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Ray Philp

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Poet Lorryete

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By Ray Philp
| The Fence Magazine
Tracking down a Glasgow cabbie with a passion for controversy... and poetry. When I found Stef Shaw one June morning in Alfredo’s, a daylight-proof pub in Glasgow with mahogany panels and a dozen flatscreens, he lifted his blue polo shirt to show me his scars. One around his forearm, a long slash from a meat cleaver, and a pathway of divots up his belly; a gang of lunatics had stabbed him at a family birthday party nearly 20 years ago. ‘I’ve died twice, been brought back twice,’ he told me.
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Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One

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By Ray Philp
| Pitchfork Verified
The DJ mix CD is not yet dead, but it’s time to call the priest. As an enfeebled relic from a mistily remembered past, the format is now passing into its museum era, even if a plucky few cling on honorably.
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Here Come the Hot Preppers

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By Ray Philp
| The Fence Magazine
Encounters with the doomsters who are preparing for the coming apocalypse. I’m on the edge of Builth Wells, a historic spa town in South Wales by the River Wye, known for the annual arrival of antiques and livestock; it also has a nightclub called Dazzlarz and two separate shops named Beautifully Bonkers. Leigh Price, who has a gnomic turn of phrase and vigilant blue eyes, is showing me around his store, The Bug Out. He brings me to a display of MREs, or ‘meals ready to eat’.
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