Ever wondered what it was about bumbling cafe owner René Artois in 80’s slighty xenophobic, BBC sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo that got him the romantic attention of waitresses Yvette,…
Seeing as though this week it was the 30th anniversary of the fictional detention in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club (24th March 1984), in which one of the characters…
Dr Octagon, paramedic fetus of the east, with Priests, I’m from the church of the operating room……. So sang/rapped Dr Octagon aka Kool Keith on Blue Flowers. I…
Normally, I’d say if the back of a jacket doesn’t cover the majority of your buttocks, it’s not worth bothering with. Not in a place like Manchester. This…
Ever wondered what ’80s Floral Navy’ is? Well here you have it, the majestic Monitaly Pat Pullover. Now some of you are probably giving it, “Jib it Hendry,…
“Every woman, every man; Join the Caravan of love; Stand up, Stand up, Staaaaaand Uppppp” so sang the Hull based, politicised pop foursome The Housemartins. Now, as sartorially inclined…
I’ve never “done”a festival, I have been to a few though. They should be right up my street, live music, drink, openly taking drugs with a relatively low…
“Oooh doesn’t time fly”? No. These pissy wet and unseasonably mild days seem to be going on for bloody ages. However it does seem only a bit since…
January sales are a tricky one. You’ve got a couple of common conundrums to deal with. Firstly, if, like me, you’ve spent most of December necking your beer…
Love em or hate em ticket touts serve a purpose and I’ve only been ripped off once. A group of us bought tickets for the Killers off some…
Gotta admit, Surfing and ‘Surf Culture’ has never really done it for me. Don’t get me wrong I love Point Break as much as the next red-blooded male,…
We are SO going to this: Oi Polloi and Levi’s Vintage Clothing celebrate: BoomTown – the sound of 60s Detroit The launch of the limited edition ‘The Detroit…
“Manchester, so much to answer for..” or so sang local lad Stephen Patrick Morrissey and I suppose the industrial revolution and the invention of the computer do have…
I love everything about Pica Post, the design, the layout, the content, the alliteration, the fact that it reminds me of Pickachu off of the Pokemons, it’s a…
I don’t know about you lot but it regularly does my head in that Japan gets all the good stuff and we don’t get a pigging look in.…
To show off about the forthcoming launch of Proper Issue 14 we’re giving away six pairs of Saucony Trainer 80. The Trainer 80 dates back 33 years to…
Polo Ralph Lauren My first memory of Ralph Lauren (is it pronounced Lauren like my mate’s missus or Loren like Sophia?) was the Chaps stuff you could get…
There was a time when Manchester properly ruled the world. Nope, I’m not thinking 88-89 and the Madchester ‘Second Summer Of Love’ (though it did briefly); I’m going…
“Show Yul, Whash With the Cagoule…….” “……leave it out Sean, we’ve got Millwall away, gotta look the part ain’t I, plus there’s a chance it could rain later…
If it wasn’t for Spring Court I wouldn’t have found Oi Polloi. And if it wasn’t for Oi Polloi I wouldn’t have found Proper Magazine, as David Attenborough…
Tom Scott recently took on the role of ‘marketing type bloke’ at Oi Polloi. I’m sure there’s a more showy-off title for his job but he’s not the…