HCE meets…Fleet Street Fox
Adam Steiner of HereComesEveryone talks to Susie Boniface, the tabloid journalist behind Fleet Street Fox, the blogger who lifts the lid on the inner workings of the British media at The Old Bell pub in the heart of Fleet Street. The success of her blog has lead to...
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip bring the beats (and the props.)
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, The Copper Rooms, Warwick University, 25 April 2014 "Yeah, but, what's their demographic?" This was the second leg of the Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip tour, having sold out venues across the country in the first. Coventry provided more...
Find the Lady by Ian Cassidy
~ In Walsall sex began In nineteen fifty five, (Which was before I was alive)- Between the time of Winston’s fall And Godot’s first missed curtain call. Before it arrived these things were set With arrangements quiet and staid, Mutual agreements peacefully made, Then...
Instant idiot – just add internet.
Emoti-Con by James Durrell Emotional cons Of signified cant Mark fractured connections Split friendships at wit’s end Naked communion with the false signifiers. Swollen allegiance to a *sad-face flag I’ll run-tapping to echo your refrain But how many times does Ctrl +...
Sent 2 Coventry – Idiots ‘R’ Us?
by Darren Ashcroft Since the advent of reality television human beings have been glued to the box watching other humans beings making idiots of themselves – but is that joke really funny anymore? You’d be forgiven for thinking there was no more room in such an already...
Thought police community support officers, the slow march to the grave, firework displays and you.
by Edward Corless for HCE: The Idiots Issue I was at a fireworks display on near enough bonfire night, and initially it was going well. Bombs boomed, a collective choir ahhed and loudspeakers played lilting tunes from Little Mix and Adele alongside the explosive...
Crap Crusader: HCE meets Sam Jordison
The man behind Crap Towns Returns chats to Adam Steiner Adam Steiner: What was the initial inspiration behind Crap Towns? Sam Jordison: Growing up near Morecambe. It was a beautiful place, but its best days seemed too far behind it. The council had made all kinds of...
Kotel, by Jodie Carpenter
The mass of people at the Western Wall had been immense, and their wait had been lengthy. Step by step, they had inched closer to the huge, tawny structure. The boy had looked up at the clusters of pieces of paper stuffed into every available crevice of the Wall’s...
Jerusalem: the Editorial
I’m not going to lie and try and say that I wasn’t very excited about this issue. If you’ve been reading this magazine for a while, you might’ve noticed that I’m a bit of a history buff. I sat down several times with the best intentions of writing something quite...
Everything I Ever Wanted to Know about Diversity and Equality (but were too afraid to ask) #equipconf
I recently attended Equip’s first annual conference, Developing the Publishing Workforce, at City University in London. Equip (Equality in Publishing) is an organisation dedicated to improving access to, and equality within, the publishing industry. Guided by new...