by Sophie Ioannou | Jul 7, 2016
‘Texans are passionate about BBQ. For us it’s not a food trend, it’s a way of life. Many people in Texas have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of the perfectly smoked meat. It’s a quest that has led to new horizons for men and women of many...
by Sophie Ioannou | May 11, 2016
‘It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the...
by Sophie Ioannou | Apr 18, 2016
I am often overwhelmed by living in a city. I spend a good portion of time daydreaming about being someplace else; of disappearing into remote little villages or of driving down endlessly empty Texan roads. As soon as I am weakened by claustrophobia, I begin to obsess...
by Sophie Ioannou | Apr 15, 2016
‘Music, you know, true music – not just rock and roll – it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone listening to your headphones…with the vast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America’. – Lester Bangs...
by Sophie Ioannou | Mar 29, 2016
A brief note on travelling, featured in ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys…Townes Van Zandt...
by Sophie Ioannou | Mar 10, 2016
Today marks 22 years since the world said farewell to one of its greatest ever American writers, Mr Henry Charles Bukowski. I first fell in love with his writing sometime in my late teenage years at a point when my brain and my morals were at their most malleable....
by Sophie Ioannou | Feb 10, 2016
We went to Berlin to be great explorers, eat excellent food, take photos in the city’s many photoautomat machines and have productive meetings over coffees and dinners. It was freezing but it was magic, as discovering cities by foot always is. The only time...
by Sophie Ioannou | Feb 10, 2016
A few weeks ago Sarah and I, being huge fans ourselves, put on a tribute evening dedicated to the late great Townes Van Zandt as part of a series of monthly country music nights we’re going to be hosting. To coincide with our TVZ night, we thought it’d be...
by Sophie Ioannou | Feb 10, 2016
It was pretty difficult to avoid the expanse of love being carelessly thrown about and shoved proudly onto social media this weekend. But whether it made you feel sick and lonely or made your heart swell with delight…at least it made you feel and that’s always...
by Sophie Ioannou | Feb 10, 2016
I made a mixtape of suggested listening for the TVZ zine which I thought I’d share this morning so you can start your week in a really excellent way. The artists featured on this are people who have been mentioned in relation to Townes throughout the zine/his...
