James Knight

  • Tim Vine Tells Better Jokes Than You

    "Black Beauty? He was a dark horse." Perhaps making an entire career out of telling jokes so reliant on punning and wordplay could only ever happen in England.

  • Pissing In The Wind

    Once upon a time, English punk meant violence, passion, political engagement and an old-fashioned approach to personal hygiene. It did not mean the guy from the Automatic, his iPhone app tie-in deal and the Krazy Tent Tour sponsored by Monster (or...

  • Michael Winner

    An interview with one of the most successful directors Britain has ever produced.

  • Life of pain

    Hello. My name is James Knight. When I am not sticking things in my ass or drinking my insides rotten in a professional capacity, I am pretty adept at getting myself hurt,

  • Drug report: Legal cocaine!!!

    Mephedrone is a drug that you can buy on the internet that’s been described as a cross between cocaine and MDMA.

  • Holy Shit

    Anyone still waiting for the revolution in sound and vision promised by the Horrors a couple of years ago can probably go home now. Southend's finest have left their mark, though, because today a whole bunch of bands are happily thriving below the...

  • Ay Caramba!

    We grabbed a Mexican who we found doing capoeira in a park with a bunch of Brazilians and dragged her around three of London's best Mexican takeaway joints.

  • History On Repeat Forever And Ever

    Ophelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century.

  • Literary

    FIGHT (EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASS-KICKING BUT WERE AFRAID YOU’D GET YOUR ASS KICKED FOR ASKING) How did Eugene get this shit put out by HarperCollins? We’ve been

  • Under The Fuzz

    The internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about? You'd have to sort of...

  • Noodle Doodles

    In 2005, the pretty famous Glaswegian artist David Shrigley released Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve)—a 12-inch record sleeve with no record inside, just a booklet of doodles and lyrics. The doodles were things like a man with a giant bottom...

  • Drenched In Acid

    Holy Fuck is made up of lots of different people but most of the work is done by a couple called Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh. They never practice, hardly ever shave and wear hoodies that smell of wet dogs