This is big, it’s 10,000 Other Sides hitting the streets. We’ve cultivated our little magazine into something pretty huge. It’s a little bit daunting, but it’s fun. None of us are getting paid yet, no sir, we sit on our ‘puters wiling away our nights coming up with ideas that we can and can’t publish. This month’s non publishable ideas included

-         10 ways to avoid knife crime in London

-         A day out in Coventry

-         The Joy of Spam and other tinned meats

-         David Blunkett at the Olympics

We’re trying to keep everyone happy, we don’t like the free London papers, they are making people stupid – nobody reads on the tube anymore, nobody thinks anymore, we just get on the tube and stick our faces in Britney’s knickers, Prince Harry’s top trumps and find out who’s been eyeing up who on the Circle Line ‘You looked at me with those puppy dog eyes, see me after school... etcetera’

In other news the Standar’ published a typically bad taste headline last week

-         John Leslie Rape Quiz

I was half tempted to treat myself to a five finger discounted ES and complete said quiz. I resisted temptation as I couldn’t lower myself to their level.

Instead I went home and stuck together a typically exuberant Other Side, filled with decent stuff. New band ‘Citadels’ take you on a tour of their London, we head to Holland for the weekend (you should go and you can win tickets inside), Cardorowski get’s too big for his boots and there’s some proper good illustrations from our proper good illustrators.

I hope you enjoy what we’ve done for you, we’re having fun, and we intend to keep it up.