Category: SUBSTANCE

  • Just Leaving This Here

    Just Leaving This Here

    The prophecies of Howard Beale, the only newscaster we should ever have listened to, yet sadly ignored for the last 40 years. A brilliant, poignant scene from Network, 1976, with Peter Finch on form.

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  • Short Pop Song

    Short Pop Song

    From Custard, the band who should’ve been god.

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  • First Time Friday with The Mark of Cain

    First Time Friday with The Mark of Cain

     If this is likely the First Time you’ve heard The Mark Of Cain, then welcome. Welcome to the 90s, welcome to Australia, welcome to a time when music was intense and vital and powerful. When the heat of the night air was intensified in whatever small, dark, dingey pub you happened to find yourself…

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  • PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d Expect

    PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d Expect

    You can always expect the unexpected from PJ Harvey, yet you can be assured that you’ll get something haunting, thought provoking, terrifying, uplifting, depressing, beautiful and genuinely raw thrown into the creative blender. To call this a ‘cover’ doesn’t really begin to justify the way she’s taken control of not only the narrative but the…

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  • Ridden: Let There Be Light – K-Lite

    Ridden: Let There Be Light – K-Lite

    I was very excited to get a hold of the latest kit from K-Lite to run through its paces recently. Kerry is constantly iterating his designs but recently he has launched a couple of very cool additions to his line-up. His new rear flashing lights, (QUBE) and a new USB converter with dual outputs. If…

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  • Maynard Mondays: 3 Libras

    Maynard Mondays: 3 Libras

    Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding one’s soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to…

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  • Oliver Naessen Just Got Cooler

    Oliver Naessen Just Got Cooler

    As if we needed more reasons to love Oliver Naessen, he goes and rides this Eddy Merckx Corsa steel stunner in the last stage of the Tour. Oh man, Oli, you gotta give this thing a run at Roubaix and really make some history!

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  • Light Wolf Portrait Series

    Light Wolf Portrait Series

     We just stumbled upon a series of film portraits on German wheelbuilder Light Wolf via the third instalment, so it’d be rude not to go back and track his progression from the first two films.

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