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MENK, BY JOHN DORAN

  • Don't Tell Me That the High Rise Has to End

    It's odd, DJing sober. Full story

    2013 May 21 John Doran Stuff
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  • Diving for Dear Life

    Roaming Memory Lane in Thatcher's North. Full story

    2013 Apr 16 John Doran Stuff
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  • It's Educational!

    University's pretty good at inducing nervous breakdowns, especially if you're taking acid. Full story

    2013 Apr 9 John Doran Stuff
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  • Wandering Stars of Whom it Is Reserved, the Blackness of Darkness Forever

    An open invite to Portishead to feast on whale at the best music festival in the world. Full story

    2013 Mar 26 John Doran Stuff
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  • You Can Do It, Put Your Back Into It. I Can Do It, Put Your Ass Into It

    Chaos, vertigo and rebirth at the North London ball pond. Full story

    2013 Mar 19 John Doran Stuff
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    8
  • A Fag in a Whalebone Corset Draping His Dick Across My Cheek

    How to give up drinking forever, part three. Full story

    2013 Feb 19 John Doran Stuff
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    8
  • The Emptiness of the Prize

    How to reclaim your sanity by giving up booze forever: part two. Full story

    2013 Feb 5 John Doran Stuff
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  • None of Our Secrets Are Physical Now

    You know that good looking guy, who’s always smiling? Fuck that guy. I hate that fucking guy. Full story

    2013 Jan 29 John Doran Stuff
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  • To the One True God Above, Here Is My Prayer

    Hell isn't that bad, but it's full of wankers. It's time to quit the drugs for good. Full story

    2013 Jan 8 John Doran Stuff
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  • Going Underground

    At the end of the day, all us humans really want is to end up in the dark. Full story

    2012 Dec 4 John Doran Stuff
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  • This Isn't Some Kind of Metaphor, Goddamn, This Is Real!

    Getting your friends sectioned is never particularly easy. Full story

    2012 Nov 20 John Doran Stuff
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  • Circling the Drain

    Sometimes you have to break all of your life rules and admit that bands with ginger dreadlocks can be good. Full story

    2012 Oct 30 John Doran Stuff
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  • It's Midnight... I'm On the Soul Train!

    I spent far too long living in a prostitute-sodden suburbia, building every day around my flask of whiskey. Full story

    2012 Oct 16 John Doran Stuff
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  • I'm Half Crazy All for the Love of You

    I used to understand why drugs tore holes in my memory, but then I forgot. Full story

    2012 Oct 9 John Doran Stuff
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  • We Can Find New Ways of Living

    Northerners gone wild: pissing on churches, puking in gutters, horrifying small Algerian boys. Full story

    2012 Sep 18 John Doran Stuff
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    8
  • Orange? Yeah! That's Right!

    You know your life's not as perfect as your photos make it out to be. Full story

    2012 Sep 11 John Doran Stuff
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    8
  • You Know You Make Me Want to Scream

    Wanna know the difference between Liverpool, Manchester and London? Full story

    2012 Sep 3 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac

    London is full of signs and omens. They tell you what's going to happen next. Full story

    2012 Aug 21 John Doran Stuff
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  • Lord I Have a Broken Heart

    When you stop drinking, you worry that no one will find you interesting ever again. Full story

    2012 Aug 14 John Doran Stuff
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  • Working in the Sun, Drinking Schnapps, Having Fun

    So, let me tell you about my first beer. Full story

    2012 Jul 24 John Doran Stuff
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  • Ain't There One Damn Song That Can Make Me Break Down and Cry

    Will Self famously said that all aeroplanes should be completely transparent. "Fuck that," I replied. Full story

    2012 Jul 10 John Doran Stuff
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  • Trudging Slowly Over Wet Sand

    Here is a list of ideas. You can use them in any way you see fit. I don’t care. Full story

    2012 Jun 19 John Doran Stuff
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  • Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations

    It takes a lot to shock and appall men with spikes coming out of their chin, but I managed it. Full story

    2012 Jun 12 John Doran Stuff
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  • Blinded by the Light

    Drinking nothing but out-of-date beer for a fortnight is a good way to destroy your sanity. Full story

    2012 May 29 John Doran Stuff
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  • Beautiful Boys on a Beautiful Dancefloor

    I'm sorry Michael Smiley, your face doesn't really look like it melted on a radiator. Full story

    2012 May 22 John Doran Stuff
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  • Dance Yourself Clean

    Life isn't always like being herded through a massive Ikea with a meat grinder at the end. Sometimes it's good. Full story

    2012 May 15 John Doran Stuff
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  • On and On South of Heaven

    What does it mean to be Northern? Full story

    2012 May 2 John Doran Stuff
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  • My God! What Have I Done?

    When you blackout every time you drink and you're drinking all the time, it's like your life never really happened. Full story

    2012 Apr 24 John Doran Stuff
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  • Out of Control

    I thought moving into a drug dealer's flat would be exciting, but then cockroaches started to fall out of the ceiling. Full story

    2012 Apr 17 John Doran Stuff
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  • When You Get Down, Down to the Subatomic Part of It

    I went to the Large Hadron Collider and everyone was off their tits. Full story

    2012 Apr 3 John Doran Stuff
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  • This Place Is Hell with Walls

    The first time I took mushrooms I turned into a gibbering wreck. Full story

    2012 Mar 27 John Doran Stuff
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    8
  • Hands Up Who Wants to Die?

    The devil loves hangovers. Full story

    2012 Mar 20 John Doran Stuff
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  • Cats, Sex and Nazis, That's Why They Call Me Mr Happy

    Fucking journalists, fucking Del Boy indie promoters, fucking depression. Full story

    2012 Mar 13 John Doran Stuff
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  • Who Owns That Head Upon the Bed Where My Old Head Should Be

    My experiences as eye candy for dirty old men. Full story

    2012 Mar 6 John Doran Stuff
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  • Ring the Alarm Another Sound Is Dying

    When Black Metal musicians don't like you and you start fearing out. Full story

    2012 Feb 21 John Doran Stuff
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  • Und Tanzt Den Adolf Hitler... Und Jetzt Den Jesus Christus

    The drug party DJ can handle the mentally ill, but terminally posh Bob Dylan fans can go fuck themselves. Full story

    2012 Feb 14 John Doran Stuff
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  • Crystal World with Winter Flowers

    Why am I constantly imagining killing literally everyone in the most horrible way possible? Full story

    2012 Feb 7 John Doran Stuff
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  • Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamp

    I'd like my money a whole lot more if it had a picture of one of these four heroes on it. Full story

    2012 Jan 31 John Doran Stuff
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  • How Can You Sleep at Night?

    Why go to the zoo when you're surrounded by dumb, violent animals? Full story

    2012 Jan 24 John Doran Stuff
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  • No Way to Control It, It's Totally Automatic

    If I go on TV, will people end up dying? Full story

    2012 Jan 17 John Doran Stuff
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  • Cut a Six Inch Valley Through the Middle of My Soul

    Modern culture is conspiring to make me a confused old man. Full story

    2011 Dec 7 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Betrayed You. You Trusted Me and I Betrayed You

    My private and public wars with Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie. Full story

    2011 Nov 30 John Doran Stuff
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  • With Every Mistake We Must Surely Be Learning

    People who can afford to sue, use lawyers. People who can't, send you weird emails in the middle of the night after the pubs have shut. Full story

    2011 Nov 23 John Doran Stuff
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  • Hotel. Motel. Holiday Inn

    Moonshine drugs and hotel rooms full of dead Victorian children sometimes mix badly. Full story

    2011 Nov 16 John Doran Stuff
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  • Half-Shut Eyes Don’t See Who You Hit

    House parties are hellish. Full story

    2011 Nov 9 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Think That Someone's Trying to Kill Me

    Music journalism's a pretty safe profession until you tell the insane they're shit. Full story

    2011 Nov 2 John Doran Stuff
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  • Let's Piss on the City That's Burning Down There

    Two old alcoholics remember the day blackbirds started to fall out of the sky on fire. Full story

    2011 Oct 26 John Doran Stuff
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  • What's He Building in There?

    Finding ways to make the ladies wake up smiling. Full story

    2011 Oct 19 John Doran Stuff
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  • A Sound Like a Tiger Thrashing in the Water

    Taking MDMA in a floatation tank. Full story

    2011 Oct 12 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Feel So Inar-Inar-Inar-ticulate

    My memories of getting sacked. Full story

    2011 Oct 5 John Doran Stuff
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  • Time Marches On

    When I died, they served me weird Guinness in heaven. Full story

    2011 Sep 28 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Spy Something Beginning With S...

    Spiders are shit houses. Full story

    2011 Sep 21 John Doran Stuff
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  • My Future Ain't What It Used To Be

    A semi-naked man's guide to dealing with estate toughs. Full story

    2011 Sep 14 John Doran Stuff
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  • And We Could Dance

    An experiment in which a wedding DJ doesn't play shit music. Full story

    2011 Sep 7 John Doran Stuff
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  • I Feel So Quick In My Leather Bots

    Seizing the underwear of the rich and the famous. Full story

    2011 Sep 1 John Doran Stuff
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  • Crows Feet Are Ingrained

    Should I write for VICE? Full story

    2011 Aug 23 John Doran Stuff
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  • Losing My Edge

    I am a 40-year-old music journalist. Most of the people who read me think that I am an appalling fraud. Full story

    2011 Aug 5 John Doran Stuff
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  • Murderous Fanatics and EDL Idiots Brought Darkness to Woolwich Yesterday

    We spent the day there trying to make sense of it all.

  • Cry-Baby of the Week

    This week: Some kids got arrested for a water balloon fight and a guy is suing Taco Bell for stealing his ideas.

  • VICE News: Triple Hate

    Memphis City Council, the Klan and the Crips.

  • VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

    A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.

  • My Week Spent with Hungary's Far-Right

    Hungarian nationalists throw beer at people and blame Jews and gypsies for all their problems.

  • American Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centres'

    How an anti-drug cult from the 60s has evolved into an abusive, billion-dollar “teen rehab” industry.

  • Is Tabloid Outrage Just Getting More People into Legal Highs?

    Getting uppity about internet drugs seems kind of pointless if all you're doing is advertising them.

  • We Photographed a Drunk EDL Hate Mob Attacking Police Last Night

    They went there to spread Islamophobia and achieved absolutely nothing.

  • Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

    They're genuinely some of the most beautiful things I've ever read.

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  • Femen Are Being Attacked by Nazis and Sent to Prison

    I called one of their members in Paris for a catch up.

  • VICE on HBO Outtakes: Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony

    Many swear it's the most effective way to kick heroin addiction.

  • We Spoke to a Former Crack Addict About Rob Ford

    "People don’t decide to have a glass of wine with dinner and then go buy a bag of crack."

  • Fringes: Stories from the Edge: Deportee Purgatory

    Tijuana’s El Bordo is home to thousands of heroin-addicted Mexican deportees.

  • VICE News: Triple Hate

    A doc about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.

  • The Creators Project: Turning CCTV Footage into Art

    An invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a source for art.

  • We Watched the Stockholm Suburbs Burn

    But was it really a riot, or just a coupe of bored arsonists?

  • Fashion Tidbits Roundup: David Bowie, Glitter and Topless Abercrombie Models

    These are things you should know about, this week.

  • Photo Dump Vol. 120

    More stupid pictures we found on the stupid internet.

  • Milf Teeth: In Ibiza with Endless House

    Maybe I'm an old raver now, too.

  • In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist who Probably Faked His Own Death

    We spoke to several people close to him who think he's alive, and after some digging, we think so, too.

  • Speaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds

    This would be the first in a series of controversies surrounding Adam and his politics.

  • George's Fun Happy Place

    George has a lot of problems to overcome, but he's capable of an incredible lightness.

  • Cry-Baby of the Week

    This week: Some kids got arrested for a water balloon fight and a guy is suing Taco Bell for stealing his ideas.

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  • This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

    Rob Rhinehart's vomit-coloured cocktail could change food forever.

  • Alex Miller's New Column: Lord, I Hate Camden Town

    It's the graveyard of the fad.

  • How to Be Happy, Young and Jobless

    A survival guide for when society thinks your life has no purpose.

  • Milf Teeth: The Notches On Your Bedpost Don't Mean Shit

    Your sex gets better when you're learning with one person.

  • I Interviewed My Local UKIP Rep After I Got Him Sacked and Banned

    Phillip Collins has been reinstated now, but things were still a bit awkward.

  • What's Going to Kill the House Revival?

    Geeks? Shufflers? Americans? Tinchy Stryder?

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    I'm worried that it is.

  • VICE News: Protest At Thatcher's Funeral

    Some people enjoy booing coffins. We went to see just how many.

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    The "stars" from TOWIE and Milton Keynes, together at last.

  • Thatcher's War on Acid House

    She may have got the Falklands, but she couldn't get the pillheads.

  • English Fascists Took Their First Beating of the Summer in Brighton This Weekend

    That's what happens when bigots march in England's most liberal city.

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