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FREE ISSUE 01 Art, Music, and Capers The First Issue Hollis - Working class Chuck Elliott - C.G.I Rosie and the Goldbug - Fit pop Revere - Big noise Plus Black Devil Disco Club W.T.F and more ... 01 Ad Spaces For information and prices contact [email protected] 07747779952 3 ISSUE01 A massive thank you to Filip for his photograpghy skills and getting involved with Crack, committing himself to it when we were nothing but a fledgling idea... Photographer: Filip K www.filipk.net Styling: Louise Whorlow www.myspace.com/ruinedclothes Make Up & Hair: Inma Azorin www.inma-azorin.com has decided that aside from trying to piece Model: Riva Varma at Gingersnap the various parts of our lives back together after Glastonbury, it might be a good idea to www.gingersnap.co.uk fuck off. 06 For those who are cracked let the light in: After breaking its already impressive world record for sleepless nights without medication Respect and exhausting its entire vocabulary of adjectives, Crack decided that in order to give its housemates time to become emotionally stable again it should take advantage of Ryanair’s Stephen Patrick Morrissey DJ Derek £20 return to Portugal (£10 credit card charge – bastards). So while you read this, no doubt Erol Alkan 18 Crack will be eating ice cream out of pineapples and getting excited by talking to women Anthony Gonzalez for the first time in a while. Suroosh Alvi Shane Smith Gavin McInnes So boasting nothing more than a great taste in wife-beaters, some mock wayfarers and a Dr Robert Moog Craig Richards small country’s economic deficit,Crack magazine goes into the summer looking to breathe a Rob Da Bank warm ray of sunshine into Bristol’s shrapnel-filled wallets and culture starved hearts. Rankin James Bevan Sapphire Bringing a hand-picked selection of all things musical and creative, Crack is rotating itself James Holden 16 quite nicely on the axis of originality so you won’t be far from something worth looking, Mr Wolf hearing and talking about. Jean Baudrillard 09 Jeff Arthur Lee Treading the rather wonky line between the kid who didn’t attend school because he Chuck D Josh Homme was literally too cool and his nerdy counterpart with a twinkle in his eye who got the shit Nigel Godrich kicked out of him, Crack is looking to push the creative merit of Bristol to the forefront of John Leckie people’s consciousness. Johnny De Mearns Joe Strummer Karen O Combining the supremely talented people that form the fabric of Bristol’s most interesting Jarvis Cocker Crack Thom Yorke sights and sounds, with the oddities and diversity of a city saturated in culture, will Apple hopefully tickle your funny bone as well as introduce you to a whole host of fresh shit ya’ll. Aardman Animations Cod Steaks Turbowolf If it doesn’t then your money back….Oh hang on….it’s free, well nothing to lose Jonathan Ross there then! Russel Brand Rosie and the Goldbug Richard D James David Attenbrough Tom Frost Jake Applebee David Foldvari Simon Pegg Gary Johnson Ashrif ’s Food Supplies Bill Bailey Creative Director / Managing Director Jake Applebee [email protected] Editor / Managing Director Thomas Frost [email protected] www.youlovecrack.com CRACK is published by Crack Industries Ltd Advertising CRACK HAS BEEN CREATED USING: To enquire about advertising and to request a media pack contact: [email protected] 07747779952 Deadmau5 – I Remember (Caspa Remix) Cyrus Bayandor - The Waltzer Tune The Fall - 458489 A Sides Alter Ego Tears for Fears – Shout Radioclit – Divine Gosa (Switch remix) Thanks to: Nicky B, Mike Applebee, Chuck Elliott, Fuckingham Palace (Neck and Dirk Leyers Remix) Ricardo Vilalobos and Richie Hawtin Prince – Cream Hollis, Filip K, Rosie and the Goldbug, Revere, Fujiya and Myagi, We Have Band, M83, Portico Quartet, Sascha Funke – Mango Essential Mix 2005 Interpol - Black Sessions Laurie Rollitt, Simon Jutton, Johnny De Mearns, Lex, Erol Alkan, Jack Clemoes, Frost clan, Applebee clan, Dimitri From Paris – The Sound of Underground Disco XX Teens - Darlin’ D636 - Better Days to Come Rowena Mayhew, Jake Phillips, Eleanor Glen, Dow, John Legend – Green Light (MSTRKRFT remix) (single) Chairlift – Bruises Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies Sammy Davis Snr, Joe Dunkley, Draysta, Sally, Shaps A.K.A The Afirka, Botsta, Fen, Will Palmer, Sara Da PJ Harvey and John Parish – Black Hearted Love (single) N-Dubz – No specific tune, just the full N-Dubz package! Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle (Album) Costa, Revere, Timmy Two Toes, Walker Bros, Dolo, Weird, China, Philly C, Spring, Tobin, Cyrus, Leila and Holst – The Planets (Album) Portico Quartet – Knee Deep in the North Sea (Album) Black Devil Disco Club. Jon, Les Barbz, Zara, Malts, J Dizzle, Bev, Webster, Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop Unknown – The Swine Flu Skank (Youtube) Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It Portugal T-Shirt Flex Massive, Jeff, Jules, Maximillian, Spoony, Ali the Crat, Smitty and Vix, Horfield Leisure Skream – Blue Eyez Fat Freddys Drop - Based on a True Story Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart Centre, South Bristol Sports Centre, The Farm, Tej, The I love Bristol Crew, Julio Bashmore, Blowpop, Just Hot Chip – Made in the Dark (Album) Foals - Gold Gold Gold Jonquil - Lions Jack, Bugged Out, MKF, B.E.A.R, The Souperman, Mrs Bob Dylan’s Theme Hour (Radio 2) Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Zero (Erol Alkan re-work) Turbowolf - Ghost Hunt Walker, Ashrifs, Flynn, Sporse’s everywhere, Ellen Allien – Sensucht Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz (Album) Lional Richie - All Night Long © All rights reserved. All material in Crack magazine M83 – Saturday = Youth (Album) We Have Band – Oh! The National - Brainy may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written consent of Crack Industries Ltd. Press - Bitchnmen 187 Lockdown – Gunman (Crystal Death remix) Will Smith - Miami Dizzie Rascal – Jus a Rascal Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers Your Twenties - Caught Wheel Crack Magazine and its contributors cannot accept any liability for reader discontent arising from the Paul Simon – Graceland (Album) Revere – The Escape Artist Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff editorial features. Crack Magazine reserves the right Louis Prima – Just a Gigolo to accept or reject any article or material supplied for Kraftwerk – Radioactivity Sammy D - So Sexy publication or to edit this material prior to publishing. The Walkmen - The Rat White Denim - Heart From Us All Red Hot Entertainment - Junior Spesh Crack magazine cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to supplied materials. The opinions expressed The Operators – The Knife Taking Tiger Mountain - Tablecloths and Napkins Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Part II or recommendations given in the magazine are the Notorious B.I.G views of the individual author and do not necessarily Ladyhawke – Back of the Van – Juicy Pete Doherty and Wolfman - For Lovers represent the views of Crack Industries Ltd. We Bill Hicks – The closest thing we’ve ever had to the second Various Production – Sweetness The Cooper Temple Clause - Blind Pilots accept no liability for any misprints or mistakes and no responsibility can be taken for the contents of coming of Christ Cut Copy - Nobody Lost, Nobody Found Back to The Future Soundtrack - especially Earth Angel these pages. 4 We are….. lower case, pin-up, pretty, angry, naked, nasty, cheeky, skint, unshaved, checked, tea drinking, on demanding, verbal, penalty missing, organised messes, helpful, handy, elitist, culturally polarised, incandescent, black, sideswept, worried, nervous, hopeful, rounded, heightened, tipsy, tootled, business card waving, cheque book hiding, bank card losing, fitness lacking, girlfriend loving, shoe losing, bed wetting, Bestival men, Reading teenagers, Ramshackle tots, Bristol boys. WHAT . THE . FUCK! (DUMBUS STUFFUS) (JUST OPINION, OUR OPINION, MAYBE NOT YOUR OPINION, BUT IN SOME CASES, DEFINITELY OUR OPINION AND IN OTHERS NOT OPINION AT ALL) Drug and sex litter rapid cleanup team (DSLRCT) Queen Square traffic island car parking lottery space One of Crack’s homeboys found this van going about it’s business in one of Bristol’s Crack has noticed this unique place to park your car just off Queen Square for a number of months now more abrasive areas the other day. and the lack of an explanation is really beginning to grate us. As far as we can see it’s like every other car parking space you’ve ever seen in your life...except it just happens to be on a traffic island and there’s a Yes we do know it’s an extremely worthwhile Bristol City Council service that cleans different car parked there every day. up needles from playgrounds and generally makes the city safer for all concerned... Limp Bizkit reforming but...we think there is room for expansion here if the council wants to make a few We have absolutely no idea who this mercurial special parking space belongs to and who is in control of extra bucks… this, seemingly random, traffic island parking space lottery. Sometimes news is just so tragic it affects you for months and months. On a par with a family pet dying or owning an “Got an unwanted dildo? Have you decided to give up drugs? Got some spare We do know we had to go down there at 2am on a Wednesday to use the space. By that time most places Icelandic bank account, this news actually reduced our entire prescription pharmaceuticals lurking around the house? Call the Drug and Sex were shut. So we strolled round the centre, got some chips and then went home. But at least we used it…. office to tears and caused one member to declare himself too Litter Rapid Cleanup Team to get rid of your shit quickly. Got some unwanted mess yeah! 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