Paul Heaton is someone we’ve wanted to pin down for Proper for a while. When various factors dictated we couldn’t fit this interview (and some other great stuff)…
Buy Proper Issue 12 After a brief sabbatical involving daytime television and vimto bon-bons, Proper is back with its twelfth and easily best issue. With help from Manchester-based design gurus…
Whenever I hear people refer to the New Balance factory in Flimby it takes me back to what I now call ‘The CBeebies Years’. I spent more years…
Guardian Music have just launched Six Songs of Me, a unique celebration of the songs that have shaped peoples’ lives. The service asks each user to answer six…
Having had a couple of pairs of Pointer when they first emerged as a brand a few years ago, I’d kind of forgotten about them until recently. Probably…
OK so we’ve all caught ourselves reading online about the latest latest Y-front necked cardigans to come out of Kawasaki or articles on how to look just like…
Another short video for you from the series of events adidas have been running of late. Coinciding with the Olympics, this event featured live music from Factory Floor…
With cycling all the rage right now we’re going to be predictable and jump on the bandwagon. You’ll find no sideburns at Proper HQ though, nor will you…
In these times of trendy wendy types disguised as outdoorsmen, it’s nice to talk about a genuine ourdoor technical brand. Rohan have returned with a sneaky look at…
Duffer are well and truly back(pack). They’re back on the scene and causing a ruck(sack). Enough of the characteristically terrible puns though, get on these Duffer of St…
Quick, quick, get your shorts on, have a shave and go outside, the sun has got his hat on. Anyone with half a clue knows that when the…
Ok so we’d all like to be rocking about in t-shirts and shorts, but this being the UK that’s not possible at the moment. The prolonged downpour has…
Following on from the recent Oliver Spencer event, Saint Premium Lager have got snappy. Their latest event celebrates the craft of British Photography at the Lomography Gallery Store in…
Remember Paszport? Well, just because England are out we don’t all have to stop talking or reading about football do we? Ok, so the debates from soccer nauses…
Typical Patagonia, pioneering. Pushing boundaries. Erm, something something through the looking glass. Their Footprint Chronicles were first launched in 2007 and have recently been given a kickstart. The…
Those Rig Out chaps have been pretty busy lately. Here’s an ace video shot by Antony Crook for Baracuta, a truly unique British brand who recently found their…
It’s that time again. Time for the red tops to build them up, then knock them down. Time for every rent-a-gob and face paint warrior to get all…
It’s that time of year again. Time to dig around in your wardrobe for the summer stuff. Ok so we might not quite be in sunscreen territory just…
We’re all snobs here at Proper. We don’t mind admitting it. You could call us pretentious gets. But maybe we just like nice things? Maybe we like things…
Do we really need to tell you about the lineage of Duffer? Do we really have to go through all that again? You know the gen don’t you?…
So you’ve either not been paying attention or you have and you’re yet to be convinced, either way, let’s reiterate. The inaugural Proper Party, with full on top…