So you’ve either not been paying attention or you have and you’re yet to be convinced, either way, let’s reiterate. The inaugural Proper Party, with full on top…
Right then, lets forget we’re all skint and on tablets just for a bit whilst we listen to Proper Magazine’s favourite top ten Christmas tunes. Most of these festive bangers…
Our mates over at Clarks Originals have got a smart competition going on at the moment. You can win tickets to a special Joy Formidable gig early next…
Get yourself down to Nottingham this Saturday because if this flyer is anything to go by, it looks set to be a pretty amazing day…
We love this guy, mainly because he’s like a cross between Roots Manuva and the mad bugger who used to busk outside Boots on Market street with a little bit of Jimi and ODB thrown on top for good measure.
If there are two things that have been constants in my life, it’s Clarks Originals and reggae music, getting into both of them from a very early age, they’ve stuck with me through thick and thin. Two reliable old friends in an increasingly inconsistent and crazy world.
On Sunday 21st August Nudie Jeans teams up with SEXBEAT for the second year running to co-present RADFEST one-day music festival. SEXBEAT, an inaugural figure in London’s diy music scene over the last 4 years is renowned in the UK for unique live shows by acts like Ariel Pink, Fucked Up and Salem in a host of alternative venues ranging from hidden vaults to 17th century churches
We have to take our titfers off to the witty chaps down at Duffer, for their latest photo- shoot they’ve done something of a British parody of the vintage preppy look..
Any mod/cool person worth their speed/salt should know all about the legendary artist Peter Blake and his impeccable works of (pop) art. The word ‘pop’ couldn’t be more apt for his particular brand of impressive album design, having worked on covers for the Beatles, The Who, Paul Weller and Oasis.
As previously documented on here when I sit back and recall certain stations of my semi-eventful life, there’s always an epic sound-track to accompany these haunting and vivid…
Beautiful motorbikes, Arlo Guthrie singing and some seriously fine denim. Could this film be any cooler?
Long-time friend of Proper and dead good record player man Rob Hyde aka Honk aka Bobby Chips has done a rather splendid mix of fantastic tunes for our mates over at Test Pressing.
Surely one of the best things about the hi-tech shenaniganary that is ‘the internet’ is the immediate access to hitherto unknown musical genres, tastes, scenes and mixes. Were it not for the magic of broadband we’d probably still be referring to the music press, annoying radio stations and Later with Jools Holland before deciding what to write on our school bags,
I’ve loved quirky synth duo ‘Chromeo’ since day one, probably because they some-how manage to make credible 80- influenced electrofunk whilst also having the capacity to have make me piss myself with laughter (not literally). Though I’ve hung my DJ-ing headphones up for the moment, I never went anywhere without a bit of Chromeo in my box…
Well as exclusive as anything can be that’s on YouTube… Check out this mysterious duo whose catchy single ‘Are You One’ has been playing through the corridors of ‘Castle Proper’ for the past few weeks…
It’s safe to say that if Proper were a band it would be very similar to the early Mondays (maybe with a bit of Shalamar and John Shuttleworth thrown in). They’re a band we have proper loved since we first got bummed by them back in the eighties (ooh err).
Just in case you haven’t discovered Test Pressing yet we thought we’d draw your attention to one of the finest music sites out there by way of this mellow mix from Ibiza beach DJ ‘Sergio’
As lovers of all things Italian, we’ve been into the Cosmic Disco vibe for quite some time now and have been voraciously downloading any mixes from this genre that we can get our grubby, passata stained hands on.
Well finally, the Serge Gainsbourg biopic has landed on our fair shores. Having purposely avoided any reviews, we’ve no idea if it’s any good or not but going by the trailer it looks pretty special.
Maybe like me, you’ve spent a bit of time working doing shit factory jobs or schlepping round building sites in order to stay away from the breadline at some point in your miserable life.
When our mate Lee posted a link to this video on our forum back in March the responses were emphatic. “The best thing I have ever seen” was one. “That is fucking ace” was another. Unfortunately we didn’t have a website to share it with you all at that point and since then the world and his wife has been trying to decipher the lyrics while trying not to tap their Clarks wearing feet to the tune.