Last week a group of London punks staged a gig on the Thames foreshore in a defiant statement of public rights over our land. Gary Budden argues that they're in a fine tradition stretching back through the ramblers of the Kinder Scout trespass and the 17th century Diggers - and that is a tradition we need to uphold.
Last week a group of London punks staged a gig on the Thames foreshore in a defiant statement of public rights over our land. Gary Budden argues that they're in a fine tradition stretching back through the ramblers of the Kinder Scout trespass and the 17th century Diggers - and that is a tradition we need to uphold.
The Byzantinely plotted drug enforcement procedural that tore the cop show genre a new one, runs its course. With the release of Season Five on DVD box set and the final episode broadcast on TV last night, Rebecca Nicholson mourns the passing of a good po-lice show but points out it nearly sank without a trace.
Before this weekend's Future Artefacts fair in London, we ask a selection of exhibitors — from GOST Books, Stolen Recordings and REIFY — about the meaning of the word artefact, the importance of physical media and the changing of the landscape in an increasingly digital world
At this year's annual Bognor pilgrimage, Patrick Clarke finds a Suede on compellingly romantic form (even for Suede), a rampant Killing Joke (accompanied by rampant Killing Joke merchandise), and a strange reverence for Butlin's tradition. Photographs by Maria Jefferis