Smoke Magazine no.5 - article by me!

[Belushi]

I always forget to order this Mag, this time I'm definately going to!

 

[Dubversion]

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]

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

 

[rennie]

You can get it from Index Books in Brixton as well!

 

[ViolentPanda]

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]

i never picked up issue 5, opps

 

[marty21]

i never picked up issue 5, opps

you can still order back issues from their website

 

[gawkrodger]

it's ok - i've realised i'm talking bollocks and do in fact have it!

 

[pinkmonkey]

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'.

 

[Dubversion]

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.

 

[Cloo]

'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'.

 

[StuPC]

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!

 

[Wyn]

I picked up issue 6 for my partner from Wordsworths books in Camberwell today . Might have to nick it back to have a look

 

[marty21]

issue 8 just arrived smoke fans

 

[StuPC]

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]

'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?]

 

[StuPC]

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 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]

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]

'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]

Ok, I (half) take it back

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.

 

[StuPC]

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...

 

[Cloo]

London needs whimsy, dammit!

 

[Orang Utan]

Hatboy wrote an article about Brixton in the last edition - surprisingly even handed