Vol 4 Issue 009

Culture

Is Britain entering an age of aggravation?

Leatherings on the hard shoulder. Brawls on petrol station forecourts. From where Clive Martin is sitting, Britain is 
entering an age of great aggravation – recorded on cameraphones and uploaded for a new kind of gladiatorial thrill. Should we be scared?

Culture

Welcome to the Slawn club

He was the hottest skatewear designer in Lagos. Now he’s the hottest artist in London, with a following of thousands who will literally fight each other to own one of his paintings. But is Olaolu Slawn just taking the piss? (A little bit, but we’re into it.)

Music

Don’t call KennyHoopla a rock star

Pop-punk is back and KennyHoopla is one of the new generation’s leading lights: a one-man band who left Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to follow a yellow brick road to Hollywood... then, um, back to Wisconsin again.

Music

Charlie Bones spreads his wings

After surprising listeners this summer by announcing his departure from NTS Radio after 10 years, the London DJ has set up his own Do!! You!!! platform. THE FACE visits him as he draws up his new blueprint for organised chaos.

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