ARTICLES BY JACK STEEL
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 HELLO! GOODNIGHT!
After 15 Years, Sleep Come Out Slugging For 48 Hours OnlyEarlier this year I was talking with a pal about dream musical reformations. The more we talked about the turds who’d recently reformed for cash, the more we realised how little we cared about any of them...
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  LITERARY/I WANT MY DVDS
Book/Movie Reviews - The Food IssueHATELAND
Some of the worst books ever written are those by “former” gangsters or football hooligans about their shitty, pointless lives. Ghostwritten by alcoholic staff reporters from...
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 THE BETA BAND ARE BACK
And They're Still BrokeWhen the Beta Band put out their amazing first three EPs back in 1998, it seemed like they were about to blow bullshit Britpop to pieces and create a musical revolution that would engulf the world and usher in a new age of psychedelia and love. All the care and imagination they put into the music an...
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 I WANT MY DVDS
Gang Tapes, Oxbow - Music For Adults: A Film About A Band Called Oxbow...
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 BLACK POWER
The Real Heat Take Crowbars to Gay BarsThe Real Heat are three black teen/early 20s singer sisters from Brixton who swear they write and produce all their own music. I dunno, people are saying that Richard X and Mark Moore from S'Express have got something to do with them as well but I don't really care. I hate it when people get obsesse...
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 UNLIMITED DECISIONS
God Save EMIWhy do people who make music get treated like they're not spoiled brats who need their arses kicked? Just because you can put three chords together, I have to take all the red M&Ms out? You rhymed "love" with "dove" and I should stand here while you throw your Merlot in my face? ...
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 I HATE GYPSIES
But They Seem NiceDo you hate gypsies? Me and my brother Gary were walking past this settlement of Gypsy children in Bristol recently when he came out with, "Y'know what, Jack? I fucking despise Gypsies and think they are the scum of the earth. Sending children out to beg by the highway until they are black with exha...
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 THE TIT FAIRY
Ooh La La Keeps Nude Dancers Well DressedRight now, Ooh La La is the most talked-about range of pole-dancing wear in the British sex industry.
Based in Camden, London, founder and head designer Michelle Ochnachie has unrelentingly pumped out bikinis, garter belts, and tube tops since 1995, when she had the epiphany that exotic-dan...
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 SPITTING MAD
Last month, while Erik Lavoie was wrestling with girls because he thought they had his coke bag, we were at the 99-percent-black Cosa Nostra garage rave at Hackney Ocean, London, and holy shit can that crowd hang. All pristine Air Force Ones, starched Evisus, and mad fake ice while smoking weed, sip...
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 CANNIBAL WATERCOLORS
Nico Claux Has Been CalmedJello Biafra once said, "the only thing worse than living in the past is living off the past," but what about living off the dead in the past? What about living off the girls you used to eat to death in the past? France's most notorious "death addict," a psychotic cannibal who was charged with murde...
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 OI! RESPECT! AIII!
The Massive Risks Behind Today's UK GarageBased mostly in South and East London and populated by kids from rough council estates, today's UK garage scene still thrives through underground pirate radio where kids who call themselves things like MC Gappyrider rap a weird blend of Jamaican patois and cockney over all the new garage 12"s....
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