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Agent Lynch www.agentlynch.com www.myspace.com/agentlynch Agent Lynch is a 60s Burlesque vixen and pin up model. A relative newcomer to the Burlesque scene, she started performing in January 2007 and hasn't looked back since performing at clubs and festivals across London, and receiving rave reviews from Time Out and The London Paper. This little starlet ido... read some more |
The Run-Riot Team
We are a team of writers, agitators and culture enthusiasts on the frontline of this cities entwining worlds of art, clubs, dance, film, media, music, fashion and theatre. We’re constantly hunting down the ‘latest’ from leading international contemporary artists to emerging local scenesters and a whole lot in between. We’re inquisitive and culturally adventurous creatures whose hunger drives us to persistently seek, play, discover and inspire. This is also our life-blood and we’re here to share it with you – because you want to know about ‘what’s going down!’. That’s it friend – nothing more to say. Action!
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Alasdair MacGregor Born within a stone's throw of home at St Thomas' Hospital in the YoOL 1979, been around the block in the publishing scene - well, one office on Old Street that produces D&C, Another and Another Man, now undermining the establishment at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and generally trying to stay sane and ignore how much money is being spent on ... read some more |
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Alexa Montgomery ... read some more |
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Alexa Perrin ... read some more |
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Ameena Kara Callender Take a large farmland in the Midlands and add... 4 whole cubes of British coal dust and lard 1 tablespoon of Mozambique sugar A dash of French wine 2 oz of Gujarati fruit And 3 drops of Portuguese mustard. For the next bit you will need a wise old lady and a young arty tomboy, carefully kneed the mixture for 6 - 12 years whilst acquiring ... read some more |
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Anais Trope Je suis Française! I’m studying for an English Literature BA at Universite Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle. I love coming to London when I can to improve my understanding of the language as well as totally emerse myself within the exciting cultural scene. I love to run-riot baby! ... read some more |
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Andy Brace ... read some more |
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Andy Field ... read some more |
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Anna Goodman Anna Goodman lives in London and has been working as a publicist with her company Abstrakt Publicity www.abstraktpublicity.co.uk since 1999. Born and bred in the capital, she briefly lived in New York in the nineties and mis-spent much of her former life in both cities sitting on night club doors. These days she attempts to lead a quiet life in Pim... read some more |
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Anna Leach I'm a writer and have reviewed everything from portable wifi devices to drag artistes, including porn films and aubergines. I won an award for young feature-writers from the Independent, edit troubled technology blog Shiny Shiny, worked in Time Out travel, wrote for D&C and have little traces of writing all over the internet. On the afore-mentione... read some more |
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Anne Kapranos ... read some more |
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Anthony Chalmers I am a promoter, manager and press agent and based in London. I also DJ and run a label - Robot Elephant Records. I run http://www.goddontlikeit.co.uk/... read some more |
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Antonia Turner ... read some more |
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April Angell Photographer, fashion victim, genderfuck dandyboy, sushi lover and self-facilitating media node. I run KissMyPanties.com – a brazen parade of lush characters from the B side of life who I photograph for shits and giggles (and the occasional dollar or two or fifty). Apart from my website, I’ve had work in Metro, Time Out, Heat and Bizarre magazi... read some more |
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Barnaby Thornton Beyond the red tape and work desks of nine to five obligations, Barnaby itches for white noise and white wine. When his nose isn't found trapped in one of several shot glasses of tequila, or a bottle of Jack Daniels however, he might just settle for a green tea sat righteously upon your knee as he recites his favourite ABBA song over the beat of hi... read some more |
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Becky Forknall Co organiser of the Oh My God! I Miss You nights at The Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London Rollergirl. www.londonrollergirls.com www.myspace.com/doingadancefordaddy www.myspace.com/ohmygodimissyou www.myspace.com/grindagogo www.ohmygodimissyou.com... read some more |
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Blandine Bardeau ... read some more |
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Burak Cop I'm an free-lance journalist doing PhD in politics at the University of Nottingham. ... read some more |
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C Saint-John ... read some more |
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Cecilia Wee cecilia is co-organiser of the monthly inter-art social occasion Rational Rec, a regular programme maker of contemporary arts shows on Resonance 104.4FM (London's art radio station) including the current weekly series 'Fag Break' about smoking in the lead-up to the English smoking ban, sometimes writer and researcher on performance/live art. cecili... read some more |
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Charlie Phillips I'm a filmmaker, a film-shower, a Jewish agitator, and I also work for Sheffield Doc/Fest - www.sheffdocfest.com . I'd like to run a cinema, with every screening introduced by a Jewish hulahooping performance, and that only sold vegan cake.... read some more |
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Charlotte West Williams ... read some more |
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Chloe Pereira de Mello half way through a sound design degree Chloe discovered the overwhelming urge to "Get up and do something about it" so post haste created OFF N ON a monthly club night that had its opening on the15th Feb. 'so what' you might say, but that is exactly the point, in this media savy world in which we live, there needs to be refuge for the sensitive s... read some more |
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Claire Tayler ... read some more |
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Clare Callan ... read some more |
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Cleo Roberts ... read some more |
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Colin Kane Currently, I am working on a research and evaluation project for a contractor in eastern Afghanistan. I hold a MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a BA from the University of Maryland. My academic interests include: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Guerrilla Warfare, Military Affairs, American Foreign Policy, Energy Security, International Relations, Hi... read some more |
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Cyndi Rhoades ... read some more |
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Deborah Grayson ... read some more |
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Eleanor Brown Eleanor has lived in east London for long enough to remember the shovel shortage during the digging of the plague pits. After an unsuccessful career as a lion tamer she became a one handed waitress and worked with many people who went on to appear in Eastenders. Eleanor is also a part time artist, writer and publisher.... read some more |
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Eleanor Ivory Weber http://raddestrightnow.blogspot.com Works in the fashion industry but her interests also reach into the realms of photography, theatre, performance, art, music, literature and philosophy. Check out her blog (link above). Eleanor is Australian, but don't hold that against her. Would like to explore the world before it ends, learn a lot, mee... read some more |
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Elizabeth Flanagan ... read some more |
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Emre Turkmen I am allergic to anything that calls itself a "scene" but have recently discovered my run-riot allergy tablets and am ready to give the world the benefit of the doubt.... read some more |
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Fiona Campbell ... read some more |
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Fiona Halliday ... read some more |
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Franck Bordese Franck has been working in the arts, theatre, dance and galleries for the past few years. Following a successful performance career prematurely interrupted by the mysterious disappearance of his stage partner he is now devoting his time writing about all the marvellous beauties on the London scene. He is always striving to be in the coolest places ... read some more |
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Gabby Young http://www.gabbyyoungandotheranimals.com/ ... read some more |
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Gemma Whelan Gemma is an actress, comedienne and dancer, living and working in London. She dances for The Whoopee Club as a Whoopee Beau Belle, tap dancing and prancing at many lovely events and parties in London. She performs character stand-up, her most recent creation; a sleazy Albanian ‘dating expert’ is currently making his way around the London come... read some more |
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Georgia Lewis Anderson Greetings! I’m Georgia, 21 years young and on a mission to bring smiles to unwitting members of the public in all corners of London town, preferably whilst wearing stupid attire. Currently studying journalism after a quick get away from anorexia ridden fashion college and with a perverse desire to share my embarrassing incidents with strangers I ... read some more |
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Giorgia Orlandi Born in her beloved Tuscany 28 years ago, raised between Ireland, France , currently in London. ... read some more |
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Grace ‘Grace’ (or Disgrace to her mother) may be her nom de plum and she certainly not lacking in. It’s just that she likes to unleash her dark side on the readers of Run Riot. Cheaper than therapy apparently. Whilst she likes to comment on others she is not averse to taking the piss out of herself from time to time. She initially came to the big s... read some more |
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Gretel My Gretel splits her time between Cambridge, where she works for the publishing company 'Salt', and London, where she is studying for her masters in Art Writing at Goldsmiths. She has self-published three artist chap books- ‘Gamine’, ‘Stolen Gifts’ and ‘Notions... read some more |
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Harriet Thompson I am a Lady of sorts and odds and ends.... read some more |
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Helen Black ......... read some more |
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Herbert Wright ... read some more |
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Isabelle O Kane ... read some more |
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James Cowan I'm James, or Spencer, depending on who you are. I'm an actor and performer. I like creating things that have never before occured in such a way. Spontaneity completes me.... read some more |
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James de Carterat ... read some more |
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Jamie McLaren Jamie started this Run Riot project in 2004 as a small e-bulletin to friends and colleagues – keeping them posted with each other’s performance and art shows, gigs, parties and club nights all of which were on the edge of the fringe. He currently helps out at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club and occasionally DJs for Whoopee and Caligula u... read some more |
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Jareh Das Geordie-Nigerian. I love to Laugh, Dance, Sing (v.badly) and love the simple things in life like laughter and manners. I'm in to Art, Music and Traveling (someone pay me to travel loads). I dream of NYC life daily and retiring to Lake Placid NY and I'm terrified of Bees/Wasps (think Culkin circa My Girl I really think if I'm ever stung I will Die)... read some more |
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Josh Knowles Josh Knowles is a live artist specialising in Installation and Burlesque performance. He also has a passion for illustration, which he puts to good use as a freelance production designer and sometime comic-book artist. He also runs events. He can be spotted amongst; Live Artists, Burlesquers, Old Fashioned’s, Narrative Illustrators, Mexican... read some more |
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Kate Hutchinson ... read some more |
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Kate Riedler Kate left behind sunny Australia and arrived in London in Summer 06 for a 8 week holiday... and never left. She accidently fell into the experimental theatre and live art scene and couldn't get out again. Kate has been busy doing an array of cool but often shitty jobs in dirty theatres and loving it and is now taking a BA in Technical Production at... read some more |
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Katie Antoniou Katie would like to learn how to sew a quilt that looks like a scrabble board, read tarot cards and move things with her mind, but unfortunately she is too busy trying to be a real-life writer. She hopes that we run out of oil in her lifetime so that she can enjoy the post-apocalyptic fashion movement with everyone riding around on horses again and... read some more |
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Khaled Ailyan Vagabond through life. Been all over, going everywhere, doing whatever comes along.... read some more |
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Laura May i do some things, i can seperate them nicely. i dj at all kinds of hot little houses. these include motherfucker. unit 22. the dress up box. blah blah blah. chopped banana. and our own charming evening, 'the slaughter house'. we are called Ladiez Di(e. i try and approach this aspect of my life with a great sense of maturity and commitment. U... read some more |
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Leslie Deere I'm originally from Tennessee. I'm a London based artist working with a variety of media. I have a BA Honours degree in Sonic Art and graduated last year with a Masters Degree in Communications Art & Design from the Royal College of Art. I've exhibited internationally with solo shows in Italy and Switzerland and recently was one of five shortlisted... read some more |
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Liv Jarvis ... read some more |
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Live Art Development Agency ... read some more |
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Lucy Gilliam ... read some more |
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Lynn Goh Schulz: Speak - it is our only hope. The Jewish Barber: Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each othe... read some more |
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Manu Luksch ... read some more |
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Marrianne San Miguel ... read some more |
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May LR May LR is Mistress and Promoter of Festival of Sins. A sultry, mysterious individual with an eye for debauchery and a taste for the erotically bizarre. She spends her evenings scouring the dark and glittering rooms of London for new gems to titillate sinners at Festival of Sins. She indulges in a touch of alternative modelling, has a large col... read some more |
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Michael Heap RR's man in the desert. Moonlighting from his day job as life saver & heart breaker at Al Jazeera, Mike intends to lay bare his life in the cultural wasteland that is the middle east - see his words as the Anti Zeitgeist - the life you hip cats could be living if you gave it all up for work. His own blog: http://www.mandesert.blogspot.com ... read some more |
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Nadia Walford ... read some more |
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Naomi Thompson ... read some more |
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Patrick Hussey Patrick is the co-host of the Dotpod Podcast. He has written for the Guardian, Observer and the Independent in his 'meedya' career. He is currently the Digital Campaigns Manager at Arts & Business. tweet me at - http://twitter.com/PatrickRiot ... read some more |
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Patrick Hussey Patrick is the co-host of the Dotpod Podcast. He has written for the Guardian, Observer and the Independent in his 'meedya' career. He is currently the Digital Campaigns Manager at Arts & Business. tweet me at - http://twitter.com/PatrickRiot ... read some more |
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Rachael Castell I accidentally became a producer when I was 21 and have been following a rough path in production ever since. I've produced short films and promos and the East End Film Festival for 4 years (2 of which when it was Raindance East). I'm setting up a production company with my best friend and fiance Ronny Haynes, for which we are already working on ... read some more |
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Richard Thompson He has been working in the arts for about ten years, hails from Glasgow, ended up in south east London, fond of fast drumming, despises musical theatre.... read some more |
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Ronnie Growler ... read some more |
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Ruvi Simmons Having traced 90 degrees from West to North London, I abandoned the project upped sticks last year and moved crabwise to Berlin instead. Art History graduate, for what that's worth. Writing, art, subsisting on rice with small quanitities of vegetables.... read some more |
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Sally O Reilly Sally is a writer and art critic. She makes a differentiation between the two so that she sometimes has the chance to make things up completely and doesn’t just have to offer opinions on things other people have made up. Sometimes she co-produces events with Mel Brimfield – they were responsible for the performance programme at the Whitstable B... read some more |
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Sarah Sheerman Chase I should have been a meerkat, but since I'm here in the body of a girl, the purpose is to have as much fun as possible, to learn as much as possible, wear as much eyeliner as possible and to drink as many G&Ts as possible. And thats just for starters...... read some more |
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Scottee London based Performer and self titled 'pr-stuntman' - Scottee is 21 years old. Scottee grasped early fame as one half of art terrorists 'Yr Mum Ya Dad' with their Infamous east end hangout 'Antisocial'. Scottee has been invited to perform his unique style of theatre, mime & the forgotten Art of lip-syncing at The Roundhouse, Edinburgh Fring... read some more |
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Stephanie Knox ... read some more |
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Tamsin Omond ... read some more |
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Tanja Canning ... read some more |
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Todd Hart ... read some more |
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Tom Bird Born in Ashington, in the north-east, Tom hated London and its people for a long long time. Luckily, he now loves it with all his passionate Geordie heart. He divides his time between Shakespeare's Globe (where he carries around obscure renaissance musical instruments) and Clapton Pond, where he is trying, ever so slowly, to become a travel writer.... read some more |
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Tom Peter Ex-London now Moscow based picture editor/photographer of German origin. Since the country of my birth, East Germany, vanished in 1989, I have been cultivating a pan-European way of life. Home is where friends, work and excitement are. If London is the work-out room in the house of life, then Moscow is the chamber of debauchery. I will elaborate on... read some more |
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Tomas Brickhill Born in London and bred in Harare, Zimbabwe; filmmaker, musician, writer, and self proclaimed pirate captain Tomas is a law unto himself. After a stint as frontman for top Zimbabwean rhythm and blues band 'Luck St. Blues' whilst writing his 'A' levels, Tomas won a plane ticket in a public speaking competition and travelled to the UK to study film a... read some more |
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Trixie Malicious Growing up on Vancouver Island in Canada, Trixie Malicious would dream of New York, 50’s Cadillacs, John Waters, seamed stockings and red lipstick and listen to Glam Rock on her walkman as her parents took her camping and hiking in the woods so that her soul would be calmed and fulfilled by the majesty of nature. However as she got older and star... read some more |
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Vanessa Ridehalgh Deluded twinkle-toed, gin swilling, London loving, book geek. Suffers from mild insomnia. Rarely spotted south of the river. Part-time scribbler and full-time editorial overlord, who specializes in project managing lovely oversized picture books designed to snap your coffee table in two. Pathological about people correctly dotting their i’s and c... read some more |
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Vera Brozzoni Vera is not so good at talking about herself. This kind of paragraphs always scare the hell out of her. She often has the feeling of wasting her life, but no one seems to agree. If her country of origin (Italy) were a normal place, she would now probably be a Philosophy researcher in some university. She's a Film and Music critic instead and is h... read some more |
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Vienna de Tavora ... read some more |
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Vienna de Tavora ... read some more |
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Wiz Baines ... read some more |
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Zoe Catherine Kendall Zoe, or ZCK as she is known to her friends, is a trained jewellery artist (www.zoekendall.com), an artist 'in general' and well, put simply, a human. London born, CSM trained (whatever that means), she loves purchasing random vinyls for her home-made record player, dancing around her front room alone, fantasizing about ??? and eating pick 'n' mix a... read some more |