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M USIC . F ASHION . C ULTURE Paul Smith Dub Pistols Howard Marks Rupert Meaker Buddhist Punk Maria Francesca Pepe Jojo & Malou Beth Jeans Houghton Rainbow Arabia N OTION 040 / 2009 / UK 3.65 US$9.99 / AUS $13.50 GE IDE 0-PA GU AL 10 VAL OB TI T GL ON FES THE GREA ER TH T L S TTE AMB ONS 6 HO YS R A nt rk Ca y: Ma graph m Gleeson Photo n: Lia ox xis Kn irectio Art D a Bell & Ale orokina S m g: Em etlana Stylin ake-Up: Sv &M Hair .F h A L.I used wit f PUM new rainer in chnology e Te ith th le t off w k, lifesty ted Foam ake e T a sle ite Injec L D O W C O ME acer: T D O N .T. R N C ONTENTS C OVER P HOTOGRAPHED B Y David Ryle M USIC 027 W H O T H E F U C K 030 W H Y T H E F U C K 042 D U B P I S T O L S 046 P A U L S M I T H S G U I D E T O T H E G A L A X Y 048 G O L D I E 054 C L U B T R O P I C A N A 085 T E S T D R I V I N G 092 S W E A T B O X I N G 094 H O T T I C K E E DITOR S L E T T E R 40 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL... C O N T RI BUT O R S E MMA Oooh IYYA! I design clothes and make stuff and then tend to throw glitter all over them...I love to travel and then stick red dots on my huge epic map upon my return so it looks like it has chickenpox. I secretly like t H OT T IPS F OR H IPSTERS 2 3 4 5 6 1 1 - G RAPHIC M OVEMENT / The graphic-loving 55DSL have commissioned different international artists to create t-shirt designs that will be limited to just 1055 pieces worldwide. The initiative is named 10.55. Scorchio! WWW .55 DSL . COM 2 - M ICKEY M OUSE P RODU 3 5 6 4 7 2 1 1 - S WEAR 2 - S OLE W OMEN / Established hipster menswear outfit and long-term Notion favourite S***R here add further feathers to their caps with a blistering womenswear line. Whoop! WWW . SWEAR - LONDON . COM B ROTHERS / Hooking up this season are PUMA and Sergio Rossi, bringing a f H OT T IPS 3 4 2 6 5 1 - B RITISH 2- 3- C ORN -B EEFS / Wrapping British ladies legs in the Union Jack, Religion are going all punk-patriotic on our asses! God save the Queen with lycra-clad limbs! WWW . RELIGIONCLOTHING . CO . UK C OLOUR M E I N / Uniqlo continue to bring the goods with affordable, A LL T HAT G LITTERS Pass from late summer into autumn with this gorgeous banana sequin skirt jewel tones, luxe fabric and sequins galore make this a party girls treat. W WW .J OJOANDMALOU .C OM planetnotion 000 F ASHION N e ED - TO - KN o W Co STUM i ERS M ARIA F RANCESCA P EPE NUTS AND BOLTS: / M A R I A F R A N C E S C A P E P E (05/03/79 F O G G I A , I T A L Y ) STOMPING GROUND: / L O N D O N , S I N C E 2006 SET TO STYLE: / R O I S I N M U R P H Y , L A D Y G A G A , A L I C E D E L L A L DESTINED TO About To Blow... R A i NBOW A RAB i A W ORDS : R OB D ABROWSKI NUTS AND BOLTS: Danny and Tiffany Preston STOMPING GROUND: Echo Park, California, - formed 2008 SET TO SOUNDTRACK: Day-glo tropical punk parties DESTINED TO UPSET: The bands mates they left behind YOURE IN BUSINESS IF YOU LIKE: Acid Moth W T F G L i SS He RE W E G o M AG i C About To Blow... P A u L W H i TE Martin Klingman, David Reiss and Victoria Cecilia NUTS AND BOLTS: STOMPING GROUND: Los Angeles, since 2004 A shoegaze revival Luke Temple, Peter Hale, Michael Bloch, Kristina Lieberson, Jennifer Turner Brooklyn, New York, formed W HY T HE F UCK T ds Ban ed uzz d Test B n A ried T H e P HEN o ME n AL H A n DCL a P B A n D S T a FF B E n DA B IL i LI T R i P NUTS AND BOLTS D ANIEL C OLLÁS , S EAN M ARQUAND , P ATRICK W OOD , L UKE OM ALLEY , Q UINN L UKE , L AURA M ARIN , J OAN T ICK AND OTHERS STOMPING GROUND N EW Y ORK , FO W HO T HE F UCK ? C LASSIC G AMING C HARACTER # 4 : Shi WORDS: ILLUSTRATION: nob i J AMES B ASSETT A LEX F IGINI Its a tale old as time: a scrawny weakling with nowhere else to go enters a dojo and gradually, through ceaseless dedication, tireless practise and oodles of meditation, grows up to becom S U B S C R I B E T O N o TION M AGAZ i NE N OTION IS COOL . Y O U S H O U L D O W N I T . I F Y O U W A N T I T D E L I V E R E D S T R A I G H T T O Y O U R D O O R WWW.PLANETNOTION.COM/NO O R , C O M P L E T E T H E D E T A I L S B E L O W A N D R E T U R N W I T H P A Y M E N T T O VISIT M U S I C U L T U R E V U L T U R E O F P ART i CULAR No TE T H i S Mo NTH S FEAST UPON THE DELECTABLE CORPSES OF CULTURE : T H e R EGR e TTAB l E D EM i SE O F M AN y A RT G A l LERIES Be NEATH T H e Ty RANNY O F T H e Ex PLANAT o R Y Bl URB -Pl AQUE . T H e Vu LTURE T AK e S Hi S Le AD F R o M E LI o T A R TS D IAR Y : R EFLECTIONS O H , D O N OT A SK , W HAT I S I T W HAT S S O W RONG W ITH A BSTRACT E XPRESSIONISM ? A BSTRACT E XPRESSIONISM : ONCE THE POSTWAR PERIOD S FAVOURED ARTISTIC CHILD , EXPRESSING THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS OF THE W EST IN ACTION PAINTING EXISTENTIAL , ANXIOUS , DRUNK CV A R T S D I A R Y G OSHA O STRETSOV / T HE A DVENTURES OF R OBBING G OOD & J EAN C HARLES DE C ASTELBAJAC T RIUMPH OF THE S IGN P ARADISE R OW , L ONDON T HURSDAY 22 ND A PRIL 2009: A NEAR - DEATH EXPERIENCE , SO - SO ART AND PERHAPS THE BEST MULTI - CLAUSE , LONG SENTENCE ANALOGY IN THIS ISSUE CV A R T S D I A R Y F o RTHCOM i NG A T t RACT io NS R ADICAL N ATURE : A R T & A R CHITECTUR E FOR A C HANGING P LANET B ARBICAN A R T G ALLER Y , L ONDON - 19 TH J UNE 18 TH O CTOBER 2009 w w w. b a r b i c a n . o r g . u k That art might uplift us, emotionally move us, we expect; that it might C REATIVE G ALLER Y Lui S B Ty POGRAPH y W W W .L U I S B B O Y .C O M Type! Lovely, lickable type! Were pretty restrained most of the time, yknow. We tend not to pick pure, beautiful type for the Creative Showcase unless its attended by some oblique working practice by a fashionable design studio d CG Bu NCH S T a R O F Be THN a L G R e EN Po STER s W W W .B U N C H D E S I G N .C O M Youll remember Bunch from these pages last year: the Ditch creative studio came in for somewhat fulsome praise for their Bastardised campaign/book: a self-rebranding/marketi project, whereby they asked hot potato Words: Howard Marks Photography: Ollie & Capaldi H OWARD M ARKS Interviews E XCLUSIVELY F OR N OTION B ARRY A SHWORTH 042 planetnotion 000 planetnotion / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion MUSIC planetnotion 000 000 planetnotion HOWARD MARKS & BARRY ASHWORTH n / M u s U c I C / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / N o t i o M i S The clientele of Brixtons Canterbury Arms was a surreally eclectic black and blanc mange-touts of bowler hatted 45-year-old males rubbing shoulders with the tits of multicoloured feathered Madonnas. It was like a 000 planetnotion / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion NOTION MUSIC MUSIC / I T H M U L A Wo r d s b y P a u l S m i t h GUIDE TO THE GALAXY ROBERT WYATT Robert Wyatt is, as The Sun might put it (in a parallel universe), a National Treasure. There arent many singers around who express themselves so directly through their vo W ORDS : L UCY W ILSON P HOTOGRAPHY : D AVID R YLE 048 N OTION H ERE R EPORTS F ROM E ARTH T HAT T HIS C URIOUS P LANET H AS A GAIN E XPANDED . B Y T INY I NCREMENTS A ND C OLOSSAL S HUDDERINGS , P LANET E ARTH (S TILL E NCIRCLING T HE S UN ) N OW H ANGS I N T HE G ALAXY T O H OST Y ET A NOTHER G IGANTIC C ONTINENT . T HE N AME O F T HIS N EW C ONTINENT Working with engineers who know (his) language, Goldies abstract, amorphous rhythm patterns and stray, imagined melodies are made to solidify as computerized symbols that then get pumped back out and up into the resounding sky. Goldies relative distance from this part of the process, leading but not CLUB TROPICANA Wo r d s b y M i c h a e l L e w i n WITH THE RELEASE OF A NEW COMPILATION OF CLASSIC PANAMANIAN MUSICA TIPICA, THE EXUBERANTLY PUNCTUATED PANAMA!2 FROM CRATE-DIGGING REVELATORS, SOUNDWAY RECORDS, WE DECIDED TO ALLOW OUR CUMBIA-OBSESSED CULTURE EDITOR, MICHAEL LEWIN TO HARP ON ABOUT NOTION MUSIC / Tablenos will save yousave you from boredom, from bland music, from dull sex. (It really is the best sex music, FYI.) These are bold statements and I mean them (regardless of how perverse I now appear). I like to think of the Típica as life music: music for sex, births, marriages; to H AVING WORKED HIS MAGIC WITH MERCHANDISE , AR T DIRECTION OR WARDROBE WITH SOME OF THE WORLD S LEADING AR TISTS INCLUDING DAVID BOWIE , BLONDIE AND THE STONES , RUPER T MEAKER HAS BEEN STRADDLING THE SPHERES OF MUSIC AND FASHION THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND COLOUR FUL CAREER . N OW RESIDING IN BREATHTA BUDDHIST PUNK I HAVE A LOT OF GR EAT MEMORIES , MOSTLY CONCER NING THE ENOR MITY OF TOURING WITH THE STONES ... LIKE TRAVELLING WITH N APOLEON S AR MY , SWEEPING ALL BEFOR E IT , IN ITS WAKE ... T HE WAY AN AR TIST DRESSES IS AN IMPOR TANT PAR T OF WHAT THEY ARE COMMUNICATING TO THE AUDIENCE ... 06 BUDDHIST PUNK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I SAW THE FOLK THING COMING UP THROUGH MENSWEAR IN THE S TATES ... S ETTLERS SUITS , SHIR TS AND SHOES . I THINK IT WAS AN A MERICAN REACTION TO THE E DIE S LIMAINE SILHOUETTE WHICH HAD INFLUENCED MENSWEAR SO MUCH , AND A GETTING BACK TO STRAIGHT - FOR WARDNESS A 064 planetnotion NOTION FASHION / I D O L OVE A B IT O F H UGH H EFFNER , S O W ITH T HE H EFF H IMSELF A ND A F EW O F T HE P LAYBOY B UNNIES T HROWN I NTO T HE M IX , A LONGSIDE A J UICY S TRING O F O THER C ELEBS T O T HEIR N AME , I T R EALLY A FFIRMED T O M E T HAT D ESIGNERS A GAINST A IDS W AS T RULY A C HARI P HOTOGRAPHER : M ARK C ANT S TYLIST : A LEXIS K NOX M A K E U P : M I C H E L L E W E B B U S I N G MAC P R O H AIR : A KIO N ISHIYAMA USING K IEHL S M O D E L : R A C H E L C N E V S F A S H I O N A S S I S T A N T : H A R R Y M C K I N L E Y & R I A F O S T E R -O R R B A C K P A C K - E A S T P A BOVE / C OAT - C ALVIN K LEIN / L EOTARD - B EYOND R ETRO / B AG - R AF S IMONS R IGHT / S POR TS TOP FOR E ASTPAK - N I K E / L E G G I N G S - A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L / S K I R T - B E Y O N D R E T R O / S H O E S - T U.K. L E F T / S W I M S U I T - A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L / S O C K S - F A L K E / S H O E S - T.U.K A B O V E / V E S T & S C R U N C H I E S - A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L / S O C K S - F A L K E / S H O E S - T.U.K N o t i o n 034 R IGHT / H OODED TOP - R UDOLF D ASSLER FOR FOR P UMA / P ANTS - C ALVIN K LEIN A BOVE / C OAT - R UDOLF D ASSLER P U M A / T O P - A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L / S H O R T S - N I K E R IGHT / J UMP SUIT - U NIQLO / O RANGE ACCESSOR Y - STYLIST S OWN A B O V E / V E S T - S A S S &B I D E / H E A D P H O N E S - WESC / S I L V E R S H O U L D E R P A D S - K A T I E K N O X 000_N40_Blank Page // cmyk ILLUSTRATION BY FI O N A W O O D C O C K www.fionawoodcock.com POWER-POLKA SPOTS FOR A FRESH KIND OF POINTILLISM... L USTY , I NTELLIGENT M AGAZINE W ITH A TTITUDE W LTM D ESIGNERS , A R TISTS A ND F ILMMAKERS T O F ILL A H OLE I N C ONTENT . M UST B E W ILLING T O S TAB P BLOW UP HALL 5050 POSNAN, POLAND W ORDS B Y : C HRIS B EANLAND Across Europe, from Bilbao to Gateshead to Graz, cities have pinned their hopes for the future on art and architecture. The Polish city of Posnan is just the latest in a long line to enter the race for prestige and the tourist buck, with PHILADELPHIA 2 g a llon s of flour, 1 g a llon of s u g ar, 1 g al l o n o f cor n flow e r, 7 lbs but t e r, 1 .5 c . bak i ng p o w d e r, 6 c. fr oze n cor n a n d 2 g a llo ns o f m i l k : t h e cove t e d li s t of i n g re di e n t s a nd qu ant i t i e s f o r a m a m mot h ba t ch of m e lt SOUL FOOD Gallery-hopping, youll see how modern art and curios, from miniature sculptures to animal figures fashioned from old junk a cat is crafted out of antique brooches, discarded cigarette lighters, broken-off kitchen utensils and scraps from plastic toys feed into Philadelphias creative ener P ROFOUNDLY M OVING P RESENTS B ONJOUR M A B RITISH C HUMS . J UST TO WAR N YOU , IN THIS MONTH S R EEL D EAL WE LL BE IMPOSING Q U I T E A L O T O F GSCE F R E N C H V O C A B O N Y O U . A S I D E F R O M T H A T , W E T A K E A L O O K A T C O O L N E W VAMPIRE FILM AND WINGE ON A BIT ABOUT END POUR ELLE / CINEMA / M ETRODOME / O UT NOW ! GIGANTIC / CINEMA / E POCH F ILMS / O UT NOW ! So this is, you know, quite good. Sort of. In a twee, Wes Anderson, lets-create-a-big- ditzy-universe-populate kind of way. John Goodmans in it though. Gotta love Goodman. Gigantic tells the story of an unlik T EST D RIVING W HAT S ORT O F F IREWORKS W ILL B E S ET A LIGHT A S R OB S PAR X J OSTLES W ITH G HOST A ND T HIEVES L IKE U S ? A ND W ILL M R . L IF G ET T AUGHT A L ESSON B Y A PE S CHOOL ? A H , T HE T HRILLS ! T HE S PILLS ! T HE G LEAMING C ALAMITY ! REVIEWS BY: HYNAM KENDALL (HK) / IAN HSIEH Reviews Notion M U S I C Rob Sparx TROOPER Z AUDIO DUBSTEP Veering away from the current jump-up trend in dubstep, Sparxs Trooper embodies a versatility that can only enrich the current scene. It swings from soporific states back into soulful dub that makes for a pleasing listen. 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L ONG SUMMER DAYS MEAN EVEN CABLE / ABANDONED MATTER / SECRET ZOO / VICTORIA SUNDAZE / BAMBOO / STUDIO PARK / SMIRNOFF EXPERIENCE / / THE KELLYS V CLUB PORTRUSH DISCO BLOODBATH VARIOUS LOCATIONS LONDON You would be forgiven for thinking this club night sounds like it would be quite savage. Its pretty harsh to imagine a bloodba H OT T ICKETS T HE G REAT E SCAPE / B RIGHTON The festival season got off to a typically rainy start at the Great Escape in Brighton. Gale-force winds and torrential downpours dominated the three day event, which featured a total of over 300 bands. Luckily, the swathes of skinny-jeaned-hipsters and S TOCKISTS 55 D S L - / A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L - W W W . A M E R I C A N A P P A R E L . C O . U K / A M P L I F I E D - WWW . SUGARBULLETS . CO . UK B E Y O N D R E T R O - W W W . B E Y O N D R E T R O . C O M / C A L V I N K L E I N - W W W . C A L V I N K L E I N . C O M D I E S E L - W LUCKY BUGGERS WIN! C HECK WIN! H E R E S H O W W E B R I N G Y O U H A P P I E R D A Y S C HOOSE WIN! AGAIN! OUT THE 3 MIND - BLOWING PRIZE PACKAGES UP FOR GRABS THIS ISSUE ! HOW YOU WANT TO ENTER THE COMPETITION : 3 winners will be selected at random from a list of all entrants for every competiti