Issue 78: Autumn/Winter 2022

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RADICAL CULTURE

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Editor’s Letter
When I was fresh out of journalism college, I pitched a feature about Arofish, the first Western graffiti artist to paint on the West Bank Wall, to a magazine that had caught my eye. It was pretty new on the scene, but it seemed to cater entirely to
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Fighting talk
“YO SHAN, I DON’T EVEN KNOW where the venue’s at, my guy!”, Denzel Curry is asking for directions to huge music venue Terminal 5 in his best impression of a New York accent. Itʼs the weekday lunch rush in Midtown Manhattan, and the Florida rapper is
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Editor-in-Chief Andrea Kurland andrea@tcolondon.com Editor Josh Jones joshjones@tcolondon.com Digital Editor Daisy Schofield daisy@tcolondon.com Commissioning Editor Ben Smoke ben.smoke@tcolondon.com Editor-at-Large Michael Fordham Contributing Edito
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Network Connections
“THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM!” Mikaela Loach squeals with delight as she runs into a clearing and dives to the ground. The 24-year-old climate activist pops her head above the ferns after a couple of minutes, returning with her bounty. “I get quite emo
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Leo
Leo Baker looks good. As the competitive pro skater logs on to Zoom from his New York City apartment, afternoon sunlight spills into his spacious living room, softly illuminating his freckles and slightly throwback middle part haircut. When he smiles
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Friends With Benefits
COMEDIAN, ACTOR AND RECENT CONTESTANT on Strictly (the UK version of Dancing With the Stars) Jayde Adams reclines on a sofa in the Mondrian London Shoreditch, slowly raising her leg to vertical, showing off her flexibility. Two of her best friends si
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House musique
BACK IN THE MID-NOUGHTIES, book-ending a night out at London’s The End, Liverpool’s Korova, Manchester’s The Warehouse Project or New York’s The Dark Room, the pre- and after-parties will inevitably have been soundtracked by a compilation CD. And, if
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SKATE ROCK Stolen Nova
The first guitar to knock me for six was Funkadelic’s 10-minute, LSD-induced, mind-melting masterpiece ‘Maggot Brain.ʼ I heard it in my friendʼs basement when I was 14 years old, kissing a skateboarder crush at a Halloween party. The kiss wasn’t memo
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Amaarae
“The world feels sad as shit right now,” explains Amaarae, her eyes hidden behind a massive pair of Gucci sunglasses. “Motherfuckers are depressed as fuck!” Speaking to Huck at an East London recording studio, the multifaceted singer, songwriter, pro
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Release the Pressure
Contemporary artists, avid ravers, and curators Christopher Stead, Carolina Aguirre and Jo Dennis, are kicking down doors in the art world with their immersive, collaborative, large-scale art project, Pigeon Park. Working out of a huge disused buildi
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M.i.l.k.
I’M GOING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. I did not know I was going to be writing this piece when I stepped into the club on a sunny Saturday afternoon in September. Had I known, there is a part of me that would like to think I’d make slightly different choi
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Shooting History
FOR ALMOST HALF A CENTURY, Jeffrey Henson-Scales thought the FBI had stolen photographs he had taken of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1960s Oakland – a reasonable assumption considering the G-men were often staked out in front of his childhood hom
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Are You Going To Strawberry Fair?
IN 2013, AS HE TREKKED around Florida looking for projects with his camera, artist Anthony Blasko happened upon Plant City Strawberry Festival, an 11-day community event. Since 1930 the fair, held in the small, eponymous city you’ll find on Interstat
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The African Scream
“WHAT SHOCKED ME THE FIRST TIME I went and what still shocks me now is just the scope of the metal scene in Africa, and how deep it is,” says author Edward Banchs. As a lifelong metalhead whose first album was Poison’s Open Up And Say…Ahh!, Banchs th
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Adidas × Black Trail Runners × Huck Magazine
Growing up in the inner city has blessed me with so many advantages, opportunities and insights that have benefited my life. Navigating the world through the lens of an inner-city dweller has made it easier to adapt to other metropolitan areas around
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Waving Hello
WHEN YVETTE CURTIS’ 12-YEAR-OLD daughter said she wanted to get into surfing, her mother wasn’t stoked. Curtis had loved sport her whole life; inspired by iconic Black women athletes from the late ’80s, including Tessa Sanderson, she took up track an
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A Land For Everyone
DEEP IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, before a navy-blue loch and picturesque mountain backdrop, two skateboarders push along an empty road. You have to squint to see them, as theyʼre all but dwarfed by the landscape, yet itʼs still an incongruous sight. I
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Joy Yamusangie
London-based multi-disciplinary artist Joy Yamusangie specialises in illustration; although they also experiment with traditional processes such as drawing, film, painting and collaging to produce mixed-media pieces. Their big bold colours jazz-inspi
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On Another Planet
The makers of Huck have created a limited edition graphic novel in collaboration with three of the world’s leading indie comic artists: Ronald Wimberly, Emma Ríos, and Sanford Greene. Produced for premium whisky maker Ardbeg, Planet Ardbeg takes its

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