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| | | 'Creem gave you a ground-level excitement about music': the 1970s rock magazine makes a comeback | | by Michael Hann Jun 1, 2022 | | Founded in 1969, the Detroit title that first used the term ‘punk rock’ was daringly derisive but also often racist, sexist and homophobic – so why bring it back? Every rock magazine likes to believe it is the centre of its culture, but Creem really was. It wasn’t just a magazine that covered rock music, or whose writers lived up to the cliches of the rock’n’roll lifestyle. It was a magazine with rock’n’roll in the very fabric of its building. “Creem had this three-storey building downtown in a bad neighbourhood,” Johnny Badanjek, drummer of the band Detroit, told me last year. “In the back were all the writers – there’d be Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and Ed Ward. And we were on the third floor. We practised at noon, but I’d come up at 11 in the morning and Dave Marsh [Creem’s editor] kept shouting, ‘Damn it, Bee! I want to sleep in!’ I guess I was like the alarm clock.” Continue reading... | | | | | Flambéed duck at the Ritz … John Carey's best photograph | | by Interview by Chris Broughton Jun 1, 2022 | | ‘They’re making a French dish called Pressed Duck. The bird’s blood is squeezed out by that silver press, then used to make a sauce. I’ve tried it and it’s delicious’ I’ve always enjoyed working with chefs. There’s a lot of synergy between cooking and photography. The first shoot I did at the Ritz restaurant was about 10 years ago and the relationship grew from there. Four years ago, they published their first cookbook, which I shot. My most successful work happens when I’ve spent a bit of time getting to know a place – and the Ritz is somewhere I’m now very familiar with. There are many locations there I’d like to shoot, but it’s all to do with timing. You can’t use the public spaces while they’re full of diners. We had to do this in between lunch and dinner: we didn’t have a lot of time, maybe 20 minutes to set up, then another 20 to execute it. In these situations, I have to go in with a vision worked out ahead and nail it while I have the opportunity. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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