Issue 4 : This issue is huge...
This is our squarest, biggest and smallest yet. Square in shape, big in content and small in size. Alex Synge, one of our absolute favourite people, designed this issue and can we modestly say we think it looks excellent. The trio behind Turbo Monthly, Aisling Ni Chonraoi, Killian Dunne and Ella Bertilsson gave us Oh Turbo a mini zine in the magazine. Jade O'Callaghan looked at the contemporary rural, Suzanne van Der Lingen hedged her bets for the 2009 Turner Prize and asked does it even matter anyway. On the music front we interviewed Greg O'Brien who's just released his first album as At Last an Atlas, and New York's The Drums. Amanda Kavanagh articulated a new addiction,a daft addiction. Gemma Carroll took a psychogeographical walk and we took a walk down our namesake, Francis Street. Margot Cullen looked at the children's book illustrators who have embraced the 'lo-tech, high quality, intellectual illustration', Oliver Jeffers & Graham Rawle among others. Aisling Farinella & Richard Gilligan gave us a chilly female fashion shoot while Sheilagh Tighe & Jamie Saunders manned it up. Canadian artist Lee Henderson produced some original and somewhat seasonal work for us. We included two photograpic essays from Cait Fahey and Ian Sinclair, we also have photography from Ian McDevitt, Deirdre Brennan and James McLoughlin among many others. Adrian Duncan wrote and illustrated three short stories of diminishing length. Poems, polemics and pictures fill the rest of the whole.
This issue was launched on the 26th of November 2009, another great night in the Bernard Shaw.
We sold out of our first batch! We will be making more as soon as we can.
We are a DIY outfit but we always like to think we are professional...it's just that
the response was massive on the night!
