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Dec.28.2011
Birmingham, England 1978
Fáshiön frontman Luke Sky, and sound engineer Miki Cottrell are faced with a weekend of no gig or band rehearsal
I’m in my kitchen, half-heartedly throwing a large kitchen knife at what’s left of the back door. Despite many years of practice, I can’t quite get the...
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Dec.19.2011
I’ve been thinking a lot about clothes, which has made me think about age, which has made me think about writing.
I love clothes, even though I’ve mostly worn jeans and black turtlenecks and boots for years. I love shopping and looking at street-style blogs and watching “Project Runway...
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Dec.18.2011
I never had a train set, never had a bike, lived on a council estate and ran with a gang. I never went on holiday, went to a state school, son of a taxi driver, but no feeble-minded git, me – no, clever. Sharp. Ambitious. No dole factory pension illusion for me. Pop star me!
As a teenager, I was...
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Dec.05.2011
“Great idea, Jon. I mean it’s not as if anyone’s going to Barbs tonight to see The Clash is it. They’ll all need something to do.”
“No, come on. Fuck this. It’s us against the world, right?”
“Apparently.” Dik mumbles, but then he gets a sudden devilish look on his face. “Jon’s right. Us against the...
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Dec.03.2011
The rehearsal is absolutely terrible, Nobody’s mind is on what they’re doing. We’re all time traveling forward to sharing a dressing room and then a stage with Joe Strummer and his pals. I forget the words and try to make up for it by playing chords that have no business being anywhere near a...
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Dec.01.2011
Birmingham, England - July 1978
“The Cla …. The Cla … The Cla…”
“You’ve got the clap?”
“What, again?”
“No … The Cla ….”
“You really should cut down on the fags.”
“No stamina these keyboard players. What do you expect though? They just stand there all night.”
“The fucking Clash!”
“Congratulations. A...
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Nov.22.2011
It's true, high-heeled shoes have been around for a long time and I suspect they will live on forever. Long after we are dead and buried or our ashes float down the river, there will be women (and men) wobbling around on high heels. They are horrible for your back but even the smartest of people...
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Nov.08.2011
For Miki Cottrell: Out somewhere on that Final Tour. RIP Miki, miss you man! New York City, 1979 Back at the Iroquois Hotel I’m taking a rare afternoon nap when the by now familiar thumping on the door rouses me. I sit up and blink at the sunlight streaming through the raggedy blinds. I yawn and...
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Oct.30.2011
Of course, you all wonder - of course you do for I know I do - what would a Kafka fashion line be like. Quite dapper, I am sure.
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H&M launch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo clothing range
The Swedish high street store will launch designs by...
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Oct.14.2011
I have envied many cowboy hats in my life. John Wayne's, for instance, which is iconically famous, a big hat for a big man, its very wide brim reminding me of a ship's wake making its way across a troubled sea. Clint Eastwood's is not as grand, but it very much suggests the character that he plays...
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