December, 2024
LamontPaul: Founder & Publisher
Outsideleft's publisher, Lamontpaul is also the web designer for this and many other fine web sites (check out his other designs at webdab). He has done other things too, notably leading disabusive orange county punk rock revisionists 'Ron & Nancy' to no success, in the 90s. "We were a musical success," he maintains, "in the end we sounded precisely like I wanted us to sound. That was the struggle." Around the same time he edited the bands' internationally distributed fanzine, 'The World of...' As a writer he contributed a series of articles about bullet ridden eateries, 'Breakfast In America', to the now defunct 'Him' magazine. Once described by Captain Sensible of the Damned as being more interesting than Rod Stewart. Lamont is known for his hasty gravestone etchings published in the UK by 'Trouble'. Of outsideleft, he says "It's surprisingly easy to be better than almost everything else."
Lamontpaul portrait by John Kilduff painted during an episode of John's TV Show, Let's Paint TV
Adventures in the archives
What Readers are Reading Right Now
- Who were Satellite Lovers and why are they suddenly a thing 30 years after they disappeared?
David O'Byrne tries to find out - Lust For Life
Alan Rider listens to Iggy nailing it at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 and says all hail to the last man standing - Outsideleft Week in Music The Very Nearly Last Week in Music
We're hearing from... Sleater-Kinney, Musketeers featuring Solange, Saint Tropez Orchestra, The Legendary Pink Dots, Patrick MacNee and Honor Blackman, Salvator Dragatto, We Are Bodies, Yani Martinelli, Iggy Pop, Blood Incantation, Sam Gluck, Enemy Inside, Montague Armstrong, Cameron Winter, Horsegirl, Jamila Woods, Brûlez les meubles & The National - Baker's Xmas Dozen
Photographer Mark Baker Shows Us His Best Side - in his own words - Pete Williams at the Outsideleft Night Out
The Outsideleft Night Out returns at the 1000 Trades on the Park, Bearwood, with Pete Williams, DJ's Woodenhand and Prehistoric Man - Shed End
Consternation and Convolution, of course! While Writing Nothing About Writing About Nothing. It's a new Ancient Champion Column - Words are My Bondage and My Liberation
Cassie Thomas explores mercurial multi-hyphenate Jeremy Gluck's recent pair of career-spanning retrospectives as well as his latest artistic endeavour, Vaporscan - It's Not A Toy
Prolific podcaster, artist and writer, Ian Boldsworth, in conversation with Outsideleft's John Robinson - Outsideleft Week in Music Experiences the Sound of Sleep Paralysis
We're Hearing From... Coppergear, John Cale, Hot Chip / Sleaford Mods, Me and Thee, Sacred Paws, Inner Space Quartet, Yves Jarvis, Parastatic, Dorian Concept, Bind Torture Kill, Valerie June, The Unthanks, Meshuggah, Overt Enemy, zzzahara, Mary In The Junkyard, The Jungles!!!, Heavenly Trip To Hell, Sun Ra, Gazelle Twin, Status Quo, Kilynn Lunsford, Lionel Limiñana, David Menke, The Limiñanas, Escape-ism - Sweet Sorry
Better Tate Than Never
All About and Contributors
HELP OUTSIDELEFT
Outsideleft exists on a precarious no budget budget. We are interested in hearing from deep and deeper pocket types willing to underwrite our cultural vulture activity. We're not so interested in plastering your product all over our stories, but something more subtle and dignified for all parties concerned. Contact us and let's talk. [HELP OUTSIDELEFT]
WRITE FOR OUTSIDELEFT
If Outsideleft had arms they would always be wide open and welcoming to new writers and new ideas. If you've got something to say, something a small dank corner of the world needs to know about, a poem to publish, a book review, a short story, if you love music or the arts or anything else, write something about it and send it along. Of course we don't have anything as conformist as a budget here. But we'd love to see what you can do. Write for Outsideleft, do. [SUBMISSIONS FORM HERE]
WRITERS thru' the Years
A.I. House-Painter, Agata Makiela, Alan Devey, Alan Rider, Alex V. Cook, Ancient Champion, Andy Allison, Annemiek, Becca Kelly, Belle Plankton, Bruce Bailey, Caiomhin Millar, Cassie Thomas, Chantal, Cheiron Coelho, Chris Connolly, Christian Present, Damon Hayhurst, Dan Breen, Danny Rose, David Hackney, David O'Byrne, Denni Boyd, Dirty Lillie, DJ Fuzzyfelt, Dr. Rich, Dr. Richard Bennett, Duncan Jones, Erin, Erin Pipes, Erin Scott, Gracey Babs, Graham Baker, Guilaine Arts, H.xx, Hamilton High, Henderson Downing, Holly Martins, J. Charreaux, J.Lee, Jay Lewis, Jaycentee, Jennifer Lynn, Jenny McCann, Jeremy Gluck, Jez Collins, Joe Ambrose, John Robinson, Jonathan Thornton, Julie O, Karl Morgan, Katherine Pargeter, Kelsey Osgood, Kevin McHugh, Kiah Cranston, Kleo Kay, Lake, Lee Paul, Luke Skinner, Malcolm, Marek Pytel, Mark Piggott, Martin Devenney, Meave Haughey, Michelle Williams, Mike Fox, mindy strouse, Neil Campbell, Neil Scott, Ogglypoogly, OL House Writer, Pam, Paul Burns, Paul Hawkins, Paul Mortimer, Paul Quigley, Peter Williams, Pixie McMowat, Pixievic, Rene Williams, Richard John Walker, Rick Casson, Rikki Stein, Ronan Crinion, Rowena Murphy, Ruby Lake, Ryan 'RJO' Stewart, Samantha Charles, Seth Sherwood, Shane O'Reilly, Sheridan Coyle, Sofia Ribeiro Willcox, Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Spanish Pantalones, Speedie John, Spencer Kansa, Steve McCarthy, The Conversation, Tim London, Tim Sparks, Tony Fletcher, Toon Traveller, Trevi, Urs Lerch, Wayne Dean-Richards, and founders, Alarcon & LamontpaulWEEK IN MUSIC
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