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Smoke magazine #5 is out now! With an article by me on p12 on the mystery of the Veneer of the Week. Order from www.smokelondon.co.uk or go to various obscure bookshops and they might carry it. Surely worth yer 2 quid, especially with articles on Mock Tudor and elephants in London, among others. :)
corporate whore
05-03-2005, 13:25
A quality mag! If you can't be arsed to trawl around, know that Borders stock it.
I wrote to those guys offering to stick up a page on urban75 to help plug their mag and suggested a small discount might get the orders rolling in. I also thought that there may be some articles on the site of interest to them.
And I'm still waiting for an answer. Dum de dum de dum.....
'Tis a quality mag though.
Oh, and congrats Cloo!
flimsier
05-03-2005, 13:30
Smoke magazine #5 is out now! With an article by me on p12 on the mystery of the Veneer of the Week. Order from www.smokelondon.co.uk or go to various obscure bookshops and they might carry it. Surely worth yer 2 quid, especially with articles on Mock Tudor and elephants in London, among others. :)
does that title come from that shop just off the north circular?
Dubversion
05-03-2005, 13:31
good work, cloo... i'll pick up a copy next week
ernestolynch
05-03-2005, 15:16
But then London remembers. It calls you up, asks you to get back in touch. You値l refuse, then you値l listen, and then, as if by some peculiar magic, you値l be walking the streets, sitting in cafes, talking with strangers, standing on Parliament Hill as the kites dance below you. You値l remember the soft sprawl of Gunnersbury Park, not Acton痴 cacophonies. The drunken loveliness of evenings in Archway, not the bills left unpaid. Springfield Park in the sunshine, not Leyton in the rain. You値l go back to the old house and remember the warmth, not the tears. How could you forget?
http://67.18.37.16/525/186/emo/jack.gif :o
bristle-krs
05-03-2005, 15:20
have a nice alka-seltzer & nurofen breakfast did we?
:D
Dubversion
05-03-2005, 15:20
yeh, cos a blow-by-blow account of some 1930's tractor budget planning meeting in Novosibirsk is a much more worthwhile read eh, ern?
bristle-krs
05-03-2005, 15:21
tractorist :mad:
ernestolynch
05-03-2005, 15:22
That magazine, judging by the excerpts they have on their website, is yuppie wank for wankers.
No doubt subscribed to by aspirational types living in gated communities in edgy and colourful parts of town and contributed to by... ah heck I can't be sarcastic. Mate, it's just a magazine for and by passionate londoners. If it's not written to your taste, there's no need to condemn an entire readership as wankers.
nice one cloo, i got my copy in the post this morning... :) and i guess they can live without ernie's financial support :p
Orang Utan
05-03-2005, 18:10
I just got this - I think it's ace, if a little verbose.
Orang Utan
05-03-2005, 18:10
Ooh no - it's Issue 4, I've got.
Dubversion
05-03-2005, 18:12
That magazine, judging by the excerpts they have on their website, is yuppie wank for wankers.
you really are full of shit aren't you?
'man of the people'.
:rolleyes:
That magazine, judging by the excerpts they have on their website, is yuppie wank for wankers.I'll wager it's got more energy, more passion and more love of life than anything you've ever authored.
Why do you feel the need to be so snide and condescending?
does that title come from that shop just off the north circular? That's the one, Shadbolt and sons. :)
Dubversion
05-03-2005, 18:23
Why do you feel the need to be so snide and condescending?
because expressing any real enthusiasm or feeling for something would make him feel exposed in some way, like he'd be sticking his neck out.
easier just to snipe and sneer whilst 'collecting for his files'.
ernestolynch
05-03-2005, 18:24
Sez
bluestreak
05-03-2005, 19:02
That's the one, Shadbolt and sons. :)
heh, i used to go passed that once a week and took a bizarre pleasure in discovered what the new veneer was.
DJWrongspeed
06-03-2005, 12:55
I like the series 'London's campest statues' and also 'London's most childish street names' No. 4 " Back Passage" in EC4 :D
Neil-NewX
06-03-2005, 16:08
I think the 'Smoke is for yuppie wankers' jibe is well wide of the mark. Matt Haynes (the editor) used to do Sarah Records which was a cool hybrid of jingly jangly indie pop and radical politics. See the recent (and fab) Rough Trade Indie Pop compilation which Matt did some of the sleevenotes for.
Well done Cloo. I like this magazine. Will pick a copy up on the way to work and read it on the tube :)
liked the article cloo, i seem to remember a reference to the veneer of the week somewhere else, have you mentioned it on the boards at all?
William of Walworth
06-03-2005, 19:05
Nice one -- this looks like well worth a read ... :)
Will have a proper look when I'm not stoned :D ;)
I went past a load of the shops that stocked this while I was in London but I didn't know they had it in! Now I'm back up north, I'm going to have to be really cheeky and ask if someone can send me a copy and I'll get the money to them over PayPal or whatever :)
PM please?
you can subscribe via paypal, i think it's ｣9 for 5 or 6 issues...
liked the article cloo, i seem to remember a reference to the veneer of the week somewhere else, have you mentioned it on the boards at all? Pretty sure I have - it is a NE London icon, after all!
thought i'd bump this...smoke 6 is just out, got my copy this morning in the post...still maintaining it's high standards... :)
Got the email - looks great. I'll probably send them another submission later this year.
I always forget to order this Mag, this time I'm definately going to!
Dubversion
20-07-2005, 11:10
thought i'd bump this...smoke 6 is just out, got my copy this morning in the post...still maintaining it's high standards... :)
excellent, my local 2nd hand shop stocks it :)
onemonkey
20-07-2005, 12:01
they always have it on the counters in foyles but i never buy it cos i am intimidated by all that tiny typesetting..
but i will squint my way through this one :)
You can get it from Index Books in Brixton as well!
ViolentPanda
20-07-2005, 13:16
That magazine, judging by the excerpts they have on their website, is yuppie wank for wankers.
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I'll be off to buy myself a copy soon as.
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gawkrodger
20-07-2005, 13:51
i never picked up issue 5, opps
i never picked up issue 5, opps
you can still order back issues from their website :)
gawkrodger
24-07-2005, 15:59
it's ok - i've realised i'm talking bollocks and do in fact have it! :D
pinkmonkey
24-07-2005, 16:06
because expressing any real enthusiasm or feeling for something would make him feel exposed in some way, like he'd be sticking his neck out.
easier just to snipe and sneer whilst 'collecting for his files'.
http://www.itv.ch/images/hammer.jpg
Dubversion
23-08-2005, 13:43
finally got Smoke 6.
the article about Foyles is brilliant, as is the brief life of Julian MacLaren-Ross, which really made me want to read some.
'London underground wishes to apologise for the fact that, due to passenger action, all Bakerloo line trains are currently hiding in a big shed in Willesden and refusing to come out'. :D
Smoke magazine #5 is out now! With an article by me on p12 on the mystery of the Veneer of the Week. Order from www.smokelondon.co.uk or go to various obscure bookshops and they might carry it. Surely worth yer 2 quid, especially with articles on Mock Tudor and elephants in London, among others. :)
Well done you! :cool:
I picked up issue 6 for my partner from Wordsworths books in Camberwell today . Might have to nick it back to have a look :D
issue 8 just arrived smoke fans:)
issue 8 just arrived smoke fans:)
That's very well-timed, since here's me about to make my monthly pilgrimage to GOSH! this afternoon. :)
HackneyE9
02-06-2006, 08:19
'Fraid I'm with the 'wank' crowd.
Written by a bunch of Oxbridge graduates, new to the capital, who think they've discovered Iain Sinclair.
And I'm not just free-associating there - I know one of 'em.
But for true "yuppie" wank, you've got to read that London for Londoners email thing by thefridayproject [?].
All "oh, why is it so hard to park in Camden" and "God, don't you hate those Big Issue Sellers" and "By the way, I've discovered this fab bar just off Leicester Square..." [is there a thread anywhere else I can let off steam at those tossers?]
But for true "yuppie" wank, you've got to read that London for Londoners email thing by thefridayproject [?].
All "oh, why is it so hard to park in Camden" and "God, don't you hate those Big Issue Sellers" and "By the way, I've discovered this fab bar just off Leicester Square..." [is there a thread anywhere else I can let off steam at those tossers?]
Yeah, that LBL thing is fucking terrible, isn't it? "Does anybody know a shop that sells cheese?" "I smiled at somebody in the street today and it was nice, why can't we all smile at people in the street?" "Why are there so few good salsa dancing classes in the capital?" Grrr! Cunts, the lot of them!!
It's all the more surprising, because The Friday Thing (http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk/tft/)newsletter (which has just become completely free to subscribe to, and which previously was the only email newsletter I happily paid for) is absolutely brilliant. Really. And has no recommendations whatsoever for cheese shops or fucking salsa classes.
HackneyE9
02-06-2006, 08:49
Yeah, that LBL thing is fucking terrible, isn't it? "Does anybody know a shop that sells cheese?" "I smiled at somebody in the street today and it was nice, why can't we all smile at people in the street?" "Why are there so few good salsa dancing classes in the capital?" Grrr! Cunts, the lot of them!!
Hee hee. No nead for thread - you've summed it up in four lines!;)
bluestreak
02-06-2006, 09:00
'Fraid I'm with the 'wank' crowd.
Written by a bunch of Oxbridge graduates, new to the capital, who think they've discovered Iain Sinclair.
And I'm not just free-associating there - I know one of 'em.
except that many of it's contributors, like cloo, myself, and i believe dub too (?), and allof the smoke readers i know are born and bred or long term londoners. and generally working class too.
but of course, if you know better....
HackneyE9
02-06-2006, 09:05
Ok, I (half) take it back:o
But it certainly applies to the one I know, and I read the first two editions (it may have got better since then) and there was a lot of self-concious poesy.
Mrs PC finds it a bit too self-consciously, gratingly whimsical for her taste, too, Hackney, and it's not always a groundless accusation, to be fair; but I think most of it's good, and I have a very low whimsy tolerance threshold...
London needs whimsy, dammit! :p
Orang Utan
05-06-2006, 09:34
Hatboy wrote an article about Brixton in the last edition - surprisingly even handed
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