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News, reviews, thoughts and views from the world of London-based fanzine ShadowPlay and beyond.

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Why a Stewart Lee rant has exposed Twitter's biggest failing

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Stewart Lee In all the furore around Twitter's role in the transformation of Ryan Giggs from scoring-every-season-champion to scor...
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Monday, 2 April 2012

Love in a Time of Planned Closures

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A slightly older posh couple sat down opposite me on the tube at Euston earlier. They were fairly regular looking - having lived in London f...
Saturday, 17 March 2012

Kinky Coincidences

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Sometimes coincidences are just waiting to happen, hanging in the air. Sometimes they're the warmest surprise possible. A couple of mont...
Sunday, 11 March 2012

The House that Mackintosh Built

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A trip down to Northampton to see the House that Mackintosh Built was a treat at the weekend. Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh h...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

ShadowPlay fanzine returns with contributions special

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London's finest cut'n'paste zine returns with a rather special twist. Instead of largely just me chuntering on, it's a contr...
Sunday, 12 February 2012

The iLeveller: Exposing Guilty Pleasures

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"Bon Jovi?" Haha! You mullet-loving chump," the scroller sneers, flicking through the iPod with one hand, scoffing a doughnut...
Monday, 16 January 2012

Busking brilliance on Columbia Road

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Perhaps the best thing about the perfectly imperfect artform we call music is its ability to occasionally catch you in exactly the right ...
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Sunday, 1 January 2012

The Clean Art of Reverse Graffiti

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Always ones to accidentally end up looking backwards at the start of a new year, ShadowPlay stumbled across this excellent lecture from Paul...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

A Very Merry Christmas Zine

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My new Christmas jumper worn in rather camp fashion So it’s the time of year where people actually have ten minutes to take a breather an...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

The Lovely Eggs: Foul-mouthed fun

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Got to love a good merch stand Great to see a packed gig on a Monday night for the sweary indie pop magic of The Lovely Eggs. The nor...
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The ShadowPlay and 89th Minute blogs are about using passion and humour to cover music, culture and football. Alex Lawson is a London-based journalist who likes photocopying weird pictures, tapes and his beloved Sheffield Wednesday. By day, Alex writes for the Evening Standard and Independent. Twitter - @alexshadowplay/ @mralexlawson Contact: shadowplayfanzine@hotmail.com Podcast - http://shadowplayboys.podbean.com
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