
LAURIE SHAW
Our December 2016 cover artist speaks to Richard Lewis about using the quiet of his new home to let his full creative juices flow.

ISSUE 73 EDITORIAL
Humanity is a complex beast, which shouldn’t be straitjacketed by boiling our broad spectrum of beliefs into a choice between one side or another.

BALTIC FLEET
It started with the diary of James Darlington in Charnock Richard, and ended in a cathartic, glorious new Baltic Fleet album; Christopher Torpey meets Paul Fleming to discover how

PSYCHO COMEDY
Sitting down for a pint with Shaun Powell, the driving force behind one of Liverpool’s most intriguing new bands, PSYCHO COMEDY.

BARBEROS
Stuart Miles O'Hara subjects himself to the twin-drum assault and otherworldly prog noise of Barberos - but what did he learn?

CABBAGE
Joe Martin of the acerbic-tongued Manc quintet tells Matt Hogarth why their debauched live shows are an antidote to political apathy.

BREXIT 2.0
President Donald J. Trump: it shouldn’t come as a shock, but to many people around the world it has. They believed it was impossible, when it never really was.