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Iceage returns to Bangkok
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 30/05/2019
» Iceage is a punk band that doesn't make punk music. Since forming in Copenhagen in 2008, the band has fermented the passion and urgency of punk and distilled it over several cold Danish winters. They're a potent live act, discharging a heavy stew of Bad Seed energy and drawls from singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, who is almost too boyband-pretty to get away with it. He's also a rather polarising frontman.
Sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' rehab
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 15/01/2019
» 'I shouldn't be in rehab at my age," says 28-year-old Andy*. As a music festival organiser, he curates events all over Europe, and is, as he puts it, "immersed" in drug culture. In rehab for cocaine addiction, he's also one of the increasing number of professionals aiming to make the music industry a safer place for those with substance abuse issues.
Northern Explorations
News, Gary Boyle, Published on 26/12/2014
» Famed explorer Sir Edmund Hillary racked up a fair amount of frequent flyer miles in his life of adventuring. He was the first man to stand atop Mount Everest, and the first to score the hat-trick of doing Everest and both the North and South Poles. His 1953 expedition to conquer the world's highest mountain was done wearing just a thin cotton and nylon jacket and carrying a scant 20 kilograms of supplies.