by Simon Sellars Photo by Emiliano Granado. Used with permission. Originally published on ballardian.com, 7 November 2006. Geoff Manaugh is a writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Contemporary, Space & Culture, Blend, Lumpen, Inhabitat, WorldChanging, the Oyster Boy Review, the Urban Design Review, Subtopia, Vector, things magazine, and The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection [...]

Interview by Simon Sellars JG Ballard. Photo: Paul Murphy. Originally published on ballardian.com, 29 September 2006. In the year that this website’s been in operation, it seems to have had a momentum — a secret logic — all its own. Our interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, John Foxx, Mike Ryan and Iain Sinclair [...]

by Simon Sellars an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer. Before Midge Ure came along, the band’s three Foxx-driven albums, Ultravox! (1977), Ha! Ha! Ha! (1978) and Systems of Romance (1978), fused near-future melancholy with icy man-machine interfaces and the [...]

by Simon Sellars I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and my father as a choirboy once sang solo in Manchester Cathedral. But that gene seems to have skipped me.” —————————————————– [...]

by Simon Sellars Victor Slezak as ‘T’ in The Atrocity Exhibition Ballardian presents an exclusive interview with Jonathan Weiss, director of The Atrocity Exhibition, the film based on the J.G. Ballard collection of ‘condensed novels’. ———————————————————————————————————————- NOTE: This is a revised and expanded version of the original interview. The new additions are a reworked introduction, [...]

Paul in Sweet Dreams; photo by Alison Huth interview by Simon Sellars ‘Sweet Dreams: Shaken not Stirred’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. Theatremakers Nadja Kostich and Jeremy Angerson began a rewarding collaboration with Big Issue vendors after seeing a TV ad featuring several sellers singing for their supper. According to Jeremy, [...]

Kylie in Sweet Dreams; photo by Alison Huth interviews by Simon Sellars ‘Sweet Dreams: Back to Waking Life’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. The play Sweet Dreams took an unflinching look at the battle that Big Issue vendors Paul, Kylie, Jim, Robert and Allan fought to survive drug addiction, physical disabilities, [...]

interview by Simon Sellars ‘Arnold Zable: Hazards of the Game’: originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. Arnold Zable is a Melbourne storyteller who writes about memory and history, displacement and community, the experience of the Jewish diaspora, Aboriginal issues and Indigenous education, and the multiplicity of cultures within Australia. In 2002, in conjunction [...]

Photo courtesy RecLink interview by Simon Sellars ‘RecLink: Positive High’ was originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. RecLink was established in Melbourne in 1990 to help people from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds enjoy sport and recreation on a therapeutic level, with knock-on benefits like improved health and well being. RecLink involves a [...]

Street Socceroo Training All photography by Simone Egger interviews by Simon Sellars ‘Three Socceroos: Dave, Shane & Yousef’: originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. In 2005, for the first time, Australia fielded a team in the Homeless World Cup, led by Big Issue editor Martin Hughes. The Cup, founded as a way to [...]