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Lost Idol – Brave The Elements

Let’s get this established from the off: This is bloody great. Any album that kicks-off with a tune that causes its reviewer to emit a camp ‘ooooh’ like a startled hairdresser is definitely off to a winner. ‘Lightwerk’ sets the tone of Lost Idol’s second long-player ‘Brave The Elements’ quite magnificently and serves as a [...]

Hellfest 2011 – Preview

Hellfest has almost come around again, and this time its bigger then ever. Its even got it’s own APP for devils sake! Beatmag has been in attendance for 3 years now, and we have developed a real soft spot for this gathering of head-bangers in Clisson, France. Each year, the promoters manage to pull off [...]

Old Friends Electric

Gary Numan Although David Bowie is well-known as the artist who changed his image time and time again, Gary Numan has also been a pop chameleon: from alien-chic to Mad Max pastiche; from white-faced/blue haired mannequin to white-suit with red bow-tie gent; and from blonde cyberpunk to current industrial Goth. Numan was born in 1958, [...]

Robert Watts

FILM Q&A with Robert Watts, a production maestro on the original ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ films. By Adam Locks Born in 1938, Robert Watts is one of the most respected and successful British producers in the film industry. Although his name is most well known for his association with the first three ‘Star Wars’ [...]

Bill Mumy

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!! Those words must haunt, and amuse actor Bill Mumy in equal measure. Mumy played young Will Robinson in the classic TV series ‘Lost In Space’, kick-starting a career as child actor. Somehow, instead of crashing out early like so many child actors, he has managed to create even more iconic characters in [...]

Gallery – Richard Wilkinson

36 year old freelance illustrator, Richard Wilkinson, has taken his merry time to find his niche in life. It all started in York, where he studied fine art, “In the 1st week I was told not to use black lines. Don’t go there. They sucked all the joy out of it for me. After that [...]

Red Bull presents ProjectRoom: Live Art

Preview (show: 10/06/2010) This Thursday night Red Bull host the collaborative art stream, ProjectRoom – a unique collaborative live art event featuring the cream of today’s street artists : Remi/Rough, Jaybo and Juice 126. The three artists will create three individual artworks in front of live crowd on the night and then go on to [...]

Gallery – Lewis Heriz

Lewis Heriz studied faces at Grundisburgh Primary, and later at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge, Suffolk, and employed this study in the low art of caricature during lessons. This got him into trouble on at least one occasion but the look of brief mortification on the face of Mrs Wright at his comparatively flattering portrayal [...]

Obsessions

Mike Kaye, a Graphic designer living in Florida, is obsessed with lunchboxes. “I’ve been a collector for most of my life,” says Mike Kaye proudly, “I’ve collected baseball cards, comics, phone cards, rabbits feet, rubber bouncing balls, Smurfs, fuzzy Martian men, original comic artwork and at one time even the coloured plastic sticks that were [...]

Devil’s Advocate

Writer and mysterious musical artist Nag’s Head stands up for boredom. These are infotainment saturated times, and boredom has been banished forever. Millions of dedicated media professionals work quite hard 24 hours a day to ensure that your every desire is served up on a digital dinner-plate in three seconds flat. If you’re tired of [...]

Red Light District

Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe) In Issue 19 we started the tour of the new Deluxé playroom, “Sanctum Sanctorum” but hit the word limit before we managed to move on from the grand entrance, aka “The Hall Of The Six True Kings”. I also promised to tell the [...]