Chewing on You – An Interview with Rat Scabies

The Damned were there at the beginning. They’re probably still on your bedroom wall. With ‘New Rose’ (their ‘deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst’) and then ‘Damned Damned Damned’ they were the first gang on wax. Progenitors of punk, grand guignol goths and more besides. Behind the stool, Rat Scabies was laying down the tempo for […]

Love, Anarchy and Violence: The Legacy of Rik Mayall, The People’s Poet

At the Junction of Queen Caroline Street and Hammersmith Bridge Road lies a simple blue memorial plaque that reads: Rik Mayall 1958-2014 – Punched his friend in the balls on a bench near this spot. The piece was originally published on the first anniversary of his death in Collide Magazine Issue 4. When the people’s […]