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

Sunday, 30 September 2012

ShadowPlay's Top Five Fanzine Videos

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Some argue that the internet has killed the art of the fanzine, turning many zines into, arm, blogs. However, it's also become a forum ...
Sunday, 23 September 2012

Vermicious knids and Umpa-Lumpas: How did Roald Dahl create fiction's most engaging tales?

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Roald Dahl: An unlikely hero The publicity around fellow children’s author Michael Rosen’s new autobiography Fantastic Mr Dahl has...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

Transgender imprisonment case exposes hip-hop's ignorant failings

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Activist B. Dolan is the challenging hip-hop scene When you love something dearly, admitting it's flawed is as easy as ripping you...
Monday, 27 August 2012

Publication of Prince Harry photos exposes more than just a posh balls-up

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Prince Harry may have been caught with his bum out this week but it will be the media who could be left stripped, naked and on the naugh...
Monday, 9 July 2012

Sharing the sporting burden

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With just over two weeks to go, I decided to look at how diehard sports fans may find sharing the London 2012 Olympics with fair weather f...
Sunday, 20 May 2012

Unconventional Story Telling

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If a picture can tell a thousand words, then the adage is worth tweaking slightly and thinking about how else a story can be told. The art...
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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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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