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Categories / Books, Music

Punk Football by Andrew Vaughan

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Another nostalgia-driven football book? Possibly, but Punk Football by Andrew Vaughan is as much about life and music in the mid-70s as the beautiful game.

Punk Football is Vaughan’s story – an 18-year-old clothes and music-obsessed Wigan Athletic fan 18-year old, mixing his time in the town’s Bier Keller, enjoying the emerging world of punk rock, reggae and girl and at Wigan’s Springfield Park as the team finally made it into the football league.

Featuring contributions from players, punk rockers and supporters, the book describes an altogether different Wigan and indeed Wigan Athletic fro the one today. Published in September, it will retail for £9.99.

Find out more at the Mudhuts Media website

Categories / Art and Photography

Habitat’s vintage Design Magazine canvas art

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Browsing through Habitat today, we noticed this rather cool vintage Design Magazine canvas art range.

The eye-catching images are taken from covers of Design Magazine in the 1960s – the two featured here are editions from 1967 (left) and 1965 (right). The canvases are sized at 60cm x 80cm and are heady to hang.

You can pick one up for £75.

Find out more at the Habitat website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech, Music

DJ-phone’s Satisfashion – retro handset for hip DJs

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Djphone Ever looked at the DJ booth in your local club and wondered why the bloke (or girl) on there happens to be on the phone? They’re not booking a taxi or chatting to a mate, the DJ is lining up the next disc for your enjoyment, free of weighty headphones that might flatten the hip young thing’s hair. Or more practically, leaving one ear open to hear what’s going on.

And you can pick one up too – the very stylish DJ-phone by Satisfashion. It’s a high quality vintage Swedish handset, converted for headphone functionality. In fact, the attention to detail in the conversion means you can actually hear both channels on the earphone, making cueing up your next tune a breeze.

Yours from Sivletto for £25.

Find out more at the Sivletto website

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Categories / Design and Interiors

B&Q 70s-style Trippy wallcovering

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If proof were needed that the 70s has been welcomed back into the mainstream, it can be found with DIY giant B&Q stocking this 70s-style Trippy wallcovering.

It’s by British Design Talent, a collective of new British designers that has developed a range of wallcoverings specifically for B&Q. And this one could have come straight out of Conran’s House Book, a bold orange and black design that’s also textured – so good for those slightly imperfect walls.

Yours for £16.98 per roll.

Find out more at the B&Q website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Levis-styled mobile phone on its way

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I was slightly disappointed when I saw this Levis mobile phone, fully expecting it to be denim-clad with a red tag hanging off the corner. But what we do have is something a bit more practical.

It actually looks quite cool, not unlike an old calculator (and not unlike the sadly-departed Samsung P300 calculator phone), with the classic Levis logo engraved on the back. For the technical amongst you, there’s also an MP3 player, two megapixel camera, Bluetooth and an SD memory card slot.

It comes in metallic silver, black and brown copper, each selling for 500 Euros – or heavily discounted from your local provider. Expect it from September.

Find out more from the Modelabs website

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Dualit Marmite Special Edition toaster

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Like Marmite itself, this Dualit Marmite Special Edition toaster is something you will either love or hate.

Mixing two classics, the Dualit chrome look and the Marmite logo (which is cut into the chrome side), this toaster has all the features you would expect and room for two slices of bread.

Not cheap though – retailing online for £115.

Find out more at the Dualit website