The first thing I do in a morning is flick through my phone, bleary eyed but with the renewed vigour that can only come from a cool 5…
1. Simon Inglis makes for a fascinating interview. See his work with Played in Britain and the aforementioned interview in Proper 20. 2. People really seem to like Overlook…
“The internet is not real life!” exclaims your Dad. He doesn’t understand though. He thinks anyone over the age of 12 on a skateboard is weird, or anyone…
21 years since it first appeared on the scene, the outlaw image of Nike 110s endures. Most recently appropriated by middle class kids (perhaps unknowingly) wanting to look a…
1. The next time anyone tells you to go to Hell, you should book a flight to Trondheim Airport. It’s based just outside the town in a place…
Remember Jake the Snake? Ultimate Warrior? Great days when we were more innocent and less prone to the cynicism that comes from being an adult. Wrestling was sort…
1. Blossoms are still a GBOL. 2. Warm weather in Manchester is only fun for about an hour. Then it’s hard work. 3. There’s a female bus driver in…
It’s so warm here today, we’ve had to all have a big sit down. We’ve got some new neighbours on a spot of wasteland across the car park,…
1. Lads in hard hats aren’t keen on you calling them nonces. 2. Pet Shop Boys are a great pair of guys. They’d make some lucky girl a…
Like an old friend who you still sometimes see moaning on facebook, the adidas Gazelle is a footwear stalwart which we’ve come to take for granted somewhat. With…
Evidently, the football hipster movement has jumped the shark, bought a dayrider for the bandwagon and procured an oyster card for… something. I don’t know. I didn’t think…
Once in a while I like to indulge my feminine side. No, I’m not a weekend cross-dresser (anymore), and I stopped adorning my ear with jewellery a long…
In a week where Farage resigned, Chris Evans followed him and everyone finally stopped going on about Iceland, we had a mellow week in our Ancoats bunker. Here’s…
Look everyone, go on, look! It’s only another great pair of adidas. Not only are they killing it with the NMDs and those trainers named after a chocolate…
With such focus on France at the moment, it’s easy to go all gallic. *shrugs* Peggs and Son are almost French, to us at least, given they’re on…
Paul Smith eh… Sir Paul Smith… I nearly met the man himself recently, but given my surname, I just couldn’t rouse the enthusiasm. Smiths are ten a penny…
Invoking a thick aroma of cult cinema, this Libertine-Libertine shirt is so good they named it twice. Topically titled the Bordeaux shirt, it’s the antithesis to the bare-chested braying we…
In the midst of brexit coming to the boil, celebrating the empiric past of our island is a topical move. Whether you’re for or against Europe, you can’t…
I don’t know about you, but I prefer my t-shirts like I prefer my steaks… weighty and done very well. Luckily for me, the latest creation of those…
Just back from the festival of fashion, me. In amongst the fancy dress peacocks and that lad who was wearing a pirate hat just because he could, there…
Just when you thought things hadn’t quite got football enough, along comes a trainer inspired by a classic boot. Surely that’s putting the cart before the horse, the…