BEHIND THE COUNTERCULTURE #7: MEL SMITHBEHIND THE COUNTERCULTURE #7: MEL SMITH

Mel Smith stood looking in, stuffing his face with a cake from Starbucks. We used to have a photo of Smith on the wall with two Nurofen tablets where his eyes were but it had long since fallen off.

Behind the counterculture is a recurring series of celebrity encounters or near encounters in or close to a West London used book and record store.

Behind the counterculture episodes compiled by...

Lake , Editor, London
the first journalism Lake ever had published was a history of Johnny Thunders for Record Collector magazine, since then he has written for publications including the Guardian, Dazed and Confused, the Idler and more recently, outsideleft.com as you have just seen. (biography/all stories)