Live Reviews

July 2009 Beatmag webmaster, boozehound & questionable disc-jockey, Tim Gomersall, takes us through a night playing alongside the big boys (and girls) in London town… Firstly, a confession. By the end of this gig I was rather plastered. In fact, I was so inebriated that the fact that i actually saw the last band only [...]

Great Lost Albums

Chrome – Red Exposure The freshest forgotten albums of yesteryear. Not the usual fawned over suspects but albums that ‘net-trawlers and second hand record shop aficionados may come across and should snap up now. Neil Gardner Recommends: Chrome Red Exposure (Beggars Banquet) 1980 “I am anti-fade and I can’t go away” Chrome -’Eyes On Mars’

Reviews – Albums

July 2009 Jack Penate Everything Is New (XL) Yes, in an event as unlikely as Phil Collins cutting a dubstep album with The Bug, Jack Penate is Beatmag’s Album Of The Issue.

Guru – latest news.

By now you’ve probably heard that the founder of the legendary Gangstarr suffered a heart attack last week. The good news is that after surgery on Monday he’s back on the mend. At this stage little other news is available other than an unnamed source being quoted as saying”Guru is alive and recovering from his surgery. Doctors are expecting a full recovery luckily.”

REVIEWS – GAMES

September 2007 This month harks the return of our star games reviewer, 8 year old Noah Mallassi, the true king of the joypad… For my birthday I got a Nintendo Wii! My Dad tricked my by saying that they were impossible to get anywhere in the world, but then when I woke up on my [...]

MEDIA SLAG

September 2007 A monthly rant on the tepid traits and tawdry interactions of the media machine. This month Khalid Mallassi takes a stand against our favourite keepers off the peace, bouncers…

Gallery – Ben Allen

Ben Allen, 27, was born and raised in Brighton, the son of an artistically inclined travel agent and equally creative bank project manager from whom he thinks he inherited his talents. However, he describes the defining event of his life as discovering his dad’s Led Zeppelin albums, aged 12.

Gallery – Part 2

Born Keith Hopewell and raised in York, UK, Part 2 was one of his home city’s original hardcore graffiti crew. Initially as much interested in the danger and illegality of graf’ culture, he sooned earned his stripes with a unique figurative style that drew attention and eventually saw him exhibiting beside Futura 2000 and Goldie. [...]

Gallery – Kes Richardson

Devil’s Advocate

Ben Sherman Miranda Michaelides makes a sturdy defense of Ben Sherman and Lacoste, classic designer labels that have been adopted by less than classic men Ben Sherman and Lacoste are high class, classic and successful design labels whose clothes are nowadays often seen in the UK on men who are none of those things. The [...]

The Red Light District

Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jai Salo of Pepe Deluxe) James Spectrum is away due to promotional duties for Pepe Deluxe’s new album ‘Spare Time Machine’. Here are some pics of James and the band going about their Pepe Deluxe business.

The Wild Reviews

April 2007 Maverick scribbler Tim Wild reviews… things This month – Top 5 Rejected Top 5s Top 5 Albums I’m Supposed To Know About But Don’t While the list of seminal, world-changing albums I’ve never heard is certainly of an impressive length, this idea bit the dust fairly quickly. I’d made all my limp jokes [...]