The Election Issue – Submit Now!
Deadline: 25/3/2015 Here Comes Everyone magazine is looking for submissions of poetry/fiction/articles/artwork. We encourage bold and/or striking interpretations upon the theme of Election - here are a few thoughts... ‘Protest politics’ is on the rise - with UKIP,...
Come And See – Conflict, Time, Photography
Conflict, Time, Photography @ The Tate Modern, 26 November 2014 – 15 March 2015 www.tate.org.uk War photography is the genre that crosses a tricky divide between reportage and art. It invites us to bear witness to (in)famous events, obscene acts that veer between the...
The Hundred Years’ War – Poetry in Performance – Review
The Hundred Years’ War builds upon the success of last year’s Being Human show, bearing a united front of Bloodaxe poetry anthology and innovative live performance of poems on the theme of war. http://livepoetry.org/ There is significant weight of expectation behind...
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...