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22/07/2024

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28/06/2024

Out today - thanks to John, Jenny and Victoria.

24/06/2024

Outsideleft.com an independent Arts, Music and Culture Magazine our newest story is Never Judge a Book

20/06/2024

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19/06/2024

New edition - July

19/06/2024

28 June

30/05/2024

Punk era artwork is only a small part of Jamie Reid’s canon, although the themes of defiance, protest and free creativity are a constant.

30/05/2024

Peter Doherty x Simon Spence / Strap Originals 5th year anniversary, White Hotel, Salford

29/05/2024

Padlocks #2 second print “rock n roll Beckett Den Browne” Living With Sid & Nancy & thanx to Greil Marcus for cover quote 👍

17/05/2024

June 28

11/05/2024

Fancy yourself a writer?*

Louder Than War is officially opening submissions for the its new zine project that is being curated by a handful of people at the team who have a passion for the obsessional, even unsettling aspects of pop culture, then and now, inside and out.

Maybe you have an acute eye for these aspects.

A tale to be told? A fantastical narrative neither entirely false or entirely based in reality? Some bizarre occult account that still shakes you? Or maybe its your favourite brutalist buildings and motorway service stations if you're a band that travels? Maybe you have an opinion about grassroots venues, a character profile of a sound engineer and squats from your days as a drum & bass head in the 90s.

Or maybe...you just like chatting about bu****it but with enough insight, tenet and lucidity that convinces people it's worth buying into for a few pages. This is equally as good.

Think Vague. Think Art-Core. Think Slash. Think Damage. Think Touch and Go. Pop art made in your kitchen with a scuzzy, post punk dissonance to it.

No word count. No stylistic parameters. It can be as weird and as a niche as your written word is so capable of. Give us your oddities (this can include images too).

Email [email protected] with your ideas ASAP!

Ta and spread the word. Let's create something cool together.

LTW

Not a journalist*. Sick of bloody journalists.

☠️💣🫡🖤

07/05/2024

Vive Le Rock, issue out now, 8/10 review for PADLOCKS “not for the faint hearted”

07/05/2024

# . Live Tik tok . May 8 10am

24/04/2024

Since his anniversary, many of you have reached out asking for a recommendation on a book on my Father.
This one is the only one filled with truth, written ONLY with those who knew him best. His family and true friends, such as band members and those who truly loved and supported him and not exploited him.
Everything else I’m afraid is nothing but whimsical none sense, that was released with stories written under false pretences and even blackmail.
My family and I are grateful for Simon Spence having put this all together to get facts to the surface.
It is a sad state of affairs when even In death, there are those who are still trying to use and abuse him and us, but you’ll read all about it in this book.
✌🏻❤️

09/04/2024

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08/04/2024