ARTICLES BY JAMES KNIGHT
|
 BREAK DOWN THE WALLS!
How Play for Today Changed British Screens for Ever and EverTelevision movies are rubbish, right? Well, if you were watching TV in Britain in the 1960s, the opposite would be the case. Play for Today was a series of one-off dramas that dragged television into uncharted cinematic territory via the emerging use of 16-mm on-location filming and a rejection of the limits of a conservative studio system...
|
|
|
  MICHAEL WINNER
Michael Winner is the funny-looking man from those “Calm down, dear!” insurance adverts on television. He is also one of the most successful directors Britain has ever produced.
Name another Brit filmmaker who cut pictures with Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster, Robert Duvall, Robert Mitchum and Sophia Loren. Struggling? Try adding to that the fact he basically created the...
|
|
|
 SUITING UP, CRUSTING DOWN
Yuppies vs. Punks for a Working WeekRecently London was tousled by a series of riots led by outraged anarchists who were probably just really bored. As usual, it looked like a good time. But it also made us wonder who really has the superior lifestyle: hand-to-mouth agitators or the city-boy capitalists they abhor? So we assigned one ...
|
|
|
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Technology IssueCHICKEN: LOW ART, HIGH CALORIE
This is yet another one of my forgotten stoned ideas come to fruition. I must be a virtual millionaire in stoned ideas. It is a book documenting fried-chicken...
|
|
|
 SNAP HAPPY
One Man Took a Polaroid Photo Every Day for 18 YearsNew York artist Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid photograph every day of his life for 18 years, between 1979 and 1997, with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project "Photo of the Day". ...
|
|
|
 MARTIN AMIS
Martin Amis is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction. Even if he'd given up putting pen to paper after his third novel, Money, this would be an irrefutable fact. Period. Sorry. He writes grippingly of ugly characters consuming for the sake of consumption, blind to their own greed. ...
|
|
|
 ERIC WOOD FROM MAN IS THE BASTARD
It's hard to imagine how a band making songs played at either hyper or glacial speeds (never midtempo) with two basses and song titles like "Screwdriver in the Urethra of Thomas Lenz," all played through speakers made out of salvaged junk, ever failed to be anything other than huge in the early 1990...
|
|
|
 HOLY SHIT
Bury Bores Thee VicarsAnyone still waiting for the revolution in sound and vision promised by the Horrors a couple of years ago can probably go home now. Southend's finest have left their mark, though, because today a whole bunch of bands are happily thriving below the radar, breaking things and getting in people's faces...
|
|
|
 ASS INVADERS
The Vice Guide to Milking Your ProstateHey, guess what? If you are an American man you are more likely to have cancer in your prostate than any other part of you. It's also more likely to kill you than any other form of cancer. Oh, and there is also the extra bonus of a 35 percent higher chance of your prostate going sour than your girlf...
|
|
|
 AY CARAMBA!
This we know because we grabbed a Mexican who we found doing capoeira in a park with a bunch of Brazilians and dragged her around three of what purported to be London's best Mexican takeaway joints. Turns out that if they were trying to peddle their...
|
|
|
 HISTORY ON REPEAT FOREVER AND EVER
Ophelia Field Traces Vice's AncestorsOphelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century.
When she isn't acting as an expert consultant to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, she can be found writin...
|
|
|
 UNDER THE FUZZ
Sex Vid are Hard to FindThe internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about? You'd have to sort of guess whether or not you were going to be into ...
|
|
|
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Homo Neanderthalsos IssueFIGHT (EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASS-KICKING BUT WERE AFRAID YOU’D GET YOUR ASS KICKED FOR ASKING)
How did Eugene get this shit put out by HarperCollins? We’ve been...
|
|
|
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The The 4-ACO-DMT Issue25 POEMS, 3 RECIPES AND 32 OTHER SUGGESTIONS (AN INVENTORY)
You could be forgiven for feeling a little let down with London’s current crop of DIY punk activity. Alternative comedy, however, although roughly the same age as punk...
|
|
|
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The What We Do Is Secret IssueBORN IN THE BRONX - A VISUAL RECORD OF THE EARLY DAYS OF HIP HOP
“Early Hip Hop”—when I read that I was tempted to put this in the bin next to the three copies of Wild Style’s 25th anniversary book that arrived in the office. So...
|
|
|
 FEEL THE DARKNESS
Living And Breathing in Dirt in OdessaDavid Gillanders grew up in Glasgow and like most Glaswegians he soon found himself immersed in the sport known as "fighting". Because he was smart, David decided to do his fighting in the relative safety of a boxing gym, rather than down the back alley...
|
|
|
 NOODLE DOODLES
David Shrigley and a Bunch of Bands Make Fake Songs RealIn 2005, the pretty famous Glaswegian artist David Shrigley released Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve)—a 12-inch record sleeve with no record inside, just a booklet of doodles and lyrics. The doodles were things like a man with a giant bottom holding a rat, with the caption, “If I were hungr...
|
|
|
|
|
| |
