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FLASHBACK… MICHELLE WILLIAMS

With Michelle Williams’ hotly anticipated new film, My Week With Marilyn in cinemas now we take a look back in the Wonderland Archive at one of our favourite images from our cover shoot with the Oscar-nominated actress.
News
Oliver Payne Nick Relph

Film Art: Pretentious, boring and irrelevant? Not any more. Thank God for Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, sighs Ben Cobb…
Art & Culture
Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier has come a long way since his schooldays as a granny’s boy with no friends and a penchant for ladies in fish-nets. Ben Cobb does lunch with the king of French fashion and asks him how he first fell in love with la mode…
Fashion
Ralph Steadman on Hunter S Thompson

With the release of a major new documentary on renegade writer Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Cobb asks cartoonist Ralph Steadman, his friend and accomplice for 35 years, to relive the madness…
News
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 […]
Music
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…
Music
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 […]
Music
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 […]
Music
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 […]
Music
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. […]
Music
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 […]
Music
Michelle Williams

Onscreen, Michelle Williams has a girl-next-door familiarity about her. It’s what bagged her the launch pad role of Jen in Dawson’s Creek. And made her perfect casting for her Oscar-nominated turn as spurned wife in Brokeback Mountain.
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Delaine Le Bas

2007 was a big year for Romani art. And for Delaine Le Bas. She was part of Venice Biennale’s first Roma Pavilion, which housed an international collection of Romani Gypsy work entitled Paradise Lost. Now with a solo show in Berlin, she tells Ben Cobb, “I just want to be seen as an artist.”

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