Behind the Counterculture #22: Robbie Williams by Lake for outsideleft.com

by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: July, 2005

Anecdotes from Behind the Retail Frontlines

by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: July, 2005

Anecdotes from Behind the Retail Frontlines

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THE RAKERS #5
New LP out now from outsideleft tastemaker Alex V. Cook's Baton Rouge blasters, the Rakers

Robbie Williams sat in the car outside while his friend came in and bought a lot of comics. Robbie leaned out of the window and shouted to his friend. It only took a few seconds for the car to be surrounded by fans. It would have been difficult for Williams to draw more attention to himself without climbing on the roof and singing Angels.

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

Previously on Behind the Counterculture Gilbert and George ⇨

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.

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THE RAKERS #5
New LP out now from outsideleft tastemaker Alex V. Cook's Baton Rouge blasters, the Rakers

OL's Daily Playlist to Stay In For
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an Odd Pitch: an introduction

Celebrity tv / radio / print commercials spotted here...

Behind the Counterculture #13: Derek Pringle

300 Words From London: Blek Le Rat Comes To Town

Legendary street stencil artist and graffiti pioneer Blek Le Rat hits East London.

Disturbia: The DVD Review

Steven Spielberg has a new crush, and his name is Shia LaBeouf. The same Spielberg who cast Kate Capshaw in the Temple of Doom and basically had her screaming through the entire thing...then he married her.

And they were into music, for real: The Story of Slint

A lot else happened musically in that 1990-91 window: Fear of a Black Planet, Nevermind, the second Morrissey album, cementing the death of the Smiths. The goddamned Pixies were everywhere. But somehow Slint cut through all that clatter.

Behind the Counterculture #6: Pete Wylie

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