25 stories that you readers kept on reading in 2020. Here they are. The Big Ones. Topped by Guilaine Arts' interview with Colin Gabbidon, one of the founding members of the legendary Steel Pulse. It's great to see so many new and returning contributors, thank you to all of you writers and readers for making this happen. Of course, by every metric, even by our low, low standards it was a shitty year at OL, I always know things are going wrong when I have to write too much of this, so c'mon new contributors, come on over, someone must have something else to say...
- Visual Art with a Steel Pulse by Guilaine Arts
Colin Gabbidon - man of many talents - From Eszter Balint to Carla Bley... Cassis B Staudt meets New York by LamontPaul
It's Cassis B Staudt Week in Outsideleft - If You're Going to San Francisco by Sophia Satchell-Baeza
Peter Whitehead and Anthony Stern's Intense Collaboration - Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche by John Robinson
Momus lauded by the stars - Jamie Reid: Dragon's Revenge by Jeremy Gluck
When Jamie Reid created the iconic Sex Pistols 'Bollocks' design, he was just getting started... - How Do You Make A Movie When You've Got No Money? by Lee Paul
Lee Paul interviews the big figures at Powis Square Pictures - About Paris by Meave Haughey
Meave Haughey passes you a parting note from Paris - Millicent Chapanda: My Music, My Life by LamontPaul
Millicent Chapanda Week begins with the mbira star talking about her life and work - Handsworth Riots 1985 by Ancient Champion
Pogus Caesar joins Café Royal Books to publish his seminal archive of the Handsworth Riots - Remembering Dave Kusworth by Lake
Kirk Lake reflects on the impact of the music of Dave Kusworth - Laraaji: Forever Changes by Jason Lewis
With the release of his new record, Sun Piano, Laraaji is all fun, philosophy and full on happenstance... - Amphitheatre of Death by Paul Quigley
artist Paul Quigley gets out and about with his sketchpad... - Peter Whitehead: Man With The Movie Camera by Marek Pytel
Marek Pytel's appreciation of 1960s counterculture filmmaker, Peter Whitehead by Marek Pytel - Deep Diving For Less Likely Pearls by Jez Collins
Jez Collins accompanies his playlist of hometown hits with just enough info to get you diving down for more - Outsideleft Night Out: Germa Adan and Millicent Chapanda by Hamilton High
The Outsideleft Night Out was an outlandishly triumphant triumph. - Just Passing Thru: Lisboa Orientes Railway Station by DJ Fuzzyfelt
DJ Fuzzyfelt begins our new series of itinerant encounters - Master of Ceremonies by Pixievic
A poem by Pixievic - Walking Distance by LamontPaul
Sabine Lettmann takes fashion on a different route - Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart... by John Robinson
Philophobia Records' Rob Dee talks to John Robinson about finding hits in Wakefield - Key Workers by Alarcon
The Strokes relish the new abonormal - Scott Aicher & Iris Berry by Ancient Champion
Paintings and Poetry... Cornelius Projects presents Scott Aicher and Iris Berry. - El Chalten and Elsewhere by Toon Traveller
Toon Traveller on the way to Patagonia - Mark Bingham's Back on the main stage by Alex V. Cook
Legendary Louisiana record producer Mark Bingham takes his Strat to the Saturn Bar - Clincher and others by Duncan Jones
Duncan Jones leads off our national poetry day things with poems for the not so faint-hearted - The Last Dance by Rene Williams
How One Little Man Destroyed America's Greatest Dynasty