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[2 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]
Underground Rebel Bingo Interview

The Underground Rebel Bingo club is a raucous night of booze, bad behaviour and filthy underground bingo with some rather shiny prizes on offer. Held at a top secret location somewhere in London, this one isn’t suitable for the easily offended or grannies looking for some innocent fun. Unless they are grannies that like swearing, bingo dabber fights and rock n’ roll!
The premise for the night is simple get smashed play some hardcore bingo take some stupid photos of each other and live the dream!
We recently spoke to head bingo …

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[26 Jun 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
Ghost Bus Tours - review

The London Necrobus creates quite a stir when rattling it’s way down the streets of London. The black double-decker bus makes pretty much everybody’s jaw drop as it whistles by. People hurriedly reach for camera phones and tap their mates on the shoulders in the pub in disbelief.
Waiting for the bus at a random point of Northumberland Street is quite an unsettling experience as you begin to wonder whether it’s real or not. When the bus appears and the lerch like conductor steps off in his full uniform and rings …

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[24 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Cyber Candy Interview

A while ago we wrote a review of one of London’s top shopping gems, a little shop called Cyber Candy, which seemed to go down pretty well. So we contacted Cyber Candy and recently met up with Margaret, one of the two founders:
So how did Cyber Candy get started, and where did you come up with the idea?
Well, it all started when my husband Alan was trying to buy some sweets that you couldn’t get in shops online anymore, and was really struggling to find somewhere to get them. He …

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[23 Jun 2009 | One Comment | ]
Trespassers of the World Unite – Toasters Exhibtion

Nelly Duff recently presented a Toasters Production exhibition called ‘Trespassers of the World Unite‘ in an old wine cellar in Shoreditch. The exhibit showcased fourteen artists work, which has all been produced along the Toaster theme and was chosen to be hosted specifically in Hoxton as it is somewhere that most of the artists have thrown up Toasters in the various formats in the past. Including stickers, paint and stencils.
The Toaster movement was spawned from a kitchen table discussion at a New Years Eve party in Wolverhampton (of all places) …

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[18 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Vans Store - Carnaby Street

The Carnaby Street Vans store opened in December 2003 and has become a firm favourite on the cosmopolitan street ever since. The epitome of self expression and rebellion - the store fittings reflect the brand’s ideals extremely effectively.
Founded in 1966 by Paul Van Doreen in California, the Vans brand has always been associated with skateboarding, BMX and other extreme sports. Also, ever since Sean Penn donned a pair of classic black and white slip-ons in ‘Fast Times at Ridgemount High’ whilst playing the typical surfer Jeff Spicoli, the brand has …

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[18 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Bethnal Green - Make Your Mark! Graffiti Project

Recently when walking past Richmix cinema in Bethnal Green, towards the top of Brick Lane I noticed a massive graffiti mural which span across several temporary walls and construction site boards.
I did a little research and found out that the artwork is called the ‘Make Your Mark Graffiti Project’ and has been put together by a company called Top Dog Workshops and a developer called Telford Homes. Telford Homes supplied the hoarding boards and Top Dog Workshops got a group of professional graffiti artists together to teach kids how to …

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[12 Jun 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Trash Monster pictures and interview

Trashmonster is a person on a mission to bring some comedy sesame street style monsters to the urban streets of London (in particular East London). These newspaper filled monsters have all the traits needed for some light hearted comic relief, including googly eyes, giant felt teeth and brightly coloured skin.
These temporary, New York graffiti style monsters and tentacle stickers are often extremely temporary and can be found on the back of loads of signs and lamp posts around London. Or nestling among piles of rubbish on street corners and yards.
Londonerseye …

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[12 Jun 2009 | One Comment | ]
Southbank graffiti and skating area

Some of these photos were taken by Bobby Parafino and are shown here with his permission and some were taken by Dan Tassell too.
The Southbank area of the riverside underneath the National Theatre is always plastered with graffiti and is a firm favourite hangout for kids on BMX’s and skateboards. Nestled in between the busy coming and goings on the Southbank, the graffiti covered walls always seem to draw a crowd as tourists wing their way towards the riverside view of the London Eye or towards Big Ben.
Often every inch …