Quench
Qed
Sophie Robehmed -Editor (2006-7)
Golly gosh, it’s an auspicious occasion. (Yes, I did just use golly gosh like some kind of Famous Five ponce.) Oh well, I think this deserves a topping of 1950s toff lingo. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the 50th edition of Quench.
Yet what is most exciting for me as current editor of this fine publication (I know I’m biased) is that I am joined on these pages with the crème de la crème of Quench alumni: my worldly, knowledgeable, now very successful, (and all very male), predecessors. This includes the man who started the notion of Quench magazine all that time ago; it’s like discovering Father Christmas is real after all (God, that’s the worst lie of my childhood and how I wish he and his candyfloss beard were true).
So like your last Rolo, I hope you savour, enjoy and only share this magazine (and your orgasmically-I’ll-try-not-to-wee-a-little-exciting free local mixtape) with those who feel the Quench love. (And that doesn’t include those who drop it on union steps or leave it cold and alone, sodden with rain in a Cathays alley. You don’t know how it pulls at my heartstrings so. Well, you probably have a small idea now, but still…) I hope it quenches your thirst (pun surprisingly intended and served with a plate of cheese).
In all seriousness, long may this super A5-shaped ship sail.
This Week
Latest Edition
Billy Whizz
Lizzie Pook celebrates the cult legend behind some of the best movies of the last 25 years. All hail Bill Murray...
K-Day
Fashion Desk takes on the crowds in Queen Street to battle it out for a piece of the most over-hyped collection of the year
Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues: well, let’s just say I was pleasantly surprised. Thinking The Vagina Monologues was going to be full of feminists lecturing about women’s rights, I was initially apprehensive. As it turned out, I was entertained by the real-life experiences of several women and yes, you’ve guessed it, their vaginas.
The Electric Soft Parade - No Need To Be Downhearted
It’s electrifying...and soft
Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow
Bursting out of the traps like a sprightly ‘Nu Rave’ greyhound is Gravity’s Rainbow. While the band might have since started a cult, popularised glow-sticks and revived indie-dance music, this re-released track is perhaps their finest moment, with thumping drums and a bass line to die for.
Russell Howard
Russell Howard, recent star of Mock of the Week, is infectious. With a super-elasticised, improvisational mind and massive enthusiasm, his show was superb.
Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays
This must have been the Kaiser Chiefs attempt at irony, because, even for them, it’s really bland and ‘average.’ However, I am going to like this single to annoy all the trendy scenesters with leggings and haircuts from faux-Japanese hairdressers who regard them as ‘uncool.’ Because I hate them more.
Student Stereotypes
Which one are you?
LCD Soundsystem
To call LCD Soundsystem a ‘band’ would be somewhat like calling Robbie Williams ‘a bit of a drama queen.’ LCD Soundsystem are a fully-fledged multi-limbed funk contraption.