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Viva Socialism - attempting to be like Vanity Fair on a Sniffin' Glue Budget, it's available every once in a while i.e. when we can get out of the pub and get the cash together to do an issue. It's also online at www.socialismmagazineonline.blogspot.com. Previous issues have featured pieces/art works written by, among many others, Vincent Gallo, Bill Drummond & Stewart Home, Nicky Wire & Jeremy Deller, The Young Knives, Stella Vine, The Vines, Interpol, Sean Rowley, Jon Savage, Doves & Turbonegro. You can usually pick it up in London at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1 or from Rough Trade Shops in London. Issue 5 in July, looking good...

My Interests

Life and all the people who make it a bit less boring.

I'd like to meet:

Lindsay Lohan, Super Hans, Nathan Barley, Donny Tourette, The House Of Lords, Bree off Depserate Housewives, anyone else named after a cheese.

Music:

Caribou Van Halen Super Furry Animals Brian Eno Battles Black Moth Super Rainbow Prince Tunng Underworld Fennesz Clipse Panda Bear Stereolab Modest Mouse Nicky Wire The Byrds Arthur Russell Kraftwerk Julian Cope Turbonegro Alice in Chains Lee Scratch Perry Juana Molina Fujiya & Miyagi

Books:

Jon Savage's "Teenage" at the moment... will keep 'em coming.

Heroes:

Fill your name in here.

My Blog

Socialism, August 2007 - Kickin’ Afrolistics!

Brighton Rock / Tootsie Roll / VIP Party Boys / Pissed Jeans / Happy Tom & The Age Of Pamparius / Mingering Mike / If Everybody Had An Ocean / Omar Little / Clark and Michael / Fujiya, Miyagi / Doom B...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:10:00 PST

Issue 5, where we at?

Socialism issue 5 is coming on strong at the moment& first batch of interviews back in (Alain De Botton & Lonely Planet's Tony Wheeler, since you asked). Trying to work out how to blag onto EasyCruise...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:56:00 PST

Socialism currently loving...

Fujiya + Miyagi "Ankle Injuries" (and the Tirk compilation - are we too late on this to appear cool?);Manic Street Preachers "Indian Summer" (proper return to form);about half of the Air album;Lovefox...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

From last week's Independent...

Here's a great mag you've never heard of......so says James Brown of 'Socialism' - the last word in louche, eclectic, convention-busting journalismPublished: 19 February 2007Declaring a fondness for g...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:46:00 PST

Guilty Confession No 1

I have started walking a different way home from work, often intentionally adding up to ten minutes to my journey. It's the middle of winter and still I walk right round the block when I can clearly s...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:22:00 PST

Socialism's Records Of The Year Up

over here... http://socialismmagazineonline.blogspot.com/
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:40:00 PST

Friends In Weird Places

Today was great. I made so many new friends. Romeo Sims offered me ..Zero clip... Gwendoline Boucher informed me of her mood (..immensely dejectedly..). Adrian Beasley turned me on to ..Biscuit airwav...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:49:00 PST

"It's A Festivus Miracle!"

Frank Costanza: "Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way....
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:44:00 PST

Old posting from the Socialism site - Socialisms Honorary Socialites List 2006

Thought this whole debate had died a death, then the gal from The Gossip makes the cover of the Guardian on Saturday and it's all dredged up again... anyways, from 2 weeks back on the Socialism site, ...
Posted by Socialism Magazine on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:59:00 PST