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Anton Corbijn On 50 Years Of Capturing Icons, Making Movies, And Never Losing The Spark
“I went to a photography school one day a week, but it was just hopeless. They put you off photography, if anything,” says one of today’s most influential music and portrait photographers, sitting across from me in a dimly lit speakeasy, closed…
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Davíð Roach’s Five Favourite Albums
Davíð Roach is a vital figure in Icelandic music culture. For many years he and his friend Óli Dóri have specialised in music coverage as Straumur. Through their website and regular column for the Grapevine (see page 28), they’ve reported on new…
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Gavin Evans: On Photographing Björk, Iggy Pop & David Bowie
In 1995, photographer Gavin Evans was commissioned by Time Out magazine in London to shoot David Bowie during the recording of ‘Outside’. The results were a series of distinctive portraits that became widely used and well-known, and are currently on display in…
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Gavin Evans On Photographing Björk, Iggy Pop & David Bowie
In 1995, photographer Gavin Evans was commissioned by Time Out magazine in London to shoot David Bowie, during the recording of ‘Outside’. The results were a series of distinctive portraits that became widely used and well-known, and are currently on display in…
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Jonathan Barnbrook On Iceland, Japan, Working With Bowie
Jonathan Barnbrook is a London-based veteran designer, creating numerous iconic typefaces such as Priori and Mason. Over his long career, he’s worked with everyone from the Occupy group to Sydney Biennale to David Bowie. We caught up with him just before his…
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Loving The Alien: Growing Up With David Bowie
When I was six years old, one of my cousins recorded some fragment of a music TV programme on VHS tape. One of the videos was for David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” I was fascinated, lying in front of the TV, and rewinding…
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David Bowie’s Visit To Iceland – VIDEO
David Bowie’s 1996 visit to Iceland made quite an impression on him, as evidenced in this interview with MTV. A programme director for RÚV, who has followed Bowie’s music for decades, remembers him as having “broadened the horizons of many people, in…
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Independence Is Not A Disaster:
After decades of discussion on the political and economic details of a theoretically independent Scotland, the Scottish citizens finally face the vote that could bring this country into reality. The vote on the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill, asking “Should Scotland be an…
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Fucking The Pain Away, Surf Punk And Nice Guys
On Saturday night, the salt was no longer thick in the air. Thank God. We had stopped fearing for our lives and the wind had calmed to a mere breeze. We could freely walk the streets without fear of decapitation by a…
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Editorial: ROCK AND ROLL
One fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station And she couldn’t believe what she heard at all She started dancin’ to that fine, fine music Her life was saved by rock ’n’ roll” Lou Reed: Rock and Roll I´m not…