The project is starting to move on a little more, a little quicker, a little inspiring due to the emails that are being pinged back and forth. We've decided on the themes for the LOVE issue, our debut zine, we're going to be writing and illustrating early morning, late night adventures, the crackle of heavy, black vinyl and the genius of David Thomas Broughton, amongst other things. We want the first issue to be optimistic, full of the small details that make life so interesting and colourful, just imagination and a little bit of something abstract printed onto white paper that smells nice, wrapped up in card ready for curious eyes.
We have some other zines planned already, they will be dedicated to Messages In A Bottle, Heroes, Travel and Spontaneity. Maybe some polaroids. Who knows? Thats the beauty if you keep it cheap, limited and hand crafted. Anything could happen. And thats why even though we stopped listening to punk rock and even though Ian Mackaye has kind of dropped off our radar, we know plain and simple that DIY is the purest form of creativity.
Here's a polaroid from London town, taken on a grey day, of grey objects, but still exciting. Look and feel the steady pour of people cascade from everywhere and taste the 2am beigels.
We're pretty much feeling the latest Lo Fi Fink single, 'City', becuase it's in love and reminiscent and looking ahead, and also the last side of the Zidane album when Mogwai delve deep into their psyche and spill out this freedom of imagination in the form of pure wonderful noise like they haven't done in years, and then there's that time we danced to Black Lips with a swagger in our step, cheap drunk on bad cider. Thats whats inspiring us right now.
DLM x
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