Primal Scream

Glasgow’s most diverse rock band are set to play the UEA on the 30th November as part of the NME’s Rock and Roll Riot Tour. The band who have just released their 9th studio album Beautiful Future produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John, which is a hit of devastating laser-guided pop. They will also have a huge classic-laden back catalogue to draw from for the tour, having crossed so many genres from Bluesy Rock through to Hardcore Techno they will have material to please just about every taste.

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Birdcage Cabaret Night - Hosted by Normal for Norfolk

 The Birdcage pub on Pottergate have been hosting a weekly cabaret revue in their back room, all through the summer. With varying acts each week and regular hosts on the first and last Wednesdays of each month, Lora Stimson and Normal for Norfolk respectively.

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John Rattray - Nollie - Stoke Plaza Big Three

As you may have already read elsewhere SLAP are going to stopping printing the magazine and concentrate purely on their website, which in all honesty is the way a lot of magazines could do over the next year, as companies try to tighten budgets. I mean to a bean counter accountant type the first thing you look at would be the biggest costs, which when you publish a magazine is the printing.

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Archer from Hoefler and Frere-Jones

When you work for a design studio within a large company, you tend to be limited to a selection of good fonts amongst thousands of boring and ubiquitous ones. These are a few fonts I wish we had but I know probably never will.

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Polaroid 1000 camera and photo of Pula Airport, Croatia.

These little plastic “toy” cameras, are great fun the one to the left, I picked up from a jumble sale for a quid. You can also find them in charity shops, car boot sales and of course on eBay.
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If you skate or have ever skated, you will sympathise with these few shots, where things don’t quite go to plan. I’m not a fan of slams normally so I normally delete the photo pretty soon, however some people love them; 411vm even released a whole video of them called 411′s 911.

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Lucas Puig in the new skate 2 game for Xbox and PS3

For those of you who have a Xbox 360 or PS3 and enjoyed skate well a sequel is on it’s way and looks pretty good. With Lucas Puig, John Cardiel and Eric Koston amongst new additions of skaters is a good start. Also with the added ability to get off your board, do No-Comply’s, Beanplants, Fastplants and Handplants. Looks like it’s going to be good, check out the trailer on the official site for more.

On the 18th of March 2008 nine of us departed from Stansted airport in the search of some lovely weather and sick spots in the city that is Barcelona.

Benny B, Chris Allcock, 90s Mike, Tommy May, Joel the Bum and Jason Rowe who arrived on the Monday  shared an apartment. Jay Gray, William Peck, Matt Forster and myself were in another.

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Earlier this year I went on holiday to Croatia with a friend from work, who found a good deal whilst laying out travel adverts at work and wanted someone to go with. I had never dreamed of going to the former Yugoslavian country on holiday, and decicied to go along with it as it was cheap and I was promised good weather and good food.

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Ness Point, Lowestoft

It’s amazing how long it took for someone to transform this place from the almost spot it’s been for years, into this great spot which is trapping many skaters.

All it took was a two benches bolted into the floor and a piece of angle iron stuck to a ledge. Now everyone forgets the old concrete ledge they had to put up with for so long.

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