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So, you’ve read the vitals and run your fingers along UNKLE’s inscrutable battle scars. For those of you who haven’t already slotted ‘War Stories’ into your record collection’s pride of place, get a fucking wriggle on! The limited edition CD is accompanied by a truly special 50 page booklet. Will Bankhead photographed James and Rich while they were in the Joshua Tree working on the album, while Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are behind the main portrait photography. Overseeing the booklet’s design was Ben Drury, who, along with Will Bankhead, mastered the visuals for Mo’ Wax back in the day. The pair has also collaborated on major campaigns for Nike, Answer and All Tomorrow’s Parties, so you know the kind of creative edge to expect. Add to the lush monochrome photography documenting UNKLE’s desert days a specially commissioned, haunting series of paintings from Massive Attack’s 3D. Skulls, skeletal parts, angels and otherworldly figures, aeroplanes, grainy surfaces and abstract imaginings crowd 3D’s canvass as he renders these musical war stories visual. The whole package is the perfect example for why the record-buying public will never become extinct; why a piece of music is never finished until the artwork has been attached; why UNKLE inspire such devotion in their followers. Take a stand against the dreaded MP3-isation of music and treat yourself to a lovingly produced souvenir from an era-defining act. |
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| tags: | unkle | war stories | warren du preez | nick thornton jones |
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But I thought ‘M’ was for melons? Anyhoo, here’s an awesome new A/W 07 collection from Marshall Artist, ‘M is for Music’. Summoning an impressive line-up of guest designers, this range of t-shirts, outerwear and jackets showcases exclusive and original artwork from music’s favourite personalities. This is cool with a conscience, as £10 from every t-shirt sold will be shifted to the charity of the musician’s choice. Selecta! A quasi-alphabet has been developed from the contributing artists and their individual styles. A is for Amplify courtesy of the illustrious Amp Fiddler: a felt-tip amp bearing an appeal for peace adorns his t-shirt and the coinage goes to Red. ‘I have created this like a street thug tattoo artist,’ smiles Shaun Ryder (the King for K, by the way) about his scrawled subliminal message-laden design, whose profits will be fired to Mencap. Rob Da Bank (heading up the L is for Love bracket) supplies his signature ‘Bananas-not-guns’-inscribed peace sign, while Ash have proved their artistry with an alien figure writhing through a forest, especially for Teenage Cancer Trust. So, pick a musician and support their cause; represent! |
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| tags: | m is for music | tshirts | jackets | amp fiddler | shaun ryder | teenage cancer trust |
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Bored of tabloid tit-bits and grainy Youtube freak-outs as a way to get your Mr Doherty fix? Want to get back to the poet himself and take a trip about his lyrical world, Kate ‘n’ crack aside? Thankfully Orion Books has seen fit to present Pete’s poems, drawings, intimate musings, collages and mad-cap plans from 1999 to his current car crash in ‘The Books Of Albion,’ a keepsake hardback for followers and part-time fanciers alike. Study the twenty-odd books, carve their lessons into your lowly flesh and live by the Doherty gospel if you so wish; we’re opting for sporadic Pete sessions with spliffs whenever we need laughter / tears / dreams / nightmares / normalisation. See you in Albion – I’ll be the one wearing a trilby; call my crazy, I’ve just got my own style going on, man! |
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| tags: | the books of albion | lyrics |
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Promising to ‘get up everyone’s nose’ in a rootin’ tootin’ good way, Zuka is hitting the high street and its nocturnal sweat boxes to quash illicit nicotine cravings with crafty snuff-hit inhalers. The new-fangled way to get your anti-health kicks is via a plastic bullet snorter all those of you who like to practise your lines on the dancefloor will already be familiar with. Zuka Black, the tobacco based snuff, is based on a 380 year old recipe and has a citrus edge to take you that little bit higher. Those who prefer their Bloody Mary to be served in a virginal state can keep it pure with Zuka Zee, a natural menthol flavoured tobacco free snuff made from glucose, which will beam you up nicely! The last time snuff was being widely used in the UK, Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ had just been published, we were fighting the Crimean War and the French were revolting. Phewf! Zuka have reworked the sniff-tastic habit for today’s hipsters, and hey, they’ll put anything up their noses, so snort back and watch Zuka become the upstanding smoker’s alt-cigarette. Reckon Keith Flint will be knocking it back? Breathe with him…
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No, Notion is not condoning gun crime – didn’t we clear all that up in court last year? – but throwing a bone to fag hags who still haven’t grown the selective blindness required to ignore offensive health warnings on cigarette packets. Simply chose from countless alternative messages and smoke until you’re blue in the face. After all: ‘You could get hit by a bus tomorrow’; ‘Social smoking doesn’t count’; ‘You will get fat if you stop smoking’ and ‘It’s OK if you’re drunk.’ £2.95 for 10 different designs.
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| tags: | fake cigarettes |
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