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Friendly Fires

Aged 14, St Albans school friends Ed Macfarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge formed First Day Break. “It was all guitars, no vocals… far too serious,” says Gibson. University changed all that. Thanks to a student diet of German techno and Prince, in came romantic melodies, propulsive drumming and rib-rattling bass. In 2006, three months […]
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Margaret Howell Spring 2009

Flair without fuss. Chic without chi-chi. Style without showing off. Margaret Howell, British fashion scion and understated style queen, tells Wonderland the tricks of her trade.
Fashion
Seasick Steve’s Favourite Things

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, etc. Seasick Steve can cheer himself up by remembering a few of these…
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Lykke Li

Hyperactive pop sprite Lykke Li talks to Wonderland about unrequited love, sounding like a little girl and wishing she was Tom Waits.
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Black Mountain

Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Josh Wells are five longhaired Canadian stoners on a crusade. When they’re not unleashing epic psychedelic rock on bleary-eyed revellers as Black Mountain, they’re busy helping out at Insite – a Vancouver-based charity for the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill. Not many bands can […]
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John Galliano and Jeremy Healy

Two boys from Peckham. John Galliano – the wunderkind behind Christian Dior. Jeremy Healy – frontman of 80s pop sensation Haysi Fantayzee and one of the most famous DJs on the planet. Over the past twenty years, their collaborations have reinvented the fashion show and provided the industry with some of its greatest runway moments. […]
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Lindstrom and Prins Thomas

From neighbouring studios in the heart of Oslo’s red-light district, two Norwegian musicians are busy ensuring that disco never dies. For the past five years Prins Thomas and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm have championed the Nu-Disco cause, both as solo artists and as a producing-writing team. Together they have injected the form with a raw, live element […]
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Black Mountain

Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Josh Wells are five longhaired Canadian stoners on a crusade. When they’re not unleashing epic psychedelic rock on bleary-eyed revellers as Black Mountain, they’re busy helping out at Insite – a Vancouver-based charity for the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill. Not many bands can […]
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Quiet Village

Joel Martin, aka DJ Zeus, is a former film editor and one of London’s best respected record collectors. Matt Edwards is the man behind the moniker Radio Slave and Berlin-based label Rekid. The pair met at Sir Dunstan’s College in South East London but it took a car journey to drum’n’bass club Metalheadz one Sunday […]
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Black Lips

Black Lips call their sound “flower punk”. Live on stage, however, there is not much that’s flowery about Cole Alexander, Jared Swilley, Joe Bradley and Ian Saint Pé. Antics include vomiting, inter-band tonguing, pissing in their own mouths, spitting in each other’s mouths, fireworks, nakedness and a dancing chicken called Popcorn. These boys are smart. […]
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The Teenagers

Boxing Day 2005, Paris. Quentin Delafon, Michael Szpiner and Dorian Dumont are eating frozen pizza and getting drunk on vodka. They decide to set up a MySpace page for an imaginary band. A random girl called Nicole sends them a comment… The Teenager’s first song, “Fuck Nicole,” is born. Within eight months the French trio […]
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MGMT

Singer and guitarist Andrew VanWyngarden is an excitable puppy in human form. Bearded keyboard-player Ben Goldwasser is reserved. Sardonic, even. Together they are MGMT, pronounced ‘management’. The 25-year-olds met in 2002 on the campus of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. United by a love of mysticism, psyche-rock and Technicolor, they plugged in some computers, threw on […]
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Issue 15

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