 1980)

“Bad thing for a young man to lose his father” Charles Cheeryble, Nicholas Nickleby My father died 35 years ago today. I was 20 at the time, and witnessed him take his final breath. The narrow world of music and clothes I inhabited was preoccupied with Ian Curtis’s recent suicide; given the fact that my […]

June 8, 2015
Music

Psychic Life: Julie Campbell + Jah Wobble with Keith Levene

This is Tightrope by Psychic Life, the new project from Julie Campbell + Jah Wobble with contributions from the latter’s colleague in the first Public Image Ltd line-up, Keith Levene. Campbell released an album last year as Lonelady.

September 27, 2011