Issue 75: Spring/Summer 2021

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RADICAL CULTURE

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Editor-in-Chief Andrea Kurland andrea@tcolondon.com Editor Niall Flynn niall@tcolondon.com Digital Editor Daisy Schofield daisy@tcolondon.com Politics & Activism Editor Ben Smoke Social Editor Benjamin Cook Editor-at-Large Michael Fordham Contributin
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Zarah Sultana
AS DECEMBER 2020 RUMBLED INTO VIEW, Twitter was abound with people sharing their end-of-year stats from Spotify. Labour MP Zarah Sultana was no different. She posted a screenshot of her most-played artists, along with the caption: “It is what it is i
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A New Kind Of Art School Since 1856.
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE of ART Masculinity, Tilly Warburton, BA (Hons) Commercial Photography for Fashion Advertising and Editorial We provide a physical and digital space where our creative community comes together, explores new horizons, and pushes the bo
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Here We Are.
As we embark on a brand new chapter, our core values remain the same. Huck salutes independence. Huck champions DIY culture. Huck tells stories from the fringes. From day one, Huck has sought to explore life through a differentlens… … in the current
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The Solidarity Fields
EMBERS RISE INTO THE NIGHT SKY. Kastro reaches a hand into the tall stone oven to light his cigarette. With a shovel, he makes room for the loaves of bread he has been preparing. In between drags of a cigarette, he sings folk ballads in both Greek an
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Little Korea, New Malden
HOP ON A TRAIN FROM LONDON’S WATERLOO Station, head south-west and in less than half an hour you will reach New Malden, a suburb situated on the outskirts of the capital. At first glance, this quiet residential area appears little different from othe
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Where The Magic Happens Mark Lanegan
ON THE AWE-INSPIRING RING OF KERRY ROUTE, in the heart of Ireland’s scenic South-West, you’ll find Killarney. The small town is one of the island’s most popular tourist destinations, famous for its lakes, sandstone mountains and 26,000 acres of sweep
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Bev Grant's Radical Archive
THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD, there was always a bit of an edge regarding how we were going to get by. I was raised Jewish in Portland, Oregon, and we were considered the black sheep of my dad’s family because my mom was not. At school, I became conscious
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The Way We Flow
THE THAMES – THE LONGEST RIVER IN ENGLAND – has been a hub of human activity for generations, with connected structures, such as navigations, bridges and watermills and prehistoric burial mounds, dating back as far as Pre-Roman times. Nowadays, it’s
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Gabriel Krauze
THE WOMAN WEARS A BLUE DRESS. She holds the naked man down on the bed: his knees are drawn up, his head is braced upward, he looks toward us, inverted. Another woman, by her left side, takes the man’s hair in her left hand. With her right arm she wie
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How I Got The Shot – Mick Rock
BEFORE DAVID COULD EVEN GIVE HIS RECORDS away for free, he became a friend of mine. He trusted me. We met in 1972, backstage at a gig at Birmingham Town Hall, where I’d been sent by a magazine to photograph and interview him. Soon after, I became kno
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Nubya Garcia
NUBYA GARCIA RECENTLY MADE A VOW TO HERSELF: STOP WEARING BUSYNESS AS A BADGE OF HONOUR. The non-stop nature of life as a touring musician was something the 29-year-old had been reckoning with for the past year or so. The focus began with ‘Pace’, a s
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Break away
THE SCENE IS AN ALMOST PERFECT PICTURE OF PARISIAN spring: the Eiffel Tower slouches in the afternoon sun, the Seine’s crisp waters hurtle along below, and atop a hill overlooking it all, bold rays of light beam between the Palais de Tokyo’s grand co
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Declaration of Independence
IT’S A SUN-SCORCHED MORNING IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD. Mikey Alfred has cheerfully flipped his phone camera to show me the bright, bleached front drive of his family home – a setting that couldn’t feel further removed from the cold, bleak surroundings outsi
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Nu World Burdens
“ENERGY IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING I SUBSCRIBE TO,” says KeiyaA, speaking down a hissing phone line from her home in New York. “But my music isn’t so much about releasing my demons. It’s about facing up to them without fear.” In March 2020, the singer a
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Wheels In Motion
IT’S EASY TO FIND LESEGO KONUPI ON THE BLOCK. A small bicycle figurine on his postbox reveals him as the owner of a certain rectangular house, which stands surrounded by grass in the middle of a small plot – just like his neighbour’s to the left, his
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We The Power
Launched this April, We the Power supports grassroots organisations across Europe, paving the way towards community-led renewable energy systems. The goal is to make Community Energy – a system of energy production and distribution in which citizens
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Some Sweet Minutes
My brother Kevin and I preening in the bathroom mirror, shoulder to shoulder, shirtless. He wore black chinos and fingered his close-cropped hair into spikes, aided by dabs of the raw egg he’d cracked into a bowl. ‘The Blank Generation’ by Richard He
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Serpentwithfeet Fixes Your Life
I’m looking for a spirit animal, but how do I find one? How will I know which animal is mine? – Robin What animal makes you say ‘Awwww’ when you see it? I love hummingbirds. I believe they’re my spirit friend. Every time I see them flutter around, I

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