ARTICLES BY ALEX STURROCK
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 TOOT! PARP! GGGHHZZZNN MMMSSSCCCK!
Inventor Claims the Eigenharp Is the Future of All MusicThe Eigenharp is the ultimate synth-geek fantasy made real. It resembles what Rick Wakeman might’ve ended up playing if JG Ballard had directed one of his Journey to the Centre of the Earth -era promo videos. But in its capabilities, there is no doubt that it far outstrips any electronic instrument that’s gone before...
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  TERRY GILLIAM
Terry Gilliam got his start being the most beloved guy in his high school and then he went on to do every job that anyone has ever fantasized about and to collaborate with everyone that anyone has ever wanted to meet or be. He worked for Harvey Kurtzman on Harvey’s longest-running post-Mad attempt at magazining. He was in Monty Python and did all those animations and distinctive visuals. Then he went on to make really big, great, depressing movies like...
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 NOTHING TO DO
On the Dole in RochdaleOn the Falinge estate in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, over 75 percent of the residents of working age are on benefits. Many newspapers were up in arms about this, so we thought we would ask the few locals who would let us southern fairies into their...
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 FOUR NEW GRIME KIDS
Grime is going through a bit of a make-or-break period right now. Most of the better MCs have long given up trying to be grimey and are now doing pop songs with 80s revivalists and covering the Ting Tings (Dizzee) or taking their shirts off in videos and wearing chains and diamonds so fake they look...
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 TAKING A DIP
Photos by Alex Sturrock
Styling by Kylie Griffiths...
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 NIGHT BUSES
Photos by Alex Sturrock"These were taken on the night buses around central London over a few nights in June. I don't think anybody takes the night bus out of anything but the utmost necessity, and I think these photos reflect that."...
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 LARPs OF THE NEAR FUTURE
SINergy Take Nightclubbing to the Next LevelEverybody knows that Live Action Role Playing is the funnest way to turn your pointless existence into a thrill ride of unbounded possibilities and constant adventure, right?
But imagine if you took LARP out of the forests and Quasar centres and...
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 ANTI-SOCIALS
Last year I travelled up and down Britain for six months to meet and take photographs of people with Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. In case you didn't know, an ASBO is something invented by the Labour government to give out to people who are seen as a menace to the community they live in. I decided t...
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 NERDSTOCK
The Gathering Is Geek UtopiaWe know that the Gathering sounds like some ominous, secret meeting of the Masons at a Scientology retreat in a secret bunker under Area 51, but it's really just 5,500 teenage nerds in a massive, chilly, smelly auditorium in Hamar, Norway. These kids come from all over Europe and even Japan to spend...
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 NOTTINGHAM KIDS
Photos by Alex Sturrock
Gareth Mann, 20
Where are you from?...
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 DRUG DEALING
Or The DoleWe met up with this guy on Sunday afternoon in Radford. All the time we were talking to him, his wife was beeping the horn on his car really urgently and stressing out like she wanted him to leave really quickly. Then we looked down at his leg...
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 ANTI-SOCIAL
Living With ASBOsAn ASBO is an Anti-Social Behaviour Order given out to people who are always mucking about and getting in bother with the pigs.
Because kids are always messing around in the street when their families are...
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 LONDON KIDS
What I Did This SummerKadeem Rhyeon-Little, 10
Best thing about London in the summer? "I can ride my bike around the park and play all day because I don't have to go to school."...
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 RUSSIAN GUYS GONE WILD
Photos by Alex Sturrock
Styling by Heather Small from M People
Max I eat out every night. The money in promotion over here is ridiculous...
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