THE THEFT OF THE SPACEMEN 3 LOGO

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Every Friday afternoon we had technical drawing in the apprentice school class room, I liked technical drawing and got through my work very quickly, Rob Dixon and Johnny Diack were not the sharpest tools in the box and struggled with even the most basic diagrams so I did their work  as well.

That was one skill that British engineering gave me which came in handy one evening when I was given a task of contributing something to the SP3 cause, the factory was now a distant memory, erased from my mind, I was on the dole and life was dominated by our personal psychedelic suburban voyage  into inner space.

We was Psychedelic, no doubt about it, late night mushroom romp’s, cinema on Acid,dope in the morning , dope in the evening , the only problem I had when I was faced with making this contribution to the SP3 cause was…

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Vendetta Magazine: Spacemen 3 edition

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Spacemen 3 rate as one of my all-time favorite bands and though I never did an interview with the group during their 1986-1991 heyday, I was able to secure interviews with the two founding members Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce later on in their careers when Sonic went on to form Spectrum along with other side projects and Jason formed Spiritualized.

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While I had seen Sonic perform with Spectrum and E.A.R. a few times in the ’90s, it wasn’t until 2002 that I got to spend some time with him. The following interview took place in 2002 in Los Angeles in the back garden of painter Anthony Ausgang’s house. We hung out and drank cups of tea in the hot California sun, while Sonic smoked countless hand-rolled cigarettes, and I let the recorder roll. This interview is more or less a full-on discussion about the legacy of Spacemen 3 as Sonic…

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Portraits

I love taking portraits more than any other kind of photograph. These pictures were taken in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and China over the last four years.

Source: Portraits

These Black Winged Ones by W.H. Pugmire NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER

Source: These Black Winged Ones by W.H. Pugmire NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER

Issue One: Horror in the 21st Century

Source: Issue One: Horror in the 21st Century

Best Read by Candlelight: A Review of The Lord Came at Twilight by Daniel Mills

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