Issue 4 is now available!
Issue 4
£2.50
(plus £1 p&p Surface Mail to any address)
Issue 4
£2.50
(plus £2 p&p Airmail)
With issue 4 Plectrum has undergone a revolution… of ninety-five degrees. The landscape cover may have gone portrait but within you will still find features, interviews, reviews, and previews from the widest horizon of books and film, music and fashion,
art and performance.
John Stephen, King of Carnaby Street
Jeremy Reed explores the role John Stephen played in transforming not only Carnaby Street into an internationally famous street name and byword for Swinging London, but also in so doing radically changing men’s fashion and shop design. Little more than a backwater when he opened his first shop there in the late 1950s, John Stephen’s dominion would, by the end of the 1960s extended to eleven shops in Carnaby Street alone.
Max Décharné Talks Hipster Slang
With the publication of a new edition of his dictionary of hipster slang, Straight from the Fridge, Dad, Max Décharné, writer (Kings Road - The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World), rock musician (Gallon Drunk, Earls of Suave, Nikki Sudden, The Flaming Stars), and righteous lounge lizard, tells tales from 20 years of combining the writing of short fiction, non fiction, and music journalism, with singing, song writing, recording, and world tours.
Delisia Howard & Chris Price: From Biba to Hazard Books
Writer Delisia Howard, was not only in charge of cosmetics and household for Biba from 1968 to the closing of Big Biba in 1974, but she was also the in-house model on whom Barbara Hulanicki would fit and refine all her sample clothing designs for the highly influential fashion label and shops. With her husband, the illustrator Chris Price, Howard has created the imprint Hazard Books, and they create fabulous limited edition and handmade books, two of which, InBiba, and SinBiba, have continued their creative collaboration with Barbara Hulanicki, as they also feature her illustrations in addition to Price’s.
New Poetry by Jeremy Reed
Jeremy Reed has also contributed four poems to Plectrum, which are being published for the first time in this issue. Fans of his work include J.G Ballard, who says of him “Jeremy Reed’s talent is almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance”, Bjork who has called his work ” the most beautiful, outrageously brilliant poetry in the world,” and Pete Doherty who states simply “Jeremy Reed is a legend. What more can you fucking ask?”
Centrefold Illustration by Chris Price
Another new development for this issue of Plectrum, which will be a regular part of the magazine, is a fold-out, exclusive, centrefold illustration. To complement the feature on Delisia Howard and Chris Price this has been contributed by Chris Price.
Reviews
Plus an host of reviews and previews including, artist, illustrator, and Biba Baby, Daisy de Villeneuve on the documentary Beyond Biba.
Issue 3
£2.50
(plus £1 p&p Surface Mail to any address)
Issue 2
£2.50
(plus £1 p&p Surface Mail to any address)
Issue 1
£2.50
(plus £1 p&p Surface Mail to any address)
Issue 1
£2.50
(plus £2 p&p AirMail)
Equally, Plectrum is also available from some wonderful independent stockists which we heartily recommend you visit:
STOCKISTS
Online
Since its inception in 2003, Nude magazine has consistently gone ‘beyond the counter culture’ to champion the best in arts, culture, music, film, graphics and general oddity from an indie perspective. In November 2009 they unveiled their new website which is not only home to the online edition of the magazine with its plethora of great articles, reviews, opinion, visuals and lots of competitions, but also to the wonderful Nude shop where one can buy books, zines, prints, jewellery, clothing, accessories, and homewares from the likes of Jamie Reid, Angelique Houtkamp, and Vince Ray.
www.nudemagazine.co.uk
In Person
LONDON
Jeffery~West’s ‘Infamous English shoes’ and accessories for men combine all the traditional craftsmanship inherent in being manufactured in Northampton factories with hundreds of years of experience with a welter of inspirations from Regency dandies, fin de siecle decadence, and twentieth century pop culture to create fantastic and highly indiosyncratic styles in rich and dramatic colours. The five Jeffery~West shops are also imbued with the same elegance, stylistic references, and drama aided and abetted by the fantastic architecture of their locations.
16 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1Y 6NH
+44 (0) 20 7499 3360
16 Cullum Street, Leadenhall, London EC3M7JJ
+44 (0) 20 7626 4699
Lewis Leathers, founded in 1892 as D. Lewis Ltd, is Britain’s oldest motorcyle clothing company and in its long history has clad riders and rockers, pioneer aviators and early motor racers, punks and the police, rockstars and models. Their iconic jackets have inspired generations and are now available along with their footwear and clothing lines, accessories and books at their new shop which opened in December 2009 at:
3-5 Whitfield Street, London. W1T 2SA
+44 (0)20 7636 4314
www.lewisleathers.com
Pages of Hackney is a fantastic independent bookshop which stocks an eclectic selection of contemporary and classic fiction, childrens books, politics, environment, art, cookery, second-hand books and much more. There is also a gallery space in the basement and Pages hosts a regular programme of readings, discussions, debates, screenings, art exhibitions, performances and parties.
Opening times:
Monday to Friday: 11am-7pm
Saturday: 11am-6pm
Sunday: 12pm-6pm
Established in London in 1995 Two Columbia Road is a gallery specialising in a broad range of collectable furniture, associated design, works of art and photography. Designers include Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Arne Vodder, Joe Colombo, Ettore Sottsass, Charles Eames, Poul Kjaerholm and Cees Braakman. Artists vary, but in recent months have included Patrick Caulfield, Marc Quinn, Joe Tilson, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Blake, and Sarah Lucas.
Opening times:
Tuesday till Friday 12 - 7pm
(closed Monday)
Saturday 12 - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm
2 Columbia Road, Shoreditch, London E2 7NN
+44 (0) 20 7729 9933
www.twocolumbiaroad.co.uk
The brainchild of Pippa Brooks and Nathaniel Lee Jones, M.Goldstein is part shop and part showroom; customers range from the inquisitive passer-by to private and corporate clients for whom M.Goldstein source particular objects and pieces to a brief. The treasure trove of inspirations includes decorative antiques, interior showpieces, furniture, ethnographic antiquities as well as small pieces such as jewelry, curios and utilitarian objects. Original art works range from outsider art, home crafts and commonplace objects to modern esoteric curiosities and Jurassic Art. In addition to unusual second-hand and antique clothing they have also developed their in-house labels Goldstein Attire and Youths Style.
Opening times:
Friday to Sunday 10am till 5.30pm
67 Hackney Road
London E2 8ET
Founded in the late 1960s, Sherry’s and its sister shop, The Face, are now Carnaby Street landmarks, having dressed and been a focal point for generations of mods and skinheads, and a whole plethora of bands and rockstars from Ian ‘Mac’ McLagen to The Jam, Madness, The Specials, and on to Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis. Stocking menswear and womenswear from their own label in addition to Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, Lonsdale, and John Smedley.
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday 10am - 6.30pm
Sunday 12 - 5pm
Sherry’s
24 Ganton Street
off Carnaby Street
LONDON W1F 7QY
&
The Face
1 Marlborough Court
LONDON W1V 1PJ
LEEDS
21 County Arcade, Victoria Quarter. Leeds LS1 6BW
+44 (0) 113 244 3588
www.jeffery-west.co.uk
MANCHESTER
1 Barton Arcade, Deansgate. Manchester M3 2BB
+44 (0) 161 835 9284
www.jeffery-west.co.uk
NORTHAMPTON
City House, 43 Cliftonville Road, Northampton NN1 5HQ
+44 (0) 1604 637 971
www.jeffery-west.co.uk
- Watch Nigel Waymouth interviewed by Guy Sangster Adams on the Plectrum Broadcast player. Read Reverberation: The Iconic History of Nigel Waymouth in Plectrum Webzine.
