Woofah Magazine

Who We Are

Woofah issue 4 was edited by The Droid.

ISSUE 4 TEXT CONTRIBUTORS:

Matt B – idle thoughts blog
Lives in West Yorkshire and recently saw a sheep painted in the red, gold and green and walked through a place called Cow Dub.

Sunil Chauhan
Writes for Hip-Hop Connection, Echoes & Shook, lives in Essex and still likes getting shout outs on pirate radio.

Liam Dando
A grime nerd based in Cardiff.

The Droid – weareie.com
Will trade his valves and circuits for rare Tiger 7”s.

John Eden – uncarved.org
Can be found in a cupboard in Stoke Newington, muttering incoherently about obscure UK MCs.

Gabriel Heatwave – theheatwave.co.uk
DJs, produces, and runs the awesome Heatwave dancehall reggae nights in London.

Per Jacobsson – computerstyle.org
Is a Swedish dancehall enthusiast living in Los Angeles.

Tom Lea
Is Live/Reviews Editor at FACT, and chances other stuff where he can.

Oli Marlow – sonicrouter.blogspot.com
Runs the excellent sonic router bog out of London.

Martin – seagullscreamingkillherkillher.blogspot.com
Would like an original Pama Economy pressing of Laurel Aitken’s “Scandal In A Brixton Market” LP, as Woofah contributor rates suck.

Wayne Marshall – wayneandwax.com
Writes and teaches about reggae, hip-hop, and global bass culture, makes and plays it too, mostly from his base in Cambridge, Massachusetts but sometimes from outer space.

Paul Meme – blog.grievousangel.net
Produces garage and ragga techno as Grievous Angel and released a double album, Belief is the Enemy, this year, and is releasing a series of transcendent garage remixes of r’n’b tunes on his Devotional Dubz label.

Joe Muggs – veryverymuch.com
Like all other music journalists, Joe is a failed musician. He collects interviews like the one included in this issue at veryverymuch.com.

Leopard Mum
Can be contacted at leopardmum att gmail.com.

Ringo – purple-radio.co.uk
South London reggae devotee, catch his show online on purple radio every Wednesday 6:30 – 8pm UK time.

Angus Taylor – myspace.com/angu5taylor
Reggae devotee who travels to ireland without visiting his esteemed editor.

Daniel Turner – vitalsound.podOmatic.com
Writer and photographer for Riddim, Lodown and Touch (before they went belly up!). DJ’s under the name Vital Sound and buys records that he can’t really afford…

Kek W – kidshirt.blogspot.com
Is writing SF stories based on recent Joker twelves even as you read this.

Emma Warren – livefutures.blogspot.com
Has been writing about music for years and years and years and currently works with a gaggle of teenagers from Brixton, south London on their magazine, LIVE.

Tim Wells
Lives in Stoke Newington, drinks beer and rinses Junjo choons.

T-Woc – alphabetset.net
Lives north of the river Liffey, takes care of business at the Alphabet Set, makes a mean beef ramen and wants an arcade machine for his birthday.

Issue 4 VISUALS:

2nd Fade – 2ndfade.blogspot.com
Doodler and Dadblogger.

Matt Benson – bntl.co.uk

The Droid – weareie.com
Likes to be credited.

Cora Hillebrand – corahillebrand.com

Lundgren&Lindqvist – lundgrenlindqvist.com
Design bureau based in Gothenburg, Sweden with a special interest in music and fashion.

Maz Mahmid – mazm.co.uk
Lives in London, works in the broadcast sector, plays with Bruk.

Ron Vester
Can be contacted C/O Woofah.

Contributors to past issues – TEXT

Admiral Banton
Likes it ruff and rugged.

Melissa Bradshaw – melissabradshaw.net
Brocks out and writes for QVEST and Plan B magazine as well as working on a book about London urban music past and present.

Nick Edwards – gutterbreakz.blogspot.com
Foundational dubstep blogger and Bristol blagger.

Neil Gordon-Orr
South Londonist history obsessive, contributes to history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com

Simon Hampson – make-everything-better.blogspot.com
Contributes to FACT magazine.

Dan Hancox – dot-alt.blogspot.com
Writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and Dazed&Confused.

Stewart Home – stewarthomesociety.org
Is internationally known as a novelist, anti-artist, communist, commentator, and proletarian post-modernist.

Paul Jasen – deeptime.net/blog
Lives in Ottawa and manages the riddim.ca resource.

Flint Michigan

Ari Roberts
Is our friend.

Howard Slater – metamute.org/en/Guttural-Cultural
Has written for break/flow, Datacide, Noise Gate, Difficult Fun, Mute etc

Paul STN
Lives in Stoke Newington with a flatmate who once said “Hello” to Richard Attenborough.

Ed Sufi

Ben Thomson – myspace.com/hessleaudio
Co-runs Hessle Audio and is a promoter of the Ruffage club night in Leeds; he DJs on SubFM on Thursday nights, playing dubstep and garage.

Michael Winner

Contributors to past issues – VISUALS

James B
Is the Zombie Godfather of Soul, an undead sex machine.

Alex (Bok Bok) Sushon – dot-alt.blogspot.com
Lives in Camberwell. Designs, djs, draws and is also one half of Faggatronix.

Georgina Cook
– drumzofthesouth.com
Lives in south London and runs the eclectic D.O.T.S. night in Brixton.

Delphine Ettinger aka Ashes57 – www.ashes57.com
Is a photographer and illustrator based in London and New York whose work has appeared in Swindle Magazine, Computer Art and “Supply and Demand” by Shepard Fairey.

Jugz – myspace.com/fablesoundsystem
Lives in Southall, where he is co-founder of the Fable Soundsystem.

LGL Communication – www.lglcommunication.com
Design bureau based in Gothenburg, Sweden with a special interest in music and fashion.

Cliff Manning – kududesign.co.uk

David N. Phelps – www.davidphelps.tk
Graphic Design & Photography based in Blackheath, South-East London.

Jack Rampling

Tim Schnetgöke – schnetgoeke.com
Has cameras – will travel.

Woebot – woebot.com
Woebot runs the woebot.tv video podcast and co-founded the dissensus.com discussion forum.

Issue 1 was designed by Jagu and James Brown with the assistance of Jason Backhouse.