Five Dials Number 21 ‘Rock School’ bojaNa Gajski 6 Watching the London Riots in Serbia DaNiel swift 8 Virginia Woolf in the Bomb-scarred City joNas HasseN Khemiri 11 Three Stories kiD koala 22 Graphic Tales HeatHcote williams 30 On Fit Birds raymond Chandler 32 Old School Human Resources . plus contributions from Del the Funky Homosapien, Diane Cluck, Mocky, and members of Ladytron, Beirut, The Moldy Peaches, Liturgy, Great Lake Swimmers and Los Campesinos! And, as always, more. CONTRIBUTORS mira aroyo writes, sings and plays keyboards in the band kiD koala is a DJ, turntablist and graphic novelist. His graphic Ladytron. Their latest album, released in 2011, is Gravity the novel Nufonia Must Fall includes a soundtrack CD he composed. Seducer. His album Some of my Best Friends are DJs includes a chess set as part of the packaging. His latest graphic novel is Space Cadet. oweN asHfortH is best known for his solo project, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, under which he released the album vs. alexander larmaN is a writer and journalist based in London. Children in 2009. His new project is called Advance Base He writes about literature for the Spectator, Guardian, TLS, and others. His current projects include a biography of Lord Roches- sopHia auGusta is a member of the illustration collective PLATS. ter and a play about C.S. Lewis and John Betjeman. He writes raymond Chandler, who died in 1959, was the author of, about culture at his blog, alexlarman.wordpress.com among others, The Big Sleep. jenny lorD is the author of Purls of Wisdom: The Book of Knit- DiaNe cluck’s album Oh Vanille/Ova Nil was rereleased by 3 ting, which contains, among others, instructions on how to knit a Syllables Records in 2010. She has collaborated with Jeffrey Lewis, chunky snood. She lives in London. CocoRosie, Herman Düne and others. The Village Voice once mocky has worked as a producer and songwriter with artists called her songs ‘utterly captivating, sorta like an earthier Kate such as Jamie Lidell, Feist, GZa, Gonzales, Peaches and many Bush’. others. His album Saskamodie was released in 2009. ZacH condoN is the singer and songwriter for the band Beirut. miranda mulHolland plays violin in the band Great Lake Their album, The Rip Tide, was released in August of this year. Swimmers. HeleN coNforD is a resident of Tower Hamlets. lizzy stewart graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in Del The fuNky HomosapieN released his first solo album at 2009 and now lives in London. She is one half of the independent age eighteen, which featured the hit song ‘Mistadobalina’. He has publishers Sing Statistics. collaborated with Gorillaz, Dan the Automator and Dinosaur Jr, DaNiel swift’s essays, profiles, and reviews have appeared in and is the cousin of the rapper Ice Cube. the Financial Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, bojaNa Gaski was born in 1978 in Kikinda, Serbia. She holds and the Daily Telegraph, and he teaches in the Department of a Master’s degree in English language and literature and has English Literature at Skidmore College in upstate New York. His worked as a primary, grammar school and college instructor for contribution is taken from his first book,Bomber County, which was the last eleven years. She also works for the Kikinda Short Story published in August 2010. Festival as a literary translator. jakob voN baeyer is a writer and editor. He lives in London. Adam GreeN co-founded the band The Moldy Peaches with elleN waddell is a member of the band Los Campesinos! Their Kimya Dawson. Their song ‘Anyone Else But You’ was featured new album, Hello Sadness, will be released later in the year. in the filmJuno. His first film,The Wrong Ferarri, was shot entirely on an iPhone and released in April of this year. HeatHcote williams collaborated with Roy Hutchins on a show for the Edinburgh Festival called Zanzibar Cats, which won kate HarkiN sings and plays guitar in the band Sky Larkin. the Glasgow Herald Edinburgh Archangel Award. His work Forbid- Their recent album Kaleide was released in 2010. She also plays den Fruit: Sixteen Meditations on Science, Technology, and Natural History keyboards for the band Wild Beasts. will be published by Huxley Scientific Press. joNas HasseN Khemiri is the author of two novels and one racHel willsoN-broyles is a freelance translator and a PhD collection of plays and short stories. His second novel, Montecore, student in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin- was translated into more than fifteen languages. He was awarded Madison. Her translations include Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize for most promising young Montecore and play iNVASION! which had its American premiere in European writer in 2006. He currently divides his time between New York City in February, 2011. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Stockholm and Berlin. Thanks to: simoN prosser, Anna kelly, Sharmila bret HiggiNs plays upright bass in the band Great Lake Swim- woollam, micHael kissinger, paul bangaH, mers. Their album Lost Channels came out in 2009. HuNter Giles, lucy Hurst, ryhna ThompsoN, HuNter HuNt-Hendrix is the lead vocalist and guitarist of sam bucHaN-watts, jamie fewery, james HeatHer, the ‘transcendent black metal’ band Liturgy. Their second album, tim Husom, larissa browN, tioN torreNce, Aesthetica, was released in May of this year. Phil klyGo, matt clacHer, emma browN, rebecca DelGaDo, craiG walZer, jóHann jóHannssoN is an Icelandic musician and composer. Gabriella DocHerty, Chris bloomfielD His work And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees, was and will braDy released in 2009, on CD as well as on transparent vinyl. Designed by DeaN alleN Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations by lizzy stewart a letter from The Editor the United Nations. In musical terms, his writing might be a combination of The Hives and Roxette. Although Jonas On Turning 21 lives part of the time in Stockholm, he tends to pop up in other locales. He and Thinking About Rock Stars and Greece made a short, funny speech to the New York theatre elite when he won e have finally arrived atFive Dials dream that somewhat helped me.’ Her an Obie earlier this year for his play W21, which is an important achieve- expanded thoughts on watching the riots iNVASION!, and if you’re a fan of the ment in the life of any magazine. At from afar can found on page 6 in the latest Five Dials Facebook page, you’ll notice twenty-one we are now legal to appear installment of Our Town, our ongoing him in a trio of photos taken in upstate in American drinking establishments, and examination of this mostly wonderful New York earlier this year. Jonas was we hope to be printed up and placed on but sometimes combustible city. on hand to launch Five Dials 19 from a the bar alongside bowls of peanuts and Elsewhere, because we’re now twen- sculpture park near Hudson on a driz- Doritos in places like Tuscaloosa and ty-one and in desperate need of tute- zly afternoon. (He’s the one holding Albany. In the UK, turning twenty-one lage, we asked some of the great musi- the umbrella to keep our laptop dry.) means Five Dials can now become an MP cians of the day to guide us through the After he had demonstrated that sort of or drive a heavy goods vehicle or open world of books, which means artists dedication, how could we not include a retirement account. Here in London from across the spectrum have provided his stories in the magazine? They’re also we’re coming of age in what can be the best bits of their favourite novels, very good, which helps. described as an extended autumnal sum- non-fiction works and even cookbooks. While it’s important to enjoy the mer. Under the blue skies of the past This means we’ve finally been able to sun- shine I mentioned earlier, we’re not few weeks, Londoners have been smiling put into practice the Five Dials slogan blind to the darkening gloom around us. at each other without warning or reason. we came up with years ago: When In The lack of autumn rain made it easier It’s early November and they’re still eat- Doubt Always Consult Del the Funky for protesters to set up and maintain the ing lunch in parks and holding down Homosapien. Del’s contribution can be Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s napkins from sandwich shops as occa- found on page 20. There’s also advice cathedral. Someone put up a ‘Tahrir sional blasts of autumnal wind whistle from Diane Cluck and members of Lit- Square, Westminster, EC4’ sign on the past, dislodging leaves. Everything is urgy, Ladytron, Beirut and even Adam second day. We’ve been reading a lot nice, the city seems to be saying. Isn’t Green, who used to record with The of Michael Lewis, a lot of Galbraith, a it? The sunshine makes the place look Moldy Peaches. As it turns out, the lot of depressing chain emails about the good and perhaps serves as a reminder DJ Kid Koala is not just a one-time- state of the American economy, a few of its positive attributes now that the wonder graphic novelist. We’ve got accounts of what it’s been like down at clattering in London has died down, and an excerpt of his new book. If you’ve the Occupy Wall Street protests. Lewis’s by clattering I’m referring to the sound never heard of these artists or think new book, Boomerang, features a scene of people trying to pull the metal shut- that a magazine that is now twenty-one where an investment banker admits he’s ters from the front of the Brixton Foot should get its act together and start now buying nickels.