Archive for the 'Observer' Category
Combat Rock
The Observer, Sunday 14 September 2008
The extraordinary story of a unique label devoted to releasing music by Iraq war veterans. By Carl Wilkinson. Photographs by Jamie-James Medina.
A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier’s kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured possessions. [...]
The Vice Squad
The Observer, Sunday 30 March 2008
For a decade, Vice magazine has pioneered a no-holds-barred approach to the counterculture. But now, with a TV channel and hard-hitting reportage from the frontline of the world’s trouble spots, it’s aiming to shock in a different way. Carl Wilkinson hears how the streetwise teen-zine finally grew up
The stars are [...]
The artful lodgers
The Observer, Sunday 1 April 2007
Stratospheric house prices mean even the bottom rung of the property ladder is out of reach for many. Carl Wilkinson meets the couch surfers and warehouse guardians who’ve found novel ways to save their rent
Location, location, location goes the trite estate agent’s mantra. But just what would you be prepared [...]
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