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

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Adem shows corduroy brigade how to rock quietly in comeback gig

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Review: Adem + Geese, King's Place, 19/10/12 The sight of Adem Ilhan's cheery smile beaming out from behind the microphone i...
Sunday, 14 October 2012

On the Road signals the remarkable transformation of Sam Riley

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Sam Riley Adapting Jack Kerouac's landmark novel On the Road for the big screen was never going to be easy. Director Walter Salles...
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...
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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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