Following the release of their collaborative album with the late Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu take part in an exclusive two-way interview that covers the former's love of New York, the latter's impeccable sense of style, obsessions from Grace Jones to Julian Barratt, artistic process, dream collaborations and much, much more...
In an extract form issue two of Somesuch Stories, through the lens of Mia Farrow Phliipa Snow considers the vampiric effect on and reaction of Hollywood's women of its men – the twisted and plentiful “Daddies”, looking for their daughter binary, to feed from and reshape
Touring in support of the kind of retrospective that the band, and their fans, truly deserve, Ian Wade finds the Human League showcasing their versatility and their steadfast commitment to being — as the record says — "a very British synthesizer group." (Photos by Maria Jefferis.)