The Haçienda

byMat Smith
January 13, 2022

Ben Kelly, the designer of The Haçienda, talks us through the club’s iconic design aesthetic

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801, The Supergroup That Lasted Six Weeks

byPush

We’re heading back to the sizzling summer of 1976, where one-time Roxy Music colleagues Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno are heading up the intense but brief experiment they called 801

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As the boss of Independent Project Records & Press, Bruce Licher has released some brilliant albums and designed the sleeves of every single one of them, as well as producing countless postage stamps and the occasional flag

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Grand Royal

byNeil Mason

It’s autumn 1993 and if you were very, very lucky, you would have managed to lay your hands on a new magazine published by none other than the Beastie Boys. Their short-lived Grand Royal title was a total delight despite its utter chaos. Here’s why…

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Optimo Espacio

byDavid Pollock

In the weeks before his recent untimely death, Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch, revisited the birth of Optimo Espacio, the celebrated Glasgow club night he helmed with Jonnie Wilkes, from 1997 to 2010 and beyond

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When Heldon Met Kraftwerk

byJeremy Allen

Heldon guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas reflects on some memorable encounters with Kraftwerk

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Von Südenfed

byNeil Mason

What to make of the musical mind-melt that saw The Fall’s Mark E Smith hook up with Düsseldorf experimentalists Mouse On Mars? Jan St Werner takes us behind the scenes with Von Südenfed