Notion 053

WILL & GRACE DESIGNERS & MUSES PHOTOGRAPHY: Diana Gomez STYLING: Grace Woodward & William Banks-Blaney FASHION EDITOR: Alexis Knox HAIR: Mikey Kardashian using Hair Rehab London MAKE-UP: Adam Burrell using MAC Cosmetics PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSISTANT: Guillaume Blondiau Past, Present, Couture SEBASTIAN LAW talks to GRACE WOODWARD and WILLIAM BANKS-BLANEY; a fashionable pair of couture enthusiasts and great friends who are taking vintage into a new era. F orgive me if you will for kicking individual white marabou pompoms. Gushing it designer and antique dealer, William was off with a reference to Sex and may be, but theres something about this dress used to scouring the world for the right the City. Theres an episode that makes it worthy of such praise. pieces. About 18 months ago, I bit the from season six where Carrie is talking And its not only this effusive writer whos bullet, he explains to me I was travelling about poetry with Alexsandr. You might bowled over by the power of vintage couture. around for clients and Id often see a dress remember it; the Russian reads something While the dresses are what brought todays which I thought would be amazing for them. pretentious, and Carrie responds with a shoot together, its the two people behind So I thought maybe I could sell it on. couple of lines of her favourite poetry, them that have made it happen, and who are I organised a two-hour friends and family from (where else?) Vogue: Cocktails at bringing a new perspective to vintage fashion: sale, then held a 300-piece day-long sale, Tiffanys calls for classic charm: Oscar Grace Woodward and William Banks-Blaney. both of which sold out entirely. Its a testament to Williams editorial eye that de la Renta sleeveless silk full skirted Grace is, of course, a stylist, fashion hes been able to start a luxury business creative and TV presenter whose work as in the middle of a recession, and see it be While luxury accessories are the propaganda Fashion Director for Simon Cowells fameathon tremendously successful. of the fashion world, only couture dresses The X Factor saw her pushing her styling could be compared (however schmaltzily) envelope into new realms. I put contestant What unites these two is their friendship to poetry. Couture is the highest art in Rebecca Ferguson in Ossie Clark; the jury had and their approach to fashion, and vintage fashion: one-off, bespoke-designed pieces, been out and some people really didnt get in general. Like Grace, I dont like vintage created with a specific client in mind, and it, she explains but Will did. as dress-up, Will explains we get excited dress with black patent leather bow belt. about the same things: the construction, the hand-finished to the highest possible level; a money-no object garment for the kind of William Banks-Blaney, the Vogue-proclaimed colours, the texture; she can see immediately woman who expects no compromise. King of Vintage is a specialist dealer how to fit it into a modern wardrobe. whose eye is second to none. As an interior Grace and Will are less a designer and muse, Allow me a Carrie moment for the long brown rather two people who have a shared love for number that graces these pages: its stiff, sleeveless chestnut silk couture evening dress, designed and hand-finished by André Courrèges himself in 1968, with appliquéd horizontal black sequinned bands and The great thing about vintage couture is that its made to enhance a womans body, and you rarely find a woman not being feminine in my work. 100 Notion fantastic, cinematic, show-stopping couture, and the right platforms to promote it as they see fit. Graces reaction on first seeing Williams Marylebone store back in THE FASHION ISSUE PPQ & SUKI WATERHOUSE NICOLA ROBERTS OF DECADES & DECADENCE DESIGNERS & MUSES DR NOKI ZIAD GHANEM PHANNATIQ GRACE WOODWARD HENRY HOLLAND BOY LONDON STYLE NOIR ALIS PELLESCHI SHOOTS: FULL OF GRACE NIGHTHAWKES ROOM SERVICE PLUS S PA N K R O C K NEW LOOK AUSTRA OH MY WA S H E D O U T WWW.ORIGINALPENGUIN.EU COVENT GARDEN BOXPARK STRATFORD 53 CONTENTS 052 THE FASHION ISSUE MUSIC BACKEND 034 / NEW LOOK / LOOK TO THE FUTURE INTERVIEWS 044 052 / NICOLA ROBERTS / MAKE YOUR HEART GO WOW The duo have christened their 116 / VIDAL SASSOON Nicola Roberts does not need your sparkling skeletal electro Future Pop 118 / AUSTRA sympathy although i 53 MASTHEAD EDITORS LETTER The final few days of our which may have enabled assisted or not. Were a deadline for this issue them. The only thing I creative magazine, so it coincided with the rioting would say is: dont give seems right that we point that swept across the up on these kids or this you Autumn 2011 Vol 2 Issue 4 MUSIC. CULTURE. LIFE. #voiceofyouth GET YOUR FREE COPY: LIVELIVE-MAGAZINE.CO.U TWEET LIVEMAGUK FACEBOOK.COM/LIVEMAGUK LIVE-MAGAZINE.CO.UK COVER STAR YASMIN BITES! FLAWLESS LUOL DENG FASHION RIZZLE KICKS BODY PIERCING DEVLIN Dialogues Some brief accounts of our recent encounters with artists and other interesting people of note. Field Notes 1. The Rochelle School, nestled in the heart of Shoreditch, is home to a large number of studios for creatives (including Warp Records) as well as the fabulous Rochelle Canteen. 2 . Dialogues as Pepper & Piano completely on a whim, without forethought, and their track You Took My Heart became the shows breakaway success. The show feels like a bizarre dream particularly as theyre not doing a second series, like it just popped up out of nowhere and then snuck off, she says, espe FRONT OF BOOK A SELECTION OF IDEAS, IMAGES, INDIVIDUALS AND ITEMS WE HAVE RECENTLY THOUGHT INTERESTING, NOTEWORTHY, OR APPEALING, OFFERED UP FOR YOU APPRECIATION. WORDS: Seb Law (SL) / Yousif Nur (YN) / Aaron Francis Walker (AFW) /Michael C Lewin (MCL) Kara Simsek (KS) / Ann Bartholemew (AB) / Thom THE BIRTHDAY BOY WWW.LUKE1977.COM KIPLING After ten short years, British streetwear brand BY JEAN-CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC Luke is celebrating a decade in the biz this After Kiplings rather successful collaboration with London legend Peter Pilotto last year, when the year, and boy have brand we knew o FOB UMBRO WWW.UMBRO.COM Youve got to love Umbro. The British football wear brand have taken the New York blackouts of the 1970s and combined this idea with motifs from NYCs soccer team, The Cosmos, to create a black on black collection. The teams crest is featured celebrate the return to DISCUSSING MEANWHILE... IN MAGALUF Spanish clubbing couldnt be more different on the largest of the Balearic Islands. Mallorca boasts beautiful towns... and Magaluf. Here, you can grab front row seats to a stereotypical Brits Abroad holiday culture on its grotty alcohol soaked strip. Every night it erupts SONA FOB FEELING BEACHY WWW.ONITSUKATIGER.COM It might be because Im sweltering at my desk in swimshorts as I write this, but the gorgeous sable of these Onitsuka hi-tops is reminding me of one place and one place only: the beach. The iconic Japanese trainer company might not have intended that, leather giving him life advice. Other than Logic, did you learn few collaborations and I Colin: I played after Poor wee guy! Hes 16. anything from each other when you havent so it was nice Sven Vath at a festival Hes wicked, hes more were in the studio? to get out of my own in Bangkok and I came talented th FOB MICRO FICTION: THE TV DINNER OF LITERATURE? Its a bizarre thing modern life. In an era of convenience and contradiction, technologies instant grabbable accessibility we have long strived for is currently seen as cheap and valueless. We are urged, as a ancestor, micro fiction won the bet and late count, a potentially is the internet and talent curbing curfew, not gathering dust on constrains the author a shelf in Englands with little room slowly diminishing to manoeuvre, but library system, it as with every case shouldnt be regarded of restriction and as amateur or less limitation in human s FOB GODDESS OF NIGHT STYLENOIR FOR NOTION PHOTOGRAPHY: DARRYL THOMAS HAIR & MAKE-UP: ROSEANNA VELIN WORDS: JAMES MILLS GOWN DRESS: FALGUNI & SHANE PEACOCK CHIFFON DRESS: ASOS BLACK LABEL Light and dark collide together, fracturing the tranquillity of a still, peaceful yet relentless abyss, a tainted LEVI DNA WWW.LEVI.COM Levis always manage to stay at the forefront of denim design and have done since 1869. You know why? Because they churn out innovative and current workwear season after season. These genius drop- crotch, tapered jeans (with braces) have all the lovely details weve come to expec FOB THERES AN ANIMAL ERE WWW.VOLTAFOOTWEAR.IT WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? WWW.SKATEISTAN.ORG WWW.FALLENFOOTWEAR.COM Skateistan is the worlds first co-educational skateboarding school operating out of A LITTLE BRIT OF WHAT YOU FANCY Afganistan. The school engages growing numbers of urban and internally dis FOB BRUTUS RE-LAUNCHES FOR A NEW GEN OF MODS Sex Pistols, Skinheads, Mods and Punks, don your Doc Martins and shave your head; Brutus is back with a vengeance. The classic trim-fit shirt returns with several award winning advertorials campaigns with David Bailey and Saatchi & Saatchi under its belt. FOB MAHARISHI WWW.EMAHARISHI.COM If you want to take this outdoorsy look to the next level this winter, look no further that Marharishi. These special forces inspired outfits have all the technical clout to cope with extreme weather conditions (and possibly stray sniper bullets) But its not all guts PHOTOGRAPHER: JENNY BROUGH MODEL: CONNIE ROSE OXYGEN DESIGNER: LUCY KENNEY MUA/HAIR STYLIST: ROSIE LEE ILLUSTRATOR: NATALIE LINES RETOUCHER: NATALIE LINES AND JENNY BROUGH 029 Notion FOB PERFECT PAIR DIESEL.COM ADIDAS.COM We love Diesel; we love Adidas. Doesnt everyone? Now you too can share that love with the second instalment of their ferociously popular collab where Diesel reinterpret classic Adidas sneaks. Were big fans of these workwear-inspired boots in camel suede; theyr GET THE COLLEGE LOOK FOB FRANKLINANDMARSHAL.COM SELFRIDGES-MONDAY WWW.SELFRIDGES.COM Cheap Monday open its first UK store as a concessions in Selfridges, London this month. This denim dream will be home to the menswear collection, unisex jeans and accessories. Leading up to the opening the whole spa LUCKY BUGGERS ENTERING COMPETITIONS BY TEXT We will not charge you to enter any of our competitions, just text the keyword to the number stated. Your standard network rate for sending a text message applies. BY EMAIL competitionsmusichqmed stating the issue number (eg 40) of the magazine where you stop press The We Lost Things Fire In the Record Label Love SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENTS WHO LOST STOCK IN THE SONY WAREHOUSE FIRE www.recordlabellove.com R ecord biz executives cynically commodify hyper- relevant buzzbands. They talk about music in units. They repackage dead souls and have marketing f new look Look To The Future Text: Bronya Francis Photography: Jack Barnes Based in two of the scene-iest towns in the world, Toronto and New York; a husband and wife duo, with the latter a model; wielding a Berlin-made album of sparse, skeletal electro songs; and even christening themselves the foun NEW LOOK shows, theyll kind of just stand there, The couple have been New Look for four years each other and trying on different outfits blankly. Adam: The few shows we have now, having taken time on recording their all the time. Its more like an overall played in Toronto are more about people debut spank rock Are You Angry Or Are You Boring? Words: Kara Simsek Photography: Jack Barnes Baltimore-born, filthy-mouthed electro-hip-hop genius SPANK ROCK is back after five long years since debut Yoyoyoyoyo dropped. No one need have any fears that hes mellowed in that time; theres stop you dead lyric SPANK ROCK They had just a month to work on tracks that main influence growing up back then was Nas to get back in to playing my own fun club Naeem had been sitting on for about two and Wu Tang and Mos Def and a Tribe Called shows. I want to do some proper cool shows years, and he confesses that the Phannatiq PHOTOGRAPHY: Grace Pun STYLING: Alexis Knox HAIR: Indira Schauweker MAKE-UP: Louise Ormiston MODEL: Giedre Vaisnoraite INTERVIEW: Kathryn Duncan Were Phannatiq About Anna Skodbo KATHRYN DUNCAN meets the lady behind the label. F ittingly for a woman, who in her own spontaneous a quality th Boys About Town: Boy London PHOTOGRAPHY: Ellis Scott TEXT: Alexa Hall T he BOY London eagle has cast a Now, Gareth Emmett and Rhys Dawney, the only really discovered the brand when we cruciform shadow over the worlds of creative duo behind the hectagram-heavy witch first went to Sick on Redchurch St What was it about Boy London that seemed ripe parallel for that today. On the whole were more Sick on Redchurch Street to now selling online for resurrection to you? excited about a new generation of fans wearing worldwide via www.leavetheboyalone.co I think in an underground sense BOY had already t Oh My! INTERVIEW: Michael C Lewin PHOTOGRAPHY: Aidan ONeill STYLING: Alexis Knox HAIR: Noriko Takayama Using Kiehls MAKE-UP: Yuka Hirata Using Mac FASHION ASSISTANT: Kathryn Duncan POST-PRODUCTION: Claire Bishop ALL CLOTHING: SUPERDRY Running This Town It has finally happened. Time enough has passed Oh My! What were they initially looking for, do you know? and the lyrics of Tinie. I always talk So, tell me what the live shows like. J: I think they were just looking for fun about that Tinie lyric, Drive past the bus J: Weve got a drummer and a keyboard guitarist. girls, people with opinions. We Oh My! Is there an album ready then? When you guys are performing, do you feel as though youre H&M, Primark. We generally are normal girls. J: Its not set in stone but weve got more putting on a character? Or do you just carry on this kind of J: It relates to people more as well. If you than the tra the fashion issue DESIGNERS & MUSES N otion has always been for something more than sound waves and fabrics. What turns us on isnt just the song or the garment - its the ideas behind them, what binds together a set of elements, the vision that elevates craft into work, the reason that people create. make your go w o w ! DESIGNERS & MUSES NOTION AND NICOLA ROBERTS Nicola Roberts does not need your sympathy although its difficult not to be moved by her metamorphosis from pop-pupa to incandescent electro-chanteuse. Her creative reinvention has given Notion the opportunity to unleash its inner pop-tart so we thought w NOTION AND NICOLA ROBERTS R oberts shuffled onto our screens approved fashion sense and the fact that I wrote the song Cinderellas Eyes last 10 years ago as a sullen teen some of the most respected names in April and I knew as soon as I wrote the - all jeans-and-a-going-out- music are working with h NOTION AND NICOLA ROBERTS leftfield. Everyone has an opinion - the something so I want to wear them. Its listening to it on the way to New York last label, the management, friends, radio, TV...I the same as certain music styles making week and thinking, thats a year and a half have to try and do wha NOTION AND NICOLA ROBERTS A BRIEF Q & A WITH CELEBRITY DESIGNER HENRY HOLLAND WHOSE CLOTHES ADORN HIS FRIEND NICOLA ROBERTS IN THIS FEATURE To what do you owe your success? Hard work, determination and amazing friends and family. Your route into fashion design was unconventional; has this been a h PHOTOGRAPHER Mark Cant STYLIST Alexis Knox MODEL Evija Kreismane Select Model Management HAIR Noriko Takayama using Kiehls MAKE-UP Yuka Hirata using Mac FASHION ASSISTANT Kathryn Duncan & Sheridan Smith LEGGINGS / Monikh Dale DRESS WORN OVER LEGGINGS / Monikh Dale TOP WORN OVER DRESS / Monikh Dale SHOES / ASOS (Both Pages) DRESS / Alicia Duncan Smith NECKLACES RING / Fannie Schiavoni / Rockit COLLAR CLIPS WORN ON DRESS SIDES / Zoe Alexandria Paton Burt (Left) FEATHER DRESS / Kate Wallis (Above) JACKET / Monikh Dale CUFF / Alicia Duncan Smith (Above) FEATHER DRESS / Kate Wallis (Right) DRESS NECKLACE / Year Zero / Kokon to Zai Noki DESIGNERS & MUSES INTERVIEW: Michael C Lewin PHOTOGRAPHY: Alexander Jordan FASHION EDITOR: Alexis Knox FASHION ASSISTANT: Kathryn Duncan ALL CLOTHING: Noki Keep Shagging And Ragging! DR NOKI claims that the weight of responsibility that would come with embodying his labels fiery intent to chang noki DESIGNERS & MUSES industrial creation of textile and print Im much more comfortable being in a free zone you dealt with when you created the Noki identity while at that rips and tears, and world resources of opinion where industry and art dont have MTV; how do you feel about it now? cancelled o PHOTOGRAPHY James Moriarty ART DIRECTION Hidden Agency STYLIST Aaron Francis Walker HAIR Noriko Takayama using LOreal MAKEUP Yuka Hirata using MAC MODEL Grace Hollows at Premier STYLING ASSISTANCE Sophia Probett & Kelly Thomas STOLE / Tze Goh TROUSERS / Etro (Left) CROPPED JUMPER SKIRT / Pringle / Yohji Yamamoto (Above) TUBE TOP / Calvin Klein THROW USED AS SKIRT / Missoni Home at Selfridges 060 Notion (Right) SHIRT / Margiela (mens) at Selfridges TROUSERS / Canali (Left) TIGHTS COAT / Ridley Road / Tse Goh (Left) DRESS / Jil Sander (Above) HAT / Vintage SWEATER / John Smedley PANTS / Calvin Klein 079 Notion HAT / Vintage Ziad Ghanem DESIGNERS & MUSES TEXT: Alexa Hall PHOTOGRAPHY: Franco Gomez STYLING: Aiden Connor MAKE-UP: Johanna Londinium DESIGN ASSISTANT: Martin Lavoillotte STYLING ASSISTANT: Marianna Frannais PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT: Anna Lola Punks & Luxury The extravagant Ziad Ghanem has long been a Notion favou ROOM SERVICE PHOTOGRAPHER Damien Fry STYLIST Natalie Hubbard MAKE UP Brendan Robertson at Naked Artists.com using M.A.C. HAIR Takeshi Katoh using Bumble and bumble HAIR ASSISTANT Atsushi Takita (Left) BLACK FUR POM POM JUMPER BLACK BRIEFS/BODY / David Koma / American Apparel BLACK OVER KNEE BOO (Above) CUTOUT BODY BELT / Lascivious (worn as skirt) / Joanne Hynes SHOES / Terry de Havilland (Right) CUFFS / Godfrey Knight Designs Black body / Cos (Top Left) SATIN BRIEFS / Wundervoll TRIANGLE BRA FUR SHRUG HEELS / Ryder & Rowe / Hartford / KG by Kurt Geiger (Top Right) LEATHER BODY / Godfrey Knight Designs (Bottom Left) DRESS BELT / David Koma / Paul and Joe Sister NECKLACE SHOES / Spanner and Wingnut / KG as before (Bottom Right) BODY / Gest ALL CLOTHES / PPQ INTERVIEW Michael C Lewin PHOTOGRAPHY James Moriarty ART DIRECTION Hidden Agency STYLING Amy Molyneaux (PPQ)& Alexis Knox HAIR Aaron Carlo at Headmasters using LOreal Professional HAIR ASSISTANT Rufus Dunningham MAKE-UP Adam Burrell using Estée Lauder MODEL Suki Waterhouse at Next DESIGNERS B eing introduced to one another by brands embrace the Internet and seen web Because we emulate our concepts through a rent boy was an auspicious start technology change the way we shop. Values more than just fashion, you can for the designers behind the label are those of the importance of creative PPQ AND SUKI WATERHOUSE FOR EXTENDED FASHION COVERAGE INCLUDING ADDITIONAL IMAGES AND EXTRA INTERVIEWS VISIT NOTIONMAG.COM OR PLANETNOTION.COM X WILL & GRACE DESIGNERS & MUSES PHOTOGRAPHY: Diana Gomez STYLING: Grace Woodward & William Banks-Blaney FASHION EDITOR: Alexis Knox HAIR: Mikey Kardashian using Hair Rehab London MAKE-UP: Adam Burrell using MAC Cosmetics PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSISTANT: Guillaume Blondiau Past, Present, Couture SEBASTIAN LAW COAT / 1965 Hardy Amies haute couture silk opera coat SHOES & ACCESSORIES / Lara Bohinc Grace: DRESS / 1968 Courreges haute couture SHOES & ACCESSORIES / Lara Bohinc Will: JACKET & WAISTCOAT / Ede and Ravenscroft JEANS SHOES Grace: DRESS / 1968 Courreges haute couture BLACK MESH BODY / Bebarouque SHOES & ACCESSORIES / Lara Bohinc Will: JACKET AND WAISTCOAT / Tom Ford JEANS / AG SHOES / WILL & GRACE DESIGNERS & MUSES November was almost a religious experience. both point out to me the issues that have Its easy to see what brought William and After spending thirty seconds in the shop, to be overcome in order to normalise the Grace together. They share the same deep I realised it was NIGHTHAWKS PHOTOGRAPHER Damien Fry STYLIST Alexis Knox Left TOP / Phannatiq SHORTS / Horace Right JACKET / Alex Mattsson TROUSERS / Alex Mattsson (Above) T / SHIRT SHORTS / Dr Noki / Horace (Right) SHIRT / Galliano TROUSERS / Aqua T / SHIRT / Dr Noki (Left Page) TOP / Phannatiq 109 Notion TOP / Rockit SHORTS / Horace (Opposite Page) JACKET / Alex TROUSERS / Mattsson Alex Mattsson PHOTOGRAPHER Damien Fry STYLIST Alexis Knox FASHION ASSISTANT Kathryn Duncan HAIR Takeshi Katoh using Bumble and Bumble MAKE / UP Adam Burrell using Chanel S/S 2011 MODELS Harmony & Lianna F at Models SHIRT / Woolrich DENIM JACKET / Evisu BACKSTREET BOYS COAT / Tween SHIRT / C.P Company PHOTOGRAPHER / Alis Pelleschi STYLIST / Alexis Knox FASHION ASSISTANT / Kathryn Duncan FASHION ASSISTANT / Oliver Vaughn GROOMING / Holly Silius www.hollysilius.com using Korres and Bumble & Bumble DENIM TROUSERS GREY SHIRT / Firetrap COAT / Tween JACKET WORN OVER SHIRT / PRPS Noir WHITE SHIRT / C.P Company COAT / Firetrap TROUSERS Tween SHOES / Firetrap WAIST COAT / Sand DENIM SHIRT / Lee POLO NECK / Sand JACKET / Timberland TROUSERS / C.P Company WOOL HAT / Stone Island JACKET / Sand 111 Notion BACK/EN D A chan ge of pace f introd or us uce ou all as r new we beg closin in to of sho g sect rt int ion: a erview compil s and ation releas review ing wo s with rks of those litera brilli ture a ant mu nd wha sic, f tever magica ilm, else f l, elu alls u sive t nder t erm c hat ulture recomm , a b/e interview Washed Out Simply Innocent pretty special. Through him, I kind of starting A sun-drenched Ernest Greene, aka WASHED OUT, basks in the glow of critical praise for his debut album Within and Without. Here, he chats with WILL GRANT about discovering the pleasures of getting away from ele b/e interview Kurt Bredenbeck Gimme Shelter In the 1990s, he was one of those responsible for bringing the bespoke design hotel concept across to London with OneAldwych; then, he changed things up again with the Hoxton Hotels revolutionary luxury budget conceit. What KURT BREDENBECK has planned nex and across the large space I spot him walk Grand Hotels of Africa & the Orient, a luxury It was this experience, combined with out past reception. Hes an athletic-looking book on the subject.) His understanding of the inspiration of the nearby Skylight Café guy in his forties of the sort best descri b/e interview Vidal Sassoon Running With Scissors Meeting a fashion legend from the cutting edge isnt an everyday occurrence, as SEB LAW finds out when he took lunch with the original hair-volutionary VIDAL SASSOON The thing is, as one of the stars of the swinging sixties, Vidal didnt just admire t (Above) JUMPSUIT / Horace b/e interview Austra Opera-nting & Raving Leading lady of the electrifying off-pop act Austra, Katie Stelmanis, waxes on illuminatingly on all manner of subjects, from making opera on a MIDI to Canada and political apathy. Were only in your typical E2 music venue, but everyones hypnotised by Katies glass-shattering voice is classically trained. Quinns open letter to Tyler, The Creator buzz-genre placed in the same sentence as Unlike the abundance of shouting, screaming, about the homophobia expressed through his Austra is goth-pop; is that a label that and half-talking half-singing that is all TEST DRIVING Michael C Lewin (MCL) Seb Law (SL) Stevie Pearce (SP) Charlie Clarkson (CC) Kara Simsek (KS) SO MANY HOT RECORDS ARRIVED AFTER WE COMMISSIONED OUR SCANT ALBUM REVIEWS THIS ISSUE THAT WE COULD BARELY MANAGE TO FIT THEM ALL IN GOOD SHIT BAD SHIT. SPECIAL MENTION, THOUGH, HAS TO BE MADE FO CANT DREAMS COME TRUE WARP/ ELECTRONICA/POP Ever since CANT first of Twin Shadows, and its one into the emotions of a lover sound effects. (brokencollar) with a foreign feel that is graced my sound system I youll want to start saving at a crossroad. The chorus gives Taylor a chance to show jarring, GOOD SHIT / BAD SHIT WE LIKE TO KEEP THINGS REAL HERE, AND THAT MEANS CH-CH-CHANGING The Drums PORTAMENTO IT UP SOME TIMES! SO, FOR THIS ISSUE ONLY, WE HAVE ABANDONED OUR PATENTED ZEITGEIST-APING HASHTAG-SCALE AND GONE FOR THE ABSTRACT: MOSHI MOSHI / INDIE ARBITRARY WORD OUT OF FIVE! FLEX THOSE CRIT w w w . p l a n e t n o t i o n . c o m Our Digita l Disco verie s For Your Delec tation Music: Exclusive downloads, lush videos and in-depth record reviews Fashion: Bespoke shoots, the hottest trends and the most unusual stores Culture: Avant art, riotous gigs, hidden bars & secret clubs Interv S W E AT B O X I N G CLUBS EDITOR KARA SIMSEK THE SUMMER WAS A WASHOUT BUT IT WAS A BLAST NONETHELESS. NOW THE PAIRING OF SHOR TS AND WELLIES IS THE NORM, WE SAY BRING ON THE FESTIVAL FINAL FURLONG! SW4 AND BESTIVAL ARE YOUR LAST REAL CHANCES TO GET MUD SPLATTERED UP YOUR THIGHS AS YOU TRY TO DANCE EASTERN ELECTRICS HOSPITALITY Great Suffolk Street Warehouse, London Brixton O2 Academy, London 28 AUGUST 30 SEPTEMBER Eastern Electrics has become the most exciting thing about Bank Holidays. Not that were complaining, especially when this time the EE crew welcome techno babe Maya Jane Coles as the PROFOUNDLY MOVING PRESENTS FILM EDITOR / MATT HARVEY THE Greetings Reel Dealers! Weve got some very pretty news for you... were getting bigger! From now on, the Reel Deal has been expanded from two pages to four which, mathematics tells us, is double! Double the excitement!! Double the movie- based form of sexual bullying? Yes exactly. I do genuinely believe that exams lads holiday. They spent a month in Mallorca shooting it one of the main reasons behind a lot of the writers (Iain Morris earlier in the year. Did anything particularly mental go down while and Damon Beesley) storylines is that THE Sex & Zen AMNESTY TV CINEMA / METRODOME PICTURES / RELEASED: 2ND SEPTEMBER *REVIEW BY MARCUS BARNES* ONLINE / AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL / NEW EPISODES EVERY OTHER FRIDAY *REVIEW BY MICHAEL C LEWIN* TV.AMNESTY.ORG.UK I only usually watch porn on my own - either crying, on MDMA, or Whenever the words Interestingly, the aliens in Attack the Block chose to eschew convention and instead focus their invasionary attack on a council estate in Kennington. Well, you know, you do get so much more for your money south of the river dont you.. and its only a short bus rides and youre on the Northern Line.. End Paper MARGOT BOWMAN In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Painted Truths #3 by Margot Bowman: W.B. Yeats, chosen by subject Natalie Olah Photography : Ariane Leblanc subject : Natalie Olah If I didnt view my decision to be an artist as carrying some responsibility I knew Id soon fall into that bracke NOTIONMAG.COM Digital Delight! Notion Magazine Available In Print From Wh Smith, Mccolls, And All Good Independents Notion Magazine Is Now Available Digitally www.notionmag.com Subscribe Electronically Via Credit Card Or Sms www.planetnotion.com Complete Access To Our Entire Archive From Only 99P Pe