STAFF

Contributors

Alice Vincent

Andrew Richardson

Anna Coatman

Anna Richardson

Bill Skinner

Bill helps to run the Pop Klubb indie disco nights and DJs regularly www.myspace.com/popklubb

Brian Gibson

Carla Washbourne

Originally from Cambridge but now happily lodged in the North East, I posess equally compusive loves for music and utilising unnecessarily large words, neither of which are sufficiently satisfied by my forays in to Durham Archaeology or current slog though an Engineering Geology MSc at Newcastle University. Most of my favourite bands fall in to the category of 'acquired taste'. My other excuses for 'taking a break' from the dissertation include contemporary dance, sketching, singing, being disappointed by the state of the modern novel, acquring instruments which I cannot play to any passable level and avoiding organised sport at any cost. 

At some point in later life I will get around to penning the dire comedy script that I have spent the last 23 years dreaming up.

Chris Peet

Chris is the editor of the SHAM! online fanzine www.myspace.com/shamzine and also promotes gigs under Sing Shout Music www.myspace.com/singshoutmusic

Chris Riding

Conor McArdle

Craig Wilson

Craig J Wilson is a journalist, DJ and promoter based in Byker.  He has lived and worked in the US, Jamaica, the Middle East and Australia, and this year he has been mostly listening to Jamaican dancehall/bashment. Find out more at www.urbanandeastern.com

Dannii Leivers

Darren Hubbard

Darren runs a po-faced Newcastle-based record label that you probably haven't heard of. He doesn't particularly like to give much away. He suggests that you read Chunklet magazine
instead of his inane scribings.

David Rutherford

Ettrick Scott

Ettrick is currently going slightly mental writing his autobiography. You can find it at www.clawoftruth.blogspot.com

Ewan McIntyre

Like all the best music journalist, Ewan is a failed musician. Since the late eighties, he's been many low quality bands, both in the North West and the North East of England. The most memorable being mid-nineties Brit Pop also-rans The Stories, whose shambolic, drunken gigs are cherished by the three people who turned up to the Riverside to watch them.

Now old and bitter, Ewan enjoys nothing more than criticising those who clearly have more talent than he does.

Ewan likes the work of: Wire, Velvet Underground, Galaxie 500,  Stereolab, Spacemen 3, Holy Fuck, Jonathan Richman

Ewan is a very, very occasional DJ at PopKlubb, but they don't seem to ask him back anymore.

Gary Beckwith

Gordon Bruce

Graeme Schofield

Helen Foley

John Conway

John Egdell

Jule Wilson

Kathy Alberici

Luke Page

Mark Corcoran-Lettice

Mark Kelly

Matt Marlow

Originally from Oxford, he graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2007.
In his last year at University he was co-Music Editor for Pulp Magazine, the University's Entertainments Magazine, and upon graduating took on the role of Events Organiser for the first annual Oxjam Festival to raise money for Oxfam through gigs.
He is the singer-guitarist in the local alt-rock outfit, Strangers in Polaroids (www.strangersinpolaroids.com), an also has an acoustic project and gig promotions company under the name Waiting for Winter (www.myspace.com/waitingforwinterpromo).
He is mostly interested in discovering new bands and currently recommends:
Dive Dive, Subplots, Rose Kemp, Her Space Holiday, Spies in Limbo, The Winchell Riots, Richard Walters, This Town Needs Guns, Ally Craig, The Half Rabbits, Wintermute, These Monsters, Lanterns on the Lake, Shin Jin Rui, The Eye Jab, Grammatics, Copy Haho, The Flowers of Evil, This Et Al, uTe, Youthmovies, Pulled Apart By Horses, Kill Kenada, Minotaurs, Caroline Martin, Future of the Left, 50ft Panda, Hreda...
But he also has infite time for:
Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, The Smiths, Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, PJ Harvey, The National, Elbow, The Cure, Bright Eyes, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Portishead, Massive Attack, Interpol, Bloc Party, Muse, Tom Vek, We Are Scientists, Sonic Youth, Biffy Clyro, Pavement, yourcodenameis:milo, mewithoutYou, The Mars Volta, The Dears, TV on the Radio, Idlewild, Echo & the Bunnymen, Prince, David Bowie, Ryan Adams, Neil Young...

Matt Young

Alongside reviewing and managing bands Matt Young also oversees record label Mekong Delta (www.mekongdelta.co.uk) which promotes quality music in the North East and beyond. Musically he likes anything from worldwide pop genius to introverted post-rock fury and he's a sucker for a hummable tune. Beyond that there's always time for scary ass horror films, 'world cinema' with an edge and a continual stream of biographies and fiction to read. He doesn't drink, smoke or laugh but does take herbal baths in the country.

Narinder Purba

Narinder Purba is a freelance journalist and needs more work - email him at nspurba@gmail.com if you want to employ his rather marvellous services!

Paul Gibbins

Paul Hobbs

Paul Patterson

One half of EatDisco and one half of European Animal, Paul is also resident DJ at Paris Is Burning, High Jinks and a host of other nights. He is also now designing for Punks Jump Up's Stiff Couture fashion label. www.europeananimal.co.uk www.myspace.com/eatdisco

Polly Bound

Richard Dawson

Hallo. I like to sing and play guitar. I've done it for quite a while now, sometimes in front of people, sometimes alone. Got a couple of CDs out, another one on the way. I also make music under the name Eyeballs. Got one CDR out on Blackest Rainbow and another three due over the next few months, all on really fine DIY labels. I work in alt.vinyl record shop in Newcastle - come and say hullo if you like. I'll make you a cup of coffee. I intermittently write for the Vapours, which at the moment exists only online but will soon exist on a very tangible molecular level. I had a small speaking role in the timeless movie, 'Purely Belter'. I am a proud uncle.
Music-wise, at the moment I'm particularly into: Circle, Boredoms, Eyvind Kang, Gas, Eliane Radigue. The folks from round here getting me most moist: Bong, The Big Oaks, Jazzfinger, Matinee Orchestra, Nev Clay, OCDC, Trev Gibb, Khunnt. www.myspace.com/richardmdawson / www.myspace.com/eyeballsmusic

Richard MacFarlane

Rob Sampson

When not walking the dog, or being a disgraceful drunk and a hermit, I like to listen to The Replacements, Elliott Smith and The Lemonheads. That's about it to be honest.

Sam Pollock

Samantha Patterson

Thomas Bagnall

Tommy Jackson

Freelance writer and photographer, always seeking new work. Drop him a line at tmjackson@gmail.com

Zeinab Lenton

Photographers

Abby Clark

Benjamin Curry

Brian James

You can find Brian's photography here: www.myspace.com/openwindowphotography

Chris Owens

Clarita Lulic

Craig Donnelly

You can find Craig's photography here: www.cdfoto.com

Dan Graham

David Main

Graham Shirley

You can find Graham's photography here: www.g-photography.co.uk Graham is also the co-founder of Born Snapped live music promotions: www.myspace.com/bornsnapped

Idene Roozbayani

James Grey

Josh Cockroft

Oliver Rauer

You can find Oliver's photography here: www.oliverrauer.com / www.myspace.com/oliverrauerphotography

Richard Bartram

Illustrators

Chris Fleming

Craig Turnbull

European Animal

Find more of Paul and Tom's work here: www.europeananimal.com

Liam O’Neil

Find more of Liam's work here: www.myspace.com/artandgraphics

Lucy Hammond

Mike Donaldson

Steven Porter

Design

Claire Dupree

Claire is the boss www.myspace.com/clairedupree

Vicky Markham

Online Design

Nat Hardwick