The issue of personal bankruptcy – core of the novel – is still something of a taboo theme in the western world. The question of whether bankruptcy is the ‘ultimate’ taboo of a materialist society is asked directly in the book . Yet bankruptcy laws have been changed (rather, heavily relaxed) over recent years to [...]

Stuart Wood is a Hackney-based composer who not only scored the notorious ‘Go Compare’ television adverts but also devised and wrote the original Music Hall piece ‘Frank’s Closet’, which drew crowds to Hoxton Hall last year. In his studio, in Hoxton Works, he talked of his career and how he finds Hackney as a creative [...]

EXCLUSIVE – Author, Shaun Attwood will be at Stoke Newington Literary Festival The man from Cheshire US authorities say was bigger than mafia honcho and hitman, Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano I’ve been meaning to catch up with Shaun Attwood for a while.  Logistics,  commitments and a last minute miscommunication meant we had to make do [...]

Martin Lau is a London-based photographer and filmmaker who works frequently in Hackney. His most recent subject, Covered City, is currently on display at the NO:ID gallery in Whitechapel HH – Tell us what inspired Covered City? ML – Walking through Fitzrovia, I came across a shrouded development. The district is undergoing a rebranding as ‘NoHo’ [which [...]

One of the U.K’s fastest rising music acts, singer-songwriter Zarif is receiving much critical acclaim for her infectiously edgy and versatile pop and her energetic live shows and has been hailed by Elle Magazine and the News of the World as a major talent and described by The Guardian as “the next big thing in British soul”.