Lazy Gramophones Journals

Last June The ICA and charity project Love in the Sky commissioned a selection of leading artists to work together in small groups to capture the essence of love through collaborative work. Two Lazy Gramophone artists Matt Black and Dan Prescott joined forces with Ned Conran, Liz Dalton and Bruno Maag and created some fantastic pieces pictured above and below. Other artists included Goldie, Max Lowry, Petroc Sesti, Sara Shamsavari and Zak Waters. All the finished pieces were displayed for auction at London's ICA in June 2009. See below for a video of the event and more of what Love in the Sky do.... read more

The voracious wordsmith Guy J Jackson and jazz pianist David Finch have joined forces to create a live album of Guy's classic hypereal storytelling soundtracked to a synth jazz score. Available to purchase as a download from DiGSTATION .... read more

It's a tough neighbourhood where I live in East London. If you're walking down the street you could actually be killed just because you don't look right. Still, crossing the road's the same wherever you go I suppose.... read more

My shoes squeak as I turn on my toes and step up to the urinal. The cleaner has clearly visited recently as it smells, not exactly fresh but chemically lemony. I unzip and as I look into the bowl I see that there are fresh 'mints' in there. Instead of the usual two pale, sickly mini hockey pucks there are three bright new yellow spheres. "Hey, three balls!” I say for no reason other than to show myself that I pay attention to these minor details when no-one else does. I instantly realise what I've said and how it could be taken. Mark from marketing emerges from a stall and passes me in the corner of my vision. "Not mine,” I utter... read more

Just a little note to say ' Poetry In (e)Motion ' by Scroobius Pip is now available and contains a little contribution from little old me just inside the back cover. It's not available here but it is at all the usual outlets. You may have the rest of your day now.... read more

See what we need to do is focus just occasionally, and see what happens. We can recall all of the lessons we've ever had about being constructive. Perhaps we should bring back, from the depths of our dank memories, those classes at school. Not the really boring ones. Just the ones that we hated less than the others. Just the ones where we enjoyed - even a little bit - finishing an essay, completing laps, making circuits or correctly working out a formula. Because in time, not doing anything, not producing, fills our time with distraction. And we don't really want that. Distractions can be fun, sure, and occasionally necessary, but a life... read more

A collection of sketches: simple and honest, these poems seek to placate experience and depict the eternity beyond our landscape. Written by Sam Rawlings, and with illustrations by Dan Prescott, Circle Time is an exploration into the nature of human experience. It focuses upon the way our emotional lives spiral as we grow older, the ways in which the echoes of our past are carried through time. An Introduction to Circle Time To me, poetry is representative of mystery, magic, romance, discovery; for in writing poetry, I often find that I am attempting to describe things for which there are currently no... read more

"A Handsomely produced Book (The Book of Apertures).” - Philip Pullman "I love Lazy Gramophone, you're doing terrific work.” - Terri Windling "In a time when publishers are taking fewer and fewer risks on unknown writers, Lazy Gramophone are to be applauded for giving their collective a chance to shine.” - Litro Magazine "A wonderful environment of ideas and imaginings - The Lazy Gramophone group as a collective have demonstrated a remarkable and inspiring ethos throughout and their willingness to provide a means of expression is... read more

Lazy Gramophone Press is a strong supporter of independent bookshops and has made many valuable links with stores both inside and outside of London. If you want to find a Lazy Gramophone Press Publication, we encourage you to explore your local bookshop. Approximately 121,000 new book titles were published in the UK in 2008, and with only a small percentage of those books being stocked by major retailers, continued support of your local independent booksellers remains essential in order for many of these titles to survive. Lazy Gramophone Press believes that there is and most definitely should be, space for such variety of expression... read more

Opening up all around above below me clear blue beautiful memories are finally being set free, at last released from the questioning violence the threatening self pity so cynical. Free to float peacefully amongst the slowly dancing leaves of trees amongst the heavy raindrops that occasionally paint lazily over our sunny days. Free now without any perception of possibility to be, just imagine; how boundaries would walk talk between themselves gossip and bow their gaze as we passed: proposing subtlety but beneath our eyelids secretly smiling wickedly giggling amongst those without the capacity to ever know the... read more