FAULT Featured: the Honky Tonk Blues Bar – a taste of trendy Brooklyn in London’s Chelsea
Ladies and gentlemen: we have a winner. The Honky Tonk Blues Bar is Chelsea's latest addition to a plethora of local American-style diners - and it certainly brings home the bacon as one of the most welcoming joints in the area.
The relaxed but well thought out decor matches the Hollywood Road eatery's perfectly pitched music and simple, hearty cooking. Where similarly themed restaurants…
FAULT Focus: with artist Alex Hall
Young artist Alexander Hall launched his first public collection last week and his modern, playful and darkly paradoxical pieces are refreshing additions to the avante-guarde art scene. Haute de Gamme, Hall’s alias, is inspired by post-war American artists, but the paintings have an important contemporary focus: the persistent materialism of society in the context of socio-economic…
Noisettes for Fault Issue 12
FAULT: It’s been a long time since your last album. What have you guys been up to since then?
SHINGAI: [Our] last album came out in 2009, and we toured for it for just under two years, which was exciting. Towards the end of the tour, we started writing for this album. It’s taken us…
Grizzly Bear for Fault Issue 12
Brooklyn Rockers Grizzly Bear shoot for Fault Issue 12, Photographed by Shunichi OdaStyling by Marika PageGrooming by Satoru YanagawaStyling Assistance by Maya Hambro
One thing (amongst many) that fans have grown to appreciate about Grizzly Bear is their keen ability to create atmospheric rock music that combines mainstream pop appeal with indie rock tendencies.
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With each Grizzly…
FAULT Focus: Mat Whitecross, director of upcoming feature film Spike Island
There are a very few emerging British directors who deliberately choose to create or work with projects that combine both the light-hearted, visually experimental nature of film making (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) with work that demands the courage of one’s own conviction to even begin the research process (Moving to Mars/The Road to Guantanamo). Mat Whitecross, however, continues to…
Jacob Perlmutter – FAULT Magazine speak with the London-based film-maker and photographer
photograph by Johnny Finch
FAULT: Tell me about your near death experiences?
Jacob: Geez, that’s a pretty intense opening question. At the forefront of everything, I suppose, the one that stands out is the tsunami that unexpectedly hit Sri Lanka in 2004. At the time my family were on vacation in Galle, and we all thought we were going to die. Well it was looking like we…
Guca Festival: the Remedy to Music Festivals’ “commercial Poison”?
British music festivals are suffering a lingering sickness, and it’s spreading. Many have called a year hiatus or cancelled altogether. Sonisphere, The Big Chill and Glastonbury are amongst the big-name victims. Only an elite few, such as Bestival and Secret Garden Party, haven’t been struck by a rapid decline in ticket sales. Organisers claim the affliction is circumstantial citing the…
Like Father, Like Daughter?
Today FAULT meets College professor, author and cultural historian Amanda Hallay alongside illustrator, Creative Director at Doneger Group and fashion historian David Wolfe – described as "the world’s leading fashion authority" by The New York Times.
We did not meet in person for this interview (I wish we did, but that’s what happens when you deal with two busy creative minds). David will be…